Reports from the Word Health Organisation (WHO) reveal Date
August 2018
March 2019
June 2019
January 2020
Total no. of cases
43
1016
2239
Total no. of deaths
34
634
1510
2242
https://www mst. org/dre-ebola-outbreak-crisis-updat e
https://www who int/ebola/situation-reports/drc-201 8/en/
State the taxonomic family to which the virus that causes EVD belongs.
1.2
What TYPE of nucleic acid is found in the Ebolavirus?
3
What does the latest DRC outbreak have in common with the West
Africa outbreak of 2014-2016?
(1
Calculate the percentage increase in EVD cases between March and
June 2019. Show your calculations
State the year in which the Ebola virus was first discovered.
Calculate the fatality rate (%) of the DRC outbreak for lanuary 2020.
Show your calculations.
(3)​