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Ebola Virus Tam Analysis

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Have you heard about the Ebola virus? The authors of both of the essay explain what Ebola is and how you could catch it. In the first essay ,”Virus Tamer”,the author Sara Goudarzi, wrote about a virologist that helps with ebola. Victoria Jensen, who works at National Biodefense Analysis every day she keeps on learning new things about the virus. This article mostly is about how people catch the ebola virus. In the article the author wrote,”Every day, Jensen puts on an airtight suit to enter a Biosafety Level-4 facility-the highest level of biosafety.” Her job is to help the community against biological agents that sicken people. You could catch it by a sneeze or a cough by an infected person. The second essay is about the virus

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