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=__CLASSIFICATION__ =

**The Ebola virus and related Marburg virus: **

 * are members of the Filovirus family
 * are pleomorphic (take on many forms)
 * are negative-sense RNA viruses
 * cause disease in humans and non-human primates
 * virus genome is 19 kb long
 * target monocytes and macrophages, crippling the body's immune response.

**Reference:**

Sullivan, N., Yang, Z., & Nabel, G. (2003, September). Ebola virus pathogenesis. //Journal of Virology//, //77//(18), Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC224575/