The Ebola virus is a member of the virus family called Filoviridae .
Filoviruses operate very skillfully and are quick to destroy their hosts.
Filoviruses in general, and especially Ebola , are very complex. In fact, they are more complex than most scientists imagined. Once a virus has entered the body, it enters a cell and proceeds in multiplying or reproducing in the cells cytoplasm. Once the one virus has become an army of viruses inside the cell, it leaves the cell to attack more cells. This may not seem very serious but this is happening in millions of cells all over the body.