Ebola and the Inside Man — How Your Cells Get you Sick

Ebola can’t get you sick.

At least, not on its own.

It needs help and gets it from an inside man, present in just about all of your cells.

Unlike a lot of other viruses, Ebola needs help to get inside your cells; it can’t do it on its own. Without its inside man, it would be stuck, trapped in a lysosome and locked out of the cell body. It would be a sitting duck, waiting to be pursued and attacked by an immune cell that could pass by at any second.