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Ebola (historyfilms.net)

Evolution has created some nasty microbes…

Anthrax: Anthrax, caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is one of the most lethal microorganisms in existence, killing over 80% of those it infects. The antidote doesn’t always work.

When your firsts become infected, you’ll just feel like you have a cold. But after a few more days, you’ll have trouble breathing as the anthrax voraciously eats your lungs and grows in your blood. The anthrax soon reaches the brain and causes it to bleed.  You’ll then lapse into a coma and suffer massive internal bleeding, eventually suffocating to death in your own blood.

Botulism: The bacterium Clostridium botlulinum produces the neurotoxin botulinum, two ounces of which is enough to kill the entire United States. You can get botulism from expired canned food. Botulism kills by slowly paralyzing all of your muscles, so that eventually you can no longer breathe. However, you won’t lose consciousness; as you die from botulism you will be aware of the paralysis overtaking your entire body and feel yourself suffocating.

Ebola: Ebola is probably the worst of all. There is no known cure for ebola, and over 80% of those that contract if die. When you first become infected with Ebola, the symptoms aren’t that interesting: headaches, muscle aches, fever, fatigue, nausea, and dizziness. But after a few days, Ebola will simply start to dissolve your blood vessels, and you will begin to bleed rapidly from every orifice. You eventually die either from organ failure, or the simple absence of enough blood in your body. To this day, no one knows where Ebola comes from, or even how it was initially transmitted to humans.

Source: This Will Kill You: A Guide to the Ways in Which We Go by HP Newquist and Rich Maloof