What is Ebola virus??
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Answer:
Requires a medical diagnosis
Initial symptoms include fever, headache, muscle pain and chills. Later, a person may experience internal bleeding resulting in vomiting or coughing blood.
Explanation:
A virus that causes severe bleeding, organ failure and can lead to death.
Humans may spread the virus to other humans through contact with bodily fluids such as blood.
Extremely rare
Fewer than 5 thousand cases per year (India)
Treatable by a medical professional
Spreads by animals or insects
Requires a medical diagnosis
Lab tests or imaging always required
Critical: needs emergency care
HOW IT SPREADS
By blood products (unclean needles or unscreened blood).
By animal or insect bites or stings.
By touching a contaminated surface (blanket or doorknob).
By saliva (kissing or shared drinks).
❋☘Ebola is deadly but rare virus which can cause Ebola disease (Haemmophrage disease), which causes fever, inflammation , aches etc.
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☛Ebola virus spreads through the body, it damages the immune system and organs.
☛It causes levels of blood-clotting cells to drop. This leads to severe, uncontrollable bleeding.
☛It spreads to people by contact with the skin or bodily fluids of an infected animal, like a monkey.
☛Ebola can feel like the flu or other illnesses. Symptoms show up 2 to 21 days after infection.
☛Symptoms are:
- High fever
- High feverHeadache
- High feverHeadacheJoint and muscle aches
- High feverHeadacheJoint and muscle achesSore throat
- High feverHeadacheJoint and muscle achesSore throatWeakness
- Stomach pain
- Lack of appetite
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☛There are five types of Ebola virus. Four of them cause the disease in humans.
☛The Ebola virus first appeared during two 1976 outbreaks in Africa.
☛Ebola gets its name from the Ebola River, which is near one of the villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the disease first appeared.