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THE EBOLA VIRUS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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The deadly virus causes a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic
fever in humans and other mammals at first.
Gradually You have no appetite, your head is aching, your throat is sore and you
think you might be feverish. You don’t know it yet, but Ebola virus has started to attack your immune
system.
Your body aches all over, you have chronic abdominal pain, the fever
intensifies and you start to vomit and develop diarrhea. After anything
between a couple of days and a week of misery, you will have reached the
crisis point.
Where it began..
There isn’t any absolute/standard treatment for it yet.
Although…
The sick person is isolated.
They are given fluids and put on pure oxygen.
The person is treated for the secondary infections ..
When the immune system begins breaking down, the symptoms begin to show.
Of the roughly 2,200 recorded cases of Ebola to date, around 1,500 infected people have died.
How does it spread?
Ebola spreads through direct contact with infected bodily fluids or tissue.
The virus can be transmitted when an infected person’s vomit, blood or other fluids contact another person’s mouth,
eyes or openings in their skin.
Even after a person has died, the virus persists.
It can infect a person say at the time of his/her funeral.
washing, touching and kissing corpses by family members, putting the dead to rest can be just as deadly as caring for a living patient.
The good news is that the Ebola virus outbreak is controllable.
However, the latest Ebola outbreak is proving rather more recalcitrant than
expected.
Are we ready if such an issue makes it’s mark on the
nation?!
Because the story isn’t yet over.
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