The Ebola virus disease.
Ebola has been around for four decades. Doctors have tried to find a vaccine to prevent the disease, but they have failed to do so. Ebola was brought into the spotlight by mainstream media because of a breakout of the disease in March of 2014 in West Africa. It was reported as being one of the most lethal diseases to harm humans. Not only did this cause panic, but questions also rose about Ebola. The following informative resources detail where Ebola came from, how it spread, signs and symptoms, impacts and consequences, statistics, and medical research related to the Ebola disease from the following sources: World Health Organization, New England Journals, CDC’s, and charts. It is important for people to know where …show more content…
It spread from land, “Sierra Leone and Liberia, by air to Nigeria, and USA, and by land to Senegal and Mali” (WHO 2). The first positive Ebola test in the United States was September 30, 2014 in Dallas, TX it was a man who had traveled to Dallas, TX from Liberia, Africa. Many other people who have showed signs and symptoms of the virus typically work in the healthcare field or are friends and family of someone who has been infected. How the virus came to be is unknown, however research on similar viruses has lead scientists to believe that Ebola is animal-borne (apes and monkeys) and that bats may be the carriers of the disease. Past outbreaks have occurred when humans consumed an infected piece of primate meat or had “ [c]lose contact with blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids, of infected animals” (WHO 5). A human can also get the Ebola infection by having direct contact with another person that is infected. Such as sharing needles and syringes,or contact with body fluids such as urine, saliva, and sweat. There has been no evidence that Ebola is spread through blood …show more content…
People may begin presenting symptoms of a common cold. Ebola signs and symptoms include: “[f]ever, severe headache, muscle pain, weakness, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal (stomach) pain, unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising)” (CDC 1). These signs and symptoms do not appear right away when a person has been infected. A person may start feeling these symptoms from 2 - 21 days after exposure to Ebola. Within 8-10 days, the infected person will feel the symptoms getting severe. When the infected person is feeling the early symptoms they can use over the counter medication to control it such as ibuprofen, tylenol, aspirin, etc. Ebola is called the ‘Bleeding Disease’ because of the uncontrollable internal bleeding which may result in bleeding from the nose and
Ebola has been around for four decades. Doctors have tried to find a vaccine to prevent the disease, but they have failed to do so. Ebola was brought into the spotlight by mainstream media because of a breakout of the disease in March of 2014 in West Africa. It was reported as being one of the most lethal diseases to harm humans. Not only did this cause panic, but questions also rose about Ebola. The following informative resources detail where Ebola came from, how it spread, signs and symptoms, impacts and consequences, statistics, and medical research related to the Ebola disease from the following sources: World Health Organization, New England Journals, CDC’s, and charts. It is important for people to know where …show more content…
It spread from land, “Sierra Leone and Liberia, by air to Nigeria, and USA, and by land to Senegal and Mali” (WHO 2). The first positive Ebola test in the United States was September 30, 2014 in Dallas, TX it was a man who had traveled to Dallas, TX from Liberia, Africa. Many other people who have showed signs and symptoms of the virus typically work in the healthcare field or are friends and family of someone who has been infected. How the virus came to be is unknown, however research on similar viruses has lead scientists to believe that Ebola is animal-borne (apes and monkeys) and that bats may be the carriers of the disease. Past outbreaks have occurred when humans consumed an infected piece of primate meat or had “ [c]lose contact with blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids, of infected animals” (WHO 5). A human can also get the Ebola infection by having direct contact with another person that is infected. Such as sharing needles and syringes,or contact with body fluids such as urine, saliva, and sweat. There has been no evidence that Ebola is spread through blood …show more content…
People may begin presenting symptoms of a common cold. Ebola signs and symptoms include: “[f]ever, severe headache, muscle pain, weakness, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal (stomach) pain, unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising)” (CDC 1). These signs and symptoms do not appear right away when a person has been infected. A person may start feeling these symptoms from 2 - 21 days after exposure to Ebola. Within 8-10 days, the infected person will feel the symptoms getting severe. When the infected person is feeling the early symptoms they can use over the counter medication to control it such as ibuprofen, tylenol, aspirin, etc. Ebola is called the ‘Bleeding Disease’ because of the uncontrollable internal bleeding which may result in bleeding from the nose and