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The Ebola virus disease ..By : Saraxarin

The Ebola virus disease
The Ebola virus disease 


Ebola syndrome (EVD) or Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) is a human disease caused by the Ebola virus infection. Symptoms usually begin to appear after two to three weeks after contracting the virus, and the fever, sore throat, muscle pain and headache.
And the accompanying decline in liver function and kidney. Some people start with exposure to bleeding problems at this stage.

Causes and diagnosis:

Can HIV infection through contact with infected animals through blood or body fluids (usually monkeys, fruit bats).there is no documented evidence on the propagation through the air of the natural environment. believed that fruit bats carrying the virus and published without infection. Once humans become infected, the disease spread can also move among people. Male survivors of the disease capable of transmission through semen for nearly two months. Usually first to exclude other diseases with similar symptoms,  blood samples are screened to detect the presence of antibodies to the virus or RNA virus, the same virus to confirm the diagnosis.

Prevention includes reducing the spread of the disease from infected pigs and apes to humans. You can do this by examining such animals to detect infected animals were killed and their bodies disposed of in appropriate ways. Cook the meat the way correct and wear protective clothing when handling meat could be useful, and also wear protective clothing and wash hands when being in surroundings with an infected person. Must deal carefully with samples of body fluids and tissues of infected persons.

<! —Treatment and expectations of the course of the disease and epidemiology-the > there is no specific treatment for this disease include efforts to help people who either give them oral rehydration therapy (local and slightly salty water to drink) or intravenous fluids.the disease is characterized by a high mortality rate, which kills between 50% and 90% of people with previous miscarriage with virus. the Ebola virus disease was detected for the first time in Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Usually the disease is endemic in tropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa.the rate of infection with disease roughly 1000 people annually since 1976 (when the disease was detected for the first time) until 2013. the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, 2014 is a wider spread of the disease so far as hitting a Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and is likely to spread in Nigeria. the discovery of more than 1600 cases since August 2014.the current efforts to develop a vaccine, but it is not hooked up to it yet.

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