Ebola 25 People Used
The first signs of Ebola are usually fever, severe headache, muscle pains and weakness. Other symptoms follow, such as vomiting, diarrhoea, sore throat, rash and malfunctioning of the liver and kidneys. Eventually, there may be severe internal and external bleeding and organ failure.
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Ebola virus can cause a serious illness, with a sudden onset of fever, muscle and joint aches, weakness, and headache. The next stage is characterised by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash and malfunction of liver and kidneys. Some cases present with profuse internal and external bleeding and progress to multi-organ failure.
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Ebola virus disease (Ebola or EVD) is a rare disease that causes severe symptoms and can be life-threatening. It belongs to a family of viruses that cause viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF). It has also been called Ebola haemorrhagic fever.
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Ebola virus disease (EVD), a fatal viral hemorrhagic illness, is due to infection with the Ebola virus of the Filoviridaefamily. The disease has evolved as a global public health menace due to a large immigrant population.
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Ebola virus disease (EVD) Clinicians should be alert to the possibility of Ebola virus disease in unwell travellers returning from affected areas of Africa. Read the fact sheet about symptoms, treatment and diagnosis . Information about the current status of the disease internationally is available from the World Health Organization .
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Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is a rare and deadly disease in people and nonhuman primates. The viruses that cause EVD are located mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. People can get EVD through direct contact with an infected animal (bat or nonhuman primate) or a sick or dead person infected with Ebola virus.
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Ebola is a virus that causes problems with how your blood clots. It is known as a hemorrhagic fever virus. This is because the clotting problems lead to internal bleeding, as blood leaks from small blood vessels in your body. The virus also causes inflammation and tissue damage. Five different species of the virus have been found.
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Despite its high lethality, the Ebola virus survives little more than 30 seconds outside a bodily fluid, and infection rates are considerably lower than for other diseases. The initial symptoms appear 2 to 21 days after infection and are similar to those of other viral infections – fever, weakness and joint pain.
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Ebola. View as PDF Send by email. See Viral haemorrhagic fever. Condition information. Search this database of all notifable conditions and find: control guidelines; notification requirements; health alert information; Resources; Communicable diseases contacts. Ph: +61 7 3328 9724 / 9728 Fax: +61 7 3328 9782 Email: communicable diseases team Find: local public health …
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Ebola. Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. The case fatality rate is around 50%. The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission. EVD first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks, one in Sudan, and the other in Democratic
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On 8 October 2021, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced that a new laboratory confirmed case of Ebola virus disease (EVD) had been detected in Butsili Health Area, Beni Health Zone in North Kivu Province. Earlier this year, an EVD outbreak affected North Kivu Province which was declared over on 3 May 2021. The …
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