What does the Ebola virus do to the body?

Answer 1

It is a hemorrhagic fever that causes you to excrete blood from bodily orifices and also you will vomit blood.

Signs of Ebola are fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. Which are followed by rash, diarrhea, weakened kidney and liver functions.

The incubation period is 2 to 21 days. At the moment there is no treatment options at all. The mortality rate is between 25% and 90%. It is transferred via blood, organs, and secretions of one that has it.

Answer 2

once Ebola enters the body, the innate immune system will attempt to combat it, so it initially infect phagocytes. unfortunately, phagocytes cannot lyse the virulent proteins and therefore it uses macrophages, dendritic cells and monocytes (types of phagocytes) as the initial host. within the next 3 days it will migrate throughout the lymph nodes and the blood stream to infect the parenchyma of most organs. the only cells it will not infect is skeletal/cardiac muscle and bone.

the significance of filoviruses initially attacking these immune cells is the impairment of their function. Ebola can supress both the innate and adaptive immune systems quite effectively, which is why mortality is so high.

Feel free to contact for more detail on anything; how the immune system is suppressed, mechanisms of hemorrhaging, expression of coagulation mediators etc.

Source(s):PhD of biomedical sciences, BU.

Answer 3

Ebola virus disease (EVD) or Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) is a disease of humans and other primates caused by an ebolavirus. Symptoms start two days to three weeks after contracting the virus, with a fever, sore throat, muscle pain and headaches. Typically, vomiting, diarrhea and rash follow, along with decreased functioning of the liver and kidneys. Around this time, affected people may begin to bleed both within the body and externally. The main system that is affected is the cardiovascular. But the entire body is affected in the end.

Answer 4

it pretty much kills all your organs and makes them into mush and you will thourhg up black vomit

Answer 5

It doesn't attack a cirten spot. It attacks the whole body.

Answer 6

The immune system is infected when attacked by the Ebola virus.

Answer 7

all systems in the body except the muscular and skeletal system

Answer 8

Ebola affects the blood vessels of the body. Since they carry blood to every organ and cell, every part of the body is damaged.