Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

A case of ebola was confirmed on September 30, 2014 in a Dallas, Texas hospital. It is to date the only confirmed case of ebola in the United States, except for three medical personnel who contracted the disease while treating victims in Africa and were brought bact to the U.S. for treatment. At least one of them has recovered, and nothing is known about the condition of the other two.

Ebola is a virus, and as such, it is not part of any of the kingdoms of life.

no but there has been one case in canada, a woman traveling to congo came back with the virus but it wasn't spread any further

The Ebola virus is the actual name of the pathogen that causes Ebola. Yes, it is a virulent pathogen, but that is to the name, just a description.

Many people (probably a majority) believe Ebola is the deadliest virus. To be completely honest, I can understand why. For many years Ebola has killed millions of people, however, scientist have contained it and are still arguing if they shall destroy the virus, or keep it for medical research. Yet...anthrax is still a disease that can be caught and spreaded. I believe anthrax is the worst of all communicable diseases, especially anthrax beta, which is used for biochemical warfare. The natural anthrax however, is no force to reckon with.

Anthrax is a very easy virus to spread, especially through cattle or other farm animals. When it first enters the body, the virus' symptoms are very similar to that of a cold, soar throat, fever, coughing, and vomiting. If these symptoms are not treated they become much worse. Coughing can become severe, such as coughing blood, fever can rapidly increase to 105 degrees, and the skin starts to boil, melt, and even fall off. The high grade fever gave anthrax the nickname the Red Death.

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Note: the person who wrote the above is a moron. Ebola has not killed "millions" - it has killed around abouts two-thousand since it was discovered in 1976. "Scientists" have NOT "contained" it. New outbreaks occur periodically in sub-Saharan Africa all the time, as the virus is transmitted from animal contact there. As of 2014 there is a large-scale outbreak of the virus going on in West Africa - at the time I'm writing this. But usually it pops up in sparsely-populated, remote areas. If it got into a major metropolis, it would be horrifying.

The author made up a lot of that crap about Anthrax too, which is relatively treatable these days. Still bad, but certainly not in the same realm as Ebola, which can have mortality rates over 90%. Anthrax is a bacteria though, not a virus. They're apples and oranges.

Cutaneous Anthrax does not cause the skin to "boil, melt, or fall off", as the idiot above suggests. No. It causes a painless rash. The author is just making things up.

Anthrax has never been referred to as "the red death".

There is no such thing as "anthrax beta". The author is a filthy liar. The only difference in 'weaponized' Anthrax is that the spores are milled to be small enough to distribute through the air. The bug itself is unchanged.

This is why the Internet is awful - uninformed fools get to spew their half-formed, promulgated nonsense as if it were gospel truth, with no checks or balances, and in so doing they spread their ignorant misconceptions and outright lies.

A man who traveled from Liberia had ebola and died in a Dallas, Texas hospital. People he was known to have contact with have either been quarantined or are being watched.

So far what I am aware of is related to basic hygene practices but also to avoid Street Food in known affected environments. Wash hands as much as possible and be careful of hand to mouth activity. Limit crowded places and cook food thoroughly. I hope this helps. Reaserch continues to understand more about the Virus and Vaccines are being tested.

Ebola is not alive so it can not be killed. However, it can be made inactive by boiling. (212F or 100C)

No, of course not. The Ebola virus only passes through bodily fluids. Those also include blood, sweat, breast milk, mucus, vomit, feces, urine, semen, vaginal fluids, and saliva.

There is no known vaccination for the virus yet. Only experimental procedures have been used.

In the long term, HIV is more lethal. In the short term, Ebola is far more lethal. Ebola kills much more rapidly, but it doesn't kill everyone. Some people recover. HIV kills much more slowly, but it kills virtually everyone that it infects.

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.

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.

It can be infectious in body fluids (such as blood) up to several days at room temperature.

Is yellow fever latent of active

Yes. Hematemesis (vomiting blood) is a symptom of Ebolavirus infection.

Ebolavirus is a genus of viruses that causes a type of disease called Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EHF). As Ebolavirus

Signs & Symptoms of EHF include:

Malaise

Sweating

Fever

Chills

Fatigue

Nausea

Vomiting

Diarrhea

Hematemesis (vomiting blood)

Dysentery (bloody diarrhea)

Patechial/Purpural subcutaneous hemorrhage

Hemorrhage

Myalgeia (muscular pain)

Arthralgia (joint pain)

Pharyngitis

Disseminated intravascular coagulation

Tissue necrosis

Agitation

Seizures

Coma

Ebola virus is a highly infectious, highly contagious pathogen native to parts of Africa. Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever is often fatal, and thus the case-to-fatality rate from EHF outbreaks is often high, usually from 50-80%,

Ebolaviruses belong to the Group V (the negative sense single stranded RNA viruses), Mononegavirales (the RNA is non-segmented), Filoviridae (they have a thread like appearance), Ebolavirus, species.

You may suffer from dry mouth and extreme thirst and eventually start to hallucinate. People infected with rabies need treatment ASAP. Rabies has a very high fatality rate but is very uncommon these days.
check the presence of following symptoms 1.itching around the bite site 2. fever and tiredness 3. depression and increased saliva secretion 4. hydrophobia

It takes about two weeks from exposure to develop symptoms of the ebola virus. From the time that symptoms develop, you will either die within a couple of weeks or you will survive. Fatality rates are hard to measure but are estimated to be between 50 and 90 per cent. Ebola deaths are caused through organ failure and sepsis; death via hemorrhage is fairly rare and blood loss is not a significant factor. In the United States, the potential for organ failure can be managed and stopped much more quickly and easily than in the western African countries where ebola has become a major concern in 2014.

Ebola virus kills so quickly that it rapidly runs out of people to infect.

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Symptoms present as quickly as 24-72 hours from time of exposure, and death can occur as quickly as 1-7 days from symptom onset.

Ebola epidemic was recorded some where in 1971 and 1973 in Africa. The visitors to Kitum cave got the infection each time.The entire population of few villages was killed and the disease got controlled probably. Ebola was carried to US via infected monkeys near New York city. There was controversy between two experts on how to manage the problem. The epidemic in the monkeys was controlled effectively and confidently by the expert from the CDC and no human got the infection. That expert wrote the chapter on Ebola in Oxford text book of medicine 1990 edition. Ebola infection was unknown for many years, till recent known epidemic.

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