Ebola , what are the symptoms and how to heal it?





Published "CBS News" published an article which dealt with the most important questions concerning the disease, Ebola, which exceeded the number of deaths since the beginning of his appearance until early August, 900 people in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization, the organization described the rapid spread of the disease, this time with "non-unprecedented. "Warns officers authorizing health in the United States of American citizens from traveling to the three most affected countries - Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea - Amid fears of the spread of the disease in other countries by air travelers.

Ebola virus disease, formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a highly contagious virus, and it is often fatal, causes flu-like symptoms, and the occurrence of severe internal bleeding. The survival rates of Ebola is very small, where the mortality rate from 60 to 90% of those infected. Featuring Ebola emergence of sudden flu-like symptoms, including fever and a weakness severe and pain in the muscles, headache and sore throat, followed by all of this vomiting, diarrhea, rash and impaired function of the liver and kidneys, and in some cases develop into internal and external bleeding.

She added, "CBS News" that the disease is not transmitted through the air, which you will not get sick if I sat next to an infected person, or if the patient sneezes in the same room. But moves Ebola through body fluids such as blood, or if touched secretions or members of the body of a person who is infected, or died because of him, and that makes working in the field of health care, particularly vulnerable to the risk of infection if you do not care to wear the appropriate protective equipment such as masks, gloves and wildcard occasion. The symptoms begin to appear after a period ranging from two to 21 days from the moment of infection.

At the present time there is no real cure, usually limited to the role of doctors to provide care and support for patients, including oxygen and blood transfusions, fluids, and subsequent treatment of infections caused by HIV infection. Has recently received American woman vaccine experimentally after being infected with the disease, while working in Liberia within a team aid American there, and that the dose of the vaccine was enough for only one person, so it has received an American doctor colleague treatment last through blood transfusions, but no one knows yet Are any of the methods succeeded in treating Ebola or not. Survivors suffer from the disease of some chronic health problems such as infection in the joints and eyes.

Ebola appeared for the first time in 1976, in two areas at one time, Nzara in Sudan, and Yambuku in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), and was named to the proportion of the disease Ebola Ebola River in Congo, where the first cases appeared in the village near the river. It is believed that the natural host of the virus is the fruit bats in West Africa. The virus is transmitted to humans through close contact with blood, secretions, members, or other body fluids of infected animals. In Africa moved infection to people through direct contact with fruit bats and chimpanzees, gorillas, monkeys and antelopes, porcupine animals that are found in the rain forest, whether those animals infected with the disease or died.

Theoretically, each of the wounded Ebola did not show symptoms of the disease could travel outside the West African region. Experts say that even if they reached an infected person to the United States, it is unlikely the spread of the disease, which issued the Centers for Disease Control in the United States CDC alerts to doctors and hospitals across the country, and urged them to need to know the history of travel to any patient showing symptoms similar to Ebola , and then infected with the disease can be isolated in quarantine quickly. The problem in West Africa is the lack of trust of the people, whether in hospitals or doctors, and that the infrastructure for health care is not good, as is the case in America. In addition to the high death rates of patients in hospitals has led to severe panic among the people, so much so that they often spend their relatives and loved ones living with HIV in the home rather than admitted to hospitals for treatment.

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