Symptoms of Ebola virus

Symptoms of Ebola virus 

Ebola virus disease

Ebola virus disease or haemorrhagic fever Ebola, is a disease of humans and other, it discovered the disease beginning in a town on the outskirts of rainforest called Kikwit in Zaire, and there are four places can be distinguished by the Ebola virus, a South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon and Cote d'Ivoire. In these areas it is spread fever. And about 50% to 90% of patients with fever Ebola die, this deadly virus-like Marburg virus as they do not destroy the middle carrier, because the virus needs this carrier in order to multiply and expand, so that to this day are not exactly identify the carrier main virus, the researchers see The three types of bats are the main carrier of the Ebola and advised not to eat these animals in West and Central Africa in order to avoid the transmission of the virus to humans, in this topic you will learn about the symptoms of the deadly disease

Symptoms of Ebola disease

 The period of time between exposure to the virus and develop symptoms (incubation period) is between 2 to 21 days, usually between 4 to 10 days

The first phase

Flu symptoms begin this stage is characterized by a sudden feeling tired, fever, weakness, loss of appetite, muscle pain, joint pain, headache, sore throat, fever is usually higher than 38.3 ° m

The second phase

Patient feel short of breath and chest pain may occur, along with swelling, headaches and the occurrence of confusion, a rash, a rash maculopapular a flat area covered with small red bumpy

The third phase

 Some cases, internal and external bleeding may usually occurs after the appearance of the first five symptoms to seven days, bleeding from the mucous membranes or of holes needles sites, as it may cause disease vomiting bloody, coughing up blood, or blood in the stool, bleeding in the whites of the eyes, bleeding in the skin may create a pimple or grain, bruises or hematoma

Advanced phase

Symptoms of Ebola virus 

Death, if it occurs, usually occurs within 6 to 16 days of the first symptoms, and results in low blood pressure of fluid loss, it is often in a coma patients near the end of life