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Information about Ebola

     The Ebola virus disease or Ebola is a very deadly disease. There are 5 different types of Ebola. The first 4 kinds of Ebola can affect humans, the last type, of Ebola (Reston virus) can’t. The origin of this disease is believed to be from an animal called the fruit bat. In Africa, there are groups of people that hunt these animals and that’s when they believe that the first case of Ebola was first found. But you can get infected by handling meat fresh from a hunt. The first case of Ebola was first discovered in 1976 in near the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Based on past cases and records most of the cases of Ebola are all in Africa. Places like South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, and etc. are places where Ebola all showed up or appeared in (mostly in areas in West Africa).

     Symptoms usually take 2-21 days to actually take place. Usually on average the symptoms take place in 8-10 days. Recovery from Ebola requires clinical care and great response from your immune system. Some Ebola patients who recovered shows that they developed antibodies that can fight Ebola up to 10 years.

 

Some symptoms/signs are:

  • Fever

  • Severe headache

  • Muscle pain

  • Weakness

  • Fatigue

  • Diarrhea

  • Vomiting

  • Abdominal pain

  • Unexpected bleeding or bruising.

Basic Information
Symptoms and Diagnosis

Source: CDC

Risks of Exposure and Transmittion

     The possible exposure of Ebola should come from those who you know that visited some of the countries of West Africa or some of the volunteer first responders can contract the disease without knowing. But if you know that you have contracted Ebola and have saw signs and symptoms listed below you should go to the hospital or a clinic so they can take care of you and the sooner you detect it the better of a chance that you can get better.

     

     Transmission of Ebola is probably the hardest to figure out. Over the years they have figured out the simplest way of how people have contracted Ebola. The two ways to contract Ebola would be person to person and through infected animals. Transmissions or ways to get Ebola is usually through direct contact through splinters or scars.

     

     Ways you can get Ebola through direct contact includes:

  • Blood or bodily fluids (includes breast milk and other bodily fluids)

  • Contaminated needles

  • Infected fruits or animals (most common are fruit bats)

     

     Ebola is not an airborne disease, it cannot be transmitted through water or food. It is transmitted through just only direct contact or in Africa, you can get Ebola through handling bushmeat (meat from hunt).

 

Treatment
History/Timeline Of Ebola

  • August 28th, 1967: Laboratory Assistant name Renate L. dropped and broke test tubes that contained very infectious material.   

  • September 4th, 1967: Laboratory Assistant, Renate L, fell sick from being exposed to the infectious test tubes.

  • Fall of 1967: 31 people have the first case of Ebola in the whole entire world. Later seven of them died.  They also found the symptoms of Ebola.

  • June 27, 1976: The first identified case of Ebola in a town called Nzara, which is in West Africa, the patient was a storekeeper.

  • Later 1976: Several hundred cases of Ebola outbreak were reported in Sudan. Affecting about 300 people and killed 50 percent of the people who were admitted into clinics for Ebola.

  • December 1, 1993: A laboratory have received a cargo full of monkeys that have Ebola. First case of Ebola in the U.S., but the person who have Ebola wasn’t human. It was a monkey from the Philippines.

  • In 1995: Another outbreak of Ebola in Africa, but this was in the country of Zaire, which affected about 315 people and killed about 81 percent of them. This was the highest mortality rate that Ebola researchers have ever seen.

  • In 2000: Ebola appeared in Uganda, it appears that the string of Ebola that have been in Sudan have appeared into Uganda. Also most people were afflicted with this disease by having a funeral ritual where they wash the body of the person who have Ebola. Which was a big problem.

  • In 2007: Ebola spreaded to the Democratic Republic of Congo about 264 people have been contracted and about 71 percent of the people who were contracted with Ebola in Congo died.

  • In 2014: The largest outbreak of Ebola in history was reported in three countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Mali . Thousands of people were report to have contracted Ebola and an unknown mortality rate for those who have Ebola.

 

     If you have Ebola, the easiest way to get yourself treated and isolated from everyone else would have to be to go the hospital. Yet there are no FDA approved vaccines for Ebola. But the things that you help your chance of survival would be IVs and body salt as well as maintaining oxygen and blood levels. Just said above, the CDC and other laboratories didn’t discover a vaccine or treatment for Ebola yet, but there experimental drugs (Zmapp) that you can try.

 

     

     

 

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