what is ebola, what was the country it first brokeout in and what does it do to the human body.
2007-09-02 04:19:44 · 5 answers · asked by SH@WTY 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Not sure where it first broke out but I can help you with what it does to the human body.
After an incubation period of 5 to 10 days, fever, myalgia, and headache occur, often with abdominal (nausea, vomiting, pain, diarrhea) and upper respiratory (cough, chest pain, pharyngitis) symptoms. Photophobia, conjunctival injection, jaundice, and lymphadenopathy also occur. Delirium, stupor, and coma may occur, indicating CNS involvement. Hemorrhagic symptoms begin within the 1st few days and include petechiae, ecchymoses, and frank bleeding around puncture sites and mucous membranes. A maculopapular rash, primarily on the trunk, begins around day 5. During the 2nd wk of symptoms, either defervescence occurs and patients begin recovery or patients develop fatal multiple organ failure. Recovery is prolonged and may be complicated by recurrent hepatitis, uveitis, transverse myelitis, and orchitis. Mortality ranges from 25 to 90% (higher with Ebola).
2007-09-02 04:27:17 · answer #1 · answered by balto 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ebola is a very dangerous filo virus
its like threads
thre r 3 types, ebloa sudan, ebola zaire and ebola reston
marbarg is its sister
ebola zaire is the most dangerous, and the hottest
when a person gets ebola, they will die within a short period of time, first sign is severe head ache, u might get pain in ur eyeballs, u will bleed fron every opening and the blood will not stop, u will bleed until u r dead, u will get hemorreges, bleed in to the lungs or intestines or any other place, its a horrible sight!
the virus will replicate itself in ur cells until it gets full and explodes, it will destroy the cells quickly, it can replicate itself v quickly,
i dont think its airborne,it might be
it makes aids a new born baby infront of it, it can do what aids take 10 years to do, in 10 days
we get it from handling the hot agent, without any gloves,etc
it destroys lungs spleen and many parts of ur body while u r alive and u wont know it, when doctors cut open
their bodies, their spleens r swollen
it started in africa, we still dont know the source,but the monkeys gave it to the humans, they must have got it from the source, many people believe that it came from kitnum cave in africa
some people imported sick monkeys in to washinton and they began to die, they had the virus inside them!
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2007-09-04 11:17:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ebola is a virus, similar to marburg as far as strain and symptoms. there are four different strains, which cause hemmoraging, both internally as well as externally, vomiting, diarrhea, and general body aches...and is lethal in 50-90% of cases.
the first documented cases were in africa, though no official source of the virus (animal or plant host..etc) has been found.
2007-09-02 11:30:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A virus,
one of the 'hemorrhagic fevers`,
attacks liver, blood vessels,
causes general breakdown of the body.
Found in central africa.
2007-09-02 11:33:15 · answer #4 · answered by Irv S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most deadly infectious deadly disease onthe planet.
Its a virus - Africa - kills people.
2007-09-02 11:24:07 · answer #5 · answered by Sal*UK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋