What is EBOLA?? By now we have heard the various Agencies and experts tell us not to worry about Ebola and how we can contain it, but no one has talked about what Ebola actually does to the body, Ebola is named for the Ebola river in West Afrca. Well we have all heard of Ebola, but I haven’t heard a single report of what Ebola does to the human body. I read a book a few years ago published shortly after the discovery of Ebola. The book is called “The Hot Zone: the Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus.” The author is Richard Preston. Ebola is a virus, there is a similar virus called Marburg named for the first outbreak of that disease in Marburg Germany. (Diseases are often named for the place they are discovered.) At the time there were two known strains of Ebola—Sudan and Zaire. The Sudan “only” killed about 50% of victims, Zaire killed 90% of victims—known to the Army “level four” virus jocks as a “slate wiper.” (The US army biological and chemical warfare HQ was literally in Debbie’s back yard in Fredrick MD at Fort Detrick. This is the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases or USAMRIID—people you probably never heard of but the people who were at the “point.” We used to wonder about the exhaust stacks there:>)) This book is not a scientific text it is written by journalist, so it could be a little sensational, but it will let you know why you should hope this stuff gets contained. (He did get some heat for using the word liquefy too often, but it is generally correct.} Here is how he describes Ebola Zaire: Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. It is like a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles. There are seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, and they work as a relentless machine, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies itself. Small blood clots begin to appear in the bloodstream and the blood thickens and slows, and the clots began to stick to the walls of blood vessels. This is known as pavementing, because the clots fit together in a mosaic. The mosaic thickens and throws more clots, and the clots drift through the bloodstream into the small capillaries, where they get stuck. This shuts off the blood supply to various parts of the body, causing dead spots to appear in the brain, liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, and all through the skin. The skin develops red spots which are hemorrhages under the skin. Ebola attacks connective tissue with particular ferocity; it multiplies in collagen, the chief constituent protein of the tissue that holds the organs together. The Ebola proteins chew up the body’s structural proteins. In this way, collagen in the body turns to mush, and the under-layers of the skin die and liquefy. The skin bubbles up into a sea of tine white blisters mixed with red spots known as a maculopapular rash. Spontaneous rips appear in the skin and hemorrhagic blood pours from the rips. The red spots on the skin grow and spread and merge to become huge, spontaneous bruises, the skin goes soft and pulpy, and can tear off if it is touched with any kind of pressure. One’s mouth bleeds, and then bleeds around the teeth, and one may have hemorrhages from the salivary glands—literally every opening in the body bleeds, no matter how small. The surface of the tongue turns brilliant red and may slough off to be swallowed or spat out. The back of the throat and the lining of the windpipe may also slough off, and the dead tissue slides down the windpipe into the lungs or is coughed up with sputum. The heart bleeds into itself; the heart muscle softens and has hemorrhages into its chambers, blood squeezes out of the heart muscle as the heart beats and floods the chest cavity. The brain becomes clogged with dead blood cells, a condition known as sludging of the brain. Ebola attacks the lining of the eyeball, and the eyeballs may fill up with blood. Droplets of blood stand out on the eyelids and one may weep blood. While the body’s internal organs are becoming plugged with coagulated blood, the blood that streams out of the body cannot clot. It has been stripped of hits clotting factors. Ebola kills a great deal of tissue while the host is still alive. It triggers a creeping, spotty necrosis that spreads through all the internal organs. The liver bulges up and turns yellow, begins to liquefy, and then it cracks apart. The cracks run across the liver and deep inside it, the liver completely dies and goes putrid. The kidneys become jammed with blood clots and dead cells, and cease functioning. As the kidneys fail the blood becomes toxic with urine. The spleen turns into a single huge, hard blood clot the size of a baseball. The intestines may fill up completely with blood. The lining of the gut dies and sloughs off into the bowels and is defecated along with large amounts of blood. Ebola destroys the brain more thoroughly than Marburg and victims often go into epileptic convulsions during the final stage. The convulsions are generalized grand mal seizures—the whole body twitches and shakes, the arms and legs thrash around, and the eyes sometimes bloody, roll up into the head. The tremors and convulsions of the patient may smear or splatter blood around. It makes the victim go into a flurry of seizures as he dies, spreading blood all over the place giving the virus a chance to jump to a new host. After death, the cadaver suddenly deteriorates, the internal organs having dead or partially dead for days have already begun to dissolve and sort of shock-related meltdown occurs. The corpse’s connective tissue, skin and organs, already peppered with dead spots, heated by fever and damaged shock, begin to liquefy, and the fluids that leak from the body are saturated with Ebola virus articles.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 13:02:13 +0000
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