Ebola virus:The symptoms of a common cold to bleeding out the ears and eyes: What happens when you are infected with the Ebola virus? · The first symptoms include a fever, headache and sore throat · Within days as the Ebola virus attacks the immune system, chronic abdominal pain, muscle aches, vomiting and diarrhoea take hold · The virus pierces blood vessels causing bleeding from the eyes, ears, mouth and other orifices · The whites of the eyes turn red and blood blisters form under the skin · Ebola is highly-infectious and has a death rate of up to 90 per cent · So far, 672 lives have been lost to the disease during this outbreak · The virus has spread from Guinea to Sierra Leone and Liberia · And on Friday the first victim was declared dead in Nigeria There is currently no vaccine to protect against the Ebola virus. And in the absence of a specific treatment plan or drug to tackle the disease, it poses a real risk. God Save us bit.ly/1oK6fW6
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:11:32 +0000
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