Ebola virus disease | |
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Synonyms | Ebola hemorrhagic fiver (EHF), Ebola |
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Twa nurses staundin near Mayinga N'Seka, a nurse wi Ebola virus disease in the 1976 outbreak in Zaire. N'Seka dee'd a few days later. | |
Specialty | Infectious disease |
Symptoms | Fiver, sore throat, muscular pyne, heidaches, diarrhoea, bleedin[1] |
Complications | Law bluid pressur frae fluid loss[2] |
Uisual onset | Twa days tae three weeks post exposur[1] |
Causes | Ebolaviruses spreid bi direct contact[1] |
Diagnostic method | Findin the virus, viral RNA, or antibouks in bluid[1] |
Seemilar condeetions | Malaria, cholera, typhoid fiver, meningitis, ither viral hemorrhagic fivers[1] |
Prevention | Coordinatit medical services, carefu haundlin o bussmeat[1] |
Treatment | Supportive care[1] |
Prognosis | 25–90% mortality[1] |
Ebola virus disease (EVD), kent as Ebola hemorrhagic fiver (EHF) or semply Ebola forby, is a viral hemorrhagic fiver o humans an ither primates caused bi ebolaviruses.[1] Signs an symptoms teepically stairt atween twa days an three weeks efter contractin the virus wi a fiver, sore throat, muscular pyne, an headaches.[1] Vomitin, diarrhoea an rush uisually follae, alang wi decreased function o the liver an neers.[1] At this time, some fowk begin tae bleed baith internally an fremmitly.[1] The disease haes a heich risk o daith, killin 25% tae 90% o thae infectit, wi an average o aboot 50%.[1] This is eften due tae law bluid pressur frae fluid loss, an teepically follaes 6 tae 16 days efter symptoms appear.[2]