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The Story of Ebola

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Safety Precautions

  • Practice careful hygiene.
  • Do not handle items that may have come in contact with an infected person.

Where did the name come from?

  • Avoid contact with bats and nonhuman primates or blood, fluids, and raw meat prepared from these animals.

The first case in the U.S.

The Ebola virus is named after the Ebola River in northern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Africa.

  • Thomas Eric Duncan

Traveled to the U.S on a flight from Liberia.

Sources

  • Started showing symptoms 4 days after

arriving

Origin

Google Images

CDC

Galileo

Google Scholar

  • Admitted to a hospital September 30th
  • Passed away October 8th

Ebola was first transferred to humans when a man ate a dead chimpanzee.

Treatment?

There is no current cure for Ebola. The survival rate depends on how the body's immune system reacts within the first days of infection.

Symptoms

Severe blood clotting and hemorrhaging, fever, lethargy, appetite loss, headaches, muscle aches, skin rash

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