WHAT EBOLA IS
Ebola is a severe acute viral disease. In humans, it induces acute haemorrhagic fever. It is characterised by high infectivity. Originator of disease is the Ebola fever virus of the family Filovirus.
Disease transmission
Man becomes infected by close contact with the sick, alive or dead, especially intercourse with blood, faeces, saliva, urine. The transfer may also take place unprotected sexual intercourse with healed patients, including several weeks after their recovery. Transmission is also inadequate sterile syringes and needles. Airway transfer with apply as a minimum. A person may also become infected by contact with blood or body fluids of live or dead wild animals, such monkeys, forest antelopes or bats.
Symptoms
The disease begins suddenly with a high temperature, chest and abdominal pain,
vomiting and watery diarrhoea. Approximately day 5 from the onset of the disease
red rashes appear on the skin. Painful inflammation of the larynx, dry
cough, muscle and joint pain. As a result of frequent diarrhoea and vomiting
extreme dehydration occurs. At the end of the first week of disease in the majority of patients
there is bleeding, which is manifested by bloody diarrhea
coughing and vomiting blood, subcutaneous blood ejections, bleeding from
gums and nose. Sometimes there may be yellowing. Sick, resulting in considerable
blood loss in shock, dying in the second week of the disease. Mortality
It's 50 percent.
Sometimes, however, it can be easier to process, only as a flu-like illness.
The incubation period is 2 - 21 days.
Treatment of the disease is only symptomatic.
How to destroy the virus?
Ebola virus effectively kills soap, bleach, sunlight or drying. It will also be destroyed by washing clothes contaminated with liquids. Na dried surfaces or surfaces exposed to sunlight survive virus only for a short time. Trials have shown that the virus survives longer at lower levels temperature. The virus can survive in liquid or dried material several days. However, the Ebola virus can be destroyed by UV radiation, gamma radiation, by heating to 60 °C for 60 minutes or by boiling for five minutes minutes. The virus can be destroyed by chlorine-containing disinfectants (primarily sodium hypochlorite) for 30 60 min. Freezing or Cooling does not destroy the Ebola virus.
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