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...Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. One of the most terrifying infectious diseases known to man has once again mysteriously surfaced, this time in the Gulu district of northern Uganda. To date, this outbreak has seen 191 confirmed infections and 68 deaths from this terrible pathogen...
...Ebola virus can be spread through any sort of close physical contact, especially with mucous membranes. This makes family members of infected individuals and medical personnel the most likely to contract the disease. In fact, in specific previous outbreaks, up to a quarter of deaths have come from medical personnel infected by their patients. In the laboratory, Ebola has been shown to be transmittable in aerosol form (i.e. through the air, just as a cold or a flu can be transmitted in a sneeze or a cough) but no human infection has been confirmed to have occurred through air-borne...
...virus sporadically jumps into humans causing outbreaks in the general population. But this source organism has not been found. Although the virus has been exposed to a host of possible host organisms, only very superficial evidence for a possible carrier has been unearthed. Today the environmental source of Ebola is as mysterious as it was in 1976 when the first cases were reported in Zaire. Different strains of the virus have different mortality rates, ranging from about 90 percent for Ebola-Zaire (the viruses are named after the places they are first discovered) to about 55 percent for Ebola-Sudan...
...tell if you have contracted the dread virus? Well, the rest of this column goes out to all the hypochondriacs out there. Quite perniciously, the first symptoms of the infection in the early stages are similar to those of the common flu. The CDC warns that most stricken with Ebola display high fever, headache, muscle aches, stomach pain, fatigue and diarrhea, and some patients also complain of sore throat, hiccups, rash and red itchy eyes within a few days post-infection. Of course, these symptoms could easily be confused with numerous every-day maladies (from the common...
...horror does not even stop with the death of the patient. In fact, infected persons are most contagious just before and just after death, and many cases of Ebola have been documented to come from contact with the dead during burial procedures. The deadly hand of Ebola reaches out even from the grave...