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Ebola

Jessica Seifert

Rasmussen College

February 25, 2018

Ebola is an incredibly infectious disease that is typically characterized by high fever and the internal bleeding. The virus is transmitted through contact with a body fluid by a filovirus. The time interval from infection with Ebola to the onset of its symptoms usually is 2-21 days; however, in most of the cases, it ranges from 8-10 days. Ebola gets highly characterized by extreme fever and headache. The victim's experience a lot of head cramps that is lasts almost for very long days. One usually feels like they have joint and muscle aches that persists.

Some of the other symptoms of this disease include vomiting, weakness, and diarrhea and stomach pains. There is currently no clear way of Ebola treatment. However, (Gupta, M., Spiropoulou, C., & Rollin, P. E., 2013). Several techniques have been developed to assist the patients who have contracted the disease. People suffering from this disease are helped to maintain the oxygen and their blood pressure. Secondly, the medics also try to balance the patients' fluids and electrolytes.

The disease Ebola has taken the lives of many people. Since it is a disease with a short time of impact, (H., & Schnittler, H. J., 2016). It is, therefore, a very faster killer to both humans and non-primates. A part of causing death, it is a very negative factor towards economic development. A lot of money that would have been used to spur development level gets pumped towards the control and treatment of the victims. Today, Ebola has become a big menace to many countries. Despite the advanced research that has been ongoing to create the cure to this menace, but nothing has constructive has been developed. Therefore, Ebola remains a problem to many people.

Reference

Gupta, M., Spiropoulou, C., & Rollin, P. E. (2013). Ebola virus infection of human PBMCs causes the massive death of macrophages, CD4 and CD8 T cell subpopulations in vitro. Virology, 364(1), 45-54.

Wahl-Jensen, V. M., Afanasieva, T. A., Seebach, J., Ströher, U., Feldmann, H., & Schnittler, H. J. (2016). Effects of Ebola virus glycoproteins on endothelial cell activation and barrier function. Journal of Virology, 79(16), 10442-10450.