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Ebola
Title: Ebola
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 249 | Pages: 1.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ebola
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever is a sever, usually fatal disease in humans and in primates that has sporadically appeared since 1976. The disease is caused by infection with Ebola virus, named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa, where it was first recognized. The virus is a member of RNA viruses called the Filoviridae. Three of the four subtypes of Ebola virus identified so far have caused disease in humans: Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, …showed first 75 words of 249 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 249 total…and diarrhea usually occur within a few days. Some patients experience sore throat, hiccups, rash, red and itchy eyes, vomiting blood, and bloody diarrhea. Within a week of becoming infected patients experience chest pain, shock, blindness, bleeding, and death…
There is no standard treatment for Ebola HF. Patients receive supportive therapy, which consists of balancing the patient’s fluids and electrolytes, maintaining their oxygen status and blood pressure, and treating them for any complicating infections.
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