Ebola, a Virus on the Rise

The first occurrence of the Ebola virus

around Kikwit, Zaire. In this outbreak there was a mortality rate of 77%, with

recovered, the outbreak was declared over and the quarantine was lifted (World Health Organization).

of the disease occurred in Gabon, Africa. This outbreak resulted in 21 deaths

Ebola was called Ebola Tai (World Health Organization).

The symptoms of Ebola are some of the more physically disabling symptoms in terms of viral diseases, Center of Disease Control and Prevention (Ebola pg. 2). The symptoms you get when you have the flu or a cold or maybe pneumonia don't even begin to scratch the surface when considering the symptoms of Ebola. When the disease is contracted, it can stay in your body for several days ranging from 2-21 days, but the "incubation period" usually lasts from six to ten days. For the first couple of days after the disease is contracted it then begins to replicate or make copies of itself into different organs, like the liver or pancreas. After the virus has been replicated, it then begins to give its host a heavy dosage of its capabilities, according to the World Health Organization (fact sheet pg. 1). Ebola begins its carnage with a hemorrhagic fever, which causes weakness, muscle and joint pain, headache and sore throat, red eyes, and painful rashes. These preliminary symptoms are then followed by vomiting, diarrhea, rash, limited kidney and liver function along with internal and external bleeding. Furthermore, your skin will develop blood clots under the skin, your organs turn to mush and the under layers of your skin die and liquefy. Every opening in your body, no matter how small, excretes blood. Due to the extremeness of this disease some patients don't make it past the hemorrhagic fever because then they become delirious and difficult to control. If the patient manages to survive those gruesome stages of the virus, the body will eventually give way due to the seizures that take place when dealing with a virus of this magnitude which will cause the body to twitch uncontrollably. In order to deal with the symptoms of a virus like Ebola, one must know of possible treatments if any to help contain the disease before it spreads.

more than 50 villages along the river in Zaire. This outbreak caused about 500

Nzara, Sudan became very ill. Later that year a similar virus spread through

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