Infectious Diseases-Ebola
By:Mary Lubus
Introduction
Ebola is a type of a virus that causes a serious disease. This virus is a parasite. A parasite is a virus that lives off its host without offering anything in return. Viruses can affect everything that lives like animals, plants and bacteria. Virus can be found in land, water or even air. In this pamphlet I am talking about symptoms,cause,transmission,epidemiology,treatment.
Symptoms
This virus attacks the Immune System. The average person that has Ebola can go for two to twenty-one days before it really attacks the body. Ebola can start with symptoms like body pain,fever, headache, red eyes,sore throat, a rash and even vomiting. Then it travels through the body hurting all of the organs.The affected person's mouth, nose, ears and eyeballs bleed. Ebola can get worse and cause life-threatening symptoms, such as bleeding and trouble breathing.
This disease can get very deadly if you do not treat quickly or right away.
Some are the Symptoms are
Fever,Severe headache,Muscle pain,Weakness,Fatigue,Diarrhea,Vomiting,Abdominal (stomach) pain,Unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising).
Cause
Transmission
Epidemiology
Ebola was found in 1907, but most researchers believe that Ebola was around for much longer. Ebola is named after the Ebola river near Yambuku, the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Africa was the first place that they found the first chase of Ebola in a patient. Ebola hemorrhagic fever, the disease caused by Ebola virus, can kill up to nine out of every ten people infected with it. Ebola mainly attacks health care workers and family members treating infected patients.
Endemic,Epidemic or Pandemic
Treatment
Prognosis for the future
Work Cited Page
http://teenshealth.org/en/teens/ebola.html?ref=search#catstds
- Bueche, Shelley. The Ebola Virus. Farmington Hills, MI: Kidhaven, 2004. Print.