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Ebola hemorrhagic fever
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever
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Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses. Symptoms typically start anywhere between two days and three weeks after becoming infected with the virus. The first symptoms are usually fever, sore throat, muscle pain, and headaches. These are usually followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash and decreased liver and kidney function, at which point, some people begin to bleed both internally and externally. The disease kills between 25% and 90% of those infected – about 50% on average. Death is often due to shock from fluid loss, and typically occurs between six and 16 days after the first symptoms appear.
Onset
Bleeding
Recovery or death
Cause
Virology
Transmission
Initial case
Reservoir
Pathophysiology
Immune system evasion
Laboratory testing
Differential diagnosis
Vaccines
Caregivers
Patients and household members
Disinfection
General population
Bushmeat
Laboratory
Isolation
Contact tracing
Management
Standard support
Intensive care
Prognosis
Epidemiology
Sudan
Zaire
1995–2014
2013–2016 West Africa
2014 spread outside West Africa
2018 Équateur province
2018–2020 Kivu
2020 Équateur province
Ivory Coast
Weaponisation
Literature
Domestic animals
Reston virus
Treatments
Diagnostic tests
Disease models