Ebola Virus In Depth Report

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a response, Kikwit General Hospital was short of barrier nursing supplies and disinfectants.
The current outbreak resembles earlier African out breaks, in which the first cases were found in hospitals where infection control mechanisms were not in place because of economic controls. Ebola virus was spread to health workers in contact with body fluids, and also from patient to patient by the reuse of unsterilized needles. Secondary transmission occurred also among family members who applied care, among those who prepared corpses for burial, and in other towns where travelers from the epicenter subsequently became ill and infected new carers. Airborne spread is not considered important; one study noted that those exposed to ill patients even in small, crowded village huts were not at increased risk without direct contact.
Illness occurs 2 - 21 days after infection but generally within 7 - 14 days, beginning suddenly with headache, malaise, and fever; vomiting, bloody diarrhoea, ...

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