Is the Ebola virus still out there?

Question

Is is still out there and what happens when its contracted? How can you get it?

Answer 1

Yes it's still out there. Ebola hemorrhagic fever is potentially lethal and encompasses a range of symptoms including fever, vomiting, diarrhea, generalized pain or malaise, and sometimes internal and external bleeding. Mortality rates are extremely high, with the human case-fatality rate ranging from 50–89%, depending on viral subtype.The cause of death is usually due to hypovolemic shock or organ failure.

Ebola is potentially lethal and since no approved vaccine or treatment is available, Ebola is classified as a bio safety level 4 agent, as well as a Category A bioterrorism agent by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It has the potential to be weaponized for use in biological warfare.[4] Its effectiveness as a biological-warfare agent is compromised by its extreme deadliness and its level of contagion: a typical outbreak spreads through a small village or hospital, infects the entire population, and then runs out of potential hosts, dying out before reaching the wider community. It is also significant that none of the strains of Ebola known to cause disease in humans have been found to be airborne—only the strain known as Ebola Res ton (after the city of Res ton, Virginia where it was first identified in Green Monkeys) is believed to be airborne.

Symptoms are varied and often appear suddenly. Initial symptoms include high fever (at least 38.8°C; 101.8°F), severe headache, muscle, joint, or abdominal pain, severe weakness and exhaustion, sore throat, nausea, and dizziness. Before an outbreak is suspected, these early symptoms are easily mistaken for malaria, typhoid fever, dysentery, influenza, or various bacterial infections, which are all far more common and reliably less fatal.

Ebola may progress to cause more serious symptoms, such as diarrhea, dark or bloody f***s, vomiting blood, red eyes due to Distension and hemorrhage of sclerotic arterioles, techie, culpable rash, and purport. Other secondary symptoms include hypo tension (low blood pressure), hypoglycemia, tachycardia, organ damage (especially the kidneys, spleen, and liver) as a result of disseminated systemic necrosis, and proteins. The interior bleeding is caused by a reaction between the virus and the platelets which produces a chemical that will cut cell-sized holes into the capillary walls. After 5–7 days the person will die of "a million cuts."[citation needed] Occasionally, internal and external hemorrhage from orifices, such as the nose and mouth may also occur, as well as from incompletely healed injuries such as needle-puncture sites. Ebola virus can affect the levels of white blood cells and platelets, disrupting clotting. More than 50% of patients will develop some degree of hemorrhaging.

Methods of diagnosis of Ebola include testing saliva and urine samples. The span of time from onset of symptoms to death is usually between 7 and 14 days. By the second week of infection, patients will either effervesce (the fever will lessen) or undergo systemic Miltie failure. Mortality rates are generally high, ranging from 50–90%.

Among humans, the virus is transmitted by direct contact with infected body fluids, or to a lesser extent, skin or mucous membrane contact. The incubation period can range from 2–21 days, but is generally 5–10 days.

Vaccines

Vaccines have been produced for both Ebola and Marburg that were 99% effective in protecting a group of monkeys from the disease. These vaccines are based on either a recombinant Vesicular stomatitis virus or a recombinant Adenovirus carrying the Ebola spikeprotein on its surface. Early human vaccine efforts, like the one at NIAID in 2003, have so far not reported any successes. The biggest problem with the vaccine is that unless the patient is given it near the onset of the virus (1-4 days after the symptoms begin) then there will be too much damage to the human body to repair, ie: ruptured arteries and capillaries, vomiting, and other symptoms which may still cause enough harm to kill or seriously traumatize the patient.

Answer 2

Yes, it's still a dangerous virus mainly in African.

On September 27, 2007, Ebola broke again in Democratic Republic of Congo.On November 24, 2007, the Uganda Ministry of Health confirmed an outbreak of Ebola in the Bundibugyo District.

Symptoms are varied and often appear suddenly. Initial symptoms include high fever (at least 38.8°C; 101.8°F), severe headache, muscle, joint, or abdominal pain, severe weakness and exhaustion, sore throat, nausea, and dizziness. Before an outbreak is suspected, these early symptoms are easily mistaken for malaria, typhoid fever, dysentery, influenza, or various bacterial infections, which are all far more common and reliably less fatal. Mortality rates are generally high, ranging from 50–90%.

Among humans, the virus is transmitted by direct contact with infected body fluids, or to a lesser extent, skin or mucous membrane contact. The incubation period can range from 2–21 days, but is generally 5–10 days.

Although airborne transmission between monkeys has been demonstrated by an accidental outbreak in a laboratory located in Virginia, USA, there is very limited evidence for human-to-human airborne transmission in any reported epidemics.

Answer 3

The Ebola virus is always out there. Where it comes from exactly no one knows. Some where in Africa. What animal carries it nobody knows. When you contract you bleed to death internally with blood also pouring out of every o*****e in your body. How initial infections inside a village starts nobody knows. But once people get it they are highly contagious. Don't exchange bodily fluids with them. Depending on the strain the death rate from infection is anywhere from 50% to 90%. Have a nice night.

Answer 4

It is still out there but its not in the us but in Africa and possibly asia.

Answer 5

Of course it is still out there.

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