Ebola is a life-threatening disease which is mostly found in
countries outside of the U.S.
Two American healthcare workers have been infected in West
Africa where the disease is widespread. One of these healthcare
workers is already back in America
and in an isolated hospital unit in the Georgia . The other healthcare
worker is due back this week. Health Briefs TV shares the basic facts about
Ebola and why it is not a real threat in the United States .
Ebola is a highly-infectious disease which produces flu-like
symptoms and is usually fatal. It is contracted through bodily fluids like
blood. Its symptoms are: the sudden onset of flu-like symptoms
including fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. These
are followed by vomiting, diarrhea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function,
and sometimes internal and external bleeding. It takes two weeks from
time of infection to the onset of symptoms.
Health Briefs
learns that the threat of Ebola being transmitted from the two infected
healthcare workers to rest of the population is not very likely. The staff taking care of these two people is
protected from catching it, and the two infected care workers are in heavily
isolated spaces. The U.S. Centers for
Disease Control has issued an alert for all medical professionals to ask
patients presenting Ebola-like symptoms about recent travel. In truth, panic
spreads faster than the Ebola virus. Have questions? Ask your doctor.
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