Title: Ebola - Wikipedia
Headings: Ebola
Ebola
Contents
Signs and symptoms
Onset
Bleeding
Recovery and death
Cause
Virology
Transmission
Initial case
Reservoir
Pathophysiology
Immune system evasion
Diagnosis
Laboratory testing
Differential diagnosis
Prevention
Vaccines
Infection control
Caregivers
Patients and household members
Disinfection
General population
Bushmeat
Corpses, burial
Transport, travel, contact
Laboratory
Putting on protective equipment
Removing protective equipment
Isolation
Contact tracing
Management
Standard support
Intensive care
Prognosis
Epidemiology
1976
Sudan
Zaire
1995–2014
2013–2016 West Africa
2014 spread outside West Africa
2017 Democratic Republic of the Congo
2018 Équateur province
2018–2020 Kivu
2020 Équateur province
2021 North Kivu (ongoing)
2021 Guinea (ongoing)
Society and culture
Weaponisation
Literature
Other animals
Wild animals
Domestic animals
Reston virus
Research
Treatments
Diagnostic tests
Disease models
See also
References
Bibliography
External links

Content: Samples of body fluids and tissues from people with the disease should be handled with special caution. Prevention includes limiting the spread of disease from infected animals to humans by handling potentially infected bushmeat only while wearing protective clothing, and by thoroughly cooking bushmeat before eating it. It also includes wearing proper protective clothing and washing hands when around a person with the disease. An Ebola vaccine was approved in the United States in December 2019. While there is no approved treatment for Ebola as of 2019
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, two treatments ( atoltivimab/maftivimab/odesivimab and ansuvimab) are associated with improved outcomes. Supportive efforts also improve outcomes. This includes either oral rehydration therapy (drinking slightly sweetened and salty water) or giving intravenous fluids as well as treating symptoms. Atoltivimab/maftivimab/odesivimab (Inmazeb) was approved for medical use in the United States in October 2020, for the treatment of infection caused by Zaire ebolavirus. The disease was first identified in 1976, in two simultaneous outbreaks: one in Nzara (a town in South Sudan) and the other in Yambuku ( Democratic Republic of the Congo ), a village near the Ebola River from which the disease takes its name.