Title: Ebola Virus: Symptoms, Treatment, and Prevention
Headings: Ebola Virus Infection
Ebola Virus Infection
How Do You Get Ebola?
What Are the Symptoms of Ebola?
How Is Ebola Diagnosed?
How Is Ebola Treated?
How Can You Prevent Ebola?
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Content: Symptoms, Treatment, and Prevention
Ebola Virus Infection
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Ebola is a rare but deadly virus that causes fever, body aches, and diarrhea, and sometimes bleeding inside and outside the body. As the virus spreads through the body, it damages the immune system and organs. Ultimately, it causes levels of blood -clotting cells to drop. This leads to severe, uncontrollable bleeding. The disease was known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever but is now referred to as Ebola virus. It kills up to 90% of people who are infected. How Do You Get Ebola? Ebola isn’t as contagious as more common viruses like colds, influenza, or measles. It spreads to people by contact with the skin or bodily fluids of an infected animal, like a monkey, chimp, or fruit bat. Then it moves from person to person the same way.