Title: Ebola Facts
Headings: Ebola Facts
Ebola Facts
What is Ebola?
Symptoms
Is Ebola contagious?
Where does Ebola come from?
Treatment
Prevention
EBOLA HISTORY AND RISK TO THE U.S.
Ebola Outbreaks
Is Ebola a threat to the United States?
What happens if a person with Ebola comes to the United States?
How can we decrease the risk that a person with Ebola comes to the United States?
What are authorities trying to do to contain the outbreak?

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Treatment
There is no cure for Ebola, but promising experimental medications are in development. Several investigational antiviral treatments are being provided to people with laboratory-confirmed Ebola and preliminary evidence has shown favorable results for two treatment options, REGN-EB3 or mAb114. 5 While research is ongoing, people who become infected are given supportive therapy, including fluids and oxygen as well as medications to manage vomiting, diarrhea, pain, fever and blood pressure. 2,4
Prevention
Avoid traveling to areas where there is an Ebola outbreak. If you do travel to such an area, avoid contact with people who are sick or have died of Ebola, particularly their bodily fluids or objects their fluids have touched. 6 Further, an experimental vaccine that has been shown to be effective in preventing Ebola is being given to those who have been in contact with someone who has the disease, contacts of those contacts, as well as to health care workers and other front-line workers likely exposed to Ebola virus. 2,7
EBOLA HISTORY AND RISK TO THE U.S.
Ebola Outbreaks
There have been many Ebola outbreaks since the first known outbreak in 1976, all in sub-Saharan (west, east and central) Africa. By far the deadliest outbreak occurred in 2014-2016 when more than 11,000 people died (most in west African Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone). 8 The current outbreak, which began Aug. 1, 2018 in the DRC, is the second largest outbreak to date, and more than 1,800 people died in the first year.