Title: The Ebola virus: How is it contracted? What are the symptoms? How is it treated? - New York Daily News
Headings: The Ebola virus: How is it contracted? What are the symptoms? How is it treated?
The Ebola virus: How is it contracted? What are the symptoms? How is it treated?
HOW DO YOU GET IT?
WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS?
HOW LONG BEFORE SYMPTOMS SHOW?
WHAT DISEASES SHOULD BE RULED OUT FIRST?
HOW CAN YOU PROTECT YOURSELF?
HOW IS IT TREATED?
WHERE ARE THE OUTBREAKS?
HOW ARE U.S. OFFICIALS HANDLING THE VIRUS' POSSIBLE TRANSMISSION FROM OVERSEAS?

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Until this week, the deadly Ebola virus that has claimed nearly 900 lives had seemed an ocean away. Now amid recent scares of infected Americans and patients possibly flying from Africa onto U.S. soil, its fear is closer than many expected. Advertisement
Fortunately contracting the deadly virus, said to have a fatality rate of up to 90%, is not only preventable but health officials say has a relatively small threat to Americans at home. Here are some fast facts on what you need to know about Ebola: A Nigerian health official wears a protective suit before screening passengers at an airport in Lagos, Nigeria on Monday. The precaution comes as nearly 900 people have died from the Ebola virus. ( Sunday Alamba/AP)
HOW DO YOU GET IT? Advertisement
Human-to-human transmission, primarily through direct or indirect contact with bodily fluids such as blood, saliva, urine, feces, or semen
Contact with contaminated objects such as needles and/or soiled bedding or clothing
It's not airborne like the flu
WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS? Sudden onset of fever, weakness, muscle pain, headache, sore throat
Followed by: Vomiting, diarrhea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function, some cases internal and external bleeding
HOW LONG BEFORE SYMPTOMS SHOW?