Title: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) - Symptoms and Causes | familydoctor.org
Headings: Ebola Virus Disease
Ebola Virus Disease
What is Ebola virus disease?
Symptoms of Ebola virus disease
What causes Ebola virus disease?
How is Ebola virus disease diagnosed?
Can Ebola virus disease be prevented or avoided?
Ebola virus disease treatment
Living with Ebola virus disease
Questions to ask your doctor
Resources
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Ebola virus disease
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: History of Ebola virus disease

Content: The Ebola virus is spread through direct contact with: Blood of a person infected with the virus
Body fluids, such as breast milk, stool, saliva, semen, sweat, urine, or vomit, of a person infected with the virus
Objects, such as needles or syringes, that are contaminated with the virus
Animals, such as bats and primates, that are infected with the virus
Direct contact means that a person’s eye, mouth, nose, or broken skin touches contaminated blood, fluids, or an object. Broken skin may be a cut, scratch, scrape, or open wound. For most people, the risk of being infected with the Ebola virus is extremely low. The risk increases if you: Travel to an area where known EVD outbreaks have occurred
Help take care of someone infected with the virus
Have direct contact with a person infected with the virus. Even an infected dead body can still spread the virus
How is Ebola virus disease diagnosed? Tell your doctor about your symptoms and risk factors (for example, all recent travel). You must have symptoms of EVD and have had possible exposure to EVD in order to be diagnosed with it. Your doctor can do a blood test to confirm if you have been infected.