It causes viral hemorrhagic fever and kills up to 90 % of people who catch it . It 's named after the Ebola River in DRC , where one of first outbreaks occurred in 1976 . Symptoms can take between two and 21 days to develop after victim ##izing virus . Humans contract Ebola through contact with bodily fluids of infected animals or humans .
Ebola causes viral hemorrhagic fever and kills up to 90 % of people who catch it . It 's named after the Ebola River in DRC , where one of first outbreaks occurred in 1976 . Symptoms can take between two and 21 days to appear after victim contracts virus . Humans contract Ebola through contact with bodily fluids of infected animals or humans .