Ebola hemorrhagic fever epidemic struck the body?

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) said minutes 31/7, since March there have been infected with Ebola and ca 1323 729 deaths in three countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The mortality rate of about 55%.

Ebola hemorrhagic fever is in danger of erupting

 Bacterial disease is Ebola disease in humans has a mortality rate as high as 90%.

Translate Ebola virus (EVD) or Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) is the name of a disease on the person of the high mortality rate to 90%. The virus causing the disease has a series of variations. The virus was Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the disease first broke out in 1976.

According to the announcement of Guinea today 22/3, Ebola virus as the cause of a disease with 59 deaths, when it is raging in the southern forest region of the country. Just 5 days later, the Ebola virus has spread to the capital Conakry of Guinea.

Ebola attacks the body?

Ebola virus attacks the body in a systematic way.

Ebola virus attacks the body in a systematic way, meaning it attacks all organs and cells of the body, except the bones and skeletal muscle.

According to the study by the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Ebola protein tetherin disables, protein that functions to prevent the spread of the virus from cell to other cells, from where pushing the immune system of the body.

Then, they took this as a place cells produced large amounts of virions into the (virus particle). The virions into will then be launched to into other cells and is increasingly spreading throughout the body.

Ebola virus causes the tiny blood clots in the blood of patients; blood clots and increasing the flow of blood. The blood clots in clogged blood vessels form the red spots on the skin of the patient.

The red spot will increasingly to when the disease as severe. In addition, they also impede blood flow to go feed the organs in the body such as the liver, brain, lungs, kidneys, intestines, breast tissue, testis ... of patients.

To the last phase, the patient will bleed from the mouth, the eyes, the ears, the nose and the skin open wound. Patients will die by losing too much blood, renal insufficiency, or the shock. The disease has a mortality rate of up to 90%, no medication and no preventive vaccine. So the thing to do at the moment is prevention.

Easy-opportunistic Ebola vius objects

Family members or close contact with infected person

People who attended the funeral in direct contact with the bodies of people killed by the Ebola virus infections

Shooter contact with dead animals because of Ebola virus infection in the forest and the medical officer.

Symptoms

Sudden fever, prolonged fatigue, muscle pain, headache, sore throat.

Puke, shit flows, rash, kidney failure, liver failure.

Some cases of internal bleeding and bleeding out.

Incubation period is from 2 to 21 days. Patients with contagious diseases as soon as symptoms start to appear.

When you see the symptoms above, or if living in the area have the Ebola virus caused disease or when in contact with people infected or suspected Ebola virus infection, patients need to right to medical examination and treatment, avoid to disease risk spreads.

Because of the high mortality of Ebola hemorrhagic fever.

Measures to prevent Ebola epidemic

1. Do not eat raw meat

People can be infected with Ebola virus when close contact of blood, exudates, the agency or the other fluids of infected animals. In Africa, there have been cases when handling infected animals are infected or died of infection in the forest like: chimpanzees, gorillas, Antelope, fruit bats, porcupines ...

Regularly disinfect and clean up the animal farm pigs, monkeys ... by sodium hypochlorite or other cleaners.

2. Quarantine sick people

Ebola can also spread from person to person by direct contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other fluids of infected people, and indirect contact with infected environment the exudates.

Therefore, the need to examine and quarantine those who have temporarily been indirect or direct contact with infected people. Infected people should be isolated completely. At the same time, there should be measures in place sterilization, personal items of those patients have fatality or Ebola infections.

3. timely processing and process the body the patient deaths from Ebola

People in contact with the body, the patient deaths of Ebola infection may also be infected. Therefore, it should be disposed properly and timely regulation on safety of bodies of patients deaths from Ebola.

Ebola virus, can even survive in up to 7 days after the infected have recovered.

4. Wear protective clothing health

Many health workers have been infected with the disease when treatment for Ebola-infected patients for not implementing strict regulations on health protection.

The content is done via the reference site of the World Health Organization (WHO), the expert community page Brighthub and Sciencedaily page of the United States of America.=

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