Symptoms of Ebola Virus Disease

Symptoms of Ebola include fever and body pain, but quickly progress to severe distress and ultimately shock.

A patient with Ebola viral infection presents with the following features:

Symptoms of fever, headache, loss of appetite and body pain suddenly appear in the patient.
Nausea, sore throat, stomach ache, and diarrhoea add up to the distress as the disease progresses.
Disseminated intravascular coagulation, a disorder in which the proteins that control blood clotting become over active, is a serious complication of Ebola virus disease.
By five to seven days, profuse bleeding occurs from multiple sites such as eyes, nose, mouth, rectum and gums.

Internal bleeding can also happen, resulting in shock and respiratory distress.
Death can occur between 7 to 16 days.

Sometimes the symptoms present as severe headaches, confusion, depression or agitation, seizures or coma indicating that the involvement of central nervous system.

References:

Ebola virus disease - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease)
About Ebola virus disease - (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001339.htm)

Published on Apr 28, 2014
Last Updated on May 14, 2018

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