What is Ebola ? - A Brief Story .

Ebola Virus Disease or EVD and in Formal language it is known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever . Ebola is widely spreading in West of Africa and is becoming a major disease as in this disease the death chances is from 19%-90% . Now if you are looking for what is Ebola or What is Ebola Virus Disease then might be this post will help you to get the basic idea of Ebola and might can also help you in preventing yourself from this Disease .

Some Key Facts About Ebola Virus Disease 

                          

• The most important thing to know about this disease is that it spreads from animals and then it transmits from human to human so people who love eating flesh or live in animal surroundings in ebola prone areas for them it is very important to take care of this point .
• The average case fatality varies from 25-90% in the previous cases as it is high so people be precautious.
• The first cases of Ebola has occurred in Villages in Central Africa as they are more in animal surroundings but now this disease is affecting the major areas of Rural as well as urban africa 

• Community engagement is key to successfully controlling outbreaks. Good outbreak control relies on applying a package of interventions, namely case management, surveillance and contact tracing, a good laboratory service, safe burials and social mobilisation.
• There s no licensed vaccine available for Ebola Disease yet . All you can do is caring for the patients with the proper guidelines from the medics and  there are vaccines in under process . So guys be patient and take care of the people suffering from this very dangerous disease.

History of Ebola -What is Ebola ?

Now the next thing which you should know about ebola is the background of this Disease so that you can tackle with this disease more often as this is very prone and very communicable so detailed information should be there in your mind in order to protect yourself and your family from this disease .

Now the Ebola virus firstly happens in 1976 , one in Sudan and other in Democratic Republic of Congo and then later it happens near the regions of ebola river from where this disease got his name .Now this disease cause fatal illness in humans it cause severe fever ,  cough , then lungs and liver stop working and then internal and external bleeding starts to occur and then due to loss of fluid body start loosing blood pressure which can lead to death which has high ratio in this disease.

" The most severely affected countries, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have very weak health systems, lacking human and infrastructural resources, having only recently emerged from long periods of conflict and instability. On August 8, the WHO Director-General declared this outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

A separate, unrelated Ebola outbreak began in Boende, Equateur, an isolated part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The virus family Filoviridae includes 3 genera: Cuevavirus, Marburgvirus, and Ebolavirus. There are 5 species that have been identified: Zaire, Bundibugyo, Sudan, Reston and Taï Forest. The first 3, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Zaire ebolavirus, and Sudan ebolavirus have been associated with large outbreaks in Africa. The virus causing the 2014 west African outbreak belongs to the Zaire species. "

Now the next question that arises in our mind is that how to diagnose this disease , how ebola virus got transmitted from one human to other , how to treat this disease , what are the precautions of this disease , what are the symptoms of this disease and how to control this disease . For all this information search out the Ebola Blog and if its not present then continue to be updated on this blog as this blog will help you in all the possible way to fight the Ebola virus . 

So this was my post on What is Ebola virus disease .Hopefully you have liked our post and also have gained some knowledge from that . It is very important to have the deatiled information about this disease in order to fight with this disease in the proper manner till the date when its vaccine got prepared till then take care of the ebola patients and be updated on this blog for all the ebola news .

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