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What is EVD ?

Ebola Virus Disease

Viral disease, Ebola (EVD) or Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) form of the disease human that the Ebola virus can be induced. The name of the virus of the disease from one of the rivers of the country Zaire, which is nowadays the Democratic Republic of the Congo, name. taken. This disease for the first time in the country, the Congo was seen. Signs of this disease is usually two days to three weeks after contact with the virus and for fever, strep throat, etc. pains, muscle and headache appear. Usually nausea, vomiting and diarrhea and also reduce the performance of the liver and kidneys to follow these cases come. At this time, the patients suffer from bleeding.

in 1976, compartment, blue color, containing blood samples of a nun, a Belgian with a letter from a doctor in Kinshasa to the city of Antwerp, Belgium, were sent. Researchers in Belgium, in the blood samples with a viral structure-like faced, Who up to that time a similar. Then, travel to the heart of the area that the virus since Common had been found that the blood, vomiting, and diarrhea patients, the main origin of transfer of the virus is, such as limiting patients and identify those who it, were in contact to prevent the spread of disease definition.
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