Ebola spreads in the community through human-to-human transmission, with infection resulting from direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and indirect contact with environments contaminated with such fluids.
Symptoms of the disease can start to show from two days after infection, but
this can take up to 21 days. People are contagious for as long as their
blood and other bodily fluids contain Ebola.
For the most part, early symptoms are similar to diseases like malaria and
cholera, as well as the flu, which can mean the disease can be difficult to
detect.
Symptoms of Ebola HF typically include:
- Fever.
- Headache.
- Joint and muscle aches.
- Weakness.
- Diarrhea.
- Vomiting.
- Stomach pain.
- Lack of appetite.
- sore throat
- rash
- Internal and external bleeding from the nose, mouth, ears and eyes
- Reduced liver and kidney function
- Trouble breathing
- Bruising
