Characteristic symptoms are high fever, uncontrolled bleeding in virtually every organ and finally shock. The liver turns yellow and decomposes. Blood can leak from literally every bodily orifice, including the eyes and pores of the skin. Sabia was never seen before 1990. Red spots appear on his skin and, spreading quickly, become a rash of tiny blisters, and then the skin rips.
Blood begins to flow from every one of the body's orifices.
The victim coughs up black vomit, sloughing off parts of his tongue, throat and windpipe. His organs fill with blood and fail. He suffers seizures, splattering virus-saturated blood that can infect anyone nearby. This so-called Ebola Zaire virus is the deadliest of the filoviruses, but its Ebola Sudan and Marburg kin, while not as deadly, cause equally horrible symptoms. The Hot Zone details a 1989 Ebola crisis that occurred not in the forests of Africa but in Reston, Virginia, only 15 miles from Washington.