Survivors of highly contagious diseases are often shunned or banned. Okware said three more people had died from Thursday to Friday, raising the death toll to 103. The fever caused by the Ebola virus is transmitted by contact with bodily fluids. Experts from the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Doctors without Borders are in Uganda helping authorities contain the disease. Ebola can cause severe hemorrhagic fever and is often fatal.
Early symptoms are similar to the flu, a situation that has led to many false reports.
No one knows where the virus exists between outbreaks or where the disease originated. There is no medical cure for the Ebola virus, but patients aggressively treated to reverse dehydration have a good chance of survival. Click Here to make suggestions, comments about C-Health.