"Recent research has yielded not only the possibility of a vaccine 5 but also treatments for patients with Ebola including the drug now marketed as Inmazeb. The Pamoja Tulinde Maisha/PALM trial of various treatments yielded positive results for two drugs 6 . Survivors of Ebola suffer long term sequelae 7."
"Recent research has yielded not only the possibility of a vaccine 5 but also treatments for patients with Ebola including the drug now marketed as Inmazeb. The Pamoja Tulinde Maisha/PALM trial of various treatments yielded positive results for two drugs 6 . Survivors of Ebola suffer long term sequelae 7."
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"Transmission"
"First recognised in 1967 after polio vaccine laboratory workers were exposed to infected primates brought to Europe from Africa. The first outbreak occurred in 1976 in Zaire (since 1997 the Democratic Republic of the Cοngo), killing 318 people 2. An outbreak that started in March 2014 and ended in 2016, involved multiple countries, spanning three continents, and represented the largest known outbreak in history with 28,652 probable and confirmed cases, and 11,325 deaths 2."
"The initial clinical syndrome is non-specific and features flu-like symptoms such as fever, myalgia, and general malaise. This is followed by nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, and rashes progressing to petechiae, conjunctival haemorrhage, epistaxis, melaena, haematemesis, shock and encephalopathy 3."
"It occurs by coming in direct contact with infected fluid like blood, breast milk, semen, saliva, sweat, faeces, and vomit, through broken skin, mucous membranes or contaminated medical equipment."
"The initial clinical syndrome is non-specific and features flu-like symptoms such as fever, myalgia, and general malaise. This is followed by nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, and rashes progressing to petechiae, conjunctival haemorrhage, epistaxis, melaena, haematemesis, shock and encephalopathy 3."