What are the symptoms?
Initial symptoms include fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. These symptoms are followed by vomiting, diarrhea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function and sometimes internal and external bleeding.
Symptoms usually appear 8-10 days after infection. Lab tests of contaminated individuals find low white blood cell and platelet counts.
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How does Ebola spread?
Ebola is not airborne. The virus can be spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person -- urine, saliva, sweat, feces, vomit, breast milk and semen, for example -- or a contaminated needle.
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How likely am I to contract Ebola?
You’re highly unlikely to contract Ebola -- unless you’ve been in direct contact with an infected person while he or she is exhibiting symptoms. Health care workers of patients in advanced stages of the disease are at the highest risk of contracting Ebola.
Ebola is not easily spread during the early phases of the disease, when patients are still healthy enough to walk around. The family of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, for example, shared a small apartment with him but did not get Ebola.
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How did Ebola spread to humans?
The first Ebola patient probably contracted the virus from an infected animal.
Fruit bats in Africa are the natural host. There’s no evidence that North American bats carry Ebola.
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