If you haven’t heard about Ebola by now, you have been under a rock for weeks. For those of you who are that small percentage under a rock, I will fill you in. Ebola is a “haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans.” Ebola started in West Africa and is transmitted through bodily fluids. The first case of Ebola in the United States was diagnosed on September 30th and the patient died on October 8th (not to scare you even more, but that’s not a long time everyone).
So now, the United States has a very tiny, tiny, tiny dosage of Ebola floating around and everyone is scared, using Purell 24/7 which will probably make it worse. If someone sneezes, another person thinks its Ebola, if someone gets food poisoning, they think its Ebola. This disease has scared everyone, including the millions who wear masks to the airports. This isn’t swine flu.
Now after hearing all this, I bet you want to know the symptoms!
These symptoms are very odd and very alarming but there are the few symptoms that everyone has when they are sick, which are:
- Fever
- Severe Headache
- Joint and muscle ache
- Chills
- Weakness
For the Ebola symptoms (the alarming ones)
- Nausea and vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Red Eyes
- Raised Rash
- Chest pain and cough
- Stomach pain
- Severe weight loss
- Bleeding (from so many places its ridiculous) – ew
- Internal bleeding
To make you all so very happy, someone was just tested positive for Ebola in NYC. He is a part of the Doctors without Borders program and came back to the US. He came back and was tested positive, so now nurses, doctors and everyone that was in contact with him will get the virus, and pretty soon everyone in NYC will get it. Totally kidding everyone. The CDC has everything under control and all the hospitals nationwide are doing everything they can to stop this deadly virus from spreading.