What is Ebola?

What is Ebola?

• Ebola: Dangerous virus mostly found in Africa.
• Ebola: genus in family Filoviridae causing outbreaks of a hemorrhagic disease in humans.
  Source - Diseases Database
• Ebola: a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola virus; characterized by high fever and severe internal bleeding; can be spread from person to person; is largely limited to Africa.
  Source - WordNet 2.1

Ebola: Introduction

Types of Ebola:

Types of Ebola:

• Ebola Zaire
• Ebola Reston
• Ebola Ivory Coast
• Ebola Sudan
• more types...»

Broader types of Ebola:

• Viral diseases
• Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
• Filovirus
• Conditions involving a pathogen
• Bleeding and coagulation conditions
• Flu-like conditions
• more types...»

How serious is Ebola?

Complications of Ebola: see complications of Ebola

What causes Ebola?

Causes of Ebola: see causes of Ebola

What are the symptoms of Ebola?

Symptoms of Ebola: see symptoms of Ebola

Complications of Ebola: see complications of Ebola

Can anyone else get Ebola?

More information: see contagiousness of Ebola
Inheritance: see inheritance of Ebola

Ebola: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Ebola.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Ebola.

How is it treated?

Doctors and Medical Specialists for Ebola: Infectious Disease Specialist ; see also doctors and medical specialists for Ebola.
Treatments for Ebola: see treatments for Ebola
Prevention of Ebola: see prevention of Ebola
Research for Ebola: see research for Ebola

Name and Aliases of Ebola

Main name of condition: Ebola

Class of Condition for Ebola: viral

Ebola virus, Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola HF, Ebola virus disease

Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola fever, Ebola
Source - WordNet 2.1

Ebola: Related Conditions

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Ebola:

• Viral hemorrhagic fever syndrome
• Arenaviridae
• Bunyaviridae
• Flaviviridae
• Filoviridae
• EBO-Z
• Marburg virus
• Ebola infection
• Ebola virus Zaire
• Ebola virus Sudan
• EBO-S
• African-derived Ebola virus
• Ebola virus Côte-d'Ivoire
• EBO-C
• Ebola virus Reston
• EBO-R

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