Ebola Virus Disease (EVD): Symptoms, Transmission, and Diagnosis
Ebola virus disease is a severe illness spread through body fluids. Learn its symptoms, how it spreads, how it is diagnosed, and how vaccines and treatments now change survival.
A health worker in West Africa sees a patient with fever, headache, and muscle pain. Nothing yet separates this from the malaria and typhoid cases seen every day. That is the central danger of Ebola. For its first days it wears the face of ordinary illness, and by the time the bleeding and vomiting make it unmistakable, the patient has already been infectious to everyone who touched them without protection. Recognizing Ebola early, before it announces itself, is the whole challenge.
Tankeshwar Acharya, MSc (Medical Microbiology)
Tankeshwar Acharya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS), Nepal, where he has been teaching and practicing clinical microbiology for over 14 years. He is the founder of Microbe Online, one of the leading free microbiology education resources on the web, covering bacteriology, mycology, parasitology, immunology, and clinical laboratory diagnostics written from direct experience in both the classroom and the diagnostic laboratory.
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