Ebola scare in UK forces officials to shut down hospital in Essex as patient investigated

According the NHS website, a person infected with Ebola virus will typically develop a high temperature, a headache, joint and muscle pain, a sore throat and severe muscle weakness. Symptoms normally start suddenly, between 2 and 21 days after becoming infected.

The milder initial symptoms can then develop into far more severe ones, and can even causes internal bleeding as well as bleeding from the ears, eyes, nose or mouth. Ebola is spread via contact with the blood, body fluids or organs of a person or animal with the infection.

While fatality rates vary depending on the circumstances of an outbreak but the disease, it normally kills around 50 percent of people it infects, making it a seriously deadly disease. Last month, the UKSHA  said it was monitoring the Ebola in Uganda, but there were no confirmed cases in the UK at that time.

The agency previously warned: “A public health alert has been issued to urge healthcare professionals to be vigilant to the symptoms in patients who have recently returned from affected areas and to remind them of the established procedures for infection control and testing.

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Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1698276/ebola-uk-essex-colchester-hospital-uganda