What Is Ebola?
1. What Is Ebola?
This virus creates issues with the way your blood clots and often leads to internal bleeding. There have been many outbreaks in recent history, including two simultaneous outbreaks in 1976 in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Another outbreak occurred from 2014-2016 in West Africa and became the largest Ebola outbreak in history. Finally, an outbreak occurred in 2018-2019 in the DRC. Each of these outbreaks were successfully contained, but the threat remains for another worldwide epidemic.
Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids. Once it is transmitted from wild animals to humans, it causes significant fatality rates. Health care professionals around the world are creating safe practices to control future outbreaks and working to create vaccine and treatment options to prevent the serious disease caused by this virus.
