Ebola then spreads through human-to-human transmission via direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and with surfaces and materials (e.g. bedding, clothing) contaminated with these fluids during the last stages.
The Ebola virus causes an acute, serious illness which is often fatal if untreated. Ebola virus disease (EVD) first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks, one in Nzara, Sudan, and the other in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. The latter occurred in a village near the Ebola River, from which the disease takes its name.
Over in Liberia this is a common death sentence in urban areas as of late summer and early fall of 2014. Ebola, has come to the United States. One person has died, a man named Thomas Eric Duncan. He helped take a woman whose family was his neighbors, The hospital turned the woman away because there was no room in the Ebola ward and she was in the final stages of Ebola. As her body was shaking in a seizure like state with convulsions, incontinent of bodily fluids, and through the broken skin Thomas risked his life to try to give her at least a chance at life by going to the hospital.
A few days later he came into the United States, he was tested before he left Liberia and was completely healthy. Days after he came here he fell ill. He went to the hospital where he was discharged. He came back 4 days later and was admitted on September 29, 2014. He died on October 3, 2014. Now a nurse that cared for him is infected. We shall see how far this Ebola infection will go within the United States...
References are from CNN and The World Health Organization
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