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Faculty of Allied Health Sciences => Pharmacy => Topic started by: maruppharm on August 03, 2014, 01:28:23 PM

Title: Ebola virus disease (EVD)
Post by: maruppharm on August 03, 2014, 01:28:23 PM
Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage
Fatality rate can reach 90%
Incubation period is two to 21 days
There is no vaccine or cure
Supportive care such as rehydrating patients who have diarrhoea and vomiting can help recovery
Fruit bats are considered to be virus' natural host