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Ebola: People
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Ebola, a highly contagious viral fever for which there is no cure, was identified in Gulu, 220 miles north of the capital, Kampala, on Oct. 8, 2000, after dozens of people in the area had died. The virus was later discovered in two other districts and ended up claiming 173 lives, including that of Dr. Matthew Lukwiya, the medical superintendent of St. Mary's hospital in Gulu.
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Study: The experimental Ebola vaccine is being tested for safety in over two dozen volunteers. Of these volunteers, 21 will get three injections of the Ebola vaccine over a two-month period and then be followed for one year. Six people will get placebo injections
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Ebola infected people along the Congo-Gabon border in 2001, and a rash of gorilla carcasses turned up in and around the preserve starting in mid-2002. Tests indicated that most had died of Ebola. By January 2003, 130 of 143 gorillas that Bermejo and her team were monitoring had died.
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In people, Ebola is often characterised by the sudden onset of fever, weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. This is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, limited kidney and liver functions, and both internal and external bleeding. No specific treatment or vaccine exists for Ebola haemorrhagic fever.
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People can get the first three Ebola fevers through direct contact with a sick person. This usually happens to hospital workers or family members who are caring for a severely ill victim and who somehow become infected by coming in contact with the victim's blood or other body fluids. In very poor countries, people often are infected when needles are reused instead of thrown away. Within a few days of being infected, most new victims experience a high fever, headache, muscle and stomach pain, fatigue, and diarrhea. Within one week of being infected, most patients experience chest pain, shock, bleeding, and death. Researchers have no explanation for why some people are able to recover from this devastating illness.
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International medical sleuths have been scouring the tropical rain forest in search of the plant or animal that is Ebola's home. They ... want to know why it suddenly surfaces among people. Hundreds of species of animal and plant have been tested. Leading suspects are rats, host to other hemorrhagic viruses, and bats, which do not get sick when injected with Ebola. Ebola can be fatal to monkeys and primates. People have contacted Ebola after eating improperly cooked monkey meat.
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