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Written By: Editorial Team | Published : October 10, 2014 10:19 AM IST
The death of first Ebola patient in US, Mr Thomas Duncan, evoked fear among US citizens Reportedly, another Ebola suspect in Dallas, Texas who developed Ebola symptoms was quarantined after the health officials declared the death of Mr Duncan.
The Dallas Hospital where the patient was quarantined in Texas reported Thursday he not have the virus. 'The Texas Department of State Health Services has completed testing of the specimen submitted today (Thursday) by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. The result is negative for Ebola,' the Texas Department of State Health Services statement said.
The patient in question, Michael West Monning, is a Dallas County sheriff's deputy who was at the apartment of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to die of Ebola in the US, shortly after the Liberian citizen was admitted to the hospital. At the apartment, Monning was in contact with Duncan's relatives, who remain under observation by health authorities.
Earlier, the hospital had reported that Monning was not showing the symptoms of Ebola and that the first medical exams performed on him indicated that he had not become infected with the virus.
Early symptoms of Ebola
Fever: Increase in body temperature is the first defence mechanism that the body uses to kill any foreign particle invading the body. When Ebola infects the body, it causes a release of various compounds like cytokines and histamines that pass on the signals of increasing body temperature. In fact, Ebola virus disease is also called the Ebola haemorrhagic fever, where the temperature can go above 38.6 C or 101.5 F.
Headache: It is the most common symptom of Ebola infection after fever, present in almost 96 percent of the cases. Nausea and headache along with fever present a typical case of common cold and flu. At this stage, the symptoms can be confused with other common infections.
Stomach pain: A few viral particles invade the liver and starts destroying the hepatocytes. New virions start damaging the intestinal cells causing abdominal pain.
With inputs from IANS
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