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Written By: Editorial Team | Published : October 27, 2014 12:33 PM IST
After Ebola diagnosis in US in a Doctors Without Borders doctor last Thursday, New York, New Jersey and Illinois have imposed mandatory quarantines on travellers returning from West Africa who had contact with Ebola patients. This decision has raised discomfort among health professionals. (Read: Ebola facts frequently asked questions (FAQ))
According to some top infectious control doctor in the US, mandatory quarantines of health care workers returning from West Africa can have unintended consequences of discouraging them from volunteering in the Ebola-ravaged region. Dr Anthony Fauci is the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He says that as a physician and scientist, he would not have recommended quarantine. (Read: 10 reasons that make the Ebola virus deadly for humans)
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. (Read: What is the Ebola virus disease survival rate?)
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. (Read: Ebola virus causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis and prevention)
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 PTI
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