Written By: Shraddha Rupavate | Published : September 11, 2014 9:30 AM IST
After Italy, Australia has reported Ebola suspect case. On Thursday, the 25-year-old man who was showing symptoms of Ebola virus disease, was rushed to an Australian hospital, reported the health officials. He had returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and was immediately transferred to Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland about, Xinhua reported.
Damian Green, chief executive at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, stated that the man was put into isolation at the hospital. 'Gold Coast Health can confirm a patient has been transferred to Gold Coast University Hospital after being identified by paramedics as having symptoms of Ebola virus,' he said.
More than 2,200 people have died in an Ebola outbreak from more than 4,200 infections in the African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria.
Here are some early symptoms of Ebola virus disease:
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. Read more about 9 warning symptoms of Ebola that you should know
With inputs from IANS
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