What you should know about Ebola

• April 24, 2024

Experts explain everything what you should know about Ebola , after a nurse and a doctor were infected for this virus in the African country of Liberia .

This Tuesday, the nurse infected by Ebola is transferred to Atlanta, United States to start with the treatment , according to official reports.

Nancy Writebol , 59, is expected to land in Atlanta in an aircraft specially equipped with a unit isolation . It will be taken to Emory University Hospital , where the other American patient Ebola, Dr. Kent Brantly , receives Attention .

Deadly virus!

So much Brantly Y Writebol they had been working in clinics in Liberia, help to the victims of an outbreak of Ebola , that according to the World Health Organization , the virus has killed at least 887 people.

The Emory Hospital , which serves Brantly and Writebol, has been equipped exclusively to meet these types of cases, with equipment and infrastructure which provide an extraordinarily high level of isolation unique clinical

The personal who works in the unit are trained in the treatment special of this type of patients.

All precautions are being taken to move the patients by way of safe , to provide critical care on the road in a non-commercial aircraft and to maintain strict isolation upon arrival in the United States, says Marie Harf, spokesperson for the United States Department of State .

There is no cure or vaccine for him Ebola , which causes havoc in the body by attacking multiple organs at the same time.

Doctors must resort to fundamentals of care intensive , support the patient and focus treatment on the organs that are under attack, explains Lee Norman, medical director of the University of Kansas hospital .

You treat things that are failing, if a person dehydrates , they are given support fluids IV. If a person has respiratory failure, which puts a fan, add Norman .

According to him Dr. Bruce Hirsch , specialist in infectious diseases in the North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset , New York, the ravages of Ebola It is such that even young, healthy patients - who can usually fight the most serious diseases - have a high Cup of mortality .

The best treatment of the first line for Ebola is the pumping of liquids in patients to limit the damage caused by inflammation .

Recently, this virus has put in alert to various countries because of the outbreak unleashed in Africa .

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