Ebola

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Ebola

Ebola is a deadly disease caused by a highly infectious virus. The initial symptoms (fever, fatigue, headaches) are common, making it difficult to diagnose in the early stages.

Later symptoms include vomiting, diarrhoea, impaired liver and kidney function, and in some cases internal and external bleeding.

There is currently no cure for Ebola. Treatment is limited to supportive therapy – keeping patients hydrated, maintaining their oxygen status and treating any complicating infections.

Luis Encinas

Nurse

Chapter Two : Between negotiations and headaches

Ebola expert Luis arrives in Kinshasa to take part in the response to the latest outbreak...

28 May 2018 / 2 minute read

Luis Encinas

Nurse

Chapter One: Back in Kishasa

As a new outbreak begins, MSF Ebola specialist Luis returns to the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

24 May 2018 / 1 minute read

Justin Healy

Doctor

Vlog: Running an Ebola survivor clinic

"There is a frustration with what people have been through and what people have seen happen to them."

12 May 2016 / 1 minute read

Samantha Roper

Medical team leader

Fighting Ebola: The real heroes of West Africa

West Africa is just emerging from the most devastating outbreak of Ebola the world has ever witnessed.

10 Mar 2016 / 4 minute read

Benjamin Black

Obstetrician / Gynaecologist

F**k you, Ebola

Months of talking, over a year of reflecting, and finally on Wednesday 6 January we entered officially into Magburaka Government Hospital working alongside the Ministry of Health, immediately boost

05 Feb 2016 / 12 minute read

Nick Owen

Communications

A bittersweet end to Ebola

"On the spot where it's rumoured African American slaves threw off their shackles to found their own country, the people of Freetown had gathered on this sweltering November night to relinquish themselves from another oppressor."

25 Nov 2015 / 8 minute read