Ebola Warning Signs and Symptoms You Shouldn’t Ignore

With all the recent news coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa (and of the few cases which occurred in the United States), some people may get the impression that Ebola is a new cause for infection and disease. However, it is not a recent discovery and was first documented in the 1970’s in two separate outbreaks in West Africa. At that time, it was called “Ebola hemorrhagic fever”.

Most cases of Ebola have come and gone in Africa with little importance being attached to them: they were small outbreaks, mostly occurring in rural and isolated areas. What is different …read more