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What type of pathogen causes Ebola?

A virus causes Ebola.

By direct contact with blood or other body fluids of someone who is ill, or with dirty needles. It is not spread through the air.

High fever, headache, sore throat, and muscle pain.

Vomiting, diarrhoea, a rash, and bleeding inside and outside the body.

Two to twenty-one days. People do not spread it until symptoms start.

Because it causes a fever and can lead to heavy bleeding.

Isolate patients, wear gloves, gowns and masks, sterilise equipment, and dispose of waste safely.

Finding and checking people who had close contact with a case, so they can be isolated fast if they get ill.

There is no simple cure. Supportive care helps, and a vaccine is used in outbreaks to protect people at risk.

The virus stays in the body after death. Safe burials stop people touching the body and reduce spread.

With a blood test in a lab that checks for the virus.