Ebola Virus

 CNN Video -  InfraRed Thermal Imaging Camera can detect fever.   


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It is vital that an infected person is isolated as soon as possible to prevent the spread of this deadly disease.
Ebola can only definitively be diagnosed by 5 different laboratory tests and it is for this reason that the infrared thermal imaging can play such a positive role. Screening can be done en masse with an alarm indicating when a person has a fever. The person can then immediately be taken to one side for further checks.

The Ebola virus (named after the Ebola River in the Congo) is causing widespread fear. Humans contact Ebola from contact with the bodily fluids of infected animals or the body fluids from infected humans. It is not an airborne virus. The WHO (World Health Organization) states that there are 5 strains (all named after the regions they originated in), but the Ebola strain is thought to be the most deadly.

Medicins San Frontieres (MSF) believes that although the virus can survive for a few days outside the body in a liquid form, it can be killed with chlorine disinfection, heat, direct sunlight, soaps and detergents. 

First symptoms will appear 21 days after infection and will show as a sudden fever, with muscle pains and weakness,
headaches and a sore throat. These symptoms them progress to vomiting, diarrhoea, liver and kidney dysfunction.
There may also be a rash, internal or external bleeding.

There is currently no know cure nor vaccine. Treatment would consist of isolating the patient, hydration, oxygenation, while maintaining a close watch on their blood pressure and the onset of secondary infections.