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Humans may spread the virus to other humans through contact with bodily fluids such as blood.

Initial symptoms include fever, headache, muscle pain and chills.

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Treatment includes an experimental serum that destroys infected cells.

Fluids and electrolytes

Oxygen

Blood pressure medication

Blood transfusions

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Deadly virus that causes fever, body aches, and diarrheas, and sometimes bleeding inside and outside the body. As the virus spreads through the body, it damages the immune system and organs.

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There are five types of Ebola virus. Four of them cause the disease in humans.

The Ebola virus first appeared during two 1976 outbreaks in Africa.

Ebola gets its name from the Ebola River, which is near one of the villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the disease first appeared.

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In 1976, Ebola (named after the Ebola River in Zaire) first emerged in Sudan and Zaire. The first outbreak of Ebola infected over 284 people, with a mortality rate of 53%. A few months later, the second Ebola virus emerged from Yambuku, Zaire, Ebola-Zaire.