4. Early Symptoms of the Ebola Virus
As previously mentioned, it can take up to 21-days to manifest symptoms of the Ebola virus. When the signs of Ebola do eventually start to display in infected persons, they take on the initial appearance of influenza infection, with patients experiencing a fever, cough, chills, cramps, and body ache.
Because of the general symptoms presented by the virus, many people receive a misdiagnosis in the early stages of infection. However, depending on the strain of Ebola responsible for the infection, the symptoms may rapidly escalate, leading to bleeding from the eyes, ears, and mouth, which are the characteristic symptoms associated with the disease.
People infected with the virus should seek immediate treatment for their symptoms or run the risk of contaminating other people, as well as the hemorrhagic fever killing them, in as little as a few days after developing symptoms – depending on how aggressive the strain of Ebola is on the body.