Ebola: Fighting a deadly virus / Sulaiman Momodu.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Momodu, Sulaiman, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic and Social Development.

Local Subjects:

Economic and Social Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 pages)

Contained In:

Africa Renewal Vol. 28, no. 3, p. 12-13 28:3<12 2517-9829

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The sight of an Ebola patient is frightening. Sharon Washington, an employee of Liberia's foreign ministry, got married in January this year at a colourful ceremony in the capital Monrovia. This writer attended the wedding. Later on, Mrs. Washington nursed her sister who was ill with what started as a mild fever until she got weak and started having severe muscle pain, chronic headache and sore throat. Thereafter, it was vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function, internal and external bleeding from all openings of the body - the eyes, mouth, and ears and finally, death. It was Ebola. Next, Mrs. Washington tested positive for the virus and, tragically, within a few days, she too passed away.

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