E*B*O*L*A* Patients Arrives United States May 24, 2022

An acute loss of blood was the first symptom observed in all three Ebola patients

That’s unlike cases seen during the previous two outbreaks there in which most began with fever or fatigue and only about 15% of patients hemorrhaged

22 were exposed to the ebola patients .


6 died before they could be tested and 16 refused to be isolated and are still in the community

World Health warns time is not on our side


The World Health Organization declared a new Ebola outbreak on


Genetic sequencing of the ebola strain responsible for the latest outbreak indicate it’s unlike the strain that sparked larger epidemics in 2018 and 2020, Mayoum Barka said.


Almost 300 people who’d been in contact with the latest ebola cases are being monitored for ebola infection, the World Health Africa Region office said Tuesday.

The first Ebola patient, a 31-year-old man, developed Ebola symptoms on April 5 and died 16 days later of Ebola at a Ebola treatment center in the city of Mbandaka.