Born in Leuven (Belgium) in 1949. Doctor of Medicine from the University Ghent (Belgium) in 1974. Ph.D. in Microbiology through the University of Antwerp (Belgium-1980). He was Professor of Microbiology and Public Health at the Institute of Tropical Medicine Prince Leopold (Antwerp) and the Universities of Nairobi, Brussels and Lausanne (Switzerland). In the 90's, Dr Piot begins to take part in the World Health Organization with the Program on HIV / AIDS, where he developed several projects, now is as Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director UNAIDS, winning numerous awards. With Karl Johnson, co-discoverer of the Ebola virus . This name comes from the Ebola River (in the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire) where it was first identified in an epidemic in 1976.
This is the virus that causes Ebola haemorrhagic fever, an infectious disease highly contagious and very severe and affects all kinds of primates (including humans) and other mammals.
different strains have been identified (Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, and Ebola Tai Forest) that have caused epidemics with a mortality rate between 50% and 90% in the Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon and Uganda.
The virus is transmitted by direct contact with infected body fluids such as blood, saliva, sweat, urine or vomit. The incubation period ranges from 2 to 21 days, but more often is 5 to 12 days. The reservoir of Ebola virus appears to be a type of fruit bat.
Symptoms: In the beginning is characterized by sudden high fever, prostration, myalgia, arthralgia, abdominal pain and headache. In the period of one week, a rash, often hemorrhagic, appears throughout the body. Hemorrhaging generally occurs from the gastrointestinal tract, causing the infected blood from both the mouth and rectum. The mortality rate is high, reaching 90% and patients usually die from blood loss.
work Author: Tortajada Cabral, Rafael.
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