Ebola - The Cause to the Effect?
It was reported at the CTV news website, that a Liberian by the name of Salome Karwah was diagnosed in August, along with six other members of her family. She was treated at Doctors without Borders/MSF clinic in Monrovia and survived, although her mother and father died. Karwah says she was left completely weakened by the illness and remembers experiencing "overpowering" pain that lasted several days. "Ebola is like a sickness from a different planet. It comes with so much pain. It causes so much pain that you can feel it in your bones. I’d never felt pain like this in my lifetime," she writes. CTV narrated that, “Ebola begins much like the flu, with fever and fatigue. It then becomes more like a gastrointestinal infection or food poisoning, causing severe vomiting and diarrhea. The infection eventually affects every organ in the body and patients typically die from septic shock or organ failure. The virus attacks immune cells which send out protei