This morning you woke up feeling a little unwell. You have no appetite, your head is aching, your throat is sore and you think you might be slightly feverish. You don’t know it yet, but Ebola virus has started to attack your immune system, wiping out the T-lymphocyte cells that are crucial to its proper function.

These are the same cells that the AIDS virus (HIV-1) attacks, but Ebola virus kills them far more aggressively. Exactly when and where you caught Ebola virus is unclear, it can take anything between two and 21 days from initial infection to the first symptoms. What is more certain is that you are now infectious yourself. Your family, friends and anyone in close contact with you are all in mortal danger.

The next week or so will determine if you are one of the lucky minority who survive. In the 24 Ebola virus outbreaks prior to the present one, a cumulative total of 1,590 people, two-thirds of all cases, have died.

The current outbreak, which began in the village of Meliandou in eastern Guinea in early December 2013, and which has now spread across Guinea and into the neighbouring countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia, has killed 251 people as of June 5, nearly half of the identified cases.

The west African Ebola epidemic is now the largest outbreak seen since Ebola virus was discovered in 1976. The World Health Organisation issued its first communiqué on the situation on March 23, and since then has been producing regular reports.

Over the next few days your condition deteriorates. Your body aches all over, you have chronic abdominal pain, the fever intensifies and you start to vomit and develop diarrhoea. After anything between a couple of days and a week of misery, you will have reached the crisis point – now the symptoms will either gradually recede or you will progress to the horrors of “cytokine storm”, a convulsion of your ravaged immune system that will plunge you into the terminal phase of Ebola virus disease known as haemorrhagic fever.

Cytokine storm releases a torrent of inflammatory molecules into your circulatory system. Your own immune system, now completely out of control, attacks every organ in your body. Tiny blood vessels burst everywhere and you begin slowly to bleed to death. The whites of your eyes turn red, your vomit and diarrhoea are now charged with blood and large blood blisters develop under your skin. You are now at the peak of infectiousness as Ebola virus particles, ready to find their next victim, pour out of your body along with your blood.

Fortunately, however, it seems you have survived. Rehydration therapy kept you strong in the initial phase and pure luck saved you from haemorrhagic fever. Understanding why some Ebola virus patients avoid the terminal phase is an active area of research, and one possible answer is that those whose T-lymphocytes survive the initial attack of the virus possibly retain sufficiently intact immune systems. Even when you are merely in the first phase of feeling vaguely unwell, it may be possible to determine if you will live or die.

Even though you are feeling much improved, and perhaps even ready to return to work, you will remain infectious for a while. All your bodily fluids will still contain virus. In particular, the virus can be sexually transmitted, especially if you are a man, up to 40 days after recovery.

Epidemiological modelling studies have shown that Ebola virus is about as infectious as influenza or very slightly more so – each infected person will probably infect two to four others. That’s not tremendously infectious compared to some of the super-infectious viruses such as measles or polio, which have corresponding numbers of five to 18, but it is nevertheless enough to sustain a pandemic. The question of why we haven’t seen a worldwide pandemic of Ebola in pre-modern times therefore becomes rather perplexing.

Where did it come from?

A briefly popular theory of a few years ago, that the Black Death of the 14th century was caused by Ebola virus, and that the famous mediaeval descriptions of buboes were actually haemorrhagic fever blood blisters, has now been convincingly excluded by DNA analyses that have proved beyond doubt that the Black Death was, after all, bubonic plague as originally thought.

Ebola may well be a purely modern disease and, since Ebola virus made its first known appearance in 1976, a whole generation of African medical workers have been drilled to be alert to the symptoms of haemorrhagic fever. Consequently, the World Health Organisation and its partners have been able to suffocate outbreaks before they spread more generally. However, the latest outbreak is proving rather more recalcitrant than expected and the story is not yet over.


http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-happens-your-body-when-you-get-ebola#Od4zOJUmkxUlBo5B.99

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Are you at U of T?

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Check out the complete winners list of the recently concluded Grammy Awards.

Record of the Year: "Someone That I Used To Know," Gotye, featuring Kimbra

Best New Artist: Fun.

Country Album: "Uncaged," Zac Brown Band

Rap/Sung Collaboration: "No Church in the Wild," Jay-Z & Kanye West, featuring Frank Ocean & The-Dream

Pop Vocal Album: "Stronger," Kelly Clarkson

Rock Performance: "Lonely Boys," The Black Keys

Urban Contemporary Album: "Channel Orange," Frank Ocean

Song of the Year: "We Are Young," Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker, Andrew Dost & Nate Ruess, songwriters (fun., featuring Janelle Monáe)

Country Solo Performance: "Blown Away," Carrie Underwood

Pop Solo Performance: "Set Fire to the Rain (Live)," Adele

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Dan Auerbach

Pop Instrumental Album: Impressions," Chris Botti

Alternative Music Album: "Making Mirrors," Gotye

Pop Duo/Group Performance: "Somebody That I Used to Know," Gotye, featuring Kimbra

Rock Album: "El Camino," The Black Keys

Rock Song: "Lonely Boy," Dan Auerbach, Brian Burton & Patrick Carney, songwriters (The Black Keys)

Hard Rock/Metal Performance: "Love Bites (So Do I)," Halestorm

Traditional Pop Vocal Album: "Kisses on the Bottom," Paul McCartney

Country Song: "Blown Away," Josh Kear & Chris Tompkins, songwriters (Carrie Underwood)

Country Duo/Group Performance: "Pontoon," Little Big Town

World Music Album: "The Living Room Sessions, Part 1," Ravi Shankar

Dance/Electronica Album: "Bangarang," Skrillex

Dance Recording: "Bangarang," Skrillex, featuring Sirah

R&B Album: "Black Radio," Robert Glasper Experiment

R&B Song: "Adorn," Miguel Pimentel, songwriter (Miguel)

Traditional R&B Performance: "Love on Top," Beyoncé

R&B Performance: "Climax," Usher

Rap Album: "Take Care," Drake

Rap Song: "N****s In Paris," Shawn Carter, Mike Dean, Chauncey Hollis & Kanye West, songwriters (W.A. Donaldson, songwriter) (Jay-Z & Kanye West)

Rap Performance: "N****s In Paris," Jay-Z & Kanye West

Musical Theater Album: "Once: A New Musical"

Regional Roots Music Album: "The Band Courtbouillon," Wayne Toups, Steve Riley & Wilson Savoy

Folk Album: "The Goat Rodeo Sessions," Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile

Blues Album: "Locked Down," Dr. John

Bluegrass Album: "Nobody Knows You," Steep Canyon Rangers

Americana Album: "Slipstream," Bonnie Raitt
Score Soundtrack for Visual Media: "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo," Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, composers

Song Written for Visual Media: "Safe & Sound" (From "The Hunger Games", T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, John Paul White & Joy Williams, songwriters (Taylor Swift featuring The Civil Wars)

Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media: "Midnight In Paris," Various Artists

Latin Jazz Album: "¡Ritmo!," The Clare Fischer Latin Jazz Big Band

Large Jazz Ensemble Album: "Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You)," Arturo Sandoval

Jazz Instrumental Album: "Unity Band," Pat Metheny Unity Band

Jazz Vocal Album: "Radio Music Society," Esperanza Spalding

Improvised Jazz Solo: "Hot House," Gary Burton & Chick Corea

Reggae Album: "Rebirth," Jimmy Cliff

Comedy Album: "Blow Your Pants Off," Jimmy Fallon

New Age Album: "Echoes Of Love," Omar Akram

Spoken Word Album: "Society's Child: My Autobiography," Janis Ian

Children's Album: "Can You Canoe?", The Okee Dokee Brothers

Classical Instrumental Solo: "Kurtág & Ligeti: Music For Viola," Kim Kashkashian

Classical Vocal Solo: "Poèmes," Renée Fleming (Alan Gilbert & Seiji Ozawa; Orchestre National De France & Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France)

Classical Compendium: "Penderecki: Fonogrammi; Horn Concerto; Partita; The Awakening Of Jacob; Anaklasis," Antoni Wit, conductor; Aleksandra Nagórko & Andrzej Sasin, producers

Contemporary Classical Composition: Hartke, Stephen: Meanwhile — Incidental Music To Imaginary Puppet Plays, Stephen Hartke, composer (Eighth Blackbird)

Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: "Meanwhile," Eighth Blackbird

Opera Recording: "Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen," James Levine & Fabio Luisi, conductors; Hans-Peter König, Jay Hunter Morris, Bryn Terfel & Deborah Voigt; Jay David Saks, producer (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Chorus)

Choral Performance: "Life & Breath — Choral Works By René Clausen," Charles Bruffy, conductor (Matthew Gladden, Lindsey Lang, Rebecca Lloyd, Sarah Tannehill & Pamela Williamson; Kansas City Chorale)

Orchestral Performance: "Adams: Harmonielehre & Short Ride In A Fast Machine," Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)

Engineered Album, Classical: "Life & Breath — Choral Works By René Clausen," Tom Caulfield & John Newton, engineers; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Charles Bruffy & Kansas City Chorale)

Producer of the Year, Classical: Blanton Alspaugh

Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album: "Imaginaries," Quetzal

Latin Pop Album: "MTV Unplugged Deluxe Edition," Juanes
Regional Mexican Album (Including Tejano): "Pecados y Milagros," Lila Downs
Tropical Latin Album: "Retro," Marlow Rosado y La Riqueña

Contemporary Christian Album: "Eye on It," TobyMac

Gospel Album: "Gravity," Lecrae

Contemporary Christian Song: "10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord)," Jonas Myrin & Matt Redman, songwriters (Matt Redman); "Your Presence Is Heaven," Israel Houghton & Micah Massey, songwriters (Israel & New Breed)

Gospel/Contemporary Christian Performance: "10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)," Matt Redman

Gospel Song: "Go Get It," Erica Campbell, Tina Campbell & Warryn Campbell, songwriters (Mary Mary)

Engineered Album, Non-Classical: "The Goat Rodeo Sessions," Richard King, engineer; Richard King, mastering engineer (Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile)

Surround Sound Album: "Modern Cool:" Jim Anderson, surround mix engineer; Darcy Proper, surround mastering engineer; Michael Friedman, surround producer (Patricia Barber)

Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: "Promises (Skrillex & Nero Remix)," Skrillex, remixer (Nero); Joseph Ray, Skrillex & Daniel Stephens, remixers

Recording Package: "Biophilia," Michael Amzalag & Mathias Augustyniak, art directors (Björk)

Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: "Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection," Fritz Klaetke, art director (Woody Guthrie)

Album Notes: "Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles," Billy Vera, album notes writer (Ray Charles)

Historical Album: "The Smile Sessions (Deluxe Box Set)," Alan Boyd, Mark Linett, Brian Wilson & Dennis Wolfe, compilation producers; Mark Linett, mastering engineer (The Beach Boys)

Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): "City Of Roses," Thara Memory & Esperanza Spalding, arrangers (Esperanza Spalding)
Instrumental Arrangement: "How About You," Gil Evans, arranger (Gil Evans Project)
Instrumental Composition: "Mozart Goes Dancing," Chick Corea, composer (Chick Corea & Gary Burton)
Long Form Music Video: "Big Easy Express," Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, Old Crow Medicine Show

Short Form Music Video: "We Found Love," Rihanna, featuring Calvin Harris

Congrats to all the winners.

braine: Canada is the next choice destination. Hoping to find a good school that compliments my pocket.

Johnnoah1st: Again pls how would dis catapot chelsea to round of 16 in champions league? Abeg no dey post thing wey can't help chelsea to get out of group stage here jare.

lacasa:

Bond in Islam??

Ђδω??

Christianity enforces more rules on women ϯo cover up more than Islam does if u don't кnoω.

U see the problem wt christians is they don't кnoω their religion.

Christianity tells women ϯo cover their hair (esp in church),

Wearing of trousers is prohibited,

Women can't wear the cloth i.e be a preacher or pastor or wateva,

Etc.. But what do we have with christians of the world today

The complete opposite and disregard ϯo the teachings of their religion

Infact. Wat some women wear ϯo church these days is simply unacceptable


Bondage in Islam indeed

beqs101: Yeap i can stay just friends with my ex cuz,once I'm done with a relationship,I'm done with all feelings..as a matter of fact,I'm still friends with my ex.

CAMEROONPRIDE: yes ..Africans or so called 1/3 world are the only victims...

Ijogz K: Church Of Satan ...

Come worship with us and your life would remain the same

dguy in dcorner: I heard cosmic ray will enter the earth from mars tomorrow at 12:30am-1:30am,that we should switch off phones and keep it away from our sides. I also heard it's from BBC. Checked their website, found nothing. Pls,how true is this? [Phones]

mkmyers45: The Man dey craze sha...Hell-bound I.diot