Ebola in Sierra Leone.

The deadly Ebola virus was first seen in Sudan in 1976 but has now killed over 660 people in Sierra Leone this year. This highly infections disease has no 'known cure' and scientists at the World health Organisation (WHO) are very concerned that not sufficient safeguards are being put in place. The symptoms are very distressing and can be transmitted unless great care is taken by health workers, family members and friends. The most common symptoms of the virus attack as it attacks the body from within are diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding from various orifices of the body. Dehydration is a major problem for the patient as so many fluids are being lost - death is almost guarantee if the  Ebola virus is caught. There is a video on the BBC website describing in graphic detail what happens to a patient. Needless-to-say unless you have sophisticated health services the spread of the virus can easily become an epidemic. Its always the least able to cope with the problems that have to deal with it. The WHO is trying is best under very difficult circumstance. A women gave her self up yesterday - after being remove by her family from a hospital - has died in Freetown the capital of Sierra Leone. A doctor at London's Hospital for Tropical Diseases is very concerned that there are not enough 'skilled doctors' in west Africa to deal with the spread of the virus. The social trauma continues.