{"id":20015,"date":"2014-10-17T05:45:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T09:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=20015"},"modified":"2014-10-16T20:12:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T00:12:57","slug":"ebola-symptoms-flu-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2014\/10\/ebola-symptoms-flu-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola symptoms & flu symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Ebola<\/a> starts with a fever and aches and pains, sort of like the flu.\u00a0 Then comes vomiting and diarrhea.\u00a0 Then comes a red rash.\u00a0 If the disease progresses, the whites of your eyes turn red.\u00a0 You start to hemorrhage\u00a0 internally.\u00a0 Then you start bleeding from your eyes, your ears, your mouth, and every other orifice.\u00a0 Then you die.<\/p>\n

Ebola is uncommonly grisly and horrifying, but it starts like the flu.\u00a0 And just as detecting its symptoms is especially critical in dealing with the disease and stopping its spread, ordinary flu season is upon us, making the task even more difficult.\u00a0 Screening measures may confuse flu with Ebola, and people with the flu will panic, thinking they might have Ebola.\u00a0 (Then again, experts are saying that more people will\u00a0 die from flu <\/a>than Ebola.)<\/p>\n

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A friend of mine, a nurse, was at our local hospital and saw a horde descend in hazmat suits.\u00a0 Sure enough, we have a possible Ebola case<\/a>.\u00a0 Or maybe it\u2019s the flu.<\/p>\n

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From Ashley Halsey III, Flu season is coming, along with Ebola-like symptoms. Just in time for holiday travel. \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This is not a matter for the imagination: A little more than a month from now, several thousand Americans will have Ebola-like symptoms.<\/p>\n

At the same time, millions of Americans will begin to set out from home for the busiest travel weekend of the year.<\/p>\n

In a nation already jumpy with fear of the lethal virus that has killed more than 4,000 people in West Africa and one person in the United States \u2014 a Liberian man who flew to Texas \u2014 the confluence of the onset of flu season and the mass migration around Thanksgiving weekend figures to put people on edge.<\/p>\n

Consider the similar symptoms.<\/p>\n

Ebola: a 101-degree-or-higher fever, severe headache, muscle pain, weakness, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea.<\/p>\n

Flu: a 100-degree-or-higher fever, headache, body ache, fatigue, chills, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea.<\/p>\n

With airline crews on alert, passengers scrutinizing each other for Ebola symptoms and special screening being established at major international airports, there is already evidence that one sickness can be mistaken for the other. As the flu begins its annual spread and holiday travel picks up in the coming weeks, the confusion is likely to lead to anxious moments.<\/p>\n

[Keep reading. . .]<\/a><\/p>\n

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