The bug is spread through contact with the blood, body fluids or organs of a person or animal with the infection.There has never been a case of Ebola contracted in the UK, but in 2014 two patients who contracted the bug in West Africa were treated here.
Ebola is a rare but severe disease that is often fatal in humans - case fatality rates have varied from 25 to 90 per cent in past outbreaks. Ebola was first identified in 1976 in two outbreaks, one in what is now Nzara, South Sudan and the other in Yambuku, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then Zaire.
The Ebola virus disease - previously called Ebola haemorrhagic fever - is a viral infection that occurs in humans and primates.It was first detected in regions close to the River Ebola, which gave the disease its name.
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