The Ebola virus journey destroys the human body in an obsessive image

The photos below will help you better understand the desperate struggle of Ebola infected patients.

Recently, the information of 7 Filipinos infected with Ebola virus has caused many countries in Southeast Asia to be alert to the risk of spreading the disease to an alarming rate. Although the Ebola virus has not yet been recorded in Vietnam, the Ministry of Health has identified it as a dangerous disease and has put in place many strict measures to monitor the community.

During the Ebola pandemic, a strong outbreak in Africa, there were many painful photos of painful and struggling victims with the disease recorded by photographers. Through each photo, people seem to feel the pain, the hardship that the sick are struggling, face every day, hours before leaving life.

By participating in the organization of Humanitarian Doctors Without Borders (Doctors Without Borders) - a non-governmental organization tasked with providing medical relief packages in emergencies such as natural disasters, epidemics and famine. or war . photographer Sylvain Cherkaoui took the opportunity to West Africa and recorded the outbreak image here.

More specifically, during his trip, Sylvain Cherkaoui met Finda Marie Kamano - a 33-year-old woman from Guéckédougou, Guinea and heard about her infected journey.

Finda Marie Kamano told Cherkaoui about her family with 5 members all infected with Ebola virus. Most recently, Finda's sister was also infected and experienced the most painful days of her life.

Although she was very careful, in one time Finda helped her relatives to bathe, she was inadvertently exposed directly to the body fluids, so she was infected.

She understood that the Ebola virus was transmitted through her body and she was about to receive a painful ending like her relatives.

Most people here understand, Ebola virus will spread from person to person through direct contact with blood, secretions (stool, urine, saliva, semen) of infected people.

Ebola can also be spread through small scratches on the skin, mucous membranes of healthy people contacting infected people or even through intermediaries such as blankets, sheets, clothes, needles .

Therefore, Cherkaoui photographer in protective gear tried to comfort Finda hoping her health will be better.

The third day since Cherkaoui met Finda for the first time, she looked weaker but he always hoped, Finda would pass and recover despite that fragile hope.

According to doctors, Ebola neutralized proteins that prevent the spread of viruses from one cell to another, thereby repelling the immune system of the Finda body.

Finda confided to Cherkaoui that she tried to get up and drink some water the day before but Finda felt her health getting weaker. After viruses enter the body, they take the cell as a place to produce a large amount of virus particles. The virus particles will spread, infect other cells and spread throughout the body.

Cherkaoui asked the nurses about Finda's illness and learned that her health was running out. Death Scythe is near and it is possible that Finda will leave "very, very fast".

Ebola virus will cause small blood clots in the blood. Blood clots increase and prevent blood flow to feed the body's organs such as the liver, brain, lungs, kidneys . of patients.

At the end of the stage, the patient will bleed from the mouth, eyes, ears, nose and openings in the skin. The patient will die from excessive blood loss, kidney failure . Cherkaoui knows that Finda or anyone infected with the Ebola virus has been psychologically prepared to receive death.

Although this is a virus that raises mortality rates to 90% but according to the latest figures from WHO, about 40% of patients survive after suffering from Ebola. However, these patients need to be detected early for timely care.

In order to prevent the spread of the disease, the countries in the continent had to close the border, even many hospitals were overloaded because there was no room or possibility to cure Ebola patients.

The US government and many countries have decided to send a team of doctors and experts to "the black continent" to help the nations in danger of progressive disease control and spread to many other areas of the world.

The Ebola pandemic has been raging in West Africa for more than 1,603 people infected and 900 others die.

Ebola continues to spread out of control in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia - the areas most severely affected.

To prevent disease, the health sector recommends that people:

- Perform personal hygiene (hand washing with soap, antiseptic .)

- Avoid direct contact with blood, secretions of infected people and animals.

- Do not hold / grasp objects that may have been exposed to blood or secretions of previously infected humans or animals.
- If symptoms are present in the epidemic area (fever, headache, sore throat, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain, rash, redness of eyes), seek medical advice immediately. timely.