The doctor listed the symptoms of Ebola

Ebola begins with fever, weakness, and muscle pain. Gennady Onishchenko, an epidemiologist and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told about this on Wednesday, May 20.

The incubation period, the expert recalled, ranges from two to 21 days. He added that diarrhea, abdominal pain and a dry cough appear, leading to dehydration of the body.

According to the doctor, about half of the patients have hemorrhagic rash and bleeding from the gums and nose. The liver and kidneys are gradually failing.

Onishchenko called for avoiding trips to West African countries where natural foci of the disease persist in order to avoid bringing the infection to Russia. First of all, these are Guinea, Congo, Nigeria and Senegal.

"The easiest delivery is to get on a plane and arrive," the academician emphasized in an interview with Lenta.Ru .

He recalled that cases of the disease have already been recorded in the UK, Spain, Italy, Mali and the USA.

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Earlier this day, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced that the number of suspected deaths from Ebola had increased to 139, RT reports. At the same time, he said that the WHO assessed the risk of the spread of Ebola in the world as low. 360.ru .

The day before, the head of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Murashko, said that there was no risk of Ebola spreading in Russia.

At the same time, on May 15, WHO declared the Ebola epidemic in the DRC and Uganda an international emergency, according to the website. kp.ru . On May 19, the press service of the Russian Union of Travel Industry also clarified that the outbreak of Ebola in the DRC does not affect mass tourist routes popular with Russian travelers.