Ebola is a group of virusus that directly cause what is known as Ebola or Viral Hemorrhagic Fever. This fever can result in a high temperature, shock, strokes, and death in some extreme cases. When the Ebola virus enters an individual's body, it takes usually four to six days to for symptoms to begin to show. This period is called the incubation period and has been known in some cases to take up to 20 days for the symptoms to show.
Once Ebola symptoms finally do begin to show after the incubation period, they begin abruptly, in many cases, over night. During the incubation period, the virus is infecting multiple areas of the body so many multiple symptoms may occur at once. This gives the appearance of all infections beginning at one time, but, in reality, they have been developing in secret for the duration of the incubation period. The most common symptoms may occur all at once, these include sore throat or the inflammation of the sinuses, fever or a high spike in temperature, dry and hacking cough, usually absent of phlegm or mucus, weakness in muscles, perhaps the inability to complete physical tasks that formerly proved no problem, severe and sporadic headache, vomiting, in some cases, blood, stomach cramps or pains, heavy dehydration, diarrhea, sometimes containing blood.
These are the most common symptoms that most probably occur along side each other in some combination. Some more extreme symptoms that occur in rare cases include rashes, blood producing hiccups, red eyes, internal and external bleeding, or frequent panic attacks. If a pregnant woman is infected, it may result in vaginal bleeding and possible abortion. If untreated, those infected with Ebola will die in the second week of symptoms usually due to heavy blood loss.