Ebola virus disease (EVD or Ebola) is a rare but severe illness in humans. It is often fatal.
People get infected with Ebola by touching:
- infected animals when preparing, cooking or eating them
- body fluids of an infected person such as saliva, urine, faeces or semen
- things that have the body fluids of an infected person like clothes or sheets.
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