[GOPJ]

Dr Ayoma said that it was still premature to conclude that the patient had caught the Ebola virus, but was quick to point out that given the symptoms she had presented, and coupled with the current threats caused by the emergence of the disease in the neighbouring Uganda, they could not take chances.

Are there other diseases that make a person bleed from every orifice?

[Mother Abigail]

Yellow fever is one of several infectious diseases that can cause a hemorrhagic fever, a fever with organ failure resulting in bleeding complications.

Other viruses that can mimic Ebola disease are lassa fever, and dengue fever.