Bleeding eyes, severe vomiting and deadly organ failure are just some symptoms of the highly infectious Ebola virus.
The killer disease, which has a death rate of up to 90%, starts off with similar pains to the common cold with a sore throat, fever and headache in an onslaught on the body’s immune system.
But within days the sufferer will begin to experience chronic abdominal pain, muscle aches, vomiting and diarrhoea.
Clots and hemorrhaging quickly follow, affecting the liver, spleen, brain and other internal organs.
The current outbreak rampaging through West Africa began in a small village in Guinea and, since February, has claimed 672 lives, leaving another 1,200 people infected
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