US Ebola Survivors Can Experience Hair Loss, Joint Pain, And Other Health Problems Without Proper Monitoring

Volunteer Andrew Matzen receives a trial Ebola vaccine at the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine in Oxford, southern England January 16, 2015. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

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medicaldaily.com - by Jaleesa Baulkman - December 20, 2015

The road to recovery is long and bumpy for many survivors of the Ebola virus in the United States, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study authors found U.S. Ebola survivors experienced a myriad of health issues, including joint pain, ocular disease, hearing loss and extreme fatigue. "For patients who survived [Ebola], the story does not end with their discharge from an Ebola treatment unit in West Africa or a hospital in the U.S.," said Timothy Uyeki, epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and one of the authors of the report, according to Live Science.

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