What exactly does ebola do?

Hemorrhagic fever: This deadly virus creates an illness causing people to hemorrhage to death, among other manifestations.

Infection and death: Ebola is highly successful at infecting most cells in the body. Most viruses infect only specific types of cell lines. So ebola rapidly spreads throughout the body, destroying cells in rapid order and causing the death of the person infected. It in fact sits in the body after death and another can be infected from those secretions.

What Ebola does--: According to CDC, incubation period is 2 to 21 days with average of 8 to 10 days. Early sx's: high fever, chills, sore throat, weakness, fatigue, malaise, headache, lack of appetite,low back pain & muscular /joint aching. Sx's may progress to nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea (potentially bloody), marked weight loss, chest pain, coughing, hemorrhagic rash over the body, bruising, red +