Ebola

===Differential diagnosis===
Early symptoms of EVD may be similar to those of other diseases common in Africa, including [[malaria]] and [[dengue fever]].<ref name="Gatherer 2014" /> The symptoms are also similar to those of other viral haemorrhagic fevers such as [[Marburg virus disease]], [[Crimean–Congo haemorrhagic fever]], and [[Lassa fever]].<ref name="Harrison">{{Cite book | veditors =  Longo DL, Kasper DL, Jameson JL, Fauci AS, Hauser SL, Loscalzo J |title=Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine |publisher=McGraw-Hill |year=2011 |isbn=978-0071748896 |edition=18th |chapter=Chapter 197 }}</ref><ref name="Beeching2014">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Beeching NJ, Fenech M, Houlihan CF |date=December 2014 |title=Ebola Virus Disease |journal=BMJ |type=Review |volume=10 |issue=349 |page=g7438 |doi=10.1136/bmj.g7348 |pmc=4707720 |pmid=25497512}}</ref>

The complete [[differential diagnosis]] is extensive and requires consideration of many other infectious diseases such as [[typhoid fever]], [[shigellosis]], [[rickettsia|rickettsial diseases]], [[cholera]], [[sepsis]], [[borreliosis]], [[Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli|EHEC enteritis]], [[leptospirosis]], [[scrub typhus]], [[plague (disease)|plague]], [[Q fever]], [[candidiasis]], [[histoplasmosis]], [[trypanosomiasis]], [[visceral]] [[leishmaniasis]], [[measles]], and [[viral hepatitis]] among others.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 2008 |title=Viral Hemorrhagic Fever |url=https://www.sfcdcp.org/document.html?id=316 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420174306/http://www.sfcdcp.org/document.html?id=316 |archive-date=20 April 2013 |access-date=17 August 2014 |publisher=S.F. Dept Public Health – Infectious Disease Emergencies |format=PDF}}</ref>

Non-infectious diseases that may result in symptoms similar to those of EVD include [[acute promyelocytic leukaemia]], [[haemolytic uraemic syndrome]], [[snake envenomation]], [[coagulation|clotting factor]] deficiencies/platelet disorders, [[thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura]], [[hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia]], [[Kawasaki disease]], and [[warfarin]] poisoning.<ref name="Grolla2005" /><ref name="Gear1989">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Gear JH |date=May–June 1989 |title=Clinical aspects of African viral hemorrhagic fevers |journal=Rev Infect Dis |volume=11 |issue=Supplement 4 |pages=S777–82 |doi=10.1093/clinids/11.supplement_4.s777 |pmid=2665013}}</ref><ref name="Gear1978">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Gear JH, Ryan J, Rossouw E |date=February 1978 |title=A consideration of the diagnosis of dangerous infectious fevers in South Africa |journal=South African Medical Journal |volume=53 |issue=7 |pages=235–37 |pmid=565951}}</ref><ref name="Bogomolov1998">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Bogomolov BP |year=1998 |title=Differential diagnosis of infectious diseases with hemorrhagic syndrome |journal=Terapevticheskii Arkhiv |volume=70 |issue=4 |pages=63–68 |pmid=9612907}}</ref>