Now that the U.S. has its first diagnosed case of Ebola — a patient in Dallas from Liberia — here are the terms you should know when it comes to understanding who's at risk
MORE See How a Photographer is Covering Ebola’s Deadly Spread Inside the Ebola Crisis: The Images that Moved them Most Incubation period: The time between exposure to a virus and when symptoms start to present, which is two to 21 days in Ebola’s case.
Symptomatic: A patient becomes symptomatic when they present symptoms of Ebola, which include fever, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, vomiting and diarrhea.
