All you need to know about Ebola Virus
- It is a Central African disease that has traveled over countries in a living host to West Africa.
- It is easily spread by physical contact and eating contaminated bush meat.
- Major hosts are in 5 species of Bats but monkeys and apes are easily infected and killed.
- It kills in a week, leaving no time to treat an individual.
- It has no known vaccine or cure.
- Known cases have been experienced recently in Guniea, Liberia and Central Africa Rep, spreading eastwards and westwards towards Nigeria.
- Death toll so far in West Africa is over 100.
- The Ebola outbreak of 2014 is the most challenging one witnessed in Africa. What we can do?
- 1. Avoid eating any bush meat for now! Especially Apes and Bats.
- 2. Wash your hands as regularly as possible, especially after shaking a stranger. It is spread by contact.
- 3.The most straightforward prevention method during Ebola outbreaks is not touching patients, their excretions, and body fluids, or possibly contaminated materials and utensils.
- Patients should be isolated, and medical staff should be trained and apply strict barrier nursing techniques (disposable face mask, gloves, goggles, and a gown at all times).
- Traditional burial rituals, especially those requiring embalming of bodies, should be discouraged or modified.
- Awareness is key, don't just read or ignore...spread this campaign before the virus spreads!
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