Things you need to know about Ebola Virus to stay SAFE
1. 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.
2. It kills in a week,
leaving no time to treat an individual.
3. It has no known vaccine or
cure
4. 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.
5. 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 straight forward
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).
4. 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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