If you want to know more about the Ebola virus,
then read this alert from the US Embassy here in
Nigeria ...
In order to help our Embassy
Community better understand some
of the key points about the Ebola
virus we have consulted with our
medical specialists at the U S State
Department and assembled this list
of bullet points worded in plain
language for easy comprehension.
Our medical specialists remind
everyone that they should be
following the guideline from the
center for Disease Control and the
World Health Organisation.
• The suspected reservoirs for Ebola
are fruit bats.
• Transmission to humans is
thought to originate from infected
bats or primates that have become
infected by bats.
• Undercooked infected bat and
primate (bush) meat transmits the
virus to humans.
• Human to human transmission is
only achieved by physical contact
with a person who is acutely and
gravely ill from the Ebola virus or
their body fluids. Continue...
• Transmission among humans is
almost exclusively among caregiver
family members or health care
workers tending to the very ill.
• The virus is easily killed by
contact with soap, bleach, sunlight,
or drying. A washing machine will
kill the virus in clothing saturated
with infected body fluids.
• A person can incubate the virus
without symptoms for 2-21 days,
the average being 5-8 days before
becoming ill. THEY ARE NOT
CONTAGIOUS until they are acutely
ill.
• Only when ill does the viral load
express itself first in the blood and
then in other bodily fluids (to
include vomit, feces, urine, breast
milk, semen and sweat).
• If you are walking around you are
not infectious to others.
• There are documented cases from
Kikwit, DRC of an Ebola outbreak
in a village that had the custom of
children never touching an ill
adult. Children living for days in
small one room huts with parents
who died from Ebola did not
become infected.
• You cannot contract Ebola by
handling money, buying local
bread or swimming in a pool.
• There is no medical reason to stop
flights, close borders, restrict travel
or close embassies, businesses or
schools.
• As always practice good hand
washing techniques, but you will
not contract Ebola if you do not
touch a dying person.
• US EMBASSY
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friends and families and try not to
spread panic on social media.
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