How to avoid the spread of ebola

Instructions

LEARN HOW TO AVOID EBOLA

1 Avoid direct contact with someone suffering from ebola. The disease is not air born however it is highly contagious through bodily fluids. Those suffering from ebola will bleed severely from orfaces and skin can rupture with touch.

2 Avoid eating deadly animals especially monkeys. Apes and monkeys are known carriers of the ebola virus and it can be caught by eating infected animals.

3 Wash your hands with soap after shaking someone's hand.
4 Avoid sharing clothes mainly with the strangers or someone suffering from ebola.
5 Cover your hands with gloves and make sure that your nose and mouth are properly protected before you touch on someone suffering from ebola. In the later stages of the disease, ebola will cause a host to convulse in an effort to spread blood to other hosts.
6 Ebola patients should be reported quickly and given treatment as soon as possible.
7 Someone killed by ebola should be buried quickly.

 

Experts Say Transmission Of Ebola Virus By Air Possible

THE Ebola Virus is essentially transmitted from human-to-human through direct contact with infected patients, or through contact with body fluids of a victim. However, scientists are not ruling out the possibility of transmission by air through aerosolised particles.

Previously, Canadian scientists have shown that the deadliest form of the Ebola virus (the Zaire Ebola) could be transmitted by air between species. Although no human over-ther-air transmission of the lethal viral disorder has been recorded, but the Patrick Sawyer incidence in Lagos, Nigeria, has reopened worries over the implications of the possibility of its transmission in an enclosed environment such as an aircraft cabin.

Now Ebola victims are left to rot in the streets: Terrified relatives dump them outside for fear of catching deadly virus

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Relatives of Ebola victims are dragging their bodies onto streets of Liberia

·        Disease-ridden bodies are left to rot in view of everyone, including children

·        In doing so, relatives hope they will avoid being quarantined by authorities

·        They view Ebola isolation wards in country as death traps, officials claim

·        Last week, Liberia announced raft of tough measures to contain the virus

·        Include imposing quarantines on victims' homes and tracking their relatives

·        Ebola has claimed the lives of nearly 900 people across West Africa so far

A young man lies dead in the streets of Liberia, left to rot in view of passers-by and local children.

He is just one of many Ebola victims to have been dragged out of their homes and dumped on the country's roads by terrified relatives in a desperate bid to avoid being quarantined. 

The deadly virus, which can cause victims to suffer from severe bruising and bleeding from the eyes and mouth, has claimed the lives of nearly 900 people across West Africa so far. 

Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola virus disease) facts

Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by four different strains of Ebola virus; these viruses infect humans and nonhuman primates.

It is also referred to as Ebola virus disease.
Ebola hemorrhagic fever has a short history since it was discovered in 1976. There have been a few outbreaks, including the current (April 2014) "unprecedented epidemic" in Africa.

Ebola viruses are mainly found in primates in Africa and possibly the Philippines; there are only occasional outbreaks of infection in humans.

Ebola hemorrhagic fever occurs mainly in Africa in the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Sudan, Ivory Coast, and Uganda, but it may occur in other African countries.

Ebola virus can be spread by direct contact with blood and secretions, by contact with blood and secretions that remain on clothing, and by needles and/or syringes used to treat Ebola-infected patients.

Risk factors for Ebola hemorrhagic fever are travel to areas with endemic Ebola hemorrhagic fever and/or any close association with an infected person.

Symptoms of Ebola hemorrhagic fever include an incubation period of two to 21 days, starting with abrupt fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, sore throat, and weakness; progression of symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain, hiccups, and rash with more devastating symptoms of internal and external bleeding in many patients.

Early clinical diagnosis is difficult as the symptoms are nonspecific; however, if the patient is suspected to have Ebola, the patient needs to be isolated and local and state health departments need to be immediately contacted.

Definitive diagnostic tests for Ebola hemorrhagic fever are ELISA and/or PCR tests; viral cultivation and biopsy samples may also be used.

There is no standard treatment for Ebola hemorrhagic fever; only supportive therapy is available.
There are many complications from Ebola hemorrhagic fever; the prognosis for patients ranges from fair to poor since many patients died from the disease (death rate equals about 25%-100%).

Prevention of Ebola hemorrhagic fever is difficult; early testing and isolation of the patient, plus barrier protection for caregivers (mask, gown, goggles, and gloves), is very important to prevent others from getting infected.

Researchers are trying to understand the Ebola virus and pinpoint its ecological reservoirs to better understand how outbreaks occur. Researchers are actively trying to establish an effective vaccine against Ebola viruses by using several experimental methods, but there is no vaccine available currently.