EBOLA VIRUS....#Takecaution

All you need to know about Ebola Virus now:
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 Guinea, 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 you 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. Wash your hands often with soap and water, sanitizer is a good alternative.
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.
4. Always wash your fruits and vegetables before cooking.
5. Avoid contact with people with suspicious signs and places of outbreak.
6. Watch out for the warning signs which mimics malaria symptoms.

Electroscopic view of EBV

A Nurse well protected attending to a person diagnosed with Ebola Virus