Important Information!!!As Nigeria recorded today, the first death ofEBOLA victim reported 3 days ago, thisinformation is very necessary for all of us.....All you need to know about Ebola Virus now:1. It is a Central African disease that hastravelled over countries in a living host toWest Africa. It is easily spread by physicalcontact and eating contaminated bush meat.Major hosts are in 5 species of Bats butmonkeys and apes are easily infected andkilled.2. It kills in a week, leaving no time to treatan individual.3. It has no known vaccine or cure.4. Known cases have been experiencedrecently in Guinea, Liberia and Central AfricaRep, spreading eastwards and westwardstowards Nigeria. Death toll so far in WestAfrica is over 100.5. The Ebola outbreak of 2014 is the mostchallenging 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 isspread by contact.3.The most straightforward preventionmethod during Ebola outbreaks is nottouching patients, their excretions, and bodyfluids, or possibly contaminated materialsand utensils. Patients should be isolated, andmedical staff should be trained and applystrict barrier nursing techniques (disposableface mask, gloves, goggles, and a gown at alltimes). Traditional burial rituals, especiallythose requiring embalming of bodies, shouldbe discouraged or modified. Awareness iskey, dont just read or ignore...Spread this campaign before the virusspreads. God bless you.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 09:22:22 +0000
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