No need to panic over Ebola, educate yourselves. I confess the media WILL NOT share any information regarding Ebola because they want people to opt for vaccination when it is NOT neccesary.. So here B.C confessions this is for all the residents of B.C so they can protect themselves from this dangerous Virus and understand it better Ebola, also called Ebola hemorrhagic fever, an infectious viral disease, characterized initially by malaise, fever, and flu-like symptoms, followed by vomiting, diarrhea, rash, and heavy bleeding through the mouth, rectum, and other orifices; the liver, spleen, and kidneys are affected. The causative agent is a thread-shaped virus that belongs to the genus Filovirus, as does the virus that causes Marburg fever, which is similar to Ebola. At least four types of the Ebola virus are known—the Zaire, Sudan, Ivory Coast, and Reston strains—which vary in deadliness. The source of the virus is not known. The virus is ordinarily transmitted from one person to another through direct contact with infected blood, secretions, or contaminated needles. To prevent the virus from spreading, patients should be isolated from people who lack protective clothing, and medical equipment should be sterilized. The virus tends to spread in hospitals in poor countries that reuse needles and do not have clean water for doctors and nurses to wash their hands. No specific treatment has been found. Patients may be treated for shock, and attempts are typically made to maintain fluid and electrolyte levels and keep the blood pressure up; transfusions of platelets or fresh blood may be given. No vaccine is available for humans, although scientists in 2000 reported developing a vaccine that appeared to protect Macaque, monkeys against the virus. The disease is named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), where the first confirmed substantial outbreak, caused by the Zaire strain, occurred in 1976, involving more than 300 people. Almost as many cases were caused in the same year in Sudan by the Sudan strain. Outbreaks involving more than 300 cases later occurred again in Zaire in 1995, caused by the Zaire strain, and in Uganda in 2000, caused by a Sudan-like strain. The fatality rate in past outbreaks has varied, reaching 88 percent in the 1976 Zaire outbreak and 53 percent in the Sudan outbreak the same year. A few instances of the Reston strain that occurred in the late 1980s and the 1990s in laboratory quarantine facilities in the U.S. and Italy, apparently introduced by monkeys imported from the Philippines, failed to cause fatalities in humans. In 2014, an outbreak of Ebola in Guinea and Liberia killed more than 100 people
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 00:53:58 +0000
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