Time to drop in, if invited, and deposit needed medical supplies, quickly build the 17 one-hundred-bed field hospitals and leave behind some jeeps and bobcats and electrical generation and clean drinking water supply equipment and then move along and let local doctors and medical staff attend to the identification, medication, possible quarantine, and also burial of the approximately 70% to 90% who die once infected. See PBS, NOVA, Frontline, CDC.gov, ... Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF) is a severe, often-fatal disease in humans ... with Ebola virus, named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... The 2014 Ebola outbreak is the largest Ebola outbreak in history and ... A person infected with Ebola is not contagious until symptoms appear. The virus was first discovered by an outbreak in 1976, which up until now has been the worst outbreak on record. There have since been five different strains of the virus. It is now thought that the original host of the Ebola virus was bats in west and central Africa. These infected bats bite or cut and infect other species such as duikers and chimpanzees, raising the probabilities of any infectious contact with humans. Still, very little is known about how the virus initially transfers to humans and triggers human-to-human transmission. As the Center for Disease Control affirms, you cannot be infected with Ebola through the air, water, or through food. The only way to get Ebola is from touching the bodily fluids of an infected person. Not just Nigeria but also at the western areas of Africa: Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Oxfam, Compassion International, Samaritans Purse
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 08:12:51 +0000
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