Ebola prevention Dos and Donts 1. Avoid touching anybody with bleeding nose, bleeding or bloodshot eyes, bleeding gum or even bleeding ears or someone with swollen dark fluid filled blisters on the skin, especially if it is showing up these days. 2. For now, do not help a sick person to clean his/her puke or help clean him/her up after he/she poops on him/herself without extreme caution and protection – especially if the person came up with the illness these past days. Avoid it totally if you can. 3. Keep to yourself and family as much as possible; restrict your kids and your kid’s close friends and much as possible to only themselves. 4. Avoid crowded places where people come from vast areas, like Swimming pools, Amusement Parks, Hotels (especially the ones with poor sanitation and cleanliness – the zero stars especially) 5. After handling money, foodstuffs, library books or other things that go from hand to hand, do not put your hand in your mouth, your ears, your nose or your genitals without first washing your hands with soap and water. 6. Avoid your boyfriend/girlfriend/bed mates for now, especially if he/she is a ‘public utility’ 7. If you have done any of these lately and you suddenly come up with fever, diarrhoea and vomiting, please keep away from your loved ones as much as possible until you start feeling better. 8. For now, avoid hospitals if you don’t have any good reason to be there 9. If you know any Ebola patient, stay away from them if you are not the Doctor or Nurse taking care of them; even if they are your relations. 10. Pray, pray and pray to your God. The Good news is 1. You most likely will never meet or touch anybody with Ebola is your life. 2. Ebola is only transmittable when the infected person has symptoms. 3. Witches or your enemies cannot give you Ebola, either through magic or through dreams. 4. Ebola virus is not airborne. 5. Ordinary sun drying will kill the Ebola virus on utensils 6. Washing hands, clothing, utensils with ordinary soap will kill the entire Ebola virus in them. 7. Ebola is not an airborne disease, although sneezes or coughs from a very sick person can be contagious for up to 2m (by my estimate). 8. Even if infected, there are chances of survival especially with a very positive attitude to life. 9. Most likely a cure will be found soon. 10. This is not the first outbreak, others were contained, most likely this one will What Ebola does in the body When a person is infected with the Ebola virus, the virus multiplies in the body until it gets to a level where the immune system is no longer able to ward off the threat, by then the virus starts replicating and starts invading every organ and part of the body. What the virus does is it thins the blood cells and makes it permeable through the cells of the blood vessels. This causes blood to leak through the blood vessels in the organs thereby causing severe haemorrhaging (severe bleeding), the organs then begin to pack up, the Kidneys, the liver, the lungs become fluid filled (severe pneumonia) and breathing becomes difficult, blood pressure drops drastically, the heart pumps harder because of the lower volume of blood it is receiving, body temperature rises (fever), bleeding in the ears, nose, eyes, gum, mouth and under the skin can occur, until the body succumbs and the person dies. Even after death the virus are still active and the corpse is still contagious.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 07:50:05 +0000
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