EBOLA PREVENTION TIPS! Facts Formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic, Ebola virus disease (EVD), is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. It has a fatality rate of up to 90%; that means nine out of every 10 infected persons are known to have died. Ebola is transmitted through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals. Signs and symptoms: EVD is a severe acute viral illness often characterized by the sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. This is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function, and in some cases, both internal and external bleeding. Diagnosis: Other diseases that should be ruled out before a diagnosis of EVD can be made include: malaria, typhoid fever, shigellosis, cholera, leptospirosis, plague, rickettsiosis, relapsing fever, meningitis, hepatitis and other viral haemorrhagic fevers. Prevention: - Please have a personal hand sanitizer and use it as frequent as possible. - Do not buy and eat any fruit directly without washing it first very well. - For now, you might want to stay away from eating any meat that you do not know its source, most especially our lovely Suya. - Also, try not to put your hands into your mouth without using a sanitizer first ( for those of us that bite our fingers a lot, we need to consciously stop for now). - Try and avoid unnecessary hand shaking for now, or immediately after, use your sanitizer. - Unlike HIV, Ebola can be spread through contact with body sweat or saliva, so take caution when you sit in the danfo buses in Lagos or when you want to kiss. - Avoid eating any meat from apes e.g monkeys and its families. - Generally, avoid having contacts with body fluid - Bathe as often as you can - Prepare your meats by yourself, if possible - Lastly, get more information about Ebola
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 12:05:02 +0000
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