Safety tips about Ebola
US Embassy
Alert:
In order to
help our Embassy Community better understand some key points about Ebola virus
we consulted with our medical specialists at the U S State Department &
assembled this list below, worded in plain language for easy
understanding.
• The
suspected reservoirs for Ebola are fruit bats.
•
Transmission to humans is thought to originate from infected bats or primates
that have become infected by bats. Undercooked infected bat meat and primate
meat transmits the virus to humans.
• Human to
human transmission is only achieved by physical contact with a person who is
acutely and gravely ill from Ebola virus or their body fluids.
•
Transmission among humans is almost exclusively among caregiver family members
or health care workers tending to the very ill.
• The virus is easily killed by
contact with soap, bleach, sunlight, or drying. A washing machine will kill the
virus in clothing saturated with infected body fluids.
• A person
can incubate the virus without symptoms for 2-21 days, the average being 5-8
days before becoming ill. THEY ARE NOT
CONTAGIOUS until they are acutely ill.
• Only when
ill does the viral load express itself first in the blood and other bodily
fluids (e.g. vomit, feaces, urine, breast milk, semen and sweat).
• If you are
walking around you are not infectious to others.
• There are
documented cases from Kikwit, DRC of an Ebola outbreak in a village that had
the custom of children never touching an ill adult. Children living for days in
one room huts with parents who died from Ebola did not become infected...
• You can't
contract Ebola by handling money or swimming in a pool.
•There's no
medical reason to stop flights, close borders, restrict travel or close embassies,
businesses or schools.
• Always
practice good hand washing techniques, you will not contract Ebola if you do
not touch a dying person. Please share this information & try not to spread
panic on social media. Stay Safe.
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