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The Truths And Myths About Ebola Virus Disease. by VantagePoint: 6:28am On Jul 30, 2014
U.S. Embassy, Monrovia | April 15, 2014
This Message is an update to the Message for U.S. Citizens
sent on April 4, 2014.
Representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) and the Defense Threat Reduction
Agency (DTRA), experts in viral diseases, have arrived in
Liberia. They are assisting the Liberian Ministry of Health
and Social Welfare (MOHSW) with case identification,
reporting, and contact tracing as well as setting up a
laboratory for testing various hemorrhagic fevers
including Ebola. The U.S. Embassy continues to remind
U.S. citizens that Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a rare but
deadly disease. The risk to most travelers is low, but
travelers could be infected if they come into contact with
an ill person’s blood or body fluids, sick wildlife, or
infected bushmeat.
The bulleted list below provides information on
transmission of the Ebola virus and easy precautions you
can take to protect yourself:
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 and primate (bush) 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 the 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 five to eight days before
becoming ill. THE PERSON IS NOT CONTAGIOUS until they
are acutely ill.
Only when ill, does the viral load express itself first in
the blood and then in other bodily fluids (to include
vomit, feces, urine, breast milk, semen and sweat).
There are documented cases from Kikwit, Democratic
Republic of Congo of an Ebola outbreak in a village that
had the custom of children never touching an ill adult.
Children living for days in small one room huts with
parents who died from Ebola did not become infected.
You cannot contract Ebola by handling money, buying
local bread or swimming in a pool.
At this time, there is no medical reason to stop flights,
close borders, restrict travel or close embassies,
businesses or schools.
As always practice good hand washing techniques.
The U.S. Embassy is open for business as usual.
Source : http://monrovia.usembassy.gov/mobile//sm_ebola_041514.html
Re: The Truths And Myths About Ebola Virus Disease. by Nobody: 7:07am On Jul 30, 2014
Good Info! But I don't believe that Money shit oh!
Re: The Truths And Myths About Ebola Virus Disease. by VantagePoint: 8:47am On Jul 30, 2014
topelouis: Good Info! But I don't believe that Money shit oh!
Well, the article said the person in contagious only when acutely ill, so that money part may be true.
Most very sick people don't engage in monetary transactions.

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