In order to help our Embassy Community better understand some of the key points about the Ebola virus we have consulted with our medical specialists at the U S State Department and assembled this list of bullet points worded in plain language for easy comprehension. Our medical specialists remind everyone that they should be following the guideline from the center for Disease Control and the World Health Organisation.


• 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 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 then in other bodily fluids (to include vomit, feces, 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 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.

• 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, but you will not contract Ebola if you do not touch a dying person.

• US EMBASSY
Please share this information with your friends and families and try not to spread panic on social media.

Thanks

K

Good one

I Just pity places with bad water source

• There is no medical reason to stop flights, close borders, restrict travel or close embassies, businesses or schools.

I don't understand this;closing Airports in my Opinion,is a very necessary Measure.

ayobase:

necessary measure cos ur country is not affected.

is that the only definite solution to this prevalent disease

No vex Brother,go stand for Airport dey welcome every Visitor from Liberia,Sierra Leone & co.

This is a Disease that has no Cure,and that kills almost everyone who catches it...it's beyond a Matter of my Country or not my Country; if it's allowed to spread beyond its present Confines,it will progressively become more difficult to contain and threaten the whole World.

Thanks. .I need to share.

.

Who is Bola?

Noted.

K

All are noted sir...but the most important thing our medical specialist forgets to tell us is that we all should be aware of any friend named ''Bola''...the virus just add E to it to make Ebola....be warned!!! Prevention is better than cure they say

All this EBOLA NEWS u people are sharing hmmmm, naw am afraid of my gf nd her broda cos their name sound ebolish. oyEBOLA and adEBOLA.

Nw my poor mind can b at rest. I b don suspend mama put#

But the Liberian man said he didn't come in contact with an Ebola patient nor go to the funeral of one, he's not even a health worker.

Even the doctors who handled Ebola patients dressed like they were going to the moon, yet got infected and died. I sincerely pray and hope that man hadn't transmitted it to someone else in lagos. That would be the only form of prevention for outbreak in Nigeria

thanks alot

Godsun2013: All this EBOLA NEWS u people are sharing hmmmm, naw am afraid of my gf nd her broda cos their name sound ebolish. oyEBOLA and adEBOLA.

lolss, GodsunBOLA

today is indeed ebola day on nl

Good information for everyone to learn from.Ignroance is a disease itself !!!

This indeed is very educating.

GoodNews atlast..

unlike what all thos other mofos hav been spreading: No cure, touch and die, handsake, coughing, sneezing, wearing leather, gloves, e-bola condoms, dating BOLA, blah blah blah shitttt... :\

Atleast this is hope, not anytime we gonna be spreading bad news.. Nice one Op.

VERY TIMELY, I ALMOST LOCKED MYSELF UP FOR FEAR.
ONCE AGAIN TANX!!!

prevention is better than cure..

I SEE THIS EBOLA VIRUS DYING OUT OF OUR NATION JUST LIKE BIRD FLU

koonbey:

I don't understand this;closing Airports in my Opinion,is a very necessary Measure.

necessary measure cos ur country is not affected.

is that the only definite solution to this prevalent disease

Thank God oo. Now my mind is at rest.

Mayany: I SEE THIS EBOLA VIRUS DYING OUT OF OUR NATION JUST LIKE BIRD FLU

Amen

No be me and una.
Ebola virus is deadly and as such,makes it very dangerous to be toyed.

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Mayany: I SEE THIS EBOLA VIRUS DYING OUT OF OUR NATION JUST LIKE BIRD FLU

yes oh and with sarz I think.

the HARSH state of the country will choke them to death.

Hmm

I just feel for our health workers....May God protect them