The U.S. State Health Department and the medical
specialists have given the guidelines on how to prevent
Ebola from spreading.
These guideline are in accordance with guidelines from
the centre for Disease Control and the World Health
Organisation, WHO.
• The suspected reservoirs for or carriers of Ebola are
fruit bats.
• Transmission of Ebola virus 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 of Ebola virus 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. .Carriers of Ebola virus 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,
faeces, 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 virus by handling money,
buying local bread or swimming in a pool.
According to the World Health Organization, WHO, the
Ebola epidemic currently in West Africa could spread to
other countries if not properly controlled.
The WHO raised the death toll by 57 to 729 on Thursday,
announcing that 122 new cases had been detected
between Thursday and Sunday last week, bringing the
total to more than 1,300 since the epidemic began earlier
this year.
It would be recalled that one case of the deadly Ebola
virus was detected in Nigeria last week via a Liberian
businessman, Patrick Sawyer, when he arrived Lagos
International Airport already being infected.
The Liberian man was later declared dead by the Lagos
State health authorities.
source: http://www.naij.com/70648.html

STOP THE PANIC AND JUST DO YOUR BEST TO PREVENT THE DISEASE