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Highly Feared Ebola Virus May Have Been Overhyped by Nobody: 3:58pm On Aug 04, 2014
Outbreak of one of world’s
acknowledged deadliest diseases,
Ebola virus may have been overhyped,
after all. The reported severity of
contact with the virus has heightened
fears since it killed some of its victims recently. For Nigerians, the reported death of a
Liberian victim brought into Lagos
State few days ago has thrown the
commercial city into panicking. A lot is thought about the virus, which
in turn has caused fears. For instance,
body contact with others is feared,
sixk persons are avoided, fruits and
most forms of fluids. However, the feared dangers of
contact about the virus may not be as
hyped. Below is a released by the US
Department of States about the
epidemic. US STATE DEPARTMENT EBOLA ALERT 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 or businesses.
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Re: Highly Feared Ebola Virus May Have Been Overhyped by cirmuell(m): 5:44pm On Aug 04, 2014
Put your house in order undecided
Re: Highly Feared Ebola Virus May Have Been Overhyped by bisi16(m): 6:56pm On Aug 04, 2014
Thanx 4 d insight
Re: Highly Feared Ebola Virus May Have Been Overhyped by slightlyMad(f): 7:54pm On Aug 04, 2014
true or false, i just ordered some high quality gloves online, to be here in 4 days
no gambling.
Re: Highly Feared Ebola Virus May Have Been Overhyped by Nobody: 7:59pm On Aug 04, 2014
slightlyMad: true or false, i just ordered some high quality gloves online, to be here in 4 days
no gambling.

oh your fear big o, so tey you nor come trust local gloves again, na online own sure pass because ebola transmission never enter online.

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