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Ebola Alert! Must Read! US State Department. by vikkyboboski(m): 1:23am On Aug 08, 2014
The US State Department has assembled this list
of bullet points worded in plain language for easy
comprehension on the Ebola virus. Please READ
and be aware:
• 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.
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• 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, 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 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.
Source: http://www.stephaniedaily.com/ebola-alert-us-state-department/
Re: Ebola Alert! Must Read! US State Department. by ayukdaboss(m): 1:45am On Aug 08, 2014
okay
Re: Ebola Alert! Must Read! US State Department. by Nobody: 2:26am On Aug 08, 2014
Thanks for the info.

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Re: Ebola Alert! Must Read! US State Department. by Nobody: 2:32am On Aug 08, 2014
"THEY ARE NOT CONTAGIOUS until they are acutely ill."

I'm sorry but i'll have to take the above with a pinch of salt. Aerosols from sneezing and coughing of infected but asymptomatic persons may contain enough Viral load (1-10 virion) to cause infection to other humans.

Everyone should get face-mask.

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Re: Ebola Alert! Must Read! US State Department. by psucc(m): 5:58am On Aug 08, 2014
Why are we so scared and nervous?

Psalm 91.

May the good Lord save us in Jesus name amen.
Re: Ebola Alert! Must Read! US State Department. by Ekundayo7: 6:07am On Aug 08, 2014
psucc: Why are we so scared and nervous?

Psalm 91.

May the good Lord save us in Jesus name amen.
I'm sure many good Christians and Muslims have been left dead in the streets of Liberia after dying of Ebola. Practice good hygiene along with prayers.
Re: Ebola Alert! Must Read! US State Department. by PrincessB1(f): 7:56am On Aug 08, 2014
Nyc info

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