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If you want to know more about the Ebola virus,
then read this alert from the US Embassy here in
Nigeria ...

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 US 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.

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