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EBOLA! HOPE FROM THE US EMBASSY. PLEASE READ AND SHARE.
This latest alert from the US Embassy here in Nigeria about the much talked about Ebola virus is a sort of relief
especially to
those who have been reading so many scary and panic information online. Even the statements from the Federal
government
yesterday doesn't help matter. So now make sure you read this information and have some peace of mind. Read
below...
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, bosom milk, Fluid 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.
Source http://lindaikeji..com/2014/08/must-read-us-state-department-ebola.html?m=1