People tend to be afraid of something unknown. As AIDS in the 80s is a scourge for many people, the world is now anxious to hear the Ebola disease. Should we have the knowledge of a new disease so that we can recognize and especially avoid it. Below I have collected some information about Ebola.
What is Ebola ?
According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), a US government agency that works at reducing and preventing disease, Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease (can reach 38.6 degrees Celsius) accompanied by headache, vomiting, abdominal pain, the whole body feels the pain , bruising and bleeding for no reason. Seeing the initial symptoms, the disease is similar to the flu, but it goes more violent. The difference in this disease with dengue fever (dengue fever) have ever known is the Ebola virus is spread by bats, while the dengue virus is spread by mosquitoes. Ebola virus can infect humans and apes. The virus can not be spread through the air, the mode of transmission is more like the HIV virus that causes AIDS, through blood and body fluids.
• The origin
The disease was discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in West Africa, specifically in the Congo, the country Idi Amin. At this time, the countries in Africa that many contracted Ebola is Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
• In the US
Although it has been done by filtering the prevention of migrants from abroad, especially the new ones back or come from countries in West Africa, to be quarantined if they are suspected of having Ebola, the US still missed. A journalist who worked in Liberia, Ashoka Mukpo, came home with this disease. At this time he was treated in an isolated room in a hospital Omaha, Nebraska. Ashoka's father, Dr. Mitchell Levy, said that her son was not sure how she was infected. When he sprayed the possibility to clean up something that has been contaminated, the virus was sprayed back into his face. He was given medication that was tested its efficacy, which is never given to a patient with another Ebola and it helped.
• Victims of Ebola
So far there are 210 health workers in Africa who died of Ebola. Because it is in the US late last September, 1000 in Las Vegas nurses protest by lying on the sidewalk in front of the Bellagio Hotel and wrapped around her body with chalk strokes to mimic the way the police marked the location of the victim. They consider the US government does not act tough enough to deter the entry of Ebola virus into this country.
• Prevention
US encourages its citizens to the extent possible to avoid traveling to countries where the disease is endemic Ebola. But if forced to also visit there, it is recommended to do the following:
• Wash your hands often or use an anti-bacterial cleanser.
• Avoid contact with blood or mucus, especially from people who are sick.
• Do not touch the stuff that has been exposed to blood or mucus of infected people.
• Do not touch the bodies of people who died from Ebola.
• Do not touch the bat, pig or monkey forest, blood or mucus and do not eat meat produced from these animals.
• Avoid the hospital where the patient is being treated Ebola.
• Immediately to the doctor if you suffer from high fever, while in the care of doctors do not make contact with people who are healthy.
When you travel abroad and had a high fever and vomiting feeling of wanting to get to the doctor and ask for a blood examined in the laboratory to detect whether it contains the Ebola virus.
