10 facts about ebola virus

you need to know 10 facts about ebola virus

The following are the facts and myths circulating about the ebola virus :

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1. Ebola has a mortality rate of 100 percent

Ebola has fatality rates vary widely. It's just that until now there has not been a cure and vaccine for ebola so the need for the development of medical ebola sufferers to help relieve and suppress the death toll caused by the ebola virus. How to reduce deaths is to dedicate the active treatment, including the development of an effective vaccine to stop the spread of the virus.

2. Ebola cannot be controlled

In almost 40 years, Ebola have occurred 25 times. In most of these cases, epidemiological experts and doctors can get the disease under control very quickly. This virus can be controlled, as long as health authorities are willing to play an active role in dealing with the ebola virus quickly. Even now ebola has already become the attention of the World Health Organization so that the spread of ebola outbreaks can be stopped.

3. The patient will always bleed

Many who described that ebola sufferers tend to bleed in reality, it starts much more like a case of the flu. As the infection progresses, the patient may experience diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, muscle aches, and fever. While the bleeding occurs, it does not always produce external bleeding.

4. Victims still contagious

In fact the ebola virus can remain alive in the sperm for three months, so did can survive long in the breast milk. So the mothers affected by ebola should be placed in isolation and separated from her son. Even mom really recovered from ebola virus and was not allowed to provide milk for up to three months of ebola disease healing process.

5. Ebola will not be transmitted through the air

The risk of contagious ebola by air is very low, perhaps most importantly we know because it's not a virus that is highly adaptive. Unlike the influenza viruses that are in the air, Ebola infects patients and exposed adjacent fluids and blood directly. So you don't have to worry about ebola does not spread through the air when patients cough and sneeze but you should remain vigilant, saliva can potentially spread the virus.

6. Ebola to the attention of the World Health Organization

Did you know that 3,500 patients have died in West Africa and the World Health Organization estimates that about 1.4 million is going to be a threat. However, almost 50,000 people die each year from influenza, which can be prevented with a simple inoculation. 14 people died of measles every hour around the world, despite the fact that it is also a disease can be prevented by vaccines. 760,000 toddlers died of diarrhoea each year, and many cases can be prevented by cleanliness, maintenance, and access to better nutrition.

7. perform cleaning and sanitation materials specifically required to fight Ebola

In fact, hand washing using SOAP already is one of prevention of bacteria and viruses, neither on the spread of the virus ebola. Meanwhile, for those of you who want more practical can use alcohol-based hand Sanitizer without the rinsed using water, it just would not be good if used by a nurse or worker related to the ground, blood and other fluids that harm should still be washed using SOAP and water first.

8. There are no specific foods that can prevent outbreaks of ebola

Especially the myth spread across West Africa, beliefs about some special food that is spreading in the community about the Ebola virus. Even some of the people there believe the onion can reduce the spread of the ebola virus but by doing a balanced food consumption can help build a stronger immune system, which can help her fight off the infection, there are no foods that can help to Ebola prevention. This is due to ebola caused by viruses and to date has not found vaccines for ebola virus. (Read: Ebola Can Infect Through Food?)

9. Ebola Become Global threats

Global threats raises Ebola, that is threatening public health and security of the world, and also the onset of instability of the Government. This is due to some other countries banning flights destination countries that have got a case of ebola, it is one of the Government's measures to protect its citizens against the dangers of this deadly disease. While the Ebola still is a problem that needs global cooperation to control, from the supply of aid for vaccine development so as to stop the ebola outbreak and transmission.

10. The research

Now research is intended to test a vaccine that can heal ZMapp virus Ebola in a monkey. Even in the jobless claims can succeed until 100% and this virus has already entered the final stage.

The research do the vaksin ZMapp developed for the ebola virus and tame can also heal as a method of therapy. Even a vaccine injection has done ZMapp with the use of additional serum so that it can improve the performance of the vaccine so that it can be recovered at the end stage of virus.

However the number of these vaccines is limited and cannot meet the needs of about 20 thousand vaccine patients who contracted the ebola virus. Researchers have to work extra to be able to dampen the spread of this virus in West Africa.

Thus people who infected with ebola is hard to be cured because it is still the lack of development of drugs and vaccines for ebola sufferers, only prevention can be done by using the procedure that is good and true in health care providers especially physicians and nurses, laboratory workers. Even a very easy and prevention are often overlooked is hand washing using SOAP so that it can be spared from the virus or bacteria.

Transmission of ebola virus from sufferer to another is very easy, even for those of you who do the direct interaction with the person who died by ebola should carefully because it is still potentially infecting ebola virus. Moreover in patients who have been declared recovered remains to be doing medical monitoring because it still can pass ebola virus.

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