EBOLA : THE INVISIBLE PREDATOR

 

Ebola is a highly infectious and often fatal disease caused by the Ebola virus. Symptoms include severe headache, muscle pain, weakness, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting abdominal pain, and unexplained hemorrhage ( bleeding  or bruising) . The virus is primarily spread through contact with bodily fluids of an infected person, such as blood , sweat, vomit, feces, urine, semen or breast milk. There is currently no specific treatment or vaccine for the virus.

EBOLA VIRUS

Ebola virus is a member of the Filoviridae family and is responsible for a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates.

Features:

• High mortality rate
• Transmission through close contact.
• Incubation period of 2 to 21 days.

SPREAD

• Direct contact with blood, sweat, urine breast milk of infected person.
• Direct contact with a recently deceased person who ha Ebola.
• Handling or eating bushmeat that is infected with the virus.
• Contact with infected surface.

PREVENTION

Avoid direct contact with infected person or substances, proper dis infection.