The Ebola Virus is
killing many in the nations of Guinea, Sierra Leon, and Liberia. It is a pandemic in the regions around these nations in Africa. It has not become a world wide pandemic health care professionals are trying to make sure this does not happen.
It is a
deadly disease that has no vaccination that is effective. The only thing
that seems to be effective to date for defeating the spread of the disease is
cleaning with bleach.
The CDC tells us the symptoms include:
Fever
Fatigue
Severe headache Diarrhea
Severe headache Diarrhea
Muscle
pain Vomiting
Weakness Abdominal
(stomach) pain
Unexplained hemorrhage
(bleeding or bruising)
Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days
after exposure to Ebola, but the average is 8 to 10 days. Recovery from
Ebola depends on good supportive clinical care and the patient’s immune
response. People who recover from Ebola infection develop antibodies that last
for at least 10 years (http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/symptoms/index.html).
I realize that many are panicking in America because it would be
so easy to transmit this disease to others in our large cities within weeks,
but we must move cautiously. I have lived overseas and understand some of the
reasons a disease like Ebola takes hold of a population. Truthfully, many of the poor in third world
are still dealing with TB and other communicable diseases.
Because we have no real cure for Ebola, and we know it can be
transmitted so easily, but it is not air born.
It is fluid born and I dare say that those who have contracted it were
in close contact with a sick person.
