WHAT ARE WE TO KNOW? We are to know: • What Ebola Virus Disease is:
• How to Recognize Ebola Virus Disease
Symptoms
• How Ebola is Spread
• Category of people at risk
• What to do if Ebola is suspected • Role of teachers, parents, communities, and
governments
• Efforts of government so far
• Proper hand washing demonstration
• Demonstration on using sanitizers
• Demonstration on using infra red thermometers WHAT IS EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE? • EVD is a disease caused by a virus which
attacks the body system leading to bleeding from
body openings.
• It is highly severe and life threatening disease
which manifests between 2-21 days after contact
with an infected person • It kills nine out ten infected people if left
untreated
• There is currently no acceptable/effective
drugs or vaccines for treatment of Ebola. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF EBOLA • First identified in 1976 near Ebola river in the
congo and named after the river
• Mortality rates of outbreak is from 50-90%
• Current global outbreak started in April, 2014
in Guinea with mortality rate of 47%
• A member of the Filo virus family that causes highly lethal haemorrhagic fever syndrome CURRENT OUTBREAK STATISTICS • 1st index case was a two year-old child in
Guinea bitten by a fruit bat
• Four countries already affected i.e Guinea,
Liberia, Sierra-Leone and Nigeria
• More than 3,000 people affected with almost
half dead • 1st case in Nigeria was Mr. Thomas Sawyer, a
Liberian-American who came to Nigeria
• Lagos-State and Rivers state reported 18 cases
and two cases respectively with 7deaths and 1
death
• Health workers are at risk HOW IS EBOLA SPREAD? • Contact with blood, urine, faeces, semen, saliva
or other body excretions from infected person
• Contact with contaminated objects e.g.
beddings, floors, etc. contaminated with infected
human or animal secretions
• Contact with infected animals such as monkeys, bats, baboons and antelopes
• Contact with dead body of an Ebola patients. WHERE DOES IT COME FROM 1? • Not entirely clear, but likely bats WHERE DOES IT COME FROM 2? • Bats may infect other animals WHERE DOES IT COME FROM 3? • Any of these can infect humans NOTE: Ebola is not Air-Borne Virus, You cannot contact/catch Ebola through the Air. Watch out for Part 2.
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