What is Ebola?

Everything You Should Know. 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.

Ebola Bacground?

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.

The current outbreak was detected in West Africa, first cases notified in March 2014, the largest and most complex Ebola outbreak since the Ebola virus was discovered in 1976. Many cases ended deaths in this outbreak, it has also spread between countries starting in Guinea then spreading across land borders to Sierra Leone and Liberia, by air (1 traveller only) to Nigeria, and by land (1 traveller) to Senegal. (WHO)

Ebola In 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 his son was not sure how he 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.

Ebola victims

So far there are 1.000 people die in Africa including 210 health workers in Africa who died of Ebola. Because that, last September in the US, 1.000 nurses in Las Vegas 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.

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