"Ebola" is an infectious disease caused by four different strains of Ebola viruses, and these viruses infect humans and animals from mammalian primates and lead to death if the patient did not receive the appropriate treatment and prevention.
The disease spreads in general in Africa and the Republic of Congo, Gabon, Sudan, Ivory Coast and Uganda, is expected to appear in other African countries.
And back to discover the disease in 1976 in Sudan and Congo, especially the villages located on the "Ebola" River, which earned him his name, and moved to the monkeys later, and reappear every 10 years to that recently appeared in Guinea and then spread in Liberia and Sierra Leone .. but this time is the largest and most dangerous.
According to MBC, the Net Ebola has several names, including "cannibalism", "monkey disease" or "hemorrhagic fever".
Causes injury
Movement of infection "Ebola" to human touching infected animals or their secretions or its members or fluids other body, and documented in Africa, cases of infection by dealing with chimpanzees and gorillas, fruit bats, and for humans, Infection transmitted from one person to another through contact with the blood or secretions or members or body fluids of an infected person, it can also result in the burial ceremony for those who touch the body of the deceased role in the infection, and also the virus is transmitted by semen or sexual contact during a period of up to 7 weeks.
Symptoms of the disease
Appears on the individual patient fever, severe weakness and muscle pain, headache, sore throat, and then vomiting and diarrhea and the emergence of a large rash with impaired kidney function and liver, and in some cases internal and external bleeding both occur, ranging incubation extended period from the moment of infection to the beginning the onset of symptoms between two and 21 days.
Prevention methods
Prevention of Ebola fever difficult, but getting an early screening and isolating the patient, as well as to take protective measures, are essential, and these are some procedures that must be followed:
1 - must clean and disinfect animal shelters disinfectant, and if suspected outbreak of the disease, should be imposed quarantine on the place immediately, and must be executed with the infected animal carcasses buried or cremated.
2 - Lack of contact with fruit bats or infected monkeys, and if it had to, it is possible to wear protective clothing and gloves.
3 - Lack of contact with an infected person, and must be isolated in the case when the symptoms of the disease, avoid sexual relations with infected, and must wear gloves and equipment appropriate protection to protect people when patients in the home care, and necessary (POPs) to wash hands after visiting sick relatives in the hospital, and the same applies to doctors and cleaners in homes and the hospital.
4 - should remind people with the nature of the disease and measures to contain it, by informing them of the appropriate means to bury the dead in a safe manner, and not making contact even after death.
The disease spreads in general in Africa and the Republic of Congo, Gabon, Sudan, Ivory Coast and Uganda, is expected to appear in other African countries.
And back to discover the disease in 1976 in Sudan and Congo, especially the villages located on the "Ebola" River, which earned him his name, and moved to the monkeys later, and reappear every 10 years to that recently appeared in Guinea and then spread in Liberia and Sierra Leone .. but this time is the largest and most dangerous.
According to MBC, the Net Ebola has several names, including "cannibalism", "monkey disease" or "hemorrhagic fever".
Causes injury
Movement of infection "Ebola" to human touching infected animals or their secretions or its members or fluids other body, and documented in Africa, cases of infection by dealing with chimpanzees and gorillas, fruit bats, and for humans, Infection transmitted from one person to another through contact with the blood or secretions or members or body fluids of an infected person, it can also result in the burial ceremony for those who touch the body of the deceased role in the infection, and also the virus is transmitted by semen or sexual contact during a period of up to 7 weeks.
Symptoms of the disease
Appears on the individual patient fever, severe weakness and muscle pain, headache, sore throat, and then vomiting and diarrhea and the emergence of a large rash with impaired kidney function and liver, and in some cases internal and external bleeding both occur, ranging incubation extended period from the moment of infection to the beginning the onset of symptoms between two and 21 days.
Prevention methods
Prevention of Ebola fever difficult, but getting an early screening and isolating the patient, as well as to take protective measures, are essential, and these are some procedures that must be followed:
1 - must clean and disinfect animal shelters disinfectant, and if suspected outbreak of the disease, should be imposed quarantine on the place immediately, and must be executed with the infected animal carcasses buried or cremated.
2 - Lack of contact with fruit bats or infected monkeys, and if it had to, it is possible to wear protective clothing and gloves.
3 - Lack of contact with an infected person, and must be isolated in the case when the symptoms of the disease, avoid sexual relations with infected, and must wear gloves and equipment appropriate protection to protect people when patients in the home care, and necessary (POPs) to wash hands after visiting sick relatives in the hospital, and the same applies to doctors and cleaners in homes and the hospital.
4 - should remind people with the nature of the disease and measures to contain it, by informing them of the appropriate means to bury the dead in a safe manner, and not making contact even after death.
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