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EBOLA
WHAT IS EBOLA?
◊ Virus, from fruit bat◊ No vaccine, no cure for the moment◊ 2-21 days from infection until symptoms show◊ Symptoms are similar to those of malaria and the flu ◊ It is NOT airborne, waterborne or spread by
mosquitoes
SYMPTOMS
SYMPTOMS
INTERACTIVE EXERCISE
”The thermometer”
CURRENT OUTBREAK
4,555
Liberia 2484Guinea 862Sierra Leone 1200Nigeria 8
DEATHS
EBOLA TRANSMISSION
EBOLA TRANSMISSION
◊ Direct contact (through broken skin)◊ Indirect contact (with environments contaminated
with body fluids)
Spread through human-to-human transmission by body fluids
GROUP DISCUSSION
◊ How can we prevent the spread of Ebola?
PREVENTION
PREVENTION
PREVENTION
IF YOU GET SICK
THE CASE OF NIGERIA
◊ Preparing early◊ Rigorous contact tracing◊ Immediately declaring an emergency ◊ Ebola command center
?www.eboladeeply.org
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