Article: How to protect yourself against Ebola

West Africa is grappling with the largest outbreak of Ebola virus in history, and concerns are mounting that the hemorrhagic fever could spill across international borders.

Here is some advice from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on how people can protect themselves against Ebola.
 
My easy 3 step guide:
Step 1: Dont go to central/west africa.
Step 2: decline free hugs from hemorrhaging people.
Step 3: wash your hands.
 
2012 said:
My easy 3 step guide:
Step 1: Dont go to central/west africa.
Step 2: decline free hugs from hemorrhaging people.
Step 3: wash your hands.
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Step 4: Stay indoors and read about the decline of civilisation on the Internet.
 
Stay indoors as much as possible. Finish off those games :p
 
Mate of mine will be working in Guinea, returning to SA every 6 weeks for breaks. Wife and I reckon to wait 3 days after his arrival, call him to check how he's hanging (rule out fever etc) then we know it's clear to chill with him. Hasn't yet gone to Guinnea, company still eyeing the situation closely.
 
now05ster said:
Mate of mine will be working in Guinea, returning to SA every 6 weeks for breaks. Wife and I reckon to wait 3 days after his arrival, call him to check how he's hanging (rule out fever etc) then we know it's clear to chill with him. Hasn't yet gone to Guinnea, company still eyeing the situation closely.
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Msf?
 
2012 said:
My easy 3 step guide:
Step 1: Dont go to central/west africa.
Step 2: decline free hugs from hemorrhaging people.
Step 3: wash your hands.
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Step 4: Buy your meat from a reputable butcher.

Transmission: Ebola is introduced into the human population through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals. In Africa, infection has been documented through the handling of infected chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found ill or dead or in the rainforest.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/
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now05ster said:
Mate of mine will be working in Guinea, returning to SA every 6 weeks for breaks. Wife and I reckon to wait 3 days after his arrival, call him to check how he's hanging (rule out fever etc) then we know it's clear to chill with him. Hasn't yet gone to Guinnea, company still eyeing the situation closely.
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It has an incubation period of up to 21 days.
 
Hearding off to the West Coast of Afrika end September, I'll let you all know how it goes :)
 
I find it interesting that some people seem to want to go to these areas. Like journalists. Now it's wonderful that they feel this need to be "on the ground" at such an important event, but do they really need to return ? Shouldn't they stay. Just in case.
 
Basic hygiene and common sense should do the trick.
 
Yep. SA is so ready for this.
I just heard this gem from a co-worker who's grandmother is in hospital. When she went to visit her this weekend she found out that they'd moved grandma to a isolation ward.
When they queried that - grandma was in for a small op - the hospital discovered that they'd put the wrong patient in isolation. Should have been the lady in the bed next to her!
And its a private hospital too.
 
Wonder how many patients the infected doctor treated and inadvertently gave them ebola?
 
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