Saturday, April 4, 2015

What Is Ebola?

Mornings m&m, I hope you're enjoying the sunshine at the batting cages! 

I’m not sure how much you know already so I’m going to define Ebola in general and my future posts will go more into detail about causes, symptoms, treatments, and such.

For starters, Ebola is an infectious disease caused by the Ebola virus. Wild animals can spread this virus to people, and then people can spread it among each other. It is spread through contact with infected blood, secretions, or other bodily fluids of animals and humans. Transmission by humans can also occur through infected materials such as bedding. 

This is a great diagram to get a good visual, I know you like pictures rather than text! Hint: click on the graphic to make it bigger. 


The average Ebola virus disease case fatality rate is 50%; this means that it causes death in 50% of the people who contract the virus ...scary. The first outbreak of this disease was in small villages in Central Africa near tropical rainforests, and recently cases have occurred in major West African urban and rural areas. 

Right now there isn’t a treatment that can neutralize the virus and there are no current vaccines, BUT there are 2 vaccine candidates being evaluated right now, and there are treatment methods for symptoms that are shown to improve survival.


Here is a simple but very informational graphic about 10 things you should know about Ebola. Take a look! I know you will tell me you looked at it, but we both know all you do is glance things over in 3 seconds and pretend you looked in detail.  I WILL quiz you on it later, so if you don’t want to get in trouble take the time to read it over, it’s for your own benefit =) 


Resources:
About Ebola Virus Disease. (2014, December 8). Retrieved April 4, 2015, from http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/about.html
Ebola virus disease. (2014, September). Retrieved April 4, 2015, from http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

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