Ebola Outbreak Awareness: Symptoms, Precautions, and Health Education

kvsundaram
Dear all,

Sharing information as received.

There is currently an EBOLA outbreak putting all of us at risk. Pls help educate all around u by sending this msg to all your contacts..

❓What is EBOLA?

It's a virus that attacks a person blood system.

Ebola is what scientists call a hemorrhagic fever - it operates by making its victims bleed from almost anywhere on their body. Usually victims bleed to death.

Ebola is highly contagious; being transmitted via contact with body fluids such as blood, sweat, saliva, semen or other body discharges. Ebola is however NOT AN AIRBORNE VIRUS!

EXTREMELY deadly: About 90% of people that catch Ebola will die from it. It's one of the deadliest diseases in the world, killing in just a few weeks.

Untreatable(no cure): Ebola has no known treatment or cure. Victims are usually treated for symptoms with the faint hope that they recover.

❓How Do I Know Someone has Ebola?

• Fever

• Headache

• Diarrhea

• Vomiting

• Weakness

• Joint & Muscle pains

• Stomach Pain

• Lack of Appetite

Protect Yourself:

• Wash Your Hands with Soap. Do this a lot. You can also use a good hand sanitizer.

• Avoid unnecessary physical contact with people.

• Restrict yourself to food you prepared yourself.

• Disinfect Your Surroundings. The virus cannot survive disinfectants, heat, direct sunlight, detergents and soaps.

Clean up!:

• Fumigate If you have Pests.

• Rodents can be carriers of Ebola.

• Fumigate your environment & dispose off the carcasses properly!

• Dead bodies CAN still transmit Ebola. Don't touch them without protective gear or better yet avoid them altogether.

Protect Yourself:

• Use protective gear if you must care or go near someone you suspect has Ebola.

Report:

• Report any suspicious symptoms in yourself or anyone else IMMEDIATELY.

Do not delay!

Educate Everyone:

• Tell your neighbors, colleagues and domestic staff (anyone really). Basically you're safer when everyone is educated.
singh inderjeet
Dear KVS,
Thanks a ton. Please find the attached file for the same purpose.
Thanks & Be Safe,
Inderjeet Singh,
“Born to redefine leading..”
Don’t ask me to compromise on even a small thing on SAFETY, this may ruin my attitude.
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Harshavardhan13
Dear KVS,

Thanks for sharing such highly important information on the EBOLA virus. You have precisely and in-depth mentioned the symptoms, causes, after-effects, and precautions. I heartily appreciate this socially useful step from you.

Touch wood that no Ebola virus case has been detected in India yet. And I pray to God that this deadly virus gets eradicated with precautions and doctors' hard work as soon as possible from everywhere.

So, friends, I request you all to keep sharing information, not rumors!
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