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Nigeria will be officially declared Ebola-free in less than a week after containing the disease that has killed more than 4,000 people.
Eight of the 20 people infected in the country died and there have been no new cases confirmed since 8 September.
It means it is less than a week short of the 42-day period needed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to confirm Nigeria has quashed its Ebola outbreak.Nigeria will be officially declared Ebola-free in less than a week after containing the disease that has killed more than 4,000 people.
Eight of the 20 people infected in the country died and there have been no new cases confirmed since 8 September.
It means it is less than a week short of the 42-day period needed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to confirm Nigeria has quashed its Ebola outbreak.
www.independent.co.uk... l
Ebola then spreads through human-to-human transmission via direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and with surfaces and materials (e.g. bedding, clothing) contaminated with these fluids.
Health-care workers have frequently been infected while treating patients with suspected or confirmed EVD. This has occurred through close contact with patients when infection control precautions are not strictly practiced.
Burial ceremonies in which mourners have direct contact with the body of the deceased person can also play a role in the transmission of Ebola.
People remain infectious as long as their blood and body fluids, including semen and breast milk, contain the virus. Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to 7 weeks after recovery from illness.
originally posted by: FlySolo
a reply to: kurthall
I've been biting my tongue for days/weeks about this because I'm sure someone somewhere already covered this but, if Ebola is supposedly so hard to contract, then why the hell are so many people contracting it? Someone ain't telling the truth about something.
…when a guy from a nation ravaged by Ebola shows up at an ER and says "Hey, I kinda might have Ebola n stuff".
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: Hefficide
…when a guy from a nation ravaged by Ebola shows up at an ER and says "Hey, I kinda might have Ebola n stuff".
And they said, "Yah? Well don't bring it here."
The health industry just proved how capable they are of stopping Ebola from coming to America. They sent him home.
Waiting for that to reoccur…