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Everything You Need to Know About EbolaAug 1, 2014, 3:02 PM ET
By GILLIAN MOHNEY via WORLD NEWS
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Two Americans, including a doctor, are infected with the Ebola virus and Liberia's lead Ebola
doctor recently died from the virus.
That news came amid a heavy toll -- 1,323 infected in the current outbreak as of July 31, according
to the World Health Organization. Of those infected, 729 had died, meaning this outbreak has
had a fatality rate of approximately 60 percent.
What Is Ebola?
The Ebola virus is described as a group of viruses that cause a deadly kind of hemorrhagic fever.
The term "hemorrhagic fever" means it causes bleeding inside and outside the body.
The virus has a long incubation period of approximately eight to 21 days. Early symptoms include
fever, muscle weakness, sore throat and headaches.
As the disease progresses, the virus can impair kidney and liver function and lead to external and
internal bleeding. It’s one of the most deadly viruses on Earth with a fatality rate that can reach
between approximately 50 to 90 percent. There is no cure.
How Is It Transmitted?
The virus is transmitted through contact with blood or secretions from an infected person, either
directly or through contaminated surfaces, needles or medical equipment. A patient is not
contagious until he or she starts showing signs of the disease.
Thankfully, the virus is not airborne, which means a person cannot get the disease simply by
breathing the same air as an infected patient.
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Where Are the Infected?
In this current outbreak, which started in March, people in three countries -- Sierra Leone, Liberia
and Guinea -- have been infected after the outbreak began along a shared border.
This week officials reported an infected man may have put others at risk after flying on a
commercial airliner from Liberia to Nigeria. The man later died in Nigeria, but the WHO has not yet
reported any cases of people becoming infected in Nigeria.
Two Americans infected with the disease are scheduled to be evacuated to the U.S. by early next
week.
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Where Did the Virus Come From?
The dangerous virus gets its name from the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
which was near the site of one of the first outbreaks. The virus was first reported in 1976 in two
almost simultaneous outbreaks in the Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They killed
151 and 280 people, respectively.
Certain bats living in tropical African forests are thought to be the natural hosts of the disease. The
initial transmission of an outbreak usually results from a wild animal infecting a human, according to
the WHO. Once the disease infects a person, it is easily transmissible between people in close
contact.
Until this outbreak, approximately 2,361 people had been infected since the disease was identified
in 1976. More than 1,548 of those infected died from it.
Who Is At Risk?
The virus is not airborne, which means those in close contact can be infected and are most at risk.
A person sitting next to an infected person, even if they are contagious, is not extremely likely to be
infected.
Health workers and caregivers of the sick are particularly at risk for the disease because they work
in close contact with infected patients during the final stages of the disease when the virus can
cause internal and external bleeding.
In this outbreak alone, more than 100 health workers have been infected and at least 50 of themhave died, according to the WHO.
Youssouf Bah/AP Photo
PHOTO: Health wor ker s te ach people about the Ebola virus and how to pre vent infection, in Conakry, Guinea,
March 31, 2014.
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Bree Zee •
There is no cure. What is the treatment? Why is it contained to these 3 areas? Can you
be a carrier but show no symptoms? Is there a test that confirms diagnosis or do you
need to wait for people to bleed from the eyes? I've seen more well researched and well
written articles in high school newspapers.
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Hally Yust •
ABC is a for entertainment purposes only. LUCKILY there are OTHER sources on
the net...
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Mr. Always Right •
The one thing they didn't tell us is what Ebola is.
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LeAnne Byrne •
It's amazing they say ebola isn't airborne ....u mean to tell me that 1,323 people
came into contact with one of the other s infected secretions?? We are being lied 2
and put in harms way by them bringing it to the United states...I don't care how
careful they are this is going to spread and I believe it will be done on purpose as
some sort of population control.
Bree Zee •
And aliens are kidnapping you from your bed and probing you at night.
Don't forget about that. Yes, the 1323 people came in contact with the
infected fluids of another person. Sort of like the 40 million people who
have HIV and AIDS since 2001. If they wanted to use a virus for population
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control, it wouldn't be one that has only infected/killed less than 2000
people.
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gcangel040610 •
It has infected/killed close to 2000 people in less than a week!! !
Hello that is a big problem/concern!
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Bree Zee •
I'ts not that it's not a big problem - it's just not chicken little big. Thisis 1300 people. 3 million people have died THIS YEAR from
smoking. 1.5 million from alcohol. Those are BIG problems. Ebola
might get there but it's not there right now. Stop panicking until you
have something to panic about.
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T S •
I mostly only know what I've seen from other articles today. Symptoms can take
up to 3 weeks to show up, which is concerning with it now active in a major
population center and the potential for infected people not yet showing symptoms
to fly overseas.
Treatment is as mentioned in this article -- basically the same as what we would
do for someone with a severe flu and hope for the best.
90% fatality includes a large number of people with little knowledge of how to react
or resources to get help so unsure what the odds would be for someone in Europe
or the US that contracted it. It appears that so far health workers are around 50%
compared to 66% fatality overall for this outbreak. Tests can be done that detect
the virus, but appear to require taking blood and labwork so general screening
seems very difficult.
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iddle •
You can easily find those questions answered from search on the web. I won't
look to ABC news for any in-depth reporting, if I were you.
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Bree Zee •
That's not the point. If you're going to pretend to claim the news, at least
research it and present a whole picture. Not this partial, uninformative
nonsense.
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iddle •
That's what *good* news reporting is supposed to do. Do you really
expect online ABC news to be anywhere near that? You're
expecting a bit too much of them.
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Bree Zee •
No, I'm not expecting too much. They're just delivering too little.
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iddle •
That too. :)
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maggie1959 •
I expect the news any news source to tell the truth, give the people
of this country all of the information so that we can be prepared....
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iddle • The age of Walter Cronkite was long gone.
maggie1959 •
Tiddle, only because we do not hold their feet to the fire and
demand that they do their job and not be this administrations robots
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iddle •
Well, speak for yourself. For those news sources that I hold dear, I
subscribe. I don't expect free lunches.
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katherine •
I think to bring it into the US for the firs t time is a mistake. No one should be able to fly or
travel to other countries or areas that's not infected. All should be quantized to the area
that's has the epidimic .... There's not enough known and I don't think you can trustofficials to inform you to the possible dangers. Who knows how you can become infected
? If it takes up to 21 days of incubation , who know at what point they're infectious ! At
what point can an infectious person sneeze and puts their hand over their nose and
mucus or a salava is transported to a door or any object that another touches and
exposes themselves. I don't trust doctors or athorities to know all there is to know about
Ebola ... As time goes on who knows what they'll find out about it or maybe the virus
changes to where it's more contagious and can be transmited by airborn like flu and cold
virus.
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patricia •
Well, heres a little bit more information.....just found out that someone isn't being
COMPLETELY honest about all this! You can catch it through the air!!! There's still
speculation on how it is passed but yes....it most definitely can be transferred through the
air! I'm guessing because the virus is being " transported" here (US) as we speak and
because of the nature of the whole thing it wouldn't be good for widespread panic to
happen. But because we should be getting prepared in case of an emergency...this
information is vital!!!!! Cannot believe it's being held back! Do your homework people!!!
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TexasSky •
If you couldn't, they wouldn't be putting everyone in hazmat suits.
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Coulomb •
Read The Hot Zone and you will know what Ebola is.
PS, it has already been to the US.
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T S •
The only time it was reported in the US, it was in researchers that were in direct
contact with monkeys. Fortunately that was the 6th known strain of Ebola, which
doesn't create symptoms in humans so the "outbreak' was harmless. That 6th
strain might also be the key to a potential vaccine.
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Hally Yust •
I'm craving a hot pocket. Ebola is no match for the human virus.
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TexasSky •
If it is not airborne and is only spread through body fluids why do they use the Hazmat
suits, lock people in rooms with windows to view loved ones with, and say that "close
contact" is dangerous?Why are they talking epidemics? Their actions do not match their
words.
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solomon •
What if the virus was designed to reduse human population?
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prince lokendo •
it seems like the virus started long time ago and instead of scientist to try hard to find cure
for this virus,there busy creating nuclear wepons and other useless staffs while people
are here dying of this disease which is incontrolable and probably may spread in the
whole whord.what are u guys real thinking on this isssue?
Natisha •
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ey are aso sayng a you can ony ge y p ys ca con ac w o y u s corporae
media and public health officials are failing to tell the truth about contracting ebola. A study
conducted in 2012 showed that ebola was able to travel between pigs and monkeys that
were in separate cages and never was placed In direct contact with each other. They are
trying not to cause a world wide panic attack in doing so they are failing to infom you of
some very important information about the ebola outbreak.
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maggie1959 •
This makes no sense to me, it is not air born so how did they put people at risk on the
airplane. Im sorry even a common cold is contagious without being right next to the
person, when they sneeze bodily fluids are transmitted into the air...and then all they have
to do is touch something and here we go...
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Shawn Michael Englerth •
So Ozzy Osbourne is to blame! Duh!
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2hundredthousand •
Did you actually read the BBC article? It seems unlikely. Dr Kobinger, one of the
scientists involved in the National Microbiology Laboratory/Public Health Agency of Canada research, stressed that the transmission in the air is not similar to
influenza or other infections. He pointed to the experience of most human
outbreaks in Africa. "The reality is that they are contained and they remain local, if
it was really an airborne virus like influenza is it would spread all over the place,
and that's not happening."
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wabbott •
I read the entire article. 'Transmitted in the air' is not the same thing as
airborne. Example: Would anyone want to try this experiment: stand 10
feet from an Ebola patient. Ask them to cough. Breathe in deeply. Any
takers? You didn't touch them and if the assertion that Ebola can't spread
through the air is true. You should have nothing to worry about. Any takers?
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Maria Dickson-Valencia •
What did they mean by they are transporting 2 Americans that are infected back to the
US. Geez are they going to put us at risk. It only takes one person to spread this deadly
disease.
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LilaSincere •
What causes Ebola? is it from eating bats?
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Mr. Always Right •
The Flying Spaghetti Monster cursed man with it for eating too much pasta.
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bouis •
if you eat bats where you come from,the people being affected dont.So thats a
stupid question!
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LilaSincere •
No it's not. This is from Wikipedia The natural maintenance hosts of
ebolaviruses are unidentified: primary infection may not necessarily be
preventable in nature. Fruit bats are thought to be the natural hosts
(primary source needed, but see e.g. BBC). Thus, to avoid EVD, risk
factors such as contact with bats, nonhuman primates, and bush meatshould be avoided.
Bush meat, which is meat from wild animals and is eaten in Africa.
T S •
That seems to be what causes the initial outbreak, but once the
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outbreak is started it can spread through pretty much any contact
with the victim's bodily fluids...which the disease also causes to be
expelled through vomiting, diahria, and bleeding.
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