Ebola - disease prevention and treatment

Question 1

Ebola facts

Answer 1

• From touching infected animals or body fluids of an infected person
• Early symptoms are fever, fatigue and headache
• Late symptoms muscle pain, memory loss, bleeding, organ failure and usually death
• People remain infectious as long as the virus is still in their blood

Question 2

origins

Answer 2

• first appeared 1976 in South Sudan and DRC
• DRC occurred in a village near the Ebola River

Question 3

preventions

Answer 3

• avoid contact with infected or dead bodies
• don’t eat animals in high risk areas
• quarantine sick
• wear protection eg. gloves, goggles etc
• good hygiene
• limit travel between countries

Question 4

treatment

Answer 4

• survivors can have chronic complications eg. hypoxia or septic shock
• vaccines but aren’t always effective
• patients need support after eg. maintain right blood pressure