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1 EBOLA

2 WHAT IS EBOLA? ◊Virus, from fruit bat ◊No vaccine, no cure for the moment ◊2-21 days from infection until symptoms show ◊Symptoms are similar to those of malaria and the flu ◊It is NOT airborne, waterborne or spread by mosquitoes

3 SYMPTOMS

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5 INTERACTIVE EXERCISE ”The thermometer”

6 CURRENT OUTBREAK

7 4,555 Liberia 2484 Guinea 862 Sierra Leone 1200 Nigeria 8 DEATHS

8 EBOLA TRANSMISSION

9 ◊Direct contact (through broken skin) ◊Indirect contact (with environments contaminated with body fluids) Spread through human-to-human transmission by body fluids

10 GROUP DISCUSSION ◊How can we prevent the spread of Ebola?

11 PREVENTION

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14 IF YOU GET SICK

15 THE CASE OF NIGERIA ◊ Preparing early ◊ Rigorous contact tracing ◊ Immediately declaring an emergency ◊ Ebola command center

16 ? www.eboladeeply.org


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