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Asked by lottie to Joe, Jos, Kate, Lisa, Pierre on 17 Nov 2014.
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Pierre Lasorak answered on 17 Nov 2014:
Hi
I have no idea in precise term, roughly it is a very mortal virus that comes from Africa (near a river called Ebola somewhere in Zaire). It was first discovered in the 70’s near this river and was very deadly (half of the infected people died of it). Ebola is contagious through body liquids (like urine, sweat, sperm, saliva). It was thought that we got rid of it but it reappeared recently in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. It still causes a lot of deaths in Africa (now more than 10,000 if I’m not wrong). It is very difficult to stop it in these regions because people there have rituals to bury their dead persons which involve touching the dead person. This is a very dangerous thing to do because when somebody dies from Ebola, he is likely to have sweat, vomit… and the process of cleaning him can infect the one who is cleaning… There are other additional factors in Africa that causes the virus to spread abnormally fast.
That’s all I can see really.
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Kate Dobson answered on 17 Nov 2014:
Like Pierre said, I don’t know much about this, and most of what I know he has said. I know it takes about two weeks between when you catch the disease and when you would start to have symptoms, and that until you have symptoms you can’t give Ebola to any one else. Usually diseases that require physical contact (like Ebola) are far easier to contain than ones that can be carried in the air, once people know how to behave and what to do.
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Lisa Simmons answered on 18 Nov 2014:
I cannot add anymore to what Pierre has said, a very informative answer 🙂
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