The disease is spread by contact with infected blood or bodily fluids. The person who died in Lagos worked in ebola research and, IIRC, in a hospital, so he got probably got it there.
It can also be transmitted through eating infected meats (but we don’t eat monkey meat) and through sexual contact with an infected person...in other words, like AIDS.
It’s not airborne, although it is more infectious than AIDS, which required a heavier exposure to bodily fluids (a transfusion, sex, etc.). However, I gather you can get ebola from contact with some item that the infected person has touched.
So wash your hands regularly and don’t touch your face! Your mother probably always told you that anyway.
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“However, I gather you can get ebola from contact with some item that the infected person has touched.”
And don’t eat at restaurants.
And don’t buy food sitting on the grocery store shelf that someone else might have handled.
And don’t touch the door knob.
I do wash my hands often, and not to touch your face, etc. and that has passed down to some of my kids. But even so - it would be really hard to keep from getting infected I think if it gets full blown. I work at hazardous waste sites sometimes, but always glad they aren’t the REAL bad ones. It is very difficult to keep everything clean.
I not sure that's true. From this article:
The man hospitalized in Lagos was a 40-year-old Liberian working for a West African organization in Monrovia, Liberia, according to the Lagos State Ministry of Health.
He arrived at Lagos airport on Sunday and was isolated in a local hospital after showing symptoms associated with the virus.He told officials that he had no direct contact with anyone with the virus nor attended the burial of anyone who died of Ebola.
Also:
Ebola typically kills 90% of those infected, but the death rate in this outbreak has dropped to roughly 60% thanks to early treatment.
Hurry! Instead of 282 million dead we'll only have 188 dead in the USA (if we all get early enough treatment)!