Ebola virus is not spread through
● Casual contact
● Air
●Water
● Food grown or legally purchased in the U.S
How do you get the Ebola virus?
Direct contact with
1 Body fluids of a person who is sick with or has died from Ebola. (blood, vomit, urine, feces, sweat, semen, spit, other fluids)
2 Objects contaminated with the virus (needles, medical equipment)
3 Infected animals (by contact with blood or fluids or infected meat)
Early Symptoms
Ebola can only be spread to others after symptoms begin. Symptoms can appear from 2 to 21 days after exposure. ● Fever ● Headache ● Diarrhea ● Vomiting ● Stomach pain ● Unexplained bleeding or bruising ●Muscle pain When is someone able to spread the disease to others?
Ebola only spreads when people are sick. A patient must have symptoms to spread the disease to others. After 21 days, if an exposed person does not develop symptoms, they will not become sick with Ebola.
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/facts-about-ebola.pdf
● Casual contact
● Air
●Water
● Food grown or legally purchased in the U.S
How do you get the Ebola virus?
Direct contact with
1 Body fluids of a person who is sick with or has died from Ebola. (blood, vomit, urine, feces, sweat, semen, spit, other fluids)
2 Objects contaminated with the virus (needles, medical equipment)
3 Infected animals (by contact with blood or fluids or infected meat)
Early Symptoms
Ebola can only be spread to others after symptoms begin. Symptoms can appear from 2 to 21 days after exposure. ● Fever ● Headache ● Diarrhea ● Vomiting ● Stomach pain ● Unexplained bleeding or bruising ●Muscle pain When is someone able to spread the disease to others?
Ebola only spreads when people are sick. A patient must have symptoms to spread the disease to others. After 21 days, if an exposed person does not develop symptoms, they will not become sick with Ebola.
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/facts-about-ebola.pdf
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