Ebola Outbreak in Uganda: CDC Says America Needs to Be Ready
Zaire ebolavirusHow does Ebola spread?
Ebola spreads through direct contact with blood or body fluids of a person who is sick or has died from the virus, objects that have been contaminated with body fluids from a person who is sick, infected fruit bats or non-human primates, and sex from a man who recovered from the virus , theEbola is “not very contagious,” though and “can be halted with simple precautions when dealing with infected, symptomatic patients,” says infectious disease expert Amesh A. Adalja, M.D.
A big thing to note: The virus “only becomes contagious one the individual becomes sick,” per William Schaffner, M.D., an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He adds, “it becomes very contagious once the person becomes seriously ill.” A that point, Dr. Schaffner says, personal contact with someone who is sick becomes dangerous.The Ebola death rate depends on the strain, Dr. Adalja says.
Still, experts aren’t concerned about an Ebola outbreak happening in the U.S. “It’s very unlikely,” Dr. Schaffner says. “[The world] has had many outbreaks in the past and, although we have had the occasional patient come to the U.S. and develop the illness, there has been no spread in the U.S. worth talking about,” he says.
Richard Watkins, M.D., an infectious disease physician and a professor of internal medicine at the Northeast Ohio Medical University, agrees that people shouldn’t panic. “The average American doesn’t need to be worried at this point,” he says. “They should be thinking about their
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