Several people – mostly in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria – have already died as a result of the virus.
Themba Gadebe, Ekurhuleni metro’s spokesman says the National Department of Health has reassured South Africans that the risk of South Africans contracting ebola remains low.
There have been a number of preventative measures put in place at South African ports of entry, like the ORTIA, as well as at medical facilities to identify people at risk.
Gadebe says health promoters of Ekurhuleni’s clinics have undergone a workshop and will be sharing information with communities and patients at health care facilities.
The website https://www.cdc.gov/ says people can get infected with the ebola virus when they have direct contact with an infected person’s body fluids or with objects contaminated with the virus like needles and medical equipment.Â
Contact with infected animals’ blood or body fluids or infected meat is also a risk.
The website also explains the symptoms of ebola as a fever higher than 38.6°C, severe headache, muscle pain, weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain and lack of appetite.
Symptoms may appear between 2 and 21 days after exposure to someone who is infected with the virus.
Some patients who become sick with ebola are able to recover, but those who die usually have not developed a significant immune response to the virus at the time of death.
Regarding Ebola case what about those immigrants who use other public transports besides Earoplanes, what safety measures are going to be done regarding them. In clinic hospitals or health worker what preventive measure is going to be because you cannot identify ebola unless tested so how are they suppose to prevent it from intering them.