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Ebola virus

What is the Ebola virus?

Ebola is a severe febrile virus, which is in 50% to 90% of all cases fatale.

The virus was discovered for the first time in Zaire, which is nowadays known as the Democratice!ublic of "on#o, in $9&. The bi##est Ebola outbreak u! to now started in 'arch (0$) in*uinea und has s!read so far over the whole of +est-frica. ntil the )th -u#ust (0$) $,$$cases have been re!orted to the +/ and 91( !atients have already died due to the effects ofthe a##ressive illness.

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What are the symptoms? 

Ty!ical sym!toms for the virus are accordin# to the +orld /ealth r#anisation +/6 fever,

intense weakness, sore throat, muscle !ain and headaches. -fter a while nausea, diarrhea andskin irritation can follow. 7n some e8treme cases it can lead to internal and e8ternal bleedin# andcan also affect the function of kidneys and liver. 7t can take two days but also u! to three weeksuntil the sym!toms can be noticed.

How is the virus transmitted? 

Ebola #ets transmitted throu#h direct contact with infected body fluids like for e8am!le3 blood,urine, diarrhea, saliva or sweat. This means that all !eo!le which have close contact with aninfected !erson have a hi#h risk to also #et infected. Ebola does not #et transmitted throu#h theair, like for e8am!le flu. evertheless animals can also infect !eo!le. 'onkey, bats es!eciallyfruit bats6 and antelo!es are listed as es!ecially risky.

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Which consequences has the classification by the WHO to an international publichealth risk? 

n the ;th -u#ust, (0$) the +/ declared the Ebola e!idemic to an international !ublic healthrisk. This has only been done twice in the !ast years. nce in (009 durin# the outbreak of birdflu in -sia and in the !revious 'ay after there had been some cases of !olio in different states ofthe world.

This classification #ives the +/ the o!!ortunities to make worldwide le#ally bindin# re#ulationsto fi#ht the Ebola virus.

Schülke recommends to prevent in the following way

The Ebola virus is an envelo!ed virus which can be inactivated by any disinfectant, which has atleast been tested on <limited virucidal action=, this means effective a#ainst envelo!ed viruses.Therefore all of our !roducts which are labelled with <limited virudical action= can been used for!revention..

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