EBOLA

WHAT IS EBOLA?

• It's a virus that is also called Hemorrhagic Fever.
• Spread the bodily fluids and it come in big outbreaks.
• Symptoms: fever, muscle pain, bleeding from eyes, and internal organ damage.
• People are contagious as long as symptoms last. (2-21days)

WEST AFRICAN EBOLA OUTBREAK

• Outbreaks in Nigeria began in 1976.
• Ebola originated in West Africa. (Nigeria)
• In our outbreak, deaths have exceeded about 20,000.
• We quarantine or keep those infected out of our borders.
• Doctors without Borders and Africare are two big supporters.

RISK OF OUTBREAK SPREADING TO U.S.

• 2 people in the U.S. Are infected.
• The risk of someone being infected here is low, it's spread like a cold.
• We have federal law that would issue an isolation and quarantine.
• People with symptoms would be quarantined away from others.

DISEASE OUTBREAK RESPONSE PLAN

• State response: disease surveillance and investigation.
• Federal response: disease surveillance and outbreak response teams.
• Our country just keeps an eye out and eventually performs a quarantine and isolation.

TURNER ACTION PLAN

• Determine who is infected.
• Check symptoms.
• Quarantine anyone that might be infected. Separate them.
• Make sure others do not have contact with infected.
• Wait untill higher authority comes to take control.

SOURCES

• Source: http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/outbreaks/-outbreaks/cdc-role.html
• http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/faq-ebola/en/
• http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/index.html