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The fear of Ebola is the beginning of respect for life.” That is if you ask me (I mean, if my opinion is sought). For a truth, the Ebola virus is no longer a farfetched story. Tales abound of an entire hospital in Lagos that is quarantined, ‘no thanks to the virus.’ Nollywood star, Jim Iyke cut short his trip to Monrovia, Liberia, ‘again, no thanks to Ebola virus. Hear him: “I am leaving tonight. I am not ashamed to admit it scares the Jesus out of me.”
A Sierra Leonean virologist, Sheik Umar Khan died of Ebola virus on 29th July, 2014 while trying to stop the spread of the virus. The virus was first noticed in Sudan and Congo in 1976. Since February 2014, Ebola virus had spread from Guinea to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria (with the death of a U.S. citizen Patrick Sawyer in a Lagos hospital). Sawyer had arrived Nigeria by air five days earlier, on return from the burial of his sister in Liberia who also died of Ebola.
The incubation period of the virus is two – 21 days. The symptoms include sudden fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, skin rashes, kidney and liver malfunction and sometimes, internal and external bleeding. The Ebola virus disease (EVD), also known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) is a human disease first contacted from the blood or bodily fluid of infected animals such as monkey and fruit bat. Right now, the virus is sexually transmitted and also through infected needle; there is no vaccine yet.
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