Title: Ebola virus and Marburg virus - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Headings: Ebola virus and Marburg virus
Ebola virus and Marburg virus
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Ebola virus and Marburg virus

Content: Avoid bush meat. In developing countries, avoid buying or eating the wild animals, including nonhuman primates, sold in local markets. Avoid contact with infected people. In particular, caregivers should avoid contact with an infected person's body fluids and tissues, including blood, semen, vaginal secretions and saliva. Also avoid the person's clothing, bedding or other items that may have touched him or her. People with Ebola virus or Marburg virus are most contagious in the later stages of the disease. Follow infection-control procedures. If you're a health care worker, wear specialized personal protective equipment that covers you from head to toe. Keep people who have the viruses isolated from others. Safely throw away needles and sterilize other instruments.