Title: Scientist who discovered Ebola: ‘This is unprecedented’ – Amanpour - CNN.com Blogs
Headings: Scientist who discovered Ebola: ‘This is unprecedented’
Scientist who discovered Ebola: ‘This is unprecedented’
July 2nd, 2014
By Mick Krever, CNN
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Content: And the way victims die is far from pleasant. “Ebola virus infection starts with something that looks like the flu – headache, fever, maybe diarrhoea. But then you can develop very fast bleeding that’s uncontrollable, and that’s how people die.” Easy to fight
There is no cure for Ebola, but in theory the disease should be easy to fight, Piot said. “You need really close contact to become infected. So just being on the bus with someone with Ebola, that’s not a problem.” Simple hygienic measures like washing with soap and water, not re-using syringes, and avoiding contact with infected corpses are sufficient to stop spread of the disease, Piot said. “This is an epidemic of dysfunctional health systems.” “Fear of the virus, and the lack of trust in government, in the health system, is as bad as the actual virus.” What happens “is that a person is infected, is hospitalized, infects other patients and particularly health care workers.”