On the evening of the 17th, The Internet reported that [the first Ebola patient appeared at the Canton Fair, Has been sent to the second provincial people’s hospital isolated treatment] news. On the 20th, The author learned from Guangdong CDC: At present, there are no confirmed Ebola cases in Guangdong Province. In March 2014, Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have been severely hit by Ebola virus. The outbreak then affected not far away Nigeria. In September, Spain and the United States have also found local cases one after another. The epidemic is the worst in history. The epidemic has hit all over the world. At present, the epidemic situation in West Africa is still spreading and the situation is very serious. According to the latest report of the World Health Organization (WHO) on October 15, 2014, 8,997 people have been confirmed to be infected with Ebola virus worldwide, of which 4,493 have died. So is the Ebola epidemic currently in what?
1. Are there any confirmed Ebola cases in China?
No. There have been some observed cases in various places, but blood samples have been excluded after pathogen detection by CDC.
2. Faced with the Ebola epidemic, China’s health department has taken what response measures?
Figure 1 Major Ebola Epidemic Countries
The author learned from the Centers for Disease Control that the current epidemic situation is mainly concentrated in four West African countries (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria). China’s ports have strengthened investigation and monitoring, and China’s health departments have made key monitoring of flights to and from these four countries.
Every passenger on these flights will undergo relevant examinations before entering the country. At the same time, the staff of the disease control department will keep in touch with them by leaving their contact information and residence time in China. Once symptoms such as fever occur, the suspected patients will be transported to the designated infectious disease hospital for examination.
At the same time, once suspected Ebola cases are found in all hospitals, the local hospital will transfer the patient to a designated infectious disease hospital for blood drawing and observation, and will not make any treatment in the hospital.
3. How is the only way for ordinary people to avoid Ebola?
First of all, avoid traveling to Africa as much as possible. If it is unavoidable, please pay attention to the following precautions:
Figure 2 Information You Should Know
Secondly, avoid eating and contacting meat and poultry from unknown sources. It is even more forbidden to contact all kinds of blood, body fluids, secretions, excreta and pollutants of patients and infected animals.
In addition, Ebola virus is currently only transmitted through blood and body fluids, but if contact with non-travelers or African visitors can be reduced, the chance of infection can also be minimized.
The following is a propaganda video on Ebola released by the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Please watch it carefully:
4. Will Ebola epidemic come to China?
Li Dexin, a researcher at the Institute of Virus Disease Prevention and Control of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said: Ebola hemorrhagic fever is an infectious disease with a high mortality rate, but the mortality rate depends on two factors, one is the severity of the disease and the other is the ability to treat it.
Ebola hemorrhagic fever is mainly transmitted through contact, which is easier to control than SARS and other diseases transmitted through respiratory tract. China’s ports have strengthened investigation and monitoring.
Even if Ebola infected persons with incubation period are not detected at the port and enter the country, Ebola will not take root in our country, which is determined by factors such as the host and mode of transmission of the virus.
The host of Ebola virus is mainly bats. Bats in China are different from those in West Africa. Whether they can become hosts remains to be studied. Even if Ebola hemorrhagic fever patients enter China, the probability of contact with potential hosts such as bats before being found for treatment is very small.
Li Dexin stressed that at present, the public in our country should be on high alert to Ebola, but there is no need to be nervous: [Our ability to prevent and control infectious diseases should be sufficient to ensure that there will be no outbreak of Ebola.]
Is there a vaccine for Ebola?
No.
At present, no vaccine in the world has been proved to be effective against Ebola.
GlaxoSmithKline, a British pharmaceutical company, said it would not complete its Ebola vaccine research until next year, with the vaccine coming out as soon as 2016. ‘I’m afraid there’s no way this epidemic can be solved with a vaccine,’ said Baru, head of GlaxoSmithKline’s Ebola vaccine project research team.