ebola Precautions

     The slaughter of infected using gloves and a mask, with careful monitoring of the burial or cremation of animals carcasses may be necessary to reduce the risk of transmission from animals to humans. The restriction or prohibition of the movement of animals from infected farms to other areas can reduce the spread of maladie58,59.

     Products (blood and meat) should be cooked thoroughly before eating.

     Communities affected by the Ebola virus must inform the public of the nature of the disease and the measures taken to control the outbreak, including during funeral rites. Dead people of this infection should be buried quickly and without taking risks.

     The imposition of quarantine ban to go into hospitals, suspension from the practice of patient care and funerals, and the sidelining of patients in separate huts are disinfected (the bleach to two weeks apart enough), sometimes burned after the death of their occupants, allow managing epidemics. On the ground, there is still no safer measure if not wearing the air filter.

     The laboratory research must be conducted within containment facilities Biosafety Level 4. Level 4 laboratories are fully independent and have a specialized ventilation system, a lock input and output, protection of BSC class III, etc. Procedures on sterilization and decontamination are strictly enforced and employees are of a pressure suit.

In Europe, the first laboratory to receive permission to work on Ebola, in 2000, was the Jean Mérieux P4 laboratory in Lyon (France) 60. In Belgium, the Supreme Council of Health has issued a avis61 in which he defines for Belgian hospitals, the care of patients with infection with Ebola or Marburg virus is considered, suspected or confirmed.

In the US, the NIH funding from 2012 for a period of 5 years the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Institute to study the molecular mechanisms of virus infection and its dissemination in the animal62.