Misconceptions About Ebola Virus Disease

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MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE IN W. AFRICA
Whilst the virus was devastating and the United Nations and several countries stepped in to help, there were lots of misconceptions about Ebola – how it spreads, the symptoms, risks and prevention, and what it would mean if it became a global pandemic. Misconceptions were on some of the following; Ebola is an airborne virus, if you contract Ebola, you’ll die, anyone with the virus is contagious, Someone infected in North America will lead to a worldwide epidemic, being around someone infected is high risk, Ebola can be found in fruit, Antibiotics can cure Ebola, Ebola victims die by bleeding out of their orifices, The disease is for the government to make money, and the virus was
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“…. I also heard that a doctor died of Ebola, what I asked myself is, this doctor protected himself before attending to the Ebola patient so if Ebola is not in the air how can the doctor just get close to the patient and contract the disease which affected him and he did. So I asked and I was told that it is through the air the doctor got it” (FGD, Women, Rural, GAR).
“…and maybe if an infected person sneezes or coughs and the droplets come out and I happen to be close by and through the air I breathe in I can also get it. That is the reason why health worker gets infected" (FGD, Female, Nurse, AR).
"I am trained, but during our training, we were told that one could not get Ebola through the air but I don 't believe that because some of the experts in the use of PPE still got the condition. So I think they could have only been infected through the air" (FGD, Female, Nurse, GAR).
" For the mosquitoes, it is more serious because, they will suck the blood of the infected person, take some of the blood, and when they bite you to suck your blood, then it will leave some of the organisms in your blood. It is just like how the mosquito gives people malaria by biting people with malaria in their blood and put malaria in another person 's blood to get the condition" (FGD, Female, Rural NR).
"I agree with what number 5 has said, If

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