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Wash hands frequently or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

Do not touch bats and nonhuman primates or their blood and fluids and do not touch or eat raw meat prepared from these animals.

Avoid facilities in West Africa where Ebola patients are being treated. The U.S. Embassy or consulate is often able to provide advice on medical facilities.

Seek medical care immediately if you develop fever, headache, muscle pain, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain, or unexplained bruising or bleeding.

Do not handle items that may have come in contact with an infected person’s blood or body fluids.

the deadly infectious disease can travel easily from person to person in the later stages. 

Earlier cases included one on September 30, 2014, the first Ebola case diagnosed

in the United States

the patient died of the illness.

It was in Dallas

at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, confirms the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

On Oct 11, a second U.S. case was diagnosed, a nurse who cared for the first patient at the same hospital, released virus free Oct 24.

Oct 28.

volunteer medical worker who returned to the United States from West Africa has tested positive for Ebola

The first patient of an Ebola outbreak is thought to be infected through contact with an infected animal.

The symptoms of Ebola are somewhat nonspecific at first

patients usually experience fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, sore throat, and weakness, later followed by diarrhea, vomiting and stomach pain. Some patients also experience rash, red eyes, hiccups and bleeding.