Ebola ‘Out Of Control’: Doctors Without Borders

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20. The line I read on Ebola, was the locals where it was seen had the best method of dealing with it.

When Western trained nurses and doctors came in contact with Ebola, and tried to contained it using conventional methods, the disease tended to spread, when the local did what they local "Witch Doctor" told them to do, the spreading stopped. When Western nurses and doctors adopted those same methods the spread of Ebola tended to stop.

What was the method? The people of the village would tell the person who was infected to stay in his or her hit. No one was alone it the hut. Food was brought to the front door and left there to be picked up by the infected person. If the person lived a week or more, that person could leave the hut and rejoin the tribe, if the person died (indicated by seeing the food left at the door not being eaten). the hit, with the person in it, was burned to the ground. Fire purifies a lot of things.

Harsh, but effective. This policy seems to have kept Ebola a local disease. Remember it is a VIRAL infection, which means none of our antibiotics works on it at all. Where it comes from no one knows, they do not even know what it infects besides man (Thus the host that it belongs to is unknown, and thus it is unknown if the host is immune from Ebola or dies from Ebola).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease

Now, since I first read about Ebola, some addition facts have been found. Fruit bats are considered the host, through that is not completely accepted within the medical community. Fruits bats have been tested for Ebola, and the tests have come back positive, with the bats have no symptoms of the disease themselves.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

Side note: Most of the countries listed as where Ebola has been reported, has seen increase amount of fruits being planted to export to the US and Europe. Thus the increase in Ebola, may be do to an increase in Fruit bats do to the increase in their natural diet with this increase in fruit growing in West Africa.