Bangladesh closely monitoring Ebola virus

Bangladesh is closely monitoring the West Africa’s Ebola virus as the World Health Organisation declares the fatal disease as international health emergency.
But the director of the government’s disease monitoring arm, IEDCR, told bdnews24.com that Bangladesh had nothing worry about so long as it remained an “unaffected” country.
“We are observing the situation,” Prof Mahmudur Rahman said Friday, as WHO termed the virus attack an “extraordinary event” posing an international health risk.
The Ebola viral disease, formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe illness, and, according to WHO, one of world’s most virulent ailments with a 90 per cent fatality rate.
In the current West African outbreak, the majority of cases have occurred due to human-to-human transmission.
The virus passes on by direct contact through broken skin or mucous membranes with the blood, or other bodily fluids or secretions like stool, urine, saliva, and semen of infected people.
WHO says the disease has no proven cures and there is no vaccine to prevent infection. So, treatment focuses on alleviating symptoms such as fever, vomiting and diarrhoea - all of which can contribute to severe dehydration.
Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's head of health security, stressed that, with the Ebola spread could be stopped with the right measures to deal with infected people.