Transmisson
The widespread Ebola outbreak occurred during this year.
What is 2013?
Ebola prevention requires isolating patients until they test negative for the virus. What is this process called?
What is isolation/quarantine?
WHO
What is the World Health Organization?
The Ebola Virus was named after this river in the Democraic Republic of The Congo.
What is the Ebola River?
This emotional response to Ebola influenced people to hide their symptoms.
What is Stigma?
Ebola spreads through contact with these substances from infected individuals.
What are Bodily fluids?
This simple hygiene habit plays a tremdous role in stopping the spread of Ebola.
What is hand washing?
CDC
What is the Center for Disese Control?
The period from infection with Ebola to symptoms is commonly refered to by this name.
What is the incubation period?
This is the morality rate of the most common form of Ebola in West Africa between 2013 and 2016.
What is approximately 39%
What is an African fruit bat?
These healthcare workers are crucial for early detection, contact tracing, and community education during outbreaks.
What are Community Health Workers?
EVD
What is the Ebola Virus Disease?
Not including biology, this was the largest contributing factor of the spread of Ebola.
What are the social determinants of health?
Ebola more readily spread throughout West Africa due to a lack of this basic protection.
What is PPE (personal protective equipment)?
The 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak began in this West African country.
What is Guinea?
The UN created this mission in 2014 to coordinate Ebola response efforts worldwide.
What is UNMEER?
NGO
What is a non-governmental organization?
Dissimilar to COVID-19, Ebola cannot be transmitted through this everyday interaction
What is airborne transmission?
Ebola was commonly misdiagnosed as these diseases during the beginning of the 2013 outbreak.
This ritual in this West African Country intensified the spread of Ebola.
What is the West African burial rituals? (a process where the body is wrapped and unwrapped in cloth and washed multiple times)
Ebola can incubate in a person for up to this many days.
What is 21 days?
UNMEER
What is the United Nations Mission of Ebola Emergency Response?
During the 2013–2016 epidemic, the total number of reported cases exceeded this milestone number.
What is 28,000?
This group of people was disproporinatly effected by Ebola.
What are women?