Yes that's true, but Ebola can be transmitted just by touching the skin of the infected which makes it easier to be passed on. So Yes, people are panicking over Ebola more than aids but it's for a good reason.
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· 10 years ago
You can't contract it through skin-to-skin contact unless there are bodily excretions from the infected person involved, in which case it would no longer be considered just "skin-to-skin" contact.
The reason Ebola is so wide spread in Africa is because the a lot of places there do not have a healthcare system as advanced as what you find in North America. So often clinics are not as sanitary as they need to be to prevent Ebola and in rural areas there often aren't any clinics for miles so families will take care of loved ones when they are sick or dying unlike in North America where you can go to a doctor or clinic because you have the sniffles. Because the clinics are not as sanitary or families take care of loved ones the risk of Ebola is higher because the caretaker or health worker comes in to contact with bodily fluids. In the case of the clinics the bodily fluids often can not be disposed of properly because they simply do not have the equipment or resources to. In the case of rural areas the families often do not know that the bodily fluids are dangerous and if they do they don't have the resources to deal with it either. So the risk of Ebola is much higher in poor
(Last post cont.) countries because their health care system is not equipped to handle it whereas the health care system in North America is. So the risk exists here but it is not as great as in other place in the world.
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The reason Ebola is being treated as a bigger deal than HIV is because Ebola is transmitted by saliva, as well as every other way that HIV is transmitted. Though it still should not be considered "easy" to contract Ebola, as it is not hard to keep bodily fluids to yourself and/or away from yourself in a life-or-death situation, it is still being treated as a more serious deal than HIV because sharing saliva can be much more common than blood-to-blood contact or other contact with bodily fluids excluding saliva. http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/epr-highlights/3648-frequently-asked-questions-on-ebola-hemorrhagic-fever.html
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