The Viral Virus
What is Ebola?
Ebola is an infectionous
disease, you catch this disease when you have contact with body fluids and fruit
bats. The virus symptoms starts 2 days up to 3 weeks after having contact with
something that contains the virus. Your symptoms first starts with fever, sore throat and
pain in your muscles. After a while vomiting, diarrhoea and a rash will appear.
After that your liver and kidneys won`t function properly and you will start
bleeding internally or externally. The average percentage of people contracting
or dying of this virus is 50%. Scary to know. Read more about the virus on Ebola.
How does social media play a role with Ebola?
Social media played
one of the most powerful roles in the country and in the world these last few
months because of how it informed and educated us about the Ebola outbreak.
Social media was powerful because:
It informed us fast and efficient:
If it was not for
social media, we would only be informed few days later about the Ebola outbreak
which was taking place in West Africa, Sierra Leone and Guinea. And how fast
the virus is spreading all over the countries.
It informs us about what Ebola is and what measures
should be taken:
Social media kept us
up to date about what Ebola is and how to prevent it and what safety measures
should be taken, to make sure we also do not get infected.
It keeps us up to date about the Ebola status:
All news channels
kept us up to date about how many people have passed away at the hand of this
deadly virus. They informed us about how far the virus has spread and which
countries had infected patients. They also gave the status about how many
doctors and nurses were infected and how many of the public were infected.
Keeps us up to date about what countries doctors,
nurses helped and what measures they already have taken with the already
infected people.
Without Social
media for example on YouTube we would not be able to know if the medical staff do take any precautions as to what steps are they now going to take to decrease
the risk of more people going to be affected by the Ebola virus. The social
media also informed us about what steps countries are going to take to ensure
that no Ebola infected people enter the country\countries whom is not infected
with the Ebola virus.
