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.
I'm so glad that we have a powerful tool such as social media. Like you said, if it wasn't for socail media we would only be informed days later and that wouldn't be great. Thanks to social media we know what measure to take!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Dorianne in this digital age social media does play a big role. Therefor it is important to use social media frequently , because it has such a big impact in the world right now
ReplyDeleteIsh Ebola neh just thinking about it gives me the chills, but as Dori said we lucky to have a powerful tool such as social media to spread the awareness to help people prevent it or inform people when they have the Ebola symptoms.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with you Noluthando , Ebola is a deathly virus and measures must be taken. Luckily Social media informs us beforehand
ReplyDeleteI dont feel that social media played that huge a role in informing us about ebola solely because the information was not easily available.
ReplyDeleteI have to disagree with you Gcina , the Ebola virus were posted everywhere on every Social media platform which were used, it was also posted on media for example, newspapers,, magazines ect.
ReplyDeleteI understand when you say it was posted on every social platform but what i'm saying is they never provided any new information all the did was tell us how many people were dying, never what they were doing to stop the spread or anything like that.
DeleteI hear what you are saying Gcina , but by them telling us that more and more people are dying is new information to us. It was also on the news about how many countries closed their borders, so that no one whom is coming from West Africa , can come in to their countries. The also told us about how the Ebola infected patience are put under quarantine .
ReplyDeleteI like the fact that you informed people as to what ebola is and what are the symptoms of this epidemic.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comment Aya it is important for people to know what Ebola is and what the symptoms are , so that they can be aware if something might happen and if they might be infected that they know what the symptoms are to check out for.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that social media played a role in informing us about Ebola however I feel like we cant always trust social media as they choose what to share
ReplyDeleteWithout social media we would have not have known what Ebola is and even if there even was a Ebola outbreak. That's why Chanee I would rather have social media choose what they want to share with us, were as they do not share anything at all to us.
ReplyDeleteI believe that social media played a vital role in creating awareness on the ebola virus, the epidemic might of only been public knowledge when it was to late to do anything about it, social media also influenced the AFCON Africa's soccer showpiece to be moved which shows the enormity of this epidemic.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with you dillion if it wasn't for social media the soccer might have been still locted in a Ebola virus infected location , which would might have been tragic if the soccer players and more poeple vot infected. If it wasn't for social media we would have had a major problem.
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