Basic explainer for Ebola using infographics from websites such as CDC and WHO

1. Ebola:
separating fact
from fiction
Dr Siouxsie Wiles
Senior Lecturer
Dept. Molecular Medicine & Pathology
University of Auckland
@SiouxsieW
www.sciblogs.co.nz/infectious-thoughts

2. What is Ebola?
Image: FA Murphy CDC
https://engtechmag.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/ebola-infographic.jpg

3. What are the symptoms?

4. Incubation period

5. How is Ebola spread?
http://www.euronews.com/2014/08/14/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ebola-virus/

7. How contagious is Ebola?

8. How to tell if you have Ebola

9. Ebola in west Africa

10. How did the outbreak start?
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1404505

11. Where has the outbreak spread to?

12. How many cases to date?
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/case-counts.html

13. Ebola deaths in west Africa
http://ebolacount.com/#death-count

14. New case in Mali
Image credit: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/africa/mali/
Reference: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/24-october-2014/en/

15. Is it likely to spread to NZ?
Gomes MFC et al (2014). PLOS Currents Outbreaks.
doi: 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.cd818f63d40e24aef769dda7df9e0da5.

16. Experimental treatments/vaccines
http://news.softpedia.com/news/World-Health-Organization-OKs-Ebola-Drug-Trials-457419.shtml