What are the transmission routes the Ebola virus?
Direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with
· a sick person's blood or body fluids (urine, saliva, feces, vomit, and semen)
· objects (such as needles) that have been contaminated with infected body fluids
· infected animals
Health-care workers have frequently been infected while treating patients with suspected or confirmed EVD. This has occurred through close contact with patients when infection control precautions are not strictly practiced.
People remain infectious as long as their blood and body fluids, including semen and breast milk, contain the virus. Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to 7 weeks after recovery from illness.
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