OT: Travel Tips from the CDC
Saturday, October 11, 2014 3:55 AM
Avoid nonessential travel to Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.
If you must travel, please make sure to do the following:
Before your trip check your health insurance plan and benefits to learn what is covered in the event that you become ill. CDC recommends that anyone traveling to countries where outbreaks of Ebola are occurring have full coverage, including coverage for emergency medical evacuation.
Practice careful hygiene. For example, wash your hands with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
Avoid contact with blood and body fluids (such as urine, saliva, sweat, feces, vomit, and semen).
Do not handle items that may have come in contact with an infected person’s blood or body fluids.
Avoid direct contact with the body of someone who has died from Ebola, including participating in funeral or burial rituals.
Avoid contact with animals (such as bats or monkeys) or with raw or undercooked meat.
Do not eat or handle bushmeat (wild animals hunted for food).
Avoid hospitals in West Africa where Ebola patients are being treated.
Seek medical care immediately if you develop fever (101.5°F / 38.6°C or higher) or other symptoms such as severe headache, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, or unexplained bleeding or bruising.
Limit your contact with other people when you travel to the doctor.
Do not travel anywhere else.
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