'Enlightenment' Lecture at Reinhardt Tackles Ebola

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Reinhardt University’s African Descendants Student Association will host an Enlightenment Lecture on Ebola, the disease taking parts of west Africa by storm and has shown up in the United States.

The lecture — titled Ebola: Hemorrhagic Fever - The Cause, Scourge and Containment — will be held at Reinhardt’s Hill Freeman Library and Spruill Learning Center from 2 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23. Reinhardt University sits at 7300 Reinhardt Circle in nearby Waleska.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be led by Professor F.D. Adu, Ph.D, a retired consultant to the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and University College Hospital, Nigeria.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, symptoms of Ebola include a fever greater than 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit, severe headache, muscle pain, weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain and unexplained hemorrhaging. Symptoms usually appear between two and 21 days after exposure, but the average is between eight and 10.

The disease is spread through direct contact with an infected person’s bodily fluids, objects contaminated with the virus or by an infected animal.

For more information, contact Dr. Anne Good, associate professor of history, at 770-720-5570 or AMG@reinhardt.edu or Tunji Adesesan, director of academic support, at 770-720-5567 or AAA@reinhardt.edu.