Ebola and Public Toilets

1. Ebola and Public Toilets

2. Ebola Transmission - • Ebola is transmitted through bodily fluids such as “saliva, feces, vomit, and urine of a person who is sick with Ebola” –The Center for Disease Control • Ebola victims often lose control of their bowels and excrete copious amounts of diarrhea. They also vomit heavily.

3. Ebola Transmission - Those liquids are highly infectious. Touching them and then touching one’s eye or mouth or inside the nose could transmit the disease. Urine also carries some risk, but viral loads in urine are not nearly as high as those in vomit and feces.

4. Strict Toilet Protocols in Ebola Stricken Areas • The field hospitals run by Doctors Without Borders in Africa are laid out so that patients who definitely have Ebola never share toilet facilities with staff members or with patients who are only “possible” cases. • America has never been confronted with an outbreak that required public toilet sanitation protocols of the magnitude required by the Ebola disease.

5. Strict Toilet Protocols in Ebola Stricken Areas Their disrobing protocol calls for caregivers to slosh their feet in a bath of chlorinated water because Ebola laden feces and vomit can get inside of shoe treads. Boots are removed with a bootjack, so as to never touch them with the hands.

6. Ebola Risks in American Public Toilets • The CDC warns an infected person can leave viral germs on a “door handle, lock, faucet, sink, walls, counter, and toilet seat”. • In modern buildings, toilets that flush loudly and powerfully are a risk in themselves. The flushing create a mist of droplets that splash onto the face and hands or may contaminate stall surfaces. • Ebola germs survive for up to several days.

7. Ebola Risks in American Public Toilets “If someone was really sick and sat in one of those toilet stalls, and then someone else sat in the same stall, there’s a real risk of transmission.”- Peter Katona, a Clinical Professor of Medicine in the division of infectious diseases at UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine

8. 100% Prevention: 2 Choices # 1 Follow Strict Public Restroom Protocols Avoid touching the door handle, lock, faucet, sink, walls, counter, and toilet seat which may carry the Ebola germs. Carry hand sanitizer. And if you accidently touch something, apply immediately and avoid hand contact with face. Carry a face mask to defend against aerosolized particles from flushing. Before entering home or office rinse bottom of shoes in bath of chlorinated water. Infected vomit can enter treads and be tracked inside. # 2 Avoid Public Toilets by: “Holding it” until you get home. Going open field (in public) risking humiliation, indecent exposure violation, and contaminating the environment. Or… Opt for the Gotta Go Poncho Restroom System

9. The Gotta Go Poncho Restroom System • Completely secludes you from exposure to Ebola germs offering a compact, ultra-portable and disposable restroom. • Comes with an opaque hooded poncho the user dons (for privacy).

10. The Gotta Go Poncho Restroom System • Provides accompanying unisex urine and fecal receptacles. • Sanitation wipes are also included.

11. For More Information • Go to http://www.gopncho.com • Instruction video • Literature • Purchase options • Gotta Go Poncho is an online store for portable restrooms including Ebola prevention kits such as portable urinal/pee bags and fecal bags used as portable restroom to control Ebola disease.