MSM Ebola finally made MSM news
- Thread starter Haybails
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Greetings, Haybails: I guess it just goes to show that we here at TB2K are waaaay ahead of the curve! I would be interested in finding out where the family is currently and how long ago they left Africa and the company of the late Dr. and were they screened before leaving to the US.
Thanks for the update. Take care. BREWER
Thanks for the update. Take care. BREWER
Scarletbreasted
Galloping geriatric
The latest release from PRO-MED (NO good news)
EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE - WEST AFRICA (103): SIERRA LEONE
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[1,2] Liberia: doctors stricken
[3] Sierra Leone: protests
[4] Sierra Leone: riots
[5] Sierra Leone: official update
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[1] Liberia: doctors stricken
Date: Saturday 26 July 2014
Source: Associated Press [edited]
<http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/27/us-doctor-liberia-tests-positive-ebola>
A US doctor working with Ebola virus disease [EVD] patients in Liberia
has tested positive for the deadly virus. The aid organisation
Samaritan's Purse issued a news release on Saturday [26 Jul 2014]
saying Dr Kent Brantly was being treated at a hospital in Monrovia,
the capital. Brantly had been serving as medical director for the aid
organisation's case management centre there.
Samaritan's Purse spokeswoman Melissa Strickland said Brantly's wife
and children had been living with him in Africa, but were now in the
US. Brantly was quoted in a posting on the organisation's website
earlier this year about efforts to maintain an isolation ward for
patients. "The hospital is taking great effort to be prepared,"
Brantly said. "In past ebola outbreaks, many of the casualties have
been health care workers who contracted the disease through their work
caring for infected individuals."
The disease has already killed 672 in four West African countries
since the outbreak began earlier this year.
Last week a Liberian man died of ebola in Lagos, the first confirmed
case in Africa's biggest city of 21 million people. Nigerian health
authorities, anxious to stop the spread of the disease, are concerned
that the sick man had boarded an international flight. They feared
other passengers could take the disease beyond Africa due to weak
inspection of passengers and the fact ebola's symptoms are similar to
other diseases such as malaria and typhoid.
Officials in Togo, where the sick man's flight had a stopover, also
went on high alert after learning that ebola could possibly have
spread to a fifth country.
Screening people as they enter the country may help slow the spread of
the disease, but it is no guarantee ebola won't travel by plane, said
Dr Lance Plyler, who heads ebola medical efforts in Liberia for the
aid organisation Samaritan's Purse.
An ebola outbreak in Lagos, where many live in cramped conditions,
could be a disaster. Nigerian newspapers describe the effort as a
"scramble" to contain the threat after the Liberian arrived in Lagos
and then died on Friday. International airports in Nigeria are
screening passengers arriving from foreign countries for symptoms of
ebola, said Yakubu Dati, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation
Authority of Nigeria.
Airports in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three other West
African countries affected by the outbreak, have implemented some
preventive measures, according to officials in those countries. But
none of the safeguards is foolproof. Doctors say health screens could
be effective, but EVD has a variable incubation period of between two
and 21 days and cannot be diagnosed on the spot.
PS, a consultant for the Liberian ministry of finance, arrived in
Nigeria on Tuesday and was immediately detained by health authorities
suspecting he might have EVD. Authorities announced on Friday that
blood tests from the Lagos University teaching hospital confirmed that
he had died of EVD earlier that day. He reportedly did not show EVD
symptoms when he boarded the plane.
Nearly 50 other passengers on the flight are being monitored for signs
of ebola but are not being kept in isolation, said an employee at
Nigeria's ministry of health, who insisted on anonymity because he was
not authorised to speak to the media. PS's sister also died of EVD in
Liberia, according to Liberian officials, but PS claimed to have had
no contact with her. EVD is highly contagious and kills more than 70%
of people infected. It is passed by touching bodily fluids of
patients even after they die.
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[2] Liberia: doctors stricken
Date: Sat 26 Jul 2014
Source: Front Page Africa
<http://www.frontpageafricaonline.com/index.php/politic/2461-ebola-claims-life-of-jfk-chief-medical-doctor-samuel-brisbane>
In Monrovia Dr Samuel Brisbane, the chief medical doctor at Liberia's
leading hospital, the John F Kennedy Medical Center, has become the
latest casualty of the deadly Ebola virus. Dr Brisbane, also a former
chief medical doctor at the Firestone Rubber Plantation Hospital had
been quarantined along with a physician assistant and Dr Nelson
Korkor, the lead doctor at Phebe who was brought down to Monrovia 3
days ago after contracting the virus.
Hospital sources say Dr Brisbane selected to treat himself at home
initially in a bid not to spread the virus to others but was brought
to the ELWA hospital where the Samaritan Group has been treating
serious cases, when the illness worsened, until his death on
Saturday.
A hospital official told FrontPageAfrica on Friday that Dr Brisbane
and the other ailing health workers were holding onto life, but that
Dr Brisbane vomited occasionally. The PA, however, is still said to be
deteriorating, a senior hospital administrator told FrontPageAfrica on
condition of anonymity. Dr. Brisbane's death comes just a day after
the JFK's ER Wing was shut down and patients already in care moved to
another floor in the hospital. Health care workers are bearing the
brunt of the deadly outbreak.
During programs marking the 167 Independence of Liberia, President
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf paid homage to the late Dr Sam Mutooro Muhumuza,
a Ugandan national, and all the health workers around the country who
have made the ultimate sacrifice in saving lives. "To their families,
loved ones, associates, we extend our heartfelt sympathy," she said,
adding that the government will shortly reach out to the families of
the departed health workers to bring them comfort in their times of
trials and tribulations.
President Sirleaf expressed appreciation to all the health workers -
doctors, nurses, para-medics - who continue to be of service to the
Liberian people in the midst of danger to themselves. "We like to say
to them how much we appreciate what they do to contribute to helping
the country arrest the deadly Ebola disease."
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[3] Sierra Leone: protests
Date: Sat 26 Jul 2014
Source: Reuters [edited]
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/26/us-health-ebola-africa-idUSKBN0FV0NL20140726>
Protesters march on Ebola center in Sierra Leone: runaway found
---------------------------------------------------------------
Thousands marched on an Ebola virus disease [EVD] treatment center in
Sierra Leone on Friday [25 Jul 2014] after a former nurse alleged that
the deadly virus was invented to conceal "cannibalistic rituals" at
the ward, a regional police chief said.
Across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, at least 660 people have died
from the illness, according to the World Health Organization, placing
great strain on the health systems of some of Africa's poorest
countries. Sierra Leone now has the highest number of cases, at 454,
surpassing neighboring Guinea where the outbreak originated in
February [2014].
Angry crowds gathered outside the country's main EVD hospital in
Kenema [Eastern Province] in the West African country's remote east
where dozens are receiving treatment for the virus and threatened to
burn it down and remove the patients. Residents said that police fired
tear gas to disperse the crowds and said that a 9 year old boy was
shot in the leg by a police bullet. Assistant inspector general Alfred
Karrow-Kamara said on Saturday [26 Jul 2014] that the protest was
sparked off by a former nurse who had told a crowd at a nearby fish
market that "EVD was unreal and a gimmick aimed at carrying out
cannibalistic rituals". He said that calm had now been restored to
Kenema on Saturday, adding that a strong armed police presence was in
place around the clinic and the local police station. Some health
workers from the clinic have been reported absent from work because of
"misconceptions by some members of the community," according to a
local doctor.
Ebola can kill up to 90 per cent of those who catch it -- although the
fatality rate of the current outbreak is around 60 per cent. Highly
contagious, its symptoms include vomiting and diarrhea as well as
internal and external bleeding.
President Ernest Bai Koroma said on Saturday [26 Jul 2014] that the
government planned to "intensify activities and interventions in
containing the disease and stopping it spread" with a view to ending
the disease within 60-90 days. The new strategy will focus on contact
tracing, surveillance, communications and social mobilization,
psychosocial services, logistics and supplies, according to the
president's statement.
WHO has previously said that poor health infrastructure and a lack of
manpower were hindering efforts to contain the outbreak in Sierra
Leone. Another problem is fear and mistrust of health workers among
the local population, many of whom have more faith in traditional
medicine.
Runaway found
-------------
Sierra Leone officials appealed for help on Friday [25 Jul 2014] to
trace the 1st known resident in the capital with Ebola virus disease
[EVD] whose family forcibly removed her from a Freetown hospital after
she tested positive for the deadly disease. Amadu Sisi, senior doctor
at King Harman hospital, from which the patient originally escaped,
said on Saturday [26 Jul 2014] that she had been turned in after
seeking refuge in the house of a traditional healer. "Because of media
and police pressure they decided to give her up. Maybe they are now
convinced it is EVD," he said.
[byline: Umaru Fofana and Adam Bailes; Writing by Emma Farge; Editing
by Stephen Powell]
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[4] Sierra Leone: riots
Date: Fri 25 Jul 2014
Source: Bloomberg [edited]
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-25/sierra-leone-police-use-tear-gas-to-curb-ebola-related-riot.html>
Local people in Kenema rioted and attacked the ebolavirus hospital
lab, funded by George Soros, Bill Gates and the Pentagon. The
mainstream media and local Sierra Leone police chief claim that a
nurse who had warned locals that the lab was putting ebolavirus in
circulation was "mentally ill". [In fact,] the country's health
ministry announced on its Facebook page that the lab was to be closed,
Tulane University was to stop testing for ebolavirus, the CDC was
required to deliver an official report on the lab's activities and the
CDC and WHO's own documents state that ebolavirus comes from
hospitals. [Misinterpretation -- those documents state that ebolavirus
spreads from EVD patients in hospitals which do not have effective
infection control measures. - Mod.JW.]
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[5] Sierra Leone: official update
Date: Sat 26 Jul 2014
Source: Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone [edited]
Ebola outbreak update
---------------------
As of today, 26 Jul 2014, we have 116 cumulative number of survivors,
458 confirmed Ebola virus disease [EVD] cases and 153 EVD confirmed
deaths; 82 patients are currently admitted at the Ebola treatment
centers in Kenema and Kailahun.
The Ministry of Health and Sanitization and WHO have established a
dedicated Ebola Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at the WHO Country
Office in Freetown. The EOC is co-directed by the minister of health,
Ms Miata Kargbo, and the WHO representative for Sierra Leone, Dr Jacob
Mufunda, and consists of leaders and partners involved in our fight
against Ebola.
The EOC will serve as the Sierra Leone national central command and
control center for outbreak response activities, and meets every day.
The EOC members under the leadership of the honourable minister of
health and sanitation unanimously decided at the 24 Jul 2014 meeting
that the following actions be effected immediately:
- WHO and MSF to take over the management of the Kenema treatment
center;
- WHO and MSF to bring more experts to run the treatment center in
Kenema.
WHO's director general, Margaret Chan, has upgraded the Ebola response
in West Africa to a Grade 3, the highest level of any emergency
response. A Grade 3 involves a multiple country event with a
substantial public health consequence that requires a substantial WHO
country office response and substantial international partner
response. This means partners could deploy resources from other
countries into the region.
The EOC wishes the general public and all partners working in the
health care sector to know that Dr Sheikh Umar Khan is responding well
to treatment.
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[In Liberia, the sad news is that the 1st international aid expert, a
medical doctor, has contracted EVD, and a Liberian doctor has died.
In Sierra Leone, malicious rumours alleging "cannibalistic rituals" at
the Kenema EVD treatment ward and that the Kenema lab is putting
ebolavirus in circulation are sparking violent confrontations. Or are
these 2 different versions of the same riot?
But at least one traditional healer is now convinced that EVD victims
should go to a treatment centre.
The flight carrying the fatal case in Nigeria made a stop in Togo en
route between Liberia and Nigeria. If any passengers or crew got off
there, they are potential contacts. - Mod.JW
A HealthMap/ProMED-mail map can be accessed at:
<http://healthmap.org/promed/p/46>.]
[See Also:
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& vaccine 20140726.2636858
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (101): Nigeria ex Liberia, WHO,
Sierra Leone 20140726.2636095
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (100): Cote d'Ivoire,Tanzania,
Nigeria alerts 20140724.2633437
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Nigeria alerts 20140724.2633437
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20140724.2632442
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20140723.2630441
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20140723.2628773
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20140722.2626215
Ebola virus disease - Congo DR: susp 20140721.2624831
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (94): Sierra Leone 20140720.2623966
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (93): Sierra Leone, WHO underfunded
20140719.2622727
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (92): Sierra Leone, drugs, EU
disease ctr. 20140718.2620802
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (91): WHO, Guinea,Sierra
Leone,Liberia, border 20140717.2618525
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (90): Sierra Leone, Ghana meeting,
historical 20140716.2615640
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (89): WHO update, Sierra Leone,
Liberia, risk 20140715.2613043
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (88): WHO, Liberia, prevention,
challenges 20140713.2607118
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (87): Liberia, Sierra Leone, MSF,
drugs, vaccine 20140712.2605570
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (86): WHO, UNSC, ECOWAS, Guinea,
Liberia 20140711.2603448
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20140710.2601330
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (84): WHO update 20140708.2596192
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (83): Ghana susp, Guinea, S. Leone,
Liberia 20140708.2593018
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (82): Guinea, prevention, Tanzania,
UK 20140706.2591433
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overseas 20140705.2589463
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drug testing 20140703.2586162
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20140702.2583396
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Liberia 20140701.2579682
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (74): CDC summary 20140626.2566502
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20140625.2566397
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Ebola virus disease - West Africa (71): Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria
serology 20140622.2558446
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advice 20140621.2556770
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (69): Guinea, Sierra Leone, region
20140621.2555351
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (68): Liberia, One Health approach
20140619.2553035
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (67): WHO update, Liberia, Sierra
Leone 20140618.2550323
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Leone 20140617.2547352
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (63): Sierra Leone 20140613.2538970
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20140607.2526192
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20140607.2525234
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (56): Sierra Leone, Liberia, WHO
20140604.2518983
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20140603.2517388
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20140603.2515262
and earlier posts beginning with
Undiagnosed viral hemorrhagic fever - Guinea (02): Ebola conf.
20140322.23496]
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EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE - WEST AFRICA (103): SIERRA LEONE
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In this posting:
[1,2] Liberia: doctors stricken
[3] Sierra Leone: protests
[4] Sierra Leone: riots
[5] Sierra Leone: official update
******
[1] Liberia: doctors stricken
Date: Saturday 26 July 2014
Source: Associated Press [edited]
<http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/27/us-doctor-liberia-tests-positive-ebola>
A US doctor working with Ebola virus disease [EVD] patients in Liberia
has tested positive for the deadly virus. The aid organisation
Samaritan's Purse issued a news release on Saturday [26 Jul 2014]
saying Dr Kent Brantly was being treated at a hospital in Monrovia,
the capital. Brantly had been serving as medical director for the aid
organisation's case management centre there.
Samaritan's Purse spokeswoman Melissa Strickland said Brantly's wife
and children had been living with him in Africa, but were now in the
US. Brantly was quoted in a posting on the organisation's website
earlier this year about efforts to maintain an isolation ward for
patients. "The hospital is taking great effort to be prepared,"
Brantly said. "In past ebola outbreaks, many of the casualties have
been health care workers who contracted the disease through their work
caring for infected individuals."
The disease has already killed 672 in four West African countries
since the outbreak began earlier this year.
Last week a Liberian man died of ebola in Lagos, the first confirmed
case in Africa's biggest city of 21 million people. Nigerian health
authorities, anxious to stop the spread of the disease, are concerned
that the sick man had boarded an international flight. They feared
other passengers could take the disease beyond Africa due to weak
inspection of passengers and the fact ebola's symptoms are similar to
other diseases such as malaria and typhoid.
Officials in Togo, where the sick man's flight had a stopover, also
went on high alert after learning that ebola could possibly have
spread to a fifth country.
Screening people as they enter the country may help slow the spread of
the disease, but it is no guarantee ebola won't travel by plane, said
Dr Lance Plyler, who heads ebola medical efforts in Liberia for the
aid organisation Samaritan's Purse.
An ebola outbreak in Lagos, where many live in cramped conditions,
could be a disaster. Nigerian newspapers describe the effort as a
"scramble" to contain the threat after the Liberian arrived in Lagos
and then died on Friday. International airports in Nigeria are
screening passengers arriving from foreign countries for symptoms of
ebola, said Yakubu Dati, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation
Authority of Nigeria.
Airports in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three other West
African countries affected by the outbreak, have implemented some
preventive measures, according to officials in those countries. But
none of the safeguards is foolproof. Doctors say health screens could
be effective, but EVD has a variable incubation period of between two
and 21 days and cannot be diagnosed on the spot.
PS, a consultant for the Liberian ministry of finance, arrived in
Nigeria on Tuesday and was immediately detained by health authorities
suspecting he might have EVD. Authorities announced on Friday that
blood tests from the Lagos University teaching hospital confirmed that
he had died of EVD earlier that day. He reportedly did not show EVD
symptoms when he boarded the plane.
Nearly 50 other passengers on the flight are being monitored for signs
of ebola but are not being kept in isolation, said an employee at
Nigeria's ministry of health, who insisted on anonymity because he was
not authorised to speak to the media. PS's sister also died of EVD in
Liberia, according to Liberian officials, but PS claimed to have had
no contact with her. EVD is highly contagious and kills more than 70%
of people infected. It is passed by touching bodily fluids of
patients even after they die.
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[2] Liberia: doctors stricken
Date: Sat 26 Jul 2014
Source: Front Page Africa
<http://www.frontpageafricaonline.com/index.php/politic/2461-ebola-claims-life-of-jfk-chief-medical-doctor-samuel-brisbane>
In Monrovia Dr Samuel Brisbane, the chief medical doctor at Liberia's
leading hospital, the John F Kennedy Medical Center, has become the
latest casualty of the deadly Ebola virus. Dr Brisbane, also a former
chief medical doctor at the Firestone Rubber Plantation Hospital had
been quarantined along with a physician assistant and Dr Nelson
Korkor, the lead doctor at Phebe who was brought down to Monrovia 3
days ago after contracting the virus.
Hospital sources say Dr Brisbane selected to treat himself at home
initially in a bid not to spread the virus to others but was brought
to the ELWA hospital where the Samaritan Group has been treating
serious cases, when the illness worsened, until his death on
Saturday.
A hospital official told FrontPageAfrica on Friday that Dr Brisbane
and the other ailing health workers were holding onto life, but that
Dr Brisbane vomited occasionally. The PA, however, is still said to be
deteriorating, a senior hospital administrator told FrontPageAfrica on
condition of anonymity. Dr. Brisbane's death comes just a day after
the JFK's ER Wing was shut down and patients already in care moved to
another floor in the hospital. Health care workers are bearing the
brunt of the deadly outbreak.
During programs marking the 167 Independence of Liberia, President
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf paid homage to the late Dr Sam Mutooro Muhumuza,
a Ugandan national, and all the health workers around the country who
have made the ultimate sacrifice in saving lives. "To their families,
loved ones, associates, we extend our heartfelt sympathy," she said,
adding that the government will shortly reach out to the families of
the departed health workers to bring them comfort in their times of
trials and tribulations.
President Sirleaf expressed appreciation to all the health workers -
doctors, nurses, para-medics - who continue to be of service to the
Liberian people in the midst of danger to themselves. "We like to say
to them how much we appreciate what they do to contribute to helping
the country arrest the deadly Ebola disease."
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ProMED-mail rapporteur Mary Marshall
[3] Sierra Leone: protests
Date: Sat 26 Jul 2014
Source: Reuters [edited]
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/26/us-health-ebola-africa-idUSKBN0FV0NL20140726>
Protesters march on Ebola center in Sierra Leone: runaway found
---------------------------------------------------------------
Thousands marched on an Ebola virus disease [EVD] treatment center in
Sierra Leone on Friday [25 Jul 2014] after a former nurse alleged that
the deadly virus was invented to conceal "cannibalistic rituals" at
the ward, a regional police chief said.
Across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, at least 660 people have died
from the illness, according to the World Health Organization, placing
great strain on the health systems of some of Africa's poorest
countries. Sierra Leone now has the highest number of cases, at 454,
surpassing neighboring Guinea where the outbreak originated in
February [2014].
Angry crowds gathered outside the country's main EVD hospital in
Kenema [Eastern Province] in the West African country's remote east
where dozens are receiving treatment for the virus and threatened to
burn it down and remove the patients. Residents said that police fired
tear gas to disperse the crowds and said that a 9 year old boy was
shot in the leg by a police bullet. Assistant inspector general Alfred
Karrow-Kamara said on Saturday [26 Jul 2014] that the protest was
sparked off by a former nurse who had told a crowd at a nearby fish
market that "EVD was unreal and a gimmick aimed at carrying out
cannibalistic rituals". He said that calm had now been restored to
Kenema on Saturday, adding that a strong armed police presence was in
place around the clinic and the local police station. Some health
workers from the clinic have been reported absent from work because of
"misconceptions by some members of the community," according to a
local doctor.
Ebola can kill up to 90 per cent of those who catch it -- although the
fatality rate of the current outbreak is around 60 per cent. Highly
contagious, its symptoms include vomiting and diarrhea as well as
internal and external bleeding.
President Ernest Bai Koroma said on Saturday [26 Jul 2014] that the
government planned to "intensify activities and interventions in
containing the disease and stopping it spread" with a view to ending
the disease within 60-90 days. The new strategy will focus on contact
tracing, surveillance, communications and social mobilization,
psychosocial services, logistics and supplies, according to the
president's statement.
WHO has previously said that poor health infrastructure and a lack of
manpower were hindering efforts to contain the outbreak in Sierra
Leone. Another problem is fear and mistrust of health workers among
the local population, many of whom have more faith in traditional
medicine.
Runaway found
-------------
Sierra Leone officials appealed for help on Friday [25 Jul 2014] to
trace the 1st known resident in the capital with Ebola virus disease
[EVD] whose family forcibly removed her from a Freetown hospital after
she tested positive for the deadly disease. Amadu Sisi, senior doctor
at King Harman hospital, from which the patient originally escaped,
said on Saturday [26 Jul 2014] that she had been turned in after
seeking refuge in the house of a traditional healer. "Because of media
and police pressure they decided to give her up. Maybe they are now
convinced it is EVD," he said.
[byline: Umaru Fofana and Adam Bailes; Writing by Emma Farge; Editing
by Stephen Powell]
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[4] Sierra Leone: riots
Date: Fri 25 Jul 2014
Source: Bloomberg [edited]
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-25/sierra-leone-police-use-tear-gas-to-curb-ebola-related-riot.html>
Local people in Kenema rioted and attacked the ebolavirus hospital
lab, funded by George Soros, Bill Gates and the Pentagon. The
mainstream media and local Sierra Leone police chief claim that a
nurse who had warned locals that the lab was putting ebolavirus in
circulation was "mentally ill". [In fact,] the country's health
ministry announced on its Facebook page that the lab was to be closed,
Tulane University was to stop testing for ebolavirus, the CDC was
required to deliver an official report on the lab's activities and the
CDC and WHO's own documents state that ebolavirus comes from
hospitals. [Misinterpretation -- those documents state that ebolavirus
spreads from EVD patients in hospitals which do not have effective
infection control measures. - Mod.JW.]
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[5] Sierra Leone: official update
Date: Sat 26 Jul 2014
Source: Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone [edited]
Ebola outbreak update
---------------------
As of today, 26 Jul 2014, we have 116 cumulative number of survivors,
458 confirmed Ebola virus disease [EVD] cases and 153 EVD confirmed
deaths; 82 patients are currently admitted at the Ebola treatment
centers in Kenema and Kailahun.
The Ministry of Health and Sanitization and WHO have established a
dedicated Ebola Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at the WHO Country
Office in Freetown. The EOC is co-directed by the minister of health,
Ms Miata Kargbo, and the WHO representative for Sierra Leone, Dr Jacob
Mufunda, and consists of leaders and partners involved in our fight
against Ebola.
The EOC will serve as the Sierra Leone national central command and
control center for outbreak response activities, and meets every day.
The EOC members under the leadership of the honourable minister of
health and sanitation unanimously decided at the 24 Jul 2014 meeting
that the following actions be effected immediately:
- WHO and MSF to take over the management of the Kenema treatment
center;
- WHO and MSF to bring more experts to run the treatment center in
Kenema.
WHO's director general, Margaret Chan, has upgraded the Ebola response
in West Africa to a Grade 3, the highest level of any emergency
response. A Grade 3 involves a multiple country event with a
substantial public health consequence that requires a substantial WHO
country office response and substantial international partner
response. This means partners could deploy resources from other
countries into the region.
The EOC wishes the general public and all partners working in the
health care sector to know that Dr Sheikh Umar Khan is responding well
to treatment.
--
communicated by:
Sidie Yahya Tunis
Director, Information Communication Technology (ICT)
Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone
<tunis@health.gov.sl>
[In Liberia, the sad news is that the 1st international aid expert, a
medical doctor, has contracted EVD, and a Liberian doctor has died.
In Sierra Leone, malicious rumours alleging "cannibalistic rituals" at
the Kenema EVD treatment ward and that the Kenema lab is putting
ebolavirus in circulation are sparking violent confrontations. Or are
these 2 different versions of the same riot?
But at least one traditional healer is now convinced that EVD victims
should go to a treatment centre.
The flight carrying the fatal case in Nigeria made a stop in Togo en
route between Liberia and Nigeria. If any passengers or crew got off
there, they are potential contacts. - Mod.JW
A HealthMap/ProMED-mail map can be accessed at:
<http://healthmap.org/promed/p/46>.]
[See Also:
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (102): Nigeria, Sierra Leone, drugs
& vaccine 20140726.2636858
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (101): Nigeria ex Liberia, WHO,
Sierra Leone 20140726.2636095
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (100): Cote d'Ivoire,Tanzania,
Nigeria alerts 20140724.2633437
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (100): Cote d'Ivoire,Tanzania,
Nigeria alerts 20140724.2633437
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (99): WHO, Sierra Leone, Liberia
20140724.2632442
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (98): Nigeria susp, alert
20140724.2632831
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (97): Sierra Leone, Liberia, tests
20140723.2630441
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (96): Liberia, Sierra Leone
20140723.2628773
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (95): FAO alert, Sierra Leone
20140722.2626215
Ebola virus disease - Congo DR: susp 20140721.2624831
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (94): Sierra Leone 20140720.2623966
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (93): Sierra Leone, WHO underfunded
20140719.2622727
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (92): Sierra Leone, drugs, EU
disease ctr. 20140718.2620802
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (91): WHO, Guinea,Sierra
Leone,Liberia, border 20140717.2618525
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (90): Sierra Leone, Ghana meeting,
historical 20140716.2615640
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (89): WHO update, Sierra Leone,
Liberia, risk 20140715.2613043
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (88): WHO, Liberia, prevention,
challenges 20140713.2607118
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (87): Liberia, Sierra Leone, MSF,
drugs, vaccine 20140712.2605570
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (86): WHO, UNSC, ECOWAS, Guinea,
Liberia 20140711.2603448
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (85): Guinea, Liberia, region
20140710.2601330
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (84): WHO update 20140708.2596192
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (83): Ghana susp, Guinea, S. Leone,
Liberia 20140708.2593018
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (82): Guinea, prevention, Tanzania,
UK 20140706.2591433
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (81): Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia,
overseas 20140705.2589463
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (80): WHO update, meeting
20140704.2587114
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (79): Guinea, Nigeria prevention,
drug testing 20140703.2586162
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (78): Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia
20140702.2583396
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (77): WHO, meeting, Sierra Leone,
Liberia 20140701.2579682
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (74): CDC summary 20140626.2566502
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (73): WHO update, Sierra Leone
20140625.2566397
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (72): WHO update 20140624.2562337
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (71): Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria
serology 20140622.2558446
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (70): Sierra Leone, Liberia, travel
advice 20140621.2556770
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (69): Guinea, Sierra Leone, region
20140621.2555351
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (68): Liberia, One Health approach
20140619.2553035
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (67): WHO update, Liberia, Sierra
Leone 20140618.2550323
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (66): Liberia (Monrovia), Sierra
Leone 20140617.2547352
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (63): Sierra Leone 20140613.2538970
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (58): Sierra Leone, challenges
20140607.2526192
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (57): WHO update, challenges
20140607.2525234
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (56): Sierra Leone, Liberia, WHO
20140604.2518983
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (55): MSF report, Sierra Leone
20140603.2517388
Ebola virus disease - West Africa (54): WHO update, Sierra Leone
20140603.2515262
and earlier posts beginning with
Undiagnosed viral hemorrhagic fever - Guinea (02): Ebola conf.
20140322.23496]
sb
Stargazer4
Contributing Member
The beginning of the end????
TPTB have just admitted Ebola has been brought into Nigeria by air travel the man died. How many people did he infect on the plane and in the airport and we're have al these people gone. Sounds to me like the genie is out of the bottle.
Take care
TPTB have just admitted Ebola has been brought into Nigeria by air travel the man died. How many people did he infect on the plane and in the airport and we're have al these people gone. Sounds to me like the genie is out of the bottle.
Take care
LibertyInNH
Senior Member
You know it's starting to worry TPTB when it hits the main stream media...
there were actually TWO ebola related plane incidents last week: this one in Nigeria, and another in Togo, where someone got really sick on the plane coming from Guinea, and they took that person off the plane, sent him or her BACK to guinea, but sent the plane on its way to Bahrain!
it's just a question of what the exponential function is now.
willowlady
Veteran Member
Now THAT bears some further scrutiny.... Like, were they with him at the time he contracted the virus? When did they come back to the US? Etc. If the genie isn't already out of the bottle, it's pounding hard enough to break the bottle at any time.
byronandkathy2003
Veteran Member
we need to send Obama over there so he can organize fix the problems they are having
TimeTraveler
Veteran Member
we need to send Obama over there so he can organize fix the problems they are having
The only way he would consider going, is if they had a world class golf course.
