So lite salt is the same as baking soda?(Sorry,I don't bake much,just want to be sure I understand)
HEALTH MAIN EBOLA DISCUSSION THREAD - WEEK OF 8/16/14 - 8/31/14
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So lite salt is the same as baking soda?(Sorry,I don't bake much,just want to be sure I understand)
Lite salt is usually sold in the spice aisle near the regular salt. It has potassium chloride in addition to sodium chloride (regular salt). Morton is the brand I usually see.
Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is also usually on the baking aisle. Arm and Hammer is a popular brand, but I recommend Bob's Red mill, which isn't processed with aluminum.
To make this more palatable, you can also add it to diluted fruit juice. Little sips are best!
bbbuddy
DEPLORABLE ME
No, they are not the same. The recipe calls for both.
LITE SALT can be found at the grocers - Morton's lite salt (salt substitute).
Be Well
may all be well
The tanks need drivers, mechanics, fuel, the drivers and mechanics etc need food, housing, pay...
The elites will be tossed. Remember Ceaucescu? I do.
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Be careful too, some brands of "Lite Salt" are half/half Sodium Chloride/Potassium Chloride and some are pure Potassium Chloride.
(Buy the pure Potassium Chloride version)
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Yes, I do, Be Well. And your comment brought to my lips the first smile of the day. I can guarantee you that the new overlords will not be the old ones. The fact that there will be overlords is a given with breakdown and chaos, but if History is any guide the old overlords will be shot or torn to pieces. It won't be different this time.
Anybody associated with the bureaucracy, the old regime, will be fair game. All of the grifters are going to get theirs.
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Potassium Chloride Crystallized Powder
http://www.bulksupplements.com/potassium-chloride.html?gclid=CPyz7MLcucACFU4F7AodNEkAAg
1kg(2.2 Lb) Pure Powder $17.96
Salt Substitute Nu-Salt 3 oz Crystals
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Salt-Substitute-Nu-Salt-3-oz-Crystals/30156841
3 oz $1.60
bw
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For God's sake, take care of the telephone sanitizers this time.
Lynx
Senior Member
For those of you who have mentioned DragonCon as a possible danger zone for the spread of ebola, here's something to keep in mind. DragonCon is, indeed, a very large con. I don't have numbers for this year, but it looks like it drew 57,000 attendees in 2013. For comparison, Atlanta International Airport serves 260,000 people daily, on average. So, over the course of a 4 day weekend (the length of DragonCon), over _18 times_ as many people will have traveled through the airport, sharing chairs, bathroom facilities, ATMs, etc. And all of them going to, or coming from, all the corners of the world. Seems to me that the airport, because of its size and its function, is a much bigger danger.
bw
Fringe Ranger
DragonCon is a detail. It was planned long before this outbreak of Ebola, so it's silly to think it's part of some plot. If it weren't DragonCon it would be some other big convention going on in Hotlanta.
You are right, Hartsfield or any large airport is a much bigger locus of risk.
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Posted by Pixie at the PFI Forum with my comment following.
, 2014 8:05 pm Post subject:
Pixie wrote:
Nigeria:
Sister Of Dead Ebola Doctor Escapes From Port Harcourt As 200 Are Quarantined In Rivers State
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKAUG 29, 2014
http://saharareporters.com/2014/08/...ort-harcourt-200-are-quarantined-rivers-state
SaharaReporters has learned that a sister of a Port Harcourt-based medical doctor, Iyke Enemuo, who recently died from the Ebola virus, fled to Abia State to avoid being quarantined along with others who came into contact with the late doctor. However, one of her siblings, who is also a doctor, forced her to return to the quarantine center in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.
The woman helped care for her doctor brother as he suffered from the debilitating disease caused by the Ebola virus.
At least 200 people who came in contact with Dr. Enemuo, who died last Friday in Port Harcourt, have been placed in quarantine for close medical watch.
Dr. Enemuo had contracted the virus when he was secretly treating a staff of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) who, in turn, had had contact with Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-American who initially brought the disease into Nigeria. Mr. Sawyer had slumped at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos shortly after arriving there on July 20. He was rushed to a Lagos Hospital where he died five days later. A doctor, Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, and two nurses who helped care for Mr. Sawyer in Lagos have also died.
SaharaReporters discovered that the ECOWAS diplomat who had had contact with Mr. Sawyer flew to Port Harcourt the same day the Liberian American died, and met up with Dr. Enemuo. Apparently aware of the deadly nature of the disease afflicting the diplomat, Dr. Enemuo opted to treat him secretly at a local hotel.
After recovering, the ECOWAS staff flew back to Lagos to seek clearance to travel out of Nigeria. Quarantined and checked for Ebola in Lagos, he was found to be free of the virus. However, a few days after he left Port Harcourt, Dr. Enemuo took ill and was hospitalized at Good Health Hospital in Port Harcourt where he died of the disease.
The hospital has been closed down, and close to 70 people immediately quarantined by Nigerian health officials. However, as at last night, more than 200 people who had been in contact with Dr. Enemuo and the ECOWAS diplomat had been quarantined as well. Dr. Enemuo’s wife recently took ill with Ebola symptoms.
MY COMMENT:
So another "runner". Not unexpected. The instinct for survival in each of us is so strong that it takes almost superhuman will to overcome it. Until there is a surefire cure widely available, there will be runners galore.
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, 2014 8:05 pm Post subject:
Pixie wrote:
Nigeria:
Sister Of Dead Ebola Doctor Escapes From Port Harcourt As 200 Are Quarantined In Rivers State
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKAUG 29, 2014
http://saharareporters.com/2014/08/...ort-harcourt-200-are-quarantined-rivers-state
SaharaReporters has learned that a sister of a Port Harcourt-based medical doctor, Iyke Enemuo, who recently died from the Ebola virus, fled to Abia State to avoid being quarantined along with others who came into contact with the late doctor. However, one of her siblings, who is also a doctor, forced her to return to the quarantine center in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.
The woman helped care for her doctor brother as he suffered from the debilitating disease caused by the Ebola virus.
At least 200 people who came in contact with Dr. Enemuo, who died last Friday in Port Harcourt, have been placed in quarantine for close medical watch.
Dr. Enemuo had contracted the virus when he was secretly treating a staff of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) who, in turn, had had contact with Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-American who initially brought the disease into Nigeria. Mr. Sawyer had slumped at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos shortly after arriving there on July 20. He was rushed to a Lagos Hospital where he died five days later. A doctor, Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, and two nurses who helped care for Mr. Sawyer in Lagos have also died.
SaharaReporters discovered that the ECOWAS diplomat who had had contact with Mr. Sawyer flew to Port Harcourt the same day the Liberian American died, and met up with Dr. Enemuo. Apparently aware of the deadly nature of the disease afflicting the diplomat, Dr. Enemuo opted to treat him secretly at a local hotel.
After recovering, the ECOWAS staff flew back to Lagos to seek clearance to travel out of Nigeria. Quarantined and checked for Ebola in Lagos, he was found to be free of the virus. However, a few days after he left Port Harcourt, Dr. Enemuo took ill and was hospitalized at Good Health Hospital in Port Harcourt where he died of the disease.
The hospital has been closed down, and close to 70 people immediately quarantined by Nigerian health officials. However, as at last night, more than 200 people who had been in contact with Dr. Enemuo and the ECOWAS diplomat had been quarantined as well. Dr. Enemuo’s wife recently took ill with Ebola symptoms.
MY COMMENT:
So another "runner". Not unexpected. The instinct for survival in each of us is so strong that it takes almost superhuman will to overcome it. Until there is a surefire cure widely available, there will be runners galore.
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bw
Fringe Ranger
So few fall on the grenade, we give them our highest honor when they do. It's ludicrous to expect it of all.
Medical Maven
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MY COMMENT:More dirty details on the Port Harcourt disaster. The diplomat was contagious all the way to Port Harcourt on the plane..
Posted by Pixie at the PFI Forum.
Nigeria:
Late doctor knew diplomat had Ebola virus – Govt
AUGUST 30, 2014 BY SIMON UTEBOR
http://www.punchng.com/news/late-doctor-knew-diplomat-had-ebola-virus-govt/
The Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Samson Parker, says the late Dr. Samuel Enemou, who treated Olu Koye, a Nigerian diplomat with the Economic Community of West African States, was aware that the diplomat was a carrier of the deadly Ebola virus.
The commissioner stated this during a press conference in Port Harcourt on Friday evening.
Parker said, “He had received the late Dr. Patrick Sawyer in Lagos. Upon developing the symptom, confided in a female colleague, called Lilian, who contacted the late Enemuo. It was after contact was established with Dr. Enemuo that Olu Koye flew to Port Harcourt to see him.
“To conceal his movement, Koye, who had been quarantined among other people for having primary contact with the late Dr. Sawyer, the Liberian-American who transmuted the Ebola virus into Nigeria, sneaked out of the isolation unit where he was being observed and took a flight to Port Harcourt and switched off his phone so that he could not be reached or traced should he answer a call.”
On arrival in Port Harcourt, he said Koye checked into Mandate Gardens, a local hotel in the Rumunokoro area in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area.
The hotel is within the Rumunokoro area where Dr. Enemuo’s private health facility, Sam Steel Clinic is located.
Parker added, “From what we have gathered so far, Dr. Enemuo, knowing that Koye was positive of the Ebola virus took some measures of precaution to protect himself while treating Koye.
“Knowing the enormity of what he was doing, Enemuo upon Koye’s departure for Lagos, poured bleach all over the room that Koye slept in order to sanitise the place.”
He said the deceased, after having developed the symptom, approached a colleague for treatment at Good Heart Hospital along Evo Road in G.R.A.
He said Enemuo did not tell the doctor that was treating him the truth, stressing that he merely told him that he had fever.
Parker said, “He lied. He did not tell the doctor that was treating him his full story. But the doctor, a nice and conscientious professional, suspected that Enemuo was either hiding something or was suffering from a strange ailment because he proved negative to malaria, fever and typhoid fever.
“To be sure of what he was doing, he spoke to other very experienced doctors about the strange case he was handling in his hospital.”
The commissioner said the doctor treating Enemuo even invited some his colleagues to come over to his hospital to study Enemuo’s medical history.
He said because the news of the Ebola virus was all everywhere, those he called were afraid to honour the invitation.
Parker added that none of them showed up at the hospital where Enemuo was being treated, stressing that Enemuo’s condition continued to deteriorate until he died after which body was taken to the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital.
The commissioner also declared that the advent of the dreaded Ebola virus in the state was currently posing a challenge, saying the development was tantamount to a war time situation.
He said the Rivers State governor, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, had pledged to provide funds to enable the state to procure all relevant materials as well as the services of medical experts from Nigeria and abroad to contain the virus.
Parker also said 60 more people who had secondary contacts with Koye were quarantined last night, bringing the total so far to 100.
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Posted by Pixie at the PFI Forum.
Nigeria:
Late doctor knew diplomat had Ebola virus – Govt
AUGUST 30, 2014 BY SIMON UTEBOR
http://www.punchng.com/news/late-doctor-knew-diplomat-had-ebola-virus-govt/
The Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Samson Parker, says the late Dr. Samuel Enemou, who treated Olu Koye, a Nigerian diplomat with the Economic Community of West African States, was aware that the diplomat was a carrier of the deadly Ebola virus.
The commissioner stated this during a press conference in Port Harcourt on Friday evening.
Parker said, “He had received the late Dr. Patrick Sawyer in Lagos. Upon developing the symptom, confided in a female colleague, called Lilian, who contacted the late Enemuo. It was after contact was established with Dr. Enemuo that Olu Koye flew to Port Harcourt to see him.
“To conceal his movement, Koye, who had been quarantined among other people for having primary contact with the late Dr. Sawyer, the Liberian-American who transmuted the Ebola virus into Nigeria, sneaked out of the isolation unit where he was being observed and took a flight to Port Harcourt and switched off his phone so that he could not be reached or traced should he answer a call.”
On arrival in Port Harcourt, he said Koye checked into Mandate Gardens, a local hotel in the Rumunokoro area in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area.
The hotel is within the Rumunokoro area where Dr. Enemuo’s private health facility, Sam Steel Clinic is located.
Parker added, “From what we have gathered so far, Dr. Enemuo, knowing that Koye was positive of the Ebola virus took some measures of precaution to protect himself while treating Koye.
“Knowing the enormity of what he was doing, Enemuo upon Koye’s departure for Lagos, poured bleach all over the room that Koye slept in order to sanitise the place.”
He said the deceased, after having developed the symptom, approached a colleague for treatment at Good Heart Hospital along Evo Road in G.R.A.
He said Enemuo did not tell the doctor that was treating him the truth, stressing that he merely told him that he had fever.
Parker said, “He lied. He did not tell the doctor that was treating him his full story. But the doctor, a nice and conscientious professional, suspected that Enemuo was either hiding something or was suffering from a strange ailment because he proved negative to malaria, fever and typhoid fever.
“To be sure of what he was doing, he spoke to other very experienced doctors about the strange case he was handling in his hospital.”
The commissioner said the doctor treating Enemuo even invited some his colleagues to come over to his hospital to study Enemuo’s medical history.
He said because the news of the Ebola virus was all everywhere, those he called were afraid to honour the invitation.
Parker added that none of them showed up at the hospital where Enemuo was being treated, stressing that Enemuo’s condition continued to deteriorate until he died after which body was taken to the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital.
The commissioner also declared that the advent of the dreaded Ebola virus in the state was currently posing a challenge, saying the development was tantamount to a war time situation.
He said the Rivers State governor, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, had pledged to provide funds to enable the state to procure all relevant materials as well as the services of medical experts from Nigeria and abroad to contain the virus.
Parker also said 60 more people who had secondary contacts with Koye were quarantined last night, bringing the total so far to 100.
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http://www.dw.de/frankfurt-authorities-prepare-for-ebola/a-17888387?maca=en-rss-en-world-4025-rdf
Frankfurt authorities prepare for Ebola
Are we ready for Ebola? It's a question the German media have been asking for weeks. Frankfurt Airport has come under particular scrutiny due to its size. But could Frankfurt really be an entry point for the disease?
Frankfurt's isolation ward 68 at the university clinic: rubber boots and other medical equipment (Photo: Emily Sherwin / DW)
Ebola continues to rage in Africa. So far, the virus has claimed more than 1,500 lives in the West African countries of Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. But the deadly disease has stirred fears on the European continent as well, triggering a string of false alarms.
With several airlines including British Airways and Air France cancelling flights to affected countries, European airports have been on the alert for weeks. As Germany's biggest airport, Frankfurt has come under particular scrutiny. Over 58 million passengers pass through its sliding glass doors and terminals every year.
Don't ask, don't tell
Taxi stand at Frankfurt airport (Photo: Emily Sherwin / DW)
Some of the taxi drivers at Frankfurt Airport feel helpless against the disease
The taxi drivers outside the airport's international arrivals terminal are concerned that one of those passengers could be carrying the Ebola virus. "I often have a bad feeling about it," one of them comments. "Every time I leave the airport here with passengers I always say: 'May I ask where you've just come from?' And then I can usually make up my own mind." He says he has even considered wearing mouth protection.
Two others say they have a duty to take people to where they need to go, and they don't ask where people have just come from. "What can you do? That's the way it is. We have to keep working," says one, and takes a drag from his cigarette.
Emergency medical care
The taxi drivers have to depend on airport safety measures and on passengers from affected countries making sure they get checked for Ebola. But according to Bonn-based journalist Abu-Bakarr Jalloh, that is easier said than done. Jalloh recently returned from Freetown in Sierra Leone, where he had been in close contact with Ebola patients on a reporting assignment. He was feeling unwell and tried desperately to get a blood test to confirm he was Ebola-free. He was shocked by the response of medical staff.
"You go to the emergency clinic and you would sit there for hours and hours and tell them 'Hey my case could be very serious, take it seriously.'" Even when he explained that he could be a carrier of the virus, he was told that emergency patients are the priority. "As long as you don't look like you're dying, you're not a priority," Jalloh said.
Jalloh says the response he got to his case in Germany has made him think that "the measures that authorities in Europe and airliners are taking aren't sufficient."
Team Ebola
Frankfurt health authority: René Gottschalk in the crisis management room (Photo: Emily Sherwin / DW)
René Gottschalk's team at the health authority meet daily to discuss Ebola measures
Staff at the regional health authority in Frankfurt would surely disagree . Chief public health consultant René Gottschalk estimates that employees there have been spending around 30 percent of their time dealing with Ebola-related issues in recent weeks. Every day, Gottschalk and his team meet in the so-called "Ebola crisis management room" to prepare for a potential Ebola case.
The team includes infectious disease specialists and a crisis management expert who liaises with the police and the fire brigade. The walls in the room are plastered with maps, health warnings and lists of emergency contacts, flight numbers and airports in Africa.
Of course, a large chunk of the Ebola-related work at the health authority currently consists of press requests regarding Frankfurt airport's precautions. His team has been so overwhelmed that it has gone from answering individual requests to arranging larger-scale events for journalists.
Gottschalk thinks that reporting on the disease hasn't amounted to scare-mongering, but that the amount of reports has stoked fears. "People read, see and hear more than twice a day that Ebola is a problem in Germany. But it isn't a problem."
Red, yellow and green
Gottschalk explains that there's a clear procedure for the event that a passenger suspected of having Ebola comes to Frankfurt airport: The flight would land outside the airport grounds. Passengers on board would then be classified according to how likely they are to be carrying the virus, using a traffic light color-coding system.
Entrance to isolation ward 68 at Frankfurt's university hospital (Photo: Emily Sherwin /DW)
Isolation ward 68 at Frankfurt's university hospital is prepared for Ebola patients
"If a passenger is marked red, we will transport him directly from the aircraft to the university hospital. Passengers marked yellow will enter the airport in a specialized area. Only passengers marked green will enter the airport and travel on," Gottschalk explains. The same marking procedure is used for other viral hemorrhagic fevers, such as Lassa fever, which are transmitted from person to person through bodily fluids rather than through the air.
There was a suspected case of Ebola on a flight from Addis Ababa to Frankfurt on August 15, 2014. But the passenger had tested negative for Ebola before flying and was allowed to travel on after being examined on the plane. An elderly couple who had been on the same flight told DW they felt "the airport staff did a good job. We felt safe and had the feeling that they knew what they were doing."
Isolating the virus
But if there were to be a case of the virus at the airport, an infected passenger would be taken directly to Frankfurt's university hospital, for treatment in isolation ward 68. The two-bed ward there is sealed off from the rest of the hospital, using airlock doors and negative pressure in the room.
Before entering, medical staff would put on sterile protective clothing, including an orange plastic overall, two pairs of gloves, rubber boots and head covering. A built-in hose blows filtered air into the hat and into the entire gown. That way, if the suit ripped, air would blow any potential bacteria out of the suit.
Not a European battle
Orange protective suits hang in the isolation ward next to other equipment (Photo: Emily Sherwin / DW)
Staff in the isolation ward wear full-body protective gear
Timo Wolf, a consultant in infectious diseases who runs the ward, explains that doctors at the hospital train in the isolation ward every three months. Wolf says working in the gear is "very physically straining," so staff need to practice performing medical procedures in the full-body suits, which he says feel like hot, heavy, scuba-diving suits.
Such preparations are very necessary, Wolf believes. "I think it's possible, if not likely, that in the next couple of weeks, we will be confronted with a suspected or maybe even a definite case of Ebola." Frankfurt's system is tried and tested, Wolf says. The ward has treated Lassa fever and had a SARS patient in 2003.
"I think that there's no reason to be afraid of anything now in Europe. I think that in the long run, this game has to be won in Western Africa," Wolf says.
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http://www.dw.de/frankfurt-authorities-prepare-for-ebola/a-17888387?maca=en-rss-en-world-4025-rdf
Frankfurt authorities prepare for Ebola
Are we ready for Ebola? It's a question the German media have been asking for weeks. Frankfurt Airport has come under particular scrutiny due to its size. But could Frankfurt really be an entry point for the disease?
Frankfurt's isolation ward 68 at the university clinic: rubber boots and other medical equipment (Photo: Emily Sherwin / DW)
Ebola continues to rage in Africa. So far, the virus has claimed more than 1,500 lives in the West African countries of Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. But the deadly disease has stirred fears on the European continent as well, triggering a string of false alarms.
With several airlines including British Airways and Air France cancelling flights to affected countries, European airports have been on the alert for weeks. As Germany's biggest airport, Frankfurt has come under particular scrutiny. Over 58 million passengers pass through its sliding glass doors and terminals every year.
Don't ask, don't tell
Taxi stand at Frankfurt airport (Photo: Emily Sherwin / DW)
Some of the taxi drivers at Frankfurt Airport feel helpless against the disease
The taxi drivers outside the airport's international arrivals terminal are concerned that one of those passengers could be carrying the Ebola virus. "I often have a bad feeling about it," one of them comments. "Every time I leave the airport here with passengers I always say: 'May I ask where you've just come from?' And then I can usually make up my own mind." He says he has even considered wearing mouth protection.
Two others say they have a duty to take people to where they need to go, and they don't ask where people have just come from. "What can you do? That's the way it is. We have to keep working," says one, and takes a drag from his cigarette.
Emergency medical care
The taxi drivers have to depend on airport safety measures and on passengers from affected countries making sure they get checked for Ebola. But according to Bonn-based journalist Abu-Bakarr Jalloh, that is easier said than done. Jalloh recently returned from Freetown in Sierra Leone, where he had been in close contact with Ebola patients on a reporting assignment. He was feeling unwell and tried desperately to get a blood test to confirm he was Ebola-free. He was shocked by the response of medical staff.
"You go to the emergency clinic and you would sit there for hours and hours and tell them 'Hey my case could be very serious, take it seriously.'" Even when he explained that he could be a carrier of the virus, he was told that emergency patients are the priority. "As long as you don't look like you're dying, you're not a priority," Jalloh said.
Jalloh says the response he got to his case in Germany has made him think that "the measures that authorities in Europe and airliners are taking aren't sufficient."
Team Ebola
Frankfurt health authority: René Gottschalk in the crisis management room (Photo: Emily Sherwin / DW)
René Gottschalk's team at the health authority meet daily to discuss Ebola measures
Staff at the regional health authority in Frankfurt would surely disagree . Chief public health consultant René Gottschalk estimates that employees there have been spending around 30 percent of their time dealing with Ebola-related issues in recent weeks. Every day, Gottschalk and his team meet in the so-called "Ebola crisis management room" to prepare for a potential Ebola case.
The team includes infectious disease specialists and a crisis management expert who liaises with the police and the fire brigade. The walls in the room are plastered with maps, health warnings and lists of emergency contacts, flight numbers and airports in Africa.
Of course, a large chunk of the Ebola-related work at the health authority currently consists of press requests regarding Frankfurt airport's precautions. His team has been so overwhelmed that it has gone from answering individual requests to arranging larger-scale events for journalists.
Gottschalk thinks that reporting on the disease hasn't amounted to scare-mongering, but that the amount of reports has stoked fears. "People read, see and hear more than twice a day that Ebola is a problem in Germany. But it isn't a problem."
Red, yellow and green
Gottschalk explains that there's a clear procedure for the event that a passenger suspected of having Ebola comes to Frankfurt airport: The flight would land outside the airport grounds. Passengers on board would then be classified according to how likely they are to be carrying the virus, using a traffic light color-coding system.
Entrance to isolation ward 68 at Frankfurt's university hospital (Photo: Emily Sherwin /DW)
Isolation ward 68 at Frankfurt's university hospital is prepared for Ebola patients
"If a passenger is marked red, we will transport him directly from the aircraft to the university hospital. Passengers marked yellow will enter the airport in a specialized area. Only passengers marked green will enter the airport and travel on," Gottschalk explains. The same marking procedure is used for other viral hemorrhagic fevers, such as Lassa fever, which are transmitted from person to person through bodily fluids rather than through the air.
There was a suspected case of Ebola on a flight from Addis Ababa to Frankfurt on August 15, 2014. But the passenger had tested negative for Ebola before flying and was allowed to travel on after being examined on the plane. An elderly couple who had been on the same flight told DW they felt "the airport staff did a good job. We felt safe and had the feeling that they knew what they were doing."
Isolating the virus
But if there were to be a case of the virus at the airport, an infected passenger would be taken directly to Frankfurt's university hospital, for treatment in isolation ward 68. The two-bed ward there is sealed off from the rest of the hospital, using airlock doors and negative pressure in the room.
Before entering, medical staff would put on sterile protective clothing, including an orange plastic overall, two pairs of gloves, rubber boots and head covering. A built-in hose blows filtered air into the hat and into the entire gown. That way, if the suit ripped, air would blow any potential bacteria out of the suit.
Not a European battle
Orange protective suits hang in the isolation ward next to other equipment (Photo: Emily Sherwin / DW)
Staff in the isolation ward wear full-body protective gear
Timo Wolf, a consultant in infectious diseases who runs the ward, explains that doctors at the hospital train in the isolation ward every three months. Wolf says working in the gear is "very physically straining," so staff need to practice performing medical procedures in the full-body suits, which he says feel like hot, heavy, scuba-diving suits.
Such preparations are very necessary, Wolf believes. "I think it's possible, if not likely, that in the next couple of weeks, we will be confronted with a suspected or maybe even a definite case of Ebola." Frankfurt's system is tried and tested, Wolf says. The ward has treated Lassa fever and had a SARS patient in 2003.
"I think that there's no reason to be afraid of anything now in Europe. I think that in the long run, this game has to be won in Western Africa," Wolf says.
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Ebola could infect 20,000 people, WHO says
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bw
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I'm so sorry. It was all you had, wasn't it?
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kittyknits
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I had to look that word up. LOL. Now I get bw's comment.
Be Well
may all be well
Hub and I were discussing, as we often do, the dire state of the world while we attempted to eat tonight. As usual I went on a rant and told him about how McCain threw the election, how everyone shut up due to threats and/or fear, and that cowardice is as bad as pure evil because it allows evil, and so on. And how too bad not one of the swinging richard Rs stood up to the criminal voter fraud that stole the 2012 election, etc. Then I realized (not for the first time) that by seeing the evil that's going on now on all fronts coming to its conclusion, those in the world who are not avowedly evil, will get to experience in 3-D living color (and sound/smell/taste...) what happens when the leaders of the world are Evil and everyone else is a Coward.
Nothing like getting burned to make a person cautious about fire.
What the world needs are leaders with good moral character and principles - AND courage. Nothing less will do. And there are plenty of regular people with those qualities still. They need to run for office (hint hint).
Be Well
may all be well
Ebola Virus Crisis Worsens for Lack of Global Help
Nations With Resources Have Offered Only a Trickle of Aid
By DREW HINSHAW in Monrovia, Liberia, and BETSY MCKAY in Atlanta CONNECT
Updated Aug. 29, 2014 4:44 a.m. ET
http://online.wsj.com/articles/ebola-crisis-worsens-for-lack-of-global-help-1409269141
Kadiatu Barry was dying in her home in Monrovia, Liberia, with her daughter nearby as a local aid worker called 4455 for the country's Ebola hotline.
Five days later, Ms. Barry's ride arrived: a makeshift coroner's truck. Her final days and fate are emblematic of why West Africa's Ebola crisis is forcing a major reconsideration of how the world handles public-health emergencies.
Eight months after the deadly epidemic began in a forested corner of Guinea, there still aren't enough doctors, nurses, and epidemiologists to keep it from spinning out of control. The World Health Organization said Thursday that more than 40% of the 3,069 cases reported since the outbreak began in December 2013 have occurred in the past 21 days. At least 1,552 people have died. The WHO says more than 20,000 people could be infected before the outbreak can be brought under control.
The rapid expansion of the Ebola epidemic sends a shrill wake-up call to the global health community and the governments that often provide aid in crises—because so far the nations with the funds and medical resources to help deal with this scourge have offered only a trickle of aid. The lackluster response has compounded the pain and suffering the countries and their people are going through.
"Ebola is moving at the speed of sound and the aid organizations are moving at the speed of a snail," said James DorborJallah, the national coordinator of Liberia's Ebola Task Force. He pulled out a piece of notebook paper labeled "BLEAK!!"
It was the government's forecast of the monthly death toll. "Hundreds now," he said. "By October, we're talking about thousands."
WHO has steered the global health community in bringing major outbreaks under control, such as SARS in 2003 and the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009. Some officials involved in the Ebola response say overcoming the outbreak, which has prompted economic hardship and social unrest in addition to disease, will require the sort of large cadres of foreign aid workers and disaster-assistance experts that dealt with disaster zones such as the tsunami in Southeast Asiaand the Haiti and Kashmir earthquakes.
In a road map released Thursday, the WHO called for a scale-up of medical staff, hospital beds, laboratories and other services to reverse the epidemic within three months and end it within six to nine months. The United Nations public-health agency estimated the effort would cost $490 million, to be funded by national governments, some U.N. agencies and other partners.
Aid experts say that will involve government organizations that are used to managing disasters rather than just nongovernmental and health-focused groups.
"We have learned an uncomfortable lesson over the past six months," said Brice de le Vingne, director of the operational center in Brussels for Doctors Without Borders, the nonprofit organization that is leading the international effort to isolate and treat Ebola patients. "None of the organizations in the most affected countries—the U.N., WHO, local governments, NGOs [including Doctors Without Borders]—currently have the proper setup to respond at the scale necessary to make a serious impact on the spread of the outbreak."
The stricken nations are starting to draw help from some unusual actors. The U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, part of the Agency for International Development, normally delivers humanitarian aid following typhoons, drought and conflict. But this month it deployed a team to the region and airlifted 16 tons of protective medical clothing, plastic sheeting and other supplies. It is working with U.N. agencies to add several hundred treatment beds in Liberia and to train additional staff, said Jeremy Konyndyk, the OFDA director, on a stopover Thursday as he returned from a trip to Liberia.
"We would not typically get involved in an infectious disease outbreak," he said. But "this is all hands on deck."
Mr. de le Vingne says the aid effort is now in a dangerous race against time. "We need a much stronger mobilization to help with the situation in Monrovia," he said. "We are late."
How late became agonizing clear in the case of Ms. Barry, the Liberian woman who died of Ebola days ago.
Amos Constant, a health worker, found Ms. Barry too gravely ill to move when he dropped by her house as he made the rounds this past Saturday in West Point, a densely packed neighborhood of 75,000, looking for sick people.
Days earlier, the government had grown so fed up with residents here denying the presence of Ebola that soldiers took neon-colored string and simply roped off the neighborhood of tin roof homes.
He called the Ebola hotline to summon an ambulance. On the other end of the line was one of 90 operators who handle some 3,000 calls a day, supervisors say. "The calls are constantly coming," said one agent, switching from one line to the next.
If the call is about a sick person, the phone bank asks for an ambulance to be dispatched, the agent said. If the person is dead, they request a coroner's truck.
Red Cross workers walk through a section of West Point, an area in Monrovia hit hard by the Ebola virus, on Wednesday. Associated Press
Mr. Constant followed up by phone for days: "It rings and rings."
Monrovia, a city of more than one million people, has only six ambulances. And even when one comes, there is often nowhere to go. The only Ebola treatment center, run by Doctors Without Borders, has 120 beds, and they have been consistently full.
At least 1,000 hospital beds are needed in Monrovia to isolate Ebola patients, said Mr. de le Vingne Doctors Without Borders, which is trying to expand its existing treatment center and train more personnel to staff it.
A coroner's truck isn't any easier to summon. There are also only six coroner's trucks, and though Ebola-infected bodies should be cremated, the only crematorium in the country belongs to Liberia's Hindu community. It can't handle the daily overflow of dozens of corpses, said Mr. Jallah, the national coordinator.
"People are dying faster than we can dispose of the bodies," he said.
Back in quarantined West Point, Ebola is sparking another health crisis: hunger. The World Food Program is distributing food, although not enough to go around. George Doe, a former soccer player now tasked with passing out rice and beans, said Thursday he has only enough for about 20% of the people in his zone. All over West Point, crowds follow foreigners, begging for food and hand sanitizer.
Pharmacies are out of medicine at the height of malaria season. Shelves at FFF Medical Supplies are bare, excluding a variety of condoms, cough syrups and vitamins.
On the streets, sick people are a common sight: "This man is in a bad condition," said a young boy, walking an older guy by the hand, looking for help. "Excuse me!" shouted another boy, pointing at a man lying on a step. "He is very ill."
Health workers are overwhelmed at the only clinic left open in West Point. On Thursday morning, a woman was throwing up on the floor of the clinic—infecting the ground if, as nurses believe, she has Ebola.
Nearby, Amadu Jalloh was hunched over. For three days now, nurses said they've told him to go to the testing center next door to have his blood sampled for Ebola.
On Thursday morning, he finally worked up the courage. When he got to the testing center, though, the only five workers on duty were too busy spraying down the corpses of the last pair of people to show up.
Mr. Jalloh sat outside for 45 minutes, waiting for them to open the gate. Eventually, his father arrived, took him by the hand, and led him back through the crowded neighborhood.
Minutes later, a health worker opened the gate and shrugged off Mr. Jalloh's disappearance. "It was beyond our focus," said Gideon Klehkleh.
Ms. Barry, who was in her 20s, never made it that far. She raised a daughter in the sandy alleyway where she cooked the porridge she sold by the road. On Sunday, she died.
On Thursday afternoon, a truck finally arrived, and carried her away.
Nobody knows where her husband is. He vanished into the city, carrying the little girl and probably, health workers say, the virus.
Write to Drew Hinshaw at drew.hinshaw@wsj.com and Betsy McKay at betsy.mckay@wsj.com
Nations With Resources Have Offered Only a Trickle of Aid
By DREW HINSHAW in Monrovia, Liberia, and BETSY MCKAY in Atlanta CONNECT
Updated Aug. 29, 2014 4:44 a.m. ET
http://online.wsj.com/articles/ebola-crisis-worsens-for-lack-of-global-help-1409269141
Kadiatu Barry was dying in her home in Monrovia, Liberia, with her daughter nearby as a local aid worker called 4455 for the country's Ebola hotline.
Five days later, Ms. Barry's ride arrived: a makeshift coroner's truck. Her final days and fate are emblematic of why West Africa's Ebola crisis is forcing a major reconsideration of how the world handles public-health emergencies.
Eight months after the deadly epidemic began in a forested corner of Guinea, there still aren't enough doctors, nurses, and epidemiologists to keep it from spinning out of control. The World Health Organization said Thursday that more than 40% of the 3,069 cases reported since the outbreak began in December 2013 have occurred in the past 21 days. At least 1,552 people have died. The WHO says more than 20,000 people could be infected before the outbreak can be brought under control.
The rapid expansion of the Ebola epidemic sends a shrill wake-up call to the global health community and the governments that often provide aid in crises—because so far the nations with the funds and medical resources to help deal with this scourge have offered only a trickle of aid. The lackluster response has compounded the pain and suffering the countries and their people are going through.
"Ebola is moving at the speed of sound and the aid organizations are moving at the speed of a snail," said James DorborJallah, the national coordinator of Liberia's Ebola Task Force. He pulled out a piece of notebook paper labeled "BLEAK!!"
It was the government's forecast of the monthly death toll. "Hundreds now," he said. "By October, we're talking about thousands."
WHO has steered the global health community in bringing major outbreaks under control, such as SARS in 2003 and the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009. Some officials involved in the Ebola response say overcoming the outbreak, which has prompted economic hardship and social unrest in addition to disease, will require the sort of large cadres of foreign aid workers and disaster-assistance experts that dealt with disaster zones such as the tsunami in Southeast Asiaand the Haiti and Kashmir earthquakes.
In a road map released Thursday, the WHO called for a scale-up of medical staff, hospital beds, laboratories and other services to reverse the epidemic within three months and end it within six to nine months. The United Nations public-health agency estimated the effort would cost $490 million, to be funded by national governments, some U.N. agencies and other partners.
Aid experts say that will involve government organizations that are used to managing disasters rather than just nongovernmental and health-focused groups.
"We have learned an uncomfortable lesson over the past six months," said Brice de le Vingne, director of the operational center in Brussels for Doctors Without Borders, the nonprofit organization that is leading the international effort to isolate and treat Ebola patients. "None of the organizations in the most affected countries—the U.N., WHO, local governments, NGOs [including Doctors Without Borders]—currently have the proper setup to respond at the scale necessary to make a serious impact on the spread of the outbreak."
The stricken nations are starting to draw help from some unusual actors. The U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, part of the Agency for International Development, normally delivers humanitarian aid following typhoons, drought and conflict. But this month it deployed a team to the region and airlifted 16 tons of protective medical clothing, plastic sheeting and other supplies. It is working with U.N. agencies to add several hundred treatment beds in Liberia and to train additional staff, said Jeremy Konyndyk, the OFDA director, on a stopover Thursday as he returned from a trip to Liberia.
"We would not typically get involved in an infectious disease outbreak," he said. But "this is all hands on deck."
Mr. de le Vingne says the aid effort is now in a dangerous race against time. "We need a much stronger mobilization to help with the situation in Monrovia," he said. "We are late."
How late became agonizing clear in the case of Ms. Barry, the Liberian woman who died of Ebola days ago.
Amos Constant, a health worker, found Ms. Barry too gravely ill to move when he dropped by her house as he made the rounds this past Saturday in West Point, a densely packed neighborhood of 75,000, looking for sick people.
Days earlier, the government had grown so fed up with residents here denying the presence of Ebola that soldiers took neon-colored string and simply roped off the neighborhood of tin roof homes.
He called the Ebola hotline to summon an ambulance. On the other end of the line was one of 90 operators who handle some 3,000 calls a day, supervisors say. "The calls are constantly coming," said one agent, switching from one line to the next.
If the call is about a sick person, the phone bank asks for an ambulance to be dispatched, the agent said. If the person is dead, they request a coroner's truck.
Red Cross workers walk through a section of West Point, an area in Monrovia hit hard by the Ebola virus, on Wednesday. Associated Press
Mr. Constant followed up by phone for days: "It rings and rings."
Monrovia, a city of more than one million people, has only six ambulances. And even when one comes, there is often nowhere to go. The only Ebola treatment center, run by Doctors Without Borders, has 120 beds, and they have been consistently full.
At least 1,000 hospital beds are needed in Monrovia to isolate Ebola patients, said Mr. de le Vingne Doctors Without Borders, which is trying to expand its existing treatment center and train more personnel to staff it.
A coroner's truck isn't any easier to summon. There are also only six coroner's trucks, and though Ebola-infected bodies should be cremated, the only crematorium in the country belongs to Liberia's Hindu community. It can't handle the daily overflow of dozens of corpses, said Mr. Jallah, the national coordinator.
"People are dying faster than we can dispose of the bodies," he said.
Back in quarantined West Point, Ebola is sparking another health crisis: hunger. The World Food Program is distributing food, although not enough to go around. George Doe, a former soccer player now tasked with passing out rice and beans, said Thursday he has only enough for about 20% of the people in his zone. All over West Point, crowds follow foreigners, begging for food and hand sanitizer.
Pharmacies are out of medicine at the height of malaria season. Shelves at FFF Medical Supplies are bare, excluding a variety of condoms, cough syrups and vitamins.
On the streets, sick people are a common sight: "This man is in a bad condition," said a young boy, walking an older guy by the hand, looking for help. "Excuse me!" shouted another boy, pointing at a man lying on a step. "He is very ill."
Health workers are overwhelmed at the only clinic left open in West Point. On Thursday morning, a woman was throwing up on the floor of the clinic—infecting the ground if, as nurses believe, she has Ebola.
Nearby, Amadu Jalloh was hunched over. For three days now, nurses said they've told him to go to the testing center next door to have his blood sampled for Ebola.
On Thursday morning, he finally worked up the courage. When he got to the testing center, though, the only five workers on duty were too busy spraying down the corpses of the last pair of people to show up.
Mr. Jalloh sat outside for 45 minutes, waiting for them to open the gate. Eventually, his father arrived, took him by the hand, and led him back through the crowded neighborhood.
Minutes later, a health worker opened the gate and shrugged off Mr. Jalloh's disappearance. "It was beyond our focus," said Gideon Klehkleh.
Ms. Barry, who was in her 20s, never made it that far. She raised a daughter in the sandy alleyway where she cooked the porridge she sold by the road. On Sunday, she died.
On Thursday afternoon, a truck finally arrived, and carried her away.
Nobody knows where her husband is. He vanished into the city, carrying the little girl and probably, health workers say, the virus.
Write to Drew Hinshaw at drew.hinshaw@wsj.com and Betsy McKay at betsy.mckay@wsj.com
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Google "latex fashion pics", might give you some creative ideas...:Look:
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How about a little number in red? It will help bring out your eyes.
(You do want him to look at your face ...once in a while.)
Unfortunately, in the areas where these outbreaks are occurring, graft and theft by the very government officials who should be at the forefront of the efforts to control the epidemic is so common that any money sent as aid vanishes into personal pockets. Hell, locals even steal rubber gloves and basic PPE!! (Not to mention bloody sheets and feces stained blankets practically from under the dying!!
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Ebola in Senegal: the route of the Guinean patient says
by RFI
Posted on 29-08-2014 at 2:51 Edited on 30-08-2014
http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20140829-ebola-premier-cas-signale-senegal/
Senegal has announced the first confirmed case in its territory, in Dakar. This is according to the Ministry of Health, an "imported" from neighboring Guinea-Conakry cases. Students carrying the virus is currently quarantined at the hospital Fann in Dakar. We do not know the identity of the young man, but one begins to understand his route.
According to the Guinean authorities, the young patient, a student at a university in Conakry, is from Forécariah, on the border with Sierra Leone. It was a friend, carrying Ebola, who contaminated him, explains Colonel Remy Lamah, Guinean Minister of Health: "He had an epidemiological link to a young student who came from Forécariah in Sierra Leone and who died shortly after. "
[snip]
According to the Senegalese Minister of Health, Awa Marie Coll Seck, he arrived in the country three weeks ago. The young man, suffering, reportedly went to a clinic on the outskirts of Dakar, but due to his deteriorating health, the young student presented himself for consultation Tuesday, August 26, at the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the National Hospital of Fann "in an infectious table without bleeding, but concealing the information that he had close contact with victims of the disease in Guinea."
The young man had hidden he had been in contact with the disease
Minister ensures that the patient - she wanted to keep the identity and neighborhood of the residence secret - was immediately quarantined, supported and subjected to sampling. The results of tests carried out at the Pasteur Institute of Dakar were positive. Since then, the state of the young man seems to have improved.
"The system was strengthened to prevent spread of the disease from this imported case, stressed the Minister of Health at a press conference. Teams have been mobilized to trace the route of the patient, in order to locate all the people who were in touch with him. "
The young man, who had initially hidden, have been in contact with infected family members, now appears to be more cooperative, "Now diagnosed and managed, he is much more cooperative and gives us all the information needed," said Awa Marie Coll Seck.
Only one week ago, Senegal had decided to close its sea, land and air borders with countries affected by the epidemic. The authorities have also announced that new protection kits would be distributed to agents of health facilities.
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(PIXIE'S) Comment:
So the student presented at two medical facilities. First, at a clinic on the outskirts of Dakar. Then at the Infectious Diseases Clinic at Fann Hospital.
At neither facility did he disclose that he had had close contact with a New Ebola patient.
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Ebola in Senegal: the route of the Guinean patient says
by RFI
Posted on 29-08-2014 at 2:51 Edited on 30-08-2014
http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20140829-ebola-premier-cas-signale-senegal/
Senegal has announced the first confirmed case in its territory, in Dakar. This is according to the Ministry of Health, an "imported" from neighboring Guinea-Conakry cases. Students carrying the virus is currently quarantined at the hospital Fann in Dakar. We do not know the identity of the young man, but one begins to understand his route.
According to the Guinean authorities, the young patient, a student at a university in Conakry, is from Forécariah, on the border with Sierra Leone. It was a friend, carrying Ebola, who contaminated him, explains Colonel Remy Lamah, Guinean Minister of Health: "He had an epidemiological link to a young student who came from Forécariah in Sierra Leone and who died shortly after. "
[snip]
According to the Senegalese Minister of Health, Awa Marie Coll Seck, he arrived in the country three weeks ago. The young man, suffering, reportedly went to a clinic on the outskirts of Dakar, but due to his deteriorating health, the young student presented himself for consultation Tuesday, August 26, at the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the National Hospital of Fann "in an infectious table without bleeding, but concealing the information that he had close contact with victims of the disease in Guinea."
The young man had hidden he had been in contact with the disease
Minister ensures that the patient - she wanted to keep the identity and neighborhood of the residence secret - was immediately quarantined, supported and subjected to sampling. The results of tests carried out at the Pasteur Institute of Dakar were positive. Since then, the state of the young man seems to have improved.
"The system was strengthened to prevent spread of the disease from this imported case, stressed the Minister of Health at a press conference. Teams have been mobilized to trace the route of the patient, in order to locate all the people who were in touch with him. "
The young man, who had initially hidden, have been in contact with infected family members, now appears to be more cooperative, "Now diagnosed and managed, he is much more cooperative and gives us all the information needed," said Awa Marie Coll Seck.
Only one week ago, Senegal had decided to close its sea, land and air borders with countries affected by the epidemic. The authorities have also announced that new protection kits would be distributed to agents of health facilities.
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(PIXIE'S) Comment:
So the student presented at two medical facilities. First, at a clinic on the outskirts of Dakar. Then at the Infectious Diseases Clinic at Fann Hospital.
At neither facility did he disclose that he had had close contact with a New Ebola patient.
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Have you travelled from Africa recently?
Here's what you should know about #Ebola.
http://ow.ly/ASoJi
Ebola virus disease
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/id-mi/vh...t=aug29_EBOLA_en&utm_campaign=social_media_14
Have YOU traveled from Africa recently?
There are Ebola outbreaks in the African countries of:
Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria (Lagos) and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The risk of Ebola in Canada is very low.
You cannot get Ebola from the air.
You can only get Ebola if you have touched:
If you feel sick and were in Africa in the last 21 days,
call a healthcare provider as soon as possible.
Tell them:
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/id-mi/vhf-fvh/assets/pdf/ebola-info-eng.pdf
For more information visit the Public Health Agency of Canada website.
Compare above to this:
(Same site, changes tone depending on the audience. This one is linked from main page,
the upper one is reached by direct twitter link only, for people who are high risk!)
Ebola virus disease
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/id-mi/vhf-fvh/ebola-eng.php
Recent Notices
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe disease that causes haemorrhagic fever in
humans and animals. Diseases that cause haemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola, are
often fatal as they affect the body’s vascular system (how blood moves through the
body). This can lead to significant internal bleeding and organ failure.
The current outbreak of Ebola is in West Africa. There have not been any
cases of Ebola in Canada.
The Ebola virus can spread through:
protective equipment, such as masks, gowns and gloves.
As long as precautions are taken, there is low risk of contracting EVD in a country
where the disease is present.
Have you travelled from Africa recently?
Here's what you should know about #Ebola.
http://ow.ly/ASoJi
Ebola virus disease
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/id-mi/vh...t=aug29_EBOLA_en&utm_campaign=social_media_14
Have YOU traveled from Africa recently?
There are Ebola outbreaks in the African countries of:
Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria (Lagos) and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The risk of Ebola in Canada is very low.
You cannot get Ebola from the air.
You can only get Ebola if you have touched:
- body fluids of someone who is sick with or has died from Ebola
- an object that has been contaminated with Ebola
- infected animals.
If you feel sick and were in Africa in the last 21 days,
call a healthcare provider as soon as possible.
Tell them:
- Your symptoms
- Which countries you visited or travelled from, and
- Whether you have been to a medical facility or received medical care while abroad.
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/id-mi/vhf-fvh/assets/pdf/ebola-info-eng.pdf
For more information visit the Public Health Agency of Canada website.
Compare above to this:(Same site, changes tone depending on the audience. This one is linked from main page,
the upper one is reached by direct twitter link only, for people who are high risk!)
Ebola virus disease
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/id-mi/vhf-fvh/ebola-eng.php
Recent Notices
- Travel Health Notice: Ebola virus disease in Democratic Republic of Congo
- Travel Health Notice: Ebola virus disease in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
- Travel Health Notice: Ebola virus disease in Nigeria
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe disease that causes haemorrhagic fever in
humans and animals. Diseases that cause haemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola, are
often fatal as they affect the body’s vascular system (how blood moves through the
body). This can lead to significant internal bleeding and organ failure.
The current outbreak of Ebola is in West Africa. There have not been any
cases of Ebola in Canada.
The Ebola virus can spread through:
- contact with infected animals
- contact with blood, body fluids or tissues of infected persons
- contact with medical equipment, such as needles, contaminated with infected body fluids
protective equipment, such as masks, gowns and gloves.
As long as precautions are taken, there is low risk of contracting EVD in a country
where the disease is present.
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Checking PFI this morning.
http://www.singtomeohmuse.com/viewtopic.php?t=5725&start=1680
Ebola Survivor 'Walked Through the Valley of Death'
MONROVIA, Liberia — Aug 29, 2014, 2:10 PM ET
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK by DR. RICHARD BESSER
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-survivor-walked-valley-death/story?id=25180915
Dr. Philip Ireland remembers the moment he realized he had Ebola. The 44-year-old emergency medicine resident was in a meeting at his hospital when the headache crept in, followed by fatigue and a racing pulse.
"It was 110 and then 120,” said Ireland, whose heart rate normally hovers around 60 beats per minute. By the time he got to a clinic, he had a fever. "They told me it was malaria," he said. But he knew this was different.
He went home and sent his wife and five children away for their protection. His mother fashioned her own protective clothing out of things around the house and cared for him, warily washing her hands every time she left his room.
His colleagues came over to offer treatment advice through the window. "Too dangerous to come inside,” he said. For a week he stayed at home treating himself. There was no room at the Ebola treatment center. Then, eight days after his symptoms started, he thought he was going to die.
"I could no longer feel my radial pulse," he said, indicating a spot at his wrist. "My blood pressure was low. I knew I would die if I didn't get fluid." An ambulance rushed him to the Ebola treatment center where, after a long wait, he was admitted. "I told the nurse to give me a large IV with fluid and open it up all the way,” he said. “Then I passed out."
Ireland is one of the lucky ones. After three weeks in the hospital, he recovered. "It was the happiest day of my life,” he said of the day he was released, just one week ago. “I feel that I had walked through the valley of death.”
More than half of the people who infected in this outbreak have died, and many health officials say the stat is an underestimate of Ebola’s true toll. "Early treatment is what makes the difference,” Ireland said. “Fluid and nutrition. Medicine for the fever."
I asked him what he will do when his strength returns. His emergency room is shut down. It’s too dangerous right now, too hard to know whether someone with a fever has malaria, gastroenteritis or Ebola. But he insists he will go back to taking care of patients.
These are my people, he tells me. "This is what I must do."
http://www.singtomeohmuse.com/viewtopic.php?t=5725&start=1680
Ebola Survivor 'Walked Through the Valley of Death'
MONROVIA, Liberia — Aug 29, 2014, 2:10 PM ET
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK by DR. RICHARD BESSER
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-survivor-walked-valley-death/story?id=25180915
Dr. Philip Ireland remembers the moment he realized he had Ebola. The 44-year-old emergency medicine resident was in a meeting at his hospital when the headache crept in, followed by fatigue and a racing pulse.
"It was 110 and then 120,” said Ireland, whose heart rate normally hovers around 60 beats per minute. By the time he got to a clinic, he had a fever. "They told me it was malaria," he said. But he knew this was different.
He went home and sent his wife and five children away for their protection. His mother fashioned her own protective clothing out of things around the house and cared for him, warily washing her hands every time she left his room.
His colleagues came over to offer treatment advice through the window. "Too dangerous to come inside,” he said. For a week he stayed at home treating himself. There was no room at the Ebola treatment center. Then, eight days after his symptoms started, he thought he was going to die.
"I could no longer feel my radial pulse," he said, indicating a spot at his wrist. "My blood pressure was low. I knew I would die if I didn't get fluid." An ambulance rushed him to the Ebola treatment center where, after a long wait, he was admitted. "I told the nurse to give me a large IV with fluid and open it up all the way,” he said. “Then I passed out."
Ireland is one of the lucky ones. After three weeks in the hospital, he recovered. "It was the happiest day of my life,” he said of the day he was released, just one week ago. “I feel that I had walked through the valley of death.”
More than half of the people who infected in this outbreak have died, and many health officials say the stat is an underestimate of Ebola’s true toll. "Early treatment is what makes the difference,” Ireland said. “Fluid and nutrition. Medicine for the fever."
I asked him what he will do when his strength returns. His emergency room is shut down. It’s too dangerous right now, too hard to know whether someone with a fever has malaria, gastroenteritis or Ebola. But he insists he will go back to taking care of patients.
These are my people, he tells me. "This is what I must do."
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Doctors and Nurses Risk Everything to Fight Ebola in West Africa
Foreign and local caregivers are essential to stopping the virus’s deadly spread.
Karen Weintraub
Photographs by Samuel Aranda
PUBLISHED AUGUST 29, 2014
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...vers-doctors-nurses-west-africa-sierra-leone/
In two Land Rovers, one fitted out as an ambulance, a small team of humanitarian workers last week headed deep into Sierra Leone's jungle. After hours on deeply rutted paths that could barely be called roads, they stopped at a village that had seen ten reported cases of Ebola.
With the consent of the village chief, the team fanned out across the community, asking at each hut if anyone was feeling ill or had made contact with the earlier patients. At one, they found a mother nursing a seven-month-old, even though she had experienced bouts of bloody diarrhea and a fever of 102°F—possible signs of Ebola. A quick conversation revealed that the mother had recently attended the same funeral as the ten patients.
The aid workers knew right away they had to get the woman away from her village. It would improve her chances of recovery, even though those chances hovered at only about 30 percent. And it would protect her baby and husband, and the entire community, because Ebola is easily passed through bodily fluids such as diarrhea, vomit, and blood.
But that didn't make taking the woman away any easier.
"If you've got a mother crying, her baby crying, her husband crying, her grandmother crying, and the mother in desperate need of medical care, that's a very difficult situation," says Gabriel Fitzpatrick, an Irish infectious disease doctor who helped make the difficult decision to take the mother from her community to an Ebola hospital in Kailahun, a several hours' drive away.
Despite tears, the family didn't put up much of a fight. The terrors of the fever were already well known to the village.
"Nobody wants to split up a family," says Fitzpatrick, who works for the humanitarian group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders. But "if you let the mother stay there, the outcome is more people will be infected."
In West Africa, where history's worst-ever Ebola outbreak has sown terror in countries with virtually no health care infrastructure of their own—Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone—foreign health care workers like Fitzpatrick have been an essential part of the response since spring, when the disease began to spread rapidly.
The World Health Organization announced this week that another, unrelated outbreak began late last month more than 1,500 miles (2,414 kilometers) away in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after a pregnant woman ate infected meat. There are 24 suspected cases of Ebola in the northern part of the country, including 13 deaths.
In West Africa, so far the virus has claimed more than 1,500 lives—about half as many as are known to have been infected. Entire families have been wiped out. Medical care for other diseases, trauma, and childbirth—scant before the Ebola crisis—has evaporated. In the three hardest-hit countries, there are one or two doctors for every 100,000 people, and most are in cities, according to the World Health Organization.
The disease has struck health care workers, locals and foreigners, with particular force. At least 240 have fallen ill and 120 have died since the outbreak began last December, according to the WHO.
Such losses "deplete one of the most vital assets during the control of any outbreak," WHO said in a press release this week.
Many more have fled in fear. "The loss of so many doctors and nurses," the press release said, "has made it difficult for WHO to secure support from sufficient numbers of foreign medical staff."
International aid workers have been crucial in making up the difference, says Sophie Delaunay, MSF's executive director. The international aid group runs Ebola clinics throughout the affected region, including the 80-bed facility in Kailahun, where Fitzpatrick has spent the last month.
Photographer Samuel Aranda traveled earlier this month to Kailahun, a small town near Sierra Leone's borders with Guinea and Liberia, population 30,000, for National Geographic, shooting portraits of caregivers and photographs of affected communities. "The landscapes here are littered with destroyed buildings and burned houses that were abandoned and looted during the civil war," Aranda says.
He describes the MSF hospital there as well organized, with an incredibly dedicated staff.
On Tuesday, WHO announced it was temporarily pulling its own workers out of Kailahun, after one became ill with Ebola.
Médecins Sans Frontières has received a small but steady flow of volunteers from Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia, as well as other nations. "I’m surprised to see the number of people who really want to put their expertise at the service of our patients," Delaunay said in an interview, "and who actually are ready to stand by the patients."
The group has more than 1,800 staff members responding to the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria, 184 of whom are foreign volunteers. WHO has deployed 424 people so far, foreign and local, including doctors, public health workers, epidemiologists, and logistics experts. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, meanwhile, recently announced that it would send 50 staffers to help fight Ebola in West Africa.
More trained medical staff are desperately needed, largely to relieve those already worn out by the battle, Delaunay says. But she wants only volunteers who understand the dangers Ebola presents and who know how to work safely with protective gear. Anyone who doesn't can quickly get infected—and pass the disease on to others.
Giving Care, Taking Care
Respect for the virus—also known as fear—is constantly top of mind among aid workers. Geraldine Begue, a nurse from Luxembourg now working in Kailahun, said she's grateful for it. "It keeps you concentrated. You should not lose that fear," says Begue, who lives in Fribourg, Switzerland. "If you stay concentrated you can keep yourself safe."
[snip]
The precautions sound simple enough; if workers avoid contact with patients' bodily fluids by wearing protective suits, goggles, masks, and gloves, and by cleaning up thoroughly, there is no risk of catching the virus, Begue and others said. Just to be safe, Médecins Sans Frontières prohibits all physical contact with patients or others at the treatment center without protective gear.
"You have very intense moments and you want to hug someone and you can't," Begue says. She connects with patients the best she can through empathetic eye contact, as her eyes are the only part of her they can see through her protective goggles.
The suits are so stiflingly hot that no one can stand to be in them for more than an hour or two. And Begue can't spend much time with any one patient because there are so many more to treat. "There's never enough time," she says.
Begue's workday starts with running blood tests on patients admitted the day before, and on those who have been symptom-free for four days, who hope they'll be cleared to go home. Then she puts on protective gear so she can bring patients needed fluids, which she says is "the only thing that really helps them."
After that, she and her colleagues might restock the pharmacy and check on gear. There are no approved treatments for Ebola, although Writebol and Brantly received two of the limited courses that have been dispensed to date of an experimental treatment called ZMapp, which seemed to have helped. For everyone else, the best care mainly involves replacing fluids depleted by vomiting and diarrhea.
Begue's afternoons are spent waiting for lab results, "who is going to be admitted, who is going to get out, who is negative."
Next comes triage, the hardest part of Begue's day. She has to talk to patients, often through a translator, and gain enough trust that they'll tell the truth. "Patients keep lying to us," she says. "They don't see the point to telling us everything."
Some will say they don't know another patient, and it will turn out they are siblings.
Discerning whether a fever is due to Ebola or some other malady like malaria is another daily challenge. Every evening, Begue and the other nurses send some people home, hoping they have diagnosed them correctly as sick with something other than Ebola. Then they take blood samples from the people they suspect of having Ebola.
What scares her more than Ebola patients, Begue says, is her colleagues: "If someone else is not that careful—if someone makes a mistake and you don't know it, and he doesn't know it, he might give you Ebola."
The most dangerous time comes when the protective equipment is taken off. Simply touching the outside of a gown or goggles might be enough to transfer the Ebola virus to someone's skin. If the virus gets into the body through a cut, the eyes, or another orifice, it can wreak devastation.
Dozens of workers share the same eating areas, kitchen, and hotel space. "You never know how safe they have been," Begue says.
Harder still is accepting the reality that so many won't make it: "You know that less than 50 percent [of the patients] are going to survive."
Malcolm Hugo, a psychologist at the same Kailahun facility as Begue and Fitzpatrick, says he tries to make sure nurses break bad news to patients as gently as possible. Patients need time to adjust to the terrible diagnosis.
They also need help obtaining basic necessities, such as toothbrushes and clothes to wear while they're away from home. They need to be told exactly what will happen to them. And they need access to cell phones, so they can deliver the bad news to relatives and friends.
Hugo, of Adelaide, Australia, also counsels children and adults who may be the only survivors in an extended family.
Many have "intrusive thoughts, distressing memories, trouble sleeping" he says—the hallmarks of post-traumatic stress disorder. Some who survive the disease must cope with stigma when they go home. Family and neighbors often reject them, thinking they're still contagious, or that they'll bring bad luck.
Keep Coming Back
Yet Begue just re-upped for another month of duty. And Fitzpatrick, who's also been in Sierra Leone for a month, says he'll stay until the emails from his wife get longer and nastier. "Once the emails reach two pages, you know it's time to look at some airline tickets," he says.
Both say that they can cope with the tragedy and stress because they know they're making a difference. Begue quit a regular nursing job a few years ago and now goes on missions full-time; Fitzpatrick tries to make it on one mission a year in addition to his work at the Health Protection Surveillance Centre in Dublin.
"If someone wants to feel useful, this is the place to be," Begue says.
Without them and their colleagues, the patients would have far less chance of survival, and the virus would spread even farther than it has, Begue and Fitzpatrick say.
Deborah Eisenhut has another reason to put herself in harm's way: God. An Oregon native, Eisenhut has been a missionary doctor for seven years with the Christian group called SIM. "I feel that my faith gives me the purpose and the tools and the hope I can give people," she says.
Now in the United States, she hopes to return to the missionary hospital she ran for 16 months in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, before the end of the year. She was ordered home, along with all her colleagues, after some members of her mission were threatened and after Nancy Writebol, also of SIM, became ill. The Liberian government took over the hospital in late July.
It's hard, she says, knowing the suffering continues and that she can't help right now.
"You can't emotionally take on the responsibility for all of it," she says. "You do what you can do and let God deal with the rest."
That international aid workers can go home while locals have no escape is part of the reality of humanitarian missions, Begue and Fitzpatrick say. "It's bizarre that you can leave this place and leave them all here, and go back to your family and friends," Begue says.
Going home and getting a break is essential in humanitarian care, and MSF won't allow anyone to stay for more than six to eight weeks at a time. Caregivers who get worn out are more likely to make mistakes, infecting themselves and those around them.
That's why the international workers are housed in a hotel and are well fed. "If we slept ten in a tent," Begue says, "you could not rest and that would not help the mission."
What does help the mission are the success stories, the Ebola patients whose bodies manage to fight off the disease. Four days after the virus is no longer detectable in their bloodstream, they are allowed to go home.
The week before he had to take the mother away from her baby, Fitzpatrick accompanied a recovered 19-year-old girl back to her family.
Humanitarian workers always bring these patients home, rather than allow them to go alone. They shake the recovered patient's hands to show that they're not afraid, and give them a certificate verifying that their illness is over. These signs, they hope, will overcome any community reluctance to accept the patients back.
In this case, Fitzpatrick says, the woman's family was welcoming—and thrilled by her survival.
"Her grandmother and her mother and sisters were crazy with happiness, dancing, singing," he says. "It was a very happy moment to see that emotion. It's very rewarding."
Foreign and local caregivers are essential to stopping the virus’s deadly spread.
Karen Weintraub
Photographs by Samuel Aranda
PUBLISHED AUGUST 29, 2014
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...vers-doctors-nurses-west-africa-sierra-leone/
In two Land Rovers, one fitted out as an ambulance, a small team of humanitarian workers last week headed deep into Sierra Leone's jungle. After hours on deeply rutted paths that could barely be called roads, they stopped at a village that had seen ten reported cases of Ebola.
With the consent of the village chief, the team fanned out across the community, asking at each hut if anyone was feeling ill or had made contact with the earlier patients. At one, they found a mother nursing a seven-month-old, even though she had experienced bouts of bloody diarrhea and a fever of 102°F—possible signs of Ebola. A quick conversation revealed that the mother had recently attended the same funeral as the ten patients.
The aid workers knew right away they had to get the woman away from her village. It would improve her chances of recovery, even though those chances hovered at only about 30 percent. And it would protect her baby and husband, and the entire community, because Ebola is easily passed through bodily fluids such as diarrhea, vomit, and blood.
But that didn't make taking the woman away any easier.
"If you've got a mother crying, her baby crying, her husband crying, her grandmother crying, and the mother in desperate need of medical care, that's a very difficult situation," says Gabriel Fitzpatrick, an Irish infectious disease doctor who helped make the difficult decision to take the mother from her community to an Ebola hospital in Kailahun, a several hours' drive away.
Despite tears, the family didn't put up much of a fight. The terrors of the fever were already well known to the village.
"Nobody wants to split up a family," says Fitzpatrick, who works for the humanitarian group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders. But "if you let the mother stay there, the outcome is more people will be infected."
In West Africa, where history's worst-ever Ebola outbreak has sown terror in countries with virtually no health care infrastructure of their own—Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone—foreign health care workers like Fitzpatrick have been an essential part of the response since spring, when the disease began to spread rapidly.
The World Health Organization announced this week that another, unrelated outbreak began late last month more than 1,500 miles (2,414 kilometers) away in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after a pregnant woman ate infected meat. There are 24 suspected cases of Ebola in the northern part of the country, including 13 deaths.
In West Africa, so far the virus has claimed more than 1,500 lives—about half as many as are known to have been infected. Entire families have been wiped out. Medical care for other diseases, trauma, and childbirth—scant before the Ebola crisis—has evaporated. In the three hardest-hit countries, there are one or two doctors for every 100,000 people, and most are in cities, according to the World Health Organization.
The disease has struck health care workers, locals and foreigners, with particular force. At least 240 have fallen ill and 120 have died since the outbreak began last December, according to the WHO.
Such losses "deplete one of the most vital assets during the control of any outbreak," WHO said in a press release this week.
Many more have fled in fear. "The loss of so many doctors and nurses," the press release said, "has made it difficult for WHO to secure support from sufficient numbers of foreign medical staff."
International aid workers have been crucial in making up the difference, says Sophie Delaunay, MSF's executive director. The international aid group runs Ebola clinics throughout the affected region, including the 80-bed facility in Kailahun, where Fitzpatrick has spent the last month.
Photographer Samuel Aranda traveled earlier this month to Kailahun, a small town near Sierra Leone's borders with Guinea and Liberia, population 30,000, for National Geographic, shooting portraits of caregivers and photographs of affected communities. "The landscapes here are littered with destroyed buildings and burned houses that were abandoned and looted during the civil war," Aranda says.
He describes the MSF hospital there as well organized, with an incredibly dedicated staff.
On Tuesday, WHO announced it was temporarily pulling its own workers out of Kailahun, after one became ill with Ebola.
Médecins Sans Frontières has received a small but steady flow of volunteers from Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia, as well as other nations. "I’m surprised to see the number of people who really want to put their expertise at the service of our patients," Delaunay said in an interview, "and who actually are ready to stand by the patients."
The group has more than 1,800 staff members responding to the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria, 184 of whom are foreign volunteers. WHO has deployed 424 people so far, foreign and local, including doctors, public health workers, epidemiologists, and logistics experts. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, meanwhile, recently announced that it would send 50 staffers to help fight Ebola in West Africa.
More trained medical staff are desperately needed, largely to relieve those already worn out by the battle, Delaunay says. But she wants only volunteers who understand the dangers Ebola presents and who know how to work safely with protective gear. Anyone who doesn't can quickly get infected—and pass the disease on to others.
Giving Care, Taking Care
Respect for the virus—also known as fear—is constantly top of mind among aid workers. Geraldine Begue, a nurse from Luxembourg now working in Kailahun, said she's grateful for it. "It keeps you concentrated. You should not lose that fear," says Begue, who lives in Fribourg, Switzerland. "If you stay concentrated you can keep yourself safe."
[snip]
The precautions sound simple enough; if workers avoid contact with patients' bodily fluids by wearing protective suits, goggles, masks, and gloves, and by cleaning up thoroughly, there is no risk of catching the virus, Begue and others said. Just to be safe, Médecins Sans Frontières prohibits all physical contact with patients or others at the treatment center without protective gear.
"You have very intense moments and you want to hug someone and you can't," Begue says. She connects with patients the best she can through empathetic eye contact, as her eyes are the only part of her they can see through her protective goggles.
The suits are so stiflingly hot that no one can stand to be in them for more than an hour or two. And Begue can't spend much time with any one patient because there are so many more to treat. "There's never enough time," she says.
Begue's workday starts with running blood tests on patients admitted the day before, and on those who have been symptom-free for four days, who hope they'll be cleared to go home. Then she puts on protective gear so she can bring patients needed fluids, which she says is "the only thing that really helps them."
After that, she and her colleagues might restock the pharmacy and check on gear. There are no approved treatments for Ebola, although Writebol and Brantly received two of the limited courses that have been dispensed to date of an experimental treatment called ZMapp, which seemed to have helped. For everyone else, the best care mainly involves replacing fluids depleted by vomiting and diarrhea.
Begue's afternoons are spent waiting for lab results, "who is going to be admitted, who is going to get out, who is negative."
Next comes triage, the hardest part of Begue's day. She has to talk to patients, often through a translator, and gain enough trust that they'll tell the truth. "Patients keep lying to us," she says. "They don't see the point to telling us everything."
Some will say they don't know another patient, and it will turn out they are siblings.
Discerning whether a fever is due to Ebola or some other malady like malaria is another daily challenge. Every evening, Begue and the other nurses send some people home, hoping they have diagnosed them correctly as sick with something other than Ebola. Then they take blood samples from the people they suspect of having Ebola.
What scares her more than Ebola patients, Begue says, is her colleagues: "If someone else is not that careful—if someone makes a mistake and you don't know it, and he doesn't know it, he might give you Ebola."
The most dangerous time comes when the protective equipment is taken off. Simply touching the outside of a gown or goggles might be enough to transfer the Ebola virus to someone's skin. If the virus gets into the body through a cut, the eyes, or another orifice, it can wreak devastation.
Dozens of workers share the same eating areas, kitchen, and hotel space. "You never know how safe they have been," Begue says.
Harder still is accepting the reality that so many won't make it: "You know that less than 50 percent [of the patients] are going to survive."
Malcolm Hugo, a psychologist at the same Kailahun facility as Begue and Fitzpatrick, says he tries to make sure nurses break bad news to patients as gently as possible. Patients need time to adjust to the terrible diagnosis.
They also need help obtaining basic necessities, such as toothbrushes and clothes to wear while they're away from home. They need to be told exactly what will happen to them. And they need access to cell phones, so they can deliver the bad news to relatives and friends.
Hugo, of Adelaide, Australia, also counsels children and adults who may be the only survivors in an extended family.
Many have "intrusive thoughts, distressing memories, trouble sleeping" he says—the hallmarks of post-traumatic stress disorder. Some who survive the disease must cope with stigma when they go home. Family and neighbors often reject them, thinking they're still contagious, or that they'll bring bad luck.
Keep Coming Back
Yet Begue just re-upped for another month of duty. And Fitzpatrick, who's also been in Sierra Leone for a month, says he'll stay until the emails from his wife get longer and nastier. "Once the emails reach two pages, you know it's time to look at some airline tickets," he says.
Both say that they can cope with the tragedy and stress because they know they're making a difference. Begue quit a regular nursing job a few years ago and now goes on missions full-time; Fitzpatrick tries to make it on one mission a year in addition to his work at the Health Protection Surveillance Centre in Dublin.
"If someone wants to feel useful, this is the place to be," Begue says.
Without them and their colleagues, the patients would have far less chance of survival, and the virus would spread even farther than it has, Begue and Fitzpatrick say.
Deborah Eisenhut has another reason to put herself in harm's way: God. An Oregon native, Eisenhut has been a missionary doctor for seven years with the Christian group called SIM. "I feel that my faith gives me the purpose and the tools and the hope I can give people," she says.
Now in the United States, she hopes to return to the missionary hospital she ran for 16 months in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, before the end of the year. She was ordered home, along with all her colleagues, after some members of her mission were threatened and after Nancy Writebol, also of SIM, became ill. The Liberian government took over the hospital in late July.
It's hard, she says, knowing the suffering continues and that she can't help right now.
"You can't emotionally take on the responsibility for all of it," she says. "You do what you can do and let God deal with the rest."
That international aid workers can go home while locals have no escape is part of the reality of humanitarian missions, Begue and Fitzpatrick say. "It's bizarre that you can leave this place and leave them all here, and go back to your family and friends," Begue says.
Going home and getting a break is essential in humanitarian care, and MSF won't allow anyone to stay for more than six to eight weeks at a time. Caregivers who get worn out are more likely to make mistakes, infecting themselves and those around them.
That's why the international workers are housed in a hotel and are well fed. "If we slept ten in a tent," Begue says, "you could not rest and that would not help the mission."
What does help the mission are the success stories, the Ebola patients whose bodies manage to fight off the disease. Four days after the virus is no longer detectable in their bloodstream, they are allowed to go home.
The week before he had to take the mother away from her baby, Fitzpatrick accompanied a recovered 19-year-old girl back to her family.
Humanitarian workers always bring these patients home, rather than allow them to go alone. They shake the recovered patient's hands to show that they're not afraid, and give them a certificate verifying that their illness is over. These signs, they hope, will overcome any community reluctance to accept the patients back.
In this case, Fitzpatrick says, the woman's family was welcoming—and thrilled by her survival.
"Her grandmother and her mother and sisters were crazy with happiness, dancing, singing," he says. "It was a very happy moment to see that emotion. It's very rewarding."
Medical Maven
Deceased
What could amplify outbreaks here in The West this coming Fall and Winter?
Someone just becoming symptomatic with New Ebola who concurrently had a bad head cold with constant nasal dripping and manic sneezing attacks would be my definition of a superspreader.
The same thing could apply to someone with the flu cough.
It isn't just Malaria that could be present concurrently with New Ebola.
Cold and flu season is just ahead.
Someone just becoming symptomatic with New Ebola who concurrently had a bad head cold with constant nasal dripping and manic sneezing attacks would be my definition of a superspreader.
The same thing could apply to someone with the flu cough.
It isn't just Malaria that could be present concurrently with New Ebola.
Cold and flu season is just ahead.
SheWoff
Southern by choice
Ebola virus is 'mutating rapidly', experts warn
Researchers claim the Ebola virus disease (EVD) is rapidly and continually mutating, making it harder to diagnose and treat.
A study of the initial patients diagnosed with the virus in Sierra Leone revealed almost 400 genetic modifications.
And it could be detrimental not only to current treatments, but also to future vaccines that are in the works.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ture-vaccines-experts-warn.html#ixzz3BtLDowxk
Researchers claim the Ebola virus disease (EVD) is rapidly and continually mutating, making it harder to diagnose and treat.
A study of the initial patients diagnosed with the virus in Sierra Leone revealed almost 400 genetic modifications.
And it could be detrimental not only to current treatments, but also to future vaccines that are in the works.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ture-vaccines-experts-warn.html#ixzz3BtLDowxk
Possible Impact
TB Fanatic
Ebola Outbreak Spreads To 6th African Nation: 20 Cases In Senegal
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/30/2014 11:52 -0400
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-30/ebola-outbreak-spreads-6th-african-nation-20-cases-senegal
Despite border closures, flight bans, cordoning off the sick (and healthy), and rubber
(and live) bullets and tear gas on 'protesters'; the world's worst outbreak of Ebola just
keeps spreading, now to a sixth African nation. Just day after Congo (5th nation)
reported cases of Ebola, as The BBC reports, Senegal's health minister confirmed
the first case of Ebola in his nation yesterday and Bloomberg confirms 20
more people are "under surveillance." Meanwhile, in Guinea a Red Cross official
said riots had broken out in the nation's 2nd largest city over rumors that health
workers had infected people with the virus; and Nigerians are protesting plans to build
isolation units in some local clinics. "contained"
Senegal becomes the 6th African nation with Ebola after Congo, Nigeria, Guinea,
Sierra-Leone, and Liberia
As The BBC reports, Senegal had tried to block this...
Senegal had previously closed its border with Guinea in an attempt
to halt the spread of Ebola, but the frontier is porous.
It had also banned flights and ships from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra
Leone - the three worst-hit countries.
But...
Awa Marie Coll Seck told reporters on Friday that a young man from
Guinea had travelled to Senegal despite having been infected with
the virus.
The man was immediately placed in quarantine, she added.
For now he is 'stable'...
In Guinea, a 24-hour curfew has been imposed in the second city, Nzerekore,
because of a riot after the main market was sprayed with disinfectant in an
attempt to halt the spread of the virus.
The exact cause of the riot is not clear - some people reportedly feared the
spray would spread Ebola, while other chanted: "Ebola is a lie". Police
responded by firing tear gas.
"A rumor, which was totally false, spread that we had sprayed the
market in order to transmit the virus to locals," Traore said.
"People revolted and resorted to violence, prompting soldiers to
intervene."
The city is the capital of the Forest Region, where the Ebola epidemic has
its epicentre - near the town of Gueckedou.
However the BBC's Alhassan Sillah in Guinea says the town has
miraculously remained free of Ebola so far.
And Nigerians are not happy...
In Nigeria, meanwhile, some have pushed back against government plans
to build isolation units in their neighborhoods, even saying they would
sooner burn Ebola centers down than allow them to operate.
In the northern city of Kaduna, hundreds of people on Wednesday
protested plans to convert sections of a local clinic into an Ebola
treatment center. Many carried signs that said: "No Ebola in our
hospital."
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/30/2014 11:52 -0400
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-30/ebola-outbreak-spreads-6th-african-nation-20-cases-senegal
Despite border closures, flight bans, cordoning off the sick (and healthy), and rubber
(and live) bullets and tear gas on 'protesters'; the world's worst outbreak of Ebola just
keeps spreading, now to a sixth African nation. Just day after Congo (5th nation)
reported cases of Ebola, as The BBC reports, Senegal's health minister confirmed
the first case of Ebola in his nation yesterday and Bloomberg confirms 20
more people are "under surveillance." Meanwhile, in Guinea a Red Cross official
said riots had broken out in the nation's 2nd largest city over rumors that health
workers had infected people with the virus; and Nigerians are protesting plans to build
isolation units in some local clinics. "contained"
Senegal becomes the 6th African nation with Ebola after Congo, Nigeria, Guinea,
Sierra-Leone, and Liberia
As The BBC reports, Senegal had tried to block this...
Senegal had previously closed its border with Guinea in an attempt
to halt the spread of Ebola, but the frontier is porous.
It had also banned flights and ships from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra
Leone - the three worst-hit countries.
- *EBOLA-INFECTED MAN ENTERED SENEGAL BY CAR FROM GUINEA: MINISTER
Awa Marie Coll Seck told reporters on Friday that a young man from
Guinea had travelled to Senegal despite having been infected with
the virus.
The man was immediately placed in quarantine, she added.
- *EBOLA CASE IN SENEGAL IS STABLE, NO FEVER, MAY RECOVER
- *ABOUT 20 PEOPLE UNDER SURVEILLANCE FOR EBOLA: SENEGAL MINISTER
- *SENEGAL WILL REQUEST EBOLA DRUG VIA WORLD HEALTH ORG.: MINISTER
In Guinea, a 24-hour curfew has been imposed in the second city, Nzerekore,
because of a riot after the main market was sprayed with disinfectant in an
attempt to halt the spread of the virus.
The exact cause of the riot is not clear - some people reportedly feared the
spray would spread Ebola, while other chanted: "Ebola is a lie". Police
responded by firing tear gas.
"A rumor, which was totally false, spread that we had sprayed the
market in order to transmit the virus to locals," Traore said.
"People revolted and resorted to violence, prompting soldiers to
intervene."
The city is the capital of the Forest Region, where the Ebola epidemic has
its epicentre - near the town of Gueckedou.
However the BBC's Alhassan Sillah in Guinea says the town has
miraculously remained free of Ebola so far.
In Nigeria, meanwhile, some have pushed back against government plans
to build isolation units in their neighborhoods, even saying they would
sooner burn Ebola centers down than allow them to operate.
In the northern city of Kaduna, hundreds of people on Wednesday
protested plans to convert sections of a local clinic into an Ebola
treatment center. Many carried signs that said: "No Ebola in our
hospital."
Be Well
may all be well
Oops, keep forgetting:
For fair use and discussion
Nigeria:
Sister Of Dead Ebola Doctor Escapes From Port Harcourt As 200 Are Quarantined In Rivers State
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKAUG 29, 2014
http://saharareporters.com/2014/08/...ort-harcourt-200-are-quarantined-rivers-state
SaharaReporters has learned that a sister of a Port Harcourt-based medical doctor, Iyke Enemuo, who recently died from the Ebola virus, fled to Abia State to avoid being quarantined along with others who came into contact with the late doctor. However, one of her siblings, who is also a doctor, forced her to return to the quarantine center in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.
The woman helped care for her doctor brother as he suffered from the debilitating disease caused by the Ebola virus.
At least 200 people who came in contact with Dr. Enemuo, who died last Friday in Port Harcourt, have been placed in quarantine for close medical watch.
Dr. Enemuo had contracted the virus when he was secretly treating a staff of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) who, in turn, had had contact with Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-American who initially brought the disease into Nigeria. Mr. Sawyer had slumped at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos shortly after arriving there on July 20. He was rushed to a Lagos Hospital where he died five days later. A doctor, Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, and two nurses who helped care for Mr. Sawyer in Lagos have also died.
SaharaReporters discovered that the ECOWAS diplomat who had had contact with Mr. Sawyer flew to Port Harcourt the same day the Liberian American died, and met up with Dr. Enemuo. Apparently aware of the deadly nature of the disease afflicting the diplomat, Dr. Enemuo opted to treat him secretly at a local hotel.
After recovering, the ECOWAS staff flew back to Lagos to seek clearance to travel out of Nigeria. Quarantined and checked for Ebola in Lagos, he was found to be free of the virus. However, a few days after he left Port Harcourt, Dr. Enemuo took ill and was hospitalized at Good Health Hospital in Port Harcourt where he died of the disease.
The hospital has been closed down, and close to 70 people immediately quarantined by Nigerian health officials. However, as at last night, more than 200 people who had been in contact with Dr. Enemuo and the ECOWAS diplomat had been quarantined as well. Dr. Enemuo’s wife recently took ill with Ebola symptoms.
My comment: Yeah, really hard to catch!
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Nigeria:
Sister Of Dead Ebola Doctor Escapes From Port Harcourt As 200 Are Quarantined In Rivers State
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKAUG 29, 2014
http://saharareporters.com/2014/08/...ort-harcourt-200-are-quarantined-rivers-state
SaharaReporters has learned that a sister of a Port Harcourt-based medical doctor, Iyke Enemuo, who recently died from the Ebola virus, fled to Abia State to avoid being quarantined along with others who came into contact with the late doctor. However, one of her siblings, who is also a doctor, forced her to return to the quarantine center in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.
The woman helped care for her doctor brother as he suffered from the debilitating disease caused by the Ebola virus.
At least 200 people who came in contact with Dr. Enemuo, who died last Friday in Port Harcourt, have been placed in quarantine for close medical watch.
Dr. Enemuo had contracted the virus when he was secretly treating a staff of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) who, in turn, had had contact with Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-American who initially brought the disease into Nigeria. Mr. Sawyer had slumped at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos shortly after arriving there on July 20. He was rushed to a Lagos Hospital where he died five days later. A doctor, Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, and two nurses who helped care for Mr. Sawyer in Lagos have also died.
SaharaReporters discovered that the ECOWAS diplomat who had had contact with Mr. Sawyer flew to Port Harcourt the same day the Liberian American died, and met up with Dr. Enemuo. Apparently aware of the deadly nature of the disease afflicting the diplomat, Dr. Enemuo opted to treat him secretly at a local hotel.
After recovering, the ECOWAS staff flew back to Lagos to seek clearance to travel out of Nigeria. Quarantined and checked for Ebola in Lagos, he was found to be free of the virus. However, a few days after he left Port Harcourt, Dr. Enemuo took ill and was hospitalized at Good Health Hospital in Port Harcourt where he died of the disease.
The hospital has been closed down, and close to 70 people immediately quarantined by Nigerian health officials. However, as at last night, more than 200 people who had been in contact with Dr. Enemuo and the ECOWAS diplomat had been quarantined as well. Dr. Enemuo’s wife recently took ill with Ebola symptoms.
My comment: Yeah, really hard to catch!
Be Well
may all be well
The various assertions that any ebola cases in western countries will be immediately discovered and taken care of in hospitals and it won't spread and we don't have to worry, ring hollow. Especially in light of what you just posted.
Possible Impact
TB Fanatic
My Ebola doom dial was at 11,
getting a pair of pliers and twisting it to 12.
R0 (R nought) of at least low teens,
would be the result of this co-infection, IMHO.
Also, if you'll remember, the WHO said ~ 10% of (documented) contacts become infected
in this current Ebola outbreak.
They keep posting stories of "searching for 200 contacts" of missing/running
possible quarantine breakers, and "70 quarantined immediately" of close contacts.
They are implying an R0 of over 10 already, if everyone was counted.
(And additionally with New Ebola: As CFR goes down, the R0 goes up!)
I have been reading on these places getting sawyered is there a prayer to protect us from downright stupid?
I just can not fathom the level of whatever that provokes these folks to endanger innocent lives.
If you know you are a threat for crying out loud don't drag others into the line of fire.
Lord Have Mercy on us
r
I just can not fathom the level of whatever that provokes these folks to endanger innocent lives.
If you know you are a threat for crying out loud don't drag others into the line of fire.
Lord Have Mercy on us
r
helen
Panic Sex Lady
Sniffle ...
I can't outrun a four year old or outgun a terrorist or out-think a federal agent.
Yeah, it was all I had. Welcome TEOTWAKI to just ... get ... it ... over ... with ...
TEOPSAWKI ... I just can't get past the Ebola-zombie image ...
Panic Sex Lady gets ready to sell all her panties at her garage sale ... brand new, never dropped ...
Marthanoir
TB Fanatic
I buy boxes of Dioralyte sachets, fantastic stuff
It contains glucose, sodium chloride, potassium chloride and disodium hydrogen citrate
Dex
Constitutional Patriot
I just don't see how they can keep it under control now. It's getting to the point of exponential growth, I don't know what the actual tipping point would be but it can't be far off. At the tipping point it will have become a global pandemic that is IMPOSSIBLE to control with the current policies and will be beyond the point of recovery even with new quarantine policies on a global scale. It could make the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 seem trite in comparison.
So we have Zaire and Sudan and then a cross of Zaire/Sudan. There could potentially be a 4th new strain it seems. IMHO I think the only way there might be a 4th is if it was developed in a lab in which case that changes the entire dynamic of this growing epidemic. I'm on the fence about the possibility of this being a man made disaster that is more or less being capitalized upon. Maybe they decided to take the opportunity to grow this thing into a monster since it already had legs and a head.
It does appear that one or more of the versions are much more survivable compared to historical data. Many more people have been exposed to it than ever in the past which increases the data set. As the numbers grow the characteristics can potentially change.
I'm skeptical that it is "mutating" as it spreads. In reality it takes evolutionary scale leaps to dramatically change a species of virus but I would not at all rule it out either. Particularly if it's getting some "help."
I would not even dream that a holistic approach to treatment is viable, I think it is dangerous and possibly even naive to have such hope. Although I always support homeopathic "eastern" philosophies in medicine I'm not willing to stake my life on it in this case. Sure, obtain the supplies; the ingredients, take the precautions with what resources you can expend within reason and budget but don't dare hope that they will save you, you will need that hope when that is all you have to treat it with.
Focus on the supplies needed to quarantine and decontaminate, to bug in or to bug out. You will most certainly need full NBC gear if you are planning to bug out and have any real distance to travel, gear that strives to accomplish level 4 prophylaxis with an equal ability for decon. Bugging in will require creative deterrents to trespassers as well as graduated zones of decon required to pass through in order to travel into and out of the living areas.
It's hard to think of any greater danger that the world has had to face in recent history, so precariously out of balance and pregnant with disastrous potential an a scale of human extinction or at the VERY LEAST severely altering life as we know it.
So we have Zaire and Sudan and then a cross of Zaire/Sudan. There could potentially be a 4th new strain it seems. IMHO I think the only way there might be a 4th is if it was developed in a lab in which case that changes the entire dynamic of this growing epidemic. I'm on the fence about the possibility of this being a man made disaster that is more or less being capitalized upon. Maybe they decided to take the opportunity to grow this thing into a monster since it already had legs and a head.
It does appear that one or more of the versions are much more survivable compared to historical data. Many more people have been exposed to it than ever in the past which increases the data set. As the numbers grow the characteristics can potentially change.
I'm skeptical that it is "mutating" as it spreads. In reality it takes evolutionary scale leaps to dramatically change a species of virus but I would not at all rule it out either. Particularly if it's getting some "help."
I would not even dream that a holistic approach to treatment is viable, I think it is dangerous and possibly even naive to have such hope. Although I always support homeopathic "eastern" philosophies in medicine I'm not willing to stake my life on it in this case. Sure, obtain the supplies; the ingredients, take the precautions with what resources you can expend within reason and budget but don't dare hope that they will save you, you will need that hope when that is all you have to treat it with.
Focus on the supplies needed to quarantine and decontaminate, to bug in or to bug out. You will most certainly need full NBC gear if you are planning to bug out and have any real distance to travel, gear that strives to accomplish level 4 prophylaxis with an equal ability for decon. Bugging in will require creative deterrents to trespassers as well as graduated zones of decon required to pass through in order to travel into and out of the living areas.
It's hard to think of any greater danger that the world has had to face in recent history, so precariously out of balance and pregnant with disastrous potential an a scale of human extinction or at the VERY LEAST severely altering life as we know it.
Helen,
Celestial Seasonings has a new tea out called Sleepytime Peach, which I highly recommend. It keeps the Ebola zombies at bay, tastes much better than garlic (which I'm hoping works as well against zombies as it does against twinkly vampires) and won't leave you a zombie like adult beverages may. You don't have to outrun a four year old, out gun a terrorist or out-think a federal agent, who aren't obviously as smart as they are portrayed on TV. All you have to do is use your favorite tactic to attract someone who will solve the current problem.
For instance, if the problem is zombies, attract someone who is slower than you, so that you can escape while they eat the bait.
Or, attract someone who is a great shot, who will take out the terrorist.
Or, someone whom the federal agents want more than you.
And in the case of Ebola, attract a world class doctor who has a super secret hospital setup who will take care of you and you alone.
You simply can NOT sell your new, never dropped panties at your garage sale. Keep a proper stiff upper lip like the Brits and keep us all laughing. You need those panties. We need you.
Pinecone
(I may need to reconsider lacy panties as a prep item, now that I think about it!)
Edited to add: On second thought, I don't think I have it to be a panic sex lady. I think I'd better get more target practice and more lead. Well, maybe one I'll get one special pair. My husband will appreciate them when TSHTF.
Be Well
may all be well
From PFI, Pixie's snips. For fair use/discussion and all that good stuff
Senegal Puts 20 People on Watch After First Ebola Case
By Olivier Monnier Aug 30, 2014 1:09 PM ET
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...-people-on-watch-after-first-ebola-case.html?
Senegal placed 20 people who were exposed to the nation’s first Ebola case under surveillance, including the patient’s family and medical workers, Minister of Health Awa Marie Coll Seck said.
The 21-year-old college student from Guinea came in a six-passenger vehicle across a land border about three weeks ago, Seck said by phone from Dakar, Senegal’s capital, today. The man no longer has a fever and is expected to recover after being treated with antibiotics and hydration solutions, she said. He got sick after the funeral of a relative who died of the disease.
“Our biggest problem is to manage to track down all the persons he has been in touch with since the signs have appeared,” said Seck, a former director of the United Nations program on HIV and AIDS. “We don’t want to miss anyone. The most important moment is now.”
Senegal moved quickly to identify the patient’s contacts and limit the impact after the worst-ever outbreak of the viral disease spread to a fifth country.
[snip]
Family Funeral
The Guinean patient in Senegal, whose name has not been released, is related to someone from Sierra Leone who died from Ebola on Aug. 10, Guinea’s Ministry of Health said in a statement handed to reporters today. The patient traveled to the funeral 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Conakry, the capital, the ministry said.
Five days after the funeral, he traveled to Senegal. The man’s mother and sister died this week of Ebola and two of his brothers have tested positive for the disease, the Guinean ministry said. He had helped care for sick family members. Senegal’s Seck said yesterday that the man initially denied he had been exposed to Ebola when he went to Dakar’s main Fann Hospital this week.
[snip]
To contact the reporter on this story: Olivier Monnier in Abidjan at omonnier@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net Kristen Hallam, James Amott
Senegal Puts 20 People on Watch After First Ebola Case
By Olivier Monnier Aug 30, 2014 1:09 PM ET
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...-people-on-watch-after-first-ebola-case.html?
Senegal placed 20 people who were exposed to the nation’s first Ebola case under surveillance, including the patient’s family and medical workers, Minister of Health Awa Marie Coll Seck said.
The 21-year-old college student from Guinea came in a six-passenger vehicle across a land border about three weeks ago, Seck said by phone from Dakar, Senegal’s capital, today. The man no longer has a fever and is expected to recover after being treated with antibiotics and hydration solutions, she said. He got sick after the funeral of a relative who died of the disease.
“Our biggest problem is to manage to track down all the persons he has been in touch with since the signs have appeared,” said Seck, a former director of the United Nations program on HIV and AIDS. “We don’t want to miss anyone. The most important moment is now.”
Senegal moved quickly to identify the patient’s contacts and limit the impact after the worst-ever outbreak of the viral disease spread to a fifth country.
[snip]
Family Funeral
The Guinean patient in Senegal, whose name has not been released, is related to someone from Sierra Leone who died from Ebola on Aug. 10, Guinea’s Ministry of Health said in a statement handed to reporters today. The patient traveled to the funeral 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Conakry, the capital, the ministry said.
Five days after the funeral, he traveled to Senegal. The man’s mother and sister died this week of Ebola and two of his brothers have tested positive for the disease, the Guinean ministry said. He had helped care for sick family members. Senegal’s Seck said yesterday that the man initially denied he had been exposed to Ebola when he went to Dakar’s main Fann Hospital this week.
[snip]
To contact the reporter on this story: Olivier Monnier in Abidjan at omonnier@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net Kristen Hallam, James Amott
bw
Fringe Ranger
Looks like about $200 per lb. Gotta be cheaper to mix it yourself.
ETA: I misread the weight as ounces instead of pounds.
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