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SOME WHO FLED LIBERIA EBOLA CLINIC RE-HOSPITALIZED
An official says some of the people who fled an Ebola quarantine center when it was looted in Liberia's capital are again under observation.
Late Saturday, residents of Monrovia's West Point slum attacked a quarantine center, where people were being monitored for possible infection with Ebola. Up to 30 of these suspected Ebola patients fled during the raid, when items including bloody sheets and mattresses were stolen.
Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah said that at least some of the suspected patients were again being monitored at a hospital on Monday. It was not clear how they had been identified.
Liberian authorities have struggled to contain the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa and there are concerns that the raid will fuel the infection's spread.
Source : Sapa-AP /nsm
Date : 18 Aug 2014 14:27
An official says some of the people who fled an Ebola quarantine center when it was looted in Liberia's capital are again under observation.
Late Saturday, residents of Monrovia's West Point slum attacked a quarantine center, where people were being monitored for possible infection with Ebola. Up to 30 of these suspected Ebola patients fled during the raid, when items including bloody sheets and mattresses were stolen.
Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah said that at least some of the suspected patients were again being monitored at a hospital on Monday. It was not clear how they had been identified.
Liberian authorities have struggled to contain the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa and there are concerns that the raid will fuel the infection's spread.
Source : Sapa-AP /nsm
Date : 18 Aug 2014 14:27
Sometimes Africa deserves what it gets...
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Next step. Armed troops guarding the clinics.
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This will not work. If half the city masses up against said armed troops, the troops will either have to kill off a whole lot of people, or skedaddle without killing anybody...
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They already are in Freetown.
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LIBERIA IN DESPERATE HUNT FOR MISSING EBOLA PATIENTS
Liberian officials were searching Monday for 17 Ebola patients who fled an attack on a quarantine centre in the capital Monrovia, raising fears that they could spread the deadly and highly contagious disease.
"We have not yet found them," Information Minister Lewis Brown said, adding that "those who looted the place took away mattresses and bedding that were soaked with fluids from the patients."
On Saturday youths wielding clubs and knives raided the medical facility set up in a high school in the dense-populated West Point slum, some shouting "there's no Ebola", echoing wild rumours that the epidemic has been made up by the West to oppress Africans.
The authorities are now considering sealing off the area, home to around 75,000 people, although some reports suggest the infected patients may have already fled West Point.
"All those hooligans who looted the centre are all now probable carriers of the disease," said Brown, the spokesman for President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. "To quarantine the area could be one of the solutions."
"We run the risk of facing a difficult to control situation," he warned.
Ebola has killed at least 1,145 people in west Africa since the start of the year. There is no known cure for the haemorrhagic fever, which can be spread through bodily fluids including blood and sweat.
The head of the Health Workers Association of Liberia, George Williams, said the unit had housed 29 patients who "had all tested positive for Ebola" and were receiving preliminary treatment before being taken to hospital.
"Of the 29 patients, 17 fled (after the assault)," Williams said Sunday. "Nine died four days ago and three others were yesterday taken by force by their relatives" from the centre, he said.
Fallah Boima's son Michel was among the patients who fled the centre. "I am afraid that he could die somewhere, and I will not know", he told AFP.
Wilmont Johnson, head of a youth association in West Point, told journalists Monday that he had organised a search for the missing patients.
"We searched everywhere but we did not see them. Those who saw them passing told us that they have gone into other communities," Johnson said, suggesting that quarantining efforts might come too late.
The Ebola epidemic is the worst since the virus first appeared in 1976 in what was then Zaire and is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. It has claimed 413 lives in Liberia, 380 in Guinea, 348 in Sierra Leone and four in Nigeria, according to World Health Organization figures released on August 13.
Source : Sapa-AFP /nsm
Date : 18 Aug 2014 16:21
Liberian officials were searching Monday for 17 Ebola patients who fled an attack on a quarantine centre in the capital Monrovia, raising fears that they could spread the deadly and highly contagious disease.
"We have not yet found them," Information Minister Lewis Brown said, adding that "those who looted the place took away mattresses and bedding that were soaked with fluids from the patients."
On Saturday youths wielding clubs and knives raided the medical facility set up in a high school in the dense-populated West Point slum, some shouting "there's no Ebola", echoing wild rumours that the epidemic has been made up by the West to oppress Africans.
The authorities are now considering sealing off the area, home to around 75,000 people, although some reports suggest the infected patients may have already fled West Point.
"All those hooligans who looted the centre are all now probable carriers of the disease," said Brown, the spokesman for President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. "To quarantine the area could be one of the solutions."
"We run the risk of facing a difficult to control situation," he warned.
Ebola has killed at least 1,145 people in west Africa since the start of the year. There is no known cure for the haemorrhagic fever, which can be spread through bodily fluids including blood and sweat.
The head of the Health Workers Association of Liberia, George Williams, said the unit had housed 29 patients who "had all tested positive for Ebola" and were receiving preliminary treatment before being taken to hospital.
"Of the 29 patients, 17 fled (after the assault)," Williams said Sunday. "Nine died four days ago and three others were yesterday taken by force by their relatives" from the centre, he said.
Fallah Boima's son Michel was among the patients who fled the centre. "I am afraid that he could die somewhere, and I will not know", he told AFP.
Wilmont Johnson, head of a youth association in West Point, told journalists Monday that he had organised a search for the missing patients.
"We searched everywhere but we did not see them. Those who saw them passing told us that they have gone into other communities," Johnson said, suggesting that quarantining efforts might come too late.
The Ebola epidemic is the worst since the virus first appeared in 1976 in what was then Zaire and is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. It has claimed 413 lives in Liberia, 380 in Guinea, 348 in Sierra Leone and four in Nigeria, according to World Health Organization figures released on August 13.
Source : Sapa-AFP /nsm
Date : 18 Aug 2014 16:21
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LIBERIA 'LOSING GRIP ON EBOLA' AS HUNT FOR PATIENTS GOES ON
by Zoom Dosso
Liberia was desperately searching for 17 Ebola patients Monday who fled an attack on a quarantine centre in capital Monrovia, as the outbreak appeared to overwhelm authorities in west Africa's worst-hit nation.
Searches of the teeming West Point slum have so far failed to turn up any of the missing victims as neighbouring Guinea said a wave of sick Liberians had begun crossing the border, which it had officially closed 10 days ago.
Club-wielding youths raided a medical facility set up in a high school in the dense-populated Monrovia slum on Saturday, some shouting "there's no Ebola", echoing wild rumours that the epidemic had been made up by the West.
Ministers are considering sealing off the area -- home to 75,000 people -- to stop the nightmare scenario of people with the highly contagious disease wandering the city where unburied corpses have lain abandoned in the streets.
Information Minister Lewis Brown said: "All those hooligans who looted the centre are now probable carriers of the disease...they took mattresses and bedding that were soaked with fluids from the patients. To quarantine the area could be one of the solutions.
"We run the risk of facing a difficult to control situation," he warned.
Community leaders, however, said the patients have long gone.
Wilmont Johnson, head of a youth association in West Point which organised a search for the patients, told journalists Monday that "those who saw them passing told us that they have gone into other communities".
The head of the Health Workers Association of Liberia, George Williams, said of the 29 patients in the raided unit "all had tested positive for Ebola" and were receiving preliminary treatment before being taken to hospital.
Fallah Boima, whose son Michel was among the patients who fled, told AFP: "I am afraid that he could die somewhere and I will not know."
Outside the capital in Caldwell, relatives of the dead criticised the government for the slowness of its response, claiming that bodies were being left uncollected there for days.
Sheikh Idrissa Swaray, the father of one victim slammed the way government was handling the crisis as "completely wrong."
He said in one case a man had died and his wife had run away, possibly infected herself.
"We don't even know where the wife has gone and the body is still here. Three days now and the body has not been taken."
Liberia already has the highest death rate of the epidemic, which has killed at least 1,145 people across west Africa since the start of the year. Its toll of 413 dead last week overtook that of Sierra Leone and Guinea where the outbreak began, despite a state of emergency being declared.
Dr Sakoba Keita, who is heading Guinea's fight against the epidemic, told AFP that a wave of sick Liberians were crossing the border in the Macenta district in the south of country, where Ebola had up till now been on the wane.
"We are very worried about this situation of sick people arriving from Liberia. We are having more and more suspected cases in the area," he said.
A Guinean military doctor on his way to the border said: "We are doing everything we can but there is a huge gulf between the rhetoric and the situation on the ground."
Guinea announced 10 days ago that it was closing its borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone, a forested region notoriously hard to police, and it was unclear how the sick patients made it into the country.
There is no known cure for Ebola, a haemorraghic fever which can be spread through bodily fluids including blood and sweat.
The epidemic is the worst since the virus first appeared in 1976 in what was then Zaire and is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. It has also claimed 380 lives in Guinea, 348 in Sierra Leone and four in Nigeria, according to World Health Organization figures released on August 13.
Meanwhile, the African Union Monday cancelled its summit scheduled for September 2 in Ouagadougou because of the epidemic, although Burkina Faso is so far unaffected.
In Europe, the EU border agency Frontex said it was suspending flights deporting migrants back to Nigeria because of the outbreak.
Source : Sapa-AFP /gm
Date : 18 Aug 2014 18:22
by Zoom Dosso
Liberia was desperately searching for 17 Ebola patients Monday who fled an attack on a quarantine centre in capital Monrovia, as the outbreak appeared to overwhelm authorities in west Africa's worst-hit nation.
Searches of the teeming West Point slum have so far failed to turn up any of the missing victims as neighbouring Guinea said a wave of sick Liberians had begun crossing the border, which it had officially closed 10 days ago.
Club-wielding youths raided a medical facility set up in a high school in the dense-populated Monrovia slum on Saturday, some shouting "there's no Ebola", echoing wild rumours that the epidemic had been made up by the West.
Ministers are considering sealing off the area -- home to 75,000 people -- to stop the nightmare scenario of people with the highly contagious disease wandering the city where unburied corpses have lain abandoned in the streets.
Information Minister Lewis Brown said: "All those hooligans who looted the centre are now probable carriers of the disease...they took mattresses and bedding that were soaked with fluids from the patients. To quarantine the area could be one of the solutions.
"We run the risk of facing a difficult to control situation," he warned.
Community leaders, however, said the patients have long gone.
Wilmont Johnson, head of a youth association in West Point which organised a search for the patients, told journalists Monday that "those who saw them passing told us that they have gone into other communities".
The head of the Health Workers Association of Liberia, George Williams, said of the 29 patients in the raided unit "all had tested positive for Ebola" and were receiving preliminary treatment before being taken to hospital.
Fallah Boima, whose son Michel was among the patients who fled, told AFP: "I am afraid that he could die somewhere and I will not know."
Outside the capital in Caldwell, relatives of the dead criticised the government for the slowness of its response, claiming that bodies were being left uncollected there for days.
Sheikh Idrissa Swaray, the father of one victim slammed the way government was handling the crisis as "completely wrong."
He said in one case a man had died and his wife had run away, possibly infected herself.
"We don't even know where the wife has gone and the body is still here. Three days now and the body has not been taken."
Liberia already has the highest death rate of the epidemic, which has killed at least 1,145 people across west Africa since the start of the year. Its toll of 413 dead last week overtook that of Sierra Leone and Guinea where the outbreak began, despite a state of emergency being declared.
Dr Sakoba Keita, who is heading Guinea's fight against the epidemic, told AFP that a wave of sick Liberians were crossing the border in the Macenta district in the south of country, where Ebola had up till now been on the wane.
"We are very worried about this situation of sick people arriving from Liberia. We are having more and more suspected cases in the area," he said.
A Guinean military doctor on his way to the border said: "We are doing everything we can but there is a huge gulf between the rhetoric and the situation on the ground."
Guinea announced 10 days ago that it was closing its borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone, a forested region notoriously hard to police, and it was unclear how the sick patients made it into the country.
There is no known cure for Ebola, a haemorraghic fever which can be spread through bodily fluids including blood and sweat.
The epidemic is the worst since the virus first appeared in 1976 in what was then Zaire and is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. It has also claimed 380 lives in Guinea, 348 in Sierra Leone and four in Nigeria, according to World Health Organization figures released on August 13.
Meanwhile, the African Union Monday cancelled its summit scheduled for September 2 in Ouagadougou because of the epidemic, although Burkina Faso is so far unaffected.
In Europe, the EU border agency Frontex said it was suspending flights deporting migrants back to Nigeria because of the outbreak.
Source : Sapa-AFP /gm
Date : 18 Aug 2014 18:22
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SA MAN TESTS NEGATIVE FOR EBOLA
A South African man admitted to Charlotte Maxeke Hospital for suspected Ebola tested negative, the health ministry said on Monday.
"The condition of the patient is stable and the results of the Ebola virus disease are negative," spokesman Joe Maila said in a statement.
"We have also conducted the tests for malaria and the results are also negative."
Further tests were being carried out to check for other infections.
The 37-year-old man, who worked as a health and safety officer in a mining operation in Liberia, was admitted to hospital on Sunday.
He returned to South Africa on August 6.
The man had no contact with any patients in Liberia. He was fine on arrival in the country, but on August 16 he became feverish and went to his doctor.
He went home and was monitored, but when his temperature increased he was taken to hospital for further assessment.
"As a precautionary measure, given his history of working in Liberia, the protocol developed for haemorrhagic fevers needed to be followed," Maila said on Sunday.
On August 14, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said there were no known Ebola cases in South Africa.
A pregnant Guinea woman, suspected to have been infected with the virus, had tested negative for Ebola. She was admitted to Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital because of a severe fever during labour.
Maila on Monday said a team from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases had been dispatched to Sierra Leone with the necessary equipment to assist in containing Ebola in that region.
Source : Sapa /mar/jk/ar/lp
Date : 18 Aug 2014 15:14
A South African man admitted to Charlotte Maxeke Hospital for suspected Ebola tested negative, the health ministry said on Monday.
"The condition of the patient is stable and the results of the Ebola virus disease are negative," spokesman Joe Maila said in a statement.
"We have also conducted the tests for malaria and the results are also negative."
Further tests were being carried out to check for other infections.
The 37-year-old man, who worked as a health and safety officer in a mining operation in Liberia, was admitted to hospital on Sunday.
He returned to South Africa on August 6.
The man had no contact with any patients in Liberia. He was fine on arrival in the country, but on August 16 he became feverish and went to his doctor.
He went home and was monitored, but when his temperature increased he was taken to hospital for further assessment.
"As a precautionary measure, given his history of working in Liberia, the protocol developed for haemorrhagic fevers needed to be followed," Maila said on Sunday.
On August 14, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said there were no known Ebola cases in South Africa.
A pregnant Guinea woman, suspected to have been infected with the virus, had tested negative for Ebola. She was admitted to Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital because of a severe fever during labour.
Maila on Monday said a team from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases had been dispatched to Sierra Leone with the necessary equipment to assist in containing Ebola in that region.
Source : Sapa /mar/jk/ar/lp
Date : 18 Aug 2014 15:14
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EBOLA NOT A THREAT TO TOURISM: GOV
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is no threat to tourism in South Africa, Communications Minister Faith Muthambi said on Tuesday.
"Government reiterates that South Africa remains the destination of choice for tourism," she said in a statement.
"No cases of the Ebola virus have been reported in the country, and government is confident of the systems and protocols that are in place to address any incidence of the virus."
Muthambi was responding to an article in The Times newspaper which claimed tourists from Asian countries had cancelled trips to the country over fears of contracting the deadly virus.
The paper reported that at least 1500 tourists from Thailand had cancelled their trips scheduled for August and September.
"It is unfortunate that the newspaper would choose to report that a handful of tourists cancelled their trip due to fears, which according to the report are based on erroneous facts about the virus."
Muthambi said the risk of Ebola being introduced into South Africa remained low and the tourism industry remained vibrant and lucrative.
The virus has devastated countries in West Africa with the death toll standing at 1145. According to the Agence France-Presse news agency, Liberia had the highest death toll in the epidemic since the start of the year.
Its toll of 413 dead last week overtook that of Sierra Leone and Guinea where the outbreak began.
Muthambi said tourist arrivals to South Africa in 2013 showed positive growth from all regions. She said the country was one of the most-sought after global destinations offering a diverse variety of unforgettable experiences, which included leisure, business and events.
"As a sought-after destination, government reiterates that it has ensured that stringent measures have been put in place. The surveillance for viral haemorrhagic fevers has been strengthened at ports of entry," she said.
Source : Sapa /kn/jk/lp/jje
Date : 19 Aug 2014 15:22
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is no threat to tourism in South Africa, Communications Minister Faith Muthambi said on Tuesday.
"Government reiterates that South Africa remains the destination of choice for tourism," she said in a statement.
"No cases of the Ebola virus have been reported in the country, and government is confident of the systems and protocols that are in place to address any incidence of the virus."
Muthambi was responding to an article in The Times newspaper which claimed tourists from Asian countries had cancelled trips to the country over fears of contracting the deadly virus.
The paper reported that at least 1500 tourists from Thailand had cancelled their trips scheduled for August and September.
"It is unfortunate that the newspaper would choose to report that a handful of tourists cancelled their trip due to fears, which according to the report are based on erroneous facts about the virus."
Muthambi said the risk of Ebola being introduced into South Africa remained low and the tourism industry remained vibrant and lucrative.
The virus has devastated countries in West Africa with the death toll standing at 1145. According to the Agence France-Presse news agency, Liberia had the highest death toll in the epidemic since the start of the year.
Its toll of 413 dead last week overtook that of Sierra Leone and Guinea where the outbreak began.
Muthambi said tourist arrivals to South Africa in 2013 showed positive growth from all regions. She said the country was one of the most-sought after global destinations offering a diverse variety of unforgettable experiences, which included leisure, business and events.
"As a sought-after destination, government reiterates that it has ensured that stringent measures have been put in place. The surveillance for viral haemorrhagic fevers has been strengthened at ports of entry," she said.
Source : Sapa /kn/jk/lp/jje
Date : 19 Aug 2014 15:22
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LIBERIA: MISSING QUARANTINED PATIENTS ARE FOUND
All the people who were being screened for Ebola when they fled a health center during looting are now back in a hospital, a Liberian official said Tuesday.
The patients ran away when an Ebola holding facility was ransacked in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, on Saturday night, raising fears that the deadly virus might spread into the densely populated slum surrounding it. Information Minister Lewis Brown said Tuesday that the last 17 people who were missing are now in a treatment center at the capital's major hospital.
The people who fled have not yet been confirmed with Ebola; they were in the holding center because they were at risk of getting the disease. Brown said they are now being tested.
"They were traced and finally they turned themselves in at the JFK" hospital, Brown told The Associated Press.
During the looting, residents of the West Point slum stole bloody sheets and mattresses, which could spread the disease further. It is not clear where those items are.
The raid was the latest setback in the struggle to contain the outbreak, which the World Health Organization said Tuesday has killed more than 1,200 people in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria since it began in December 2013. More than 2,200 have been sickened.
Authorities have had difficulty persuading the sick to seek treatment, relatives have sometimes taken their loved ones away from health centers and mobs have occasionally attacked health workers.
But the WHO said Tuesday that it is seeing some encouraging signs in Guinea, where people from villages that had previously rejected outside help were beginning to seek medical care. The statement said the situation is "less alarming" in Guinea than it is in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Although the outbreak began in Guinea, Liberia now has recorded the highest number of deaths and Sierra Leone the highest number of cases.
The WHO also said that there is "cautious optimism" that the spread of the virus in Nigeria can be stopped. So far, all recorded cases have been linked to one man, who flew from Liberia to Nigeria while he was already infected. Experts have extensively searched for anyone he or those he infected came into contact with and isolated all the sick.
"The outbreak is not under control," the statement said, despite some progress. "As recent experience shows, progress is fragile, with a real risk that the outbreak could experience another flare-up."
In an effort to stem the spread of Ebola, officials have imposed quarantines and travel restrictions for the sick and those in contact with them, sometimes shutting off whole villages and counties.
Those restrictions are limiting access to food and other basic necessities, said the WHO. The U.N. World Food Program has said that it is preparing to deliver food to 1 million people over the next three months.
"I think now there is a high vigilance in all countries," Fadela Chaib, a WHO spokeswoman told reporters in Geneva. "I can't remember the last time we fed 1 million people in a quarantine situation."
Source : Sapa-AP /kd
Date : 19 Aug 2014 15:38
All the people who were being screened for Ebola when they fled a health center during looting are now back in a hospital, a Liberian official said Tuesday.
The patients ran away when an Ebola holding facility was ransacked in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, on Saturday night, raising fears that the deadly virus might spread into the densely populated slum surrounding it. Information Minister Lewis Brown said Tuesday that the last 17 people who were missing are now in a treatment center at the capital's major hospital.
The people who fled have not yet been confirmed with Ebola; they were in the holding center because they were at risk of getting the disease. Brown said they are now being tested.
"They were traced and finally they turned themselves in at the JFK" hospital, Brown told The Associated Press.
During the looting, residents of the West Point slum stole bloody sheets and mattresses, which could spread the disease further. It is not clear where those items are.
The raid was the latest setback in the struggle to contain the outbreak, which the World Health Organization said Tuesday has killed more than 1,200 people in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria since it began in December 2013. More than 2,200 have been sickened.
Authorities have had difficulty persuading the sick to seek treatment, relatives have sometimes taken their loved ones away from health centers and mobs have occasionally attacked health workers.
But the WHO said Tuesday that it is seeing some encouraging signs in Guinea, where people from villages that had previously rejected outside help were beginning to seek medical care. The statement said the situation is "less alarming" in Guinea than it is in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Although the outbreak began in Guinea, Liberia now has recorded the highest number of deaths and Sierra Leone the highest number of cases.
The WHO also said that there is "cautious optimism" that the spread of the virus in Nigeria can be stopped. So far, all recorded cases have been linked to one man, who flew from Liberia to Nigeria while he was already infected. Experts have extensively searched for anyone he or those he infected came into contact with and isolated all the sick.
"The outbreak is not under control," the statement said, despite some progress. "As recent experience shows, progress is fragile, with a real risk that the outbreak could experience another flare-up."
In an effort to stem the spread of Ebola, officials have imposed quarantines and travel restrictions for the sick and those in contact with them, sometimes shutting off whole villages and counties.
Those restrictions are limiting access to food and other basic necessities, said the WHO. The U.N. World Food Program has said that it is preparing to deliver food to 1 million people over the next three months.
"I think now there is a high vigilance in all countries," Fadela Chaib, a WHO spokeswoman told reporters in Geneva. "I can't remember the last time we fed 1 million people in a quarantine situation."
Source : Sapa-AP /kd
Date : 19 Aug 2014 15:38
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EBOLA KILLS 84 IN THREE DAYS: UN
The Ebola virus killed 84 people in just three days, bringing the global death toll to 1,229, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
The death toll, which passed the 1,000-mark over a week ago, soared higher from last Thursday to Saturday.
The number of confirmed infections jumped by 113 over the three days, bringing the total number of cases to 2,240, the UN health agency said.
The epidemic, which has hit four west African nations since it broke out in Guinea at the start of the year, is by far the deadliest since Ebola was discovered four decades ago in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Liberia was the hardest-hit country in the latest figures, with 48 new cases and 53 deaths.
That lifted its total count of cases to 834, with 466 deaths.
The new WHO toll predates an attack overnight Saturday on a quarantine centre in the Liberian capital Monrovia that caused 17 Ebola patients to flee who remain missing.
Sierra Leone recorded 38 new infections and 17 fatalities, the new WHO data showed.
As a result, Sierra Leone's total case count increased to 848 and its death toll to 365.
Guinea counted 24 new cases and 14 new deaths. That lifted the total number of cases to 543, with 394 deaths.
Nigeria, meanwhile, recorded three new cases but no deaths.
All told, Nigeria has now seen 15 cases and four fatalities, the data show.
Source : Sapa-AFP /kd
Date : 19 Aug 2014 15:57
The Ebola virus killed 84 people in just three days, bringing the global death toll to 1,229, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
The death toll, which passed the 1,000-mark over a week ago, soared higher from last Thursday to Saturday.
The number of confirmed infections jumped by 113 over the three days, bringing the total number of cases to 2,240, the UN health agency said.
The epidemic, which has hit four west African nations since it broke out in Guinea at the start of the year, is by far the deadliest since Ebola was discovered four decades ago in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Liberia was the hardest-hit country in the latest figures, with 48 new cases and 53 deaths.
That lifted its total count of cases to 834, with 466 deaths.
The new WHO toll predates an attack overnight Saturday on a quarantine centre in the Liberian capital Monrovia that caused 17 Ebola patients to flee who remain missing.
Sierra Leone recorded 38 new infections and 17 fatalities, the new WHO data showed.
As a result, Sierra Leone's total case count increased to 848 and its death toll to 365.
Guinea counted 24 new cases and 14 new deaths. That lifted the total number of cases to 543, with 394 deaths.
Nigeria, meanwhile, recorded three new cases but no deaths.
All told, Nigeria has now seen 15 cases and four fatalities, the data show.
Source : Sapa-AFP /kd
Date : 19 Aug 2014 15:57
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Eeee-yep.
And the sad thing is, they won't realize it until it is too late, that their own ignorance is leading them down that path...
From medical staff perspective...it's an uphill battle in those countries. People don't realise that these aliens with masks, gloves and goggles are actually trying to help them
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GERMANY QUARANTINES SUSPECTED EBOLA PATIENT
German health authorities Tuesday took to hospital and quarantined a 30-year-old West African woman who showed symptoms consistent with the deadly Ebola disease.
Dozens of other visitors and staff at a Berlin employment office building were also stopped from leaving for several hours as emergency services sealed off part of the street.
The mass-circulation Bild daily said the woman had fainted, that she hailed from Nigeria and that she said later that she had recently been in contact with people infected with Ebola.
Several people who had been with the woman inside the building in the northeastern district of Prenzlauer Berg were later also taken to hospital for testing.
Berlin fire department spokesman Rolf Erbe said that because the patient came from "an area affected by a highly contagious disease, we took these precautions."
He said the testing in the city's Charite hospital would take some time.
"The patient was isolated inside the ambulance, the staff took the appropriate protective measures. An emergency medic, the public health officer, arrived and the necessary precautions were taken," he added.
West Africa's Ebola epidemic, which has hit four nations since it broke out in Guinea early this year, is by far the deadliest since the virus was discovered four decades ago in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The UN World Health Organization said Tuesday the Ebola virus had killed 84 people in just three days, bringing the global death toll to 1,229, while confirmed, probable and suspect infections rose to 2,240.
Source : Sapa-AFP /kd
Date : 19 Aug 2014 16:36
German health authorities Tuesday took to hospital and quarantined a 30-year-old West African woman who showed symptoms consistent with the deadly Ebola disease.
Dozens of other visitors and staff at a Berlin employment office building were also stopped from leaving for several hours as emergency services sealed off part of the street.
The mass-circulation Bild daily said the woman had fainted, that she hailed from Nigeria and that she said later that she had recently been in contact with people infected with Ebola.
Several people who had been with the woman inside the building in the northeastern district of Prenzlauer Berg were later also taken to hospital for testing.
Berlin fire department spokesman Rolf Erbe said that because the patient came from "an area affected by a highly contagious disease, we took these precautions."
He said the testing in the city's Charite hospital would take some time.
"The patient was isolated inside the ambulance, the staff took the appropriate protective measures. An emergency medic, the public health officer, arrived and the necessary precautions were taken," he added.
West Africa's Ebola epidemic, which has hit four nations since it broke out in Guinea early this year, is by far the deadliest since the virus was discovered four decades ago in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The UN World Health Organization said Tuesday the Ebola virus had killed 84 people in just three days, bringing the global death toll to 1,229, while confirmed, probable and suspect infections rose to 2,240.
Source : Sapa-AFP /kd
Date : 19 Aug 2014 16:36
