Ebola virus in Guinea ‘most aggressive, near totally fatal’

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Why do you think those medical personnel in the US are covering their entire heads when they get near a possible ebola patient? Everything: eyes, nose, ears and mouth.
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I don't know why he's wearing his PPE like that, but as you can see he doesn't even have on the proper body suit. All of his attire does not meet regulatory standards.

I was merely responding that way because I was hoping you were not implying that the virus was airborne.
 
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seems like china reallyy ain't playing with their relationship with Africa :ohhh:



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A Chinese plane carrying emergency humanitarian supplies for Sierra Leone arrived in the country's capital Freetown on Monday afternoon, as part of effort to help the country contain the spread of Ebola.

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Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone Zhao Yanbo (2nd R, front), Deputy Minster of Foreign Affairs of Sierra Leone Ebun Strasser-King (1st R, front) and Sierra Leone's Deputy Minister of Health Abu Bakar Fofanah (2nd L) attend a transferring ceremony of emergency humanitarian supplies provided by China at the airport in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone, Aug. 11, 2014. (Xinhua)

The aid materials which were brought by a special chartered flight from China included personal protective gears, gloves and glasses as well as chlorine and other medicines to help fight the disease.

China announced on Sunday it would dispatch three expert teams and medical supplies to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to help the three West African countries fight against the outbreak of the virus.

This is the second batch of Ebola relief provided by China to West Africa. China delivered its first batch of supplies in May, mostly for disease prevention, control and treatment, to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau.

Chinese President Xi Jinping sent messages on Sunday separately to Guinean President Alpha Conde, Sierra Leone President Ernest Koroma and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, expressing sympathy and solicitude for human and economic losses caused by the Ebola outbreak.

Receiving the materials on behalf of the President, the government and people of Sierra Leone, the Deputy Minster of Foreign Affairs, Ebun Strasser-King said the Chinese government demonstrated that "a friend in need is a friend indeed."

She noted that the Ebola "took us by surprise and met us when we were ill prepared for it". It is in this vein that the government and people welcome this gesture by the Chinese. She maintained that "our friendship has been based on friendship and brotherhood."

Representing the Health Ministry, the Deputy Minister Abu Bakar Fofanah reechoed the sentiments of his colleague, noting that the gifts are a milestone in the China-Sierra Leone relation. He commended the Chinese for putting all protocols aside by coming to the immediate help of Sierra Leone.

The Ebola virus, which spreads through bodily fluids with those infected, has killed 961 people and affected 1,779 others this year in West Africa, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

The World Health Organization warned on Friday that the disease is now a "public health emergency of international concern" and called for a coordinated international response to stop and reverse the international spread of Ebola.




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Three Chinese disease control experts arrive at the airport of Conakry, capital of Guinea, Aug. 11, 2014. The National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) announced on Saturday that China would send three expert teams and medical supplies to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to assist the prevention and control of the Ebola virus. (Xinhua/Cellou)

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Local workers unload emergency humanitarian supplies provided by China from a chartered plane at the airport in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone, Aug. 11, 2014. A Chinese plane carrying emergency humanitarian supplies for Sierra Leone arrived in the country's capital Freetown on Monday afternoon, as part of effort to help the country contain the spread of Ebola. (Xinhua)
 
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Some how scientist can't find the animal source of the virus or how it transferred to humans. Gosh.
 
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Using a Tactic Unseen in a Century, Countries Cordon Off Ebola-Racked Areas
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.AUG. 12, 2014

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    Plans for the new cordon were announced on Aug. 1 at an emergency meeting in Conakry, Guinea, of the Mano River Union, a regional association of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the three countries hardest hit by Ebola, according to Agence France-Presse. The plan was to isolate a triangular area where the three countries meet, separated only by porous borders, and where 70 percent of the cases known at that time had been found.

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    Troops began closing internal roads in Liberia and Sierra Leone last week. The epidemic began in southern Guinea in December, but new cases there have slowed to a trickle. In the other two countries, the number of new cases is still rapidly rising. As of Monday, the region had seen 1,848 cases and 1,013 deaths, according to the World Health Organization, although many experts think that the real count is much higher because families in remote villages are avoiding hospitals and hiding victims.

    Officials at the health organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which have experts advising the countries, say the tactic could help contain the outbreak but want to see it used humanely.

    “It might work,” said Dr. Martin S. Cetron, the disease center’s chief quarantine expert. “But it has a lot of potential to go poorly if it’s not done with an ethical approach. Just letting the disease burn out and considering that the price of controlling it — we don’t live in that era anymore. And as soon as cases are under control, one should dial back the restrictions.”

    Experts said that any cordon must let food, water and medical care reach those inside, and that the trust of inhabitants must be won through communication with their leaders.

    The phrase cordon sanitaire, or sanitary barrier, appears to date from 1821, when France sent 30,000 troops into the Pyrenees to stop a lethal fever raging in Spain from crossing the border.

    In Sierra Leone, large sections of the Kailahun and Kenema districts, an area the size of Jamaica, have been cut off by military roadblocks. Soldiers check the credentials and take the temperatures of those trying to go in or out. In Liberia, similar restrictions have been imposed north of the capital, Monrovia.




    Nigeria is not involved because its small Ebola outbreak is hundreds of miles away. All 10 confirmed cases there are in Lagos, the financial capital, and all are apparently linked to a Liberian-American who arrived there on a flight and later died.

    Inside the cordoned area of Sierra Leone and Liberia, alarmed residents have told reporters that they fear starving because food prices are rising. Many farmers have died, and traders who cannot travel cannot earn money.

    It is not clear whether plans to deliver food, water and care are underway.

    When cordons are imposed, “human rights have to be respected,” said Gregory Hartl, a spokesman for the World Health Organization, which last week declared the outbreak an international public health emergency.

    The agency will work with the World Food Program and other agencies to make sure food and supplies get in, he said.

    W.H.O. officials attended the Conakry meeting but did not join the Aug. 1 announcement of the planned cordon. They have not opposed it, either.

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    “It seems like a reflexive movement by the governments to show that they’re doing something, and since they have armies more elaborate than their health care systems, they use the army,” said Dr. William Schaffner, the head of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University’s medical school.

    There have been nearly 20 Ebola outbreaks in Africa since the disease was discovered in 1976, and all previous ones were beaten by the same tactics: Teams of outside health experts, usually from Europe and the United States, flew in, recruited local health workers and set up field hospitals where all known victims were quarantined and treated. The teams also took over burials, disinfecting and bagging bodies. They traced all contacts of known victims and hospitalized any people who fell ill. Health workers protected themselves with gloves, coveralls, masks, bleach spray and the burning of used gear.

    This time, however, the outbreak quickly spread among the three contiguous countries, all battered by political dysfunction and civil wars. None had seen the virus before, and the global response was initially slow and inadequate. Protective equipment quickly ran out; leading local doctors fell ill and even died, stirring panic.

    Now, experts say, the epidemic is too big to control with the old tactics. Tracing contacts requires many health care workers, because any victim — especially a nurse or a market trader — could have had physical contact with dozens of people.

    And health care workers are often fearful of helping people who may have Ebola. It may become necessary, Dr. Cetron suggested, to pay people within the cordon to report cases and victims’ contacts.

    Before the modern era of vaccines, antibiotics and infection control, cordons sanitaires were far more common.

    As louse-borne typhus swept through post-revolutionary Russia, the victors in World War I closed Poland’s eastern border. Travelers wanting to cross had to be interned, bathed, shaved and deloused, and their clothes had to be treated with steam and chemicals.

    The most famous voluntary cordon, according to Joseph P. Byrne, a historian at Belmont University in Nashville, was of the English village of Eyam. In 1665, the plague reached it from London, probably in fleas on cloth shipped to a local tailor, the first to die. The village, which had about 350 people, voluntarily cordoned itself off from the spring until November to prevent the plague from spreading to the rest of Derbyshire. Grateful people from other villages left food outside a circle of stones around Eyam. Only a quarter of the village survived, but the plague did not spread.

    The United States has its own history of cordons, some with racial overtones. In 1899, a 35-acre area of Honolulu housing its Chinese and Japanese residents was sealed off by the Hawaii National Guard and white vigilantes because of the plague. Workers with outside jobs had to pass through showers. Ultimately, a blaze started by the Fire Department to burn flea-infested buildings got out of control and destroyed much of the district, leaving 8,000 people homeless.

    Adam Nossiter contributed reporting from Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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The disease has a damn patent and shockingly they were successfully able to treat 2 white dudes with a cure

These son of a bytches poisoning our people

Then they want to come in at the 11th hour with a cure in exchange for power of more resources and land

Create the problem , then be the solution

This devil is for real
 
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Kenya to suspend entry from Ebola-hit Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone


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© Simon Maina, AFP | Kenyan health officials take the temperatures of passengers arriving at Nairobi's international airport
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Kenya on Saturday said it is closing its borders for travellers coming from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three countries worst hit by the Ebola epidemic.
In a statement, Kenya’s government said it would “temporarily suspend entry into Kenya of passengers travelling from and through the three West African countries affected by Ebola namely Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, effective midnight, Tuesday 19th August 2014”.

The government said the suspension would, however, exclude “health professionals supporting efforts to contain the outbreak and Kenyan citizens returning home from those three countries”, but noted they would undergo extensive screening upon their return and, if necessary, “be quarantined”.

At least 1,145 people have died from the deadly virus across Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria so far, and health experts have warned that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa may last another six months.

Also on Saturday, Kenya Airways announced it would suspend flights to the three countries when the government travel bar on passengers comes into effect.

(FRANCE 24 with AP, AFP)

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Ebola Epidemic Most Likely Much Larger Than Reported, W.H.O. Says
By NICK CUMMING-BRUCEAUG. 15, 2014

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    RELATED COVERAGEThe epidemic is still growing faster than efforts to keep up with it, and it will take months before governments and health workers in the region can get the upper hand, Joanne Liu, the president of Doctors Without Borders, said on Friday, calling conditions on the ground “like a war.”

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    The situation “is moving faster and deteriorating faster than we can respond,” Dr. Liu told reporters in Geneva after returning a day earlier from a tour of the affected nations.

    The epidemic’s front line “is moving, it’s advancing, but we have no clue how it’s going to go around,” Dr. Liu said. “Over the next six months we should get the upper hand on the epidemic,” she added, but this was only a “gut feeling” and it would happen only if sufficient resources were put in place.

    Many deaths have occurred within local communities, not at health centers, and the known deaths are “likely the tip of the iceberg,” Dr. Liu said. “We are still having increasing numbers in most of the sites where we work.”

    The W.H.O. announced last week that the Ebola epidemic constituted a public health emergency, in a bid to galvanize local and international action. But it has also emphasized that the risk of the epidemic spreading abroad is extremely low.

    As countries around the world stepped up precautions for preventing the spread of the disease, the International Olympic Committee announced on Friday that athletes from the countries affected by the Ebola outbreak who are attending the Youth Olympic Games in the Chinese city of Nanjingwould not be allowed to compete in contact sports or in the swimming pool.

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    In addition to this step, which would affect three athletes, it said team members from the affected countries would be subject to regular temperature checks and physical assessments throughout the games.

    In its statement on Thursday, the W.H.O. said it was coordinating “a massive scaling up” in support from governments, disease control agencies and other organizations. Margaret Chan, the organization’s director general, met ambassadors in Geneva on Thursday to identify the most urgent needs and seek matching responses, it reported.

    Dr. Liu cautioned that “we haven’t turned any corner yet” and that most of the international response was still at the level of promises.

    Action to combat the epidemic was at different levels in each of the affected countries, Dr. Liu noted, singling out Liberia as a priority for urgent international attention as it strives to contain the spread of the disease in the capital, Monrovia, a city of 1.3 million people, where one overstretched health care center was providing care for Ebola patients.

    “If we don’t stabilize Liberia, we will never stabilize the whole region,” Dr. Liu warned.

    The United Nations reported that the World Food Programme was delivering food to more than one million people “locked down” in the quarantine zones where the borders of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone intersect, but Dr. Liu was doubtful about the effectiveness of checkpoints intended to restrict people’s movements.

    “I’ve seen it: People are fleeing, people are running around,” she said, describing a checkpoint she had passed where people were walking around it. The local population was not fully supportive and without that, she said, it would be difficult to make the measure effective.
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