Monrovia
- The United Nations and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were preparing
Friday to risk of a new outbreak of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, where
the virus has now spread to the whole country.
The recently installed MSF center in Monrovia, Liberia's capital, is still being expanded to almost quadruple its capacity, found the AFP correspondents.
"We currently have about 60 patients for a capacity of 120 beds, so we still have some space," said an on-site coordinator for MSF, Henry Gray.
"And we are now expanding our site. In the next 10 days we hope to have a site up to 400 patients, "he said.
The coordinator of the UN against the epidemic, Dr. David Nabarro, said Thursday AFP to set a target to health facilities in the state of "power face an outbreak if necessary" added at the beginning of his tour in the four affected countries (Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria).
The British epidemiologist, arrived in the night in Monrovia, where he was to hold a press conference at the end of the afternoon, said not being able to predict whether the spread peaked and would continue to increase.
As an early response bleak, cases have been discovered in the area alone until spared southeastern Liberia, near the border with Côte d'Ivoire.
The union's general secretary of Health Services, George Williams, reported "two dead Gbokon-jelee" a city that attracts many gold dealers across Liberia and even Ivory Coast, noting that "It was the last region untouched by Ebola."
The medical officer in the region, George Daouda, confirmed a confirmed Ebola cases.
"The health systems of the major countries affected were low before the outbreak of the epidemic. Now they are overwhelmed, "said the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Liberia, Karin Landgren, noting the lack of hygiene equipment and protection.
- Get into the cradle of Ebola -
In Sierra Leone, the parliament passed emergency legislation punishing with imprisonment up to two years who 'hides contaminated with Ebola patient or other contagious disease of same nature. "
"We are dismayed by the slow response of some of our development partners, and the abandonment and isolation imposed by those we considered to be our best friends at the subregional, regional and global," said the Head of the parliamentary majority, Ibrahim Bundu. He was referring to the border closure by several African countries, including Senegal and South Africa.
Russia joined the international mobilization: a plane of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations carrying a team of virologists and a mobile laboratory arrived Friday in Conakry, capital of Guinea.
A new concern has emerged on the mainland, in, from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in Equateur province (northwest) where the Ebola virus was discovered in 1976.
The government announced Thursday the deaths of 13 people, victims of a "hemorrhagic fever of unknown origin" since August 11.
But WHO and MSF was premature to blame hemorrhagic fever.
"Many died with bleeding symptoms, but it also has severe malaria who can give these symptoms, or typhoid fever," told AFP on condition of anonymity, an official of the WHO based in Kinshasa.
Sampling was carried out and the results are expected "in seven days," according to Congolese Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi.
"In the region of Ecuador, there is an outbreak of febrile gastroenteritis with hemorrhage", said a spokesman for the WHO in Geneva, Fadela Chaib.
Nigeria, the least affected, with five deaths for 14 cases, nevertheless announced two new cases, "the first two secondary contamination," the wives of men who have been in contact with the Liberian official who introduced the virus into the the most populous country in Africa.
This unprecedented epidemic in the history of Ebola has killed at least 1,350 people, including 576 in Liberia, Guinea and 374 396 in Sierra Leone, according to the latest report of WHO, ended Aug. 18. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sene24h.com%2Finternational%2Febola-setend-au-liberia-lonu-et-msf-se-preparent-a-une-aggravation%2F&edit-text=
The recently installed MSF center in Monrovia, Liberia's capital, is still being expanded to almost quadruple its capacity, found the AFP correspondents.
"We currently have about 60 patients for a capacity of 120 beds, so we still have some space," said an on-site coordinator for MSF, Henry Gray.
"And we are now expanding our site. In the next 10 days we hope to have a site up to 400 patients, "he said.
The coordinator of the UN against the epidemic, Dr. David Nabarro, said Thursday AFP to set a target to health facilities in the state of "power face an outbreak if necessary" added at the beginning of his tour in the four affected countries (Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria).
The British epidemiologist, arrived in the night in Monrovia, where he was to hold a press conference at the end of the afternoon, said not being able to predict whether the spread peaked and would continue to increase.
As an early response bleak, cases have been discovered in the area alone until spared southeastern Liberia, near the border with Côte d'Ivoire.
The union's general secretary of Health Services, George Williams, reported "two dead Gbokon-jelee" a city that attracts many gold dealers across Liberia and even Ivory Coast, noting that "It was the last region untouched by Ebola."
The medical officer in the region, George Daouda, confirmed a confirmed Ebola cases.
"The health systems of the major countries affected were low before the outbreak of the epidemic. Now they are overwhelmed, "said the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Liberia, Karin Landgren, noting the lack of hygiene equipment and protection.
- Get into the cradle of Ebola -
In Sierra Leone, the parliament passed emergency legislation punishing with imprisonment up to two years who 'hides contaminated with Ebola patient or other contagious disease of same nature. "
"We are dismayed by the slow response of some of our development partners, and the abandonment and isolation imposed by those we considered to be our best friends at the subregional, regional and global," said the Head of the parliamentary majority, Ibrahim Bundu. He was referring to the border closure by several African countries, including Senegal and South Africa.
Russia joined the international mobilization: a plane of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations carrying a team of virologists and a mobile laboratory arrived Friday in Conakry, capital of Guinea.
A new concern has emerged on the mainland, in, from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in Equateur province (northwest) where the Ebola virus was discovered in 1976.
The government announced Thursday the deaths of 13 people, victims of a "hemorrhagic fever of unknown origin" since August 11.
But WHO and MSF was premature to blame hemorrhagic fever.
"Many died with bleeding symptoms, but it also has severe malaria who can give these symptoms, or typhoid fever," told AFP on condition of anonymity, an official of the WHO based in Kinshasa.
Sampling was carried out and the results are expected "in seven days," according to Congolese Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi.
"In the region of Ecuador, there is an outbreak of febrile gastroenteritis with hemorrhage", said a spokesman for the WHO in Geneva, Fadela Chaib.
Nigeria, the least affected, with five deaths for 14 cases, nevertheless announced two new cases, "the first two secondary contamination," the wives of men who have been in contact with the Liberian official who introduced the virus into the the most populous country in Africa.
This unprecedented epidemic in the history of Ebola has killed at least 1,350 people, including 576 in Liberia, Guinea and 374 396 in Sierra Leone, according to the latest report of WHO, ended Aug. 18. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sene24h.com%2Finternational%2Febola-setend-au-liberia-lonu-et-msf-se-preparent-a-une-aggravation%2F&edit-text=
