Monday, 15 September 2014 17:05
ABIDJAN - The Embassy of the United States is pleased to announce that
two health experts Control Centers and Disease Prevention (CDC), based
in the United States arrived this week in Cote d'Ivoire to help the
government in efforts to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus in the
country.
Although there is to date no confirmed cases of Ebola Ivory Coast, the country remains at high risk because it borders the affected countries. CDC experts will help assess and strengthen plans put in place to prevent the spread of disease, reduction plans and treatment of the disease should it break out in the country and also provide technical assistance research contacts with infected people. The experts will stay in Côte d'Ivoire from 11 to 25 September.
"Although the Government of Côte d'Ivoire has taken most of the measures necessary to prevent the spread of the disease, the United States is pleased to help the country strengthen these efforts by visiting two health experts, "said the Ambassador of the United States in Côte d'Ivoire, HE Mr. Terence McCulley. "There is no complete assurance that the Ivory Coast will not be affected by the disease, but we can work so that if a case was reported, patients can be quickly isolated and treated for the disease does not spread.
The American government is committed to stem the Ebola virus since the outbreak in March, when the first cases were reported in the region, and increased its equity and its staff in the region in response to the worsening situation . The United States has so far about 100 specialists distributed across the affected countries working on activities such as the distribution of physical health and emergency supplies, support for public health messages and the provision of technical expertise to help on issues such as airport screening and contact tracing with the infected person.
In addition, the CDC now has over 70 staff members deployed in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone to help in the implementation of the various measures of response, including monitoring and incident management related to Ebola, laboratory testing, monitoring, research contacts with infected people, managing databases and education in health. . All these actions are intended to support efforts to prevent, detect and control the spread of the Ebola virus in the affected countries. https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://lintelligentdabidjan.ci/societe/799-2014-08-22-14-12-02/1971-deux-experts-americains-en-cote-d-ivoire-cette-semaine-pour-la-prevention-de-l-ebola&usg=ALkJrhi9sjjGXK8OJJ1SerbRp-CGf1YmaQ
