Liberia-Chief Justice Worries over #Ebola Outbreak at Prison

Chief Justice Worries over Ebola Outbreak at Prison

Wed, 08/06/2014 - 09:25 admin

-Wants Pretrial Detainees, Non-dangerous Convicts Release on Bond

By: 

Abednego Davis

In a move to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus into prison facilities around the country, the Chief Justice Tuesday, August 5, began holding consultative meetings with judicial actors to find a way to temporarily release people from jail on bond.
Chief Justice Francis S. Korkpor named pretrial detainees (people in jail and not yet sent to court) and convicted prisoners that would not pose any danger to themselves or the society as beneficiaries of the bond initiative.
But the Chief Justice was quick to point out that the initiative would be done in line with the laws of the land.
“We have to act now or else, if the Ebola virus were to enter our congested cells, I fear that we would be losing hundreds of lives. But we need to take into consideration the laws,” the Supreme Court boss stated.
According to him, he and his judicial colleagues have met with the Liberia National Bar Association (LNBA), Circuit Court Judges and Magistrates in that direction.
“We will be meeting with the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), lawyers and family members of those in prisons, so that we may together discuss the release of their detained relatives on bond,” Chief Justice Korkpor added.
He continued, “We will only be releasing them into the care of prominent individuals or their lawyers, who would make sure they return whenever they are needed by the court.”
“These are measures that we are putting into place to help save our people in jail from being victims of the deadly virus,” Chief Justice Korkpor reiterated.
“If we allow people to die from Ebola in prison, then who are we going to prosecute? The dead or those that are alive in jail?” he asked.
Cautioning people against handling of the rapid spread of the virus, the Chief Justice said, “We have to handle this deadly disease with care. We need to do everything humanly possible to help protect the lives of our people.”
“The protection of our people against the spread of the disease is my greatest worry.
This is the period that we, leaders, need to do so much to protect our people,” Chief Justice Korkpor averred.
Another issue, the Chief Justice dealt with was that of the jury selection process.
According to him, the laws give the right to a person accused of committing a crime to   decide whether he wants the jury to hear his case or only a judge.
The Chief Justice said he and his colleagues were considering a temporary suspension of the jury selection process.
“For now we will want only judges to hear cases and not jury. This is to prevent the over crowdedness of the courtroom.”
“You know that the Ebola virus can spread faster, if people gathered together at a particular place; so we have to suspend jury congregating at our courts,” Chief Justice Korkpor further explained.

Ebola in the U.S.: Stricter travel quarantine practices dropped by Obama admin. in 2010

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times - Saturday, October 4, 2014

Many health and transportation officials are calling for stricter quarantine practices in response to the growing threat of the deadly Ebola virus being carried in by travelers from West Africa, but in 2010 the Obama Administration scrapped a set of regulations that might have prevented the disease from entering the U.S.
Bush administration proposals in response to the avian flu crisis in 2005 would have granted the federal government the power to detain sick airline passengers, USA Today reported in 2010.
Airline and civil liberties groups that objected to harsh regulations on airlines and breaches in passenger privacy rights praised the administration’s decision to scrap the new rules.
“We think that the CDC was right to withdraw the proposed rule,” Air Transport Association spokeswoman Elizabeth Merida told USA Today in 2010.
“The fact that they’re backing away form this very coercive style of quarantine is good news,” said American Civil Liberties Union legislative counsel Christopher Calabrese, the paper reported.
But CDC officials said that the rules would only be used in rare circumstances in cases where a passenger posed a health threat and refused to cooperate with officials.
Now the threat of Ebola has prompted lawmakers and transportation officials to call for travel bans on flights coming in from West African countries stricken by the disease.
“We should stop accepting flights from countries that are Ebola stricken,” Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal said in a statement Friday. “Even countries in Africa have cut back on or stopped accepting flights from countries with Ebola outbreaks.”
Earlier this week former Inspector General for The Department of Transportation Mary Schiavo also called for a travel ban during an interview with CNN, citing difficulties disinfecting aircraft carrying sick passengers.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Friday the administration is not currently seeking a travel ban but instead relying on safety procedures that are already in place.
Counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco said during a White House press briefing that the administration is focused on controlling the epidemic at its source and preventing anyone who is infected from leaving West Africa.
 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/4/ebola-in-the-us-stricter-travel-quarantine-practic/

Ivory Coast lifts Ebola flight restrictions

Bad idea..

2014-09-27 16:43New York - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Friday his country will lift the controversial suspension of flights to countries stricken by the Ebola virus to show solidarity with the nations affected by the lethal outbreak.
He said the initial decision to suspend flights was prompted by uncertainty about the threat, which he called a terrible problem for the people of West Africa.
"When Ebola first broke out, people got panicked," he told The Associated Press in an interview.
"Obviously we rushed to make certain decisions. Now that everything is under control - there is no case of Ebola in Cote d'Ivoire [Ivory Coast] - I have decided that next week we will lift the suspension of flights and the maritime suspension."
In addition, he said Ivory Coast has opened a "humanitarian corridor" so that people who want to enter Ivory Coast can be checked. The country has also contributed $1m to the international anti-Ebola effort.
Ouattara, who addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, said initial concerns were prompted by Ivory Coast's shared borders with two countries - Guinea and Liberia - hit by Ebola.
"I think we are the only country that has two Ebola countries to its borders and we have to really work on its prevention and we are very grateful to President Obama - the Centres for Disease Control has sent two experts to work on this control," he said.
"We are trying to work on specific measures to contain and to prevent."
Practical steps
In the first few days of the crisis, Ouattara said his first response was to send health and military personnel to the borders because of reports that infected people had entered Ivory Coast.
He then called his security council into a series of crisis meetings, but added health officials to the gatherings.
"We discussed specific measures, one by one, for several hours, then we sent a communiqué on television to explain to our people: Yes, there is a problem, don't be scared, we're handling it, we have taken measures. You can count on the government not to hide a single case of Ebola. If there is a case of Ebola, we'll say that there is a case."
He said he is following World Health Organisation guidelines to prevent the spread of the disease.
As a recommended precaution, he no longer shakes hands with people in Ivory Coast and also frequently washes his hands in public so that residents will see that practical steps can help reduce the threat.
International health officials had said flight suspensions and the closure of sea ports and borders were not needed.

- AP

2014 Saturday, September 27th: Last Update
  Monrovia: Dozens of relatives of patients with Ebola lost touch a few days ago, their anger in front of Island clinic in a poor neighborhood in Monrovia, and suddenly there was silence when he came out of Baanha two trucks ferrying bodies. A spokesman for the World Health Organization, which runs the clinic, said the health center, which opened Sunday, "has become a crowded Monday., Which includes 120 beds and it was Friday 206 patients." She Janjay Jelblaa "our relatives at home. We can not access to see them. Want to see my son!". Sunday came and with the boy Joshua (12 years) of the 72 in her neighborhood Liberia's capital, "where there are cases of Ebola heavily." She says since then she has not received "information from the authorities, who are always saying that we have to wait. Latte every day and I want to see my son! Perhaps may have died." And guarding a man wearing a white dress condom from the Ebola virus, which enters the door to him sick and surrounded by high walls and barbed wire placed above it.

 And the transfer of George Williams, 58, his wife and daughter Tuesday in the center "on his bike." And also tell them to cut it, "trust doctors and the government." Forty harnesses people who are in the place of his words and raise some pictures of relatives being treated and brings others small sacks handing them over to the guard. Finley says Freeman (32 years) "It's food for my mother. Spoke to them by telephone yesterday and continues to pray." Doors open and then there is silence and graduated two trucks belonging to the Red Cross movement slowly each one about a dozen corpses. Jahshan woman crying and followed the other and screaming louder than anger prevails. An official at the World Health Organization embarrassment "There is a system that allows patients to talk to their families at a distance of a few meters, but did not operate after it seems." The clinic Island as all health centers to combat the disease Ebola in Monrovia run by non-governmental organizations, are no longer able to contain the virus, which has greatly impacted on the health system is simple in Liberia, which has seen civil wars for 14 years (1989-2003).

On the other side of the city has become the center of Medecins Sans Frontieres non-governmental, which includes 160-bed, refusing to receive patients since the days of its inability to accommodate more of them. The Belgian returned factor in the humanitarian field he was the reception or rejection of patients, to his country's frustrating because he was forced to expel the injured were sometimes Nzon. Said one of his colleagues and students not to reveal her name, "Many say it the hardest task they have made." And remedied, "but since Thursday decline in the number of patients a little bit and we no longer reject them. Perhaps because the new centers opened their doors." Because of the availability of funds in the capital opened new centers quickly overwhelmed with patients.

 The MSF hopes to secure an additional 500 beds within a month on the security of the American military 25 beds for medical personnel who are infected with the virus. Said Frank Mahoney American representative of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "during the weeks or the next three weeks we will have more than a thousand beds in Monrovia." In Monrovia alone, more than half the number of deaths from the 3000 out 6000 due to injury, a serious outbreak of the Ebola virus, which could infect 20 000 people by November if not strengthening the means to combat it. And Thursday, said the president of Liberia Allen Johnson Sirleaf in a distress call to the United Nations, "we can not allow that to happen catastrophic scenario under which the 100 000 of our innocent people because they do not understand the disease." He said about a dozen humanitarian workers told AFP that means is not the main problem. Someone said that "the equipment is available and what is missing is an expert in the field of health." "The foreign workers in the humanitarian field are afraid," pointing out that "after the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, involved 820 non-governmental organization. Either in Liberia Fddha least ten."

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2014 Saturday, September 27th: Last Update

Hospitals in Monrovia stenosis patients with Ebola and its inhabitants are angry

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Monrovia: Dozens of relatives of patients with Ebola lost touch a few days ago, their anger in front of Island clinic in a poor neighborhood in Monrovia, and suddenly there was silence when he came out of Baanha two trucks ferrying bodies.

A spokesman for the World Health Organization, which runs the clinic, said the health center, which opened Sunday, "has become a crowded Monday., Which includes 120 beds and it was Friday 206 patients."

She Janjay Jelblaa "our relatives at home. We can not access to see them. Want to see my son!".

Sunday came and with the boy Joshua (12 years) of the 72 in her neighborhood Liberia's capital, "where there are cases of Ebola heavily."

She says since then she has not received "information from the authorities, who are always saying that we have to wait. Latte every day and I want to see my son! Perhaps may have died."

And guarding a man wearing a white dress condom from the Ebola virus, which enters the door to him sick and surrounded by high walls and barbed wire placed above it.

And the transfer of George Williams, 58, his wife and daughter Tuesday in the center "on his bike." And also tell them to cut it, "trust doctors and the government."

Forty harnesses people who are in the place of his words and raise some pictures of relatives being treated and brings others small sacks handing them over to the guard. Finley says Freeman (32 years) "It's food for my mother. Spoke to them by telephone yesterday and continues to pray."

Doors open and then there is silence and graduated two trucks belonging to the Red Cross movement slowly each one about a dozen corpses.

Jahshan woman crying and followed the other and screaming louder than anger prevails.

An official at the World Health Organization embarrassment "There is a system that allows patients to talk to their families at a distance of a few meters, but did not operate after it seems."

The clinic Island as all health centers to combat the disease Ebola in Monrovia run by non-governmental organizations, are no longer able to contain the virus, which has greatly impacted on the health system is simple in Liberia, which has seen civil wars for 14 years (1989-2003).

On the other side of the city has become the center of Medecins Sans Frontieres non-governmental, which includes 160-bed, refusing to receive patients since the days of its inability to accommodate more of them.

The Belgian returned factor in the humanitarian field he was the reception or rejection of patients, to his country's frustrating because he was forced to expel the injured were sometimes Nzon.

Said one of his colleagues and students not to reveal her name, "Many say it the hardest task they have made."

And remedied, "but since Thursday decline in the number of patients a little bit and we no longer reject them. Perhaps because the new centers opened their doors."

Because of the availability of funds in the capital opened new centers quickly overwhelmed with patients. The MSF hopes to secure an additional 500 beds within a month on the security of the American military 25 beds for medical personnel who are infected with the virus.

Said Frank Mahoney American representative of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "during the weeks or the next three weeks we will have more than a thousand beds in Monrovia."

In Monrovia alone, more than half the number of deaths from the 3000 out 6000 due to injury, a serious outbreak of the Ebola virus, which could infect 20 000 people by November if not strengthening the means to combat it.

And Thursday, said the president of Liberia Allen Johnson Sirleaf in a distress call to the United Nations, "we can not allow that to happen catastrophic scenario under which the 100 000 of our innocent people because they do not understand the disease."

He said about a dozen humanitarian workers told AFP that means is not the main problem. Someone said that "the equipment is available and what is missing is an expert in the field of health."

"The foreign workers in the humanitarian field are afraid," pointing out that "after the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, involved 820 non-governmental organization. Either in Liberia Fddha least ten."

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2014 Saturday, September 27th: Last Update

Hospitals in Monrovia stenosis patients with Ebola and its inhabitants are angry

A. Q. B.

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Monrovia: Dozens of relatives of patients with Ebola lost touch a few days ago, their anger in front of Island clinic in a poor neighborhood in Monrovia, and suddenly there was silence when he came out of Baanha two trucks ferrying bodies.

A spokesman for the World Health Organization, which runs the clinic, said the health center, which opened Sunday, "has become a crowded Monday., Which includes 120 beds and it was Friday 206 patients."

She Janjay Jelblaa "our relatives at home. We can not access to see them. Want to see my son!".

Sunday came and with the boy Joshua (12 years) of the 72 in her neighborhood Liberia's capital, "where there are cases of Ebola heavily."

She says since then she has not received "information from the authorities, who are always saying that we have to wait. Latte every day and I want to see my son! Perhaps may have died."

And guarding a man wearing a white dress condom from the Ebola virus, which enters the door to him sick and surrounded by high walls and barbed wire placed above it.

And the transfer of George Williams, 58, his wife and daughter Tuesday in the center "on his bike." And also tell them to cut it, "trust doctors and the government."

Forty harnesses people who are in the place of his words and raise some pictures of relatives being treated and brings others small sacks handing them over to the guard. Finley says Freeman (32 years) "It's food for my mother. Spoke to them by telephone yesterday and continues to pray."

Doors open and then there is silence and graduated two trucks belonging to the Red Cross movement slowly each one about a dozen corpses.

Jahshan woman crying and followed the other and screaming louder than anger prevails.

An official at the World Health Organization embarrassment "There is a system that allows patients to talk to their families at a distance of a few meters, but did not operate after it seems."

The clinic Island as all health centers to combat the disease Ebola in Monrovia run by non-governmental organizations, are no longer able to contain the virus, which has greatly impacted on the health system is simple in Liberia, which has seen civil wars for 14 years (1989-2003).

On the other side of the city has become the center of Medecins Sans Frontieres non-governmental, which includes 160-bed, refusing to receive patients since the days of its inability to accommodate more of them.

The Belgian returned factor in the humanitarian field he was the reception or rejection of patients, to his country's frustrating because he was forced to expel the injured were sometimes Nzon.

Said one of his colleagues and students not to reveal her name, "Many say it the hardest task they have made."

And remedied, "but since Thursday decline in the number of patients a little bit and we no longer reject them. Perhaps because the new centers opened their doors."

Because of the availability of funds in the capital opened new centers quickly overwhelmed with patients. The MSF hopes to secure an additional 500 beds within a month on the security of the American military 25 beds for medical personnel who are infected with the virus.

Said Frank Mahoney American representative of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "during the weeks or the next three weeks we will have more than a thousand beds in Monrovia."

In Monrovia alone, more than half the number of deaths from the 3000 out 6000 due to injury, a serious outbreak of the Ebola virus, which could infect 20 000 people by November if not strengthening the means to combat it.

And Thursday, said the president of Liberia Allen Johnson Sirleaf in a distress call to the United Nations, "we can not allow that to happen catastrophic scenario under which the 100 000 of our innocent people because they do not understand the disease."

He said about a dozen humanitarian workers told AFP that means is not the main problem. Someone said that "the equipment is available and what is missing is an expert in the field of health."

"The foreign workers in the humanitarian field are afraid," pointing out that "after the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, involved 820 non-governmental organization. Either in Liberia Fddha least ten."

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Liberia: Police Warns Motorists Against Transporting Sick, Dead

By Anthony Q. Jiffan, Jr.
In wake of the deadly Ebola virus in the country, Police Chief of Traffic Inspector John M. Saar has repeated the warning to motorcyclists against plying the main streets of the Monrovia.
Speaking Monday to media practitioners at the National Police Headquarters on the Capitol Bye-Pass, Inspector Sarr said any motorcyclists caught plying the main street irregularly will be penalized by police authorities.
He said before the outbreak of Ebola in Liberia, the government instituted a policy that regulates the movement of motorcyclists in the country which includes reduction of passengers from two to one, which according to him the cyclists are still violating, taking advantage of the transportation difficulties faced in the country.
According to Inspector Saar, hundreds of motorcycles have been arrested and will not be returned to their owners no matter the status, position or whatever. The inspector strongly warned the cyclists to be running transport in the communities instead of the main using the streets to avoid further embarrassment from the Liberia National Police.
He said any motorcyclist who refuses to heed the Police directive when stopped will have himself or herself blamed as the police will go after such cyclist. Inspector Saar also warned taxi drivers and other public transport vehicles against carrying sick patients and dead bodies to Ebola or health centers. He said such practice by commercial vehicles has the propensity to continuously spread the Ebola virus among citizens.
"Any taxi driver or other cars that are not authorized by the government to pick up sick person or dead body and is caught doing so will be arrested" further warned. He urges the Ebola task force to quickly respond to calls from the communities and pick up sick patients and dead bodies to avoid non-ambulance vehicles taking the responsibility.

Ebola Macenta: patients stranded at the transit center because of the poor condition of the stretch-Macenta Guékédou

Post by Guineematin the 25-7 - 2014

as contacts Guineematin.com Macenta, patients who should be under intensive care treatment center Guékédou yesterday were still 'pending' transit center Macenta. The reason? The defective section Macenta-Guékédou is invoked in this rainy season.
To believe the information reported to Guineematin.com a delegation Macenta should urgently come to Conakry to plead with the government on the state of the road Macenta Guékédou-emphasizing its arguments on the negative consequences of this fact, including the problem of patients who continue to wait desperately to be transferred to the center Guékédou.

Guinea: 32 arrests following the assassination of an anti-Ebola team

25-09-2014 at 9:01 p.m.

A man in uniform protection against Ebola virus in Guinea. © RFI / Claire Hédon

• Guinea

In Guinea, since the sad events on September 16 in the town of womey near N'Zérékoré where villagers killed eight people on a mission to raise awareness against the Ebola virus, the forces of defense and security were deployed in the region and have made dozens of arrests. The Guinean authorities have promised to give a lesson to those who committed the murders.

Thirty-two people were arrested in Guinea in connection with the killings last week in womey in southeastern Guinea. Eight members of a shift in awareness campaign on Ebola, including political, administrative and staff responsible media, were killed.
Thirty-two people are behind bars, the main accused of the killing, a trader womey 38 years, and others who have encouraged local people to revolt against the official delegation led by the then Governor of Forest Region Lancei Conde. They have, for the most part, were arrested while trying to flee to neighboring Ivory Coast.
In a press statement, the Guinean Minister of Justice, Cheick Sacko, affirmed the determination of the Guinean government. "In this case, the government to which I belong will go through. I promise to do justice and to charge the price guilty of this inhuman tragedy, "said the minister.
For now, these defendants are held N'Zérékoré, the regional capital, and are subject to interrogations before the prosecutor. A total of ten judges who are appointed to hear this case qualified as "exceptional event" by the Minister of Justice, which must be given "exceptional" finally tell the Guinean Minister of Justice, Cheick Sacko.

Sierra Leone: Kenema, caregivers suffered from quarantine

25-09-2014

by RFI


Because of the Ebola outbreak, no vehicle can enter or leave the town of Kenema without evidence. Given the increasing number of cases of hemorrhagic fever since May, this town 300 km from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, has been quarantined by the authorities in August. A hospital in Kenema, caregivers are on the front line.

Health professionals Kenema have paid the heaviest price in Sierra Leone. At the beginning of the epidemic, the hospital has lost 39 of its nursing victims of the Ebola virus. The epidemic has spread due to lack of equipment and especially sanitary precautions were not implemented because the disease had not yet been identified.

In recent weeks, thanks to better management of patients, the situation is again controllable. But the authorities decided not to lift the quarantine Kenema.

A team of UNICEF is present in the city and found that a third of patients with Ebola are children. Higher than the national average figures. UNICEF staff and the hospital staff involved including orphans who lost their parents hemorrhagic fever. Children because of the quarantine are stranded in the hospital grounds. So caregivers to take care of before they are placed in foster homes, often out of Kenema.

Again in Istanbul 'Ebola' alarm

September 25, 2014 
 In Istanbul, a businessman in Nigeria nationals "high fever" and "vomiting" on a sign was hospitalized. Hospital "ebola virus" was alarmed upon suspicion.

According to reports, this past Sunday in Nigeria's southwestern Owah Abe in Istanbul from business contacts for the incoming Nigerian businessman Fabian Chlmaeol the (43), stayed in the hotel this morning, fever and vomiting on the ambulance Sisli Hamidian Pediatric Education and Research Hospital, removed . Hospital 'ebola' panic that led to the hospital for Nigerian businessman Fabian Chlmaeol alarm was initiated in the emergency department. Doctors kept under control in the presence of Nigerian medical team for parties, special clothing and masks took intensive measures against the virus.

Wide range of possible measures against the virus while in the hospital, a detailed knowledge about the patient's condition has not been transferred.  http://epochtimestr.com/index.php/istanbulda-bir-kez-daha-ebola-alarmi

Suspected Ebola fatality reported in Rwanda

25 September 2014 Thursday

The Rwandan Health Ministry has yet to comment. 

World Bulletin / News Desk
A Rwandan woman is suspected to have died of the Ebola virus in the east-central African country, a hospital director said Wednesday.
"A woman was rushed to hospital bleeding from her nose and ears and died shortly," Mulindwa Patrick told Anadolu Agency.
He said results of tests to confirm the cause of the death will be released in two days.
The Rwandan Health Ministry has yet to comment.
So far, no Ebola case has been registered in Rwanda.
Ebola, a contagious disease for which there is no known treatment or cure, has killed at least 2,803 people in West Africa in recent months, according to the World Health Organization.  http://www.worldbulletin.net/health-environment/145094/suspected-ebola-fatality-reported-in-rwanda

Ebola alarm in Istanbul

Ebola alarm in Istanbul
In Istanbul Nigerian nationals 43-year-old Fabian Chimen Egeol, Ebola suspected observations taken under the Şişli Hamidian Pediatric Education and Research Hospital, a detailed diagnosis of making Hasseki Training and Research Hospital were referred to. http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/foto/foto_galeri/123447/1/istanbul_da_ebola_alarmi.html

Sierra Leone News: Kroo Bay quarantined

Sierra Leone News: Kroo Bay quarantined

Security forces yesterday afternoon, quarantined a house in Freetown’s biggest slum, Kroo Bay, in the west of Freetown.
This followed the death of a herbalist Santigie Bangura alias ‘Agba Kudu-ku’ on Monday a day after he was discovered during the Ose-to-Ose exercise on Sunday.
According to information from those around, Agba Kudu-Ku, who was a popular herbalist, had accepted to heal a patient who had been brought to him from the Northern Province of ‘Alay’ but who was actually an Ebola victim.
A few days after, the patient died and Agba being a popular person in the community convinced the Burial team that the man had died of natural causes while others yesterday said he succeeded in bribing the team.
However, when Awoko visited the Bay area on Sunday, it was whispered that Agba may be an Ebola patient as he was sick after attempting to heal an unknown patient.
Eventually the Ebola response team was alerted and they took him to the Connaught Hospital Holding Centre where he was kept until his death on Monday.
He however died after testing positive to Ebola and as a result those around his household fled while some who were left were quarantined yesterday by security forces to ensure that they go through the 21 days period without any signs of Ebola.
Meanwhile, there are fears that those who had fled may cause the spread of the disease in the slum which may be a big disaster in Freetown.
As a result , people are calling for Port Loko and Lunsar to be quarantined while others say commercial transportation to Freetown should be halted.
By Jay Willie & Bernard Turay
Thursday September 25, 2014
 http://awoko.org/2014/09/25/sierra-leone-news-kroo-bay-quarantined/

Ebola: Namibians told to avoid Zimbabwe

25/09/2014 00:00:00 
THE Namibian government has warned against travel to Zimbabwe following reports that Harare had quarantined over 100 people who returned from countries affected by the deadly outbreak in West Africa.
Speaking to local media from New York, the country’s health minister Richard Kamwi said he was not aware of the quarantine in Zimbabwe but warned Namibians not to visit that country.
“The incubation period for Ebola is 21 days and until they are over and the country has been declared safe, I advise Namibians not to visit and Zimbabweans not to come to Namibia,” he said.

Kamwi also maintained that no Namibian is yet allowed to visit Nigeria and Senegal.

This is despite the fact that the WHO on Monday declared that the Ebola virus had been “pretty much contained” in Nigeria and Senegal and declared the two countries Ebola-free.

“We do not know without doubt that it is contained, so we still need to take care of ourselves,” he said...  http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-18052-Ebola+Namibians+told+to+avoid+Zimbabwe/news.aspx

Ebola arrives in Rwanda. Suspected Ebola fatality reported in Rwanda. World Bulletin / News Desk. The Rwandan Health Ministry has yet to comment.
A Rwandan woman is suspected to have died of the Ebola virus in the east-central African country, a hospital director said Wednesday.
"A woman was rushed to hospital bleeding from her nose and ears and died shortly," Mulindwa Patrick told Anadolu Agency.
He said results of tests to confirm the cause of the death will be released in two days.
The Rwandan Health Ministry has yet to comment.
So far, no Ebola case has been registered in Rwanda.
Ebola, a contagious disease for which there is no known treatment or cure, has killed at least 2,803 people in West Africa in recent months, according to the World Health Organization.

Reluctance to Ebola Macenta: people have "chased" the chief of the Health Irie, sub-prefecture of Sérédou

Reluctance to Ebola Macenta: people have "chased" the chief of the Health Irie, sub-prefecture of Sérédou

Post by Guineematin the 23-7 - 2014

Reluctance against Ebola still continue to pose risk behaviors in the Guinean capital and within the country. All indications are that the message is still not over and that some of our compatriots continue to take health workers, who come as protect those who, on the contrary, want to contaminate ...
According to information provided to Guineematin.com in some localities Macenta, some people refuse any foreign presence, and some have even driven the health workers who have tried to raise awareness about the existence of the Ebola outbreak.
To believe some reports, the inhabitants of a locality called Irie allegedly threatened the head of the local health center, accusing him of being at the base of the misfortunes that befell them, says a journalist, the phone Guineematin com, adding that 8 patients were "prisoners" of the non-cooperation of the local population.
Moreover, according to the always contact Guineematin.com Macenta several other localities are still reluctant to any presence of the Red Cross, despite the risk to the population yet close Liberian borders, especially in the sub-prefecture of Koyama. These are, among others, and Koyama Beberezou Centre. Also, we hear a reluctance to Zappa, Zenie, Irie, Watanka, Fassankoni, Noborotono, etc.
However, a delegation from the Association nationals Macenta (AREMA) is now working for several days to make parents aware of the Ebola virus in different localities of the province ...

I have never seen this number of bodies before': Life at an Ebola clinic in Liberia

Scale of Ebola outbreak in Western Africa leaves staff of frontline health agency with grim decisions over who to treat and who to turn away

MSF staff prepare to carry a woman into the Ebola clinic in Monrovia, Liberia Photo: Will Wintercross/The Telegraph

By Colin Freeman, Monrovia

12:40PM BST 24 Sep 2014

Like every other volunteer who serves with Médecins Sans Frontières, Stefan Liljegren joined up to help the sick and destitute. In 15 years with the agency, he has been everywhere from Afghanistan and Kosovo through to South Sudan and East Timor, the hard and often dangerous work compensated for by the knowledge that he is saving lives.

His latest mission, in Ebola-hit Liberia, offers rather less job satisfaction. As field co-ordinator of MSF's new 160-bed Ebola treatment centre in the capital, Monrovia, one of his tasks is to decide which of the sick people who arrive outside the clinic's gates should get treatment. Such is the scale of the outbreak that for every 20-30 new patients the clinic admits each day, the same number are often turned away - despite the likelihood that they will go home and infect their relatives.

^{MSF staff carry a dead body into the Ebola clinic in Monrovia, Liberia, to be cremated (Will Wintercross/The Telegraph)}

"This is by far the most difficult challenge that I have ever faced," the 44-year-old Swede told The Telegraph during a brief break from his work in the sweltering humidity of Liberia's monsoon season. "Every day I have been faced with impossible choices, and decisions that are inhuman to make. Having to tell someone that they can't come in when they are screaming and begging to do so is an indescribable feeling, especially when you know they may go back to families who might well then get sick themselves."

Outside the clinic an hour earlier, a grisly scene demonstrated Mr Liljegren's point. Resting face down in the mud was the body of Dauda Konneh, 42. He had been lying there dead since daybreak.

"He was vomiting a lot and had symptoms like Ebola, so we put him in a pick-up truck and took him here for treatment," said one young man outside. "When we got here last night, he was still alive, but the clinic would not accept him. He died at dawn today."
When The Telegraph mentions this to Mr Liljegren, he nods. Having dead or dying patients outside the clinic overnight is "a regular occurrence," he says. The reason being that once night falls, the hospital does not admit anyone: handling Ebola patients requires extreme care at the best of times, and it would be dangerous to do so in the dark.
The task of removing Mr Konneh's body falls to Stephen Rowden, a British MSF volunteer from Danbury, Essex, who leads a team in charge of the safe removal of corpses, which are sprayed with chlorine-based disinfectant first. "When I started it was maybe a body every two days, now it is daily and sometimes up to five a day," said Mr Rowden, 55. "I have never seen this amount of bodies before. It sounds callous, but you just have to switch off emotionally."
No amount of "switching off", though, spares the MSF staff from the wider scale of the fatalities around them. The clinic, one of three now operating in Monrovia, has seen 350 deaths in the last month alone. Since all infected bodies have to be burned, the casualties have exceeded the ability of Monrovia's local crematorium to cope. MSF has had to import an incinerator from Europe - normally used for livestock - to assist. For an aid agency that prides itself on triumphing in even the most difficult operating circumstances, it is a depressing reminder of how far there is to go.

^{Goggles are hung up in an Ebola linic in Monrovia (Will Wintercross/The Telegraph)}
The challenges facing the MSF clinic are in turn a snapshot of the wider outbreak now engulfing West Africa. On Tuesday, a World Health Organisation study warned that the number of Ebola cases - currently topping 5,000 - could reach hundreds of thousands by January unless the aid operation was drastically increased.
Nowhere is the problem more acute than in Liberia, where 40 per cent of all the deaths have taken place, and where the government health service - already badly damaged by the 1989-2003 civil war - has been paralysed by Ebola infections among its own staff. In coming weeks, a 3,000-strong US military mission will arrive in Monrovia to build 17 more Ebola treatment clinics. But MSF, which worked in Liberia throughout the civil war, says the situation is already spiraling out of control.
Inside the MSF clinic in Monrovia, those patients fortunate enough to get through the gates are admitted to rows of large white treatment tents. The clinic is designed so that only staff clad in the yellow high protective gear can enter the "high risk" wards, where those with advanced stages of the virus are treated.
In the nurses' area, meanwhile, a pair of paperwork folders hung next to the door describe the patients' only possible outcomes. One has a set of forms marked "Discharge", given to the few who manage to fight the virus off. The other has a set of forms marked "Death Certificate". Right now, the latter is used between 70 and 80 per cent of the time.
In another section, patients who have tested positive but are not yet acutely ill congregate in an open air living room, where they can chat to each other, do exercises, and play board games.
One patient, Foofee Sheriff, 54, tells how he became infected after attending the funeral of his brother, who died recently. "We did not touch my brother's body during the burial, we used plastic bags on our hands to make sure that didn't happen," he insists. "But eight days after I started feeling sick."
Mr Sheriff's claim not to know how he became infected is typical. It may be that he genuinely does not know. Or it may be that he failed to take adequate precautions at his brother's funeral but does not wish to admit it.
Either way, it makes it all the harder for the medical staff to establish patients' so-called "contract traces", which, in an ideal world, identify exactly who else might have been infected. This would also be useful in the case of Mr Konneh, who, according to the man who brought him in, worked for Irish aid agency Concern, which itself has been conducting a public health campaign about how to avoid getting Ebola.
Alerted by The Telegraph the following day, Concern confirmed that Mr Konneh, a father-of-two, did indeed work for them, although they believe he may have died from an existing medical condition which took a turn for the worse in the past ten days. Such is Ebola's grip on Liberia, however, that right now, any sudden illness is feared to be the virus - hence Mr Konneh's attempt to reach the clinic. The young man adds that Mr Konneh moved between two different households while sick, and that the occupants of both houses are "now very worried".
As too is Mr Liljegren, for whom there is simply no telling how many more desperate people may soon be pleading outside his clinic's gates. "It gets worse by the day," he says. "How much worse it will it get? I have no idea." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11118025/I-have-never-seen-this-number-of-bodies-before-Life-at-an-Ebola-clinic-in-Liberia.html

Heads up, Indiana

ELCL Assistant Bishop Off To U.S.

Posted on September 24, 2014 by demo demo in Liberian News

The Assistant Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Liberia (ELCL) Rev. Samuel S.Y. Navoh,I on Monday September 22nd left the Country to attend a four day international SCMS Disaster Response committee conference in Indiana, United State of America.
Bishop Navoh was invited by the SCMS International Disaster Response Committee in the United State to represent the ELCL church in Liberia.
During his deliberation at the conference, the ELCL assistant Bishop Navoh said he will reemphasize on the present Ebola Disaster in Liberia which a according to him is a very serious crisis in country.
More besides, Bishop Navoh Said he will also expressed gratitude on “behalf of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Liberia to the SCMS International Disaster response committee for their continuous support to the church in Liberia since the Liberia civil crisis up to the present Ebola crisis in the country.
Bishop Navoh however disclosed that while in the United States he will lobby with other international organizations for more support to the Church in Liberia.
He have meanwhile called on member Churches of the ELCL to uphold “the faith of the church and they should also continue to pray for the Nation for the Eradication of the Ebola virus from the land.

Liberia-#Ebola kills five police officers

Wednesday, 24 September 2014 06:22 By Winston W. Parley

Deputy Police Director for Administration, William K. Mulbah, has told a US medical team visiting Liberia that the deadly Ebola virus has killed five officers of the Liberia National Police, LNP. A police barrack on Camp Johnson Road, Monrovia was early this quarantined after an affiliate of one of the officers there was allegedly infected and subsequently spread the disease in the barrack.
Dozens of officers in the barrack were being observed after it was discovered that a nurse, who had been visiting there died of Ebola. Meanwhile, Mr. Mulbah said the LNP is grateful for the numerous support it continues to get from the Americans, directed towards rebuilding the capacity of the police, saying, with such knowledge the LNP was prepared to fight against Ebola.

The police announced yesterday that a team from the Louisiana State University arrived in Liberia to conduct a three-day intensive anti-Ebola seminar for over five hundred officers. Mr. Mulbah had cautioned officers attending the training to take it seriously. Officers from the patrol, Police Support Unit and the Emergency Response Unit are partaking in the training.

The seminar, which is ongoing at the National Police Headquarters on Capitol Hill, is made possible through the US State Department to train first respondents of the police to the Ebola crisis, a statement said on Monday. The LNP says the US team is headed by Jason Krause, Director of Operations at the National Center or Biomedical Research and Training based in the State of Louisiana, America.

Liberia-WHO seeks blood donations #ebola survivors included

Wednesday, 24 September 2014 06:25 By Winston W. Parley

The World Health Organization’s Case Management Consultant to Liberia, Ugandan Doctor Atai Omorutu says a Blood Bank is ready to receive blood from donors, including “strong” Ebola survivals, as well as those not tested positive of the virus.
Speaking at the Ministry of Information during a news conference aired live on state radio ELBC on Tuesday, September 23, Dr. Omorutu said the Island Clinic was a new Eblola Treatment Unit that still needed a lot of support. “We need people to come; we need the survivals to come and help us with blood donation, especially. We also need anyone else who can do it to give us blood,” she said.
She noted that Ebola consumes the substances that help “the body” system to repair itself, thereby causing patients to bleed after the pothholes in their blood vessels had been deepened.
“So, when we get fresh blood, these protein substances are … in fresh blood from anybody. So when we give this fresh blood to the patients, we give them the repair- the road materials for repairing their blood vessels. And therefore, they do not bleed,” said Doctor Omorutu.

As such, she said, her appeal is that anybody who’s willing to give blood should come forth, saying “the blood bank is ready to receive any blood donor.” Directing the public to the blood transfusion service on 24th Street, Sinkor, she made specific request to Ebola survivals that are strong, because she said, they have the antibodies, otherwise called “the soldiers” that have fought and defeated the Ebola virus.
The WHO consultant indicated that that if individual blood donors are unable to donate the full unit of 450 mills, “we would be happy to take whatever amount.”
In the same vein, Dr. Omorutu has disclosed that the newly opened Ebola Treatment Center at the Island Clinic on Bushrod Island is now turning patients away after exhausting its 150 bed capacities.
Since Sunday, September 21, she said, Island Clinic has had a transfer of more than 100 confirmed Ebola patients from Redemption Hospital. By 8am on Monday, September 22, she said: “we had a total of 119 cases,” but noted that seven of them had unfortunately died from 3pm on Sunday to 8am on Monday.
She, additionally, noted that from 8am on Monday to 8am on Tuesday, the Clinic had 74 new admissions, arriving at a total of 186 cases from the time the clinic was opened on Sunday.
Up to Tuesday, Madam   Omorutu said the clinic had a total of 20 deaths in the two days, and that two of the deceased from Nimba County had died in the ambulance, while others died shortly after being transferred to Island Clinic. Announcing a total of 173 patients were now admitted at Island Clinic, she said “unfortunately” they have to turn away some patients because there was no more space.
Notwithstanding, Madam Omorutu concluded that the Government of Liberia has got more support to built Ebola Treatment Units, but said it will take at least three or four weeks before another Unit can be ready in addition to what is available.

Dead Ebola patients resurrect?

zombies!

Wednesday, 24 September 2014 06:12 Franklin Doloquee, Nimba County

Two Ebola patients, who died of the virus in separate communities in Nimba County have reportedly resurrected in the county. The victims, both females, believed to be in their 60s and 40s respectively, died of the Ebola virus recently in Hope Village Community and the Catholic Community in Ganta, Nimba.
But to the amazement of residents and onlookers on Monday, the deceased reportedly regained life in total disbelief.  The NewDawn Nimba County correspondent said the late Dorris Quoi of Hope Village Community and the second victim only identified as Ma Kebeh, said to be in her late 60s, were about to be taken for burial when they resurrected.
Ma Kebeh had reportedly been in door for two nights without food and medication before her alleged death. Nimba County has had bazaar news of Ebola cases with a native doctor from the county, who claimed that he could cure infected victims, dying of the virus himself last week.
News of the resurrection of the two victims has reportedly created panic in residents of Hope Village Community and Ganta at large, with some citizens describing Dorris Quoi as a ghost, who shouldn’t live among them. Since the Ebola outbreak in Nimba County, this is the first incident of dead victims resurrecting.

Ghana-My staff are not ready to risk their lives for Ebola - NADMO boss

My staff are not ready to risk their lives for Ebola - NADMO boss

Created on Friday, 19 September 2014 19:41 | By Nathaniel Yankson

Kofi Portuphy

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has indicated it will not be able to manage any possible outbreak of the Ebola virus in Ghana.
Staff expect to be equipped with the appropriate protective gears to enable them identify and isolate cases of the dreaded disease.
Their request is also to safeguard their lives from being infected, should there be an outbreak in the country... http://www.globalnewsreel.com/health/my-staff-are-not-ready-to-risk-their-lives-for-ebola-nadmo-boss

Beware when you are buying a roasted maize from this maize seller. http://trivia.peacefmonline.com/pages/triviaphotos/201409/216252.php

Ebola epidemic: house-to-house search in Sierra Leone reveals 358 new cases

Teams of volunteers also find hundreds of unburied corpses, according to leaked email from senior American diplomat 
Wednesday 24 September 2014
Door-to-door searches during a three-day curfew in Sierra Leone identified more than 350 suspected new cases of Ebola, according by the top US diplomat in the country.
Charge d’affairs Kathleen Fitzgibbon said teams of volunteers had also discovered 265 corpses, of which 216 have since been been buried, in an email to organisers of the curfew that has been seen by the Guardian.
Fitzgibbon said the home visits had identified a preliminary 358 new suspected cases, with 85 patients sent to treatment centres.
Although there had been some “challenges” during the curfew, which saw the normally chaotic streets of the capital Freetown replaced by eerie silence after the government ordered everyone to stay in doors, it could be seen as the “beginning of the end” of the Ebola epidemic, which has killed more than 2,800 people, primarily in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
“The challenges included the late arrival of some materials, a rumor that the soap was infected with Ebola. Some people fled to the bush to avoid the house-to-house [checks] but came back for the last day,” she said, adding that there had also been a “slow response to pick up corpses”.
American public health institute the Centers for Disease Control has been heavily involved in the emergency response in Sierra Leone and is running the laboratory in Kenema, Sierra Leone’s third biggest city.
“Our team decided the three-day stay-at-home was a ‘watershed moment’ whose momentum must be turned into specific activities to ensure that we can reach our goal of isolating 70% of positive cases to reverse the upward trend of the epidemic,” Fitzgibbon said.
“The public needs to understand that this campaign did not end Ebola but can be the beginning of the end if everyone remains vigilant,” she added.
The email said one of the priorities was to ensure all bodies were buried correctly as funerals have been identified as one of the ways the disease has spread, with relatives touching the bodies of the deceased.
She said she was “extremely saddened” to hear of two incidents of the disease spreading recently, one in the area of Moyamba in which 24 people had died “as a result of participating in this funeral” and another in Kenema, in which 17 infections were traced to a funeral.
Fitzgibbon described one man in Kenema government hospital as a “hero”. He survived the disease and stayed in the hospital helping other patients, “in particular a young child whose parents are dead”, because he knew he was immune to contracting the virus again.
“We need to celebrate this man’s contribution ... survivors should not be stigmatised, but instead celebrated,” she said.
In Makeni, a large town three hours from Freetown, an Irish nun helping at a holding centre said 138 suspected cases had been identified with 19 bodies buried and 39 patients send five hours away for treatment.
“The good thing is we have had some survivors. One man and four women came back and they addressed the emergency people. It seemed to give them back the energy, because they are all exhausted,” said Sr Mary Sweeney.

Near-empty streets during a three-day curfew in Freetown. Photograph: Michael Duff/AP

Full email

From Charge d’Affaires Kathleen FitzGibbon
September 23, 2014
The House-to-House campaign met its objectives, thanks to public participation. Preliminary information indicates that the teams were able to reach between75% to 85% of the 1.7 million households throughout the country. Here are some of the lessons learned. Interpersonal communication is the most effective way to deliver messages. Most misconceptions were dispelled by the teams. Neighborhood watches will continue helping communities connect with service providers. It will be important to sustain the holding and treatment facilities as those who were ill self-reported or were identified by neighbors. The public needs to understand that this campaign did not end Ebola but can be the beginning of the end if everyone remains vigilant.
Sierra Leoneans voluntarily went to holding or treatment centers. A preliminary number is that 358 suspected cases were transferred to holding centers for testing, with 85 transferred to treatment centers. There were 285 bodies found during the exercise and 216 of those have been buried. Corpses are swabbed and tested to determine cause of death. We still await the official data as the districts are still reporting results so these numbers are not final. Public acceptance of the campaign was high. It is important to get all cases of Ebola into care centers.
The challenges included late arrival of some materials, a rumor that the soap was infected with Ebola, some people fled to the bush to avoid the House-to-House but came back for the last day, and improved but still slow response to pick up corpses. Another constraint was that some of the holding centers were opened late. For sure, small businesses and poor residents faced more challenges than most, but independent monitors report that many of them stated that campaign was important enough to participate.

Today, our CDC team shared with President Koroma what our team has been doing and will continue to do in support of the response. In Dr. Frieden’s words, we are with Sierra Leone through the entire epidemic. Our team described this three-day stay-at-home as a “watershed moment” whose momentum must be turned into specific activities to ensure that we can reach our goal of isolating 70% of positive cases to reverse the upward trend of the epidemic. 
CDC is running the laboratory at Kenema, assisting the Ministry of Health and Sanitation with data management, supporting the Emergency Operations Center at the national and local levels, and will be doing more to strengthen the district health teams. This is where the fight will be won. The data is important to allow us to target where the new infections are coming from. CDC also recommends that all bodies are buried in a medically safe manner. This is what we are aiming for and you can be assured that all the donors are working closely with the government to support the burial teams. We are supporting the International Federation of the Red Cross to train and manage burial teams in several districts. We also are funding treatment centers.
I was extremely saddened to here of two recent instances, one in Moyamba and a second in Kailahun, where prominent persons died and the communities conducted burials. In Moyamba, 24 persons are dead as a result of participating in this funeral and there may be others. In Kailahun, the same scenario, with some 17 deaths traced to this funeral. Please, save yourselves and your community, let the Ministry of Health and Sanitation conduct all burials. We know that these teams are overwhelmed, but be persistent in insisting that corpses are handled only by trained personnel.
Let’s end on a high note and talk about a hero. There is a man in the Kenema Government Hospital treatment center who has recovering from Ebola. He is now immune. He stayed in the treatment center helping with other patients, in particular, a young child whose parents are dead. He could have left, but he chose instead to remain and help this child, who is unrelated to him. We need to celebrate this man’s contribution to the fight against Ebola. Survivors should not be stigmatized, but instead celebrated and enabled to be an important component of the response. Bravo
 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/ebola-sierra-leone-curfew?CMP=twt_gu

Red Cross team attacked in Guinea

Red Cross team attacked in Guinea September 24, 2014 15:33 GMT CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) -- A Red Cross team has been attacked in the West African country of Guinea -- in the latest in a string of assaults that are hindering efforts to control the outbreak of Ebola. The team had been collecting bodies believed to be infected with the disease. They were attacked by family members of the dead. One of the volunteers is recovering from a neck wound. Last week, a team of several health officials and journalists in Guinea was abducted and killed. They had been educating people on how to avoid contracting Ebola. Ebola is believed to have infected more than 5,800 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria and Senegal. The outbreak has grown into the world's largest ever for the disease, partially because it went undetected for months. Efforts to control the disease have been hampered by resistance -- ranging from outright denials that Ebola exists to fears that the very people sent to combat it are in fact carriers. %@AP Links APPHOTO ALIB104: People protest against the governments lack of help to the public with the Ebola virus in their communities, outside the Liberian House of Representative in Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. U.S. health officials Tuesday presented worst-case and best-case scenarios for the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, calculating that as many as 1.4 million people could be sickened in two countries alone by mid-January -- or the outbreak could be winding down by then, if control efforts substantially increase. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh) (23 Sep 2014)

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 September 24, 2014 15:33 GMT
 CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) -- A Red Cross team has been attacked in the West African country of Guinea -- in the latest in a string of assaults that are hindering efforts to control the outbreak of Ebola. The team had been collecting bodies believed to be infected with the disease. They were attacked by family members of the dead. One of the volunteers is recovering from a neck wound. Last week, a team of several health officials and journalists in Guinea was abducted and killed. They had been educating people on how to avoid contracting Ebola. Ebola is believed to have infected more than 5,800 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria and Senegal. The outbreak has grown into the world's largest ever for the disease, partially because it went undetected for months. Efforts to control the disease have been hampered by resistance -- ranging from outright denials that Ebola exists to fears that the very people sent to combat it are in fact carriers.  U.S. health officials Tuesday presented worst-case and best-case scenarios for the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, calculating that as many as 1.4 million people could be sickened in two countries alone by mid-January -- or the outbreak could be winding down by then, if control efforts substantially increase. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh) (23 Sep 2014)  Read More at: http://www.fox17.com/template/inews_wire/wires.international/360dd56e-www.fox17.com.shtml

Red Cross team attacked in Guinea September 24, 2014 15:33 GMT CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) -- A Red Cross team has been attacked in the West African country of Guinea -- in the latest in a string of assaults that are hindering efforts to control the outbreak of Ebola. The team had been collecting bodies believed to be infected with the disease. They were attacked by family members of the dead. One of the volunteers is recovering from a neck wound. Last week, a team of several health officials and journalists in Guinea was abducted and killed. They had been educating people on how to avoid contracting Ebola. Ebola is believed to have infected more than 5,800 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria and Senegal. The outbreak has grown into the world's largest ever for the disease, partially because it went undetected for months. Efforts to control the disease have been hampered by resistance -- ranging from outright denials that Ebola exists to fears that the very people sent to combat it are in fact carriers. %@AP Links APPHOTO ALIB104: People protest against the governments lack of help to the public with the Ebola virus in their communities, outside the Liberian House of Representative in Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. U.S. health officials Tuesday presented worst-case and best-case scenarios for the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, calculating that as many as 1.4 million people could be sickened in two countries alone by mid-January -- or the outbreak could be winding down by then, if control efforts substantially increase. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh) (23 Sep 2014)

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Ebola virus in humans may be here to stay; fatality rate is 71%

...In order to stop the epidemic, researchers say the rate of transmission would have to be cut in half. This would be equivalent to vaccinating 50% of the population.
Several experimental vaccines are under development, and -- if they prove to be effective -- won't be available in large quantities for months.
Study authors made the following observations on the effects of the outbreak.

• The average age of a person infected with Ebola is 32, and 49.9% of patients are male, researchers said. The age group that has been most affected by the virus makes up 44% of the total population.
• The most common symptoms reported by patients included fever (87.1%), fatigue (76.4%), loss of appetite (64.5%), vomiting (67.6%), diarrhea (65.6%), headache (53.4%), and abdominal pain (44.3%).
• Although the disease is infamously known for causing bleeding, "specific hemorrhagic symptoms were rarely reported (in less than 1% to 5.7% of patients)," authors wrote. "Unexplained bleeding" however was reported in 18% of cases.
• People age 45 or older faced a significantly greater threat of death, as did those who suffered a number of the following symptoms: diarrhea, conjunctivitis, difficulty breathing or swallowing, confusion or disorientation and coma, unexplained bleeding, bleeding gums, bloody nose, bleeding at injection sites and bleeding from the vagina. http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-ebola-may-be-endemic-in-people-20140922-story.html

"The risk of continued epidemic expansion and the prospect of endemic EVD in West Africa call for the most forceful implementation of present control measures and the rapid development and deployment of new drugs and vaccines," the authors concluded.

Doctor's Report : Youngster With Ebola Symptoms Admitted In Rajiv Gandhi Hospital - Thanthi TV

Published on Sep 23, 2014

Doctor's Report : Youngster With Ebola Symptoms Admitted In Rajiv Gandhi Hospital...
A Youngster from Ariyalur was detected with Ebola Virus when he came from Nigeria This Morning.. He was admitted and given Special Treatment in Rajiv Gandhi General Hospital, Chennai- Thanthi TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aen9Tu9ua9s&feature=youtube_gdata

This picture shows the problem of the spread man in yellow escaping with relative - Ebola victim on a bike

This picture shows the problem of the spread man in yellow escaping with relative - Ebola victim on a bike..#Ebola pic.twitter.com/A5HAx5GlLq

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