Saturday, October 4, 2014

#Ebola: More than 8,000 Households Quarantined in Sierra Leone Since May

Ebola: More than 8,000 Households Quarantined in Sierra Leone Since May

by Frances Martel 4 Oct 2014, 10:05 AM PDT post a comment

Sierra Leone remains one of the west African nations hardest hit by the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the region. To emphasize the scale of the operation the Leonean government has undertaken to attempt to stop the virus in its tracks, officials announced this week that 8,478 households have been specifically quarantined since May.

That number comes from Director of Communications in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation Sidi Yayah Tunis, according to the nation's largest newspaper, the Awareness Times. These are not believed to be households that fall in quarantined neighborhoods, but homes that were individually selected for quarantine due to the presence of the Ebola virus in that home.
In addition to the staggering number, Director Tunis reminded the public once again that "everything relating to providing service for Ebola is free as it is widely complained that some health workers and members of the burial team request for monies." In addition to struggling with finding workers to help clean up and contain the virus, it appears that many are asking citizens for money, as the government struggles to pay workers.
Sierra Leone has employed various quarantining methods to try to keep the virus from consuming its capital, Freetown, as well as salvage rural communities that are more difficult for government officials to reach. In August, Sierra Leone began using the medieval cordon sanitaire method of containing entire communities, in which no one and no items are allowed to enter or exit the area. Fearing the potential of famine, the government implemented a less strict version of the cordon, which would allow for food to enter affected areas.
Starvation has affected areas of Sierra Leone, however--not through quarantine, but through the sheer strength of the virus. Some communities have been so devastated by Ebola, The New York Times reported in August, that few are left to procure food or ship it from town to town.
By September, Sierra Leone had significantly extended its attempts to keep Ebola from consuming the nation. Reportedly, a total of two million people were affected by the latest round of regional quarantines, as three separate districts of the country were essentially forced into lockdown. At one point in September, the nation shut down for three days completely; individuals were not allowed to leave their homes as health workers went door to door trying to collect the dead and clean up areas where contaminants remained. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/10/04/Ebola-More-than-8-000-Households-Quarantined-in-Sierra-Leone-since-May/

Dallas #Ebola Patient on Ventilator: Nephew

Dallas Ebola Patient on Ventilator: Nephew

Saturday, Oct 4, 2014 • Updated at 10:32 AM CDT

The man who has Ebola and is being treated at a Dallas hospital is on a ventilator according to his nephew.

Josephus Weeks, Thomas Eric Duncan's nephew, tells NBC News Duncan "is now on a ventilator."... http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/Dallas-Ebola-Patient-on-Ventilator-Nephew-278116781.html

«Daash» risk spreading the virus «Ebola» in America in response to the «international coalition

«Daash» risk spreading the virus «Ebola» in America in response to the «international coalition»
Wednesday 17 / September / 2014 - 6:04
Efforts to contain the virus, efforts to contain the Ebola virus Editor Vito

Threatened to organize «Daash», the United States, and the countries of «Alliance Bank», publish «Ebola virus», within those states, if implemented, its threats to wage war on the organization inside Syria and Iraq.

The statement said the terrorist organization: «the process of disease transmission is not difficult, it is enough to carry a bottle in your bag and take them from Africa to America and open in a duct or put it on the barrel of pipe drinking water public, and the elevator doors, and will ensure air and water the rest».

The statement, posted on one of the sites of the organization: «the process of cultivating bacteria and Tkterha can any student in the Faculty of Science, Department of Biological, do them, they do not need to laboratories complex, and can laboratory small flat inside a small farming millions of germs and viruses».

The organization explained that among the viruses that its members can «synthesized and produced»: «Ebola .. Corona». Followers: «soldiers of the Islamic State, mostly suicide bombers .. and all of them are ready not only to carry Ebola, but to drink Ebola drink if they were asked to carry and Baúha and published in Omrica..amlah publication of the epidemic, whether Ebola or other is not difficult but needs a decision by the leaders jihadist ». http://www.vetogate.com/1227982

Alarming Claims Made by ‘Stepdaughter’ of Dallas Ebola Patient Likely Won’t Help Restore Confidence in CDC’s Handling of Case

Oct. 3, 2014 10:48pm Jason Howerton

A woman who claims to be the “stepdaughter” of Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Duncan told CNN’s John Berman on Friday that she had close contact with her stepfather and ended up calling 911 when he became feverish and sweaty.
However, she also revealed a number of other “shocking” details about her interactions so far with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials.

This 2011 photo provided by Wilmot Chayee shows Thomas Eric Duncan at a wedding in Ghana. Duncan, who became the first patient diagnosed in the U.S with Ebola, has been kept in isolation at a hospital since Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014. He was listed in serious but stable condition. (AP Photo/Wilmot Chayee)

Firstly, Youngor Jallah claimed she found out that Duncan was diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus on the news. She told Berman that no official with the CDC or other agency called to inform her.
“I saw it on the news. No one called me and tell me that step-daddy is positive of Ebola,” she added. “No one called me.”
The woman also said no official provided instructions as to how — or even if — she should clean and disinfect the apartment. Further, Jallah claimed she is still waiting to receive instructions from CDC officials on whether or not she should self-quarantine.
“No one is giving me no instructions and no one is telling me nothing,” she told CNN, later admitting that she is “scared” of contracting the Ebola virus.
“There’s no one to help, only Jesus,” Jallah continued. “We only depending on God.”
Watch Jallah’s interview with CNN below:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/03/alarming-claims-made-by-stepdaughter-of-dallas-ebola-patient-likely-wont-help-restore-confidence-in-cdcs-handling-of-case/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=ShareButtons

During An Ebola Pandemic All Of Your Rights Would Essentially Be Meaningless

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/03/2014 21:09 -0400

Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,
If there is a major Ebola pandemic in America, all of the liberties and the freedoms that you currently enjoy would be gone. If government officials believe that you have the virus, federal law allows them to round you up and detain you "for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary." In addition, the CDC already has the authority to quarantine healthy Americans if they reasonably believe that they may become sick. During an outbreak, the government can force you to remain isolated in your own home, or the government may forcibly take you to a treatment facility, a tent city, a sports stadium, an old military base or a camp. You would not have any choice in the matter. And you would be forced to endure any medical procedure mandated by the government. That includes shots, vaccines and the drawing of blood. During such a scenario, you can scream about your "rights" all that you want, but it won't do any good.
In case you are tempted to think that I am making this up, I want you to read what federal law actually says. The following is 42 U.S.C. 264(d). I have added bold for emphasis...

(1) Regulations prescribed under this section may provide for the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease in a qualifying stage and (A) to be moving or about to move from a State to another State; or (B) to be a probable source of infection to individuals who, while infected with such disease in a qualifying stage, will be moving from a State to another State. Such regulations may provide that if upon examination any such individual is found to be infected, he may be detained for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary. For purposes of this subsection, the term “State” includes, in addition to the several States, only the District of Columbia.

(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term “qualifying stage”, with respect to a communicable disease, means that such disease—

(A) is in a communicable stage; or

(B) is in a precommunicable stage, if the disease would be likely to cause a public health emergency if transmitted to other individuals.

In addition, as I discussed above, the CDC already has the authority to isolate people that are not sick to see if they do become sick. The following is what the CDC website says about this...

Quarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill. These people may have been exposed to a disease and do not know it, or they may have the disease but do not show symptoms. Quarantine can also help limit the spread of communicable disease.

On a very basic level, we are already starting to see this happen in Texas. Obviously Thomas Eric Duncan has already been "isolated", and now his family has been placed under mandatory quarantine and ordered not to leave their home for 21 days...

Texas health officials have placed the Dallas family of a Liberian national infected with Ebola under quarantine and ordered them not to leave their home or have any contact with outsiders for 21 days without approval of the local or state health department.

The "control order" also requires the family of Thomas Eric Duncan to be available to provide blood samples and agree to any testing required by public health officials. Officials said Thursday that the four or five family members could face criminal charges for violating the order, which was delivered to them in writing Wednesday evening.

Police have been stationed at the apartment complex to ensure residents' safety, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings told a news briefing Thursday afternoon.

If we could all just stay in our homes during a national Ebola emergency, that wouldn't be so bad.
But if thousands (or even millions) of cases start popping up it simply will not be possible for law enforcement authorities to monitor so many homes.
This is a point that Mike Adams of Natural News made exceptionally well...

When just one family is suspected of carrying Ebola, they can be easily monitored in a "volunteer home isolation" scenario. But what happens when it's 100 families? 500? 1,000? At that point, there aren't enough state or federal workers to keep an eye on these people, and the quarantine effort will almost certainly shift to forced relocation into quarantine camps.

Those camps will, of course, be called something nice-sounding like "Community Health Centers." No one in government or media will call them camps, even though they are camps. The word "camp" brings up echoes of "concentration camps" and the government definitely wants to avoid that association.

If one particular town or city is hit especially hard with the virus, there is a likelihood of the entire town being quarantined. No one in, no one out. Everybody will be ordered to "shelter in place" in their own homes for at least 21 days while health workers wearing hazmat suits go door to door, identifying Ebola victims and "relocating" them to the "Community Health Centers."

If that sounds like "martial law" to you, that is because it would essentially be martial law.
For the moment, public health authorities are pledging that nothing like this will ever happen because they have everything completely under control.
Others are not so sure.
For example, on Thursday a doctor from Missouri named Gil Mobley checked in for a flight at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport dressed in a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a protective white jumpsuit. On the back of the jumpsuit, he had written the following words: "CDC is lying!"
Mobley believes that we are not being told the truth about the spread of Ebola. And he is convinced that as Ebola continues to spread exponentially, that we will eventually "be importing clusters of Ebola on a daily basis"...

“Once this disease consumes every third world country, as surely it will, because they lack the same basic infrastructure as Sierra Leone and Liberia, at that point, we will be importing clusters of Ebola on a daily basis,” Mobley predicted.

“That will overwhelm any advanced country’s ability to contain the clusters in isolation and quarantine. That spells bad news.”

Mobley, a Medical College of Georgia graduate who had an overnight layover after flying to Atlanta from Guatemala on Wednesday, said that he feels that the CDC is “asleep at the wheel” when it comes to screening passengers arriving in the United States from other countries.

“Yesterday, I came through international customs at the Atlanta airport,” the doctor told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “The only question they asked arriving passengers is if they had tobacco or alcohol.”

Earlier on Thursday, there were reports of people being tested for Ebola in Hawaii, Kentucky and Utah. None of those tests has produced a confirmed case of Ebola as I write this article.
Many Americans are still treating this Ebola crisis as if it was just one big joke.
But Ebola is no joking matter. This is a very, very serious disease.
Just consider the experience of one British health worker that witnessed a young brother and sister both die one day apart...

'The next morning I came in and saw him lying as I had left him, on the bed.

'He wasn't breathing. I remember going up to him and looking at his face, his lips were drawn back in a grimace, and his eyes were vacant, lying in a pool of his own diarrhea.

'I lifted his hand to try, just to confirm things and his whole body turned rigid and cold.

'I put him in a body bag as his sister looked on.

'She seemed more baffled than anything, not really understanding what was happening. I carried his corpse outside with the others.

'The little girl, she deteriorated the next day. Overnight, the following night she had intravenous fluids and the line came out and she bled.

'I came in the following morning and she was covered in blood. She still had a very puzzled expression on her face and she wasn't breathing.

'So I put her in a bag and left her next to her brother. She was a beautiful little girl.'

Hopefully our medical authorities are correct and this virus will not spread easily in this country.
But at this point even some of our top politicians are wondering if we are truly getting accurate information. For example, check out what U.S. Senator Rand Paul had to say on the Laura Ingraham Show just recently...

“I really think that it is being dominated by political correctness and I think because of political correctness we’re not really making sound, rational, scientific decisions on this.” Paul said referring to statements issued by the CDC last week that assured there was little risk of an outbreak occurring in the US.

“We should not underestimate the transmissibility of this,” said Paul, a doctor himself, adding that medical workers have been contracting the virus even though they are taking precautions and covering themselves with gowns and masks.

“My suspicion is that it’s a lot more transmissible than that if people who are taking every precaution are getting it. There are people getting it who simply helped people get in or out of a taxicab.” Paul said.

Let's pray that this crisis fizzles out, because if it doesn't, we could truly be looking at the greatest health crisis that any of us have ever seen.
And along with countless numbers of people getting sick and dying, we would also have to deal with government-imposed medical martial law.
The stakes are extremely high, and so let us hope that this crisis does not escalate any further.

Lies & ibuprofen: Airport #Ebola checks rely on ‘honor system’, easily bypassed

Published time: October 03, 2014 15:59

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Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun

Airport screenings for Ebola don’t give a 100 percent guarantee of preventing the spread of the disease. Airport staff may lack competence and the infected can use anti-fever drugs and lies to get aboard the plane, healthcare experts warn.

Passengers flying from Ebola-stricken countries - Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone – are mostly being health screened at departure gates, while the same should be done on arrival as well, believes infection control specialist Sean Kaufman, who was interviewed by Reuters.
Kaufman, who is president of Atlanta-based biosafety company, Behavioral-Based Improvement Solutions, recently traveled from Monrovia to Casablanca to London to Atlanta. At the last two stops he wasn’t fever-screened.
While he was surprised to discover such relaxed attitudes to those arriving from Ebola-stricken regions of Africa in the US and the UK airports, he is simultaneously being skeptical of the airport screenings.
"The fever-screening instruments run low and aren't that accurate," he said. "And people can take ibuprofen to reduce their fever enough to pass screening, and why wouldn't they? If it will get them on a plane so they can come to the United States and get effective treatment after they're exposed to Ebola, wouldn't you do that to save your life?"
Travelers flying from Liberia also have to fill in a questionnaire at the airport, asking them whether they had contacts with those sick. A medical worker from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Tai Chen, described it in an interview with Reuters as “process relying on an honor system.”
Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, who brought Ebola to US from Liberia and was hospitalized September 28, lied in his questionnaire, it was revealed.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf expressed concern over Duncan’s bringing the virus to US.
"The fact that he knew [he was exposed to the virus] and he left the country is unpardonable, quite frankly," Sirleaf told Canada’s CBC. "I just hope that nobody else gets infected."
The Liberia Airport Authority (LAA), with permission from the Ministry of Justice, now plans to prosecute Duncan for having lied in his airport questionnaire.

Hajj overshadowed by Ebola fears

Ebola has also affected the annual hajj pilgrimage. Muslims from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone aren’t among the 2 million participants, as Saudi Arabia denied them visas earlier this year on fears virus would quickly spread among the crowded Mecca vi... http://rt.com/news/192896-airport-ebola-screenings-ibuprofen/

Video Shows '#Ebola Victim' Wake Up In Body Bag

| By Charlotte Alfred

Posted: 10/03/2014 12:28 pm EDT

ABC News journalists in Liberia captured a horrifying scene from the frontline of the Ebola outbreak on Thursday while filming a burial team picking up bodies.
The footage shows ABC correspondent Dr. Richard Besser observing health workers while they douse the body of a suspected Ebola patient lying on the streets of the Liberian capital Monrovia with bleach, a regular precaution while removing bodies to prevent the spread of the disease. The workers place the suspected victim in a body bag. Then, his hand moves.
"He's not dead!" Besser exclaims, to the cheers of a crowd of Liberians.
Residents told Besser they had spent days unsuccessfully seeking help for the man as he lay suffering on the road. The burial team, however, arrived within an hour of the victim's reported death. "They only come when you die," one community leader told the news crew.
One of three countries battling Ebola in West Africa, Liberia has been hardest hit by the outbreak, with nearly 2,000 recorded deaths from the virus. The country's beleaguered health system has been overwhelmed by the crisis. Liberia has a dire shortage of hospital beds and international efforts to help have struggled keep pace with Ebola's spread.
Richard Besser, who is ABC's chief health and medical editor, was the first journalist permitted to film inside Liberia's Ebola Isolation Unit, ELWA2. He told The Huffington Post earlier that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the most devastating he's ever seen anywhere in the world. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/03/ebola-victim-wakes-up_n_5923614.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

CNN Guest: Restricting Flights From Liberia Would Be Racist or Something

Stephen Kruiser

October 3, 2014 - 11:19 am

Tedious, wrong and pathetic. Travel restrictions do not equate to “turning our backs” on the country to which we’ve already committed resources to battle this outbreak.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/10/03/cnn-guest-restricting-flights-from-liberia-would-be-racist-or-something/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

#Ebola Fact: 6,000 People Fly Into U.S. From EBOLA Ravaged Western Africa Each Week, (Video)

Thursday, October 2, 2014 8:21

As the Ebola Virus spreads out of control across West Africa, airlines around the globe are monitering the situation but have yet to make any drastic changes to their service areas.

Airlines quickly take passengers from one area of the globe to another. One sick passenger is all it takes to infect hundreds or even thousands of other people.

As 6000 people fly from Ebola ravaged West Africa to America each week, it seems inevitable that it’s just a matter of time before more people infected with Ebola make it to American cities.
As you will seee in the video below, the risk of the virus spreading is inevitable.

The federal government derives its authority for isolation and quarantine from the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Under section 361 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S. Code § 264), the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to take measures to prevent the entry and spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States and between states.

The authority for carrying out these functions on a daily basis has been delegated to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)..
http://crashcade.com/health/2014/10/ebola-fact-6000-people-fly-into-u-s-from-ebola-ravaged-western-africa-each-week-video-287.html

Sierra Leone News: Bo quarantines 395 people #ebola

395 people in the villages of Gomahun, Baoma Chiefdom and Yakaji, Kakua Chiefdom have been quarantined following outbreaks of the deadly Ebola disease in the two villages last week.
The two villages are, for now, the only sources of the 227 suspected cases being investigated by the Bo District Health Management Team.
Of the 227 cases, 84 have confirmed positive for the Ebola virus, 46 have died with 40 of the deaths thought to be from Ebola, and 7 have been discharged from treatment centres in Bo.
Nine people are being presently admitted to hospital, and eight others are awaiting test results.
More than half of the district’s suspected cases come from Gomahun village, which has a total of 38 households and 370 inhabitants. 270 of the 370 are subject to the quarantine order, although the entire village is “under monitor”, as the City Council Chief Administrator put it during the regular Emergency Operations Centre weekend press briefing.
Yakaji, the other village with suspected Ebola cases, has three houses with 25 inhabitants.
What worries the EOC in particuar is the number of children affected, particularly in Gomahun village.
“What is alarming is the number of children. There are plenty of kids in there,” the Chief Administrator said.
He said the circumstances in Goamhun and Yakaji were different from those of Kalia where only 248 people live.
The Head of the District Ebola Task Force, Joseph M Bindi maintained that “because of the new situation we need pro-active measures.”
Additionally, Bevehun village and Lungi village are also thought to be possible sources of the Ebola threat in the district.
By Jenkins Bawoh
Thursday October 02, 2014

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/

Saturday, September 27, 2014

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

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

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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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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