LETTER FROM A NURSE. THERE IS A RISK THAT THE MAYOR IS AFTER Ebola and CRYSTAL.

LETTER FROM A NURSE. THERE IS A RISK THAT THE MAYOR IS AFTER Ebola and CRYSTAL.
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I am a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Hospital La Paz. The reason for addressing you.'s To inform the public the facts that have happened recently regarding the "Crisis of the Ebola virus" opinion. Do not want to create social alarm, but tell what is still a reality in everyday for a few months of nursing staff the ICU among which I include ago.

Since the hospital was named La Paz as a reference center for the diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection in April 2014, the staff has been showing its disconfor to that measure and irregularities have been committing the direction of nursing the hospital as a whole. (See attachment Notification Judge).

These irregularities summarize, focus on that:

• The hospital does not have adequate infrastructure to enter patients affected with this type of disease (the famous isolation rooms with negative pressure).

• The original protocols of the Ministry of Health were modified to fit like the gaps that had the hospital: If you do not have "negative pressure" we say "as far as is demonstrated airborne transmission is not necessary."

• General (modified or not) protocols are not handed to staff for knowledge, nor were exposed at various meetings with management nursing.

• As ICU care were demanding the implementation of specific protocols UCI (Today still not exist or at least personnel have not arrived)

• Staff training requires the completion of courses and training to work in situations like this.

• The Department of Preventive Medicine Hospital offers two informative talks (45 minutes) of such as personal protective equipment required. In those talks and the inexperience of the same staff that taught, costumes torn apart, replaced the shims for plastic bags, there were no complete SCUBA and coming to say more or less I had to do a hack to cover his face with masking tape.

Without being solved any of these issues by the Department of the hospital, you will hanging out and communicating to staff that will be the Hospital of the defense "Gómez Ulla" who takes these emergencies but as it is in the process of reform to create appropriate facilities, until the month of October will remain referral hospital.

So, without making anyone anything we turned on the evening of August 5, and the staff on duty that night between myself included, through the media found out that it will repatriate the priest. We notify our immediate superior (Supervisor Guard) which completely ignores the way forward taking you to contact the Chief of Hospital on call that night, which in turn know the news and begins to activate the protocol set (remember that until that night the patient was to be admitted to peace). Being the ICU staff in charge of receiving the priest is not made ​​aware of the protocol itself.

It was the next morning, August 6, when thankfully, someone warns of the potential danger of entering the priesthood in a hospital the size of the Peace, without adequate facilities. About 14 hours of the decision to be taken to the 6th floor of the Hospital Carlos III equipped with isolation rooms with negative pressure is taken. From that moment you begin to equip the hospital Carlos III than necessary to accommodate the patient. Here it should be noted that the floor of the hospital was closed without staffing or equipment since the middle of August would begin the conversion work in a hospital ward for the chronically ill. - We'll agree that this is called a "wing".

So during the afternoon of August 6 and the entire staff of both hospitals hurry were providing media said plant. Realising curious cases in which La Paz hospital nurses transporting materials in their own vehicles lacking in the Carlos III. (Now that's "Brand Spain").

Given the lack of staff at the Hospital Carlos III for the above reasons, the Management of Both hospitals determined that ICU staff of Peace is sent to Carlos III. And it is here that due to the improvisation and the lack of criteria other negligence committed more by sending an untrained one on Biological Hazards to treat a patient with one of the most dangerous infections known declared by WHO globally and Public Health emergency. (Here it should be remembered that there is a special unit trained to deal with such cases: the NBC unit or UME Emergency Military Unit).

And here another outrage, Supervisors nursing and self Nursing Management of Peace savvy than their staff is not well trained that has not been given specific training and has not been informed of the protocols to follow is committed or what their function when they visit there, is forced to move with coercion and threats of losing their jobs or disciplinary proceedings open for him if he refuses to be sent to Carlos III.

Today and even though these people have admitted several days, or the direction of nursing and medical direction has been active in organizing action drills taught by competent personnel in personal protective measures for displaced staff. They are the same nurses / os that once there in the Carlos III are reported each other as is the procedure and how protective measures put there. To be fair, the staff of the Carlos III that remained there working with some more training in these cases that we try to train and reassure us in this regard. But this happens there minutes before entering the patient's room. Curiously, the Guide for the selection and use of Personal Protective Equipment in healthcare settings, consists of 50 pages. And the Guide for the Care of Patients with Hemorrhagic Virus in hospitals in USA consists of 225 pages. Both the CDC in Atlanta and available in "PDF" for anyone on your website. Here we have nothing.

It is true that the staff shows their reluctance to go to Carlos III but no one has refused to treat a patient. We only note that we have not been properly trained and given the nature of the disease the risk of infection and possible transmission outside the walls of the Carlos III is a reality that as health professionals must be made aware of who is and who our superior direct not listen to us. The questions are obvious: Why ships untrained?It is incongruous! Why avoid the ultimate responsibility lies with the spread staff without specific training? The Americans would do such a thing ?.

Sorry for the last comment. I've promised myself not to fall into demagogy and be as aseptic as possible narrating the facts truthfully.

Moreover the selection of this staff has done arbitrarily and without judgment. All ICU staff will rotate by the Carlos III. Well, WHO protocol warn that the health or not, staff should minimize exposure time in the room with the patient and reduce as much as possible the number of persons attending the patient continuously. Well if the entire ICU staff walked by, Do not we are increasing exponentially the risk of possible transmission? It is not logical and contravenes the measures ordered by the WHO.

I follow; Staff passing by will not do any monitoring or epidemiological precautionary measure. Once your turn is finished running happily home and the next day, if you do not turn back to Carlos III as you go to work in the ICU of Peace with patients of diverse etiology in many Immunodepressed occasions. It is a contradiction that to get on a plane and control measures are taken and I can come and go and do my normal life as if nothing. This is not consistent.

Finally only remains to emphasize that in all this there is a lot of improvisation and a lot of reckless attitude of those who truly, really ... NOT going to be ahead of the virus at him in the face. Listen to those who are on the front line have something to say.

This case represents the first infection has occurred in Europe

Has been told this newspaper, the nurse resides in Alcorcón, is married and has no children. On Monday, about seven o'clock, he went to the emergency room of the local hospital. She was taken by ambulance and attended an isolation room, a room enabled by the hospital for possible cases of Ebola. Health asked all hospitals habilitasen room for this purpose because he ordered all possible cases continue in his local hospital until contraanálisis were made and cases are confirmed. Apparently, the woman had a week with fever and several spots on the body. By going a few days ago to your GP, this was advised that if I kept finding bad acudiera to an emergency department. Antonio Alemany explained that the patient began a vacation after the death of Manuel García missionary Viejo on September 25 and began showing "vague symptoms" five days later.  

The nurse has just comment that does not know how it has been known infected According to this newspaper, the nurse has just comment that does not know how it has spread, as he followed protocol while attending the missionary said. It is quite frightened, for he lives with his partner, which in principle has no symptoms. His family has also taken to hospital. Other possible cases, commented that Health has contacted Summa professionals who treated this woman and professionals in Alcorcón. He also explained that about thirty health professionals who attended the two missionaries and worked with this woman are undergoing temperature--Controls epidemiological surveillance. Also the spouse of the infected side. In the press conference, Health has offered vague data on this new case of Ebola. You did not specify how many people have been in contact with women or their risk. Nor has detailed the number of people and surroundings- -sanitarios who might have come in contact with the patient or the concrete measures taken to control it. 

 It has not been reported at the same time, where he has spent his vacation. In addition, Ana Mato has eluded arrempiente rule on whether to have brought Spain to the two infected in Africa has avoided religious and discuss possible resignations. Health also said he was unaware one second suspected case of Ebola in Madrid, after transcending an alert nurse against another La Paz hospital. Yes they have indicated that they are investigating possible contacts who have had the nurse and her husband (who has so far tested negative in tests) and recalled that the disease is not contagious until symptoms are not displayed. The nurse living in Alcorcón, is married and has no children in the Hospital de Alcorcón, Tuesday workers will report on what measures should follow cleaning and prevention. 
 Sources have told center 20minutes until just two days ago most of the staff was unaware of the need to apply in these cases protocol. For example, workers cleaning and disinfection, for example, were unaware of the rules. Given these statements, Antonio Alemany has just ensured that the protocol for dealing with such diseases was sent to all hospitals.  
Regarding the isolation room where she met the woman, is adjacent to the Emergency Hospital Alcorcón and near the area used to deposit the waste generated in the health center. So far, it has asked the workers who do not pass through this area. In this situation, Alemany has insisted that the disease is not spread through the air, so it is not necessary to further isolation. Contagion in Europe First Hospital La Paz-Carlos III tried two positive cases of Ebola, Miguel and Manuel García Pajares Viejo, who were repatriated from Liberia. Both died from the effects of the virus. This case represents the first infection has occurred in Europe, since other cases have been in people who were in the affected countries of Africa and which were subsequently moved to Europe.\
  http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2258248/0/hospital-de-alcorcon/enfermera/caso-de-ebola/#xtor=AD-15&xts=467263

Spanish Nurse Who Treated Ebola Victim in Madrid Tests Positive

Spanish Nurse Who Treated Ebola Victim in Madrid Tests Positive For Disease - 2nd confirming test confirms nosocomial transmission

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The patient, who went on vacation after the death of García Viejo, life has become normal in recent weeks and shows no more symptoms that "a little fever and fatigue," said the director of the primary care Madrid , Antonio Alemany. The patient has a fever, about 38,6º is stable and is awaiting assessment as officials from the Ministry of Health. "We are not aware of any other case," added Alemany. This has added yet unknown what could fail, if they have actually implemented all protocols to prevent contagion, "We do not know yet what could fail are investigating the mechanism of infection.".

Minister Ana Mato, in an extraordinary appearance before reporters, said that the protocol was "immediately activated to assist the patient and ensure the safety of health workers who treats and citizens." "We are working to verify the source of infection," added the minister. Has begun the study of all the contacts you have had this woman, including those who have had with health professionals Hospital Alcorcón.

The woman is stable and has fever 38,6º

...This is the third case of Ebola fallecieron- treated in Spain-the first two and the first in which the patient is not repatriated from Africa or is treated in the hospital Carlos III de Madrid. The capital has already activated the protocol in September when a Brazilian disturbing symptoms presented in the Southern Bus Station.
The patient was admitted in the morning with a high fever. So the hospital activated the protocol before a possible case of Ebola and is isolated in the emergency room. A total of 60 health professionals who have had contact with the affected are under surveillance, according to a spokesman for the Union of Nursing.She is a woman of 44, married and childless, of Galician origin but has been in the Carlos III over 15 years, according to other health center that consulted by this newspaper. These other colleagues who, as the affected, have been working in shifts to care of the missionaries, have expressed surprise at the spread as protective measures were "extreme". Health protection two monkeys wearing two pairs of gloves and goggles when treated patients.

The primary care manager of the Community of Madrid, Antonio Alemany, explained at the press conference with the affected Mato entered at any time in the room with García Viejo "protective equipment" and that there is no evidence that there had been other contact. He also explained that the affected went on vacation the day after the death of this missionary. "We have already begun the study of all the contacts you have had this patient, including health professionals Hospital Alcorcón who have served," added Alemany.

The partners have also explained to the doors of the center, the hospital was not evacuated to attend the second missionary because the sixth floor (the infectious intended) was already sealed since he attended the first affected. To access this facility, the professionals have a specific card.

We do not know what could fail we investigated the mechanism of infection..http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/10/06/...15_352524.html

Rwanda Govt on high alert as Marburg Virus is reported in Uganda

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Following reports of an outbreak of the deadly Marburg hemorrhagic fever in neighbouring Uganda, officials from the Ministry of Health yesterday said they are going to monitor the evolution of the virus spread before they could issue a public alert.

A Rwandan medical official screens travellers crossing into Rwanda from DR Congo for Ebola. The country is on high alert as Marburg, an Ebola-like disease is confirmed in Uganda. (File)

Speaking to The New Times yesterday, Nathan Mugume, the head of the communication division at Rwanda Biomedical Centre, said: “In such a situation, we strengthen border surveillance and work with neighbouring countries to monitor how the virus is scaling up.”
Marburg is a severe and highly fatal disease caused by a virus from the same family as one that causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever. According to the World Health Organisation, the illness caused by Marburg virus begins abruptly, with severe headache and malaise.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni confirmed the outbreak on his Twitter account yesterday evening.
He wrote; “The Ministry of Health has confirmed a case of Marburg death. Stay calm but vigilant.
Avoid shaking hands and cooperate with health workers. I have directed the ministry to immediately send out public alerts and provide as much information to the people as possible. Do cooperate.”...http://in2eastafrica.net/govt-on-high-alert-as-marburg-virus-is-reported-in-uganda/

Man dies from Ebola-like Marburg virus in Uganda's capital

10:35am October 6, 2014

An electron micrograph of the Marburg virus, which is known as one of the most deadly pathogens. (Picture: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

A hospital technician has died of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in Uganda, 11 days after falling ill.
The man, aged 30, died in the Mengo hospital where he worked in the capital of the east African country on September 28.
Tests confirmed the presence of the disease two days later.
The Marburg virus is one of the most deadly known pathogens. Like Ebola, it causes severe bleeding, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea.
The victim's brother and one other person he was in contact with have so far "developed signs" of the disease, the ministry of health said in a statement.
"So far, a total of 80 people who got into contact with the initial confirmed case have been identified and isolated" the statement read.
"These include 38 health workers from Mengo hospital and 22 health workers from Mpigi Health Center IV."
Like Ebola, the Marburg virus is transmitted via contact with bodily fluids and fatality rates range from 25 percent to 80 percent.
Uganda's Prime Minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda said the government could deal with any outbreak.
"Uganda has previously successfully handled similar situations of health threats involving hemorrhagic fevers," he tweeted.
A Marburg outbreak in Uganda in October 2012 killed 10 people, about half of those who were confirmed infected with the disease.
Researchers announced in August that a drug developed by Canada's Tekmira Pharmaceuticals helped monkeys survive the deadly Marburg infection in tests.

Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/health/2014/10/06/05/52/man-dies-from-ebola-like-marburg-virus-in-uganda#sqestJPwg1b3r1r7.99

 Tumwesigye said 20 other people who were involved in the burial process of the deceased are also being monitored in Kasese district in western Uganda.
 http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=245038

Nigerian woman quarantined in Kansas City with Ebola-Like symptoms

A Nigerian woman in Kansas City has been quarantined with Ebola-Like symptoms. It seems like now, if anybody throws up, they immediately suspect Ebola. WTF has this country become under Obama. According to Gateway Pundit, q Kansas City apartment building in the 3600 block of East Meyer Boulevard where the woman was living was sealed off because she is sick with something that may be contagious. Don’t know yet if it’s Ebola. Based on the recent ‘Ebola-like’ symptoms of people being rushed to the hospital for throwing up, this Nigerian woman probably just has a bad cold or something.

Nigerian woman quarantined in Kansas City with Ebola-Like symptoms

A source in Kansas City confirmed the story to the Gateway Pundit and added some details.
A Nigerian woman was taken to the hospital with a high fever and Ebola like symptoms. Her apartment building was quarantined, though that may have been lifted later.
The source added the Nigerian woman initially tested negative for Ebola and was released (or set to be released) but was called back to the hospital. The source said parts of the hospital may be quarantined but the hospital is not confirming anything.
The CDC is reportedly on the way, according to the source. http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2014/10/05/nigerian-woman-quarantined-kansas-city-ebola-like-symptoms/

Uganda Health ministry issues alert after Marburg death

Health ministry issues alert after Marburg death
Publish Date: Oct 05, 2014

By Vision Reporter
The Ministry of Health has today announced one fatal case of Marburg disease. The victim is a 30 year old health worker.
The victim had been a radiographer, or X-ray technician, at the Mpigi Health Centre IV, but was recruited two months ago for a similar position at Mengo Hospital. When he felt ill on September 17, he traveled back to Mpigi for treatment since “he felt more confortable with a facility that he had worked with for a long time.”
Marburg is one of the five members of the family of filoviruses, to which Ebola belongs. Like Ebola, a person infected with Marburg will experience a sudden onset of fever.
The most common additional signs are headache, joint and muscle pains, vomiting blood, and bleeding through body openings. The disease has a two to 21-day incubation period and, like Ebola, has no cure other than supportive treatment.
Today’s statement from Elioda Tumwesigye, Minister of State for General Duties & Holding the Portfolio of Minister for Health, describes a total of 80 people who were in contact with the man have been identified and isolated to follow for signs and symptoms.
President Yoweri Museveni immediately called for vigilance. "The Ministry of health is tracing all the people including relatives who may have been in close contact. Please report suspicious cases," Museveni said on twitter.
"Stay calm but vigilant. Avoid shaking hands and cooperate with health workers."
Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda reassured the country of measures to control the disease.
"Marburg is a Viral Hemorrhagic fever caused by the Marburg virus. Ministry of Helath has put in place rigorous surveillance and disease control measures.  Uganda has experience and adequate capacity to deal with this health threat & World Health Organisation has been informed," Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda said.
"The public has also been alerted to report any suspected cases on the Ministry hotline on +256750996034, " he added.
"Uganda has previously successfully handled similar situations of health threats involving Hemorrhagic fevers."
FULL STATEMENT
Ministry of Health Press Statement on confirmed Marburg Fever death
The Ministry of Health would like to inform the general public that there is a confirmed case of Marburg in the country. 
This initial case follows laboratory tests done at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) on September 30th 2014 which confirmed that one person, a health worker, had died of the viral hemorrhagic fever.

The index case is a 30-year-old male Radiographer, who originally was working in Mpigi Health Centre IV, Mpigi Town Council but had been recruited by Mengo Hospital two month ago as a Radiographer. He started feeling unwell on September 17th while at Mengo Hospital and travelled back to Mpigi HCIV on September 18th to seek treatment since he felt more comfortable with a facility that he had worked with for a long time. 
He was treated at Mpigi Health Center IV but when his condition worsened, he was transferred back to Mengo Hospital where he was admitted on September 23rd. He presented with Headache, Epistaxis, abdominal pain, vomiting blood and diarrhea. His condition deteriorated on September 27th and a Viral Haemorraghic fever was suspected. Blood samples were removed for further analysis on September 28th; unfortunately he died on the same day. His body was taken to Munkunyu 1 Village, Munkunyu Sub-county, Kasese district for burial.

Preliminary reports also show that his brother, one of the contacts so far listed has developed signs. He has been quarantined and isolated for further monitoring. Samples have been taken from him and are being tested at the Uganda Virus Research Institute. The public will be informed of his status. Altogether 80 contacts have been listed from Mengo, Mpigi and Kasese for follow up. 

Marburg Viral Haemorraghic fever is a fatal illness caused by the Marburg virus which belongs to the filoviridae family together with the Ebola virus. The incubation period ranges from 2 to 21 days while the Case fatality rates vary from 24% to 88%. Fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are considered to be the natural hosts of Marburg virus. The Marburg virus is transmitted to people from the fruit bats and spreads among humans through human-to-human transmission by direct contact with wounds and body fluids like blood, saliva, vomitus, stool and urine of an infected person.
A person suffering from Marburg presents with sudden onset of high fever with any of the following; 
1. Headache
2. Vomiting blood
3. Joint and muscle pains
4. Bleeding through the body openings, i.e. eyes, nose, gums, ears, anus and the skin. 
There is no specific antiviral treatment or vaccine available; patients are usually given supportive treatment.
The Ministry of Health is undertaking the following measures to control the spread of the disease;
• Yesterday, a team of epidemiologists and surveillance officers were sent to Mpigi Health Center IV, Mengo Hospital and to Kasese district to investigate the case and list all people who got into contact with the dead. 
• So far, a total of 80 people who got into contact with the initial confirmed case have been identified and isolated as a precautionary measure and for follow up for any signs and symptoms within the 21 days incubation period. These include 38 health workers from Mengo Hospital, including his brother and 22 health workers from Mpigi Health Center IV and 20 people from Kasese district. They are currently being monitored by a team of epidemiologists from the Ministry of Health. 
• Arrangements have been put in place to transport all suspect cases to the National Isolation Facility in Entebbe should they occur. The facility is already stocked with the necessary infection control materials and other supplies to handle any incoming patients. 
• Arrangements have also been made at Mengo Hospital to isolate any suspect with symptoms. Health workers have been asked to effect all infection control measures. 
• Preparations are underway to train all health workers at Mengo Hospital and Mpigi Health Center IV on infection control starting tomorrow 6/10/2014 at 9.00am
• Government working with partners and specifically Medicens San Frontiers (MSF) are in the process of revamping the isolation facility at Mulago National Referral Hospital under the leadership of Kampala Capital City Authority in readiness and the facility will be ready in three days time. 
• MSF is also mobilizing additional resources to assist with infection control and case management at all the isolation facilities that have been set up.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) is providing technical assistance and logistical support (PPE’s) to all the affected facilities.
• In Kasese, a team has been dispatched to work with the district official and Kagando Hospital to trace for any other suspects. 
• Personal Protective Equipments (PPE’s) and other supplies have been mobilized and sent to Mengo and Mpigi health center IV and Kagando HCIV.
• National Medical Stores will supply additional infection control materials to Mengo Hospital and Mpigi HCIV by tomorrow morning. 
The Ministry of Health however informs the general Public that Mengo Hospital is safe and all measures have been taken to ensure that there is no further spread of infection. Patients are encouraged to continue to receive services from there. 
Ministry of Health urges the general public to observe the following protective measures;
• Report any suspected patient to a nearby health unit 
• Avoid direct contact with body fluids of a person presenting with bleeding tendencies or symptoms of Marburg. 
The Ministry of Health once again calls upon the public to remain calm and be on alert amidst this epidemic. All suspect cases can be reported on the Ministry hotline on +256750996034.  http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/660425-health-ministry-issues-alert-after-marburg-death.html

Hospital aide dies from #Ebola-like Marburg virus in Uganda

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05 Oct 2014                   

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A hospital technician has died of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in Kampala, the Ugandan government announced on Sunday.
The man, aged 30, died in the Mengo hospital where he worked in the capital of the east African country on September 28, 11 days after falling ill, the authorities said.
Tests confirmed the presence of the disease two days later.

The Marburg virus is one of the most deadly known pathogens. Like Ebola, it causes severe bleeding, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea.
The victim’s brother and one other person he was in contact with have so far “developed signs” of the disease, the ministry of health said in a statement.
“So far, a total of 80 people who got into contact with the initial confirmed case have been identified and isolated” for the 21-day incubation period, it added.
“These include 38 health workers from Mengo hospital and 22 health workers from Mpigi Health Center IV.”
Like Ebola, the Marburg virus is transmitted via contact with bodily fluids and fatality rates range from 25 percent to 80 percent.
Uganda’s Prime Minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda said the government could deal with any outbreak. “Uganda has previously successfully handled similar situations of health threats involving hemorrhagic fevers,” he wrote on Twitter.
A Marburg outbreak in Uganda in October 2012 killed 10 people, about half of those who were confirmed infected with the disease.
The Ebola epidemic that has been raging in west Africa has so far claimed almost 3,500 lives, with Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone worst hit.
Researchers announced in August that a drug developed by Canada’s Tekmira Pharmaceuticals helped monkeys survive the deadly Marburg infection in tests. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/hospital-aide-dies-from-ebola-like-marburg-virus-in-uganda/

Russia from the West African countries allegedly found signs of #Ebola.

Ebola came to Russia? At 220 students - the signs of the deadly disease

03.10.2014 | Source:

To Pravda.Ru

More than 200 students from 557 guests to study in Russia from the West African countries allegedly found signs of Ebola.

"The situation is under control of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare" - quoted by LifeNews agency representatives. On the eve it was reported that the third-year student of the Ural Federal University was taken to the infectious disease clinic with suspected fever.
The young man "unspecified acute upper respiratory tract infection." A few days before he returned from Guinea.  https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pravda.ru%2Fnews%2Fhealth%2F03-10-2014%2F1229510-ebola-0%2F&edit-text=

First US Ebola Patient Dies???

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First US Ebola Patient Dies

Thomas A. Duncan, who became ill with Ebola after arriving from West Africa in Dallas two weeks ago, succumbed to the virus today (Sunday), reports Reuters. Duncan was fighting for his life at a Dallas hospital on today after his condition worsened to critical, according to the director of the US Centers for Disease Control.
The Dallas hospital that admitted him did not recognize the deadly disease at first and sent him home, only for him to return two days later by ambulance. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/305795#.VDFxft33arW

Patient being tested in Delaware for possible Ebola virus

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Posted: Oct 05, 2014 8:12 PM EST Updated: Oct 05, 2014 8:14 PM EST

(FOX NEWS)A patient with Ebola-like symptoms is being tested for the deadly virus at a Delaware hospital, Fox News confirmed Sunday.
A nurse at Bayhealth Kent General Hospital in Dover confirmed to Fox News that a patient exhibiting Ebola symptoms has been placed in isolation in the hospital and is being tested for the deadly virus, but did not give any more detail.
The only confirmed U.S. Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, is in critical condition at a Dallas hospital.
Also Sunday, officials said after several hours of searching they located a homeless man who was sought because of possible contact with Duncan.
The person is not considered to be one of the 10 people who definitely had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, who is in critical condition at a Dallas hospital. However, he is part of a larger group of 38 people who may have been around Duncan when he was showing symptoms of the disease, officials said.
He was found a few hours after officials on Sunday morning announced he was missing, Dallas city spokeswoman Sana Syed said.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins called the man, whom he didn't identify, a "low-risk individual." Authorities had monitored him a day earlier but want to take his temperature regularly to make sure he doesn't have a fever, a possible symptom of Ebola infection.
Jenkins said the man would receive a mental health evaluation at Dallas' Parkland Hospital. The man will eventually be placed in housing that give allow health workers direct access to him daily. Syed said it was unlikely that the man would be placed in a homeless shelter.
The group of 10 people is composed of seven health care workers and three family members or community contacts, said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 800 calls and emails are coming in daily to the CDC on Ebola, up from about 50 to 100 before Duncan was diagnosed on Tuesday, Frieden said. Frieden said he is scheduled to brief President Barack Obama on Monday.
Duncan has been hospitalized at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital for one week and was listed Sunday in critical condition. Frieden said Sunday that he was aware that Duncan's health had "taken a turn for the worse," but he declined to say what signs of poor health Duncan had shown.
Four members of a family who hosted Duncan in their northeast Dallas apartment are under isolation, though they have not shown symptoms of infection. http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/26709462/patient-being-tested-in-delaware-for-possible-ebola-virus

Sierra Leone records 121 #Ebola deaths in a single day

FREETOWN Sun Oct 5, 2014 7:54pm EDT

(Reuters) - Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease appeared in the West African country more than four months ago, government health statistics showed on Sunday.
The figures, which covered the period through Saturday, put the total number of deaths at 678, up from 557 the day before. The daily statistics compiled by Sierra Leone's Emergency Operations Centre also showed 81 new cases of the hemorrhagic fever.
Ebola was first reported in Guinea in March and has since spread to neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone in what has become the worst epidemic of the disease since Ebola was identified in 1976.
Smaller outbreaks in Nigeria and Senegal were brought under control. The United States last week confirmed its first Ebola case, a Liberian national who had traveled to Texas.
The overall death toll from the epidemic reached 3,439 out of a total of 7,492 cases in West Africa and the United States as of Oct. 1, the World Health Organization said last week. The U.N. agency's statistics varied from those compiled by Sierra Leone.
After an initial slow response, international assistance and supplies are now pouring into West Africa.
The United States is deploying around 4,000 military personnel to the region to support efforts to combat the outbreak in Liberia, the country worst hit by the disease.
Britain and China have sent personnel to Sierra Leone. Cuba dispatched a 165-member medical team, including specialists and nurses, to Sierra Leone last week.
The country's deputy health and sanitation minister Madina Rahman said on Saturday that the Cuban team's mission would last at least six months.
She said the team would be deployed to areas across Sierra Leone.
(Reporting by Umaru Fofana; Writing by Joe Bavier; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
 http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/05/us-health-ebola-leone-idUSKCN0HU0ZT20141005

CDC Officials to Meet Newark Plane Carrying Sick Passenger: Authorities

Saturday, Oct 4, 2014 • Updated at 1:50 PM EDT

Health officials were called to Newark Liberty International Airport to meet a plane on the runway Saturday, after a passenger began vomiting while en route from Brussels, officials said.

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were on their way to meet the plane Saturday afternoon after it landed at Gate 54, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The plane, United Flight 990, was carrying 255 people.

The incident comes amid concerns that the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa could be spread by international travelers. The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States went to a Dallas hospital last week but was mistakenly sent home, despite revealing he was visiting from Liberia. U.S. health care officials have said the American health system is equipped to prevent an outbreak in the U.S.

The CDC and United Airlines did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.  http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/CDC-Officials-to-Meet-Newark-Plane-Carrying-Sick-Passenger--278121131.html

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

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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

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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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