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Posted by Nizar Jallouli
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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A senior official at the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the organization expects the occurrence of five thousand to ten thousand cases of Ebola virus in western Africa a week, starting from December / December next. While senior official warned the United Nations on Tuesday that the world is going to lose the battle against the epidemic and that it is unable to stop the spread.
The Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization Bruce Aillward in Geneva, the organization recorded more than 8900 cases of Baapola and more than 4400 thousand deaths after infection with the virus since the beginning of the epidemic in West Africa.
The number of new cases is about thousand cases per week over the past few weeks. However, he stressed Aillward it is premature to say that the haemorrhagic fever is no longer spreading at a steady rate, stressing that it would be impossible to stop the spread of the fever unless there is an improvement in tracking the paths of infection in all parts of the communities and isolating new patients immediately.
The World Health Organization has repeatedly said that there are a large number of cases of undeclared in the three countries most affected -oha Liberia, Guinea and Saraleon- Understanding the size and frequency of outbreaks of the virus are important for the success of efforts to eradicate it.
Misleading data
He added that Aillward published data about the disease may also be misleading because the number of known cases of death is less than half the injuries which gives the wrong impression, explaining that the actual death rate higher and up to about 70%.
Ebola infections exceeded the 8900 (European)
Still a lot of people do not report cases of suspected infection in Baapola and continue to treat the injured at home in Sierra Leone, where health officials said it was the discovery of 18 bodies suspected to be infected with the Ebola virus last week in the area Ajabindembo near Freetown.
He warned Anthony Banbury head of the United Nations Mission in charge of the coordination of emergency response to the epidemic of Ebola, that the world is going to lose the battle against the epidemic, he is unable to stop its spread, during a meeting of the UN Security Council devoted to the spread of the virus.
An unprecedented situation
Banbury said, that "if we won the Ebola peoples of the United Nations will lose a lot. Ebola either have to stop now, or be faced with an unprecedented situation do not have a plan about it."
According to the latest WHO expectations that talked about five to ten thousand new cases a week Baapola in West Africa as of December / December next, adding that this means they will need to seven thousand beds in treatment centers, but this date will not possess, according to expectations only about 4,300 beds.
Posted by Nizar Jallouli
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
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Minister of Health announced that the Russian Veronica Skovrtsova Russian scientists will be able within six months from the provision of three vaccines against Ebola virus, which can accommodate spread after causing the death of more than four thousand people in West Africa in particular.
The state news agency RIA Novosti as saying the minister during a television interview, "We have developed three vaccines .. and we believe it will be ready within the next six months."
Countries of the world continue to make efforts to eradicate an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, which is exacerbated "every day" as the Spanish situation improved nurse infected hemorrhagic fever after giving it an experimental drug.
He underwent traveling on the survey procedures and conducted exercises to test the readiness warned UN official returned from West Africa of the virus, which has killed more than 4000 people, combat racing efforts.
The head of the UN mission on urgent Ebola Anthony Banbury, the UN officials after a tour in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the countries hardest hit by the virus, "said the virus progressing way ahead of us and every day the situation is getting worse."
He said, "We must work together to stop the spread to other countries and to ensure that the States have the uptime quickly detect the virus and control and eradicate it if it reaches."
In Brazil, the Health Ministry said tests confirmed that the lack of citizen injury Ganyia hemorrhagic fever after being placed in quarantine. But fears of an outbreak of the virus going on in Europe. The focus of attention in Madrid on nurse Teresa Romero, 44, was the first person who contracted the virus outside Africa.
A medical source said that the case of Romero's "improved, a full consciousness and speak from time to time when you are in a good mood." He added that placed "risk but it is improving."
But the committee in charge of crisis management, said he can not talk about any "remarkable development" and put the patient "stable but at risk."
The doctors began treating drug Romero experimental Z-Mab late Friday, according to the source.
There is no vaccine or cure yet available on a large scale for people with hemorrhagic fever, but the Z-MAP is one of the many drugs that are developed to speed up the work.
It is believed that Romero was hit by the virus late last September when she was in the hospital to take care of a Spanish missionary was sent back to his country after suffering Baapola in Africa.
And 16 others were subject to control most of the staff of Hospital Carlos III, where dealing with Romero. The hospital said it did not appear on any of them symptoms of the disease.
He said hospital officials in Madrid the absence of any risk of the spread of the virus from control subjects, including a pair Teresa Romero.
The Ministry of Health called Spanish citizens Friday to "continue their daily activities as normal" after a series of false alarms for a wider spread of the virus.
Police said they arrested a man in the city of Cadiz in southern Spain, caused by firing warning after his claim of injury beams Ebola.
The World Health Organization announced that 4,033 people had died hemorrhagic fever caused by the Ebola virus until the eighth of October of 8399 between the injury recorded in seven countries.
The high number of deaths in the United Nations said he had not been so far received more than 25% of the money needed to combat Ebola response to its appeal for the collection of billion dollars.
Britain has conducted exercises and duration of eight hours across the country Saturday to test their readiness to confront the spread of the virus.
And involving people diagnosed Baapola claimed in addition to the medical staff treat them in undisclosed locations in the country.
And reinforced Britain and the United States surveillance measures in major airports such as London Heathrow and Kennedy in New York.
In Latin America, announced that both Peru and Uruguay similar measures at airports in Mexico and Nicaragua plans to tighten controls of immigrants to American soil as measures of prevention.
The Canadian government has advised its citizens to leave the West African States, which recorded the largest number of injuries. It also has taken measures to control its borders to travelers the most vulnerable to potential injury.
And asked the United Nations and the leaders of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone further assistance in the face of the virus in Africa.
The deputy secretary-general of the United Nations Jan Eliasson, he is not so far received more than a quarter "of one billion dollars needed" to combat the virus. He appealed to the doctors, nurses and other medical staff to join the efforts.
Russia ... 3 vaccines soon
Appeared some hope with the announcement of the Russian Health Minister Veronica Skovrtsova Saturday that Russian scientists will be able within six months from the provision of three vaccines against Ebola virus, which can accommodate spread after causing the death of more than four thousand people in West Africa in particular.
The state news agency RIA Novosti as saying the minister during a television interview, "We have developed three vaccines ... and we believe it will be ready within the next six months."
The minister said that one of these experimental vaccines "is ready for clinical experience," any volunteers. She explained that one of these vaccines have been developed in the version of the virus is active.
Russia did not record any injury, illness and the end of August but sent a team of scientists diets and mobile laboratories to contribute to the efforts to combat Ebola in Guinea.
