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Posted by Nizar Jallouli
Sunday, October 19, 2014
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro's offer cooperation with the United States in the fight against the Ebola virus, in an article published Saturday in the Granma newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party. In Germany, the German government is working on a private jet supplied with the necessary equipment, configured to transport patients to hospitals for treatment of Ebola German.
Castro said -albalg the age of 88-year-old cooperation in the fight against Ebola would be in the name of world peace. Cuba sent 165 doctors and workers in the field of health care to Sierra Leone, and three hundred others will leave soon to Liberia and Guinea.
It is expected to hold a regional summit in Havana tomorrow, next Monday, to discuss further cooperation in the fight against the spread of the Ebola virus, has been called to be held, "the Bolivarian Alliance for the peoples of our continent American Trade Treaty."
The meeting aims to coordinate regional cooperation in the fight against the Ebola virus, according the newspaper quoted the Cuban Foreign Ministry.
Plane for Ebola
In Germany, the government is working now on a private jet supplied with the necessary equipment and configured to transfer patients to hospitals for treatment of Ebola German, according to the newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sontagestsaitong" issued on Sunday.
The newspaper quoted German government circles that Lufthansa Airlines has received commissioned processing of this plane, adding that there is a plan to equip several aircraft to transport patients safely to Germany.
It is scheduled to be this aircraft ready to work with the middle of next month, which is the same date that the volunteers will travel to the German-stricken country of the disease in order to help in the treatment of patients.
In regard to the offline, student and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the international community to exert a stronger role in the face of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, in remarks to the German newspaper itself.
The minister said, "We all underestimated the seriousness of Ebola, and today we know that we are in every day that passes without taking action appropriate, increase the risk of losing the war against him." He also urged the European Union to play a more visible to help the residents of the affected countries and send a signal to them that they will not leave them alone.
Weibull virus kills more than half of the victims (European)
Increased allocations
In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron of the European Union also increase the financial allocations to combat Ebola to one billion euros (one billion and 280 million dollars).
In a letter to Herman Van Rompuy, president of the Council of the European Union and the leaders of the bloc's member states, Cameron wrote that he must do more, stressing the need to support the adoption of an ambitious package during the EU summit to be held a few days after.
The European Union and its members have so far provided 450 million euros (574 million dollars) to help countries in West Africa affected by Ebola, the Commission assumed that the amount of 180 million euros (230 million dollars). The value is provided by the British government so far to combat the disease 157 million euros (200 million dollars).
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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Detection Marc Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and chief executive, on Tuesday, he and his wife Priscilla Chan will present a contribution of $ 25 million in their efforts to combat the epidemic of Ebola.
Zuckerberg said on Facebook: "We need to control Ebola at the earliest so as not to spread more and constitutes a global health crisis of long-term force us to fight against dozens of years on a large scale, such as AIDS and polio."
Said Bruce Aillward Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization on Tuesday that the death toll from the epidemic, which appeared for the first time the state of Guinea during March amounted to 4447 people from a total of 8914 cases.
