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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.
Announced workers in the health sector in Liberia on Monday their strike to demand additional financial allocations because of their work in the field of risk due to the care of patients with Ebola epidemic, which has killed dozens of their colleagues. The Reuters news agency said that many of the health sector workers ignored the strike call, though the majority of hospitals and clinics remained open as Official sources said the relief.
The Director of the medical staff at a hospital in the capital, Monrovia Island, who with a capacity of 150 Srira- The staff decided to come to work after the public asked them to do so. Adding that they collectively agreed to return to work.
On the other hand, said the Secretary-General of the National Union of Health Workers in Liberia George Williams said the government pressured the workers through shame them and make them money. Accusing President Ellen Johnson Sarleaf to go to several centers for the treatment of Ebola and provide money for workers, also said it had asked "who are deemed non-Liberian to raise their hands if they want to participate in the strike."
The communications minister said the Liberian Lewis Brown said President and distributed food and money and grants for health workers to show the extent of her gratitude for their efforts and not to block the strike.
The most serious threat
The strike call came at a time when it warned the World Health Organization that the Ebola crisis is the most serious threat to public health witnessed by contemporary stage. There are fears that the strike leads to aggravation of the already grim situation of Ebola in Liberia.
He died about a hundred of health workers in Liberia because of Ebola. And demanding union workers in government health risks and increase fees reset two of its officials were dismissed from their jobs after the call to strike for two weeks last February.
Risk
The government has promised to pay for nurses, doctors and paramedical staff in hospitals, regular $ 300 per month fee risk, while scheduled to get all of the works in the processing units and the Ebola virus on the $ 450 to $ 500. It was scheduled to be start paying fees in September / September last, but it has not been paid yet.
The health minister said the Liberian Walter Guinajala The health workers will receive adequate benefits, but has ruled out re-officials Monday to work, threatening to sack workers who join the strike.
Guinajala warned that workers "who insist on the return of officials before returning to work, they should stay at home forever."
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Said Hospital in Leipzig, Germany, on Tuesday that an official with the United Nations was medically treating him, died of Ebola virus, which wounded him during his work in Liberia.
The hospital said "fever Ebola patient died during the night at St George Hospital in Leipzig, despite intensive medical procedures and maximum efforts made by the medical team, has died of an employee of the United Nations, aged 56 years, a serious contagious disease."
The medical officer who did not want his name has reached Germany last week, the third patient treated Ebola in the country.
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.
Posted by Nizar Jallouli
Monday, October 13, 2014
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Symptoms and Complications
Ebola target the blood and the immune system (the infected person), which can cause bleeding and depress the immune system. After an incubation period (time from infection to onset of symptoms) for 2-21 days, the characteristic manifestations of the disease Ebola are quick installation similar to flu symptoms, or :
fever,
headache,
muscle pain,
sore throat,
weakness.
Subsequently, many patients will have:
diarrhea,
rash similar to measles,
a liver and kidney,
vomiting.
Four or five days after the onset of symptoms between 30 and 50% of people will have internal and external bleeding. Although some people die from shock caused by the failure of multiple organs, most victims of Ebola die from severe dehydration caused by diarrhea and vomiting.
During outbreaks, people at greater risk of contracting viral infection are health care workers as well as family members and friends of the infected person have close contact with that person.
The director of the US Centers for Control and Prevention of Disease, which the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the most serious epidemic knows the world since the advent of AIDS in the early eighties. Said Dr. Tom Frieden during a round table in Washington, organized by the World Bank, with the participation of heads of African countries most affected by the epidemic, and director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, the fight against Ebola "It will be a long battle ... over thirty years of work in the public health sector, show me that the only thing similar is Aids. "Frieden added, "we have to work so as not to turn this disease to AIDS last."
Kim said the need for "urgent to more health workers." Corona explained that Sierra Leone needs to bed in 1500 and 5000 thousands of nurses.
Lagarde said that "it is necessary to increase the funds allocated to address the people," pointing also to the large economic impact of the disease on the three countries most affected by any of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
The official source announced in Liberia throughout the Senate elections scheduled for October 14 this indefinitely because of the epidemic of Ebola.
The President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has taken this decision under the state of emergency declared on the sixth of August, according to a statement posted on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On the other hand, considered the Ernest Bai Koroma President of Sierra Leone, said the international action to respond to Ebola is not fast enough.
Koroma said during the post via video from Freetown meeting in Washington that "international action was so far slower than the pace of transmission of the disease." He added that it "must be changed."
He stressed that it is necessary "to speed up the conversion of the promises into concrete actions on the ground, and this is an urgent need."
He said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said it is necessary to increase the current assistance "20 times" in order to address the disease.
He called on Guinean President Alpha Conde to further international assistance. "We must increase efforts to be a quick and coordinated."
On the other hand, the president of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo Martin Koehler said in a statement issued upon his return from a visit to the area Bondi (north-east of Kinshasa) that outbreaks of Ebola, "you should try to congratulate the representatives of the State and the United Nations and the Organization of Doctors Without Borders non-governmental who did an exceptional job. "
According to the World Health Organization and the Congolese government that the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is different from the epidemic in West Africa.
The Minister of Health Congolese Flex Kapanga Numbi on the second of October, "control" of the epidemic, but "it has not been eliminated yet."
In Madrid, the situation has deteriorated health nurse, which was hit by Ebola infection in Spain, also announced Thursday Hospital Carlos III.
An official at the hospital said the health status of Theresa Ramiro (40 years), the first person to become infected outside of Africa, "has deteriorated, but I can not provide more information."
He arrived Sudanese working in the United Nations and wounded Ebola infection to Leipzig (East) Germany this morning coming from Liberia, as local authorities said, raising to three the number of patients who are being treated in Germany.
