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Posted by Nizar Jallouli
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
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The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday, including that a loophole in the Biosafety Protocol are the cause of transmission of the Ebola virus to the first case of an American, a health worker in Dallas, while officials said at a news conference that the infected was wearing full protective clothing.
The Department of Health Services, Texas, announced the injury of one of the American health care workers in a hospital in Dallas in the state, Ebola virus, and after their participation in the treatment of Liberians had been infected with the virus.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Tom Frieden They do not know what happened when the original patient care in Dallas, adding that the gap in the Biosafety Protocol are the cause of transmission of the Ebola virus to the health workforce.
Contain the virus
Frieden warned that there may be more cases of infection in the United States in the coming days, but said the authorities were working on an ongoing basis to ensure the containment of the virus. And check Centers for Disease Control in anticipation of the existence of more potential loopholes in the protocol, which can lead to more cases of infection.
Frieden: There may be more cases in the coming days Baapola (Reuters)
The hospital worker -lm reveals its name provides care for Eric Thomas Duncan, a Liberian patient was first diagnosed with the injury Ebola virus outside Africa. Duncan died due to the disease in the same hospital on Wednesday.
And is subject to 48 people were in contact Bduncan before being isolated in a hospital in Texas, to control the symptoms of fear of them.
Frieden said if the patient is not a new one of those 48 people, but a member of the team that was offering health care to Duncan after he was diagnosed with the injury. And hit the patient with the virus despite wearing full protective clothing.
Protective clothing
The official said the medical Texas Dan empty the workforce were pursuing their own symptoms of the Ebola virus when he scored a slight rise in temperature and went to the hospital, explaining she was wearing protective clothing identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) when exposed to injury, adding, "We are very worried."
Said Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said police beat the gasket around the residence of the woman, and the hazardous materials team sanitize common areas in the apartment complex, which includes her apartment, and also purged her car and stair handrail and common areas in the hospital.
Rawlings said that the authorities had campaigned from house to house to Marketa residential complex, which includes 5,700 apartments in Dallas, where she lived infected woman to inform the population developments, adding that there were reports about the presence of a pet in her apartment.
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.
