Home » Posts filed under outbreak
Showing posts with label outbreak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label outbreak. Show all posts

Symptoms of Ebola

Posted by Nizar Jallouli Wednesday, October 15, 2014 0 comments

 

 

 

Symptoms of Ebola include

  • Fever (greater than 38.6°C or 101.5°F)
  • Severe headache
  • Muscle pain
  • Weakness
  • Diarrhea
  • Vomiting
  • Abdominal (stomach) pain
  • Unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising)
Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to Ebola, but the average is 8 to 10 days.
Recovery from Ebola depends on good supportive clinical care and the patient’s immune response. People who recover from Ebola infection develop antibodies that last for at least 10 years.

Ebola virus .. what it is and how we can prevent it? «1»

Posted by Nizar Jallouli Tuesday, October 14, 2014 0 comments












Friday, August 8th World Health Organization announced in Geneva that the epidemic of Ebola virus (EVD) has become an emergency situation deserves the attention of the world. This epidemic of Ebola virus is not the first epidemic of the disease of western and central Africa, however, and the most stressful and ferocity. The first appearance of successive epidemics of Ebola virus was in 1976 in the Congo River to the vicinity of the so-called Ebola (hence the disease is taking its name). In the intervening period between 1976 and 2012 (36 years old) recorded several epidemics of Ebola virus in Africa hit the order of 2,500 people. The current epidemic has hit since the start of his appearance in eight months and just shoved than 2,400 people died, including more than half.
Ebola disease caused by a virus, but does not see the precise electron microscope, however, fierce as the percentage of deaths among those infected from 50 to 90 percent. The disease affects mainly wild animals, especially bats, which is transmitted to humans. Transmitted infection from the patient to the right if contaminated with blood or secretions such as saliva, urine, feces and semen wounds or scratches in the skin or mucous membrane with any of Mkhalatih. Despite the ugliness of the virus, but it is God's kindness to slaves that it is not infected by breathing. It takes the appearance of symptoms after contracting the virus from 2 to 21 days, symptoms begin to rise in temperature. Headache, feeling tired, and pain in muscles and joints, and congestion in the Al-Zour, and soon the patient gets diarrhea and vomiting. The disease progresses Faisab patient bleeding internal or external, and landing in the kidneys and liver.
There is no specific treatment for the disease or the vaccine protects against him so far, and so cure for the patient depends on supportive therapy by giving intravenous fluids to combat dehydration, fever reducers, painkillers, with the need to isolate the patient so as not to transmit the infection to others, and here must be alert to that treatment must be in the hospital or health center and not in the house for two reasons: the patient briefing with all the necessary medical potential to save him, and secondly, the prevention of transmission of it to Mkhalatih. And the medical team to take maximum protection methods such as wearing protective clothing and a mask and medical gloves and not to be subjected to discharge the patient. In short remedy is in rapid patient care, and to avoid the transmission of it to others. In our conversation next week, we raise the question .. Are we in the UK are exposed to the Ebola epidemic?

Russia will provide the three vaccines against Ebola within six months

Posted by Nizar Jallouli 0 comments




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."

The world continue its efforts to eradicate Ebola

Posted by Nizar Jallouli 0 comments




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.

Symptoms and Complications of ebola

Posted by Nizar Jallouli Monday, October 13, 2014 0 comments

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.

Ebola, "the most dangerous disease" in the world since the advent of Aids

Posted by Nizar Jallouli 0 comments



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.

Copyright © 2013 ebola magazine | Blog Powered by Blogger | Designed by Free Premium Software | WordPress Hosting Reviews