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Posted by Nizar Jallouli
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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World Health Organization warned of the spread of scary virus Ebola in West Africa, especially in the countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, starting from December, fearing casualties in the thousands per week, and in conjunction with the warnings raised by Britain, France and the United States precautionary measures in airports to detect no injuries might respond to it through the flights.
The organization expressed fears of registration between 5000 and ten thousand injured a week, stressing that the deaths hemorrhagic fever now exceed 4,400 deaths, mostly in those three countries, while said Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization Bruce Aillward, that the mortality rate among people with hemorrhagic fever caused for Ebola in these countries may reach 70%.
Said Aillward "The epidemic continues to lead in West Africa", pointing out that he is now registered 1000 new cases per week, and warned that the number of casualties rises steadily in the capitals of these countries, and that the real number is estimated and a half times, which is officially registered in Guinea, and twice more in Sierra Leone, and two and a half in Liberia.
Britain started to monitor passengers arriving at airports and train stations, as did the United States and Canada, where they will be questioned passengers coming from countries most affected by the virus, will also be starting on Tuesday measuring temperature passengers at Heathrow Airport. France intends to apply similar measures for flights coming from Guinea, and it was decided to conduct a five airports American receives 94% of the passengers coming from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea passenger screening procedures upon arrival.
In spite of this negative news, the World Health Organization said in a statement in Geneva that she could announce the demise of the wave of Ebola in Senegal next Friday, and then in Nigeria next Monday if you did not register any new infections in these countries until that time.
Posted by Nizar Jallouli
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
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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?
Said Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Monday, October 13th, it is we have to prepare for a possible outbreak of Ebola, pointing out that he will have the expectations of the public health on the expected number of cases of Ebola in Britain.
Hunt described the spread of the disease, "the state of health emergency in the world", stressing the need that the country is preparing to increase protectionist measures if the situation deteriorates.
The minister's comments come before his statement to be delivered in the House of Commons about the actions taken by the government to protect the country from the deadly disease Ebola and after the criticism faced by the government for not taking enough measures to prevent the entry of infected cases in the country.
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has warned on Sunday that he has no doubt the arrival of cases of Ebola to Britain, saying that any action taken by the government will not prevent the arrival of the disease for the country, stressing the lack of the possibility of a blood test for all arrivals to the country.
