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Posted by Nizar Jallouli
Thursday, October 16, 2014
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World Health Organization announced on Tuesday that Nigeria and Senegal may be announced Khaloheme of Ebola within days after the passage of 42 days during which he did not discover any new cases of HIV infection. In Sierra Leone in the capital, residents said that the body of a person suspected to have died Baapola left without a care about in the street for two days. The bodies of the deceased Baapola of the leading causes of the spread of the virus.
The WHO said in a statement that if he continued effective control already exist to monitor new cases was not detected new cases of termination of the organization will announce an outbreak of Ebola in Senegal on Friday, but for Nigeria announcement will be free of the disease on the twentieth of this month.
The organization says that the wait for a period of 42 days from the time of the discovery of another person tests proved his lack of virus gives sufficient confidence to announce the termination of the spread of the virus.
Senegal and found one case confirmed infected Baapola, but recovered Obviously, it did not transmit the infection to anyone else. In Nigeria, causing passengers arrived from Liberia in the outbreak of the virus has killed eight people, most of them health workers before being contained.
Health workers in Sierra Leone carrying the body of a woman suspected she died Baapola (Reuters)
A different mode
The situation differs from the spread of the disease in Nigeria and Senegal with him in the three countries most affected Baapola in West Africa, namely Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, where the majority of deaths and disease -alta exceeded four thousand person-where.
Said Bruce Aillward Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the mortality rate among patients Baapola in these three countries may reach 70%.
In Sierra Leone, the Reuters news agency quoted residents in the capital Freetown on Tuesday anger due to the delay in the transfer of health authorities, the body of a person suspected of having died Baapola, and residents said the body was left without a care about in the street for two days.
The Ebola virus is transmitted through body secretions such as sweat, urine and mucus and blood, and is the body of a person who dies Baapola source of infection, with recorded cases of transmission of the disease as a result of dealing with the dead bodies of Ebola.
Witnesses said security forces clashed with angry residents demonstrated expression of discontent from the delay in the transfer of the body.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will send a hardware-based serial technology copies of DNA for the diagnosis of Ebola (Getty)
Serial Copy
And announced the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Tuesday it would send in the coming weeks specialized equipment to countries in West Africa to help speed the diagnosis of infected adoption of technology copying serial nucleic acid of the virus, which allows detection of infection within hours instead of several days, as is the case in analyzes that rely the cultivation of cells.
The agency said in a statement that early detection with the provision of adequate health care increases the chances of survival of patients alive. The Director General of the IAEA Yukiya Amano "as a contribution to a limited but effective" in an effort to combat the spread of the disease.
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?
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dr. Thomas Frieden said CDC Director for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday that the United States does not intend to cancel the flights coming from countries that suffer from the worst outbreak of Ebola at all in West Africa.
He said in a briefing that the actions of "enhanced" screening at airports began at the airport John F.. Kennedy International in New York City earlier this week and will be extended to four other airports, starting on Thursday, including Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta.
Testing and examination of whether the traveler newcomer suffering from fever, the first symptoms of Ebola infection. It is incumbent upon arriving either directly or indirectly from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to answer questions about any contact with Ebola patients.
The person can be infected with Ebola virus without symptoms, which means that upon such examination is made of the fever will not like this person. Did not show signs of fever on Thomas Eric Duncan first patient was diagnosed with Ebola injury in the United States upon his arrival to Dallas last month, but the disease appeared a few days after it died last week.
Frieden said he until control of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, it is "there is no room to reduce the level of risk in the United States to zero
