Ebola officially moves to Port Harcourt, 70 people reportedly under surveillance

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-605963827839199306" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 1774px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTFU_IYIsWPur4bng2vMuHrneaNCWQpb_Rbv1fbNZ9Hm1ZGH5v_xGpRgFHqhP1TF2ld3VFGQR_bVpNWzyhyphenhyphenHzSKe9MGwWP7-2T8slH47zrDeJq4dgzhGMnDuS9M0-SeXYMJzLAbyPBP1pQ/s640/nigeria-ebola-1.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="640" /></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><div class="nrelate nrelate_related nr_clear" id="nrelate_related_1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-transform: none; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; clear: both; margin: 5px 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-605963827839199306" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 1774px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Following the death of Port Harcourt based doctor, Iyke Enemoah, from Ebola on August 22nd, 70 </span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-605963827839199306" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 1774px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">people in Port Harcourt who had primary and secondary contacts with the doctor and the hospital </span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-605963827839199306" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 1774px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">where he worked have now been put under surveillance in a bid to stop the spread of the deadly virus in the city.</span><div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr. Enemoah's wife is the only one who has been quarantined.</span></div> </div>

Ebola officially moves to Port Harcourt, 70 people reportedly under surveillance

  Following the death of Port Harcourt based doctor, Iyke Enemoah, from Ebola on August 22nd, 70  people in Port Harcourt who had ...

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Air France, British Airways suspend flights to Sierra Leone, Liberia

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-649006678838088664" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 19px;">                    </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljC_ViR9pGoWyYRcudr5vilenHxx-N5UPu7sjkt0xNYlvK7qMZ3FECdRM2x15xSnE3dTUfZMzK9h_DalzfktU_xMUejmfyWMvzMrIEqmyROsRtvkefoFX_kfB1zofJVTWlVz_rDEuJLMV/s1600/unnamed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljC_ViR9pGoWyYRcudr5vilenHxx-N5UPu7sjkt0xNYlvK7qMZ3FECdRM2x15xSnE3dTUfZMzK9h_DalzfktU_xMUejmfyWMvzMrIEqmyROsRtvkefoFX_kfB1zofJVTWlVz_rDEuJLMV/s1600/unnamed.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Air France has temporarily suspended all its flights to Sierra Leone due to the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. In a statement released by management of Air France today August 27th, the French government recommended the national carrier to suspend all its flight to Sierra Leone.</span></div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Given the way the epidemic has evolved and the condition of the health systems.....the public authorities recommend to Air France that it temporarily suspend its services to Freetown" the statement read in part</span></blockquote> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile British Airways has also suspended all its flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone till 2015. </span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="" name="more"></a> </span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">British Airways had earlier suspended its flights to the countries till September 2014 but reviewed the situation and decided to extend its flights suspension to 2015.</span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Liberia has been worst hit since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa with 624 deaths recorded.</span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> </div> </div>

Air France, British Airways suspend flights to Sierra Leone, Liberia

                     Air France has temporarily suspended all its flights to Sierra Leone due to the current Ebola outbreak in West Afr...

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And the Business Begins: Scientists invent robot to prevent spread of Ebola virus

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">                                 <img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCzPwMZaqU4JfuUbDIef8BEXgthdlyeIKrh_pahe3uHX1x4yFDxUXODbghnEiB3CsClZpT6YxlHMN5JoUnL9pVaZ_Y4exHt4EuycP5DtApJzVdd-nvuhp_JTgnpua54v4EShroNco3jPY/s400/TRU-Ebola.jpg" width="273" /></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div> <div dir="ltr"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In an effort to eliminate Ebola,US scientists have created two “germ-killing robots” which have been deployed to the JFK Hospital and ELWA Hospital in Monrovia,Liberia.<br /><br />The robots, technically known as TRU-D SmartUVC, were used to disinfect health care environments where Ebola patients are being treated.The inventor, a tropical disease expert and medical anthropologist Dr. Jeffery L. Deal said ...</span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It works by generating ultraviolet light energy that modifies the DNA structure of viral pathogens, like Ebola, so that they cannot reproduce. Viruses that cannot reproduce cannot colonise and harm patients,”We developed TRU-D SmartUVC technology to combat the devastating effects of hospital acquired infections,”</span></blockquote> </div> <div dir="ltr"> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Unlike many diseases, Ebola strikes hospital workers more than any other group, making it the <a href="" name="more"></a>ultimate hospital acquired infection.”“As soon as we knew we could aid struggling hospitals in Liberia, our team came together and formulated a plan to get TRU-D on the ground. More than 200 TRU-Ds have been deployed to disinfect hospitals across the U.S. and internationally.<br />This technology is designed to prevent the spread of the disease transmitted via contaminated surfaces in health care environments and is not a treatment or a cure. We </span></blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">believe that prevention is the best medicine.The U.S. Army tested this particular wavelength against Ebola and found that the measured dose TRU-D delivers results in incredibly rapid destruction of the virus with its pathogen-specific dosing options.. We know it is perfect for use in this critical setting.</span></blockquote> </div> </div>

And the Business Begins: Scientists invent robot to prevent spread of Ebola virus

                                    In an effort to eliminate Ebola,US scientists have created two “germ-killing robots” which have be...

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Congo confirms its first cases of Ebola, as British patient is flown to the UK

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCU29A9yEwZJDYEgjm06lqZyKm6xrT8p26iW-ajHsdyioqsFKAzBwG2o9TBZSU52mUYPYQ57CXXPz_44YXn9nIdy6nSfqHViFOmCHBwCJhrW82NmroIjZ3mTcYeirPp13oJ7srVEuQzLkN/s400/00.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="400" /></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><div class="nrelate nrelate_related nr_clear" id="nrelate_related_1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-transform: none; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; clear: both; margin: 5px 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed the first cases of Ebola virus in </span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the n</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">orth-western region of the country. Confirming the cases, the country's health Minister, </span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Felix Kabange Numbi, said 8 people have tested positive to the deadly virus. </span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The results are positive. The Ebola virus is confirmed in DRC," Mr Numbi told AFP</span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">DR Congo is the first country outside the West African region to confirm positive cases of the Ebola </span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">virus since the recent outbreak. So far 1,427 people have died from the virus. <a href="" name="more"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="text-decoration: none;"></a> </span></div> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1CI86GG52Y1tOYkSqwB5wOD_AUSD2ImYs2D8QEyAnD-fD6rj5NIngDekSg75zuJvz0LiyJz4VtF54g6kj6HUKv4C0Ykby1vrj0lCzYcRKtBtgLz3emQGWJslEh4Yj2KoGNAzAf7gGbDbJ/s1600/Untitled.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" /></span></div> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE9RUQNwwtDLAoi5LWCX-q6W_OmXO8oRrVe0S0Z0H5FuIEai96bN3unte4YbhFt1r5x4t8OC8AMDdMmnO29ofNlWAP_AQMfLdz5PPYPTVmA2fIvmi19_IighLkYOUzmAJ7nPS0GfyaOFjb/s1600/01.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="400" /></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><div class="nrelate nrelate_related nr_clear" id="nrelate_related_2" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-transform: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; clear: both; margin: 5px 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile the British health worker who tested positive to the deadly virus in Sierra Leone has </span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">arrived back in the UK on board an RAF jet. (pictured above). 29 year old Nurse William Pooley </span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">landed at London's RAF Northolt in a specially-equipped C-17 aircraft today and was transported to </span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London.<br /><br />The man is 'not currently seriously unwell', a Department of Health spokesman said. </span><div class="nrelate nrelate_related nr_clear" id="nrelate_related_3" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-transform: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; clear: both; margin: 5px 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>

Congo confirms its first cases of Ebola, as British patient is flown to the UK

  Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed the first cases of Ebola virus in  the n orth-western region of t...

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Ebola: First Consultant Hospital, Victims’ Families May Sue Liberian Government

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMAojmXQAY4eh94RnEmEVaWLd_ISdl88Bi0Qq2Lo-MCZI1QJhgeQmmM0cqVphq5jJ4YXlGrf4Ml_iLBS22xOSg3Wj_HtRhcl4GcvfMmfA2i8eWJRfuwmgI8_xmInyALrZLiNyKDtcqH_8/s1600/555-Ameyo-Stella-Adadevl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMAojmXQAY4eh94RnEmEVaWLd_ISdl88Bi0Qq2Lo-MCZI1QJhgeQmmM0cqVphq5jJ4YXlGrf4Ml_iLBS22xOSg3Wj_HtRhcl4GcvfMmfA2i8eWJRfuwmgI8_xmInyALrZLiNyKDtcqH_8/s1600/555-Ameyo-Stella-Adadevl.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />Directors of First Consultant Hospital, Obalende  and the bereaved families of the four Nigerians who died after contracting the Ebola Virus from Mr. Patrick Sawyer, are considering a major suit against the Liberian government for  allowing Sawyer to come to Nigeria despite the fact that it was aware that he had contact with his sister who died recently of the deadly virus.<br /><br />The dreaded Ebola virus was brought to Nigeria last month by the Liberian. He had contracted the disease in his country and then flew into Nigeria aboard an Asky flight to attend an ECOWAS conference of the in Calabar. Among his victims were  Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, the senior consultant at the hospital,  two nurses at the hospital, and an ECOWAS protocol officer who accompanied him on arrival in Nigeria.<br /><br />ThisDay reports that for allowing Sawyer out of Liberia given the fact that the surveillance video at the Liberian airport showed that he was avoiding people at the airport, apparently because he did not want to have body contact, the  Liberian government is believed to be liable.<br /><br />The Liberian media had also reported how Sawyer personally took his sister to the hospital seeking<br /><a href="" name="more"></a>treatment before she died. Being such a primary contact with his sister who died of Ebola was enough for the Liberian government  to have quarantined him or put him under close watch as he was clearly a danger to public health. Instead, they allowed him into the airport and also allowed him to travel to Nigeria.<br /><br /> The directors of First Consultant believe that the Liberian government is further liable when its envoy in Lagos came to the hospital to try to persuade the hospital authorities and indeed force them to release Sawyer to travel to Calabar despite being down with Ebola.<br /><br />They believe the envoy’s action established the culpability of the Liberian government and they intend to press for maximum damages in an appropriate law court, whether in Nigeria or in the international judicial system as someone has to be held responsible for the needless loss of lives at First Consultant Hospital, in what  they called “biological warfare” inflicted by Sawyer and abetted by the Liberian  government through its criminal negligence.<br /><br />While five  of those who had primary contacts with him and later tested positive to the virus had been successfully treated and discharged, four other Nigerians who have tested positive to the virus are currently in isolation undergoing treatment.  Among those already discharged was a patient who was in the hospital at the time of Sawyer’s admission.<br /><br />Also, close to 200 people who had secondary contacts, are currently being monitored.<br /><br />The Liberian President had earlier apologised to the Nigerian government and also gave a hint that her government was aware that he may have contracted the disease from his sister and was being monitored but that “Sawyer ignored medical advice and escaped out of Liberia.”<br /></span></div>

Ebola: First Consultant Hospital, Victims’ Families May Sue Liberian Government

Directors of First Consultant Hospital, Obalende  and the bereaved families of the four Nigerians who died after contracting the Ebola Vi...

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Zmapp didn’t cure me, God did! Dr. Brantly, American Ebola survivor

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Brantly" class="attachment-thumbnail-single-image wp-post-image" height="409" src="http://ynaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Brantly.jpg" width="615" /></span></div> <div class="entry"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><br /></i>Kent Brantly, the American doctor who got infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia has declared that his healing is because of God, and not experimental drug, Zmapp.<br />The doctor had been hospitalised at Emory University Hospital, United States of America, since contracting Ebola in Liberia almost a month ago.<br />Speaking earlier from his room in the isolation ward, Dr. Brantly said God saved his life. “God saved my life”. “Above all, I am forever thankful to God for sparing my life,” he said.<br />After his discharge, he echoed the God-factor via a video posted online on Friday, 22 August, where he was effusive in his praises to Him for sparing his life.<br />He said, “Today is a miraculous day. I am thrilled to be alive, to be well and to be reunited with my family. As I lay in bed in Liberia for the following nine days, getting sicker and weaker each day, I prayed that God<br /><a href="" name="more"></a>would help me be faithful, even in my illness.”<br />He also thanked the millions of people around the would who prayed for him while he was being treated.<br />“And I prayed that in my life or in my death that he would be glorified. I did not know then, but have learned since, that there were thousands, maybe even millions of people around the world praying for me throughout that week and even till today. I cannot thank you enough for your prayers and your support, but what I can tell you is that I serve a faithful God who answers prayers.”<br />According to the World Health Organisation, over 1,300 people have been killed by the virus in West Africa, and more than 2,473 people have contracted the disease.</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>

Zmapp didn’t cure me, God did! Dr. Brantly, American Ebola survivor

Kent Brantly, the American doctor who got infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia has declared that his healing is becau...

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'She vomited on me & lost her 2-month pregnancy' - Late nurse Justina’s fiance talks about surviving Ebola

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Dennis" class="attachment-thumbnail-single-image wp-post-image" height="400" src="http://ynaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Dennis.jpg" width="400" /></span></div> <div class="entry"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><br /></i>The fiancé of late Justina Obi Ejelonu, the 29-year old nurse who was part of the team that treated Patrick Sawyer but gave up the ghost recently has spoken.<br />He shared a powerful story of how he refused to abandon his fiancé despite her being diagnosed with Ebola.<br />He revealed that Justina lost a two-month pregnancy, vomited severally on him while she collapsed and had to be carried to hospital by him.<br /><i>Dennis said when Justina contracted the disease, she was with him and he was solely responsible for her. When she fell ill, I took her to the hospital. She vomited severally on me on our way and also collapsed. I had to carry her when she collapsed till we got to there. She was two months pregnant, he said. When she tested positive she was ‘abandoned’ at the hospital and left to her fate, but I occasionally went in to take care of her, he narrated.</i><br /><a href="" name="more"></a></span><div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_291385" style="width: 235px;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://ynaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ebola-justina.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Justina Ejelonu, was a part of Dr. Adadevoh's team. She passed away a few days before the doctor." class="size-medium wp-image-291385" height="300" src="http://ynaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ebola-justina-225x300.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="225" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Justina Ejelonu, was a part of Dr. Adadevoh’s team. She passed away a few days before the doctor.</span></div> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After, Justina was admitted he hung around the hospital , occasionally going into the Ebola ward cater for her as <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">nurses</span> and doctors abandoned the nurse to her fate at the treatment centre.<br />Fourteen days after Justina died, Dennis had high <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11">temperature</span>, instead of panicking he turned himself in to the treatment centre for observation.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An initial test led the centre to quarantine him, and a second test came positive <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12">leading</span> the centre to admit him to treatment but he was discharged hours ago, after his third test came out negative.</span></div> <div dir="ltr"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He walked off the centre in good health according top doctors who spoke anonymously with Saharareporters.</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> </div>

'She vomited on me & lost her 2-month pregnancy' - Late nurse Justina’s fiance talks about surviving Ebola

The fiancé of late Justina Obi Ejelonu, the 29-year old nurse who was part of the team that treated Patrick Sawyer but gave up the ghost...

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Fiancé Of Late Nurse Justina Free From Ebola, Discharged From Treatment Center

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1168336519515507149" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 660px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn6Hn51PRRA2zSbMmiqZrmPtNPkMUh7NZcULRIv6kVcrFbe-xsQtw-4cVdNBD0wa8EmAzAokUHkGDrgVV1kJL6kHszyCTjptIRp4dZitRSc-sJ863s9SQpN2GNbgUw9pAju4YfqgVDJps/s1600/Dennis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn6Hn51PRRA2zSbMmiqZrmPtNPkMUh7NZcULRIv6kVcrFbe-xsQtw-4cVdNBD0wa8EmAzAokUHkGDrgVV1kJL6kHszyCTjptIRp4dZitRSc-sJ863s9SQpN2GNbgUw9pAju4YfqgVDJps/s1600/Dennis.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>              Dennis story is a powerful one, he refused to abandon his fiancé despite her being diagnosed with Ebola.</i><br /><br />The fiancé of a nurse who died of Ebola has been discharged from the Ebola treatment center in Lagos this evening after his third test came out negative.<br /><br />Dennis, who was late Justina Obi Ejelonu’s fiancé had been quarantined and later admitted into treatment after two tests confirmed that he was positive.<br /><br />However, this evening Dennis was discharged from the treatment center with a certificate of clearance. He walked off the center in good health according top doctors who spoke anonymously with Saharareporters.<br /><br />A second spouse of a deceased doctor who had primary contact with Liberian -American Thomas Sawyer who was admitted yesterday with Dennis remains hospitalized at the center, currently undergoing treatment.<br /><br />Dennis story is a powerful one, he refused to  abandon his fiancé despite her being diagnosed with Ebola.<br /><br />He told Saharareporters that Justina lost a two-month pregnancy, vomited severally on him while she collapsed and had to be carried to hospital by him. After, Justina was admitted he hung around the hospital , occasionally going into the Ebola ward cater for her as nurses and doctors abandoned the nurse to her fate at the treatment center.<br /><br />Fourteen days after Justina died, Dennis had high temperature, instead of panicking he turned himself in to the treatment center for observation. An initial test led the center to quarantine him, and a second test came positive leading the center to admit him to treatment but this evening he was fully discharged after a third test carried out by international affiliates of the center came out negative.<br /><br />Source: SaharaRepoters</span><div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-footer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 20px -2px 0px; padding: 5px 10px;"> </div> </div>

Fiancé Of Late Nurse Justina Free From Ebola, Discharged From Treatment Center

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How Ebola Virus Disease Came To Our Door, By First Consultants Hospital

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A statement Dr. Adadevoh co-authored with Dr. B.N. Ohiaeri before her death explained how Mr. Sawyer was first diagnosed with malaria upon his arrival on the night of July 20. It was when he failed to respond to treatment but instead began to develop “haemorrhagic symptoms” that he was questioned further.</span><br /> <div> <br /></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, the Nigerian physician who died in Lagos this week, was mistakenly exposed to the Ebola Virus Disease at the First Consultants Medical Center in Ikoyi where she worked and attended to Patrick Sawyer, the patient who brought EVD into the country.</span><br /> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span class="ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded pull-right clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px 24px; max-width: 500px; width: 300px;"><span class="block-story-object-asset" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevor" class="media-element file-embedded" src="https://secure.saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/styles/normal_medium/public/adad.jpg?itok=PvA6sBjQ" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;" title="Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevor" typeof="foaf:Image" /></span></span><span class="block-story-object-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; padding: 12px;"><span class="block-story-object-content-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><span class="block-story-object-content-header-description" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-shadow: none;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevor</span></span></span><span class="block-story-object-content-footer" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-top: 6px;"></span></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box;">But she was heroically instrumental to preventing a massive outbreak in the country, an effort she paid for with her life last Tuesday.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A statement she co-authored with Dr. B.N. Ohiaeri before her death explained how Mr. Sawyer was first diagnosed with malaria upon his arrival on the night of July 20.  It was when he failed to respond to treatment but instead began to develop “haemorrhagic symptoms” that he was questioned further.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“He denied having been in contact with any persons with EVD (Ebola Virus Disease) at home, in any hospital or at any burial,” the statement said.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">First Consultants Medical Centre then began testing him for possible Infectious Haemorrhagic Disease, especially EVB, based on the fact that he was a Liberian citizen and the recent outbreak of EVD in that country, leading to EVD diagnosis. </span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At that point, it was too late for Mr. Sawyer, but it appears it was also too late for Dr. Adadevoh, who then contracted the virus, and tragically died of the disease this week.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-shadow: none;">Text of the statement by First Consultants Medical Center Ltd</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-shadow: none;">In the interest of our patients, staff, the general public the nation at large we state the following:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A 40-years old gentlemen came into the hospital with symptoms suggestive of Malaria (fever, headache, extreme weakness) on Sunday night (20th July 2014). He was fully conscious and gave us his clinical history and told us he is a Senior Diplomat from Liberia. Laboratory investigations confirmed malaria whilst other test for HIV, Hepatitis B&C were negative. He was admitted and treatment commenced.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />However, due to the fact that he was not responding to treatment but rather was developing haemorrhagic symptoms we further questioned him. He denied having been in contact with any persons with EVD (Ebola Virus Disease) at home, in any hospital or at any burial. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In spite of this denial we immediately decided to do the following:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />1. To conduct further tests for possible Infectious Haemorrhagic Disease, especially EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE, based on the fact that he was a Liberian citizen and the recent outbreak of EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE in that country.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2. We immediately isolated/quarantined the patient, commenced barrier nursing and simultaneously contacted the Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Federal Ministry of Health to enquire where further laboratory tests could be performed as we had a high index of suspicion of possible EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />3. WE REFUSED FOR HIM TO BE LET OUT OF THE HOSPITAL IN SPITE OF INTENSE PRESSURE, AS WE WERE TOLD THAT HE WAS A SENIOR ECOWAS OFFICIAL AND HAD AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY AT THE ECOWAS CONVENTION IN CALABAR, CROSS RIVER STATE.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />4. The initial test results from LUTH laboratory indicated a signal of possible EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE, but required confirmation.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />5. We then took the further step of reaching out to Senior Officials in the office of the Secretary of Health of the United States of America who promptly assisted us with contacts at the centres for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organisation Regional Laboratory Centre in Senegal.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />6. Working jointly with the State, Federal Agencies and International Agencies, we were able to obtain confirmation of EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE (ZAIRE STRAIN), (W.H.O. Regional Center Lab-Senegal/Redeemes lab/LUTH Laboratory)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />7. The gentleman subsequently died on Friday at a 6.50 (25th July, 2014)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />8. All agencies were promptly notified and in consultation with W.H.O, Regional EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE Centre in Conakry, Guinea and Best Practices, the following was commenced: </span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-shadow: none;">a. Orderly temporarily shut down of the hospital with immediate evacuation of in house patients</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-shadow: none;">b. The appropriate professional removal of the body and its incineration under W.H.O. guidelines, witnessed by all appropriate agencies.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-shadow: none;">9. Having concluded the above, it is now appropriate to give this press release in the interest of our patient, staff, the general public and the nation at large.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />10. In keeping with W.H.O, guidelines, hospital is shut down briefly as full decontamination exercise is currently in progress W.H.O. Guidelines<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In conclusion, working with the STATE, FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES, we were able to identify and confirm the diagnosis of the EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE. We hope that by our action of preventing this gentleman from being extracted from our hospital and traveling to Calabar we have been able to prevent the spread of EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE in Nigeria. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Board and Management of the Hospital wish to thank all our staff members for their diligence and professionalism.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Thank You.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Signed<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dr. B.N. OHIAERI<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />DR. A.S. ADADEVEOH<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />First Consultants Medical Centre Limited<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />16/24 Ikoyi Road,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Obalende,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Lagos</span></div> </div>

How Ebola Virus Disease Came To Our Door, By First Consultants Hospital

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Ebola Virus Disease:How Doctors Know When a Patient is No Longer Contagious

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"CDC provided consultation to the healthcare team at Emory University Hospital and conducted the laboratory testing of patients to confirm that they no longer had Ebola virus circulating in their blood," the statement said.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The CDC also made clear that contact with the recovered patients, either by their families or members of the public, does not pose a risk.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Individuals who recover from Ebola are not contagious as far as transmitting the virus through close personal contact with blood or body fluids such as urine, feces, sweat, or vomit," the CDC statement said. The agency added that case studies of patients who have survived the disease in West Africa provide further evidence that Ebola survivors don't pose a threat to others once the virus is no longer detectable in their blood.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr. Amar Safdar, associate professor of infectious diseases and immunology at NYU Langone Medical Center, told CBS News that blood, or serologic, tests are typically done to assess if a patient with an infectious disease is still sick. Blood test results of someone recovering from the Ebola virus will indicate a decreased viral load compared to someone with an acute infection. Doctors will also look to see if the patient has developed certain antibodies that indicate the body is fighting off the infection.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In addition to lab work, doctors also rely on less high-tech approaches such as basic physical exams. "The standard is if the symptoms have resolved and the patient has clinically improved that means the patient has recovered from the acute infection," said Safdar.</span></div> <div class="body-related" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 7.5px; margin-left: 7.5px; position: relative;"> <a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-pos="1" data-rapid_p="9" data-uuid="4556f665-0322-340d-bbf4-a12f1e4f6c6e" data-ylk="t1:a3;t2:ct-mod;t3:embd;sec:ct-mod;slk:expand;elm:img;elmt:ct;itc:1;g:1193e867-5d69-3726-bd44-23b9c9e702e7;aid:4556f665-0322-340d-bbf4-a12f1e4f6c6e;ct:4;cpos:1;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/dr-kent-brantly-ebola-patient-photo-011736092.html" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Dr. Kent Brantly, right, an Ebola patient at Emory&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"> <span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: 0px; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span><img alt="Dr. Kent Brantly, right, an Ebola patient at Emory&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb inview" data-src-2x="" height="200" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/wu5CJ04TFO3305gCPoVTWg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIwMDtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en-us/homerun/cbsnews.cbs.com/2e44ff2226c35041371767744bd7ae27" style="-webkit-transform: translateZ(0px); -webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div> </a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr. Kent Brantly, right, an Ebola patient at Emory Hospital, stands with his wife, Amber Brantly, du …</span></div> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There is some indication that a patient may continue to shed the virus even after a doctor determines the acute infection has subsided. Most likely, the rate at which the virus clears the body varies just as much as the incubation period, which is between 2 and 21 days. According to the World Health Organization, in one instance, a lab worker who contracted Ebola on the job and survived was found to have traces of the virus in his semen 61 days after the initial infection. This could theoretically mean a man could infect his partner during sexual intercourse weeks after he's declared disease-free, although no such cases have been documented.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ribner said he doesn't think Brantly, 33, and Writebol, 59, would<a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/surviving-ebola-for-those-who-live-through-it-what-lies-ahead/" style="text-decoration: none;"> suffer any long-term health problems as a result of contracting the virus</a>. "There may be some recovery time because this is fairly devastating disease," he said. "We would anticipate that any patients who have had not any significant organ damage will make a full recovery."</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And they probably don't need to worry about going through this ordeal ever again. Safdar said when a person contracts the Ebola virus their immune system creates antibodies that will protect them from that strain of the virus in the future.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However, there are <a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-deadly-history-of-ebola-outbreaks/" style="text-decoration: none;">at least three deadly strains of Ebola</a>. The strain of the virus that has so far <a data-rapid_p="12" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebola-outbreak-death-toll-tops-1200-who-says/" style="text-decoration: none;">killed more than 1,200 people in West Africa</a> is believed to be Ebola Zaire, which has the highest mortality rate; as many as 96 percent of people infected with this strain of Ebola will die. Safdar said the two other strains found in Sudan and Uganda kill about a quarter of those who contract it.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There are certain types of antibodies that have been shown to protect against certain types of Ebola infections -- neutralizing antibodies," explained Sadfar. "These are desirable to protect from further exposure."</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He added that researchers are especially interested in examining blood samples of patients who have made a full recovery from the virus since a closer look at those antibodies could provide crucial information for <a data-rapid_p="13" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-soon-can-a-vaccine-or-treatment-stop-ebola-in-its-tracks/" style="text-decoration: none;">developing an effective vaccine</a>.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> </div> </div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MONROVIA (AFP) – Every region of Liberia has now been hit by Ebola, officials said Friday, as the World Health Organization warned the fight against the worst-ever outbreak of the killer disease would take months.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After seeing people fall to the deadly virus in area after area, Liberia said two people had succumbed to the virus in Sinoe province, the last Ebola-free bastion in a country that has seen the biggest toll with 624 deaths.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The virus has spread relentlessly through Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, and Nigeria has also been affected despite showing some progress in fighting the epidemic, which has killed 1,427 people since March.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“(Sinoe) was the last area untouched by Ebola,” George Williams, head of the Health Workers Association of Liberia, told AFP.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The country has witnessed chaotic scenes in recent days following a surge in the number of patients dying of the hemorrhagic fever.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Aid workers said crematoriums in the capital of Monrovia were struggling to deal with bodies arriving every day, and earlier this week, violence erupted in an Ebola quarantine zone in the capital after soldiers opened fire on protesting crowds.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a bid to ease the crisis, medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is working on nearly quadrupling the capacity of its Ebola centre in Monrovia.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Currently we have around 60 patients for a capacity of 120 beds,” said Henry Gray, an MSF coordinator.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“And we are making our site bigger. In the next 10 days, we hope to have a location that can welcome up to 400 patients.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In neighbouring Nigeria, officials said Friday that two more people had tested positive for Ebola, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 14, including five deaths.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Flare up -</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a news conference in Monrovia, WHO Assistant Director-General Dr Keiji Fukuda on Friday warned efforts to combat the disease would take some time.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“This is not something to turn around overnight, it is not going to be easy; we expect several months of hard work. We expect several months really struggling with this outbreak,” he said at a press conference alongside Dr David Nabarro.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nabarro, a physician appointed by the United Nations last week to coordinate the global response to the worst-ever outbreak of the disease, was in Monrovia as part of a tour of the region.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking to AFP, he said he was determined to “ensure that every piece of our apparatus is at its optimum so it could deal possibly with a flare-up if that’s necessary”.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nabarro is also due to visit Freetown, Conakry and Abuja during the trip, where he is tasked with revitalising the health sectors of affected countries.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No cure or vaccine is currently available for the deadly virus, which is spread by close contact with body fluids, meaning patients must be isolated.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However, two American missionaries who contracted Ebola while treating patients in Liberia made a full recovery in the United States. The two were treated with experimental drugs.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- ‘They may die’ -</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The failure of west African countries to bring the epidemic under control has worried its neighbours and nations further afield.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Senegal on Thursday closed its land border with Guinea, where 396 people have died to date, in an attempt to stop the epidemic reaching it.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gabon, meanwhile, suspended flights and maritime links from affected countries, and said it would deliver visas to travellers coming from the Ebola zone “on a case-by-case basis”.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a further, urgent effort to contain the epidemic, Sierra Leone’s parliament passed a law on Friday that imposes a jail term of up to two years for anyone concealing an Ebola-infected patient.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ibrahim Bundu, a senior parliamentary figure, took the opportunity to blast some of the country’s allies over their closures of land borders or flight suspensions.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We are appalled by… the isolation imposed by those that we considered our best friends at a sub-regional, regional and global level,” he said.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, as fears grow that the outbreak will spread across Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo — where Ebola was first identified in 1976 in what was then Zaire — said a fever of unidentified origin had killed 13 people in the country’s northwest since August 11.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But a WHO official and MSF said Friday it was too soon to tell whether a haemorrhagic fever caused the deaths, and the results of swabs are due in a week’s time.</span></div> <div class="OUTBRAIN" data-browser="safari" data-dynload="" data-ob-mark="true" data-os="ipad" data-src="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/last-ebola-free-region-liberia-falls-virus/" id="outbrain_widget_0" obdone="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="ob_strip_container NA" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"> <span class="ob_empty" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><wbr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></wbr></span><span class="ob_org_header" style="border: 0px; 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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nigeria was a merry-go country and free of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) until late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, ignominiously appeared on the scene on July 20 fully aware that he had the disease having had contacts with his sister, who died of EVB on July 8.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He had been suspended from work by his Company, Arcelor Mittal and was supposed to be under isolation, observation and monitoring. With the connivance of Liberia’s Deputy Finance Minister For Fiscal Affairs, Sebastian Muah, who cleared him to travel to Nigeria for an ECOWAS convention in Calabar, Mr. Sawyer, who avoided bodily contacts with people at the airport in Monrovia, Liberia found his way to Lagos.<a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ebola-patients-survived-experts/patrick-sawyer/" rel="attachment wp-att-460147" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Patrick-Sawyer" class="alignright size-full wp-image-460147" height="232" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Patrick-Sawyer.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="175" /></a></span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He boarded an Asky Airline plane and became severely ill on the plane and was taken to First Consultant Hospital, Obalende, from the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos. Since Sawyer’s infamous arrival, Nigeria has lost four people to the Ebola disease: the ECOWAS official, who drove him to the hospital, two nurses who assisted him at the hospital and the doctor, who physically restrained him from leaving his bed after he tried to remove the drip administered on him.Saturday Vanguard asked our teeming readers their views of Mr. Sawyer and captures their interesting views below.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sawyer is wicked</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The man was a very wicked person. He knew that he had the virus and he deliberately decided to bring it to Nigeria. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joseph Sunday, Interior Decorator.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He needed help</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I see Patrick Sawyer as someone who only needed help. He knew he had the disease, but felt he could get a cure in Nigeria without knowing how deadly and serious it was. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jefferson Aisegame, Banker</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">His actions</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">expose our porosity as a nation</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The man became famous and will be remembered for a negative cause. His name has become synonymous and associated with the Ebola Virus – a time bomb whose explosion shows our porosity as a nation. I don’t think his actions were deliberate. <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Christopher Urokonweze, Biochemist</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He was a thief</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I think he’s a thief, because he knew he had the virus, yet he deliberately brought it here. He decided to distribute the disease to people. That kind of person is capable of terrible acts. Thank God, he was exposed at the airport. If he had succeeded and mixed up with people in the country without their knowledge, it would have been disastrous. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chief Gabriel Obi, Trader</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He was a </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">terrorist, devil</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That man was a terrorist. He was a devil incarnate. He knew he had it and that he was going to die, but he wanted to die with innocent people. If they hadn’t caught him here in Nigeria, he probably would have migrated to another country. The man was just out to kill. He is worse than Boko Haram.- <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Elias Nwoke, Businessman</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sawyer should’nt have left Liberia</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I think since he knew his condition and knowing that there was no case of the disease in Nigeria, he shouldn’t have embarked on that journey to this country. But maybe what ever the issue brought him here must have been very crucial. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Adeyinka Adeleye.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He was </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">very wicked</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The man knew what he was doing. He knew the disease is deadly and dangerous, still he travelled to Nigeria with it. That man was a very wicked man. We just pray to God to help us. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Victoria Eretan, Nurse</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was sheer wickedness</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What he did was sheer wickedness. If he wanted a cure, he should have remained in his country and looked for a cure there instead of coming to spread it here. Now, we are all suffering as a result. I pray the government gets a cure to the disease soonest. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mrs. Okoro Kate, Trader.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He would have got help in Liberia</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What that man did was bad. He wasn’t supposed to come into Nigeria with that disease. He should have remained where he was and I believe people would have been able to help him there. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mrs. Amaka Aniagolu.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EVB has affected our businesses</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since he knew he had the virus, he wasn’t supposed to travel. He should have remained where he was.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">People are no longer free and this disease has caused bad sales for us. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Olaide Sheriff, Meat Seller</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sawyer was heartless</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That man was heartless and wicked. He decided to bring his problem to this country to cause us more problems. What he did was very bad and he did it intentionally. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Akeem Adeyemo, Meat Seller.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He didn’t want </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to die alone</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The man just acted like a typical African who wouldn’t want to fall alone, so he decided to spread the virus. He wanted people to die with him . – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Fortune Wilson, Businessman.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Episode exposed lapses in our security system</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He knew quite well that he had the virus, yet he came into the country with it. This shows the lapses in our security system and how porous our borders are. He didn’t want to die alone and his actions have resulted into an epidemic. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chief P.C Agu, Businessman.</span></span></div> <div class="OUTBRAIN" data-browser="safari" data-dynload="" data-ob-mark="true" data-os="ipad" data-src="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ebola-patrick-sawyer-evil-terrorist-nigerians/" id="outbrain_widget_0" obdone="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="ob_strip_container NA" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"> <span class="ob_empty" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><wbr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></wbr></span><span class="ob_org_header" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div> </div> </div>

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