This is How Ebola Spread into Sierra Leone and went viral

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <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/AVvXsEisHsJgMZCVAKGB6-m6USDVBESgDp8BaxDhNv1cebe0oU0gQPCCijCmUx7ww0YFfNI0rnUkOuEyt5guIA09ayCZUKvKz_PwVWsq4z_b9lHJv4Z4nKXZFV0jbRqUNHGvjRG65IPhyphenhyphenZnhsvQ/s1600/ebola-011.jpg" /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Health officials in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">Sierra Leone</span> have blamed the outbreak of the deadly <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">Ebola Virus</span> on a female herbalist who claimed to have power to heal people of the disease.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The health officials said the disease should not have spread from Guinea to Sierra Leone, but for the herbalist who lived in the eastern border village of Sokoma.</span></div> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="text-decoration: none;"></a><br /></span></span> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> “She was claiming to have powers to heal <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">Ebola</span>. Cases from Guinea were crossing into Sierra Leone for treatment,” Mohamed Vandi, the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">top medical</span> official in the hard-hit district of Kenema, told <em>Agence France-Presse</em>.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“She got infected and died. During her funeral, women around the other towns got infected.”<br />The herbalist’s mourners fanned out across the rolling <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">hills</span> of the Kissi tribal chiefdoms, starting a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">chain reaction</span> of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">infections</span>, deaths, funerals and more infections.<a href="" name="more"></a></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The deadly Ebola Virus has claimed the lives of more than 1,300 people in West Africa as well as a Spanish Priest who died last week in Spain.</span></div> <br /></div>

This is How Ebola Spread into Sierra Leone and went viral

                               Health officials in  Sierra Leone  have blamed the outbreak of the deadly  Ebola Virus  on a female her...

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EBOLA OUTBREAK: A nurse's story, being on the front lines of Ebola outbreak

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-688137362155151242" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 670px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ZmtDj3c29sYIgEBtFi590hwMAuBa2jCWJ93HZTcoRLhNr_Ter2OS0gPvQzBx-vlO0_PXtr-kWWMR5fw3A8i9TiS8lAkpjlbQ9lYgeSGF_Ns1-GXf8ji2hHInyR5zUo_cva1GWd0N7KE/s1600/monia-saya-in-guineaimg1290.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="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ZmtDj3c29sYIgEBtFi590hwMAuBa2jCWJ93HZTcoRLhNr_Ter2OS0gPvQzBx-vlO0_PXtr-kWWMR5fw3A8i9TiS8lAkpjlbQ9lYgeSGF_Ns1-GXf8ji2hHInyR5zUo_cva1GWd0N7KE/s1600/monia-saya-in-guineaimg1290.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="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Nurse Monia Sayah (R) standing with a recovered patient and the nurse supervisor at the Doctors Without Borders facility in Guinea where she treated Ebola patients.</i><br /><br />When Doctors Without Borders nurse Monia Sayah first arrived in Guinea in March, she couldn't have known she would witness the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Back then, there were 59 confirmed deaths from Ebola, a virus which can be fatal in up to 90 percent of cases. The death toll in West Africa has since soared to 932, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. In Guinea, where the first cases were reported in March, Ebola has killed 363 people.<br /><br />"The fear is palpable," Sayah said, speaking to CBS News in New York after returning from her latest assignment. "People are very afraid because they never know if Ebola's going to hit their family or their village."<br /><br />Because of the fear and stigma associated with the virus, Sayah said many infected people are choosing to hide their illness and often don't check in to treatment centers until it is too late. By that point, there is very little Sayah and her colleagues can do. They try to rehydrate the patients and administer antibiotics. But there is no proven treatment for Ebola, though an experimental drug is currently being tested.<br /><br />Concerns have also been growing for the safety of medical workers in the field. A leading doctor died in Sierra Leone last week. A Nigerian nurse who treated that country's first Ebola victim died from the virus, Nigerian health officials said Wednesday, and two American medical missionaries infected with Ebola in Liberia are still battling the virus at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.<br /><br />But Sayah, who has spent a total of 11 weeks in Guinea, said she is not afraid. She and her colleagues take strict precautions to limit their risk of exposure. Before entering a high-risk zone, they suit up in head-to-toe protective clothing including gloves and goggles. "You do have to follow the rules," she said, "but accidents do happen."<br /><br />She has to limit the amount of time she spends in the infected area. It's hot under the protective clothing, and exhaustion and dehydration are serious concerns. "The risk is you could faint, you could fall. You do not want to fall in a high-risk area," she said. "Maybe your goggles will move up and your eye will be infected."<br /><br />Working so closely with patients at death's door has taken a personal toll. Sayah described the anguish of stepping outside a treatment facility to take a quick break from the intense heat, only to find that her patient had died in those ten minutes she was away. "It was really hard for me to know that they had died alone," she said, "not with someone holding their hands and reassuring them."<br /><br />Sayah recalled the "hectic" challenges of setting up some of the first international treatment facilities for Ebola patients. By the end of May, she said, the medical community thought they had almost contained the virus. But soon after she left Guinea, another cluster of infected patients was found in another village. The virus was spreading like wildfire.<br /><br />Several factors are contributing to the spread. The virus has an incubation period of up to 21 days, according to the WHO, and in West Africa the population is highly mobile, moving easily across porous cross-country borders. Traditional burial ceremonies in which relatives have direct contact with the body can also play a role in the transmission of Ebola.<br /><br />Sayah found that many local communities distrust the healthcare system and foreigners. "Some have said we brought the Ebola to them," she said. "It's very difficult to contain the outbreak when communities are not cooperating." There were instances of infectious patients leaving the facility, she said, and many weren't receptive to the idea of isolation -- a crucial step in containing the virus.<br /><br />During her breaks from the field, Sayah stays in touch with her colleagues on the front lines, hoping for the slightest bit of good news. Just this past week, she heard some. One of the patients who'd been under her care was discharged from hospital, apparently free of the virus.<br /><br />But the situation on the ground remains dire, and Sayah hopes to see a greater response from the international community.<br /><br />Despite the challenges, Sayah said she will return to West Africa to fight the outbreak. 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Olympic Organisers Issue Ban Over Ebola Risk

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">                                          <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Olympic Youth Games are hit by a ban on some swimming and combat event competitors, amid rising fears of Ebola spreading.</span><br /> <div class="last-updated" style="bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 40px; max-width: 40%; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-align: right;"> <div class="last-updated__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <section class="story__media" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="module module--primary" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; width: 660px;"> <div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--16x9" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 371px; position: relative;"> <img alt="" class="image__item js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="144x81 362x204 762x428 942x530 1600x900" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/14/329501/default/v2/rtr42git-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/14/329501/default/v2/rtr42git-1-1600x900.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); 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max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said three competitors would not be allowed to take part in combat sports and swimming pool events.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The IOC and the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee said it was impossible to rule out the risk of potential infection.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The ebola outbreak was first identified in Guinea in March and has since spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.</span></div> <div class="image image--inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 540px;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--4x3" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 405px; position: relative;"> <img alt="" class="image__item js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="91x68 300x225 480x360" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/15/329569/default/v1/rtr41xfe-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/15/329569/default/v1/rtr41xfe-1-480x360.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 405px; max-width: 100%; page-break-inside: avoid; position: absolute; vertical-align: middle; width: 540px;" /></div> <div class="image__caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; min-height: 40px; padding: 10px 8px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Martial arts performers practice for the opening ceremony on Saturday</span></div> </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Those from the affected regions competing in other sports will undergo regular temperature checks and physical assessments throughout the games, which begin on Saturday.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The IOC added that there had been no suspected cases of ebola reported in China and "the risk of infection is extremely unlikely". </span></div> <div class="module module--inline video" data-format-high="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/700/2014/08/080814EBOLATOMCAIRNS1407509412066700.mp4" data-format-low="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/374/2014/08/080814EBOLATOMCAIRNS1407509412066374.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;"> <div class="video__placeholder-wrapper js-video" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; height: 0px; padding-bottom: 303px; position: relative; width: 540px;"> <div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--16x9" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 303px; position: relative;"> <img alt="" class="image__item video__teaser-image js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="144x81 362x204 762x428 942x530" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/8/328241/default/v2/cegrab-20140808-161457-678-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/8/328241/default/v2/cegrab-20140808-161457-678-1-942x530.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); 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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="single-post-thumb" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Chukwu" class="attachment-slider wp-post-image" data-cfsrc="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Prof-Onyebuchi-Chukwu.jpg" height="201" src="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Prof-Onyebuchi-Chukwu.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: 620px;" width="251" /></span></div> <div class="single-post-caption" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chukwu</span></div> <div class="post-inner" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 20px 0px;"> <h1 class="name post-title entry-title" itemprop="itemReviewed" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing" style="border: 0px none; 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text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ONE hundred and forty-six patients have recovered from the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), also called Doctors Without Border, has said.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MSF, which has established Ebola treatment centres in the three countries, explained that once a patient recovers from the disease, such a patient becomes immune to the virus and could continue to live a normal healthy life.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The group also said an Ebola outbreak is considered to end once no new case is reported after 42 days.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Conakry, the Guinean capital, the MSF said it admitted 232 patients with 124 confirmed Ebola cases.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The group said 64 of them recovered and returned home.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Gueckedou, also in Guinea, of the 366 patients admitted, 169 were confirmed to have Ebola; 46 recovered and returned home.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Sierra Leone, MSF said of the 174 confirmed Ebola patients it admitted, 36 recovered and nine were discharged on August 4, after they recovered from the disease.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 2012, the MSF effectively contained an Ebola outbreak in Uganda by placing a control area around the treatment centre.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The organisation has 676 workers in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MSF said it would support any effort by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to find a vaccine for the disease.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It said: “MSF welcomes the steps the WHO is taking to adopt exceptional regulatory procedures in the face of an exceptionally grave Ebola epidemic. 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Nigeria Health WHO Lauds Nigerian Govt Response to Ebola Outbreak

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday commended the Federal Government’s response to the outbreak of the Ebola virus in the country so far.</span><br /> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />The Country Representative of WHO in Nigeria, Dr Rui Vaz, who made the commendation at a press briefing in Abuja, said the government’s response was a model for other affected countries to copy. The briefing was on the outcome of the meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan, the 36 state governors and their commissioners of health.<br /><br />Vaz was flanked by the Ministers of Health and Information, Prof. Onyeabuchi Chukwu and Labaran Maku, the governors of Lagos and Enugu, Babatunde Fashola and Sullivan Chime, at the briefing. The Director of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Mr Abdusalami Nasidi, also participated in the briefing.<br /><br />Vaz noted that President Goodluck Jonathan took the first critical step by declaring the disease a national emergency.<br /><br />"The president has also been pushing in order to ensure that we have the emergency operation centres in each state with a very clear plan and accountability framework. This is to ensure that everybody works together under this plan and to provide together the necessary support.<br /><br />"What I would want to emphasise is the leadership from the Federal Government of Nigeria to tackle this epidemic. The presence and leadership from Mr President calling on all governors and commissioners of health in order to understand the current level is commendable.<br /><br />"This is in terms of preparation and anything up to response, and to identify what are the gaps that we together can put our efforts to overcome those challenges. I think this is an important measure for all countries to understand that we need to have a very strong coordination mechanism.<br /><br />The WHO official noted that the disease was controllable with adequate awareness, especially at the grassroots level and effective collaboration of all stakeholders under the plan.<br /><br />Vaz cautioned against any myth about the disease, noting that public misconception contributed significantly to the spread of the virus in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.<br /><br />"We need to avoid stigmatisation, discrimination problems in terms of barriers and people who are keeping their own bodies afraid of what is going to be done. All of those myths we need to work very closely to correct.’’<br /><br />According to him, the issue of transparency in the management of the disease also came up for discussion at the meeting. He stressed the need for every case to be reported for quick identification and action.<br /><br />He said that communities and local leaders had a major role to play in this regard by assisting government to identify suspected cases for urgent action.<br /><br />Vaz added that the sooner any suspected case was identified, the easier it would be for all contacts to be traced and placed under surveillance.</span></div>

Nigeria Health WHO Lauds Nigerian Govt Response to Ebola Outbreak

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday commended the Federal Government’s response to the outbreak of the Ebola virus in the coun...

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