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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Woman In Scotland Tested For Ebola Virus

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margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A female detainee who became ill at an immigration removal centre is to undergo tests for the Ebola virus.</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 woman, understood to have arrived from Sierra Leone, was being held at Dungavel Detention Centre in South Lanarkshire.</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);">A spokesman for NHS Lanarkshire said: "We are currently investigating a possible case of Viral Haemorrhagic Fever (Ebola).</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);">"This is a precautionary measure and it would appear at this stage to be highly unlikely the patient will test positive for Ebola."</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);">A Home Office spokesman said: "We do not comment on operational matters."</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 case comes amid growing international concern about the <a href="http://news.sky.com/story/1319044/ebola-epidemic-is-like-war-time-says-msf" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border-bottom-color: rgb(203, 203, 203); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ebola outbreak in West Africa.</span></a></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);">More than 1,000 people have died and almost 2,000 suspected, probable or confirmed Ebola cases have been recorded there.</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);">Health experts say they are struggling to contain the epidemic, which started in Guinea last March.</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);">It has since spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.</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);">Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with the body fluids of a person who is infected.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </section><section class="partner-links" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: SkyTextRegular, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana; font-size: 1.125rem; 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Passenger collapses, dies at Lagos airport

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">L</span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">agos</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">— An intending passenger collapsed and died yesterday while waiting to collect the Yellow Card from Port Health officials at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos.</span><br /> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Airport-Ebola2.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); 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;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Airport Ebola2" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-459200" height="280" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Airport-Ebola2.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="412" /></span></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This happened when the new Minister of Aviation, Mr Osita Chidoka, was on facility tour of the airport. It’s the minister’s first official visit to Lagos since assuming office.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The dead man, Akunne Osei, <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vanguard</span> gathered, was a Nigerian who resided in Accra. He arrived Lagos for business transactions aboard an Arik Air flight on Friday, August 8, 2014 and was on his way back to Accra for medical treatment.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking on the death of the passenger, General Manager, Corporate Communication, Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Mr Yakubu Dati, said: “The passenger, Mr. Akunne Osei, took ill on Saturday, August 9 and started stooling. When the situation got worse, he called his doctor in Accra who instructed him to return to Ghana immediately for further treatment.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“During boarding formalities for his return trip to Accra, at the MMIA, Mr. Osei, who had become weak was subjected to Ebola virus test by port health officials, the result of which was negative.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“No further attention was paid to him after his Ebola virus result read negative but the passenger later slumped and died around the port health office.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The sister of the dead man was seen crying, saying:“Chike, please get up.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The body of Osei was kept at zero car park of the airport terminal when the Minister of Aviation, Mr Osita Chidoka, visited. It is yet to be removed at press time.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/passenger-collapses-dies-lagos-airport/#sthash.uMNIGnA3.dpuf</span></div>

Passenger collapses, dies at Lagos airport

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