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toubab1020
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 Posted - 15 Aug 2014 : 13:01:16
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"These steps align with recognition of the extraordinary measures needed, on a massive scale, to contain the outbreak in settings characterized by extreme poverty, dysfunctional health systems, a severe shortage of doctors, and rampant fear."
Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network
Biorisk Reduction
WHO Ebola news
14 August 2014
The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa continues to escalate, with 1975 cases and 1069 deaths reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.
No new cases have been detected in Nigeria following the importation of a case in an air traveller last month. Extensive contact tracing and monitoring, implemented with support from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has kept the number of additional cases small.
Elsewhere, the outbreak is expected to continue for some time. WHO’s operational response plan extends over the next several months. Staff at the outbreak sites see evidence that the numbers of reported cases and deaths vastly underestimate the magnitude of the outbreak.
WHO is coordinating a massive scaling up of the international response, marshalling support from individual countries, disease control agencies, agencies within the United Nations system, and others.
The World Food Programme is using its well-developed logistics to deliver food to the more than one million people locked down in the quarantine zones, where the borders of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone intersect. Several countries have agreed to support the provision of priority food staples for this population.
Practical on-the-ground intelligence is the backbone of a coordinated response. WHO is mapping the outbreak, in great detail, to pinpoint areas of ongoing transmission and locate treatment facilities and supplies. Good logistical support depends on knowing which facilities need disinfectants or personal protective equipment, where new isolation facilities need to be built, and where the need for more health-care workers is most intense.
CDC is equipping the hardest-hit countries with computer hardware and software that will soon allow real-time reporting of cases and analysis of trends. This also strengthens the framework for a scaled-up response.
Today, WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan held discussions with a group of ambassadors from Geneva’s United Nations missions. The meeting aimed to identify the most urgent needs within countries and match them with rapid international support.
These steps align with recognition of the extraordinary measures needed, on a massive scale, to contain the outbreak in settings characterized by extreme poverty, dysfunctional health systems, a severe shortage of doctors, and rampant fear.
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/overview-20140814/en/ |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 15 Aug 2014 : 18:14:07
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Hmmmmmmmmm, I wonder if someone at The Point Reads Bantaba in Cyberspace,their latest offering on Ebola APPEARS to have all the content researched by posters of Bantaba in Cyberspace,never mind as long as the Ebola information continues from "The Champion Newspaper", that should not concern posters here.
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/four-key-facts-about-the-ebola-crisis
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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sab
United Kingdom
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Posted - 15 Aug 2014 : 22:09:58
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Reuters.com - Ebola-hit states plead for more help, WHO rebuked for slow response
http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSKBN0GF0Y820140815
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toubab1020
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Posted - 18 Aug 2014 : 22:20:39
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OH dear,no training,no uniform,a thermometer under the armpit.
If this report is accurate,are these measures enough ?
Read this SNIPPET:
"At the Amdalai border post, health personnel were seen stationed at the Combined security services barricade, where they conduct tests as travellers get to the barricade. The health personnel are the first to receive the travellers. When a traveller gets to the health personnel his/her temperature would be taken by the health personnel using a clinical thermometer placed under the armpit of the traveller. The same thermometers were used for all the passengers passing through the check point. It was observed that some passengers passed without health personnel taking their temperatures. The health personnel were also not putting on gloves or other protective gears as they took the temperatures of the passengers."
http://www.foroyaa.gm/archives/1017#more-1017
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toubab1020
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Posted - 19 Aug 2014 : 11:44:45
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LATEST FROM WHO ON EBOLA,There is now a page where YOU can update yourselves on the steps that WHO are taking,therefore there seems little point on posting more updates here if you want to know click on this link and do your own serching from the options available.
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_08_19_ebola/en/ |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 29 Aug 2014 : 15:18:37
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Ebola outbreak: Senegal confirms first case
 Senegal's health ministry has confirmed a first case of Ebola, making it the fifth West African country to be affected by the outbreak.
Health Minister Awa Marie Coll Seck told reporters on Friday that a young man from Guinea was confirmed to have contracted the virus.
The man was immediately placed in quarantine, she added.
The current outbreak, which began in Guinea, has killed more than 1,500 people across the region.
At least 3,000 people have been infected with the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned it could get much worse and infect more than 20,000 people.
Senegal had previously closed its border with Guinea in a bid to halt the spread of Ebola, but its borders are porous.
It had also banned flights and ships from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - the three worst-hit countries.....
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toubab1020
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Posted - 29 Aug 2014 : 19:36:10
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"Ebola is a lie".
Terror and fear have descended on Guinea. Riots and frightened people everywhere.
Residents of Guinea's second-biggest city have rioted after the market was sprayed with disinfectant in a bid to halt the spread of the Ebola virus.
Health workers and the hospital in Nzerekore were attacked by people reportedly shouting: "Ebola is a lie".
The exact cause of the riot is not clear - some also reportedly feared the spray would spread Ebola.
Meanwhile, Senegal has confirmed its first case of Ebola - a Guinean national.
The current outbreak of Ebola began in Guinea, and has killed more than 1,500 people in four countries.
There have been relatively few cases in Guinea recently, with far higher infection rates in neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone, and six deaths in Nigeria.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday warned that it could get much worse and infect more than 20,000 people.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28984259 |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 10 Sep 2014 : 17:55:49
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Student who brought Ebola to Senegal has recovered
Update at 2:23 PM
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - A Senegalese doctor says the student who brought Ebola to the West African country has recovered.
The young man from Guinea arrived in Senegal in August and sought medical care, but concealed that he had had contact with Ebola victims.
Authorities say no other cases have appeared in Senegal, though several dozen people are being monitored.
Dr. Moussa Seydi told Senegalese radio Wednesday that the man has tested negative twice for Ebola. But Seydi, who works at the hospital where the student was being treated, said the young man is still suffering psychologically after losing several relatives to the disease.
The current Ebola outbreak that began in Guinea has also spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria, and so far is believed to have killed more than 2,200 people. |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 11 Sep 2014 : 00:52:39
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Read this report with care,in my opinion it lacks " clarity"
That.s my opinion anybody want to discuss?
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Originally posted by Momodou
Student who brought Ebola to Senegal has recovered
Update at 2:23 PM
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - A Senegalese doctor says the student who brought Ebola to the West African country has recovered.
The young man from Guinea arrived in Senegal in August and sought medical care, but concealed that he had had contact with Ebola victims.
Authorities say no other cases have appeared in Senegal, though several dozen people are being monitored.
Dr. Moussa Seydi told Senegalese radio Wednesday that the man has tested negative twice for Ebola. But Seydi, who works at the hospital where the student was being treated, said the young man is still suffering psychologically after losing several relatives to the disease.
The current Ebola outbreak that began in Guinea has also spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria, and so far is believed to have killed more than 2,200 people.
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 11 Sep 2014 : 08:08:29
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Originally posted by toubab1020
Read this report with care,in my opinion it lacks " clarity"
That.s my opinion anybody want to discuss?
The story seems to diasppear from AP's site and now the URL points to another story: US gives ambulances to Sierra Leone to fight Ebola
However, this other URL is from Reuters: Guinean who brought Ebola to Senegal recovered, to return
Wed Sep 10, 2014
(Reuters) - A Guinean student who brought Ebola to Senegal has recovered from the disease and is resting before he is expected to return home, Senegal's health minister said on Wednesday.
The 21-year-old was the first confirmed case in Senegal, raising fears the disease may spread in a fifth nation in West Africa. The world's worst recorded outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever has already killed at least 2,296 people, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Senegalese authorities are still monitoring 67 people who came into contact with the Guinean student during his 1,000-km land journey across the border from southwest Guinea, but authorities said there are no other suspected cases in Senegal........
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toubab1020
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Posted - 11 Sep 2014 : 17:05:16
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Quite so Momodou I myself watched a report on TV from Al Jezzra news where they interviewed the doctor mentioned first who confirmed the recovery and the patients mental problem,today I searched AlJazazeera website for news,odd I thought this is important stuff,nothing on the website at all,have a search yourself at;
http://www.aljazeera.com/Services/Search/?q=Senegal,%20Ebola,patient%20recovers&s=as_q&r=15&o=any&t=d
Your Reuters report states that the patient "is resting before he is expected to return home," His suffering from mental illness is not mentioned.
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 19 Sep 2014 : 09:35:42
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How can they kill those who are trying to help them?? 
 "'Killed in cold blood'
On Thursday night, government spokesman Albert Damantang Camara said eight bodies had been found, including those of three journalists.
He said they had been recovered from the septic tank of a primary school in the village, adding that the victims had been "killed in cold blood by the villagers".
The reason for the killings is unclear, but correspondents say many people in the region distrust health officials and have refused to co-operate with authorities, fearing that a diagnosis means certain death..."
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Ebola outbreak: Health team 'found dead' in Guinea
BBC Online: 18 September 2014
Officials in Guinea searching for a team of health workers and journalists who went missing while trying to raise awareness of Ebola have found several bodies.
A spokesman for Guinea's government said the bodies included those of three journalists in the team.
They went missing after being attacked on Tuesday in a village near the southern city of Nzerekore.
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Deadly attack in Guinea on Ebola team
Eight bodies, including of three journalists, found in remote village following attack on team trying to educate locals.
Aljazeera English: Last updated: 19 Sep 2014 06:12............
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sab
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20 Sep 2014 : 13:53:22
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It was beginning of September that I brought the following website to Bantaba attention under another topic - it is now getting lost.
I feel it is a very informative & easy website, updated daily on this serious disease.
https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=407&language_id=ENG
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The world would be a poorer place if it was peopled by children whose parents risked nothing in the cause of social justice, for fear of personal loss. (Joe Slovo - African revolutionary) |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 20 Sep 2014 : 14:51:36
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SAB , thanks,your VITAL BICS topic link should never be treated as "lost" maybe "Admin" would consider options to ensure that until the worldwide threat of his horror is no more your link remains prominent.
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Originally posted by sab
It was beginning of September that I brought the following website to Bantaba attention under another topic - it is now getting lost.
I feel it is a very informative & easy website, updated daily on this serious disease.
https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=407&language_id=ENG
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