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toubab1020
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 Posted - 16 Oct 2014 : 10:27:39
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15/10/2014:
"UNMEER: The United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) has announced a strategy for combating the Ebola outbreak. A target of the “70-70-60 plan” has been decided. This plan would ensure safe burial of 70 percent deaths and hospital-based isolation of 70 percent of suspected cases within 60 days of 1 October. UNMEER has cautioned that by 1 December, the detection of new Ebola cases could rise up to 10,000 per week. An urgent requirement of hospital beds and trained staff has also been highlighted."
https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=407&language_id=ENG
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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sab
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Posted - 19 Oct 2014 : 10:42:33
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Thanks Toubab - saves me always clicking on page two to find it. It is still the most informative & easy page(s) I visit each day.
I wasn't too far wrong back in August quoting 'A human disaster is unfolding' wherever were our world leaders? U know the saying 'the writing was on the wall' but this time it was in capital letters. May we soon seen an end to this dreadful dreadful disease. |
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 - 19 Oct 2014 : 12:28:52
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All agreed SAB Thanks.
I hope that whilst this EBOLA horror persists it can always be shown on the recent topics box that shows current posts,not being a boffin in things computerwise I have no idea if this can be done as you know things drop off that box if nothing is posted on that topic,there is only enough room for 10 topics,maybe not possible to maintain ONE topic permanently in the Banta in Cyberspace.
Hope Admin can have a fiddle and let us know if that suggestion can be implemented.
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Thanks Toubab - saves me always clicking on page two to find it. It is still the most informative & easy page(s) I visit each day.
I wasn't too far wrong back in August quoting 'A human disaster is unfolding' wherever were our world leaders? U know the saying 'the writing was on the wall' but this time it was in capital letters. May we soon seen an end to this dreadful dreadful disease.
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 15 Nov 2014 : 12:29:17
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CHECK SAB's link in the first posting in this topic for CURRENT EBOLA UPDATES ABOUT THE SPREAD OF EBOLA.
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This announcement by The Daily Observer in response to a Rumour that EBOLA has reached Gambia.
Gambia quashes Ebola rumour- Country still free from virus
Africa » Gambia
Friday, November 14, 2014
Health authorities in The Gambia Thursday dismissed rumours whirling in town that the country has registered its first Ebola case after a tuberculosis patient was hospitalised at the Jammeh Foundation for Peace Hospital in Bundung.
The authorities maintain that the country is still an Ebola-free nation and that there is no cause for panic.
Briefing the press at the headquarters of the national broadcaster, the director of Health Promotion and Education, Momodou Njai, who spoke on behalf of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, said the rumour was misleading and unfounded, declaring that “The Gambia has not yet reported any case of Ebola”.
Njai said people are mistaken a TB patient that reported at the Jammeh Foundation for Peace Hospital for an Ebola, reiterating that “there is no suspected person thus far”.
The director advised people to desist from such rumours and always contact the health authorities for any information and enquiries.
Author: Momodou Faal
http://observer.gm/africa/gambia/article/gambia-quashes-ebola-rumour-country-still-free-from-virus |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 18 Nov 2014 : 00:39:49
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"Senegal
STATUS: DECLARED EBOLA FREE 17 OCTOBER
Single imported case from Guinea in late August. All contacts of the country's lone case, which was reported on 28 August, have completed 21 days monitoring with no further cases identified."
https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=434&language_id=ENG |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 27 Nov 2014 : 11:19:35
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Progress is being made not ready for use YET:
Ebola vaccine trial 'encouraging,' says GSK
26 November 2014 Last updated at 22:03 GMT
A trial looking at the safety of an Ebola vaccine has had encouraging results, says the chief executive of GSK.
Sir Andrew Witty said new clinical data was "very encouraging" and that a viable vaccine could be available in the second half of next year - if these early trials continue to provide positive results.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in America has just released the first trial data for the vaccine that GSK is working on in its laboratories in Italy and Belgium.
Twenty adults were tested and an immune response to Ebola was prompted in each of them. The vaccine was also "well tolerated" by each of the people tested.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30219256 |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 27 Nov 2014 : 11:24:54
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Sierra Leone:
27 November
There are an additional 71 confirmed cases for 26 November reported by the Ministry of Health; Bombali (14), Koinadugu (4), Port Loko (3), Tonkolili (10), Bo (3), Western Area Urban (22) and Western Area Rural (15).
In the latest World Health Organization situation report, Ebola transmission remains intense in Sierra Leone, particularly in the western and northern areas. There were 385 newly confirmed cases reported in the week up to 23 November. Freetown, the capital, remains the worst affected area, accounting for 118 of the new cases. Transmission appears to be slowing in the south-eastern districts of Bonthe, Kailahun, Kenema and Pujehun.
https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=397&language_id=ENG |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 05 Dec 2014 : 18:22:45
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I think that The Point, newspaper reads Bantaba in Cyberspace, Why? because they have included the latest news on Ebola in their paper:
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/ebola-update-30 |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 06 Dec 2014 : 16:42:20
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Have a look at this, I was going to copy and paste but so much advertising rubbish I will have to let you view the whole page yourselves and READ ONLY WHAT YOU WANT TO, OK if advertising turns you on please read that as well.
http://news.yahoo.com/cuban-ebola-patient-recovers-treatment-geneva-140809438.html
Cuban Ebola patient recovers after treatment in Geneva
GENEVA (Reuters) - A Cuban doctor who received experimental treatment for Ebola in a Geneva hospital has made a full recovery and left Switzerland to be reunited with his family, the hospital said on Saturday.
Felix Baez, 43, was one of 256 Cuban doctors and nurses who went to West Africa to treat patients from the worst outbreak of the virus on record, which has killed more than 6,000 people.
Soon after arriving in Geneva, Baez received the Canadian experimental treatment ZMab, a precursor to the Ebola drug ZMapp, which has been used to treat several U.S. patients.
"Two days afterwards he was already much better," Geneva's chief medical officer Jacques-André Romand told Reuters, adding that the same drug had been sent to Rome to treat an Italian doctor battling the virus.
A hospital spokeswoman said he received both ZMab and the untested flu drug favipiravir, made by Japan's Fujifilm, which the WHO has included on a list of potential Ebola treatments.
Baez was hospitalised in Geneva at the request of the World Health Organization, which is headquartered in the city, after he contracted the disease in Sierra Leone, one of the countries worst hit by the outbreak.
Out of 138 health care workers who have caught the disease in Sierra Leone, 106 have died, a much higher fatality rate than among health workers in neighbouring Guinea and Liberia, WHO data published on Wednesday showed.
Two more doctors died in Sierra Leone on Friday, a government and hospital source said.
Baez, Cuba's first Ebola patient and the first case of the disease in Switzerland, was treated in isolation in the Geneva hospital for 16 days. At no time was there any risk of transmission to the local population, Romand said.
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sab
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11 Dec 2014 : 11:07:47
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Now LASSER FEVER has attacked the vunerable....
10 December
Sierra Leone: Case incidence is still increasing, with almost 400 new confirmed cases in the first week of December. Authorities are concerned that the outbreak in Kono may be far greater than officially reported cases. Unverified information indicates that dozens of people have died at a local hospital, with outbreaks evident in many villages. A team from Kenema will travel to Kono to support the Ebola response there. A "lock-down" restricting movement into and out of the district has been implemented and is expected to be in place until 23 December. Analysis of the Ebola situation in the country published this week indicate significant gaps in infection control by healthcare workers, including during transport of infected patients. In Kenema, cases of Lassa fever have been identified....
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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 - 11 Dec 2014 : 11:28:52
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LACK OF Training is HIGHLIGHTED.
All staff are doing their best, no doubt about that but if you are untrained to do a job,you are unable to be effective in that job.
"Site visits and unstructured interviews with HCWs and health facility administrators revealed a broad range of circumstances potentially leading to Ebola in HCWs. These included a lack of standard operating procedures and clearly assigned responsibilities for infection prevention and control; overall staff shortages and lack of infection prevention specialists; limited availability of safe transport vehicles for patients and corpses; incorrect triage or recognition of potential Ebola in patients and corpses, including no reassessment of admitted patients to identify new symptoms of Ebola (especially children aged <5 years); delayed laboratory diagnosis of Ebola cases because of long turn-around time for specimen transport and reporting of results; inadequate control of Ebola patient or HCW movement within health facilities; and lack of delineation between high-risk and low-risk Ebola zones. Other findings included limited availability of appropriate personal protective equipment and hand washing facilities, including lack of water and sufficient chlorine supplies; no or inadequate training about and monitoring of personal protective equipment use and hand washing; lack of equipment and materials and no or inadequate training about and monitoring of decontamination of transport vehicles and care facility spaces; limited capacity and no or inadequate training about safe management of contaminated waste; and limited capacity and no or inadequate training about safe management and burial of corpses."
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm63e1209a2.htm?s_cid=mm63e1209a2_w |
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sab
United Kingdom
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Posted - 14 Jan 2015 : 03:22:18
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https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=407&language_id=ENG
Mali: A suspected Ebola case in being investigated by health authorities in Kangaba, near the border with Guinea. |
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 - 14 Jan 2015 : 13:23:55
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Thanks SAB,GAMBIA thankfully has been spared,but other countries have not as is shown in this recent BBC report (first link) from 9th January,this is not helped by other "circumstances" shown in the second link,in my opinion the updates from your link which you monitor and post are vital. I thank you for keeping this topic active on Bantaba in Cyberspace.
Thanks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27774233
http://wwwnews.live.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29519704 |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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sab
United Kingdom
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Posted - 21 Jan 2015 : 22:39:15
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https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=397&language_id=ENG
Sierra Leone
Total: 10,384 clinical cases as of 20 January
Confirmed: 7,923 | Probable: 287 | Suspected: 2,174
Deaths: 3,154 (2,788 confirmed)
(Source: Ministry of Health 20 January) |
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 - 24 Jan 2015 : 16:10:11
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This information has not received as high a priority as I would have expected people should be made more aware by the media.
"Lactating mothers infected with Ebola virus: EBOV RT-PCR of blood only may be insufficient "
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=21017 |
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sab
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25 Jan 2015 : 02:30:04
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Very interesting article....an amazing unstable, challenging virus.
Data on how long infective EBOV can be present in other body fluids such as saliva, tears, urine, stool, breast milk, vaginal and amniotic fluid and seminal fluids, are still limited [4]. We do know that in the 36-year-old patient with EVD who was evacuated in August 2014 to an isolation facility in Hamburg, Germany, infective EBOV was still isolated from urine samples on day 26 of his illness, nine days after the clearance of EBOV from plasma [3]. We also know that EBOV can be isolated from convalescent patients in semen up to 82 days after disease onset [6]. However, in a study by Bausch et al., EBOV could not be cultured from the urine in 11 cases, but this might have been caused by virus degradation from breaks in the cold chain during sample collection, storage and shipping [4].
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