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Posted: August 28 2014 at 5:56pm |
Ebola spreads to Nigeria oil hub Port HarcourtNigeria has confirmed its first Ebola death outside Lagos – a doctor in the oil hub of Port Harcourt. His wife has been put under quarantine, while a further 70 people in the city are under surveillance. Latest figures show more than 1,550 people have died of Ebola, with at least 3,000 confirmed cases - mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the total number of cases could potentially exceed 20,000. In http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/131596/1/EbolaResponseRoad.pdf?ua=1 - an action plan to deal with the outbreak, the WHO said that "the actual number of cases may be 2-4 fold higher than that currently reported" in some areas. Speaking to reporters, the WHO assistant director-general, Bruce Aylward, said the possibility of 20,000 cases "is a scale that I think has not ever been anticipated in terms of an Ebola outbreak". He added: "That's not saying we expect 20,000... but we have got to have a system in place that we can deal with robust numbers.'' This unprecedented outbreak is currently out of control as medical agencies struggle to cope with the increasing number of cases on the ground and continue to face hostility from communities in certain affected areas, the BBC's West Africa correspondent Thomas Fessy reports. Before any results are seen on the ground, the number of infected people will probably continue to grow given that most treatment centres are already operating at full capacity, our correspondent adds. Vaccine trialWest Africa's health ministers are meeting in Ghana to discuss how to tackle the world's most deadly Ebola outbreak. Meanwhile, an international health consortium says that a trial vaccine against Ebola could be given to healthy volunteers in the UK in September, followed by trials in The Gambia and Mali. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28966258 |
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Rivers confirms case of Ebola death in PH
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BY JIMITOTA ONOYUMEPORT HARCOURT: RIVERS state government has confirmed the death of a medical doctor from Ebola virus. Commissioner of Health, Dr Sampson Parker who broke the news Thursday in Port Harcourt said the late Dr Iyke Sam Enemuo died Friday last week from suspected Ebola virus, adding that a test on his corpse released yesterday confirmed that the deceased died from the virus. He said the late Enemuo met a staff of Economic Community of West African states, Ecowas at a hotel in Port Harcourt, noting that the ECOWAS staff was on the team of those that received the index case, late Patrick. According to the Commissioner of Health, one week after the ECOWAS staff left Port Harcourt the late Dr Enemuo took ill and was admitted in a hospital. The Commissioner, Dr Parker said the wife of late Dr Enemuo who is also a doctor had fallen sick and had been quarantined, adding that about 100 persons who had primary or secondary contact with the late Dr Enemuo had been placed on watchlist. While appealing to residents of the state not to panic the Commissioner, Dr Parkar said adequate measures were in place to check the spread of the disease. His words,: “My friends, brothers and sisters. The Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has directed me to make this solemn announcement to you. And it is with a heavy heart that I announce to you that the ebola virus has claimed its first victim in Rivers State. Dr. Iyke Sam Enemuo died last week Friday, August 22, 2014 as a result of what was suspected to be ebola virus disease. The Rivers State Ministry of Health on becoming aware of the conditions of his death, immediately commenced investigations and contact tracing. As at today, about one hundred contacts from a hotel, patients of Dr. Enemuo and patients of the hospital where the late Enemuo was treated until his demise have been identified and restricted in Rivers State. The locations are being decontaminated. I had promised to be open and candid with the public on our efforts to tackle the ebola virus. From our investigations some facts have emerged. A staff of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on the team that received late Dr. Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian American diplomat who died of ebola haemorrhagic disease in Lagos, Nigeria made a trip to Port Harcourt where he checked into a hotel and met with Dr. Iyke Sam Enemuo. About a week after his departure, Dr. Iyke Enemuo took ill and was rushed to a hospital where he presented with symptoms of fever, diarrhea and vomiting. In the course of treatment, the managing physician became suspicious and took samples for investigation. A few days after, Dr. Iyke Enemuo died on August 22, 2014. His body was deposited at a mortuary in Port Harcourt. Dr. Iyke Enemuo’s widow, who is also a medical doctor and who cared for him during his illness has taken ill. She is being quarantined. A few hours ago, results of the test carried out on samples taken from Dr. Enemuo came back and was positive of Ebola Viral disease. The diplomat who was seen by late Dr. Iyke Enemuo is alive and well. I urge every Rivers State citizen and resident to remain calm and go about their normal businesses. Wash your hands regularly with soap and water and avoid unnecessary body contacts till further notice. The Government of Rivers State is doing everything possible to contain the effects and spread of the ebola virus. We have all the material and human resources we need to fight and defeat the deadly virus. Officials of the Federal Ministry of Health and other international agencies are already here working with the state ministry of health. Together, I believe we can contain the ebola virus. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/rivers-confirms-one-case-ebola-death-ph/ |
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Two Ebola Cases Confirmed in Port Harcourt – Minister
SAN FRANCISCO, August 28, (THEWILL) - Nigeria's Health Minister,
Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has announced two new cases of the deadly
Ebola disease in Port Harcourt, River State.
He named a physician, Dr. Ikechukwu Sam Enemuo, who was killed by the disease as one of the victims. Dr. Enemoah is believed to have treated a diplomat that had direct contact with the Liberian-American man, Patrick Sawyer that brought the disease to Nigeria. The diplomat, according to the Minister is not symptomatic but has been placed under surveillance. http://www.thenigerianvoice.comews/156241/1/two-ebola-cases-confirmed-in--harcourt-ministe. - http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news...t-ministe.html |
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How Diplomat Secretly Exported Ebola to Port Harcourt
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Posted under: http://thestreetjournal.org/category/recent-news/ - Recent News Facts have emerged on how a Nigerian diplomat infected a
medical doctor with the deadly Ebola Virus just as health authorities
announced that it had been effectively controlled in Lagos. |
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If there were well over 200 contacts already, I don't know just how the CDC believes that our hospitals can contain Ebola once it reaches the U.S.
Our healthcare workers would think someone had the flu and not know anything different and so it will spread. They need to lock down those countries so it can burn itself out. That won't happen as long as people can cross borders or fly out of there. This is a classic case of how a doctor will contract the disease and spread it himself. It is only a matter of time before it is here in the U.S., perhaps months. |
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