EBOLA MAIN EBOLA DISCUSSION THREAD 11/01/14 to 11/15/14
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Tom McDowell
BAMN
Mali quarantines dozens after Ebola kills second victim
Reuters
By Joe Penney 6 minutes ago
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Authorities in Mali quarantined dozens of people on Wednesday at the home of a 25-year-old nurse who died from Ebola in the capital, Bamako, and at the clinic where he treated an imam from Guinea who died with Ebola-like symptoms.
The imam from the border town of Kouremale was never tested for the disease and his body was washed in Mali and returned to Guinea for burial without precautions against the virus.
Two aid workers said that another person who lived in the house where the imam stayed in Bamako had died this week and was buried without being tested.
A doctor at the Pasteur Clinic where the nurse worked - one of Bamako's top medical centres - is also suspected to have contracted Ebola.
Mali, the sixth West African nation to record Ebola, must now trace a new batch of contacts just as people linked to its first and only other case - a two-year-old girl who died last month - completed their 21-day quarantine on Tuesday.
Concern is growing at the time it took between the imam dying and the steps needed to contain the deadly disease being put in place. Dr. Samba Sow, head of Mali's Ebola response, said the imam died on Oct. 27, two days after going to the clinic.
"This case shows the lack of training of doctors in Bamako. This training should have been done six months ago," one aid worker told Reuters, asking not to be named.
The government said in a statement on Wednesday that the nurse was confirmed to have Ebola on Tuesday and died later that evening. All necessary steps to identify people who had come into contact with the nurse had been taken, it said.
Ousmane Doumbia, secretary general of the health ministry, said 70 people had been quarantined. The Pasteur Clinic was locked down by police on Tuesday night.
Mali shares an 800 km (500 mile) border with Guinea, which alongside Liberia and Sierra Leone, has been worst affected by an outbreak that has killed nearly 5,000 people this year. The two-year-old girl had also brought Ebola to Mali from Guinea.
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Reuters
By Joe Penney 6 minutes ago
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Authorities in Mali quarantined dozens of people on Wednesday at the home of a 25-year-old nurse who died from Ebola in the capital, Bamako, and at the clinic where he treated an imam from Guinea who died with Ebola-like symptoms.
The imam from the border town of Kouremale was never tested for the disease and his body was washed in Mali and returned to Guinea for burial without precautions against the virus.
Two aid workers said that another person who lived in the house where the imam stayed in Bamako had died this week and was buried without being tested.
A doctor at the Pasteur Clinic where the nurse worked - one of Bamako's top medical centres - is also suspected to have contracted Ebola.
Mali, the sixth West African nation to record Ebola, must now trace a new batch of contacts just as people linked to its first and only other case - a two-year-old girl who died last month - completed their 21-day quarantine on Tuesday.
Concern is growing at the time it took between the imam dying and the steps needed to contain the deadly disease being put in place. Dr. Samba Sow, head of Mali's Ebola response, said the imam died on Oct. 27, two days after going to the clinic.
"This case shows the lack of training of doctors in Bamako. This training should have been done six months ago," one aid worker told Reuters, asking not to be named.
The government said in a statement on Wednesday that the nurse was confirmed to have Ebola on Tuesday and died later that evening. All necessary steps to identify people who had come into contact with the nurse had been taken, it said.
Ousmane Doumbia, secretary general of the health ministry, said 70 people had been quarantined. The Pasteur Clinic was locked down by police on Tuesday night.
Mali shares an 800 km (500 mile) border with Guinea, which alongside Liberia and Sierra Leone, has been worst affected by an outbreak that has killed nearly 5,000 people this year. The two-year-old girl had also brought Ebola to Mali from Guinea.
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Tom McDowell
BAMN
'Every one of these children is a ticking Ebola timebomb'
EXCLUSIVE - 'Every one of these children is a ticking Ebola timebomb': Brutal truth of epidemic in Liberian slum where footballer George Weah grew up as number of orphans 'hits 12,000'
By Gethin Chamberlain In Monrovia For Mailonline
Published: 07:17 EST, 11 November 2014 | Updated: 10:03 EST, 11 November 2014
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Three-year-old Emmanuel Thompson appears first, peering through the doorway of the house in the Clara Town slum. Then tiny Mercy McGill, trots out, and soon there are 10 children running around, shrieking, laughing, looking incredibly cute... and potentially carrying deadly Ebola.
For every one of these children has emerged from the house of a man who bled to death just two days ago from the terrifying virus. Each one of their smiling, innocent faces is a ticking Ebola timebomb - but for all the claims that the disease is under control in Liberia, no one in authority has done anything to monitor or check them.
This is the brutal truth about the outbreak that has ravaged West Africa and reached the U.S., Spain, Germany, and the U.K: not only are huge numbers of carriers simply 'disappearing' from official figures, but the number of children left orphaned is at least three times the size of existing estimates.
James Dorbor Jallah, one of the most senior figures in charge of Liberia's fight against Ebola, told MailOnline that his country alone has probably 12,000 children who have lost their parents to the virus, not the 3,600 currently feared.
Ebola risk but no monitoring: Outside a shack in the Clara Town slum in Monrovia, Liberia, children who live in the same house as a man who bled to death two days ago are not being checked. From back row, left to right, Blessing, age five; Mariana, age nine; Ollesko, age 10; Fatumata, age seven; Joseph, age five. Centre: Blessing, age seven. Front row, left to right.Thelemon, age three; Emmanuel, age three; Merry, age three; Prince, age four
'It is a huge number. It pains my heart every time I think about them. Even if Ebola were to end tomorrow we would have that magnitude of children whose future is totally in limbo. It is heartburning.'
He admitted that despite claims the virus has plateaued, in 80 per cent of the country they are not in control and that incidents like the ten children in . 'It is very scary... People are moving freely, people who should be in quarantine, some people are under observations and then they disappear…and nobody knows where they've gone to.'
His department is recording 100 new Ebola cases every day.
Even in the Clara Town slum, in the heart of the capital, lapses are obvious. I watch as the ten children run from the 'Ebola house' and mingle freely with the dozens outside - ignoring the chlorine-washing prescribed.
Yards down the street, at a water pump, residents take it in turns to push down on the handle, no-one bothering to disinfect it or themselves, happily sharing jokes, no-one worrying about bodily contact. It doesn't look like an area in lockdown.
Liberia is the country hardest hit by Ebola, which has already killed more than 5,000 people in the latest outbreak. When the World Health Organisation announced last week that there had been a drop in new infections, few regarded it as anything other than a temporary respite.
It is easy to see why.
Katumu Thompson, 31, sits with her son Emmanuel on her knee in front of the house by the roadside in Clara Town, selling bottles of water to passers by.
There are ten rooms in the house, she says, and in them live 10 families - including her own - with between them at least 10 children. Living in one of the rooms was Selekee Konneh, 33, who had recently arrived from Guinea, another Ebola hotspot.
At first he was fine, then he fell sick. Two days ago, she says, an ambulance arrived to take him away. People in protective clothing hosed down the room and closed the door, and then they left.
Later, they learned that he had tested positive for Ebola. The treatment centre that admitted him will have filed a report to the ministry of health about where he lived and what should then have happened was that everyone was placed in quarantine for 21 days to prevent the spread of the disease.
But there are not enough people to follow up such reports, so everyone simply carried on as if nothing had happened. Katumu could already be incubating Ebola - but no one is keeping track.
'Of course I am worried,' says Katumu. 'But we cannot be afraid and we believe that we cannot contract Ebola. I cannot see Ebola, only God. God can protect us.'
I am afraid. I know that coming across any group of people I may contract the virus
Another local resident, student Charlotte Msaye, 29, says that after an initial panic when the outbreak first swept through Monrovia, people have become complacent and will not to listen to the safety advice.
'But other people are stubborn and if you stay indoors you can't get food to eat. They have no alternative - they are getting on with living their lives.'
Clara Town, birthplace of Liberian football star turned politician George Weah, is one of the slums where thousands of orphans have been left behind when the virus took the lives of their parents.
A hundred yards further down the road from Datum's house, Abdullah Moore sits with his six year old sister Christiana and brother Abraham, 12, in the shelter of the tin roof of the shanty that is now their home.
Ebola killed their mother, 36-year-old Bendu Moore, and father Fred, a taxi driver, in the space of a couple of weeks.
'She made us happy and she gave us gifts and we loved her,' says Christiana, looking at a picture of her mother.
Their father fell ill first. But instead of visiting a treatment centre he insisted on putting his faith in a traditional healer who prescribed herbs and leaves. He died shortly afterwards.
A couple of weeks later, their mother also began to show symptoms of the disease.
'When she fell ill we thought we would not see her again,' he said.
'We were isolated from her. One morning at 3am a neighbour went to check on her and when she knocked the door she was dead.'
The children are staying with an aunt. They say they have received no assistance from the authorities.
On the other side of the mud street, sisters Jebeh Maccy, 17, Angel, 7 and Miatta, 9, also find themselves relying on the kindness of relatives after their mother, 59-year-old Wokie Kabba, died from Ebola. Their father has been missing since the outbreak of the country's civil war.
Wokie sold food in the market, says Jebeh, but wanted more for her children: 'She always encouraged me to go to school,' she says. 'She made me happy.'
When she fell ill, she was taken to a hospital.
'Initially she didn't know it was Ebola. She had a fever and a headache and after that they transferred her to an Ebola treatment centre. We didn't see her alive again.'
There was no funeral. Bodies are simply taken away and burned immediately because they are most contagious at the time of death.
Without Wokie, the girls' live have fallen apart.
'I used to go to school but we won't be able to afford to now,' says Jebeh.
'I want to become a doctor because my mother died because of poor health care. If she had received better care she may have lived. I want to save the lives of other children.'
Jallah, deputy head of the country's incident management team, which is leading the fight against Ebola, sits in the National Ebola Command Centre in Monrovia, surrounded by international aid workers and Liberian staff holding meetings and typing away at computers.
He gets angry when asked to explain why no-one is going to places like Clara Town to follow up reported outbreaks or caring for the orphans.
'This is a global problem,' he says. 'We don't have the resources and capacity to deploy the number of people required. We need 32,000 people. We have 3,000.'
'Maybe the global community needs to answer why it is not happening. We are trying to meet the challenge but this is not a Liberian crisis, it is a global crisis. That's the fault of the global community. This is a problem for the entire world. We are still in a crisis. Ebola is not finished yet.'
'In some places we can move people but the further away it is the more difficult it is to bring patients in,' he says. 'It is a very tough challenge. It is a calamity.'
He criticises the international community for only taking Ebola seriously when they were affected.
'Sometimes one gets the feeling that what sparked off their response was because everyone all of a sudden realised … that the outbreak of Ebola in this region was actually a threat to their own nationals and their citizens, which to me appears to be self-serving.'
It is up to the international aid organisations to step up and help, he says.
'The agencies need to raise their game. They only way we can turn the virus round is to break the transmission. Until you do that this virus is going to be a problem in this region.'
Jallah says it is unfortunate that much of the current international aid spending is now focussed on building treatment units when money is needed for more urgent work. What is needed, he says, is funding for teams of people - known as contact tracers - to follow up on reported cases such as the one in Clara Town.
Inside the MSF treatment centre in Monrovia, where staff in protective suits tend to the sick and dying, spokesman Fernando Calero picks up a form which staff fill in when a new patient arrives, listing who they contact. The forms are sent to the health ministry, but that's where MSF's involvement ends.
Calero is frustrated. The money is going to the wrong places, he says. No-one wants to step forward to take charge of something as basic as tracing those who have come into contact with people who have tested positive for the disease.
'Everyone is raising money for treatment centres,' he says. 'We don't need treatment centres but they all want to build them because they want the biggest one. But there are a lot of other things to do and they should readapt.'
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EXCLUSIVE - 'Every one of these children is a ticking Ebola timebomb': Brutal truth of epidemic in Liberian slum where footballer George Weah grew up as number of orphans 'hits 12,000'
By Gethin Chamberlain In Monrovia For Mailonline
Published: 07:17 EST, 11 November 2014 | Updated: 10:03 EST, 11 November 2014
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Three-year-old Emmanuel Thompson appears first, peering through the doorway of the house in the Clara Town slum. Then tiny Mercy McGill, trots out, and soon there are 10 children running around, shrieking, laughing, looking incredibly cute... and potentially carrying deadly Ebola.
For every one of these children has emerged from the house of a man who bled to death just two days ago from the terrifying virus. Each one of their smiling, innocent faces is a ticking Ebola timebomb - but for all the claims that the disease is under control in Liberia, no one in authority has done anything to monitor or check them.
This is the brutal truth about the outbreak that has ravaged West Africa and reached the U.S., Spain, Germany, and the U.K: not only are huge numbers of carriers simply 'disappearing' from official figures, but the number of children left orphaned is at least three times the size of existing estimates.
James Dorbor Jallah, one of the most senior figures in charge of Liberia's fight against Ebola, told MailOnline that his country alone has probably 12,000 children who have lost their parents to the virus, not the 3,600 currently feared.
Ebola risk but no monitoring: Outside a shack in the Clara Town slum in Monrovia, Liberia, children who live in the same house as a man who bled to death two days ago are not being checked. From back row, left to right, Blessing, age five; Mariana, age nine; Ollesko, age 10; Fatumata, age seven; Joseph, age five. Centre: Blessing, age seven. Front row, left to right.Thelemon, age three; Emmanuel, age three; Merry, age three; Prince, age four
'It is a huge number. It pains my heart every time I think about them. Even if Ebola were to end tomorrow we would have that magnitude of children whose future is totally in limbo. It is heartburning.'
He admitted that despite claims the virus has plateaued, in 80 per cent of the country they are not in control and that incidents like the ten children in . 'It is very scary... People are moving freely, people who should be in quarantine, some people are under observations and then they disappear…and nobody knows where they've gone to.'
His department is recording 100 new Ebola cases every day.
Even in the Clara Town slum, in the heart of the capital, lapses are obvious. I watch as the ten children run from the 'Ebola house' and mingle freely with the dozens outside - ignoring the chlorine-washing prescribed.
Yards down the street, at a water pump, residents take it in turns to push down on the handle, no-one bothering to disinfect it or themselves, happily sharing jokes, no-one worrying about bodily contact. It doesn't look like an area in lockdown.
Liberia is the country hardest hit by Ebola, which has already killed more than 5,000 people in the latest outbreak. When the World Health Organisation announced last week that there had been a drop in new infections, few regarded it as anything other than a temporary respite.
It is easy to see why.
Katumu Thompson, 31, sits with her son Emmanuel on her knee in front of the house by the roadside in Clara Town, selling bottles of water to passers by.
There are ten rooms in the house, she says, and in them live 10 families - including her own - with between them at least 10 children. Living in one of the rooms was Selekee Konneh, 33, who had recently arrived from Guinea, another Ebola hotspot.
At first he was fine, then he fell sick. Two days ago, she says, an ambulance arrived to take him away. People in protective clothing hosed down the room and closed the door, and then they left.
Later, they learned that he had tested positive for Ebola. The treatment centre that admitted him will have filed a report to the ministry of health about where he lived and what should then have happened was that everyone was placed in quarantine for 21 days to prevent the spread of the disease.
But there are not enough people to follow up such reports, so everyone simply carried on as if nothing had happened. Katumu could already be incubating Ebola - but no one is keeping track.
'Of course I am worried,' says Katumu. 'But we cannot be afraid and we believe that we cannot contract Ebola. I cannot see Ebola, only God. God can protect us.'
I am afraid. I know that coming across any group of people I may contract the virus
Another local resident, student Charlotte Msaye, 29, says that after an initial panic when the outbreak first swept through Monrovia, people have become complacent and will not to listen to the safety advice.
'But other people are stubborn and if you stay indoors you can't get food to eat. They have no alternative - they are getting on with living their lives.'
Clara Town, birthplace of Liberian football star turned politician George Weah, is one of the slums where thousands of orphans have been left behind when the virus took the lives of their parents.
A hundred yards further down the road from Datum's house, Abdullah Moore sits with his six year old sister Christiana and brother Abraham, 12, in the shelter of the tin roof of the shanty that is now their home.
Ebola killed their mother, 36-year-old Bendu Moore, and father Fred, a taxi driver, in the space of a couple of weeks.
'She made us happy and she gave us gifts and we loved her,' says Christiana, looking at a picture of her mother.
Their father fell ill first. But instead of visiting a treatment centre he insisted on putting his faith in a traditional healer who prescribed herbs and leaves. He died shortly afterwards.
A couple of weeks later, their mother also began to show symptoms of the disease.
'When she fell ill we thought we would not see her again,' he said.
'We were isolated from her. One morning at 3am a neighbour went to check on her and when she knocked the door she was dead.'
The children are staying with an aunt. They say they have received no assistance from the authorities.
On the other side of the mud street, sisters Jebeh Maccy, 17, Angel, 7 and Miatta, 9, also find themselves relying on the kindness of relatives after their mother, 59-year-old Wokie Kabba, died from Ebola. Their father has been missing since the outbreak of the country's civil war.
Wokie sold food in the market, says Jebeh, but wanted more for her children: 'She always encouraged me to go to school,' she says. 'She made me happy.'
When she fell ill, she was taken to a hospital.
'Initially she didn't know it was Ebola. She had a fever and a headache and after that they transferred her to an Ebola treatment centre. We didn't see her alive again.'
There was no funeral. Bodies are simply taken away and burned immediately because they are most contagious at the time of death.
Without Wokie, the girls' live have fallen apart.
'I used to go to school but we won't be able to afford to now,' says Jebeh.
'I want to become a doctor because my mother died because of poor health care. If she had received better care she may have lived. I want to save the lives of other children.'
Jallah, deputy head of the country's incident management team, which is leading the fight against Ebola, sits in the National Ebola Command Centre in Monrovia, surrounded by international aid workers and Liberian staff holding meetings and typing away at computers.
He gets angry when asked to explain why no-one is going to places like Clara Town to follow up reported outbreaks or caring for the orphans.
'This is a global problem,' he says. 'We don't have the resources and capacity to deploy the number of people required. We need 32,000 people. We have 3,000.'
'Maybe the global community needs to answer why it is not happening. We are trying to meet the challenge but this is not a Liberian crisis, it is a global crisis. That's the fault of the global community. This is a problem for the entire world. We are still in a crisis. Ebola is not finished yet.'
'In some places we can move people but the further away it is the more difficult it is to bring patients in,' he says. 'It is a very tough challenge. It is a calamity.'
He criticises the international community for only taking Ebola seriously when they were affected.
'Sometimes one gets the feeling that what sparked off their response was because everyone all of a sudden realised … that the outbreak of Ebola in this region was actually a threat to their own nationals and their citizens, which to me appears to be self-serving.'
It is up to the international aid organisations to step up and help, he says.
'The agencies need to raise their game. They only way we can turn the virus round is to break the transmission. Until you do that this virus is going to be a problem in this region.'
Jallah says it is unfortunate that much of the current international aid spending is now focussed on building treatment units when money is needed for more urgent work. What is needed, he says, is funding for teams of people - known as contact tracers - to follow up on reported cases such as the one in Clara Town.
Inside the MSF treatment centre in Monrovia, where staff in protective suits tend to the sick and dying, spokesman Fernando Calero picks up a form which staff fill in when a new patient arrives, listing who they contact. The forms are sent to the health ministry, but that's where MSF's involvement ends.
Calero is frustrated. The money is going to the wrong places, he says. No-one wants to step forward to take charge of something as basic as tracing those who have come into contact with people who have tested positive for the disease.
'Everyone is raising money for treatment centres,' he says. 'We don't need treatment centres but they all want to build them because they want the biggest one. But there are a lot of other things to do and they should readapt.'
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20141112/af-ebola-west-africa-6535ccd365.html
Mali reports 2 new Ebola deaths in capital
Nov 12, 7:01 AM (ET)
By BABA AHMED
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian authorities on Wednesday reported two new deaths from Ebola that are not believed to be linked to the nation's only other known case, an alarming setback as Mali tries to limit the epidemic ravaging other countries in the region.
The announcement in this city of about 2 million came just a day after Malian health authorities said there had been no other reported cases — let alone deaths — after a 2-year-old girl who had traveled to Mali from Guinea succumbed to the virus in late October.
A nurse working at a clinic in the capital of Bamako died Tuesday, and tests later showed she had Ebola, Communications Minister Mahamadou Camara said Wednesday. A patient she had treated died on Monday and was later confirmed to have had the disease as well.
The patient — a Guinean national — came to the Clinique Pasteur on Oct. 25 late at night and was so ill he could not speak or give information about his symptoms, said the head of the clinic.
"His family did not give us all the information that would have led us to suspect Ebola," Dramane Maiga told The Associated Press.
Government health officials were slow to act, Maiga said. The nurse was hospitalized on Saturday and hospital officials did not call the health ministry until Monday morning. Health officials did not arrive at the clinic until 6 p.m. and by the time the test results came back, the 25-year-old nurse was already dead, said Maiga.
The new Ebola cases come just as public health officials started to think Mali had avoided the worst. The cases are stark reminders that the disease is hard to track and the entire West Africa region remains vulnerable as long as there are cases anywhere.
Nearly 5,000 people have died this year in the region from the virus, which first erupted in Guinea, on Mali's border.
Mali's first case initially caused alarm because officials said the toddler was bleeding from her nose as she traveled with relatives by public transport from Guinea to Mali, passing through Bamako and other towns en route to the western city of Kayes, where she died. Ebola is transmitted through the bodily fluids of people who are showing symptoms, which include bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea.
On Tuesday, officials said nearly 30 members of a family that was visited by the sick 2-year-old girl have been released from a 21-day quarantine after they showed no symptoms of the disease. Ebola can take up to 21 days to incubate.
About 50 other people who had possible contact with the girl remain under observation in Kayes, 375 miles (600 kilometers) from Bamako. They will be released from quarantine on Nov. 16 if they don't show symptoms.
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Mali reports 2 new Ebola deaths in capital
Nov 12, 7:01 AM (ET)
By BABA AHMED
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian authorities on Wednesday reported two new deaths from Ebola that are not believed to be linked to the nation's only other known case, an alarming setback as Mali tries to limit the epidemic ravaging other countries in the region.
The announcement in this city of about 2 million came just a day after Malian health authorities said there had been no other reported cases — let alone deaths — after a 2-year-old girl who had traveled to Mali from Guinea succumbed to the virus in late October.
A nurse working at a clinic in the capital of Bamako died Tuesday, and tests later showed she had Ebola, Communications Minister Mahamadou Camara said Wednesday. A patient she had treated died on Monday and was later confirmed to have had the disease as well.
The patient — a Guinean national — came to the Clinique Pasteur on Oct. 25 late at night and was so ill he could not speak or give information about his symptoms, said the head of the clinic.
"His family did not give us all the information that would have led us to suspect Ebola," Dramane Maiga told The Associated Press.
Government health officials were slow to act, Maiga said. The nurse was hospitalized on Saturday and hospital officials did not call the health ministry until Monday morning. Health officials did not arrive at the clinic until 6 p.m. and by the time the test results came back, the 25-year-old nurse was already dead, said Maiga.
The new Ebola cases come just as public health officials started to think Mali had avoided the worst. The cases are stark reminders that the disease is hard to track and the entire West Africa region remains vulnerable as long as there are cases anywhere.
Nearly 5,000 people have died this year in the region from the virus, which first erupted in Guinea, on Mali's border.
Mali's first case initially caused alarm because officials said the toddler was bleeding from her nose as she traveled with relatives by public transport from Guinea to Mali, passing through Bamako and other towns en route to the western city of Kayes, where she died. Ebola is transmitted through the bodily fluids of people who are showing symptoms, which include bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea.
On Tuesday, officials said nearly 30 members of a family that was visited by the sick 2-year-old girl have been released from a 21-day quarantine after they showed no symptoms of the disease. Ebola can take up to 21 days to incubate.
About 50 other people who had possible contact with the girl remain under observation in Kayes, 375 miles (600 kilometers) from Bamako. They will be released from quarantine on Nov. 16 if they don't show symptoms.
Good video tutorial by MSF on the proper way to put on and take off PPE
http://ecampus.msf.org/public_area/ebola/chapter8/story.html
http://ecampus.msf.org/public_area/ebola/chapter8/story.html
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All that in Mali over ONE child, and people claim panic on response on this. I can only imagine what ONE child could do in a US metro area.
I was reading recently, one of the nurses that was infected from Duncan, said she remembered (after recovering) she touched her face with a gloved hand during a procedure. That's ALL IT TOOK to infect her.
IMO, I think we are still getting cases, but being kept on the QT, wait until Obama opens the door fully.
I was reading recently, one of the nurses that was infected from Duncan, said she remembered (after recovering) she touched her face with a gloved hand during a procedure. That's ALL IT TOOK to infect her.
IMO, I think we are still getting cases, but being kept on the QT, wait until Obama opens the door fully.
Not sure if this is the appropriate way and place to post this, so if not call me out on this. Found it interesting that I got an email from my medical records type of account telling me I had a message. I checked it out and it was a link to a poster put out by cdc titled "is it flu or ebola". Intersting that the health system is sending this out. http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/is-it-flu-or-ebola.pdf
Here is some news which we all were thinking was happening when we were wondering why we haven't heard from the Duncan's relatives... obviously a result of the gag order from the settlement...
http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-victims-family-agreement-hospital-160714403.html
DALLAS (AP) — The hospital that treated the only Ebola patient to die in the United States will pay his relatives an undisclosed sum and create a charitable foundation in his name, the family's attorney said Wednesday.
The agreement heads off a lawsuit from relatives of Thomas Eric Duncan, who died Oct. 8 at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
Duncan, who arrived in North Texas from Liberia on Sept. 20, was initially sent away from the hospital's emergency room with antibiotics, something Presbyterian administrators have acknowledged was a mistake. He returned to the hospital in an ambulance two days after his release and was quickly diagnosed with possible signs of Ebola, which has killed more than 5,000 people in West Africa.
Attorney Les Weisbrod declined to say at a news conference how much money the family would receive but said the settlement was a "very good deal" that would provide for Duncan's parents and his four children. Weisbrod also said Presbyterian hospital was not charging Duncan's family for his medical treatment. The foundation will assist efforts to fight Ebola in Liberia, he said.
Duncan's nephew, Josephus Weeks, has previously been critical of the care Duncan received, saying his death was partly due to his race, nationality and lack of insurance. But on Wednesday, he credited Presbyterian's officials for moving quickly to settle the case and acknowledge mistakes.
Weeks said he will be "the face of the foundation," which he hopes will lead to a new hospital or the dedication of a hospital wing in Liberia.
"The main focus is that Eric's name is on something and everybody knows that he didn't die in vain," Weeks told The Associated Press.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas confirmed the creation of the foundation in a statement and said it has "amicably addressed all matters" with Duncan's family.
The hospital has apologized for releasing Duncan the first time, and after initially denying he had told them he was from West Africa, they acknowledged key caregivers missed his travel history in their record system.
Duncan's sister, Mai Wureh, said that the hospital had satisfied her request for the remainder of her brother's medical records, including lab results of his treatment with the experimental drug brincidofovir.
Wureh also said she and Weeks met Wednesday morning with John Mulligan, the nurse who administered the drug.
"He gave me closure because he was the last one in that room. He was able to talk to him, comfort him. He held onto him, and that made me feel better. At least he didn't die alone," Wureh told AP.
Louise Troh, Duncan's fiancee, will not receive anything in the settlement, Weisbrod said.
Duncan's family would have faced a very high bar had they filed a lawsuit against Presbyterian hospital. Texas medical malpractice law places a $250,000 limit on noneconomic damages related to pain and suffering in almost all cases.
It also gives extra protection to emergency room doctors and nurses. Instead of just proving that Duncan's doctors were negligent in his care, Duncan's family would have to prove that any negligence was "willful and wanton" — essentially, that doctors knew they were causing harm.
A quick resolution to Duncan's case also benefits parent company Texas Health Resources, which faced weeks of negative publicity over its handling of the case and saw patient visits plummet immediately afterward.
Two Presbyterian nurses were infected during Duncan's care; both have recovered. More than 100 people who had contact with Duncan and the two nurses have been cleared after 21 days of monitoring for Ebola symptoms.
http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-victims-family-agreement-hospital-160714403.html
DALLAS (AP) — The hospital that treated the only Ebola patient to die in the United States will pay his relatives an undisclosed sum and create a charitable foundation in his name, the family's attorney said Wednesday.
The agreement heads off a lawsuit from relatives of Thomas Eric Duncan, who died Oct. 8 at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
Duncan, who arrived in North Texas from Liberia on Sept. 20, was initially sent away from the hospital's emergency room with antibiotics, something Presbyterian administrators have acknowledged was a mistake. He returned to the hospital in an ambulance two days after his release and was quickly diagnosed with possible signs of Ebola, which has killed more than 5,000 people in West Africa.
Attorney Les Weisbrod declined to say at a news conference how much money the family would receive but said the settlement was a "very good deal" that would provide for Duncan's parents and his four children. Weisbrod also said Presbyterian hospital was not charging Duncan's family for his medical treatment. The foundation will assist efforts to fight Ebola in Liberia, he said.
Duncan's nephew, Josephus Weeks, has previously been critical of the care Duncan received, saying his death was partly due to his race, nationality and lack of insurance. But on Wednesday, he credited Presbyterian's officials for moving quickly to settle the case and acknowledge mistakes.
Weeks said he will be "the face of the foundation," which he hopes will lead to a new hospital or the dedication of a hospital wing in Liberia.
"The main focus is that Eric's name is on something and everybody knows that he didn't die in vain," Weeks told The Associated Press.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas confirmed the creation of the foundation in a statement and said it has "amicably addressed all matters" with Duncan's family.
The hospital has apologized for releasing Duncan the first time, and after initially denying he had told them he was from West Africa, they acknowledged key caregivers missed his travel history in their record system.
Duncan's sister, Mai Wureh, said that the hospital had satisfied her request for the remainder of her brother's medical records, including lab results of his treatment with the experimental drug brincidofovir.
Wureh also said she and Weeks met Wednesday morning with John Mulligan, the nurse who administered the drug.
"He gave me closure because he was the last one in that room. He was able to talk to him, comfort him. He held onto him, and that made me feel better. At least he didn't die alone," Wureh told AP.
Louise Troh, Duncan's fiancee, will not receive anything in the settlement, Weisbrod said.
Duncan's family would have faced a very high bar had they filed a lawsuit against Presbyterian hospital. Texas medical malpractice law places a $250,000 limit on noneconomic damages related to pain and suffering in almost all cases.
It also gives extra protection to emergency room doctors and nurses. Instead of just proving that Duncan's doctors were negligent in his care, Duncan's family would have to prove that any negligence was "willful and wanton" — essentially, that doctors knew they were causing harm.
A quick resolution to Duncan's case also benefits parent company Texas Health Resources, which faced weeks of negative publicity over its handling of the case and saw patient visits plummet immediately afterward.
Two Presbyterian nurses were infected during Duncan's care; both have recovered. More than 100 people who had contact with Duncan and the two nurses have been cleared after 21 days of monitoring for Ebola symptoms.
Doomer Doug
TB Fanatic
Well, now Mali is fully in play in terms of unchecked Ebola cases. It is ironic the government of Mali actually admitted they had any Ebola cases. Guess they aren't using the CDC and Obama tell lies all the time playbook.
Again, Mali is now in play and that means NORTH AFRICA is now in play. Egypt and Cairo, anyone?
Again, Mali is now in play and that means NORTH AFRICA is now in play. Egypt and Cairo, anyone?
Cascadians
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North Carolina isolates U.S. doctor for Ebola watch after Liberia trip
By Colleen Jenkins
WINSTON-SALEM N.C. Mon Nov 10, 2014 5:18pm GMT
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(Reuters) - A missionary doctor deemed to be at "some risk" for developing Ebola after returning from Liberia has been placed under a 21-day quarantine in North Carolina, his mission group and local health officials said on Monday.
Dr. John Fankhauser, 52, has shown no signs of the virus since arriving in Charlotte over the weekend but will be monitored for symptoms during the quarantine period ordered by the Mecklenburg County Health Department, Christian mission group SIM USA said.
This is the second quarantine the family physician from Ventura, California, will spend on SIM's campus in Charlotte, the group said.
In mid-August, he was isolated after returning to the United States from Liberia, where he treated Ebola patients, including two U.S. missionaries who became infected with the disease.
SIM said Fankhauser volunteered to go back to Liberia after another colleague, SIM missionary Dr. Rick Sacra, became ill with the virus. Fankhauser helped treat Sacra and then took over his duties at SIM's hospital outside of Monrovia after Sacra was evacuated to the United States for treatment, the group said.
A patient Fankhauser treated at that hospital while wearing protective gear later was diagnosed with Ebola, SIM said. The group did not say when he treated that patient.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a person who has had close contact with an infectious Ebola patient is considered at "some risk" for getting the disease.
Fankhauser's travel and contact with other people will be restricted during the quarantine, the health department said.
By Colleen Jenkins
WINSTON-SALEM N.C. Mon Nov 10, 2014 5:18pm GMT
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(Reuters) - A missionary doctor deemed to be at "some risk" for developing Ebola after returning from Liberia has been placed under a 21-day quarantine in North Carolina, his mission group and local health officials said on Monday.
Dr. John Fankhauser, 52, has shown no signs of the virus since arriving in Charlotte over the weekend but will be monitored for symptoms during the quarantine period ordered by the Mecklenburg County Health Department, Christian mission group SIM USA said.
This is the second quarantine the family physician from Ventura, California, will spend on SIM's campus in Charlotte, the group said.
In mid-August, he was isolated after returning to the United States from Liberia, where he treated Ebola patients, including two U.S. missionaries who became infected with the disease.
SIM said Fankhauser volunteered to go back to Liberia after another colleague, SIM missionary Dr. Rick Sacra, became ill with the virus. Fankhauser helped treat Sacra and then took over his duties at SIM's hospital outside of Monrovia after Sacra was evacuated to the United States for treatment, the group said.
A patient Fankhauser treated at that hospital while wearing protective gear later was diagnosed with Ebola, SIM said. The group did not say when he treated that patient.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a person who has had close contact with an infectious Ebola patient is considered at "some risk" for getting the disease.
Fankhauser's travel and contact with other people will be restricted during the quarantine, the health department said.
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US proposes fiscal Ebola relief
Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone might get $100 million in debt relief
UPDATED 5:02 PM EST Nov 12, 2014
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) —Ebola-stricken Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone might get $100 million in debt relief if the US gets its way.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew suggested in a statement Tuesday that the International Monetary Fund ought to forgive that much for the three countries, whose economies will likely suffer in the virus's wake.
"IMF debt relief will promote economic sustainability in the worst hit countries by freeing up resources for both immediate needs and longer-term recovery efforts," Lew said in a statement. Reuters first reported the proposal Tuesday.
The three countries owe the IMF a collective $336 million. The organization has estimated that Liberia will see its economic growth fall more than 70% this year and Sierra Leone will see its growth fall by 60%. Guinea's growth is expected to increase.
A Treasury spokeswoman said that the IMF could finance such an effort with money from a $268 million-emergency relief fund set up for Haiti after its earthquake. The fund still has $150 million in it, she wrote in an email.
She added that Lew would speak more about the plan at the G-20 Finance Ministers Meeting in Brisbane, Australia next week.
An IMF spokesman said that the organization is preparing a response and declined to comment until then.
Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone might get $100 million in debt relief
UPDATED 5:02 PM EST Nov 12, 2014
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) —Ebola-stricken Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone might get $100 million in debt relief if the US gets its way.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew suggested in a statement Tuesday that the International Monetary Fund ought to forgive that much for the three countries, whose economies will likely suffer in the virus's wake.
"IMF debt relief will promote economic sustainability in the worst hit countries by freeing up resources for both immediate needs and longer-term recovery efforts," Lew said in a statement. Reuters first reported the proposal Tuesday.
The three countries owe the IMF a collective $336 million. The organization has estimated that Liberia will see its economic growth fall more than 70% this year and Sierra Leone will see its growth fall by 60%. Guinea's growth is expected to increase.
A Treasury spokeswoman said that the IMF could finance such an effort with money from a $268 million-emergency relief fund set up for Haiti after its earthquake. The fund still has $150 million in it, she wrote in an email.
She added that Lew would speak more about the plan at the G-20 Finance Ministers Meeting in Brisbane, Australia next week.
An IMF spokesman said that the organization is preparing a response and declined to comment until then.
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Illinois Nurses Demand Tougher Ebola Safety Precautions
By Nesita Kwan
Illinois Nurses Demand Tougher Ebola Safety...
From Hines VA Hospital in Maywood to Stroger Hospital in Chicago, registered nurses in Illinois demanded tougher Ebola safety precautions in the nation's hospitals.
"We feel as though there hasn't been enough training," Stroger nurse Elizabeth Lalasz said.
Illinois was one of 16 states where nurses picketed Wednesday. Hospital officials responded in a statement saying more than 500 employees of the Cook County health system have been trained and that drills are ongoing.
Officials also said an appropriate treatment space has been identified and a team of health care providers were "thoroughly trained" to care for possible Ebola patients.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issues guidelines on precautions but no enforcement.
Jan Rodolfo of National Nurses United said nurses across the nation are worried the lack of enforcement gives hospitals too much leeway about who gets trained, how much training they get and when they get it.
The Chicago area has a group of hospitals designated to manage Ebola, including Rush University Medical Center, which spent almost $1 million to build a bio-containment unit. But the union believes that safety net hospitals like Stroger also are likely to see a patient with Ebola symptoms.
By Nesita Kwan
Illinois Nurses Demand Tougher Ebola Safety...
From Hines VA Hospital in Maywood to Stroger Hospital in Chicago, registered nurses in Illinois demanded tougher Ebola safety precautions in the nation's hospitals.
"We feel as though there hasn't been enough training," Stroger nurse Elizabeth Lalasz said.
Illinois was one of 16 states where nurses picketed Wednesday. Hospital officials responded in a statement saying more than 500 employees of the Cook County health system have been trained and that drills are ongoing.
Officials also said an appropriate treatment space has been identified and a team of health care providers were "thoroughly trained" to care for possible Ebola patients.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issues guidelines on precautions but no enforcement.
Jan Rodolfo of National Nurses United said nurses across the nation are worried the lack of enforcement gives hospitals too much leeway about who gets trained, how much training they get and when they get it.
The Chicago area has a group of hospitals designated to manage Ebola, including Rush University Medical Center, which spent almost $1 million to build a bio-containment unit. But the union believes that safety net hospitals like Stroger also are likely to see a patient with Ebola symptoms.
Plain Jane
Just Plain Jane
I've had my doubts about Mali for a while. I'm looking for Ivory Coast and Senegal next.
bev
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Yes, I understand that she would have no legal standing, Kris. But it just struck me as odd that it was specifically mentioned in the article that she gets nothing.
Tom McDowell
BAMN
Super Spreader Guinea -> Mali
Ebola Kills at Least Two People in Mali, Threatening Spread
By Simeon Bennett Nov 12, 2014 11:12 AM MT
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...a-to-mali-nurse-probably-infected-family.html
Ebola killed at least two more people in Mali and many more may have been infected, threatening to spark an outbreak in a fourth West African nation.
A 25-year-old nurse died from Ebola yesterday at the Pasteur Clinic in Bamako, Mali’s capital, the World Health Organization and Mali health authorities said today. She had treated a 70-year-old grand imam from Guinea, who was hospitalized for kidney failure and wasn’t tested for Ebola.
The man died Oct. 27 and may have infected four family members who drove him to Mali for treatment, as well as a daughter who died two days ago and a friend who visited him at the clinic and “died abruptly of an undiagnosed disease,” according to the WHO. The imam’s body was taken to a mosque in Bamako for ritual washing before being returned to the border village of Kouremale in Guinea for burial, and the WHO said it assumes “many mourners” attended both ceremonies.
“Six months plus into what’s been recognized as a major outbreak, we still have these kinds of behaviors, which are making this an extra-challenging disease to get under control,” Tom Solomon, director of the Institute of Infection and Global Health at the University of Liverpool, said by phone today. “This is why the disease is continuing to spread.”
Almost Free
The death of the nurse at the Mali clinic comes just four days after Doctors Without Borders said it appeared that the country may have prevented the spread of the disease. A diagnosis that the imam’s son has the virus “further increases the likelihood that deaths in other family members were caused by Ebola,” the WHO said.
The man’s first wife died of an undiagnosed disease last week, while his son tested positive for Ebola yesterday and is being treated in Guinea, where the man’s brother and second wife are also “being managed” at an Ebola center. A daughter died two days ago from an undiagnosed illness, and the family declined an offer for a safe burial, the WHO said.
“Intensive contact tracing is under way in both countries,” the agency said, with support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Doctors Without Borders and other groups.
Mali is now monitoring more than 60 people for possible exposure to the virus, including 28 health care workers who are in quarantine at the Pasteur Clinic, Markatie Daou, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, said by phone.
There are 20 United Nations military personnel under quarantine at the same clinic, where they were being treated for injuries sustained on a peacekeeping mission in northern Mali, the organization said today. They work for Minusma, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali. The personnel have shown no signs of Ebola infection, the U.N. said in a statement.
No Signs
The imam from Guinea “was identified at the border but he did not present any sign of temperature or vomiting,” Daou said. Kidney failure is “often seen” in the late stages of Ebola, the WHO said today. Both the imam and the friend who visited him at the clinic are being regarded as probable Ebola cases, though no samples are available for testing, the WHO said. Patients are most infectious in the late stages of the disease and immediately after death.
The clinic in Bamako is a private facility established in 2000, according to its website. It has 32 hospital beds and an emergency room, and offers “innovative and unique care” in areas including internal medicine, surgery, neurology, cardiology and pediatrics. The imam had previously been admitted to two clinics -- one in Guinea and one in Mali, according to the WHO.
Girl’s Death
Mali became the sixth country in West Africa to confirm a case of Ebola last month when a woman brought her infected two-year-old granddaughter from Guinea. The girl died on Oct. 24. The WHO now lists four Ebola deaths in Mali, including the original case. The current cases are unrelated, the WHO said. The agency declares a nation Ebola-free if no new cases have been reported in 42 days, twice the incubation period. Senegal and Nigeria were cleared last month.
Mali, with a population of more than 15 million, was one of four countries that topped a list of nations the WHO said last month were most at risk for the spread of Ebola.
Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since December, making it the worst outbreak since the disease was identified in 1976 in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Outbreak in Mali Eclipses Early Success
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.NOV. 12, 2014
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...a-to-mali-nurse-probably-infected-family.html
The West African nation of Mali, which just beat its first outbreak of Ebola, has confirmed a second one that is larger and more threatening, global health authorities said on Wednesday.
The victim who apparently began the new outbreak was an imam who fell ill in Guinea and traveled to Mali for better treatment at a major private clinic in Bamako, the capital.
The new cases will add to the mounting total of Ebola victims. In its last update on Nov. 5, the World Health Organization said there had been more than 13,000 confirmed or suspected cases in West Africa since the epidemic began. Some 5,000 have died.
The imam died at the Pasteur Clinic in Bamako on Oct. 27. Because of his status, his body was washed at a large mosque and returned to Guinea for burial after a funeral at another mosque.
The Pasteur Clinic failed to diagnose Ebola as the underlying cause of the kidney failure for which it was treating the imam. Kidney failure is a possible complication of late-stage Ebola.
The outbreak was detected only after a nurse at the clinic fell ill and died, and the chief W.H.O. representative in Mali heard from his counterparts in Guinea that members of the imam’s family were dying.
“It was a real failure by the clinic,” the W.H.O. representative, Dr. Ibrahima Soce Fall, said in a telephone interview.
Now the clinic is closed and under quarantine — as are the mosque in Bamako, one or two other Malian clinics where the imam was treated, and the family compound where the nurse lived.
Among the patients quarantined at the clinic are 10 United Nations peacekeepers stationed in Mali who were wounded in fighting in the north.
On Wednesday evening, Malian health authorities confirmed that one of the clinic’s doctors also had Ebola.
The clinic is now surrounded by police officers, with armored vehicles from the United Nations peacekeeping mission nearby.
“Most nurses and doctors had gone home when the clinic was quarantined, and I fear the patients will be left without proper care,” said Dramane Maiga, the clinic’s director.
Health experts are trying to trace everyone with whom the imam, the nurse and others with suspected cases of Ebola came into contact.
The task will be complex because the imam fell ill nearly a month ago, on Oct. 17, in Kourémalé, a town that straddles the Guinea-Mali border. The consequences for Mali were not recognized until Nov. 10, when doctors ordered an Ebola test on the dying Bamako nurse.
So far, 28 workers at the Pasteur Clinic, which is not related to France’s Pasteur Institute or its African offshoots, have been quarantined, as have 50 people who had contact with the nurse.
A friend who visited the imam at the clinic has died of unknown causes and is a suspected case, although no blood samples are available to test, the W.H.O. said.
“We’re still working on the contact tracing,” Dr. Fall said. It is not yet clear how many people may have been exposed.
The mosque connection is worrisome, Dr. Fall added, because it is unclear how many people touched the imam’s body. No one has fallen ill there so far.
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This one is going to be bad!
The body count from the index... six, eight, ten?
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Ebola Kills at Least Two People in Mali, Threatening Spread
By Simeon Bennett Nov 12, 2014 11:12 AM MT
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...a-to-mali-nurse-probably-infected-family.html
Ebola killed at least two more people in Mali and many more may have been infected, threatening to spark an outbreak in a fourth West African nation.
A 25-year-old nurse died from Ebola yesterday at the Pasteur Clinic in Bamako, Mali’s capital, the World Health Organization and Mali health authorities said today. She had treated a 70-year-old grand imam from Guinea, who was hospitalized for kidney failure and wasn’t tested for Ebola.
The man died Oct. 27 and may have infected four family members who drove him to Mali for treatment, as well as a daughter who died two days ago and a friend who visited him at the clinic and “died abruptly of an undiagnosed disease,” according to the WHO. The imam’s body was taken to a mosque in Bamako for ritual washing before being returned to the border village of Kouremale in Guinea for burial, and the WHO said it assumes “many mourners” attended both ceremonies.
“Six months plus into what’s been recognized as a major outbreak, we still have these kinds of behaviors, which are making this an extra-challenging disease to get under control,” Tom Solomon, director of the Institute of Infection and Global Health at the University of Liverpool, said by phone today. “This is why the disease is continuing to spread.”
Almost Free
The death of the nurse at the Mali clinic comes just four days after Doctors Without Borders said it appeared that the country may have prevented the spread of the disease. A diagnosis that the imam’s son has the virus “further increases the likelihood that deaths in other family members were caused by Ebola,” the WHO said.
The man’s first wife died of an undiagnosed disease last week, while his son tested positive for Ebola yesterday and is being treated in Guinea, where the man’s brother and second wife are also “being managed” at an Ebola center. A daughter died two days ago from an undiagnosed illness, and the family declined an offer for a safe burial, the WHO said.
“Intensive contact tracing is under way in both countries,” the agency said, with support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Doctors Without Borders and other groups.
Mali is now monitoring more than 60 people for possible exposure to the virus, including 28 health care workers who are in quarantine at the Pasteur Clinic, Markatie Daou, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, said by phone.
There are 20 United Nations military personnel under quarantine at the same clinic, where they were being treated for injuries sustained on a peacekeeping mission in northern Mali, the organization said today. They work for Minusma, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali. The personnel have shown no signs of Ebola infection, the U.N. said in a statement.
No Signs
The imam from Guinea “was identified at the border but he did not present any sign of temperature or vomiting,” Daou said. Kidney failure is “often seen” in the late stages of Ebola, the WHO said today. Both the imam and the friend who visited him at the clinic are being regarded as probable Ebola cases, though no samples are available for testing, the WHO said. Patients are most infectious in the late stages of the disease and immediately after death.
The clinic in Bamako is a private facility established in 2000, according to its website. It has 32 hospital beds and an emergency room, and offers “innovative and unique care” in areas including internal medicine, surgery, neurology, cardiology and pediatrics. The imam had previously been admitted to two clinics -- one in Guinea and one in Mali, according to the WHO.
Girl’s Death
Mali became the sixth country in West Africa to confirm a case of Ebola last month when a woman brought her infected two-year-old granddaughter from Guinea. The girl died on Oct. 24. The WHO now lists four Ebola deaths in Mali, including the original case. The current cases are unrelated, the WHO said. The agency declares a nation Ebola-free if no new cases have been reported in 42 days, twice the incubation period. Senegal and Nigeria were cleared last month.
Mali, with a population of more than 15 million, was one of four countries that topped a list of nations the WHO said last month were most at risk for the spread of Ebola.
Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since December, making it the worst outbreak since the disease was identified in 1976 in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Outbreak in Mali Eclipses Early Success
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.NOV. 12, 2014
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...a-to-mali-nurse-probably-infected-family.html
The West African nation of Mali, which just beat its first outbreak of Ebola, has confirmed a second one that is larger and more threatening, global health authorities said on Wednesday.
The victim who apparently began the new outbreak was an imam who fell ill in Guinea and traveled to Mali for better treatment at a major private clinic in Bamako, the capital.
The new cases will add to the mounting total of Ebola victims. In its last update on Nov. 5, the World Health Organization said there had been more than 13,000 confirmed or suspected cases in West Africa since the epidemic began. Some 5,000 have died.
The imam died at the Pasteur Clinic in Bamako on Oct. 27. Because of his status, his body was washed at a large mosque and returned to Guinea for burial after a funeral at another mosque.
The Pasteur Clinic failed to diagnose Ebola as the underlying cause of the kidney failure for which it was treating the imam. Kidney failure is a possible complication of late-stage Ebola.
The outbreak was detected only after a nurse at the clinic fell ill and died, and the chief W.H.O. representative in Mali heard from his counterparts in Guinea that members of the imam’s family were dying.
“It was a real failure by the clinic,” the W.H.O. representative, Dr. Ibrahima Soce Fall, said in a telephone interview.
Now the clinic is closed and under quarantine — as are the mosque in Bamako, one or two other Malian clinics where the imam was treated, and the family compound where the nurse lived.
Among the patients quarantined at the clinic are 10 United Nations peacekeepers stationed in Mali who were wounded in fighting in the north.
On Wednesday evening, Malian health authorities confirmed that one of the clinic’s doctors also had Ebola.
The clinic is now surrounded by police officers, with armored vehicles from the United Nations peacekeeping mission nearby.
“Most nurses and doctors had gone home when the clinic was quarantined, and I fear the patients will be left without proper care,” said Dramane Maiga, the clinic’s director.
Health experts are trying to trace everyone with whom the imam, the nurse and others with suspected cases of Ebola came into contact.
The task will be complex because the imam fell ill nearly a month ago, on Oct. 17, in Kourémalé, a town that straddles the Guinea-Mali border. The consequences for Mali were not recognized until Nov. 10, when doctors ordered an Ebola test on the dying Bamako nurse.
So far, 28 workers at the Pasteur Clinic, which is not related to France’s Pasteur Institute or its African offshoots, have been quarantined, as have 50 people who had contact with the nurse.
A friend who visited the imam at the clinic has died of unknown causes and is a suspected case, although no blood samples are available to test, the W.H.O. said.
“We’re still working on the contact tracing,” Dr. Fall said. It is not yet clear how many people may have been exposed.
The mosque connection is worrisome, Dr. Fall added, because it is unclear how many people touched the imam’s body. No one has fallen ill there so far.
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This one is going to be bad!
The body count from the index... six, eight, ten?
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Tom McDowell
BAMN
Mali: doctor suspected of having Ebola
November 12 2014 at 03:11pm
http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/mali-doctor-suspected-of-having-ebola-1.1779265#.VGN20_nF9kk
A police officer stands guard outside the quarantined Pasteur Clinic in Bamako. Picture: Joe Penney
Bamako -
A doctor at a clinic battling Mali's second Ebola outbreak is suspected of having contracted the deadly virus, officials said on Wednesday, as around 30 people were locked in the quarantined building.
The people trapped in the Pasteur clinic in the capital Bamako include 15 African UN soldiers being treated for injuries and tuberculosis, a security source told AFP.
“A doctor who is actually a suspected case of Ebola is under observation, because he has been in contact with the two dead people, and we are searching for others who were around the deceased but returned home,” an official at the clinic told AFP.
The official said the doctor was under observation at a separate location near the capital.
The government called for calm as it confirmed that a Guinean patient thought to have brought Ebola into Mali and a 25-year-old Malian nurse who treated him - confirmed as having contracted the virus - had died at the clinic, sparking a huge operation to stem the contagion.
Locals said many patients fled following the announcement of the nurse's death on Tuesday and had escaped the quarantine measures.
“There are about 30 of us quarantined in the clinic. There are doctors, patients, 15 soldiers from the UN mission in Bamako. We don't understand this isolation measure... We have nothing to eat. It's chaos - it's a mess,” a doctor contacted by phone told AFP.
Goita Sekou, 66, arrived in Bamako from Guinea 16 days ago by bus and was treated for kidney failure at the private clinic by the nurse, identified by family as Saliou Diarra, a medical source told AFP.
“At (Sekou's) death, it was discovered that two members of his family had died of Ebola. But he hid it,” said the source, although it has not been confirmed that Sekou had Ebola.
“The government assures that, according to protocol for the management of patients with Ebola virus in force, all measures are being taken to identify people who had contact with the deceased,” the health ministry said in a statement.
“The premises of the private clinic and the patient's home have been completely disinfected and placed under observation.” - Sapa-AFP
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November 12 2014 at 03:11pm
http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/mali-doctor-suspected-of-having-ebola-1.1779265#.VGN20_nF9kk
A police officer stands guard outside the quarantined Pasteur Clinic in Bamako. Picture: Joe Penney
Bamako -
A doctor at a clinic battling Mali's second Ebola outbreak is suspected of having contracted the deadly virus, officials said on Wednesday, as around 30 people were locked in the quarantined building.
The people trapped in the Pasteur clinic in the capital Bamako include 15 African UN soldiers being treated for injuries and tuberculosis, a security source told AFP.
“A doctor who is actually a suspected case of Ebola is under observation, because he has been in contact with the two dead people, and we are searching for others who were around the deceased but returned home,” an official at the clinic told AFP.
The official said the doctor was under observation at a separate location near the capital.
The government called for calm as it confirmed that a Guinean patient thought to have brought Ebola into Mali and a 25-year-old Malian nurse who treated him - confirmed as having contracted the virus - had died at the clinic, sparking a huge operation to stem the contagion.
Locals said many patients fled following the announcement of the nurse's death on Tuesday and had escaped the quarantine measures.
“There are about 30 of us quarantined in the clinic. There are doctors, patients, 15 soldiers from the UN mission in Bamako. We don't understand this isolation measure... We have nothing to eat. It's chaos - it's a mess,” a doctor contacted by phone told AFP.
Goita Sekou, 66, arrived in Bamako from Guinea 16 days ago by bus and was treated for kidney failure at the private clinic by the nurse, identified by family as Saliou Diarra, a medical source told AFP.
“At (Sekou's) death, it was discovered that two members of his family had died of Ebola. But he hid it,” said the source, although it has not been confirmed that Sekou had Ebola.
“The government assures that, according to protocol for the management of patients with Ebola virus in force, all measures are being taken to identify people who had contact with the deceased,” the health ministry said in a statement.
“The premises of the private clinic and the patient's home have been completely disinfected and placed under observation.” - Sapa-AFP
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Tom McDowell
BAMN
UN encourages travel to 'vibrant and alive' Ebola-hit West Africa, as death toll tops 5,000
Published on Nov 13, 2014 2:57 AM
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/wo...hit-west-africa-death-to#sthash.28bfCxdY.dpuf
David Nabarro, the senior UN coordinator for the international response to Ebola, poses during an interview with Reuters at the UN headquarters in New York Oct 8, 2014. Nabarro on Wednesday encouraged tourists to visit West Africa, saying Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea were "vibrant and alive" and that contact with infected people was largely avoidable. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) - The UN's Ebola czar on Wednesday encouraged tourists to visit West Africa, saying Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea were "vibrant and alive" and that contact with infected people was largely avoidable.
"I want to encourage everybody to maintain travel, tourism even to places that have Ebola. There is just no reason not to go to Freetown, Monrovia, Conakry," David Nabarro, the UN coordinator on Ebola, told the UN Economic and Social Council.
"These are cities which have got fabulous places for tourism. They are unfortunately not very full at the moment."
His push came as the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa's three hardest-hit countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, rose to 5,147 out of 14,068 cases as of Nov 9 end, according to the the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday.
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Published on Nov 13, 2014 2:57 AM
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/wo...hit-west-africa-death-to#sthash.28bfCxdY.dpuf
David Nabarro, the senior UN coordinator for the international response to Ebola, poses during an interview with Reuters at the UN headquarters in New York Oct 8, 2014. Nabarro on Wednesday encouraged tourists to visit West Africa, saying Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea were "vibrant and alive" and that contact with infected people was largely avoidable. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) - The UN's Ebola czar on Wednesday encouraged tourists to visit West Africa, saying Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea were "vibrant and alive" and that contact with infected people was largely avoidable.
"I want to encourage everybody to maintain travel, tourism even to places that have Ebola. There is just no reason not to go to Freetown, Monrovia, Conakry," David Nabarro, the UN coordinator on Ebola, told the UN Economic and Social Council.
"These are cities which have got fabulous places for tourism. They are unfortunately not very full at the moment."
His push came as the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa's three hardest-hit countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, rose to 5,147 out of 14,068 cases as of Nov 9 end, according to the the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday.
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Ebola breakout in Mali
A grand Emam from Guinea went to Mali for treatment of kidney failure. After he died, turned out it was Ebola, but first he had a grand funeral at the mosque. Nurse dying was the first clue that there was Ebola. Apparently he had no known contact?
10 patients are now ill, and many more under watch. Looks like this guy has turned into a super spreader, largely because of the funeral ritual washing at the mosque, but also the nurse has at least 50 known close contacts under watch.
Ouch.
Pasteur Clinic had to be shut down, and now a hospital is reported (latest twitter) to be contaminated. Not sure yet if another patient or what.
Basically, a rerun of the witch doctor blowout early in the epidemic, which contaminated 200+ at the funeral.
http://fluboard.rhizalabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12926&start=4
Mali reports 3 new Ebola deaths in capital
Associated Press By BABA AHMED
11 minutes ago
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian authorities on Wednesday reported three deaths believed to be linked to a new Ebola cluster, an alarming setback as Mali tries to limit the epidemic ravaging other West African countries.
Health officials began monitoring dozens of hospital employees and family members, and also searched this capital city of about 2 million for those who helped prepare the body of one of the victims for burial before it was known that the corpse might be highly contagious.
The announcement came just a day after Malian health authorities said there had been no other reported cases — let alone deaths — since a 2-year-old girl who had traveled to Mali from Guinea succumbed to the virus in late October.
A nurse working at a clinic in the capital died Tuesday, and tests later showed she had Ebola, Communications Minister Mahamadou Camara said Wednesday. Two other people are also believed to have died of Ebola, though no tests were ever done on them to confirm the disease: an imam, whom the nurse treated at the Bamako clinic, and a friend who came to visit the man there.
The imam who lived in a small community near Guinea's border with Mali came to the Clinique Pasteur on Oct. 25 late at night. The man, 70, was so ill he could not speak or give information about his symptoms, according to the head of the clinic.
"His family did not give us all the information that would have led us to suspect Ebola," Dramane Maiga told The Associated Press.
View galleryA outside view of the Polyclinique Pasteur clinic where …
A outside view of the Polyclinique Pasteur clinic where a nurse is suspected of dying from the Ebola …
One of his wives, a son and a brother are all being treated at an Ebola clinic in Gueckedou, Guinea. Two other family members also have died from an "undiagnosed disease" as well, WHO said.
The man was being treated for kidney failure at the Bamako hospital, officials said. The condition can result from a number of kidney diseases, but is also a symptom of late-stage Ebola, when vital organs begin to shut down.
"Because of his religious status as a Grand Imam, his body was transported to a mosque in Bamako for a ritual washing ceremony," the World Health Organization said Wednesday. "The body was then returned to the native village of Kouremale for formal funeral and burial ceremonies. Although these events are still under investigation, WHO staff assume that many mourners attended the ceremonies."
The nurse, meanwhile, was hospitalized on Saturday though hospital officials did not alert the health ministry until Monday morning. Health officials did not arrive at the clinic until 6 p.m. and by the time the test results came back on Tuesday, the 25-year-old nurse was already dead, said Maiga.
The new Ebola cases come just as public health officials started to think Mali had avoided the worst. The cases are stark reminders that the disease is hard to track and the entire West Africa region remains vulnerable as long as there are cases anywhere.
At least 75 people were under quarantine following the new cases in Bamako, including 16 patients from the hospital, said Ousmane Doumbia, secretary-general for the Malian health ministry.
Nearly 5,000 people have died this year in West Africa from the virus, which first erupted in Guinea, on Mali's border.
Mali's first case initially caused alarm because officials said the toddler was bleeding from her nose as she traveled with relatives by public transport from Guinea to Mali. Ebola is transmitted through the bodily fluids of people who are showing symptoms, which include bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea.
But she does not appear to have infected anyone else, though about 50 other people who had possible contact with the girl remain under observation in Kayes, the city where she died, about 375 miles (600 kilometers) from Bamako. They will be released from quarantine on Nov. 16 if they don't show symptoms.
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Associated Press writer Krista Larson in Dakar, Senegal contributed to this report.
http://news.yahoo.com/mali-reports-2-eb ... um=twitter
A grand Emam from Guinea went to Mali for treatment of kidney failure. After he died, turned out it was Ebola, but first he had a grand funeral at the mosque. Nurse dying was the first clue that there was Ebola. Apparently he had no known contact?
10 patients are now ill, and many more under watch. Looks like this guy has turned into a super spreader, largely because of the funeral ritual washing at the mosque, but also the nurse has at least 50 known close contacts under watch.
Ouch.
Pasteur Clinic had to be shut down, and now a hospital is reported (latest twitter) to be contaminated. Not sure yet if another patient or what.
Basically, a rerun of the witch doctor blowout early in the epidemic, which contaminated 200+ at the funeral.
http://fluboard.rhizalabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12926&start=4
Mali reports 3 new Ebola deaths in capital
Associated Press By BABA AHMED
11 minutes ago
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian authorities on Wednesday reported three deaths believed to be linked to a new Ebola cluster, an alarming setback as Mali tries to limit the epidemic ravaging other West African countries.
Health officials began monitoring dozens of hospital employees and family members, and also searched this capital city of about 2 million for those who helped prepare the body of one of the victims for burial before it was known that the corpse might be highly contagious.
The announcement came just a day after Malian health authorities said there had been no other reported cases — let alone deaths — since a 2-year-old girl who had traveled to Mali from Guinea succumbed to the virus in late October.
A nurse working at a clinic in the capital died Tuesday, and tests later showed she had Ebola, Communications Minister Mahamadou Camara said Wednesday. Two other people are also believed to have died of Ebola, though no tests were ever done on them to confirm the disease: an imam, whom the nurse treated at the Bamako clinic, and a friend who came to visit the man there.
The imam who lived in a small community near Guinea's border with Mali came to the Clinique Pasteur on Oct. 25 late at night. The man, 70, was so ill he could not speak or give information about his symptoms, according to the head of the clinic.
"His family did not give us all the information that would have led us to suspect Ebola," Dramane Maiga told The Associated Press.
View galleryA outside view of the Polyclinique Pasteur clinic where …
A outside view of the Polyclinique Pasteur clinic where a nurse is suspected of dying from the Ebola …
One of his wives, a son and a brother are all being treated at an Ebola clinic in Gueckedou, Guinea. Two other family members also have died from an "undiagnosed disease" as well, WHO said.
The man was being treated for kidney failure at the Bamako hospital, officials said. The condition can result from a number of kidney diseases, but is also a symptom of late-stage Ebola, when vital organs begin to shut down.
"Because of his religious status as a Grand Imam, his body was transported to a mosque in Bamako for a ritual washing ceremony," the World Health Organization said Wednesday. "The body was then returned to the native village of Kouremale for formal funeral and burial ceremonies. Although these events are still under investigation, WHO staff assume that many mourners attended the ceremonies."
The nurse, meanwhile, was hospitalized on Saturday though hospital officials did not alert the health ministry until Monday morning. Health officials did not arrive at the clinic until 6 p.m. and by the time the test results came back on Tuesday, the 25-year-old nurse was already dead, said Maiga.
The new Ebola cases come just as public health officials started to think Mali had avoided the worst. The cases are stark reminders that the disease is hard to track and the entire West Africa region remains vulnerable as long as there are cases anywhere.
At least 75 people were under quarantine following the new cases in Bamako, including 16 patients from the hospital, said Ousmane Doumbia, secretary-general for the Malian health ministry.
Nearly 5,000 people have died this year in West Africa from the virus, which first erupted in Guinea, on Mali's border.
Mali's first case initially caused alarm because officials said the toddler was bleeding from her nose as she traveled with relatives by public transport from Guinea to Mali. Ebola is transmitted through the bodily fluids of people who are showing symptoms, which include bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea.
But she does not appear to have infected anyone else, though about 50 other people who had possible contact with the girl remain under observation in Kayes, the city where she died, about 375 miles (600 kilometers) from Bamako. They will be released from quarantine on Nov. 16 if they don't show symptoms.
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Associated Press writer Krista Larson in Dakar, Senegal contributed to this report.
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apologies, in a morning rush. No offense intended.
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Cascadians
Leska Emerald Adams
http://fluboard.rhizalabs.com/forum...e_topics&sid=9a80ceba3cd32f686ce66dffddd48eaa
Dr Niman's forum, active topics. Mali is hopping. Several persons have died suddenly related to Ebola pts but no testing. Also "Report cites confirmation of Ebola in telephone repairman at Gabriel Touré Hospital in Bamako."
Sorry no time to post articles, dealing with winter weather event, freezing rain although it is moderating to regular rain where I am. Click on link above, lots of hair raising developments.
Also check
http://www.singtomeohmuse.com/viewtopic.php?t=5725&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=4395
including this incredible gem of ELE idiocy: " ... "I want to encourage everybody to maintain travel, tourism even to places that have Ebola. There is just no reason not to go to Freetown, Monrovia, Conakry," David Nabarro, the UN coordinator on Ebola, told the UN Economic and Social Council. ... "
TPTB are jumping up and down cheerleading the decimation of the human species. They want us dead. No doubt about it.
Dr Niman's forum, active topics. Mali is hopping. Several persons have died suddenly related to Ebola pts but no testing. Also "Report cites confirmation of Ebola in telephone repairman at Gabriel Touré Hospital in Bamako."
Sorry no time to post articles, dealing with winter weather event, freezing rain although it is moderating to regular rain where I am. Click on link above, lots of hair raising developments.
Also check
http://www.singtomeohmuse.com/viewtopic.php?t=5725&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=4395
including this incredible gem of ELE idiocy: " ... "I want to encourage everybody to maintain travel, tourism even to places that have Ebola. There is just no reason not to go to Freetown, Monrovia, Conakry," David Nabarro, the UN coordinator on Ebola, told the UN Economic and Social Council. ... "
TPTB are jumping up and down cheerleading the decimation of the human species. They want us dead. No doubt about it.
Tom McDowell
BAMN
Uhh - do my posts not show up?
More than a few occasions I see dupes of my posts shortly after posting.
See post 170 and 181.
If no one answers...
... well heck!
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More than a few occasions I see dupes of my posts shortly after posting.
See post 170 and 181.
If no one answers...
... well heck!
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Cascadians
Leska Emerald Adams
Sorry Tom, running around peeing my pup on ice and helping Lynn get off to work ... usually read everything but crazy morning. In response to #170 posted map :-) Too busy here!
PyratePrincess
Deceased
I can't find confirmation of this on CNN...but it does state "vaccinations" mandatory-not "quarantine".
Anyone else seen anything-or is the obolaczar working double time?
Sorry...can't get the image to imbed. Chemo brain day...
PyratePrincess
Deceased
Here's the snap shot of the BBC page...appears to say Nov 13th. Can't find it on BBC though.
https://twitter.com/bentower99/status/532974741226004480
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Right??!!! My brain cannot wrap around this type of thinking. Anything to keep the money flowing. I realize parts of Africa are in a horrific bad place but any risk of infecting MORE people is NOT the answer!
Certainly not for a vacation. Good Lord.
Florida???? Vaccination??? I thought there was no vaccine for EBOLA (yet), and is this Florida, USA?
I can't find the article either...
I can't find the article either...
Here's the snap shot of the BBC page...appears to say Nov 13th. Can't find it on BBC though.
https://twitter.com/bentower99/status/532974741226004480
Here is the picture...
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Doomer Doug
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Um, Doomer Doug gets the United Nations isn't full of really smart people. The people in the UN are usually the ones the various governments want to get rid of by sending them out of the country. Still, even by the usual dismal UN standards, the man's comments are, well they approach a mixture of farce, satire and surrealism. They are the UN version of a Salvador Dali painting. LOL
Mali, well Mall proves two things in my opinion. The first is all of us "conspiracy kooks" were indeed correct when we said Ebola information would start flowing within hours of the November 4th USA election being done. This has happened, just like all of us fruitcakes said it would. <G>
The thing about Mali is this. We now have TWO SEPARATE EBOLA INFECTION VECTOR ZONES IN MALI. The first one was the two year old girl, and her famous, showing symptoms and infecting everybody, bus ride. The last Doomer Doug heard, "they" were saying she exposed 151 people, of whom they had begun "monitoring" 100 or so. 50 definitely exposed, likely Ebola infected people from that bus ride scattered to the wind.
Now we have a SECOND Ebola infection zone from the elderly gentleman who sought treatment. He has now infected/killed several other people. Since this was over a month ago, "they" have no idea of who he exposed, much less where they are.
Mali is now FULLY IN EBOLA EPIDEMIC MODE. There are now 100, 200 or more exposed people, possibly infected people, running around Mali, or have even left Mali to go whereever.
I said when the CDC was crowing about the "decline in Liberia" it was a lie. Sierra Leone is now exploding with Ebola cases, along with Mali.
500,000 cases by December 31st in West Africa for sure now. Multiple MILLIONS no later than Easter in my opinion. After that, the tidal wave really starts. Three to five years from now Africa is going to have a minimum of 100 MILLION INFECTED, ALONG WITH 50 MILLION DEAD. This is absolute best case in my opinion
Despite what that UN fool says, there will be NO tourism to West Africa for the next 20 years at a minimum.
Mali, well Mall proves two things in my opinion. The first is all of us "conspiracy kooks" were indeed correct when we said Ebola information would start flowing within hours of the November 4th USA election being done. This has happened, just like all of us fruitcakes said it would. <G>
The thing about Mali is this. We now have TWO SEPARATE EBOLA INFECTION VECTOR ZONES IN MALI. The first one was the two year old girl, and her famous, showing symptoms and infecting everybody, bus ride. The last Doomer Doug heard, "they" were saying she exposed 151 people, of whom they had begun "monitoring" 100 or so. 50 definitely exposed, likely Ebola infected people from that bus ride scattered to the wind.
Now we have a SECOND Ebola infection zone from the elderly gentleman who sought treatment. He has now infected/killed several other people. Since this was over a month ago, "they" have no idea of who he exposed, much less where they are.
Mali is now FULLY IN EBOLA EPIDEMIC MODE. There are now 100, 200 or more exposed people, possibly infected people, running around Mali, or have even left Mali to go whereever.
I said when the CDC was crowing about the "decline in Liberia" it was a lie. Sierra Leone is now exploding with Ebola cases, along with Mali.
500,000 cases by December 31st in West Africa for sure now. Multiple MILLIONS no later than Easter in my opinion. After that, the tidal wave really starts. Three to five years from now Africa is going to have a minimum of 100 MILLION INFECTED, ALONG WITH 50 MILLION DEAD. This is absolute best case in my opinion
Despite what that UN fool says, there will be NO tourism to West Africa for the next 20 years at a minimum.
Here is the advice for people who have pets and get EBOLA...
http://news.yahoo.com/vets-issue-advice-pets-may-ebola-170143017.html
Vets issue advice on pets that may have Ebola
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Associated Press
By MIKE STOBBE
November 12, 2014 2:57 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — Pets that have been in close contact with Ebola-infected people should be quarantined and — if they test positive — euthanized, according to new guidance issued Wednesday by a veterinarians' group.
The American Veterinary Medical Association compiled the guidance after a dog in Spain was euthanized because its owner contracted Ebola and a dog belonging to an infected nurse in Dallas was quarantined and then released.
The guidelines say a pet that may have been infected should be quarantined, away from other animals, for 21 days. The animal's handlers should wear protective equipment similar to what's worn by hospital workers who treat Ebola patients.
Ebola testing for animals must be authorized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the group said. If an animal does test positive, it should be killed and the body incinerated, the guidelines say.
Scientists believe Ebola can be transmitted to people through infected animals, and the first human infections in Africa are believed to have come through contact with fruit bats, apes or monkeys.
The CDC says there have been no reports of dogs or cats becoming sick with Ebola or being able to spread it to people or other animals. But health officials say they don't know whether a pet's paws, fur or other body parts can pick up and transmit the virus.
Ebola is spread person-to-person through direct contact with blood or other body fluids from someone sick with the virus.
http://news.yahoo.com/vets-issue-advice-pets-may-ebola-170143017.html
Vets issue advice on pets that may have Ebola
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Associated Press
By MIKE STOBBE
November 12, 2014 2:57 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — Pets that have been in close contact with Ebola-infected people should be quarantined and — if they test positive — euthanized, according to new guidance issued Wednesday by a veterinarians' group.
The American Veterinary Medical Association compiled the guidance after a dog in Spain was euthanized because its owner contracted Ebola and a dog belonging to an infected nurse in Dallas was quarantined and then released.
The guidelines say a pet that may have been infected should be quarantined, away from other animals, for 21 days. The animal's handlers should wear protective equipment similar to what's worn by hospital workers who treat Ebola patients.
Ebola testing for animals must be authorized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the group said. If an animal does test positive, it should be killed and the body incinerated, the guidelines say.
Scientists believe Ebola can be transmitted to people through infected animals, and the first human infections in Africa are believed to have come through contact with fruit bats, apes or monkeys.
The CDC says there have been no reports of dogs or cats becoming sick with Ebola or being able to spread it to people or other animals. But health officials say they don't know whether a pet's paws, fur or other body parts can pick up and transmit the virus.
Ebola is spread person-to-person through direct contact with blood or other body fluids from someone sick with the virus.
That's all I saw from the link from the prior post by PyratePrincess ... could be a fake post from Twitter... not sure.
Doomer Doug
TB Fanatic
Here is more from Dr. Niman at flutracker about Mali.
http://fluboard.rhizalabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12936
It is currently Thu Nov 13, 2014 6:01 pm
3 Suspect Ebola Cases At Gabriel Toure Hosp - Bamako Mali
Post subject: 3 Suspect Ebola Cases At Gabriel Toure Hosp - Bamako Mali
PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2014
Media reports cite 3 suspect Ebola cases at Gabriel Toure Hospital in Bamako,Mali. Linkage to confirmed death at hospital or cases at Pasteur Clinic unclear.
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Post subject: Re: 3 Suspect Ebola Cases At Gabriel Toure Hosp - Bamako Mal
PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 3:05 pm
According to a medical source at the hospital Gabriel Touré, three people are at this observation for suspected Ebola virus disease.
For two days, the bad news is another on the front of the anti-Ebola fight in Mali. Two people have been confirmed positive one died on Tuesday. Since then, more than seventy people were quarantined and several suspected cases have been reported in the city of Bamako.
http://www.journaldumali.com/depeches.php?t=0#16348
niman
Post subject: Re: 3 Suspect Ebola Cases At Gabriel Toure Hosp - Bamako Mal
Elderly woman dies of Ebola in Mali, where the epidemic spreads
November 13, 2014 1:52 pm
Posted in: News , International
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An elderly woman died today in Bamako infected by Ebola, which makes it the third confirmed case of fatalities in this country, where the virus seems to spread uncontrollably.
It is an old woman who attended the funeral of an imam who died recently and was suspected transmitted the virus to a capital nurse who tried and died Tuesday.
With the death of the elderly appear to confirm suspicions that the imam, who was buried without reaching to rule whether or not had the disease, had Ebola.
This man who came from Guinea Conakry visited several medical centers before coming to Bamako, where he died, and will also be performed funeral rites in a mosque in the capital, so it is thought that the number infected by contact with the deceased can be high.
For now, it is known that the elderly participated in the funeral of the magnet, and yesterday, Wednesday night, when her condition did not improve, she was transferred to the Gabriel Toure Hospital where he died.
The tests were performed on the body to see if the virus was broadcaster have tested positive.
The panic that erupted on Tuesday after learning of the second death of Ebola in less than 20 days in Mali has increased among the population today.
At the hospital where he died the elderly patients and nurses, midwives and doctors themselves ran away from the center, while an undetermined number of people were inside the building has been prevented from leaving and were quarantined .
Staff at the exclusive clinic where he worked Pasteur Bamako nurse who died on Tuesday also in quarantine with several peacekeepers of the UN Mission in Mali (Minusma).
While the government, which many accuse of negligence, attempts by the media to sensitize the population, rumors spread like wildfire and suspected cases of Ebola through social networks and text messages Happen each other.
The first case of Ebola in Mali announced last October 24 when a two year old girl died after returning home also from Guinea, one of the foci of infection with Liberia and Sierra Leone.
According to the latest report from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has reached 14,098 infections, 5,160 of which have been fatal.
niman
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 3:18 pm
Online
Mali: Ebola is a fourth victim in Bamako
Sahelien.com
November 13, 2014
The Ebola virus has claimed another victim in Bamako. On Thursday, a fourth person died in isolation center in Bamako. Last night, a little girl was brought by her family to Gabrielle Touré hospital in Bamako. An Ebola test was performed and proved positive. On Thursday, the girl died in the Ebola isolation center. "When the girl arrived at the hospital, Ebola first test was performed and proved positive. This morning, we made two samples for two new tests to be sure it is Ebola. But even before the arrival of the results of these tests, the girl is dead, "said Mary Adama Traore, spokesman for the Gabrielle Touré hospital.
http://fluboard.rhizalabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12936
It is currently Thu Nov 13, 2014 6:01 pm
3 Suspect Ebola Cases At Gabriel Toure Hosp - Bamako Mali
Post subject: 3 Suspect Ebola Cases At Gabriel Toure Hosp - Bamako Mali
PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2014
Media reports cite 3 suspect Ebola cases at Gabriel Toure Hospital in Bamako,Mali. Linkage to confirmed death at hospital or cases at Pasteur Clinic unclear.
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Post subject: Re: 3 Suspect Ebola Cases At Gabriel Toure Hosp - Bamako Mal
PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 3:05 pm
According to a medical source at the hospital Gabriel Touré, three people are at this observation for suspected Ebola virus disease.
For two days, the bad news is another on the front of the anti-Ebola fight in Mali. Two people have been confirmed positive one died on Tuesday. Since then, more than seventy people were quarantined and several suspected cases have been reported in the city of Bamako.
http://www.journaldumali.com/depeches.php?t=0#16348
niman
Post subject: Re: 3 Suspect Ebola Cases At Gabriel Toure Hosp - Bamako Mal
Elderly woman dies of Ebola in Mali, where the epidemic spreads
November 13, 2014 1:52 pm
Posted in: News , International
Image
An elderly woman died today in Bamako infected by Ebola, which makes it the third confirmed case of fatalities in this country, where the virus seems to spread uncontrollably.
It is an old woman who attended the funeral of an imam who died recently and was suspected transmitted the virus to a capital nurse who tried and died Tuesday.
With the death of the elderly appear to confirm suspicions that the imam, who was buried without reaching to rule whether or not had the disease, had Ebola.
This man who came from Guinea Conakry visited several medical centers before coming to Bamako, where he died, and will also be performed funeral rites in a mosque in the capital, so it is thought that the number infected by contact with the deceased can be high.
For now, it is known that the elderly participated in the funeral of the magnet, and yesterday, Wednesday night, when her condition did not improve, she was transferred to the Gabriel Toure Hospital where he died.
The tests were performed on the body to see if the virus was broadcaster have tested positive.
The panic that erupted on Tuesday after learning of the second death of Ebola in less than 20 days in Mali has increased among the population today.
At the hospital where he died the elderly patients and nurses, midwives and doctors themselves ran away from the center, while an undetermined number of people were inside the building has been prevented from leaving and were quarantined .
Staff at the exclusive clinic where he worked Pasteur Bamako nurse who died on Tuesday also in quarantine with several peacekeepers of the UN Mission in Mali (Minusma).
While the government, which many accuse of negligence, attempts by the media to sensitize the population, rumors spread like wildfire and suspected cases of Ebola through social networks and text messages Happen each other.
The first case of Ebola in Mali announced last October 24 when a two year old girl died after returning home also from Guinea, one of the foci of infection with Liberia and Sierra Leone.
According to the latest report from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has reached 14,098 infections, 5,160 of which have been fatal.
niman
Post subject: Re: 3 Suspect Ebola Cases At Gabriel Toure Hosp - Bamako Mal
PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 3:18 pm
Online
Mali: Ebola is a fourth victim in Bamako
Sahelien.com
November 13, 2014
The Ebola virus has claimed another victim in Bamako. On Thursday, a fourth person died in isolation center in Bamako. Last night, a little girl was brought by her family to Gabrielle Touré hospital in Bamako. An Ebola test was performed and proved positive. On Thursday, the girl died in the Ebola isolation center. "When the girl arrived at the hospital, Ebola first test was performed and proved positive. This morning, we made two samples for two new tests to be sure it is Ebola. But even before the arrival of the results of these tests, the girl is dead, "said Mary Adama Traore, spokesman for the Gabrielle Touré hospital.
Doomer Doug
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Sierra Leone Ebola crisis gets even worse. Ebola cases:300 in the last 3 days: 100 per DAY
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30019895
Ebola crisis: Sierra Leone health workers strike
Health workers in Sierra Leone There have been almost 300 new Ebola cases in Sierra Leone in the past three days
Hundreds of health workers involved in treating Ebola patients have gone on strike at a clinic in Sierra Leone.
The staff are protesting about the government's failure to pay an agreed weekly $100 (£63) "hazard payment". A few are still assisting at the clinic.
The clinic, in Bandajuma near Bo, is the only Ebola treatment centre in southern Sierra Leone.
In Mali, a nurse and a patient became the second and third people thought to have died from Ebola there.
Nearly 5,000 people have been killed in the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak a global health emergency.
The Bandajuma clinic is run by medical charity MSF, which said it would be forced to close the facility if the strike continued.
MSF's emergency co-ordinator in Sierra Leone, Ewald Stars, told the BBC that about 60 patients had been left unattended because of the strike at the clinic in Bandajuma.
Those on strike include nurses, porters and cleaners.
Pasteur Clinic in Bamako The Pasteur Clinic in Bamako, Mali, is under armed guard after the death of a nurse and his patient
There are international staff at the clinic but they are unable to keep the clinic open on their own.
The staff, who are protesting outside the clinic, say the government agreed to the "hazard payments" when the facility was established but has failed to make any payments since September.
The money was due to be paid in addition to salaries the staff receive from MSF.
On Wednesday afternoon, a representative of the workers told the BBC that a few colleagues had returned to the ward to offer minimal assistance "in the interest of the patients who are our people".
However, he stressed that the strike was still on.
Earlier, representative Mohamed Mbawah told the BBC his colleagues had already turned away one ambulance.
The virus is continuing to spread in Sierra Leone, with almost 300 new infections recorded in the last three days.
Traditional healer
Also on Wednesday, the Malian authorities said that a nurse and the patient he was treating at a clinic in Bamako had died.
The 25-year-old nurse worked at the Pasteur Clinic, which has now been placed in quarantine. The government said the nurse was confirmed to have had Ebola.
The current outbreak is the deadliest since Ebola was discovered in 1976
His patient, a traditional Muslim healer in his 50s, had recently arrived from Guinea.
Officials believe the healer, who died from Ebola-like symptoms, passed the Ebola virus to the nurse.
However, he was buried without being tested for Ebola.
The latest deaths are unrelated to Mali's first Ebola case, when a two-year-old girl died from the disease in October.
The new cases in Mali follow the WHO's confirmation that 25 of the 100 people who were thought to have come into contact with the two-year-old girl were being released from quarantine.
The toddler's case alarmed the authorities in Mali after it was found she had displayed symptoms whilst travelling through the country by bus, including Bamako, on her return from neighbouring Guinea.
Emergency response
The current Ebola outbreak was first identified in Guinea in March, before it spread to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone. The WHO says there are now more than 13,240 confirmed, suspected and probable cases, almost all of them in these countries.
Cases have also emerged, though on a much smaller scale, in Nigeria, Senegal, Spain and the US.
Mali launched an emergency response in conjunction with the WHO when the girl's situation came to light. Her family were among those released from quarantine on Monday.
Health department spokesman Markatie Daou said about 50 people were still under observation in Kayes, western Mali, and would be released in a week if they continued to display no symptoms.
map of areas affected by Ebola
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30019895
Ebola crisis: Sierra Leone health workers strike
Health workers in Sierra Leone There have been almost 300 new Ebola cases in Sierra Leone in the past three days
Hundreds of health workers involved in treating Ebola patients have gone on strike at a clinic in Sierra Leone.
The staff are protesting about the government's failure to pay an agreed weekly $100 (£63) "hazard payment". A few are still assisting at the clinic.
The clinic, in Bandajuma near Bo, is the only Ebola treatment centre in southern Sierra Leone.
In Mali, a nurse and a patient became the second and third people thought to have died from Ebola there.
Nearly 5,000 people have been killed in the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak a global health emergency.
The Bandajuma clinic is run by medical charity MSF, which said it would be forced to close the facility if the strike continued.
MSF's emergency co-ordinator in Sierra Leone, Ewald Stars, told the BBC that about 60 patients had been left unattended because of the strike at the clinic in Bandajuma.
Those on strike include nurses, porters and cleaners.
Pasteur Clinic in Bamako The Pasteur Clinic in Bamako, Mali, is under armed guard after the death of a nurse and his patient
There are international staff at the clinic but they are unable to keep the clinic open on their own.
The staff, who are protesting outside the clinic, say the government agreed to the "hazard payments" when the facility was established but has failed to make any payments since September.
The money was due to be paid in addition to salaries the staff receive from MSF.
On Wednesday afternoon, a representative of the workers told the BBC that a few colleagues had returned to the ward to offer minimal assistance "in the interest of the patients who are our people".
However, he stressed that the strike was still on.
Earlier, representative Mohamed Mbawah told the BBC his colleagues had already turned away one ambulance.
The virus is continuing to spread in Sierra Leone, with almost 300 new infections recorded in the last three days.
Traditional healer
Also on Wednesday, the Malian authorities said that a nurse and the patient he was treating at a clinic in Bamako had died.
The 25-year-old nurse worked at the Pasteur Clinic, which has now been placed in quarantine. The government said the nurse was confirmed to have had Ebola.
The current outbreak is the deadliest since Ebola was discovered in 1976
His patient, a traditional Muslim healer in his 50s, had recently arrived from Guinea.
Officials believe the healer, who died from Ebola-like symptoms, passed the Ebola virus to the nurse.
However, he was buried without being tested for Ebola.
The latest deaths are unrelated to Mali's first Ebola case, when a two-year-old girl died from the disease in October.
The new cases in Mali follow the WHO's confirmation that 25 of the 100 people who were thought to have come into contact with the two-year-old girl were being released from quarantine.
The toddler's case alarmed the authorities in Mali after it was found she had displayed symptoms whilst travelling through the country by bus, including Bamako, on her return from neighbouring Guinea.
Emergency response
The current Ebola outbreak was first identified in Guinea in March, before it spread to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone. The WHO says there are now more than 13,240 confirmed, suspected and probable cases, almost all of them in these countries.
Cases have also emerged, though on a much smaller scale, in Nigeria, Senegal, Spain and the US.
Mali launched an emergency response in conjunction with the WHO when the girl's situation came to light. Her family were among those released from quarantine on Monday.
Health department spokesman Markatie Daou said about 50 people were still under observation in Kayes, western Mali, and would be released in a week if they continued to display no symptoms.
map of areas affected by Ebola
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Leska Emerald Adams
Hey Doomer Doug, go read here: http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com
Too busy to copy at the mo, but yikes, words of reality.
I love how he says point blank, "Blame witchcraft and Islam." Yep this combination of beliefs ensures that Africa is toast.
Too busy to copy at the mo, but yikes, words of reality.
I love how he says point blank, "Blame witchcraft and Islam." Yep this combination of beliefs ensures that Africa is toast.