Ebola: Cuban Doctor Contracts Ebola in Sierra Leone

One of the doctors from Cuba sent to help tackle the Ebola scourge in Sierra Leone has contracted the virus.
Dr. Felix Baez reportedly developed high fever of more than 100 degrees and the test carried out confirmed he has contracted the virus.

According to Aljazeera, Dr. Felix Baez is the first to contract virus, out of 165 - member medical team deployed by island nation to Sierra Leone .
A member of the 165 -member Cuban medical team sent to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone has been
diagnosed with the disease, and will be sent to Geneva for treatment , Cuban state media reported .

Another doctor dies from Ebola virus in the US.

Another doctor Dr. Martin Salia, 44yrs who contracted EBOLA in Africa in the course of caring for Ebola patients has died in the US. He was flown to the US from Africa and was being treated at the Nebraska Medical Centre in the US. Dr. Salia is originally from Sierra Leone but resides in the US.

This was confirmed In a statement by the Medical Director of the Biocontainment Unit and professor of Infectious diseases at Nebraska Medical center Dr. Phil Smith who said......
“It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share this news,”

EBOLA: Obama Hugs First Nurse To Contract Ebola In the US (See Photos)

Obama Hugs Nurse  Pharm  in  the White House

        President Barack Obama of the US, has invited the first US nurse to contract Ebola Nina Pham to the White House for a close hug today, 24 October. Nurse Pham contracted Ebola, while treating an Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas and was first diagnosed on October 12. 
See more photos after the cut.....

Ebola: Another UN Staff Dies From Ebola

   

    Another UN staff in Sierra Leone has died from the Ebola virus.

 The UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the victim was a driver for the UN women Agency. He made this known today.

He said the victim's spouse is currently receiving treatment at a Ebola quarantine facility. This is the 3rd of UN Staff to die of Ebola. God save us!

Only Nigerians Can Take Credit for Ebola containment, Jonathan Tells Fashola, Amaechi

   

PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN OF NIGERIA

    President Goodluck Jonathan has frowned at some people especially the Governors of Rivers and Lagos state for trying to take credit for Containing Ebola in Nigeria.

He said only the People of Nigeria should take the credit  because they all contributed both directly and indirectly to see that ebola was thrown out of Nigera.

Ebola: Jamaica Shuts Door On Ebola Affected Countries from Entry

    The Governments of Three Caribean  countries, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, on Thursday 17th, October issued an immediate travel bans against certain persons traveling directly or indirectly from some West Africa countries hit by EBOLA.

Breaking: New Ebola Case in Dallas Texas, USA

 

TEXAS HEALTH PRESBYTERIAN  HOSPITAL TEXAS

        Report just say another health worker who attended to Thomas Eric Duncan who later died of Ebola disease at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has tested positive for Ebola.

Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Donates $25Million to Fight Ebola

 

    

        Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, will donate $25 million to a foundation - the CDC Foundation to help in the fight to stop the Ebola virus disease.
     Zuckerberg rated the 13th richest man in the whole world said the money will be used by The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention to fight Ebola in Africa and other regions where Ebola poses a threat.

EBOLA: West Africa Ebola Outbreak Still Expanding - WHO

   The World Health Organization (WHO) has today 14th October  stated that Ebola virus in the West African Sub region is not near to getting eradicated. The world health body made this known to through Assistant Director General Bruce Aylward to reporters at the WHO's headquarters in Geneva Switzerland.

Bruce Words........

"We will go over 9 000 cases this week.
"In certain areas we're seeing the
disease coming down but that doesn't mean they're going to go to zero.
"It will be really, really premature" to read any success into the apparent slowing numbers in some areas"

Ebola: UN worker flown to Germany from Liberia is dead

The unidentified Aids worker of the United Nation who contracted the the Ebola virus and flown back to Germany from Liberia has died early this morning.
   According to the official statement from the hospital, St. George Clinic where the UN staff was being treated for the disease, they did all they could to save the worker's life the staff succumb to the virus. Thus:

"The Ebola patient died during the night in the St. George Clinic in Leipzig. Despite intensive medical measures and maximum efforts by the medical team, the 56 year old succumbed to the serious infectious disease"

EBOLA:Ghananian Footbal Michael Essien Contracts Ebola

    Ghanaian football star and AC Milan striker, Michael Essien, has contracted the Ebola Virus Disease, according to reports.

A report on News Wire quotes AC Milan spokesman, Riccardo Coli as saying: ‘It has come as a big shock to everyone involved with the club but we are optimistic for Essien.

‘He is a very strong person and the Ebola has been caught in the early stages. He’s in experts hands so he should be fine.

EBOLA: Respecter of Nobody- Now Live in USA

 

EBOLA IN DALLAS

TEXAS HEALTH PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL

  This EBOLA no dey fear abi? Imagine traveling all the way  to the US. Na him be say Ebola must go by force.
Nigeria was able to fight the dreaded Ebola virus by the grace and help of God. But now Ebola has finally found its way to the US.  
An unnamed health worker who was a part of a key medical team who attended to Thomas Eric, the Liberian man who travelled to the US without signs and symptoms of Ebola but Later died of the virus in a Texas Health Hospital on Friday has come in terms with deadly Ebola virus. See more photos after the cut...........

EBOLA: Another UN Worker Tests Positive To EBOLA

         

      The United Nations (UN) Wednesday confirmed that another staff of the international organisation has tested positive for the deadly Ebola Virus Disease.
Briefing UN Correspondents in New York, spokesperson of the UN Secretary-General, Stephane DuJarric, said this brings to two the member of staff to succumb to the disease. The patient was said to have worked for UN Mission in Liberia, UNMIL where he got infected.

“This is the second case of Ebola in the mission. An earlier probable case resulted in the death of a staff member on September 25.
“The Mission has, therefore, taken all the necessary measures to prevent possible further transmission within or outside the mission.

EBOLA: Ugandan Doctor Suspected of Ebola arrives Germany from Sierra Leone

A Ugandan doctor suspected to be
suffering from Ebola disease has arrived in Frankfurt from Sierra Leone for treatment in the city’s University Hospital, a German government official has said.

Health Minister of German state, Hesse, Stefan Gruettner, who disclosed this to journalists in Wiesbaden, Frankfurt on Friday, said that the patient was a physician.
He said that the Ugandan had worked for an Italian Non-Governmental Organisation and had also looked after patients in Sierra Leone.

Gruettner explained that the doctor was in Germany for treatment, saying that the hospital had capacity to help him.
According to him, the World Health Organisation had asked Germany if it could help in taking care of the patient.

“It is a sign for those who help in the
regions where the disease has broken out, especially badly, that they can get help if they contract the disease themselves,” he said.

Head of the Frankfurt Competence
Center for Highly Contagious Life-
Threatening Diseases, Rene Gottschalk, said that the Ugandan doctor was being treated in an isolation unit in the Frankfurt hospital.

Gottschalk said that the patient was
conveyed from the airport to the
hospital in a special vehicle.

Latest report from WHO indicates that no fewer than 3,338 people had died of the Ebola disease in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.

A case in the U.S. has heightened
concerns that Ebola could spread
globally and could raise further
questions about travel restrictions from the affected countries.

Culled from NAN

Ebola: Delta releases three after they tested negative to Ebola

   Two indigenes and a Sierra Leonean have been released by the Delta State government after they tested negative to the deadly Ebola Virus.

It was gathered that following
information that the trio were traveling to the state from Liberia and Sierra Leone, the Technical sub-committee of the Delta State Inter-Ministerial Ebola Preparedness and Response Committee, immediately swung into action and got them detained.

The trio were picked from the Lagos border before placing them on
surveillance for signs and symptoms of the deadly disease.

Dr Michael Omatsola, Permanent
Secretary in the Ministry of Health, told journalists in Asaba that the State Rapid Response Team (SRRT) got wind that the three persons were heading to Delta and activated mechanisms to ensure that they were certified Ebola free.

However, the three persons were
allowed to go about their normal
businesses when they failed to exhibit any signs and symptoms of the Ebola Virus Disease after they were observed for the stipulated 21 days.

Omatsola spoke during a Training of
Trainers (TOT) workshop on Ebola Virus Disease, organized by the sub-
committee for doctors, nurses,
pharmacists, laboratory scientists,
disease surveillance officers and
scientific officers in the state.

At the event which held in Delta North Senatorial district, he revealed that so far, seven other persons suspected to have the EVD have had their blood samples screened by the sub-committee at the Virology laboratories in Lagos and Port-Harcourt, disclosing that they
all returned negative.

“The State Rapid Response Team
responded swiftly to every call of
suspected Ebola cases to nip in the bud any likely confirmed case from
spreading to other persons in the
State’’, he added.

He urged health personnel to desist
from turning away persons that present with symptoms similar to the EVD, urging them to endeavour to observe every universal safety precautions when handling suspected patients.

He advised that patients could easily die of diarrhea if left unattended, stressing that most cases of vomiting and stooling of blood were not necessarily Ebola.