Liberian President declared a State of emergency on Wednesday, the WHO said the outbreak of the Ebola victims in West Africa has risen to 932.The new figures have confirmed the death of a Nigerian nurse Ebola. It was the second death from the disease in Nigeria and an increasing number of cases are reported in Lagos, the mega city of about 21 million people.
The first death in Nigeria was Patrick James, a 40-year-old American wife of Liberian origin and three small daughters in Minnesota. Sawyer, who worked in Liberia, was on his way to a business flight to Nigeria, when he fell ill. The Nigerian authorities would treat Sawyer as the Ebola patient and not isolate him within the first 24 hours after his arrival in Nigeria last month.
Unknown nurse death means another Ebola death, in Nigeria, and this worries health experts in Africa's most populous country, and Lagos, where the deaths occurred, one of its largest cities.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf declared a State of emergency late Wednesday and said some civil rights you may have to be suspended as a result of the crisis.
"Ignorance, poverty, and rooted in religious and cultural practices that continue to exacerbate the spread of the disease," he said in a televised address to the nation.
Ben Webster, the Red Cross disaster response manager in London, said that it is "crucial" for people who have symptoms are detected quickly.
"It is impossible to say whether the situation would have been avoided, but it is certainly more likely to affect the region and tourists of Ebola, the authorities need to be aware of, even though the infrastructure and the situation is challenging," Webster said.
Ebola, which has a mortality rate of 60-96% is a systemic viral, it will affect all the organs that control various functions in the body. But before it is attacked by the digestive, respiratory, vascular, muscular, neurological, and Ebola is leaving the waiting a lot like the flu.
The onset of the patient may experience fatigue, fever, headache, sore throat and pain in the joints and muscles. Initial symptoms are so common, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the cases are often delayed.
Saudi Arabia officials say a man who was tested in Ebola virus is dead. the 40-year-old returned to Sierra Leone on Sunday, with at least 286 people have died of Ebola, and then to the hospital in Jiddah after the symptoms of viral hemorrhagic fever.
At the same time, the Spanish Defence Ministry said, in a medically equipped with Airbus 310 is ready to fly to Liberia to withdraw the Spanish missionary priest who is Ebola. The Ministry said Wednesday that preparations for the flight, completed but is not yet known what time the plane takes off.
The priest Miguel Pajares, there are three missionaries held in isolation in a hospital in San Jose de Monrovia Liberia, who have tested positive for the virus, the San Juan de Dios hospital order, the Catholic humanitarian group, which runs the hospitals around the world, told reporters on Tuesday.
There is now at least 1,711 MPA respectively in cases of Ebola in this year, which have not been proven vaccine or treatment, according to new figures released on Wednesday by the World Health Organization. More than 932 people have died in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria from August 4, the who said.
Announcing the new deaths, who pointed out, in particular, that "the resistance is still high," in Liberia. Many fear the family members refuse to sick relatives, the isolation of the centers prefer to treat them at home and pray for their survival is not proven to cure or treatment exists for Ebola.
The ailing quarantine sick people are complicating efforts to stop Ebola has spread.
In Nigeria five people are now infected, Sawyer was not infectious to their neighbors or until they began their own symptoms, health experts say. The delay in the implementation of infection control measures, however, is another setback to the struggle to eradicate the worst of the Ebola outbreak in history.
The Virus spreads to Nigeria's Ghost is particularly alarming, said David Morse, a Professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
"It makes you nervous when so many people are potentially at risk," he said.
Lagos is a confusing mix of wealth and poverty, filled with luxury SUVs and decrepit buses, similar to the carriage through the hours filled with traffic on the bridges that connect the islands of the city to the Mainland.
Ebola may only be transmitted through direct contact with body fluids of someone who is sick-blood, semen, saliva, urine, feces, or sweat. Millions of people live in cramped conditions, without access to the flushable TOILET and exposed the entire mega-city to tell people not to urinate in public.
Liberian authorities said Sawyer's sister had recently died of Ebola, but Sawyer said he had not been in close contact with her while she was sick.
In announcing his death, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu, Nigeria officials vigilant force.
"It was over there (at the airport) the problem was seen to be, because we have preserved their control," he told reporters. "And as soon as he went to the Federal Ministry of health, the health of port services in the store, so there was no time for him to mingle in Lagos. He does not have a relationship to another person, again because we took him to the airport. "
On Tuesday, Lagos State Commissioner for health, said that they did not foresee the Ebola immediately, and it was not until about 24 hours in the hospital that they identify him with the Ebola possible.
"They returned to their history, and they were like" Oh, this is Liberia "and therefore he was isolated," Lagos State Health Commissioner Jide Idris told reporters. "Even if the window period it was possible that some of these people got infected."
Nigeria was one of the countries at the meeting of the regional health authorities in Ghana in early July where they decided to intensify the monitoring of Ebola cases and quickly share information with WHO.
Sawyer, who was infected by the fever and vomiting on the country, Liberia, but was on a stopover in Togo. Officials may initially unaware of his original point of departure, and it was unclear whether he was on his way to the Liberian or U.s. passport.
Experts say the Ebola infection may spread the disease only in body fluids, and when they have symptoms. Because of the incubation period can last up to three weeks, some Nigerians, who treated Sawyer are only now for signs of the disease that can mimic many common tropical diseases, fever, muscle aches, and vomiting.
National Public Health Institute on Wednesday, the Minister's special tents can be used to speed up the creation of the isolation of the stake for all Nigerian States. Authorities set up emergency situations Centre in Lagos to deal with Ebola, which is "fully functional" by Thursday, he said.
"We are embarking on the recruitment of health to strengthen the team, who are currently in control of the situation in Lagos," said in a statement.
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