© www.juliablaise.comIn homes and in restaurants now, bowls or buckets filled with disinfectant as they become residents and visitors to wash their hands.Efforts to move to find those who are in contact with the victims as Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia fighting the epidemic
This week, the Awa Faye added a new feature in his restaurant, is the capital city of Freetown in Sierra Leone in the crowded street in the hilly: character, which determines all users to wash their hands of the chlorinated water on the outside of the bucket. "I will not allow anybody inside, if they do not Wash their hands. We all try to protect ourselves from Ebola in one way or another, "said the 55-year-old, who will be brought to the character after learning that the country's top Ebola doctor died on Tuesday.
Residents of the capital city of Monrovia in Liberia over the neighbouring country is also placing "Ebola buckets" outside the offices, restaurants and homes. Guinea hand disinfectant and gloves of rubber prices have risen.
Initially focused on battling the misinformation and mistrust, efforts to curb the outbreak of Ebola, the world's largest, now spread across a three-nation, has begun to emphasize treating those things up, and find the ones that have come into contact with victims of the highly contagious virus.
Emergency declared in Sierra Leone and Liberia this week to the Presidents of the three countries and the World Health Organization, stressed the urgent need for a new kind of Summit over the largest ever epidemic of the disease, which has so far killed in 729.
"The epidemic moves faster than efforts to control it," Margaret Chan, the Director of the global health body said Friday the crisis in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, the meeting. "If the situation worsens further, the consequences could be catastrophic in terms of lives lost, but also to the serious socio-economic disturbances and spread to other countries with a high risk."Chan added that the longer the virus passes through it, the more it became a general risk: "the constant mutation and adaptation are the survival mechanisms of viruses and other microbes. We must not let opportunities for this virus to produce more surprises. "
Who said the Summit "is a major turning point." $ 100 m Fund to back the rescue plan in all three countries.
Guinea ranked last in 2011 World Bank study on the beds per capita, and Liberia and Sierra Leone, both recovering from almost two decades of uninterrupted civil war. An already weak health services are to the extreme and struggled to survive.
Spreads in the body fluids of infected patients, the bush meat or the surfaces of contact, Ebola there is no known cure or vaccine, even though early detection gives a greater chance of survival. Symptoms can occur up to 21 days to appear.Guinea, where the disease broke out, the cases are just now in the forested interior of the region. But health officials there said the new hotspots have flared, cross-border trade and family ties.
"Yesterday was a case of a man who fell ill, and in Liberia. He came back home to Macenta [disease core area] so his family could look up to her. They took him to hospital thinking it was malaria and found only there, it was in fact Ebola, "said Sakouba, an official of the Ministry of health directs the country's Ebola Keita for the answer.
Mamdou Bah, Nzérékoré border town taxi driver told me to continue to operate the crossing to earn income. "The way I see it, I'm dying of hunger or dying of Ebola. I do not take the passengers with symptoms, but in most cases it is malaria, "whose early symptoms mimic those of Ebola and kills thousands a year.
The answer is more barriers such as non-governmental organizations has steadily decreased the support staff in the countries concerned. In the Samaritan's purse with WaterAid and two U.s. medical aid organization of disease. "My gut instinct is going to get worse before it gets better, and we can't afford to take risks, no longer" from another organization leader told The Guardian.
"If you leave even a single burning Ember, in one case, unnoticed, it could ignite an epidemic" Thomas Frieden, Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters this week. He said the situation could last three to six months for the control. "The CDC will begin to reverse the other surging. It goes fast. It's not going to be easy. But we know what to do-as difficult as it is, it can be done "
The CDC said it will send another 50 specialists add several dozens more waiting for the World Health Organization.
© www.telegraph.co.ukPassengers will take a fever test and wash your hands with chlorine before boarding the flight.The communities of the region are interconnected porous borders to other countries already tightened preventive measures. Nigerian officials started from the airport and the port of passengers this week when a Liberian man collapsed at the Lagos airport was confirmed later to have died from Ebola.
Further West, Ivory Coast to set up four "control posts" along the western border, where many epidemiologists equipped to maintain strong ties with Liberia. "Now we have the red alert, and we have not ruled out closing our borders. Of course we are worried and we are doing everything we can to prevent it from spreading to "Government spokesman Bruno Kone said. Four women have been arrested for illegally selling bush meat, and Yamoussoukro, the capital of the country is located near the city centre, he added.
Health authorities in Germany and France, has recommended that countries affected by the outbreak to travel three and has had an unexpected effect on its borders. A military spokesman for the African Union said it had cancelled Sierra Leone battalion rotation in Somalia, where the organization is fighting Al-Shabab Islamists.
Comment:In addition, warning travelers to avoid going to the area, the CDC is also assisted by the active screening and early development site in West Africa to prevent the sick from traveling on airplanes. In the remote possibility that they will make to the CDC's protocols to protect against the spread of the disease. These include the Declaration of the CDC investigation of sick passengers before the arrival of the aircraft and, if necessary, to isolate the ill travellers. CDC guidance for airlines, passengers and crew and for the disinfection of air in sick. The CDC is not screening passengers from affected countries because of Ebola is not contagious until symptoms appear.
So ... the burning question is: how many will receive travel and now are a symptom of?
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