Liberia free of ebola. Except for the 3 new cases just confirmed

[Delta4Embassy]

Ebola announces 3 new cases of Ebola - CNN.com

" (CNN)Two months after Liberia was declared free of Ebola, three confirmed cases of the deadly disease have emerged in the West African nation.

Thee nation's health ministry said a new case was confirmed Thursday, when blood samples from a patient admitted in a hospital the same week tested positive.

Two other high- risk contacts also tested positive, and all three are undergoing care at an Ebola treatment center in the capital of Monrovia, the health ministry said in a statement.

More than 40 contacts are being monitored, said Margaret Ann Harris, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization.

"It is possible that we will find more cases," said Dr. Bernice Dahn, Liberia's' health minister. "The key is to stop it, find the source, and prevent the next one."
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Liberia was first declared Ebola-free in May, but new cases later emerged. "

 

[EverCurious]

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[Mudda]

Liberia free of ebola. Except for... this thread.

 

[waltky]

W. Africa Better Prepared to Contain Ebola...

W. Africa Better Prepared to Contain Future Ebola Outbreaks
May 29, 2016 — In exclusive VOA interview, WHO official says Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea now able to respond more quickly to emergencies because of upgrades to their surveillance, laboratory, health care systems

The World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Africa says West Africa is better prepared to tackle future outbreaks of Ebola. In an exclusive interview with VOA, Matshidiso Moeti says Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are now able to respond more quickly to emergencies because of upgrades to their surveillance, laboratory and health care systems. Moeti became head of WHO’s regional office for Africa in February 2015, at the height of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. As the World Health Organization’s chief troubleshooter in the region, she told VOA she knew she had to do whatever was necessary to stop the spread of this fatal disease. Ebola had killed more than 11,000 people in the three most heavily affected West African countries by the time WHO declared the transmission of the Ebola virus virtually over at the end of last year.

Warning of flare-ups

Although it acknowledged that the epidemic was no longer out of control, the WHO warned the countries to remain vigilant as flare-ups of the disease were likely to continue for some time. ”We have had a very prolonged last leg of getting to zero in this outbreak and we are not there yet,” said Moeti. But, she added Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea have greatly improved their ability to respond to Ebola and have proved this in their skillful management of the occasional flare-ups of the disease. “They have been able when they get an unexpected case in these last few months to be able to respond and detect it relatively early, follow-up the contacts and contain the spread. So, for me that is one of the best outcomes of this tragic situation in West Africa,” said Moeti.

A health worker takes the temperature of people to see if they might be infected by the Ebola virus inside the Ignace Deen government hospital in Conakry, Guinea​

But, she cautioned that all the improvements made in infrastructure, in response systems, and in skills training must be sustained. This, she said required the continued support of the International community. Moeti stressed that the funding and expertise that had poured into West Africa during the Ebola epidemic must hold. “I am very hopeful that some of the commitments that were made by the donors during the time when these countries were talking about their recovery actually do materialize,” she said. She called this essential “to ensuring that the healthcare workers, the infrastructure, the laboratories, the commodities that are needed to be available on an ongoing basis are sustained.”

Heath emergency reforms

The World Health Assembly, which has just wrapped up its annual meeting, has approved reforms of the emergency health system. Moeti praised the underlying agreement by member States to provide the money needed to implement this system. She said WHO will be in a better position now to head-off crises before they become full blown. This, she said would prove to be a boon to African countries. This year’s World Health Assembly had a particularly packed agenda of 76 health issues to consider. The 3,500 delegates who attended the week-long meeting approved 10 new resolutions including the program on health emergencies.

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Cholera, Chikungunya Outbreaks Strain Kenya's Medical Services
May 27, 2016 — In what Doctors Without Borders is calling a first, simultaneous outbreaks of cholera and chikungunya are straining local health services in northeastern Kenya.

In Kenya’s Mandera County, 12 deaths from cholera have been reported since April, in an outbreak that has been ongoing for about 17 months, according to Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym, MSF. Almost 800 cases have been reported during this period, concentrated in Mandera township. “It is rather devastating in the sense also that, you know, it coincides with a parallel chikungunya outbreak,” said Liesbeth Aelbrecht, MSF’s Kenya country director. “For us as an organization, it’s a first, at least to see two large outbreaks coinciding.”

Mandera, Kenya​

MSF said this is the sixth time in six months that it has deployed teams to assist with the cholera outbreak in the northeastern region. MSF said the Mandera Referral Hospital has been "overwhelmed" by cholera patients and expressed concern that health facilities will continue to struggle as chikungunya patients also seek treatment. Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne illness causing high fever, joint pain and headache, is affecting even medical personnel. MSF suspects about 80 percent of hospital staff are infected. Although mortality rates are usually low, it can take patients about a week to recover. Kenya’s Ministry of Health reports 260 suspected cases of chikungunya in the northeast, with seven confirmed by laboratory tests.

Aelbrecht urged a better government response at the local and national levels, saying greater investment in proper water and sanitation for the population is needed. Mandera county's minister of health, Ahmed Mohamed, said the government is doing the best it can, especially given Mandera’s proximity to both Ethiopia and Somalia. He said people traveling across the borders can carry diseases with them. “So, we’ve done quite a lot on our part,” said Mohamed, “but unfortunately, especially on the Somali side, there isn’t a strong health system that can be able to handle this kind of infection. So it is like we are fighting a battle where we don’t know where the head is.” The Kenyan Ministry of Health has reported more than 15,000 cholera cases nationwide since the outbreak began in late 2014.

Cholera, Chikungunya Outbreaks Strain Kenya's Medical Services

 

[edthecynic]

No wonder the GOP House want to divert funding away from Ebola.

House rejects Obama's request for $1.8 billion to fight Zika

The head of the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday turned down the Obama administration’s request for emergency funding to fight the Zika virus, citing a pool of funding leftover from the Ebola virus.

Federal health officials had requested $1.8 billion to combat the Zika virus both in the U.S. and abroad. Most of that money would have gone to the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) for research into vaccines and diagnostics of the relatively unknown disease, which is largely spread by mosquitoes and has infected dozens of people in the U.S. since spreading from Latin America.

GOP leaders, led by Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), told the administration on Thursday that they should first use the money left over from the government’s emergency Ebola response before seeking new funding.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Ebola announces 3 new cases of Ebola - CNN.com

" (CNN)Two months after Liberia was declared free of Ebola, three confirmed cases of the deadly disease have emerged in the West African nation.

Thee nation's health ministry said a new case was confirmed Thursday, when blood samples from a patient admitted in a hospital the same week tested positive.

Two other high- risk contacts also tested positive, and all three are undergoing care at an Ebola treatment center in the capital of Monrovia, the health ministry said in a statement.

More than 40 contacts are being monitored, said Margaret Ann Harris, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization.

"It is possible that we will find more cases," said Dr. Bernice Dahn, Liberia's' health minister. "The key is to stop it, find the source, and prevent the next one."
Read More

Liberia was first declared Ebola-free in May, but new cases later emerged. "

Blame Obama, prevent all those flights that aren't coming from Liberia to the US from coming, and impeach Obama for it.

 

[idb]

Ebola announces 3 new cases of Ebola - CNN.com

" (CNN)Two months after Liberia was declared free of Ebola, three confirmed cases of the deadly disease have emerged in the West African nation.

Thee nation's health ministry said a new case was confirmed Thursday, when blood samples from a patient admitted in a hospital the same week tested positive.

Two other high- risk contacts also tested positive, and all three are undergoing care at an Ebola treatment center in the capital of Monrovia, the health ministry said in a statement.

More than 40 contacts are being monitored, said Margaret Ann Harris, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization.

"It is possible that we will find more cases," said Dr. Bernice Dahn, Liberia's' health minister. "The key is to stop it, find the source, and prevent the next one."
Read More

Liberia was first declared Ebola-free in May, but new cases later emerged. "

Blame Obama, prevent all those flights that aren't coming from Liberia to the US from coming, and impeach Obama for it.

Wasn't he trying to spread Ebola throughout the US to...ummm..do something heinous?

 

[frigidweirdo]

Ebola announces 3 new cases of Ebola - CNN.com

" (CNN)Two months after Liberia was declared free of Ebola, three confirmed cases of the deadly disease have emerged in the West African nation.

Thee nation's health ministry said a new case was confirmed Thursday, when blood samples from a patient admitted in a hospital the same week tested positive.

Two other high- risk contacts also tested positive, and all three are undergoing care at an Ebola treatment center in the capital of Monrovia, the health ministry said in a statement.

More than 40 contacts are being monitored, said Margaret Ann Harris, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization.

"It is possible that we will find more cases," said Dr. Bernice Dahn, Liberia's' health minister. "The key is to stop it, find the source, and prevent the next one."
Read More

Liberia was first declared Ebola-free in May, but new cases later emerged. "

Blame Obama, prevent all those flights that aren't coming from Liberia to the US from coming, and impeach Obama for it.

Wasn't he trying to spread Ebola throughout the US to...ummm..do something heinous?

Probably to wipe out white people, like his mom.

 

[idb]

Ebola announces 3 new cases of Ebola - CNN.com

" (CNN)Two months after Liberia was declared free of Ebola, three confirmed cases of the deadly disease have emerged in the West African nation.

Thee nation's health ministry said a new case was confirmed Thursday, when blood samples from a patient admitted in a hospital the same week tested positive.

Two other high- risk contacts also tested positive, and all three are undergoing care at an Ebola treatment center in the capital of Monrovia, the health ministry said in a statement.

More than 40 contacts are being monitored, said Margaret Ann Harris, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization.

"It is possible that we will find more cases," said Dr. Bernice Dahn, Liberia's' health minister. "The key is to stop it, find the source, and prevent the next one."
Read More

Liberia was first declared Ebola-free in May, but new cases later emerged. "

Blame Obama, prevent all those flights that aren't coming from Liberia to the US from coming, and impeach Obama for it.

Wasn't he trying to spread Ebola throughout the US to...ummm..do something heinous?

Probably to wipe out white people, like his mom.

Ah, yes.