Liberia - Ebola: 10 212 confirmed cases, 4 573 deaths (WHO, April 22, 2015)

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Thomson Reuters August 5, 2014 5:45pm
Spain to repatriate priest diagnosed with Ebola: health official

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain is arranging for the repatriation of an elderly Spanish Catholic priest working in West Africa who has tested positive for the Ebola virus, the health ministry said on Tuesday...

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Caracas, Tuesday August 5, 2014

Spain to Repatriate Ebola-Infected Priest
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The risks of contagion are ?very low? and the repatriation will be carried out in accord with high-security procedures stipulated by the World Health Organization, the source said.

The Rev. Miguel Pajares, 75, is among several members of religious orders being treated in isolation at St. Joseph?s Catholic Hospital in Monrovia, whose director, Patrick Nshamdze, recently died of Ebola.

The agreement to begin Pajares? repatriation was reached in a videoconference involving Spanish and European Union officials.

?After the repatriation petition by the religious order ? the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God ? is made official, the Spanish Health, Social Services and Equality Ministry will undertake the repatriation protocol,? the source said.
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?I?d like (to go to Spain) because we?ve had a very bad experience with what?s happened here. Here we are abandoned and they?re not taking care of us. We want to go to Spain and for them to treat us as people, as God orders,? Pajares told Efe earlier by telephone.
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http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2346545&CategoryId=12395

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Ebola virus disease, West Africa ? update 6 August 2014 E-mail Print
Epidemiology and surveillance

Between 2 and 4 August 2014, a total of 108 new cases of Ebola virus disease (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 45 deaths were reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.

Health sector response

A mission briefing with representatives from Member States was held on 5 August at the World Health Organization (WHO). Information about the nature of Ebola virus disease (EVD) was highlighted. This was followed by outlining the essential components for control, including the need for national leadership, improved care and case management, identifying transmission chains and stopping disease spread, and preventing further outbreaks. Among the critical issues are: cross-border infections and travelers; partners reaching the limits of their capacity and ability to respond rapidly, safely, and effectively; and concerns about the socio-economic impact of continued transmission.

The Director-General also shared information from her recent meetings in Guinea with Member States of the Mano River Union ? C?te d?Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. She outlined that the response in West Africa would focus on three areas:

Treatment of Gu?ck?dou, Kenema, and Foya as a unified sector, which will include public health measures meant to reduce movement in and out of the area.
Intensifying current measures in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.
Taking steps to reduce international spread to other countries in Africa and outside of the African Region.
The Sub-regional Ebola Operations Coordination Centre (SEOCC) in Conakry reported on 5 August that the following actions are underway in the four affected countries:

In Guinea, new foci have emerged and case management facilities will be needed. Exit screening is currently being tested in Conakry, in partnership with the US CDC.
In Liberia, security issues continue to be of concern, notwithstanding the commitment of the Government. Community resistance remains high.
In Nigeria, the Government is focused on following up the contacts from the index case. Clinical support is urgently needed and a treatment centre is being set up for managing cases of EVD.
In Sierra Leone, efforts are underway to map where treatment centres are most needed and getting those set up. A similar exercise is underway for laboratories.
The SEOCC is assisting countries with these and many other response measures.

On 6 August, WHO is convening an Emergency Committee of international experts to review the outbreak and advise the Director-General, in accordance with the International Health Regulations, whether the Ebola virus disease outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Experts will receive an epidemiological briefing and will determine whether the criteria for a PHEIC have been met. If the Emergency Committee agrees that this is a PHEIC, they will then advise the Director-General on temporary recommendations. A summary of the meeting will be made public and a press briefing will be held on Friday, 8 August.

Disease update

New cases and deaths attributable to EVD continue to be reported by the Ministries of Health in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Between 2 and 4 August 2014, 108 new cases (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) of EVD and 45 deaths were reported from the four countries as follows: Guinea, 10 new cases and 5 deaths; Liberia, 48 new cases and 27 deaths; Nigeria, 5 new cases and 0 death; and Sierra Leone, 45 new cases and 13 deaths.

As of 4 August 2014, the cumulative number of cases attributed to EVD in the four countries stands at 1 711, including 932 deaths. The distribution and classification of the cases are as follows: Guinea, 495 cases (351 confirmed, 133 probable, and 11 suspected), including 363 deaths; Liberia, 516 cases (143 confirmed, 252 probable, and 121 suspected), including 282 deaths; Nigeria, 9 cases (0 confirmed, 2 probable, and 7 suspected), including 1 death; and Sierra Leone, 691 cases (576 confirmed, 49 probable, and 66 suspected), including 286 deaths.

http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4240-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-6-august-2014.html

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Liberians in 'Panic' Over Ebola, Need Doctors: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/liberians-in-panic-over-ebola-need-doctors-president-ellen-johnson-sirleaf-569001

Washington: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf appealed for more doctors and supplies to help West African nations battle an outbreak of deadly Ebola, warning on Thursday the crisis was "nearing a catastrophe.

Early denial about the dangers of the contagious disease among Liberians has now "turned into fear and panic," she told CNN in an interview over Skype.

"There are dead bodies all over the place and they now know that it's real. They know that it's deadly and they are now beginning to respond," Ms Sirleaf said.

"This is very, very serious, it's very nearing a catastrophe."

The biggest challenge was trying to contain people in order to try to stop the spread of the epidemic.

After closing most of its land borders, Liberia announced Wednesday that it was shuttering all its schools and placing non-essential government staff on leave.

The impoverished country, along with neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone, is struggling to contain an epidemic that has infected 1,200 people and left 672 dead across the region since the start of the year.

"This is not a Liberia problem or Sierra Leone problem or Guinea problem. It is an international problem," Ms Sirleaf insisted.

Monrovia was "grateful" for the people already on the ground, but needed more help to contain the spread and to train its doctors and nurses.

"They are stretched thin. They need to have additional support. Logistics, the supplies, preventive material... the things like chlorine and those things that will keep people safe," Sirleaf said.

Ms Sirleaf has canceled plans to visit Washington next week for a summit of African leaders hosted by US President Barack Obama and said she believed a US travel warning was an "acceptable preventive measure."

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West African healthcare systems reel as Ebola toll hits 932

By Derick Snyder and Daniel Flynn
MONROVIA/DAKAR Wed Aug 6, 2014 1:09pm EDT
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Liberia, where the death toll is rising fastest, is struggling to cope. Many residents are panicking, in some cases casting out the bodies of family members onto the streets of Monrovia to avoid quarantine measures.

Beneath heavy rain, ambulance sirens wailed through the otherwise quiet streets of Monrovia on Wednesday as residents heeded a government request to stay at home for three days of fasting and prayers.
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St. Joseph's Catholic hospital was shut down after the Cameroonian hospital director died from Ebola, authorities said. Six staff subsequently tested positive for the disease, including two nuns and 75-year old Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, who is due to be repatriated by a special medical aircraft on Wednesday.
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Three of the world's leading Ebola specialists urged the WHO to offer people in West Africa the chance to take experimental drugs, too, but the agency said it "would not recommend any drug that has not gone through the normal process of licensing and clinical trials".

A spokesman for the Liberian government said it would be willing to allow in-country clinical trials.
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Many regular hospitals and clinics have been forced to close across Liberia, often because health workers are too afraid of contracting the virus themselves or because of abuse by locals who think the disease is a government conspiracy.

In an effort to control the disease's spread, Liberia has deployed the army to implement controls and isolate severely affected communities, an operation codenamed "White Shield".

The information ministry said on Wednesday that soldiers were being deployed to the isolated, rural counties of Lofa, Bong, Cape Mount and Bomi to set up checkpoints and implement tracing measures on residents suspected of coming into contact with victims.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/06/us-health-ebola-idUSKBN0G61ID20140806

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　　In recent days, Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, West Africa, three outbreaks of Ebola virus, spread wide range, as many deaths are a record. Virus outbreak in Africa on earth, the province has a peacekeeping medical team is stick. March 19 this year, the 16th batch of Liberia peacekeeping medical team to the PLA 264 Hospital, 43 health care workers to form a formal expedition, went to the West African earth, perform a period of eight months the United Nations peacekeeping mission entrusted. 　　

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http://www.thenewdawnliberia.com/~th...tics&Itemid=59

Spain flies Priest out
Thursday, 07 August 2014 00:00 Othello B. Garblah
The Spanish Government on Wednesday evacuated from Liberia a Catholic Priest, brother Miguel Pajares who contracted the deadly Ebola virus while offering prayers for the late Patrick Sawyer's sister at the Christian run St. Joseph Catholic Hospital in Monrovia. The hospital has been shut down temporarily like many others after the virus spread there.

The late Sawyer sister who also died at the same hospital of the tropical disease had gone there for medical treatment. Her brother Patrick died five days upon arrival in Lagos, Nigeria of the same Ebola virus.

Brother Miguel Pajares was flown to Madrid on a Spain's Ministry of Defense medically equipped Airbus A310, where he will be treated at Madrid's La Paz hospital. Deputy Information Minister Isaac Jackson confirmed that the Priest was flown when contacted on Wednesday...

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http://www.macon.com/2014/07/31/3226...ia-during.html

Mercer professor in Liberia during Ebola outbreak
By PHILLIP RAMATI
July 31, 2014

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Wilson said he went to a market Wednesday for food and didn?t buy any fresh meat or vegetables, only frozen, to reduce the risk of contracting Ebola. In addition, he?s been conducting all of his business by phone or email. If he has to talk with someone in person, he does so through a screen or a gate. And if someone has to enter his residence, that person must wash with chlorine water and sit on the opposite side of the room.

?That?s non-negotiable,? he said by phone from Liberia on Thursday...

Read more here: http://www.macon.com/2014/07/31/3226...#storylink=cpy

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Liberia declares state of emergency due to the spread of the virus, "Ebola"
08/07/2014 - 11:28

Announced that Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a state of emergency in this country in West Africa on Wednesday due to an outbreak of the virus, "Ebola", as the President said in a press statement that the state of emergency will continue for 90 days.
turns this epidemic, which caused the death of 282 people, at least in Liberia alone is transmitted through contact secretions physical of patients with cancer.
was the World Health Organization said in a statement on Wednesday that the number of deaths due to the outbreak of the Ebola virus in the West African countries rose to 932 after the death of 45 patients in the period between the second and the fourth of August Gara.otzar symptoms of haemorrhagic fever Ebola caused by a sudden rise in temperature, fatigue and muscle aches and headaches and pain in the throat. Often these symptoms are followed by vomiting, diarrhea and skin rashes and kidney failure, enlarged liver and internal and external bleeding.

There is no cure or vaccine for the disease so far and there have been experiments carried out on vaccines and serums.

This development comes as advised the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia citizens and residents in the Kingdom not to travel to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in West Africa, and until further notice due to an outbreak of infection with Ebola those countries.
ministry confirmed in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency monitored the situation in the affected states in coordination with the WHO and they will review this alert
in the event of changed circumstances, the health of those countries.

It pointed out that this statement comes in the wake of the precautionary step taken by the Kingdom since last April to stop issuing visas for Umrah pilgrimage to these countries through 2014 because of an outbreak of the virus.

http://www.radioalgerie.dz/news/ar/article/20140807/9355.html

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Ebola outbreak prompts Liberia state of emergency, Sierra Leone blockades
Governments restrict movement in badly affected areas
Thomson Reuters Posted: Aug 07, 2014 6:21 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 07, 2014 6:30 AM ET

Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf announced emergency measures late on Wednesday that will, for 90 days, allow her government to curtail civil rights by imposing quarantines on badly affected communities to contain an epidemic that has struck four West African nations.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-outbreak-prompts-liberia-state-of-emergency-sierra-leone-blockades-1.2729829

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Heritage (Monrovia)
7 August 2014
Liberia: Nurse Killed, 11 Show Ebola Symptoms in Kakata
By Richard Baysah

One nurse has died and 11 others working at the C.H. Rennie Hospital in Kakata, Margibi County are showing symptoms of the Ebola disease, the Medical Director, Dr. AdolphusYeiah, has disclosed.

Dr. Yeiah told the Liberia News Agency(LINA) Tuesday he will shut down the hospital if results of specimen taken from those nurses prove positive, adding "this will show that the situation could go from bad to worse at the hospital."

He added that the situation has left the hospital partially abandoned by the nurses who have been complaining about the lack of personal protective equipment to no avail...

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Liberia closes hospital after 7 staff members contract Ebola

Source: Agencies | August 7, 2014, Thursday | Print Edition
LIBERIA shut a major hospital in the capital Monrovia yesterday after a Spanish priest and six other staff contracted Ebola, as the death toll from the worst outbreak of the disease hit 932 in West Africa.
The outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever has overwhelmed rudimentary health care systems and prompted the deployment of soldiers to quarantine the worst-hit areas in the remote border region of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The World Health Organization reported 45 new deaths in the three days to August 4, and its experts began an emergency meeting in Geneva yesterday. They were slated to discuss whether the outbreak constitutes a ?Public Health Emergency of International Concern? and new measures to contain the outbreak.
International alarm at the spread of the disease increased when a US citizen died in Nigeria late last month after flying there from Liberia. The health minister said yesterday that a Nigerian nurse who had treated the deceased Patrick Sawyer had herself died of Ebola, and five other people were being treated in an isolation ward in Lagos, Africa's largest city.
In Saudi Arabia, a man suspected of contracting Ebola during a recent business trip to Sierra Leone also died early yesterday in Jeddah, the Health Ministry said. Saudi Arabia has already suspended pilgrimage visas from West African countries.
Liberia, where the death toll is rising fastest, is struggling to cope. Many residents are panicking, in some cases casting out the bodies of family members onto the streets of Monrovia to avoid quarantine measures.
Beneath heavy rain, ambulance sirens wailed through the otherwise quiet streets of Monrovia as residents heeded a government request to stay at home for three days of fasting and prayers.
?Everyone is afraid of Ebola. You cannot tell who has Ebola or not. Ebola is not like a cut mark that you can see and run,? said Sarah Wehyee as she stocked up on food at a market in Paynesville, an eastern suburb of Monrovia.
St Joseph?s Catholic hospital was shut down after the Cameroonian hospital director died from Ebola, authorities said. Six staff subsequently tested positive for the disease, including two nuns and 75-year old Spanish priest Miguel Pajares.
Three of the world?s leading Ebola specialists urged the WHO to offer people in West Africa the chance to take experimental drugs, too, but the agency said it ?would not recommend any drug that has not gone through the normal process of licensing and clinical trials.?
Ebola is highly contagious. It kills more than half of the people who contract it. Victims suffer from fever, vomiting, diarrhea and internal and external bleeding.http://www.shanghaidaily.com/world/L.../shdaily.shtml

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Heritage (Monrovia)
7 August 2014
Liberia: Nurse Killed, 11 Show Ebola Symptoms in Kakata
By Richard Baysah

One nurse has died and 11 others working at the C.H. Rennie Hospital in Kakata, Margibi County are showing symptoms of the Ebola disease, the Medical Director, Dr. AdolphusYeiah, has disclosed.

Dr. Yeiah told the Liberia News Agency(LINA) Tuesday he will shut down the hospital if results of specimen taken from those nurses prove positive, adding "this will show that the situation could go from bad to worse at the hospital."

He added that the situation has left the hospital partially abandoned by the nurses who have been complaining about the lack of personal protective equipment to no avail...

http://www.liberianobserver.com/news...ie-11-infected

Ebola Attacks Kakata: 4 Die, 11 Infected
Thu, 08/07/2014 - 10:01 admin
At C.H. Rennie Hospital
By:
C.Y. Kwanue

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Observers see the Ebola attack on Kakata as extremely disturbing, given the city's central location. Most travelers up country, especially to Bong, Lofa, Nimba, Grand Gedeh and other parts of southeastern Liberia not only pass through Kakata, but also stop there for refueling, rest, food and shopping.

Kakata lies in the heart of Liberia's rubber belt. It is adjacent to three major concession areas, Firestone, Salala Rubber Corporation situated in Weala near Salala, Bong County, and China Union, the mining concession operating the former Bong Mines in the densely populated Fauma Chiefdom. Closer to Kakata is the country's largest privately owned rubber plantation, Morris American Rubber, formerly known as Morris Farm.

There are also many major educational institutions in Kakata, the biggest being the Booker Washington Institute (BWI), the Lango Lippaye High School, St. Augustine High School and the Cuttington Community College, which also trains nurses...

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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...s-deniers.html

The Liberian slum where Ebola spreads death among killer virus 'deniers'
Blue crosses on houses in New Kru Town mark the few residences to have complied with the advice of visiting health officials, while countless others rely on prayer and witchcraft to fend off Ebola in Monrovia
By Colin Freeman, in New Kru Town, Liberia

10:03AM BST 08 Aug 2014

If ever there was a likely spot for an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, New Kru Town in Liberia is it. A sprawling slum of the country's war-ravaged capital, Monrovia, it is home to 50,000 people, and has next to no functioning lavatories, sinks or bathrooms.

Sewage runs openly through its maze of corrugated shacks, and in Liberia's wet season ? at its height right now ? tropical torrents turn it into one vast, warm, moist, breeding pool for germs.

It hardly feels surprising then, in the wake of several locals dying from Ebola, to see health teams daubing blue crosses on a number of shacks around town.

These, however, are not to identify those who have caught the disease, but to mark the relatively few New Kru Towners who have been visited by the teams and accepted their advice on how to avoid getting it. So far, only around 500 houses have been marked ? and with health workers themselves accused of spreading the disease, some parts of New Kru Town remain decidedly hostile...

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Catholic nun dies from Ebola virus in Liberia, her missionary order says
New Europe Saturday 9th August, 2014

MADRID (AP) -- A Catholic humanitarian group based in Spain says a nun from the Congo who was working in Liberia has died of the Ebola virus. The San Juan de Dios hospital order says Saturday that Sister Chantal Pascaline died "from Ebola in the Hospital San Jose de Monrovia, despite the care she received from a volunteer nurse." Pascaline belonged to the same order as a Spanish missionary priest and nun evacuated to Madrid by jet this week...

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Re: Liberia - Ebola: 554 suspect/confirmed/prob cases, 294 deaths as of August 6, 2014 (WHO)

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Ebola virus disease, West Africa ? update 8 August 2014
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Disease update

New cases and deaths attributable to EVD continue to be reported by the Ministries of Health in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Between 5 and 6 August 2014, 68 new cases (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) of EVD and 29 deaths were reported from the four countries as follows: Guinea, 0 new cases and 4 deaths; Liberia, 38 new cases and 12 deaths; Nigeria, 4 new cases and 1 death; and Sierra Leone, 26 new cases and 12 deaths.

As of 6 August 2014, the cumulative number of cases attributed to EVD in the four countries stands at 1 779, including 961 deaths. The distribution and classification of the cases are as follows: Guinea, 495 cases (355 confirmed, 133 probable, and 7 suspected), including 367 deaths; Liberia, 554 cases (148 confirmed, 274 probable, and 132 suspected), including 294 deaths; Nigeria, 13 cases (0 confirmed, 7 probable, and 6 suspected), including 2 deaths; and Sierra Leone, 717 cases (631 confirmed, 38 probable, and 48 suspected), including 298 deaths.
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http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4241-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-8-august-2014.html