Check out the FAQ,Terms of Service & Disclaimers by clicking the
link. Please register
to be able to post. By viewing this site you are agreeing to our Terms of Service and Acknowledge our Disclaimers.
FluTrackers.com Inc. does not provide medical advice. Information on this web site is collected from various internet resources, and the FluTrackers board of directors makes no warranty to the safety, efficacy, correctness or completeness of the information posted on this site by any author or poster.
The information collated here is for instructional and/or discussion purposes only and is NOT intended to diagnose or treat any disease, illness, or other medical condition. Every individual reader or poster should seek advice from their personal physician/healthcare practitioner before considering or using any interventions that are discussed on this website.
By continuing to access this website you agree to consult your personal physican before using any interventions posted on this website, and you agree to hold harmless FluTrackers.com Inc., the board of directors, the members, and all authors and posters for any effects from use of any medication, supplement, vitamin or other substance, device, intervention, etc. mentioned in posts on this website, or other internet venues referenced in posts on this website.
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: 15 cases, 4 fatalities as of August 16, 2014 (WHO report August 19, 2014)
Ebola Patient, Dr. Adadevoh, is Dead
19 Aug 2014
Font Size: a / A
Ameyo Stella Adadevoh
Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, the consultant physician, who had contracted the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) from the Liberian, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, who imported the virus into Nigeria, is dead.
Sources close to Adadevoh, 58, said she succumbed to the disease Tuesday evening.
Adadevoh led the medical team at First Consultants Medical Centre, a Lagos-based hospital, that treated Sawyer.
She was said to have fallen into a coma on Monday and despite the valiant battle by the medical team to save her, she could not survive the scourge of the disease.
Nigerian doctor clear of Ebola, 5 others recover
Aug 16 2014 - 10:58pm
It has not been all bleak news about the Ebola virus pandemic. In Nigeria, the week is closing with something to cheer as Nigeria?s Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Saturday announced that the first Nigerian confirmed to have contracted the Ebola virus has been discharged after full recovery.
Chukwu, who briefed newsmen in Lagos, said the patient was discharged ?after conclusive discharge protocols??, adding that she could go home to resume her normal life.
Five other Ebola patients have almost fully recovered, he said.
A female doctor not identified by the minister, had attended to the Liberian, Mr Patrick Sawyer, who brought the disease to Nigeria.
Chukwu said that Nigeria had recorded 12 confirmed cases, four deaths and 189 persons under surveillance in Lagos, and six persons under surveillance in Enugu.
He said that all the persons under surveillance were secondary contacts.
?All the patients under treatment have now moved to the new 40-bed capacity isolated ward provided by the Lagos State Government. Additional equipment has also been made available to the new isolating ward by the Federal Government??, he said...
Ebola: FG Confirms 198 Suspected Victims Are Quarantined
...
Maku confirmed that the quarantined patients had contact with the country?s first EVD casualty, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, who died three weeks in a Lagos private Hospital, stating that a nurse among the suspected victims left Lagos for Enugu, despite the warning against the trip.
The 21 days since P. Sawyer was isolated has past!
Ebola: Another Nurse Who Had Contact With Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer Dies In Lagos
by SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK Aug 14, 2014
Until her death, the outdpoken nurse was at the center of a campaign to get the Zmapp experimental drugs to Ebola victims in Nigeria. John Okiyi-Kalu started the Internet campaign a few days ago. Obi Justina Ejelonu, Photo credit: John okiyi-Kalu
Ebola Virus: Kwara reports suspected case in Ilorin
Thursday, 14 August 2014 22:02
Written by Abiodun Fagbemi, Ilorin
Category: National
KWARA State government Thursday announced the discovery of a suspected case of Ebola virus in Ilorin.
The suspected case, a boy of seven months old, was said to have been treated for fever at a private hospital in the town.
His mother was said to have travelled from Ibadan, the Oyo State capital to Ilorin when the boy fell ill.
When the condition did no improve after two days on admission as he persisted in stooling and vomiting, he was referred to a pediatrician who is the proprietor of another clinic.
After spending about three hours in the referred hospital, according to the Senior Special Assistant on Public Health to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, Prof. Sunday Opakunle, the proprietor of the clinic said there were traces of blood in the stool, and quickly alerted the Ebola Committee on the development.
According to Opakunle at a press briefing in Ilorin, ?ordinarily the symptoms could have been something else, but in view of the prevailing global scourge on Ebola, we decided not to take chances on it. We moved into action, by evacuating the baby and the mother to our isolated ward for Ebola at Sobi Specialist Hospital where the boy is placed on examination and treatment. Besides, we have sealed the clinics for a few days and de contaminated them.?
He disclosed that no history of contact was established between the patient as none of those around the baby was symptomatic.
He said the next stage was to conduct examination and Laboratory Medical Imaging on him.
Opabola said, the samples of the baby had been sent to Lagos, Redeemer University and Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) with a promise that the results would be made available ?later today.?
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: 12 cases, 3 fatalities as of August 11, 2014 (WHO report August 13, 2014)
Seven-Month Old Baby suspected to have contracted Ebola in Kwara
The Kwara State Chairman of Ebola Viral Disease Control Committee, Prof. Sunday Opabola, on Thursday said that a suspected case of Ebola disease has been reported in the state.
He stated that the suspect is a seven-month old baby who had come with his parents from Ibadan for a visit at Ilorin after one of those taking care of him had returned to Ibadan from Lagos.
Addressing journalists in Ilorin on Thursday, he stated that it had not yet been confirmed that the child is infected with Ebola and that there is no confirmed case of the disease in the state as being rumoured, adding that residents of the state should not panic.
Nigeria records fourth case of Ebola fatalities in Lagos
Aug 14,2014
ABUJA, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria on Thursday recorded the fourth case of Ebola fatalities following the death of a nurse who came in contact with Liberian Patrick Sawyer, the index case of the virus in the West African country, local media reported.
The nurse died early Thursday at the Yaba Mainland General Hospital in Nigeria's most populous city of Lagos, according to local online newspaper Premium Times. An official statement confirming the development was yet to be issued.
However, relatives of the deceased arrived at the health facility Thursday afternoon to mourn their dead. They gathered in groups, making phone calls to other relatives and weeping inconsolably.
Jide Idris, commissioner for health in the southwestern Nigeria's state of Lagos, was also at the hospital. He left the health facility after a brief meeting with the staff, but declined to make official comment on the death of the nurse...
Ebola: Nigeria gets Nano-silva trial drug
Posted by: Vincent Ikuomola, Abuja in Featured, News, News Update 1 min ago
?Says disease restricted to Lagos
The Federal Government is to receive Nano Silver trial drug for the treatment of Ebola Virus Disease patients, it was learnt.
The drug is from Nigerian scientist.
Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu said yesterday at a Press Briefing in Abuja said it has been used experimentally for many things.
The drug he said is getting to Lagos this morning.
Besides, he said eleven people have so far been tested positive to the deadly disease. The number included the index, Patrick Sawyer...
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: 12 cases, 3 fatalities as of August 11, 2014 (WHO report August 13, 2014)
Nigeria reports one more Ebola case, 11 in total
(Reuters) - Nigeria has confirmed 11 cases of Ebola, an increase of one from the last count, the health minister said on Thursday.
The case was someone in Lagos who had had contact with Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who brought Ebola to Nigeria on a plane on July 20, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told a news conference in the capital Abuja.
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: 12 cases, 3 fatalities as of August 13, 2014 (WHO)
Ebola: FG Confirms 198 Suspected Victims Are Quarantined
As various levels of government in the country battle to check further spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the number of the suspected victims has continue to rise as the Federal Government just confirmed almost 200 people being currently quarantined in Lagos and Enugu states, in the South Western and Eastern Nigeria respectively.
Information Minister, Labaran Maku made this known on Wednesday in Abuja in a chart with the State House Correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.
Maku confirmed that the quarantined patients had contact with the country?s first EVD casualty, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, who died three weeks in a Lagos private Hospital, stating that a nurse among the suspected victims left Lagos for Enugu, despite the warning against the trip.
According to the Minister, a total of 198 persons he stated were presently under watch by the Ministry of Health to contain further spread of the disease, clarifying that out of the figure, 177 victims were in Lagos while 21 were in Enugu.
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: 13 cases, 2 fatalities as of August 9, 2014 (WHO)
Hattip Shiloh
Ebola virus disease, West Africa ? update 11 August 2014 ... 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 7 and 9 August 2014, 69 new cases (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) of EVD and 52 deaths were reported from the four countries as follows: Guinea, 11 new cases and 6 deaths; Liberia, 45 new cases and 29 deaths; Nigeria, 0 new cases and 0 deaths; and Sierra Leone, 13 new cases and 17 deaths.
Confirmed, probable, and suspect cases and deaths from Ebola virus disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, as of 9 August 2014
Leave a comment: