Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for filovirus
Nigeria isolates Lagos hospital where Ebola victim died
By Tim Cocks
LAGOS Mon Jul 28, 2014 5:08pm BST
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"The private hospital was demobilised (evacuated) and the primary source of infection eliminated. The decontamination process in all the affected areas has commenced," Lagos state health commissioner Jide Idris told a news conference.
Some hospital staff who were in close contact with the victim have been isolated. The hospital will be shut for a week and all staff closely monitored, Idris added.
Authorities are monitoring a total of 59 people who were in contact with Sawyer, including airport contacts, the Lagos state health ministry said. But the airline he flew in with has yet to provide a passenger-list for the flights he used, it added.
... Derek Gatherer, a virologist at Britain?s University of Lancaster, said anyone on the plane near Sawyer could be in "pretty serious danger", but added relatively wealthy Nigeria was better placed to tackle the outbreak than poorer neighbours.
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David Heymann, head of the Centre on Global Health Security at London's Chatham House, said every person who had been on the plane to Lagos with Sawyer would need to be traced and be told to monitor their temperature twice a day for 21 days.
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"WHO is sending teams to both Nigeria and Togo to do follow- up work in relation to contact tracing, in particular to contacts he may have had on board the flight," WHO spokesman Paul Garwood said.
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Nigeria isolates Lagos hospital where Ebola victim died
By Tim Cocks
LAGOS Mon Jul 28, 2014 5:08pm BST
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"The private hospital was demobilised (evacuated) and the primary source of infection eliminated. The decontamination process in all the affected areas has commenced," Lagos state health commissioner Jide Idris told a news conference.
Some hospital staff who were in close contact with the victim have been isolated. The hospital will be shut for a week and all staff closely monitored, Idris added.
Authorities are monitoring a total of 59 people who were in contact with Sawyer, including airport contacts, the Lagos state health ministry said. But the airline he flew in with has yet to provide a passenger-list for the flights he used, it added.
... Derek Gatherer, a virologist at Britain?s University of Lancaster, said anyone on the plane near Sawyer could be in "pretty serious danger", but added relatively wealthy Nigeria was better placed to tackle the outbreak than poorer neighbours.
...
David Heymann, head of the Centre on Global Health Security at London's Chatham House, said every person who had been on the plane to Lagos with Sawyer would need to be traced and be told to monitor their temperature twice a day for 21 days.
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"WHO is sending teams to both Nigeria and Togo to do follow- up work in relation to contact tracing, in particular to contacts he may have had on board the flight," WHO spokesman Paul Garwood said.
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