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  • #31
    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
    ...
    "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.
    ...
    "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.
    ...

    Last edited by Emily; July 31, 2014, 08:15 PM. Reason: Virologist says tested positive for filovirus.
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    • #32
      Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

      Former Minn. man victim of Ebola outbreak

      Lindsey Seavert, KARE 8:10 p.m. EDT July 28, 2014

      MINNEAPOLIS - The Minnesota Department of Health is working with leaders in the local Liberian community to address concerns about an Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

      This comes after a former Coon Rapids man collapsed from the virus in an airport in Lagos, the capital of Nigeria. His following death marked the first recorded case in Nigeria, the continent's most populated country.

      Patrick Sawyer, 40, was a top government official in the Liberian Ministry of Finance, and moved to Liberia to serve the country he loved, according to his wife Decontee Sawyer, who still lives in Coon Rapids with the couple's three young daughters, ages 5,4, and 1.
      ...
      Sawyer said she believes her husband contracted the virus from his sister. She said she is starting a Minnesota organization called Concerned Liberians Against Ebola which will benefit the Global Health Ministries and Samaritan Purse organizations.
      ...
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      • #33
        Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

        Xinhua News AgencyJuly 7, 2014 12:30July 7, 2014 12:30

        Nigeria suspends airline for flying Ebola virus victim

        LAGOS, July 29 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian government has suspended all ASky Airline flight operations to Nigeria over the transportation of an Ebola virus victim into the country.

        Benedict Adeyileka, acting director-general of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) announced the decision in a statement in Lagos on Tuesday, the nation's economic hub.

        The west African nation regulatory authority had to take the action to protect Nigerians from the deadly Ebola virus, currently ravaging some parts of Africa, the director general said.

        ASky Airline is an important player in East, West and Central Africa, operating 80 flights into Lagos and Abuja weekly.
        ...
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        • #34
          Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

          LASG: Nigeria?s ambassador never had contact with Ebola victim

          Jul 29, 2014

          Making a U-turn on its earlier position to that effect, the Lagos State Government (LASG) has now said it was a representative of the President of the Economic Community of West African States, Kadre Desire Ouedraogo, who had the contact with the Ebola virus victim.

          A statement on Tuesday by Hakeem Bello, the Special Adviser on Media to Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State, apologised for the mix-up though it was blamed on the representative of the Federal Government at the press briefing.
          ...
          The state?s Commissioner of Health, Dr. Jide Idris, had on Monday listed Obi-Nnadozie as one of the 59 persons that came into contact with the Ebola virus victim.
          ...
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          • #35
            Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

            Ebola Virus: Lagos Government Says First Consultants Acted Professionally

            The Lagos State Government has thrown its weight behind the First Consultant Medical Center.

            The Special Adviser on Public Health to the Lagos State Government, Dr. Yewande Adeshina, told Channels Television earlier on Tuesday that the hospital took all the necessary precautions in caring for the victim who died last week.
            ...
            “The hospital was locked down in the sense that he died while in the hospital. Although it is not common to be (infected) in the same room, if you didn’t touch him, chances are that you wouldn’t get the infection.

            “But some of the staff might have attended to him that would have gone round the rest of the hospital in this first 24 hours. There were other patients in the wards that they might have attended to.”

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            • #36
              Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

              The race to track who met with Ebola victim

              7:00 AM Tuesday Jul 29, 2014
              ...
              No one knows for sure just how many people Patrick Sawyer came into contact with the day he boarded a flight in Liberia, had a stopover in Ghana, changed planes in Togo, and then arrived in Nigeria, where authorities say he died days later from Ebola, one of the deadliest diseases known to man.

              Now health workers are scrambling to trace those who may have been exposed to Sawyer across West Africa, including flight attendants and fellow passengers.
              ...
              In Sawyer's case, it appears nothing was done to question him until he fell sick on his second flight with Asky Airlines. An airline spokesman would not comment on what precautions were being taken in the aftermath of Sawyer's journey.
              ...
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              • #37
                Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

                Ebola virus disease, West Africa ? update 29 July 2014
                Epidemiology and surveillance

                The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to monitor the evolution of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria. The Ebola epidemic trend in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea remains precarious, with continuing community and health-facility transmissions of infection.

                Between 24 and 27 July 2014, a total of 122 new cases (suspect, probable, and laboratory-confirmed cases) as well as 57 deaths were reported from Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria.

                The surge in the number of new EVD cases especially in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea calls for concentrated efforts by all to address the identified problems such as health facility transmission and effective contact tracing.

                In Nigeria, IHR focal person report confirms that the probable case notified was symptomatic at the time of arrival in Nigeria and that 59 contacts (15 from among the airport staff and 44 from the hospital) have been identified so far. The report also confirms that the patient travelled by air and arrived in Lagos, Nigeria, on 20th July via Lom?, Togo and Accra, Ghana.

                The sample from this case is yet to be sent to the WHO Collaborating Centre at the Institute Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal, due to refusal by courier companies to transport this sample. Though only one probable case has been detected so far in Nigeria, Ebola virus infection in this country represents a significant development in the course of this outbreak.

                The national authority in Nigeria, Togo and Ghana continue to work closely with WHO and partners in identification of contact and contact tracing as well as in preparing response plans.


                Health sector response

                In an effort to accelerate the response to the current EVD outbreak in West Africa, the Director General of WHO and other senior managers continue to hold discussions with the donor community, development partners as well as international agencies at a global level. Focus of discussion has centered among others on the need to rapidly deploy additional resources (human and financial) that will help interrupt Ebola transmission.

                Efforts are currently ongoing to scale up and strengthen all aspects of the response in the four countries, including epidemiologic investigations, contact tracing, public information and community mobilization, case management and infection prevention and control, coordination and staff security. WHO is also working closely with various partners to finalize the national response plans that define urgent response needs in line with the Accra?s strategy adopted by Member States.

                WHO and Partners (CDC, MSF, UNICEF, IFRC, Institute Pasteur of Dakar, Save the Children, Plan Guinea and others) continue to work together through the Sub-regional Ebola Outbreak Coordination Center (SEOCC) in Conakry in accelerating the control of this outbreak.

                WHO does not recommend any travel or trade restrictions is applied to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone or Nigeria, based on the current information available for this event.

                Disease update

                New cases and deaths attributable to EVD continue to be reported by the Ministries of Health in the four West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Between 24 and 27 July 2014, 122 new cases (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) of EVD, and 57 deaths, were reported from the four countries as follows: Guinea, 33 new cases and 20 deaths; Liberia, 80 new cases and 27 deaths; Sierra Leone, 8 new cases and 9 deaths; and Nigeria, 1 new case who died.

                As of 27 July 2014, the cumulative number of cases attributed to EVD in the four countries stands at 1323 including 729 deaths. The distribution and classification of the cases are as follows: Guinea, 460 cases (336 confirmed, 109 probable, and 15 suspected) including 339 deaths; Liberia, 329 cases (100 confirmed, 128 probable, and 101 suspected) including 156 deaths; Sierra Leone, 533 cases (473 confirmed, 38 probable, and 22 suspected) including 233 deaths; and Nigeria, 1 probable case who died.

                Confirmed, probable, and suspect cases and deaths from Ebola virus disease in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria as of 27 July 2014
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                • #38
                  Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola; 2nd suspected case reported

                  Source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=74618


                  Another suspected case of Ebola in Nigeria
                  By AZOMA CHIKWE on July 31, 2014 ? COVER

                  Barely seven days after Mr. Pat*rick Sawyer, a Liberian, died in a private hospital in La*gos, one of the personnel, who helped him out of the aircraft on his arrival in Lagos, has shown signs of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).

                  The latest victim, who was said to have helped the late Sawyer, but has not yet been named, was among the 59 persons the Federal Government and the Lagos State Government registered to have had contact with the late Sawyer immediately on his arrival in Nigeria on Sun*day, July 20...

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                  • #39
                    Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola; 2nd suspected case reported

                    Sawyer’s Final Hours In Lagos: ‘Indiscipline’, Rage, Strange

                    Lagos, Nigeria - Barely 24 hours before his death, Patrick Sawyer had a rather strange - and in the words of medical and diplomatic sources here, “Indiscipline” encounter with nurses and health workers at First Consultants Hospital in Obalende, one of the most crowded parts of Lagos, a population of some 21 million inhabitants, FrontPageAfrica has learned.

                    Looking to get to the bottom of Sawyer’s strange ailment on the Asky Airline flight, which Sawyer transferred on in Togo, hospital officials say, he was tested for both malaria and HIV AIDS. However, when both tests came back negative, he was then asked whether he had made contact with any person with the Ebola Virus, to which Sawyer denied. Sawyer’s sister, Princess had died of the deadly virus on Monday, July 7, 2014 at the Catholic Hospital in Monrovia. On Friday, July 25, 2014, 18 days later, Sawyer died in Lagos.

                    ...

                    FrontPageAfrica has now learned that upon being told he had Ebola, Mr. Sawyer went into a rage, denying and objecting to the opinion of the medical experts. “He was so adamant and difficult that he took the tubes from his body and took off his pants and urinated on the health workers, forcing them to flee."

                    ...



                    If that is correct, those health workers are at considerable risk

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                    • #40
                      Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola; 2nd suspected case reported

                      Montreme

                      Lagos Official Claims There?s Another Suspected Case of Ebola in Nigeria
                      It has been revealed by a top official at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos, that a man who helped the late Liberian Ebola victim - BellaNaija.com. March 28, 2024


                      It has been revealed by a top official at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos, that a man who helped the late Liberian Ebola victim Patrick Sawyer, on the Monrovia-Lome, and Lome-Lagos flight may have been infected with the deadly virus.

                      Punch and The Sun report that although it has not been concluded that the man has Ebola, he is showing feverish signs similar to that of the virus.

                      ?We are still investigating and monitoring those who had first contact with Sawyer. One of the people who helped him off the plane is showing signs of fever, a symptom of Ebola. We have isolated them and we are carrying out various tests to establish if it is Ebola or not.?, the source said.

                      snip

                      The Lagos State Government on Monday said 59 people came in contact with the 40-year-old Liberian who died of Ebola virus on July 25.

                      CNN is also reporting that the Peace Corps as well as other agencies revealed that its 340 volunteers in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea will exit the country because of the outbreak.

                      It was not specified when they may return.

                      All schools in Liberia have also been shut down according to BBC.

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                      • #41
                        Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos dies- testing incomplete for ebola; 2nd suspected case reported

                        From post #37:
                        The sample from this case is yet to be sent to the WHO Collaborating Centre at the Institute Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal, due to refusal by courier companies to transport this sample.
                        http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/0...0FX15C20140728
                        ...
                        Derek Gatherer, a virologist at Britain's University of Lancaster, said anyone on the plane near Sawyer could be in "pretty serious danger," but that Nigeria was better placed to tackle the outbreak than its neighbors.

                        "Nigerians have deep pockets and they can do as much as any Western country could do if they have the motivation and organization to get it done," he said.
                        If they can't get a sample transported for testing, authorities don't seem motivated to me. The epidemiology in this case may stand on it's own without any help from Nigerian authorities:

                        http://nationalchronicleliberia.com/...tracted-ebola/
                        How Patrick Sawyer Contracted Ebola

                        ...

                        According to the Chronicle’s medical source, Sawyer personally undressed Princess, the suspected Ebola patient, changed her into a different set of clothes, placed her in a wheelchair, took her to a private room, and deposited US$500 for her care. The source said all the workers at the hospital were astonished by Sawyer’s behavior.

                        The Chronicle source disclosed that, while undressing his sister, her uncontrollable blood was seen on Patrick’s clothing, including his footwear. It was his brother-in-law who had to get him a pair of slippers, leaving the bloody footwear at the hospital.

                        Unfortunately, Princess was tested and confirmed with the Ebola virus; she died on July 7, 2014, and since, the private ward room where she was transferred has been closed, with her belongings and her brother’s footwear.
                        - See more at: http://nationalchronicleliberia.com/....yP52Cd4s.dpuf
                        That's a truly tragic story, but it also may indicate that this strain of Ebola is not easy to transmit through casual contact.
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                        • #42
                          Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos dies- testing incomplete for ebola; 2nd suspected case reported

                          He was asserting, vehemently, that he hadnt seen his ill sister right? Then the story about his violent psychotic behavior in the hospital. This person may become a quasi-superspreader just based on his erratic and bad decisions (dumping the sister while also infecting self, infecting his ministry and taking a multi layover flight home). Its a sad story that is echoing through Nigeria now.
                          Nika

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                          • #43
                            Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos dies- testing incomplete for ebola; 2nd suspected case reported

                            He was asserting, vehemently, that he hadnt seen his ill sister right?
                            The article linked in this thread claims he denied having contact with an Ebola patient, rather than having contact with his sister, specifically. He was either in denial that his sister had Ebola, or testing on her was not complete at the time he intervened in her care.
                            I don't see him as having 'dumped' his sister. It seems to me that he cared a great deal about her, did what he thought he should do and then had to leave to attend to business.
                            If he was already irrational at that point, then maybe he was ill with something other than Ebola. Apparently Ebola infections can affect the mind, (like a lot of other serious illnesses):

                            http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-d...-preston-ebola

                            But we don't have enough information about Mr. Sawyer's case to say he showed any symptoms unique to Ebola infection. Too bad that Nigeria can't get that sample out. If all he had was malaria, a lot of contacts would be very relieved.
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                            • #44
                              Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos dies- testing incomplete for ebola; 2nd suspected case reported

                              I wouldnt simply take my sister, oozing blood, to a clinic and leave. Perhaps other family members were with her. Not sure if that was mentioned.
                              Nika

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                              • #45
                                Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos dies- testing incomplete for ebola; 2nd suspected case reported

                                Nika, you sound like a sister we'd all like to have at our side while fighting an illness. But I better share more info reported by that Chronicle article in case anyone hesitates to go to the link to be fair to Mr. Sawyer.

                                1) It was the fiancee who took Princess into a Catholic hospital for bleeding he believed was caused by a miscarriage.

                                2) The hospital performed a D&C and her bleeding worsened, causing the Ebola panic.

                                3) Mr. Sawyer entered the situation at that point and objected to what was going on. The Chronicle mentions no testing done at that point.

                                4) He bravely took care of his sister, paid her bill so she could have a private room, then obviously felt he had to leave. It does sound like at least her fiancee was still available.

                                Reading that more carefully made me wonder about the whole Ebola diagnosis again, but comments I've seen by family members of the Sawyer siblings seem to accept the diagnosis. (Also there is no ill will towards Mr. Sawyer from them.)

                                In the interview below, Nigerian virologist Prof. Sunday Omilabu says that the preliminary testing for Mr. Sawyer was positive for a filovirus of some sort. Only 2 are known currently, I think, with Ebola one of them.

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