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Sierra Leone - Ebola outbreak: 13 155 clinical cases including 3 940 deaths (WHO, July 8, 2015)

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: one laboratory confirmed case and four community deaths reported from Koindu chiefdom

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: one laboratory confirmed case and four community deaths reported from Koindu chiefdom

Source: http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Ebola-patients-family-remove-her-from-clinic-20140527-2

Ebola patient's family remove her from clinic
2014-05-27 21:09

Accra - Relatives of an Ebola patient in Sierra Leone took her home from a community health centre despite protests from medical staff, risking spreading the deadly and highly infectious disease, a senior health official said on Tuesday.

The family said they did not trust the medical system and feared she would die if a transfer to the general hospital in the town of Kenema went ahead, Amara Jambai, the health ministry's director of disease prevention and control, said.

Lawmakers and community leaders would try to talk to family members and persuade them to return her to hospital, he said.

There has been no news of the woman, whose identity has been kept secret, since she was taken from Koindu to her village nearby, Jambai said by telephone from the capital Freetown...
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: one laboratory confirmed case and four community deaths reported from Koindu chiefdom

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: one laboratory confirmed case and four community deaths reported from Koindu chiefdom

In Sierra Leone, as more Ebola Cases are confirmed, mixed messages and alarmist media reportage tend to derail the efforts of health officials to contain the virus -

...As all these efforts are being mobilized, the public reaction which may be stimulated by alarmist media reportage and or mix messages from government authorities appear to be the new challenge. Late this afternoon, the Communications Director in the Ministry of Health gave this update:..
?Laboratory Test from the Kenema Government Hospital Lassa and other Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers laboratory have confirmed additional cases of Ebola. Sierra Leone now has 7 laboratory confirmed cases of Ebola. Meanwhile, the ministry is also monitoring reports of suspected cases been removed by relatives from isolation units in Kenema Hospital and youths in Kailahun disrupting health workers. The authorities from the Districts have been informed and a team comprising Members of Parliament from Kenema and Kailahun Districts and Ministry officials will leave for the area today to engage the communities and authorities in those districts? - See more at: http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/67698#sthash.k3zDXY2R.dpuf
...About the same period, the Special Executive Assistant to the President Sylvia Olayinka Blyden 4:24pm May 27 2014 posted on her facebook wall: ?One of the Ebola patients who had to flee the Koindu Kissi Teng Community Health Center when Police last evening went to rescue and escort the besieged Medical team sent to FORCIBLY take Ebola patients to Kenema yesterday, has just died at her residence where she had fled with her relatives after everyone, including the Community Health Officer, simply abandoned the Health center leaving the patients to their own devices.
Madam KUMBA SATTA was her name. Her corpse has been taken to her village named Korosur, located three miles from Koindu for burial. Meanwhile Kissi Teng Chiefdom Speaker Falla Jusu and Koindu Town Chief Moses Foryoh, inform me that another medical team is expected soon in the chiefdom with other authorities. https://www.facebook.com/kona.feika#!/groups/sl.issues/?fref=nf
Then the editor of ?NewpeopleOnline newspaper, published an alarming article on his Facebook wall with the screaming headline: ?Health Minister Orders Kidnap of Ebola Patients?Police Fire Live Rounds to Disperse Protesters?.
Here are some excerpts from the article ?If reports emanating from the eastern part of Sierra Leone from credible sources are anything to go by, then the Health Minister, Miatta Kargbo, is GUILTY of ordering the kidnap and possible secret killing of dying ebola virus patients??

?And as if on a deadly mission to kill the citizens, the Health Ministry also hurriedly summoned a press conference in Freetown to dismiss a BBC report further raising alarm on the ebola disease??
?It has been learnt now that the Koindu Community Health Center serving Kissi Teng, the epicenter of the Ebola virus was shut down starting yesterday evening? All the suspected Ebola cases are said to have been abandoned with patients left with the option of returning home and mixing with the rest of the population?. https://www.facebook.com/kona.feika#!/fontricia?hc_location=timeline
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Observers say this monstrosity of lack of a national approach to deal with the scourge would only fuel fear and paranoia as authorities try to educate the panic-stricken public on what?s going on. Aid workers are now describing the situation as a distraction from the efforts to temper down and contain the viral disease which has the potential to spread far beyond the eastern region...:tiphat:http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/67698
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: one laboratory confirmed case and four community deaths reported from Koindu chiefdom

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: one laboratory confirmed case and four community deaths reported from Koindu chiefdom

Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa ( Situation as of 27 May 2014)


...
Sierra Leone
As of 27 May 2014, 16 cases (7 laboratory confirmed and 9 suspected) and 4 community
deaths reported from Kailahun district. The confirmation of the cases was done at the VHF
laboratory in Kenema, Sierra Leone.
...
http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters...shboard-ebola-in-west-africa-27-may-2014.html
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 16 cases (7 laboratory confirmed and 9 suspected) and 4 community deaths

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 16 cases (7 laboratory confirmed and 9 suspected) and 4 community deaths

WHO added one death:

Ebola virus disease, West Africa (Situation as of 27 May 2014)
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Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, 16 cases, (7 laboratory-confirmed, 9 suspected) and 5 community deaths have been reported from Kailahun district. The district is located in the eastern region of Sierra Leone sharing borders with Guéckédou in Guinea and also with Liberia.
...

http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters...la-virus-disease-west-africa-27-may-2014.html
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 16 cases (7 laboratory confirmed and 9 suspected) and 5 community deaths

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 16 cases (7 laboratory confirmed and 9 suspected) and 5 community deaths

Villagers stone ebola trackers in Sierra Leone as cases rise

By Silas Gbandia, Bloomberg NewsBloomberg
11:20 a.m. CDT, May 28, 2014

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone ? Sierra Leone said two people died of Ebola Tuesday and seven cases of the virus have been confirmed as villagers in the West African nation threatened medical staff trying to control the spread of the disease....

... Family removed some Ebola patients from a clinic this week and threatened medical staff trying to place them in isolation.

Health authorities had isolated some patients in a village and wanted to move them to a hospital 90 miles away, said Pierre Formenty, a WHO official who specializes in emerging and dangerous pathogens. That's when the families took the patients out of the isolation facility, Formenty said after a media briefing at the United Nations in Geneva.

"By doing that they exposed themselves and they exposed the village," Formenty said. WHO and health authorities are in discussions with the village to get the patients back, but for the moment they're still in the village.

The stoning by villagers may have been prompted by the "impatience of the medical team, who went to look for contacts without greeting the villagers, without explaining who they were," Formenty said.

"We all want to control this outbreak and we will control this outbreak," he said. "It will probably take longer than expected, but we cannot do it against the population; we should do it with the population."

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-news-bc-ebola28-20140528,0,52817.story
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 16 cases (7 laboratory confirmed and 9 suspected) and 5 community deaths

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 16 cases (7 laboratory confirmed and 9 suspected) and 5 community deaths

29 May 2014 Last updated at 00:56 ET

Ebola outbreak: Medics travel to eastern Sierra Leone
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The experts are from the World Health Organization and the Doctors Without Borders charity.

This comes after six suspected Ebola patients were taken out of hospitals by their families, defying doctors.

One of the patients later died amid fears that the virus could spread, a local health official said.
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The medical teams are expected to arrive in a remote part of Sierra Leone later on Thursday.
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Dr Amara Jambai, the director of disease prevention and control at Sierra Leone's health ministry, told the BBC that staff at the clinic in Koindu town in eastern Sierra Leone had tried to stop the patients from being removed.

However, the families had been "aggressive" as they took their relatives away, he said.

The families apparently feared their loved ones would die a lonely death.
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The relatives' love for their sick relatives may end up killing them all, our correspondent adds.

Dr Jambai said two people had so far died of Ebola in Sierra Leone, and not four as previously reported.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27615171
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 50 clinical cases (14 confirmed, 3 probable, and 36 suspected) including 6 deaths (2 confirmed, 3 probable and 1 suspected)

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 50 clinical cases (14 confirmed, 3 probable, and 36 suspected) including 6 deaths (2 confirmed, 3 probable and 1 suspected)

Ebola virus disease, West Africa (Situation as of 30 May 2014)
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Sierra Leone

As of 18:00 on 29 May 2014, 34 new cases (7 confirmed, 3 probable, and 24 suspected) and one suspected death were reported from five districts. This brings the cumulative total number of clinical cases of EVD to 50 (14 confirmed, 3 probable, and 36 suspected) including 6 deaths (2 confirmed, 3 probable and 1 suspected). The geographical distribution of these cases and deaths are as follows: Kailahun (37 cases and 6 deaths), Kenema (1 case and 0 death), Koinadugu (1 case and 0 death), Bo (1 case and 0 death), Moyamba and (1 case and 0 death).
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http://www.afro.who.int/fr/groupes-...la-virus-disease-west-africa-30-may-2014.html
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 50 clinical cases (14 confirmed, 3 probable, and 36 suspected) including 6 deaths (2 confirmed, 3 probable and 1 suspected) as of May 29, 2014

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 50 clinical cases (14 confirmed, 3 probable, and 36 suspected) including 6 deaths (2 confirmed, 3 probable and 1 suspected) as of May 29, 2014

Sierra Leone Ebola outbreak death toll now 5

By Associated Press June 3 at 9:31 AM

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone ? Foreign mining company personnel have left the country while others are undergoing body temperature screening at work sites, company officials said Tuesday as the death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone rose to at least five victims.
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Deputy Information Minister Theo Nicol said the government was doing all it could to contain the ?scourge? of Ebola. None of the 15 confirmed cases in Sierra Leone has been in the capital of Freetown.
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The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has hit some of the poorest countries in the world, where health care resources are already stretched. Sierra Leone is mineral-rich but its economy and health care system were ravaged by a decade-long civil war that ended in 2002. Some 60 percent of Sierra Leoneans get by on only $1.25 a day.

Full text:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...dbda7c-eb0e-11e3-b10e-5090cf3b5958_story.html
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 50 clinical cases (14 confirmed, 3 probable, and 36 suspected) including 6 deaths (2 confirmed, 3 probable and 1 suspected) as of May 29, 2014

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 50 clinical cases (14 confirmed, 3 probable, and 36 suspected) including 6 deaths (2 confirmed, 3 probable and 1 suspected) as of May 29, 2014

Question: has any confirmed case been in a miner?
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 50 clinical cases (14 confirmed, 3 probable, and 36 suspected) including 6 deaths (2 confirmed, 3 probable and 1 suspected) as of May 29, 2014

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 50 clinical cases (14 confirmed, 3 probable, and 36 suspected) including 6 deaths (2 confirmed, 3 probable and 1 suspected) as of May 29, 2014

London Mining

Corporate press releases

Precautionary travel procedures implemented in Sierra Leone, production unaffected

</HEADER>03 Jun 2014

The Company notes recent news reports from Sierra Leone indicating an increased number of cases of Ebola Fever predominantly in the East of the country bordering the area in Guinea where the outbreak first occurred some months ago and confirms that as a precautionary measure in line with its standard operating procedures, restrictions have been imposed on non-essential travel by visitors from affected areas and some personnel who are able to work remotely, with operations personnel remaining in country and operations running as normal.

The Company has not had any incidences of the disease among its workforce and is not aware of any incidences in the communities surrounding the Marampa mine and continues to monitor the situation carefully. The World Health Organisation does not recommend that any travel or trade restrictions be applied to Guinea, Liberia, or Sierra Leone based on the current information available for this event.
Production at Marampa is unaffected.

http://www.londonmining.com/media/c...ented-in-sierra-leone,-production-unaffected/
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 50 clinical cases (14 confirmed, 3 probable, and 36 suspected) including 6 deaths (2 confirmed, 3 probable and 1 suspected) as of May 29, 2014

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 50 clinical cases (14 confirmed, 3 probable, and 36 suspected) including 6 deaths (2 confirmed, 3 probable and 1 suspected) as of May 29, 2014

Ebola virus disease, West Africa ? update

Disease Outbreak News
4 June 2014
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Sierra Leone

Between 29 May and 1 June 2014, 13 new cases (3 confirmed and 10 suspected) and no new deaths were reported from Kailahun (12 new cases and 0 death) and Kenema (1 new case and 0 deaths). This brings the cumulative total number of cases to 79 (18 confirmed, 3 probable, and 58 suspected), including 6 deaths. The geographical distribution of these cases and deaths are as follows: Kailahun, 41 cases and 6 deaths; Kenema, 3 cases and 0 deaths; Koinadugu, 2 cases and 0 deaths; Bombali, 1 case and 0 deaths; Bo, 13 cases and 0 deaths; Moyamba, 1 case and 0 deaths; and Free Town, 5 cases and 0 deaths. A total of 4 cases are in isolation at Kenema Hospital.
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http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_06_04_ebola/en/
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 81 clinical cases (31 confirmed, 3 probable, and 47 suspected) including 6 deaths as of June 5, 2014

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 81 clinical cases (31 confirmed, 3 probable, and 47 suspected) including 6 deaths as of June 5, 2014

Ebola virus disease, West Africa (Situation as of 5 June 2014)
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Sierra Leone

Between 2 and 5 June 2014, 9 new suspected cases were reported bringing the total number of EVD clinical cases to 81 (31 confirmed, 3 probable, and 47 suspected) including 6 deaths. Kailahun district is the epicentre of the outbreak in Sierra Leone. Eleven (11) cases are currently in isolation at Kenema Hospital. The number of contacts currently being followed-up is 30. Community resistance is hindering the identification and follow-up of contacts.
...

http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters...la-virus-disease-west-africa-5-june-2014.html
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 81 clinical cases (31 confirmed, 3 probable, and 47 suspected) including 6 deaths as of June 5, 2014

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 81 clinical cases (31 confirmed, 3 probable, and 47 suspected) including 6 deaths as of June 5, 2014

Growing Ebola Outbreak Threatens to Overwhelm Volunteers

Maggie Fox
5 hours ago

When a team from Tulane University sent a batch of protective clothing and equipment to help workers fighting an outbreak of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone last month, they were fairly confident the 300 or so packs would be enough for a good start.

They couldn?t have predicted what they would be up against.
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?This is worse than expected. I am fearful that it could get much worse,? said Robert Garry, a virologist and specialist in viral hemorrhagic fevers at Tulane University. Garry flew to Kenema Government Hospital last month with as much personal protective equipment (PPE) as he could carry, but he says they are running out fast.
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At least 35 lab-confirmed Ebola cases have been traced to a traditional healer whose grieving patients apparently handled her body at her funeral and became infected themselves, Garry says.

The healer had treated patients just over the border in neighboring Guinea. This cross-border outbreak is worrying health officials because it's spreading in an area where people cross from one country into another casually, passing through large cities on their travels.
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?They are just scattering,? Garry confirmed. ?It?s very hard to track them down.? Garry's working with local and international experts to identify cases, distribute protective gear, train workers and test samples.

"Unfortunately, these numbers will rise dramatically as cases from the Koindu and Daru regions are tallied. Reports from the field for villages surrounding Koindu and Daru are grim."
...
Full text:
http://www.today.com/health/growing-ebola-outbreak-threatens-overwhelm-volunteers-2D79775266
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 81 clinical cases (31 confirmed, 3 probable, and 47 suspected) including 6 deaths as of June 5, 2014

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 81 clinical cases (31 confirmed, 3 probable, and 47 suspected) including 6 deaths as of June 5, 2014

Sierra Leone News: Ebola hits Mambolo, Kambia as Kailahun Weeps from its Effects

By Correspondents in Kambia, Kailahun & Freetown
Jun 9, 2014, 12:18

The much dreaded Ebola disease which has been ravaging the people of eastern Kailahun district is now confirmed to have moved up to the northern town of Mambolo in the Kambia district where there are two confirmed Ebola cases and ten other persons having blood samples collected from them as possibly infected with Ebola.

This was disclosed on Sunday 8th June 2012 to Awareness Times in Kambia by Mr. Hassan Kanu of Kambia District Health Management Team (DHMT) of the Ministry of Health & Sanitation.

Mr. Hassan Kanu who is the Disease Surveillance Officer for Kambia district and the Ministry?s official spokesperson for Kambia told Awareness Times that a certain driver was recently doing assignment in Koindu, Kissi Teng chiefdom of Kailahun and upon his return to his residence in Mambolo town of Kambia, he later developed symptoms of Ebola. Shortly after, the wife of the driver also developed symptoms of Ebola and when their blood samples were sent to be checked by the Mambolo paramedics, they both proved positive as infected with Ebola. The two (driver and wife) are now isolated for treatment in Kenema.

According to competent Kambia sources, there are now concerns that the driver might have also transferred the infection to the fishing islands of Yeliboya and Kortimoh because he was known to have also been recently involved in transporting fish for people from those islands.
...
Read more:
http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200525533.shtml
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 81 clinical cases (31 confirmed, 3 probable, and 47 suspected) including 6 deaths as of June 5, 2014

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 81 clinical cases (31 confirmed, 3 probable, and 47 suspected) including 6 deaths as of June 5, 2014

Death toll from Ebola in Sierra Leone more than doubles to 12

Mon Jun 9, 2014 3:57pm GMT
By Umaru Fofana

FREETOWN, June 9 (Reuters) - The death toll from Ebola in Sierra Leone has doubled to at least 12 in a week, local health authorities said on Monday, deepening the spread of a disease that has killed over 200 people in Guinea and Liberia.

The mounting deaths in Sierra Leone, which had been spared cases for months after Ebola was confirmed in the region in March, underscore the challenges weak health systems face tackling one of the deadliest diseases on the planet.

Amara Jambai, Sierra Leone's Director of Disease Prevention and Control, said all the confirmed deaths in Sierra Leone were in the east, mainly in the Kailahun district on the border with Guinea.

"It is very difficult for us to ascertain community deaths at this moment, but the 12 deaths are the ones the hospital can definitely confirm to have died of Ebola," Jambai said.

Jambai added that there were now 42 confirmed cases of Ebola from 113 people tested and new cases had been recorded in the northern district of Kambia.
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http://af.reuters.com/article/sierraLeoneNews/idAFL5N0OQ37M20140609?sp=true
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 89 clinical cases including 7 deaths as of June 7, 2014 (WHO)

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 89 clinical cases including 7 deaths as of June 7, 2014 (WHO)

Ebola virus disease, West Africa (Situation as of 7 June 2014)
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Sierra Leone

As at 1800 Hrs, 6 June 2014, 8 new cases (2 confirmed, 6 suspected) and 1 new death were reported bringing the total number of EVD clinical cases to 89 (33 confirmed, 3 probable, and 53 suspected) including 7 deaths. All the 33 confirmed cases and deaths are reported from Kailahun district. The Number of cases among health care workers is 5 and death is 1. Eleven (11) cases are currently in isolation at Kenema Hospital. The number of contacts currently being followed-up is 30. Community resistance is hindering the identification and follow-up of contacts.
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http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters...la-virus-disease-west-africa-7-june-2014.html
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 89 clinical cases including 7 deaths as of June 7, 2014 (WHO)

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 89 clinical cases including 7 deaths as of June 7, 2014 (WHO)

Port Loko District

<SMALL>Location of Port Loko District in Sierra Leone</SMALL>
<SMALL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Loko_District</SMALL>
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Ebola virus surfaces in northern Sierra Leone

By: SEM on June 10, 2014.

At least 13 people are highly suspected to have been in direct contact with Ebola victims in the sister districts of Kambia and Port Loko...

These suspected cases could be traced from Mambolo in the Kambia District, Mange Burreh, Lunsar and Masiaka all in the Port Loko District...

The background of their respective versions has to do with a Truck Driver that used to ply the Freetown/ Kailahun Axis. His family was resident at Mange Burreh in the Burreh Kasseh Maconteh Chiefdom in the Northern District of Port Loko. He is said to have also developed a cordial relation with one of the Serving Nurses at the Masiaka Health Post, where he used to receive some medical treatment. He eventually had cause to join his family at Mange Burreh when the fever became persistent. He was again relocated to his native home of Mambolo from where he was conveyed to the St. John of God Catholic Hospital commonly known as Mabasseneh Hospital of Lunsar as his health continued to deteriorate.
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Apart from the friend of the man, whose case has now been confirmed as having the Ebola Virus, the situation is equally bad at the Mabessaneh Catholic Hospital, where the man even vomited on nurses and doctors while trying to provide him with some medical treatment....

by Hassan Bruz, Northern Bureau Chief

http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/68112
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 89 clinical cases including 7 deaths as of June 7, 2014 (WHO)

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 89 clinical cases including 7 deaths as of June 7, 2014 (WHO)

Sierra Leone Ebola update ? June 10, 2014

Posted by Cocorioko Newspaper on June 11, 2014


A total of 114 cases have been tested with 43 confirmed cases of Ebola and 16 deaths. All deaths are confirmed cases from Kailahun District; two (2) of which traveled from Kailahun to Kambia district.

These patients have being isolated and contacts are being traced.
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http://www.cocorioko.net/?p=56123

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Ebola kills paramount chief?s wife

By: SEM Contributor on June 11, 2014.Kenema, June 10 (SLENA) -

The latest victim of the dreaded Ebola disease is the senior wife of Paramount Chief of Jawei Chiefdom in the Kailahun District, Madan Amie Ngumbu Klah. Madam Ngumbu Kalh was pronounced dead on the evening of Monday, June 9 by the medical doctors at the treatment centre in the Kenema Government Hospital.

Family sources say the late woman was recently tested positive following her return from the burial of her sister, herself a nurse, in the border village of Bombuhun, Kailahun District. -
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http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/68161
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 89 clinical cases including 7 deaths as of June 7, 2014 (WHO)

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 89 clinical cases including 7 deaths as of June 7, 2014 (WHO)

Sierra Leone shuts borders, closes schools to fight Ebola

FREETOWN Wed Jun 11, 2014 8:56pm BST

(Reuters) - Sierra Leone shut its borders to trade with Guinea and Liberia on Wednesday and closed schools, cinemas and nightclubs in a frontier region in a bid to halt the spread of the Ebola virus.

Sixteen people have died of Ebola in Sierra Leone, a figure that has doubled in the last week, Ministry of Health figures showed.

Authorities will also mount health checkpoints in the eastern Kailahun district and mandated that all deaths there be reported before burial. Anyone who dies of the virus must be buried under the supervision of health personnel, the Information Ministry said.

The decision to close district schools came after a nine-year-old whose parents died of Ebola tested positive for the virus, Deputy Minister of Information Theo Nicol told Reuters.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/11/uk-health-ebola-leone-idUKKBN0EM2CA20140611
 
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 89 clinical cases including 7 deaths as of June 7, 2014 (WHO)

Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola: 89 clinical cases including 7 deaths as of June 7, 2014 (WHO)

17 die of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone

IANS | Freetown
June 12, 2014 Last Updated at 00:26 IST

As many as 17 people have died of the ebola virus in the west African country of Sierra Leone out of the total 46 infected cases found, government authorities said here Wednesday.

"Since the index case on May 24 when we had the first confirmed case in the Kissi Teng axis in the Kailahun district, we have been having cases almost on a daily basis from the district and we now see the trend moving to Daru," Xinhua quoted Yaya Tunis, head of the communication ministry as saying.
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http://www.business-standard.com/ar...ola-virus-in-sierra-leone-114061200138_1.html
 
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