WHO Temporarily Pulls Staff Back to Capital After Worker Infected With Ebola in Sierra Leone - hospitalized in Germany

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Statement: WHO-Deployed Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola

Today the World Health Organization has announced the first instance of one of their deployed personnel being infected with the Ebola virus.


The following comes from an emailed press statement. It will likely be posted on this webpage on the WHO site later today.

WHO-DEPLOYED HEALTH WORKER RECEIVING CARE AFTER TESTING POSITIVE FOR EBOLA
24 August 2014
WHO is working to ensure an international health worker who is deployed for the Organization in Sierra Leone and has contracted Ebola receives the best care possible including the option of medical evacuation to another care facility if necessary.
International health workers are an important part of this Ebola response. Even before the Ebola outbreak began, after years of conflict, the area of West Africa most affected by this disease suffered from a weakened and fragile health system with a shortage of health workers. Surge capacity of international health experts is essential to supplement the work of the local frontline workers in this response.
Since the beginning of the international response to the outbreak in March, WHO has deployed nearly 400 people from across the Organization and from partners in the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) to help respond to the disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. This is the first time someone working under the aegis of WHO has fallen ill with the disease.
The Ebola virus is spread through contact with bodily fluids and people giving care or working around infected patients are known to be a high risk group. In the past six months of the outbreak, more than 225 health workers have fallen ill and nearly 130 have lost their lives to the disease they were working to contain.
WHO recognizes there is a risk for health workers who work around Ebola and takes many precautions before they deploy to help them protect themselves in the field. Once there, the Organization ensures those workers have access to appropriate medical advice and support.
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Re: Sierra Leone - WHO-deployed health worker tests positive for Ebola

Re: Sierra Leone - WHO-deployed health worker tests positive for Ebola

First WHO-affiliated worker stricken with Ebola

By Joyce Joseph, Nana Karikari-apau, and Leslie Holland, CNN
updated 3:23 PM EDT, Sun August 24, 2014

(CNN) -- For the first time, a health care worker for a World Health Organization partner organization has fallen ill from Ebola, WHO told CNN on Sunday.

The health worker, a man from Senegal, is in Sierra Leone and receiving care, the WHO said. He's an epidemiologist working for the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, which was established by WHO and other partners to respond to international public health emergencies. No further details were given immediately.

"This is the first time someone working under the aegis of WHO has fallen ill with #Ebola," reported WHO via its verified Twitter account. Added WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl via Twitter: "No @WHO worker has been infected with #Ebola. The epidemiologist is from a #GOARN partner."

When asked how the worker contracted the virus, a WHO spokesperson said officials don't yet know all the details.
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/24/world/africa/ebola-outbreak/index.html?hpt=hp_t4

 

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WHO Temporarily Pulls Staff Back to Capital After Worker Infected With Ebola in Sierra Leone

WHO Temporarily Pulls Staff Back to Capital After Worker Infected With Ebola in Sierra Leone

http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-...-ebola-lab-after-doctor-infected/2428496.html


Reuters

August 26, 2014 11:07 AM


FREETOWN/KINSHASA?
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it had shut a laboratory in Sierra Leone after a health worker there was infected with Ebola, a move that may hamper efforts to boost the global response to the worst ever outbreak of the disease...

 

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Re: WHO Pulls Staff After Worker Infected With Ebola in Sierra Leone

Re: WHO Pulls Staff After Worker Infected With Ebola in Sierra Leone

From: WorldHealthOrganizationNews@who.int
To: undisclosed-recipients@null, null@null
Subject: WHO clarification: WHO working to ensure health workers are protected in Sierra Leone post
Date: Aug 26, 2014 1:49 PM
Please receive this media note from our Country Office in Sierra Leone.

With best regards,
The WHO media team



Clarification from WHO in Sierra Leone:



WHO working to ensure health workers are protected in Sierra Leone post



The World Health Organization (WHO) has temporarily pulled back its health workers from the Kailahun post in Sierra Leone to the capital after the announcement over the weekend that one of their health workers was infected.

?This was the responsible thing to do. The field team has been through a traumatic time through this incident,? says Dr Daniel Kertesz, WHO Representative in Sierra Leone. ?They are exhausted from many weeks of heroic work, helping patients infected with Ebola. When you add a stressor like this, the risk of accidents increases.?

Today the Organization sent a team to the town near the border with Guinea to do a review of the incident on the colleague who became infected. The team will try to determine how the health worker became infected, review the living and working environment of all the workers, try to identify factors that increase risk of infection, and address these issues.

?We recognize that this will interrupt the work in the field for the short term, but it ensures we protect health workers and the help the community over the longer term,? says Dr Kertesz. ?We are working rapidly to ensure we can return to the field as quickly as possible.?

Once the investigation has been completed and appropriate actions have been taken, WHO will move a team back to Kailahun. In the meantime, the laboratory work will be performed at the facilities in Kenema. The next team of health workers for the Kailahun deployment is waiting on standby in Freetown.


Media contact:
Christy Feig (in Sierra Leone): +41.79.251.7055

 

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Re: Ebola: un expert de l'OMS contamin? en Sierra Leone soign? ? l?h?pital universitaire de Hambourg-Eppendorf en Allemagne

Re: Ebola: un expert de l'OMS contamin? en Sierra Leone soign? ? l?h?pital universitaire de Hambourg-Eppendorf en Allemagne

Transported to Germany for treatment.


L'expert de l'OMS contaminé par Ebola hospitalisé en Allemagne

AFP 27 août 2014 à 12:22
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Un expert sénégalais de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS), contaminé par le virus Ebola, a été admis mercredi dans un hôpital de Hambourg (nord) où il doit être le premier patient traité en Allemagne, selon les autorités allemandes et l’OMS.

«L’avion a atterri à 10h locales» (8h GMT), a déclaré le service de presse de l’aéroport de Hambourg.

Spécialiste en épidémiologie, cet expert de l'OMS a été contaminé en Sierra Leone par ce virus qui provoque des fièvres hémorragiques, selon l’OMS. Le patient doit être soigné à l’hôpital universitaire de Hambourg-Eppendorf (UKE). Une conférence de presse est à 14h locales (12h GMT).

L’hôpital UKE est spécialisé dans le traitement de maladies très contagieuses. Fin juillet, l’OMS avait déjà adressé une demande de soins à cet établissement pour l’un de ses collaborateurs. Mais le médecin contaminé était décédé avant de pouvoir être transporté en Allemagne.
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http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2014...ne-par-ebola-hospitalise-en-allemagne_1087931

 

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Re: WHO Temporarily Pulls Staff Back to Capital After Worker Infected With Ebola in Sierra Leone - hospitalized in Germany

Ebola-infected doctor in Sierra Leone, Sahr Rogers, dies
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CBC NewsPosted: Aug 27, 2014 9:39 AM ET|Last Updated: Aug 27, 2014 6:51 PM ET
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Dr. Sahr Rogers had been working at a hospital in the eastern town of Kenema when he contracted Ebola, said Sierra Leonean presidential adviser Ibrahim Ben Kargbo.

The death of a doctor is a blow to Sierra Leone, which has two doctors per 100,000 people, according to the World Health Organization.

Canada is bringing home three scientists from Sierra Leone.
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"The employees are in good health, show no signs of illness and the risk that any of them were infected is very low. As an added precaution, the employees will not be travelling on a commercial flight to Canada, will be monitored closely on their journey home and after they return to Canada, and will be in voluntary isolation."

The three Canadians are among the six workers who have withdrawn to Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, Christy Feig, a WHO spokeswoman in West Africa, told CBC News.
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WHO said as of Aug. 25, at least 240 health workers have been infected in this outbreak and more than 120 of them have died. One of those is a Senegalese epidemiologist who worked with the UN health agency in Sierra Leone. He arrived on Wednesday in Hamburg, Germany, for treatment. The man?s name and condition haven?t been made public.

The epidemiologist was a surveillance officer, a job that typically involves co-ordinating the outbreak response by liaising with local health workers, lab experts and hospitals but not direct treatment of patients, Feig told the Associated Press.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-infected-doctor-in-sierra-leone-sahr-rogers-dies-1.2748090