The fact even hospital workers have backed away from their precautions reveals the longing for the end to this virus before it is actually eradicated. Infection control takes a great deal of energy and time when caring for a hospital population of patients.
This uptick of patients only indicates the virus has to be assessed for any mutations as well as redoubling efforts of prevention and education.
February 22, 2015
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) " Eight health workers (click here) at a hospital in Liberia's capital have been sent home for observation after coming into contact with a patient who later tested positive for Ebola, the country's assistant health minister said Saturday.
The incident occurred at the S.D. Cooper Hospital in Monrovia's Sinkor neighborhood, Tolbert Nyenswah said. The patient, a woman, was transferred to the hospital from a smaller hospital, and staff began treating her before an Ebola test was conducted, Nyenswah said.
The health workers will be under observation for 21 days and will not be coming into work during that period, he said.
"You cannot be under observation and then at the same time go to work to expose people. No way," he said....
I am not convinced the quality of life of the people of Liberia is going up support complete recovery so much as mutation. When the virus was in decline it was noted the precautions at any social venue were slacking off. ie: the bleach solutions.
February 20, 2015
By Kate Kelland
Educating in regard to Ebola isn't dominant voice with the people. The unwillingness to accept Ebola as a reality is similar to the people's reaction to HIV/AIDS. They live in denial because of the severity of the disease and their ability to be treated for it or avoid it.
The words are helplessness and hopelessness. That quality of life can put the complete recovery of the region at risk.
February 21, 2015
AP
UNITED NATIONS: The steep decline in Ebola case numbers (click here) has leveled off over
the past month and the development is a cause for concern, the official
leading the World Health Organization's response to the outbreak said on
Friday.
Dr. Bruce Aylward told reporters "today is the first time we have the data to demonstrate this" flattening of the curve.
The United Nations has said 10 times fewer people are being diagnosed with Ebola each week than in September. Over the past four weeks, however, the line of the graph has flattened out, with the rate around 120 to 150 new cases a week...
This uptick of patients only indicates the virus has to be assessed for any mutations as well as redoubling efforts of prevention and education.
February 22, 2015
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) " Eight health workers (click here) at a hospital in Liberia's capital have been sent home for observation after coming into contact with a patient who later tested positive for Ebola, the country's assistant health minister said Saturday.
The incident occurred at the S.D. Cooper Hospital in Monrovia's Sinkor neighborhood, Tolbert Nyenswah said. The patient, a woman, was transferred to the hospital from a smaller hospital, and staff began treating her before an Ebola test was conducted, Nyenswah said.
The health workers will be under observation for 21 days and will not be coming into work during that period, he said.
"You cannot be under observation and then at the same time go to work to expose people. No way," he said....
I am not convinced the quality of life of the people of Liberia is going up support complete recovery so much as mutation. When the virus was in decline it was noted the precautions at any social venue were slacking off. ie: the bleach solutions.
February 20, 2015
By Kate Kelland
...About 60 percent of patients (click here) have died in this outbreak.
Ebola is spread via contact with the body fluids of an
infected person. Disease experts say the recent downturn in the epidemic
has been largely due to better hygiene and handwashing, tracing and
monitoring of contacts, and changing behaviours such as ending the
practice of open burials.
Working with the Christian charity Samaritan's Purse,
MacDermott, a 33-year-old British paediatrician, has been based in
Liberia on and off since July last year.
She, too, says messages about how to prevent Ebola and
halt its spread by basic but vital changes in behaviour are getting
through to many people in cities, towns and rural communities. But she
worries that not everyone believes them.
In the absence of health and aid workers and community
leadership from those educated about Ebola, already the voices of
conspiracy theorists are increasingly being heard again.
"Some people don't want to believe that their family
member has Ebola, they don't want the concept of Ebola to exist. Others
believe we (international aid workers) are stealing people's organs in
the treatment centres, or that Ebola was made up to get aid money,"
MacDermott said....
Educating in regard to Ebola isn't dominant voice with the people. The unwillingness to accept Ebola as a reality is similar to the people's reaction to HIV/AIDS. They live in denial because of the severity of the disease and their ability to be treated for it or avoid it.
The words are helplessness and hopelessness. That quality of life can put the complete recovery of the region at risk.
February 21, 2015
AP
UNITED NATIONS: The steep decline in Ebola case numbers (click here) has leveled off over
the past month and the development is a cause for concern, the official
leading the World Health Organization's response to the outbreak said on
Friday. Dr. Bruce Aylward told reporters "today is the first time we have the data to demonstrate this" flattening of the curve.
The United Nations has said 10 times fewer people are being diagnosed with Ebola each week than in September. Over the past four weeks, however, the line of the graph has flattened out, with the rate around 120 to 150 new cases a week...
