November 5, 2014
By Chelsea Rice
5:00 p.m. So how is NYC handling Ebola? (click here) Throughout New York City, health officials announced that 357 individuals are being actively monitored, representing travelers from Ebola afflicted countries as well as hospital staff who cared for the latest Ebola patient, Dr. Craig Spencer, at Bellevue Hospital.
By Chelsea Rice
5:00 p.m. So how is NYC handling Ebola? (click here) Throughout New York City, health officials announced that 357 individuals are being actively monitored, representing travelers from Ebola afflicted countries as well as hospital staff who cared for the latest Ebola patient, Dr. Craig Spencer, at Bellevue Hospital.
Dr. Spencer is still undergoing treatment at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, and according to the NYC Department of Health, Spencer continues to show improvement and is in stable condition.
Someone he came into contact while he was contagious has also been upgraded from being quarantined to to direct active monitoring, which means a health official will visit the patient and check his or her symptoms once a day. His or her travel is no longer restricted, according to a statement from NYC health officials.
Someone he came into contact while he was contagious has also been upgraded from being quarantined to to direct active monitoring, which means a health official will visit the patient and check his or her symptoms once a day. His or her travel is no longer restricted, according to a statement from NYC health officials.
3:30 p.m. It’s time to throw more money at it. In a letter to CongressThursday afternoon, President Obama asked representatives to approve $6.18 billion emergency appropriations request for the 2015 fiscal year to develop a comprehensive strategy to contain and end the Ebola outbreak. This request mirrors the appeal to Congress in 2009 to combat the H1N1 flu outbreak....
Fiscal collapse of these countries in West Africa could increase the spread of the virus. Hold US Repubicans feet to the fire. They made Ebola a center piece of their 2014 elections, they need to make it their center piece now.
Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak (EVD) is overstressing the fiscal capacity of Governments in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone (click here)
...The new waves of EVD are completely different in scope and in depth, partly because of cultural and institutional interplay, and partly because these countries are socially and economically integrated with their neighbours. There are more cases and associated fatalities in eight months than the combined 20 episodes of EVD outbreak since 1976. What looked like a manageable phenomenon on 25 March (86 cases and 60 deaths and localized in Guinea) has
become an issue of monumental proportion (9,062 cases and 4,542 deaths – now spreading beyond borders) as of 12 October, with Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as the epicentres....
The number of cases could be stabilizing, the resourced is vital to end this virus. The need is now, not months and years from now.
November 6, 2014
The head of the UN mission (click here for video) charged with fighting Ebola has told the BBC he does not yet have the resources necessary to defeat the deadly disease.
Tony Banbury said more help was urgently needed, despite significant contributions from Britain, China, Cuba and the US.
He was speaking after visiting the three nations worst hit by the virus - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Nick Quraishi reports.
Fiscal collapse of these countries in West Africa could increase the spread of the virus. Hold US Repubicans feet to the fire. They made Ebola a center piece of their 2014 elections, they need to make it their center piece now.
Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak (EVD) is overstressing the fiscal capacity of Governments in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone (click here)
...The new waves of EVD are completely different in scope and in depth, partly because of cultural and institutional interplay, and partly because these countries are socially and economically integrated with their neighbours. There are more cases and associated fatalities in eight months than the combined 20 episodes of EVD outbreak since 1976. What looked like a manageable phenomenon on 25 March (86 cases and 60 deaths and localized in Guinea) has
become an issue of monumental proportion (9,062 cases and 4,542 deaths – now spreading beyond borders) as of 12 October, with Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as the epicentres....
The number of cases could be stabilizing, the resourced is vital to end this virus. The need is now, not months and years from now.
November 6, 2014
The head of the UN mission (click here for video) charged with fighting Ebola has told the BBC he does not yet have the resources necessary to defeat the deadly disease.
Tony Banbury said more help was urgently needed, despite significant contributions from Britain, China, Cuba and the US.
He was speaking after visiting the three nations worst hit by the virus - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Nick Quraishi reports.
