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« Reply #330 on: July 13, 2015, 03:09:25 pm »

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Africa's Ebola outbreak has not run its course: U.N. envoy
7/13/15

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Africa's Ebola epidemic has not run its course and around 30 people are still getting infected each week, the United Nations' special envoy for the disease said on Monday.

The worst recorded outbreak of the virus has killed more than 11,000 people across West Africa since late 2013, but had abated in recent months. A new flare-up in Liberia is seen as a setback in the fight against it.

"The battle can be won, but it requires sustained effort, very careful negotiation with communities and perfection in follow-up of everybody who has been a contact,” David Nabarro told a media briefing in Cape Town.

He said under normal circumstances, an infection rate of 30 people a week would be considered "a major, major outbreak".

"Probably about one third of these people are not coming from the contact list, which means they are surprise cases, and that’s a big worry," Nabarro earlier told a conference organised by the World Health Organization.

Infection rates are down from the peak of the crisis. But Liberia reported a 17-year-old boy tested positive for the virus on June 30 - almost two months after the country was declared free of Ebola.

Liberia, the country worst hit by the outbreak, had been hailed as an example for neighbouring Guinea and Sierra Leone, which are also struggling to stop the spread of the disease.

Olawale Maiyegun, social affairs director at the African Union Commission, said it seemed communities were forgetting a key "ABC" or "avoid body contact" rule and becoming complacent.

"Where is the ABC rule? I saw people dancing together, I was alarmed in (Sierra Leone's capital) Freetown,” Maiyegun told journalists at the same briefing.

The Ebola outbreak has galvanised a global response. Last week donor countries pledged another $3.4 billion in addition to $1.8 billion of unspent money in an effort to eradicate a disease that has wreaked economic and social havoc.
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« Reply #331 on: July 15, 2015, 06:35:15 am »

Liberia confirms new Ebola case as outbreak spreads

A Liberian woman has died of Ebola in a hospital in Monrovia shortly after being admitted, becoming the sixth confirmed case of the virus since it resurfaced last month after a seven-week lull, a senior medical official said on Tuesday.

The victim from Montserrado County, which contains Monrovia, is thought to be linked to the other five cases from neighboring Margibi County, where the disease reemerged.

Her detection raised fears that the infection may be spreading in a new area of the country.

"There is one new case. This time, the response area is Montserrado county. The person died in Monrovia," Liberia's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Francis Ketteh told Reuters.

A health report sent to officials in the anti-Ebola response said that the woman died a few hours after admission, indicating that surveillance of known contacts from the earlier cases had not been rigorous enough.

More than 11,200 people have died from Ebola since the epidemic began in December 2013. Liberia was declared Ebola-free on May 9 but reported a new case nearly two months later.

Health officials say the virus probably remained latent in the country during that period and could have been reactivated by a survivor, via sexual transmission.

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« Reply #332 on: October 15, 2015, 10:26:44 am »

Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey's rapid decline after being 'cured' leaves experts staggered
Experts are expressing astonishment at the deterioration of her condition


A British nurse who was apparently cured of Ebola earlier this year is now in a critical condition, doctors have said, with experts expressing astonishment at the deterioration of her condition.

Pauline Cafferkey was admitted to the specialist treatment isolation unit at Royal Free Hospital in London on 9 October. She had been treated for Ebola at the same hospital earlier this year, and was discharged in good health in January.

Doctors have said she is suffering an “unusual late complication” of her previous infection. Ebola virus can linger for months in survivors without causing serious ill effects or infection risk and  is also known to cause long-term health problems in many patients.

However, medical understanding of the disease’s after-effect is limited due to the relatively low number of historic cases.

Medics working in West Africa during the current outbreak – by far the worst ever recorded – say they have seen many rashes, infections and eye problems in people suffering from so-called “post-Ebola syndrome”.

The exact nature of Ms Cafferkey’s illness is not known, but experts have expressed shock at the severity of her condition.

Jonathan Ball, professor of molecular virology at the University of Nottingham, said the news was “frankly staggering.”

“I am not aware from the scientific literature of a case where Ebola has been associated with what we can only assume as life threatening complications after someone has initially recovered, and certainly not so many months after,” he said.

Health authorities have emphasised that the risk to the general public remains low. However 58 people who had been in close contact with Ms Cafferkey are being monitored by Health Protection Scotland. 25 have been vaccinated using the jab successfully trialed earlier this year in Guinea.

Dr Nathalie MacDermott, a clinical research fellow at Imperial College London, who also treated Ebola patients in West Africa at the height of the epidemic, said: “The change in [Pauline Cafferkey’s] condition does not imply any increased risk to the general public, as stated previously the risk to the general public who may have had contact prior to her deterioration remains extremely low.

“It is unlikely that anything could have been done to prevent this relapse, this is an unexpected situation which could not have been anticipated. It is difficult to know whether any earlier intervention may have altered her current condition as we are only just learning about the potential long term effects of Ebola virus disease and management of complications and secondary effects.”

The treatment team at the Royal Free has cared for all British healthcare workers who contracted Ebola. They have deployed experimental antiviral medicines, which they say may have helped their patients fight the condition. The hospital has the UK’s most sophisticated infectious disease isolation unit, where patients are treated inside a plastic tent structure to avoid contact. 

Ms Cafferkey, from Cambuslang in South Lanarkshire, contracted Ebola in December last year while treating patients in Sierra Leone. She was among the first wave of NHS volunteers flown out to help curb the epidemic, which has killed nearly 11,300 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

She was treated for Ebola at the Royal Free between December and January. She fell ill again last week and was readmitted to hospital in Glasgow, before being flown to the Royal Free. Her family have said local medical staff were slow to spot the recurrence of her infection.

In a statement on 14 October, the Royal Free said it was “sad to announce that Pauline Cafferkey’s condition has deteriorated and she is now critically ill.” The UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he was sad to hear of the deterioration in Ms Cafferkey’s condition and that his thoughts and prayers were with her and the team at the Royal Free.

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« Reply #333 on: October 21, 2015, 10:28:36 pm »

Mystery deaths in Sierra Leone spread fear of Ebola relapses

A poster in Sierra Leone's crumbling coastal capital Freetown proclaims a message from an Ebola survivor called Sulliaman: "I feel 100 percent healthy!" Another beaming survivor Juliana says: "I am one of the safest people to be around!"

Throughout the two-year Ebola epidemic, thousands of West African survivors have been shunned by their communities, prompting governments to sponsor messages stressing their complete recovery in a bid to counter fear and paranoia.

But the case of Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey – the first known Ebola survivor to have an apparently life-threatening relapse – has revived concerns about the health of some 17,000 survivors in Sierra Leone, neighboring Guinea and Liberia.

Doctors and health officials in Sierra Leone told Reuters that a handful of mystery deaths among discharged patients may also be types of Ebola relapses, stirring fear that the deadly virus may last far longer than previously thought in the body, causing other potentially lethal complications.

Diagnoses have not been made, partly because of a lack of relevant medical training and insufficient equipment for detecting a virus that can hide in inaccessible corners of the body - such as the spinal fluid or eyeball. In Cafferkey's case, the virus in her brain caused meningitis.

Dr. Dan Kelly, founder of non-profit organization Wellbody Alliance who has worked on Ebola in Sierra Leone, estimates that relapsing Ebola might affect 10 percent of all recovered patients.

He said this was based on two cases, including Cafferkey's, where the live virus was detected among the roughly 20 survivors treated in Europe and the United States. Other experts have declined to give an estimate, saying it is too early to tell.

    "One case reminds me of Pauline but we were unable to find a laboratory willing to test the patient before the patient died," he said. "In West Africa it (relapsing Ebola) is mostly undiagnosed, hardly treated and people are certainly dying of it." 

Confirmation of such relapses would prolong for a third year the struggle to defeat a virus that has killed nearly 11,300 people and ravaged the economies of some of the world's poorest countries.

Guinea is the only nation in West Africa that still has new confirmed cases. Liberia has been declared Ebola-free while Sierra Leone has gone 25 days without a case. But Ebola survivors continue to die under mysterious circumstances, health officials say.

Doctors at Freetown's 34 Military Hospital said they had seen two Ebola survivors return for treatment weeks after being discharged complaining of respiratory problems, including one this month. Both later died.

Officials at King's Sierra Leone Partnership also confirmed one possible relapse case in a patient with a weakened immune system in Freetown a week after recovery. Sierra Leone's National Ebola Response Center said further research on such "anomalies" is underway.

The findings may deepen the suffering of survivors, who are already fighting against stigma.

"Until there is a conclusive study, we can never be sure about this. And to be safe we must isolate them," said Freetown resident Alagie Kamara.

SURVIVOR TRAUMA

Brima Amidu, a student who survived Ebola, said his landlord has doubled his rent, in a move he believes is intended to drive him out.

"They (Western medics) treated us and if this happens to them what does it mean for us?" he said, referring to Cafferkey's relapse ten months after recovery.

Survivor Philip Koroma said counseling with a Christian group had helped him cope with ostracization. But one fellow survivor, Fatmata Conteh, was detained by police after she stoned a neighbor for calling her names, he said.

"All this is trauma. If they don't find a way to solve the problem, people could die of it," said Koroma.

There are signs that stigmatization is increasing amid evidence survivors can harbor the virus in semen for at least nine months. Liberia's last known case in June is thought to have been via sexual transmission.

Oretha, a prostitute in the red light district of Liberia's capital Monrovia, said that reports of sexual transmission had left her and other girls afraid.

"Some of our friends died. That made us be careful and use condoms. Any man that talk 'flesh to flesh', I go from them," she said, in the local Creole dialect.

In Sierra Leone's northern districts of Kambia and Bombali, new cases in recent weeks were immediately blamed on survivors.

"I'm deeply concerned by this. It is important that we all put aside fear and ignorance, and understand the facts about Ebola," said President Ernest Bai Koroma.

PARIAH, LEPER AND OUTCAST

Derek Gatherer, a virus expert at Britain's Lancaster University who has closely tracked Ebola, noted that "many survivors will not recover their former lives anyway, because of the consequences of the disease - both medical and social."

As well as stigma, many survivors complain of fatigue, joint pain and anxiety attacks.

Some aid workers say that discussing findings on the persistence of the Ebola virus could put survivors in danger. Armand Sprecher, public health specialist at medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), said a survivor already risked being treated "like a pariah, leper and an outcast".

"We risk making their lives miserable if we miscommunicate the actual risk we are dealing with here," Sprecher said.

Both Sierra Leone and Liberia are introducing programs to help screen survivors to see if they harbor the virus. "Operation Shield" in Sierra Leone begins regularly testing the semen of willing survivors this month.

In Guinea, where there are three known cases, government support for survivors is very basic.

Unlike earlier in the epidemic, Ebola victims and their contacts now benefit from a trial vaccine.

The World Health Organization is working with governments of the three countries to develop a survivor care plan.

"The Ebola response has already had to adapt to the extraordinary nature of this outbreak," said Adam Kucharski, an expert on infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

"The possibility of transmission long after apparent recovery poses yet another challenge."


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« Reply #334 on: November 22, 2015, 08:59:32 pm »

Liberia monitors over 150 Ebola contacts as virus re-emerges

Liberia has placed 153 people under surveillance as it seeks to control a new Ebola outbreak in the capital more than two months after the country was declared free of the virus, health officials said.

Three Ebola cases emerged in Liberia on Friday. The first of the new patients was a 15-year-old boy called Nathan Gbotoe from Paynesville, a suburb east of the capital Monrovia. Two other family members have since been confirmed as positive and they are all hospitalized.

"We have three confirmed cases and have listed 153 contacts, and we have labeled them as high, medium and low in terms of the risk," Liberia's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Francis Kateh told Reuters late on Saturday.

The West African country has suffered the highest death toll in the worst known Ebola outbreak in history, losing more than 4,800 people. It has twice been declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization, once in May and again on Sept. 3, only for new cases to emerge.

It is not known how Gbotoe was infected and Kateh did not offer any explanation, saying that investigations were ongoing. Cross-border transmission seems unlikely since neighboring Guinea has zero cases while Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free this month after 42 days without a case.

In the Duport Road neighborhood of Paynesville, health officials went from house to house on Saturday delivering food and water to neighbors of the infected family, deemed at risk of catching the disease.

Unlike in previous months, there were no barriers or soldiers to enforce quarantines.

Neighbor Elizabeth Powell said she was more worried about lost income than catching Ebola, which is transmitted through the bodily fluids of the sick.

"I am worried about food and my business," she said. The epidemic has crippled Liberia's economy and President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf says it will take two years to recover.

The previous resurgence of Ebola in Liberia is thought to have been via sexual transmission since the virus can exist in the semen of male survivors for at least nine months after infection, much longer than its incubation period in blood.

It is also theoretically possible for an infected animal to trigger a fresh chain of transmission. The index case in the West African outbreak that has killed around 11,300 people was a child believed to have been infected by a bat.

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12/7/15
Ebola Is Now Killing People Who Aren’t Even Infected

KONO DISTRICT, Sierra Leone — Thud. Almost every night, the tailor’s wife crushes cassava while making dinner for her children and husband. Thud, thud. Salome Kamara sits on a short wooden stool and braces her bare feet against the dirt floor of her mud-walled home to better hold the heavy stick that she pounds against leaves placed in a large wooden container carved from a tree trunk. The stick is unwieldy — about as tall as the brightly dressed 28-year-old and as thick as her arm.

Beginning last year, two dramatic events began to occupy Kamara’s thoughts, even as her daily routines stayed the same. The first was all around her, in Sierra Leone’s rural Kono district: Ebola grew from a distant rumor to a deadly plague, killing hundreds of locals. Residents panicked, some health workers fled, and gun-wielding military men arrived to enforce a series of lockdowns and quarantines. But as the crisis unfolded, something else momentous was happening: Kamara learned that her fourth child was on the way.

The bigger Kamara’s belly got, she later recalled, the more awkward it was to hold the cassava-pounding stick. And never was it more uncomfortable than on the last night of this past March. After she cooked her family’s dinner, Kamara lay down in darkness to sleep; her house, like most in Kono district, has no electricity, and her mattress is formed from bags of grass. At about 4 a.m., she was awoken by sharp pains in her abdomen. Her baby was coming.

Kamara was soon joined by her mother, her mother-in-law, and a traditional birth attendant (TBA). At 5:30 a.m., Kamara heard the first cries of her newborn. But her labor wasn’t over. To Kamara’s surprise, a twin baby lay inside her, and this one was positioned incorrectly: Its feet faced forward, a worrying complication. In nearly one in five footling breeches, as the position is known, the umbilical cord becomes compressed, cutting off the flow of oxygen to the baby’s brain, which can lead to brain damage or death. The remedy in a modern hospital would likely be a cesarean section, but in Kono district, where only a handful of doctors serve a population of more than 500,000, a breech birth can be fatal for both mother and infant.

Kamara faced a choice. She could stay at home and have the TBA assist her, hoping for the best. After all, TBAs have been overseeing births in Sierra Leone for hundreds of years. But recently, public health officials have increasingly been warning that babies born under the guidance of TBAs are more likely to die than those born in medical facilities. A study published in April by Doctors of the World found that in Sierra Leone’s rural Moyamba district — across the country from Kono — babies born at home are 165 times more likely to die than those born in a clinic with a skilled health professional.

For Kamara, an alternative was nearby. Just a few miles away, down a deeply rutted dirt road, the Koidu Government Hospital ran a maternity ward. People in her community, however, had told her that workers there charged bribes to deliver babies. Besides, the hospital was reeling from the effects of Ebola; though most cases were by then being treated in specialized centers and Kono district had reportedly been Ebola-free for a month, the hospital remained deeply stigmatized, according to physician Ronald Marsh, the facility’s medical director. “The patients are afraid,” Marsh said in April. “It’s quite difficult for them to come in.”

Two nurses in the maternity ward had died after catching Ebola from a woman suffering a miscarriage. Kamara wasn’t eager to go there. She lay back on her bed and looked at the women in the room. With time quickly running out, she weighed her options.

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Sierra Leone’s mortality rate for infants, young children, and mothers are all near the worst in the world, as is the country’s life expectancy for women (just 46). The lifetime risk of dying during pregnancy or childbirth for a mother is one in 17. About 3 percent of babies are stillborn. For every 1,000 children who successfully run the gantlet of the birth canal, 39 die within the first month of life — from bacterial infections, pneumonia, and other ills. For the five-year period ending in 2013, even incomplete data that do not include certain categories of infant death show that, as very young children age, the death toll climbs: to 92 before their first birthday and to 156 by age 5, with many succumbing to malaria or parasitic organisms that live in untreated drinking water.

The sum total of all these dangers is one comparative statistic that puts the Ebola epidemic in perspective: The deadly virus that motivated billions of dollars in international aid has killed nearly 4,000 people in Sierra Leone. (Total infections in the country as of Nov. 22 were 14,122.) The number of children under age 5 who die each year from other causes is 10 times that.

Yet there are signs that the two trends are dangerously intertwining — that the ravaging toll Ebola has taken on Sierra Leone’s health-care system may mean even more mothers and children will die in years to come.

As Ebola crowded out other health concerns in 2014, the country’s already tremulous health infrastructure fell apart. “Sierra Leone is still struggling to emerge from the ravages of a devastating war,” says Anders Nordstrom, representative to Sierra Leone from the World Health Organization (WHO).

“The Ebola outbreak has added strain to an already fragile system.” In November 2014, six months after the country’s first Ebola cases were documented, the WHO reported that “few patients have access to healthcare facilities, with many facilities closed.” Many health workers died or quit out of fear. Attendance at clinics dropped by as much as 90 percent, the WHO report found. Frightened parents kept their children home with life-threatening diseases. Vaccination programs that were only just starting to effectively combat other killers, such as measles and Lassa fever, were decimated.

As a result, local doctors and international NGOs, including Care USA, estimate that for each person Ebola has killed through direct infection, more than one Sierra Leonean will perish from the secondary effects of the crisis. At the end of August, deep into the country’s rainy season — when many water-borne diseases are easily contracted — Nordstrom acknowledged that cases of Ebola have slowed to a trickle; in fact, the country had just experienced two weeks without any newly reported cases. But he said that the warning bell of the epidemic’s far-reaching consequences is ringing loudly.

“Now is the time…. We can really apply a massive effort to tackling this appalling loss of life,” Nordstrom said urgently. “This should really be treated as an emergency.”

* * *

Sierra Leone’s health misery used to have more company. In 1981, its infant mortality rate — 166 per 1,000 children under 1 year old — put the country in a statistical dead heat with, among other countries, neighboring Guinea. But where Guinea has dragged itself at least partway out of this trough, Sierra Leone has lagged. A Sept. 9 report from the United Nations estimates Sierra Leone’s 2015 infant mortality rate at 87 and Guinea’s at 61. Similarly, 35 years ago, the life expectancy for women in Guinea and Sierra Leone was separated by only two years (43 versus 41). Now there’s an 11-year gap: 46 in Sierra Leone and 57 in Guinea.

What happened is the story of a long and largely unsuccessful battle fought to improve Sierra Leone’s health-care system, much of it against the backdrop of bloody conflict. In 1988, the country seemed poised to address one of its key health needs by founding its first medical university, the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, in Freetown, the capital. The college was supposed to act as a pipeline, sending medical staff to critically underserved areas throughout Sierra Leone. But at the same time, the public was growing increasingly dissatisfied with the corrupt rule of Maj. Gen. Joseph Saidu Momoh. In 1991, just as the medical college was turning out its first batch of professionals, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a rebel group, sparked an insurrection. Among its many stated principles, the RUF promised to implement free health-care nationwide.

Revolution, however, turned into an 11-year-long civil war, during which bands of rebels armed with machetes and firearms roamed the country, terrorizing citizens. Hopes for an improved medical system quickly faded. In 2000, an article in the New York Review of Books called Sierra Leone “The Worst Place on Earth,” based on the country’s last-place ranking in the U.N. Human Development Index and its abysmal health indicators, including infant mortality. Many existing health practitioners fled the country, never to return.

In 2002, just after the war ended, the new president, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, issued a decree that certain vulnerable groups would no longer have to pay for their health care at any facility in the country; pregnant and nursing women were included in the directive. But implementation was spotty at best. Some medical workers were so poorly paid that they had little incentive to stop charging patients. In 2008, six years after Kabbah’s decree, 80 percent of Sierra Leonean women polled in a health survey conducted by the national government reported that the biggest obstacle preventing them from accessing care was cost.

In April 2010, legislators passed a free health-care initiative, which, among other things, stipulated a significant salary boost for health workers. Robert Yates, a health economist with the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), was quoted trumpeting the law in a 2011 New York Times article that noted an increase in the number of young children getting treatment at medical facilities and a drop in the malaria fatality rate for children treated in hospitals. Moreover, a new government survey in 2013 found that the percentage of women reporting that cost was the biggest obstacle to accessing care had dropped to 67 percent.

Yet other evidence indicates that the law’s effects have been limited. A 2012 study from ReBUILD, a research consortium funded by DFID, found that though salary increases for health workers had improved their numbers, attendance on the job, and motivation, inconsistent payments from the national government, particularly in rural areas, remained a problem. Staff shortages in public health clinics and hospitals ranged from 40 to 100 percent. An endemic culture of corruption has also lingered: In 2013, 48 percent of respondents to a national survey administered by Transparency International reported that they or a household member had paid a bribe to receive health services over the previous 12 months. Fifty-five percent described medical and health services as corrupt or extremely corrupt.

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Some health workers point out that for them, bribing remains a matter of necessity: Without “those charges, they will not have enough to eat,” says Adama Momodu, who works at a community health center affiliated with Koidu Government Hospital in Kono district.

Dollar figures show just how dire the situation has become. In 2013, according to the WHO, Sierra Leone’s government covered just 14.3 cents of every dollar spent on health care in the country — the second-lowest number in the world and down from 29 cents of every dollar in 2000. The flip side of that statistic is the large amount of money coming out of the pockets of Sierra Leone’s citizens to pay for their care. In 2013, people paid 61 cents of every dollar spent on health care. (The balance came from international aid.) “Very little is said about the end users that continue to provide a large proportion of health funds in Sierra Leone,” ReBUILD noted in 2012. “In the midst of the wide spread poverty, a thorough investigation should be carried out on the coping mechanism of end users, their perceptions on health care delivery and their patterns of spending.”

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Even as it has struggled to fund a functioning health system, the government has responded to concerns about the risks of home births to pregnant women, like Salome Kamara, and their infants by discouraging the use of traditional attendants. The 2010 health law, for instance, recommended that local communities pass bylaws “preventing home deliveries” and advocated “the phasing out of TBAs carrying out deliveries on their own,” which led to reports that, in some areas, TBAs had been banned and faced fines.

Still, the prospect of paying bribes in a distant hospital is often less attractive to Sierra Leonean women than that of giving birth surrounded by family at home. The fact that the setting is less hygienic and that TBAs aren’t trained to navigate many physical complications doesn’t diminish the appeal.

Some health experts are hoping to find a sort of third way to assist mothers — a setting that offers the benefits of a well-run hospital combined with the support provided by a TBA. One such person is Raphael Frankfurter, executive director of Wellbody Alliance, a small NGO that began in 2006 as a partnership between medical workers from Sierra Leone and the United States and that operates a health clinic in Kono district.

Wellbody first tried to bring more women into government-run birthing clinics by running public-awareness campaigns that paid TBAs to teach area mothers how to have safer births. But the program failed to budge attendance at Koidu Government Hospital’s maternity ward or at the hospital’s associated community clinics. Frankfurter was troubled when he learned why. “Some women were explicit,” he explains. “They would say, ‘I know that my chance of losing a baby is higher, but they don’t treat you as well at the hospital.’”

“If they go to the TBA,” Frankfurter says he realized, “it’s because the TBAs do something better.”

So Wellbody decided to come at maternal health from another angle. The NGO, which already ran a general health clinic, built a delivery center in Kono district equipped with the area’s only ultrasound machine and staffed by a mixture of TBAs and medically trained aides. “We don’t want to just coerce and swallow TBAs into the health-care system,” Frankfurter notes. “We want to learn from them and help what they do, which is provide really attentive care to women.”

Wellbody slated the center’s opening for the summer of 2014. But then, Ebola struck.

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For months, health officials could do little to stem the mounting death toll. Frankfurter, who attended national strategic sessions on Ebola response, says the meetings were full of dread. “People were just looking at each other, asking what should be done,” he says. “No one had any answers.”

In Kono district, medical wards became objects of fear. Patients, some suffering acutely from Ebola, fled Koidu Government Hospital. Rumors spread that doctors were deliberately injecting locals with the virus in order to weaken political opposition to the national government. Military quarantines just made things worse. One day, Frankfurter heard a woman shouting in the street. “‘Ebola is a lie!’” he recalls her yelling. “‘They are sending people to the government hospital to die!””

Nongovernment health facilities also shut their doors. At Wellbody, attendance at its existing clinic plummeted 95 percent. Ultimately, because the facility wasn’t equipped to protect its workers from Ebola exposure, Wellbody’s leaders closed it down; the opening of the new delivery center was indefinitely delayed. “There was no other choice,” Frankfurter explains. “Everyone knew someone who had been infected. We were frightened, and we couldn’t put our workers at risk.”

Over the past year, health groups have been trying to quantify the impact that this collapse of the health-care system has had on Sierra Leone. Nationwide, UNICEF has documented a 27 percent decline in the number of women coming to health clinics for prenatal visits or delivery and a 39 percent decline in malaria treatments for children under 5. The U.N. Population Fund predicted in February that maternal deaths during childbirth would double to more than 2,000 per 100,000 this year, a return to levels seen in the 1990s. And the Assessment Capacities Project, a consortium of three international humanitarian NGOs, has estimated that, between March 2015 and February 2016, 330 more women would die because of disruptions to maternal care and that “an additional 8,593 deaths of children under five are expected as a result of health service interruptions, including 2,554 newborns.”

Records at Koidu Government Hospital show 226 Ebola deaths in Kono, but Marsh, the medical director, says that is only a small part of the story. He doesn’t have a working figure of the number of deaths indirectly caused by Ebola, but says “of course, it’s way more” than the official tally. The hospital estimates, for instance, that Ebola-related disruptions have prevented 3,300 newborns from being registered — a first step in getting medical treatment under the 2010 free health-care initiative.

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Ironically, some experts see a bright spot amid these horrific numbers. Ebola has brought a great deal of attention and foreign aid to Sierra Leone (and to other countries affected by Ebola). In July, the acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Alfonso Lenhardt, said the United States alone had spent $2 billion in the affected region since the outbreak started. If similar support could be commanded for a few years more, some experts say, in Sierra Leone the resources could be used to build a new, more effective health-care infrastructure on the ashes of the old one.

“I do believe we now have a golden opportunity to change this situation,” the WHO’s Nordstrom says. “Now we need to build on this very strong response to fight Ebola, to tackle other health needs.”

In January, the WHO noted in a report that Sierra Leone is better prepared for future outbreaks. Medical personnel know how to use protective equipment, for instance, and new intervention resources are on the ground, including 11 well-equipped blood labs, operated by the government and different international groups, that are collectively able to process more than 1,000 samples a day. While these were set up to evaluate potential Ebola cases, they could also be used for a wide variety of disease testing. In addition, blood transfusions are now safer and more widely available, the WHO said, because of training and equipment brought in during the epidemic’s nadir; this could help local health workers treat persistent killers — malaria, dengue, Lassa fever, yellow fever, and even certain childbirth complications.

Still, many of the same old problems that have long plagued Sierra Leone’s medical system remain. “There are very practical things that must be done urgently,” Nordstrom notes. “For instance, ensure that every health facility has running water.”

Frankfurter said he witnessed a veritable flood of medical personnel from the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, and other organizations come to Kono district to help when Ebola was at its peak. But by this June, many of them had begun to withdraw.

“I know that their mandate is to help disasters,” Frankfurter says. “But here, everything is a chronic disaster. It’s hard to say Ebola’s any different than having three doctors for 500,000 people. They’re both disasters.”

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Wellbody, which saw its donor-driven budget double in 2014 thanks to Ebola, was finally able to open the doors to its delivery center on April 1, 2015. Salome Kamara was the first woman to visit: With her second twin baby in footling breech position, she made the difficult decision to deliver outside her home, under the care of both TBAs and medical staff.

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At 8 a.m., when happy news came from the delivery room, Kamara’s husband, mother, and stepmother celebrated loudly outside. A few hours later, Kamara sat on a clinic bed, nursing her second twin. One Wellbody staff member brought her a plate of food, while another adjusted her feet on the bed to make her more comfortable. Kamara had expected to be charged for the delivery. Instead, she was given a gift: a brightly colored lapa, which is wound around the waist and worn as a skirt.

Kamara’s experience illustrates the knife’s edge on which Sierra Leone teeters when it comes to health, particularly that of its most vulnerable citizens. Over the next 12 months, an estimated 260,000 women will give birth in the country — and each one faces the threat of interrupted access to care because of Ebola’s lingering impact. Some will get the help they need, as Kamara did; other will not. And even for the babies who survive birth, risks will loom for years to come.

The day after giving birth, Kamara and her mother put on their sandals and walked home, each cradling an infant as motorbikes passed on the dusty road. When she arrived, Kamara put down her babies and picked up her stick. It was time to pound cassava. There were now seven mouths to feed.
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Ebola virus lingers longer than scientists thought

Long-term tracking of people who beat the virus reveal its remarkable longevity in the human body. The findings, presented on 12 September at an Ebola-virus conference in Antwerp, Belgium, underscore the need for extended tracking of people who have beaten Ebola and other rare infections. Researchers have long known that the virus can persist in people who have recovered from the infection. But the size of the West African outbreak, coupled with improved monitoring technologies, is changing how scientists view life after Ebola — and how to prevent future outbreaks.   

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Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey taken to hospital under police escort

A nurse who has repeatedly fallen  seriously ill after contracting the Ebola virus two years ago has been taken to hospital again, under police escort.

Pauline Cafferkey was  said to be in a stable condition after she was hospitalised for the fourth time since contracting the deadly viral haemorrhagic fever while working for a charity in Sierra Leone.

Doctors said the 40-year-old was undergoing routine monitoring at the infectious disease department of Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

Officials declined to say if the disease had recurred, or whether she was suffering from other complications, but said there was no risk to the wider public.

The nurse was infected with the virus while working as a volunteer for Save The Children during the outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone from 2014.

On her return at the end of 2014, she was quickly struck down and was taken by military transport plane to the Royal Free Hospital in London.

Ms Cafferkey was discharged in January 2015, with doctors saying she had completely recovered and was not infectious in any way.

However, she was readmitted to hospital twice - in October 2015 and February 2016 - after suffering complications linked to the disease, at one stage falling critically ill.

Nicola Sturgeon, first minister, said: "Sending my very best wishes to Pauline Cafferkey. She has already suffered way too much - & all for trying to help others. Thoughts with her."

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Ebola Outbreak Spreads In Congo And The Death Count Is Rising

Ebola has spread to a major city in Congo, and the death toll is rising rapidly. Congo officials have reported 23 are dead and that there are 42 confirmed cases of the deadly virus. First discovered close to Congo’s Ebola River in 1976,

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« Reply #339 on: May 20, 2018, 05:11:13 pm »

The Ebola superhighway: New outbreak terrifies public health authorities...
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/388401-the-ebola-superhighway-why-a-new-outbreak-terrifies-public-health

Deaths rise to 26...
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Ebola Breach: Vomiting Patients “In Active Phase” Smuggled Out Of Quarantine, Die Within Hours

On Thursday, Dr. Jean-Clement Cabrol of Doctors Without Borders revealed that two vomiting patients “in the active phase of the disease” were smuggled out of quarantine on Monday, put on motorcycles, and taken to a prayer meeting with 50 people – where they died hours later.

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Harvard Professor Warns That The Current Ebola Outbreak In Africa Could Spread To The United States

Could it be possible that we are on the verge of a major Ebola pandemic?  In 2014, the worst Ebola outbreak in history resulted in 28,637 cases and more than 11,000 deaths.  But we were very fortunate.  Even though the virus started to spread across national lines, health authorities were able to quickly identify new cases and isolate those that were infected.  But just because that outbreak ultimately fizzled out does not mean that we can let our guard down.  In 2014, a single Ebola case absolutely overwhelmed an entire hospital here in the United States, and a full blown global Ebola outbreak would definitely have the potential to kill millions of people. (Read More...)

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« Reply #342 on: August 20, 2018, 09:01:33 am »

Ebola cases in DR Congo rise to 78, 44 dead

Seventy-eight cases of Ebola have been recorded in an outbreak in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, claiming 44 lives, DRC officials and the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday. “In all, 78 cases of haemorrhagic fever have been reported in the region, of which 51 are confirmed and 27 probable” while “24 suspect cases are under investigation”, according to reports from Congolese authorities and the WHO.

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« Reply #343 on: September 03, 2018, 07:27:09 am »

Why Africa Faces The Biggest Threat Of Ebola Explosion

Senior government officials in Tanzanian, Rwandan and Ugandan, have said their countries are on a high risk of Ebola outbreak after the disease killed 75 out of 111 patients in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.

After we sent a wake-up call in July 2018 to the Ugandan Government that Ebola will be introduced to Uganda after vaccine trials are conducted in DRC Congo and that the Ugandan the Tanzanian, Rwandan and Ugandan governments took excessive measurements.

We warned the Ugandan government that Ebola will enter in a certain region in the North East of Uganda under the disguise of so-called European proclamation that opposition armed forces will not allow WHO, UNHCR and Europe to interfere in the Ebola outbreak.

History of Ebola and Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Virus

Scientists studying viral disease agents in the laboratory for biowarfare purposes and cure against it have become infected in Russia, United States, Crimea, Tajikistan, Philippines, Germany, Former Yugoslavia, United Kingdom, Netherlands, South Africa many decades ago.

A similar accident with Ebola had reportedly occurred at the US Army’s biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, where the Ebola virus was invented, but the researcher involved didn’t acquire the disease. This incident is not listed on the CDC’s list of confirmed outbreaks, perhaps because the researcher didn’t develop antibodies.

At the beginning of the former century, new concerns about bio-weapons being used to generate terror and also with a series of new disease-causing microbes have resulted in infections and deaths of workers studying them in the laboratories. And now we have bats, monkeys, tics, swine, horse flies and mosquitos are spreading genetic manipulated diseases made in biowarfare Centers throughout the hearts of all epidemics.

Some latest examples: the 2014 infections and deaths of five researchers who were isolating the West African Ebola virus for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing epidemiology studies. Beginning in March 2014, a devastating Ebola outbreak in West Africa caused widespread suffering and damaged fragile public health systems.

Hundreds of thousands of unwitting people are systematically exposed to dangerous pathogens and other incurable diseases. Biowarfare scientists using diplomatic cover test man-made viruses at Pentagon bio-laboratories in 25 countries across the world causing especially Ebola and HIV in Africa for depopulation reasons.

These US Ebola biowarfare-laboratories are funded, amongst many others, by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under a $ 2.1 billion military program, Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP), and are located in former Soviet Union countries such as Georgia and Ukraine, the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa.

It is very striking the number of American research laboratories, who have created the Ebola virus, working on protection against bioterrorism has increased from 20 to 400 over the last 10 years throughout the Ebola and HIV fallout regions.

Most of these centers appeared in African countries such as Nigeria, Kenya, DRC, Tanzania, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Egypt. Such laboratories allow developing biological weapons.

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« Reply #344 on: December 08, 2018, 02:29:27 pm »

Second Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History Spreads to Major City in Congo

The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has spread to a major city.

 Butembo, a bustling city of almost a million people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is reporting an increasing number of cases of Ebola virus disease in the country's current epidemic. There has been a "significant increase" in infections there over the past three weeks, with a total of 25 confirmed cases thus far, according to Thursday's bulletin from the country's health ministry.

Butembo is a key trading and transport hub with links to other major cities in the country as well as to neighboring Uganda. It's about two times the size of the city of Beni, the outbreak's epicenter, and is located just 35 miles away. The health ministry said the "high density and mobility" of Butembo's population presents new challenges to containment efforts, already complicated by sporadic rebel attacks on remote villages in and around Beni.

Since the outbreak was declared on Aug. 1, a total of 471 people have reported symptoms of hemorrhagic fever in the country's eastern provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, which share borders with Rwanda, Uganda and South Sudan. Among those cases, 423 have tested positive for Ebola virus disease, which causes an often-deadly type of hemorrhagic fever, according to the health ministry.

There have been 273 deaths thus far, including 225 people who died from confirmed cases of Ebola. The other deaths are from probable cases of Ebola, the ministry said.

 The ongoing outbreak is one of the world's worst, second only to the 2014-2016 outbreak in multiple West African nations that infected 28,652 people and killed 11,325, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ebola is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This is the 10th outbreak and the worst the country has seen since 1976, the year that scientists first identified the deadly virus near the eponymous Ebola River.

"No other epidemic in the world has been as complex as the one we are currently experiencing," the Democratic Republic of the Congo's health minister, Dr. Oly Ilunga Kalenga, said in a statement last month.

 The World Health Organization received approval to administer an experimental Ebola vaccine, using a "ring vaccination" approach, around the epicenter of the current outbreak. More than 40,000 people, including health workers and children, have been vaccinated in the outbreak zone since Aug. 8, according to the country's health ministry.

The vaccine, which was developed by American pharmaceutical company Merck, has proved effective against the country's previous outbreak in the western province of Equateur.

The number of Ebola cases in the current outbreak would probably have already surpassed 10,000 if it weren't for the vaccination teams, the ministry said Thursday.

 North Kivu and Ituri, where cases are being reported, are among the most populous provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are also awash with violence and insecurity, particularly in the mineral-rich borderlands where militia activity has surged over the past year, all of which complicates the international response to the Ebola outbreak.

The security situation in the region has at times stymied the response efforts. Meanwhile, health workers are battling misinformation and mistrust from the local community, partly due to many years of conflict in the region.

There is a reluctance among some wary residents to seek care or allow health workers to vaccinate, conduct contact tracing and perform safe burials. That resistance has been expressed more violently than typically seen during previous Ebola outbreaks, according to the health ministry. A "fringe minority population" in these areas have destroyed medical equipment and health centers and have even attacked workers, the ministry said Thursday.

The epidemic is expected to last for "several" more months and the risk of spread will remain high until the outbreak is stomped out completely, according to the ministry.

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Ebola outbreak deaths top 1,000 in Congo amid clinic attacks

More than 1,000 people have died from Ebola in eastern Congo since August, the country’s health minister said Friday as hostility toward health workers continues to hamper efforts to contain the second-deadliest outbreak of the virus.

Health Minister Oly Ilunga told The Associated Press that four deaths in the outbreak’s epicenter of Katwa helped push the death toll to 1,008. Two more deaths were reported in the city of Butembo.

The outbreak declared almost nine months ago already had caused the most deaths behind the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa’s Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia that killed more than 11,000 people.

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Massive Ebola outbreak spreads across DRC border, infected 5-year-old in Uganda
Health officials in Uganda have confirmed the country’s first case of Ebola stemming from a massive outbreak that has been raging across the border in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since August of 2018.

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