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US sends medical experts to study how Nigeria tamed Ebola
Oct 02 2014 at 07:58am
Stunned by the entrance of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, into America, the United States’ Center for Disease Control and
Prevention has despatched its personnel to study how Nigeriacontained the killer disease.
The US reported on Tuesday that it has discovered a case of EVD in Dallas, Texas, but its health officials said “the crisis is under control and the public has nothing to fear.”
According to US CDC, “Nigeria’s first reported case of Ebola
surfaced July 20, when Patrick Sawyer landed in Lagos from
Liberia and exposed 72 other passengers to the virus. Nigeria’s
Health officials quickly issued notifications and tracked
everybody who may have been in contact with Sawyer.
“Nigeria also established an Ebola Incident Management Center
to handle the potential outbreak and developed a staffing plan
that executed a social mobilization strategy that reached more
than 26,000 households of people living around the contacts
of Ebola patients,”
The deadly virus has killed more than 3,000 people in Sierra
Leone, Guinea and Liberia in the largest outbreak ever
recorded.
How Senegal contained Ebola
Senegal confirmed its first Ebola case Aug. 29 after a man,
travelling from Guinea on Aug. 14, took ill and showed
symptoms of the disease. This prompted a quick response,
including an experienced and trained staff that was prepared
to contain the Ebola outbreak. The procedure led to the
identification of 67 contacts who were placed under
quarantine, monitored for 21 days and showed no symptoms
of Ebola.
Panic in America
The man who imported Ebola into US was found to have
travelled to Liberia without informing the authorities and did
not disclose the nature of his ailment to the nurse that
attended to him. Reports from Texas yesterday said that the
Nurse who attended to the man has also taken ill for Ebola in
Texas.
A spokesman for Texas Health Presbyterian said the patient
had walked into a Dallas emergency room on September 26,
without knowing that he contacted the deadly virus and left
after he was treated. He then returned to the facility on
September 28 where it was determined he likely had Ebola
and was isolated. He tested positive Tuesday, health officials
said.
Following the lapse on the part of the hospital officials,
questions are being asked amid panic across the country. The
CDC has thus advised that all medical facilities should ask for
patients with symptoms consistent with Ebola for their travel
history.
source: Vanguard
