The Justice Department has just won an important battle that will allow for $750 million in war funds to be shifted towards the fight against Ebola in West Africa. A Republican senator has lifted his objections to the transfer, thus allowing operations to commence. By lifting his objections, Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma has just granted the Pentagon sufficient funding for approximately six … [Read more...]
CDC Confirms First Ebola Case Diagnosed in the United States
According to U.S. health officials’ statements on Tuesday, the first case of Ebola in the United States had been diagnosed, showing that the deadly outbreak in West Africa has the potential of spreading globally. The patient is currently in the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, in isolation. He has recently traveled to West Africa but it was only a few days after returning to Texas … [Read more...]
President Obama Advocates Better Prevention of Other Deadly Outbreaks
The current Ebola outbreak wreaking havoc in Western African countries has, according to many epidemiologists, only advanced to this stage because of an ineffective and far too slow response. Many experts believe that the outbreak that could have been easily controlled, but, because of hesitations, it has now become an all-out epidemic and will cause the deaths of thousands despite a full … [Read more...]
Aid Groups Ask World Leaders for Faster Ebola Response
New forecasts revealed on Tuesday suggest that every 30-day delay in the isolation of an Ebola patient will result in the tripling of daily cases of the hemorrhagic fever epidemic that is decimating the populations of West African countries. World leaders are gathering this week in New York for the annual United Nations meeting and U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon has called for a special … [Read more...]
WHO Warns that Ebola Cases Could Reach 20,000 by November
A World Health Organization report suggests that the number of current Ebola cases in West Africa could quadruple to over 20,000 by November if monumental efforts aren’t made to hinder the transmission of the hemorrhagic fever. According to the researchers who published the study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the West African outbreak could become an endemic among the countries … [Read more...]
Three Day Sierra Leone Ebola Lock Down Comes to an End
Sunday marked the last moments of a particularly difficult period for Sierra Leone: the three day lockdown that had citizens anxious and frightened has finally ended. Authorities claim that this measure helped them not only locate scores of bodies that could represent sources of infection for countless people, but also identify dozens of new infections. Sierra Leone was the only nation to … [Read more...]
WHO Announces that Ebola Death Toll Increases
The World Health Organization has announced that the Ebola virus is continuing to spread in the West of Africa, crossing the borders between Liberia, Sierra Leone and entering Guinea. There are large numbers of new cases and death in this region, with 44 new cases between the 6 and 8 of July. The total number of cases since the outbreak in February of this year is 888 cases and 539 deaths. There … [Read more...]
WHO Warns against Proportion of Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
The world watches in horror, as the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa takes on ever bigger proportions. A statement made by World Health Organization representatives and relayed by CNN and other major media outlets on Thursday says “drastic action is needed” to keep the epidemic under control. The global organization in question has already sent over several expert teams, whose mission is to … [Read more...]
