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...]
Sierra Leone Burial Team Attacked During Lockdown
While trying to bury the bodies of the five Ebola victims in Sierra Leone, health workers found themselves under attack east of the capital. According to Sgt. Edward Momoh Brima Lahai, the confrontation on Saturday began when a group of youths attacked the burial team in the Waterloo district. The attack on the health workers came only days after eight members of a delegation aimed at educating … [Read more...]
Three Day National Lockdown in Sierra Lone
A three day nationwide lockdown has just begun in Sierra Leone, one of the West African countries struck by the deadly Ebola outbreak. Authorities are attempting to contend with the never before seen lethal thrust that the hemorrhagic virus has across West Africa. Experts, however, fear that such measures may do more harm than good. Sierra Leone is one of the nations that was hit the worst by the … [Read more...]
Funds Requested by Sierra Leone to Evacuate Ill Doctor
One of the West African countries dealing with the Ebola outbreak has urged the World Health Organization to provide funds that would ensure the evacuation of the doctor infected with the deadly hemorrhagic fever virus. Among the doctors working in Sierra Leone, Dr. Olivet Buck is the fourth to become ill with Ebola. The vast majority of the diagnosed cases of Ebola were located in Sierra Leone, … [Read more...]
Ebola growing out of control, warns WHO’s Margaret Chan
The Ebola virus rampaging in West Africa is spreading faster than expected and the World Health Organization fears worldwide disaster. Ignoring the problem will not make it go away. The death toll is rising fast and out of the 4,784 reported cases 2,400 have died says WHO director general Margaret Chan to reporters at the UN health agency's headquarters in Geneva. She also states that the figures … [Read more...]
Ebola Outbreak Stirs Anger in Liberia While American Doctor’s Condition Improves
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's government has gone to great lengths to protect impoverished West African residents from the Ebola virus. However, Ebola has claimed more than 1000 lives in Liberia alone. The total death toll right now has surpassed 1900 victims. On September 6, a starving Ebola patient escaped from the ELWA hospital in Monrovia. Scared residents claimed that this was the fifth … [Read more...]
Experimental Ebola Drug Cures 100% Laboratory Monkeys
Amazing news about a new Ebola treatment! A new experimental Ebola drug, called ZMapp, has cure all 18 lab monkeys infected with the Ebola virus. Some of the monkeys showed advanced signs of the disease, such as fever and hemorrhage and were thought to be hours from a certain death. Other monkeys did not receive the drug until 5 days after the infection took place; these monkeys also survived. … [Read more...]