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Ebola: Sierra Leone records two new cases

Following the death of a man of the Ebola Virus disease a week ago, two new cases of the fatal illness have been recorded in Sierra Leone’s Tonkolili district. The victim contracted the disease in Freetown, and then travelled to his home village to mark the end of the Ramadan. 
He was treated for a fever at the local hospital but authorities did not contact the Ebola emergency team.‎ The two new cases are relatives of the man.Northern Tonkolili had not had a single case of Ebola in five months.  His family and friends buried him without following the special procedures required for Ebola victims to avoid spreading the disease.
The National Ebola Response Centre’s OB Sisay said that “We now know where the virus is and we are tracking its movement, by surrounding, containing and eradicating its last remaining chain of transmission.” 
 Authorities have quarantined 500 people following his death.
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17 year-old boy dies of Ebola in Liberia.

This people actually held a party to celebrate the exit of Ebola in the country. Sadly, a new case has been discovered and this news is coming 7 weeks after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Liberia free of the virus.
The patient, a 17-year-old boy died of the EVD at Margibi, near Monrovia on June 24 and was buried the next day. Officials are still trying to determine how he caught the disease.
Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah, has however allayed fears in the citizens.
“There’s no need to panic. Our team was there yesterday June 29 to investigate the situation and know the area. But to be vigilant is good. We were vigilant. Our surveillance team is working very, very well. They have picked up this dead child from his parents’ home, tested it yesterday and the child was positive.

 We ask all Liberians and all other nationals living in Liberia to continue taking preventive measures. Please lower your blood pressure. We are on top of this. This is something we know how to deal with.”
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Ebola returns to Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone has recorded two new cases of the Ebola Virus Disease. Infected patients include a  fisherman who caught it from his girlfriend and one of his family member. This sad news is coming few weeks after the country recorded no new cases.

The fatal illness has killed more than11,000 people in West Africa, about a third of them in Sierra
Leone. 

Sidi Yahya Tunis, a spokesman for the National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) said, “This is worrisome because we had already closed all Ebola quarantine structures in Freetown since we had gone for weeks without a case.” 


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Ebola: CAF lifts Liberia's ban

Life is edging back to normal in Liberia after the country was declared free of the Ebola Virus Disease by World Health Organization (‎WHO) few weeks back.
Another big news for football administration of the country is that the‎ Confederation of African Football has lifted the ‎suspension imposed on them which barred Ebola- hit countries from hosting continental matches at home.
CAF says on its website that it lifted the ban after it obtained a confirmation letter from the (WHO). Now, that Ebola has been wiped out, football matches can now be organised in any part of the West African country.
Meanwhile, ‎Guinea and Sierra Leone, two other African
countries still affected by the EVD are still suspended.
“However, WHO confirms that the situation of the Ebola epidemic in Guinea and Sierra Leone requires that CAF keeps its precautionary principle, and asks the concerned teams to organise their matches on a neutral ground,” a‎ CAF statement adds.‎
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Bye For Good! Liberians celebrate end of Ebola (Photos)

Not a few Liberians took to the streets yesterday to celebrate the end of the Ebola Virus Disease which claimed more than 4,000 lives in the country.

This is coming few days after the World Health Organisation declared the country free of the outbreak after 42 days without a new case.

They danced, played drums and carried placards with messages like, “Thank God We Are Set Free From Ebola”, “We will always overcome” and “We are the winner”.


Credit:  BBC

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WHO declares Liberia Ebola-free

‎The World Health Organization (WHO) has finally declared Liberia free of the deadly Ebola virus. This development is coming after the country confirmed no new cases in 42 days. Over 4,000 people have died from the disease in the region, the last confirmed death was on 27 March.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told the BBC. “We will celebrate our communities which have taken responsibility and participated in fighting this unknown enemy and finally we’ve crossed the Rubicon. Liberia indeed is a happy nation. It has been a terrible time in the history of our country.”
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WHO has also warned that the EVD can be transmitted sexually. The organization has however urged survivors and sexual partners receive counselling. 

‎It said in a statement. “The sexual transmission of the Ebola Virus from males to females is a strong possibility, but has not yet been proven; less probable, but theoretically possible.



“Studies have shown that Ebola virus can be isolated from semen up to 82 days after symptom onset. A recent case investigation identified genetic material (RNA) from the virus by nucleic acid amplification tests (such as RT-PCR) 199 days after symptom onset.
“This is well beyond the period of virus detecting ability in the blood of survivors and long after recovery from illness.
“The detection of virus genetic material many months after symptom onset is assumed to reflect the continuing, or at least very recent, presence of live and potentially transmissible Ebola virus.”
“Ebola survivors and their sexual partners should either abstain from all types of sex or observe safe sex through correct and consistent condom use until their semen has twice tested negative.
“Having tested negative, survivors can safely resume normal sexual practices without fear of Ebola virus transmission.”

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LUTH Chief Medical Director dismisses reports of Ebola case at the hospital

The management of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) has totally dismissed reports that were circulated on the social media over the weekend that two foreign nationals died of the Ebola Virus Disease in the hospital.
The Chief Medical Director, Prof. Chris Bode has issued a statement in response to the news.
He said, “Our attention has been drawn to a malicious piece of information making the rounds on social media, which purported that two foreign nationals brought to LUTH on Sunday, April 12, 2015 died of EVD.
“This is to swiftly deny any such rumour and inform members of the public that no such event happened. Our professionals at the emergency services, various lines of responders, laboratories and nurses all reported no such cases in our hospital.”
He said since the last case of Ebola in the country, the hospital had been on “eternal vigilance and shall continue to observe all precautions to quickly identify any case of the highly infectious disease, in line with international best practices.”
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Ebola: Police arrest 13 for unsafe burial.

Police in Sierra Leone stormed the outskirts of Freetown last week Thursday and arrested 13 people for organising an unsafe burial for  a 50 year-old man.
Police superintendent Da Samah said asides the fact that they risked the spread of the fatal disease, the organisers had no burial permit or other required documents required to organise the ceremony.
“We stopped the burial and we have put out an alert for an ambulance which eyewitnesses said brought the corpse to the cemetery,” he said.
Alimamy Kamara, head of the National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) in Freetown added that culprits i.e people organising unsafe burials risked two-year jail terms.

“People should adhere to the government policy of safe and dignified burials so that we can end the high rate of transmission of the Ebola virus,” he concluded.

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Ebola: Health workers celebrate the closure of isolation unit in Sierra Leone (Photo)

We all have an idea of what these real heroes, the Ebola Health workers have been through in the past one year. Their selfless dedication and contribution to the fight of the fatal illness is noteworthy. Staff of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) are pictured celebrating the closure of the Ebola isolation unit in Sierra Leone.
More than 10,000 people have died from the deadly Ebola Virus Disease. 4,283 from Liberia, 3,712 in Sierra Leone, 2,241 in Guinea and 8 in Nigeria.
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Oh No! New case of Ebola confirmed in Liberia.

Liberia’s hopes of being certified Ebola-free by the World Health Organization (WHO) was dealt a major set back as a woman tested positive to the disease yesterday in the country’s capital.
This sad news is coming three weeks after the country discharged its last known patient, Beatrice Yardolo, from a treatment centre in Monrovia.
Liberia’s Acting Head of the Ebola Incident Management Team, Dr Francis Kateh who confirmed the incident said it has been impossible to establish how the woman became infected but the woman has been moved to the treatment centre.
Over 10,000 people have died from the fatal illness which was discovered about a year ago in Guinea., 4,283 from Liberia, 3,712 in Sierra Leone, 2,241 in Guinea and 8 in Nigeria.
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