First victim of Ebola Virus identified on US

In Dallas,Texas first case of the deadly Ebola virus diagnosed on US soil has been confirmed.

Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital say the unidentified patient stilli in isolation

Virus made him victim in Liberia before travelling to the US nearly two weeks ago.

In West Africa more than 3,000 people have already died of Ebola in West Africa and a small number of US aid workers have recovered after being flown to the US.

On Tuesday Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Thomas Frieden told reporters "An individual travelling from Liberia has been diagnosed with Ebola in the United States,"

According to Mr Frieden, on 19 sep anonymous patient left Liberia and arrived in the US the next day without any visible symptoms of the virus.

Aid worker Nancy Writebol was flown to Atlanta in early August
Symptoms of the virus became apparent on 24 September, and on 28 September he was admitted to a Texas hospital and put in isolation.

Newly information shows the in Liberia annoymous patient was not involved in treating Ebola-infected patients.

Health officials are working to identify all people who came into contact with the unnamed patient while he was infectious.

All those people will then be observed for 21 days to see if an Ebola-related fever develops.

Mr Frieden said "The mainpoint here is I have no doubt that we will control this importation, this case of Ebola, so it does not spread widely in this country," .

After month coming back to the US, Ms Writebol spoke to reporters
The World Health Organization (WHO) says more than 3,000 people have died due to Ebola deadly virus mostly seen in in Liberia.

It is the deadly virus of all over the world.

Australia pledges $7 to fight against Ebola

The Ebola death toll is now estimated at 2500, but with 5,000 others infected that number is growing by the day. Ebola which killed thousand peoples in West Africa ,Australia has pledged $7 million to the international fight against deadly diesease.

Its another War for American president Barack Obama, he has committed to sending 3000 troops to the region, calling the outbreak a threat to global security.

In Liberia US hundreds healthcare workers will train by  military personnel  and build 17 health care centres.President Obama said “This is an epidemic that is not just a threat to regional security, it’s a potential threat to global security if these countries break down,”
doctors and nurses working in archaic conditions.

Dr.Kent who Recovered Ebola patient has compared the epidemic to an out of control bushfire.

In Liberia: Doctor calls for blood donations to treat Ebola victims

The main treatment center which  in Liberia, the most affected country is West Africa's by deadly Ebola outbreak, has urged survivors of the disease to donate their blood for use in treating infected patients,total 2,800 people killed by Ebola outbreaks - most of them in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where it has overwhelmed already fragile health services.

Attai Omoruto said  "We need survivors who come, and donate blood,"

According to Studie transfusions from Ebola survivors might prevent or treat infection in others.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said this month that products and serum derived from the blood of survivors could be used to treat the disease until experimental drugs currently under development enter production.

William Pooley, a British man who survived Ebola after being treated in London, flew to the United States this month to donate his blood to help another patient suffering from the haemorrhagic fever.

"The survivors' blood has the antibodies that have fought off the Ebola virus ... When we give this fresh blood to the patients, it can repair their blood vessels so they do not bleed," he said.

At the start of this month,WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said "We will certainly bring this matter to the attention of governments and work with them to stamp out any black market activity,"

Different Treatment for Ebola by Health Care Specialists

According to , the World Health Organization the Ebola virus has so far infected over 3,700 people and killed over 1,800. There is no cure for disease, and a potential vaccine could be months, or years, away so some health care professionals are busy at alternative approaches for helping Ebola patients survive the virus.

There are different treatment

1.Those who have recovered Ebola give blood transfusion to infected patient.Their plasma, the liquid part of the blood, contains antibodies that have successfully fought off the virus.The process of separating the plasma and its antibodies from the blood of survivors is called plasmapheresis.

After listening report an American doctor infected in Liberia, Kent Brantly, received a transfusion from an Ebola survivor. And, the New York Times cites a professor of virology in Nigeria who says the procedure is being considered using the blood taken from five survivors in the country.

Dr. David Heymann, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says it was used in the 1970's during the first Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, in what was then Zaire – now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Dr. Heymann was involved in treating infected persons in that emergency, and also led a response team during another in Kikwit 19 years later.

"I stayed two and half months after the first Ebola outbreak in 1976 and did plasmapheresis on survivors [so] that that blood could be stored [at various points] around Africa," he said. "[It was used one time to treat a laboratory scientist in the UK who had been exposed to Ebola in a laboratory accident.] Then in 1995 in [another] Kikwit outbreak, the government decided that it would use [blood containing antibodies] collected from survivors to treat eight patients. Seven of them survived.

Dr. Heymann said it’s not clear whether the antibodies were behind the survival of the seven infected patients, and further study is necessary to verify the effectiveness of the procedure.

2 .  test existing drugs that may help Ebola patients. Many of these are generic and inexpensive.  drugs that modulate the immune system’s inflammatory response.

That’s the defensive action taken by the body against the virus, which can sometimes lead to organ failure and other deadly complications.

Among these drugs is a class of drugs called statins, such as Lipitor, which reduce cholesterol.

Dr. Heymann and others support the approach of studying medicines shown to be effective against Ebola in animal studies."I think that before any medication could be used [to treat Ebola patients]," said Heymann, " it would need to be shown to be effective, at least in an animal model. They should not be used unless they are in a clinical trial setting [that can demonstrated whether they are effective in humans]. It’s the countries themselves that make the decisions [to allow these medications] and hopefully the [World Health Organization] would support their decision."

3. Currently, some countries are quarantining neighborhoods and villages. They’ve also created road blocks and patrols to prevent infected persons from crossing borders. And some are proposing protective barriers or buffers around infected villages, called cordons sanitaires. Dr. Heymann says in his view, that’s not the most effective approach.

"All cordons sanitaires would do is stop [some persons with Ebola infection from moving, but also disrupt] legal and legitimate travel and commerce," he said. " But with porous borders [as in many African countries]…it could be setting up a feeling of false security. What’s more important is that everybody should understand the disease and how to deal with it.

"In the 1995 Kikwit outbreak, for example, the government of DRC put up a cordon sanitaire [to quarantine] the area where the outbreak was occurring. People, however, were just [moving out of] the area where there were no [roadblocks]…. [Some] went [to neighboring villages] by boat on a nearby river. "

4 . Dr. Heymann said the best response was learned in Kikwit nearly 40 years ago. Stopping an outbreak means improving hospitals so infections do not spread to health workers and other patients -- and tracing everyone who’s come in contact with a person infected with Ebola. They would be put under surveillance and hospitalized if they develop a fever caused by the virus.

The community must also understand how the virus is spread. It’s transmitted by contact with the infected person’s bodily fluids, including vomit, urine or diarrhea. Transmission often occurs during care giving, transport, or as part of traditional burial practices that include touching the body.

According to Dr. Heymann,if these precautions may be taken the outbreak would likely have been under control in Guinea.

Ebola decline economic growth in W.Africa

On Thursday IMF due to outbreak of ebola Economic growth decline in Liberia and Sierra Leone as much as 3.5 percentage , agriculture and services sectors in the two West African countries, the IMF said on Thursday.
 
The IMF said in this year economic growth in Sierra Leona is likely to fall to 8 percent from 11.3 percent , Liberia's growth may decline to 2.5 percent from 5.9 percent, and in Guinea, economic output could fall to 2.4 percent from 3.5 percent.

Bill Murray whose spokesman at the International Monetary Fund said Growth in Guinea, where industrial mining has been unaffected so far, could fall by about 1.5 percentage points.

If we focus  Sierra Leone and Liberia, the largest sectors of these already fragile economies ... are being affected," Murray said. "This is in turn engendering significant financing gaps for the fiscal and external accounts of these two countries, and triggering higher inflation."

He said in these three countries the crisis has exposed financing gaps totaling $100 million to $130 million , and that the IMF doing their work with authorities to figure out additional funding. All three countries are already getting IMF loans under programs that predate the Ebola outbreak.

Murray said
"Urgently need of large-scale and well-coordinated intervention by the international community is to  bring the epidemic under control,"