Ban Ki-moon travels to Ebola-hit African countries

Ban arrived in the Guinean capital, Conakry, on Saturday and was greeted at the airport by Guinea’s Foreign Minister Francois Louceny Fall and Health Minister Remy Lamah.

Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan, the UN coordinator for the fight against Ebola, David Nabarro, and Anthony Banbury, the head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), accompanied Ban in the trip.

The UN chief is due to hold a news conference later Saturday after meeting with Guinean President Alpha Condé.

On Friday, Ban flew to Liberia from the UN Ebola mission headquarters in Ghana. He also visited an Ebola treatment center outside Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, during his tour.

The developments come as nongovernmental organizations have censured UN agencies such as the WHO for the delay in their responsive actions regarding Ebola.

Ban has recently pledged to help the Ebola-ravaged countries restore health services disrupted by the Ebola outbreak. He also said last month that with international mobilization, the epidemic is highly likely to come under control in 2015.

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Ebola virus disease (EVD), Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) or simply Ebola is a disease of humans and other mammals caused by ebola virus. Signs and symptoms Signs and symptoms typically start between two days and three weeks after contracting the virus, with a fever, sore throat, muscle pain and headaches. Then, vomiting, diarrhea and rash usually follow, along with decreased function of the liver and kidneys. Around this time, infected people may begin to bleed both within the body and externally. Death, if it occurs, is typically six to sixteen days after symptoms appear and is often due to low blood pressure from fluid loss. Transmission of Diesease The virus is acquired by contact with blood or other body fluids of an infected human or other animal. This may also occur by direct contact with a recently contaminated item. Spread through the air has not been documented in the natural environment. Fruit bats are believed to be the normal carrier in nature, able to spread the virus without being affected. Humans become infected by contact with the bats or a living or dead animal that has been infected by bats. Once human infection occurs, the disease may spread between people as well. Male survivors may be able to transmit the disease via semen for nearly two months. To diagnose EVD, other diseases with similar symptoms such as malaria, cholera and other viral hemorrhagic fevers are first excluded. Blood samples are tested for viral antibodies, viral RNA, or the virus itself to confirm the diagnosis.

World bank says we are losing battle against Ebola

World bank has warned that fight for ebola is not geting much progres also UN is ready to givev more funds for betterment of epidemics for traveling abroad.

Ebola killed Total 4 500,people  a glimmer of hope came from Senegal, which was declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organisation.

The United States, meanwhile, named an "Ebola czar" to co-ordinate its response, after criticism of how a Texas hospital handled a Liberian victim, with two nurses who treated him now infected.

According to researcher at British pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline said a vaccine may not be ready for commercial use until late 2016.

"We are losing the battle against Ebola " World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim warned, blaming a lack of international solidarity in efforts to stem the epidemic.

"some countries  only take care of their own borders," he told reporters in Paris.

The United Nations has warned that it has received less than 40% of the nearly $1bn it asked for to fight Ebola.

So far, just $377m has come in, and another $217m has been pledged, the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.

OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke told reporters in Geneva "But that's not money in the bank,"

And a UN trust fund for Ebola has just $100,000, despite $20 million in pledges - a situation UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said had left the world body with a "very serious problem".

He said we need more equipment, hospitals, nurses and doctors for pstients.

Health authorities held up Senegal as a good example of success in an otherwise dire global outlook on Ebola.

WHO on  lauding the governments to take protective steps against the spread of Ebola advised to exercise sengal response when facing a new case of the said disease.

It is expected tha Nigeria, where 20 people were infected and eight died,to be declared Ebola-free on Monday. But neither is out of danger.