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Showing posts with label ebola precautions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ebola precautions. Show all posts

Wednesday, 1 October 2014

First victim of Ebola Virus identified on US

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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.

Thursday, 11 September 2014

Ebola decline economic growth in W.Africa

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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," 

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