Not Again! Sierra Leone's lead Doctor Dies of Ebola



Ebola victims buried at the cemetery in Freetown Sierra Leone, Dec. 17th. Reuters.

Another Doctor in charge of Ebola cases in Sierra Leone, said to be the lead doctor died of Ebola on Thursday, Reuter report.

The Tenth Sierra Leonean Doctor DIES of Ebola

Ebola is  still a killing disease in Sierra Leoan. A doctor from Sierra Leone has just been reportedly died from Ebola, making him the 10th doctor in the country to have died from the dreaded virus. 

 

Dr. Aiah Solomon Konoyeima died of Ebola on Saturday Dec. 6th. Details of how and where the doctor became infected are not known according to Dr. Brima Kargbo, Sierra Leone’s chief medical officer.

Of the 11 Sierra Leonean doctors infected with the disease, only one has survived.

 

Konoyeima who tested positive for Ebola 2 weeks ago, worked at a children's hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital. He was being treated at the Hastings Ebola Treatment Center, which is staffed exclusively by local Sierra Leonean medical personnel, before he passed away.

The World Health Organization (WHO) set a 60-day goal on October 1 to isolate 70% of Ebola patients in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone and ensure safe burials for 70% of bodies, which are highly infectious.

But in Sierra Leone, only 60% of patients were in isolation by December 1, said Palo Conteh, head of the government's National Ebola Response Center.

 

 

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Ebola: Woman from Guinea under Monitor Died on Tuesday in NYC to be tested for Ebola

A woman who recently arrived from Guinea died on Tuesday of heart attack in Brooklyn New York. She was reported having blood coming out from her nose as she slumped.

However, her body has been subjected for the Ebola virus test as a precaution since she was recently in West Africa, city officials said.

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene told CBS New York the woman arrived in the U.S. 18 days ago from Guinea, one of the West African countries dealing with a deadly Ebola outbreak.

The woman died Tuesday afternoon at a hair salon in the Brownsville neighborhood, the FDNY said.
 

Although she showed no signs or symptoms of Ebola prior to her death, the tests would be performed out of an abundance of caution since she was within the 21-day incubation period for the virus.

Ebola Doctor Martin Salia from Sierra Leone Flew to United States Dies Today

Delay is dangerous; Timing is everything. This statement is true to this doctors case after delay in US government to approve him for treatment in the US.

Dr. Martin Salia, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone died on Monday morning about 5:00am ET according to Nebraska Medicine spokesman Taylor Wilson.

Doctor Salia who spent time treating Ebola patients in West Africa died from the Ebola virus Monday, CNN news reported.

This death  marks the second time Ebola has claimed a victim in the United States.
 

Salia arrived Saturday at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. The hospital tweeted Monday that he was "extremely critical" when his treatment began and "unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we weren't able to save him."

 

Also, by the time he arrived in the US for treatment is organs were said to have been in dysfunctional order which may have speed up his death.

Salia was suffering from advanced symptoms of Ebola, including kidney and respiratory failure, health officials said

Its a great tragedy.

Sierra Leone Surgeon with Ebola to Become First non-U.S. Citizen Flown Back to America for Treatment

 

Nebraska Hospital

A Sierra Leone born Surgeon infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone will be flown to the University of Nebraska Medical Center for treatment this weekend, it was revealed Thursday, Foxnews reports.

 

He will be the first non-U.S. citizen to be flown back to the states for treatment although he is a permanent resident of the U.S.

 

He reportedly is married to a U.S. citizen and they have children together. It is not yet known how he contracted the virus, and if he was working in an Ebola treatment unit or hospital. 

 

Representatives for the University of Nebraska Medical Center said hospital officials could not confirm the report until a patient was en route to the hospital.

First Ebola Treatment Trials to Start in West Africa

Global aid agency Doctors Without Borders said on Thursday it would begin unprecedented trials on patients in west Africa to test Ebola drugs and the use of survivors' blood as therapy.

The trials in Guinea are aimed at rushing out an emergency therapy to battle an epidemic which has taken more than 5,000 lives since December.

"This is an unprecedented international partnership which represents hope for patients to finally get a real treatment against a disease that today kills between 50 and 80 percent of those infected," said Annick Antierens, who is coordinating the trials for the medical charity, known by its French initials MSF.

The first trials are due to start in December and results could be available by February next year, MSF said.

There is no specific treatment regime and, as yet, no licensed vaccine, although one of the leading candidates, known as ChAd3 and made by Britain's GlaxoSmithKline, is being tested in Mali and elsewhere

"Clinical trials of investigational drugs in the midst of a humanitarian crisis is a new experience for all of us, but we are determined not to fail the people of West Africa," said Peter Horby, who is expected to lead the Monrovia trial if it gets the go-ahead.

The trials will be the first ever on Ebola patients, Horby told AFP.

"Every time a patient gets to day 14, we will recalculate the numbers and see what proportion of patients are alive or dead... So once we have confidence that the fatality rate is 50 percent or worse, then we would say there is no evidence that the drug is improving things, because that's about the rate we see, and then we would stop the trial," he added.

"If the survival rate is 80 percent or better, we would say that this is good evidence that the trial is effective."

The WHO announced on Wednesday that the outbreak had passed a gruesome landmark, with 5,160 deaths from around 14,000 cases since Ebola emerged in the forests of southern Guinea.





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Ebola Outbreak: 90 People Quarantined for Ebola in Mali

It has been reported that at least 90 people have been quarantined in Mali in attempts to keep the disease from spreading further in the country.

 

Fears of a full blown outbreak arose in the West African nation after a case of Ebola went undiagnosed in an Imam who had arrived from Guinea.

 

A nurse who treated him at the Pasteur Clinic in Bamako came down with the disease and died in Mail.

 

Malian authorities have begun the frantic search for anyone who might have come in contact with the late cleric whose body was washed at a mosque before being returned to Guinea for burial.

 

20 United Nations peace keepers are among those being observed for symptoms of the disease.

Mali recorded its first case of Ebola in a 2-year-old girl who also arrived from Guinea but is not connected to the latest outbreak.

 

 

 

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Ebola Spanish Nurse Cured of Ebola wants $190K for dead dog

Teresa Romero

 




Some people are so lucky to come from countries where their are functional institutions like Judicial System.

Unlike in developing countries e.g Nigeria, how many people have issued government on the death of their loved ones in Boko Haram insurgence. Maybe that's too far, let say sue government for bad roads that constantly results in loss of lives in accident.


Here is a Spanish nurse who was cured of Ebola but was devastated when her pet dog named Excalibur was killed as precautions and she wants $190,000 for her loss, express.co.uk reported.

Teresa Romero’s attorneys said the decision to kill the dog on Oct. 8 was “improvised and taken against medical advice.”

Romero, who was released from a hospital last Wednesday, slamed Spanish authorities for ordering Excalibur to be put down amid concerns he might transmit the deadly virus.

An online petition signed by more than 300,000 people failed to spare Excalibur’s life. Romero and her husband, Javier, regarded the dog as their child. Lol!

Romero had volunteered to help treat two Spanish missionaries who caught Ebola in Africa and later died in Madrid. She was diagnosed Oct. 6 and spent a month in isolation.

Romero also plans on suing Javier Rodriguez, Madrid’s health chief, for defamation after he accused her of hiding information from her health care providers before she was hospitalized. He later apologized.



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