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"Soldiers returning from Africa will be housed for 21 days of observation at North Fort Hood barracks, post officials announced Tuesday. The facility could hold up to 100 troops at a time and will be operational by Friday …
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HAVANA (AP) — A member of the 165-member medical team Cuba sent to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with the disease, according to state media. Dr. Felix Baez Sarria is being treated by British
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WashingtonPost: Obama on Ebola in West Africa: ‘We are nowhere out of the woods’
Obama again called on Congress to appropriate more money to fight Ebola. Drew Angerer/Bloomberg President Obama said Tuesday that despite progress, West Africa is "nowhere near out of the woods" on Ebola.
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DailyBeast: Cubans, India Report New Ebola Cases 20 minutes ago
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A hospital patient is being tested for Ebola, health officials have today confirmed. Public Health England (PHE) said the man is being tested 'as a precaution', stressing they expect test results to show he is not infected.
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"Still recovering from years of conflict, Sierra Leone has seen at least 128 of its health personnel infected by Ebola as staff working in general wards and special treatment centres have been exposed to the disease. "Dr Michael Kargbo died this afternoon
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This article from the PFIF makes clear that Liberia is in no way “Bending the Curve” on Ebola.
Outside the Liberian government’s writ in Monrovia, people are ignoring the Health Ministry and simply burying their Ebola dead in secret.
We can expect a huge wave of new infections in Liberia after Thanksgiving.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201411190768.html
Stephen D. Kollie
The Ministry of Health of and Social Welfare has raise a serious alarm over the refusal of people allowing their dead ones to be buried with dignity by health officials but rather, many family members have begun carrying out secret burials at night in their various communities.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday at the Ministry of Information regular Ebola press briefing, Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah disclosed that the time is not certified yet for Liberians to return to their usual cultural practices and that an attempt to do so will lead the nation to a dangerous trajectory.
Said Minister Nyenswah: “People are in the night burying secretly being unsafe and they bury these people without any safety. They are not trained to do that and we have health workers that could bury safely with the dignity that is required for the family people. We regret a lot for the loved ones that we lost during this crisis and we are also feeling it to the extent that people cannot perform the rituals, the traditional practices that we all used to perform. But the time is not certified yet for us to revert to those practices when we still having active transmission of the disease.”
The Assistant Health Minister noted that the Ministry is still recording 20-50 new Ebola suspected cases on a daily basis across the country, suggesting that there is active transmission of the Ebola virus disease in Liberia.
Health workers infected
The Minister expressed shock that in the past weeks there were low infections in health care workers, but of recent, the situation has changed with more health care workers beginning to get infected again with the Ebola Virus Disease. He many of the health workers that are getting infected are either treating sick patients at home or in the private health facilities in the country.
“Common example is in Jenewonde where we visited over the weekend and we noticed that a vaccinator who was not working at the clinic in Jenewonde got infected from the Ebola virus disease, refused to come to any ETU and died in the community infecting other people in the home,” the Minister said.
Ebola base in Monrovia
Minister Nyenswah also revealed that the highest number of Ebola ceases is now being reported from Monrovia and that the capital is actively infecting other leeward counties. He said the current hotspots of outbreak in the rest of the fifteen counties are cases that originates from Monrovia
Minister Nyenswah said: “We want to sound this warning especially to our people in the leeward counties that don’t take sick strangers at this time and even if somebody goes into your village, into your community or county, make sure you keep active surveillance on that individual and report that to the county health team so that we can properly follow up that person. And traditional healers also should be careful of people leaving from Monrovia going to the leeward counties for healing when we have ETUs that could accept them.”