Posted on 08/06/2014 10:01:14 AM PDT by mojito
A nurse who treated Nigeria's first Ebola victim has died of the virus in Lagos as five new cases of the highly lethal disease were confirmed in Africa's most populous country.
The nurse had helped care for Patrick Sawyer, a 40-year-old Liberian-American civil servant who last month visited from Liberia, one of three countries in the region hit by the world's biggest epidemic. The five new cases are believed to be other health workers who came into contact with Sawyer, who died within days of his arrival.
The total death toll from the Ebola outbreak has now risen to 932 after another 45 patients died between 2 and 4 August, the World Health Organisation said.
"Yesterday the first known Nigerian to die of Ebola was recorded. This was one of the nurses that attended to the Liberian. The other five [newly confirmed] cases are being treated at an isolation ward," the Nigerian health minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu, told reporters in the capital, Abuja, on Wednesday.
Officials initially downplayed the risk of exposure, saying Sawyer had been immediately isolated when he collapsed on arrival at Lagos's bustling main airport two weeks ago.
But on Tuesday the state health commissioner, Jide Idris, said Ebola was diagnosed only after Sawyer had been taken to hospital and had direct or indirect contact with at least 70 others. They include airline passengers, airport officials and health workers, and have all been placed under precautionary surveillance. Seven have been quarantined.
Officials told reporters they were compiling a list of secondary contacts, and appealed to those who believed they may be at risk to come forward.
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Ping.
Hear this virius is airborne.
“now dispersed far and wide inside Lagos, the largest city in Africa.”
Let me correct that for you:
“now dispersed far and wide”
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Thus, if you're on a plane with an infected person, you get to breath recycled air over and over again.
And the Nigerian government says that all these people are quarantined.
My keester they are.
'A Spanish priest who contracted the disease in Liberia will be flown to Madrid and become the Europe's first patient from this outbreak, according to the Spanish government.'
How come the media is whitewashing the fact that Sawyer knew that he was carrying the virus, and went on that plane anyway? is it because he is black, and no one wants to say anything bad about a black person? What, if true, he did was unconscionable. See links below:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201408060733.html
I am so glad he was caught before he tried to kill American citizens.
Thanks for that link.
I hadn’t seen the background on the Sawyer story before.
Disturbing to say the least.
Canadian scientists said their study was inconclusive. But how else did the monkeys get infected by the pigs when they were in separate cages?
I have read several sources from a quick internet search that say the virus can survive outside the body for several days. Anybody else read this? I have not seen in discussed in any of the articles posted.
One of the things ebola does is affect mental state. If he was symptomatic when he got on the plane it’s possible he was already in an altered mental state wrt judgement.
I can’t believe he wanted to kill his beautiful little daughters.
That's not inspiring confidence...
If the death toll from this secondary wave (from sawyer) goes beyond any ONE person they have already identified then the cat is out of the bag already.
If the total death toll(now at 940- up from 740 a few days ago) goes over 5000, it is very very bad. After a point there is not enough resources to isolate AND try to identify anyone else who came into contact with them
I don't know what that critical mass is... I just did some math.
1 first person
27 next wave
729 third wave
Multiply by 27 each wave and you reach 10 billion in 141 days
And keep in mind that they knew they were dealing with ebola from person 1
The doctors who say not to worry because you need to have 'intimate contact' with bodily fluids are full of $hit
If it was that hard to catch they would not be isolating patients AND people who just had contact with them, and wearing containment suits to treat them
And even WITH the knowledge and prevention methods TWO US health care workers still contacted it (and Odumbass allowed them to fly to the USA)
keep a close eye on this
Make sure you have water supply stocked up at home and canned food - your freezer will be useless after one week
don't skimp on defense
I love a good conspiracy, and got a giant sized kick out of Dec 21 2012 scare, but never took it seriously. This I am watching DAILY for updates (and already making just-in-case purchases)
I like your method, but you are using the wrong statistic.
Apply your math to the CASES number, and then see what you come up with.
The CASES number is the one that’s important.
And he vomited all over the plane, then stripped naked and peed on hospital workers. Ebola didn’t need to be airborne for this guy to spread it effectively.
I know it’s not nice to speak ill of the dead, but let’s just say that his behavior was, at best, irresponsible.
More will die because of him. I fear those who were on that plane and perhaps traveled on to Europe and the US may spread it much wider, thanks to Sawyer.
RIP Nigerian nurse
11-16 days from exposure to death
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