Helper of late Liberian shows Ebola symptoms —Official

Punch ^ | 7/31/2014 | BUKOLA ADEBAYO

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A top official at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos, has said that one of the people who helped the 40-year-old Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, on the Monrovia-Lome and Lome-Lagos flight may have been infected with the virus.

The reliable source, who is also on the team of experts monitoring the testing and surveillance of persons who have had contact with the late Liberian victim in Lagos, told our correspondent on Wednesday, that although they had yet to confirm, the person was showing feverish symptoms similar to that of Ebola virus.

[Justa]

"Ebola is not spread through the air the way that influenza spreads...."

You analysis shows why it's killing medical personnel and jumping quarantine. It is assumptions based upon past outbreaks and strains. This is what is most dangerous about the current outbreak because it is a new strain of Ebola Zaire. Researches of this strain admit they don't know or understand all of its vectors.

From two years ago...

It can be transmitted through the air -like the flu.

"When news broke that the Ebola virus had resurfaced in Uganda, investigators in Canada were making headlines of their own with research indicating the deadly virus may spread between species, through the air.

- See more at: http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/pigs-monkeys-ebola-goes-airborne-112112#sthash.iLzhxo8b.dpuf

[Bigg Red]

Just remembered that I said, in my account of the Peace Corps volunteer of my acquaintance in the 1970s who resigned in disgust, that Zimbabwe was the country where he had been sent. But it was the other “Z” country, Zaire.

caww, regarding your comment about the shortage of medical personnel: I remember reading many, many years ago that having competent medical workers was a problem in South American countries because what many of the duties a nurse is expected to perform were considered manual labor and, therefore, looked down on by educated people.

So even nursing, a respectable profession in our country, would be shunned by those who would be intellectually capable of performing its many tasks.

I have not seen any articles that site this as the root of the problem in African countries, but perhaps it is also at play there.