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Top doctor is Nigeria's fifth Ebola death
news24 ^ | Aug 20, 2014

Posted on 08/20/2014 9:22:12 AM PDT by Covenantor

Top doctor is Nigeria's fifth Ebola death

Abuja - A senior doctor who treated Nigeria's first Ebola patient has died, taking the death toll in Africa's most populous country to five, health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said on Tuesday.

Chukwu said the doctor was "the most senior who participated in the management of the (first Ebola) patient" in the country.

Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, aged 40, died in a Lagos hospital on 25 July, five days after arriving at the city's airport visibly unwell on a flight from the Liberian capital, Monrovia.

"With this unfortunate development, the total number of Ebola virus-related deaths in Nigeria now stands at five," Chukwu added.

The four other deaths included two medical workers, a doctor and a nurse, who had treated the Liberian finance ministry consultant, and an official from the west African regional bloc, ECOWAS, who picked him up from the airport.

All of the cases have been in Lagos, which is sub-Saharan Africa's biggest city with more than 20 million people.

The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that there were 15 cases of the virus in Nigeria.

The global death toll from Ebola stands at 1 229, with the bulk of cases in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ebola; eboladeathtoll; eboladoctor; ebolavictim; nigeria
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Another chief doctor succumbs to Ebola
1 posted on 08/20/2014 9:22:12 AM PDT by Covenantor
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To: Smokin' Joe; null and void; Black Agnes

Another country loses their top doctor to Ebola.


2 posted on 08/20/2014 9:24:06 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Five? FIVE?!

And they are heavily exposed to the disease in their work!

I’m getting the distinct impression that this is much ado about nothing, unless you are in a high risk area.


3 posted on 08/20/2014 9:33:18 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf

Yes 5 doctors trained on how to protect themselves and with appropriate protective equipment picked up despite their training and equipment.

Sure its nothing to worry about.


4 posted on 08/20/2014 9:35:14 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Covenantor

I believe zer0 and his tree hugger pals have no problem unleashing this upon America or the rest of the planet. After all we humans are destructors of Gaia.


5 posted on 08/20/2014 9:35:30 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: cuban leaf
I'm getting the impression this is much ado about nothing

What's intriguing is that these deaths are to medical workers. The virus must have morphed enough so that the precautions that have been used are no longer adequate.

I agree that we don't have to worry too much if we know the rules to avoid infection. But the rules have changed.

6 posted on 08/20/2014 9:37:08 AM PDT by grania
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To: cuban leaf
Well, much ado about nothing, if you IGNORE this:

"Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, aged 40, died in a Lagos hospital on 25 July, five days after arriving at the city's airport visibly unwell on a flight from the Liberian capital, Monrovia.

The four other deaths included two medical workers, a doctor and a nurse, who had treated the Liberian finance ministry consultant, and an official from the west African regional bloc, ECOWAS, who picked him up from the airport.

7 posted on 08/20/2014 9:37:10 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: driftdiver

From what I have seen, their protective equipment is primitive.


8 posted on 08/20/2014 9:44:40 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: driftdiver

Yes 5 doctors trained on how to protect themselves and with appropriate protective equipment picked up despite their training and equipment.


In Nigeria.

Yes. It matters.


9 posted on 08/20/2014 9:46:36 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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10 posted on 08/20/2014 9:47:34 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: cuban leaf
I’m getting the distinct impression that this is much ado about nothing, unless you are in a high risk area.

Well let's think about that statement.

They have not released who all the people were that have contacted Ebola IN NIGERIA(let's not worry about who Sawyer gave it to before boarding that plane) but we do know that a passenger on the plane with him got it and there was one story that the cab driver got it(whether the cab driver part is true or not have no clue)(both not medical professions). Then think about the fact a nurse not showing symptoms passed it on to another patient (something impossible if you listen to the CDC).

Now think about the impossibly scary fact of how many people in Nigeria this guy gave Ebola(and that does not count who he gave it to before getting to Nigeria) and compare it to the average number of people past deadly pandemic diseases a single carrier is on average expected to infect historically and this thing should really raise eyebrows....if logic is the goal.

11 posted on 08/20/2014 9:51:20 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: cuban leaf

Haven’t been paying much attention to the characteristics of this new strain of ebola, timeline and duration of this outbreak, or geography, have you?


12 posted on 08/20/2014 9:56:37 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: cuban leaf

All of Nigeria is a high risk area. Especially Lagos. This is a very crowded city with people getting sick of hundreds of communicable diseases and dropping dead every day.
This guy was walking by hundreds of people, on the plane, in the airport, touching objects that others later touched, etc. The reported cases are known because these people were known to have risked contamination and were tracked. Given who they were and the small pool that probably were tracked, the rate of transmission is incredible.
I think there is an extremely high risk that this disease is spreading unreported or poorly reported. Potentially a disaster of tremendous proportions.


13 posted on 08/20/2014 10:15:13 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: Vaquero

Well, killing 25 million Americans was in fact, the stated goal of Billy Ayers. Gotta began somewhere...


14 posted on 08/20/2014 10:40:27 AM PDT by donozark (The voices inside my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!)
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To: buwaya

Well, the four horsemen are a comin’.

And I do believe it will be in our generation.

And then there is my only somewhat related tag line.


15 posted on 08/20/2014 10:42:19 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf

Most of them are western trained.


16 posted on 08/20/2014 10:46:57 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Some is, much of it isn’t. Probably their biggest issue is lack of AC, other then people coming in to steal their equipment and ebola soaked sheets.


17 posted on 08/20/2014 10:48:11 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

18 posted on 08/20/2014 11:10:15 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: cuban leaf

These are, as I understand it, five who were exposed by American Patrick Sawyer, who brought the disease to Nigeria as a traveler. Not a high risk area until Sawyer arrived ill.

Five deaths from exposure to one patient is, indeed, alarming.

The most striken area is in Liberia and Sierra Leone, IIRC.


19 posted on 08/20/2014 11:17:00 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Covenantor
Chukwu said the doctor was "the most senior who participated in the management of the (first Ebola) patient" in the country.

If anyone would know how to protect himself from Ebola it would be Chukwu. Maybe this is a slightly different strain of the disease.

20 posted on 08/20/2014 11:47:55 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Looted store owners in Ferguson should to sue the city. They paid for police protection - got none)
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