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Given the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the Federal Government has invited German in the region to leave. Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia should be abandoned, the Foreign Office said in Berlin on Wednesday after a meeting of the crisis of the Ministry. Medical personnel should not to. The embassies in the countries continued to work.
As early as Tuesday, the Japanese government development organization Jica had decided to withdraw their personnel from the three most affected countries in West Africa.
The death toll in West Africa has now risen to at least 1013
In Nigeria late on Tuesday the third patient died of Ebola. He had arrived on a flight from Monrovia to Lagos in contact with the American-Liberian Manager Patrick Sawyer, who introduced the virus to Nigeria. The country struggles with Sawyer and his fatal journey. “It is unfortunate that we have a crazy man has brought Ebola,” laments Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan overlooking Sawyer. Canada, the World Health Organization (WHO), meanwhile, a vaccine is available, which is still in the testing phase. And in particularly hard-hit Liberia despair is so great that the sick and imprisoned are left alone.
Canada has not proven vaccine to WHO
The WHO should receive 800 to 1,000 doses of the drug, Health Minister Rona Amborse said on Tuesday. The agent was indeed successfully tested on monkeys, but never offered to people Ambrose the vaccine in a telephone call to the WHO chief Margaret Chan. First to be treated thus expected to doctors and nurses. According to the WHO, more than 170 nurses, nurses, physicians have been infected. At least 81 of them have died from the disease. A larger amount of vaccine can be produced according to data from Canada until four to six months.
The U.S. government and the American Food and Drug Administration had previously decided to Liberia to a people not yet tested Ebola drug available provide. Nigeria also has asked. The antibody cocktail named ZMapp has only been tested on monkeys and exists only in limited quantities. The manufacturer, the California company Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Liberia will provide the means according to reports from the UK BBC for free. Two Ebola sick Americans who received the serum, showed signs of improvement. A 75-year-old Spanish priest died despite taking.
The third Ebola deaths in Nigeria worked with the Economic Community ECOWAS
Third Ebola deaths in Nigeria confirmed the West African Economic Community ECOWAS, where the 36-year-old had been engaged in the Protocol Department. The man had been in quarantine.
There is not much time, to contain the disease before it gets out of control in Lagos, experts warn. “Lagos is big, it’s crowded. It would be for the virus in many ways the ideal environment to spread, “says the Nigerian epidemiologist Chikwe Ihekweazu, who runs the website Nigeria Health Watch and treated a decade ago in South Sudan Ebola. So far, ten Ebola cases in Lagos have been confirmed, three of the patients are dead.
In Kenya there after the World Health Organisation (WHO) considers an increased risk for the spread of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. The airport of the capital Nairobi is considered an important hub in the African aviation. The competent state director Custodia Hate Mandl said on Wednesday that it was very important that the east African country exacerbates its controls. According to the British BBC weekly land 70 flights from West Africa in Kenya, including those from countries affected by Ebola Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. The government concluded, first, to cancel flights because of the epidemic. Three countries – Gambia, Ivory Coast and Zambia – have flights from Nigeria now locked.
Polish students volunteer in Liberia
Despite warnings of the Polish health authorities is a group of students from the Lower Silesian Breslau (Wroclaw) media reports traveled to Liberia. After returning to the group after a month volunteering some people have in the western Polish city is now concern that young people may have been infected in Monrovia with the Ebola virus, reported the “Gazeta Wroclawska” in its online edition.
The health authority had therefore Sanepid vain advised against traveling. The holiday camp for young people from poor families was organized by Polish Salesians. “No one was forced,” the Salesian priest Jerzy Babiak said Wednesday the TVP Info. The group was aware of the risk, only one participant had decided to stay in Poland. The return of the group from the country for months affected by Ebola had not been reported to the health authorities, according to media reports on.
The affair Patrick Sawyer
When Patrick Sawyer at the airport in Lagos breaks down, do not know the hurrying passengers and paramedics, in what danger they are. No one wears gloves or even a protective suit and a respirator when she help him up and bring him to the hospital. In the First Hospital Consultants it is treated like any normal patient. Although the Manager suffers from bleeding and curving because of violent vomiting cases, the clinician decreases blood and checked the temperature. Five days later the Americans is dead with Liberian roots. Last Sunday, the nurse who first provided him, the same symptoms died. On Wednesday died a travel companion from Liberia.
“Unfortunately, no one knew about the condition of this people. Nobody knew the disease he had. Nobody knew he was coming,” says Jide Idris, Health Officer of the Nigerian State of Lagos, in the same metropolis lies. Authorities could have been warned. than two weeks before his departure in the most populous country in Africa died Sawyer’s sister in the Liberian capital Monrovia on Ebola.’s why her brother was in under observation. Yet no one prevented Sawyer because to rise on July 20 in a plane and travel to Lagos.
Sawyer worked as a health manager at an iron ore mine of Arcelor-Mittal., he had set out against medical advice In the metropolis, says Liberia’s Information Minister Lewis Brown.
According to information from the Nigerian online newspaper “Premium Times’ Arcelor Mittal Sawyer had reported the Liberian health authorities and suspended him for at least three weeks from work. In an internal company newsletter, from which the “Premium Times” quoted, it said on July 11: “A family member of an employee of Arcelor Mittal in Liberia died on July 8 in Monrovia to Ebola.” On July 25, the death of the employee was announced and pointed out that he was no longer in any Company facility since July 9.
Apparently Sawyer had an exit permit by the Deputy Minister of Finance of Liberia, Sebastian Muah. That this at least written in an online forum itself. Information Minister Lewis Brown said the “Premium Times” asked for it, of which he knew nothing. But before the fall Sawyer the information about the monitored Ebola suspected cases were not passed on. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has since officially apologized to the Nigerian government for it.
The lonely death of Fatu Sherrif
As Fatu dies Sherrif, she is alone. Locked in her house, next to the corpse of her mother, without water, without food, without help. The village Ballajah in Liberia seems deserted. Almost all residents have fled out of fear of the Ebola epidemic in the surrounding forests. Your belongings have many left behind in the rush to the doors of their houses open. Only the whimpering of the twelve year old Fatu breaks the silence, until they too silent.
A few of the 500 residents are still waiting out in Ballajah as the village elder Momoh Wile, the Fatus story. First ill Fatus father Abulah to Ebola. The villagers informed the health authorities. But as the first helper finally about 150 northeast of the capital Monrovia arrived in the village, the 51-year-old Abdulah had already been four days dead. His wife and twelve-year old Fatu showed the first symptoms.
The authorities took Abdulahs corpse with and advised the villagers, “the woman and her daughter not to approach” as told Wile. Both were locked up in their house, barricaded windows and doors. “You have cried day and night, and their neighbors begged them to give something to eat, but all were afraid,” says the old man with the white hair and white beard. Fatus mother died last Sunday, the cries of the girl fell silent two days later.
Fatus older brother Bernie was tested negative for the disease. But even though he is healthy, even Bernie was rejected by the villagers. The 15-year-old has retreated to an abandoned house. He looks tired and thin, wearing a dirty T-shirt and sandals leaked. “Here I sleep,” he told weeping. “Here I am all day. Nobody comes to me. Though we have told them that I do not have Ebola.” His food he seeks in the forest.
The neighbors, the Fatu and Bernie have left alone, even now live in the forest, like Wile reported. In the surrounding villages, they were turned away because the people there also fear of contagion. The village elder itself is retarded only with a few relatives in Ballajah, “whose families are also in the forest”. “You can say that the village is abandoned by all.” (AFP / rtr / deh)
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