One of Liberia's most high-profile doctors has died of
Ebola, a government official said on Sunday ,
highlighting the risks facing health workers trying to
combat the deadly disease.
Dr Samuel Brisbane is the first Liberian doctor to die
in an outbreak the World Health Organisation says has
killed 129 people in the west African nation. A
Ugandan doctor working in the country died earlier
this month.
Last week Sierra Leone's top Ebola doctor fell ill with
the disease and in Liberia , Samaritan's Purse, a
Christian charity, announced at the weekend that an
American doctor was also battling Ebola. Dr Kent
Bradley had been isolated at the group's Ebola
treatment centre at the ELWA hospital in the Liberian
capital, Monrovia.
Meanwhile, in Nigeria, officials announced on Friday
that a Liberian official had died of Ebola after flying
from Monrovia to Lagos raising fears that other
passengers could take the disease beyond Africa . The
WHO says the outbreak, the largest recorded, has also
killed 319 people in Guinea and 224 in Sierra Leone.
Brisbane, who once served as a medical adviser to the
former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, was working
as a consultant with the internal medicine unit at the
country's largest hospital, the John F Kennedy
Memorial Medical Center in Monrovia.
After falling ill with Ebola, he was taken to a treatment
centre on the outskirts of the capital, where he died,
said Tolbert Nyenswah, an assistant health
minister.Under the supervision of health workers,
family members escorted the doctor's body to a burial
location west of the city, Nyenswah said.
He added that another doctor who had been working
in Liberia's central Bong County was also being treated
for Ebola at the same centre where Brisbane died.
The situation "is getting more and more scary,"
Nyenswah said.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf used her Independence
Day address to discuss a new taskforce to combat
Ebola. Information minister, Lewis Brown, said: "It will
go from community to community, from village to
village, from town to town in order to increase
awareness."
There is no known cure for Ebola, which begins with
symptoms including fever and sore throat but then
escalates to vomiting, diarrhoea and internal and
external bleeding.
Experts believe the west African outbreak could have
begun in January in south-east Guinea, though the first
cases were not confirmed until March.
Since then, officials have tried to contain the disease
by isolating victims and educating populations on how
to avoid transmission, though porous borders, satellite
outbreaks and widespread distrust of health workers
have made the outbreak difficult to bring under
control.

Signs of end time,,,we never finish with cancer and Hiv Ebola don show

This is becoming more serious. It's difficult to believe that in this age of human advancement there will still be a disease that can't be controlled. Talk of losing one's life trying to help others. pathetic!

When I heard about the two American doctors I thought to myself, if this doctors can't protect themselves. What more, we the everyday citizens.

I wonder why it's taking WHO so long to come up with a solution.
I pray he doesn't die, or else all doctors will flee from patients.

Mrval20:
I pray he doesn't die, or else all doctors will flee from patients.

What did you read?

Smh.... Dis life is no longer interesting. If its nt ebola, its bomb blast. If its not missing plane, its plane crash. God pls come to our aid.

phatjoe50:

What did you read?

The header.

Let Ebola enter Queen Elizabeth house hold now. Cure will come out by force.




But can one with HIV still contact Ebola?

Mrval20:
The header.

Read again.

It's unfortunate, RIP Doc!

I wish Ebola virus can selectively infect boko harams and eliminate dem once and for all....

Mod, na wa oh, take this to front page na.

krall: Let Ebola enter Queen Elizabeth house hold now. Cure will come out by force.




But can one with HIV still contact Ebola?

Dear, Ebola disease is age-long. It has been on rampage since 1976, that's about 38 yrs ago. Researchers have been on ground to develop a vaccine to no avail.

Someone with HIV (esp when on therapy) is as healthy as any other healthy being without the virus, they both have same chance of contracting Ebola virus. In addition to this, a HIV individual who's nt on therapy, depending on the progression of the disease (specifically near AIDS level) is more vulnerable for reason of immunosuppression.

Meanwhile, experts in the house can add further clarification to ur question.