Update, one which many will say has been long overdue: Liberia Shuts Border Crossings to Slow Ebola Spread. From Bloomberg:

Only major border crossings at Roberts International Airport, James Spriggs Payne Airport, Foya Crossing, Bo Waterside Crossing, Ganta Crossing to remain open, AllAfrica.com says, citing Liberian govt statement.

At those entry points, testing centers to be set up; “stringent” preventive measures to be announced
New travel policy by Liberia Airport Authority on inspection, testing of all passengers to be strictly observed

There will be restrictions on public gatherings incl. solidarity marches, demonstrations

Hotels, restaurants, entertainment centers, video clubs to play 5-min. film on Ebola awareness, prevention
Govt vehicles to be commandeered, as needed, to support health delivery system
All govt facilities, public places to install/provide public access for hand-washing
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It was a few short hours ago when we reported that as part of the escalating Ebola epidemic in West Africa a US doctor, Kent Brantly had himself succumbed to the deadly virus. Moments ago we found out that a second US doctor from the same aid organization in Liberia, Nancy Writebol, has been infected with Ebola.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-27/second-us-citizen-infected-ebola-liberia

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-27/u-s-doctor-contracts-ebola-in-liberia-as-virus-reaches-nigeria.html

Two U.S. citizens are being treated for Ebola in Liberia and the country shut some border crossings, as the worst outbreak of the disease on record spread to Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and largest economy.

Kent Brantly is in isolation and receiving treatment, North Carolina-based Samaritan’s Purse said. Brantly, a doctor, is the medical director of the aid charity’s Ebola center in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital. Nancy Writebol, who works for the manager of the hospital treating people with the virus in the country, has tested positive for Ebola, the charity said on its website yesterday.

Ebola, which has no known cure or treatment and leads to death in as many as 90 percent of those who get it, has killed more than 660 people in four West African nations since March, the worst episode of the virus since it was first reported in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976. Liberia shut all minor border crossings to contain the virus, AllAfrica.com reported, citing a government statement. The current outbreak may last for another three months, according to the World Health Organization.

Na wa oooo

Fears are growing that the most lethal form of the Ebola virus can mutate into an airborne pathogen, making the spread of the terrifying disease more difficult to check.

It was previously thought the untreatable virus, which causes massive internal bleeding and multiple organ failure, could only be transmitted through contact with infected blood.

But now Canadian researchers have carried out experiments showing how monkeys can catch the deadly disease from infected pigs without coming into direct contact.


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Na wa o...Monkeys transferring it to pigs?? .."airborne " ?? ??

Na wa o...Please let the big countries do something

An outbreak of Ebola could spread worldwide after an infected plane passenger introduced the deadly virus to Nigeria, health experts warned last night.

Previous outbreaks were confined to forests and rural areas, but this one has already spread across four countries in West Africa, killing 672 – the disease’s biggest death toll.

The news came as it emerged that an American doctor working for a charity in Liberia had become infected.
Dr Kent Brantly, 33, from Texas, had moved to the country for the Samaritan’s Purse organisation with his children and wife, Amber, to help contain the disease.

More than 1,000 others have been infected by the virus, which can go unnoticed for three weeks and kills 90 per cent of victims.
The outbreak started in Guinea in February and spread to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone in weeks.

After an air traveller brought it to Nigeria, health experts now fear infected air passengers who do not realise they have the virus could spread it around the world.


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Picture of the American doctor who caught Ebola despite adequate full protective clothing.

There are fears that the virus might have mutated and can now be spread by airborne means and not just only through body secretions.

Two US Doctors have now contracted Ebola in Liberia despite adequate protection.

http://news.yahoo.com/nigeria-screen-airline-travelers-ebola-165545938.html

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian health authorities raced to stop the spread of Ebola on Saturday after a man sick with one of the world's deadliest diseases brought it by plane to Lagos, Africa's largest city with 21 million people.

The fact that the traveler from Liberia could board an international flight also raised new fears that other passengers could take the disease beyond Africa due to weak inspection of passengers and the fact Ebola's symptoms are similar to other diseases.

Officials in the country of Togo, where the sick man's flight had a stopover, also went on high alert after learning that Ebola could possibly have spread to a fifth country.

Screening people as they enter the country may help slow the spread of the disease, but it is no guarantee Ebola won't travel by airplane, according to Dr. Lance Plyler, who heads Ebola medical efforts in Liberia for aid organization Samaritan's Purse.

"Unfortunately the initial signs of Ebola imitate other diseases, like malaria or typhoid," he said.

The aid organization on Saturday said a U.S. doctor working with Ebola patients in Liberia had tested positive for the deadly virus. A Samaritan's Purse news release said Dr. Kent Brantly was being treated at a hospital in Monrovia, the capital.

"I dont work in the field anymore, but I have a microbiology degree. The entire global population should be looking at this. The chances of a global pandemic are still not high, but if it happens, we all go back to the 18th century for 40-50 years, and up to 90% of us are toast.

Ebola used to be well confined to sub-saharan jungle infections because it was very susceptible to UV light and low hunmidity. It needs a dark, hot, wet world to thrive in. It was also fluid to fluid contact. It appears the susceptibility to UV is gone now, and low humidity is not bothering it as much either.

Ebola is evolving like all life forms, and unfortunately for us, the path of this evolution does not bode well for us if left unchecked. Every government on this planet should be willingly reaching for their wallet and resources to address this."



"I read about Ebola back in the 90s. "Ebola: The Hot Zone," and "Ebola and the Marburg Viruses (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics." To think that after all this time, there still isn't a preventative or cure. Everything I read presents this as possibly the most horrifying disease known to man. The internal organs practically melt. You bleed from all orifices. Death happens quickly - which could be a blessing or a curse."

Mod, front page please!!

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/notwithstanding-ebola-threat-doctors-insist-strike-continues/184689/

Hope that the threat of the contagious Ebola virus will compel the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to call off its prolonged nationwide strike was dashed weekend as the doctors insisted on continuing with the strike action.

There were indications weekend that the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the NMA which took place in Abuja will culminate into an end to the strike.

The meeting which started on Saturday failed to call off the strike, as delegates to the NEC opined that there is no concrete proof that the Federal Government has made any efforts to resolve the crisis.

NMA Vice President, Dr Titus Ibekwe told THISDAY that the NMA executives could not push through with the idea to call off the strike given that delegates refused to back down.

http://tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/11847-ebola-us-doctor-contracts-disease-in-liberia-nigeria-steps-up-surveillance

American doctor working with Ebola patients in Liberia has tested positive for the deadly virus.
According to VOAm, Dr Kent Brantly works for the United States-based Samaritan’s Purse aid agency, which says he is being treated at a Monrovia hospital.

In Sierra Leone, health officials said an Ebola patient, whose family sparked a nationwide hunt when they forcefully removed her from a treatment center and took her to a traditional healer, died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital.


There is no vaccine or cure for Ebola, which spreads via bodily fluids including sweat

Meanwhile, in Nigeria, the health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said that all other passengers on board the flight with the infected man had been traced and were being monitored.

The patient had “avoided contact with the general public” between the airport and the hospital, he said.

“All ports of entry to Nigeria, including airports, sea ports and land borders have been placed on red alert,” he added.

Any flight coming from infected countries should be contained at the airports for proper care. We are yet to finish Boko Haram palava, now Ebola... Na only naija waka come

Burger01: Any flight coming from infected countries should be contained at the airports for proper care. We are yet to finish Boko Haram palava, now Ebola... Na only naija waka come

It makes you wonder who we have offended

citizenisb: Picture of the American doctor who caught Ebola despite adequate full protective clothing.

There are fears that the virus might have mutated and can now be spread by airborne means and not just only through body secretions.

Two US Doctors have now contracted Ebola in Liberia despite adequate protection.

Dear Lord! This is just terrible! Isn't there a vaccine or something?

Since Ebola has no cure, and it MAY also be airborne, AND it now penetrates protective gear, na to use anointing oil and anointing water sure pass . Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...

As if death is not certain.

All the airport and immigration staff who may have come in contact with the victim should also be monitored.

We also need an update on their status.

Make we sef close Naija border temporarily against people coming from Wester Africa

God please protect your people.

Good idea

A very good development.
God will heal that country.

Its a good idea.
Fp tinx

Long overdue.

Mutuwa: As if death is not certain.

Death is certain, but Ebola Virus is a faster means.

The Virus can end human race if not properly managed.

End time things...God help us

nice idea but for how long

Never too late. Why not shut lagos boader an all the Yoruba states for they are too dirty.

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This EBOLA virus is becoming alarming o!!! And d 9jiria govt aint doin nfin abt it!!! #team-# GODHELP9JA#

We shall hear of all d diseases bt it shall nt come near us.... We are covered wit d blood of Jesus #teamWinnersfamily