By Hugo Odiogor, with Agency reports

Stunned by the entrance of the Ebola Virus
Disease, EVD, into America, the United States’
Center for Disease Control and Prevention has
despatched its personnel to study how Nigeria
contained the killer disease.

The US reported on Tuesday that it has
discovered a case of EVD in Dallas, Texas, but
its health officials said “the crisis is under
control and the public has nothing to fear.”
A statement released by US CDC Director Tom
Frieden said “it’s clear the nation needs a
quick and thorough response to its first Ebola
patient”
He said although Nigeria was not completely
out of the woods, “their extensive response to
a single case of Ebola shows that control is
possible with rapid, focused interventions.”
Apart from Nigeria, the US will also visit
Senegal to study its model.
Frieden said “the best practices in Nigeria and
Senegal suggest the U.S. should monitor all
individuals who may have been exposed to
Ebola and establish a dedicated management
and response system.”
Senegal has had no new reported cases of
Ebola since Sept. 18 while Nigeria has not
reported new ones since August 31,
US health officials are expected in Nigeria
which it claimed had the best practices in
combating Ebola Virus disease which entered
into Nigeria through Liberian born American
citizen Mr. Patrick Sawyer whose index case
was reported on July 20, 2014. Nigeria is
expected to officially announce today that the
remaining two potential Ebola patients will exit
the 21-day observation period.
How Nigeria stopped the spread of Ebola
According to US CDC, “Nigeria’s first reported
case of Ebola surfaced July 20, when Patrick
Sawyer landed in Lagos from Liberia and
exposed 72 other passengers to the virus.
Nigeria’s Health officials quickly issued
notifications and tracked everybody who may
have been in contact with Sawyer.
“Nigeria also established an Ebola Incident
Management Center to handle the potential
outbreak and developed a staffing plan that
executed a social mobilization strategy that
reached more than 26,000 households of
people living around the contacts of Ebola
patients,”
The deadly virus has killed more than 3,000
people in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia in
the largest outbreak ever recorded.
How Senegal contained Ebola
Senegal confirmed its first Ebola case Aug. 29
after a man, travelling from Guinea on Aug.
14, took ill and showed symptoms of the
disease. This prompted a quick response,
including an experienced and trained staff that
was prepared to contain the Ebola outbreak.
The procedure led to the identification of 67
contacts who were placed under quarantine,
monitored for 21 days and showed no
symptoms of Ebola.
Panic in America
The man who imported Ebola into US was
found to have travelled to Liberia without
informing the authorities and did not disclose
the nature of his ailment to the nurse that
attended to him. Reports from Texas yesterday
said that the Nurse who attended to the man
has also taken ill for Ebola in Texas.
A spokesman for Texas Health Presbyterian
said the patient had walked into a Dallas
emergency room on September 26, without
knowing that he contacted the deadly virus
and left after he was treated. He then returned
to the facility on September 28 where it was
determined he likely had Ebola and was
isolated. He tested positive Tuesday, health
officials said.
Following the lapse on the part of the hospital
officials, questions are being asked amid panic
across the country. The CDC has thus advised
that all medical facilities should ask for
patients with symptoms consistent with Ebola
for their travel history.

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