The best Part of the story is that we are Ebola free and better than the so called great US in handling Ebola cases.

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In fight to stop Ebola, Nigeria

In addition, 49 percent of Lagos state's population lives in poverty in slums with little sanitation. Making matters worse is that doctors discovered an Ebola case in Port Harcourt, another extremely poor area where the majority of people live in shanties with almost nonexistent sanitation (keep in mind, the disease is spread by bodily fluids).

And it was not just lives at risk. As FP reported in August, an outbreak in Nigeria had the potential to devastate West Africa's economy.

Nigeria seemed like the ideal petri dish for the virus to grow. That's what makes the World Health Organization's announcement that "Nigeria is now free of Ebola virus transmission" a massive relief in the fight to stop the pandemic that began in December 2013.

That WHO announcement reveals an organization that seems to be in disbelief. In a situation assessment, the WHO called it a "spectacular success story" that prevented "potentially the most explosive Ebola outbreak imaginable."

So how did Nigeria, a country with poor public-health infrastructure and a GDP of $510 billion, manage to contain the disease when the United States, a country with sophisticated public-health infrastructure and a GDP of $17.3 trillion, could not?

First, a bit of luck: Nigeria's "patient zero," a man from Liberia, collapsed in a Lagos airport, making it easier to identify those exposed to the disease.


"What helped Nigeria is that they quickly traced the source of the virus," said Richard Downie, an expert on Nigeria at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "The fact that he collapsed in the airport was good luck in a good way."

However, Downie credits Nigeria, a country not known for coordinated or effective action at the national level (see the fight against Boko Haram), for what came next.

"What impressed me the most about the response, and somewhat surprised me given Nigeria's track record in dealing with other crises, is that they were so thorough about it," Downie said.



http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-wp-wp-frgnp-bc-ebola-nigeria21-20141021-story.html

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