bushdoc9919: Here is how Uganda went from being an Ebola disaster to Ebola defeater....

The outbreaks in these countries are bad currently, but for the future, we can look at [size=13pt]Uganda[/size] as a model. [size=13pt]The first outbreak in that country, beginning in 2000, resulted in 425 cases and 224 deaths. [/size]The second outbreak in 2008 resulted in 149 cases and 37 deaths. In 2011, they had a single case with no secondary spread. [size=15pt]In 2012, 11 cases and 4 deaths. 2012, 6 cases and 3 deaths.[/size] It’s probably impossible to stop Ebola from spilling over into the human population, but Uganda has done a great job responding. [size=15pt]They are able to do early detection of suspected cases in their biosafety level 4 lab in Gulu. They alert local authorities if something is suspected, then send a task force to assist with containment. They communicate effectively with the public about what they can do, and how effective treatment in hospitals can lower the mortality rate. They work with community leaders when a quarantine needs to be put in place. [/size]These things can all be employed in West Africa as well, but it takes time and a lot of commitment to get such networks up and running. [size=15pt]We need this cooperation as much as we need PPE and even more than we need “secret serums,” because it is only with prevention of new cases that this epidemic will finally die out.[/size]

From: A historical perspective on Ebola response and prevention by Tara Smith.

alaladakosta:

They will send messages to them in the spirit world that things has changed from how they left it

Sibrah: Good move, but what about people who have declared where they want to be buried to be in their remote village when they die?

toba: This is just plainly silly. Will they have the corpse tested first or just make such stupeed pronouncement? Medicine after death as usual. They should have been proactive before it came and not after it came they now want to use a sledge hammer to kill an ant. Since the outbreak in April 2014 killed more than 90 people in Guinea and Liberia, with another suspected case reported in Mali. Ghana stepped up its health surveillance on its borders with Togo, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast. It trained port and border workers to detect signs of the disease, set up a national committee, restocked testing equipment and established a telephone hotline. That is what good countries do. What did Nigeria do? Nothing. Nigeria will wait until it is too late before it starts throwing money at the issue so there will be enough to steal ahead of election. How did Sawyer pass through checks at the Airport without being singled out?

Liebaran Maku the Disinformation minster said this couple of months a go

"Citizens are reassured that there is no Ebola fever in the country and all the checks so far undertaken declare clearly that we don't have it. Yes, there are some cases in two or three West African countries but the ministry has assured that should there be anything like that within our boundary it will be quickly tackled," he said.


Speaking at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in Abuja, the ministry said the council was briefed by the health ministry on the disease.

"The FEC was briefed by the Federal Ministry of Health on the alleged outbreak of Ebola virus in Nigeria. FEC was informed that the health ministry experts, within the week, checked out the reports of purported outbreak of the disease and found none to be true," Maku said.

We just have to feel sorry for ourselves cos we have incompetent leaders at the top

Firefire: Ok

fesup: Please what is the approved standard of WHO to bury a person confermed to have died of EVD ?

toba: here this mumu.

How did Sawyer get into Nigeria, without being singled out by airport officials?

Did Labaran Maku not claim that should there be anything Ebola within our boundary it will be quickly tackled?

Health workers cried out yesterday that they don't have any government encouragement to risk their lives to save Ebola victims, so whats your point?

plainmirror: How many EVD topics will make FP this week.
Aside public sensitization, it implants fear and panic aswell.

freshness2020: Finally my Topic made Front Page.
Thanks mod for recognising it..

SenatorJames: The logic is; post topic about common discussions in town (e.g oga at the top....... Agagu's death......... Bomb blast........... Ekiti election....... Chibok girls........ Osun election........ Ebola virus disease etc).





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