"WHO: New Ebola fears mount in Nigeria" by Krista larson and Maria Cheng | Associated Press September 04, 2014
DAKAR, Senegal — An ill doctor in southern Nigeria exposed dozens of people to the Ebola virus by continuing to treat patients before his death, the World Health Organization said Wednesday as it announced the toll across West Africa had surged above 1,900 fatalities.
Officials in Nigeria had believed that Ebola was largely contained within Africa’s most populous country after a sick traveler from Liberia brought the disease to Lagos. However, a man who had had contact with the ill visitor later traveled to the oil hub of Port Harcourt, where he triggered a second cluster of cases.
A Port Harcourt doctor and another patient there are now dead, and the doctor’s widow and sister are ill with Ebola. About 60 other people are under surveillance after having ‘‘high-risk’’ or ‘‘very high-risk’’ contact with the infected doctor, WHO said. About 140 others are also being monitored.
‘‘Given these multiple high-risk exposure opportunities, the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Port Harcourt has the potential to grow larger and spread faster than the one in Lagos,’’ WHO warned.
Nigeria’s health minister has said there is no reason for people in Port Harcourt to panic. I don't know what to do anymore.
On the one hand I'm told worry, on the other not. Government claiming they have things under control concerns me.
The UN health agency, though, said it feared civil unrest and public fear of Ebola could further the crisis, saying ‘‘military escorts are needed for movements into the isolation and treatment center.’’
Nigeria’s Ebola toll so far has been limited in comparison to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, where hundreds have died in each country. Nigerian authorities say five people have died in Lagos, and the doctor in Port Harcourt and the other fatality there bring the national toll to seven.
The man who infected the Port Harcourt doctor was later found after a four-day search and is recovering.
WHO said Wednesday that the physician continued to see patients after the onset of Ebola symptoms and even operated on two people. Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids, and health authorities say patients are only contagious once they show symptoms.
‘‘Prior to hospitalization, the physician had numerous contacts with the community, as relatives and friends visited his home to celebrate the birth of a baby,’’ WHO said.
‘‘Once hospitalized, he again had numerous contacts with the community, as members of his church visited to perform a healing ritual said to involve the laying on of hands. During his six-day period of hospitalization, he was attended by the majority of the hospital’s health care staff.’’
The announcement from WHO did not specify whether the health care staff wore gloves or other protective gear when treating him.
Getting protective gear to health workers in the affected areas and ensuring that they receive hazard pay are top priorities for fighting the crisis, said Dr. David Nabarro, who is coordinating the UN response to the outbreak.
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"Nigeria appears to contain Ebola outbreak, CDC says" by Donald G. McNeil Jr. | New York Times October 01, 2014
NEW YORK — As the epidemic rages out of control in three nations a few hundred miles away, Nigeria is the only country to have an outbreak with hundreds of potential victims in a city with vast, teeming slums and yet beat it back....
Although officials are pleased that success was achieved in a country of 177 million that is a major transport and business hub — and whose largest city, Lagos, has 21 million people — the lessons here are not easily applicable to the countries at the epicenter: Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Nigeria’s outbreak grew from a single airport case, while in the three other countries the disease smoldered for months in remote rain-forest provinces and spread widely before a serious response was mounted....
The cure rate — 60 percent — was unusually high for an African outbreak....
Hmmmmm.
The success was in part the result of an emergency command center financed in 2012 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fight polio. As soon as the outbreak began, it was turned into the Ebola Emergency Operations Center.
Yeah, about that:
Bill and Melinda Gates, George Soros funded Sierra Leone lab that started Ebola outbreak
Gates not the good globalist as portrayed by the 1% papers, folks. Sorry.
No less than Liberia's version of the New York Times agrees.
Also, the CDC had 10 experts in Nigeria working on polio and HIV who had already trained 100 local doctors in epidemiology; 40 of them were immediately reassigned to Ebola and oversaw the contact tracing.
The CDC was already on site, huh?
See: CDC Slowing Releasing Infectious Agents
I'm starting to believe this was a planned release for various reasons.
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I'm told that is the “antidote.”
Time to celebrate:
"Nigeria leader hails victories on Ebola, militants" Associated Press October 02, 2014
ABUJA, Nigeria — Celebrating recent victories over Ebola and Islamist extremists, President Goodluck Jonathan marked Nigeria’s 54 years of independence from Britain on Wednesday.
The wars have been won, huh?
He congratulated his government on curtailing the Ebola crisis, blamed for eight deaths in Nigeria. ‘‘This is how it should be: swift, effective, and comprehensive action in defense of citizens,’’ he said.
But the government has been criticized for not protecting citizens against an uprising that caught world attention when insurgents kidnapped more than 270 schoolgirls in April. Dozens escaped, but none of the 219 missing have been rescued.
And haven't been much of a concern in the pre$$, mostly because that was a completely staged and scripted hoax. So is much of what we see or read in the AmeriKan media.
The US Centers for Disease Control said Tuesday that Nigeria appears to have contained the Ebola epidemic, which has killed more than 3,000 people, most of them in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. No new cases have been reported in weeks in Nigeria.
Jonathan praised soldiers for ‘‘inflicting devastating blows at the heart of terror’’ in an uprising centered in the northeast, though suicide and car bombs have killed hundreds of people in northern cities and in the central capital, Abuja.
Jonathan is expected to run again in a Feb. 14 presidential election.
Oh, this was all nothing but political propaganda.
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"97 Nigerian soldiers accused of refusing to fight" Associated Press October 03, 2014
ABUJA, Nigeria — A court-martial began hearing charges Thursday against 97 soldiers, including 16 officers, accused of mutiny, assault, cowardice, and refusing to fight in the country’s northeastern uprising.
Thursday’s mass trial comes two weeks after 12 soldiers were sentenced to death by firing squad for mutiny and attempted murder of their commanding officer.
Troops regularly have complained that they are outgunned by Boko Haram insurgents, that they are not paid in full, and that they are abandoned on the battlefield without enough ammunition or food.
Endemic corruption in Nigeria means millions of dollars goes missing from the budget to fight the uprising that has killed thousands.
In the U.S. it is trillions.
The uprising grabbed international attention with the April kidnapping of more than 270 schoolgirls.
Then coverage faded after the U.S. secured drone rights in the region.
Dozens escaped but the government and military failure to rescue 219 still missing has brought condemnation.
But not much lately.
The fact is the girls were sent home after the video was shot. It's all fake, folks.
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No antidote to the crap that comes from the Boston Globe on a daily basis.
"Nigeria appears to contain Ebola outbreak, CDC says" by Donald G. McNeil Jr. | New York Times October 01, 2014
NEW YORK — As the epidemic rages out of control in three nations a few hundred miles away, Nigeria is the only country to have an outbreak with hundreds of potential victims in a city with vast, teeming slums and yet beat it back....
Although officials are pleased that success was achieved in a country of 177 million that is a major transport and business hub — and whose largest city, Lagos, has 21 million people — the lessons here are not easily applicable to the countries at the epicenter: Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Nigeria’s outbreak grew from a single airport case, while in the three other countries the disease smoldered for months in remote rain-forest provinces and spread widely before a serious response was mounted....
The cure rate — 60 percent — was unusually high for an African outbreak....
Hmmmmm.
The success was in part the result of an emergency command center financed in 2012 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fight polio. As soon as the outbreak began, it was turned into the Ebola Emergency Operations Center.
Yeah, about that:
Bill and Melinda Gates, George Soros funded Sierra Leone lab that started Ebola outbreak
Gates not the good globalist as portrayed by the 1% papers, folks. Sorry.
No less than Liberia's version of the New York Times agrees.
Also, the CDC had 10 experts in Nigeria working on polio and HIV who had already trained 100 local doctors in epidemiology; 40 of them were immediately reassigned to Ebola and oversaw the contact tracing.
The CDC was already on site, huh?
See: CDC Slowing Releasing Infectious Agents
I'm starting to believe this was a planned release for various reasons.
--more--"
I'm told that is the “antidote.”
Time to celebrate:
"Nigeria leader hails victories on Ebola, militants" Associated Press October 02, 2014
ABUJA, Nigeria — Celebrating recent victories over Ebola and Islamist extremists, President Goodluck Jonathan marked Nigeria’s 54 years of independence from Britain on Wednesday.
The wars have been won, huh?
He congratulated his government on curtailing the Ebola crisis, blamed for eight deaths in Nigeria. ‘‘This is how it should be: swift, effective, and comprehensive action in defense of citizens,’’ he said.
But the government has been criticized for not protecting citizens against an uprising that caught world attention when insurgents kidnapped more than 270 schoolgirls in April. Dozens escaped, but none of the 219 missing have been rescued.
And haven't been much of a concern in the pre$$, mostly because that was a completely staged and scripted hoax. So is much of what we see or read in the AmeriKan media.
The US Centers for Disease Control said Tuesday that Nigeria appears to have contained the Ebola epidemic, which has killed more than 3,000 people, most of them in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. No new cases have been reported in weeks in Nigeria.
Jonathan praised soldiers for ‘‘inflicting devastating blows at the heart of terror’’ in an uprising centered in the northeast, though suicide and car bombs have killed hundreds of people in northern cities and in the central capital, Abuja.
Jonathan is expected to run again in a Feb. 14 presidential election.
Oh, this was all nothing but political propaganda.
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"97 Nigerian soldiers accused of refusing to fight" Associated Press October 03, 2014
ABUJA, Nigeria — A court-martial began hearing charges Thursday against 97 soldiers, including 16 officers, accused of mutiny, assault, cowardice, and refusing to fight in the country’s northeastern uprising.
Thursday’s mass trial comes two weeks after 12 soldiers were sentenced to death by firing squad for mutiny and attempted murder of their commanding officer.
Troops regularly have complained that they are outgunned by Boko Haram insurgents, that they are not paid in full, and that they are abandoned on the battlefield without enough ammunition or food.
Endemic corruption in Nigeria means millions of dollars goes missing from the budget to fight the uprising that has killed thousands.
In the U.S. it is trillions.
The uprising grabbed international attention with the April kidnapping of more than 270 schoolgirls.
Then coverage faded after the U.S. secured drone rights in the region.
Dozens escaped but the government and military failure to rescue 219 still missing has brought condemnation.
But not much lately.
The fact is the girls were sent home after the video was shot. It's all fake, folks.
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No antidote to the crap that comes from the Boston Globe on a daily basis.
