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''Sheik Umar Khan, a leading ebola expert died of the disease, two American medics were infected in Liberia and man collapsed and later died after a flight to Lagos, Nigeria where 69 people are now being held under observation to ensure the virus doesn't get amongst the city's 21 million population.
Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia have been struggling to fight the deadly virus since March this year. According to Medecins Sans Frontieres, who deployed 552 staff in hotspots across the region, the epidemic is now officially 'out of control.'
The medical humanitarian organisation is building a quarantine unit in Kenema, Sierra Leone, to where Irish doctor Gabriel Fitzgerald has just travelled. He says his team is overwhelmed with new ebola patients. "The sooner a person receives treatment, the better their chances of recovery. People are dying in their villages without access to medical care," he said.
Unease and panic were unleashed across the globe as people feared the disease, thought to be passed on by fruit bats, could take to the skies and end up anywhere in the world, even Ireland.
"The chances of that happening are slim. It's not airborne. You can only catch the disease from close personal contact with someone through blood or bodily fluids. Its not like TB, which you can catch if you are sitting seven rows in front of an infected person on a plane," says Dr Graham Fry, founder of the Tropical Medical Bureau.
"Though in most cases it takes less than 21 days for symptoms including fever, headache and vomiting to take hold," he says.
http://www.independent.ie/world-new...now-out-of-control-claim-medics-30479265.html
People are being quarantined and there is no vaccine or cure
Reproduces within 8 hours into millions of new viruses
This could effectively wipe out half the planet
Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia have been struggling to fight the deadly virus since March this year. According to Medecins Sans Frontieres, who deployed 552 staff in hotspots across the region, the epidemic is now officially 'out of control.'
The medical humanitarian organisation is building a quarantine unit in Kenema, Sierra Leone, to where Irish doctor Gabriel Fitzgerald has just travelled. He says his team is overwhelmed with new ebola patients. "The sooner a person receives treatment, the better their chances of recovery. People are dying in their villages without access to medical care," he said.
Unease and panic were unleashed across the globe as people feared the disease, thought to be passed on by fruit bats, could take to the skies and end up anywhere in the world, even Ireland.
"The chances of that happening are slim. It's not airborne. You can only catch the disease from close personal contact with someone through blood or bodily fluids. Its not like TB, which you can catch if you are sitting seven rows in front of an infected person on a plane," says Dr Graham Fry, founder of the Tropical Medical Bureau.
"Though in most cases it takes less than 21 days for symptoms including fever, headache and vomiting to take hold," he says.
http://www.independent.ie/world-new...now-out-of-control-claim-medics-30479265.html
People are being quarantined and there is no vaccine or cure
Reproduces within 8 hours into millions of new viruses
This could effectively wipe out half the planet
