“Weekly case incidence has stalled at between 20 and 27 cases since the end of May, whilst cases continue to arise from unknown sources of infection, and to be detected only after post-mortem testing of community deaths”, said the World Health Organisation in its latest situation report. Since Sunday, 175 people have been listed as contacts and are being monitored.
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The United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (Unmeer) visited Guinea Bissau last week to inspect its preparedness in case Ebola crosses the border after cases were registered in the neighbouring prefecture of Boké in Guinea.
“At the deceased’s residence, there were also three other individuals who were sick and the health team quickly came and took their samples”.
Nyenswah said health officials were monitoring 175 people believed to have come into contact with the three cases, though none had yet exhibited symptoms of the disease, which had been localized in the village of Nedowein. The organization chose to declare them Ebola free after 42 days without a new case. Nine of 10 cases from the country’s Boke district involved known contacts, 1 of whom is a health worker.
According to Odubanjo, we should learn from our neighbours, Liberia and Sierra Leone who are recording new cases, and as such put preventive measures checks in place.
More than 11,000 people have died of the disease since December 2013, the vast majority of them in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
With health officials not discovering the teenager had Ebola until after he passed away means that he might have passed the virus to family or friends. However, it’s unlikely that these patients became infected with Ebola because they ate dog meat, as the virus has never been shown to spread this way, Goodman said.
This was issued in a statement signed by Director Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Health, Ayotunde Adesugba, in Abuja on Tuesday.
He did not provide details of the new cases. According to the New Dawn newspaper, some health workers were attacked and all were forced to leave.
The response team was investigating whether domestic animals might be carrying the virus, he said, referring also to mysterious deaths of hundreds of cattle in remote Lofa county. The protesters demanded compensation for their weeks of unpaid work at Ebola Treatment Units as two new cases of the virus emerged in the West African nation. “We are still waiting for more results of blood tests”, Cestus Tarpeh, a health official, said on Wednesday.
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Liberian authorities on Tuesday quarantined the area where the corpse of the boy was found, sparking fears this West African country could face another outbreak of the disease almost two months after being declared Ebola-free.
