CNN reports that the World Health Organization has received reports of 14 diagnoses this week in Guinea and Sierra Leone, with 31 cases last week. The number of cases per week has begun accelerating in June– this is the second week more cases have been recorded than the previous week– triggering fears that a second wave of the outbreak may affect the two impoverished nations. “The outbreak is not over and the response efforts must be sustained until we get to zero cases throughout the region and are able to stay at zero for several months,” warned the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response on Thursday.
In addition to concerns regarding the number of people infected, experts are expressing concern at where these cases are being diagnosed. In late May, Guinea began recording cases near its border with Guinea-Bissau, threatening a country with few resources to combat an outbreak of the magnitude its neighbors experienced over the summer. At the same time, Sierra Leone’s Awareness Times began reporting an increase in cases in Kaffu Bullom Chiefdom, Lungi, an area about 17 miles north of the capital, Freetown. Describing Kuffu Bullom as a new “hotspot,” the Awareness Times reported that they had evidence that the new cases were the product of an incident in which “an Ebola patient was sneaked into Kaffu Bullom chiefdom from Kambia district few weeks back and this is what has set off the chain reaction of Ebola infections in Kaffu Bullom.”
The newspaper added that “dozens of armed soldiers” had been deployed to the area to prevent quarantined individuals from leaving their homes or anyone from bringing Ebola patients to the area.
In addition to concerns regarding the number of people infected, experts are expressing concern at where these cases are being diagnosed. In late May, Guinea began recording cases near its border with Guinea-Bissau, threatening a country with few resources to combat an outbreak of the magnitude its neighbors experienced over the summer. At the same time, Sierra Leone’s Awareness Times began reporting an increase in cases in Kaffu Bullom Chiefdom, Lungi, an area about 17 miles north of the capital, Freetown. Describing Kuffu Bullom as a new “hotspot,” the Awareness Times reported that they had evidence that the new cases were the product of an incident in which “an Ebola patient was sneaked into Kaffu Bullom chiefdom from Kambia district few weeks back and this is what has set off the chain reaction of Ebola infections in Kaffu Bullom.”
The newspaper added that “dozens of armed soldiers” had been deployed to the area to prevent quarantined individuals from leaving their homes or anyone from bringing Ebola patients to the area.
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The issue of hygiene is a serious problem in this country. Until we can begin to take hygiene seriously, we will continue to live at the mercy of God,” Francis Fordia, Chief Administrator of the Foya-Borma hospital in the country, told the Liberian Observer. He noted that Ebola is not the only threat facing Liberia: “Let us look at the impact that malaria has and the number of people who have died from what we consider a common sickness. This is all because we don’t want to clean our environments. A lot of dirty water sits around where we’re living, with mosquitoes breeding in front and behind the houses. People do not want to cut the grass around their houses and these (behaviors) are unacceptable.”
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/06/12/ebola-resurgent-african-states-report-alarming-rise-in-cases/
EBOLA RESURGENT: AFRICAN STATES REPORT ALARMING RISE IN CASES
by FRANCES MARTEL
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/06/12/ebola-resurgent-african-states-report-alarming-rise-in-cases/
EBOLA RESURGENT: AFRICAN STATES REPORT ALARMING RISE IN CASES
by FRANCES MARTEL
12 Jun 2015
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