BREAKING:672 Dead And Rising! Pandemic! Pestilence! Ebola Outbreak! ...and its coming to your town soon .... theguardian/science/2014/jul/27/us-doctor-liberia-tests-positive-ebola Ebola crisis: infected US doctor receives intensive treatment in Liberia Associated Press in Boone, North Carolina theguardian, Sunday 27 July 2014 12.46 EDT An American doctor is receiving intensive medical treatment in Liberia after he was infected with the deadly Ebola virus while treating patients in the West African nation, a spokeswoman for an aid organisation said on Sunday. Dr Kent Brantly was in stable condition, talking with his doctors and working on his computer while receiving care at a hospital in the Liberian capital of Monrovia, said Melissa Strickland, a spokeswoman for North Carolina-based Samaritans Purse. Strickland cautioned that Brantly is not out of the woods yet”. She said patients have a better chance of survival if they receive treatment immediately after being infected, which Brantly did. Brantly, 33, has been working with Samaritans Purse in Liberia since October 2013 as part of the groups post-residency programme for doctors, Strickland said. He is the medical director for the aid organisations case management centre in the city. ... The highly contagious Ebola virus is one of the most deadly diseases in the world. Photos of Brantly working in Liberia show him in white coveralls made of a synthetic material that he wore for hours a day while treating Ebola patients. ... The deadly disease has killed at least 672 people in several African countries since the outbreak began earlier this year. A government official said on Sunday that one of Liberias most high-profile doctors has died of Ebola, highlighting the risks facing health workers trying to combat the deadly disease. Dr Samuel Brisbane is the first Liberian doctor to die in an outbreak the World Health Organisation says has killed 129 people in the West African nation. A Ugandan doctor working in the country died earlier this month. Last week a Liberian man died of Ebola in the Nigerian city of Lagos, the first confirmed case in Africas biggest city of 21 million people. Nigerian health authorities, anxious to stop the spread of the disease, are concerned that the sick man had boarded an international flight. Officials in Togo, where the sick mans flight had a stopover, also went on high alert after learning that Ebola could possibly have spread to a fifth country. ... International airports in Nigeria are screening passengers arriving from foreign countries for symptoms of Ebola, said Yakubu Dati, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria. ... Doctors say health screens could be effective, but Ebola has a variable incubation period of between two and 21 days and cannot be diagnosed on the spot. .. Authorities announced on Friday that blood tests from the Lagos University teaching hospital confirmed Sawyer died of Ebola earlier that day. Sawyer reportedly did not show Ebola symptoms when he boarded the plane. Nearly 50 other passengers on the flight are being monitored for signs of Ebola but are not being kept in isolation, said an employee at Nigerias ministry of health, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media. ... Sawyers sister also died of Ebola in Liberia, according to Liberian officials, but Sawyer claimed to have had no contact with her. Ebola is highly contagious and kills more than 70% of people infected. It is passed by touching bodily fluids of patients even after they die. consfearacynewz/forums.html#/20140727/breaking672-dead-and-rising-pandemic-pestilen-4110530/
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