EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE - WEST AFRICA (132): WHO, SOS, LIBERIA, NIGERIA, MORE ************************************************************************* A ProMED-mail post ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases In this update: [1] WHO update [2] Sierra Leone: SOS call for overseas doctors & nurses [3] Liberia [4] Nigeria [5] National Library of Medicine (NLM) resources [6] Prevention [7] False alarms ****** [1] WHO update Date: 19 Aug 2014 Source: WHO Disease outbreak news [edited] Ebola virus disease update - West Africa -------------------------------- Confirmed, probable, and suspect cases and deaths from Ebola virus disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, as of 16 Aug 2014, Total Cases 2240, Deaths 1229. Between 14-16 Aug 2014, a total of 113 new cases of Ebola virus disease (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 84 deaths were reported from Guinea, Liberia*, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Health sector response ...To reduce the likelihood that those who are infected will carry the disease outside their communities, the governments have set up quarantine zones in areas of high transmission including severely-affected cities such as Gueckedou in Guinea, Kenema and Kailahun in Sierra Leone and Foya in Liberia... WHO is working with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to ensure people in the quarantine zones receive regular food aid and other non-medical supplies. WFP is now scaling up its programme to distribute food to the around one million people living in the quarantine zones in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Food has been delivered to hospitalized patients and people under quarantine who are not able to leave their homes to purchase food. Providing regular food supplies is a potent means of limiting unnecessary movement. WHO does not recommend any travel or trade restrictions be applied except in cases where individuals have been confirmed or are suspected of being infected with EVD or where individuals have had contact with cases of EVD. (Contacts do not include properly-protected health-care workers and laboratory staff.) Temporary recommendations from the Emergency Committee with regard to actions to be taken by countries can be found at: IHR Emergency Committee meeting on Ebola outbreak in west Africa . Confirmed, probable, and suspect cases and deaths from Ebola virus disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, as of 16 Aug 2014: The total number of cases is subject to change due to ongoing reclassification, retrospective investigation, and availability of laboratory results. Data reported in the Disease Outbreak News are based on official information reported by Ministries of Health. * Information from Liberia, throughout this update, is from 15 Aug 2014. -- Communicated by: ProMED-mail Rapporteur Marianne Hopp ****** [2] Sierra Leone: SOS call for overseas doctors & nurses Date: 19 Aug 2014 Source: British Red Cross [edited] Doctors and nurses are urgently needed in response to a request for the Red Cross movement to support the Ministry of Health in Sierra Leone, with the establishment of an Ebola virus disease isolation unit for the care and management of patients in the Kenema District of Sierra Leone, ideally ... towards the end of August [2014] for an assignment of 4 weeks... For further information, and how to apply, see URL above. -- Communicated by: ProMED-mail
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