Do you know how it started? Researchers believe that a 2-year-old boy called Emile who died on 6 December 2013 in the village of Meliandou, Guéckédou Prefecture, Guinea is the index case of the current Ebola virus disease epidemic. His mother, sister, and grandmother then became ill with similar symptoms and also died. People infected by those victims spread the disease to other villages. Although Ebola represents a major public health issue in sub-Saharan Africa, no cases had ever been reported in West Africa and the early cases were diagnosed as diseases more common to the area. Thus, the disease had several months to spread before it was recognized as Ebola. On 19 March, the Guinean Ministry of Health acknowledged a local outbreak of an undetermined viral hemorrhagic fever that had sickened at least 35 people and killed 23. We thought it was Lassa fever or another form of cholera but this disease seems to strike like lightning. We are looking at all possibilities, including Ebola, because bushmeat is consumed in that region and Guinea is in the Ebola belt. One year later: October 3, 2014 Liberia accounts for more than half the number of dead -4,500. Total number of worldwide cases would pass 9,000 this week, including 427 health workers, adding that the real number could be much higher because of under-reporting. They expect that there will be approx. 10,000 by December. If you want to know more read here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_West_Africa
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 04:08:39 +0000
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