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Ebola Returns To Sierra Leone Capitol  (WHY?)

 

By Patricia Doyle
6-23-15

 
 
Hello Jeff It does appear that Sierra Leone and the other Ebola weary countries in West Africa are not going to have the outbreak end without a fight.

Another problem that most media do not want to mention is the fact that the latest outbreak in Sierra Leone took place in densely populated  slum areas where they lack proper hygiene facilities. In other words the lack indoor plumbing with running water.

The lack of bathroom and running water facilities means that this outbreak will continue.  In addition to the refusal of the population to change the way they conduct funerals and a refusal to abstain from sex after Ebola cure is simply going to put people at risk of Ebola.

Porous borders is another big problem whereby people travel to neighboring countries and could be spreading Ebola to neighbors.

All in all this outbreak is not over, not by a long shot.

Patty



Ebola returns to Sierra Leone capital after 3-week gap

June 24, 2015 2:52am

FREETOWN - Sierra Leone has recorded two new cases of Ebola in Freetown in the past few days, disproving the assumption that the capital city had already defeated the deadly virus, officials said on Monday.

The worst known Ebola epidemic in history has killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa, about a third of them in Sierra Leone. Liberia became Ebola-free in May, but its neighbors Sierra Leone and Guinea are still struggling to get to zero cases despite hundreds of millions of dollars in aid.

"This is worrisome because we had already closed all Ebola quarantine structures in Freetown since we had gone for weeks without a case," said Sidi Yahya Tunis, a spokesman for the National Ebola Response Center (NERC).

Tunis said there were concerns about further infection since the two cases were reported in Magazine, a densely populated slum lacking adequate hygiene facilities.

Health officials said the first case in Freetown since May 29 was a fisherman who caught the hemorrhagic fever from his girlfriend in the northern district of Port Loko.

Shortly afterwards, a family member who lived in the same household also caught the virus. The other six cases recorded in Sierra Leone over the past week were in the northern provinces of Port Loko and Kambia, health ministry data showed. — Reuters





http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/509354/news/world/ebola-returns-to-sierra-leone-capital-after-3-week-gap

 


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