No Nigerian Soldier Is Infected With Ebola In Liberia – DHQ

The Defence Headquarters has allayed the fears of many Nigerians over the health status of members of the country’s military contingent in Liberia.

This became necessary after reports emerged that some of them have tested positive to the dreaded Ebola Virus – a disease which has killed over 2,500 people in the West African country.
In its reaction today, the Nigerian military said:

Texas Ebola Patient's Family Don't Want To See, Says His Condition Is Too Disturbing To Watch

DALLAS (AP) — The family of a man diagnosed with the first U.S. case of Ebola visited him at the hospital Tuesday but declined to view him again via video because the last time had been too upsetting.

Relatives of Thomas Eric Duncan are visiting from North Carolina and they glimpsed him using a camera system at Dallas' Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Monday. But when they returned anew, this time with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, they decided such images were too much.

"What we saw was very painful. It didn't look good," said Duncan's nephew, Josephus Weeks.

Weeks said he and Duncan's mother were unable to sleep after seeing Duncan's face.

America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects

 From Guinea, a country of 11 million people, the Ebola Virus Disease has spread to four other West African nations—Senegal, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leaone — killing more than 3,000 people in a matter of days. The latest destination for this near-genocide is Dallas, a small city in Texas, United States, where the first person diagnosed in the country has been quarantined alongside 80 other possible contacts.

The trip made by Thomas Eric Duncan, a former chauffeur, from Liberia to the United States on September 20 has now raised controversies on how far the virus can travel and may force countries to rethink the flight restriction policy against countries where the disease has been endemic.
Until September 17 when President Barrack Obama sent 3,000 troops to help with the transportation of medical equipments, the US been sitting on the sidelines.

Liberia To Prosecute Man Who Brought Ebola To U.S.

Thomas Eric Duncan, identified by a former employer and seen in this undated Facebook photo, is the first Ebola patient to be diagnosed in the United State




MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The Liberian man infected with Ebola who brought the disease to the United States will be prosecuted when he returns home for lying on his airport screening questionnaire, Liberian authorities said Thursday.

With an Ebola epidemic raging in West Africa, passengers leaving Liberia are being screened for fever and are asked if they have had contact with anyone infected.

On the form obtained by The Associated Press and confirmed by a government official, Thomas Eric Duncan answered "no" to questions about whether he had cared for an Ebola patient or touched the body of someone who had died in an area affected by Ebola.

Ebola Patient Flees Quarantine; Storms Market To Beg For Food (Photos & Video)

This is so wrong, should't feeding them be a priority? After all they do need to eat or is starving them part of the treatment... Why will they keep him in quarantine and not give him food to eat? That's totally wrong as Ebola is not a death sentence and the guy could still make it. Anyway, he couldn't take it anymore and had to take laws into his hands by storming out of the Ebola quarantine to search for food. See all the photos and video blow....

EBOLA: Terrified Residents Flee Liberian Town As Dogs Eat Ebola Corpses

The general Town Chief of Kissi Camp, Upper Johnsonville near Kpekpeh Town, over the weekend informed the Daily Observer that several dogs in the community have torn the plastic wrapped around corpses of Ebola victims and are now feeding on parts of the corpses exposed to them.

As such, Town Chief Tamba Tengbeh expressed fear of the subsequent outbreak of other diseases in the area since some of the dogs are domesticated and could cause harm to the already frightened community dwellers.

Chief Tengbeh, in an exclusive interview with this newspaper on Sunday, also complained that the more than 2,000 residents of the area have been suffering an offensive odor of rotting corpses since the bodies were dumped in the nearby Kpanwein River by authorities from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) without proper burial.

Liberian President Sacks Ministers Who Defied Order To Remain At HomeTo Help Fight Ebola

 





According to a report by BBC Africa , Liberia's President, Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson has sacked some of her ministers and top government officials who traveled out of the country for other engagements as they battle the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.

17 Patients Who Escaped From Isolation Centre In Liberia Found

The 17 patients who escaped from the Ebola Isolation Centre in Liberia after some youths attacked the center on Saturday August 16th, have thankfully been found. The development was made known by a Liberian Minister this afternoon.
The isolation ward was attacked by armed men wielding sticks and shouting - 'There is no Ebola!'

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Liberia Issues ‘Shoot On Sight’ Order On Sierra Leonean Immigrants

Liberia’s armed forces have reportedly been given orders to shoot people trying to illegally cross the border from neighbouring Sierra Leone, which was closed to stem the spread of ebola. Soldiers stationed in Bomi and Grand Cape Mount counties, which border Sierra Leone, were to “shoot on sight” any person trying to cross the border, said deputy chief of staff, Colonel Eric Dennis.

The order came after border officials reported that people have continued to cross the porous border illegally. Previously, Grand Cape Mount county had 35 known “illegal entry points,” according to immigration commander Colonel Samuel Mulbah. Illegal crossings were a major health threat, said Mulbah, “because we don’t know the health status of those who cross at night.”

SUICIDAL: Mob Destroys Ebola Center In Liberia Two Days After It Opens(PHOTOS)

Women beckon to the family of Makasha Kroma, who was waiting at the transit facility for confirmation she had Ebola. 

MONROVIA, Liberia — This morning Makasha Kroma shivered with fever. Her head still hurt; that hadn’t gone away. And she was vomiting a lot.
That’s why she’d ended up here, at a holding center where people suspected to have Ebola wait, in a dark classroom, for the results of their tests. These things — headache, fever, vomiting — are the early signs.

Ebola is transmitted through bodily fluids. It has no treatment, besides hydration, no cure, no proven vaccine. Since February, it’s ravaged West Africa, infecting more than 2,000 people in four countries and killing more than 1,100.

Kroma came to the West Point holding center with her sister, her three children, a cousin named Bindu, and two other family members. They are all women, or girls — most caregivers in Liberia are — and they washed Kroma’s clothes, fed her rice, wiped down her body, and cleaned up her vomit with a rag and some chlorine.

EBOLA: Liberian President, Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson Apologizes To Nigeria

The Liberian President expressed concern over the unfortunate incident and apologized to Nigeria on behalf of her countryman who brought the virus to the country.

According to the Minister of State on Foreign Affairs, Mr. Nurudeem Mohammed, Sirleaf-Johnson told the Federal Government that Sawyer was on surveillance when he sneaked out of Liberia through Asky Airline.

Mohammed told journalists in Abuja on Thursday that Sirleaf-Johnson had apologised to Nigeria over Sawyer’s visit to Nigeria.

Liberian, Patrick Sawyer URINATED On Health Workers Who Told Him he Had Ebola

    Update- New: matron who attended to Sawyer now shows signs of disease too after nurse dies
    Africans protest with hashtag #GiveAfricaZmapp

According to FrontPage Africa, the last acts of Patrick Sawyer, the Ebola infected Liberian who died in Lagos, might have resulted in the transfer of the virus to innocent health workers.

Mr. Sawyer is said to have had an “indiscipline” encounter with nurses and health workers at the First Consultants Hospital in Obalende where he was being treated.
According to the report, Mr. Sawyer was asked if he had come into contact with anyone who had the virus but he answered in the negative.

EBOLA ALERT: Jim Iyke Hurriedly Exits Liberia.(PHOTO)

Nollywood actor Jim Iyke was featured In UK's Daily mail today as he hurriedly exited Liberia where the Ebola virus is on rampage right now. MailOnline reports


A Nigerian actor has sparked outrage after posting an image of himself wearing an Ebola mask while sitting in a first class airport lounge as he flees Liberia.
'Nollywood' star Jim Iyke posted a message on his Instagram page saying he had cut short a business trip to Monrovia in Liberia - where at least 600 people have already died from the disease.

The image of Iyke sitting on green leather-clad seats in the airport's luxury first class lounge while wearing an expensive designer watch and sunglasses was accompanied with the caption: 'Not ashamed to admit this scares the Jesus outta me #Ebola.'

Ebola Kills Top Liberian Doctor, American Infected

One of Liberia's most high-profile doctors has died of Ebola, officials said Sunday, and an American physician was being treated for the deadly virus, highlighting the risks facing health workers trying to combat an outbreak that has killed more than 670 people in West Africa — the largest ever recorded.

Dr. Samuel Brisbane was treating Ebola patients at the country's largest hospital, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Medical Center in Monrovia, when he fell ill. He died Saturday, said Tolbert Nyenswah, an assistant health minister. A Ugandan doctor died earlier this month.

The American, 33-year-old Dr. Kent Brantly, was in Liberia helping to respond to the outbreak that has killed 129 people nationwide when he fell ill, according to the North Carolina-based medical charity, Samaritan's Purse.