The Ministry of Health of Nigeria today banned the transfer of corpses of deaths from Ebola inside and outside the country, in an attempt to halt the outbreak of the virus that has killed nearly a thousand people in West Africa, the local newspaper reported today Ladership.
"We are establishing control measures. From now on the bodies can not be transferred from one party to another country," said the health minister of the northern state of Kano, Khalliru Alhassan.
This means that people who die of Ebola have to be buried in the community where he died, no chance of returning to their place of origin. Nor can they be repatriated the bodies of Nigerians killed in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, Alhassan said.
Two people have died from Ebola in Nigeria at the moment and another seven are infected, while six cases are pending confirmation and 70 people are under surveillance.
Meanwhile, the Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, infected in Liberia and repatriated last Thursday, will be treated in Madrid with the experimental serum ZMapp, in which are also being treated both infected Americans, reported the Spanish Ministry of Health.
Doctors asked to import the drug, so far tested only in monkeys, from Geneva. The medication is already in the hospital where religious 75 years are being treated.
The condition of the two American Ebola patients improved after treatment with the drug, but it is unclear whether this is due to serum or other treatments you are receiving and it is also unclear whether the ZMapp have long-term side effects.
Meanwhile in Germany Sierra Leone man suspected of being infected and quarantined in Hamburg gave negative tests, today reported dpa spokesman University Hospital Eppendorf.
Guinea, where the virus was first detected in January, closed its borders Saturday to halt the spread of the epidemic, but the government refused to declare a national emergency, even though the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of Ebola international health emergency last Friday, and call the four nations affected Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to do the same.
"The state of emergency in Guinea is not necessary because the Ebola outbreak is under control," said Health Ministry spokesman, Col. Remy Lamah. Guinea is the country where most of Ebola cases are recorded, according to WHO, with 495 confirmed or suspected cases and 367 deaths as of August 7.
On Saturday, its neighbor Senegal reported the first suspected case of Ebola in northern country. The patient is a 27 year old Malian is waiting for the test to confirm if you have the virus.
So far have posted a total of 1,779 cases and 961 deaths, according to WHO. There is no cure or vaccine for the disease, which is transmitted by blood and other body fluids, causes massive bleeding and has a mortality rate of up to 90 percent.
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