To contain the spread of the virus Sierra Leone borders its citizens for three days for Ebola

Freetown. Sierra Leone is preparing for three days to confine the entire population and try to contain the spread of Ebola, which has killed over 500 people in this West African country. 

The move coincides with an emergency meeting of the Security Council of the UN to consider a proposed resolution of EU global response to the virus. 

It Ebola Mexico and ability to detect chikungunya: SSA

The head of the Ministry of Health (SS), Mercedes Juan López, stressed that Mexico has the capacity to timely detect the presence of chikungunya virus and Ebola fever in the country. 

As relates to the virus that causes chikungunya fever, a viral disease transmitted to humans by mosquitoes, and there have been cases in America. 

During the inauguration of the VII Meeting of the National Health Council (Conasa) that took place in the state of Querétaro, indicated that various topics, among which are those two health problems discussed in that meeting. 

WHO and Cuba call to increase efforts against Ebola

A call on governments to join a global effort to address the Ebola did today the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Margaret Chan, and the Cuban Health Minister Roberto Morales. 

• Cuba sent 165 employees to Africa to deal with Ebola 
• WHO states that there are 2,400 deaths from Ebola in Western Africa 
• Director of WHO recognizes Cuba rapid response to Ebola 
• He thanked WHO support from Cuba to face the Ebola 
• Cuba WHO and analyze response to Ebola epidemic in Africa 

Bill Gates donates 50 million to the fight against Ebola

Foundation Bill and Melinda Gates pledged yesterday to allocate $ 50 million to combat Ebola epidemic affecting West Africa, which has already killed 2,300 people in the worst outbreak of the story. 

The philanthropic foundation based in the United States will provide immediate funds to UN agencies and international organizations to purchase supplies and improve emergency response in affected countries form. It will also work with partners in the public and private sectors to accelerate the development of drugs, vaccines and diagnostics that may be effective in treating Ebola patients and in preventing the spread of the virus. 

In Liberia, the Ebola epidemic spreads unchecked

The Ebola virus spreads rapidly in Liberia, where several thousand new cases are expected in the next three weeks, said the World Health Organization (WHO). "The transmission of Ebola virus in Liberia is strong and the number of cases is increasing exponentially," WHO said.

Curfew for Ebola

Authorities in Sierra Leone (Africa) are discussing the possibility of imposing a curfew several days to register possible Ebola patients, the government said. Still not a decision was made and it would require extensive planning, said Ibrahim Ben Kargbo adviser. Curfew could be imposed between 19 and 21 this month

Sierra Leone studies impose curfew for several days Ebola

The government of Sierra Leone is preparing a full quarantine of the population of 3 days, from 19 September, for the medical teams could better detect cases of Ebola reported Saturday official sources, while the DRC believes that the epidemic is limited to a region. 

The population should remain confined to their homes to allow time to pass health teams door to door, said government spokesman, Abdulai Barratay highlighted AFP. 

Ebola outbreak threatens 20,000 people according to WHO...

While the current Ebola outbreak threatens to affect up to 20 thousand people in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) presented a roadmap to coordinate international efforts to end the epidemic. 

WHO seeks to control HIV transmission worldwide within six to nine months, according to a statement issued yesterday where he also referred to the need to address, in parallel, the socioeconomic impact of this outbreak. 

That roadmap answers the urgent need to expand ostensibly international response to a crisis, which experts still not reached its critical moment, because 40 percent of the cases have occurred in recent weeks. 

WHO launches roadmap to combat Ebola outbreak

The World Health Organization (WHO) today presented a roadmap aimed at coordinating international efforts to end the Ebola outbreak affecting West Africa, with three thousand 96 thousand 552 cases and Deaths . 

The objective of the international organization is "controlling HIV transmission worldwide within six to nine months and give an appropriate response to the consequences of their international spread," according to a statement issued by WHO which also refers "the need to address, in parallel, the socioeconomic impact of this outbreak. "

The roadmap answers the urgent need to expand ostensibly the international response to this crisis, which experts say appears to have not yet reached its most critical moment, because 40 percent of the cases have occurred in recent weeks . 

"I am thrilled to be alive," said the doctor who beat Ebola USA

The doctor and infected with Ebola in Liberia and were taken three weeks ago to the United States to receive an experimental treatment nurse overcame the disease and were discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta (Georgia), reported their doctors. 

"I am thrilled to be alive, to be good and reunificarme with my family" 

Dr. Kent Brantly, 33, and nurse Nancy Writebol, 59, both missionaries who were infected with the virus while working at a medical center in Liberia, were treated with the experimental serum ZMapp, never before used in humans. 

In six months it would Ebola under control: Doctors Without Border

The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned that the Ebola outbreak progresses faster than efforts to stop it and it will take about six months to control. 

"In the next six months should bring the epidemic under control. This is my intuition, "said the president of MSF, Joanne Liu, in a press conference in Geneva, after returning from a ten day trip to the affected region. 

A vaccine against Ebola, stage of "clinical trials"

An experimental vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus will soon be subjected to clinical trials, according to the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), which is developed with scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID, for its acronym in English) of America. 

There is no proven cure or vaccine against Ebola and extent of the current outbreak, which has killed almost one thousand people, led the World Health Organization to declare an international health emergency. The disease may continue spreading for months. 

The Ebola virus is spread from person to person by direct contact through mucous membranes or continuity solutions skin organs, blood, secretions or body fluids of an infected person or by indirect contact with contaminated materials for these liquids. It is considered suspect if anyone who has had a fever (greater than 38), contact with a confirmed case of Ebola in the 21 days prior to the onset of symptoms and who has traveled to regions with confirmed virus circulation. 

WHO approves the use of experimental drugs against Ebola

The World Health Organization says it is "ethical and moral imperative" to use drugs not tested in human Ebola 


A committee of experts on ethical issues of the World Health Organization (WHO) decided after a two-day meeting in Geneva that due to exceptional lascaracterísticas Ebola epidemic in West Africa, may administer medication not approved for this disease.

"We are in the midst of the worst epidemic of Ebola since the disease made its appearance forty years ago, with more cases and further spread in previous outbreaks. However, now there are a number of medications that can be effective against it ", told reporters the assistant director general of the WHO, Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny.

Experimental, six drugs against Ebola

From vaccines to antiviral sera, drugs against Ebola explore different tracks. However, of the six studies on ways to combat the disease, five are in the stage of animal testing and do not know what reactions can generate in humans. 

Several experts debate in WHO headquarters ethical implications of experiencing these substances with those affected by the epidemic in Africa, where until August 8 there were 961 dead and 779 thousand infected. 

That official estimate does not include the case in Nigeria confirmed yesterday by the Ministry of Health, or the death of George Combey, fellow Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, who died in the ELWA Hospital in Liberia. 

WHO considers accelerate or even "leapfrog" studies, but "maintaining safeguards," said Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, director of the Department of Vaccines and Immunization of the agency. 

Nigeria prohibits removal of bodies within and outside the country due to Ebola

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. 

Spanish religious order reopen its hospital in Monrovia closed for Ebola

The Hospitaller Order of St. John of God (OHSJD) announced today that it will send a medical team to reopen the hospital San Jose, Monrovia (Liberia), where he was repatriated on Thursday, the Spanish priest Miguel Pajares infected with the Ebola virus. 

In the hospital there are still two religious infected with hemorrhagic virus, after death, this morning, the Congolese nun Chantal Pascaline. 

The San José Hospital in Monrovia, closed from August 1, after the death of its director, Patrick Nshamdzea, is in a "very worrying" situation, according to a statement, the NGO Juan City, belonging to said religious order which states that the state of the Ghanaian religious Combey Georges has worsened and the Guinean sister Patience Melgar still serious. 

Both are being served by the volunteer nurse William Ekeurm, Cameroon, and a nursing assistant. 

The NGO will ensure that you are arranging to send the center of a healthcare team that allows reopen, as currently there are no open hospital is providing health services to the Liberian population, except unit Ebola located in the ELWA Hospital, where they are deriving all cases of this infection. 

Nurse, second fatality by Ebola in Nigeria

A Nigerian American nurse who treated the deceased in late July by the Ebola virus has died from the disease, the Ministry of Health of Nigeria. 

The nurse attended the American Patrick Sawyer, who traveled from Liberia and Nigeria became the first fatality from the virus in Nigerian territory as they set out the authorities last July 25. 

Five others who maintained contact with Sawyer, who died in a hospital in Lagos, have tested positive in the screening analysis of Ebola. 

Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu, required the governors of the states in the country to open more centers isolation to treat patients suspected of having contracted the virus in order to prevent the spread of the disease.