Ebola United States, European doctors, top health workers in Africa to combat an epidemic of Ebola
Health personnel and foreign medical workers who travel to West Africa to help communities fight the deadliest recorded outbreak of Ebola. Over sixty local medical personnel who treated Ebola patients, 8 percent of deaths are deaths in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. Dr. Tom Peace, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the United States is fifty public health officials in West Africa ready for the next thirty days for the fight against the disease.
Health personnel and foreign medical workers who travel to West Africa to help communities fight the deadliest recorded outbreak of Ebola. Over sixty local medical personnel who treated Ebola patients, 8 percent of deaths are deaths in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
Richards G. Olds, dean of medicine at the University of California Riverside, doctors working with Ebola patients to doctors who helped in the fight against the scourge of medieval Europe in comparison. "This is a rare in this day and age of true heroism in health," Olds said. "They take considerable risks, as you can see in order to help others."
The Los Angeles Times, Dr. Tom Peace, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently announced that the United States will send fifty public health officials in West Africa in the next 30 days to help fight disease. The World Health Organization also plans to hundreds of medical personnel fly in West Africa to fight communities to help stem the spread of the disease.
Ebola is not in the air, so that when a doctor or nurse sick after the treatment of a patient, usually attributed to inadequate disposal of body fluids, including blood and vomit.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) nurse Monia Sayah, home of the United States returned after months of work treating patients Guinea Ebola, he said felt safe in his medical protective clothing, died despite the many health workers from the disease. "We have very strict measures to prevent infection. Benefit we have a set of behaviors. Is very important, how you dress and how they dress down., We use a buddy system for s' to ensure that you do not be wrong to set or remove the dress, "Sayah said. The Times notes that MSF has never had a fatal accident Ebola.
For concerns about whether Americans should American hospitals are infected with the Ebola virus worry, Frieden said on Twitter, "an American hospital infection control by CDC recommended, patients can safely be given w / Ebola".
A 2012 study by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) has funded a treatment Ebola antibodies protect non-human primates disease develops. Pentagon funding from two companies with major vaccine candidates, Sarepta and Tekmira suspended in August 2012, however. With the outbreak of the year, began the National Institute of Infectious Diseases Unit of Health Food and Drug Administration are working to test vaccines and in September after tests with primates have shown positive results.
