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United States, European doctors, top health personnel in Africa to fight Ebola outbreak

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Ebola United States, European physicians, top health personnel in Africa to fight Ebola outbreak

Posted on August 6, 2014

Foreign health workers and medical personnel who travel to West Africa to help communities in the fight against the deadliest outbreak of Ebola in the. Over sixty local medical staff, the Ebola patients are treated, 8 percent of the 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 will for fifty public health in West Africa, are responsible for the next thirty days the fight against the disease.

Foreign health workers and medical personnel who travel to West Africa to help communities in the fight against the deadliest outbreak of Ebola in the. Over sixty local medical staff, the Ebola patients are treated, 8 percent of the deaths are deaths in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

Doctors. Ebola patients to doctors who helped in the fight against the scourge of medieval Europe Olds G. Richards, dean of medicine at the University of California Riverside comparison "This is a rare in the current era of true heroism in health," Olds said. "They take considerable risks, as you can see in order to help others."

The Los Angeles Times that Dr. Tom Peace, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently announced that the United States for fifty public health be responsible for the next 30 days, in West Africa, to help fight the disease. The World Health Organization also plans to hundreds of medical personnel fly in West Africa in order to help communities fight to curb the spread of the disease.

Ebola is not in the air, so that when a doctor or nurse attributed ill after treating a patient, usually lack of proper disposal of body fluids such as 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. Use a range of behaviors." It is very important how you dress and how you dress. We use a buddy system for s' make sure you will not be wrong if you rotate or remove the dress, "Sayah. Told The Times notes that MSF has never been a death Ebola.

For concerns about whether Americans should worry U.S. hospitals is infected with the Ebola virus, the Peace on Twitter, "a U.S. hospital, such as the CDC Infection Control recommended safely be given to patients 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 testing on primates have shown positive results.

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