Another suspected case of Ebola in Nigeria
Barely seven days after Mr. Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian, died in a private hospital in Lagos, one of the personnel, who helped him out of the aircraft on his arrival in Lagos, has shown signs of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
The latest victim, who was said to have helped the late Sawyer, but has not yet been named, was among the 59 persons the Federal Government and the Lagos State Government registered to have had contact with the late Sawyer immediately on his arrival in Nigeria on Sunday, July 20.
Early symptoms of EVD include fever, headache, chills, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, sore throat, headache and joint pains, while later symptoms include bleeding from the eyes, ears nose, and the mouth as well as the rectum, eye swelling, swelling of the genitals and rashes all over the body that often contain blood. It could progress to coma, shock and death.
As at four days after Sawyers death in Nigeria, precisely, Monday, July 27, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, said 20 of the 59 people registered to have had contact with Sawyer had been physically screened. He said 50 per cent of these 20 people had type one contact with Sawyer and 50 per cent had type two contact.
Explaining this terminology, the Director, Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Abdulsalam Nasidi, said type one contact means those who had direct one-on-one contact with the late Sawyer, while type two contact refers to those that had contact with those who had direct contact with Sawyer.
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Warpy
(111,270 posts)Registering isn't good enough. They need to be quarantined away from any contact with any other people, even each other, for three weeks, the upper limit of the prodromal stage.
The usual time to develop symptoms is five days.
If this gets loose in a packed supercity like Lagos, it's going to be incredibly bad.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)With the spread of Ebola in W.A., how soon before international airlines stop sending their crews & equipment to cities like Lagos. And another thought... should Customs & Immigration in US and other countries begin screening arriving passengers for fever?
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Watch with interest and keep our pinkies double crossed.
The authorities (Nigeria, Guinie, Liberia and Sierra Lione) have done too little and too late. The cat is well and truly out of the bag.
Even Europe and the rest of the west may well regret not taking action on closing borders sooner.
The west should be absolutely shovelling resources into west Africa to stop this disease. They wont of course.
Regards
Exeng
And this
http://qz.com/241241/why-ebola-reaching-the-nigerian-capital-is-a-whole-new-level-of-scary/
International city oil center
been confined to Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberiawar-torn and largely rural west African countries. But Lagos is different; not only is it Africas biggest city, with 21 million people. Its also one of the worlds most densely populated. And perhaps scariest of all, its a center for international travelmeaning that if its not contained, the virus could easily go global. Sawyers was the first-ever recorded case of Ebola in Nigeria,
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Report anything unusual.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)The core city of Lagos alone has a population equal to the entire state o Wisconsin. Add in outlying towns and cities and it jumps to twenty-one million people, all packed shoulder-to-shoulder.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Grabbing his hand, shoulder, helping him into a wheelchair? They need to know if he was soiled with bodily fluids/sputum/vomit, or was coughing. What happened to everyone on the plane? What did they do with the plane, was it decontaminated inside? Scary.
pugetres
(507 posts)So skin to skin contact can lead to exposure. Contact with sputum, vomitus, saliva, etc. isn't necessary.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)They probably interviewed the subjects without protective gear.