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American Doctor Contracts Ebola Disease Virus While Treating Patients In Liberia
July 27, 2014 – American Doctor Contracts Ebola Disease Virus While Treating Patients In Liberia
See Photo of Dr Kent Brantly, American Doctor Infected With Ebola Virus
Samaritan’s Purse, the humanitarian arm of the Billy Graham evangelistic organization, announced July 26 that Dr. Kent Brantly has contracted Ebola while working for the organization in Liberia. Dr. Brantly is Medical Director for the Samaritan’s Purse Ebola Consolidated Case Management Center in Monrovia, Liberia. Brantly is married and has two children.
WFAA reports that Dr. Brantly is from Fort Worth, TX. He is 33 and has been working in Liberia since October. He was taking part in a post-residency program when the Ebola outbreak began.
Dr Kent Brantly had been isolated at the group’s Ebola treatment center at the ELWA hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia.
Ebola is an hemorrhagic fever with a very high fatality rate. Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea have borne the brunt of the recent epidemic, and last week Nigeria recorded its first death.
As of July 20, the number of Ebola cases recorded in the months-long epidemic stood at 1,093, including more than 660 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
The virus can fell victims within days, causing severe fever and muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhoea and, in some cases, organ failure and unstoppable bleeding.
Ebola is believed to be carried by animals hunted for meat, notably bats.
It spreads among humans via bodily fluids including sweat, meaning you can get sick from touching an infected person.
With no vaccine, patients believed to have caught the virus must be isolated to prevent further contagion.
Timmy
July 27, 2014 at 8:40 PM
Why didn’t him protect himself dont u know virus knows no colour
felicity
July 27, 2014 at 9:12 PM
Job hazard! May d good Lord heal him.
Metu Nyetu
July 27, 2014 at 9:25 PM
God! Dis ebola thing is certainly too horrible dat it shdnt even hav a name. HIV must b feeling like man’s best friend by now.
loveday
July 28, 2014 at 6:28 AM
God help us in this Ebola, hw go manage the waka wtout touching another person, enter public car wtout touching, exchange goods n service wtout touching…. God abeg ooooo, na beg we d beg.
Me
July 28, 2014 at 4:17 PM
End time o. God pls show i and all my loved onse Your Mercy.
b.tawio
July 29, 2014 at 2:27 PM
All you need to know about Ebola Virus now:
1. It is a Central African disease that has travelled over countries in a living host to West Africa. It is easily spread by physical contact and eating contaminated bush meat. Major hosts are in 5 species of Bats but monkeys and apes are easily infected and killed.
2. It kills in a week, leaving no time to treat an individual.
3. It has no known vaccine or cure.
4. Known cases have been experienced recently in Guinea, Liberia and Central Africa Rep, spreading eastwards and westwards towards Nigeria. Death toll so far in West Africa is over 100.
5. The Ebola outbreak of 2014 is the most challenging one witnessed in Africa.
What we can do?
1. Avoid eating any bush meat for now! Especially Apes and Bats.
2. Wash your hands as regularly as possible, especially after shaking a stranger. It is spread by contact.
3.The most straightforward prevention method during Ebola outbreaks is not touching patients, their excretions, and body fluids, or possibly contaminated materials and utensils. Patients should be isolated, and medical staff should be trained and apply strict barrier nursing techniques (disposable face mask, gloves, goggles, and a gown at all times). Traditional burial rituals, especially those requiring embalming of bodies, should be discouraged or modified. Awareness is key, don’t just read or ignore…spread this campaign before the virus spreads