Ebola breaks out in Uganda, 14 Dead

Scientist arrested for smuggling vials used in Ebola research into US

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Konan Michel Yao

A Canadian scientist has been arrested for smuggling 22 vials stolen from Canada's National Microbiology Lab, used in Ebola and HIV research, into the United States, Canadian and US officials said Wednesday.

Konan Michel Yao, 42, "was taken into custody" while crossing the border from Manitoba province into the western US state of North Dakota on May 5, said a spokeswoman for the Public Health Agency of Canada, which operates the lab.


According to US prosecutor Lynn Jordheim, Yao was detained for carrying unidentified biological materials in vials wrapped in aluminium foil inside a glove and
packaged in a plastic bag,
along with electrical wires, in the trunk of his car.

Yao said in an affidavit he stole the vials, described as research vectors, from the Winnipeg lab on his last day of work there on January 21.

He told US border guards he was taking them to his new job with the National Institutes of Health at the Biodefense Research Laboratory in Bethesda, Maryland.

US authorities feared their contents could pose a terrorist threat. But tests later showed "they are not hazardous," said Jordheim.

"This turned out not to be a terrorism-related case," he said by telephone from North Dakota. "It appears to be exactly as he (Yao) said. However, he still faces possible charges for smuggling the vials into the United States."

Yao, meanwhile, remains in US custody after waiving his right to bail and preliminary hearings, as he awaits a possible grand jury indictment for smuggling, he said.

A Public Health Agency of Canada spokeswoman told AFP [
B]Yao "was working on vaccines for the Ebola virus and HIV, among other things." [/B]

"But he only had access to harmless and non-infectious materials, similar to what you'd find in a hospital or university lab. He did not have access to dangerous materials."

The Ivory Coast-born scientist is said to have studied at Laval University in Quebec and briefly worked at the University of Manitoba's plant sciences department.
 
Suspected Ebola Kills 23 In Sudan

Suspected Ebola kills 23 in Sudan
Wednesday, 7th October, 2009

A haemorrhagic disease suspected to be Ebola has killed at least 23 people and infected dozens more in Southern Sudan, the spokesman of the Southern Sudanese army (SPLA) said yesterday.

Most of the dead are SPLA soldiers. Army spokesman Kuol Diem Kuol said blood samples of soldiers had been sent to laboratories for testing but doctors suspected it was Ebola.

“So far, from the SPLA, there are 20 killed and three wives (of soldiers) also died,” Kuol told Reuters.

“There is a huge number of the population affected that we don’t have the (exact) number of.”

Kuol said symptoms included vomiting blood and bleeding from the ears and nose, adding it was widespread in the Western Bahr al-Ghazal state.

A UN official in the south said they had attempted an assessment but needed more information from the local government to be able to assess the situation.

Health officials say there is still no known cure for the disease, which is spread through bodily fluids, including blood.

The World Health Organisation says Ebola, one of the most virulent viral diseases known to mankind, was discovered in Southern Sudan and the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976.

The strain of Ebola that broke out in what was then Zaire has one of the highest case fatality rates of any human virus, roughly 90%.

The strain that broke out later in Sudan has a case fatality rate of around 50%.

The virus is believed to be transmitted to humans via contact with an infected animal host.

It is then transmitted to other people that come into contact with blood and bodily fluids of the infected person, and by human contact with contaminated medical equipment such as needles.

Uganda has experienced two outbreaks of Ebola. On October 15, 2000, Ebola was confirmed in Gulu, northern Uganda. By the end of January 2001, 425 Ebola cases had been reported in Gulu, Masindi and Mbarara.

Of those, 224 died – a death rate of 53%. Among them were 14 health workers in Gulu who had worked in the isolation wards.

On November 24, 2007, the health ministry confirmed another outbreak of Ebola in Bundibugyo district. Health officials confirmed a total of 149 cases of this new Ebola species, with 37 deaths attributed to the strain.

http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/697086
 
Re: Suspected Ebola Kills 23 In Sudan

Awwww, it's jes COINCIDENCE that the most deadly diseases known to man come out of Afreeka and has NOTHING to do with a nigger's hygeine habits WHATSOEVER...
 
Dead bodies abandoned after ebola outbreak

Dead bodies abandoned after ebola outbreak

FRIGHTENED residents of Luwero district have started shunning burials, especially of people who die under mysterious circumstances.

This follows an outbreak of Ebola in the area and there are mounting fears that more people are likely to catch the dreaded disease.

At least two bodies have been left to rot in the open over the last six days, after residents linked the deaths to Ebola.

In one of the cases, a body of a man who was killed by mob at Kalagala in Bamunanika for reportedly stealing a bicycle, decomposed at Kasana mortuary in Luweero town, after it remained unclaimed for six days.

The district health officer, Dr. Joseph Okware, said the mortuary attendant and the medical personnel feared to go near the body.

In Bbulabakulu village in Kalagala sub-county, a body of a 70-year-old man only identified as Sande, who collapsed and died while easing himself in a latrine, remained on the spot where he died for three days, after residents and relatives feared to remove the body.

Okware said a combined team of the Police medical personnel from Bombo Hospital was forced to spray and bury Sande’s body.

The Resident District Commissioner, Paul Lubowa, said the residents are on the alert after being advised to report all mysterious deaths.

An outbreak of Ebola was confirmed in Luweero, after a 12-year-old girl died of the disease at Bombo Military Hospital on May 6.

The patient, whose name is abbreviated as NC for medical ethical reasons, died at the hospital where she had been referred from Kisakye Clinic in Ziroobwe.

The disease, which medical experts have diagnosed as Ebola-Sudan, broke out on May 1. The patient started by feeling headache, for which she received Hedex tablets. However, this did not help. The illness progressed with the patient developing fever and later vomiting on May 5.

The patient became very weak and started bleeding from the nose, later developing anal and virginal bleeding the next day.
 
Re: Dead bodies abandoned after ebola outbreak

later developing anal and virginal bleeding the next day.

Virginal bleeding? That only happens when Africoons rape infants in an effort to cure their AIDS.
 
Re: Dead bodies abandoned after ebola outbreak

Five children from one family in Gombo have been admitted to hospital with ebola symtoms. One has already died. Gombo is 23 kilometres (approx. 15 miles) north of Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. Ebola has never been this close (uncontained and uncontrolled) to a nation's capital.
http://www.virusinfluenza.net/crofs-h5n1-uganda-more-ebola-cases/



Two new cases have been reported in Nakaseke (approximately 40 miles north of Kampala):
http://ugandapicks.com/2011/05/ebola-now-invades-nakaseke-2-new-cases.html
 
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-07-28/uganda-ebola-outbreak/56553600/1

Officials: Ebola breaks out in Uganda

7/28/12

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – The deadly Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month, Ugandan health officials said on Saturday, ending weeks of speculation about the cause of a strange disease that had many people fleeing their homes.

The officials and a World Health Organization representative told a news conference in Kampala Saturday that there is "an outbreak of Ebola" in Uganda.

"Laboratory investigations done at the Uganda Virus Research Institute…have confirmed that the strange disease reported in Kibaale is indeed Ebola hemorrhagic fever," the Ugandan government and WHO said in joint statement.

Kibaale is a district in midwestern Uganda, where people in recent weeks have been troubled by a mysterious illness that seemed to have come from nowhere. Ugandan health officials had been stumped as well, and spent weeks conducting laboratory tests that were at first inconclusive.

On Friday, Joaquim Saweka, the WHO representative in Uganda, told The Associated Press that investigators were "not so sure" it was Ebola, and a Ugandan health official dismissed the possibility of Ebola as merely a rumor. It appears firm evidence of Ebola was clinched overnight.

Health officials told reporters in Kampala that the 14 dead were among 20 reported with the disease. Two of the infected have been isolated for examination by researchers and health officials. A clinical officer and, days later, her 4-month-old baby died from the disease caused by the Ebola virus, officials said.

Officials urged Ugandans to be calm, saying a national emergency taskforce had been set up to stop the disease from spreading far and wide.

There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola, and in Uganda, where in 2000 the disease killed 224 people and left hundreds more traumatized, it resurrects terrible memories.

Ebola, which manifests itself as a hemorrhagic fever, is highly infectious and kills quickly. It was first reported in 1976 in Congo and is named for the river where it was recognized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Scientists don't know the natural reservoir of the virus, but they suspect the first victim in an Ebola outbreak gets infected through contact with an infected animal, such as a monkey.:rolleyes:

The virus can be transmitted in several ways, including through direct contact with the blood of an infected person. During communal funerals, for example, when the bereaved come into contact with an Ebola victim, the virus can be contracted, officials said, warning against unnecessary contact with suspected cases of Ebola.

In Kibaale, some villagers had started abandoning their homes in recent weeks to escape what they thought was an illness that had something to do with bad luck, because people were quickly falling ill and dying, and there was no immediate explanation, officials said.

Officials said now that they've verified Ebola in the area, they can concentrate on controlling the disease. Ebola patients were being treated at the only major hospital in Kibaale, said Stephen Byaruhanga, the district's health secretary.

"Being a strange disease, we were shocked to learn that it was Ebola," Byaruhanga said. "Our only hope is that in the past when Ebola broke out in other parts of Uganda it was controlled."

The challenge, he said, was retaining the services of all the nurses and doctors who are being asked to risk their lives in order to look after the sick.

"Their lives are at stake," he said.

Officials also worry that other villagers suffering from other diseases might be afraid to visit the hospital for fear of catching Ebola, he said.
 
Any disease that cycles in the black population is a good disease. Perhaps a virus that causes hemorrhagic fever will evolve into a sexually transmitted disease with at least a 4 month latency period...
 
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Man Contracts Ebola From Stolen Cell Phone

12:45 a.m. PDT, August 27, 2012

KIBAALE, Uganda -- A 40-year old man is hospitalized after stealing a cell phone from a man dying of Ebola.

it happened earlier this month at Kagadi Hospital in Uganda.

The alleged thief broke into the hospital's isolation ward and took the from from a patient being treated for the deadly fever.

The patient reported the theft before he died only days later.

Police were able to track the cell phone to the thief.

But before they could arrest him, he showed up at the hospital complaining of symptoms.

In the hospital, the man admitted taking the phone which is worth about $24.


At least 16 people have died an outbreak of the virus struck a remote village in western Uganda in July.
 
Ebola from a cell phone?

Wow, just think what a stack of infected dollar bills would do in Apelanta, Deetroyt, Jew York, Memfis, D.C., Miamee, Nawleans...
 
Ebola from a cell phone?

Wow, just think what a stack of infected dollar bills would do in Apelanta, Deetroyt, Jew York, Memfis, D.C., Miamee, Nawleans...

And the jew government insists on importing these especially stupid, filthy, low-intelligence jiggaboos? I hope the government agents and theirs get ebola and worse.

:barf3:
 
The deadly Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda - this includes a four month baby. This has ended the weeks of speculation of what is causing people to die in strange way. The World Health Organization (WHO) representative confirmed in a news conference:
"Laboratory investigations done at the Uganda Virus Research Institute...have confirmed that the strange disease reported in Kibaale is indeed Ebola haemorrhagic fever,
There is no cure for Ebola and the strain manifest itself as a haemorrhagic fever, is highly infectious and kills quickly. According to the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) factsheet:
"Characterized by fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, sore throat, and weakness, followed by diarrhoea, vomiting, and stomach pain. A rash, red eyes, hiccups and internal and external bleeding may be seen in some patients."
The fear is that other people that are suffering from the disease might be afraid to visit the hospital and thereby infecting others.
http://weekies.com/news/3830/2012/07/29/Ebola-Breaks-Out-In-Uganda:-Kills-

:bongo:
 
http://www.liberianobserver.com/news/nurses-use-3-thermometers-thousands


Liberian Nurses Use Same 3 Thermometers on Thousands

Thu, 08/14/2014 - 07:48 admin

As GOL Begins Testing for Ebola Patients in Country

By: Gloria T.Tamba

The Government of Liberia has begun testing citizens in eight counties for the deadly Ebola disease.

This testing of individuals is meant to control the spread from counties believed to be highly infected with the killer disease.

Several counties, including Bomi, Lofa, Grand Cape Mount, Grand Bassa, Margibi Montserrado and Grand Gedeh, have been controlled to regulate the movement of people going in and out of those areas.

The Daily Observer recently discovered that the control process as announced by the Liberian government took a different dimension as the temperatures of those leaving from one area to another were tested by nurses assigned at various checkpoints using only three thermometers.

The testing process has been questioned by some segments of the Liberian society, including foreign nationals who visited Bomi over the weekend.

Bomi County is among eight counties quarantined by the Liberian government.

In an interview with the Daily Observer over the weekend, Mr. Shang Guan, a Chinese national, said the intention of the government is good but is also dangerous to the health of citizens and foreigners alike.

Mr. Guan refused to be tested with any of the three thermometers used by the county health team at the Bomi checkpoint.

He said the use of manual thermometers to check the temperature of travelers as a means of containing the spread of the deadly virus was not the right thing to do. Experts have said that one way the deadly Ebola virus is spread is through contact with bodily fluids. Thermometers are either inserted in the mouth or under the arm, both of which involve the transfer of saliva and sweat respectively.

According to him, since the virus quickly spreads and kills 90% of its victims, it would be prudent for authorities at the Health Ministry to use advanced rather than standard thermometers that do not involve physical contact with individuals.

“I was worried about taking the test because even if you have malaria your temperature will be high and even if that person has Ebola, it might spread to the others just by the use of the so few thermometers”, Mr. Guan said.

He disclosed that what was even more scary to him was that all those who were being tested used the same three thermometers, with nurses having physical contact with travelers. Such a situation is highly risky for the people of Liberia.

The Chinese national hailed Liberians as well as foreigners alike who have cooperated with the testing, but suggested that the limited thermometers being used must be well sanitized to avoid endangering the lives of others.

Another Liberian, Oscar Dolo, who was seen at the checkpoint said, the process was poorly coordinated by the county health authorities.

He added that the process was hampering their free movement from one area to another.

“I came since this morning and spent over two hours at this checkpoint. Those health workers who were to come early were the last to arrive, keeping us here for hours.”

According to Dolo, the process is good but he advised that the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare should handle the process properly to have it well done. He added, “What is not done well is not done at all.”

Speaking to a team of Liberian journalists under the supervision of the IREX and the Liberia Media Center training program, the Registered Nurse (RN) and focus person at the youth friendly center, Gabriel E. Moore, said the process is intended to run a fever test and not to carry out a complete physical test.

Additionally, Mr. Moore said they were given a direct mandate to only carry out a fever test for people crossing over from one county to the other.

“One of the signs of the Ebola virus is fever and so what we are basically doing is to just search for fever and if one has fever we send that person back to his or her community.”

When asked by the team of reporters as to what was the next step if a person is diagnosed with fever, Mr. Moore said, the individual will be sent to his community and if there should be any other measure it would be communicated to the health team.

Responding to the complaints made by passengers and drivers who expressed frustration with spending a night and several hours at the check point, Moore admitted that they arrived at the area late on grounds that their mandate came late.
 
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Red Cross: $6 million for Ebola fight stolen through fraud

November 4 at 10:48 AM

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Fraud by Red Cross workers and others wasted more than $6 million meant to fight the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the organization confirmed Saturday.

The revelations follow an internal investigation of how money was handled during the 2014-2016 epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

The disease erupted in Guinea and quickly spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia. The international aid response was initially slow, and money once it arrived was often disbursed quickly in the rush to purchase supplies and get aid workers into the field.

As much as $2 million disappeared as the result of “likely collusion” between Red Cross staff and employees at a Sierra Leonean bank, the investigation found.
 
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/wo...ak-congo-red-cross-medics-attacked-north-kivu

Medics ATTACKED by people in Ebola-infected village as outbreak spreads

MEDICS have been attacked by villagers while trying to oversee the safe burial of an Ebola victim.

Published 5th October 2018

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Two of the volunteers from the Red Cross were seriously injured in the attack that happened in a community in the North Kivu area of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

It comes as authorities and aid workers in the country desperately try to contain the latest outbreak of the deadly disease.

So far, at least 106 people have died after the first cases were reported in August.

The Red Cross said its workers have faced numerous incidents of anger from people resisting are burials of those who have died from the disease.

When a person dies from Ebola, it is necessary to properly bury their bodies as the corpses are still contagious.

But Congolese tradition is that mourners will often hug and touch the bodies of loved ones when they are laid to rest.
 
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