Link: Ebola Digest Tues 4 Nov
We'll be running these regularly for the time being - the link to the most recent edition of the excellent daily Ebola Digest. Today's article image is a table of cases and deaths per country correct as of yesterday.
There's a huge amount of info in this excellent daily resource and we suggest you check out the source. In the meantime we've reproduced the country-specific section of their news digest below, in the hope it may be of particular interest and use to our readers.
That link again: https://eboladigest.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/ebola-digest-tues-11414.html
REGIONAL SURVEILLANCE
Guinea
Guinea: UNICEF Guinea: Ebola Situation Report, 29 October 2014
Since last week, 114 new cases (91 confirmed) have been noticed, bringing the total cases in Guinea to 1,661 (1,395 confirmed; 204 probable and 62 suspected cases). This week, the new Ebola Transit Center of Forecariah was inaugurated by the Prime Minister. Water facilities in this Transit Center have been installed with UNICEF support. During the last two weeks, in the surrounding areas of Nzérékoré, the epicenter of the epidemic, UNICEF has supported training of 211 traditional healers, 279 transport drivers and taxi-motorbike drivers and 100 health workers from health facilities of the prefecture of Nzérékoré. 76 members of 11 political parties, including the three largest parties in the country, have been sensitized in order to get their involvement in social mobilization.
Guinea: Guinea Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Outbreak (as of 03 Nov. 2014)
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Guinea
Liberia
Inquiry Faults Liberia Force That Fired on Protesters
NYT--Liberian security forces fired with "complete disregard for human life" into crowds of civilians protesting a blanket Ebola quarantine over the summer, killing one teenager and seriously wounding another young man, according to the first independent investigation of the deadly clashes. The findings directly contradict repeated assertions by the security forces, including the American-trained Liberian Army, that soldiers fired shots only into the air to enforce the quarantine of residents, which had been imposed against the advice of international Ebola experts and the government's own health officials.
CDC--As of October 29, 2014, a total of 6,454 Ebola virus disease (Ebola) cases had been reported in Liberia by the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, with 2,609 deaths (1). Although the national strategy for combating the ongoing Ebola epidemic calls for construction of Ebola treatment units (ETUs) in all 15 counties of Liberia, only a limited number are operational, and most of these are within Montserrado County. ETUs are intended to improve medical care delivery to persons whose illnesses meet Ebola case definitions (2), while also allowing for the safe isolation of patients to break chains of transmission in the community. Until additional ETUs are constructed, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare is supporting development of community care centers (CCCs) for isolation of patients who are awaiting Ebola diagnostic test results and for provision of basic care (e.g., oral rehydration salts solutions) to patients confirmed to have Ebola who are awaiting transfer to ETUs.
Liberia: West Africa: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Outbreak (as of 31 Oct. 2014) [EN/FR]
World Health Organization Country: Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone
Liberia: Liberia Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Outbreak (as of 03 Nov. 2014)
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Liberia
Ancient Bassa Town Gets Anti-Ebola Materials
All Africa--One of Liberia's oldest townships, Gluzon Town, over the weekend proudly and for the first time benefitted from pump-buckets, chlorine and soaps to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Gluzon in the Bassa language means under the ;...
Washington Post--As a new treatment center prepares to open in the capital of Monrovia, a downturn in infections offers some hope. Nov. 3, 2014 Michael Dortu is chief of security at a new Ebola treatment center on Ministry of Defense property in Monrovia, Liberia. The facility ;...
Liberia: UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) External Situation Report, 3 November 2014
UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response Country: Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, United States of America KEY POINTS ? There have been 13 567 reported cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) and 4951 deaths. ? A UN worker affected by EVD has been flown from Sierra Leone to France for treatment. ? Two people in Mali are suspected of having EVD after coming into contact with a two year old girl who died of the disease. Key Political and Economic Developments UNMEER SRSG Anthony Banbury returned to the three most affected countries. He met President Alpha Condé, of Guinea who has adopted a national plan to defeat EVD, in alignment with the plan that came out of the planning conference held two weeks ago in Accra, Ghana.
The spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) continues, with the reported death toll nearing 5,000. A total of 13,567 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of EVD have been reported in six affected countries (Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Spain, and the United States of America) and two previously affected countries (Nigeria, Senegal), according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO). There have been 4,951 reported deaths. There is some indication that the spread of EVD may be slowing in Liberia. Speaking on reported drop in the growth of new cases, WHO Assistant Director General Dr. Bruce Aylward noted that there had been a drop in the number of burials in Liberia and no increases in laboratory-confirmed cases.
Malian President upbeat of Ellen's leadership
New Dawn--Malian President Ibrahim Boubaca Keita, says he?s happy about the level of leadership demonstrated by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the fight against the Ebola virus disease, terming it as ?exemplary.?
Sierra Leone
Ebola crisis: A village fights back in Sierra Leone
BBC--One community in a rural area of Sierra Leone has built its own Ebola treatment centre, the BBC's Andrew Harding reports. It is nothing much to look at - a derelict building in rural Sierra Leone surrounded by a couple of tents and a meandering maze of stick and plastic fences. But this enclosure in a village called Gbantama, about four hours drive north of the capital, Freetown, is being hailed as a missing link in the huge, chaotic and often much too slow fight against Ebola.
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Outbreak (as of 03 Nov. 2014)
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Ebola Virus Disease - Situation Report (Sit-Rep) 3 November, 2014
Source: Government of Sierra Leone Country: Sierra Leone
Thousands break Ebola quarantine to find food
(AP) Thousands of people in Sierra Leone are being forced to violate Ebola quarantines to find food because deliveries are not reaching them, aid agencies said.
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Loses Fifth Doctor to Ebola
All Africa--Sierra Leone has lost its fifth local doctor to Ebola. Dr. Godfrey George had driven himself to Freetown after feeling unwell. Sierra Leone's meager health system has just over 100 doctors for its 6 million people.
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone: Ebola Outbreak - GSM Mobile Phone Network Coverage (October 2014)
Source: MapAction Country: Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone: Ebola Outbreak - Cumulative Confirmed Case History (3 Nov 2014)
Sierra Leone Map shows the cumulative confirmed case numbers at monthly intervals for the end of October, end of September and end of August, together with population density information. The population figures are Projected 2014 figures, projected from 2004 census, with data collected at Admin 4 level (Sections). A graph of the cumulative numbers for each district over time is also shown.
Ebola Victims Break Quarantine In Hunt For Food
Aid agencies working with the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) are desperately trying to get food to those being monitored to stop them from leaving clinics and spreading the virus. In Sierra Leone, a government system in place to feed those in ;...
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Emergency Call Center Faces Daily Challenges
In Sierra Leone the number of Ebola cases continues to increase. The Ministry of Health and Sanitation says the country's death toll is now just over 1,000. Since August, a special emergency number, 117, has been used for people to call with any Ebola-related concerns. The call center is overwhelmed with calls daily. Grace Kargobai, who has been working at the call center since August, says that she wanted to help her country as a first responder. ?It is interesting, it is fulfilling, especially with the kind of crisis we are having now, to feel you are a Sierra Leonean and helping people, it is fulfilling for me,? she said. Calls to pick up a dead body or to check into a suspected Ebola case come here hourly. The center used to be based at the World Health Organization office in Freetown. It was moved to a bigger location so it could have more staff. The emergency number used to only exist for expect...
