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Humanitarian Gesture For Ebola Survivors Takes Political Trend

 

Monrovia - What was, at the beginning, intended as a humanitarian gesture from Rev. Trevor Cockings of “His Church” in the UK, for survivors of the Ebola Virus Disease through the office of vice President Joseph Boakai, has become political with National Legislature Movement for the Election of Boakai (NALEMBO) using it to score political capital among staff at the Legislature.

Three containers containing 17,010 cases of couscous while the other three contained 5,139 cases of tuna fish were made available by His Church, a UK based church, for survivors of Ebola and school going children.

On Thursday March 30, 2016, a memo was posted on the walls of the Capitol and at every entrance of the building, informing all staff of the building about a planned distribution of Tuna fish from the office of Vice President Joseph Boakai.

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As Artemisinin defeats malaria… Chinese traditional medicine sets for international market

Chinese traditional medicines over the years had been used to heal many sicknesses across the world with particular reference to Africa and Asia from the 1960’s to date.
China’s medical cooperation in Africa started in Algeria in 1963 as a call from the Algerian government for international medical assistance and extended to other countries including Sierra Leone which benefited from the first Chinese Medical Team (CMT) in March 1973 but were withdrawn in 1993 as a result of the war and re-dispatched in December 2002.
Over the years, these CMT have been curing various sicknesses without any form of international recognition until late 2015 when the first 85 year old Chinese female scientist, Professor Tu You you, was awarded in Sweden ‘the 2015 Noble Prize in Medicine’ for her pi

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94 Years old American Doctor going to Sierra Leone for help to Ebola survivors

A 94-year-old Minnesota ophthalmologist doctor Lowell Gess who worked at a Sierra Leone clinic during the peak of the Ebola crisis last year has become an unlikely key player in West Africa’s response to a lingering symptom in patients seemingly cured of the deadly virus. And now, the 94-year-old eye doctor is heading back to Africa for a meeting of minds, as medical experts brainstorm on how to tackle the ongoing problem.

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Two Years Later, Ebola Is a Ticking Time Bomb

Ebola survivors could be carrying live Ebola virus in their eyes. Many of them are going blind, but in fear of the epidemic's resurgence, hardly anyone is doing anything about it.

One morning, in Atlanta, Georgia, Ebola survivor and infectious disease physician Ian Crozier walked up to his bathroom mirror to brush his teeth and did a double take. His formerly blue left eye had turned green.

He’d been experiencing strange ophthalmological symptoms for weeks, and a diagnostic test revealed the culprit: the Ebola virus, relentlessly stalking him. Though undetectable in his blood, the virus had been squatting for months in the anterior chamber of the eye, replicating without spurring an immune response. Now, Crozier was losing his vision.

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CAN SIERRA LEONE’S ECONOMY GROW IN SPITE OF THESE INTERTWINING FACTORS?

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released a report on the economic realities of Sierra Leone, saying that the country’s citizens will experience a 4.3 percent growth in their economy. However, it is easy to express some doubt over this analysis, after all, the country is just recovering from the effects and economic shocks caused by the Ebola virus disease outbreak in 2013. The IMF team that determined the economic growth of the country in 2016 was led by John Wakeman-Linn during their visit to Freetown from March 15 to 29, 2016.

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Ebola and Zika epidemics are driven by pathologies of society

 

This article is a foundation essay. These are longer than usual and take a wider look at a key issue affecting society.

The global health threats posed by recent viral epidemics, such as avian flu, H1N1Ebola andZika, have been happening too frequently to be dismissed as coincidental.

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Months After 2014 Outbreak Ends, Ebola Flares Up in Guinea

At least five people have died since 29 February 2016 due to a new flare up of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Guinea [1]. The first two confirmed cases of the virus were detected in the village of Korokpara and involved a mother and her five-year-old son. These are the first cases of Ebola in Guinea since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the country free of the disease in December 2015. This declaration came two years after an outbreak that began in 2013 killed approximately 2,500 people in Guinea and over 11,000 in West Africa [2]. The WHO had warned that Guinea, as well as the neighboring countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone, are at risk for ongoing smaller outbreaks due to persistence of the virus in some previously infected individuals [3]. Guinea’s 90-day heightened surveillance period was set to end in late March [4].

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UN declares Ebola public health emergency over; urges 'high vigilance' against flare-ups

 

29 March 2016 – The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today said West Africa's Ebola outbreak no longer constitutes an international public health threat, declaring that the 20-month global emergency response is over but stressing that a “high level of vigilance” must be maintained.

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