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At least 1,201 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have been infected by what is believed to be Ebola virus since its symptoms were first observed in March, according to the World Health Organization. 672 of them have died. That s a 55% percent mortality rate.
Patrick Sawyer, a naturalized American citizen who worked in Liberia, had stopped in Nigeria for a conference but died before he could board a plane home to the U.S. He s the first American to die in the latest outbreak, though several other U.S. aid workers in Liberia have also contracted Ebola and are being treated.
It is unknown whether Sawyer was displaying symptoms of Ebola before he flew from Monrovia, Liberia s capital, to Ghana and then to Togo to switch planes to fly to Lagos. His Minnesota-based widow, Decontee Sawyer, told CNN that he had cared for his Ebola-stricken sister in Liberia, though she said he didn t know at the time that she had the virus. When he arrived vacation rentals in oregon in Nigeria he told officials that he had no direct contact with anyone who had Ebola.
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When I left Conakry (Guinea s capital), they took my temperature at the airport and asked me to fill out a questionnaire, and that was really about it, said Gupta. If I had been exposed for whatever reason and it was 21 days later before I got sick, there was nothing that would have prevented me from getting on that plane.
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Serious viruses like Ebola may be just a plane ride away from reaching the developed world, according to Marty Cetron of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but it is unlikely the virus would spread on a plane unless a passenger were to come into contact with a sick person s bodily fluids.
The CDC has sent guidance to American air carriers on how to identify and deal with passengers displaying Ebola symptoms and how they should disinfect aircraft after an infected passenger leaves a plane.
Airline carriers, vacation rentals in oregon crew members, and airports can be very important partners in that front line, Cetron told CNN. Being educated, knowing the symptoms, recognizing what to do, having a response protocol, knowing who to call those are really really important parts of the global containment strategies to deal with threats like this.
Ebola patients are being isolated by health officials in Western Africa, and those who have come into contact with them are being told to monitor their temperatures. The family of a second infected American aid worker had been living with him in Liberia, but they left before he started showing symptoms. While it s unlikely they contracted Ebola, the CDC is keeping the family on a 21-day fever watch.
The president of Liberia has closed most of the borders with neighboring countries, and the few points of entry that are still open will have Ebola testing centers. The president also placed restrictions on public gatherings and ordered hotels, restaurants and other entertainment venues to play a five-minute video on Ebola safety.
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The Ebola virus causes viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF), which according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), refers to a group of viruses that affect multiple organ systems in the body and are often accompanied by bleeding.
There has been a solitary case of Ivory Coast Ebola. This subtype was discovered when a researcher studying wild chimpanzees became ill in 1994 after an autopsy on one of the animals. The researcher recovered.
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MSF says while the virus is believed to be able to survive for some days in liquid outside an infected organism, it is fragile and chlorine disinfection, heat, direct sunlight, soaps and detergents can kill it.
People who become sick with it almost always know how they got sick: because they looked after someone in their family who was very sick who had diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding or because they were health staff who had a lot of contact with a sick patient, she says.
According to the CDC, the most deadly outbreak was the 1976 outbreak in then Zaire, when 280 of 318 infected people died. In 2000, there were 425 cases of Ebola Sudan in Uganda, which resulted in 224 fatalities.
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