Situation Report

A Doctors Without Borders staffer supervises as construction workers complete the new Ebola treatment center on August 17, 2014 near Monrovia, Liberia.  John Moore—Getty Images

doctorswithoutborders.org - August 18, 2014

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) admitted nine patients today into its newly constructed ELWA 3 Ebola Management Center in Monrovia, Liberia, beginning a process of scaling up operations at the 120-bed facility.

An Ebola outbreak continues to rage virtually unchecked in this city of approximately one million people, far exceeding the capacity of the few medical facilities accepting Ebola patients. Much of the city’s health system has shut down over fears of Ebola among staff members and patients, leaving many people without treatment for other conditions.

Ute, un spécialiste de laboratoire des CDC, travaille sur les virus comme Ebola.

CDC.gov - 18 août 2014

Le Test le plus Important en Afrique de l'Ouest

Quand une personne en Afrique de l'Ouest a tout d'un coup une fièvre, comment savez-vous si il est Ebola ou autre chose? quand Ebola un patient s'améliore, comment savez-vous quand cette personne n'est donc plus infectieuse à d'autres?

Pour obtenir des réponses à ces deux questions, vous avez besoin d'un laboratoire équipé de matériel de pointe. Pour obtenir ces urgent besoin de réponses rapidement, ce laboratoire serait idéalement situé à proximité d'un centre de traitement du virus Ebola.

Il semble difficile de construire un tel laboratoire sécuritaire et sophistiqué dans une grande ville – et semble presque impossible dans les régions reculées de l'Afrique où les flambées d'Ebola se produisent – mais CDC a fait pour d'autres éclosions et fait maintenant en Afrique de l'Ouest. CDC mobile laboratoire équipé de la polymérase en temps réel équipement de réaction en chaîne (RT-PCR) déjà sont mis en place à côté de l'Afrique de l'Ouest Ebola traitement centres.

aljazeera.com - 16 Aug 2014 18:20

Move follows appeal to make up for shortage of medical personnel due to doctors' strike over pay.

Nigeria has said it has trained 800 volunteers to battle Ebola as fears rose that the worst-ever outbreak of the deadly disease could spread across Africa's most populous nation.  Authorities in the capital Lagos last week appealed for volunteers to make up for a shortage of medical personnel because of a six-week nationwide doctors' strike over pay.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/08/nigeria-trains-800-volunteers-fight-ebola-2014816164320740296.html

cdc.gov - August 13, 2014

More than 50 CDC experts battling Ebola in Africa

Hundreds of public health professionals working 24/7 in support

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now has more than 50 disease detectives and other highly trained experts battling Ebola on the ground in West Africa – successfully deploying in less than two weeks the surge of help it promised within 30 days.

CDC’s Emergency Operations Center is also at its highest level of alert.  This means more than 350 CDC U.S. staff are working on logistics, communications, analytics, management, and other support functions to support the response 24/7.

“We are fulfilling our promise to the people of West Africa, Americans, and the world, that CDC would quickly ramp up its efforts to help bring the worst Ebola outbreak in history under control,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H.  “We know how to stop Ebola.  It won’t be easy or fast, but working together with our U.S. and international partners and country leadership, together we are doing it.”