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Ebola Outbreak Update - Sept. 8, 2015 - National Ebola Response Centre - Sierra Leone
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submitted by Gavin Macgregor-Skinner
Ebola Outbreak update dated Sep 8 from the National Ebola Response Centre in Sierra Leone.
The four new Sierra Leone cases are in Sella Kaffta, a village in Kambia district in the northwest part of the country on Guinea's border. All the newly reported patients had contact with a 67-year-old woman whose death from Ebola was announced last week. After she died her body was washed before burial. There are 50 high-risk close contacts being monitored. Experimental ring vaccine campaign by WHO began Sep 4 and the newly diagnosed Ebola patients were not among the 116 people who received post-exposure VSV-EBOV vaccine.
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Update
http://health.gov.sl/?p=617
Ebola Virus Disease – Situation Report
http://health.gov.sl/?p=537
Ministry of Health and Sanitation - The Republic of Sierra Leone
http://health.gov.sl
National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) - Sierra Leone
http://www.nerc.sl
National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) - Sierra Leone - Evening Briefings
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WHO - Stopping Ebola: collaboration to care for a village
who.int - September 2015
In late August 2015, as Sierra Leone anxiously counted each day that passed with no new confirmed Ebola cases, a woman fell ill with fever, then diarrhoea and vomiting in Sella Kafta village, Tonko Limba chiefdom, Kambia. Her family cared for her at home and, though her symptoms got worse, no one called the Ebola hotline. She was not tested for Ebola virus until after she died, when the Safe and Dignified Burial team were called to bury her and, following surveillance protocols, took a swab. That swab tested positive for Ebola virus disease, bitterly disappointing a country hoping to see an end of Ebola transmission and triggering a rapid response by WHO and partners.
Teams of contact tracers, surveillance experts and community engagement specialists were on standby, ready to go to wherever they were needed to stop any further transmission. The district authorities decided to quarantine the entire village of close to 1000 people for 21 days. Different organizations provided food, water, supplies, social support, educational support for children, even solar powered telephones and assistance with farms so that crops were not left to rot during the growing season. Confirmation of this new case has also set in motion the first "ring vaccination" use of the experimental Ebola vaccine in Sierra Leone.
CLICK HERE - in pictures are a few examples of what it takes to close down Ebola virus transmission.