Guinea Resilience System

Brazzaville, 10 October 2014 - The World Health Organization (WHO) and partner organizations meeting in Brazzaville have agreed on a range of core actions to support countries unaffected by Ebola in strengthening their preparedness in the event of an outbreak.

Building on national and international existing preparedness efforts, a set of tools is being developed to help any country to intensify and accelerate their readiness.

One of these tools is a comprehensive checklist of core principles, standards, capacities and practices, which all countries should have or meet. The checklist can be used by countries to assess their level of preparedness, guide their efforts to strengthen themselves and to request assistance. Items on the checklist include infection prevention control, contact tracing, case management, surveillance, laboratory capacity, safe burial, public awareness and community engagement and national legislation and regulation to support country readiness.

“While we rightly focus on stopping the outbreak in affected countries, we should not forget that all other countries are at risk, albeit at varying levels”, said WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo.

wfaa.com - by marjorie Owens - October 13, 2014

DALLAS — A Dallas nurse diagnosed with the Ebola virus over the weekend is a former Texas Christian University student identified by a family member as 26-year-old Nina Pham.

The family reached out to News 8 Monday morning and shared an image of the nurse who grew up in Fort Worth.

A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Pham became infected while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who died from the virus days before the nurse's diagnosis.

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CDC: U.S. doit repenser la façon dont il aborde la lutte contre l'infection Ebola

ASSOCIATED PRESS 13 octobre 2014

Par Connie Cass

DALLAS--tous les hôpitaux doivent savoir comment diagnostiquer Ebola chez les personnes qui ont été en Afrique de l'Ouest et être prêt à isoler un cas suspect, Tom Frieden, directeur des Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a déclaré lundi.

Il a dit que la CDC travaille à améliorer les protections pour les travailleurs de l'hôpital après qu'une infirmière qui prennent soin d'un malade d'Ebola à Dallas est devenu la première personne à être infectés par la maladie à l'intérieur des États-Unis

Nous devons repenser la façon dont nous abordons le contrôle de l'infection Ebola,'' Frieden a déclaré, '' parce que même une seule infection est inacceptable.''

La CDC est le brouillage d'interroger tous les employés de l'hôpital de Dallas, qui pourraient avoir été exposées au patient, un homme libérien qui est tombé malade après avoir voyagé aux États-Unis et est décédé à l'hôpital. Toute personne à risque se fera, dit-il.

THE GUARDIAN                                 Oct, 2014
By Lisa O'Caroll

The first direct flights to resume from the UK to Sierra Leone have been cancelled after the British government revoked Gambia Bird’s recently granted permit because of fears over Ebola.

The Department of Transport cited the deteriorating public health situation for the revocation when it notified the German-owned airline on Friday evening.

The airline said it would appeal against the decision, especially as its licence was only granted on 26 September.

Cuban health workers unload medical supplies at Freetown's airport to help fight Ebola in Sierra Leone. Charities say the UK flight decision closes a vital humanitarian corrider to the country. Photograph: Florian Plaucheur/AFP/Getty Images

The decision closed what charities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) said was a vital humanitarian corridor to Sierra Leone, which is struggling to cope with the Ebola outbreak.

Médecins sans Frontières...criticised the decision. It said if the government was going to stop commercial airlines flying to the region it would have to put in place state alternatives.

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