{UAH} EBOLA IS GOING AFTER THE DOCTORS

 

Ebola virus kills top doctor, infects US doctor

USA TODAY - 39 minutes ago
Larry Copeland, USA TODAY 12:15 p.m. EDT July 27, 2014


An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 670 people in Africa is
now taking a toll on the doctors and health care workers battling the
deadly disease.

An American doctor who has been working in Liberia since October 2013
for the North Carolina-based aid organization Samaritan's Purse is now
receiving intensive medical treatment after he was infected with
Ebola, according to a spokeswoman for the organization.

A government official in Liberia said Sunday that one of that
country's highest-profile doctors has died in what the World Health
Organization says is the largest recorded outbreak of the disease.

Melissa Strickland said Kent Brantly, 33, was in stable condition,
talking with his doctors and working on his computer while being
treated. She cautioned that he is "not out of the woods yet."
Strickland said patients have a better chance of survival if they
receive treatment immediately after being infected, as Brantly did.

Brantly, who is married with two children and is medical director for
the Samaritan's Purse Ebola Consolidated Case Management Center in
Monrovia, is being treated at a Samaritan's Purse isolation center at
ELWA Hospital, according to Strickland.

An Ebola outbreak in the West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone
and Guinea, the largest recorded epidemic of the disease, has caused
more than 670 deaths and more than 1,000 infections, according to the
WHO. Ebola is a severe, often fatal illness with a fatality rate of up
to 90% and is one of the world's most virulent diseases, according to
the WHO. It is transmitted by direct contact with the blood, body
fluids and tissues of infected animals or people.

The first Liberian doctor to die of the disease was identified as
Samuel Brisbane. He was working as a consultant with the internal
medicine unit at the country's largest hospital, the John F. Kennedy
Memorial Medical Center in Monrovia.

Brisbane, who once was a medical adviser to former Liberian President
Charles Taylor, was taken to a treatment center on the outskirts of
the capital after falling ill with Ebola, and died there, said Tolbert
Nyenswah, an assistant health minister.

He said another doctor who had been working in Liberia's central Bong
County also was being treated for Ebola at the same center where
Brisbane died.

The situation "is getting more and more scary," Nyenswah said.

A Ugandan doctor working in Liberia, where an Ebola outbreak has
killed 129 people, died earlier this month. The current outbreak has
claimed the lives of 319 in Guinea and 224 in Sierra Leone.

Last week, the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without
Borders announced that the chief doctor leading the fight against the
Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, Sheik Umar Khan, had contracted the
disease. Three nurses who worked in the same Ebola treatment Center as
Khan, 39, are believed to have died from the disease.

On Friday, the WHO announced that it was opening a Sub-Regional
Outbreak Coordination Centre in Conakry, Guinea, in response to the
outbreak. The center will "consolidate and harmonize the technical
support being provided to West African countries" hit by the disease
and help mobilize resources for the response, the WHO said.

 

 

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