Nigeria’s Actions Seem to Contain Ebola Outbreak

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/health/ebola-outbreak-in-nigeria-appears-to-be-over.html

the epidemic rages out of control in three nations only a few hundred miles away, Nigeria is the only country to have beaten back an outbreak with the potential to harm many victims in a city with vast, teeming slums.

“For those who say it’s hopeless, this is an antidote — you can control Ebola,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the C.D.C.

Although officials are pleased that success was achieved in a country of 177 million that is a major transport and business hub — and whose largest city, Lagos, has 21 million people — the lessons here are not easily applicable to the countries at the epicenter: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Public health officials in those countries remain overwhelmed by the scale of the outbreak and are desperate for additional international assistance.

Nigeria’s outbreak grew from a single airport case, while in the three other countries the disease smoldered for months in remote rain-forest provinces and spread widely before a serious response was mounted.



Ebola, Dr. Frieden said, “won’t blow over — you have to make a rapid, intense effort.”

While the danger in Nigeria is not over, the health minister, Dr. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said in a telephone interview that his country was now better prepared, with six laboratories able to make diagnoses and response teams and isolation wards ready in every major state.

[Barack_America]

1. I guess this isn't what people want to hear.

I'm very relieved to hear it. I'm also glad to hear the incidence in Senegal did not spread beyond patient zero.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. nope. I would have thought DU would be happy to hear good news about an African country

[Barack_America]

5. Come here often?

[malaise]

6. It is great news

Rec

[Marrah_G]

3. That is great news.

[Hutzpa]

4. Great!!

that they've been able to control the spread of the disease, but lets hold off on the stroking of egos. This is more deeper than we were led to believe.