There was a brief celebration. Hours after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa on Thursday, Sierra Leone has reported a new case of the disease at WHO. At 22, the woman, who had died earlier in the week, had tested positive for the virus. WHO confirmed the case Friday. "A joint team of local authorities, WHO and partners are studying the origin of the case, identifying contacts, and initiate control measures to prevent transmission," WHO said in a statement .
The details of the case are troubling. The young woman was a student at Lunsar, a town in the district of Port Loko, said Christopher Dye of the WHO. Around Christmas, she traveled from there to the Kambia district, near the border with Guinea, and stayed there until January 6. "We suspect that was the time of onset of the disease," said Dye. "He became ill, she decided to go home, and the family home is in Tonkalili." The young woman went to the hospital, but was not recognized as a case of Ebola. "It gets progressively worse and died. The body preparation process for the funeral and the burial itself were done unsafely," said Dye. "This is of course not what we would have liked to see happen in the light of all the Ebola cases we had."
Accordingly, there are a number of people who came in contact with women who are at high risk of being infected by the Ebola virus. There were 27 contacts listed Thursday night, said Dye. "But I would certainly expect that figure to be revised upwards." A vaccine produced by Merck that protected people from the deadly virus in a trial in Guinea last year may be granted to such persons and their contacts. "The plan is to ring vaccination with this vaccine," said Dye. "Obviously, it must be done very quickly. There is vaccine available and there is support for vaccination teams in Guinea, some will cross the border to assist health authorities in Sierra Leone perform the vaccinations. "
Even as leaders of WHO said Thursday that for the first time in 2 years, West Africa was free of Ebola transmission, they had warned against the risk of outbreaks. Because ebolavirus can persist in some tissues and body fluids surviving for months, there is a risk they can transmit the virus to others, for example, through unprotected sex. it also seems a likely explanation in the new case, said Vincent Munster, a virologist at Rocky Mountain Laboratories of the uS National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases in Hamilton, Montana. "I think we must remain vigilant for a while."
The new case was discovered because the authorities in Sierra Leone Swab regularly corpses for Ebola. This case was not recognized earlier and women had a hazardous landfill point of weaknesses in the system, however, says Dye. "We are really concerned about these things and it is a huge disappointment." possible Ebola patients testing should be done just as effectively as the unclogging of the bodies, he said.
Sierra Leone was declared free of Ebola, November 7, 2015, and was in a 0-day period of increased surveillance. media reports that the woman who died of Ebola had gone to the hospital and sent the call to the house in question the way hospitals are ready in West Africa to treat the virus, even after the largest Ebola outbreak on record.
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