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Medical experts from the United States are due in Nigeria
anytime soon to study how the country was able to manage and contain the spread
of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD.
Recall that Ebola was brought into the country by a Liberian called
Patrick Sawyer on July 20. Sawyer, who later died a couple of days after, had
already infected some medical personnel in the hospital where he was being
treated with the virus.
According to the United States Centre for Disease Control,
CDC, “Nigeria’s first reported case of Ebola surfaced July 20, when Patrick
Sawyer landed in Lagos from Liberia and exposed 72 other passengers to the
virus. Nigeria’s Health officials quickly issued notifications and tracked
everybody who may have been in contact with Sawyer.
“Nigeria also established an Ebola
Incident Management Center to handle the potential outbreak and developed a
staffing plan that executed a social mobilization strategy that reached more
than 26,000 households of people living around the contacts of Ebola patients.”
The decision of the United States Government is based on the
first reported case of the virus in the country. The United States recorded its
first Ebola case two days ago when a man who travelled from Liberia brought it
into the country.
Spokesperson of the Texas Health
Presbyterian said the patient had walked into a Dallas emergency room on
September 26, without knowing that he contacted the deadly virus and left after
he was treated. He then returned to the facility on September 28 where it was
determined he likely had Ebola and was isolated. He tested positive Tuesday,
health officials said.
Following the lapse on the part of
the hospital officials, questions are being asked amid panic across the
country. The CDC has thus advised that all medical facilities should ask for
patients with symptoms consistent with Ebola for their travel history.
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