Ebola Alert !U.S Records Second Ebola Case
The United States of
America has reportedly recorded another case of Ebola victim in the God’s own
country.
Health
officials revealed that the victim is the second health worker in the U.S state
of Texas who joined in attending to the Thomas Duncan, a Liberian. The
officials declined to disclose the identity of the second health worker.
Health
workers load Ebola patient into an ambulance
The
two cases of the ravaging disease in the United States are both health
officials who treated the late Duncan before he reportedly died last week,
becoming the first person diagnosed with Ebola disease on the U.S soil.
However,
the United Nations’ Ebola mission chief has expressed fears that the world is
lacking behind in the battle to contain Ebola virus from further spread.
Meanwhile,
the World Health Organization,WHO, in its recent reports revealed that no fewer
than 4,447 people have so far died of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, across the
world with most casualties recorded in West African countries like Sierra
Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
According
to BBC, Ebola outbreak started in December 2013 but was confirmed in March,
2014.
Speaking
on Tuesday at a special session of the UN Security Council, Anthony Banbury,
noted that if Ebola was not stopped now, “the world would face an entirely
unprecedented situation for which we do not have a plan.”
However,
President Barack Obama is slated to hold a video conference with British,
French, German and Italian leaders to discuss the Ebola crisis later today
(Wednesday).
It
would be recalled that last weekend, a 26-year-old nurse identified as Nina
Pham, who also contracted Ebola from the index case at a Dallas hospital is
reportedly said to stable, Doctors at the Health Presbyterian hospital
confirmed on Tuesday.
The
WHO defined the outbreak as the “the most severe, acute health emergency
seen in modern times“. The US and UK are among countries to have presented
scanning at airports to check its further spread.
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