Ebola virus

Ebola outbreaks in west Africa

The world Health Organization (WHO) said on
Tuesday ,April 8 2014 that it expected to have to
confront an outbreak of the deadly virus Ebola in
west Africa for the next two to four months.
But the united Nations Agency said it was not
recommending any travel restrictions to Guinea ,
which has a total of 157 suspected and
confirmed cases including 101 deaths or Liberia
which has 21 suspected and confirmed cases
including 10 deaths .
A scientist separates blood cells from plasma cells to isolate any
Ebola RNA in order to test for the virus at the European Mobile
Laboratory in Gueckedou April 3, 2014. Hiccups, say doctors in this
remote corner of Guinea, are the final tell-tale sign of infection by
the Ebola virus that has killed more than 100 people since an
outbreak began this year. Then come profuse bleeding, circulatory
shock and death. In total, 98 people are thought to have died from
the disease in Guinea and 10 more in neighbouring Liberia,
according to aid workers and governments. A market town of
220,000 people near the Liberia and Sierra Leone borders,
Gueckedou's makeshift clinic is on the front line of Guinea's battle
to contain its first outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever, normally
found in Central Africa. Picture taken April 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Misha
Hussain

Health workers teach people about the Ebola virus and
how to prevent infection, in Conakry, Guinea, Monday,
March 31, 2014. Health authorities in Guinea are facing
an "unprecedented epidemic" of Ebola, the
international aid group Doctors Without Borders
warned Monday as the death toll from the disease that
causes severe bleeding reached 78. The outbreak of
Ebola in Guinea poses challenges never seen in
previous outbreaks that involved "more remote
locations as opposed to urban areas," said Doctors
Without Borders. (AP Photo/ Youssouf Bah)



In this photo taken on
Saturday, March 29, 2014,
medical personnel at the
emergency entrance of a
hospital receive suspected
Ebola virus patients in
Conakry, Guinea.
A woman dries bushmeat near a road of the
Yamoussoukro highway March 29, 2014. Bushmeat -
from bats to antelopes, squirrels, porcupines and
monkeys - has long held pride of place on family menus
in West and Central Africa, whether stewed, smoked or
roasted. Experts who have studied the Ebola virus from
its discovery in 1976 in Democratic Republic of Congo,
then Zaire, say its suspected origin - what they call the
reservoir host - is forest bats. Links have also been
made to the carcasses of freshly slaughtered animals
consumed as bushmeat.
In this photo provide by MSF, Medecins Sans Frontieres
(Doctors without Borders), taken on Friday, March 28,
2014, healthcare workers from the organisation
prepare isolation and treatment areas for their Ebola,
hemorrhagic fever operations, in Gueckedou, Guinea
A health worker sprays disinfectant in a house belonging to someone
suspected of coming into contact with Ebola virus in Macenta March 26,
2014 in this picture provided by Plan International.
A view of the isolation block of a hospital where Ebola
victims are being treated in Macenta, Guinea, March 27,
2014.
Workers from Doctors Without Borders unload
emergency medical supplies to deal with an Ebola
outbreak in Conakry, Guinea, March 23, 2014.