Showing posts with label Sierra Leone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sierra Leone. Show all posts

Monday, 27 July 2015

Sierra Leone Begins Treating Ebola Patients With Survivors' Plasma



The first donations of plasma from survivors of the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone are being used to treat Ebola patients at the 34 Military Hospital in Freetown, following a lengthy approval process.

World Scientists Fault Who Case Definition On Ebola


British and Sierra Leonean researchers have called to question the norms set down by the World Health Organisation,WHO, on Ebola case definition after they established that it has a specificity of 31.5 percent, and that at least 9 percent of people that develop the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, could be false negatives because they neither exhibited fever symptoms nor report any Ebola risk exposure.

Wednesday, 8 July 2015

EBOLA! Sierra Leone Extends Ebola Curfews Indefinitely


Ebola-hit Sierra Leone said on Wednesday it will extend curfews placed on its worst-affected communities last month until the deadly virus has been eradicated.