Ebola Worrying World

West African ebola plague spread wild and worrisome world. A number of countries strict checking the flow of people at airports, hotels, and locations visited by people infected with ebola. In Jakarta, the Ministry of Health confirms to anticipate the treatment of diseases caused by the Ebola virus.

Anxiety is not only seen in African countries, but also in America, Europe, and even Asia. Taiwan residents began to worry after health authorities to isolate a woman from Nigeria in Taoyuan Hospital, Thursday (9/10), to ensure their health status.

Kompas journalist, Dewi Indriastuti, from Washington DC, USA, reports, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim called for quick action to control an outbreak of ebola. Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea have felt the economic impact. At least 6 million children can not go to school. Without immediate action, Africa's future is threatened.

Yesterday, about 200 janitors cabin at LaGuardia Airport, New York, USA, on strike. They were protesting the lack of protection from Ebola virus threats as they clean up the vomit and a small room on the plane.

Ebola easily spread through body fluids, including vomit. "We have to deal with vomit and did not have enough protection while working, such as gloves," said Antonia Alvarado of Air Serv, as quoted by the Service Employees International Union, the largest union in the US services.

"This nation of fear, residents are also worried. They are afraid because the mortality rate is very high. They are afraid because of the need to learn and understand the facts of the disease, "said US Secretary of Health Sylvia Burwell.

US authorities also tightened inspection at five major airports through which immigrants from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where ebola rooted and raged. At least 26 members of the US House of Representatives also proposed a ban on travel and visa restrictions to the three countries.

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Global anxiety rose after Teresa Romero, La Paz Hospital nurse-Carlos III, Spain, positively contagious ebola after treating two missionaries from Spain who are exposed to Ebola while serving in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Romero was the first patient infected with ebola outside Africa.

Anxiety Americans increased since Thomas Eric Duncan, US men from Liberia, died 10 days after being diagnosed positive ebola in Texas, shortly after arriving from his country.

Macedonia is also in full alert after a Briton died with suspected Ebola suffer. Another British citizen being treated for similar symptoms. Both are staying at a hotel in Skopje, capital of Macedonia. Hotel staff and ambulance crews involved direct contact with them have been isolated.

In Prague, the Czech Republic, a Czech man was treated in hospital isolation room Bulovka because the symptoms of the Ebola virus. According to a spokesman for the hospital, the man recently went to Liberia. Australian authorities on Friday, check out the Red Cross nurse in Cairns 57 years old, suffering from fever after returning from Sierra Leone.

The international community, on Thursday, in a meeting to agree on immediate action to combat Ebola. The meeting was attended by leaders of global organizations, health agencies, non-governmental organizations as well as the head of state of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, to raise global reaction over ebola outbreak.

Some countries in Asia also help handling a crisis in West Africa. Philippine Health Secretary Enrique Ona said the Philippines will send health workers. Help staff and medical equipment are also given China, South Korea, Australia, and Japan.
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Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi, in Jakarta, said Indonesia had anticipated outbreak of ebola. Readiness includes health workers, laboratory, to the hospital. Health workers in referral health facility or entrance states also alerted.

"We are ready. Health facilities, laboratories, medical personnel, and management has been able to handle the patient care, "said Nafsiah.

Laboratories Agency for Health Research and Development (Balitbangkes), which has been accredited with 3 biological safety level (BSL-3)​​, has examined three samples were all negative unexpected ebola. BSL-3 laboratories in Indonesia is the Institute of Human Virology and Cancer Biology (IHVCB), University of Indonesia, Airlangga University Institute of Tropical Diseases, and the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology.

Head Balitbangkes Tjandra Yoga Aditama said it had coordinated with the Director General of Health Efforts to re-inform health workers to always obey safety procedures when dealing with infectious disease patients.

The management of the Ebola disease patient handling is not much different from the treatment of other patients with infectious diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), avian influenza, and the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. Everything requires strict patient isolation. Mode of transmission are different.

Ebola virus transmission to humans occurs through direct contact with body fluids, such as blood, body secretions, and other organs of the patient. In Africa, patients initially infected with the virus from chimpanzees, gorillas, monkeys, and the animals were found sick or dead in the rainforest. The virus then spread to the community resulting in transmission between humans, as happened in Spain.