October 25, 2014

Mali sixth African country affected by ebola

Bamako, Mali - Mali ensuring first tularan ebola, Thursday, thus becoming the sixth state untouched West African history's worst outbreak of dengue fever, which has killed almost 4,900 people.

Mali's Health Minister, Ousmane Kone, state television said, patients in the western city, Kayes, it is a two-year-old girl, who had just arrived from neighboring Guinea, where ebola begins.


"The condition of the girl, according to our service, improved handling thanks to the quick," the minister told state television.

A health ministry official, who asked not to be named, said the girl's mother died in Guinea a few weeks ago and the baby was taken by relatives to the Mali capital of Bamako, where he stayed for 10 days in the environment Bagadadji before heading to Kayes.

A ministry statement said the girl, who comes from the city of Guinea, Kissidougou, received at the Hospital Fousseyni Daou Kayes on Wednesday night, where he was immediately tested for Ebola.

People who come in contact with patients in the Kayes have also been identified and placed under surveillance, said the minister. But he appealed to anyone who believes they may have contact with the girl to move forward, inform yourself.

A large number of deaths and nearly 10,000 cases of the disease has spread in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The outbreak also spread to smaller Senegal and Nigeria, Africa's most populous, but they have been declared Ebola-free by the WHO.


Official figures are known based on the report and the actual death toll may be three times as much, according to the WHO this week.

A completely separate outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central Africa, also seems to have been resolved.

Tips to avoid Ebola

1. Avoid direct contact with Ebola patients, because the virus is spread through contaminated body fluids.

2. Clothing 3. Use eye protection and medical waste to be burned and any medical equipment that needs to be kept should be sterilized.

4. People who are infected with the Ebola virus had to abstain from sexual activity or to use a condom for three months.

Outbreaks of Ebola disease (EVD); (a) The symptoms are high fever, bleeding and damage to the central nervous system, (b) Spread by bodily fluids, such as blood and saliva, (c) The number of casualties could reach 90 percent, but what happens today is 70 percent .

4. The incubation period is two to 21 days.

5. There is no cure or vaccine healer

6. Support rehydration treatment as patients with diarrhea and vomiting can help recovery

7. Fruit bats of the family petropodiae, considered to be the natural parent of Ebola.

Doctors in New York are diagnosed positive Ebola

The doctor from New York who recently traveled to the West African nation of Guinea, who contracted Ebola, has been positively diagnosed tersedang virus, officials said New York.

Doctor Craig Spencer, who worked for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), comes with a fever on Thursday.

He was the first case diagnosed in New York, the largest city in the United States.

More than 4,800 people died from Ebola, especially in Liberia, and Sierra Leone Geneva, since March.

Spencer fell ill with fever and diarrhea on Thursday and was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was immediately placed into the isolation room, officials said.

The health department officials took to the streets of the town to track their contacts and identify those at risk of contracting the disease from Spencer.

Ebola patients are infected and have no symptoms of the disease that moves through the body fluids, said the expert.

Spencer was the fourth person diagnosed positive Ebola in the United States.

Ebola is diagnosed first caught at the locality Liberia and traveled to Dallas and Texas, before he was exposed to the symptoms. And he died on 8 October 2014.

Two nurses who cared for him in Dallas and then participate contracted the disease and recovered on Vaccine Research.

Meanwhile on Thursday, the West African nation of Mali confirmed cases of Ebola in the country's first of a two-year-old girl recently returned from Geneva.

The mother of the child died in Geneva a couple of weeks ago and the child is taken relative to Mali, said the Minister of Health as reported by Reuters.

Mali is currently the sixth West African countries affected by Ebola, in which the health organization WHO declared that Nigeria and Senegal declared free of Ebola virus.

Separately, the WHO has identified at least two promising experimental vaccine that is trusted.

At a meeting in Geneva, the PNB-owned organization said that it takes several tests to enhance the vaccine until the end of December.

WHO said that of 443 health workers who contracted with Ebola, 244 of whom died.

More Women than Men's Longevity

Some studies claim that women have a higher life expectancy than men. That is, women tend to be more longevity. Why is that?

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that life expectancy in the US is high. There were dancing sau statement that a woman born in 2012 can expect to live 81.2 years. It's about 5 years longer than men who were born in the same year, the possibility of life only guessing until the age of 76.4 years.

"Biologically and sociologically, men are more adversely from starting when they were in the womb and influential at the time of his death," said Dr. Marianne Legato, professor of Emerita of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University College of Pshycians and Surgeons (CDC ), and director of the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine.

Here are some reasons why women live longer than men as summarized from Fox News and was written on Saturday (10/25/2014):