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Fri, 2014-10-10 13:16 — mike kraft

MOTHER JONES 10 octobre 2014

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LAGOS--succès du Nigéria à freiner l'épidémie pourrait avoir des implications pour d'autres pays, y compris aux États-Unis. Que les de pourquoi les Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) a envoyé une équipe au pays cette semaine à apprendre ce qui se passait juste.

Alors, comment les autorités sanitaires locales et internationales a fait freiner Ebola au Nigeria alors que les infections ont continué d'augmenter considérablement au Libéria, en Sierra Leone et Guinée?

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/nigeria-ebola-cdc

avertissement An Ebola à l'Aéroport Murtala Muhammed de Lagos Sunday Alamba/AP

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Fri, 2014-10-10 16:07 — mike kraft

THE GUARDIAN                                      Oct. 10, 2014

The key in the whole system approach to beating the war on Ebola is  contact tracing, sccording to Dr. Gavin MacGregor-Skinner, who helped with the Ebola response in Nigeria with the Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation. "The key is to find all the people that patient had direct close contact with."

In Nigeria, a list of 281 people came from its single patient, MacGregor-Skinner said in an interview with the Guardian. Every one of those individuals had to provide health authorities twice-a-day updates about their well-being, often through methods like text-messaging. Anyone who didn't feel well or failed to respond was checked on, either through a neighborhood network or health workers.

Nigeria took a "whole community approach," with everyone from military officials to church elders in the same room, discussing how to handle the response to the virus, MacGregor-Skinner said.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/ebola-what-europe-and-us-can-learn-from-nigeria-in-containing-the-virus-9780273.html

 

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