Emergency Management

la sécurité intérieure aujourd'hui 9 octobre 2014

par Kylie Bull, rédacteur en chef

les Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) a développé un outil de modélisation dynamique appelé Ebola réponse permettant des estimations des cas prévus au fil du temps, au Libéria et en Sierra Leone.

outil de modélisation de la réponse d'Ebola peut construire des scénarios pour illustrer comment des interventions de prévention et de contrôle peuvent ralentir et finit par arrêter l'épidémie d'Ebola. Ce qui est important, il peut aider à la santé publique et autres planificateurs de rendre des décisions plus éclairées sur les moyens d'intervention d'urgence pour aider à maîtriser l'épidémie. Ce nouvel outil permet d'entrée de données reflétant la situation actuelle sur le terrain dans les pays touchés et les collectivités.

outil de modélisation de la réponse d'Ebola est destiné à aider les administrations locales et les intervenants internationaux génèrent des prévisions à court terme des situations Ebola dans le pays, les districts et les villages. L'outil, sous la forme d'une feuille de calcul Microsoft Excel, doit être rendu disponible gratuitement en ligne.

NEW YORK TIMES          Oct. 3, 2014

DALLAS TEX.      

On Thursday, the hospital, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, released a statement essentially blaming a flaw in its electronic health records system for its decision to send the patient — Thomas E. Duncan, a Liberian national visiting his girlfriend and relatives in the United States — home the first time he visited its emergency room, Sept. 25. It said there were separate “workflows” for doctors and nurses in the records so the doctors did not receive the information that he had come from Africa.

But on Friday evening, the hospital effectively retracted that portion of its statement, saying that “there was no flaw” in its electronic health records system. The hospital said “the patient’s travel history was documented and available to the full care team in the electronic health record (E.H.R.), including within the physician’s workflow.”

19 September 2014 - BBC News

Hundreds of foreign aid workers are in West Africa treating people with Ebola. One of them is Cokie van der Velde who has just flown from the UK to Liberia. She explains why she has left the safety of her home to face the deadly virus.

I was first in Liberia five weeks ago and I believe the situation is now much worse. Back then, our treatment centres had already run out of room and we were starting to put people in corridors.

In the centre, people groan and cry out - the smell of blood, diarrhoea and vomit is awful - unfortunately there is also a very pervading smell of dead bodies.

I can only leave it to your imagination to understand what a pile of bodies smells like after a week in very hot, moist surroundings - it makes you feel sick quite a lot of the time.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29245149

Aryn Baker - Sept. 22, 2014 - time.com

The Free Pentecostal Global Mission Church in the Chickensoup Factory district of Monrovia uses the pulpit to teach about the deadly virus, one sermon at a time

“Lord,” shouts the Reverend Joseph T.S. Menjor into a microphone. “We are tired of this situation. We are calling on you to cast this abomination from our country. Jesus, we want our land to be free of Ebola. Cast out this disease!”

The pastor is leading his people in prayer, but it is not a moment of quiet reflection. No, his congregation is on its feet, swaying to a gospel hymn, eyes closed and hands raised in supplication. At Menjor’s call, the 600 or so congregants of the Free Pentecostal Global Mission Church in the Chickensoup Factory district of Monrovia, Liberia chant a chorus of amens and launch into a cacophony of individual prayers, symbolically casting the evil of Ebola to the ground with repeated downward thrusts of their hands.