The World Health Organization defended Acting Health Secretary Janet Garin, saying that personal protective equipment should be worn only when in close contact with Ebola patients.
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DOH has three months supply of protective gear against Ebola, Palace says
MANILA, Nov 15 — Malacañang said the Department of Health (DOH) has a stockpile of protective equipment sufficient for three months in case the country has a confirmed case of Ebola fever. “‘Yung three months po na ‘yon, marami hong suits ‘yon, dahil tandaan natin, paggamit ‘nung isang gear, ng isang PPE (personal protective equipment), once… You use it only once. So meron tayong stockpile na good for three months,” Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said […]
Mali tries to trace 343 contacts in second Ebola wave
(Reuters) – Mali is trying to trace as many as 343 people linked to confirmed and probable Ebola victims in an effort to control its second Ebola outbreak, health officials said on Friday. An initial batch of contacts linked to a 2-year-old from Guinea who died of Ebola last month were close to the end of their 21-day quarantine period when Mali confirmed a second, separate batch of cases this week. There have been at […]
Ebola toll rises, but Liberia’s is revised lower – WHO
(Reuters) – At least 5,177 people are known to have died in the world’s worst recorded Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization said on Friday, an increase of 17 since its last update on Wednesday. The total of 14,413 cases in eight countries includes 1,187 deaths in Sierra Leone, 1,166 in Guinea and 2,812 in Liberia. The Liberian toll has been revised downwards from 2,836 because of reclassification, the WHO said.
Malacañang ensures supply of protective gear against Ebola
Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said that the country is ready for Ebola, adding that the Philippines has an adequate supply of protective gear.
DOH says one of the Filipino peacekeepers from Liberia has fever
(Eagle News Service) — The Department of Health said that one of the Filipino peacekeepers who recently came home from Liberia is suffering from high fever and had to be transferred to an isolation room after his temperature reached 39.6 degrees Celsius. Acting Health Secretary Janette Garin said the soldier is also suffering from chills. She said that the peacekeeper might be suffering from malaria, or even ordinary flu, and not the dreaded Ebola virus. […]
Family members welcome UN Filipino peacekeepers from Liberia
(Reuters) — More than 100 Philippine peacekeepers arrived at an airbase in Manila on Wednesday (November 12) after staying for almost a year in Liberia. Family members were not allowed contact with the Filipino soldiers and had to watch their arrival in front of monitors set up inside the air force museum, which was around a kilometre away from the peacekeepers. Social workers from the Health Department assisted in debriefing the families with a psycho-social session to help them understand […]
Exclusive: Scientists tell U.S. – find recipe for Ebola cure in survivors’ blood
(Reuters) – A group of scientists including three Nobel laureates in medicine has proposed that U.S. health officials chart a new path to developing Ebola drugs and vaccines by harnessing antibodies produced by survivors of the deadly outbreak. The proposal builds on the use of “convalescent serum,” or survivors’ blood, which has been given to at least four U.S. Ebola patients who then recovered from the virus. It is based on an approach called passive […]
Texas nurse, now free of Ebola, defends her work and travels
BY SUSAN HEAVEY (Reuters) – One of the Texas nurses who helped treat a Liberian man with Ebola last month defended her decision to fly after that, saying she had not been barred from traveling and felt normal during her trip. In televised interviews on Thursday, Amber Vinson, 29, also said she had received little training in handling patients with the virus that has ravaged West Africa, and had no experience with the protective gear needed […]
DFA has no plans to cancel visas of Filipinos in Ebola-affected countries
The Department of Foreign Affairs have no plans to cancel the visas of Filipinos in countries affected by the Ebola, following the cancellation of visas done by Canada and Australia.
Rapid Response Team against Ebola formed
Doctors and health workers formed rapid response teams that will be sent to remote areas if ever the Ebola virus enters the country.
Bike-riding nurse defies Ebola quarantine
BY JOSEPH AX AND JEFF MASON (Reuters) – A nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone but has tested negative for the virus went for a bike ride on Thursday, defying Maine’s order that she be quarantined in her home and setting up a legal collision with Governor Paul LePage. Attorneys for Kaci Hickox, 33, said they had not yet been served with a court order to enforce the 21-day quarantine – matching the virus’s […]
