Canada - Man in Brampton, Ont. being treated for Ebola-like symptoms

Canada - Man in Brampton, Ont. being treated for Ebola-like symptoms.(NAPO).

A man from Brampton, Ontario is being treated for Ebola-like symptoms after travelling to West Africa but doctors are warning the public not to jump to conclusions, as the presence of Ebola has not been confirmed.

Public health officials said the man was admitted to the Brampton Civic hospital Friday, where he is being kept in isolation. The patient frequently travels to Nigeria, one of the areas hardest hit by the outbreak.

Dr. Eileen de Villa, a medical officer with the Region of Peel, stressed the patient has not officially be diagnosed with Ebola and the measures being taken are strictly precautionary, adding that the patient's symptoms could be the result of several diseases.

"I am aware that we are currently testing a patient who recently travelled from West Africa. Initial signs and symptoms of Ebola are similar to many more common diseases," Ontario Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins said in a release Friday night.

"One such disease relevant to African travel is malaria. There are currently no confirmed cases of Ebola in Ontario."

Hoskins said he is in close contact with the chief medical officer of health and they are closely managing the situation.

Alison McGeer, a microbiologist and infectious disease consultant at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, said that "although it feels odd," seeing the precautions currently being taken at Brampton Civic should reassure Canadians.

"It’s unlikely that we’re going to see cases of Ebola virus that come to Canada," McGreer told CBC News. "But it’s important that we are precautionary about it, that we have systems in place to detect people.

"And the people those systems are going to detect are people who’ve travelled, probably not even to high risk areas in those countries, but to those countries and who now have malaria or influenza or one of the many other diseases that can give you a fever."

Ebola: Official MSF response to WHO declaring epidemic an "extraordinary event"..... Talk is cheap.

Ebola: Official MSF response to WHO declaring epidemic an "extraordinary event"..... Talk is cheap.HT: Crof.

Via MSF: Ebola: Official MSF response to WHO declaring epidemic an "extraordinary event". Excerpt:

In a statement released today, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that West Africa's Ebola epidemic is an "extraordinary event" and now constitutes an international health risk. 

"A coordinated international response is deemed essential to stop and reverse the international spread of Ebola," the WHO said in a statement after a two-day meeting of its emergency committee on Ebola. 

MSF reaction to WHO Ebola statement 

In response, Dr Bart Janssens, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Director of Operations said: 

“Declaring Ebola an international public health emergency shows how seriously WHO is taking the current outbreak but statements won’t save lives 

“Now we need this statement to translate into immediate action on the ground. For weeks, MSF has been repeating that a massive medical, epidemiological and public health response is desperately needed to saves lives and reverse the course of the epidemic. 

“Lives are being lost because the response is too slow. 

“Countries possessing necessary capacities must immediately dispatch available infectious disease experts and disaster relief assets to the region. 

“It is clear the epidemic will not be contained without a massive deployment on the ground from these states. 

“In concrete terms, all of the following need to be radically scaled up: medical care, training of health staff, infection control, contact tracing, epidemiological surveillance, alert and referral systems, community mobilisation and education. 

“MSF currently has 66 international and 610 national staff responding to the crisis in the three affected countries. All our Ebola experts are mobilised, we simply cannot do more.”

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THEN WORDS! 

First Ebola patient in Europe , it's NOT AIRBORNE WE JUST LOVE WEARING BREATHING APPARATUS!

First Ebola patient in Europe , it's NOT AIRBORNE WE JUST LOVE WEARING BREATHING APPARATUS! (Bild). [Google Translate].

A Spanish Airbus military machine with the 75-year-old Catholic priest on board landed at the Air Force Base Torrejón de Ardoz, such as the Ministry of Defence in Madrid announced.

On board the Airbus A310 equipped with medical facilities and a nun from Guinea with spanish passport. She had, like the missionary at St. Joseph's Hospital worked in Liberia's capital Monrovia.

In her far no Ebola infection was diagnosed. Nevertheless, it is also in the Madrid Hospital Carlos III. be examined and treated if necessary. The hospital specializes in tropical diseases.

At least every second Ebola patient dies. There is no cure for the virus - at least none that is already available on the market. The number of deaths rise: Nearly 1,000 people died of the disease in 1700 have become infected.

Experts said so far, there is no reason to panic - now these messages: The US-disease CDC releases the highest alert level from.Full story here.

Ebola transmission by aerosols confirmed: virus survives for days outside infected hosts http://t.co/NDg6oT5TNW
— Martin Hume (@martinhume) August 6, 2014

As clearly explained by the Public Health Agency of Canada: (3)

"INFECTIOUS DOSE: 1 - 10 aerosolized organisms are sufficient to cause infection in humans."

Ebola, you see, can "ride" on aerosolized particles of blood, mucous and other body fluids. Someone sneezing, for example, can cause Ebola viruses to be aerosolized where they land on other people's hands or faces. It only takes one virus entering the corner of your eye (or the corner of your mouth) to set off a full-blown infection.

In fact, a 2012 BBC article entitled "Growing concerns over 'in the air' transmission of Ebola" states: (3)

Canadian scientists have shown that the deadliest form of the ebola virus could be transmitted by air between species. In experiments, they demonstrated that the virus was transmitted from pigs to monkeys without any direct contact between them. In their experiments, the pigs carrying the virus were housed in pens with the monkeys in close proximity but separated by a wire barrier. After eight days, some of the macaques were showing clinical signs typical of ebola and were euthanised.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/046276_Ebola_aerosol_transmission_infectious_disease.html#ixzz39hojyyf5