Liberia: presidential guard quarantined --------------------------------- 18 Sep 2014: (New Dawn Liberia) The elite presidential guard --the Executive Protection Service [EPS], ... is the latest hit by the deadly disease; 57 of its officers and agents are currently being quarantined on suspicion of contracting the virus. Information gathered by this paper point to the fact the active EPS agents were being quarantined for attending the funeral and burial of a colleague reportedly dead as a result of the virus. http://bit.ly/1r8EN5q [Did they touch the body? But if a US soldier were to get EVD and die in West Africa, there could have been plenty of contacts beforehand, even though only properly protected people would have touched his body in the hospital before and after death. - Mod.JW] http://wapo.st/1r8EKqq [Dr] Kent Brantly, 33, was thrust into the international spotlight recently when he became the 1st US doctor infected with Ebola while working at a missionary hospital in Liberia. He recovered after being evacuated and treated in Atlanta [USA]. Now Brantly is working to draw more attention to the worsening outbreak in West Africa. This week [week of 15 Sep 2014], he testified on Capitol Hill and met with President Obama. He also stopped by The Washington Post, where he spoke about his experience and tried to dispel notions about the dangers of working in an EVD ward. Brantly said he suspects he got infected while treating patients in the hospital's emergency room, not while working in the EVD isolation ward...
9/20/2014
50 Liberia Secret Service Agents knocked down by Ebola
Liberia: presidential guard quarantined --------------------------------- 18 Sep 2014: (New Dawn Liberia) The elite presidential guard --the Executive Protection Service [EPS], ... is the latest hit by the deadly disease; 57 of its officers and agents are currently being quarantined on suspicion of contracting the virus. Information gathered by this paper point to the fact the active EPS agents were being quarantined for attending the funeral and burial of a colleague reportedly dead as a result of the virus. http://bit.ly/1r8EN5q [Did they touch the body? But if a US soldier were to get EVD and die in West Africa, there could have been plenty of contacts beforehand, even though only properly protected people would have touched his body in the hospital before and after death. - Mod.JW] http://wapo.st/1r8EKqq [Dr] Kent Brantly, 33, was thrust into the international spotlight recently when he became the 1st US doctor infected with Ebola while working at a missionary hospital in Liberia. He recovered after being evacuated and treated in Atlanta [USA]. Now Brantly is working to draw more attention to the worsening outbreak in West Africa. This week [week of 15 Sep 2014], he testified on Capitol Hill and met with President Obama. He also stopped by The Washington Post, where he spoke about his experience and tried to dispel notions about the dangers of working in an EVD ward. Brantly said he suspects he got infected while treating patients in the hospital's emergency room, not while working in the EVD isolation ward...
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