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How Did Nigeria Quash Its Ebola Outbreak So Quickly?
Scientific American ^ | October 18, 2014 | Katherine Harmon Courage

Posted on 10/18/2014 3:30:26 PM PDT by Veto!

What we can learn from the boot leather, organization and quick response times that stopped Ebola from spreading in this African nation ……………

…….the rapid action after Nigeria's index patient was diagnosed helped keep the outbreak from spreading more widely. "In contrast the initial outbreak in Guinea remained undetected for several weeks," they wrote. "This detection delay facilitated the transnational spread of the virus to Sierra Leone and Liberia while difficulties and at times inability to track and contain infectious individuals compounded the situation and resulted in an as yet uncontrolled epidemic in these countries."

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: diligence; ebola; ebolaoutbreak; nigeria; publichealth; safety
From the top down, Nigeria's officials figured it out, then did it. Maybe we should invite their Minister of Health to replace Friedan.
1 posted on 10/18/2014 3:30:26 PM PDT by Veto!
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To: Veto!

Very simple, they wanted and had the resolve to do it.
This”president” wants it here


2 posted on 10/18/2014 3:34:33 PM PDT by Kakaze (I want The Republic back !)
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To: Veto!

Very simple, they wanted and had the resolve to do it.
This”president” wants it here


3 posted on 10/18/2014 3:34:40 PM PDT by Kakaze (I want The Republic back !)
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To: Veto!

“If” they suppressed it. I hope they did.

My question is how did they act so efficiently on this, and have such a hard time with Boko Haram?


4 posted on 10/18/2014 3:38:44 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Nigeria acted in a cruel, inhumane, politically incorrect manner. Efficient and effective isolation. Something the American left does not have the stomach to do.
5 posted on 10/18/2014 3:45:33 PM PDT by buckalfa (Long time caller --- first time listener.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
My question is how did they act so efficiently on this, and have such a hard time with Boko Haram?

Good question. The health people are in a different department of the government, apparently. Perhaps there's more to it. Perhaps its a muslim thing.

6 posted on 10/18/2014 3:47:22 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Veto!
They thought, what would the Kenyan do?

And then they did the opposite.

7 posted on 10/18/2014 3:50:36 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Veto!

Africans doing jobs the Halfrican won’t do.


8 posted on 10/18/2014 4:06:59 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Veto!

They had 20 infected and 9 dead from the one patient.

We are still ahead of that curve.


9 posted on 10/18/2014 4:08:00 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: Veto!

They also figured that they would not be able to collect on all of that internet money their prince is collecting if they are all dead.


10 posted on 10/18/2014 4:25:15 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Veto!

Very simple. They don’t have President Obola — we do.


11 posted on 10/18/2014 5:44:28 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

They aren’t run by liberal democrats in Washington!


12 posted on 10/18/2014 6:13:44 PM PDT by o2bfree (Note to GOP Establishment Liberals: No more continuing budget resolutions!!!)
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To: Veto!

They probably scammed the virus out of all of its money.


13 posted on 10/18/2014 6:15:34 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Veto!

By lying.


14 posted on 10/18/2014 8:10:05 PM PDT by livius
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Very simple. They don’t have President Obola — we do.

Of course.

15 posted on 10/18/2014 8:32:22 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: livius

Gold star!


16 posted on 10/19/2014 8:35:25 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Feeling fine about the end of the world!)
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To: Veto!
I think for starters patient zero was a very well known person. Plus he was retching, barfing and crapping everywhere. And they knew he had just come from the hot zone. It wasn't so much a great response as they KNEW who he was and what he probably had.
17 posted on 10/19/2014 8:38:55 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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“On July 23—the very same day the patient was diagnosed—they created an Incident Management Center (which morphed into the Emergency Operations Center) and kicked into action an Incident Management System to coordinate responses. Such a centralized and coordinated system “is largely credited with helping contain the Nigerian outbreak early,” the MMWR authors wrote.”

SPEED of response was the answer,and still is.

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18 posted on 10/19/2014 8:41:46 AM PDT by Mears
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Yep, speed of response.
We build rockets and jets and still can’t figure out how to act with speed when a national emergency occurs. Obola and his buddies dithering away in WA figuring out how to be politically correct about Ebola and not hurting anyone’s feeeeeeeelings.


19 posted on 10/19/2014 10:58:59 AM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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