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WHO / EBOLA CONTROL
STORY: WEST AFRICA/ EBOLA CONTROL
TRT: 3:54
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 8 AUGUST 2014, GENEVA / RECENT/FILE
FILE- 2 APRIL 2014, CONAKRY, GUINEA
1. Wide shot, man being treated for Ebola
2. Med shot, man being treated for Ebola
19 JULY 2014, KAILAHUN, SIERRA LEONE
3. Wide shot, dead body being placed on a stretcher
RECENT - 19 JULY 2014 - KESSENEY, GUINEA (BORDER BETWEEN GUINEA AND LIBERIA)
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Guy Minet, WHO Logistician, Kesseney, Guinea:
“So these are boxes of chlorine distribute to all border crossing points, it’s a disinfectant. We ask all persons leaving the country or coming in to wash their hands with it in order to be disinfected. This is to minimize as much as possible the risk of infection across the border. "
RECENT - 10 JULY 2014, MONROVIA, LIBERIA
5. Med shot, health workers wearing Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)
6. Med shot, spraying areas where previous patient went through
7. Med shot, health workers wearing Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)
8 AUGUST 2014, GENEVA
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General - Health Security:
“It is important to reach out to the communities, to engage them. To use all sorts of variety of ways to do this. So for example, in communities there are many opinion leaders, they may be religious leaders, they may be local leaders, but they are people who really shape the understanding and perspectives of communities and it is important to reach out to them so that people really understand that this is not a mysterious disease and what are the proper steps that can be done to protect themselves and others.”
23 JULY 2014 - SIERRA LEONE
9. Various shots, WHO staff meeting with local authorities to create awareness
8 AUGUST 2014, GENEVA
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General, Health Security:
“Countries should ensure that the burials and funeral rites are conducted in accordance with health regulations to reduce the risk of infection, they should be done with professional teams to help them to make sure that things are done safely, but they should also be done in a way which is culturally sensitive.”
19 JULY 2014, KAILAHUN, SIERRA LEONE
11. Wide shot, pick up truck carrying bodies
12. Med shot, health workers burying Ebola victim in a local cemetery
13. Pan right, workers covering grave
15-16 JULY 2014, GUECKEDOU, GUINEA-LIBERIA BORDER
14. Various shots, WHO staff taking the samples to the laboratory
15. Various shots, Laboratory technicians working with the samples
8 AUGUST 2014, GENEVA
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General, Health Security:
“The truth about this is that while Ebola is infectious, and highly infectious in certain circumstances, it is an infectious disease which can be contained. Let me underscore that, this is an infectious disease which can be contained. It is not mysterious. It is something which can be stopped.”
19 JULY 2014, KAILAHUN, SIERRA LEONE
17. Various shots, WHO's team in the house at night examining body and taking samples for testing
18. Various shots, health workers carrying a body out of a house
As the World Health Organization (WHO) declares the Ebola virus in West Africa an international public health emergency, health officials are working around the clock to try and control the outbreak.
SOUNDBITE (French) Guy Minet, WHO Logistician, Kesseney, Guinea: “So these are boxes of chlorine distributed to all border crossing points, it’s a disinfectant. We ask all persons leaving the country or coming in to wash their hands with it in order to be disinfected. This is to minimize as much as possible the risk of infection across the border. "
This is the largest, most severe and most complex outbreak in the nearly four decade history of this disease.
To date, the number of cases attributed to Ebola in the four countries (Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria) affected stands at 1, 711, including 932 deaths.
Although the disease is affecting only a small part of the African continent, there is call for international solidarity to boost the capacity of the countries currently affected.
That would mean a strong supply pipeline of medical supplies like personal protective equipment (PPE), for health care workers, lab technicians, cleaning staff, burial personnel and others that may come in contact with the infected or contaminated material.
Health workers are not only battling the disease, they are also fighting against fear by local communities who often will not let them near their villages and now see hospitals as a death sentence.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General - Health Security:
“It is important to reach out to the communities, to engage them. To use all sorts of variety of ways to do this. So for example, in communities there are many opinion leaders, they may be religious leaders, they may be local leaders, but they are people who really shape the understanding and perspectives of communities and it is important to reach out to them so that people really understand that this is not a mysterious disease and what are the proper steps that can be done to protect themselves and others.”
Ebola is often passed on to others when they bury their dead.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General - Health Security:
“Countries should ensure that the burials and funeral rites are conducted in accordance with health regulations to reduce the risk of infection, they should be done with professional teams to help them to make sure that things are done safely, but they should also be done in a way which is culturally sensitive.”
Currently there is no licensed vaccine for Ebola but several vaccines are being tested.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General - Health Security:
“The truth about this is that while Ebola is infectious, and highly infectious in certain circumstances, it is an infectious disease which can be contained. Let me underscore that, this is an infectious disease which can be contained. It is not mysterious. It is something which can be stopped.”
Although there is no specific treatment available, new drug therapies are being evaluated. The World Bank Group is also mobilizing millions to aid affected families and communities and to build up public health systems in West Africa.
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