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STORY: EBOLA / SIERRA LEONE
TRT: 2.52
SOURCE: WHO / RECENT
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 28 MAY 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / RECENT
28 MAY 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, Formenty in his office with reporter
2. SOUNDBITE (English), Dr Pierre Formenty, Department for the Control of Epidemic Diseases, WHO:
“For Ebola in Sierra Leone for the last few days we have a total reported of seven confirmed cases and nine suspect cases. All of them are reported in the Koindu district, which is in the Kailahun prefecture which is bordering Guinea, notably bordering Gueckedou, the first site of Ebola in Guinea.”
RECENT – CONAKRY, GUINEA
3. Med shot, doctor examining patient in Ebola ward
4. Close up, patient in Ebola ward
28 MAY 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
5. SOUNDBITE (English), Dr Pierre Formenty, Department for the Control of Epidemic Diseases, WHO:
“We have been able to identify several chains of transmission, one of them start, I would say in the forest, but more importantly, this chain of transmission have lasted for six months now, through contact, human to human transmission, so human contact. And again, through caring of people without precaution, through transmission within health care facilities, and through people attending funeral without precaution and being in contact of people dying of Ebola.”
RECENT - CONAKRY, GUINEA
6. Close up, doctor with Ebola patient
7. Pan left, doctor to IV drip
28 MAY 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
8. SOUNDBITE (English), Dr Pierre Formenty, Department for the Control of Epidemic Diseases, WHO:
“So this outbreak in West Africa is primarily transmitted through human to human transmission. This is why it should be relatively easy to stop if the population is with us and understand that unsafe burial and unsafe care at home will help the outbreak to continue to spread and if you want to stop the outbreak we should develop safe behaviour.”
RECENT - CONAKRY, GUINEA
9. Med shot, lab staff preparing to take blood sample from patient
10. Wide shot, patients on the floor outside hospital
28 MAY 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
11. SOUNDBITE (English), Dr Pierre Formenty, Department for the Control of Epidemic Diseases, WHO:
“When a patient gets infected with Ebola, it will take between three to ten days for this person to develop this symptom which we call the incubation period. It could be a maximum of 21 days, but it is rare. So usually after seven days, the person starts to have fever, then vomiting, diarrhoea with a very intense pain in the stomach and in the belly. And after three to five days they develop failure of the liver, of the spleen, from many organs, sometimes there is haemorrhagic signs but it is not often, and they die most of the time, with a shock syndrome.”
RECENT – CONAKRY, GUINEA
12. Various shots, MSF training local staff how to use PPE
The World Health Organization (WHO) said that the Ebola has spread to Sierra Leone, third country in West Africa to report the disease outbreak, after Guinea and Liberia.
WHO reported seven confirmed and nine suspected cases of Ebola, all concentrated in Kailahun prefecture, at the border with Guinea and close to Gueckedou, the original source of epidemic.
Authorities had identified several different chains of transmission. However, Dr Pierre Formenty of WHO said that the most prevalent is the human to human one.
“Through caring of people without precaution, through transmission within health care facilities, and through people attending funeral without precaution and being in contact of people dying of Ebola” – explained Dr Formenty.
Dr Fermenty said that the outbreak would be “relatively easy to stop” as long as the population I affected areas follows the recommendations and “understand that unsafe burial and unsafe care at home will help the outbreak to continue to spread and if you want to stop the outbreak we should develop safe behaviour” – added Dr Formenty.
Ebola manifests itself by the sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. This is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function, and in some cases, both internal and external bleeding, “and they die most of the time, with a shock syndrome” – said Dr Formenty.
The first cases in current outbreak were reported two months ago in southeastern districts of Guinea. Since then, virus was confirmed or suspected in more than 270 people in all three countries.
The Ebola virus first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in Sudan and Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and it does not normally cause a large number of cases – the largest outbreaks were of approximately 400 cases. However, with no treatment and no cure, it has a very high fatality rate of up to 90 per cent.