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STORY: GUINEA / EBOLA
TRT: 2:30
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 2 APRIL 2014, CONAKRY, GUINEA / RECENT
RECENT – CONAKRY, GUINEA
1. Med shot, outside Donka hospital, Dr. Tom Fletcher of WHO looking at patient files
3. Med shot, Fletcher examining patient in Ebola ward
4. Close up, Fletcher examining patient in Ebola ward
5. Med shot, Fletcher examining patient in Ebola ward
2 APRIL 2014, CONAKRY, GUINEA
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tarik Jasarevic, Spokesperson World Health Organization (WHO):
“The World health organisation together with other partners is doing everything that is needed to support the Ministry of Health to put in place the necessary measures, this includes clinical management and just behind me here in a Donka hospital there is an isolation ward that is jointly managed by MSF and WHO and the Ministry of Health, where we provide necessarily health care to those who are infected.”
RECENT - CONAKRY, GUINEA
4. Pan left, Dr. Tom Fletcher to IV drip
5. Med shot, lab staff preparing to take blood sample from patient
6. Wide shot, patients laying on floor outside hospital
2 APRIL 2014, CONAKRY, GUINEA
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tarik Jasarevic, Spokesperson World Health Organization (WHO):
“We are doing disease surveillance in terms of contact tracing, making sure that all those who have been in contact we infected people are being checked upon. What is really important is to inform population of Guinea and Conakry about this disease as this is the first time they are facing Ebola. They need to know what it is and how they can protect them self. We are working very closely with the Ministry of Health and all the other partners to provide this information as well as the media because they are very important in relaying the right messages.”
RECENT – CONAKRY, GUINEA
8. Wide shot, WHO office building
9. Med shot, sign
10. Med shot, WHO office meeting with staff
11. Med shot, WHO getting supplies from warehouse
12. Med shot, MSF training local staff how to use PPE (Ebola Personal protective equipment)
The Guinean health authorities reported four new cases of Ebola, bringing the number to 131, with 84 confirmed deaths. According to the World Health Organization (WHO)
the source of infection has been localized in the south east of Guinea.
WHO will now focus on preventing further transmissions of the often fatal disease.
This is the first ever Ebola outbreak that this country is facing.
SOUNDBITE (English) Tarik Jasarevic, Spokesperson World Health Organization (WHO):
“The World health organisation together with other partners is doing everything that is needed to support the Ministry of Health to put in place the necessary measures, this includes clinical management and just behind me here in a Donka hospital there is an isolation ward that is jointly managed by MSF and WHO and the Ministry of Health, where we provide necessarily health care to those who are infected.”
Ebola is introduced into the human population through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals. In Africa, infection has been documented through the handling of infected chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found ill or dead or in the rainforest.
Ebola then spreads in the community through human-to-human transmission, with infection resulting from direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and indirect contact with environments contaminated with such fluids.
SOUNDBITE (English) Tarik Jasarevic, Spokesperson World Health Organization (WHO):
“We are doing disease surveillance in terms of contact tracing, making sure that all those who have been in contact we infected people are being checked upon. What is really important is to inform population of Guinea and Conakry about this disease as this is the first time they are facing Ebola. They need to know what it is and how they can protect them self. We are working very closely with the Ministry of Health and all the other partners to provide this information as well as the media because they are very important in relaying the right messages.”
The Ministry of Health (MoH) of Guinea has notified WHO of a rapidly evolving outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in forested areas south eastern Guinea. The cases have been reported in Guekedou, Macenta, and Kissidougou districts. As of 25 March 2014, a total of 86 suspected cases including 60 deaths (case fatality ratio: 69.7percent) had been reported.
Four health care workers are among the victims. Reports of suspected cases in border areas of Liberia and Sierra Leone are being investigated.
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.
Though smaller than past outbreaks in DRC and Uganda, the current Guinea Ebola cases fit the patterns of all previous outbreaks.
