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K-in-CT 😷😷😷 retweeted
Nigeria's only confirmed Ebola patient has arrived safely in Zurich, Switzerland, on a Rega medical evacuation flight today. The patient has been admitted to a special isolation unit at University Hospital Zurich.
#H5N1
The U.S. is not under control.
K-in-CT 😷😷😷 retweeted
Earlier this morning, the Ebola patient in Nigeria and her contact, who is also her husband, were medically evacuated to Switzerland.
The reasons for the evacuation are:
✅ Both the patient and her husband are Swiss citizens.
✅ The patient is clinically stable. The Nigerian medical team successfully managed her through the acute phase of the illness and stabilized her condition.
On behalf of WHO and all partners, I warmly congratulate the Government of Nigeria, health workers, clinicians, emergency responders and all those involved in the response. This is a remarkable achievement and a testament to what Africa can accomplish when we work together.
With the evacuation of the patient and her husband, Nigeria currently has no Ebola cases.
However, vigilance remains critical. Nigeria will continue the close follow-up of 52 contacts, while Switzerland will assume responsibility for the continued management of the patient and the follow-up of contact number 53, her husband.
Congratulations once again to everyone involved. This is a proud moment demonstrating African expertise, resilience, and leadership in public health.
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Ce matin, la patiente atteinte d’Ebola au Nigéria et son contact, qui est également son époux, ont été évacués médicalement vers la Suisse.
Les raisons de cette évacuation sont les suivantes :
✅ La patiente et son mari sont tous deux citoyens suisses.
✅ La patiente est cliniquement stable. L’équipe médicale nigériane a réussi à la prendre en charge durant la phase aiguë de la maladie et à stabiliser son état.
Au nom de l’OMS et de tous les partenaires, je félicite chaleureusement le Gouvernement du Nigéria, les agents de santé, les cliniciens, les intervenants d’urgence et toutes les personnes impliquées dans la réponse. C’est une réalisation remarquable et une preuve de ce que l’Afrique peut accomplir lorsque nous travaillons ensemble.
Avec l’évacuation de la patiente et de son mari, le Nigéria ne compte actuellement plus de cas d’Ebola.
Cependant, la vigilance reste essentielle. Le Nigéria poursuivra le suivi rapproché de 52 contacts, tandis que la Suisse assurera la prise en charge continue de la patiente et le suivi du 53ᵉ contact, son mari.
Félicitations encore à toutes celles et ceux qui ont contribué à cette réussite. Ce moment est une fierté, démontrant l’expertise, la résilience et le leadership africains en santé publique.
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Hoje de manhã, a paciente com doença pelo vírus Ebola na Nigéria e o seu contacto, que é também o seu marido, foram evacuados por via médica para a Suíça.
A evacuação deve-se aos seguintes motivos:
✅ Tanto a paciente como o seu marido são cidadãos suíços.
✅ A paciente encontra-se clinicamente estável. A equipa médica nigeriana conseguiu prestar-lhe cuidados durante a fase aguda da doença e estabilizar o seu estado de saúde.
Em nome da OMS e de todos os parceiros, felicito calorosamente o Governo da Nigéria, os profissionais de saúde, os clínicos, as equipas de resposta a emergências e todas as pessoas envolvidas na resposta. Esta é uma conquista notável e uma prova do que África pode alcançar quando trabalhamos em conjunto.
Com a evacuação da paciente e do seu marido, a Nigéria não tem atualmente nenhum caso de doença pelo vírus Ebola.
No entanto, é fundamental manter a vigilância. A Nigéria continuará a acompanhar de perto 52 contactos, enquanto a Suíça assumirá a responsabilidade pela continuidade dos cuidados à paciente e pelo acompanhamento do contacto número 53, o seu marido.
Mais uma vez, felicito todas as pessoas envolvidas. Este é um momento de orgulho que demonstra a competência, a resiliência e a liderança de África no domínio da saúde pública.
I Confirm that, with my approval, earlier this morning, the index case for Nigeria’s first imported Ebola virus disease departed Abuja for Switzerland. The index patient was clinically much improved, stable, conscious, communicating, and her clinical laboratory test results closing towards baseline. This does not mean she is not still infectious, hence the strict protocols in place.
The patient was evacuated along with her spouse who has remained asymptomatic.
I thank all the various clinical staff for the high quality care they provided the patient as well as the public health personnel who ensured the evacuation was carried out in line with best public health measures for such evacuations.
We will provide further updates later this afternoon after the patient and her spouse lands successfully in their destination.
All public health measures are continuing to ensure successful containment of the imported virus. I urge Nigerians to remain vigilant and rely on information from credible sources.
K-in-CT 😷😷😷 retweeted
Thread summarising what happened with avian influenza in the US. I had expected a full fledged attempt at stopping the spread in cattle. That did not happen. Same for mpox. That makes me conclude we are in for more and not fully prepared
There is something really concerning (and disappointing) going on in the US right now.
A dangerous and preventable situation.
Let me explain.
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Wise? Or will this push travelers underground or incentivize border payments?
Uganda has tightened enforcement of Ebola prevention measures, with all those who have travelled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo required to pay for their mandatory 21-day quarantine as authorities move to prevent the disease from spreading across the border. #OpenGovUg
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President Trump escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a ‘shit house country’ and saying Norwegian immigrants are not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee, based in the capital Oslo, has not awarded him a Peace Prize reut.rs/3U1joSt
We keep hearing these reports out of Iowa.
Other countries have a CDC. Maybe we should think about getting one. 🤷♀️
K-in-CT 😷😷😷 retweeted
EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet. He just seems to have trouble pronouncing it when it's my name.
I don't care how he pronounces my name. I don't even care that he remembers my whole name. Because he can just go on and call me senator after November.
K-in-CT 😷😷😷 retweeted
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➡️ Ebola scientists to probe Nigeria case origin, Africa CDC says
- A team of leading Ebola scientists will travel to Nigeria to help investigate how the country’s first patient in more than a decade got infected, Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya said.
- Their task will involve ➡️ trying to work out how the female patient, the Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat based in Abuja, caught the Bundibugyo species of Ebola. ➡️ Her travel documents show she had not visited the outbreak epicenter in Democratic Republic of Congo, Mr. Kaseya said in an interview with Reuters in London.
- Finding out how she became ill matters to ➡️ ensure that the deadly Bundibugyo outbreak, already the second-largest Ebola epidemic on record, ➡️ is not spreading silently in as-yet undiscovered locations, and to help trace and isolate all contacts.
- ‘MANY UNKNOWNS’
- “We have so many unknowns,” said Mr. Kaseya. “I’m bringing a group of scientists in Abuja because… we need to be led by science.”
- ➡️ One of the theories the scientists will investigate is a potential link between the patient in Nigeria and the first case in Kenya, reported earlier this month in a man who had traveled from Congo. ➡️ On Friday, genomic sequencing showed that the viruses that infected the two patients were closely related.
- The patient in Nigeria had been on holiday in Uganda and traveled through Entebbe Airport on October 3. ➡️ The patient in Kenya, who has since died, was likely in the airport at the same time, as ➡️ their flights were around 40 minutes apart, although they did not depart from the same gate and it is not clear whether they had any contact, Mr. Kaseya said.
- Mr. Kaseya said while genomic sequencing had shown that the viruses were similar, it did not mean that one of the patients had directly infected the other and the patient in Abuja, whose condition is improving, has said she does not remember meeting the Kenya patient.
- However, he said they were not excluding any options, including that there may have been indirect contact through another person, for example. Ebola spreads through close contact with the infected bodily fluids of a person with symptoms, according to the World Health Organization.
- INVESTIGATION ONGOING
- Mr. Kaseya said ➡️ all countries involved were now willing to collaborate in the investigation, after what he described as tension last week when Uganda’s government insisted the patient in Abuja had been to Congo, while Nigerian authorities suggested she had not and was infected in Uganda, which has been Ebola-free since August.
- Mr. Kaseya said the team, which will be led by the co-discoverer of Ebola, Congolese expert Jean-Jacques Muyembe, ➡️ would also look at more sequencing data to work out where the Kenyan patient was infected.
- The Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo has now caused almost 10,000 cases and more than 4,600 deaths in Congo, and spread to three other countries in Africa – Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda.
- The disease can cause fever, vomiting, diarrhea and, in severe cases, internal and external bleeding. There is currently no approved vaccine or treatment for Ebola Bundibugyo.
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K-in-CT 😷😷😷 retweeted
The President of the United States spent his Sunday night writing a 1,300-word rant about Bill Maher.
Not the economy.
Not the wars.
Not the midterms.
Bill. Fucking. Maher.
When the President has this much free time, this many grievances, and this little impulse control, we’re in much bigger trouble than Bill Maher.
K-in-CT 😷😷😷 retweeted
So Trump’s closing argument is that high gas prices are good because his donors who run oil companies are making bank, Jon Husted has a nice ass but not quite as good as Nicki Minaj’s ass, after 7 months the Reflecting Pool is almost done, and we get a ballroom, arch and helipad.
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➡️ 🇺🇬🇳🇬🇨🇭Nigeria's Ebola patient on medical evacuation flight to Switzerland, condition stable
- ➡️ Nigeria's Ebola patient left the country on a medical evacuation flight to Switzerland on Monday morning, the health minister said, adding that her clinical condition was much improved.
- The patient, ➡️ the Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat based in Abuja, is Nigeria's first Ebola case in more than a decade.
- The outbreak, which started in Democratic Republic of Congo, has now been reported in four countries in East, Central and West Africa, giving it the widest geographic spread of any Ebola outbreak on the continent to date.
- ➡️ The possibility that the Nigerian patient became infected in Uganda, where officials say she spent a two-week holiday before returning to Abuja, has fuelled concerns about undetected transmission in a country where the outbreak had appeared to be under control.
- Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate said in a post on X that ➡️ the woman was "stable, conscious, communicating, and her clinical laboratory test results closing towards baseline" before her evacuation flight departed.
- ➡️ Her spouse has remained asymptomatic and left Nigeria on the same flight, Pate added.
- The Swiss foreign ministry and Uganda's health ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
- SCIENTISTS INVESTIGATING HOW PATIENT CAUGHT RARE STRAIN
- ➡️ A team of leading Ebola scientists will travel to Nigeria to help investigate how the patient caught the rare Bundibugyo species of Ebola, Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya told Reuters in an interview.
- Switzerland said last week that she had not travelled to Congo, contradicting statements from Ugandan officials.
- ⚠️ Her travel documents show she had not visited Congo, Kaseya said.
- There are no approved vaccines or treatments for the Bundibugyo species, which has now caused almost 10,000 cases and more than 4,800 deaths in Congo, and spread to three other countries in Africa – Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda.
- Kenya has reported nine cases and two deaths, all linked to a man who had travelled from Congo via Uganda's Entebbe airport.
- Uganda reported 20 cases in May and June but has not recorded any since and was declared free of the virus by the World Health Organization in August.
- The WHO's Africa director congratulated Nigeria's government and health workers for stabilising the patient's condition, allowing her to be evacuated.
- "The Nigerian medical team successfully managed her through the acute phase of the illness and stabilized her condition," Mohamed Janabi said on X.
Reporting by Elisha Bala-Gbogbo, Ben Ezeamalu, Sodiq Adelakun, Nilutpal Timsina and Elias Biryabarema
reuters.com/world/africa/nig…
K-in-CT 😷😷😷 retweeted
This goes way beyond general national defense preparedness. This has the earmarks of something urgent and much, much larger scale than anything previously contemplated.
Preparations of this nature and magnitude would only be envisioned for an attack on America from a major global power as part of a world war.
Given the urgency with which Pentagon officials are announcing this initiative, I’m worried that they know something is coming and they’re not telling us…
🚨Update: Massive Power Outage Coming! War Department prepares major U.S. milıtary bases to operate for 90 days without outside support, including civilian power grids and global supply chains!
- Fox News
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This refers to the Pentagon's 'FORTRESS' plan for military bases to operate without civilian power or supply chains if a future conflict disrupts infrastructure. It is not an announcement of an imminent power outage and does not involve the civilian grid. foxnews.com/politics/insid… ibtimes.co.uk/pentagon-90-da…
K-in-CT 😷😷😷 retweeted
Yesterday, a nurse was killed and a health worker severely injured after they were attacked while responding to an #Ebola alert in the town of Bafwasende, Tshopo province, #DRC.
Our deepest condolences go to the family, colleagues and friends of the lost nurse. We also wish a swift and full recovery to his injured colleague who remains hospitalized.
Everyone working to protect communities from this deadly disease must be able to work in dignity and safety. Healthcare must always be protected.
