Fighting To Contain Sierra Leone's Ebola Epidemic
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- Into the Hot Zone: NGO's fight to stem the tide of the deadly Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone
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The deadly haemorrhagic Ebola virus has wiped out whole villages in Sierra Leone. At the epicentre of the outbreak is Kailahun, a town where aid workers are risking their lives to deal with the crisis.
"We are now going to the house, and the volunteers - the Dead Body Management Team - they will proceed with the burial", explains a Red Cross worker. His boiler suited unit is responding to the unexplained death of a middle aged man. The body must be treated with all the precautions afforded to an Ebola patient. Informing the locals of what is happening to the deceased diffuses tension, and helps to defeat the fear and paranoia spreading among the shocked communities. "There's a lot of beliefs in black magic and those traditional beliefs, so people often explain things through witchcraft and curses", says Dr Richard Broome. It is up to brave volunteers and local medics to educate communities afflicted by the brutal disease. With the number of confirmed deaths increasing, it is important to focus on the few survivors who pull through the virus' 21 day cycle. The individuals and NGOs fighting and dying with their patients are now desperate for a concerted international response.
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ALL THE YOUNG MEN WHO WAS BRAVE ENOUGH TO DO THE BURIALS TO SAVE THEIR COUNTRY FROM THE EBOLA ZAIRE EPIDEMIC SHOULD HAVE THEIR EDUCATION FOR COLLEGE PAID AND FUTURE SECURED.
alz123alz and who is gonna do that? I mean not to be rude that would be amazing but who do u expect to pay thousand or maybe even almost a million dollars for that to happen.
alz123alz and who is gonna do that? I mean not to be rude that would be amazing but who do u expect to pay thousand or maybe even almost a million dollars for that to happen.
alz123alz absolutely
alz123alz Their politicians care shit for their people. They're busy fighting each other and buying mansions in France. Pigs will fly before that will happen.
@@zoeyafghani6526 why did you comment that twice
My heart goes out to the children that died from this disease and the children who became orphans!
My heart breaks for the people suffering Ebola. :( I wish disease did not exist. Those who strive to help them are definitely heroes.
@Incurable Romanticist Be sure more deadly diseases will come in the follow years.
Rob Chillem what do you mean?
@Rob Chillem Ok boomer
,,,,,,,,,,, eating bushmeat => EBOLA !!!!
Seeing that pretty little angel made me shade a tear... May God see her through and protect her and May she one day live to tell a great story someday.
Nikki Travis get a fucking life.
Bleeding IS a sign of ebola, especially bleeding from the GI tract, nose, and mouth--it is a hemorrhagic fever. This kind of misinformation further complicates situations like this, where traditional culture clashes with the unknown, and causing any other type of confusion among people already bewildered is an appalling lack of professionalism.
Miss Distress they said with this specific strain. There are different strains ebola.
@@spacenachos Hemorraphic fever is a name that also called Ebola. Ebola on every strain has always bleeding as a sympthome. But people die sometimes earlier because of hydration.
@Valo B Yes i know that why do you explain that to me? Also HIV it has the same strain. Ok i just spelled it wrong.
It depends on the strain/ species of ebola. There are 4. The `ebola vaccine' is only against one of those 4 as well. So whoever made the ebola vaccine comment...
there are 4 main strains and the vaccine only protects against 1 of the 4
Despite all the negative thoughts. This is the time to be united to help Red Cross or Doctors without borders. This is the time to find solutions and to understand that we are all humans, we are in this planet to help. Peace and love to you all.
you are a breathe of fresh air,peace and love back at ya.
you are a breathe of fresh air,peace and love back at yaa..
My biggest respect to the doctor (Malcom) amazing man. Respect for all but to leave family and friends for a longer period of time every year is an important and big gesture
OMG!!! As if poverty is not enough. I remember the last time I was in West Africa the same thinking kept happening to me: What if there was an outbreak of an infectious disease how would the people fare? I wasn't thinking about Ebola exactly but just a general thought about an outbreak of any kind. Actually the main reason for my thinking was the terrible sanitation situation in some areas. In Guinea basically the sanitation system has completely collapsed and the worst is the inability of the local people to understand the need for a clean environment. So this Ebola outbreak may finally force the people to re think their entire approach to their living environment and the need to be aware of the dangers of eating different kinds of animal meat some of which could carry deadly diseases. In Liberia people actually thought they were immune to all the dangers of infectious disease. And to this day there are Guineans I know that seriously doubt the existence of Ebola. Imagine that for a second.
God bless these amazing aid workers.
Very good HD documentary about Ebola (one of the few in HD and in good quality). These Australians are marvellous and so optimistic-helpful. Australia=Real friends of humanity !
'Bleeding is not a sign of this strain of Ebola.' Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I've learned about Ebola is that it's hemorrhagic. Well, WTF is hemorrhagic if not bleeding?
Ofcourse they are bleeding. Bleeding out of the mouth.
I think that with this strain of ebola alot of the sick were dying from the dehydration before they get to a point when they would have started bleeding.
I feel so bad for the community.
Those health workers who died will be with Jesus
They were helping.
They will be great and close to God in the kingdom of heaven.
Suffering may not be part of our life but it will be.
Some suffer more than others in this world and our lord sees that.
They will be great in the kingdom of heaven.
Never look down on any of them.
It's so sad just heart breaking
thanks for sharing
Excellent report. I like it how it addressed the emotional/psychological aspects of this outbreak, as well as the epidemiological ones. And all those in the West freaking out about a couple of cases in their countries really need to get a grip.
sad and alarming!!...my heart goes out to the people of Sierra Leone affected directly or indirectly by ebola........much respect and admiration to all those involved in containing the disease, foreign and local health workers alike............hope the new experimental ebola med is perfected quick enough in order to combat this outbreak!
This make me want to get out there and help out in any way I can, I hope the people that have survived have gained an immunity to this evil virus.
There are stil good people like u be blessed
Yes, they are immune to that strain of Ebola once they are free from the virus.
If you have heart please help these people.
So Sad. I wish them all to hold on and Hope.
The young man washes his hands with chlorine bleach water. This helps him fight the ebola virus
Sad. How do I help?
the ebola song was awkward
Nope. I love it.
Fair play I suppose to make a cheery song about a deadly disease mind you, but I admit I was surprised
UPMC Hamot security guards are now the hospital's first line of defense against the Ebola virus.
Patients who want to enter Hamot's emergency department are asked to describe their symptoms at the department's security station. If they have fever, nausea, headache, diarrhea, muscle pain or weakness, they are then asked if they have traveled recently.
"If they have been out of the country and have symptoms on the (Ebola) checklist, they are escorted right to our triage area," said Ferdinando Mirarchi, D.O., Hamot's director of emergency medicine. "They don't go to our waiting area."
Erie hospitals are preparing for the possibility of treating Ebola patients, even though no Ebola cases have been diagnosed in northwestern Pennsylvania.
Three people from the region are being monitored in Texas for the deadly viral disease after they flew on a Cleveland-to-Dallas flight with a nurse who later tested positive for Ebola.
"We have been having meetings regularly with the (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) about Ebola," said Wayne Jones, D.O., Saint Vincent Hospital's director of emergency medicine. "We have retrained staff on the front end of our emergency department to ask questions about travel and symptoms."
Saint Vincent is in the process of creating a station away from its ER waiting area where patients will be asked those questions, Jones said.
Hospitals should be re-evaluating their procedures for dealing with Ebola patients, said David Dausey, Mercyhurst University's dean of the School of Health Professions and Public Health.
"Ebola is a different type of illness," Dausey said. "Most hospitals are not used to dealing with an acute infectious disease with such a high mortality rate."
The World Health Organization reported that about 50 percent of the people who contract Ebola die from it.
Hospitals are also working with the CDC to ensure their staffs are protected when dealing with patients who might have Ebola.
Saint Vincent will hold a meeting this week to inform staff about ways its parent organization, Allegheny Health Network, is standardizing and strengthening Ebola screening and patient triaging protocols.
Those protocols include training nurses and physicians to wear appropriate protective equipment when treating patients who might have Ebola. That equipment may soon include wearing powered air-purifying respirator suits, known as PAPRs.
"These are fluid-impenetrable full-body suits with a full hood with its own air source," Jones said. "We have them, though we haven't used them."
Mirarchi said he is concerned that hospital ERs will be flooded this fall and winter with patients who have respiratory illnesses like influenza and think they have Ebola because they have similar initial symptoms.
These patients could increase ER waiting times and cause more illnesses to be spread by overcrowding waiting rooms.
"We saw it with the H1N1 outbreak when people were pouring into the ER with mild respiratory infections," Mirarchi said. "People are worried about an Ebola epidemic, but we see a flu epidemic every year. Protect yourself and get a flu shot."
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So heartbreaking to hear that so many of those folks would hide their sick and secretly bury their dead family members because they didn’t trust the clinics and thought it was actually brought to them by other countries and/or racially motivated! It doesn’t make me angry to see that, it truly breaks my heart 😢 it must have been terrifying for those communities! 😢😮😢
I'm trying to gain understanding in something I don't know much about. Through simple reading one of the largest causes is streets flowing with sewage. Nigeria's capital is suppose to ripe for the outbreak due to this very condition which is surprising considering the amount of money they have from oil. That combined with all of the "tradition" mentioned in this video is going to a lot less food shortage. Nature balancing itself out.
ebola is hiv's feisty little brother
55 is middle age in Sierra Leone?
Ok so I got this in recommend after 6 years thanks TH-cam.
Why are they putting all the patients together? there is no security!!!!!
This is an example of how desperate they are for facilities and supplies, at least in some areas. If you have a building with, say 6 rooms; you need at least one for confirmed cases, one for suspected cases, someplace to stage the medical equipment,decontamination,and probably a few more for other various tasks. Then you have 20 confirmed ebola patients and several suspected cases. The county has only recently begin to rebuild from the civil war, infrastructure of any kind except mobile communications has been destroyed or badly in need of repair. Roads are more like dry riverbeds in most areas, Freetown is different, it being the capital and all. But even there electricity is not regular and people have to break open an existing water main to run water to a new building, leaving a leaky water utility system and areas in the road that bubble up water. But even as bad as that might sound the country is BEAUTIFUL, the people are the most wonderful, welcoming, honest,peace loving, and friendly folks I have ever met(and I have traveled around quite a bit).
whysguy3 True. The people of Sierra leon are wonderfully warm and friendly. Very lovely people. So are the Liberians.
Thats so horrible that they have to do their dead like that. Its very sad. But in times of situations like that its normal but really sad.
especially for their culture and traditions. i imagine it would feel so wrong for them to not be able to do a traditional burial. :(
I wish there is a way of healing it
There is,but expansive way
yes it is a good video
This disease make me to abandoned my mother's land Sierra Leone, Those who loose there lives may their souls rest in perfect peace amen. 😢😂😢😂
Why have you got laughing emojis, you monster
@@sandrabouki3459 There are some people who think that these emojis are actually crying emojis with 2 tears.
😂😂 really?
@@twanvanderdonk2504 really 😂 😂 😂
😢💔
21:38 Send back those African refugees from Lampedusa (Italy) to Sierra Leone to those communities that have lost 40 % and more of their members to help with agriculture. Because there is no work in Europe for them but in Africa there is. Pay them good for it to encourage them to stay there. Africa need them, but Europe doesn't. They will only receive hatred in Europe.
Hurricanes, nuclear meltdowns, threatens Iraq war and now ebola - pray to the might Jesus! It never too late, have your soul saved🌎👍
Wont burning the dead rather help a bit instead of putting them in the ground..what if a dog digs it up and eats the remains...just a thought tho cuz it has happened.
Icy Botha That's what I thought too.
I know they're hungry, But they gotta stop eating that bush meat. And the sad part is look at all that land around them......Ever heard of seeds? How can one starve with so much land? This is crazy.
Right!? I've noticed it's raining there a lot so I would think some kind of crop would grow
Gorgeous Leonean at :14. I hope she is ok.
I thought she had model features also.
2019???
Did anyone cover what happend to rebel soldiers who contacted ebola whilst staying in the bush??
As most of people who got infected and got medical help use to die I am sure everyone in the bush died...
Imagine if Ebola would of being international😐.
It still could be tbh. It almost was
There must be a cure!
There is believe me. But money is involved.
BE SURE TO PUT SOME OF THAT 5 PER CENT SOLUTION ON YOUR SKIN IN ADDITION TO THE PROTECTIVE SUITS. CHLORIDE IONS ARE THE MOST EFFECTIVE TO KILL AND PREVENT THE EBOLA VIRUS. CHLORIDE IONS ARE A VERY IMPORTANT ELECTROLYE AND IS INVOLVED IN THE BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES OF FIGHTING VIRUSES.
I heard a blood transfusion from someone that has had ebola is a good cure.
In (I THINK) 1979, during the first Ebola outbreak, they did tried it and it successfully cured nearly 7-8 out of 10 patients who tried that treatment. But, they are unwilling to try it now even though the proof is there. CDC wants us all to die, outbreaks and diseases are "good" to them since we are so over populated.
bridget2695 You clearly haven't been following the
news
bridget2695
What if the person has aids?
they have to be related or have simular gene like (parents and son).
calvin mcdonald Wrong
All I can say is holy shit
4:08 married with one wife and BOY CHILD!? wtf
Don't be too harsh on the lingo, it's pretty common for black kids to learn 2 or 3 languages before (if ever) picking up english in a lot of African countires. I mean I'm speaking from a South African perspective but a lot of my black friends learnt zulu and xhosa or shona before english. This guy probably knows french, an indigenous language or 2 and a bit of english. When confronted with a reporter with camera in tow I imagine words become a little tricky
I know, my english isn't good either I just found it really funny. His english isn't bad though, he just made a mistake:D
I guess I was more surprised that he had a wife and one child. Unfortunately, it is usually the case that there is 1 wife and about 10 kids that can't be provided for.
***** also in some parts of africa a man can have more than one spouse,so maybe the guy had pretty good grama after all,if i wasnt a fulltime carer for my mum i would go and help,its ok for people to say this and that,its doing the right thing and helping ur fellow men and woman thats most important...is it not??
***** Yes I can stfu
Why do they send outsiders there to help? Why not send doctors, nurses,, aids, etc from other area of the country & continent. Africa is a very big continent. They're has to be ppl there that are willing.
because outsiders are insiders, they deal with the picture better, to deceive the whole world when independent are allowed inside is a very difficult task
i wonder who sent the disease to them
Nobody. It has been there long before them.
My grandmother
Lmaoo.....check at 2:22! Speedometer reads 140kph lol! 😂
Don't eat bush meat !
It's crazy to me how African just has not been able to ever advance in any real way. I feel bad for the people who live there.
do you think that’s not on purpose!?
BEAUTIFUL LAND. THE PEOPLE NEED TO GROW SOUR SOP TREES. THE FRUIT AND LEAVES BUILDS UP THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. PINE TREES WITH PINE NEEDLE SAP KILLS VIRUSES.
Those people who work with ebola patients should get paid millions of dollars for their courage....
That must suck! To be told you have a 40% chance of surviving the next three weeks..
..
Should of gone to spec savers...
When are they going to get educated an stop believing backwards idiotic rumors and stop trustin
Aider les africain à lutter contre la fievre ebola
Our HEAVENLY FATHER which art in HEAVEN and who is also the “JUST JUDGE” over this world and over the unseen ETERNAL WORLD, our prayer is that you OH LORD OF SPIRITS will RECOMPENSE that nation and/or peoples who have released these diseases upon this INNOCENT and OPPRESSED nation. Give THAT WICKED NATION DOUBLE what they have released on this earth for they, IN ALL THEIR CRAFTINESS, have said NONE SEETH ME. Let them SIT in SILENCE in the DUST in DARKNESS FOREVER. AMEN.
Revelations: The Fourth Seal has been broken.
oh honey, wait til corona hots 😅 helllo from the future biotch
that extremely annoying true blue Ozzie accent!
a cure of Ebola nano silver.
Idgaf what it takes I'm not getting ebola!!! Nope~
Eh just spray some perfume in there eyes, they'll be ok.
Monkey meat? Cannibilization? What?
First
Jk😚
The white ppl r here to save the day
More like white liberalism
Third world countries cringe catch up
Has black people caused this ?
Google this phrase and you'll learn how it was cooked up at Tulane University Louisiana " US Holds Patent on Ebola: US Bio-War Researchers in Ebola Zone "
Idiot
advanced minds often look that way to the common buffoon
moron
moron's play games on their PC's instead of using them as an educational tool, severe mistake in the day and age
wanda grantham
no, morons suck up stupid conspiracy theories that can be debunked by 15 minutes of research, and because of their stupidity, they spread their delusions around and make themselves look like mindless fools.
Absolutely no mention of the US Patent on Ebola, nor how academia dropped it right where the most profit could me made.
I did MY research, I suggest you do yours
wanda grantham
my research tells me that you are an idiot.
Didn't Ebola already exist like long ago. Even before modern labs were made.
kurtilein3
Google US Patent Ebola and then call me a idiot, then do the same thing for Ebola and Tulane University geez you people have personal computers but refuse to any research at all.. I guess Y'all just expect TV and news papers even this program to TELL you what to think, makes me laugh every time. Do I need to drop a link to a search engine for you kiddos ?
wanda grantham
idiot. its just a patent. do you know what a patent is, and what you need to do to get a patent? well, look it up.
Aider les africain à lutter contre la fievre ebola