Liberia found 17 Ebola patients fleeing

Liberia authorities said on August 19 that they had found 17 Ebola-infected patients who fled a treatment center last weekend , and announced that eight US drug use cases were responding. New treatment method.

"All 17 patients who fled the Ebola treatment center were found , " AFP quoted Liberian Information Minister Lewis Brown as saying.

Medical staff examines a suspected Ebola virus infection in a hospital in Kenema city, Sierra Leone.(Photo: AFP)

The group of patients fled the medical center in the capital Monrovia late August 16 after it was attacked by a group of young men. The incident raised concerns about a terrible scenario when people infected with Ebola virus roamed the streets.

Brown also said that eight health workers, including two doctors, who used US ZMapp experimental drugs began to respond to this treatment. This is believed to be a good sign in the fight against disease caused by Ebola virus that is booming West African countries, including Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the tropical virus has killed 84 people in just three days, bringing the total number of deaths in the outbreak to 1,229 people. The UN health agency has identified 2,240 confirmed cases, likely and suspected Ebola infection since the beginning of the year, making the current outbreak the worst in history since the virus came out. present in 1976.

Efforts to curb the spread of Ebola in West Africa have been hampered by the fact that local people do not trust foreign doctors and are concerned that support workers may be able to carry the disease."First of all, people think that when they come here, they will be deprived of blood and death," said Nallo, who is being treated at a center in Sierra Leone. In Liberia, Ebola cried out fear, and there was a violent situation in the capital Monrovia.