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    Benin: Authorities rule out the Ebola track after a series of deaths at St Jean de Dieu Hospital in Tangui?ta - Lassa fever

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    Posted on 18-11-2014 ? Modified 18-11-2014 at 11:19

    Benin: Authorities rule out the Ebola track after a series of deaths

    by RFI

    Question and concern in Benin after the death of several people at the hospital in Tangui?ta located in the northwest of the country. These deaths which occurred in less than a month, concern the health personnel. Ebola tests are negative and the Minister of Health held on Monday, a press conference to reassure the public.

    It is last week that the Ministry of Health was informed of the death of three agents of the St Jean de Dieu Hospital of Tangui?ta. Among them, there are two nurses in neonatology. Friday it is a pediatrician who died in Porto-Novo where he had been transferred.

    The samples were sent to Lagos, Nigeria. Ebola is not involved in these deaths, explained Dorothee Kinde Gazard, the Minister of Health: "I say and I affirm that these tests came back negative, so we have no case of Ebola virus in our country. We do not intend to hide anything if it is a serious illness that kills the staff. "

    A still mysterious cause

    The Ebola track is discarded, but the concern remains. What causes these deaths? For Youssouf Gamati?, representative of the World Health Organization, there are yet more questions than answers: "For the moment we do not know exactly what it is about. We are doing the investigation. We are fortunate to have now a multi-agency team of experts in various fields. We will provide all the support of all institutions that are behind us to try to see what is happening at Tangui?ta. "

    The Minister must be on site Tuesday. Reached by telephone, brother Florent, the director of the hospital, did not want to comment at this time.

    http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20141118-benin-piste-ebola-ecartee-serie-deces-doroth%C3%A9e-kind%C3%A9-gazard-gamatie-/#./?&_suid=1416328691633013856328455856148
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    Re: Benin: Authorities rule out the Ebola track after a series of deaths at St Jean de Dieu Hospital in Tangui?ta

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    New Expression No. 1428 of 18-11-2014

    Death of five health workers of Saint Jean de Dieu Hospital of Tanguiéta: Ebola is not the cause

    The five deaths which occured successively in the rank of health care workers of Saint Jean de Dieu Hospital Tanguiéta do not come from the Ebola virus disease. For the tests carried out for this purpose came back negative. However, clinical investigations are ongoing to determine the real causes of these deaths. The information was given yesterday Monday, November 17, in the conference room of the Ministry of Health in Cotonou by Professor Dorothee Kinde Gazard Akoko, Minister of Health, in the presence of Dr. Yusuf Gamatié, Resident Representative of the WHO Benin.

    By Vadim Quirin

    The Ebola virus is not the cause of death in cascade of five officers of health staff of Saint Jean de Dieu Hospital in Tanguiéta. For samples taken followed by examinations accredited by the World Health Organization laboratory to verify the cause of death of health workers would Ebola, gave a negative result. "Today, these tests came back negative," argued yesterday Monday, November 17, in Cotonou, Professor Dorothee Kinde-Gazard Akoko, Minister of Health, in the presence of Dr. Yusuf Gamatié, Resident Representative of WHO Benin, as well as experts from WHO staying in Benin, to help the country to refine its response plan against a possible case of Ebola virus disease.

    Nevertheless the case remains a concern. Because, according to the Minister of Health, it is deaths in neonatal and pediatric services specifically dedicated to children. What's going on there then? What did the five agents died of? "We are continuing the investigation, insisted the Minister of Health." Besides, she was informed, "together with the WHO team, we will move tomorrow (statement yesterday, it is therefore referred to this day) to Tanguiéta to pursue the biological and clinical examinations to diagnose the trouble. "

    "We will give our full support to Benin to see what happens in Tanguiéta," promised Dr. Youssouf Gamatié. The timing of WHO experts who are in Benin to help strengthen the contingency plan for the fight against Ebola virus disease, will be slightly modified for this purpose. "We are very concerned because this is a very unusual situation and for the moment we do not know what died five health workers."

    One thing is certain, resumed the WHO Resident Representative in Benin, tests to check whether the causative agent is the Ebola virus came back negative.

    Before taking these information to the press, Professor Dorothée Akoko-Kindé Gazard, honored the memory of the illustrious dead. It is a pediatrician, two nurses neonatology service, which are the first to lose their lives and two other officers of Pediatrics. For one minute and in the silence of their hearts, they prayed for the repose of the soul of the deceased medical personnel.
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    http://nouvelle-expression.net/?p=8112
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      Re: Benin: Authorities rule out the Ebola track after a series of deaths at St Jean de Dieu Hospital in Tangui?ta

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      Posted on 21-11-2014 at 11:44 Edited on 21-11-2014

      Benin: Lassa fever responsible for a series of deaths

      RFI

      In Benin, we know the origin of the five deaths in health personnel of the hospital Tangui?ta, northwest of the country. It is hemorrhagic fever Lassa virus. It is the Minister of Health who gave the information Thursday during a press conference. This is close to Ebola virus, but it can be treated if diagnosed in time.

      The cause of death was determined by post-mortem samples, two were positive for Lassa fever. Tests on two convalescents are underway to confirm the result. No new cases have been reported, but vigilance is required, as explained Dorothee Kinde Gazard, Minister of Health: "We have identified and continue to identify subjects contacts to follow for 21 days. And I would like to appeal to all Beninese so they show up in health centers at the onset of ILI starting with fever. "

      Because there is a drug to fight against Lassa virus: ribavirin. Doses expected to arrive Friday to Benin, and after Gamati? Yusuf, representing the World Health Organization (WHO), it is a chance that the infection was caught early, "Depending on how this transmission is done, we can have indices relative to how this epidemic could change. For the moment, we believe that it is an epidemic that can be brought under control rather quickly if we can establish an efficient and effective system for contact tracing and for immediate care. "

      This virus is named after the Nigerian town of Lassa, where he was isolated in 1969, is common in Nigeria, but this is the first time it appears in Benin.

      http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20141121-benin-fievre-lassa-responsable-une-serie-deces/
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        Re: Benin: Authorities rule out the Ebola track after a series of deaths at St Jean de Dieu Hospital in Tangui?ta - Lassa fever

        Two dead from Ebola-like Lassa fever in Benin: officials
        Two people have died in Benin from the Ebola-like virus Lassa fever, the country's government and a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Friday.


        "After samples were taken and testing, the results came back positive for Lassa fever, which is similar to the Ebola virus but not as virulent," public health minister Dorothee Akoko Kinde-Gazard said.
        The two people were among five health workers who died at a hospital in Tanguieta, in the north of the tiny West African nation which borders Nigeria to the west.
        "There were five deaths at the hospital in Tanguieta but from the samples taken only two were positive (for Lassa fever)," she told AFP.
        ...
        Two dead from Ebola-like Lassa fever in Benin: officials
        http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-dead-ebola-like-lassa-fever-benin.html
        Two people have died in Benin from the Ebola-like virus Lassa fever, the country's government and a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Friday.
        Twitter: @RonanKelly13
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          Re: Benin: Authorities rule out the Ebola track after a series of deaths at St Jean de Dieu Hospital in Tangui?ta - Lassa fever

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          Posted on 25-11-2014 Edited on 25-11-2014 at 1:23

          Benin: WHO has identified the origin of the epidemic of Lassa fever

          RFI

          In Benin, the World Health Organization has recorded nine deaths from Lassa hemorrhagic fever virus. This virus, which first appeared in Tangui?ta, northwest of the country, is close to Ebola, but there is an effective drug to combat it.

          The last of the fifteen cases recorded by the WHO - 9 of which have been fatal - was 10 days ago. WHO reportedly identified the origin of the virus: it is a baby of twelve days old admitted in pediatric at Tangui?ta hospital, which would have transmitted it. His mother has not given birth in Nigeria, as claimed by information that circulated late last week. She stayed at Sav? in central Benin.

          These are the experts of the World Health Organization and the US Center for Disease Control, sent Tangui?ta, that have put together the chain. They identified four deaths in addition of the five among the staff of the hospital : the baby and her grandmother, a stepmother, and another child in the family.
          ...
          They also found four infected people in the entourage of the newborn - they are currently hospitalized - bringing the total cases to fifteen. They have so far identified more than one hundred and fifty individuals who have had contact with patients.
          ...

          http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20141125-benin-sante-oms-identifie-origine-epidemie-fievre-lassa-cotonou-tanguieta/
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          • #6
            Re: Benin: Authorities rule out the Ebola track after a series of deaths at St Jean de Dieu Hospital in Tangui?ta - Lassa fever

            Benin says Lassa fever kills 9, no Ebola found

            COTONOU, Benin (AP) - The Healthy Ministry in Benin says nine people have died from Lassa fever, a viral disease common in West Africa with symptoms similar to Ebola.

            ...
            http://meredith.worldnow.com/story/27485043/benin-says-lassa-fever-kills-9-no-ebola-found
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