The Director of US Center for Disease Control-Tom Frieden has commended Nigeria on her quick, thorough response and utmost display of focused interventions in her Ebola containment. United States is ready to follow the Nigeria's foot steps and has dispatched its personnel to study how Nigeria contained the killer disease.
Frieden said in a statement, “it’s clear the nation needs a quick and thorough response to its first Ebola patient”. Although Nigeria was not completely out of the woods, “their extensive response to a single case of Ebola shows that control is possible with rapid, focused interventions.”-The Citizen reports.
This study shall cover the best practices in Nigeria and Senegal which suggest the U.S. should monitor all individuals who may have been exposed to Ebola and establish a dedicated management and response system-like Nigeria did in the case of Mr. Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian born American citizen whose index case was reported on July 20, 2014.
Nigeria has not reported new cases of Ebola Virus Disease since August 31, while Senegal has had no new reported cases of Ebola since Sept. 18.
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