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    Ebola Outbreak: The Truth
    Ebola Outbreak: The Truth
    Ebola Outbreak: The Truth
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    Ebola Outbreak: The Truth

    By M Okenla

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    Early in 2014, some villagers in a remote part of Sierra-Leone reported that fellow villagers were dying from a strange illness. The symptoms were ones they had never seen or heard of before. No one was spared - the elderly, young and the fit people among them succumbed to the illness and died within weeks. No one took much notice until the disease spread to the towns and cities of Sierra-Leone, Liberia and Senegal. It became a world wide concern when air travellers transported the disease to Nigeria, the US and several countries in Europe. This book is a personal account of what happened and how it happened. Enjoy!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherM Okenla
    Release dateJan 13, 2015
    ISBN9781310003349
    Ebola Outbreak: The Truth
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    M Okenla

    M Okenla is the author of 'Ebola, the truth'. She is an entrepreneur who spends most of her time also as an educator, community builder, artist and writer.

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      Ebola Outbreak - M Okenla

      EBOLA: THE TRUTH

      How Nigeria contained the Ebola outbreak

      By Morin Okenla

      Copyright Morin Okenla 2014

      Thank you for downloading this book. This book remains the copyright property of the author and may not be copied, distributed, reposted, reprinted and shared with others for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, encourage your friends to download a copy from their authorised retailer.

      Published by i-Shine Publishing on Smashwords.

      Table of Contents

      Dedication

      Forward

      Famous Ebola Quotes

      Overview

      Chapter 1 Ebola is discovered

      Chapter 2 How Ebola spreads like wild fire

      Chapter 3 The healer and her flock

      Chapter 4 The helpless fight against Ebola goes on

      Chapter 5 Panic! Nigeria discovers first victim

      Chapter 6 Sadness as victim numbers soar

      Chapter 7 Nigeria rises to the challenge

      Chapter 8 How Ebola contact tracing worked

      Chapter 9 Governor to the rescue

      Chapter 10 Nigeria’s border control tactics

      Chapter 11 How Nigeria got onto the road to recovery

      Chapter 12 Nigeria after Ebola

      Chapter 13 What West Africa must learn

      Chapter 14 Controversy over availability of medicines

      Chapter 15 Help arrives in Ebola regions

      Chapter 16 Ebola the Facts

      Chapter 17 Ebola the figures

      Chapter 18 How to spot the symptoms and treat Ebola

      Chapter 19 How to protect yourself from Ebola

      Chapter 20 Advice for health workers and carers

      Chapter 21 A way forward?

      Chapter 22 A possible cure emerges!

      Chapter 23 Clinical trials and hope for global health

      Chapter 24 The Ebola - Time Line of evens

      Chapter 25 Make a donation to stop the spread of Ebola

      About Morin Okenla

      Connect with Morin Okenla

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to Ayo, Bunmi, Tunrayo, Leke and to my parents Mr and Mrs Ade-Makanju. It is also dedicated to Dr Stella Ameyo Adadevoh, the Nigerian Ebola victim and hero who stopped the virus in its tracks. Dr Adadevor was based at First Consultant hospital in Lagos. (The most populated city in Africa with over 30 million inhabitants). She was the doctor on duty who oversaw the treatment of Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian national who brought the Ebola virus disease to Nigeria. The doctor prevented the spread of Ebola but paid for it with her life. Dr Adadevoh died of the virus on 19 August 2014, one of eight people who passed away out of 20 cases. Each victim was linked to Sawyer and without the steps she took to prevent Sawyer from leaving the hospital; the World Health Organisation would not have declared Nigeria – the most populous country in Africa Ebola-free on October 21, 2014.

      Adadevoh was born in Lagos in October 1956. Her father was Babatunde Adadevoh, a professor of chemical pathology and, between 1978 and 1980, the vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos. Her great-grandfather was the Nigerian nationalist Herbert Macaulay (himself the grandson of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the first African Anglican bishop). She lived most of her life in Lagos, spending the last 21 years working at the First Consultant hospital in Obalende on Lagos Island, where a statue of Macaulay still stands today.

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      This book is written for anyone who is interested finding out the real truth about the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), how it has killed over 6000 people in West Africa since February 2014 and how Nigeria, the most populated country in

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