{"id":56160,"date":"2014-10-14T07:39:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T07:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=56160"},"modified":"2014-10-14T09:37:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T09:37:06","slug":"ebola-likely-to-enter-ghana-by-october-31-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/10\/ebola-likely-to-enter-ghana-by-october-31-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola likely to enter Ghana by October 31 – Research"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ghana tops the list of countries at risk of recording an Ebola outbreak, a research has revealed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The research conducted by the Northeastern University, USA says countries with the largest probability of seeing the arrival of \u00a0the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) cases before the end of October 2014, are Ghana, United States, France, Senegal and Cote d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n

The report was compiled before Senegal, Nigeria and the United States of America (USA) recorded any case and was published on October 6, 2014.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”gxG5cXIdodMFQ4IkD7plRcg1DmUBdH5o”]A research by Oxford University in the United Kingdom\u00a0had earlier revealed that\u00a0Ghana and 14 other countries in Africa are at risk<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of animal-to-human transmission of Ebola by virtue of their geography.<\/p>\n

Other countries<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other countries stated in the report are the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Belgium, Mali, Gambia, Morocco, South Africa, Kenya, Lebanon and Germany.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the short-term projection for the international spread of the EVD shows a small probability for countries outside Africa, with the exception of a few European countries.<\/p>\n

It said the probability of international spread would have increased, particularly, in Europe and the Americas, if the Nigerian outbreak was not contained.<\/p>\n

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Concerns in Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although no official comment could be obtained, people on the street have expressed concern about the chances of Ghana experiencing an outbreak soon.<\/p>\n

According to them, with Ghana being used as the hub for the transmission of Ebola equipment to the affected countries, they said the country had a slim chance of avoiding the disease.<\/p>\n

The Head of the United Nations (UN) Mission on Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Mr Anthony Banbury, had earlier given the assurance that the presence of the mission in Ghana would not put the country at risk.<\/p>\n

According to him, the team was going to follow stringent and rigid measures that would be put in place by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Ministry of Health (MoH) to check their travels from Ghana to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the three countries affected by the Ebola disease.<\/p>\n

But some people are still of the belief that air travels by the UNMEER team coupled with Ghana being a transit point of flights from many West African countries, was going to increase the countries vulnerability.<\/p>\n

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The Report<\/strong><\/p>\n

The report said the probability of case exportation was extremely modest for non-African countries, with the exception of the United Kingdom (UK), Belgium, France and the United States of America (USA).<\/p>\n

The research said the probability of any country to experience EVD case importation depended on the passenger flow from the areas affected by the outbreak, the case numbers and the duration of the incubation time.<\/p>\n

It said to characterise and forecast the international spread, it was assumed that the growth rate of the epidemic in the affected regions was not going to change in the next two months.<\/p>\n

Hope for the future<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, the report said the transmissibility might change as the epidemic progresses, saying that new containment measures would lower the local transmission with a decrease of observed cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile this was the scenario we hope will occur in the future, if the containment measures are not successful, we may expect a deterioration of the health infrastructure capabilities in the EVD-affected areas,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

That, it said, would likely lead to the increase in transmissibility and an acceleration of the epidemic.<\/p>\n

It said the evolution of the epidemic was likely to deviate from the current behaviour in the next few weeks or months.<\/p>\n

The Archbishop who spoke to the Daily Graphic clarifying a message to his congregation last Sunday said the church had declared a two-week fast for preventive prayers against the Ebola Virus from Coming into Ghana.<\/p>\n

He had told the congregation that the \u201cdemonic\u201d Ebola Virus had Ghana on its radar as its next destination between October and November.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve declared another fast on Thursday because on Wednesday, I was resting and [at] 1 am, the Spirit of the Lord woke me up and He said: \u2018Are you sleeping?\u2019 And I said: \u2018Yes I\u2019m sleeping\u2019 and He said: \u2018Wake up!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I did and He said: \u2018you have to go into prayer because the Ebola virus is looking for a door to enter your country between October and November\u2019. So I\u2019m telling you, you can write it down. I don\u2019t just say things. I put 38 years of credibility on the line. So if I don\u2019t hear, I don\u2019t talk. When I say it you better believe it,\u201d he was reported to have said.<\/p>\n

Fasting against Ebola in Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Archbishop told the Daily Graphic that the Bible said \u201cwe should pray that we are not led into temptation and should be delivered from evil. We are in terrible times. The disease is killing people in isolated countries; we have to be prepared physically and spiritually. \u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the church had declared fast for preventive prayers against the Ebola virus which had so far killed more than 3,000 from entering Ghana.<\/p>\n

Quoting Psalm 91:10, he said the Bible had stated that \u201cNo evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m enforcing scriptures that the Ebola virus will not cross into our borders or ome into this country by land, by sea, by air or through any means that presents danger to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he was not a prophet of doom and that it was his duty to announce what he described as the enemy\u2019s plan against the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would take a lot of alertness. We are praying for the security services to be highly vigilant, so that the disease does not spread to Ghana. It is like a bushfire, the moment it enters the country, unless we have the solution, there is no end to it. It is like there is no hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doom mongers<\/strong><\/p>\n

On his Sunday sermon, the Archbishop Duncan-Williams alleged that there were people who wanted to see the virus and wanted the country\u2019s name on CNN.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cancel it by the blood of Jesus. That is not to say that we are better than those countries. We are not. But let\u2019s also pray that the plague will cease in those countries\u2026I believe in what I\u2019ve seen and I believe in what I\u2019ve heard and I stand by it\u2026Spiritually.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tell you that the plague, whether it\u2019s a conspiracy of white man, black man, I don\u2019t care. I just know that this thing is demonic. Anything that kills people the way it\u2019s killing people is demonic. I don\u2019t care what is behind it, but I know something; when I lift up prayer, there has to be divine resolution to the matter. Because prayer knows no boundaries and prayer knows no limit\u2026\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He told the Daily Graphic that it was interesting that all the persons who contracted the disease outside Africa\u2014the United States and Spain– survived but most Africans who contracted the disease died.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to take care of ourselves, and all we have is God.\u201d<\/p>\n

He, therefore, urged Ghanaians to rise and pray for the nation at this crucial moment.<\/p>\n

The Ebola statistic so far\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, \u00a0the \u00a0United States Centre for Disease Control (CDC) reports that more than 8,000 people have contracted the disease worldwide, resulting in nearly 4,000 deaths.<\/p>\n

The agency has predicted as many as 550,000 to 1.4 million Ebola infections by January.<\/p>\n

But, \u00a0according to a \u00a0CNN report, there is a glimmer of hope \u00a0if 70 per cent of the people with Ebola are properly treated; the CDC says the epidemic will dwindle and could eventually be eliminated.<\/p>\n

The Ebola scare, which started some five months ago, first broke out in Guinea before spreading to Sierra Leone and Liberia with isolated cases in Senegal, the United States, Spain, Australia.<\/p>\n

More than 100 suspected cases have been investigated in Ghana by the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research but have all proven negative.<\/p>\n

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Source: Graphic Online<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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