Saved Thousands Of Lives Ebola Virus Burial Teams

Saved Thousands Of Lives Ebola Virus Burial Teams 

Saved thousands Of Lives Ebola Virus Burial Teams

Saved Thousands Of Lives Ebola Virus Burial Teams 

They were ordinary people doing extraordinary work in extremely dangerous times.

Now, new research suggests that Red Cross volunteers who helped bury the bodies of most Ebola victims in West Africa could prevent more than 10,000 cases of deadly disease.

More than 28 000 people have been infected with Ebola in 2014-2015. Of these, 11,310 people died.

The countries most affected are Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

An important part of the response has been to ensure the safe burial of the late Ebola. The bodies of the victims were particularly toxic.

Funerary community where people were helping to wash the bodies of their relatives, have contributed to what many people are infected in the early stages of the epidemic.

In a few months, the epidemic became the worst public health emergency in modern times.

The study, published in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, uses statistical models to measure the impact of the Red Cross Trustworthy Burial Insurance program.

The researchers focused on 45 dangerous burials in the Community and 310 people identified as having had contact with infected organs. They found on average a little more than two Ebola people developed for each Community funeral peril if they were kept.

The greatest risk was for those caring for a loved one with Ebola before his death. The researchers found that many other infections could have been avoided if patients were treated in the hospital rather than by their families and communities.

However, using these estimates, the study suggests that safe and dignified burials by Red Cross volunteers were prevented from 1411 to 10,452 cases of Ebola.

The authors affirmed that these are conservative estimates.

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They highlighted a number of limitations in the study, including the challenges of collecting very personal and sensitive information about the funeral, and the duration between the time some of the burials were performed and when the data was collected.

Put an End to the War

Hundreds of paid volunteers took on the serious task of collecting bodies in people's homes safely, while having to manage families and mourning communities.

They are ordinary people from West Africa, as teachers and students. Many have done the ruthless and dangerous work for months.

Some were stigmatized in their communities, because people were afraid, they could bring the virus home with them.

In fact, they have helped contain the worst Ebola epidemic in the world.

"It was a very hard job," said Red Cross volunteer Mohamed Kamara, with whom I spent one day a fundraising body in Sierra Leone in 2014.

"It's good news that people are realizing the impact of what we have done to help stop the Ebola transmission," he said he was reacting to the results of the capital's Freetown study.

"Some people do not even come near us at this time.

"However, the team they worked with helped to give us the courage to do this important job ... and put an end to the war."

Safe and dignified burial of the Red Cross

• The teams have managed more than 47,000 funerals
• Directed more than 50% of all burials during the outbreak
• All deaths in the home were suspected of being Ebola
• Approximately 1,500 Red Cross volunteers participating in funerals