Bob
18th September 2014, 16:38
Louisiana - One dead 3 hospitalized, ship anchored in US waters..
The ship is anchored in the Mississippi River near Belle Chasse. According to Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, it is expected to continue on to New Orleans around 10 a.m. Thursday.
Wednesday night, Nungesser spoke about the role the parish played in the response to this incident and how it was handled by the CDC and the US Coast Guard.
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Nungesser said his office was inundated with calls Wednesday from concerned residents wanting to know if there is a chance mosquitoes carrying the disease could still be on the ship. He said he would be speaking with health and insect experts Thursday morning to determine if that was a possibility.
Health officials advise malaria is spread by mosquitoes and does not spread from person to person.
Between 1,500 and 2,000 cases are reported every year in the United States, almost all in recent travelers.
The ship's name is MARINE PHOENIX
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The Marine Phoenix is traveling up the Mississippi River to New Orleans, this Thursday. The ship was in a holding pattern in Belle Chasse overnight, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed sick crew members evacuated from the oil tanker have malaria.
Officials say up to four crew members and one river boat pilot were taken by ambulance to West Jefferson Medical Center, where staff implemented full safety precautions. EMS workers also wore protective suits.
Harbor Police tell WGNO News, the ship is expected to travel upstream sometime Thursday and dock at the Jourdan Road Terminal in the 9th Ward, however they have not confirmed what time that will happen.
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Type: Cargo Ship IMO:9072824 Callsign:A8NM7 MMSI:636013523
Until then, delivery river boat pilots have been told to make no deliveries to the ship. It’s unsure how many crewmen work aboard the Marine Phoenix, but vessels like this usually carry close to 30 crew members.
(NOTE: one should keep in mind ISIS/ISIL threats to transmit infection to the US, specifically EBOLA, so there was an EBOLA concern when this ship entered US waters. One crew member aboard the freighter died from malaria after getting off the ship in the Bahamas earlier in the week. Those being treated were taken to West Jefferson Medical Center in Marrero.)
Malaria Facts
Plasmodium falciparum - this is the killer. It happens mostly in sub-saharan Africa. Almost every malarial death is caused by P. falciparum.
In the rest of the world, 75% of the malaria cases experience the infection from the other variant, called P. vivax, P. malariae and/or P. ovale
In 2012, an estimated 627,000 people died of malaria—most were young children in sub-Saharan Africa. Within the last decade, increasing numbers of partners and resources have rapidly increased malaria control efforts. This scale-up of interventions has saved 3.3 million lives globally and cut malaria mortality by 45%, leading to hopes and plans for elimination and ultimately eradication.
Between 1957 and 2011, in the United States, 63 outbreaks of locally transmitted mosquito-borne malaria have occurred; in such outbreaks, local mosquitoes become infected by biting persons carrying malaria parasites (acquired in endemic areas) and then transmit malaria to local residents.
Approximately 1,500–2,000 cases of malaria are reported every year in the United States, almost all in recent travelers. Reported malaria cases reached a 40-year high of 1,925 in 2011.
Resistance to currently available antimalarial drugs has been confirmed in only two of the four human malaria parasite species, Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax. It is unknown if P. malariae or P. ovale has developed resistance to any antimalarial drugs. P. knowlesi, a zoonotic monkey malaria that infects humans in forest fringe areas of Southeast Asia, is fully susceptible to chloroquine and other currently used drugs.
Drug-resistant P. falciparum
Chloroquine-resistant P. falciparum first developed independently in three to four areas in Southeast Asia, Oceania, and South America in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Since then, chloroquine resistance has spread to nearly all areas of the world where falciparum malaria is transmitted.
P. falciparum has also developed resistance to nearly all of the other currently available antimalarial drugs, such as sulfadoxine/ pyrimethamine, mefloquine, halofantrine, and quinine. Although resistance to these drugs tends to be much less widespread geographically, in some areas of the world, the impact of multi-drug resistant malaria can be extensive. Most recently, a low-grade resistance to artemisinin-based drugs has emerged in parts of Southeast Asia.
Drug-resistant P. vivax
Chloroquine-resistant P. vivax malaria was first identified in 1989 among Australians living in or traveling to Papua New Guinea. P. vivax resistance to chloroquine has also now been identified in Southeast Asia, on the Indian subcontinent, and in South America. Vivax malaria parasites, particularly from Oceania, show greater resistance to primaquine than P. vivax isolates from other regions of the world.
Article Information source reference - http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/one-dead-three-hospitalized-with-malaria-from-ship-inbound-from-africa/28119476
Technical reference CDC - http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/malaria_worldwide/reduction/drug_resistance.html
Technical reference WWW - http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/references_resources/index.html
Malaria World Wide Foundation - http://www.malaria.org/
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The ship is anchored in the Mississippi River near Belle Chasse. According to Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, it is expected to continue on to New Orleans around 10 a.m. Thursday.
Wednesday night, Nungesser spoke about the role the parish played in the response to this incident and how it was handled by the CDC and the US Coast Guard.
http://waga.images.worldnow.com/images/4768747_G.jpg
Nungesser said his office was inundated with calls Wednesday from concerned residents wanting to know if there is a chance mosquitoes carrying the disease could still be on the ship. He said he would be speaking with health and insect experts Thursday morning to determine if that was a possibility.
Health officials advise malaria is spread by mosquitoes and does not spread from person to person.
Between 1,500 and 2,000 cases are reported every year in the United States, almost all in recent travelers.
The ship's name is MARINE PHOENIX
http://tribwgno.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/20140918-marine-phoenix.jpeg
The Marine Phoenix is traveling up the Mississippi River to New Orleans, this Thursday. The ship was in a holding pattern in Belle Chasse overnight, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed sick crew members evacuated from the oil tanker have malaria.
Officials say up to four crew members and one river boat pilot were taken by ambulance to West Jefferson Medical Center, where staff implemented full safety precautions. EMS workers also wore protective suits.
Harbor Police tell WGNO News, the ship is expected to travel upstream sometime Thursday and dock at the Jourdan Road Terminal in the 9th Ward, however they have not confirmed what time that will happen.
http://images.vesseltracker.com/images/vessels/hires/Marine-Phoenix-1046064.jpg
Type: Cargo Ship IMO:9072824 Callsign:A8NM7 MMSI:636013523
Until then, delivery river boat pilots have been told to make no deliveries to the ship. It’s unsure how many crewmen work aboard the Marine Phoenix, but vessels like this usually carry close to 30 crew members.
(NOTE: one should keep in mind ISIS/ISIL threats to transmit infection to the US, specifically EBOLA, so there was an EBOLA concern when this ship entered US waters. One crew member aboard the freighter died from malaria after getting off the ship in the Bahamas earlier in the week. Those being treated were taken to West Jefferson Medical Center in Marrero.)
Malaria Facts
Plasmodium falciparum - this is the killer. It happens mostly in sub-saharan Africa. Almost every malarial death is caused by P. falciparum.
In the rest of the world, 75% of the malaria cases experience the infection from the other variant, called P. vivax, P. malariae and/or P. ovale
In 2012, an estimated 627,000 people died of malaria—most were young children in sub-Saharan Africa. Within the last decade, increasing numbers of partners and resources have rapidly increased malaria control efforts. This scale-up of interventions has saved 3.3 million lives globally and cut malaria mortality by 45%, leading to hopes and plans for elimination and ultimately eradication.
Between 1957 and 2011, in the United States, 63 outbreaks of locally transmitted mosquito-borne malaria have occurred; in such outbreaks, local mosquitoes become infected by biting persons carrying malaria parasites (acquired in endemic areas) and then transmit malaria to local residents.
Approximately 1,500–2,000 cases of malaria are reported every year in the United States, almost all in recent travelers. Reported malaria cases reached a 40-year high of 1,925 in 2011.
Resistance to currently available antimalarial drugs has been confirmed in only two of the four human malaria parasite species, Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax. It is unknown if P. malariae or P. ovale has developed resistance to any antimalarial drugs. P. knowlesi, a zoonotic monkey malaria that infects humans in forest fringe areas of Southeast Asia, is fully susceptible to chloroquine and other currently used drugs.
Drug-resistant P. falciparum
Chloroquine-resistant P. falciparum first developed independently in three to four areas in Southeast Asia, Oceania, and South America in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Since then, chloroquine resistance has spread to nearly all areas of the world where falciparum malaria is transmitted.
P. falciparum has also developed resistance to nearly all of the other currently available antimalarial drugs, such as sulfadoxine/ pyrimethamine, mefloquine, halofantrine, and quinine. Although resistance to these drugs tends to be much less widespread geographically, in some areas of the world, the impact of multi-drug resistant malaria can be extensive. Most recently, a low-grade resistance to artemisinin-based drugs has emerged in parts of Southeast Asia.
Drug-resistant P. vivax
Chloroquine-resistant P. vivax malaria was first identified in 1989 among Australians living in or traveling to Papua New Guinea. P. vivax resistance to chloroquine has also now been identified in Southeast Asia, on the Indian subcontinent, and in South America. Vivax malaria parasites, particularly from Oceania, show greater resistance to primaquine than P. vivax isolates from other regions of the world.
Article Information source reference - http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/one-dead-three-hospitalized-with-malaria-from-ship-inbound-from-africa/28119476
Technical reference CDC - http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/malaria_worldwide/reduction/drug_resistance.html
Technical reference WWW - http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/references_resources/index.html
Malaria World Wide Foundation - http://www.malaria.org/
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