Tanzanian Government Suspected Of Ebola Outbreak Cover-Up

The World Health Organization alleged that the Tanzanian government is withholding information from the public regarding possible cases of the feared Ebola virus.

As per the statement released by WHO on September 21, the organization outlined a number of unofficial reports of cases of the virus coming from Tanzania.

There was allegedly a doctor who returned to Tanzania from Uganda and was suspected to have been infected by the Ebola virus.

Tests were made by the Tanzanian National Health Laboratory and the doctor was reportedly found to be positive. An alarming note on the whereabouts of the doctor prior to her death on September 8 was that she traveled to different places all over Tanzania and eventually died in Dar es Salaam, which is considered as the largest city in the country.

Subsequently, unofficial reports were made to WHO of more suspected Ebola cases coming from various locations in the country, as well as reports of contacts in quarantine.

However, as per the official statement of the Tanzanian government, they didn’t have any suspected Ebola cases admitted from any parts of their country.

Despite this denial of the Tanzanian government, the WHO outlined incidents that they could not simply ignore.

For instance, according to WHO, Tanzanian officials were slow in responding to WHO’s requests for clarifications. When asked about the deaths of the involved personalities, they also didn’t have any other explanation and have also refused in performing confirmatory tests that will prove whether the disease is spreading or not.

Even though WHO did not give justification to travel warnings considering the little information available, the U.S. and the U.K. still issued strong warnings to travelers in Tanzania.

Included in the warnings given by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sept. 27 was the place where the doctor died, as well as three more locations visited by the doctor, namely: Mbeya, Njombe and Songea.

The U.K. government emphasized that the Ebola outbreak in Congo was tagged as a PHEIC case, otherwise known as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, which has already spilled over to Uganda, the place where the doctor allegedly came from before returning to Tanzania and subsequently reported as diagnosed with Ebola.