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Mapping Africa's "Totally Out Of Control" Ebola Epidemic
"The epidemic is totally out of control," warns medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières of the deadly Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. "There is a real risk of it spreading to other areas...Ebola is no longer a public health issue limited to Guinea: it is affecting the whole of West Africa." As of Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put the number of cases at 362 — more than any other outbreak on record. Here's everything you need to know about Ebola...
Ebola has a fatality rate of up to 90 percent and there is no vaccine and no known cure. The virus initially causes raging fever, headaches, muscle pain, conjunctivitis and weakness, before moving into more severe phases with vomiting, diarrhoea and haemorrhages.
"The epidemic is totally out of control," said Bart Janssens, MSF director of operations. "With the appearance of new sites in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, there is a real risk of it spreading to other areas."
"Ebola is no longer a public health issue limited to Guinea: it is affecting the whole of West Africa," said Janssens, urging WHO, affected countries and their neighbours to deploy more resources especially trained medical staff.
MSF has treated some 470 patients, 215 of them confirmed cases, in specialised centres in the region but the organisation said it had reached the limit of its capacity.
Patients have been identified in more than 60 locations across the three countries making it harder to curb the outbreak.
But locals remain apparently ignorant of the risks...
The disease has not previously occurred in the region and local people remain frightened of it and view health facilities with suspicion. This makes it harder to bring it under control, MSF said in a statement.
At the same time, MSF said, a lack of understanding has meant people continue to prepare corpses and attend funerals of Ebola victims, leaving them vulnerable to the disease, transmitted by touching victims or through bodily fluids.
Civil society groups, governments and religious authorities have also failed to acknowledge the scale of the epidemic and as a result few prominent figures are promoting the fight against the disease, the statement said.
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Never mind 5 gm. How about a kilo each of smack and coke? Party like a rock star until you accidentally die of an overdose. I read that the gov't frowns on this tactic, tho.
fuck zh. more people died of ass to mouth diseases than ebola while you were reading this article.
Africa is the canary in the coal mine IMHO. If the CDC is speaking out we should all be very worried. This ain't no joke, folks.
Yes, the CDC...bastion of all things credible and true.
Fished in lately?
Yeah, well, you're Master of the Universe. Why don't you do something?
And what about Lyme disease across the US, UK, EU etc,....
A totally debilitating disease, that wrecks peoples lives for years.
Antibiotics could stop people having to use wheelchairs and being disabled for life
Ebola is TOTALLY debilitating.
Lyme disease is a nasty bugger that deserves a lot more priority.
And here in Los Angeles we have a nasty fungus "Valley Fever" that kills a couple of people per year, lives in the dust all over town, and has had a gorilla in the zoo sick for several months!
Not minimizing Lyme, just pointing out the huge difference in outcome (mostly)
Valey fever kills a couple of people a year. Choking on hotdogs likely kills more.
Look at relative risks and hedge accordingly.
You're only at risk of death whebn you are alive.
You're right, I was just engaging in some random semi-relevant chatter.
yes but what about the gorilla? You can go to jail for years for animal cruelty vs, you know, murder or rape only being worth a couple months.
(the only thing worse of course is smoking a joint)
coccidioides immitis ( Valley Fever) does kill a few a year. Mostly foreigners and the elderly. The majority of people in SoCal have been exposed but don't remember ever being sick. 80% of people applying for a job at my hospital were skin test pos for exposure. We always see a rash of cases after a rain and then a warm spell. The fungus lives in the soil and " blooms" in these conditions. The spores are very communicable. However it does not transmit from one patient to another. I'm just happy they have removed it as a select agent. One less reason the Feds will arrest me as a terrorist. Though ZH membership probably concerns them more.
Miffed;-)
There is reportedly now Lyme Disease in Australia. People in Western Australia have come down with it and they hadn't left Australia. Also saw my first Lyme Disease poster in a pharmacy last week.
As for Ebola, Australia has plenty of fruit bats and has had outbreaks of other bat borne deadly diseases such as Hendra Virus. Bats infected horses and the horses infected their owners and veterinarians.
Fruit bats shit when they fly and I'm always careful not to get splatted. Hard to do when 10,000 bats fly overhead
"The disease has not previously occurred in the region and local people remain frightened of it and view health facilities with suspicion."
Wonder why?
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/pakistan/110712/osama-bin-laden-fake-vaccinations-abbottabad-cia-
Ah yes, the politically correct version of how ebola spreads. The real story: the natives eat rats, bats, and monkeys. Primary (bats) as well as secondary carriers. That's why guinea put a moratorium on sales of said animals at markets.
After tonight, I'm never eating bat wings again!
That's chicken of the cave.
lmao!
At a market in Mombasa Kenya they sold whole rats. With the hair, guts and all they were wrapped in aluminum foil then cooked on an open fire. I saw a guy unwrap one and eat the head, with the teeth sticking out, in one bite - crunch, crunch. I'll never forget that. Most people don't know how hard life is for a lot of the world.
If that guy was on the Upper West Side, he'd look like he lived in West Virginia.
And for those on the go...
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=99401&d=1392212607
Soon, somewhere in the South a County Fair is going to have this new food feature only it will deep fried, dipped in chocolate, then covered in peanuts and bacon bits.
Why eating rats is hard life?
Probably, if you overcome the initial repulsion, you'll find they are a food tastier and healthier than a Big Mac or the usual snacks we eat in the West.
I seriously fucking doubt it.
Considering the obliteration of possum & squirrel populations in America in the 1930's I'm sure rat is good eatin' too.
Just people need to be smart enough to skin & gut an animal and don't eat the brains.
Those same fruit bats are slobbering, eating, and crapping their bodily fluids all over fruit that people eat without necessarily washing or cooking first. If the infections migrate east, you are looking at farms that export fruit to the US & Europe (after a period in cold storage).
Given the extant food price inflation even before the recent Panama virus outbreak to bananas and this year's various droughts worldwide, another log on the food price inflation fire might not be welcome.
Hey Bill Gates, excellent opportunity to develop a vaccine here, or do you *have* to wait until it kills a million? Cuz if it does that, you probably won't have time before it kills a billion or six.
Of course it's not Bill Gates responsibility, but he is funding great work in these areas, and this loathsome virus seems a target of opportunity.
I presume a vaccine, maybe even a treatment, could be found if someone threw a couple of billion dollars at it, but it still might take several years. Tough to even experiment on such a nasty thing, tough to find volunteer scientists, tough to do human tests! There was an article about this somewhere recently ...
Bill only does great work for Bill.
Dig a little.
I'm hoping I didn't miss a sarc here.
No sarc intended, I thought some of the projects on something worm and some other rare disease (and/or malaria?) was good stuff. No? I'll have to go look I guess.
I haven't second-sourced any of this, but maybe a start:
Why is Bill Gates investing in Monsanto and GMOs?"Totally out of control?" In 1976 there were twice as many reported ebola cases as today. Also when you consider the number of deaths as a percentage of the population in central Africa it is about .0002%. Sounds like media scare tactics to me . . . .
More media horseshit, I just called my buds in West Africa and they laughed.
Don't settle for a foreign pandemic virus of unknown quality and lethality...
Insist on a pandemic virus proudly made in America by Americans.
This message brought to you by the proud folks at USAMRIID Fort Detrick MD.
I wonder if a couple shots of Chipotle Away would reduce the mortality rate?
This is actually good news.
Don't bash the statistics too badly........362 and stupid people can have an exponential growth rate(just like FED induced market rallies).
Thank god it's not an airborne disease however there's still plenty of fucking stupid people in the US as evident by the clowns running the country. Who probably have already been vaccinated lol. It's too bad there's no vaccine for 'fuckheadism'.
Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I wonder if this is so deadly why wouldn't they see more gorillas dead from it before it has a chance to spread to humans.
was it not the satanist called bill gates that once said if we do a really good job with vaccines blah blah we can get the population of africa dowm.
monsanto in action.
Dustin Hoffman in that yellow suit with the clear face mask.
Fixes it everytime!!!
So do the natives eat the primates in order to contract the disease, or is it communicable through acts of beastiality?
monkey slobber, you know when they kiss the bride.
One immigrant seeking a better life in London England boards a plane in Africa feeling a bit bad, but looking forward to getting benefits and a free apartment at any UK benefits office, plus free health care and a monthly cash benefit. The person lands and makes his way through passport and customs, gets on the tube at Heathrow headed for some outter London neighborhood where he knows some other Africans who have a flat. Well, need I go on with the story? If the man has early stage ebola, well fuck me if all hell isn't about to break loose.
http://www.dote.osd.mil/pub/reports/FY2009/pdf/dod/2009jbaids.pdf
http://biofiredefense.com/media/MRKT-PRT-0298_NGDS_Contract_Award_Press_...
check out the movie 28 Days and the sequel, shot in your neck of the woods, could almost be a premonition
Very informative. I had been thinking the whole time that Ebola was the cause of the Ebonics epidemic.
no no no, ebola is the cure for Ebonics!
o noooo.... too sad!
Can't blame this on the white man.
This is on Obama.
362? is that more than, or a factor of, the number of deadly shootings in Chicago this month?
Chicago is host to many virus. One such virus has infected the White house.
Breaking news: Africa still sucks.
Really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHBq0bArSdI
The rapid explosion of the human population is an anomaly in the Matrix. If not Ebola, some other type of virus or super bacteria will come along.
With modern medicine the fatality rate of Ebola is only 60%.
what if you're really obese and wear a flag as a moo moo dose the rate go up?
No one in a Walmarket has ever died from Ebola.
It makes me happy to know that if a hyper plague hits us, that that there are plans for Nancy Pilosi and her valuable associates to be kept safe at an undisclosed location.
I remember reading a book entitled The Hot Zone by Richard Preston when it was published in 1995. It's described as a terrifying true story but the most terrifying part of it was when they canvassed the possibility that eventually these kind of viruses could possibly mutate into an airborne version and passed from one person to the next like the flu .............to me in this jet travel age that is more scary than anything I can think of.
Africa
One day a long time ago a version walked "out of there" and then a version remained and still struggles to this day.
So fruit bats and gorilla brains are off the menu. Strange diseases cook up in those steamy jungles. How long before someone hops a plane and brings this to the US?
Big Jim....It's out of control because it has a relatively long incubation period of up to 20 days and is already spread over a wide area, meaning many people have and will continue to contract the disease without knowing it. One American doctor reported that he entered a small village that had been deserted with 20+ corpses left behind, meaning that surely many of those who scattered are now spreading the disease, and no one knows who or where they are.
Maybe when Obama goes home to his ancestrial homeland... er... birthplace, he can bring this home as a gift to us, to mirror his policies.
I bet the bio weapons people at FT DETRICK can explain this quote EBOLA outbreak... Ebola its whats for dinner.
Over a billion people in Africa and 362 cases of ebola is considered an "epidemic?"
Cool, now we can overuse "epidemic" like we do "racism."
Just looking at the fatality numbers, you've got a greater chance of getting dead spending 1 month in Chicongo (native gun violence in their 'gun free zone') than you do spending 1 month in the habitat of the African fruit bat.
If we could just keep that guy in the picture to keep his thing in his pants and stop f'n those apes we'd be okay.