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Guinea Closes Borders With Liberia & Sierra Leone As Ebola Death Count Nears 1000
In an effort to stop people entering the country, The BBC reports, Guinea said it was closing its borders. "We have provisionally closed the frontier between Guinea and Sierra Leone [and Liberia] because of all the news that we have received from there recently," Health Minister Remy Lamah told a news conference. Ironically, the latest outbreak is thought to have begun in Guinea, but Liberia and Sierra Leone are currently facing the highest frequency of new cases. It appears things are not going according to plan...
The total number of cases in the current outbreak stands at 1,779, the WHO said on Friday, with 959 deaths.
The most recent figures from 5 and 6 August showed 68 new cases and 29 deaths.
They included 26 new cases in Sierra Leone and 38 in Liberia, but no new cases in Guinea, where the outbreak began.
Guinea said it was closing its borders in order to stop people from entering the country.
"We have provisionally closed the frontier between Guinea and Sierra Leone because of all the news that we have received from there recently," Health Minister Remy Lamah told a news conference.
He added that Guinea had also closed its border with Liberia.
Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have already declared varying levels of emergency over the spread of the virus.
The most intense outbreak in Guinea was located in the region along the border with Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The WHO had said the worst-affected area, which straddles the borders between the three countries, would be isolated and treated as a "unified zone".
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"The possible consequences of further international spread are particularly serious in view of the virulence of the virus," WHO said after a meeting on Friday.
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Another worry: animals imported from West Africa:PH monitors African wildlife for Ebola
The Philippine government is monitoring the entry of wild animals from Africa, which could bring the deadly Ebola epidemic into the country. Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said all personnel from the Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) assigned in airports and seaports nationwide have been tasked to strictly monitor all imported wild animals and exotic pets, particularly those coming from Ebola-hit countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. {ABS-CBNnews, 6 Aug} http://un-influenza.org/?q=content/unsic-newspouch-special-ebola-virus-6-august-2014
Looks like its either airborne or spreads a lot more easier than previous Ebola strains.
"Both actions and news reports are muted because if international travel is brought to a standstill to avert the spread of ebola, then we can be sure that we will hav a financial tsunami thanks to the over indebted airline industry collapsing."
STOP FLYING, PEOPLE!
But if this thing is easily transmissible, the airlines, as well as most other industries, will collapse anyhow. Limiting travel to the afflicted regions is actually in the airline industry's long-term viability. 60% of the population bleeding out due to a virus spread by airtravel isn't conducive to increasing shareholder value.
I'm a glass half full sort of guy, lots of jobs opening up, cheaper realestate, preppers will just isolate themselves in their batcaves for a year and be able to come out and say 'I told you fuckers so, who's laughing now bitches'
So the head health guy in Mexico insists that there is no ebola in Mexico.
But of course he 'must' be covering up something!
LOL
There is a threat, certainly...but really people, can you truly believe that this stuff would be hidden like that?
The 'Threat Journal' is a joke.
Now I KNOW there is a coverup, because Mexico has denied it and now you have made a joke of the denial, so it must be true.
They don't need Ebola in Mexico, anybody thought to have Ebola in Mexico will just be a Meth addict.
The world today is full of complexities; people assume that these complexities ensure that our way of life is safe from disasters and horrific outcomes whereas the exact opposite is the case. An Amish farm is not technologically complex but it is enduring, unlike our fragile world....
If you like your African vacation, you can stay on your African vacation.
In the same time period since the beginning of this Ebola 'epidemic' approxinately 500,000 people have died of Malaria, and 300,000 children under age 2 have died of intestinal parasites from contaminated water. Oh, and the number of people killed for profit by the cigarette industry total over 1 million worldwide in the same time frame.
So exactly what fucking epidemic are we talking about?
300 people got killied accidentally in a commercial jet which rebels thought was military, but they were somebodies, unfortunately thats how the world rocks, some people are worth more than other people, the US verse Iraq rate is about 5,000 to 1 one which is why you won't see boots on the ground, too politically sensitive, I think the Israeli verse palestinian rate is about 500 to 1.
Okay. Small head fuck here. If Ebola has never been in the US before, then how could they be doing research on it and patent a version of it and be working on a treatment/cure for it. Hmmm????
... never been loose in the wild in the US. Except that one time in Reston, VA. But that was monkey Ebola, so it doesn't count.
So, only one time that we know of. And if it happens again, you won't know either, unless it is obvious and everywhere.
The research on it was done at the bio-warfare lab at Ft. Detrick, or maybe they have one or two other such places. Preston talked about it in The Hot Zone. It's carried on inside several layers of protection, something like in the intro sequence on Get Smart.
how many other indians have gone undetected back from western africa to their homes?
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/suspected-ebola-patient-admi...
A 25-year-old man from Theni, who arrived in Chennai by flight from Guinea, has been transferred to the isolation ward of the hospital.In a suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus, health officials on Saturday night detained and placed under observation a 25-year-old man who arrived from the Republic of Guinea at the Chennai Airport. He has been kept in the isolation ward of the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, where his health is being closely monitored by a team of doctors and staff who have taken the precautionary measures recommended.
According to details emerging at the hospital on Sunday morning, the person arrived from the Western African nation to proceed towards his home in Theni district of Tamil Nadu. A team of health workers who have been put at the airport to check all passengers arriving from the Western African region, where the Ebola virus spread has been reported by the WHO, detained the passenger on precautionary grounds and transferred him to the hospital. The flight arrived at 8.45 p.m. and he was quickly transferred to the hospital. He has been placed under observation in the isolation ward 215.
Doctor S. Raghunandan, deputy medical superintendent of the hospital, told reporters that a separate team of doctors and health workers have been deputed to observe the patient. They have all been provided with special goggles, gloves and boots which would be used while accessing the patient.
“As of now the patient is asymptomatic. A blood sample to Pune (National Institute of Virology) and the results expected within the next 24 to 48 hours. We are monitoring his temperature every four hours. If the blood results are negative for Ebola virus, we would transfer him to a local facility near his home but will continue to incubate and monitor him for a period of 20 days," the doctor added.
This correspondent who was at the hospital on Sunday morning also noted that the corridor leading to the isolation ward had been cordoned off, and that all the nurses and the health workers at the hospital were wearing face masks.
The Union Health Ministry has opened a 24-hour "Emergency Operation Centre" from August 9, 2014. The helpline numbers are: 011-23061469, 23063205, 23061302.
http://www.dw.de/treating-the-ebola-virus-in-hamburg/a-17821225 Germany trying to develop vaccine
Infected person flew to Hamburg.. http://www.bild.de/regional/hamburg/ebola/ebola-verdacht-in-hamburg-37182352.bild.html
http://en.ria.ru/society/20140810/191886383/Quarantined-German-Patient-N...
still waiting for a postive test outside West Africa...
Disease outbreak news
Epidemiology and surveillance15 August 2014
Between 12 and 13 August 2014, a total of 152 new cases of Ebola virus disease (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 76 deaths were reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
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Confirmed, probable, and suspect cases and deaths from Ebola virus disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, as of 13 August 2014[...]
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_08_15_ebola/en/