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WHO Warns "No End In Sight" As 170 Ebola Healthcare Workers Now Infected
"The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa continues to evolve in alarming ways, with no immediate end in sight," is the ominous warning this morning from the World Health Organization. The WHO statement confirmed that a stunning 170 health-care workers (the ones covered from head to toe in protective garments) have been infected with Ebola and at least 81 have died. "Treatment facilities are oveflowing," they note as they prepare to hold an emergency meeting today on experimental therapies. But apart from that, as Western media says, it is contained and does not pose a risk to Americans...
The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa continues to evolve in alarming ways, with no immediate end in sight. Many barriers stand in the way of rapid containment.
The most severely affected countries, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, have only recently returned to political stability following years of civil war and conflict, which left health systems largely destroyed or severely disabled.
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The recent surge in the number of cases has stretched all capacities to the breaking point. Supplies of personal protective equipment and disinfectants are inadequate. The outbreak continues to outstrip diagnostic capacity, delaying the confirmation or exclusion of cases and impeding contact tracing.
Some treatment facilities are overflowing; all beds are occupied and patients are being turned away.
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Six months into the outbreak, fear is proving to be the most difficult barrier to overcome. Fear causes contacts of cases to escape from the surveillance system, families to hide symptomatic loved ones or take them to traditional healers, and patients to flee treatment centres. Fear, and the hostility it can feed, have threatened the security of national and international response teams.
Health-care staff fear for their lives. To date, more than 170 health-care workers have been infected and at least 81 have died.
Outbreak control is further compromised when fear causes airlines to refuse to transport personal protective equipment and courier services to refuse to transport properly and securely packaged patient samples to a WHO-approved laboratory.
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On Monday 11 August, WHO will hold an emergency meeting with ethicists, drug regulators, scientific experts and lay people to assess the role of experimental therapies in the Ebola outbreak response. Issues to be considered include the extent of available scientific data on efficacy and safety, principles for guiding access to these therapies, principles for fair distribution, and possibilities for rapid augmentation of supplies and their distribution.
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Bloomberg rounds up the latest news on the Ebola outbreak...
- Latest WHO death toll: 961
- Nigeria says 8 people being treated for Ebola
- Rwanda Health Ministry tests suspected Ebola case
- Romania treats patient suspected of Ebola infection: Mediafax
- GSK to test Ebola vaccine later this year: Guardian
- Ebola outbreak shows why global health system is broken: Bloomberg Businessweek
- Yahoo News’s Twitter feed hacked, looking into false tweet about outbreak in Atlanta: USA Today
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And my wife thinks my "Zombie movie collection" was a waste of money.....Ha!
That reminds me...I still need to add a flamethrower to my arsenal. How could I have missed that?
A squirtgun full of bleach might be useful.
there is another waste she will never talk to you with.
Nope. Definately not airborne. These people are clearing licking their infected patients.
The text-book distinction between droplet transmission and being airborne hinges only on few variables: droplet size or volume, survivability of the suspended agent and the distance said droplet can travel.
While officially they say it's not airborne and technically they're right, real-life scenarios, I'd argue, all seem to indicate an airborne virus.
The way health care workers and researchers are catching ebola had me worried from the start. It changed somehow, enough to get around the usual defenses, which were usually very good. The only thing that fits is ebola becoming at least slightly airborne.
Now it is in Lagos it will very likely perfect that little advantage. Give it another few months, then just about the time we think it's been contained something utterly horrific is likely to happen.
Yet another fund raising hysteria! Next!
Obama can just send a strongly worded memo to the CDC informing them not to be "haters". Health crisis solved! Somebody give Obama the Nobel Prize for Medicine....
I hope they come out with a #clever and #strongly_worded #TwitterCampaign
We need an Executive Order banning Ebola from spreading in the CONUS. Pronto.
Hey, the Zombies are meandering about the St Louis suburbs.....
#bleedingoutofeveryoriface
CDC in Atlanta: "Hello, CDC"
Whitehouse: "Hello this is the whitehouse, we have our illustrious head-honcho beloved by all, king duffer and married to a wookie, Mr. Know-it-all on the phone. Will you accept the charges?"
CDC in Atlanta: "Well, fuck, if I have to."
Puhrezuhdint: "why you be hatin'?" "FORE"
Don't pannic, the Feds will have a Vaccine that will be available shortly. If you do not want the vaccine, they will have a nice camp available for you.
Dup
Exactly. It occurs to me that if .gov was REALLY worried, then we would not be hearing a thing about this. This screams swine flu as much as the media is pumping it. Looks to me its all about a vaccination, or detainment, your choice.
And just to keep it real, i said a week or two ago that ebola scared the crap out of me. That promptly ended the next day when i saw nbc anchors foaming at the mouth to tell me about a pandemic. Ive seen this dog and pony show before.
As soon as you get the confirmation Ebola is surging through your body, hit the gun store. It’s not like you’ll live to the court date.
You still need to hit the gun store?
That would be too little, too late.
Obama should visit them
Nigeria goes from 0 to 8 cases in what, a week?
Can you say exponential?
Lagos, the human Petri dish.
8 cases, yeah right. 8 confirmed.
It's 10 now, officially.
It took Liberia 12 weeks to go from 2 confirmed cases, to complete "apocalpyse" (their government's term) and shutting down schools, calling out the troops, and bodies in the streets.
3 months from 2 official cases to hundreds reported dead, more dying, and a general societal collapse.
Think about that.
Just because the government stops stealing doesn't mean society dies or collapses. It just means no more bribes, corruption and paperwork.
Governments tend to think they allow society to exist, when its society that allows for the existance of governments.
Society will continue, trade will continue as the risk and costs are adjusted.
The first eight are a freebie.
A jump from 8 to 80 is exponential. And the next jump is 800.
exp(x)=ex
"and does not pose a risk to Americans..." because we are 'exceptional?
This virus is deadly and just because it has been contained in the past does not mean it can't escape confinement. With all the magical thinking in the world the actions of those in contact with victims must be professional and at the highest levels of isolation science.
Whether we are seeing a breakdown in procedure or problems with the equipment systems needs to be discovered immediately. The fact that this virus may be loose in one of the worlds largest city should have people's hair on fire.
The mistake is in thinking there IS some kind of procedure that can keep Ebola in the jungle.
Human hubris, that is what it is. We really think we can exert complete control over the world.
There IS no procedure to keep a life-form from spreading once it begins to spread. You can only adjust to it. Ebola didn't spring out of the mist last month, it has been known for decades...so where are the medicines that were developed to help people deal with this new virus? h, that's right, big pharma was too busy developing drugs to help old guys keep their hair and their erections...because THAT'S where the money is.
So now a bunch of old guys are hirsute and virile, but Ebola has had decades to position itself, unmolested. And today we scramble to find a 'cure', at the last minute, ay a time when resources are strained, and economies in turmoil. And of course there are all the global hotspots that may make containment problematic...what happens if the countries now affected start to experience severe political turmoil? Good luck on that containment strategy then.
Yeah, we chose what is most important...money. Everything else can go to hell, because we are HUMANS, and nothing can defeat us...riiiiight.
Asimov, The Last Question:
"Cosmic AC," said Man, "How may entropy be reversed?"
The Cosmic AC said, "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER."
Man said, "Collect additional data."
The Cosmic AC said, "I WILL DO SO. I HAVE BEEN DOING SO FOR A HUNDRED BILLION YEARS. MY PREDECESSORS AND I HAVE BEEN ASKED THIS QUESTION MANY TIMES. ALL THE DATA I HAVE REMAINS INSUFFICIENT."
"Will there come a time," said Man, "when data will be sufficient or is the problem insoluble in all conceivable circumstances?"
The Cosmic AC said, "NO PROBLEM IS INSOLUBLE IN ALL CONCEIVABLE CIRCUMSTANCES."
Man said, "When will you have enough data to answer the question?"
"THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER."
"Will you keep working on it?" asked Man.
The Cosmic AC said, "I WILL."
Man said, "We shall wait."
And eventually the Cosmic AC determined how to reverse entropy
And he spoke, "Let there be light."
I read a similar short story years ago where a massive super-computer was created, and tied in to all other computers to combine all the wisdom in the world, and the last question asked was "Is there a God?", and the computer responded, "There is now."
Well said. You clearly understand the situation.
Centralization...not for no reason.
Airborne or protective suits made in China?
well at least we have it contained to the planet Earth.
"Latest Who deathtoll 961"
I was at that concert. That's one hell of a jump from 11.
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSYgRYlhMW4
Made loud to be played loud
Obama should bomb Africa to resolve the problem
Obama devise: 'Where there are a problem,
I bomb it'
michelle, bombed regulary.. by observing her face, we can barely say once a week, at least.
Buy signal for GSK..
Thus airborne. Aerosolized droplets containing a viral load from exhalation. Mutated strain or strains are obviously gaining easier mucus membrane or pulmonary inspired access and with an incubation period of a couple of days to two weeks this could truly become a widespread epidemic/pandemic. Sure we could cease all flights from the entire continent or Africa as well as shut down all shipping and cargo transport but if this is truly the predicament we face than the ease of transmission guarantees that it will become an infection to reckon with.
And obviously they realize these things can happen.
http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat...
Should I start to prepare after the government goes in to hiding or should I have been preparing already? Lead and dehydrated food in the basement. Now I just need to stock up in dehydrated water.
I've been wondering about the prep angle, particularly as a telecommuter. Seems like the biggest risk is shopping for food. Sure one can load up on canned goods and such, but unless things get really bad most people need/want stuff from the store. One can attempt to avoid sneezing folk, but the food itself has been handled and possibly sneezed upon. FWIW, one of the webbot reports (months ago) mentioned a future shortage of disinfecting products. Coincidence? Long bleach.
The gas pump handle is a telecommuter’s biggest risk.
Good point. I'm thinking of treating any errand as equivalent to gardening in the local poison oak. Assume all clothes and skin are contaminated and certain things have to happen upon entering the house (strip and scrub). Of course not foolproof, but I bet it helps my odds in a "light" pandemic here in the US.
No, not the gas handle, money will be the greatest medium for transmission of the virus.
Bleach and disinfectant would be a wise buy.
Bought my beach yesterday, along with rice, beans, tuna, peanut butter, a few cases of energy bars, a ton of water, a ton of toilet paper, flashlights, 50 batteries, etc, etc. Also have several thousand in cash, gold, sliver. Working on my 6 go-bags for the family in case the house goes up in flames. Making sure all cars and one motorcycle filled with gas as often as possible. Still working on a few other things.
Your advice on TKMR and CONX has served me well. Thank you!
Pool shock is where it's at. A little bitty 1lb bag of it will make a crazy amount of disinfectant. As long as there's no additives (antifungals tend to use toxic copper) the stuff can be used to treat water and to disinfect virtually everything but prions.
smart....see right there. I would have never thought of that. $10 bucks and you are good for 10K gallons.
Funny how those nations are now screaming at their former colonial masters to help them. It's been 50-60 years already and they still haven't grown up. It's cultural and genetic.
Funny how the IMF, WTO, CIA and the host of other alphabets have never left them alone so that they could 'grow up'.
hahahaha......that is funny.....africans growing up...hahahha.....
to grow up you fisrt have to stand on your feets...
and eventually before standing, getting down of the tree, can be a good start.
Well, I received a Ebola Virus Exemption from Obamao.
Saludos Americanos,
Los traidores in your country are attempting to ensure that if you don't die from Ebola you will die from something out of Africa. They have now whipped up the African Americans in St Louis in operation Trayvon Martin 2.0. If the Ebola doesn't spread and kill you maybe the violence and rioting of the AA's will.
Buena suerte amigos
Speaking of Trayvon:
http://i.imgur.com/2emmQ.jpg
Interesting read if things go from bad to worse
http://thebookgallery2014.blogspot.com/2014/08/beyond-ebola-preparation....
Stop spamming each thread with that shit. The "free copy" of that book is an executable self-extracting .exe file!
Don't you think there are enough viruses going around?
Thank you and seek both for the heads up.
According to seven different virus scanners, the "free book" .exe files contains:
sunbelt Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra
bitdefender Trojan.Generic.11607436
avast Win32:Malware-gen
baidu Trojan.MSIL.Injector.bDXS
baidusd Win32.Trojan.Injector.ce
qh360 HEUR/Malware.QVM03.Gen
nod32 probably a variant of MSIL/Injector.DXS trojan
Likely all the same trojan with different names, but it's safe to say that book is about as safe as ebola is.
This ebola problem is just an opportunity in work clothes.....how do we get it spread among the ISIS folks? That's the question we should be addressing.
Catapult a few Ebolaians into the Mosul lake.
they will never send caccin in nigeria when in south they are catolic & north they hybrid muslim canibals.
in this part of the world there are shit than even indiana jones & bear grills together never represented for you americans.
You know we are fucked when they start lying about a contagion like it was the same as financial stuff.
Remember how the sub-prime disaster was "containerd"?
If you're part of the in crowd, it's contained. If not, not so much.
When is Obama going to blame Bush?
Smuggled footage from February, 2015.
"more than 170 health-care workers have been infected and at least 81 have died"
How do you recruit for that job? Can there be anyone there still helping?
Same as with any job, higher pay. Eventually someone will take the risk for the money.
It's hyped up. I wasted the weekend watching as much footage as possible from Africa across the interwebs and from what I could see, the spread of the disease can be contained within West Africa. It will probably kill thousands in Nigeria before it's done but that is it. Until supplies and resources arrive, they don't have a chance. In the meantime, this Nigerian scam will probably get some attention and lots of money.
The medical staff there shows up in little better than loin cloth and sandals. No face masks either. They're doomed but they were doomed anyway. However, they don't seem to care. Maybe it's not as bad as we're told.
Nigeria is a shithole. Millions of people living in shit huts. Exposure to fecal matter is the least of their problems.
The two Americans are recovering. Experimental drugs or simply the better standard of care? Probably a combination of both.
To top it off, I'm pissed I didn't buy TKMR last week. Every time Ebola gets mentioned in the news, a few hundred thousand shares of TKMR get bid.
Someone have any kind of info about the situation in thailandia and philippines?
I have read here about suspected cases in both countries but i've not found anythings else in the web.
If you deluded white folk think you're gods and try to save the africans, the problem will just get bigger down the line and end up on your shores, like hiv.
Let the chips fall where they may. Let nature take its course. No more "feed and save the world" nonsense.
To demonstrate compassion, the prez, veep, and all of congress should visit these hospitals and give all those sick people a nice long hug. In fact, it would make a great photo-op, so take most of the media with you.
Honestly, the best thing that could happen to Africa is if this sweeps the continent and kills off all the people.
I got accused of cultural prejudice for suggesting superstitions and a rampant anti-science bias would make the Ebola situation worse in Africa [even though I hate our crass consumerist culture]. Master, teach me how to be politically correct on the ZH forum.
I'm just a firm believer that the planet could do for a 50-75% culling of the human population. Africa would be a fine place to start.
Thanks -- I'm taking notes ....
By all means, be a volunteer and help us all out.
Since this virus is not a respector of Socio-Economic Status I am all for it.
It does not discriminate.
Let start with the Nuclear Engineers that operate the Reactors. Meltdowns will commence in days destroying the Ecology.
A indiscriminate loss of 50% of the World's Population will have devastating consequences.
That initial loss from disease will be compounded by the loss of many other "services" that are taken for granted.
For the survivors planet Earth will be a Toxic Waste Dump. Then the secondary affects kill the survivors off.
You statists and Agenda 21 advocates are so fucking shallow in your thinking that perhaps the Human Race needs EXTINCTION.
Fuck you.
The thing that really has me confused is that they say its not airborne, but this is well documented with what happened early on with one of the cases:
"THE ORIGINAL CASE
The spread of this outbreak from Guinea to Liberia in March shows how tracing even the most routine aspects of peoples' lives, relationships and reactions will be vital to containing Ebola's spread.
Epidemiologists and virus experts believe the original case in that instance to have been a woman who went to a market in Guinea and then returned, unwell, to her home village in neighbouring northern Liberia.
The woman's sister cared for her, and in doing so contracted the Ebola virus herself before her sibling died of the haemorrhagic fever it causes.
Feeling unwell and fearing a similar fate, the sister wanted to see her husband - an internal migrant worker then employed on the other side of Liberia at the Firestone rubber plantation.
She took a communal taxi via Liberia's capital Monrovia, exposing five other people to the virus who later contracted and died of the Ebola. In Monrovia, she switched to a motorcycle, riding pillion with a young man who agreed to take her to the plantation and whom health authorities were subsequently desperate to trace."
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-health-ebola-transport-idUKK...
SO how do five other people in this cab get this disease if its not airborne? Did they hop over the seats and exchange fluids with her? Seriously, to say its not airbourne might be technically correct, but for practical measures, the facts above illustrate to me that we might as well behave like it is airborne. That rules out air travel, elevators, working in the same room as people and so on.
If a sick person in a cab sneezes, the cab driver and all other passengers will get sick. Ebola or flu doesn't matter. That's not airborne in the classical sense. To be airborne would mean that Ebola particles are ligher than air and travel great distances just floating from host to host. Thankfully that is not the case. Give everyone that's in close contact with people at least a face mask.
My understanding is that TB is considered an airborne disease and it is spread by droplet nuclei. Maybe there are now 2 kinds of airborne: the old fashioned and modern definitions?
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You are incorrect.
“Airborne” means, it can survive in an aerosolized state.
From Wikipedia…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_disease
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Airborne diseases include any that are caused by pathogens and transmitted through the air. Some are of great medical importance. The pathogens transmitted may be any kind of microbe, and they may be spread in aerosols of dust or liquids. The aerosols might be generated from sources of infection such as the bodily secretions of an infected animal or person, or biological wastes such as accumulate in lofts, caves, garbage and the like. Such infected aerosols may stay suspended in air currents long enough to travel for considerable distances on air currents, though the rate of infection decreases sharply with the distance between the source and the organism infected.
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It's possible that they are covering at this point from a legal standpoint, feigning ignorance of transmission vectors, so as not to hurt trade and commerce, and not to interrupt the coming school year, concerts, and other public events.
Ebola is sooooo last week.
if ebola could only be assfuck-born... so much more room in cali.....
Actually the fucked up thing is if you catch ebola and survive, the live virus will be in your semen for several MONTHS.
Now, let's figure that ebola IS going to get out. [already happening]
Let's then figure that at some point a gay guy with a super immune system will catch and survive ebola.
Unless he is one of those incredibly rare gay guys that is in a super stable monogamous relationship, there will be a PERMANENT resevior of ebola running around in the asses off the gay community.
lol, you fucking crazy. a super ebola gay,
lets call back O.M.D to sing another version , we got the soundtrack for hollywood !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vMBp6iUJzk
Why does the guy have to be gay? Are you saying that straight men who bang every female they see won't spread the virus? If these women have sex with another man prior to knowing they are infected, don't they pass the virus on?
Very confused at the gay connection.
Observation only. Gay men generally have a LOT of sexual partners even compared to a straight guy. One straight guy banging a bunch of chicks makes a set of connections that becomes a spoke and hub setup that looks like a wheel. Gay men in a clustered community (like say San Francisco or maybe Houston) .... that set of connections looks like a bloody spiders web.
I know several gay couples and they run the whole spectrum (one couple has been monogamous for 15 years, extremely unusual) to guys booking trips to P-town and meat markets (more common).
Ebola will become a lethal STD, but it will rip through the gay community like a scythe.
This virus is in the wild now, no place to run, no place to hide. We will just have to live with it or die by it.
Those who do not die from this virus may suffer brain damage, if it does attack the brain.
Its not the dieing that should bother you, its the living after it eats a part of your brain.
Its a brain eating, zombie virus, made for tv, in a tv age.
If someone didn't build this bug i might have to read: god and where he went wrong by Oolong. Might start looking for that babble fish as well.
...170 health-care workers (the ones covered from head to toe in protective garments)
In Africa, a witch-doctor counts as a health-care worker. I wonder how many of the 170 infected really had observed proper medical precautions.
We told um to hold their breath while treating, now if they don't, it aint no fault of ours.
Just as an FYI...I've spent a bit of time reading about this virus and what it has done.
The summary as from information I have read.
No cases have been confirmed outside of Africa. There seems to be some sort of flu (or multiples of that are enough to scare some people coming from the infected regions to go be checked out. NONE have been confirmed.
The reason(s) that is has spread in Africa are as follows;
Eating of tainted 'bush meat'
remote areas that do not have day to day contact for reporting/identifying.
Lack of sufficient preventitve equipment (hazmat suits, materials for creating isolation wards) and lack of diagnostic equipment.
Ignorance, prejudice and superstition (regularly found here on ZH btw) that keeps the population from reporting and working with health care professionals.
Ill conceived political polices in response to the situation.
The Ebola Reston variety is airbourne, but it does NOT make humans sick.
Many health care workers in Africa have gotten sick but again, with the lack of sufficient equipment, it is to be expected. If they have to re-use some equipment it just compounds the problems. And right now they cannot afford to throw away anything. There is not enough to replace used materials.
This virus could become airbourne but as of yet it is not of the variety that would transmit like the common flu.
It is worth tracking and watching, but there is too much hysteria and mis-information and too little verification.
There is good reason for not arbitrarily closing borders and such. An economic collapse (locally, regionally or otherwise) could easily contribute as much to this spreading further than any other non-viral mutative episode.
+1 However, after suitable training from the ZH wise ones, I now know you are guilty of prejudice when you mention ignorance, superstition, and, er, prejudice in another culture. Clearly you're making a objectionable subconscious comparison with your misguided attempt to report and interpret factual data. I hope the Tylers take note of this transgression.
Thank you faithful government servant.
Can we send in Hillary to help?
Thanks to the TRIBE for all they've done TO us, US
By the way BUSHMEAT, including GORILLA PAWS, have been sold on the black market (no pun intended) in Brooklyn, and the Bronx New York City for the last 2 decades.
Monkey Meat and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia
VICE News, June 26, 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XasTcDsDfMg
West Africa is being plagued by a new outbreak of Ebola–a terrifying disease that causes its victims to bleed to death from the inside out. Ebola has no cure, and the latest epidemic is spreading fast.
VICE News visited Liberia, where many feel the new outbreak began, borne from the bushmeat markets of Lofa. Western scientists feel that the consumption and preparation of meat from monkeys, fruit bats, and other forest animals is behind the transmission of Ebola, and possibly a new supervirus, which if left uncontrolled could kill a third of the world’s population.
The American health care system, frequently, puts the well meaning doctor and the desperate patient between a rock and a hard place. At issue is the for-profit health insurance companies and the, extremely, corrupt CDC, Big Pharma and politicians who pass laws for their political donors making it impossible to sue these corrupt health insurance companies. The only people who care whether the patient lives, suffers or dies are some well meaning doctors and desperate patients. To that end, doctors are not being trained and supported to benefit the patient. I think that's what happening with Ebola. It's doctor and patient be damned. American leadership does not care unless they can get something out of it.
I've been looking for a good excuse to call out sick... ebola may be my home run.
I've been looking for a good excuse to call out sick... ebola may be my home run.
I'll tell you what is spreading fast. It wasn't but a couple of months ago that Obama opened the borders to illegals and now I'm getting ads with hispanics in them on ZeroHedge.
It's coming to the US, make no mistake
All the fuckers who didn't sign up for the fantastic obummer care will be fallin over each other when we unleash this shit on them.
Marilyn Tavenner.
Chief Witch Doctor
Speaking to Nuland in a hacked phone call
Imagine what will happen when schools start and there's an outbreak in one or more districts...
Outlaw Ebola......................It's for the chilluns !!!!!
Where's Bloomberg when you need him........EVERYTOWN Against Ebola !!!!!!
'Doctors Woth Out Borders' are really sex tourists without condoms.
Doctors with boners? Sorry, if not laughing, crying.
And the healthcare workers have hazmat suits on. Sounds like the Andromeda Strain.
Heyyyyy.....wait a minute, I'm still tryin' to get over DDT, TB revival, Fresh Water Shortage, Aids, Mad Cow Disease, Avian Flu, Sars, Global Cooling, Global Warming, Global Food Shortages, Over-Population, Rising Sea Levels, Lowering Sea Levels, etc etc etc ..... I can only handle 2 hysterias at a time ... Ebola is gona have to wait unti September
Instantaneous infection rate (smoothed over three data releases) is now:
11 Aug 14 - 37/day
08 Aug 14 - 54/day
06 Aug 14 - 55/day
04 Aug 14 - 57/day
02 Aug 14 - 43/day
29 Jul 14 - 38/day
27 Jul 14 - 23/day
23 Jul 14 - 12/day
17 Jul 14 - 10/day
Morbidity: 55%
(Date above is day WHO statistics were posted, e.g 02 Aug is compiled data as of 30 Jul).
http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic...
http://www.sterifab.com
Interesting point which I personally happen to agree with:
http://www.infowars.com/the-one-question-about-ebola-that-nobody-can-see...
Technically, having seen (from reporting) both the amount of proper care taken by the professionals with protective gear and still being infected, as well as the "fact" that potential victims if not actual victims are turned away from the hospitals, I would agree with 2 things.
1. The virus is likely to be airborne which I believe is the only explanation for having such a mass of health workers involved getting the virus. Either that or they are totally skimping on protective gear.
2. I would agree with the Samaritan's Purse chap in that the WHO reports covering only the cities and hospitals and such, show only 25 to 50 % of the actual events. This of course is a wild and irresponsible guess. But hey, if they turn away patients, one might say the quarantine is not 100% efficient.
Also, what I like is that the WHO disease explanations listed that the virus can spred through sexual actions for up to 7 weeks from a person who in the terms of Monty Python "I got better."
So a couple of months of complete quarantine, which is what the first few doctor's out of harms way had prescribed themselves, but still, that is hard to manage anywhere in the world.
And if it's airborne then airtravel will have charming efficiency ratings. Well buses of course as well, railway terminals that kind of thing. The original can't recall which country rules "no 2 people may congregate unless absolutely necessary " etc and handshake bans will not be sufficient to quell the outbreak.