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Ebola Outbreak "Moving Faster" Than Reported Cases Suggest, May Be Far Worse WHO Warns
The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa continues to escalate, with 1975 cases and 1069 deaths reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, according to the WHO, but warns that "there is evidence that the number of reported cases and deaths vastly underestimate the magnitude of the outbreak." While Nigeria remains 'contained' for now, Ireland now has its first suspected case of Ebola according to The Journal. What is perhaps most concerning is Doctors Without Borders warn the ebola outbreak is "moving faster" than they can handle.
Elsewhere, the outbreak is expected to continue for some time. WHO’s operational response plan extends over the next several months. Staff at the outbreak sites see evidence that the numbers of reported cases and deaths vastly underestimate the magnitude of the outbreak.
As The Journal reports,
THE HSE HAS said today that it has not been notified of any official suspected case of Ebola in a Dublin hospital – but that it could not rule out that the virus was being looked at earlier this morning as one of several possibilities for a patient being treated there.
TheJournal.ie has confirmed with hospital sources this morning that a patient who had recently travelled abroad was being investigated as having a suspected virus. He is suffering from flu-like symptoms and consultants had been looking at Ebola as one of the possibilities.
As Bloomberg notes,
aid groups such as Doctors Without Borders, with almost 700 workers in the affected region, have criticized the WHO and governments including the U.S. for failing to recognize the devastation being caused since January by the spread of the deadly virus. It’s the first time Ebola has appeared in West Africa.
Interestingly Fujifilm says it has over 20,000 doses of potential Ebola vaccine...
Co. produced drug when it filed data to seek approval to treat flu in Japan, spokesman Takao Aoki says by telephone today.
Co. has capability to mass-produce drug at factory in Toyama prefecture in Japan: Fujifilm
Co. told World Health Organization it can supply drug if requested: Fujifilm
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Bloomberg Roundup:
• Latest WHO death toll: 1,069
• Liberia minister warns of price hikes on medicated soap, chlorine, chloride
• Ireland may have first suspected Ebola case, Journal.ie reports
• NOTE: Irish Independent says no confirmed case seen
• Spread in West Africa worse than cases suggest, WHO says
• Athletes from Ebola-affected regions banned from some Youth Olympic events
• Togo PM denies religious leaders’ claims of Ebola in country
• African air links at risk as virus ravages region
• Ebola stigma increases survivors’ burden in long recovery effort
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Logarithmic growth curves. I stare at them all day. May be something/someone is trying to tell me something.
Collapse is interesting too. Especially watching bacteria in on a blood agar dish. There are always the stragglers on the sides trying to eke out an existence, hunkering down next to their dead comrades. Some can be amazingly resilient to less resources than before. Then I toss them in the trash to be incinerated for I have no longer any use for their existence. My work is so depressing.
Miffed;-)
Yeah - my wife had a really tough time killing her mice when she was doing her doctoral work - she ended up having a post-doc friend of hers who had a really gentle touch do the deeds.
I hate killing. Just hate it. Fortunately the only research animal I had to kill was Hag fish. Greasy smelly slippery little shits. Cleaning glassware afterwards was a chore I never relished. But I hated killing them nevertheless.
I'm glad I never got used to it. I think I would lose some of my humanity if I did.
Miffed;-)
It's amazing to me how many in the biological sciences seem to have so little respect for living things generally - and some, downright animosity.
My wife really takes the IACUC protocols seriously and would get into huge fights with certain colleagues regarding unnecessary/redundant experimentation on "higher" animals than required etc. and substandard housing (ie putting things in with the mice so they had something to do/places to hide).
Her employer actually forbade anyone from signing online petitions associated with any animal rights groups - including groups like the ASPCA.
Anyway, you're in good company Miffed.
Disease used to keep a lid on development in Africa. True story.
Fujifilm has a DRUG to treat ebola?
I'd like to believe that they just mixed up a nice big vat; but, let's see some fucking evidence before we all drink the shit out of the developer trays...
We gave Ebola to some folks...
"Ireland now has its first suspected case of Ebola"
I visited Ireland about 20 years ago and was SHOCKED by the sight that greeted my eyes when I got to Dublin, there, standing on a street corner was a PREGNANT African woman.
In fact the sight of Africans was not uncommon.
Wonder if they have "Anchor Babies" there as well?
Well one can be sure that ebola or not it will all end in tears.
With all the Africans who are now US citizens it is surely merely a matter of time...Mr Sawyer just missed his flight back to COON RAPIDS MN from Africa.
Unfortunately, mudsharks and coalburners are a common sight in Dublin these days.
They need lots of people to have it before they can sell us their miracle cure (wrapped up neatly with Martial Law)
Did we reach the 100k yet??? If not... NEXT!! All these organizations just want more money, move on, folks.
For those who are prepared, the propaganda on both sides (governments and medical profiteers) is entertaining.
Methinks the Obola Virus in the White House is connected with the Ebola Virus.
Ebola is PATENTED!!
https://www.google.com/patents/US20120251502
no shit...this has been floating around for weeks here
Yep.
When the figures stopped rising it was a tell that things had gotten bad and that people had stopped going to hospital and reporting infections.
It's revealing by absense.
The same way when research on someone shows they disappeared from census rolls in 1940. Only one organisatoin could do that, and by doing so reveal what that person was working on.
Oh you guys have an EBOLA outbreak? Oh really?? Oh, Well funny thing, cuz yeah man, we happen to have 20k doses of vaccine if you need them bro.
Fuji
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.
Confirmed, probable, and suspect cases and deaths from Ebola virus disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, as of 13 August 2014table paste is fucked up. look by yourself at the source: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_08_15_ebola/en/
Instantaneous infection rate (smoothed over three data releases) is now:
15 Aug 14 - 54/day
13 Aug 14 - 40/day
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: 54%
(Date above is day WHO statistics were posted, e.g 02 Aug is compiled data as of 30 Jul).
http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/
Not ebola but relevant: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MED_CDC_FLU_ACCIDENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-08-15-12-04-44
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2619374/pg1 Possibly ebola San Paulo Brazil mentioned by Debt Man Walking
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/resources/outbreak-table.html
CDC Ebola Hemorrhagic FeverCurrent and Past Outbreaks Good chart, 1976-2014, all countries, types of ebola, reported cases, reported deaths. It's that word "reported"... gives me "pit of stomach" syndrome.