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Ten Killed From "Ebola-Like Symptoms" In Africa's Second Largest Country
While the world awaits the test results from an Ebola suspect in Sacramento to learn if Ebola has now officially entered the US, the epidemic in Africa has now drifted away from the confines of its original hotspots of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and after spreading to Africa's most populous nation Nigeria, and the third most populated city in the world, Lagos, it appears to have just entered the second largest country in Africa by area, and fourth most populous African nation: the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Reuters reports that the Democratic Republic of Congo has sent its health minister and a team of experts to the remote northern Equateur province after several people died there from a disease with Ebola-like symptoms, a local official and a professor said on Wednesday.
"An illness is spreading in Boende but we don't know the origin," said Michel Wangi, a spokesman for the governor's office. "The government has sent a team of experts from the INRB(National Institute of Biomedical Research) this morning led by the health minister (Felix) Kabange Numbi and acting governor Sebastian Impeto."
A professor accompanying the delegation in the presidential plane confirmed that they were en route this morning to find out "the exact nature of the illness that caused the Boende deaths".
An Equateur resident who asked not to be named said that around ten people had died, including four health care workers, after suffering from fever, diarrhoea and bleeding from the ears and nostrils - all symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus.
It was not immediately clear if there was any connection with Ebola. An epidemic of that disease has killed more than 1,200 people in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
We expect that it will be "clear" quite soon, at which point one can add the DRC to the list of increasingly more confirmed countries where the Ebola epidemic, so far completely "priced in", has spread to.
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Just as well Ebola can only be spread by actual contact with bodily fluids of a person exibiting symptoms otherwise it would be spreading to a lot of countries...oh..hang on a moment.
"...said that around ten people had died, including four health care workers, ..."
If these numbers are to be trusted... how can 4 out of 10 deaths be to health-care workers? Is there zero protection available?
The reasons health care workers are getting sick is because the information, protective equipment and medical support they are given are worse than nonexistant. The information is incorrect so they think the inadequate protective equipment is protective and they receive no medical support. Most people, in Africa, doctors included, are considered expendable, unless they serve a purpose to the powers-that-be. The only reason the 2 sick medical workers were brought to Atlanta is because they serve a purpose. Maybe more than one purpose.
Picture the idiot nurse at your local public school treating your children/grandchildren this Fall.
Scarry, isn't it?
http://thebookgallery2014.blogspot.com/2014/08/beyond-ebola-preparation....
Is this that "Free book" that when you click the link it downloads a serious virus?
I'm not willing to click the book link on there to find out, but this looks like a link that was posted to ZH where this was true.
If ebola makes it DC would it then be redefined and refered to as an antivirus?
antihelminthic
At the rate its spreading I'll be able to graduate before I'm dead.
Is it easier to drill for oil in an area populated with elephants and lions or in an area populated with Africans.
So here's the really scary stuff ...
Friend of a friend called this past weekend to say he was going to visit the local University hospital to see someone recently returned from the Congo with Ebola-like symptoms. Today the diagnosis is Maleria and no testing was or will be done for Ebola because "no cases have been found in the Congo". WTF !!! A search of local news items produced nothing mentioning this particular hospital having a suspicious case in isolation for testing. Nothing !
How many cities in the U$ have similar cases; not reported in the press and simply unknown to the hoi polloi - by accident or design.
Scared and Prepared - R U ?
Moving to Pine Gap, Australia.
1 to beam up, Mr. Scott.
The Last Days - Spanish film about an epidemic:
http://youtu.be/-I7SduGdEUo
Mother Nature impresses me all the time.
It's amazing how the Cyanide in Laetrile (Vitamin B17) will only target cancer cells, and other pathogens.
Ebola is a pathogen, yes?
So, not only is Vitamin B17 a cure for Ebola, but a cure for almost every cancer too?
WOW! That's amazing!
Ebola in 2014 is what Aids was up until not long ago. Ebola is scary and guaranteed to release some extra funding for the poor. Who wouldn't give their left and right arm to make sure Ebola doesn't enter their frontyard. If you're some African government and a few people get died of a mysterious illness in the hinterlands of the Congo for example and you see all this "attention" ($$$$ winning!!!) the WHO etc are giving to this outbreak, then you just have to get your piece of the pie.
Can Ebola be fought with weapons? I'm sure it can. Hey, MIC get right on that. More customers are in desperate needs to fight Ebola on the ground with your best and latest smart weapons! The Kurds and ISIS are so so fighting but not blowing enough shit up. You'd think they drive those captured Humvees to church or pardon me, the mosque. Maybe they do. Probably got 20 muslim boys polishing those trucks every morning for the general.
The Ebola river is in the hinterland of Congo. The river's name comes from the disease or the other way around. Who cares? Ebola is not new but now that every Ebola patient and their family has Instagram, we hear about it right away. Naturally we are being told this is the largest outbreak of all times. Sure it is because there's more people than ever and people are connected like never before.
Don't forget to pay your pitance to fight Ebola!
Australians could make a fortune selling bitter Almond plants and Apricott seeds to African nations.
Wow, 4 capital A's in one sentance.
Cool!
See, there's opportunity! The Africans could also simply stop eating weird shit that's known to carry weird diseases to make them sick. They could also restrain themselves and have max. 2 kids per woman (I'm generous) for a couple generations. It's not like they need more kids to support a pension plan.
But nooooooooooooo
I'd rather sell them seeds and make money.
Screw Monsanto.
the first inning hasn't even started yet
I think you may be correct.
Five new cases in Lagos.
Yesterday, the Nigerians and the WHO were cautiously optimistic about controlling the outbreak.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/167037-breaking-lagos-records-5-new-...
http://www.osundefender.org/?p=182821
I wonder how they feel today.
Ah yes, Patrick Sawyer, US Govt agency employee who pissed on the medical staff when informed he had Ebola, the "index patient" for Nigeria, takes another life,
I noticed they added urine to the list of bio-weapon scale contaminants
The WHO just reported 2 day, 4 country new EVD cases and deaths for 8/17-18: Liberia's 126 new cases were 57% of the 4 country total of 221, and 95 Liberian deaths were 90% of total 106 deaths. Daily Liberian new case/death averages of 63/day and 47/day greatly exceed averages of 20 new cases/day and 23 deaths/day for the 3 days 8/14-15-16. WHO added in 12 new cases for the data omitted for 8/16 (questionably low vs SUN-MON ave. of 63/day) and 15 deaths (also way low vs SUN-MON ave. of 47 deaths/day).
Daily ave. new Liberian cases since 8/7 for 4 reporting periods have risen 15, 35, 58 and 63/day, and daily deaths 10, 16, 29 and 48/day (excluding the undercounted-understated 8/14-15-16 period).
With today's record Liberian numbers for 8/17-18, I take back those nasty things I've said about WHO which may actually be back to reporting the truth of the rapidly spreading EVD disaster:
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_08_20_ebola/en/
All other times you get a quick press release saying patient is fine - no ebola. Now we get a 4 PM est conference with doctors and others to discuss the "ebola patient" in California. Ruh, roh:
LIVE AT 1 p.m.: Update on Ebola in California
News10 Staff 11:58 a.m. PDT August 20, 2014
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State and federal health officials are slated to update the media on "the current status of Ebola infection in California" during a 1 p.m. conference call, according to a press release from the California Department of Public Health.
News10 will provide live updates from the call in the stream below. If you're on a mobile device, check out the stream at http://bit.ly/1naPb7h
Speakers on the call are expected to include Dr. Gil Chavez, deputy director for the Center for Infectious Diseases and State Epidemiologist at the California Department of Public Health, and Dr. James Watt, chief of the Division of Communicable Disease Control for the Center for Infectious Diseases.
Africa has given us Ebola, African killer bees, AIDS, Denge fever, and Obama. Lets not open the next gift package.
The first new batch of ZMAP is about 2 months away. Its production is complex, and part of its production requires a life cycle of a modified tobacco plant. Until then do not hug any sweaty africans, or eat bush meat.
Tylers, you need to keep up with this crap, darlings. It's moving fast.
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/two-suspected-ebol...
Yes, you read that correctly. The doctor you mentioned yesterday as having died from Ebola, one of the most elite scions of Nigeria, WAS RELEASED after testing negative into the Lagos environment--the very high profile, likely to get on airplane environment.
BTW, the UN General Assembly in NYC occurs at the beginning of September. It is more than likely that at least a few in the Nigerian delegation will be infected, without showing symptoms.
Just a little heads up.
The WHO 4 state 2 day 8/19-20 Ebola statistics due out Friday afternoon 8/22 could reveal shockingly high Liberian new cases and deaths because of the 75,000 residents of the Monrovia West Point slum, as of today confined by president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to military enforced 'open air quarantine', without sanitation, medical care, rehydration or nutrition.
This is a major tragedy in the making: bad as Liberian resources are, thank god President Ellen and her aides are not treating this in the O'Bola-Emanuel method of a 'crisis not to be politically wasted':
http://fluboard.rhizalabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12085&sid=d848a6d3ef8e540da0e15ef5af252175
http://www.cardliberia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26%3Awest-point&catid=7%3Afuture-projects&Itemid=20&lang=en