Roger.Staubach Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Depends on the strain. I seem to recall the Zaire strain being the one you really don't want to get. If 90 percent death rate is the easy route, I can't imagine how bad the other one is. Either way, I hope they can contain this. Scary stuff right there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsluggo Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 The reason Ebola has been successfully contained is its ineffective incubation period. Too violent a virus that acts way too quickly to kill its host for its own good except that transportation speed has accelerated, and those barriers have dropped. If you had one infected person on a flight from Monrovia to Frankfort.... you would potentially have 30 newly infected airplanes flying to 30 different population centers just 5 hours later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 except that transportation speed has accelerated, and those barriers have dropped. If you had one infected person on a flight from Monrovia to Frankfort.... you would potentially have 30 newly infected airplanes flying to 30 different population centers just 5 hours later. yep, largely contained because it is usually in remote areas and demographics that do not travel far. The super virus that does us all in will be slow acting well they do say HIV is a greater threat for that reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted March 25, 2014 Author Share Posted March 25, 2014 http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/features/top-story/stories/canada-rules-out-suspected-case-ebola-14919.shtml?wap=0 Canadian officials investigating a man suspected of having contracted Ebola during a visit to West Africa say it has been determined he does not have the virus.Cailin Rodgers, a spokeswoman for Canada's health minister, said Tuesday lab testing confirmed the individual hospitalized with symptoms of a hemorrhagic fever does not have Ebola.She says there are no confirmed cases of Ebola in Canada.The man remains seriously ill and is being kept in isolation in a Saskatchewan hospital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar78 Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 except that transportation speed has accelerated, and those barriers have dropped. If you had one infected person on a flight from Monrovia to Frankfort.... you would potentially have 30 newly infected airplanes flying to 30 different population centers just 5 hours later. Whoa. Hold on. There's a direct flight from Liberia to Kentucky now??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Welp, so much for my vacation in Guinea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 not good http://news.yahoo.com/four-ebola-cases-confirmed-guineas-capital-190133471.html;_ylt=ApGAhAqi8O4KHafJlY2DSKvQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBsOXVyY2hzBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwM3BHNlYwNzcg-- Conakry (AFP) - An Ebola epidemic which has killed dozens of people in Guinea's southern forests has spread to the capital Conakry, health sources said on Thursday, confirming four new cases. The patients were immediately put in isolation centres to avoid the highly contagious virus getting into the population, the sources told AF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 not good http://news.yahoo.com/four-ebola-cases-confirmed-guineas-capital-190133471.html;_ylt=ApGAhAqi8O4KHafJlY2DSKvQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBsOXVyY2hzBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwM3BHNlYwNzcg-- Conakry (AFP) - An Ebola epidemic which has killed dozens of people in Guinea's southern forests has spread to the capital Conakry, health sources said on Thursday, confirming four new cases. The patients were immediately put in isolation centres to avoid the highly contagious virus getting into the population, the sources told AF I had not read before that they confirmed it was the Zaire strain... "No treatment or vaccine is available, and the Zaire strain detected in Guinea -- first observed in the Democratic Republic of Congo 38 years ago -- has a 90-percent death rate." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCSaints_fan Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 This is the disease that liquefies all your organs and they spill out of your anus. You have about 2 days to live Be hard not to support physician assisted suicide after witnessing that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Be hard not to support physician assisted suicide after witnessing that that is at least relatively quick, it would seem more merciful and reduce risk to others though. never know if you are one of the survivors and it would reduce opportunity for human experimentation add different strain, but ya got to admire someone that had it and continues to work around it http://reliefweb.int/report/uganda/family-contracted-ebola-and-survived-disease-not-death-sentence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted March 31, 2014 Author Share Posted March 31, 2014 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-31/guinea-president-calls-for-calm-as-ebola-death-toll-rises-to-78.html Ebola Confirmed in Liberia as Guinea Death Toll Rises Two cases of Ebola were confirmed in Liberia as the death toll from Guinea’s outbreak, called “unprecedented” by an international aid organization, climbed to 80. One of the confirmed cases in Liberia has died, while a second person who died with a suspected Ebola infection tested negative for the virus, the World Health Organization said in a statement. Both confirmed cases in Liberia were exposed to Ebola in Guinea, Gregory Hartl, a WHO spokesman, said on Twitter. The outbreak is the worst in seven years, and the first in Guinea, which has 122 suspected or confirmed cases and 80 deaths, the WHO said today. The distribution of cases in different areas of the West African nation, from villages in the country’s south to the coastal capital of Conakry, makes the outbreak unlike any other, according to Doctors Without Borders. “We are facing an epidemic of a magnitude never before seen in terms of the distribution of cases,” Mariano Lugli, coordinator of the organization’s project in Conakry, said today in a statement. “This geographical spread is worrisome because it will greatly complicate the tasks of the organizations working to control the epidemic.” The government has asked people not to eat monkeys, chimpanzees and bats and to avoid travel in the affected areas, while Senegal closed its border with Guinea. Guinean President Alpha Conde called for calm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted April 4, 2014 Author Share Posted April 4, 2014 Great.... http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/04/us-guinea-ebola-mali-idUSBREA331ZP20140404?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews Mob attacks Ebola treatment centre in Guinea, suspected cases reach Mali An angry crowd attacked an Ebola treatment center in Guinea on Friday, accusing its staff of bringing the deadly disease to the town, Medecins Sans Frontieres said, as Mali identified its first suspected cases. More than 90 people have already died in Guinea and Liberia in what medical charity MSF, or Doctors without Borders, has warned could turn into an unprecedented epidemic in an impoverished region with poor health services. The outbreak in Guinea is the first time the disease, epidemics of which occur regularly in Central Africa, has appeared in the country. Infected patients initially went undiagnosed for several weeks before tests confirmed Ebola. News of the outbreak has sent shockwaves through communities with little knowledge of the disease or how it is transmitted, and the suspected cases in Mali have added to fears that it is spreading in West Africa. MSF spokesman Sam Taylor told a Thomson Reuters Foundation reporter that the attackers in Macenta, around 425 km (265 miles) southeast of the capital Conakry, had accused staff of bringing the disease to the town. "We have evacuated all our staff and closed the treatment center," he said. "We have the full support of the local leaders and we're working with the authorities to try and resolve this problem as quickly as possible so we can start treating people again." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted April 9, 2014 Author Share Posted April 9, 2014 http://www.bnowire.com/2014/04/08/ebola-death-toll-soars-past-100-after-guinea-reports-15-new-deaths/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=ebola-death-toll-soars-past-100-after-guinea-reports-15-new-deaths Ebola death toll soars past 100 after Guinea reports 15 new deaths The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa soared past 100 on Tuesday after Guinea reported more than a dozen new deaths and a number of new cases, international health authorities said, warning that the outbreak is likely to continue for months. Speaking at a press conference in Geneva, Dr. Stéphane Hugonnet of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Guinea and neighboring Liberia had reported 178 cases including 111 deaths by late Wednesday afternoon. This includes 157 cases with 101 deaths in Guinea and 21 cases with 10 deaths in Liberia. Hugonnet said there were still three districts of Guinea that are considered to be ‘hotspots,’ the main one being the district of Guekedou in the country’s southeast, where the outbreak is believed to have started. “In those three areas there are active transmission chains that still produce cases,” he said. By Wednesday, the World Health Organization had around 50 experts and support staff on the ground to help stop the spread of the disease, in addition to medical staff from local facilities and international charities. WHO is expected to send at least 17 more experts to the affected countries to strengthen the international response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted June 22, 2014 Author Share Posted June 22, 2014 http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2014/06/20/doctors-without-borders-ebola-out-control/0Kws3KV6wQQy1K4PbqH4fL/story.html Ebola getting ‘out of control’ The Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa is ‘‘totally out of control,’’ said a senior official for Doctors Without Borders, who says the medical group is stretched to the limit in its capacity to respond. The current outbreak has caused more deaths than any other on record, another official with the medical charity said. Ebola has been linked to more than 330 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, according to the latest numbers from the World Health Organization. International organizations and the governments involved need to send in more health experts and increase public education messages about how to stop the spread of the disease, Bart Janssens, the director of operations for the group in Brussels, told the Associated Press on Friday. ‘‘The reality is clear that the epidemic is now in a second wave,’’ Janssens said. ‘‘And, for me, it is totally out of control.’’ The outbreak, which began in Guinea either late last year or early this year, had appeared to slow before picking up pace again in recent weeks, including spreading to the Liberian capital for the first time. ‘‘This is the highest outbreak on record and has the highest number of deaths, so this is unprecedented so far,’’ said Armand Sprecher, a public health specialist with Doctors Without Borders. According to a World Health Organization list, the highest previous death toll was in the first recorded Ebola outbreak in Congo in 1976, when 280 deaths were reported. Because Ebola often touches remote areas and the first cases sometimes go unrecognized, it is likely that there are deaths that go uncounted, both in this outbreak and previous ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Ebola Deaths Surge as Worst-Ever Outbreak Rages On The Ebola outbreak that has ravaged three West African countries since March might be in the midst of its deadliest surge yet. In a July 15 update, the World Health Organization reported 964 suspected, probable or confirmed Ebola cases, a 14-percent increase from the week before. The death toll stands at 603, with more than half of the fatalities in Guinea, where the outbreak originated. The disease threat "remains serious," WHO stated. "This trend indicates that a high level of transmission of the Ebola Virus continues to take place in the community," the statement said. "The respective Ministries of Health are working with WHO and partners to step up outbreak containment measures." Previously, the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record was the first known appearance of the disease, when it swept through Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, then known as Zaire, and killed 280 individuals. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted July 27, 2014 Author Share Posted July 27, 2014 http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/nigeria-death-shows-ebola-spread-air-travel-24728128 New Death Shows Ebola Can Spread by Air Travel Nigerian health authorities raced to stop the spread of Ebola on Saturday after a man sick with one of the world's deadliest diseases brought it by plane to Lagos, Africa's largest city with 21 million people. The fact that the traveler from Liberia could board an international flight also raised new fears that other passengers could take the disease beyond Africa due to weak inspection of passengers and the fact Ebola's symptoms are similar to other diseases. Officials in the country of Togo, where the sick man's flight had a stopover, also went on high alert after learning that Ebola could possibly have spread to a fifth country. Screening people as they enter the country may help slow the spread of the disease, but it is no guarantee Ebola won't travel by airplane, according to Dr. Lance Plyler, who heads Ebola medical efforts in Liberia for aid organization Samaritan's Purse. "Unfortunately the initial signs of Ebola imitate other diseases, like malaria or typhoid," he said. The aid organization on Saturday said a U.S. doctor working with Ebola patients in Liberia had tested positive for the deadly virus. A Samaritan's Purse news release said Dr. Kent Brantly was being treated at a hospital in Monrovia, the capital. Ebola already had caused some 672 deaths across a wide swath of West Africa before the Nigeria case was announced. It is the deadliest outbreak on record for Ebola, and now it threatens Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation. An outbreak in Lagos, Africa's megacity where many live in cramped conditions, could be a major diisaster. "Lagos is completely different from other cities because we're talking about millions of people," said Plan International's Disaster Response and Preparedness Head, Dr. Unni Krishnan. Nigerian newspapers describe the effort as a "scramble" to contain the threat after the Liberian arrived in Lagos and then died Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 An outbreak in Lagos would be very, very bad. That's your potential stepping stone from regional epidemic to global pandemic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted July 28, 2014 Author Share Posted July 28, 2014 http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/two-americans-stricken-deadly-ebola-virus-liberia-n166281 Two Americans Stricken With Deadly Ebola Virus in Liberia An American doctor and an aid worker working for two charitable groups fighting Ebola in Liberia have both become infected with the deadly virus, one of the groups confirmed on Sunday. Dr. Kent Brantly, 33, medical director for the aid group Samaritan’s Purse, and his colleague Nancy Writebol, are both being treated at the center in Monrovia where they were working to help Ebola patients. Both are in stable condition, said Melissa Strickland, a spokeswoman for North Carolina-based Samaritan’s Purse. “They have body aches and symptoms typical for Ebola but both are alert,” Strickland said. Their cases show just how difficult it can be to protect against Ebola, a highly contagious virus that’s spread by bodily fluids — something hard to avoid when victims vomit, bleed or suffer from diarrhea. Ebola has infected nearly 1,100 people and killed 660 of them in the current West African outbreak, according to the World Health Organization. It's the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded. The virus has spread across borders between Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea and was taken by airliner for the first time ever when a Liberian citizen, Patrick Sawyer, collapsed a week ago after flying into Lagos. He’s since died and two tests came back positive for Ebola. Nigerian authorities are working to track down everyone Sawyer may have been in contact with. In Liberia, doctors are doing the same for the two Americans, said Strickland. She said it’s not clear precisely how Brantly and Writebol were infected. Both used personal protective equipment, which includes a full body coverall, multiple layers of gloves, goggles and face protection. “Our team has followed to the letter all of the protocols for safety that were developed by the CDC and WHO,” Strickland told NBC News. “At this time we have not been able to confirm 100 percent the method of contagion,” she added. Brantly was treating patients; Writebol was working to help doctors and other health workers get in and out of their protective gear, Strickland said. That would include spraying them down with a chlorine solution and then stripping off and disposing of every piece of gear. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/07/ebola-forces-liberia-shut-border-crossings-20147280565867953.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Ebola forces Liberia to shut border crossings The Liberian government has closed most of the West African nation's border crossings and introduced stringent health measures to curb the spread of the deadly Ebola virus that has killed at least 660 people across the region. The new measures announced by the government on Sunday came as Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone struggle to contain the worst outbreak yet of the virus. Speaking at a task force meeting, Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said the government was doing everything to fight the virus, including inspecting and testing all outgoing and incoming airline passengers. "All borders of Liberia will be closed with the exception of major entry points. At these entry points, preventive and testing centres will be established, and stringent preventive measures to be announced will be scrupulously adhered to," she said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsluggo Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 those people are absolute saints.... rushing TOWARDS an outbreak like this, to see if they can help. it is not possible for me to wish more forcefully for their well-being.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/28/obama-ebola_n_5628059.html?&ir=World&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000017 Obama Briefed On Ebola Outbreak As U.S. Agencies Provide Support President Barack Obama is getting updates on the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, an administration official said on Monday, noting U.S. agencies had increased their assistance in the past several weeks. The outbreak of the highly infectious disease has killed 672 people. The United States has been providing supplies including personal protective equipment, the administration official said. "We have been engaged on this outbreak since April, when the first cases were reported and have increased response significantly over the last several weeks as the outbreak deepened," the official said. Susan Rice, Obama's national security adviser, said in a televised interview on Monday that the outbreak was of "grave concern." "We are very much present and active in trying to help the countries of the region and the international authorities like the World Health Organization address and contain this threat. But it is indeed a very worrying epidemic," Rice told MSNBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Someone needs to quarantine CNN to stop the news agency from continually releasing such sensationalistic headlines. Good Lord. Thoughts and prayers definitely going out to all the health workers risking their lives to contain this epidemic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zguy28 Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Brantly family statement: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/article/brantly-family-statement/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Liberia closing schools and quarantining communities http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/30/us-health-ebola-liberia-idUSKBN0FZ22H20140730?utm_source=twitter doesn't look like this one is burning itself out anytime soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Yeah, I suspect they'll be putting these countries' borders on lockdown pretty soon, although the US is looking to transfer the 2 American victims home before that. CDC released a health alert memo earlier this week that EVD needs to be included in the differential of patients presenting in US ERs with fever and having travelled within the past 21 days. In my near decade studying and working in public health, I've never seen something like that, kind of crazy. The risk to US citizens remains extremely low, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Thanks K lol I was freaking myself out reading various articles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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