Ebola [OFFICIAL THREAD]

[hasanhh]

Sun1OAug14:

 

BBCNews, 0729hrs EDT

 

"Ebola Virus: Liberia health system 'falling apart' "

 

quoting Medicine Sand Frontiers

 

-5 hospitals in Monrovia have closed

 

-in some countries, hospitals are being abandoned by their staffs.

 

 

In another report, "patient zero" from where the current outbreak started is from a 2 year-old boy, Dec2013, in a village in the tri-country area of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

[hasanhh]

Sun10Aug14:

 

NBCNews: 1830 hrs:  In Liberia, riot police are confronting people angry over bodies not being buried. Nigeria is now starting airport monitoring.

 

Washington Post, 09Aug14: "Four new cases in Nigeria..."

 

--For Aug 5th and 6th, the WHO reports 29 more deaths (3 more in Nigeria).

 

--The Chart at WashPo is dated 04Aug14.

 

What I find "eerie" is that national broadcast news this week --including today, Sunday the 10th-- is still reporting the 932/931 number of Monday the 4th. New deaths and cases are not being reported --the 29 deaths I copied from WashPo article.

 

 

Edited August 11, 2014 by hasanhh

[ChristianVisitor]

Christians throughout history have believed that the rise of deadly diseases is a sign of the end-times. The Book of Revelation gives us a good guideline on what will happen in the future just prior to the second coming of Christ. I don't know what Muslims believe about end-times history but many people - not only pagans but many Jews, Muslims, and Christians - will be fooled into worshiping the Antichrist. There will be no worldwide Muslim takeover of the world because the Antichrist will beat every other religion on this matter. 

[hasanhh]

The "book of Revelation"/Apocalypse was written by the Bishop of Alexandria in 195CC based on the popular religious literature (like Ben Hur , The Robe and others) "Book of Daniel" --which is seriously historically challenged.

[hasanhh]

www.who.int/mediacenter/

 

There is a fact sheet on Ebola.

 

What is "new" is that "forest antelope" and porcupines found sick or dead are now documented as sources of transmission.

 

Three species of fruit bats are considered the "hosts" for Ebola (like rabies since bats are immune to it -ed.) ...

 

The map of these 3 species of bats are considered the primary risk area...and

 

As fruit bats are around pig farms --pigs being a host and a source of transmission to Man as documented in Africa and in the Phillippines (for Ebola-reston --ed.) this is another hazard.

 

That's from the WHO fact-sheet. It's a good summary read for today's date, although it excludes deaths.

 

Also, Nigeria is reporting another nurse's death today, Monday the 11th.

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

1345hrs, 11Aug14:

 

In the last hour or two:

 

Nigerian Bulletin: "Senegal, Rwanda Report First Suspected Ebola Case":

--a student from Germany traveled from Liberia to Rwanda, is in King Faisal Hospital

--Senegal said suspected case is a 27 year-old Malian

--Liberia: 2 more health care workers died today, one from the Congo

 

--but, in Geneva, "ethicists" are talking/debating the use of experimental treatment (from the US and developed from post-9-11 bio-warfare funding --ed.) while, according to the Brampton Guardian, Spain has imported this treatment for the infected priest in Madrid.

 

In other news items, two Catholic Archbishops in Nigeria, have banned physical contact during Mass as a disease prevention measure -this according to the Catholic News Network.

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

12Aug14:

 

Update: "ethicists" mentioned above have "approved' using the experimental treatment.

Cite: "WHO Panel says unproven drugs are ethical as Ebola deaths top 1000", CNN 12Aug14 1747GMT

 

The husband of the woman Ebola patient and another aid worker returned to the US and will be quarantined for 3 weeks. The conditions of their travels was not described. Hopefully they were in suits and 'isolated'.

 

An article in Forbes is discussing measures in case of an outbreak in the US.

 

"Ebola Death Toll in West Africa passes 1,000", AP, 11Aug14 2057EDT

--over the period Aug 7-9 there were 52 more confirmed deaths and 69 infections.

--toll at 1,013 deaths

 

Public Health Agency of Canada, Pathogen Safety Data Sheet-infectious substances

--para. 3: Ebola targets "...blood coagulatives and immune defence systems..."

--para. 4: variations in Ebola strains "...lies in the genome, which can vary by 30-40% from each other."

--Section: "Host Range" --Ebola was found in two rodent species and one species of shrew

--Section "Mode of Transmission": adds "...and airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected..."

--Section "Survival Outside of Host:: "The virus can survive in liquid or dried material for a number of days.²³

-------note .²³ cites: Leroy, et alia, "Multiple Ebola Virus Transmission events and rapid decline of Central Africa Wildlife", Science, 303(5656), 387-390

 

A good map of the outbreak up to 04Aug14 is at:  "Special Ebola Virus Issue" 16Aug14. epimonitor.net/.../Aug-2014

 

A good read:

www.ufrgs.br/.../pathoviruses-fi... 

title: Filoviridae

--Section: Transmission:   In the Gabon-Republic of Congo hundreds of carcasses were found and examined, mostly gorillas and chimps had Ebola but other animals did too.

--Section Ebola, subsection Transmission: discovered Ebola transmitters leaf hopper insects, in feces, and Ebola is evolving

 

Other research by me and comment:

 

As in above posts, the herbivores porcupine and forest antelope are listed. Antelopes are grazers so they can be acquiring Ebola from fecal matter on grass or being bitten by sick animals(rodents, etc). Porcupines eat grass and tree bark but also have been observed dragging carcasses to their dens and eating them (South African Porcupine --South meaning sub-sahara savanna to the Cape --ed)

 

Since it is not (publically) conclusive about mosquitoes, tse-tse or Aedes Aegypti, I looked for an obvious insect: Flies

So what I found is:  ento.psu.edu (Penn State) on House Flies, which carry 65 diseases -polio, yellow fever, etc- but I'll add what we were taught, rabies (which is why we were told to burn a known or suspected carcass in situ because flies carried it)

 

I also looked up Horse Flies, which cut into hides (thick skin) with "scissors" for mouths.

 

What both have in common are hairy legs, blood sucking, regurgitation. So any flies landing, walking, sucking/laying eggs on an Ebola infected mammal with transmit this disease even into a cut, scratch/scab, open wound and may deposit active viral onto food.

:sick:

 

Flies maybe the biggest threat.

 

Also:

Mapp Biopharmacuetical has run-out of the serum they were producing; a bio-pharma in Kentucky is ramping up on a similar serum; Glaxo-Smith-Kline is starting a "vaccine" trial.

 

For something like "creepy science fiction" but real,

TIME, "Fear and Rumors Fueling the Spread of Ebola", by Mirren Gidda, 0733 hours EDT, 12Aug14

I can't think of a vocabulary word to describe this.

Edited August 12, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

This speaks for itself.

 

"Nigerian nurse skips Ebola quarantine in Enugu", The Daily Star (Lebanon), 13Aug14

 

Some info: the article says there are 20 in quarantine and 189 "watched".

 

Doing some Wiki reading I found the following on Enugu, Nigeria:

--pop. 722+K

--also known as "Coal City"

--and also this area is known as "Nollywood" for the film industry's preferences

--the economy is "open markets" and child street hawkers (the age group least likely to exercise judgment and caution)

--located in a region that produces one-half of the World's palm (oil) kernels.

--has a railroad to Port Harcourt

 

Speculating as to why this nurse would "skip" quarantine after coming from Liberia after apparently attending Ebola victims? (also see post 32 above)

Though the time varies from village to village after the rainy season, this part of the areas/countries that celebrate Iwa ji Festival -a harvest festival for the yams --which occur in the August to October time frame and has some date setting by the Moon.

Trying to find the date of Enugu's Iwa ji, the only thing found was a reference (in a foreign country) saying it starts August 16th.

 

Yarrabi...

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

A follow-up article on this criminally irresponsible nurse:

 

allAfrica.com, from "Daily Trust", "Nigeria: Breaking --Ebola Spreads Further as 21 Quarantined in Enugu -FG", by Isiaka Wakili, 13Aug14

--21 in Enugu State

--Nigerian gov't has "... traced 198 persons that had primary and secondary contacts with (Liberian-American diplomat --ed.) Patrick Sawyer who brought the virus to Nigeria from Liberia".

--177 are in Lagos, 21 in Enugu who all had contacts with the nurse "that had primary contact with Sawyer in Lagos"

--"The minister explained that the nurse disobeyed medical instructions and traveled to Enugu."

 

Another article said that 5 Indian doctors want to leave Nigeria. -FirstPost(India), 14Aug14

 

"More than one million people affected by Ebola outbreak -WHO", Times of India, 14Aug14

--128 new cases

--56 reported deaths for Aug 10-11

--1975 cases

--deaths 1,069

--"...170 health care workers have been infected, more than 80 have died."

--Damage to the Economies: airlines cancelling flights; companies moving staff out of (affected) regions

 

A description of the pathetic health systems, see:

"Your View: Stopping Ebola's spread needs action", by Gary F. Souza, South Coast Today, 14Aug14

Edited August 14, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

(salam)

14Aug14:

 

Canada Free Press, "The Story of Ebola in Reston, Virginia", by Dr. l J Paugh, 05Aug14

 

She recounts the story written in The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

 

A good quick read on REBOV   -RestonEBOlaVirus-  ; some excerps:

 

----"...Ebola(Reston-ed.) apparently drifted through the building's air handling ducts. (pp.251-252)"" (She is quoting the book)

---From examining the "...lungs, everyone at USAMRIID concluded Ebola(Reston-ed.) can spread through the air. (p.254)"

----"You can see the Ebola(Reston-ed.) particle clearly in the air spaces of the lung", said LTC Nancy Jaax, Chief of Pathology at USAMRIID in 1989, a participant in the Reston biohazard operation. (p.260)"

 

Another map:

BBCNews, 14Aug14, "Ebola: Mapping the Outbreak"

 

--has a couple of charts, too.

[blu115]

Ebola continues spreading.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201408141432.html

[hasanhh]

(salam)

blu115:  Thanks.  As I noted in post 40, 80+ health workers are dead from Ebola. Unless there is a serious deficiency in their equipment, I do not know what is killing so many. Loss of protocol from heat stress I do not think would kill so many. In mlty service, we had these MOPP 4 suits which are charcoal lined and very hot. I do not remember any loss of performance from heat stress. Therefore, I think there is another conduit to the disease, something being contaminated well away from their barrier-nursing sites.

I figure it is flies.

 

Did you read the Time or "your view" articles above.? They describe sick situations.

 

 

In school, we had this numbers game: If I give you a penny today, give you 2 cents tomorrow, and keep doubling the amount I give you each day...how many days will it be before I give you a million dollars?

Similarly, as a spread of disease, 2 exp 33 (2³³)  is about 8.5 billion. Planetary population is 9+ billion.

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

Several news media are carrying this from Reuters, 14Aug14, "Ebola Outbreak Vastly Underestimated: WHO"

 

--nothing factual in the article, but implies more than unreported cases from remote areas.

--WHO issued an alert for Kenya, this I read at VoA News.

 

Above, I mention 2³³, well now think 3¹⁹ ---> 9.1 Billion

[hasanhh]

(salam)

15/16Aug14

 

"UN to feed 1m people hit by Ebola", AFP, @ Dawn.com

-----"The WFP is alreadt feeding several thousand in the worst affected areas,..."

 

"TRF -WFP sacks up food deliveries overland to Ebola Region" Reuters, 15Aug, 1417 EDT by Stella Dawson

-----1145 confirmed Ebola deaths

-----PBS News added there are 2100+ confirmed Ebola cases

 

"Hospitals in the US Get Ready for Ebola", NYT, by Catherine Saint Louis, 15Aug14

-----new CDC "advice" says no "head-to-toe moon suits" ; "only gloves, fluid resistant gown, eye protection and face mask..."

----- However,  a doctor from Massachusetts General Hospital who tackled Ebola in Zaire says that was what the nurses there wore and they all got Ebola

 

Nigerian Tribune, 16Aug14 "Ebola Scare in Ibadab, Ekit as UCH orders screening of patients"

-----University College Hospital, Ibaden, Oyo State

-----a potential Ebola patient with blisters was allegedly turned away. The hospital officials deny this.

-----Hospital policy is that everyone is screened first to control access to areas of the hospital

----- the "doctors are on strike"

----- This Article has a summary of the current status of vaccines, experiments and testing

 

Nigerian Tribune, "Nigerian doctor recovers from Ebola", 17Aug14

-----a Nigerian doctor that treated Finance attaché Patrick Sawyer: she has recovered

-----a bush-meat hunters new group, a "legal practitioner", are proclaiming a "Western Plot" over Ebola

-----also complaints abut interfering with local medical practices --like bat soup cures

 

Other Info:

 

Fly Management Handbook, www.ct.gov/...

"[Most? -ed.] (p)athogens do not survive the change from a larva [maggot] to adult fly"

wasps make parasitic attacks on flies

 

Wikipedia, Muscina

"Most of the bacteria and viruses are not introduced from the fecal material to the fly when it is in the egg or larva form, rather the transfer occurs in the transition of a young fly to adulthood"

--the pathogens are attached to the outer body;

--later, it is in the saliva and feces of flies from the feeding source

 

Neotropical Ceratopogonidae, by Art Borkent, 2007

---midges (small flies) also carry diseases (likewise-ed.)

 

Above, post 19,  I mentioned remembering a mosquitoe being blown into Indiana from a hurricane. By accident and maybe the same thing I found: Aedes albopictus also known as the Asian Tiger Mosquitoe; Hawley,WA, J. Med. Entomol 26:122-129

Edited August 17, 2014 by hasanhh

[Deewan]

^I wouldn't be surprised if your groundbreaking work is being seriously considered for a Nobel in Medicine. iA a first for SC

 

:yaali:

[godzapostle]

Mob Destroys Ebola Center In Liberia Two Days After It Opens

 

A mob descended on the center at around 5:30 p.m., chanting, “No Ebola in West Point! No Ebola in West Point!” They stormed the front gate and pushed into the holding center. They stole the few gloves someone had donated this morning, and the chlorine sprayers used to disinfect the bodies of those who die here, all the while hollering that Ebola is a hoax.


They ransacked the protective suits, the goggles, the masks. They destroyed part of Tarplah’s car as he was fleeing the crowd.


Jemimah Kargbo, a health care worker at a clinic next door, said they took mattresses and bedding, utensils and plastic chairs.

 

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jinamoore/two-days-after-it-opens-mob-destroys-ebola-center-in-liberia#1svctxi

 

Im sure racism and colonialism is to blame for all this.

Edited August 17, 2014 by godzapostle

[David66]

Hello,

 

This will be devastating for Liberia.  Seventeen people with ebola disappear into a 60,000 person slum.  

 

Liberia may become the first country to become a quarantine zone.

 

The ignorance of a few has unleashed a terrible disease that will kill thousands.

 

David

[godzapostle]

Hello,

This will be devastating for Liberia. Seventeen people with ebola disappear into a 60,000 person slum.

Liberia may become the first country to become a quarantine zone.

The ignorance of a few has unleashed a terrible disease that will kill thousands.

David

The world needs to completely abandon west Africa. Let God take care of it.

[godzapostle]

Looks like some of the patients also ran away from the facility or we're dragged out by the looters:

 

Ebola crisis: Confusion as patients vanish in Liberia

 

"This is one of the stupidest things I have ever seen in my life," he said. "All between the houses you could see people fleeing with items looted from the patients."

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28827091

 

I swear to God if this becomes a world wide pandemic and millions lose their lives i will never forgive these people for their stupidity and i hope they all burn in hell. Hopefully i am overreacting.

Edited August 18, 2014 by godzapostle

[blu115]

The world needs to completely abandon west Africa. Let God take care of it.

This is a cruel and unislamic thing to say don't you think?

[godzapostle]

This is a cruel and unislamic thing to say don't you think?

 

Not sending billions of dollars in aid and not allowing our own populations to be endangered by a disease outbreak in africa is unislamic?

[Deewan]

Constructive criticism is always good, but I am starting to wonder if Deewan  and others are  ostriches.

 

(Rather than face fear, sticks its head in the sand.)

 

Actually, Deewan is a medical student and quite used to calling BS when he sees it ;)

[IbnSohan]

If someone wants to read some "silly" beliefs that people might grow during a growing fear , lol read this 

 

 

Important alert from Chinese state media: No, Ebola isn’t a ‘zombie virus’

By Elahe Izadi August 15

Now it can be told: This will not happen to you if you are infected with Ebola. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Everybody, calm down. Ebola isn't a "zombie virus." It will not turn you into a member of the living dead.

That's the message delivered by Chinese state media, in response to the flurry of rumors, online and presumably elsewhere, about the deadly virus that's ravaging West Africa.

A recent article published by the state-run Xinhua News Agency debunks various assertions about the virus.

According to a translation from Foreign Policy, some people erroneously believe that once people die from Ebola, they can "unexpectedly reawaken, entering into an extremely violent condition in which they bite any moving object, including humans and animals."

False!

On the contrary, an expert said, Ebola victims actually get weaker, not stronger, because they lose so much blood. Additionally, coming back from the dead as a zombie (whether of the traditional slow or new-age fast variety) "can only happen in the movies," the expert said. Noted.

Another rumor that's taken off in China: You can cure Ebola by drinking coffee mixed with raw onions. Nope! (The aromatic elixir would likely fend off people, yes, but not the deadly Ebola virus.)

Nonetheless, Chinese officials are on high alert as the worst Ebola outbreak in history rages on. They have declared that passengers arriving from West Africa will go through special channels at China's airports; state media even released a photo of Nigerians being examined by Chinese health workers wearing full-body hazmat suits.

Ebola has killed more than 1,000 people,  mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, and the World Health Organization now says the outbreak'stoll has been vastly underestimated.

China isn't the only place where wild Ebola rumors have spread rapidly; in West Africa, rumors and misinformation have had deadly consequences. Health workers have had to combat the notion among some West Africansthat the virus doesn't even exist.

As for a zombie outbreak, the United States appears to be well-prepared for the walking dead, thanks to the Zombie Preparedness Initiative from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Edited August 18, 2014 by IbnSohan

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

My area Internet has been down for a day.

 

17-18Aug 2014:

 

ABC News, 17Aug14, 1412 hrs EDT; "Ebola Fears Rise as Clinic is Looted"

 

--deeply upset over "suspected patients and took items including bloody sheets and matresses"

 

--in West Point slum of 50,000 in Monrovia

 

Al-Jazeera and Washington Post["Why the escape of Ebola patients...",18Aug] are reporting the same.

 

US News and World Report [18Aug] says there were 17 patients that fled the mob

 

Daily Mail, 18Aug14, "Nigerian Woman suspected of Ebola dies in U.A.E." 1009EST

--the plane has been disinfected.

--Ethijad Airlines

--Medical Daily is reporting her husband is under quarantine

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

18Aug14 News Updates:

 

ABC News, 18Aug14, 1422hrs EDT  "Ebola Outbreak Worsens..."

in headed sections,

---"Mob Loots Liberia Ebola Center"

------37 fled, 20 returned, 17 missing

------were "forcibly removed by vandals and looters" said Gov't Information Minister Lewis Brown

 

--"More Americans Tested for Ebola"

-------a woman in New Mexico who traveled to Sierra Leone

-------6 people have been tested before, ALL negative

 

Nigerian Tribune, 19Aug14, "Doctors Strike: State President wades in"

---Senate President Davis Mark held a closed-door meeting with the Nigerian Medical Association Sunday night (local time -ed.)

---Mark will communicate their concerns to Pres. Jonathon

---Mark appealed to their patriotism

---"grievances...include improved hazard allowance for medical and healthcare workers, payment of 10 months arrears, as well as an appointment of surgeon-general of federation"

---also, reverse sacking 16,000 residents before "further negotiation"

[hasanhh]

PBS News Hour, 18Aug14 1800 hours EDT

 

--Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has "appealed for more international help".

 

--Kenya has closed its borders for travelers from the affect countries

 

--Medicine sans Frontiers on Sunday, has opened a new 120 bed treatment site in Monrovia :yaali:,the largest such center in history

 

--John Moore of Getty Images witnessed and photographed the attack on that clinic Saturday night

----the mob drove away the health workers and the police, broke through the isolation doors and told the people inside that "they really didn't have Ebola at all"..."that they were sick from other causes and it was safe to come out". :sick:

----they crowd said Ebola "is a hoax" and a "plot to bring in international money"

----the isolated patients were there for observation, not because they are confirmed Ebola cases,

----this occurred in a closed primary school used by the Liberian Health Ministry

----this "clinic" was poorly equipped, had about "no medicine there",  not even aspirin, gave water for headaches

----this primary school was built by USAID

----"schools, hospitals and clinics are all closed", but gov't health workers are going throughout the city explaining things to people.

----no sense of panic, but if you have non-Ebola health issues, you can get no care, "so people are getting sick and dying from things they should not otherwise" die from.

----the health care system has collapsed

 

----John Moore traveled to Liberia with a full set of PPE (moon suits) and gets decontaminated.

----

[hasanhh]

godzapostle and David66

(salam)

Reference to your posts 47&50 and 48 respectively:

 

Hope your not eating :sick:

 

Emirates 24/7 News quoting AFP, 19Aug14 "17 Ebola patients flee..."

 

--quote: "Wilmont Johnson, head of a youth association in West Point which organized a search for the patients, told journalists Monday (the 18th -ed.) that 'those who saw them (the vandals and raiders of the clinic -ed.) passing told us they have gone into other communities'."

 

--quote: "The head of the Health Workers Association of Liberia, George Williams, said 29 patients in the raided unit 'all had test positive for Ebola' and were receiving preliminary treatment before being taken to hospital."

 

--bodies are still not collected (as in post #33, 10Aug14 above)

 

--the African Union on Monday the 18th "cancelled its summit scheduled for September 02 in Ouagadougou" even though Burkina Faso is 'unaffected' so far

 

--quote: "EU border agency Frontex said it was suspending flights deporting migrants back to Nigeria because of the outbreak"

-opine saying this is probably a mistake as this will encourage more migrants and drownings in the Mediterranean.

 

-opine: George Williams' statement about "preliminary treatment" contradicts that other reports about the quality of care and that of John Moore in post #57 ("didn't have aspirin" or there for "observation")

Edited August 19, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

19Aug14

 

More :sick:

 

Liberian Observer, "Transport Hike,..." by Edwin M. Fayia III

 

--the hike in transpot fees has "restricted the movement of food" even though these hikes are illegal

 

--"greater Monrovia has depopulated dramatically" in about the last 10 days

 

Daily Observer, (Liberia) 19Aug14, "AFL Ordered to Shoot Anyone Crossing Borders at Night"

--the Armed Forces of Liberia has these instructions for people crossing from Sierra Leone

 

Daily Observer, 0453hrs(local) 19Aug14 "Ebola Situation Worsens" (--just the headline-ed.)

 

Awareness Times, "Sierra Leone News: Thieves Break into Ebola Isolation Ward in Bo City", by Hassan Juana Koroma in Bo, 18Aug14 1210hrs(local)

--a 0300hr break-in under the cover of pouring rain at Bo Gov't Hospital on 12Aug14

--6 patients were in that ward

--tents, tarpaulins, buckets, beds, phones, shoes were some of the items stolen

--now, Ebola "has spread like wildfire"

--opine question: why did it take a week to report this?

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

More Bad News:  19Aug14 1500hrs EDT

 

BloombergBusinessWeek, "Ebola Dead Can't Be Buried in Liberia Amid Shortage of Body Bags" by Simon Bennett(in Geneva) 19Aug

 

Business Standard "Two suspected cases...Austria"

 

Daily Mirror, 1912hrs(Berlin local) "Ebola Crisis: "600 people quarantined in Berlin after woman collapses in job center"

-other info added in article:

----1229 in the WHO "West Africa count"

----the 17 patients that had not returned to the raided clinic Saturday night have been found

 

John Moore of Getty Images has photos online of some of the stolen mattresses from the West Point Clinic (School Room actually) [see post 57 about Moore]

 

----they were thrown onto the beach

 

 

1528hrs

Opine: Just thought of this: colleges are about to start, so we will have students returning from Europe, et alia. Such as from Germany and party city Berlin and Austria.

Edited August 19, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

Good News:

 

ABC Online (Australia), compiled from AFP and Reuters; [1722hrs EDT equivalent]

 

"Ebola Crisis: Two Austrian men given all clear"

 

ahhamduallah

 

Other items, same article:

 

-- Cameroon has closed its borders with Nigeria

 

--airline crews are refusing to work some flights, e.g. Air France are refusing to fly to Guinea

I don't blame them.

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

Late Update:

 

SFGate, 19Aug14, 1846 PDT, "Patient checked for Ebola Virus at Kaiser hospital in Sacramento", by Vivian Ho

---results in "a few days" as the sample goes to CDC

 

Jamaica Observer, 19Aug14 2117hrs, "Trinidad calls for CARICOM meeting on Ebola and Chikungunya threat"

---CARIbbean COMmunity

---Chikungunya is a Category 3 alphavirus that also attacks endothelial cells

---mostly spread by Aedes aegypti  mosquitoes. See post #19 for its distribution in the USA.

---also spread by the Aedes adolphus -Aisian Tiger mosquitoe- but not as easily.

 

(KFVS) "Carmi company looks to play role in Ebola fight"

Carmi, IL --Elastic/American Marine has a product MediBurn which is a portable medical waste incinerator using a microwave oven. Produced since the 1990s.

 

Nigerian Tribune, 20Aug14, "Nigeria can stop Ebola Virus spread -WHO"

--Nigeria and Guinea Republic were praised for their efforts.

--Nigeria has started a hand-washing campaign

--says the woman in Germany had "fainted" and emergency responders took "precautions". Also said she had traveled to Nigeria (the report cited above said Sierra Leone -ed.)

Edited August 20, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

Wed, 20Aug14:

 

Daily Post [Nigeria] 20 Aug14, "REVEALED: How Dr. Adadevoh saved Nigerian lives from Ebola"

--Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, an endocrinologist had forced Liberian-American Finance attaché Patric Sawyer to remain in bed when Sawyer tried to remove his drip and leave the hospital

another article said;

--she was also under pressure by the Liberian Ambassador to Nigeria to release Sawyer

 

This is a big difference than the nurse above in posts 39 and 40 above.

 

NOTE: There is a petition to have her remembered by a posthumous honor --

 

New York Daily News, 20Aug14 1058hrs EDT; "New Ebola quarantine measures incite anger, protests in Liberia"

--night time curfew and sealing off the West Point slum

 

--another report says people are also denied entry and troops have already fired shots into the air

 

John Moore, Getty Images, 20Aug14

--a photograph of Miata Flowers' family  being evacuated by police/military from the West Point slum. Ms. Flowers -who is the District Commissioner- is "detained" by angry residents.

 

--as describe in other and previous news articles, people are blaming the gov't, aid workers, ...(opine: anybody) for the Ebola Crisis. Even denying there is Ebola.

 

[AP], 20Aug14, "Lynchburg-area schools screening for Ebola";

--this includes Liberty University, other area colleges and high schools with exchange students

--Lynchburg has 20 exchange students from Nigeria

Edited August 20, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

Late, 20Aug14:

 

WHO, according to boston.com , reports 1350 deaths and 2473 cases as of 18Aug14

 

Independent Online, [iol.co.za] "Clashes in Liberia as Ebola Fear Spreads", 21Aug14, by Clair MacDougall

 

Opine: from the reporting, Liberia currently has 45+ death-per-day from Ebola alone.

 

---Liberia Ministry of Health's warehouse has "run out of rubber boots and bottles of hand sanitizer", items critical to controlling the spread of Ebola.

 

--food and water shortages have already occurred in the West Point slum and prices for such "spiked" when quarantine was imposed.

 

--WHO is quoted as saying that without air and sea transportation, there are "shortages of fuel, food and basic supplies"

 

-- "...so far there has been only a trickle of additional foreign healthcare workers to affected nations" (emphasis added)

 

CNN is carrying an appeal/report by Liberian official G. Gerou

Edited August 21, 2014 by hasanhh

[IbnSohan]

I am not sure why this is making a global fear. So far, it did not get beyond its borders. Those who were moved out of Africa either died or cured. In either way, they were handled properly to prevent the spread of the illness. The problem is with Liberia non existing medical system.

The number of death is almost fixed now , 1200+ person. No dramatic increase in the number although Liberia is unable to contain it.

 

 

 

BUT, since the Ebola is naturally found in Africa with multiple strains, this piece of news worth attention.

 

Report: Potential signs of Ebola virus in Congo

 

 

 

By Elise Viebeck - 08/20/14 12:00 PM EDT

The Democratic Republic of Congo is investigating potential evidence of the Ebola virus there, a sign that the deadly illness may have spread to a fifth country. 

Congo's health minister and a team of experts were sent to a northern province after a group of locals died from a sickness that resembled Ebola, sources told Reuters on Wednesday. 
 

If confirmed as Ebola, the presence of the virus in Congo could open a new hot spot for an illness that has already killed more than 1,200 West Africans in its latest outbreak. 

The World Health Organization and its U.S. partners have struggled so far to contain the virus in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. 

Ebola causes massive internal hemorrhaging and has no cure or vaccine. The supply of promising experimental treatments is low, making containment the primary goal of global health officials. 

A spokesman for the governor of Congo's Equateur province told Reuters he could not confirm that the deaths were from Ebola. 

A local resident said about 10 people had died after experiencing flu-like symptoms and bleeding from the face. 

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/215580-report-potential-signs-of-ebola-in-congo#ixzz3B1IosaVw 
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[thuglife]

Salam,

 

I remember reading Romeo & Juliet (or some other story from that era) and how cities would literally wall themselves off from the rest of the world to prevent diseases from coming to their populations. We have been spoiled with safety from such diseases, thank Allah swt.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if something like this happens with countries closing themselves off. That recent Planet of the Apes movies is no joke.