Ebola [OFFICIAL THREAD]

[hasanhh]

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02Sept14:

 

1] Amref Health Africa, Ebola Update, 19Aug14

----"Kenya is ranked as HIGH RISK due to commercial traffic"  --(caps added -ed)

 

There are several branches to the Trans-African Highway. The one pertinent to this headline runs from Lagos, Nigeria to Mombasa

 

Other routes are: Dakar, Senegal to Lagos,  which runs along the West African coast through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia

.                            Dakar to Ndjamena, Chad,  which runs through Mali and Burkino Faso

 

2] Xinhua, 03Sept14, "WFP steps up effort to help countries affected by Ebola"

----Mali is listed as "at risk"  for Ebola epidemic

 

I can't as yet find any info for these sub-Saharan countries in their preparations for a likely outbreak.

From recon-ing the maps, advance Ebola teams should be set up in Bamoko, Mali; Wa, Ghana; Bama, Burkino Faso

---there are already many Customs stops and Police check points along these roads.

[hasanhh]

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03Sept14:

 

Awareness Times, 03Sept14  --Freetown, Sierra Leone; cases have nearly double this past week (inside the city and known) from 45 to 86

 

WHO, Situation Assessment, 03Sept14, now 3 confirmed cases in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

 

Except for DeutscheWelle which headlines "nearly 2,000", all media reports found (and the CDC and WHO which as yet say nothing/posted) use the phrase "over 1,900 deaths" for a report attributed to WHO about the current Ebola death rate.

 

******Edited Note2400hrs,03Sept/04Sept added: PressTV quotes the WHO press release, in which WHO says "3500 confirmed" and "over 1900 deaths".  Nevertheless, my opine remains:

 

Opine: So, there has been 400 additional deaths each week for the last three weeks. Either this is a guess, or an accurate accounting is not possible, or the number reported is being reduced as there already is a problem with "panics", a few of which are above.

Edited September 4, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

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04Sept2014:

 

1] In this article, the theme is also that WHO was never designed nor intended to be an ambulance brigade;

New York Times, 03Sept14 "Cuts at WHO Hurt Response to Ebola Crisis"

-------WHO budget was cut $1 Billion to a two-year budget of $3.98 Billion (CDC budget is $6 Billion per year)

------staff is 2/3rds of its 2009 staffing level

-----WHO's epidemic unit has 52  regular employees

 

2] a quick light read, in generalizations;

--------Vox, "Seven reasons why this Epidemic spun out of control"

 

3] :)  BBC News, 04Sept14 ~1830hrs EDT  "Ebola Outbreak: USAID pledges additional $75 Million"

-------Cf: posts 96 and 72. Opine: It's a start and a nice change

 

4]  Nigerian Tribune, 05Sept14, compare with post 75, "FG orders comprehensive review of airport security"

------Minister of Aviation, Mr. Osita Chidoka, said, "the FG has provided necessary infrastructure to make sure that what happened within the nidex case Mr. Patrick Sawyer who imported Ebola Virus Disease into the country does not re-occur"

 

5] Last Week, Newsweek was criticized in the media for very unprofessional journalism on Ebola, but this article is better:

----NewsWeek, 04Sept14, 1711 EDT    "NIH: Ebola Outbreak is "Completely out of Control",  by Joe Kloc

--quotes NIH official, director Anthony Fauci, as saying "completely out of control" on Thursday (the 4th)

--as of 31Aug, Guinea Republic, Liberia and Sierra Leone  have "confirmed"  1841 deaths

--quotes Th. Konyon, director of Prevention Center for Global Health of the CDC, as saying: (Ebola is) "back on the increase now with exponential increase" and that it is "beyond the interventions we have in place"

---the UN "upped" the estimate of funds $110 million to $600 million this week

--quoting Reuters, the article says that ZMAPP got a $42.3 million grant to continue developing its drug.

Edited September 5, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

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05Sept14:

 

Internation Business Times, 05Sept14, 1340EDT (originally 1052EDT)

 

"Ebola Outbreak Update: Death Toll tops 2,000"

 

2,097 known deaths out of 3,944 known cases.

 

cf. post 103

[hasanhh]

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05Sept14:

 

Reuters, 05Sept14 ~2130hrs, "EU pledges 140 million euros in Ebola aid as West Africa toll tops 2100"

----MSF on 28Aug had 156 foreign staff and ~1700 locals in West Africa

 

BBC broadcast, 2100hrs EDT --reported Sierra Leone will have a "4 day lockdown" starting 18 Sept.

 

BBC 05Sept14 2125EDT "Ebola: How bad could it get?", by James Gallagher

---currently, 500 new cases per week known

--"capital cities (are) becoming major centres of Ebola"

 

USA Today, (AP)  05Sept14 2139 "White House asks for $30 million for CDC's Ebola efforts""

--for agency epidemiologists "and intelligence officers who are tracking the spread of Ebola in Africa"

 

Leadership (Nigeria), 06Sept14  (2 articles)

---Veterinary Council of Nigeria to research animals as Ebola vectors :yaali:

 

--"Ebola Scare: Residents Desert Homes in Delta"

---started from rumors around a hospital

 

AwarenessTimes: Sierra Leone News: 05Sept14 1716hrs local, "Young Light of Islam Provides Preventive Materials for Ebola Fight"

----in Freetown, they distributed buckets, Chlorine and soap

Edited September 6, 2014 by hasanhh

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1]In a speculative article with many "may be"s,

New York Times, 05Sept14, "Many in West Africa May Be Immune to Ebola Virus", by Donald McNeil

 

2] theguardian.com, 06Sept14 0440EDT, "Sierra Leone Ebola lockdown could 'spread disease further'"

-----21,000 people will be recruited for enforcement according to "Kargbo"*

* the Independent article below cites his name as "Ibrahim Bau Kargbo" and as an "advisor" to the Health Ministry

 

3] Yahoo News -AFP, 06Sept14, "Vigilante 'border guards' keeping Ebola out of Senegal", by Malick Rokhy Ba

 

4] Nigerian Tribune, 07Sept14, no Ebola stories but has this: "Cholera claims another 16 in Sokoto"

 

5] Awareness Times, Sierra Leone News, "The Safety of the Nurses is our Priority...Says chief Nursing Officer"

-----because of the disparity of apparent "risk", nurses in "low risk areas" are to be paid 200,000 leones per month and nurses in "high risk" areas to be paid 500,000 leones per month.

 

6] The Independent, ref to post 98, "Ebola Outbreak: Why has 'Big Pharma' failed deadly virus' victims"

------"...because there was 'no business case'"

Note: a decade ago,  the was a shortage of basic vaccines because Pharma didn't see enough profit in them, inside the US. What is the current status?

[hasanhh]

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07Sept14:

 

1] New York Times, "Sunday Review" supplement, by NYT Editorial Board, 06Sept14

 

----"The most shocking news of the week was how ill-prepared the WHO was to organize an effective response", (then notes the same elements as in post 104 above, No.1 --ed.)

 

---"The United Nations should direct the WHO to take charge where governments are weak" ("gov't" referring to the capabilities of their respective Health Ministries --ed.)

 

---"Given the WHO's weakness, the White House ought to consider whether the United States should take the lead"

 

2] boston.com, "Obama Warns Ebola Outbreak Could Worsen", 07Sept14, 1544hrs EDT

-----"...is a US national security priority"

 

3] Vox, 07Sept14, "Ebola has up to an 18% chance of coming to America"

----these "conclusions" are based on "analysis" of airline flight patterns

---simulations gave a range of 1% to 18%

 

4] thestar.com (Toronto) 07Sept14 Canadian Press

-------the evacuated health teams, post 80 above , returned to Sierra Leone on Saturday the 6th.

 

5] Herald News, (Canada), St.John, NB 07Sept14; "Ebola Scare locks down New Brunswick hotel"

-----the woman had recently traveled to Africa but not in the affected countries. She became ill while at the hotel.

Edited September 8, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

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08Sept14:

 

1] :shaytan:  CNN:  "FBI: US air rnarshall assauIted at airport in Nigeria"  08Sept14, 2220GMT

----also reported by NBC Nightly News

---a group of men stabbed an air rmarshall as he was about to board a flight back to the US (Houston)

 

2] DeutscheWelle, 08Sept14, "Ebola cases expected to surge in Liberia says WHO"

---- 1,000s of new cases

---taxis and motorcycle-taxis are a primary hazard because they are not being disinfected

 

3] RT.com, 08Sept14 "Obama: US military will fight against Ebola in Africa"

----France has already announced it will send "20 specialists in biological disasters"

 

4] Washington Post, 07Sept14, 2022hrs EDT "Obama: US military to provide equipment, resources to battle Ebola epidemic in Africa"

----- :!!!: "The decision to involve the military in providing equipment and other assets for international health workers in Africa comes after mounting calls from some unlikely groups...demonstrating to the White House the urgency of the issue" (underline added -ed.)

 

5] Voice of America, 08Sept14 0152 EDT, "Liberia Welcomes US Military Role in Ebola Fight", by James Butty

---- Liberian Defense Minister Brownie Samukai is in Washington D.C. lobbying for assistance

--- (In reaction to Obama's statement on "Meet the Press", before the details became known....errrr, lack of details --ed.) Mr. Samukai said, "...And we as a country are extremely pleased...".

 

6] Yahoo News, Reuter's, 08Sept14 "US Military to set up field hospital in Ebola-stricken Liberia"

----- :cry: -"Pentagon will send a 25-bed field hospital to Liberia to help provide medical care for health workers..." (boldface added -ed)

----the $22 million hospital provided comes from a USAID request

--- :wacko: the US military will set up the hospital then had it over to Liberia (this is tentage and field cots -ed.)

-- :mad: "there (is) no plan for US military involvement in providing medical treatment"

 

Opine: For this pretentious, PR stunt, Obama is now worthy of the Nobel Prize in Grandstanding

The is ____damn shameless.! These people, who are descendants of US citizens, need real help. Not a tent for dying healthcare workers.

As noted in an above post, Obomb'em said this was "national security". How about in the "national and international interest"?  And if it is "national security", why does it take a chorus-of-calls from outside groups to get his attention? Hasn't anybody in the Big-Dumb-White House read that healthcare workers are dying out?

SC people have.! For the last month, too.

Edited September 9, 2014 by hasanhh

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here's a follow-on:

 

7] USA Today, 08Sept14, 2131 EDT,  "Ebola Outbreak is a unique 'perfect storm' " by Karen Weintraub

 

-----"...it takes about 200-250 medical personnel to safely manage 70 Ebola patients WHO officials have said"

 

Q: What was the number given back in July? Liberia has about 1 doctor for every 10,000 people? And half these doctors are dead now.

[hasanhh]

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CORRECTION:  Liberia has about 1 doctor for every 100,000 people in a country of 4 millions, source:

nbcnews.com, 09Sept14, "Ebola Spreading 'Exponentially' as patients seek beds in Liberia", by Maggie Fox

---ref, post 109, No.2: this article also mentions taxis as a source as families searching for hospital beds driven around the cities, looking// traveling with the sick and contaminating family and taxi

Edited September 9, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

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09Sept14:

 

1] Washington Post, 09Sept14, 1527EDT,  by Elahe Izedi, "Ebola death toll rises to 2296 as Liberia struggles to keep up"

---"...to at least 2296 in West Africa" deaths current through Saturday (the 6th)[bBC below quotes "2288"]

--Note: in post 105 above, the number given by WHO on Friday, the 5th, was 2097. As this article notes, this is 200 deaths in one day.!

--with dysfunctional/crashed  healthcare systems in these countries, lab confirmations of Ebola are erratic, but based on "probable" cases in these "overwhelmed" countries, of those 'probables' (not "suspected") the lab testing rates are: 31% in Liberia; 91% in Sierra Leone; 71% in Guinea

 

2] Frontline, PBS, 09Sept14, "Ebola Outbreak" was filmed in July-August 2014

 

3] BBC News, 09Sept14 1727 EDT "Ebola 'threatens Liberia's national existence' "

-----DefMin B.Samukai (of post 109) tells this to the United Nations Security Council

---quotes the death toll at 2288, one half of whom have died in the 3 weeks up to 06Sept

 

4] Fox News, 09Sept14, "Senegal tracks route of Guinea student in race to stop Ebola"

-----67 "contacts" are being surveiled

---ref to post100, number 3 above

 

5] :!!!:  Yahoo News, 09Sept14, by Jason Sickles, "Ebola evacuations to US greater than previously known"

-----the State Dept "couldn't provide details on any exposure evacuations to the United States" (bold face added-ed)

---Center for Disease Control did not answer any requests for information

--Phoenix Air is under contract to do these

-Note: these are "exposure cases" that are not being reported, not known "Ebola cases" --like the 4 that have been in the media

-example of this activity is in post 81

 

6] woodtv.com, (Grand Rapids MI) "Spectrum Health preps for unlikely Ebola", by Leon Hendrix

----in Grand Rapids, Michigan, healthcare workers are being trained to handle Ebola

--"92" isolation rooms have been prepared

 

7] :realangery: thehill.com, "GOP cuts funding requests to fight Ebola", by Ellse Viebeck, 09Sept14 1324EDT

------the funding will be $40 million: $25million to the CDC and $15million to BARDA {Biological Advanced Research and Development Authority}

---the request was for $88million, with $58million to go to BARDA

 

8] :lol:  Washington Post, "Official: US military's response to Ebola hampered by lack of expertise with virus", 09Sept14, 2047EDT

opine: 1) 'who did?' 2) "can't learn?" 3) it follows they can't handle infectious hepatitis --safety measure the same

Edited September 10, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

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10Sept14:

 

1] Nigerian Tribune, 10Sept14 "Suspected Ebola case in Oberi Awolowo University~Suspect had contact with P/Harcourt victim"

------panic among students and parents

 

2] AwarenessTimes, Sierra Leone News: "Ebola Deaths are under reported"

----- the "case fatality rate", CFR, has been mis-calculated at 38%

----Guinea  and Liberia report CFR at 60-70%

 

3] other info from Awareness Times which is carrying several death stories, stories of public awareness campaigns, and there was flooding in Freetown over the weekend (Saturday)

---acting Health Minister Abu Bakr Fofanah says Ebola is spreading out from the cities, like "tentacles" (ref to post 106)

 

4] BBC News, 09Sept14 "Ebola Outbreak: Liberia patients 'turned away' "

----Medicines sans Frontiers cannot do anymore

 

5] The Herald-News (Joliet, lL) 09Sept14 2303hrs CDT, "Amid Liberia Surge, Ebola case toll over 4200"

---- the investigation into Senegalese epidemiologist contracting Ebola has resulted in changes in the quartering arrangements. Personal living units will no longer be as "cramped" and agencies and organizations will be kept apart.

---ref to post 80

 

6] --Gambia has closed it borders to West African nationals  (except with Senegal)(Bangkok Post)

 

7] :scream: First Post (lndia) "F.World" Section, 10Sept14, 0856 IST, "Ebola: UN to hold high-level meet to step up relief operations"

--quote-- "United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will hold a high-level event this month to spur international efforts to the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa."

-- schld for the 24th

 

Opine: y'all remember the popular myth that Nero played the lyre while Rome burned?

Edited September 10, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

10Sept14 No.2

 

1] Ref to posts 113 #2; post 107 #2; post 82:  Yahoo News, 10Sept14 "SLeone expects to uncover hundreds of hidden Ebola cases"

-------"...up to 20% more...when nationwide curfew to find the dead and sufferers..."

----Sierra Leone has a population of 6 million

--the curfew will be 3 days starting Sept 18th Cf post 106, BBC which said 4 days.

 

2] :yaali:Washington Post, 10Sept14 EDT "Gates Foundation commits $50 Million to fight Ebola in West Africa", by Elahe Izadi

-----for comparison, "...the US gov't has spent just over twice that amount"

--Gates Foundation already committed $10 Million, plus $2 Million to the CDC for support operations

 

3] Foreign Policy, FP (blog), 10Sept14 by Jack C. Chow, "The Ultimate Ebola Fighting Force"

------the opinion/advocacy is about founding an international "battalion" of Bio Hazard specialists and what political problems their employment might encounter or begin.

 

4] :)  Ref to post 112 #7;  rollcall.com, (blog) , "House Bill Fully Funds Obama's Ebola Request", by Steven Dennis, 10Sept14 0839 EDT

------"House Republicans plan to fully fund..." the $88 Million

---"...had been in doubt until late Tuesday" (the 9th -ed.)

 

5] Ref to post 108 #3;  westernjournalism.com, "Watch: Model Terrifyingly Predicts How Ebola Will Spread", by Justin Koski, 10Sept14

-----this is a 40-some second map coloring

 

--Opine: While I did not find anything impressive about this "playtime map game" --as I describe it, a comment within did spark a question.

The "model" allegedly follows the start-assumption of one person getting through with Ebola.

Now, here is the question: This is for a person. But what about luggage? People handle this stuff several times as it goes through airports and taxis. Remember taxis above? As I posted at 99 #7, Ebola survives outside of host and disinfection for two weeks minimum.

So :    1) How does this model change?

.          2) And at what accelerated rate?

.           3) Does luggage, etc, need to be quarantined?

[hasanhh]

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11Sept14:

 

1]  DeutscheWelle,  http://www.dw.de/virologist-fight-against-ebola-in-sierra-leone-and-liberia-is-lost/a-17915090

.      11Sept14

------from a German Ebola expert, Jonas Schmidt-Chanast, "the virus must 'burn itself out' in that part of the World"

-----expectation: 5 million dead

----more money "has to be put into evaluating vaccines"

---his views are being held in "contempt" and called "dangerous" because it is "distributing hopelessness" :donno:

--"WHO in Geneva refuses to comment on Schmidt-Chanast's statement" -see following

-Liberia is "very intense" and 80 healthcare workers have died there.

 

Note: from researchgate.net: Jonas Schmidt-Chanast is in the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fevers.

 

2] Wall Street Journal {blog}, 11Sept14 1219EDT "Glaxo's Ebiola Vaccine and the Rise of Tropical Disease R&D", by Hector Plumridge

-----"One surprising feature of the Ebola outbreak...GSK...was already developing a vaccine"

**--Deutsche Bank estimates Tropical Disease spending at $500 million out of $130 Billion for all medical applications

 

3] New York Times, 11Sept14, "What We're Afraid to Say about Ebola", by Michael T. Osterholm {who is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota}

------there are two probable outcomes:

-----1) Ebola (might) spread throughout Africa

-----2) "virologists loath to discuss openly" the continuous mutations will generate an airborne strain

 

4] :mad: --this sick-cwap was bound to happen: Daily Sun [Nigeria] 12Sept14 0308WAT, "NAFDAC warns against use of fake Ebola-test kits"

[hasanhh]

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12Sept14, Friday:

 

1] The News (Paki), by AFP, 12Sept14, 1533PKT "Ebola death toll tops 2,400: WHO"

-----"more than 2400" of 4784 cases as of 12Sept

 

2] City A.M. (London) "Cuba pledges doctors as WHO warns..." 12Sept14

----Cuba will send 165 doctors

---theGuardian, et alia, are reporting that WHO is asking for 600

 

3] CNN, 12Sept14 "West Africa health centers can't keep up with Ebola outbreak, WHO says"

----USAID has sent 130,000 PPE, 50,000 hygiene kits, 1,000 beds

----USAID has set up a website for sign-ups to help for RNs, PAs and Doctors

 

4] Straits Times; Reuters, 12Sept14, "Netherlands to evacuate two doctors who had contact with Ebola victims in Sierra Leone"

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

:no:  :mad:  :realangery:

 

CNN, 09Sept14, 1327GMT, "Is U.S. ready for a pandemic? Investigator says we're 'ill-prepared' ", by Jen Christensen

--written about a IG report on DHS

--titled: "DHS has not effectively managed Pandemic Personal Protective Equipment and Anti-Viral Medical Countermeasures". OIG-14-129, August 2014

--from the article: "In 2006, Congress gave DHS $47 million to prepare for such a national medical crisis."

--basically, the DHS took the money, bought stuff, stuff it in warehouses, and let it rot; including Tamaflu, masks,...

 

for the report itself: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/08/health/u-s-pandemic-inprepared/index.html ; which provides the link to the IG report

[hasanhh]

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Sat,13Sept14:

 

1] The Fresno Bee, 12Sept14 evening PDT, "Liberia president pleads with Obama for Ebola assistance"

------In a letter to Obama on Tuesday the 9th, Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf  "...has implored President Barak Obama for help in managing her country's rapidly expanding Ebola crisis and has warned...(of) civil chaos."

 

----Sirleaf requested 1,500 more beds "...and that the US military set up and run a 100-bed Ebola-hospital in...Monrovia" (in post 103, I used the info then to guestimate deaths were running 400 per week)

 

---"Infectious disease experts have criticized..." Obama, the WHO and the UN "...for responding too slowly..."

--article then has a description of the criticisms, one mild word is "paltry"

- :lol: "Obama administration officials said Friday (the 12th -ed) that the President on Tuesday (the 16th -ed) would go to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, when he would announce a more aggressive US response to the disease." ref to post 109 #6, #3

 

**-opine with article readings: So now, the 25-bed tent hospital is spun into: "is the floor in terms of DoD's response, not the ceiling"

 

2]  Daily News and Analysis, (India) Sat 13Sept14, 0900 IST "US to train Liberia's armed forces to help tackle Ebola crisis"

----"The United States said on Friday (underline added, the 12th -ed) it would train..." in crowd control. (ref post 112 #8)

 

3]  Turbo News (Australia), 13Sept14 "Ebola situation in Senegal remains stable"

--The situation in Senegal from the Guinean student that fled to Senegal, the 67 "contacts" are "checked" twice daily. Five of these had Ebola tests for symptoms but all were negative.

--the WHO requires no cases for 42 days before being designated Ebola-free

-ref to posts: 112 #4; 107 #3; 100 #3

 

4] Nigerian Tribune, 13Sept14, "Africa spends $35bn importing food annually--Adesina"

-----Nigeria's Ag Minister Dr. Akinwumi Adesina speaking in Nairobi, Kenya at the beginning of the Kenya-Nigeria Agribusiness Forum

---on the food crisis, see posts 71 and 46 above --UN feeding "program", planting failures

 

5] Awareness Times, 12Sept14 1716hrsLocal,  "Freetown Records 20 Ebola-cases in 2 days"

----these are laboratory confirmed cases

Edited September 13, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

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13Sept14, No. 2:

 

6] for things like 50,000 bars of soap... see: http://www.nassaunewsline.com/what-the-u-s-has-given-to-fight-ebola-and-why-its-not-enough/115685

 

 

7a]Voice of America, 13Sept14, 1739EDT , "WHO denies Evacuation of Ebola Stricken Doctor from Sierra Leone"

-----------the victim is not a foreign worker, but a native doctor :mad:

meanwhile, back in the White-World...

7b] Yahoo!7 News, "Dutch Ebola Doctors 'to be evacuated on Sunday' "

 

***opine: in some of the readings over this past week, on some off-hand points, such as Ebola has remained in recoverees' semen for 80 days, WHO waits for 42-Ebola-free days to give a 'clear' to an area or country, unknown number and whereabouts of "Ebola Exposure" cases evacuated, presence of Ebola on luggage ...

I have come to the opinion that NO departures or evacuations be allowed out of these countries without quarantine and a medical pass even for doctors. If they need care, take it in.

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

16Sept14:

 

The Hindu, 16Sept14, 1110hrs IST, "US sends troops to build Ebola clinics, train health workers"

------Obama "called the outbreak a national security threat..."

-----"US military engineers will coordinate with local governments to build 17 clinics with 100 beds each..."

----"The US will also train up to 500 healthcare workers a week for at least six months..."

---"The Department of Defence's Africa Command will establish a joint command in Monrovia, Liberia to oversee US and international efforts and is to devote some 3,000 troops to the aid effort, officials said."

--"Mr.Obama is to seek additional funds from Congress, and the Department of Defence plans to reallocate some 500 million dollars..."

 

additional info not in The Hindu:

 

Associated Press, 16Sept14, 0051EDT, "White House to assign 3,000 military personnel to combat Ebola"

------from: "The officials speaking on condition of anonymity..." [The Hindu wrote: "..., US President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday."]

----two weeks to get there

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

Tues,16Sept2014:     Flies and Fomites:

 

When in school health class, the "3 Transmitters" of disease are/were "fingers, flies and feces". Now, "food and fomites" are added, to make 5.

 

Flies, as noted above, have pathogens stick to their legs, regurgitate and excrete disease where they land. Horse Flies also bite like "scissors".

Unwashed hands/fingers and unwashed food --and under-cooked food can be added from the research below-- are also disease sources.

 

Researching Fomites, any object or surface capable of carrying infectious organisms, the following are mixed results on the Net:

 

1] Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol.196, Supplement 2, 2007, pp. 5142-5147,  "Assessment of the Risk of Ebola-Virus Transmission from Bodily Fluids and Fomites", Bausch, et alia.

------ as of that date, 2007, the article says,"...the role of fomites in the transmission of EBOV has not been explored".

-----in an isolation ward study, Gulu, Uganda, in 2000, samples were taken "about 6 hours" after the last "routine cleaning"

----Saliva had a "high incidence" of virus particles compared to other bodily fluids, but the article makes no mention of mucous.

---says, "low evidence...provides some reassurance that the risk of secondary transmission from casual contacts, fomites, or to the sharing of toilet facilities in the home...is minimal"; and footnotes to similar conclusions from the 1990s.

***this contradicts more recent descriptions

 

2] An article showing the difficulties in conducting such studies, see: "From Pigs to Monkeys Ebola Goes Airborne" by Jane Huston, healthmap.org, 21Nov2012.

 

3] "Virus Survival in the Environment with Special Attention to Survival in Sewage Droplets...". 21Aug03, sobey.unc.edu

-------p.2 --enveloped viruses can be present...at high concentrations. Solution, Change the pH of the Sewage which is normally about 7

-----p.10 --"Ebola virus has been demonstrated to be thermally inactivated by treatment for 1 hour at 58^o -60^o C, and by treatment at 75^o for 30 minutes".

----p.29 --"Both non-enveloped and enveloped viruses can survive for extended time periods in untreated as well as treated faeces, wastewater, animal waste slurry and sludges."

---p.30 --where traces of blood are present, hypochlorite "...at a final concentration 5,000 ppm (1:10 dilution) should be used to decontaminate blood spills."

 

4] "Clinical Documents and Data Transfers from Ebola and Marburg Virus Disease Wards in Outbreak Settings..."

------"...using sunlight to inactivate filoviruses on paperwork by its UV component...should be evaluated further with longer UV light exposure periods..."

****the paper is a fomite by source of contamination is not discussed, only its presence in the wards.

 

5]  A posting often cited and popularly used as a basis for a few published articles is: www.nchi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3939489

 

6] Book: Filoviruses: A Compendium of 40 years of Epidemiology, by Jens Kuhr and Charles Calisher, 2008

----p.78 re-use of about any (and all) supplies, plus "...direct contact with secretions, excretions, or fomites" transmits filoviridae.

 

7] books.google: Non-Human Primates in Biomedical Research, 1988

----p.25 "Because of the serious zoonotic potential associated with filovirus infection, affected animals should be destroyed."

---Their "experimental inoculation" "...requires Bio-Safety Level 4"

 

8] In an article written-to-contradict the possible/actual airborne transmission of Ebola, specifically mentioning article #3] in post 115 (and add #2] this post -ed.), "Scientific American", "Fact or Fiction?: The Ebola Virus will go Airborne", by Dina Fine Maron, 16Sept14

------"...there is almost no historical precedent for any virus to change its basic mode of transmission so radically."

---There are two basic requirements for it to do so: 1: to start replicating in the lungs and throat, 2: for a airborne method of transmission to become more efficient than the current method of transmission which is through the eyes and breaks in the skin

--Ebola attacks blood vessels and not the respiratory system

-and does not have the protein necessary to do this

 

****compare also: Rodents, "strongly suspected" as airborne, lives outside the host for twoweeks at post 38 of 12 Aug, post 99, and dogs post 77.

[hasanhh]

16Sept14 con't:

 

NEWS:

9] Time, 16Sept14, 1233EDT, "The WHO says it needs $1 Billion to Fight Ebola"

----said Tuesday in Genva (that is up from the $600 million before -ed)

--4985 cases, 2461 dead (BBC says these numbers are as of 13Sept14 -ed)

-"The numbers can be kept in the tens of thousands"

 

10] "As Ebola grows Out-of-Control, WHO pleads for more health workers", by K. Kelland, Mon15Sept14

------London/Geneva (Reuters) (The Sept 12, 2014, says this story was filed to correct the number of local health workers needed to 10,000 in paragraph 7, WHO says Cahn "misspoke")

 

11] "Paul Allen gives another $6.6million to fight Ebola-Outbreak", Seattle Times, 15Sept14 --he is the co-founder of Microsoft

 

The Money factor:

12] npr.org, "US Science Suffering from Booms and Busts in Funding", 09Sept14

-------Since 2004, NIH budget down 20% to ~$20 billion

****Note: "Medical Research", Wikipedia has a better profile of public and corporate spending on research. $500 million was mention in a post above.

-----in Boom Times, institutions over-built, doubling floor space and over-hired

----then got hit with cuts and inflation

---NIH budget ~$30Billion

------another article is in the same vein: "Erosion of Funding for National Institute of Health Threatens US Leadership in Bio-Medical Research", by Kwame Boadi, 25Mar14

 

:wacko: Wacko Article :wacko:

As a "comic relief" for such a serious subject, we have:

 

13] NBC News, blog, 15Sept14, 1310hrs EDT: "Are Hospitals Part of the Ebola Problem? Charity wants  new strategy", by Maggie Fox

-------Franklin Graham, who is also president of Sim Charty, said we need to "close the hospitals" set-up isolation wards --in Army idiom, the tents, shack and cots of a field hospital-- :wacko:

-----handout PPE to families to take care of family members :wacko:

Opine: What can family members do? And PPE? As in post 64, 20Aug14, Liberia ran out of PPEs last month. What about training in re-hydration?

Besides, as noted in post 110, the WHO says it takes 200-250 healthcare workers to treat 70 patients. Graham Crackers imagines these 3rd World victims have very large, educated families where no-one else is sick.

If you saw Frontline 2 last week, there are outside field hospitals in Sierra Leone before July.

If you check posts 32,40, 57,and 76, the hospitals already closed, isolation wards do not have aspirin, the health system has already collapsed, and health workers attacked.

Wacko :wacko:

It is not surprising people like this get so full-of-themselves. Have a craving need to show-off for themselves with their pompous pronouncements! Just because these traveling religions made it into the "Big Top of Television", does not make them "authorities" on anything. Under-developed personalities is their common feature. And really do harm society with their crazy imaginings.

*** For you non-Americans, you might need some explanation on this last part. America always had its local churches in churches. There were also, non-standard 'religions' that traveled from town-to-town. This is where you found the snake-handlers (using rattlesnakes because Gee-Zeus will protect them --we had another little girl bitten by one of these poisonous snakes again last year) diviners, magic tricks and so forth. Since these are so similar to a traveling circus with freak-shows (we had a small one come to town, elephants and all), people call them traveling religions. They call themselves "revivals".

The "Big Top" is the large tent with the '3-Ring' performance area.

Edited September 16, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

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18Sept14:

 

1]   I guess the Australian gov't felt shamed from the reaction to their giving only another $1 million extra to the WHO (post 72)

 

ABC News (AP), 17Sept14 0022EDT, "Australia Promises $6.4 million to Fight Ebola"

----$7 million Australian dollars to be add to the previous AU$1million

 

--"The fresh funds includes AU$2 million requested by Britian to help that country deliver medical services in Sierra Leone."

 

Question: Is the UK in such bad budgetary shape that Davoud Cameroon has to ask a former colony for petty cash assistance?

 

2] Some good news:

Nigerian Tribune, 18Sept14, "NUT rubbishing Ebola Control gain -FG"

-----"National Union of Teachers" --has been criticizing FG excessively

 

--NO NEW CASE in the LAST WEEK :yaali:

 

--nearly 600 people have been tracked since Patrick Sawyer landed back in July.

 

 

3] 18Sept14 WHO report (road map) Ebola Deaths: 2,622

Edited September 18, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

19Sept14:

 

1] :shaytan: at work:  CNN, 18Sept14, 1801GMT, "Ebola patients buying survivors blood from Black Market, WHO warns"

----while there is an "unproven", experimental "convalescent serum" 'treatment', people are beginning to seek out options

--article is poorly worded

 

2] :shaytan: at work:  New York Times, 18Sept14 "Fear of Ebola Drives Mob to Kill Officials in Guinea"

-----8 bodies of officials and journalists

---  at "...what was supposed to be a community (awareness-ed) event..."

--one survivor was the 5 year-old son of one official

-Los Angeles Times named the town as Nzerekore, which is close to Liberia

 

3] :shaytan: at work:  International Business Times (UK), "Nigeria: Is Ebola Meme Being Used to Spread Fears Virus 'was created by White People'?"

18Sept14, by Ludovica Iaccino

-------"protection" from Ebola comes from posting an "I Love You Ebola-Chan" on a thread

----"...one (site -ed) user wrote a post claiming Europe and America hate Africans and worship an Ebola demon who they (Europe and America -ed) call Ebola-Chan. They perform magical rituals in order to spread the disease and kill people. They target the area they want to infect next using blood sacrifices."

--**Note: each "they" is Europe and America; they article also has a copy of the "demon" --a white nurse with bloody skull

 

4] Nigerian Tribune, 19Sept14, "Ebola Threat to Country..."

----Britisher Ruth Atkins, NHS communications manager and former nurse, was the first volunteer to be injected with experimental drug (as accelerated trials are being used to combat Ebola -ed)

---UK military are setting up a 62-bed Ebola-Treatment center near Freetown, Sierra Leone

--Nigerians are being given foreign travel warnings as many countries do not want "embarrassment" and are repatriating traveling Nigerians.

- "Lagos still under threat of trans-border transmission...", though the borders are well manned

Oyo State now has "designated cemeteries"

 

5] CNN, 19Sept14, "Sierra Leone starts nationwide lockdown"

 

6] BBC, 18Sept14, 1349EDT, "Ebola Outbreak: Malta rejects ship carrying suspected case" (of Ebola -ed)

 

7] Ref to posts 72 and 123:

.     news.com.au, 17Sept14 "Medicin sans Frontieres slams Australia Ebola Response"

----MSF has rejected the money --pittance-- Australia offered

---MSF says it needs doctors, not more money (at the moment)

***Opine: Australia barely matched the money Paul Allen gave from his private pocket --#11, post 122

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

20Sept14:

 

1]  Africa.news.cn, Sat20Sept14, "AU hails China's support in battling Ebola in West Africa"

------- "China has been supporting the efforts of fighting against Ebola by providing financial and material support as-well-as sending medical teams to the most affect West Africa countries." (underline added -ed)

 

2a] gulfnews.com, "Why did the West drag its feet on Ebola?", by Simon Jenkins

-----wrote that there a 60 Chinese in West Africa

--- "The true measure of how seriously the World takes a 'crisis' is not the description but the response."

-- Questions:  "But the regulators have found they can process the paperwork "in just four days", when it takes months, even years, to process other life-saving drugs. We might ask: Why the difference?" (boldface added -ed) See also, 4] post 124, Ruth Atkins, etc.

 

Similar theme yet slightly different angle:

2b]  The Economist, 20Sept14, "Chasing a Rolling Snowball"

 

2c] The New Yorker, "Ebola and the Cost of Fear", by Michael Spector, 19Sept14

----comments there are two contagions: the Virus, the Fear

 

to wit:

2d]  Wall Street Journal, "Cocoa Prices Surge on Ebola Fears", 19Sept14, 1541EDT

-------60% of Cocoa is produced in Cote d' Voire and Ghana

---there is also "high demand" under the price increases

 

3] Military.com, "Pentagon Doubles Funding to Battle Outbreak to $1Billion", 19Sept14, by Richard Sisk

 

4] Nigerian Tribune, 20Sept14, "We've done everything to protect students during resumption on Monday -FG" :yaali:

------- school starts the 22nd, Sept

---- infrared thermometers, buckets with water and disinfectant, and soap "in every classroom"

-- teachers and nurses have had special workshops

Opine: despite all its political battles, various ethnic groups, Boko Haram, anti-oil-pollution resistance in the delta, trans-border transmission, and so forth; this time Nigeria looks as good as is possible in the World's media.

Edited September 20, 2014 by hasanhh

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20Sept14  #2:

 

To fit into the sequence above, we'll number as:

 

2b.2] Slate, 19Sept14, 1213 EDT, "The Most Terrifying Thing About Ebola", by Benjamin Hale

------the basic theme laments the loss of human (physical) contact

 

----"...the world's reaction has been glacially, lethally slow."

---modelers project 77,000 to 277,000 cases by the end of 2014

--75% of victims are women

- used a figure from literature, Prince Prospero from E.A.Poe's Mask of the Red Death, Hale argues that there is no way for people to "isolate" themselves indefinitely from Ebola (if it breaks out from Africa)

 

The ABCs of Ebola:

5] CNN, 19Sept14, 0915 EDT, "No Contact: Life Inside the Ebola-Outbreak", by John Banifield, Jen Christensen and Jacque Wilson;

----"I saw signs outside of a church that were basically saying Ebola is Here because of evil spirits...and people just need to pray hard enough to make go away."

The ABC of Ebola: Avoid Body Contact

 

6] Awareness Times Sierra Leone is not publishing because of the Lockdown

 

7] Nigerian Tribune, no new info or articles since last report

 

8] Xinhua, English.news.cn, 19Sept14 "Croatia intensifies preparations for possible Ebola outbreak"

------ 2 locations have been prepared

--- Ebola "...is not easy to be stopped."

 

9] Xinhua, 18Sept14, "Czech gov't to provide MSF financial aid for fighting Ebola"

 

10] World Health Organization, 20Sept14, "Ebola in Sierra Leone: 22 dead bodies found on Lockdown Day One.

-----their are 7,000 teams working

Edited September 21, 2014 by hasanhh

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21Sept14:

 

1] ref to the racial discrimination hinted at in post 119;

.   Sun Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale), Sun21Sept14, 0829EDT, "Spain to fly priest infected with Ebola out of Sierra Leone"

------- by special military plane

 

2] Straits Times, 21Sept14, "Sierra Leone wraps up Ebola shutdown, uncovers 70 dead in capitol"

------ 30,000 volunteers

 

3] citifmonline.com, (Citi97.3, Accra, Ghana), 21Sept14, 1303hrsGhana, "Sierra Leone Ebola Burial Team Attacked despite lockdown"

------ was short burial teams having 9 of 14 needed

---- volunteers "...were bombarded with calls on an Ebola hotline over the last two days."

 

4] and in filling up space kind of article:

.    Washington Post, 20Sept14, 1614 EDT, "With Ebola crippling the health system, Liberians die of routine medical problems"

---Opine : this is 'old news', see ref of at post 22-07Aug14 and direct reference at post 30 (10Aug14). By media reports, Liberia had lost its health system and hospitals 6 weeks ago. The country began this epidemic with 1 doctor per 100,000 population. So with an estimated population of 4.1 millions, that would be 41 doctors before losses.

 

5] Quartz, 20Sept14, "Liberia needs more than just serum to defeat Ebola", by Ernest G. Smith, Jr

------ this "kinda late" piece recommends paying health workers and so forth that was on SC last month.

---- says: 8% of victims are health care workers.

-- healthcare workers are working under "trauma"

Edited September 21, 2014 by hasanhh

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(salam)

 

21Sept14 #2:

 

6] USA Today, 21Sept14, 1543EDT, "100 tons of supplies to fight Ebola sent to West Africa", by Liz Szabo

----- $6 million worth sent to Liberia and Sierra Leone

 

7] Yahoo News, 21Sept14, "More US troops in Ebola-hit Liberia: airport source"

------ Monrovia (AFP) -for training locals and setting-up facilities

---- 7 service members landed on Thursday the 18th to set up MG Darryl Williams' HQ

 

8] International Business Tribune, 21Sept14, 2123EDT by Marag Kreiter, "Ebola Outbreak: CDC Estimates As Many As 500,000 Cases by the End of January"

------ "...due to be released this week..."

----- "...based on 'dynamic modeling'..."

-- " Laurie Garrett of Council of Foreign Relations estimates there will be probably 250,000 by Christmas without intervention."

 

9] Sky News (UK), 21Sept14 2009EDT, "Ebola Lockdown: 92 bodies Found in Sierra Leone"

------ plus "56 new infections" -confirmed, 39 test results pending

---- "...lockdown is likely to be extended..."

-- the work isn't finished in Freetown and Kenema (see next -ed)

 

10] allAfrica.com, 21Sept14, "Sierra Leone: Press Release by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation"

------ lockdown teams reached 75% of Sierra Leone's 1.5million hoouseholds

 

11] Aljazeera.com, 22Sept14, 0146GMT, "Sierra Leone claims Ebola curfew success"

----- "...123 people have contacted authorities during the curfew."

 

12] This Day (Nigeria), Mon 22Sept14, "Ebola: Lagos Shifts Schools' Resumption Date to October 8"

------Ref to post 125, #4; and also to posts 123 and 124 numbers 2 and 4 respectively.

Edited September 22, 2014 by hasanhh

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22Sept14, Monday:

 

ITV News (UK), 22Sept14, 1248pm, "WHO: Ebola death toll rises to more than 2700"

 

---2793 deaths (confirmed) of 5,762 cases

 

 

 

-post 123, 18Sept14, deaths were 2622, 4 days

Edited September 22, 2014 by hasanhh

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22Sept14 #2    Can't find WHO but today's body-count varies with source:

 

PBS News Hour -- "over 2800'

 

CNN, "Desperation grows in Ebola Zone", 22Sept14, 1722GMT ---2803

 

Voice of America, "Ebola Death Toll Rises, but Virus 'Contained' in Nigeria, Senegal", 22Sept14, 1158EDT

----- death toll 2811 of 5,864 cases

---does not include the 130 news cases found in Sierra Leone

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

Tues, 23Sept14:

 

1] :wacko: some silly stuff in media :no: , Boston Globe, 23Sept14, "Ebola Outbreak begs the question: Are cities hazardous to health?" by Farah Stockman

 

2] Financial Express, 23Sept14, "Germany asks soldiers to volunteer to fight Ebola"

----- for a 50-bed clinic

 

3] Ref post 127 #1, Pagina 12, 23Sept14, "The priest has Ebola"

-----Viyo Manuel Garcia, 69 has been in Sierra Leone for 30 years

 

4] WKUHerald (Western Kentucky University) 22Sept14, "Ebola app tracks virus using Twitter", by Aaron Mudd

------- "The app is part of (Armin) Smailhodzic's graduate research in the Homeland Security Science masters program, which includes using Twitter to track trends."

----- "While people are afraid to go to hospital, they still Tweet about Ebola."

----  (the software) "lf it's just adapted a little it can track anything, anywhere."

-- "Smailhodzic defended his research at a recent conference where he said people told him to focus on research that can help Kentucky and the United States."

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

23Sept14 #2:

 

4b] for "tracking" related, see post 106 intell officers

 

5a] DeutscheWelle, "WHO Study: Without action, Ebola will spread further", 22Sept14

------ WHO: "...could drag on for years."

----UN: tens of thousands of cases by end of the year

-- study done by the Imperial College, London --projects 21,000 by Nov 2

-modeling is at post 99#6

-previous on UN response, posts 113#7, 118#1

 

5b] DeutscheWelle, dw.de, program "Close Up", "Ebola -Into the Hot Zone"

------online

---- Camera crew in Sierra Leone before last week's lockdown

--- Showed burial team covering the body with logs and then brush before back filling with dirt. Not explained, but probably because of the dogs digging up bodies. See post:

-- showed one two-year-old that survived out of a family of 17

 

6] BostonHerald.com, "Lessons learned 6 months in worse Ebola Outbreak", Tues23Sept14, by AP/ Sarah DiLorenzo in Senegal

-------- asks the question: "Is Ebola Becoming More Infectious"

----- and notes: "Scientists have also noted hundreds of mutations in the virus so far, but aren't sure what that means since viruses evolve constantly."

-- mutations at posts 85 & 95

 

7] Nigerian Tribune, 23Sept14, "School Resumption News..."

------ many schools do not have the "...necessary arrangements put in place to check the spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).

----students entered "...classes freely without any form of checks."

-- see posts: 128#12, 104#4, 123#2, 125#4, 80

 

8] Nigerian Tribune, 23Sept14, "Education ministry, unity schools shut over unpaid allowances...We didn't receive N1.8bn -Ministry"

-----the Ministry of Education is "paralyzed"...by the indefinite strike..."

 

9] The Blaze, 22Sept14, "Nurse Flown to Switzerland after Child with Ebola Bit Him"

-----ref. post 121 #1: in my(-ed.) readings, saliva is the most infectious bodily fluid that transmits Ebola

 

10] NBC News.com, "New Ebola Drug TBM-Ebola OK'd for Emergency Use"

------ "The drug uses  bits of genetic material called small interfering RNAs, or siRNA. ...This drug doesn't prevent infection, but stops the virus from replicating by attaching to its RNA."

[EDIT]

12] WND, 23Sept14, "US Has Awarded Millions to Find Ebola Vaccine" "Private companies' taxpayer-funded quest remains elusive"

------- article remembers Project Bioshield, 2004, that funds national bio-defense

----for more comprehensive views, see: 98, 104#5, 107#6, 115#2, 122#12, 125#2a

[Mod Note: Link to a news story about a website that is banned at ShiaChat was removed.]

Edited September 19, 2017 by Hameedeh

[hasanhh]

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Wed 24Sept14:

 

Which is it? What will it be? The Modeling [Cf 99#6]

 

1a] WashingtonPost, "CDC: Ebola could infect 1.4 million in Liberia and Sierra Leone by end of January", 23Sept14, 1709EDT, by Lena H. Sun

 

1b] Science Now -science mag.org, "WHO, CDC publish grim new Ebola projections", 23Sept14, 1830EDT

------"The model released by CDC...at the current rate, Liberia and Sierra Leone will have reported about 550,000 by 20 January...But if the official numbers so far represent only 40% of the real burden...1.4 million Ebola cases..."

 

1c] The best discussion is:

.      CNN, "CDC: Ebola cases could reach at least 550,000 by January", by Laura Smith-Spark

 

2] RTE news, "Concern worker dies in Liberia after showing Ebola symptoms" 24Sept14

-----Concern is an Irish aid agency

 

3] the Local (Germany) "500 answer plea to help fight Ebola", 24Sept14, 0200GMT

----Ref to post 131 #2, "Germany asks soldiers..."

[hasanhh]

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Thurs, 25Sept14:

 

1] WHO: Thursday report:  deaths 2917, cases 6263 --Compare worse case project of 10,000 at post 99 #6

 

2] AwarenessTimes --still has not published since 18Sept

.    Nigerian Tribune --no Ebola articles today

 

3] CNN, 24Sept14, 1807GMT "One woman walked in, and Ebola nightmare began"

------recounts the loss of Phebe Hospital in Liberia

 

4] New York Times, 24Sept14, "In Liberia, Home Deaths Spread Circle of Ebola Contagion", by Norimitsu Onishi

------18% of E-victims bet treatment in medical settings

----one burial team cremates 6 to 2 dozen bodies per day

-- quote: "The International Medical Corps and Medicin sans Frontiers are the only international organizations operating treatment centers in Liberia" (underline added -ed)

 

5] Mother Jones, 24Sept14 1152EDT, "Liberians Explain Why the Ebola Crisis is Way Worse Than You Think", by Alex Park

------ describes the loss of agriculture an anticipates food wars

---- see posts 46, 71 and UN/WHO feeding program plans

 

6] USA Today, 24Sept14, 2128EDT, "Doctors say US ready if Ebola Virus spreads here", from The Tennesseean

------ a report from a conference at Vanderbilt University

 

7] Washington Post, "Luck has kept Ebola out of the US, But very likely to change", 24Sept14, 1011EDT,  by Todd C. Frankel

 

8]  Sacramento Bee, 24Sept14, 1602PDT, "Nurses Stage Ebola 'die in' on Las Vegas Strip"

------ while attending a union convention

---- see posts 110 #7, 117

 

9]Scientific American, 24Sept14, "Smart Machines Join Humans in Tracking Africa Ebola Outbreak", by Larry Greenemeier

------an interesting piece to go with post 131 #4

--- http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/smart-machines-join-humans-in-tracking-african-ebola-outbreak

[hasanhh]

25Sept #2:

 

10] New York Times, evening 25Sept14, "Ebola Epidemic Worsening, Sierra Leone Expands Quarantine Restrictions", by Adam Nossiter

-----most of all 14 districts are under some restrictions extending last week's "lockdown"

---

 

 

Other Opine: the backdoor says West Africa is starting to die

Edited September 26, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

Friday, 26Sept14:

 

DeutsceWelle, 26Sept14, "Ebola Deaths pass 3000"

 

----quoting WHO: 3,091 deaths. 6574 cases

 

-- Ref to posts 131 #2 & 133 #3: German Defense Ministry reports that 2,000 have answer the request to go to West Africa to fight Ebola :yaali: