Ebola [Breaking News Only]

[Haji 2003]

This thread is for information about new cases, travel advisories and medical advice.

 

Please put all personal opinions and analysis on the other thread:

 

http://www.shiachat.com/forum/topic/235024306-ebola-opinion-analysis/

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

Morning, Wed, 08Oct14:

 

1] NBC News (blob, Maggie Fox), 07Oct14, 2050EDT, "Runaway doctors and missing Supplies cripple care in Ebola-Hit Liberia"

----Note: "missing supplies" -meant 'do not have', not as in 'stolen'

---only 3 doctors remain in Liberia

 

2] NBC News (blog, Maggie Fox) 08Oct14, 0451EDT, "Where are Ebola supplies? Aid workers say Help isn't fast enough"

------ the US military is not moving them

----- "The most important thing is to diminish the infection rate. It has got to be below one-to-one, ..." now, it is 1:2 on average

---- "Just providing soap and water can help."

--- "The home trainers will also help people learn how to get rid of the prodigious amount of waste generated by an Ebola patient --quarts of diarrhea and vomit, all loaded with infectious virus. Then buried outside in staked-off areas, Issacs said." (italics and underline added -ed)

Opine Question: why not burn the waste?

 

3] USA Today, 08Oct14, 0805EDT, "Commander: US troops' Ebola-Mission could last a year"

 

4] NBC News (blog, Maggie Fox), 08Oct14, 0708EDT, "Ebola-Burial Teams in Sierra Leone Go On Strike over hazard pay"

-also reported by: BBC News--GMT, 0700EDT

------ burial teams are paid $100 per week

 

5] NBC News 07Oct14, 1412EDT, "Madrid Will Kill Dog of woman infected with Ebola"

 

6] CTV News, BBC News-GMT:  3 more infected in Madrid, were co-workers of first transmission victum

 

Note: Her husband is in quarantine and nurses are saying they were not given WHO recommended PPEs and other Equipment.

The Spanish Prime Minister was in Parliament "explaining" the situation. European Union is "upset" and "demanding explanations".

[hasanhh]

7] CNN, 08Oct14, 1340GMT, CNNMoney,

The latest...

"Closed wallets"

---CNNMoney survey 4 major aid organizations in the US and they report receiving $19.5 million so far in Ebola fight

 

:cry:  :cry:  :cry:  :cry:  :cry:

 

Ebola is already "in" the US and Europe.  People suicidal or something?

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

Noon:  Thomas Eric Duncan died just before 0800CDT at Texas Presbyterian Hospital.

 

 

8] SCOPE, Stanford.edu, 07Oct14, "Ebola: A look at what happened and what can be done", by Hank Greely

--------- West Africa is the 24th known E-outbreak

 

article contemplates past and present and possible social consequences

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

08Oct14:

 

CDC.gov;  case counts for Ebola as of 05Oct14:

 

Total cases: 8033, lab confirmations 4461

 

Deaths: 3865

 

Public Radio Int'l, pri; 08Oct14, 1715EDT  "Why Doubling Down on aid to West Africa will do more to halt Ebola than increased airport screening"

------ "But he (White House Spokesman Josh Earnest -ed.) said screening at African airports are the real key. [NP] That screening didn't stop Thomas Eric Duncan though."

 

 

Filovirus Alert, linked source at Filovir.com:

 

Dr. Julius Lutwama in Uganda: confirmation tests for Marburg are now underway. via Facebook, 08Oct

Edited October 9, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

10Oct14:

 

1] Reuters, 10Oct14, 0655EDT by Sonya Dawsett, "Spain seeks answers as seven more enter Ebola Isolation"

------- voluntarily turned themselves in --including two hairdressers

 

2] Newt Gingrich, CNN editorial, 09Oct14, 2020GMT, "Obama administration must answer Ebola questions"

------ 36% of Americans are paying more attention to Ebola, more than any other news subject

--- in the past, US troops sent to Liberia in 2003 reportedly, 1/4 contracted malaria

 

3] Fox News, "Do rental cars pose an Ebola risk?"

 

4] Financial Times, 10Oct14, 1437GMT, "Spain's Ebola victim becomes subject of political fight"

 

5] euractiv.com, "WHO Official: The risk of Ebola spreading in Europe is very low"

----- so sayeth Dr. Guenall Rodier, WHO Region-Europe

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

10Oct con't:

 

Current CFR:

 

DeutscheWelle & CNN 10Oct14:   4033 deaths,      8300 cases -- CNN writes confirmed, probable and suspected cases @ 8399

 

Note: BBC's report, "Global Ebola outbreak deaths exceed 4,000 --WHO" is in error by reporting eight deaths in Senegal, which is actually one.

 

Last reported CFR 08Oct14, above

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

Tues,14Oct14:

 

CFR as of Tuesday Morning: USA Today, 1046EDT, 14Oct14; "WHO: Ebola cases could surge ten-fold in few weeks"

Ebola cases: 8,914;  Deaths 4,447

 

 

1] :sick: :wacko: Daily Mail (UK), 0011ET, 14Oct14 "Bribery breaks out in battle against Ebola: Liberian victims' families paying corrupt retrieval teams to keep bodies so they can give them traditional burials"

------this is done with issuing falsified Death Certificates which cost $40-$150

-----over this past weekend, several other news organizations carried the same reports

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

2115EDT,Thurs,23Oct14:

 

BBC News broadcast: The Doctor in New York City that was working with Medicin sans Frontieres and returned last week and called in with Ebola symptoms this morning, has tested positive for Ebola.

Edited October 24, 2014 by hasanhh

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

Ebola and Money article with immunology info:

 

New York Times, 23Oct14, "Ebola Vaccine, Ready for Test, Sat on the Shelf", by Denise Grady

 

Above refer to posts 132#12; 125#2a; 122#12; 115#2; 107#6; 104#5; 98.

Other refer-to noted below:

 

--------- a decade ago...tests in people...never happened

 

------- para3: "...the absence of follow-up...reflects a broader failure to produce medicines and vaccines for diseases that afflict poor countries. Most drug companies have resisted spending the enormous sums needed to develop products  useful mostly to countries with little ability to pay."

 

-------para4: "Now, as the growing epidemic devastates West Africa and is seen as a potential threat to other regions as well, ... A flurry of research to test drugs and vaccines is underway, ..."

 

-------para7: quoting "Thomas W. Geisbert, an Ebola expert here at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and one of the developers of the vaccine that worked so well in (trial -ed.) monkeys. 'So big pharma, who are we going to sell it to?'"

 

-------para9: "...the research may have cost a few million dollars, but tests in humans and scaling up production can cost hundreds of millions, and bring a new vaccine all the way to market typically costs $1 billion to $1.5 billion, ..."

 

factoid:

------para10: "The Ebola vaccine...is made from another virus, V.S.V., for vesicular stomatitis virus, which causes a mouth disease in cattle but rarely infects people. It had been used successfully in making other vaccines."

------para11: " The researchers altered V.S.V. by removing one of its genes --rendering the virus harmless-- and inserting a gene from Ebola. The transplanted gene forces V.S.V. to sprout Ebola proteins on its surface. The(se) proteins cannot cause illness, but they provoke an immune response that in monkeys, considered a good surrogate for humans, fought off the disease."

------para12: "The vaccine was actually produced in Winnipeg, Manitoba, by Public Health Agency of Canada. The Canadian gov't patented it, and 800 to 1,000 vials of the vaccine were produced. In 2010, it licensed the vaccine, known as VSV-EBOV, to NewLink Genetics in Ames, Iowa." [[The intellectual property dispute in post 148 #5 ]]

 

factoid:

------para14: "NewLink's product is one of two leading vaccines being tested. The other, which uses a cold virus that infects chimpanzees, was developed by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and GlaxoSmithKline. The first tests of an earlier version of it, employing a different cold virus, began in 2003." [[ post 147 #1  ]]

 

-----para15: "Several other vaccine candidates, not as far along, are also in the pipeline and may be ready for safety testing next year."

 

-----para18: "The gov't money led to major advances in the laboratory, Dr. Geisbert said, but was insufficient to cover the huge costs of human trials."

 

-----para21: "The V.S.V. products are live vaccines, with replicating viruses that may cause a reaction. It is not clear what level of side effects will be considered acceptable."

 

-----para26: "This month, one of his (Geisbert) tasks is to test the Profectus vaccine and an experimental treatment against the Ebola strain that is causing the current epidemic. The (this) virus is from a species called Ebola Zaire, against which the products have already been shown to work. But different strains within a species can vary genetically by 2 percent to 7 percent, Dr. Geisbert said." (italics, underline and bold added -ed.)

-----para27: "Most of the time, those small variations do not matter..."

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

03Nov14:   North Carolina, et alia

 

Forbes, 02Nov14 2206EST "Potential Ebola Patient Being Tested at Duke; Results Monday Morning"

 

---- Suspected E-patient traveled from Liberia, "through an unknown destination", to Durham NC "on a commercial bus" according to Aldona Wos, MD, secretary of NC-DHHS

 

--- then taken to Person County

 

--- after "spiking a fever" was taken to Duke University

 

--- news conference was "abruptly called...to a close" after Dr. Wos mentioned "commercial bus"

 

--- AP and other media have "agreed" not to "report on suspected cases" ... "until a positive viral RNA test is completed".

--- but NC media is carrying the story

[hasanhh]

2] RT.com, 01Nov13 2338hrs, "'Entire villages disappeared': Ebola deaths in Sierra Leone 'underreported'"

------MSF says

--Spanish gov't is fearful of bio-weaponization

 

3] BBC News, 02Nov14, 0716EDT, "Ebola in Sierra Leone 'spreading quickly' -campaign group"

----"spreading nine times faster than two months ago"

[5a49]

I think its quite funny that the people that are talking about Ebola the whole time, and are afraid of it, live no where near the African continent. While people who are living in the same country that has Ebola, are living normally.

Edited November 3, 2014 by John Al-Ameli

[hasanhh]

I guess that maybe true if your village is not "disappearing".

[5a49]

I guess that maybe true if your village is not "disappearing".

No need to panic. You watch too much news, and read too many papers. You live on a different continent getting scared over nothing.

[hasanhh]

(salam)

 

05Nov14:

 

Well, better late than never.....

 

1] ABC News, 05Nov14, 1459EST, "Obama Seeks $6.2 Billion for Ebola Fight"

----- $2 Billion to USAID

----- $2.4 B to DHHS

----- $1.5 B for contingency funding

----- $127Million to Dept.of State

----- $112M to Dept.of Defense

 

----- 50 Ebola Treatment Centers to be built   -but, article does not make clear if these are to be constructed in West Africa or the USA ?

 

 

2] Reuters, 05Nov14, "Obama seeks $6.2 Billion to Combat Ebola: Officials"

----- info addition: remainder of funds not listed in the above article are apparently this: "...will be designated as emergency funds."

 

3] :donno: Questionable Reliability:

.          breitbart.com, Media: Judicial Watch Was Correct in Obama Ebola Report"

---- about "potential plans to admit Ebola-infected, non-US citizens into the United States for treatment."

--- Congress looking into this, yet, there are denials about this all around

[5a49]

Theres no Ebola man get over it. Chinese people are testing the "Ebola patients" and they are all turning out positive for Malaria.

Now it is summer season in Africa, and many get infected for Malaria, and Malaria can be fatal. Since no doctor or hospital are receiving patients fearing "Ebola", they are dying.

 

People living in West Africa know there is nothing of what they are talking about. Its just an American game, because they realized how much Africa has money and minerals, and they are trying to kick out the Chinese so they can take over Africa economically...

 

You read "reports", I'm talking to you out of Africa.

[Hameedeh]

Just received an email alert that well-armed thieves in Guinea attacked a car on a remote road that was heading to an Ebola treatment center, intimidated the occupants and stole items, including cash and a box or cooler containing blood samples from suspected Ebola patients. 

[hasanhh]

Hope the anti-terrorist people know this with assessment.

[Hameedeh]

Guinea is in an intensive manhunt and Gendarmes on motorbikes are looking for the thieves. A doctor warned not to touch the blood samples and immediately return the cooler. 

[Hameedeh]

It seems that the authorities never found the stolen cooler with Ebola samples. The article explains that if the sample had been thrown away somewhere with direct access to sunlight, the virus would not last for more than a week and could not become airborne.

 

Stolen Ebola blood `lost for good` says Guinea

http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/stolen-ebola-blood-lost-for-good-says-guinea_1504330.html

[5a49]

Guinea is in an intensive manhunt and Gendarmes on motorbikes are looking for the thieves. A doctor warned not to touch the blood samples and immediately return the cooler. 

 

 

 

It seems that the authorities never found the stolen cooler with Ebola samples. The article explains that if the sample had been thrown away somewhere with direct access to sunlight, the virus would not last for more than a week and could not become airborne.

 

Stolen Ebola blood `lost for good` says Guinea

http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/stolen-ebola-blood-lost-for-good-says-guinea_1504330.html

 

That is because they will find nothing in the blood samples. Ebola is nothing really.  I have family members living in guinea and they work there normally and meet people normally and they all say all that is in the news. But realistically they never hear of anyone who died from Ebola.

[Hameedeh]

Ebola was at its peak in Guinea and Liberia and starting to turn downward in cases. The possibility of a new outbreak over the stolen samples made it a breaking news story. Sierra Leone has doubled its cases from three weeks ago, so that is a breaking news story. Opinions need to go in the other topic: http://www.shiachat.com/forum/topic/235024306-ebola-opinion-analysis/

[5a49]

Ebola was at its peak in Guinea and Liberia and starting to turn downward in cases. The possibility of a new outbreak over the stolen samples made it a breaking news story. Sierra Leone has doubled its cases from three weeks ago, so that is a breaking news story. Opinions need to go in the other topic: http://www.shiachat.com/forum/topic/235024306-ebola-opinion-analysis/

This is all news on TV. Contact people over there and they will tell you there is nothing called Ebola and have never heard people dying of Ebola. As I said earlier but my post was ignored because ShiaChat members love drama and live off rumours, that people dying from malaria, are being labelled as death of ebola as if no one usually dies in Africa unless it was a sickness that had to be called ebola, and no one is being admitted to hospitals because they are fearing Ebola out of everyone, so these people that want to go to hospitals and aren't allowed to enter, are dying.

 

According to Sierra Leone doubling its cases three weeks ago, is because in Sierra Leone November/December is a hot rainy season, not a cold season. Which means, when there is rain and sunny weather, there are mosquitoes which means many mosquitoes that are holding Malaria.

If you are not medicated from malaria, you will die. And Sierra Leone is one of the African countries that has lots of malaria.

 

I have relatives all around Africa, and especially in countries with "Ebola" and all of them say they go to work normally, and go to their shops normally and people are living there normally and they have never heard in society or workers that they know someone who died out of Ebola.

Edited November 27, 2014 by John Al-Ameli

[mina]

First I think the pharma industries want to sell their newest stuff,so they first need to create fear and panic and then they can easily "recommend" or even force to vaccinate against it,like they did also with the vaccination against swine flew f.ex...A doctor,friend of mine,told me that this vaccination campaign against swine flu was one of the biggest kind of medical testing,that happened in recent history.

Second,the US send 3000 soldiers to Liberia and that is only for saving US economic interests there....like every where else they send their troops to "help" or "fight terrorism".

Edited November 27, 2014 by mina313

[5a49]

First I think the pharma industries want to sell their newest stuff,so they first need to create fear and panic and then they can easily "recommend" or even force to vaccinate against it,like they did also with the vaccination against swine flew f.ex...A doctor,friend of mine,told me that this vaccination campaign against swine flu was one of the biggest kind of medical testing,that happened in recent history.

Second,the US send 3000 soldiers to Liberia and that is only for saving US economic interests there....like every where else they send their troops to "help" or "fight terrorism".

For the past 5-7 years the Chinese have been working in Africa full force. Maybe USA woke up now that Africa has lots of good ands money, so they decided that is the way to enter Africa.

[mina]

Yea,maybe.Last year there were a lot of articles published about the "next growth market...Africa"...

[Hameedeh]

I have relatives all around Africa, and especially in countries with "Ebola" and all of them say they go to work normally, and go to their shops normally and people are living there normally and they have never heard in society or workers that they know someone who died out of Ebola.

 

Alhamdulillah. InshaAllah they are telling you the truth, but it could be they don't want you to worry about them. 

 

If you go to allAfrica.com they have a special section about Ebola in the red tabs at the top of the page. Check it out. 

[5a49]

Alhamdulillah. InshaAllah they are telling you the truth, but it could be they don't want you to worry about them. 

 

If you go to allAfrica.com they have a special section about Ebola in the red tabs at the top of the page. Check it out. 

Its all political.

No its not that they don't want us to worry...if it is that serious they would have travelled back and stayed outside the certain "Ebola" countries. People are living there normally. The Chinese made tests on a couple of these "Ebola" patients and they said there is no Ebola in any of these patients.

 

On the contrary people are annoyed from the whole Ebola thing because many African countries are closing their borders which is damaging the businesses of many people, and there is nothing wrong going around, and that is the scenario, everyone closes their borders, business goes low, many ebola death, Oh then comes USA the heroes with their doctors and medical team to save Africa and then begin to deploy their convoys and begin with differences.

 

There are certain countries they chose. Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Zaire.

Why? 

Sierra Leone has been booming business wise recently, not to forget the diamond market.

Liberia, was colonised by USA before.

Guinea, has been booming business wise recently.

Zaire, has been booming business wise recently.

 

Everyone living there says there is nothing going on. And just to add I live in Africa as well, and they said there were some Ebola cases but then no one really bought it.

 

There was ebola in a couple of countries here in Africa and many people know that the Ebola that was here 5-10 years ago, isn't the same as what they are talking about now. If it is, then why isn't USA contaminated with Ebola right now? Or is it only Americans that get cured from Ebola? Give yourself a break, they are just preparing their people to go to Africa.

[Hameedeh]

(salam)

 

Tues,14Oct14:

 

CFR as of Tuesday Morning: USA Today, 1046EDT, 14Oct14; "WHO: Ebola cases could surge ten-fold in few weeks"

Ebola cases: 8,914;  Deaths 4,447

 

 

1] :sick: :wacko: Daily Mail (UK), 0011ET, 14Oct14 "Bribery breaks out in battle against Ebola: Liberian victims' families paying corrupt retrieval teams to keep bodies so they can give them traditional burials"

------this is done with issuing falsified Death Certificates which cost $40-$150

-----over this past weekend, several other news organizations carried the same reports

 

A family had bought a fake death certificate that said the man died from typhoid and high pressure. Community members and neighbors helped the family, including washing and clothing the body for the funeral. Two weeks later the wife of the man died and eight other family members have been taken to an ebola treatment center and tested positive for ebola. 

 

Liberia: Fake Death Certificate Sparks Ebola Outbreak Leading to Eight Cases

http://allafrica.com/stories/201411271573.html

[Hameedeh]

Ebola Disease Outbreak News

2017 - Democratic Republic of Congo

2018 - Democratic Republic of Congo

2019 - Democratic Republic of Congo

2020 - Democratic Republic of Congo

2021 - Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea

2022 - Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda

2023 - Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda

2024 - No Data?

2025 - Democratic Republic of Congo

Ebola virus disease - Democratic Republic of the Congo - 5 September 2025

On 1 September 2025, WHO received an alert from the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) regarding suspected cases of EVD in the Bulape Health Zone, Kasai Province, DRC. The first known suspected index case was admitted to the Bulape General Reference Hospital on 20 August 2025. The patient was a pregnant woman at 34-weeks of gestation who presented with symptoms of fever, bloody diarrhoea,  haemorrhage, vomiting, asthenia, followed by multiple organ failure. She died on 25 August 2025. Two of the health-care workers that had initially been in contact with this first case also developed similar symptoms and died.

As of 4 September 2025, a total of 28 suspected cases, including 15 deaths, of which four are health-care workers (case fatality ratio (CFR): 54%) have been reported from three areas of the Bulape health zone (Bulape, Bulape Com and Dikolo) and Mweka health zone. About 80% of the suspected cases are aged 15 years and older. 

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2025-DON580

Edited July 22 by Hameedeh
Link

[Hameedeh]

In 2026, The Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda are both having Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus, as differentiated from Zaire or Sudan strains of Ebola. Ebola disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus is a rare and severe viral hemorrhagic fever. Early symptoms besides fever are severe headache, muscle pain, and extreme weakness. As the disease progresses, it can cause severe gastrointestinal distress (vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain) and unexplained bleeding or bruising.  https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news