Posted on 09/06/2014 10:13:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Beginning September 18, the nation will prohibit residents from leaving their homes for four days, with the hopes that health officials will be able to detect early-stage cases, Ibrahim Ben Kargbo, a presidential advisor in Sierra Leone, told Reuters.
“The aggressive approach is necessary to deal with the spread of Ebola once and for all,” he said.
Unfortunately, the news was accompanied by worsening statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO), which announced on Friday that out of the roughly 4,000 people that have been confirmed to have the virus, 2,105 people have died in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria.
It marked a drastic rise in the death toll – a spike of about 500 people since last week – and continued adding to what is already the most deadly Ebola epidemic since the virus was first detected in 1976.
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On Wednesday, WHO director general Margaret Chan said the virus has been “underestimated” by international organizations and is only getting worse.
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“the nation will prohibit residents from leaving their homes for four days”
Likely coming to a city near you in the USA, by late next year...
And the vaccine that worked on the two American doctors did not work on the African doctor, and he died. If this is any indication of how it works, if it is used here it may not work on black Americans.
Another cry of racism will erupt blaming the white scientists for inventing something that only works on white people.
“Starve in Place” is how they combat ebola?
The horse is out of the barn.
I’d like to see all air carriers suspend service to those countries, it only takes one infected person to spread it to another continent..
This is a smart move. It should be longer than four days but they are probably thinking people wouldn’t have enough food to last that long.
I hope you’re wrong and that it will be effective. If, for some terrible, tragic reason that the vaccine doesn’t work on blacks it would be a disaster. There would be claims that the virus was created that way.
The entire world needs this virus stopped, now, in Africa. Before it gets loose.
A smart attempt maybe. Don't see how it is expected to work.
Telling people that they must stay in their homes and just 'die' is more likely to ensure that they will go out on a major 'spree' of some kind. They figure they are going to die no matter what, so why obey the government ?
Someone on another thread last week posted that different races react differently to certain diseases. He pointed out that the western Europeans who survived the Black Plague years ago could likely carry some more resistant genes than people from other continents.
It may just be that it worked on 2 out of 3 people, regardless of race. The female originally didn’t respond to the first dose and required a second dose, unlike the white male - so that’s an indication of how individuals respond differently. We don’t know the way the African doctor’s prior health history compared with that of the whites. I see your point, you may be right, but I wonder if the African’s health was not as good to start with.
That could be true about the two out of three and perhaps the African in not as good health.
There is an article on ABC news, which I am not sure that it is allowed to post the link, that researchers have found that the Black Death may have been an Ebola virus and not a Bubonic plague. They state that the plague did not spread like a disease spread by fleas or rats but spread person to person like Ebola.
That would lend credence to the theory that those who survived the plague are more likely to survive Ebola.
Since it took two doses for the woman versus one for the man, it would be interesting to know whether more males survived the plague than did females.
In this case, this might be a very effective idea.
Ebola can be in the body anywhere from 2 to 15 days before it shows symptoms, though usually in about 3-4 days. However, it can only spread the infection when the person is showing symptoms, a major vulnerability in the spread of the virus.
When they show symptoms, they usually last only 10 days before dying. But half of those days they are immobile, flat on their back.
This means an about 5 day window of opportunity for the disease to infect others.
Look at the stages of the disease if people must remain in their homes for 4 days.
1) If they are newly infected, the odds are high they will show symptoms within 4 days, so are sort-of quarantined.
2) If they show symptoms at home, odds are good that by the time they could leave, they will almost be incapacitated, so can’t leave.
3) Importantly, if there are other family members with them, they could cause a secondary effect, but this would likely be a much smaller echo of the primary epidemic.
With or without test vaccines, almost half of the African victims survive under African conditions, with proper care, many people will survive, with or without vaccines.
More likely you over estimated your current capabilities. Which seem to shrink every day.
Read where some are calling it a mass epidemic. When it reaches 18 million like the 1918 Spanish flu, put it up on Drudge. With the flashing light thingie.
It’s the only viable solution: total quarantine. Nobody touches anyone for twice the incubation period.
Better than having half the population’s internal organs liquefy.
BA, ping to thread. I think this is a new development.
It is. But it’s not for over a week from now. It should be right now. Yesterday. A week ago.
It will be so out of control by then it won’t make any significant difference.
Apparently the health officials have not been told that the dangers of Ebola are highly exaggerated and it is not spread by casual contact.
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