Hemorrhagic fever cases reported in Sudan’s Kordofan

Radio Tamazuj ^ | November 5, 2014 | Kadugli

[wtd]

Hemorrhagic fever cases reported in Sudan’s Kordofan

About five cases of hemorrhagic fever have been reported in Kadulgli town in Sudan’s South Kordofan, according to medical sources.

A source told Radio Tamazuj that about five children were taken to Kadugli Hospital, amid a media blackout due to a visit by the First Vice President Bakri Hassan Selah to the town today.

The visiting vice-president was expected to inaugurate health facilities in the area. Meanwhile, security agents allegedly refused a transfer of one of the suffering children to El Obeid Hospital for treatment.

This comes after similar reports in October of patients suffering from high grade fever and epistaxis (bleeding from the nose) in an oil-producing area of neighboring West Kordofan State.

Emails obtained from PetroEnergy E&P say the company took “serious precautions” after Field Medical Officer Dr. Samir Alkhair Mohamed reported cases of “Ebola virus or hemorrhagic fever cases” at Fula hospital in West Kordofan.

[wtd]

Note: Sudan is not near the current Ebola hot zone.

[Black Agnes]

Ping.

[Crazieman]

There is the separate outbreak in DR Congo.

If both strains are starting to run loose, nobody will care which version it is.

[Red_Devil 232]

Neither is the USA!

[arthurus]

The existence of hospitals in those parts of Africa help such a disease to spread. Before hospitals the disease stayed in the neighborhoods in which it appeared and burned out there. Now it is taken to hospitals and infects people from other areas who spread it in their home areas and more people go to hospitals, other hospitals when the first ones are overfull.

[wtd]

ADDITIONAL EBOLA UPDATES FOR WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 5, 2014

• Metro: Security guard banned from work over Ebola fears after he went to Nigeria

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• PhilStar: Returning Filipino peacekeepers from Liberia to stay in 'paradise island' during quarantine November 5 2014 7:14PM

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• DailyBeast: Fighting Ebola and starvation in Sierra Leone November 5, 2014

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• WRAL: Person County (NC) quarantine to keep public calm over Ebola scare 4:45 11/4/2014

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• Cleveland.com: Akron bridal shop re-opens hours before Ebola quarantine set to expire (photos) Nov. 4, 2014

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• NBCNews: No-fly zone: Ebola quarantine rules keep researchers away November 4, 2014

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• FarmingtonDailyTimes (NM): The Governors who cried quarantine 11/4/2014 10:22 PM MST

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• WNAX: Americans back quarantine for returning Ebola workers 11/4/2014 7:31

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• MarineLog: Seafarers on returning to US aid ships face quarantine November 4, 2014

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• ZeeNews: Ebola deadlier, more widespread than we think November 5, 2014 5 hours ago

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• UKReuters: Worst Ebola outbreak on record tests global response Nov. 5, 2014 10 hours ago

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• ABCNews: Spanish nurse who beat Ebola to be discharged November 5, 2014 5:18AM ET

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• Bloomberg: Ebola trend uneven as UN worries 'like mad' about rebound

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• CNN: Countries with travel restrictions in place Nov. 5, 2014 17 hours ago

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• Independent: Ebola in Africa: This is how much of the continent is really affected

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• BBC: British troops arrive in Sierra Leone to fight Ebola November 5, 2014 2:44AM ET

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• KSL: Feds reject NJ hospital's mobile unit for Ebola Nov. 5, 2014 17 minutes ago

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• Newser: Amid Ebola epidemic, World Health Organization veteran is elected as its next Africa chief November 5, 2014 1 minute ago

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• Vestnik/Kavkaza: Kazakhstan prepares for Ebola November 5, 2014 9:49AM

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• JamicaGleaner: Getting ready for Ebola - PAHO, WHO mobilise preparedness teams in Caribbean, Latin America November 5, 2014

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• WorkersWorld: New Yorkers ACT-UP against Ebola Nov. 5, 2014

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• IBT: Ebola 'Miracle Cure' promoted by Genesis II Church of Health and Healing in New Zealand (video) Nov. 5, 2014

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• Post: World Bank chief sees mixed progress in West Africa Ebola battle November 5, 2014

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• USAToday: NY bishop bans priest travel to West Africa November 4, 2014

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• Newsday: Only those at high-risk of Ebola to be quarantined November 4, 2014 6:17PM "Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday that health-care workers and other residents returning from WEst Africa won't be quarantined in Texas if they have no symptoms of Ebola and aren't considered high risk, as suggested by a task force he assembeled to advise Texas on its resonse to the deadly virus"

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• NBCDallas: Texas Ebola task force recommends 4 risk levels November 4, 2014 14 hours ago

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• io9: A legal challenge to the Ebola quarantine would probably fail November 4, 2014 11:34AM

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• MinneapolisStarTribune: Australia plans to staff 100-bed Ebola hospital in Sierra Leone in new deal with Britain 11/5/2014

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• AL.com: Hoover (Alabama) firfighters prepare for Ebola threat November 4, 2014

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• ChicagoTribune: Journalist returns to Chicago from disease-plagued Liberia November 4, 2014 12 hours ago

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• JapanTimes: Authorities move ahead with plans to disclose info on suspected Ebola cases November 5, 2014

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• AllAfrica: Liberia Ebola update: Lofa, others report zero case in four weeks November 4, 2014 17 hours ago

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• NPR: Researchers tap web chatter to figure out who's sick Nov. 4, 2014

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• FLTimesUnionJX: Equipment to construct Ebola treatment units in WAfrica loaded onto ship in Jacksonville November 4, 2014

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• Reuters: German doctors use experimental heart drug in treating Ebola patient 11/5/2014 11 minutes ago

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• Forbes: Three ways health officials and doctors fumbled in communicating Ebola risk November 5, 2014 10:48AM

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• DaytonDailyNews: Ohio ends Ebola quarantines (Vinson related) 11/5/2014 11:13AM

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• TimesDispatch: VA Tech bans travel to 3 countries because of Ebola November 5, 2014 9:35AM

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• BusinessInsurance: Kimberly-Clark faces $500M lawsuit over Ebola protection gear October 30, 2014 11:08AM

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• WSJ: Ugandan doctor cured of Ebola in Germany Patient no longer infected but will remain in isolation for now. 11/5/2014 11:20AM

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• FierceHealthcare: Ebola: Researchers need access to virus samples for treatment, vaccines November 5, 2014

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• KCENTV: 21-day quarantine ends Tuesday for belton Family (TX) November 5, 2014

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• ExpressTribune: Ebola endemic claims over 5,000 lives: UNDP November 5, 2014

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• Health24: Still many 'unknowns' about Ebola transmission November 5, 2014

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[bgill]

Just wait until the eviro wackos claim oil = Ebola.

[franzpick]

Thanks wtd - very nice update. Keep watching for more Sierra Leone daily new case spikes such as their 95 reported cases 11/01 (InternationalSOS reported 145 SL cases for 11/1, but it looks like they combined the 95 with the 50 cases reported 10/31 = 145). The SL 5 day new daily case moving average just made a 60 day and all time high at 66 cases/day average: more days over 70-80-90 cases/day will further overwhelm HCWs and facilities and increase the infection rate. These SL recent new case rates and record averages are the numbers you would be seeing just before EVD goes completely wild-out-of-control, starting the pandemic, which could be here right now, hiding in plain sight from those who aren’t looking for it.

[null and void]

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[franzpick]

Sierra Leone just recorded their highest daily new case number ever, 110 new cases for 11/5, bringing their 5 day and 10 day moving averages of daily new cases to record highs at 66/day for 5 days and 63/day for the 10 day average.

EVD is out of control ‘in the wild’ in SL, and a continuation of the record high daily new case numbers of 95 for 11/1 and the 110 cases for 11/5 will push the moving averages to new highs in the 70 cases/day range, at some point signaling the beginning of a runaway national infection that may cause travel bans on potentially exposed travelers wanting to leave SL.

The total daily new cases for the 3 countries for the last days reported is the 2nd highest ever recorded at 186 cases: 110 SL 11/5, 44 Guinea 11/3 and 32 Liberia 10/31, representing a daily EVD infection growth rate of 186/13042 total cases as of 11/2, or 1.4% increased cases per day, which rate has only declined slightly in the last 60 days.

https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=397&language_id=ENG