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• Bill Gates: Ebola Virus A 'Wake-Up Call'

  Bill Gates has called for "germ games not war games" to ensure readiness for battling a deadly global epidemic. The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist said the Ebola epidemic was a "wake-up call to get ready", during a talk at the prestigious TED ...Sky News HD · 9 minutes ago

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• 101st leader, dozens of soldiers returning to Fort Campbell

  (AP) -- Maj. Gen. Gary J. Volesky, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, is returning to Fort Campbell from West Africa along with dozens of soldiers who were deployed to aid in the fight against Ebola. The soldiers are expected back at the post ...LOCAL8now · 15 minutes ago

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• Ebola suspect charity worker tests negative

  ANOTHER Ebola scare in Spain months after the country was confirmed ‘disease-free’ by the United Nations has proven to be a false alarm – a charity worker hospitalised on Wednesday has turned out not to be suffering from the deadly haemorrhagic …Gnomes National News Service · 42 minutes ago

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• Second negative test for Ebola nurse

  A New Zealand nurse who had been working in Africa has been officially cleared of having Ebola after returning a second negative test. The woman from Gore arrived home on March 8 from Sierra Leone where she'd been treating people with the virus. She …MSN · 58 minutes ago

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• Two more U.S. healthcare workers repatriated for Ebola monitoring

  March 18 (Reuters) - The last two members of a group of U.S. healthcare workers whose colleague is being treated for the Ebola virus returned on Wednesday from Sierra Leone to the United States, where they are …Thomson Reuters Foundation · 1 minute ago

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• There Are Now More Than a Dozen People Being Monitored for Ebola in the U.S.

  NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — Health officials say two more American aid workers arrived in the United States Wednesday night to be monitored for Ebola, bringing the total brought back to the country since Friday to …The Blaze · ByLiz Klimas · 2 hours ago

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• UNICEF details Ebola outbreak’s impact on children

  The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released a report on Tuesday detailing the impact of the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, stating that approximately nine million children have been heavily impacted.Bio Prep Watch · 4 hours ago

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[tumblindice]

In other news, President Obama announces 2.5 million infected Sierra Leonese will be flown to the United States and settled in the homes of “climate change denying white devils”.

[cuban leaf]

Blah, blah, blah.

I have a Firesign Theater CD that was created in 1999 and they were making fun of the Ebola scare back then. It is a third world country problem.

And so is Aids if you are not a sodomizer or use shared needles.

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• Now 17 in US being monitored for ebola WEST PALM BEACH

  (CBS12) – Two more American aid workers have arrived in the United States to be monitored for Ebola. The two make 17 Americans flown back from West Africa's Sierra Leone since Friday for monitoring. None have tested positive.CBS 12 News · 45 minutes ago

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• Two patients in Amarillo monitored for Ebola in

  AMARILLO, TEXAS (NBC) - The city of Amarillo public health department says two patients are being monitored for Ebola. The patients, a mother and child, recently traveled from Liberia to Amarillo. A change in the …KGNS · 11 hours ago

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• Guinea Ebola Cases Rise, Three Doctors Infected

  CONAKRY/DAKAR - Guinea has suffered a setback in its fight against Ebola with a rash of new cases, including three doctors infected by the virus, with officials blaming weak surveillance and a failure to follow safety …Sudan Vision · 19 hours ago

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[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Importantly the 3-day quarantine seems to work quite well, as it breaks up the timetable of the spread of the disease.

In fact, it works so well, that the US should consider a similar, but much more managed version itself, not just for Ebola, but for other diseases as well. Here is what is needed:

1) An accurate understanding of the incubation period length in days, as well as a subset of that, the length of time during which an infected person can easily communicate the disease. Importantly, the quarantine only has to last for *part* of these times to be effective.

2) A practical estimation of the spread of the disease from a given outbreak point (”patient zero”). This is a physical area in which infections are rated at “severe”, such as in the same home; and “moderate”, such as a workplace, market or other recently visited public area. This limits any quarantine and notification area to the riskier places.

3) Response teams that poll the quarantine area, first by phone and then on foot if needed. For larger areas, an automatic phone bank could systematically poll every phone in the quarantine area, for information and to offer assistance.

None of this is particularly radical, from a public health viewpoint, as this is just a modernized version of how quarantines used to be done. That is, all physicians carried quarantine signs in their black bags. Its improvement is that it quarantines smaller areas and is more responsive to the people in those areas.

[BenLurkin]

Bill Gates in his fortress manse.

[Pollster1]

http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-18-march-2015

“A total of 150 new confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) were reported in the week to 15 March, compared with 116 the previous week. There were 95 new confirmed cases reported in Guinea: the highest weekly total for the country in 2015. Sierra Leone reported 55 new confirmed cases over the same period: the country’s lowest weekly total since late June 2014. Liberia reported no new confirmed cases for the third consecutive week. March 15 was day 12 since the final patient in Liberia had a second negative test for EVD (42 days must elapse before transmission can be considered to have ended).”

I am not at all willing to consider this an “African problem”. We can contain Ebola if it comes to the United States, but it will disrupt our economy to an unimaginable degree. We were right to put resources into containing it in Liberia (the wrong resources since Obama made that decision, but they still got the job done since they were American military). We (the West, China, and India) need to contain it in the other two countries too.

[bgill]

What’s the reason for delaying the lockdown for another 9 days? How many more will become infected between now and then? The government should have told everyone last September that lockdowns could come at any time so be prepared. If it’s bad enough to announce a lockdown, it’s bad enough to do so immediately.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

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

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Sierra Leone announces lockdown of 2.5 million people

Obama announces 2.5 million refugee visas for Sierra Leonese!

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...