Posted on 08/20/2014 8:56:30 AM PDT by mojito
Democratic Republic of Congo has sent its health minister and a team of experts to the remote northern Equateur province after several people died there from a disease with Ebola-like symptoms, a local official and a professor said on Wednesday.
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"An illness is spreading in Boende but we don't know the origin," said Michel Wangi, a spokesman for the governor's office.
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An Equateur resident who asked not to be named said that around ten people had died, including four health care workers, after suffering from fever, diarrhoea and bleeding from the ears and nostrils - all symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus.
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ping.
None of us really know what is going on out in the bush. In urban Liberia families are tossing the bodies of dead loved ones into the streets without ID. Thus avoiding quarantine. In the bush? I suspect the deceased have simply been left along trails or simply left where they fall. All sorts of animals dragging them off. This is a nightmare....
Ill trade 13mm African Americans for 13 million Africans anyday. They would be VERY appreciative and hard working citizens. NOT like the idgits in DC, Killadelphia, East ST Louis, Nawlins, Oakland, and Ferguson, MO.
Bring Out Your Dead
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...
It's NOT EBOLA and it's hard to catch and you are allll safe and *urk, urk* *gag* *gasp* thunk
hmmmm. getting some music, but no Savage or ads or....
Feed signal problems?
never mind. wrong thread
Not weird. Ebola virus is everywhere in rainforest in Africa. I’m reading The Hot Zone, published in 1994, about Ebola outbreak that started near Lake Victoria in Tanzania, approximately where AIDS got started too.
I recommend the book to deepen your understanding of Ebola. And Marburg. And what the CDC and DOD are doing about it.
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