The Ebola Outbreak Has Reached A New Level Of Severity

BI - Reuters ^ | 9-12-2014 | Tom Miles and Kate Kelland, Reuters

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Tom Miles and Kate Kelland, Reuters
September 12,2014

West Africa's Ebola outbreak is running ahead of health authorities' ability to contain it, particularly in the three hardest-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.

"The Ebola outbreak that is ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest and most complex and most severe in the almost four-decade history of this disease," the WHO's director general Margaret Chan told a news conference in Geneva.

"The number of new patients is moving far faster than the capacity to manage them."

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[kevslisababy]

I would say that one case is pretty severe if you are the person infected...

[Jack Hammer]

Keep your Bugout Bag handy - we’ll all meet up at Hershel’s farm.

[SisterK]

ping

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At $50 Million, Bill Gates Just Made His Largest Donation Ever To Fight Ebola

[PGalt]

Thanks very much for posting. Health/life BUMP!

[Damifino]

Not trying to hijack this thread but does everyone remember the political hay the press and the left made of the Bird Flu "epidemic"? What Bush failed to do to protect the US was a manufactured topic of Bush's second election.

The press' duplicity on this topic (and others) is appalling.

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Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

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...

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[HandBasketHell]

No one cared about Obamacare until they got the sticker shock of higher premiums and couldn’t keep their doctor, against what was promised.

No one cared about ISIS while they were killing ‘others’. Televised decapitations of US citizens was what it took to get people engaged.

Similarly, no one will care about Ebola until it is spreading through their own neighborhoods and towns, and by then it will be too late to stop it.

Prep accordingly.

[HandBasketHell]

You can bet if W were president and Ebola patients were allowed into the US, the lamestream would have the word AIRBORNE in every headline decrying W’s stupidity.

[Nip]

Has anyone heard anything from the UN on this issue? Isn’t combating a pandemic like Ebola something the UN should be doing?

As for the article.

IMHO the number of doctors and health specialists quoted are way too low. Possibly by a factor of 20, or more. The article also tates that the death estimates are low because of the lag between the death of a victim and its report being tabulated.

The real issue is what nation is going to strip itself nude by sending their limited number of trained specialists to fight Ebola in Africa and leave itself defenseless when, not if, Ebola shows up in their own medical system?

[2001convSVT]

Yes, you are ABSOLUTELY right!

[greeneyes]

The real issue is what nation is going to strip itself nude by sending their limited number of trained specialists to fight Ebola in Africa and leave itself defenseless when, not if, Ebola shows up in their own medical system?

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