Posted on 10/07/2014 11:54:54 AM PDT by knak
BBC global health reporter Tulip Mazumdar shares her experiences from Ebola-stricken Sierra Leone, where UK aid workers will soon be joining the race to stem this deadly disease outbreak. Day one: Welcome to Freetown It's pitch black when we arrive at Lunghi airport at 01:00 local time, and the rain is coming down heavily. The journey, which before this outbreak took six hours from London, has taken us 20 hours. No airline flies direct to Sierra Leone from the UK anymore, so we have two stopovers - one in Paris and one in Casablanca. Ebola poster Not that we were in any doubt, but it doesn't take long to establish all is far from well in Sierra Leone. Before we're allowed into the main terminal building, we are ushered towards two large red containers filled with chlorine. Everyone silently adheres to washing their hands before entering. We're immediately handed "health declaration" forms asking us - among other things - where we've travelled in the past eight weeks and whether we are suffering with fever, diarrhoea or vomiting.
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Bkmrk
So even where they already have Ebola they want to know where you’ve been and whether you’ve been exposed.
Hiccups are one of the last symptoms before death.
Or being drunk...
Hiccups? That’s new...
Well, essentially, almost every detail is new, because our media hasn’t really said anything about Ebola, its symptoms or how to identify them.
Really, the only thing I’ve heard so far is “fever”.
Extended bouts of hiccups in adults is also a sign of a brain tumor.
Well then everyone down on 6th Street in Austin Texas is suspect.....
My husband has always told me that I can’t get a brain tumor! LOL
And meanwhile lefties focus on global warming.
This article was published three days before ebola was here.
The Unlikely Clue That Led Doctors in West Africa to Ebola: Hiccups
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/09/how-hiccups-helped-doctors-identify-ebola.html
Early Symptoms of Ebola include:
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/symptoms/index.html
Fever (greater than 38.6°C or 101.5°F)
Severe headache
Muscle pain
Weakness
Diarrhea
Vomiting
Abdominal (stomach) pain
Unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising)
Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to Ebola, but the average is 8 to 10 days.
Maybe they’re leaving out Hiccups like cops leave out certain details about criminals they want the public to help collar. When a legit informant calls in with the left-out descriptor, they know they’ve got a good caller.
BTW, good to ‘see’ you, haven’t seen you around...
It looks to me that Ebola has broken out in Africa and will not be contained for years. There is a distinct possiblity that sub-saharan Africa will be depopulated.
It can be contained tomorrow morning.
There’s a cure out there. All the Admin has to do is use it.
Lamivudine.
Put that into the FR search and see what you come up with, and spread the word.
No kidding. No satire. There’s a cure.
Hiccups are not an early symptom. It appears when you reach the stage where it might bring on hiccups, you have probably already figured it out at this time.
Several years ago, after numerous bouts of severe headaches, my wife had an MRI of her brain. After examining the MRI, the neurologist told her “Well, the MRI came back negative; we couldn't find anything.”
True story; and yes, it sounds like an old Henny Youngman joke.
Not a cure but a treatment that greatly helps survive the symptoms, maybe.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/27/health/ebola-hiv-drug/
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