Posted on 08/03/2014 5:48:32 AM PDT by Covenantor
Outbreak Update
The World Health Organization, in partnership with the Ministries of Health in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria announced a cumulative total of 1323 suspect and confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) and 729 deaths, as of July 27, 2014. Of the 1323 clinical cases, 909 cases have been laboratory confirmed for Ebola virus infection.
In Guinea, 460 cases, including 339 fatal cases and 336 laboratory confirmations of EVD, were reported by the Ministry of Health of Guinea and WHO as of July 27, 2014. Active surveillance continues in Conakry, Guéckédou, Boffa, Fria, Siguiri, and Kourourssa Districts.
In Sierra Leone, WHO and the Ministry of Health and Sanitation of Sierra Leone reported a cumulative total of 533 suspect and confirmed cases of EHF as of July 27, 2014. Of these 533, 473 cases have been laboratory confirmed and 233 were fatal. Districts reporting clinical EVD patients include Kailahun, Kenema, Kambia, Port Loko, Bo and Western Area, which includes the capital, Freetown. More recently, Tonkolili, Bambali, Moyamba, and Bonthe Districts have also reported confirmed cases of EVD. Reports, investigations, and testing of suspect cases continue across the country.
As of July 27, 2014, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Liberia and WHO reported 329 clinical cases of EVD, including 100 laboratory confirmations and 156 fatal cases. Suspect and confirmed cases since May have been reported from Lofa, Montserado, Margibi, and more recently, Bomi, Bong, Nimba and Grand Gedeh Counties. Laboratory testing is being conducted in Monrovia.
In Nigeria, WHO and the Nigerian Ministry of Health reported one probable case as of July 27, 2014. This case has not yet been laboratory confirmed. CDC is in regular communication with all of the Ministries of Health (MOH), WHO, MSF, and other partners regarding the outbreak. Currently CDC has personnel in all three countries assisting the respective MOHs and the WHO-led international response to this Ebola outbreak. Based on reports from the Ministry of Heath of Guinea, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation of Sierra Leone, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Liberia, the Ministry of Health of Nigeria and WHO 29 July 2014.
...more info and links to previous updates at CDC site.
Again I refer to the photos on the web. We see health workers being sprayed down with 10% bleach solutions (low velocity hand sprayers)
before removing their PPE kit.
How far removed are they from the infected patients?
Do they remain within range of the "ebola mist cloud"?
Seems like it from the photos doesn't it?
That's close enough for me to call it air borne.(Emphasis mine )
EXACTLY my thought as well !
These treatment areas are generally hastily set up temporary emergency bivwac centers of convass, tyvek, or other collapseable fabric.
Little thought is given to positive airflow pressure in the staff medical unit, and rarely is the bottom of the bivwac secured to the ground.
Given the hot climatic tempertures, then add the heat and humidity (human activity) of the PPE suit and eagerness to get out of the PPE ,
I am sure that they are in close proximity to treated patients , and therefore more probably exposed to suspended droplets in the air.
Let's at least hope that the CDC has bio-suits that use the airhose 'tail' for climate control and positive pressure air flow
Thanks Black Agnes, Sherman Logan, and Tilted Irish Kilt...
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html
Thanks GOPJ!
And wow, people screamed about the swine flu when that was going around? Somebody’s brain has been scrambled here...
DDT has absolutely zero to do with Ebola. Bodily fluids from monkeys and other animals can be left behind with ebola residue. Somebody touches that residue, often unknowingly, days later, they are infected. Mosquitoes aren’t the main issue, it’s most likely contact with monkeys, bats, and pigs’ bodily fluids, or with bodily fluids from infected people.
>>Okay, so why is the Gubmint downplaying this one?<<
I don’t know that they are. Not making a judgment as to whether this could be “The Pandemic” or not, I’m simply pointing to past scares that fizzled.
Could there be another worldwide pandemic? I suppose there could be, but till now, there hasn’t been.
Aids has killed 36 million since 1981, and 1.6 million in 2012.
Here is an article on how they dealt with in one African city in 1995.
http://www.newsweek.com/20-year-old-ebola-treatment-could-save-kent-brantly-262552?piano_t=1
Excerpt: “By the time Robert Colebunders arrived in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo (known as Zaire at the time), on June 15 of 1995, the Ebola virus had ravaged the city of 250,000 and the neighboring area for nearly 6 months. The hospitals in the riverport town were empty; patients and healthcare workers had fled to other parts of the country for fear of contracting the deadly disease, which would ultimately affect 317 people and kill 245.
Eventually, the Kikwit Ebola outbreak was traced back to January 1995, but it wasn’t until the start of May of that year that local public health officials recognized the many sick patients in the area as victims of the infectious disease. On May 8th, the Zairian government officially declared the epidemic, asking the World Health Organization to mobilize international assistance. Soon after, infectious disease experts arrived from the WHO, the CDC, Doctors Without Borders, the South African Medical Institute, the Red Cross, and Belgium’s Institute of Tropical Medicine—which sent Colebunders.
Immediately, the team went to work to contain the disease.”
Awful. My heart hurts for every single person and their families. I pray God’s peace on them all.
It is a preventable disease though, would you not agree? Pandemic? No.
Still, my point is the gubbamints use these to scare the hell out of the population and keep’em off quilter.
Sure, look at post 48 and how easily they stopped a major break out (easy when compared to the end of the world claims).
Even in Africa, they are able to stop Ebola from being catastrophic.
The swine flu has a mortality rate of about 0.6%. Ebola has a mortality rate of 60
It makes sense to put quarantines in place to stop the spread of ebola. Right now it’s primarily in 3 african countries. It wouldn’t be very hard to quarantine. We just lack the international will to do so.
Documentation File on the 2014 Impeachment of B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro a former Foreign Student from Indonesia, and still a legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
It should mutate over to the zombie phase soon.
Prepare yourselves for Marshall Law when the first case is discovered here [outside the ones they imported]
August 2, 2014
President Obama’s recently updated Executive Order gives the organization the authorization to detain anyone suspected of having been infected with a contagious disease, and the power to “MANDATE THE APPREHENSION AND DETENTION OF AMERICANS WHO MERELY SHOW SIGNS OF RESPIRATORY ILLNESS”.
CDC has the legal authority to detain any person who may have an infectious disease that is specified by Executive Order to be quarantinable.
Such “quarantinable” diseases may include Cholera, Smallpox, Plague, SARS, Hemorrhagic fevers (like Ebola), and now even “respiratory illnesses” that may have symptoms similar to those of deadly viruses.
It was no accident that President Obama added the Executive Order amendment this morning. They can downplay the seriousness of Ebola all they want, but the fact is that hundreds of medical workers, including the World Health Organization, have failed to contain its spread
In anticipation of the virus hitting U.S. shores, President Obama has set the legal authorization to essentially declare martial law in stone. The U.S. military, including the National Guard, also has contingency plans in place.
The minute this virus is detected in “the wild” on U.S. soil these directives will be executed.
Cloward Piven running wild?
You might mean martial law. Marshall was the sec. State under Truman.
It cannot live outside the body on elevator buttons.
Please stop the panic/disaster crap talk.
LOL, yeah I messed up - but it even gave me a laugh!!
Feeling unwell and fearing a similar fate, the sister wanted to see her husband - an internal migrant worker then employed on the other side of Liberia at the Firestone rubber plantation.
She took a communal taxi via Liberia's capital Monrovia, exposing five other people to the virus who later contracted and died of the Ebola.
Thanks for sharing ansel - it’s comforting knowing the disease was fairly easily contained...
current numbers are from July 30 reports.
numbers in parentheses are from July 27 reports.
August 3, 2014
Ebola Outbreak Update The World Health Organization, in partnership with the Ministries of Health in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria announced a cumulative total of 1440 (1323)suspect and confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) and 826 (729)deaths, as of July 30, 2014. Of the 1440 clinical cases, 953 (909) cases have been laboratory confirmed for Ebola virus infection.
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Make note of the 97 additional deaths in only three days.
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