Sounds like we've lost containment.
Perhaps we'll lose the continent.
So much for physical therapy for the sore shoulder, eh?
The government hospital at Kenema was apparently used as part of a research project into Lassa fever sponsored by the US. It has been reported that both USAMRIID and infectious disease specialists at Tulane University were involved.
It would be nice to know what exactly they were doing, and if their research involved any gain-of-function experiments which could have affected the Ebola virus. As I understand it, some virologists believe that by experimenting with mutations that make a virus more virulent, they can produce more effective vaccines.
This approach apparently is quite controversial within the public health community, as many believe that it has the ability to generate a potential pandemic pathogen.
More information about ethical concerns over virus experiments can be found here:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/20/virus-experiments-risk-global-pandemic
Interesting to note that this was reported in May of this year. One has to wonder what prompted the epidemiologists at Harvard and Yale to protest.
Ping...
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...