Posted on 08/12/2014 6:00:46 AM PDT by Covenantor
Dr Kevin De Cock, of the US Centre for Disease Control, says the situation in Liberia is "extremely severe" The scale of the west African Ebola outbreak in Liberia is completely overwhelming the capacity of specialist isolation units that treat victims, a senior US health official assessing the crisis has warned. De Kevin De Cock, the director for global health at America's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, said one of the country’s two main treatment clinics, in Lofa County, currently had 80 patients in a 20-bed unit...
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I think two of them actually are shut down now, and I know that the few foreign airlines that flew to them (British Airways and one other) stopped flights a week or two ago. The problem is that the horse is already out of the barn.
I don’t think it’s going to turn into an epidemic in the non-Third World, although there may be limited outbreaks here and there because of connections with Africa, because our procedures are better. But I read that the economic effects on these African countries will set them back 10 years or possibly more.
Lol.
Now I can’t either!
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...
Wow, pretty quick with the graphic n&v!
The current population of the earth is around 7.2 billion people. One fourth of that is almost 2 billion, at this time. ................
Judas Priest, his name is Dr. de Cock? Are you freaking kidding me? Anyway, deal with it, Doctor, that’s why you became a doctor to help sick people, not to play golf at the club.
but we are talking ebola not e-coli
Some of us here in Texas, where getting imported stomach bugs from illegals is a way of life, have learned to use the shopping carts that are sitting outside in the sun and not the carts near the doors.
The longer in the sun the better.
This isn’t good to hear.
Any guesses why this is spreading more efficiently than other ebola outbreaks?
Well said. We travel extensively. The USA is the greatest country...bar none. Even with our current difficulties, many are strong and have resolve. Keep us the fight. Resist...resist...resist the malignancies around us. You know what you need to do. Never quit.
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