Mob destroys parts of Ferguson the day after mb dies. Hmmm. Same reaction, different location.
From what I understand, the people believe that their President is making up this Ebola stuff so the country will take in foreign aid money. I guess that’s feasible, but it’s a rather large risk to take if you’re wrong about it.
I’d hate to have chills and headache from the flu and get stuck in the Ebola center waiting for test results.
Lord, have mercy.
CH: I tried using the best data I could find from the CDC website to track the rate of change of ebola infections. However the data set was pretty bad, several data points didn't make sense. Having said that, I could find nothing that could enlighten our discussion at all. I will say that what I could glean from the data did not support an exponential, or even geometric progression (point to you). The first several weeks of July pointed to an infection rate that was fairly constant of about 12 cases/day (Sierra Leone data only). The last few data points (up to August 13, 2014) pointed to a rate of about 23.5 cases/day.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Shows once again that sex with monkeys is a bad idea.
Africa was, is and always will be a cesspool.
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...
There are 20 designated Ebola quarentine centers in the U.S. If cases start appearing here, how many people would willingly allow themselves to be taken there if they developed any of the early symptoms, wondering if they just had a cold, but knowing they would be transported to a facility where the virus is killing people if they alerted authorities to their symptoms? How many neighbors, out of fear, would tell authorities someone is showing symptoms? Seems to me that people would want to avoid going to a quarentine center, well, like the plague.