Posted on 09/22/2014 2:22:46 PM PDT by DannyTN
A three-day curfew aimed at containing the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has been declared a success by authorities.
They say more than a million households were surveyed and 130 new cases discovered.
Sierra Leone is one of the countries worst affected by the outbreak, with nearly 600 of the almost 2,800 total deaths recorded so far. ... The World Health Organization (WHO) says the situations in Senegal and Nigeria have now been "pretty much contained". ...
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
I'm also skeptical of WHO's claim that Sengal and Nigeria have been "pretty much contained". But we were only talking about 1 case in Senegal and 20 cases in Nigeria.
I do not understand what a 3 day quarantine would accomplish when the disease can take three weeks to become symptomatic.
There was a virologist who predicted not to long ago that Nigeria would explode in 3 to 4 weeks. Hope it doesn't happen but it would be interesting to see if it comes true.
By itself, probably not much. But with the door-to-door visits they were able to take 130 patients and 100 dead bodies out of the mix, each of which could have spread Ebola to a bunch of people. It may be enough to help them get it under control. Time will tell.
First, don’t try to fake people out about what the goal was, the goal was to establish contact with the population, educate, and evaluate, during a 3 day lockdown.
Notice the title of the article they call it a “lockdown”.
“”Ebola outbreak: Sierra Leone lockdown declared ‘success’””
“A three-day curfew aimed at containing the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has been declared a success by authorities.
They say more than a million households were surveyed and 130 new cases discovered.”
These are the same clowns that initially stated that “everything is under control and it will be contained”.
The virus takes 3 to 21 days to produce symptoms, but my impression is that the bulk of people show symptoms sooner than later. Not sure, but I thought most people produced symptoms within 3 to 5 days.
Thus for 3 days you're not spreading it except within households. That gives you time for people to start showing symptoms and to identify them, before spreading it to a larger population.
If all people showed symptoms within 3 days (We know that's not true), a three day shut-in, would stop the spread and identify all carriers, while minimizing the additional people exposed.
If all people showed symptoms within 5 days, (Not true either), a three day shut-in, would temporarily stop the spread and would identify 60% of the carriers, while minimizing the additional people exposed.
So just a 3 day shut-in could really have a big impact. But they might have to have more shut ins and for longer periods of time to really bring it to an end.
Do you have a link to the sources of that quote?
Ergo, America should be on lockdown.
Hamsters, back in your cages, now !
And everyone should submit to all “vaccinations” the gubmint deems necessary.
And submit to eating gubmint food (like Beeph(tm), Karotz(TM), etc.) and “drinks” (WADDER(tm), PURPLE(tm), etc.).
Just to be “sure” there’s no catastrophic epidemic.
Finally, something Republicans and Democrats and new world order can agree on.
And the founders thought the military was just for defending America from military attack, how “quaint”.
An old American family are submitting a plan to help alleviate some of the pressure, the Rockefellers are going to have a family meeting to form suggestions.
Just dragging her through the mud and slop. They’re treating her like a corpse but I don’t believe she’s dead. Neatly dressed and clean, too, or was. That’s a sad image.
She’s alive, but too sick to walk. In these conditions there is no way this won’t continue to spread.
I’ve seen animals hit and killed on the road handled with more care. If the aid workers have gotten that jaded it’s worse than we know.
The conditions there are a little primitive.
It’s Africa, of course it’s worse than we know.
That’s exactly one of the reasons why this will continue to spread.
It is the reason that the world and the United States is getting involved, to try to limit it to Africa as much as we can, and to end this current outbreak.
This is the 26th outbreak since 1976 and by far the worse.
We have not begun restricting flights have we?
3,000 troops for a population of how many millions?
We are implementing feel good half measures.
Do you disagree?
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