Posted on 10/29/2014 10:47:32 AM PDT by 11th_VA
The World Health Organization says the number of reported Ebola cases has surpassed 13,700, a jump of more than 30 percent since the last numbers were released four days ago.
Dr. Bruce Aylward, assistant director-general of the WHO, said the big jump in cases is likely due to previous under-reporting.
As of Wednesday, there have been 13,703 reported cases of Ebola, the organization tweeted, with 13,676 of those in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three most affected countries in this outbreak.
The fatality rate in those countries has remained consistently around 70 percent, Aylward said.
Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Aylward said there is some indication that safe burials and education efforts in Liberia are improving, but he cautioned against assuming that Ebola was coming under control there or in any of the three countries most affected by the disease.
He noted some encouraging signs, including the opening of the first community care center in Port Loko, Sierra Leone, a smaller facility designed to isolate and provide basic care to potential Ebola patients.
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Let’s bring them here! It’s their human right to be treated in America!
That sounds like an artefact of the reporting process. IOW those cases were always there, but under-reported. They change the reporting method, et voila! the numbers jump.
CC
so we’re further on the uptrend curve than we thought ???
It has been 5 days since they last reported. And the big jump was in Liberia which added 1588 cases and -1 deaths.
I guess they had another resurrection.
Probably the deaths didn’t get reported at all. There’s been a lot of concern that Liberia reporting was breaking down.
On the otherhand, there is a report this morning that hospital beds are beginning to open up in Liberia. They don’t know if that’s because people quit coming to the hospital, families are opting to care for patients at home, or if they’ve somehow gotten a break in the disease.
As people drop out of the denominator, thus reducing the life participation rate.
But we were told Liberia would need Billions of dollars to fight the disease, how could the down trend be starting ? (/sarcasm)
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Exponential growth. Last month they were saying the cases double every 3 weeks but as those cases increase the time it takes to double decreases, I just didn’t think it would be this fast this soon. I can see now why the US hating radical Muslim posing as our POTUS is so eager to get it here.
So if it is so hard to catch, how are they spreading it. The word should be out by now not to be around people with a fever so how is it spreading so fast?
And the deaths are still at 4,800...after 2 weeks.
That’s the first thing I looked for. Obviously a lot of spin with these numbers. They’re trying to shake us down for more money.
My guess is that our government employees that calculate the unemployment and inflation rates are the ones doing the numbers for ebola deaths.
I personally think it is probably still under-reported. But it is somewhat less underreported than it was. Without looking at the methodology of how the Liberians arrived at that number I can only guess.
CC
Wait till after the election, the ball is going to drop on what is *really* going on with this Ebola stuff, we’re going to learn just how bad things really are. Remember this is an administration that allowed 4 men to die in Benghazi because of an election and then lied about it, ridiculously shifted blame on a video so I can just imagine how much BS we’ve been fed so far on this Ebola. I’m just hoping its not going to be something like “We have reason to believe up to 100,000 are at this moment infected” because it’s going to completely shut down the whole country.
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth...
It could sneeze and give you ebola.
Treatment centers in Liberia that were once overrun with Ebola patients are now half empty as far fewer people appear to be contracting the disease than was initially expected.
Fewer than half the treatment beds in the country were occupied with patients, and tests for the virus have been coming back negative at increasing rates.
The turn of events has some experts cautiously optimistic, though others warn that celebrating the end of an epidemic too early could simply lead to another deadly outbreak.
“The numbers are decreasing, but we don’t know why,” a spokesperson for Doctors Without Borders told the New York Times.
At the very least, this means the steps taken to curb the epidemic are working. Since the beginning of the outbreak, Liberia has focused on educating its citizens about the risk of infection, “from posters and billboards to messages broadcast when residents make phone calls.”
It’s way too early to declare victory against Ebola in Liberia, but at least we're finaly getting some good news.
Maybe one of those infamous paper jumps. The bloom does seem to be fading bit, so let’s crank up some numbers. I would not be surprised if this virus has either evolved less harmless or the more susceptible are now gone.
What ever happened to their screaming there would be 100,000 by now?
Wait a minute.
I just heard on the hourly newsbreak during Rush Limbaugh show that there has been no significant increase in new Ebola cases in African countries...
We will give them a voter registration card at the same time. Whether they are dead or alive doesn’t matter.
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