Bandits in Guinea steal suspected Ebola blood

Associated Press ^ | November 21, 2014 | BOUBACAR DIALLO

[Raebie]

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — It was a highway robbery but the bandits got more than they bargained for when they stopped a taxi van in Guinea and made off with blood samples that are believed to be infected with the deadly Ebola virus.

Authorities publicly appealed on national radio Friday to the unidentified robbers to hand over the samples that were stolen from the minibus taxi during its 265-kilometer (165-mile) trek from central Kankan prefecture to a test site in southern Gueckedou.

Four Red Cross officials accompanied the samples, that were drawn from a single person and stored in a sealed container, when armed bandits stopped the vehicle the aid group had commissioned near the town of Kissidougou, said Faya Etienne Tolno, a press officer for the Guinea Red Cross.

[Raebie]

Islamic bandits?

[Raebie]

ping

[CGASMIA68]

Is it now a bio - weapon

[TribalPrincess2U]

Hopefully just needed blood to drink for some ritual.

[UCANSEE2]

I heard that if you drink the blood of someone recently infected, it will make you immune.

; )

[Red Badger]

Probably just the common criminal types that got more than they bargained for..........................They’ll probably throw it in a trash pile and spread it unwittingly.......................

[Red Badger]

Silly that only works for vampires.....................

[DaveA37]

Stolen Ebola blood?.....Lets all wish them well.....hehehehehe

[Red Badger]

One of the voodoo rituals involves sprinkling the blood all over the participants..............................

[FES0844]

I hope so.

[DJ Taylor]

This is a Bio-Weapon that could soon be crossing our southern border.

[null and void]

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

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...

[Pollster1]

I hope this was an error by the bandits and not the goal.

[Bigg Red]

+1

[TribalPrincess2U]

Yeah, I think I heard that also. Really, I did.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[DannyTN]

"One of the voodoo rituals involves sprinkling the blood all over the participants.............................."

Yeah, well they're in for some bad juju!

[trisham]

So much for the claim that Guinea is not a problem.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Smokin' Joe]

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!