Ebola Rates Accelerate in Sierra Leone

Time ^ | 11/4/14 | Naina Bajekal

[therightliveswithus]

The number of people infected with the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone each day is nine times higher than it was two months ago, according to new data.

The rate appears to be accelerating particularly in the rural areas surrounding the capital Freetown, the London Times reports. Compared with an average of 1.3 Ebola cases a day at the start of September, there were 12 new cases a day in late October, says the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI), an organization set up by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

[Tennessee Nana]

Golly gosh I thought dr Obama had healed the whole world of Ebola ...

[SIDENET]

Golly gosh I thought dr Obama had healed the whole world of Ebola ...

That "healing" was only through the election.

[BuffaloJack]

The only reason we hear of diseases like Ebola, Marburg, AIDS, and others is that Africa now has roads and highways. These diseases have been lurking there along with others we haven’t experienced yet for millions of years. If someone or something caught it before then they died close by and it never spread (we called it and hundreds of others, jungle fever because it had no name). We now have the ability (roads) to move the disease around and infect many more people.

[SgtHooper]

No way! We learned on this site by some posters that this is highly overrated and to not be concerned. I am shocked! Shocked, I tell ya!

[patriot08]

Whatcha waitin’ for Obola? Bring ‘em all over here for ‘the cure’. Not to do so is rayCESS.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

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

[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...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Prophet2520]

This is a very deceptive article. The WHO reports are here http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/situation-reports/en/

If you want actual facts, look at the Oct 29 report, the last one with a full data set. Normally when an outbreak occurs there is a an exponential rise in cases until it wanes and eventually dies. Notice the graphs of new cases reported each week for the most heavily infected areas of Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Sierra Leone: new cases in early June under 50, in July nearly 100, in August near 150, by late Sept well over 300. If the curve were continuing we would expect to see late October at around 500 new cases reported each week from Sierra Leone. Instead the cases leveled out and have been going down. The last recorded week was back under 100.

Freetown has had two successive weeks drop from close to 100 to now less than twenty(visually interpolated from small graph).

Liberia has dropped from 450 new cases per week in Aug to about 52 cases last week.

etc.

If all you are interested in doing is finding an article that can feed hysteria, you are likely to be able to find something misrepresenting the truth. If you want facts you might have to look a little harder.