Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
I have spent a little time compiling links to threads about the Ebola outbreak in the interest of having all the links in one thread for future reference.
Please add links to new threads and articles of interest as the situation develops.
Thank You all for you participation.
There have been papers on people who have antibodies to various strains of ebola.
I suspect they may have a mutation or mutations that render the viral infectious load to be greater than that for others. Kind of like the CCR5 d32 mutation and HIV infections. Therefore the dose of 10 virus particles that may be enough to kill someone else just causes a flu like illness from which they recover. Just a suspicion on my part though.
It stands to reason if this virus is endemic to the area that humans that have lived there millenia would have been selected for mutations to outwit it. There are loads of anti-malarial SNPs, for example, the most famous of which is the sickle cell mutation.
You could bet a large sum it will be the same as Ebola Guinea.
The real interesting thing here is that not being able to process the dead efficiently will eventually lead to some interesting pathogens finding their way into the community, probably through whatever water system or ground water sources they use.
If they get another fast-mover out of that, then you will see problems in data collection and transmission, in that you are tracking two diseases, or more, and not one.
Sad if true.
Scary if true.
That whole situation is a cholera epidemic just waiting to happen.
Update on ill little girl on quarantined plane in Aberdeen—
“The girl was examined at the scene and taken by ambulance to Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.
The youngster was examined by medical staff and found not to have the virus.”
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Praise God.
It all depends on management, I would think. It will have to be cleaned in any event, but waiting for the fomites to dry and lose efficacy, as well as for her test results, might be prudent before cleaning and putting the plane back in service.
Granted, that will likely cost the airline a bundle in lost revenue for a grounded plane, but it would be far less than the liabilities incurred if the girl was positive for Ebola and workers and or subsequent passengers were infected.
This is just a hint of the possible economic impact of the disease.
That was fast. She may just not have fit symptom profile, and lots of things can make someone sick on a flight.
Especially the fish dinner.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/25/health/ebola-contact-tracing/index.html?
Given the nasty civil wars, tribalism and government corruption and now add a pandemic, it’s not looking good for the home team.
(8^D)
Miss Adadevoh had previously been a suspected case, a suspicion confirmed today by blood test. She has been moved to isolation at the Ebola treatment center in Lagos. She joins two other patients there undergoing evaluation and treatment.
SaharaReporters has also gathered that Dr. Ade Joroh, a patient at the isolation center who is infected with the Ebola virus, is recovering and responding to treatment. He is expected to recover fully, although medical professionals are awaiting blood test results.
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Comment on:
http://www.singtomeohmuse.com/viewtopic.php?t=5725&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=1470&sid=687d0fb52e80fb37d6ab0cb989092138
Dr. Adadevoh treated Mr. Sawyer. She obviously had close contact with the infected patient.
The spouses, one wife and one husband, of two other doctors who treated Mr. Sawyer, are now confirmed tertiary cases.
One might assume that the spouses of the doctors had close contact with the infected physicians, but Dr. Adadevoh's sister? The level of intimacy is not the same.
Meanwhile, Dr. Adadevoh's sister has only now been moved into isolation.
This will get worse —
Panic, hunger spread among quarantined West Africans in Ebola areas
August 25, 2014
By Bronwen Dachs
Catholic News Service
The article doesn’t name the source of ebola contact info but from the reaction one assumes that it has high credibility.
Let’s see what happens.
Wowzers. That is scary. Thankfully, they are taking steps to isolate those passengers if any are, in fact, infected.
We shall soon see.
Nice pic of Freidan on that one.
Thanks for posting that. I was hesitant to show the article to my wife with her relatives in Mumbai but turns out she had already seen a similar article in a different Indian publication. In fact, she had been quarantined in Chinchpokli hospital herself many years ago when she was infected with Smallpox.
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