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.
The Sawyer contact tree continues to grow. It’s a signal that the professional/privileged class is subject to the same fears as those of ones trapped in poverty but is more adroit at evading detection and/or covering up symptoms.
That class will be the vector that causes international break-out as they have the means to flee West Africa to the western countries, their passage oiled by the social arrogance of UN types.
UN/WHO’s tenacious insistence that air travel and border controls not be implemented leaves the gates wide open for these runners and the majority ot those newly infected will not be poor/ghetto class.
Decades ago a retired Fifth Ave doctor, in his cups, shocked dinner party guests with his revelation that the number of wealthy and famous patients with STDs would astound even the National Enquirer but money and social power kept the lid on, The Africans are no less proud and arrogant.
Black Agnes, with your West African experiences, maybe you could tell us more of social constructs there.
As I have said, politically a travel shut down is worse than the disease.
There will be no quarantine of Africa, because racist.
...ECOWAS calls for this. You know, the organization that Patrick Sawyer was working for...
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/26390898/un-ebola-cases-could-eventually-reach-20000
“UN: Ebola cases could eventually reach 20,000”
If it’s in West Point slum, that number is very conservative...
“Ebola virus: British doctor Nathalie MacDermott returns to work after three weeks in quarantine”
... PPE usage
Any tips and pointers you would be willing to post I'm sure would be greatly appreciated.
There seem to be a lot of people who test negative (initially), and that may be giving people a false sense of security with lethal results.
Thanks, yefragetuwrabrumuy, for the cite!
The whole world is mad.
Someday, historians will look on us the same way old Classical scholars of Oxford looked at late Rome.
“How could they be so stupid?”
For those of us who at the moment can’t access pdf docs please provide a brief bullet point thingy.
Does it say about dogs and Ebola, folks in West Point slum and environs wanna know.
Dogs digging up corpses and all.
TIA
Wow.
That may be the mystery vector—or one of them. The dogs remain asymptomatic, which makes the situation even more perilous.
Not at first. The service industry people who deal with them will be the next group infected by them. From there, it spreads and cuts downward through social strata.
Seems very conservative to me also. Exponential growth always stops. But I think it will stop well beyond 20,000—and it won’t take that long to get there.
In fact, there may well be an acceleration of the rate of exponential growth before it slows. This disease and its rate of spread looks serious enough to collapse West African society and infrastructure. In crowded urban areas, the collapse may well augment spread of the disease.
I pray for God to bless them and stop this nightmare they are going through.
The article says there is a strong correlation between the number of dogs testing sero-positive for Ebola and the location of the dog—the closer to the outbreak, the more likely to test positive.
Nothing in the article about transmission to humans or to other dogs. Apparently the dogs do not show any symptoms.
The study was done following the 2001-2002 outbreak in Gabon. Dogs were observed eating dead animals and considered highly exposed to the virus. 439 dogs were sampled and screened by Ebola virus immunoglobulin G assay, antigen detection, and viral polymerase chain reaction amplification. roughly 9% of the samples from the two main towns, 15% of the samples form Mekambo, and 25% of samples from villages in the epidemic area had detectable Ebola virus inumoglobulin, compared to only 2% of a sample control group from France. Among dogs from villages with both infected animal carcases and human cases, seroprevalence was roughly 32%.
Direct quote of the last two lines:
"A significant positive direct association existed between seroprevalence and the distances to the Ebola virus–epidemic area. This study suggests that dogs can be infected by Ebola virus and that the putative infection is asymptomatic."
The ramifications of asymptomatic infected dogs, pretty much roaming at will, foraging for available food and interacting with humans are grave, indeed, for possible contamination and transmission of the disease.
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