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.
Thanks for that info.
http://news.yahoo.com/imf-says-ebola-having-acute-impact-west-african-144222540—sector.html
“IMF says Ebola having ‘acute’ impact on West African economies”
It’s wrecking them in fact.
Children and ebola asymptomatic dogs...in a slum.
That’s more horrific than the toy like anti-personnel mines the Soviets sowed in Afghanistan.
Wow is right.
Dog pee and poop become WMD’s. And other animals will eat dog poop.
Any evidence that the dogs shed virus particules in either of those? That would be catastrophic in an urban area with stray animals.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nigeria-doctor-dies-ebola-oil-hub-port-harcourt-1462950?
“Nigeria Doctor Dies from Ebola in Oil Hub Port Harcourt”
“Ebola Is Rapidly Mutating As It Spreads Across West Africa”
Encourage you all to read 1267.
“Any evidence that the dogs shed virus particules in either of those?’
Yes. And saliva whilst infected. In the article.
““How could they be so stupid?””
Except it will be said in Chinese.
And they will say “we were so smart and culturally superior to reject the ways of the West,” not “how could they be so stupid.”
Thanks. My reading time is limited during the day.
That’s a scary thought that.
I see the value in domesticated farm animals that aren’t pigs. And why avoiding pigs is a really great idea if you live where there are bats that carry this stuff.
I found this the other evening:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henipavirus
I was particularly interested by the outbreaks in Australia that so far have been contained.
Here’s a link to CDC pdf on PPE prep sequence
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/ppe-poster.pdf
More info at: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/index.html?mobile=nocontent
Here’s a link to CDC pdf on PPE prep sequence
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/ppe-poster.pdf
More info at: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/index.html?mobile=nocontent
I had a similar sentence written out twice, before I deleted it.
But I think you are correct. The west has poisoned herself with foolishness.
Re: 1267
(cut)...or starters, the data show that the virus is rapidly accumulating new mutations as it spreads through people. “We’ve found over 250 mutations that are changing in real time as we’re watching.”
While moving through the human population in West Africa, she says, the virus has been collecting mutations about twice as quickly as did while circulating in animals for the last decade or so.
“The more time you give a virus to mutate and the more human-to-human transmission you see,” she says, “the more opportunities you give it to fall upon some [mutation] that could make it more easily transmissible or more pathogenic.”
Goats and Soda
Could A 2-Year-Old Boy Be ‘Patient Zero’ For The Ebola Outbreak?
Sabeti says she doesn’t know if that’s happening yet. But the rapid change in the virus’ DNA could weaken the tools we have to detect Ebola or potentially treat patients.
Diagnostic tests, experimental vaccines and drugs for Ebola — like the one used to treat the two American patients — are all based on the virus DNA sequence, Sabeti says. “If the virus is mutating away from the known sequence, that could be important to how these things work.”
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Courstey of Stephen Gire
The new genomic data also indicate that the outbreak started when just one person caught Ebola from an animal. Then the virus has been spreading through human-to-human transmission — not through infected bushmeat, or wild game, as first thought.
“We’re really concerned because a lot of the messaging going around ... is don’t each bushmeat, don’t eat mango, don’t anything that might be in contact with animals,” she says. “When you see some of those fliers, you’re like, ‘ok, you just told them not to eat all the man sources of food.’ “
So the advice from health officials to avoid bushmeat may be doing more harm than good, she says.
Sabeti and the team also compared the Ebola genomes from Sierra Leone to those found in previous outbreaks in Central Africa. That data suggests the virus has been circulating around West Africa for about decade.
“This study is really an impressive tour de force,” says virologist Stephen Morse of Columbia University.
But he’s not he’s not surprised the virus is mutating so rapidly.
“We seen this in a number of infections, SARS for example, influenza and HIV of course,” Morse says. “Very often when a new virus is introduced into the human population very suddenly, it will show accelerated rates of evolution.”
So should we be concerned about that the virus might pick up a mutation that makes it more contagious or deadly?
“That’s very hard to say. In most cases, the answer would be ‘no,’ “ Morse says. “But Ebola is obviously a concern and very virulent. I’d say it’s too early at this point to speculate on what any mutation or any change, even with rapid evolution, might lead to.”
A number of scientists working on the project caught Ebola. “Five of them passed from Ebola,” Sabeti says, including Dr. Shiek Humarr Khan. He was Sierra Leone’s top virologist, who had treated dozens of Ebola patients before catching the virus.
Health workers in Sierra Leone, who talked to NPR in the spring, blamed a lack of proper protective equipment for infections at the government-run hospital in Kenema, where Khan worked.
“The work is just that dangerous,” Sabeti say. “Another British nurse at the hospital has just come down with Ebola. You’re seeing so many infections going on. It’s an extraordinary thing that’s going on right now [in Sierra Leone].”
Re: 1267
(cut)...or starters, the data show that the virus is rapidly accumulating new mutations as it spreads through people. “We’ve found over 250 mutations that are changing in real time as we’re watching.”
While moving through the human population in West Africa, she says, the virus has been collecting mutations about twice as quickly as did while circulating in animals for the last decade or so.
“The more time you give a virus to mutate and the more human-to-human transmission you see,” she says, “the more opportunities you give it to fall upon some [mutation] that could make it more easily transmissible or more pathogenic.”
Goats and Soda
Could A 2-Year-Old Boy Be ‘Patient Zero’ For The Ebola Outbreak?
Sabeti says she doesn’t know if that’s happening yet. But the rapid change in the virus’ DNA could weaken the tools we have to detect Ebola or potentially treat patients.
Diagnostic tests, experimental vaccines and drugs for Ebola — like the one used to treat the two American patients — are all based on the virus DNA sequence, Sabeti says. “If the virus is mutating away from the known sequence, that could be important to how these things work.”
i
Courstey of Stephen Gire
The new genomic data also indicate that the outbreak started when just one person caught Ebola from an animal. Then the virus has been spreading through human-to-human transmission — not through infected bushmeat, or wild game, as first thought.
“We’re really concerned because a lot of the messaging going around ... is don’t each bushmeat, don’t eat mango, don’t anything that might be in contact with animals,” she says. “When you see some of those fliers, you’re like, ‘ok, you just told them not to eat all the man sources of food.’ “
So the advice from health officials to avoid bushmeat may be doing more harm than good, she says.
Sabeti and the team also compared the Ebola genomes from Sierra Leone to those found in previous outbreaks in Central Africa. That data suggests the virus has been circulating around West Africa for about decade.
“This study is really an impressive tour de force,” says virologist Stephen Morse of Columbia University.
But he’s not he’s not surprised the virus is mutating so rapidly.
“We seen this in a number of infections, SARS for example, influenza and HIV of course,” Morse says. “Very often when a new virus is introduced into the human population very suddenly, it will show accelerated rates of evolution.”
So should we be concerned about that the virus might pick up a mutation that makes it more contagious or deadly?
“That’s very hard to say. In most cases, the answer would be ‘no,’ “ Morse says. “But Ebola is obviously a concern and very virulent. I’d say it’s too early at this point to speculate on what any mutation or any change, even with rapid evolution, might lead to.”
A number of scientists working on the project caught Ebola. “Five of them passed from Ebola,” Sabeti says, including Dr. Shiek Humarr Khan. He was Sierra Leone’s top virologist, who had treated dozens of Ebola patients before catching the virus.
Health workers in Sierra Leone, who talked to NPR in the spring, blamed a lack of proper protective equipment for infections at the government-run hospital in Kenema, where Khan worked.
“The work is just that dangerous,” Sabeti say. “Another British nurse at the hospital has just come down with Ebola. You’re seeing so many infections going on. It’s an extraordinary thing that’s going on right now [in Sierra Leone].”
allafrica.com/stories/201408281008.html?
“Liberia: UNMIL - No Sign of Ebola Reduction, Cites Slow Liberia’s Response”
“William Korvah, a local journalist informed FPA that Mayor Mary Ngaima is now the first high profiled government official in Lofa County to have tested positive for the Ebola Virus since the outbreak in the County in May 2014. This is the second time Mayor Ngaima was tested for the Virus. A Few days ago, she was taken to the Hospital and tested, but was pronounced negative.
After spending just three days at home, her condition deteriorated and was rushed back to the Hospital where she was yesterday afternoon pronounced positive and now fighting for her life. Mayor Ngaima according to relatives who themselves are now suspects, said she contracted the virus after she got actively involved in the coordination of removing dead bodies and suspected cases from the various communities when the outbreak was announced in her city. “She might have mistakenly gotten in contact with an Ebola person unknown to her” an Ebola task force worker said.”
Not only is there a distinct possibility that with a large enough population there will be the even more lethal mutation instead of just burning out on less lethal ones, it makes any attempt at a vaccine an attempt to hit a moving genomic target.
“it makes any attempt at a vaccine an attempt to hit a moving genomic target.”
Bring in the small molecules.
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