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.
“LIBERIAN PA, CONGOLESE DOCTOR DISCHARGED AFTER RECEIVING ZMAPP”
[snip]
Kobbah was brought in with eleven health workers from the C. H. Rennie hospital, but ten of them died and she is the only survivor.
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Wow.
“Ebola Epidemic Decimating Health Workers in Guinea”
[snip]
“After every task, you have to change gloves and wash your hands, yet we are only given one pack a week, which is clearly insufficient,” says Fikhe.
“Everybody knows that sponsors donate loads of them, so they should be used to treat patients... (yet) very often, after a few days, they can be found being sold on the local market.”
http://allafrica.com/stories/201408201294.html?aa_source=acrdn-f0
“Senegal: Newspaper Editor Handed Suspended Sentence for Publishing False News On Ebola “
[snip]
The La Tribune newspaper on August 11, carried a front-page story titled “5 cases of Ebola in Senegal”. The report is said to have caused panic among the Senegalese people and annoyed the authorities, including the Minister of Health, Eva Marie Coll Seck.
According to MFWA’s correspondent, the state prosecutor, took up the matter and had the journalist summoned. He was kept in police custody and then later placed under a committal order on August 12.
In a press communiqué, the Ministry of Justice, said the information published by the newspaper could have extremely serious repercussions for Senegal. “This information can place our country in quarantine by the international community and seriously affect Senegalese desirous of travelling, particularly at a time when people are busy preparing for the pilgrimage to Mecca.”
Another crackdown—
http://en.starafrica.com/news/sudan-bans-reporting-on-ebola.html
“Sudan bans reporting on Ebola”
[snip]
The Sudanese authorities have prohibited local media from covering any news related to the Ebola virus.Press sources who asked not to be mentioned for security reasons confirmed to APA on Saturday that the security authorities have circulated warning to all media outlets not to publish any news or articles related to the transmission of the Ebola virus in Sudan.
Via the crew perhaps. Hopefully they’re being careful with that.
seriously affect Senegalese desirous of travelling, particularly at a time when people are busy preparing for the pilgrimage to Mecca.”
Well, we wouldn’t want to see anything interfere with
that...
That is a disaster waiting to happen.
I feel like I’m watching Defoe’s
Journal of the Plague Year
in slow motion.
I just don’t see this burning out now.
>>...security authorities have circulated warning to
>>all media outlets not to publish any news or articles
>>related to the transmission of the Ebola virus in Sudan.
This likely means Sudanese authorities think they have Ebola already.
I’d bet on the vector of sex-transmission from long distance truckers to Sudanese prostitutes. If so, there is no such thing as Ebola containment in Africa. This will be confirmed in a few weeks as Panic spreads in Sudan.
The places to watch in Early October are reports from Spanish Morocco and Italy of Ebola in illegal migrants.
So we can idly conjecture that ebola is in the Sudan and even moreso in Senegal.
And the Hajj will be a GREAT spreader. Hajj is in October this year, correct? So first of November (hey, election time!) will be when any exposures from those travelers would be beginning.
It sounds that way to me, too.
They think it is “out of control” now? Just wait...
Lord help us all.
Me either. :^(
I don’t see the conjecture as ‘idle.’
The issue with Ebola is that it cannot be stopped without a much lower levels of crime, corruption and a much ‘higher trust’ in the civic culture than are present in Africa.
Only a hard quarantine can stop this and places like Liberia just cannot generate the social organization to do it.
And once Ebola gets outside Africa, places like the Arab world or the Central Asian ‘Stans are not much better for ‘C,C, & T.’
Just how different are Cairo or Islamabad from Monrovia, when you get large scale Ebola there, in terms of crime, corruption and trust?
That translates into a death toll in the millions and a collapse of civilization in places Ebola really takes hold.
Death toll at present should be around 5000. Numbers seemed to have dried up over the past 2 weeks along with reports of those isolating the disease also contracting its symptoms.
Note: The exact dates of Islamic holidays cannot be determined in advance, due to the nature of the Islamic lunar calendar. Estimates are based on expected visibility of the hilal (waxing crescent moon following a new moon) and may vary according to location.
http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2014/08/disease-modelers-project-rapidly-rising-toll-ebola
“Extrapolating existing trends, the number of the sick and dying mounts rapidly from the current toll—more than 3000 cases and 1500 deaths—to around 10,000 cases by September 24,”
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And this is using the WHO numbers, which are only the numbers they have recorded from the various hospitals, clinics, and specialized Ebola Centers. There are likely thousands of ebola cases and deaths that are not on paper.
Posted by Dr. Niman of FluTrackers—
“How I survived Ebola – Late Nurse fiance, Dennis Akagha speaks”
Dennis Akagha, the fiance of Justina Ejelonu, the First Consultant Hospital nurse who died after being infected with the deadly Ebola virus by Liberian Patrick Sawyer, in this exclusive interview with Vanguard spoke about how his late fiancee contracted the deadly disease, how she lost their unborn child while battling with Ebola, and also revealed that Justina had just landed the job at the hospital and met Sawyer on her first day there. He also spoke on how he got infected with the virus and how he finally got discharged. Find the in-depth interview below...
http://yabaleftonline.com/2014/08/survived-ebola-late-nurse-fiance-dennis-akagha-speaks/
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I encourage you to read this in full, when you have time. I don’t blame runners at all, being that these are the conditions in some of these centers. Heartbreaking account from Justina’s fiance.
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