Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
http://online.wsj.com/articles/ebola-patient-treated-in-german-hospital-in-leipzig-dies-1413277047
Quick summary of article—
A UN Aid worker, who was flown from Liberia to German hospital has died. According to the article, Germany has treated three Ebola patients thus far, one has survived, one (a Ugandan doctor) is still being treated, and this Sudanese man who succumbed to the virus.
Full protective suits are not all they’re cracked up to be:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3214511/posts?page=11#11
[Takes frequent rehearsals to build muscle memory before someone can safely remove a protective suit. Some in Armed Forces among the few who have that training. Even they are endangered by exhaustion after 45 minutes in hot tropical climate.]
[Based on wastoute’s posts and personal experience. Been a FRiend since ‘98 if not longer.]
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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 8:43 am Post subject:
Ebola death rate increases to 70%
14 OCTOBER 2014
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/ebola-death-rate-increases-to-70-30663256.html?
The death rate in the current Ebola outbreak has increased to 70%, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official has said.
WHO assistant director-general Dr Bruce Aylward s aid the 70% death rate marked “a high mortality disease” in any circumstance.
He added that the UN health agency is still focused on trying to isolate sick people and provide treatment as early as possible.
Previously, the WHO had said the death rate was around 50%.
The organisation also said there could be up to 10,000 new cases of Ebola per week within two months.
Dr Aylward said if the response to the Ebola crisis is not stepped up within 60 days, “a lot more people will die” and there will be a huge effort required on the ground to deal with the spiralling number of cases.
The official added that for the last four weeks, there have been about 1,000 new cases per week, though that figure includes suspected, confirmed and probable cases.
He said WHO is aiming to have 70% of cases isolated within two months to reverse the outbreak.
The WHO increased its Ebola death toll tally to 4,447, nearly all of them in West Africa, and the group said the number of probable and suspected cases was 8,914.
Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia have been hardest-hit.
Dr Aylward said the WHO was very concerned about the continued spread of Ebola in the three countries’ capital cities, Freetown, Conakry and Monrovia. He noted that while certain areas were seeing cases decline, “that doesn’t mean they will get to zero”.
He said the agency was still focused on trying to treat Ebola patients, despite the huge demands on the broken health systems in West Africa.
“It would be horrifically unethical to say that we’re just going to isolate people,” he said, noting that new strategies like handing out protective equipment to families and setting up very basic clinics - without much treatment - was a priority.
International aid organisation Doctors Without Borders said that 16 of its staff members have been infected with Ebola, and nine of them have died.
Speaking at a press conference in Johannesburg, the head of Doctors Without Borders in South Africa, Sharon Ekambaram, said medical workers have received inadequate assistance from the international community.
She said that while many pledges had been made publicly they have not improved the situation in the affected countries.
Juli Switala, a doctor working for the international aid organisation who just returned from Sierra Leone, said the number of those who have died from Ebola is probably an underestimate because many families hide their sick and dying loved ones.
More than 4,000 people have died from Ebola so far, according to the World Health Organisatio
I read somewhere that the ‘official’ numbers underestimate reality by a factor of TEN at this point.
THAT is truly frightening.
(So, it was an attack)
Possible Ebola patient in Kansas City heightens worries over keeping disease in check
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/health-care/article2707328.html#storylink=cpy
In this case I wish I were crazy instead of right.
Let's not forget that these numbers represent real people, who are suffering tremendously. Their survivors have lost someone they love, and the kids who lost parents will never fully heal.
Let's pray that all of those who will die repent of their sins before they die so that when their earthly suffering is over, they may enjoy eternal peace and happiness with Jesus Christ in heaven.
And finally, let's pray and fast that this epidemic will be stopped soon.
Only two points of contamination for an expierienced doctor , who is alsready familiar with CDC medical procedure and protcol, by following CDC guidlines.
Now imagine 4,000 troops who have had two(2) half-day training sessions about Ebola.
We are sitting on a "time bomb" fabricated by an administration that hates the military, because of the need for "OPTICS" and looking like they care
instead of sending fully trained ,volunteer medical professionals who already know procedure and protocal.
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