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.
“WHO is working on an Ebola road map document, it’s really an operational document how to fight Ebola,” WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said at a news briefing. “It details the strategy for WHO and health partners for six to nine months to come.”
Chaib, asked whether the timeline meant that the United Nations health agency expected the epidemic now raging in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to continue until 2015, said: “Frankly no one knows when this outbreak of Ebola will end.””
“Ebola crisis: Senegal defends Guinea border closure”
A different article about Senegal closing its borders with Guinea.
Thank God!
His loved ones can breathe now. That had to be an excruciating wait for all those touched by this. The actions and attitudes of the authorities in this case were a little concerning, though. At least from the reporting and quotes from those surrounding Dessie, the authorities seemed a little cavalier in this matter.
When WHO starts publishing things like this, it’s like the joke that ends, “your cat’s on the roof”.
At least they are saying what we’ve feared for a while now.
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Series of tweets from WHO:
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WHO @WHO · 19m
In rural villages, corpses are buried without notifying health officials and with no investigation of the cause of death. #Ebola”
“WHO @WHO · 5m
In parts of #Liberia, as soon as a new #Ebola treatment facility is opened, patients immediately come, many not previously identified 1/2”
“This phenomenon suggests the existence of an invisible caseload of patients who are not being detected by the surveillance system #Ebola 2/2”
I have wondered if he was involved in that.
The ‘assistant’ that died also was Muslim.
There are a lot of Muslims in that part of Africa.
I had to adjust my tinfoil with the Sawyer case. He was a one man WMD for Nigeria. If Nigeria had been as lax as the other countries in West Africa his crashing out at MMA and subsequent death at the hospital could have been catastrophic. Several Nigerian posters have indicated it was a fortuitous stroke of luck that their NHS doctors were on strike forcing the ambulance to take him to a private hospital where he was placed in a private room instead of a ward. And that he was seen immediately on arrival and didn’t stay in the ER for hours first.
I can’t imagine. Malaria doesn’t usually kill if treated. I had it as a child. I can’t imagine having a sibling or boyfriend return with that and then die from that. And then be told ‘hey, it might have been ebola all along...’.
If that email is authentic, Patrick Sawyer knew his sister was infected with Ebola and deliberately lied to the authorities when confronted at the airport in Nigeria. Now, in one of the interviews, the gentleman that cleared him for travel did say that Sawyer asked for a blood test and that the “test did not come back positive”. So, perhaps it was another one of those false-negatives.
In any case, he was like the figure of Death, walking around with a giant sickle. *shudder*
If that email is authentic, Patrick Sawyer knew his sister was infected with Ebola and deliberately lied to the authorities when confronted at the airport in Nigeria. Now, in one of the interviews, the gentleman that cleared him for travel did say that Sawyer asked for a blood test and that the “test did not come back positive”. So, perhaps it was another one of those false-negatives.
In any case, he was like the figure of Death, walking around with a giant sickle. *shudder*
And he knew he’d had contact with her blood just before she died.
Either deep denial or malice. I lean more towards the first but I can make a rudimentary argument for the second if I try hard enough.
Imagine you’ve managed to contract Malaria. And you’re also prone to airsickness. Your life may become very very interesting when you travel.
“Chinese people fleeing Ebola, angry Africans, understaffed flight crew, rumors and fears: the Air France flight from Freetown to Paris seemed to encapsulate the global panic in the face of the Ebola outbreak.
Anecdotes swirl around the cabin: apparently the same flight a few days ago carried three ill children, one with fever, two with diarrhea. Could be Ebola, could be harmless childhood sickness, who knows? In any case, as the story goes, passengers asked to move seats.
And it’s not just the passengers who are fearful. The crew is short-staffed because employees are not exactly beating down the door of the Airbus A330 to fly to or from Ebola-hit West Africa.
Air France is one of the few airlines still flying to affected countries, as nations close their borders for fear of the outbreak that has claimed around 1,350 lives.
No one wore masks on the 20-minute hop between Freetown and Conakry (180 kilometers, 110 miles), nor the long-haul flight to Paris that landed early Thursday morning. But the nervousness was palpable, even if the atmosphere was calm.
“I had to close my textiles shop to go back to China,” sighed Wu Guo Gang, 60, fleeing the Ebola outbreak with his wife.
They explained they had left behind the fruits of a decade of work building up a business that employs three people.
“Lots of Chinese are leaving. If they stay, they might die,” he added. “We hope that Europe and the United States will soon find a good cure to solve the (Ebola) problem.” “
WA will suffer the economic effects of this for a long time. Those effects are why the governments waited so long to impose measures to control the outbreak. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
For the FR forum.
Here’s an example from a Nigerian forum’s health section.
Someone’s posting FUD thread, associating rumor of American Dr’s arrival and his MIL’s illness. To their great credit intelligent Nigerians piled on this fool and pointed out that these Nigerians who had studied and trained abroad had returned to their homeland to serve their people.
http://www.nairaland.com/1867846/warning-american-medical-teams-travelling
And there you have it... The only thing the whole world would hate more than the US being in charge is the US NOT being in charge.
Many Nigerian MD’s have trained abroad. Many of them stayed abroad but many also returned home.
My pediatrician in Lagos had trained at Oxford. Our preacher’s daughter was trained as a Pediatrician somewhere in the US. She had a practice in the US for a while but returned to Nigeria when her parents needed someone to care for them as they got older.
Nigerians love a good conspiracy though. I’ve been watching some Nollywood ‘soap opera’ type programs on youtube. One of the soaps plans to kill off most of its characters with ebola. It’s fascinating to me how much Lagos and Nigeria have changed in the past 40 years. 40 years ago they were like the pictures from Monrovia. Now Lagos is more like Mexico City.
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