[Shelayne]

WRT ZMapp, I just saw this—

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-scientist-begins-treatment-for-ebola/?

Article says that the clinic will not be using ZMapp as the supply of the “experimental serum” is exhausted. Instead, the treatment will be on supportive care.

So, it sounds as if there really is no more ZMapp at this time, as surely the WHO scientist would be given it.

[Shelayne]

Sobering update from MSF/Doctors Without Borders—

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news-stories/field-news/liberia-msfs-new-ebola-management-centers-already-overwhelmed

[PA Engineer]

Ebola Frontline: Life Inside a Quarantined Village

Jefrey Morison is a trained community health worker who grew up in Pujehun. He spoke with people after Kotuneh came back. “There was lots of confusion about what to do,” he said. The document said he did not have Ebola, but Jefrey urged everyone in the town to be vigilant. “I said, ‘You must continue to isolate him.’”

Kotuneh got worse, and he died soon after returning to Pujehun.

Villagers in Pujehun called the medical team to collect Kotuneh’s body. Everyone was scared. “Some thought this was witchcraft all along,” Jefrey told me. On August 11th, a close friend of Kotuneh’s died, and the villagers called the ambulance team again. This time, the ambulance took six suspected contacts away to isolation. Days later, they were all dead. Eight have died of Ebola in Pujehun so far.

This was a case of a false negative and Newsweek is reporting it.

[Black Agnes]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canada-pulling-winnipeg-lab-team-combating-ebola-in-sierra-leone/article20218723/

Makes me wonder if a hotel employee was positive and worked anyways, or someone practiced really bad decon and brought it back with them. Or there’s a transmission source they’ve not discovered yet (insects, small rodents), OR someone is deliberately infecting the westerners and medicos.