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Based on this -- . http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/22-august-2014/en/ . In parts of Liberia, a phenomenon is occurring that has never before been seen in an Ebola outbreak. As soon as a new treatment facility is opened, it is immediately filled with patients, many of whom were not previously identified. This phenomenon strongly suggests the existence of an invisible caseload of patients who are not being detected by the surveillance system. . For example in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, an Ebola treatment centre with 20 beds, which opened last week, was immediately overwhelmed with more than 70 patients. An additional problem is the existence of numerous “shadow-zones”. These are villages with rumours of cases and deaths, with a strong suspicion of Ebola as the cause, that cannot be investigated because of community resistance or lack of adequate staff and vehicles. In some areas, most notably Monrovia, virtually all health services have shut down. . This lack of access to any form of health care contributed to the mobbing incident on Saturday at an Ebola holding facility in the West Point township, Liberia’s most disease-prone slum. . I think we have to say Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) is indeed beyond "control." Based on the WHO report text clipped above, the number of infected and dead may be off by as much as an order of magnitude. . Think 20,000 and not 2,000 infected. . Liberia's national government's action to wall off the West Point Slum in Monrovia, with between 50,000 and 75,000 inside having no food, no clean water or sewage and no health care, speaks of a future death toll there in the tens of thousands in a few weeks. The pictures stringers for the western Media take from West Point, Monrovia in 10 weeks are going to be that of Mega-death on Earth. . That will be when the real world panic will hit.

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http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/22-august-2014/en/

“”In parts of Liberia, a phenomenon is occurring that has never before been seen in an Ebola outbreak. As soon as a new treatment facility is opened, it is immediately filled with patients, many of whom were not previously identified. This phenomenon strongly suggests the existence of an invisible caseload of patients who are not being detected by the surveillance system.

For example in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, an Ebola treatment centre with 20 beds, which opened last week, was immediately overwhelmed with more than 70 patients. An additional problem is the existence of numerous “shadow-zones”

These are villages with rumours of cases and deaths, with a strong suspicion of Ebola as the cause, that cannot be investigated because of community resistance or lack of adequate staff and vehicles. In some areas, most notably Monrovia, virtually all health services have shut down.

This lack of access to any form of health care contributed to the mobbing incident on Saturday at an Ebola holding facility in the West Point township, Liberia’s most disease-prone slum.””

I think we have to say Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) is indeed beyond “control.” Based on the WHO report text clipped above, the number of infected and dead may be off by as much as an order of magnitude. . Think 20,000 and not 2,000 infected.

Liberia’s national government action to wall off the West Point Slum in Monrovia, with between 50,000 and 75,000 inside having no food, no clean water or sewage and no health care, speaks of a future death toll there in the tens of thousands in a few weeks.

The pictures stringers for the western Media take from West Point, Monrovia in 10 weeks are going to be that of Mega-death on Earth.

That will be when the real world panic will hit.