Out of Control How the World's Health Organizations Failed to Stop the Ebola Disaster

Washington Post ^ | October 4, 2014 | Lena H. Sun, Brady Dennis, Lenny Bernstein, Joel Achenbach Photos by Michel du Cille

[Smokin' Joe]

Tom Frieden remembers the young woman with the beautiful hair, dyed a rusty gold and braided meticulously, elaborately, perhaps by someone who loved her very much. She was lying facedown, half off the mattress. She had been dead for hours, and flies had found the bare flesh of her legs.

Two other bodies lay nearby. Bedridden patients who had not yet succumbed said of the dead, "Please, get them out of here."

Frieden, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), knew it was no simple matter to properly carry away a body loaded with Ebola virus. It takes four people ...

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[SpaceBar]

Hotel and restaurant bookings are through the roof in the DC area. Good times.

[MulberryDraw]

Korkor thinks he caught the virus from one of his nurses when he touched her with his bare hand to check for fever.

If that's the case, it sounds pretty contagious wouldn't ya say?

[Smokin' Joe]

Doctors in Africa have consistently described the virus as “highly contagious”. Why those here who are not in daily contact with patients would describe it differently is a question I can’t answer.

[catnipman]

Unfortunately, we ain’t seen nuttin yet. Just wait until flu season hits to see what a completely paralyzed nation that battens down the barricades REALLY looks like as millions have symptoms that are much like how Ebola starts off! The trenches of our medical system are woefully unprepared for something like this. And thank you, President Obola for your “fundamental transformation” when flu season hits! Oh, and PLEASE let’s keep those West African shuttles flying back and forth, since obviously it would do no good anyway with your open borders policy. Oh, and everyone? Be sure to vote a straight Democrat ticket in November: they really DO care about you folks, ya’ll hear? After all:

“Now, I am not on the ballot this fall,” Obama stressed. “... But make no mistake: My policies are on the ballot — every single one of them.” (Including unrestricted West African air flights.)

Barack Hussein Obama, October 2, 2014, Northwestern University

[ogen hal]

Let’s take a brief to thank the multiculturism idiots for making ebola in America possible. Thanks a lot you self-loathing LIB idiots.

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Korkor thinks he caught the virus from one of his nurses when he touched her with his bare hand to check for fever.

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[catnipman]

I was just in a top-notch hospital in Denver for two damn weeks, and I can tell you for a fact that 1, 3, and 4 do NOT exist!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[21twelve]

I read this last night. IIRC in one clinic in Liberia, 23 of the 25 care givers died, while taking the normal precautions.