Ebola Surveillance Thread

Free Republic Threads ^ | August 10, 2014 | Legion

[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.

[Black Agnes]

One of the Romanian newspapers has an article on a suspected Romanian citizen who’s returned from Nigeria with Ebola symptoms.

[Smokin' Joe]

Worth reading, imho. Monotreme has done some good write-ups on infectious diseases in the past.

[Smokin' Joe]

Thanks. Do you have a link? It would be good to have here, along with the rest.

[Smokin' Joe]

You’re Welcome! (It needed to be done, imho).

[Black Agnes]

It’s in Romanian:

http://www.ziare.com/international/ebola/ebola-in-romania-barbat-suspect-a-fi-infectat-adus-la-bucuresti-1315736?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[Wage Slave]

Thanks for doing this! Please add me to your ping list.

[Black Agnes]

And India isn’t playing around:

http://gulfnews.com/news/world/india/suspected-case-of-ebola-in-chennai-1.1370219

[Black Agnes]

http://www.cp24.com/news/patient-in-brampton-hospital-isolation-unit-tests-negative-for-ebola-1.1953337

Toronto case tests negative thank goodness.

[Smokin' Joe]

Thanks! Admittedly, I can’t read Romanian, but perhaps there is a FReeper who can translate the article out there.

[Black Agnes]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28731633#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa?utm_campaign=BBCWorld&utm_term=BBCWorld&utm_content=BBCWorld&utm_source=BBCWorld&utm_medium=BBC+World

Interesting bulletin board pic with that article.

“Ebola virus: Liberia health system ‘falling apart’

The charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) has told the BBC that Liberia’s medical services have been completely overwhelmed by the Ebola outbreak.

The MSF co-ordinator in Liberia said official figures were “under-representing the reality”, and that the health system was “falling apart”.”

[Black Agnes]

Many of the suspicious cases seem to have tested negative. Let’s hope that trend continues!

[Cvengr]

bttt mark

[Black Agnes]

There’s a certain gallows humor in some of the AFrican tweets.

‘Ebola attacks white blood cells, thank goodness (African country) are safe!’

etc.

[Smokin' Joe]

You have been added to the infectious disease ping list.

I will not be pinging this thread unless it is something earth shattering, but will ping others which are posted independently and will add links to them to this thread.

[Cvengr]

Anybody know of any good preventative medicine articles on how to train the public in good hygiene? Test trials of using luminescent fluids to track where we unconsciously place our hands?

[Smokin' Joe]

False-Negative Results of Plasma of Patients with Severe Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (Ebola) Let's hope this is not the case, and they are genuinely virus-free.

Otherwise, the one that got away could be a problem.

[Smokin' Joe]

I don’t know of any off hand. However, if you have a UV flashlight (handy for spotting scorpions, bedbugs, and other critters as well as human emissions), check the vegetable oils in your cupboard. It is likely one or more of them will fluoresce under the light. A little dab can go a long way...

[Smokin' Joe]

‘Ebola attacks white blood cells, thank goodness (African country) are safe!’

Hey! That's Ray's cyst...or something like that.

[Smokin' Joe]

Meet the world's bravest undertakers - Liberia's Ebola burial squad (Thanks, markomalley!)

[exDemMom]

Thank you for posting these, and also for the many pings since this situation developed.