I’m getting Ebola mixed up with Obola. I was thinking “Discovery in 1976? I thought he was older than that!
#ebowla Latest Ebola virus symptoms: an elevated temperature and a desire to bowl a few frames, you know, get out and knock down some pins.
Army Colonel James Cummings, a doctor and director of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System in the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, said the battle against the virus since the outbreak began in West Africa in March focuses on trying to stop disease transmission.
“We had a large footprint in Africa,” Cummings said of the Defense Department’s response to the first Ebola cases reported in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire. Since that time, the Defense Department has answered numerous calls for assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO), nongovernmental organizations and ministries of heath and defense, he said.
Almost 40 years ago, and suddenly gee whiz now out of the blue it suddenly shows up in the USA. At the same time we have a radical Muslim from Africa as President. Right before an election.
Want to learn something? Personal protective gear and decontamination procedures—very well produced presentation. Some soldiers, Marines and others will recognize at least some of the steps.
A TASTE OF REMOVING AN EBOLA DEAD BODY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiwipDyfz_I
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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...