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Ebola patients ESCAPE quarantine in city of 350,000 people
Daily Star ^
| Published 23rd May 2018
| Henry Holloway /
Posted on 05/23/2018 3:38:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Three patients escaped from quarantine in the city of Mbandaka in north western Democratic Republic of Congo.
Two of the three have been found dead, while a third patient has been found alive.
Medecins Sans Frontieres' (MSF) mission in the city confirmed the incident as they work to treat cases of Ebola.
The death toll of the outbreak has reached 27 as health chiefs crackdown on the virus.
World Health Organisation bosses have previously warned spread in the city could mean a repeat of the 2014 outbreak which killed over 11,000.
WHO have shipped more than 8,600 vaccines to DRC, in a desperate attempt to prevent the spread of Ebola.
Another 8,000 are expected to arrive in coming days.
Doctors have hailed the latest dose of the vaccine a "paradigm shift" in fighting the disease.
And medical chiefs at WHO have claimed the world is much more prepared than in 2014.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: africa; captaintrips; congo; ebola
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posted on
05/23/2018 3:38:25 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
The horror... the horror.
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posted on
05/23/2018 3:42:45 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/23/2018 3:47:27 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
To: BenLurkin
Africa wins again
(Note: When you have the plague, and you're quarantined... escaping to spread more of the disease in the hours before you die is not the best idea.)
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posted on
05/23/2018 3:48:01 PM PDT
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: MUDDOG
The horror... the horror.
Yep and what do you bet Trump leaves it right where it is! That crap won’t be invited to America this time.
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posted on
05/23/2018 3:50:35 PM PDT
by
heshtesh
To: heshtesh
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posted on
05/23/2018 3:51:35 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: BenLurkin
"You're gonna spot 'em and you're gonna air 'em out"
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posted on
05/23/2018 3:59:02 PM PDT
by
Ken H
(Best election ever!)
To: BenLurkin
8
posted on
05/23/2018 4:05:14 PM PDT
by
OKSooner
(Don't be a Fudd.)
To: Ken H
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posted on
05/23/2018 4:27:33 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: BenLurkin
Well, that’s good news /sarc
I’m convinced that Mother Nature hid a stupid gene inside all of our DNA, so that if the population ever got too large, enough people with an activated stupid gene would be available to cause immense numbers of deaths, thus saving the species from starvation.
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posted on
05/23/2018 4:39:40 PM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/23/2018 4:40:31 PM PDT
by
fatima
(Free Hugs Today :))
To: BenLurkin
But of course. These people have an IQ of less than 70 in most cases. They can't understand the big picture; it's all about "them". Spreading disease into uninfected areas? "Hey, not my problem."
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posted on
05/23/2018 4:48:57 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
To: BenLurkin; null and void
They’ll be doing the Ebola hokey-pokey there soon.
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posted on
05/23/2018 4:52:10 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: BenLurkin; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ..
Bring Out Your Dead
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...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
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posted on
05/23/2018 4:53:29 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Urban "food deserts," are caused by "climate change" in urban customers' attitudes (H/T niteowl77))
To: Teacher317
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posted on
05/23/2018 4:59:51 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Urban "food deserts," are caused by "climate change" in urban customers' attitudes (H/T niteowl77))
To: null and void
Cue,... “Leaving on a jet plane”
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posted on
05/23/2018 5:00:58 PM PDT
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: thoughtomator
Ebola-chan is the weirdest thing I have seen in awhile! Funny stuff.
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posted on
05/23/2018 5:02:22 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: Teacher317
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posted on
05/23/2018 5:45:59 PM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: BenLurkin
Medecins Sans Frontieres’ (MSF) mission in the city
May they be the first to become infected.
L
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posted on
05/23/2018 5:52:59 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: null and void
A thread earlier today mentioned that it was widely believed Ebola is caused by witchcraft, so infected persons want to get out of useless modern hospitals and see their local witch-doctor, pronto.
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posted on
05/23/2018 6:02:58 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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