"That's a lot of unreported."
"Ping Null and Void."
Posted on 08/04/2019 7:07:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin
An estimated half of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are going unidentified, the country's new Ebola response coordinator, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, has told reporters.
"If we continue on that basis, this epidemic could last two or three years," Muyembe said at a Friday news conference in Goma, a city located on Congo's eastern border with Rwanda. He added that the current goal is to bring the detection rate to 80% by strengthening surveillance.
The remarks came a day after Congolese authorities raced to contain the Ebola epidemic after a gold miner with a large family contaminated several people in Goma before dying of the hemorrhagic fever. Muyembe said the man's wife and 1-year-old daughter had tested positive for the disease but were doing well in treatment.
This was the fourth case confirmed in Goma, a city more than 350 kilometers (220 miles) south of where the outbreak was first detected. Health experts fear that an accelerated number of cases in Goma could lead to an outbreak of the disease in neighboring Rwanda.
Read more: Ebola in Congo's Goma potential 'game-changer'
At least 1,800 people have been killed by the deadly virus since the outbreak began a year ago — the second-worst Ebola outbreak on record. Between 2013 and 2016, Ebola infected around 28,000 people in West Africa, killing an estimated 11,300 in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
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People are lying on the floor in a puddle of vomit and excrement, with blood coming out of their eyes, and go un-noticed? Hard to believe, even for Africa.
ping
It’s the men. A little thing like a flesh eating bacteria will clear up by itself. No need to see a doctor.
ughdingo doodoo, your arm just fell off and you smell like hippo poop. How the hell can you not notice that?
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.
The internal organs liquefying is not a tip? Ha Ha.
(Yeah, I made a joke about Ebola...)
i’m sure it’s noticed. I’m also sure no one wants to report it and be hauled to a treatment center for quarantine....
LOL!
What is that oozing out of all of your orifices? Blood; why do you ask?
ABSOLUTELY! Save the mosquitoes. They are the number one pollinator of Cacao trees.
No mosquitoes=no chocolate.
Half of the cases of everything are likely going undetected.
FALSE!
The Chocolate Midge is the only pollinator and it is not a mosquito.
OK, screw ‘em!
“People are lying on the floor in a puddle of vomit and excrement, with blood coming out of their eyes, and go un-noticed?
my first thought as well ... plus it’s basically 100% fatal within a few days ... so, yeah, how hard is that to “diagnose”?
Japan has one hospital patient they tested for Ebola who had come back from Congo. Test came back negative today but her fever shot up and they’re keeping her in the hospital. They’re downplaying any concern for the other passengers on the plane she flew on.
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