Marburg Surveillance Project

Various ^ | May 4, 2005 | Vanity

[Judith Anne]

Welcome to the Marburg Surveillance Project.

This thread will be used for all of the latest Marburg Outbreak News and comments. This is the place to post all comments about the Marburg outbreak, all articles and links to articles about the Marburg outbreak.

We're going to use just one thread instead of having to go from article to article as we have in the past. We'll use this thread as long as we can.

[Judith Anne]

Pinging the list to the new Marburg Surveillance Project thread.

[Judith Anne]

Please post your Marburg threads links to this page when you have a chance--thank you.

[Bigfitz]

Ping

[Judith Anne]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0404_050404_ebolagorilla.html
This has some enlightening info...its about ebola ....
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no4/bardi.htm
this is unrealted but offers insight into what they think about situations like this...
http://www.mcb.uct.ac.za/ebola/ebonew18.html
very old speculation...interesting info though
http://www.asyl.net/Magazin/Docs/docs-15/L-24-26/L8820ang.htm
also old but relevent info on Angolan press

I transferred your links to this thread. Thanks for making them.

[Judith Anne]

backhoe has a number of links to Marburg articles here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/925970/posts?page=338#338

[Judith Anne]

Here's a link to yesterday's thread, title:

Marburg kills 280 (latest numbers)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1395692/posts

[backhoe]

-Strange new disease outbreaks--

[Judith Anne]

Here's a link to the other thread from yesterday, title:

Marburg Toll in Angola Explodes to 313 (Jump from 280 just hours ago.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1395773/posts

[Judith Anne]

Thanks friends. I won't be around again until this evening.

[Paul_Denton]

ping for reading in the morning.

[Kelly_2000]

Thanks for the Ping Judith, talk later

[kanawa]

FWIW here's the latest update from the U.S. Embassy in Luanda.

EMBASSY LATEST WARDEN MESSAGE
For Immediate Release
May 4, 2005 U.S. Embassy, Office of Public Affairs

EMBASSY LATEST WARDEN MESSAGE ON THE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER IN UIGE PROVINCE, ANGOLA

The United States Embassy Luanda recommends against travel to Uige province, Angola due to an outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever. As of May 4, 2005, the Ministry of Health reported 310 cases and 279 deaths over a five-month period. The Angolan Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization, and the Centers for Disease Control-Atlanta are cooperating to identify recommended public health measures and treatment.

As of May 4, 2005, there are no new case of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in Luanda, Cabinda, Kwanza Sul, Kwanza Norte and Malange provinces. There are no reports of people contracting the disease in those provinces, as well as there are no active cases now reported in those regions. In Uige province, 1 case and 1 death were only reported within Uige city. In Damba, Songo, Negage, Puri and Maquela do Zombo municipalities no new case was reported. Health officials recommend that normal sanitary precautions should be used, including frequent hand washing, to minimize any chance of exposure.

[Judith Anne]

Sounds like they didn't get the memo...

[EBH]

Marburg Discussion Links:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1395692/posts
Marburg kills 280 (latest numbers)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1395137/posts
Minster of Helath confimrs that Marburg virus is being eliminated.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1395268/posts
Al-Qaeda tries to enter Angola 22/10/2004 12:07 - (SA)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1394976/posts
Eastern Cape children rushed to hospital with typhoid

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1394375/posts
Hospital Errors Jeopardize Angola Virus Battle

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1394282/posts
Diary from Angola's virus frontline: Part III


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1394327/posts
Growth Rate Graphs

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1393689/posts
Update 16

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1392887/posts
DRC and Congo: Marburg haemorrahagic fever Information Bulletin No. 1 (4 suspect cases in DRC)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1392578/posts
Marburg outbreak claims 253 lives in Angola

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1392130/posts
Nyangabgwe Gets Ready for Marburg (Marburg in Botswana?)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1391752/posts
Hemorrhagic Fever Fatality in Bata Equatorial Guinea


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1391688/posts
Diary from Angola's virus frontline: Part II

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1391034/posts
Mysterious Viruses as Bad as They Get

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390842/posts
Specialists Say 'Healers' in Angola Are Helping to Spread Deadly Virus

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390754/posts
WHO Fears Marburg Spreading in Africa

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390083/posts
A Fever's Deadly Path (The worst outbreak of Marburg fever isn't reined in yet)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1389737/posts
Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola - update 15

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1389739/posts
Angola at critical stage in Marburg battle

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1388779/posts
Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola - update 14

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1387868/posts
ANGOLA: Cultural practices raise risk of Marburg spreading

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1387423/posts
Angolan Optimistic About Containing Marburg Virus Outbreak

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1385541/posts
Marburg Toll in Angola Balloons to 255

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1386803/posts
Stronger measures needed in Marburg Fever outbreak in Angola (from Doctors Without Borders)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1384559/posts
WHO: Marburg Spreads But Angola Isolation Ward Empty

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1385131/posts
Stalking a Deadly Virus, Battling a Town's Fears

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1384749/posts
Doctors face daunting task in tracking deadly virus in Angola

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383901/posts
Interim Guidance about Marburg Virus Infection

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382773/posts
Launch of a flash funding appeal for Marburg Outbreak

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383359/posts
Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola - update 11

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383860/posts
Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola - update 12

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383294/posts
No end in sight to Angola's killer virus outbreak, says WHO

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383002/posts
Experts: Marburg Outbreak Could Become Long-Term Crisis

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383098/posts
Diary from Angola's virus frontline

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382511/posts
Marburg Toll in Angola Rises to 237 - 11 in Luanda

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382773/posts
Launch of a flash funding appeal for Marburg Outbreak

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382422/posts
Marburg outbreak not likely a global threat - US


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1381928/posts
In Angola's Teeming Capital, a Suspected Virus Carrier Dies Alone (Nosocomial Infection?)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382106/posts
Government Sets Up Marburg Watch At Hosea Kutako Airport

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1381800/posts
Death outruns Angola's effort to control a virus

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1381197/posts
Killer virus red alert as more die April 11, 2005 (South Africa goes on high alert)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380791/posts
Marburg Airborne Transmission in Angola?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380832/posts
Marburg's Behavior Bewilders Scientists

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380625/posts
To Stop Deadly Virus in Angola, Group Seeks Hospital's Closing (Much bad news here)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380293/posts
Marburg virus in Angola not under control: WHO

[Gamecock]

Cool.

[Judith Anne]

EBH--THANK YOU! I FReepmailed backhoe and asked him to post that list he had posted yesterday, and we both looked for it, and neither of us could find it--that is exactly what I was looking for, it's an excellent reference for the start of the thread. I apologize for not remembering that you were the one who did it! (*I'm old, what can I say?*)

backhoe--(*sheepish grin*) No wonder neither of us could find it! I apologize!

[backhoe]

EBH--THANK YOU! I FReepmailed backhoe and asked him to post that list he had posted yesterday, and we both looked for it, and neither of us could find it--that is exactly what I was looking for, it's an excellent reference for the start of the thread. I apologize for not remembering that you were the one who did it! (*I'm old, what can I say?*) backhoe--(*sheepish grin*) No wonder neither of us could find it! I apologize!

Glad to know I'm not totally losing what little mind I have left... I'll save those links, thanks!

[Judith Anne]

That's ebola! Thanks for posting-- (*shudder*) Wish we had pictures on the net somewhere of Marburg invading and destroying a cell, that we could post here, somebody was looking for a set of those yesterday...

[tdewey10]

That press release is breathtakingly bad. It's numbers are out of date and it doesn't mention the city where they found 17 dead two days ago. State comes across as clueless.