Posted on 05/31/2005 12:09:14 PM PDT by Judith Anne
This is the Marburg Surveillance Project Thread II.
This thread, as the first one was, 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.
It could be, according to Curevents.com poster, dengue hemorrhagic fever (or Egyptian fever, same thing)...
That's one sick puppy then.
Ping to post 638 by Judith Anne.
Lots of new numbers.
All over the place.
In so many ways...
I think we will never know. I think THEY will never know. Unless it gets worse/comes back/goes away and never comes back.
Thought this might be of interest to you, see link at
end of # 640.
...especially the at the guangdong military zone...
Well with all those troops packed in there, they may well
be worried about ebola.
Thanks for the tip. Raging epidemic in southern China would be definitely a 'severe blow' to military preparation to "liberate" Taiwan.
Recent news of bird flu outbreak in China, confirmed or unconfirmed, are all from N.W. China, far away from PLA staging areas in southern China, Fujian or Guangdong Province. I wonder if they also have bird flu outbreaks in these areas.
Thanks for the ping.
The numbers are totally ridiculous because many people were buried as quickly as possible without any type of speciman being taken.
Does anyone else remember the 4000 or so beds that were given to replace those of the Marburg victims? Makes me think that was the true size of the outbreak, frankly.
I remember that Judith Anne. That was reported way back in May, on the previous thread. Here is the post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1396311/posts?page=1396#1396
Thanks for locating and posting a link to the bed information. Amazing you could do that so fast! ;-D
"especially the at the guangdong military zone...media control during the ebola cases has demonstrated positive results......”
China sent peacekeepers into central Africa last year and it appears they collected some ebola samples.
I posted this article previously, here it is again...does China really have an ebola outbreak? It sure sounds like it!
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/28/content_2755448.htm
MSF (Spain) ends Marburg operations in Angola
/noticias.info/ After over three months working at the Marburg fever outbreak in Uige province, Angola, MSF has ended its intervention. A few new Marburg cases have been recorded in the last weeks and it is likely that some sporadic cases will appear in the town and in the province of Uige for some months. However, the Marburg center is running well and the local staff are capable of handling these sporadic cases.
MSF's emergency operation against a Marbrug fever outbreak in Angola came to an end on Thursday July 7, just more than three months after the intervention started. The last members of the emergency team have left the town of Uige, the epicenter of the outbreak, in the northwest of the country.
Latest fugures show there were 391 cases - 350 were fatal.
MSF was in charge of a specialized Marburg center and infection control in Uige provincial hospital and has handed over its activities to local health authorities, supported by the World Health Organization (WHO). All surveillance activities in the community are now being performed by the Angolan Ministry of Health and the army, with the advisory support of the WHO.
A few new Marburg cases have been recorded in the last weeks and it is likely that some sporadic cases will appear in the town and in the province of Uige for some months. However, the Marburg center is running well and the local staff are capable of handling these sporadic cases.
MSF's considers its presence as no longer necessary. However the MSF coordination team in Luanda, the capital, along with other teams working on regular projects in Uige province will closely follow the situation and keep in direct contact with local health authorities.
Whenever needed, the MSF team in Luanda will continue to provide technical support to the Angolan doctors working at the Uige Marburg site.
http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=84197&src=0
Weird. Everyone is leaving, but the oubreak isn't really over.
all part of the economic recovery and exit plan
> ... sporadic cases ...
What sort of fairytale language is this?
There's no such thing as a "sporadic" case of
Marburg Angola - a case that pops up for no reason,
and resolves itself without further consequence.
This is a highly contagious >90% fatal disease.
Every case suggests a trail of many other people
at risk, and is the potential center of a major
epidemic ...
... particularly if all the skilled containtment
workers are departing the region. When the fire
fighters go home before the fire is really out ...
This just in (via Reuters Alertnet)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L19594073.htm
MAYBE it's over....they hope !
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