Preppers PING!!
Any chance obama will make a surprise visit to Africa?
Regional ? Russia’s power is regional de story is. What is it this regional.
Doctors without Borders there.
Eat me....
An older man visiting relatives in the region of the outbreak made it home to the capital before dying. All four of his brothers got infected at his funeral. Now four others that were involved with the funeral have been isolated.
Despite it’s terrifying reputation Ebola has only killed 1500 people in 40 years. Of course it never got established in a major population center, either.
WTF?
happens every year
Remember how much coverage SARS got. And how few deaths.
Not so much, at least until it becomes airborne and/or easily spread by something like common animal fleas. BD had very similar virulence coupled with easy spread, after becoming entrenched in an area it would become pneumonic plague, which, IIRC, could be passed by airborne transmission.
Ebola may be mutating towards that, the earliest outbreaks were so ridiculously virulent that it essentially killed people faster than they could spread it around. In a nutshell 20-30% mortality Ebola would probably be WAY worse than 85-95% mortality Ebola.
Consider this, in a western nation a disease will probably only need to be widespread and have 1.5-3% (about 4.5 to 10 million people here in the U.S.) mortality to unravel a society. I say that because that is enough mortality to A) start to kill key people involved in social systems infrastructure and B) incite enough panic to keep other key people away from their necessary jobs/tasks.
If this does make it into the Muslim areas it will be devastating. Arab custom is that it is legal to have sex with a spouse up to twelve hours after the spouse is dead and Ebola is most infectious at that time.
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...
Ping...(Thanks, Kartographer!)
Ebola : la frontière avec la Guinée fermée (officiel)
Senegal has decided to close until further notice its border with Guinea , to guard against the Ebola fever raging in the neighboring country, does one official sources Saturday in Dakar.
" The interior minister informed the people that due to the Ebola fever raging in the Republic of Guinea and in the context of prevention, the boundaries of the regions of Kolda (south) and Kédougou ( southeast) with the neighboring country are closed until further notice, " an official statement received from the APS .
" The governors said regions have taken all necessary measures for the effective implementation of this decision," said the source
The prefect of Vélingara located in the Kolda region had already decided to close the weekly market Diaobé , one of the most famous in the sub -region , where thousands of people gather each week from the Gambia Guinea, Guinea- Bissau and Senegal.
The Ebola virus , which emerged in Guinea in January, continues to grow in this country where it is reported a total of 111 suspected cases including 70 deaths , according to a report released Friday by the Guinean Ministry of Health.
Eight cases of hemorrhagic fever , including one death , were recorded and the last two days in Conakry, the Guinean capital , hitherto spared Has it reported the same source.
The vast majority of cases were reported in the cities and regions of southern Guinea , considered the center of the epidemic . The most affected areas are Guékédou ( 51 deaths out of 73 cases) and Macenta ( 12 deaths out of 22 cases).
The shift in Ebola is worrisome.