Nigeria 'on red alert' over Ebola death in Lagos

bbc.com ^ | 26 July 2014 | bbc

[Berlin_Freeper]

Nigeria says it has put all entries into the country on red alert after confirming the death of a Liberian man who was carrying the Ebola virus.

[Blackyce]

Ebola has never been a big international threat, because it kills too quickly to spread efficiently. This is by far the biggest outbreak in history. I wonder if something’s changed, or if is just being managed very poorly by the various governments.

[Berlin_Freeper]

First Ebola patient from Sierra Leone capital is on the run: officials

[Berlin_Freeper]

The disease has a high death rate: often between 50% and 90%.[1][98] If an infected person survives, recovery may be quick and complete, or prolonged with long term problems, such as inflammation of the testicles, joint pains, muscle pains, skin peeling,

[sten]

with actual leadership, the US would be communicating with the UN and WHO.

back room discussions would cover plans to nuke the city in order to stop the spread of the disease

quarantine is serious

[Berlin_Freeper]

Crops rot as Ebola orphans flee Sierra Leone farms

[Berlin_Freeper]

Sierra Leone’s top health worker focused on Ebola, Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, was confirmed to have the disease himself.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Stephen King called the book, "one of the most horrifying things I've ever read."

[Berlin_Freeper]

“there is no such thing as Ebola.”

[Covenantor]

Ebola ping

[Berlin_Freeper]

communities need clear advice on the need not to touch dead animals or to sell or eat the meat of any animal that they find already dead

... Fruit bats are often eaten dried, or as part of a soup in West Africa.

[Berlin_Freeper]

A doctor stands on the inside of the orange fence in his full protective suit and shouts out the clinical symptoms of each of his patients.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN 1: Nausea.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN 2: Nausea.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN 1: Vomiting and diarrhea for four days.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Because of the inconveniency caused by Ebola to the people of Kenema the public of Kenema is now demanding the government come and remove this Ebola Management Unit in Kenema or else they will demonstrate or vandalize the unit very soon.

[Berlin_Freeper]

police fired tear gas at a mob that was trying to raid the morgue in order to give their loved ones proper burials, despite the risk of contagion.

[Kozak]

The difference in the past was outbreaks occurred in isolated rural areas, where the infection killed too quickly to spread much. For the first time we are seeing it in a mobile urban population. God help us if someone jumps on plane from Lagos to Ohare with it....

[Berlin_Freeper]

“We can’t do anything about the current outbreak,” BioCryst chief medical officer William Sheridan says. “But we intend to work as hard as we can to figure out how would we make the drug available

[Berlin_Freeper]

Thousands marched on an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone on Friday after a former nurse alleged that the deadly virus was invented to conceal "cannibalistic rituals" at the ward, a regional police chief said.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Sierra Leone has launched a hunt for a woman with Ebola who was forcibly removed from hospital by her relatives in the capital, Freetown.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Ebola victim’s brother sets fire to health ministry

[Berlin_Freeper]

The Nigerian Government announced today that it will start actions in the borders to prevent infection of Ebola virus