Posted on 07/28/2014 3:02:10 AM PDT by Wage Slave
Seven hundred are dead in West Africa, victims of an ‘out-of-control’ outbreak—and now two American health-care workers there have contracted the disease, says a colleague.
At least two Americans are now infected with the Ebola virus, part of an “out of control” outbreak that the World Health Organization is calling the worst on record.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
I wonder what the real number of ill/dead is. Not saying that authorities are lying - they simply don't know. They can't know.
When there is a death from Ebola in a clinic or hospital, the family cannot have the body for burial due to the contagious nature of the corpse. This understandably upsets the families greatly.
So, people are often not bringing their loved ones in when they are ill, and are handling the burials in secret. The bodies are in turn infecting others. Anyone who says they know the number of dead can't really know.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/28/world/africa/ebola-epidemic-west-africa-guinea.html?_r=0
Workers and officials, blamed by panicked populations for spreading the virus, have been threatened with knives, stones and machetes, their vehicles sometimes surrounded by hostile mobs. Log barriers across narrow dirt roads block medical teams from reaching villages where the virus is suspected. Sick and dead villagers, cut off from help, are infecting others.
it’s amazing how few understand how it works
Thanks for the correction. I read the book years ago. Scary.
I spent 7 months in Mexico, part of last year and part of this year. I saw a couple of storefront businesses selling fake US identification.
They had signs up and everything....just blatantly selling it.
From what I’ve heard usually ebola starts in the Jungle from an unidentified source... caves? bats? spiders? Then moves to a village. It has a ninety percent fatality rate.
This outbreak was different. It started around the same time in three different cities and has a 60 percent fatality rate. It might be a variation on the original... a mutation. Or maybe these early reports were wrong...
btw, it might already be too late to stop it from getting here
http://news.yahoo.com/official-ebola-kills-senior-doctor-liberia-094351470.html
the doctor’s wife came home within the last week... just before he started showing symptoms.
which means... they were together while he was contagious.
have no fear, they are not under quarantine....
The photo in the linked article shows the American physician (Dr. Brantley), wearing full protective gear while treating Ebola patients last year. Either he got careless (highly unlikely); his protective gear failed, or the outbreak is much more widespread and Brantley was exposed in a location that was presumed safe.
Medical quarantines are one of the most effective—and cheapest—public health tools. But today are are rarely used, to avoid offending a particular group or interrupting international travel.
“... or Brantley was exposed in a location that was presumed safe.”
That would go along with the account of the doctor in post 1 that contracted it from a collegue that was not as careful as she was within the “hot” zone.
Funny you should ask whether there has been an Ebola outbreak before in the US.
There has.
In Reston, VA, a lab full of monkeys came down with an unbelieveably aggressive strain of Ebola and died within about 5 days. The strain was labeled ‘Ebola Reston’, and it scared the crap out of the CDC. It was a strain that only affected primates, and it was an airborne version of the virus.
I can’t remember the year, but it was a big deal, and it stayed very much out of the press.
If you google Ebola Reston, you’ll likely find something about it.
There hasn’t been a human outbreak in the US yet.
What kids? What Ebola outbreak in the US?
http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/cdc-downplays-ebola-but-issues-airline-advisory/
http://www.alipac.us/f9/cdc-issues-ebola-airline-advisory-308514/
The CDC advised that crew members on a flight with a passenger or crew member who is “ill with fever, jaundice, or bleeding” and has been traveling from or has recently been in an area at risk for the disease should follow these precautions:
Keep the sick person separated from others as much as possible.
Provide the sick person with a surgical mask (if the sick person can tolerate wearing one) to reduce the number of droplets expelled into the air by talking, sneezing, or coughing.
Give tissues to a sick person who cannot tolerate a mask.
Provide a plastic bag for disposing of used tissues.
Wear impermeable disposable gloves for direct contact with blood or other body fluids.
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