Posted on 08/02/2014 10:24:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The deadly Ebola virus is moving faster than efforts to control it, the World Health Organization says. The warning came at the launch of a $100 million response plan to the epidemic.
The leaders of the three countries hardest hit by the recent Ebola epidemic - Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia - met on Friday in the Guinean capital, Conakry, along with the head of the World Health Organization, Dr Margaret Chan. Also at the meeting was the President of Ivory Coast.
The group came together to launch a $100 million (74.5 million euro) response plan to counter the rapidly spreading virus. The largest-ever recorded outbreak of Ebola has killed at least 729 people since the beginning of the year, including a number of doctors and other health workers.
The leaders discussed the deployment of hundreds of medical personnel to help overstretched workers and facilities, as well as better prevention methods - including better detection of cases and improved border surveillance.
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If the virus can take hold in America, then Odumbo will have the justification he needs to declare martial law.
You may be on to something. Unfortunately, Ebola does not discriminate, and will take out Obama’s Muslim brothers as well as his hated whites and Christians.
What good are medical personnel fighting the virus. There is apparently no medical treatment for Ebola. Medical personnel are apparently putting themselves at risk when in contact with a patient for whom they can do little or nothing.
It would seem that isolation and death are the way to end the epidemic
At present, there is no cure for this virus. Nobody knows how to contain this bug...There was a time when this doctor would not have been allowed to return to the US.
But we are all so enlightened now...
This is a hugh problem and I think you’re just making lite of it.
“I am wondering if this is the next AIDS virus to decimate the world’s population? “
Decimate means to kill one in ten. I don’t know the total numbers killed by AIDS, but the yearly flu kills 30,000 in the US alone. I suspect that the normal flu has well exceeded the death toll of AIDS in the years that AIDS has been here. Ebola may be the next pandemic. The last big one was before and during World War 1. It killed 22 million in its first four months, the approximate death toll the war caused in four years. (The “Spanish flu” was not very well known in the war because of censorship. It is called the Spanish flu because only Spain had no censorship.)
Yes. I chose it specifically. I realize the population wasn’t decimated by AIDS, but it could have been excepting our aggressive research into it. I was working in one of the finest hospitals in the country when the AIDS crisis began. Everyone knew it could easily slip into the heterosexual community via bisexuals.......but the citizenry was warned about it’s avenues of transmittal. The Blood Banking community acted pretty aggressively too, after that was identified as a way of transmission. Now AIDS is pretty much more of a nuisance than a deadly virus. Ebola needs more research and I suspect that Emory will be very careful while looking for a way to stop Ebola. So maybe I should have used ‘pandemic’.
Second, medical people in the know are very much speculating that this thing is now airborne and others are questioning some of the strange ways and places this is spreading(is it deliberate).
Lastly if anybody is really paying attention, the number of real news articles coming out have dropped hugely since the US announced 3 or 4 days ago that we have opened 20 Ebola containment centers here in the US and they have stopped updating the numbers of infected and dead. That 729 number is 3 days old.
Yeah, if you are a news junkie then you understand something is really up by what is no longer being said. The question is figuring that out correctly.
In recent outbreaks, the survival rate has been around 50% overall.
These two cases are American citizens. I think after the first doctor died, they just decided the outcomes would be more likely to be good if they had better treatment and a closed environment.
There is medical treatment for the symptoms of the virus, which most people would call “treatment for the virus”. Without treatment, you will likely die. But if you catch the virus early, and aggressively treat the symptoms, survival is much more likely.
Most Ebola patients die of low blood pressure and shock. You need fluids, blood transfusions, and a highly clean environment to protect from other viruses. And you need treatment if you pick up some other virus while your body is incapable of defending itself.
This is why we have gone from near-certain death, to where for any reasonably-sized outbreak, half the people surviving. The first people almost always die, but once the medical system is up to speed, and watching for early signs, they can save a lot of the patients.
It will be interesting to see if this particular Ebola outbreak is some new more-transmittable strain or something, as this is the largest outbreak in modern history.
I was wondering about that. There's simply no way of knowing just how many people have really been exposed and never knew it and never became sick from it.
Perhaps some effort might be invested in testing people to find out just how many have antibodies to it.
They might be able to determine what the factor is that makes someone susceptible to it.
The CDC has issued travel advisories for the affected countries. People showing symptoms of illness will not be allowed to fly from those countries, and people are advised not to go there unless they have essential business (e.g., they are healthcare workers).
I told my son that we will just have to go to Liberia some other time...
A hashtag campaign ought to do the trick:
#ebolaendswithme
If this shows up in the gay population of San Francisco. Katie bar the door!
The group came together to launch a $100 million (74.5 million euro) response plan to counter the rapidly spreading virus.
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Gee, I wonder where this money is coming from.
Quick, Civilized World, send us lots of money so we can keep Ebola here instead of in your country.
Of course, that money will go into the pockets of the various, corrupt elites, and the poor people who need help will continue to be poor and ignorant.
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