Posted on 08/06/2014 3:15:09 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
The number of people killed in the West African ebola outbreak has reached 932 after 45 deaths in three days.
Latest figures from the World Health Organisation (WHO) showed the number of suspected cases rose by 108 in the same period, between August 2 and 4.
Most of the new cases were in Liberia.
The surge in deaths came as WHO prepared to convene a panel of medical ethics experts to explore the use of experimental treatment for ebola.
WHO Assistant Director-General Marie-Paule Kieny said in a statement. "We need to ask the medical ethicists to give us guidance on what the responsible thing to do is.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Daily Mail stated folks in Liberia are tossing bodies of loved ones onto the streets, unclaimed, so as to avoid quarantine by authorities. This of course bodes ill for containment. Tragic...
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45 Deaths In Three Days ...
... sounds like a Chicago weekend.
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What a gruesome way to go - RIP.
And for all of the lack of concern for Ebola by the government and mainstream media; they are also the ones that decry the use of DDT when Malaria kills 1600 to 1700 people a day.
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...
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