Too late! See figure on right.
Posted on 08/09/2014 1:39:48 PM PDT by mojito
KENEMA, Sierra Leone — So many patients, nurses and health workers have died in the government hospital that many people in this city, a center of the world’s worst Ebola epidemic, see it as a death trap.
Now, the wards are empty in the principal institution fighting the disease. Ebola stalks the city, claiming lives every day, but patients have fled the hospital’s long, narrow buildings, which sit silent and echoing in the fading light. Few people are taking any chances by coming here.
“Don’t touch the walls!” a Western medical technician yelled out. “Totally infected.”
Some Ebola patients still die at the hospital, perhaps four per day, in the tentlike temporary isolation ward at the back of the muddy grounds. But just as many, if not more, are dying in the city and neighboring villages, greatly increasing the risk of spreading the disease and undermining international efforts to halt the epidemic.
“People don’t die here now,” said the deputy chief of the hospital’s burying team, Albert J. Mattia, exasperated after a long day of Ebola burials. “They are dying in the community, five, six a day.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
And it gets even more interesting...
On July 30th, the NIH decided not to renew Tulane’s 5 year contract for the Lassa Fever project in Sierra Leone.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/07/us-health-ebola-funding-exclusive-idUSKBN0G72C220140807
From the article:
NIH declined to comment on the decision, citing “federal government procurement integrity rules.”
What integrity issues were involved?
Whatever happened at that hospital caused a general strike by its nurses. I have read that one of their demands was to bring in Doctors without Borders to run the hospital.
One of Sierra Leone’s most prominent doctors, Sheik Umar Khan, was associated with the Lassa fever research project. He, along with several of his nurses, recently died of Ebola.
Too late! See figure on right.
Thanks for this. Whadabet Obama and Co. are hiding the true potential of this African disease? (at least at this point).
I am at work and will continue researching this as time allows.
And this is of course what they gave to Dr Brantly, though I have not been able to discover if it was murine or chimeric yet.
They just lost the contract. Whoever wrote the proposal did a poor job or NIH was not impressed with what they had done with the last contract, or money is just tight and this was not a high enough priority.
"We are currently developing diagnostic products to detect the Lassa virus (LASV), Junin virus (JUNV), Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV), all very important pathogens. Through our consortium we are also in early development of additional products for Dengue virus (DENV), Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Crimean-Congo virus (CCHV) and others. Our infectious disease products will be used not only in clinical laboratories but also in point-of-care testing in the field. The first of these products to be completed is the Rapid Test for detection of Lassa hemorrhagic fever. It is in final clinical studies and will be submitted to the FDA in 2012."
Ping...
If so, it will not stop there. There will always be those who escape, and some will be infected.
I am afraid I don’t have a background in the sciences— I tend to get lost when I try to read technical papers. Perhaps someone else here at FR can make this understandable to laymen.
I don’t believe that the current outbreak was a deliberate attempt at bio-warfare. I do wonder whether the apparent increase in transmissibility of the Ebola could be the result of virus experiments, though.
I would also like to know if any gain-of-function experiments are being performed in connection with the treatment of Dr Brantley and Nancy Writebol, and who would exercise oversight over such activities.
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...
The weirdos in the early part of this century had the opportunity to totally wipe out smallpox but passed on it because some of them didn’t like wiping out an entire species. Never mind that it was a species that caused incalculable devastation to the human race. Poor little smallpox germ deserved (a word way overused) to survive.
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