Posted on 08/12/2014 6:43:03 AM PDT by Covenantor
Investigators say they have discovered the case which sparked the West Africa pandemic, as Rwandan authorities quarantine the country's first suspected Ebola patient
A toddler who died in a Guinea border town just before Christmas last year was the “patient zero” who sparked the Ebola crisis, according to reports.
The two-year-old boy was from Guéckédou, a jungle village which lies on the country’s border with Liberia and Sierra Leone – two countries which have been badly affected by the deadly virus....
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Now THIS is amazing. Africa at it’s finest.
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I know, right! Like who do they think they are, French?
Why when the first Ebola case hits France you just know the doctors will strike, as well as railroad workers, teachers, and student will be marching up and down the Champs d'Elyses burning Le Mickey D's, and farmers will dump milk on the highways. These Nigerians are rookies!
One of the things that careworkers in Ebola wards DO NOT want talk about is the terrible effect of passing Ebola through breastmilk and through the placenta of pregnant women. They can handle victims dying, but the spontaneous, violent stillbirths, and the effect of ebola on young children is apparently just horrific. Prayers sent.
It seems as if something related to the virus changed between the time of the initial outbreak in Guinea and the subsequent outbreaks in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Was it just a change in circumstances or a mutation? Hard to tell.
Some time back people thought it might be caused by a spider bite... I don’t think anyone knows.
I’d like to read that book.
I knew about the mapping but not the patient zero trace.
Fleet Street, now famed for it’s newspaper offices, in London is actually built over the Fleet River emptying into the Thames. For centuries it received human and animal wastes and corpses, a thick and stinking part of London urban life, until it was recognized as the source of so many diseases.
It’s very fitting that Fleet street became the UKs center for the mass media of its day.
The Ebola virus itself changed before popping up in Guinea. This version shares 97% of the genetic core (might not be right term) with the Zaire Ebola virus. Similar but apparently very significantly different in the same manner as man who shares about the same amount of genetic info with chimps.
As you say, hard to tell, but the local conditions, cultural attitudes, and very poor public health provisions greatly facilitated the initial spread. African politics also has a hand in this.
Golden Square was, at one time, a grave yard for plague victims and later a high scale neighborhood. Not that he was rich but William Blake lived there. The well was considered much superior to surrounding wells and many people would come to get the water and carry it to their friends and relatives in outlying districts. The idea that it was only the poor and lower class who got cholera was dispelled when the (I think) rendering factory in the district didn’t have any cases among their workers. I think that they drank beer and didn’t have breaks to go draw water. But the mother and sister of one of the owners drank the water he brought them in a fancy neighborhood and died. If you want to experience really bad smells, consider feed lots and rendering factories like are found in western Kansas. Oh man. Just about knocks one over.
Childrens immune systems are not as strong as an adults.
Can’t say I have any faith in investigations arising in corrupt Third World countries. (Of course, the progressives are working feverishly to put the USA in that club.)
Well, this drug's effectivity just went from 100% to 67% - not much better than without it.
Treatment for Ebola , hemoragic fever, involves keeping the body well hydrated during treatment .
The last I heard , Saline IV's were already in short supply, and manufacturers said an adequate re-supply wouldn't be available unti January.
Has there been any change in medical Saline IV availablility ?
One of the problems with (late stage) Ebola is finding a vein that hasn't deteriorated too much to hold fluid.
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