Posted on 08/24/2014 5:13:33 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
"The largest outbreak of the deadly disease Ebola was caused by an infected bat biting a toddler say a group of international researchers.
The 17-strong team of European and African tropical disease researchers, ecologists and anthropologists have spent three weeks investigating the outbreak of the disease in Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Nigeria.
The researchers captured the bats and other creatures near the village of Meliandoua in remote eastern Guinea, where the present epidemic began in December 2013."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Ebola news.
A near relative of the Moon Bat?
Thanks. Very scary to think of the impact if it got into the animal population here.
Fruit bats, however, are widely eaten in rural west Africa – either smoked, grilled or in a spicy soup
I’ll pass.
I was at a postoffice in Houston on Thursday, waiting in line. The black woman behind me was finishing some paperwork for priority mail. I glanced at it and she was sending envelopes to the Cammeroon Embassy in Washington DC. I looked up Camaroon on a map and it wasn’t good.
She didn’t cough or sneeze on me and I didn’t touch anything she had touched but it gave me a creepy feeling just standing next to her.
“The 17-strong team of European and African tropical disease researchers, ecologists and anthropologists have spent three weeks investigating the outbreak of the disease in Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Nigeria.”
About as believable as one of BLS’s statistics!
FR: Report: Ebola Virus Spread Because of Lax Quarantine Enforcement
Apparently bats are a well known vector for the virus.
Mixed Ebola strains now in new outbreak in Congo
“Dr. Niman over at rhizalabs is noting his concern about the reporting of a possible Ebola recombinant.
Dr. Niman comments:
Media reports describe the two confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as a Sudan cases and a mixture of Sudan and Zaire, raising concerns of a recombinant.
Dr. Niman’s next post follows:
Congo declares Ebola outbreak in northern Equateur province
KINSHASA Mon Aug 25, 2014 12:42am IST
Numbi said that one of the two cases that tested positive was for the Sudanese strain of the disease, while the other was a mixture between the Sudanese and the Zaire strain — the most lethal variety. “
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/08/24/us-health-ebola-congodemocratic-idINKBN0GO0R520140824
Personally, I’ve thought about moving to Sandpoint, Idaho.
Safety from all sorts of things is a BIG issue these days.
Bring Out Your Dead
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...
God help us.
Apparently bats are a well known vector for the virus.
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I thought bats were considered more a reservoir than a vector.
Now that the ecologists are involved global warming will be the cause.
Speaking of fruit bats anyone been to the west coast lately/s
I’m more worried about the Sumatran Rat Monkey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braindead_%28film%29
The “Sumatran Rat-Monkey” is a hybrid creature that, “according to legend”, resulted from the rape of tree monkeys on Skull Island by plague-carrying rats.
Ping...
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