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Ebola contacts in Africa go missing
CNN ^ | 8/26/14 | Elizabeth Cohen

Posted on 08/26/2014 11:18:59 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

They knew he had children, and they knew that in West Africa, families and even neighbors eat off the same plate and bathe and care for sick people. They explained to the man how important it was to stop Ebola, and that his friends and family would be treated with respect.

Their pleas didn't work.

Mirkovic saw this scene play out over and over again. One of her colleagues at the CDC who's worked in Liberia says preliminary data shows they could be missing 40 to 60% of the contacts of known Ebola patients.

"This is one of the hardest parts of the response," said Dr. Brett Petersen, a medical officer with the CDC.

Mirkovic agrees. She says she understands why Ebola patients don't want to name names: There was a rumor going around the communities she worked in that getting on a contact list meant you would die -- and the deaths would happen in the same order as they appeared on the list.

"I understand they're scared," she said.

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Scared? They're also morons. Sorry, but if you think the order on which you appear on some list is going to MAKE you die and die in order??

My motivation to help these lovely nations responsble for the worlds worst diseases falls like a blind roofer.......

1 posted on 08/26/2014 11:18:59 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

These are tribal people that still believe in sympathetic magic. So, if you do something to their image or name (like a voodoo doll), they think things will happen to them.


2 posted on 08/26/2014 11:24:46 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

3 posted on 08/26/2014 11:28:17 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Boogieman

I get it. I just don’t think it’s worth it. But that’s the black heart in me speaking.... Funny we’re talking about this given your moniker. :)


4 posted on 08/26/2014 11:28:36 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue (I have no home. I'm the wind.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Darwin would be very proud of these people.


5 posted on 08/26/2014 11:31:17 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
The Ebola outbreak in the West African nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria has killed nearly 1,500 people.

Wasn't this the total like a couple weeks ago?

6 posted on 08/26/2014 12:09:35 PM PDT by SIDENET
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To: SIDENET

Here’s the latest WHO report.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_08_22_ebola/en/

“Between 19 and 20 August 2014, a total of 142 new cases of Ebola virus disease (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 77 deaths were reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.”


7 posted on 08/26/2014 1:36:11 PM PDT by bgill
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To: SIDENET
Wasn't this the total like a couple weeks ago?

I'm thinking those numbers are a little over a week old. They were underestimated then and WHO does not have a clue on the spread. It is far worse than what is being reported.
8 posted on 08/26/2014 3:20:03 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Remember: No culture is superior, and no culture is inferior.

Unless, of course, some cultures are actually inferior.

Multi-Culturalism is a crime against humanity.


9 posted on 08/26/2014 3:35:43 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: bgill

There should already have been an update but it has lagged for some mysterious reason. Perhaps there is such an institutional breakdown in West Africa that the stats are now almost impossible to obtain. I mean how do you now count the Ebola stats in the West Point slum of Monrovia since it has been sealed off from the outside?


10 posted on 08/26/2014 4:32:40 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Charlie Crist (D-Green Iguana))
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To: PA Engineer

See my post #10. The WHO Ebola outbreak report is already a couple of days overdue. If we don’t see a report by Thursday then you know something is up...namely a complete institutional breakdown.


11 posted on 08/26/2014 4:34:36 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Charlie Crist (D-Green Iguana))
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To: PJ-Comix
See my post #10. The WHO Ebola outbreak report is already a couple of days overdue. If we don’t see a report by Thursday then you know something is up...namely a complete institutional breakdown.

I agree and I think there has been a complete institutional breakdown beginning with the previous numbers.
12 posted on 08/26/2014 4:49:15 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Boogieman

These are the same geniuses who a couple of years ago were convinced a text message could make your Willie vanish...


13 posted on 08/26/2014 4:55:23 PM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: PJ-Comix

Good question about WP.


14 posted on 08/26/2014 5:29:08 PM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

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...

15 posted on 08/26/2014 6:20:55 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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Funny you guys mention the curious lack of updates from WHO. I commented on that to a friend earlier today. It's spooky, and it's not a good sign. Ya think maybe these graphs, which were last updated a week ago, maybe predict a problem?

Do you know what a week more at those rates produces?

And those are the figures that WHO says are "vastly underestimated".

16 posted on 08/26/2014 6:45:55 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


17 posted on 08/26/2014 6:50:21 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: TangledUpInBlue
There was a rumor going around the communities she worked in that getting on a contact list meant you would die -- and the deaths would happen in the same order as they appeared on the list.

Are Pelosi and Reid keeping the lists and managing these death panels, too? Sounds suspiciously like ObolaCare to me.

18 posted on 08/26/2014 8:17:41 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Alamo-Girl

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!


19 posted on 08/27/2014 2:16:40 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: dayglored

There should be another huge spike any day from those who ransacked that clinic and took the bloody sheets. And you just know they’ll pass it on to their family and neighbors.


20 posted on 08/27/2014 4:39:24 AM PDT by bgill
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