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WHO: Reported Ebola cases jump to 13,703 (30+% in four days)
Middletown Press ^ | 29 Oct 2014

Posted on 10/29/2014 10:47:32 AM PDT by 11th_VA

The World Health Organization says the number of reported Ebola cases has surpassed 13,700, a jump of more than 30 percent since the last numbers were released four days ago.

Dr. Bruce Aylward, assistant director-general of the WHO, said the big jump in cases is likely due to previous under-reporting.

As of Wednesday, there have been 13,703 reported cases of Ebola, the organization tweeted, with 13,676 of those in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three most affected countries in this outbreak.

The fatality rate in those countries has remained consistently around 70 percent, Aylward said.

Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Aylward said there is some indication that safe burials and education efforts in Liberia are improving, but he cautioned against assuming that Ebola was coming under control there or in any of the three countries most affected by the disease.

He noted some encouraging signs, including the opening of the first community care center in Port Loko, Sierra Leone, a smaller facility designed to isolate and provide basic care to potential Ebola patients.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ebola; ebolacases; eboladeaths; epidemic; fatalities; guinea; liberia; portloko; scum; sierraleone; westafrica; who; whoebola
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Wowser ... that's a jump ...
1 posted on 10/29/2014 10:47:32 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA
And the deaths are still at 4,800...after 2 weeks. I guess the Obola Czar believes that the magic number for panic is 5,000 so they are keeping the number low...like the unemployment numbers.
2 posted on 10/29/2014 10:51:55 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: 11th_VA

Let’s bring them here! It’s their human right to be treated in America!


3 posted on 10/29/2014 10:52:29 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: 11th_VA

That sounds like an artefact of the reporting process. IOW those cases were always there, but under-reported. They change the reporting method, et voila! the numbers jump.

CC


4 posted on 10/29/2014 10:53:50 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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so we’re further on the uptrend curve than we thought ???


5 posted on 10/29/2014 10:55:06 AM PDT by 11th_VA (It may be legal, but it's still wrong)
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To: 11th_VA

It has been 5 days since they last reported. And the big jump was in Liberia which added 1588 cases and -1 deaths.

I guess they had another resurrection.

Probably the deaths didn’t get reported at all. There’s been a lot of concern that Liberia reporting was breaking down.


6 posted on 10/29/2014 10:57:25 AM PDT by DannyTN
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On the otherhand, there is a report this morning that hospital beds are beginning to open up in Liberia. They don’t know if that’s because people quit coming to the hospital, families are opting to care for patients at home, or if they’ve somehow gotten a break in the disease.


7 posted on 10/29/2014 10:58:35 AM PDT by DannyTN
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so they are keeping the number low...like the unemployment numbers...

As people drop out of the denominator, thus reducing the life participation rate.

8 posted on 10/29/2014 11:05:30 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: DannyTN

But we were told Liberia would need Billions of dollars to fight the disease, how could the down trend be starting ? (/sarcasm)


9 posted on 10/29/2014 11:06:24 AM PDT by 11th_VA (It may be legal, but it's still wrong)
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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

10 posted on 10/29/2014 11:07:36 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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Exponential growth. Last month they were saying the cases double every 3 weeks but as those cases increase the time it takes to double decreases, I just didn’t think it would be this fast this soon. I can see now why the US hating radical Muslim posing as our POTUS is so eager to get it here.


11 posted on 10/29/2014 11:09:05 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Not all Muslims are terrorists but all Muslims are potential terrorists.)
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To: 11th_VA

So if it is so hard to catch, how are they spreading it. The word should be out by now not to be around people with a fever so how is it spreading so fast?


12 posted on 10/29/2014 11:14:25 AM PDT by jetson (Can I catch you a delicious bass...)
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To: Cowboy Bob

And the deaths are still at 4,800...after 2 weeks.


That’s the first thing I looked for. Obviously a lot of spin with these numbers. They’re trying to shake us down for more money.

My guess is that our government employees that calculate the unemployment and inflation rates are the ones doing the numbers for ebola deaths.


13 posted on 10/29/2014 11:15:05 AM PDT by boycott
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To: 11th_VA

I personally think it is probably still under-reported. But it is somewhat less underreported than it was. Without looking at the methodology of how the Liberians arrived at that number I can only guess.

CC


14 posted on 10/29/2014 11:18:12 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Wait till after the election, the ball is going to drop on what is *really* going on with this Ebola stuff, we’re going to learn just how bad things really are. Remember this is an administration that allowed 4 men to die in Benghazi because of an election and then lied about it, ridiculously shifted blame on a video so I can just imagine how much BS we’ve been fed so far on this Ebola. I’m just hoping its not going to be something like “We have reason to believe up to 100,000 are at this moment infected” because it’s going to completely shut down the whole country.


15 posted on 10/29/2014 11:19:00 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Not all Muslims are terrorists but all Muslims are potential terrorists.)
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To: 11th_VA

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth...

It could sneeze and give you ebola.


16 posted on 10/29/2014 11:20:56 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
Oddly enough:


17 posted on 10/29/2014 11:27:51 AM PDT by wtd
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To: 11th_VA

Maybe one of those infamous paper jumps. The bloom does seem to be fading bit, so let’s crank up some numbers. I would not be surprised if this virus has either evolved less harmless or the more susceptible are now gone.

What ever happened to their screaming there would be 100,000 by now?


18 posted on 10/29/2014 11:28:15 AM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: 11th_VA

Wait a minute.

I just heard on the hourly newsbreak during Rush Limbaugh show that there has been no significant increase in new Ebola cases in African countries...


19 posted on 10/29/2014 11:31:25 AM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Dallas59

We will give them a voter registration card at the same time. Whether they are dead or alive doesn’t matter.


20 posted on 10/29/2014 11:38:23 AM PDT by bergmeid
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