Posted on 07/30/2014 8:11:38 PM PDT by pops88
A top official at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos, has said that one of the people who helped the 40-year-old Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, on the Monrovia-Lome and Lome-Lagos flight may have been infected with the virus.
The reliable source, who is also on the team of experts monitoring the testing and surveillance of persons who have had contact with the late Liberian victim in Lagos, told our correspondent on Wednesday, that although they had yet to confirm, the person was showing feverish symptoms similar to that of Ebola virus.
(Excerpt) Read more at punchng.com ...
You’re right; but what pisses me off the most is how they treat our doctors who are there to HELP like outsiders not to be trusted, that is where it makes it worse. These people are exposing themselves, getting infected, now killing our doctors via these infections, and now traveling, I honestly believe that I’m out of patience with these savage ingrates.
I plan on paying precise attention to this in particular and frankly I am getting that odd feeling that I sometimes get when I know that something is changing. I’m probably going to ask around the field of medicine and probably start asking my international business colleagues about their perspective. I know this will radically disrupt international trade and likely end up causing a lot of chaos. Stocking up is in fact a brilliant idea.
You’re right; chances are the Chinese are hyper-paranoid about this and if it hits and spreads through China, it’s only a matter of time until it hits the rest of the world’s population.
Everything miserable seems to originate from that cursed continent.
AIDS
Ebola
Malaria
I’ve never heard of Ebola outbreaks lasting this long though and I wonder how long this is going to go on. We in the US almost had our own Patient Zero, something I am certain would have triggered full blown national chaos.
Yes, this is getting much worse.
I only pray that we are ruthless enough to do the hard, but right, thing to save ourselves.
I don’t think our politicians etc. running things will REALLY play this as needs to be. ....they will be trying checkmate any panic.......think of the Mayor in the movie “Jaws”.
Ping...
From the article:
Meanwhile, veterinary virologist, Prof. Oyewale Tomori, has warned Nigerians against unsupervised burial of persons who died of Ebola. He said 40 per cent of cases in high risk countries were transmitted from victims` bodies, stressing that an Ebola corpse was deadlier than the patient.
This stuff is nastier than many here realize.
Ever read the late Tom Clancy’s ‘Executive Orders’?
Part of the book dealt with a deliberate attack of an airborne Ebola strain in several cities around the country. What they ended up doing was a national quarantine. No interstate travel allowed...which was enforced by the National Guard, air travel shut down, etc.
Now (as far as we know), this outbreak is not a deliberate attack. But...if Ebola gets over here, what would they do?
” out of patience with these savage ingrates.”
No, you’ve got it wrong.
The Liberians are wonderful people, really. Many are strong Christians and don’t follow traditional rituals. Think about it. If someone in you family gets sick with Ebola the hospitals really aren’t equipped to handle them, what are you going to do? Western medicine can’t help those infected, so why should these people suddenly trust us in the midst of pandemic.
It isn’t the Liberian’s fault that the disease spreads even when symptoms are not present. They have been eating “bush meat” — such as deer — for thousands of years.
Very good. Fruit bats are a known reservoir species, and migratory. It has been hypothesized that chimps and monkeys (eaten as "bushmeat") acquire the virus either from being exposed to the bats' feces on contaminated fruit or from eating the bats themselves. Humans in the region consider the bats a delicacy, and will eat the primates as well, so that opens up multiple vectors.
From there, human to human (or bodily fluid) contact is sufficient to keep things going unless and until serious isolation protocols are observed.
Doctors and medical people going into Africa know they are taking risks before they get there...and they certainly are briefed about the areas they are going into.
You're dealing with greatly superstitious and backward people, no easy feat to medically treat them, as many who have gone there and come back to tell about it have stated.
Their overall culture doesn't allow for much variance away from what they believe. Take a look at Haiti, where most are of of African decent, who to this day still practice voodoo which comes directly from Africa....and though fast amounts of money have been invested to "help" them...their nation remains in a shambles.....same with Africa. Decades of money into that nation and still they starve and have the same issues.
AIDS
Ebola
Malaria
Torture and horridly cruel treatment of dogs for meat and skinning alive primarily german shepard dogs for fur.
Adding in my two cents and agreeing.
....”It isn’t the Liberian’s fault that the disease spreads”.....
Perhaps, but their culture style and basic mis-understanding about disease isn’t helping to contain it...even once it’s explained to them. Snatching away a body from a hospital setting, after your told of the dangers, isn’t exactly what most would call co-operation.
Lberia’s president says anyone caught hiding suspected Ebola patients will be prosecuted.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf issued the warning on state radio Monday, expressing concern that some patients had been kept in homes and churches instead of receiving medical attention. Sierra Leone issued a similar warning last week, saying some patients had discharged themselves from hospital.
http://article.wn.com/view/2014/06/30/Liberia_vows_prosecution_for_hiding_Ebola_patients_2a/
Incubation can be from 2 to 21 days. Late stage is nasty and obvious, but iirc, the patient is shedding virii before that point.
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