Posted on 08/01/2014 8:13:13 PM PDT by blam
August 1, 2014
By Derek Gatherer, Lancaster University
It is 6am on a warm West African morning. Two men, Ahmed and Milton, are up early, getting ready for long journeys. Apart from that they have little in common.
Ahmed is a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Guinea. He is a successful doctor, drives a Mercedes and lives in an exclusive air-conditioned apartment block in the Kaloum district of Guinea's capital, Conakry. Milton has no steady job, no car and shares a crowded corrugated iron shed in East 3, the poorest part of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.
Ahmed is travelling today on important business, as he often does. Milton is simply fed up with living in poverty and is willing to risk his life to find something better. Their paths will cross in the evening of the following day, in Guéckédou, 500km to the east.
Guéckédou, situated in the eastern forested region of Guinea, is a small city, with a population of around 200,000. Even so, few people outside of Guinea had heard of it until March 2014, when it became the centre of the latest outbreak of Zaire Ebola virus, the deadliest member of the cluster of viruses that take their name from the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where they were first discovered in 1976.
Between 1976 and 2013, the virus caused 1,388 cases of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in the DRC and the neighbouring republics of Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville, killing 1,098 people, a 79% fatality rate.
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(Excerpt) Read more at allafrica.com ...
Ping.
Ping...
Thanks.
Now, how many of our food service people meticulously clean their hands after they’ve been potty?
Whaddaya mean "How?"
The Usurper gave it a First Class ticket, that's "how."
We need to find out why some people survive. I’m sure many are after this information but, in the long run, it may be the most crucial to meeting this threat.
“Between 1976 and 2013, the virus caused 1,388 cases of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in the DRC and the neighbouring republics of Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville, killing 1,098 people, a 79% fatality rate.”
These hard numbers indicate to me that this is just the latest “diversion-from-the-Bolshevik-revolution-in-the-US” news story, simply a sensationalized distraction. Chicago could lose that number of people in a couple of months, and these were spread over almost 40 years.
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...
“barak hussein obama, mmmm, mmmm, mmmm....”
...but more than 700 have died in the past five months. That is concerning. Especially when they are airlifting victims to Atlanta.
The bad news is that the Ebola Virus can stay active for an unknown period of time in the scrotum of male survivors, according to an internet article that i read- - - so it MUST be true!
BHO would love nothing more than an epidemic to help distract from the issues and to increase his power and popularity.
“...but more than 700 have died in the past five months. That is concerning. Especially when they are airlifting victims to Atlanta.”
Illegals in this country kill a lot more than that, and the story is ignored. This is just a diversion from more pressing matters that will certainly have more of an impact on Americans. I don’t see a “Walking Dead” epidemic originating from Atlanta from airlifting some victims there.
The Muzzies know that they can get their scum to wear bomb belts, and maybe take out one hundred infidels!
Think how efficient it would be to have these suicider's just walk among the world population for five days or so, exposing thousands upon thousands to a death certificate!
It will hit the US fast- best to try to understand how to contain it first-hand!
Not just a first class ticket, a charter flight.
This thread needs a song due to the title.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY
(Out of Africa)
And by jet ski across the Rio Grande.
Call me suspicious, but.....
I have this sneaky feeling that the charter flight is just so there’s an official explanation when the cases start breaking out from our open back door down South.
Having failed to provoke the American people to a violent reaction to government abuses, though, there remains one trump card in the 'how to declare martial law' deck: pandemic.
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