Posted on 08/09/2014 10:25:53 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Ghana's health ministry has issued a red alert Saturday on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)in the country. "It has been confirmed that some Ghanaian fishermen living and fishing along the borders of Liberia have been returning home with symptoms of EVD,"Xinhua reported citing the ministry.
It urged citizens to avoid using public swimming pools and keep strict hygienic practices. The statement suggested that people keep and use hand sanitizers often.
It also due to the cholera outbreak in the country and the striking similarities between some of the cholera and EVD symptoms, people should wear protective clothing including hand gloves before touching sick people. The statement also urged people with such suspicious symptoms to call designated telephone lines for prompt assistance.
“prompt assistance”
Like what? ‘Turn your head and cough’, and if you cough blood you get a cot until you recover or die?
Why do I feel that hand sanitzers will not be sufficient?
Missionaries returning home sick with precautions
With travelers coming down or suspected in...
OK new country infected.
South Africa had a few suspected but then nothing.
Morocco - one confirmed and dead.
Phillipines are watching 7 plus and not much new news about that lately.
Saudi Arabia confirmed their fatality was ebola.
Senegal now has a suspected case.
Mali had a suspect but it tested negative.
The reports of the economy drying up in affected countries are going to start making governments leary of reporting.
Was Ebola behind the Black Death (Case made that ebola like disease and not bubonic plague was responsible. Also quarantines worked (WHO/CDC you listening?))
It reminded me of Jaws. No, we are not closing the beaches.
A Burkinabe crossed into Ghana to get better medical treatment. He was bleeding from his ears and nose and is suspected to have had Ebola. His (highly infectious) body was sent back to Burkina Faso. There is a suspected case in Mali in someone who had been in Guinea. The person had bloody diarrhea. A Liberian miner hospitalized himself in Senegal suspecting he was infected. So add these potentials to the list:
Burkina Faso (the man exposed his family and a hospital)
Ghana
Mali
Senegal
There was also a report from Mexico that was later denied by the government and the news report removed, and a suspected case in S.E. Michigan. The Pandemic Flu Information (PFI) Forum is a great source of information-
http://www.pfiforum.com/
I have read extensively on the spanish flu, and remember they found it in the lungs of someone they dug up from that time.
There was a hemolytic component to it, but it was more than capable of spreading far faster that ebola when pneumonic.
“Mali had a suspect but it tested negative.”
The faster ELISA test has a very high rate of false negatives, and I don’t believe they have the results back on the blood sent out for the other test.
Also of note- the man who died in Jeddah had been on a medical mission, serving as an ER doctor in Sierra Leon.
NO way. I have to find that.
I saw them doing testing somewhere in Africa that was not an ELISA. I believe it was a rapid test, perhaps agglutination.
The quality of testing is something I have been very interested in - obviously they are not doing PCR in Africa.
Thanks for the link...
Concerns in Kenya as well.
They're responsible for our President?
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