One of the primary contacts of the late American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, who escaped quarantine on suspicion of having the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in Lagos, has been tracked to Enugu.
The suspect, identified as a nurse, said to have travelled to her home town to visit her family, is now under surveillance with 20 others she came into contact with in the city.
With the development, the total number of Nigerians under monitoring for the dreaded virus is now 198.
Revealing these facts yesterday after the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja, Information Minister, Labaran Maku, explained that Nigeria currently has 10 confirmed cases of Ebola, all stemming from the visit of the late Sawyer.
Maku explained that of the 198 persons under surveillance, 177 of them are in Lagos while 21 are in Enugu.
He said: "All those who had primary contact have been quarantined. Secondary contacts have also been traced. So far, the number of people that have been traced is 198....
Ping
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...
Don’t know how far that editorial was diseminated but the widespread disatisfaction with the government grows by the day. Might be a reason for shutting down one of Monrovia’s papers, with more news suppression to come.
National Chronicle Shut Down
http://m.allafrica.com/stories/201408151542.html/?secid=10052
15 August 2014 , Source: Inquirer
The office of the National Chronicle newspaper was yesterday shut down by some officers of the Liberia National Police who stormed the paper’s offices on Carey Street.
However, it is not clear whether the police acted on a court’s order, or was an action in line with the State of Emergency declared recently by President Sirleaf to combat the Ebola Virus.
Late yesterday evening, several police officers went to the offices of the newspaper and ordered its closure. The presence of the officers caused fear, causing many businesses on the streets to close down their operations.
Also, the news of the police of about 100 police officers on the street was received differently in the Duala area, as people ran helter-skelter, when it was rumored in that area that there was shooting “in town” by security officers.
Earlier, it was learned that the officers went to the paper’s office to arrest its Managing Editor and publisher Philibert Brown. However, his office was closed, without Mr. Brown, being arrested.
Journalists from several media institutions thronged on the scene to know what was happening to their colleagues at the Chronicle though some were prevented by police from getting on the scene of the action.
Following hours of commotion, the president of the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) Abdullah Kamara informed anxious journalists that he had just spoken to Police Director, Chris Massaquoi who said he knew nothing about the police operation on Carey Street.
Later Mr. Brown emerged from his office and said he was a free man but his institution has been shut down by Government. He said police used tear gas to break into the offices of the Chronicle and demanded that the paper be shut down.
However, Brown was taken away from the scene by angry crowd who chanted anti-government slogans in support of the Liberian media.
No reason was given up to press time, but the closure of the paper comes days after some publications in the paper. One of which was a story that Vice President Joseph Boakai dumped President Sirleaf when he met U.S. President Obama recently in the United States where the Vice President represented President Sirleaf at the African Forum.
Meanwhile, the Vice President’s office has denied the story.
The bottom line here is that the die is cast. The public have stormed Ebola hospitals to carry off infected family members and trash the place, some claiming that there is no such thing as Ebola, and others looting contaminated, bloodstained linens, mattresses and equipment.
People who do this cannot be saved by outsiders with good intent. Until enough of them have died to pound it into their fool heads that this is a *plague*, they will have to suffer.
If I’m looking for help, I’m probably not going to make my first appeal to an anti-Christian, population control outfit like WHO.
Yeah....you go first.....
No, after you.
No...by all means, after you.
I would not have it. You first...
And so on, and so on.
“please intervene in Liberia before Africa’s oldest republic loses its entire population.”
Obama and the tards want Liberia totally extinguished
because that is where all the blacks were to be sent
after the civil war.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
As long as muzzies aren’t dying in masses all is good...... zero and his ilk are content with the conquering of Africa..... by any means.....
Put in a city like New York instead of Libiria, and see what happens