Posted on 09/09/2014 12:27:40 PM PDT by Covenantor
Ebola Kills 2,288, Nearly Half in Past 21 Days
Geneva - The Ebola epidemic in west Africa has claimed 2,288 lives, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, stressing that nearly half had died in less than a month.
As of 6 September 2,288 people had died in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Libera out of 4,269 cases, the UN's health agency said, pointing out that 47% of the deaths and 49% of the cases had come in the prior 21 days.
Another eight people have died in Nigeria out of 21 cases, while one case of Ebola has been confirmed in Senegal, WHO said.
Is it possible that electricity is iffy in those areas even moreso that normal due to infrastructure issues related to the outbreak? And not necessarily a bunch of dead people?
I’m looking for a hopeful ray of sunshine here.
I too have read about forays into the bush and whole villages being empty, homes filled with dead bodies and the question is whether everyone has died or if the survivors have run off somewhere else...and the road into the village already being reclaimed by the jungle.
The good news is that highly fatal viruses typically attenuate with time because the less virulent strains survive when the host survives and then they are able to infect more hosts.
The bad news is that less virulent viruses will infect more hosts.
Barack Hussein Ebola. Mmmmm, mmmmm, mmmmm.
Death is also non-refundable...
Very much so. If the villagers are busy taking care of the afflicted, they wont have time to ride the stationary bike hooked up to a gyro set and a DC battery (manually powered DC set up).
If they are on a fuel genset, it is well known that fuel supply in the country has been very spotty, and probably reached nowhere outside the populated areas.
Villages could be completely safe and just are too scared to go "into town".
I think the scariest thing I have heard is it has now jumped from 'patient' to 'taxi'.
Is it possible that they’re in the ginormous area that’s quarantined upcountry and aren’t getting fuel deliveries?
I hope that’s the case.
I wonder if there’s anything like a census that could tell how many people weren’t there anymore for those areas...
Read the fine print... there might be an out.
That isn't happening with this outbreak, as I'm sure you're aware, because 1) The outbreak is occurring in densely populated areas for the first time and 2) The several contagious days followed by the bodies and contaminated personal belongings being handled after death provide plenty of opportunity for transmission.
Me too......
Generally, they bite once and fill up.
However, flies, on corpses and/or feces, and then landing on and or biting the living could possibly be a vector that has not been considered. Dogs are known to become seropositive for Ebola as well, but do not display any symptoms, so they could function as a potential carrier as well, feeding on the dead in West Point slum, and from human contact (sort of a mobile, living fomite).
And just how much good will one 25-bed field hospital really do? It's symbolic support at best. And it puts our men and women in direct danger of infection for nothing more than symbolic support. If, on the other hand, we were to launch a true, massive support program directed at truly stopping the epidemic, I could get behind that effort, as I do think Ebola is a direct threat to the U.S.A.
But a single 25-bed field hospital? Come on! Get real.
sure glad we didn't close the border or shutdown flights.. especially with that 2-3 week gestation period
Look to see the numbers grow—want to bet when the first US case will happen? October 5 is my guess—This thing spreads likewildfire and will soon overwheilm the hospitals. Schools will close to be made into special Ebola Hospitals (read about 1918 flu) Until the cold weather and all stops this outbreak—I fear Millions will die.
Where did you get that chart? I’d like to get a copy of the raw data (i.e., in a spreadsheet, not an image).
Thanks for the ping!
Grim reality about to get really ugly. Read on the PFI forum that Liberia's president is warning of existential threat Ebola poses for the country, the hardest hit. Mercy
I suspect whatever resources promised or pledged to Liberia will be far too little and too late. Promised supplies and beds are already inadequate for current patient count. MSF stated the minute they opened a larger station they were overwhelmed by phantom patients, people they never expected. Full scale panic is likely in less than a week.
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