Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
I have spent a little time compiling links to threads about the Ebola outbreak in the interest of having all the links in one thread for future reference.
Please add links to new threads and articles of interest as the situation develops.
Thank You all for you participation.
Someone could launch a major PR coup through offering an expansion of web-conferencing there. Imagine the press conference they could have, or just an interview with Hannity/Rush/Beck/Levin/Savage/etc.
“One of the problems that they’re having in Africa are that people sick with malaria or other problems are mixing with the ebola patients during triage.”
Plastic is cheap. Each untested patient should be isolated.
In fact, plane passengers should also be isolated with plastic during those flights.
[reposting a thought here]
The nations that are too cavalier about Ebola [or any disease] will suffer massive breakouts and be shunned by the rest of the world.
... AND ...
At a local level, it’s even more severe. Any city’s enconomy will tank, even if the outbreak is only a few dozen.
Firestone Did What Governments Have Not: Stopped Ebola In Its Tracks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3212173/posts
Ebola and Obama [by Thomas Sowel]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3212211/posts
check this out:
Comprehensive List of Confirmed and Reported Cases Outside of West Africa
http://www.reddit.com/r/ebola/comments/2i8m9u/comprehensive_list_of_confirmed_and_reported/
Updated 10/6/2014 01:17 PM PST / 04:17 PM EST
Comment with updates and I’ll add them to the main list.
Now sorted from the most recent to oldest cases
Added where confirmed patients were infected
REMOVED all negative and any cases ruled out with sufficient reasoning
Any cases that are unknown or unclear will remain
ALL reported cases will be on spreadsheet below.
As requested I have created:
Google Spreadsheet & Map
Sort by date and country. Will edit both the post and the Sheet.
Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Virginia and who later led the CDC's most far-reaching study of Ebola's transmissibility in humans, said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the air in tight quarters.
"We just don't have the data to exclude it," said Peters, who continues to research viral diseases at the University of Texas in Galveston.
Dr. Philip K. Russell, a virologist who oversaw Ebola research while heading the U.S. Army's Medical Research and Development Command, and who later led the government's massive stockpiling of smallpox vaccine after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, also said much was still to be learned. "Being dogmatic is, I think, ill-advised, because there are too many unknowns here."
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CDC officials also say that asymptomatic patients cannot spread Ebola. This assumption is crucial for assessing how many people are at risk of getting the disease. Yet diagnosing a symptom can depend on subjective understandings of what constitutes a symptom, and some may not be easily recognizable. Is a person mildly fatigued because of short sleep the night before a flight — or because of the early onset of disease?
Moreover, said some public health specialists, there is no proof that a person infected — but who lacks symptoms — could not spread the virus to others.
"It's really unclear," said Michael Osterholm, a public health scientist at the University of Minnesota who recently served on the U.S. government's National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. "None of us know."
Russell, who oversaw the Army's research on Ebola, said he found the epidemiological data unconvincing.
"The definition of 'symptomatic' is a little difficult to deal with," he said. "It may be generally true that patients aren't excreting very much virus until they become ill, but to say that we know the course of [the virus' entry into the bloodstream] and the course of when a virus appears in the various secretions, I think, is premature."
(snip)
"We know for a fact that the virus occurs in sputum and no one has ever done a study [disproving that] coughing or sneezing is a viable means of transmitting," he said. Unqualified assurances that Ebola is not spread through the air, Bailey said, are "misleading."
Peters, whose CDC team studied cases from 27 households that emerged during a 1995 Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo, said that while most could be attributed to contact with infected late-stage patients or their bodily fluids, "some" infections may have occurred via "aerosol transmission."
Sometimes I hate being right.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/07/ebola-crisis-substandard-equipment-nurse-positive-spain
“Staff at the hospital told El País that the protective suits they were given did not meet World Health Organisation (WHO) standards, which specify that suits must be impermeable and include breathing apparatus.”
I guess the Guardian and WHO are also ads for a PPAR company too...who knew...
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