Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
IMO we just don't know about the rural death rate in Liberia due to the government coverup, the usual dependence of international media on local sources who here in rural areas are almost entirely foreign NGO's, and the normal problems of foreigners getting around in rural areas during a horribly fatal epidemic.
Sierra Leone's death rate is known to be skyrocketing.
I had not heard about the cab drivers, but I would expect their “business” to have declined precipitously. You don’t need a cab to take you to an Ebola treatment center if you don’t want to be cremated when you die.
Another factor that is kicking in about now is malaria. It has the same symptoms in the early stages as Ebola. Since now is malaria season I would expect everyone with symptoms to insist (and hope/believe) they have malaria. If they die, and are never tested, many (most?) of these deaths will be listed as malaria.
All in all, the actions of the Liberian government have made it impossible to assess what is really going on. But I am quite skeptical that “educating” the population of Monrovia is sufficient to explain the change they are reporting.
Again, this is confined to Monrovia, which has something like 1/4 of Liberia's population.
From the article:
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) - The UN’s Ebola czar on Wednesday encouraged tourists to visit West Africa, saying Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea were “vibrant and alive” and that contact with infected people was largely avoidable.
“I want to encourage everybody to maintain travel, tourism even to places that have Ebola. There is just no reason not to go to Freetown, Monrovia, Conakry,” David Nabarro, the UN coordinator on Ebola, told the UN Economic and Social Council.
“These are cities which have got fabulous places for tourism. They are unfortunately not very full at the moment.”
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Seriously???
wow.. stunning.. given Obama and Amnesty, not admitting reality is the new black I guess...
Well, at least they'll be healthy....
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The Minnesota Department of Health says 8 of the state's 56 people being monitored for Ebola are “unreachable” at this time. The health department has had trouble contacting those 8 people through the information gathered by the CDC, but their plan is to continue following up. All 56 people in Minnesota's monitoring program are considered “low-risk.”
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BAMAKO (AFP) - Two people who died after exposure to the body of a Muslim cleric killed by Ebola in Mali were "highly suspected" of having contracted the virus, a government official said Friday.
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During a town hall meeting at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on Thursday, Army leadership told family members that the units now in West Africa could stay there up to a year.
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Thank you for all those links!
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Biden: U.S. Needs a Hospital That Can Handle Ebola In ‘Every State of the Union’
Pentagon to mobilize reserve soldiers for Ebola duty
Obama Immunizes Gov’t Contractors From Being Sued for Importing Ebola to US
This is worth posting in its entirety from the PFIF.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/11/14/patient-cured-ebola-in-ger
A Ugandan man hospitalized in Germany for the Ebola virus was treated with a biofiltration device that the creators believe will change the landscape in the fight against viral pathogens.
The Aethlon Medical team has created a device called the Hemopurifier, which works on the established infrastructure of dialysis machines already located in hospitals and clinics.
“It works within a dialysis machine, but the mechanism selectively targets viral pathogens and immunosuppressive toxins that they release,” James Joyce, the CEO of Aethlon Medical, told FoxNews.com.
The Hemopurifier is an extracorporeal biofiltration device that converges hollow-fiber filtration technology with immobilized affinity agents to allow for the rapid physical removal of virus and soluble viral glycoproteins from the blood. It mimics the natural immune system response for clearance of circulating virus and viral toxins before cells and organs can be infected, according to Joyce.
The patient was administered hemotherapy treatment for more than six hours and had no adverse effects.
The physicians measured data points related to the treatment. The patient was monitored for changes in viral load, with the hope being for a reduction. Before treatment, the viral load was measured at 400,000 copies per milliliter for the Ebola virus. At the end of treatment physicians measured a reduction to only 1,000 copies per milliliter for Ebola.
The patient is now free of the virus.
The FDA has approved an investigational device exemption for the Hemopurifier, which the creators see as an advancement of feasible studies in relation to use of the device in the U.S.
“You can’t recruit patients for obvious humanitarian reasons, so you’re limited to demonstrations of safety,” Joyce said. “In our case we can conduct replicative studies to demonstrate the ability to eliminate the targeted virus in a closed loop,” he said.
The company has run clinical trials overseas in patients with Hepatitis C and HIV.
The creators believe what sets the Hemopurifier apart from treatments currently available is that it doesn’t add any additional drugs to a patient’s therapy.
“A big challenge we will be dealing with is drug resistance,” Joyce said. “Drug resistance connotes that the patient is no longer responding to drug therapy, and we believe we can apply this treatment in combination with drug therapies and allow patients to continue to benefit from therapeutic drug therapies.”
“Think about how fast the Ebola virus can replicate, and at a certain point in the disease there’s a great advantage to single therapy [treatment]” Joyce said.
The World Health Organization reports that more than 5,000 people have died from the Ebola virus, and that it has infected more than 14,000.
Ebola Nurse: Stop calling me the 'Ebola Nurse' ("I tested negative in Christie’s private prison.)
Funny thing about Ebola. There have been quite a few people who tested "negative" who later tested "Positive". It's sneaky that way...
Man who died from Ebola endured treatment delays
Woman at Ben Taub will be tested for Ebola
Don't focus too much on Ebola, warns the Queen
...nor too little, I presume.
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"Soldiers returning from Africa will be housed for 21 days of observation at North Fort Hood barracks, post officials announced Tuesday. The facility could hold up to 100 troops at a time and will be operational by Friday …
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HAVANA (AP) — A member of the 165-member medical team Cuba sent to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with the disease, according to state media. Dr. Felix Baez Sarria is being treated by British
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WashingtonPost: Obama on Ebola in West Africa: ‘We are nowhere out of the woods’
Obama again called on Congress to appropriate more money to fight Ebola. Drew Angerer/Bloomberg President Obama said Tuesday that despite progress, West Africa is "nowhere near out of the woods" on Ebola.
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DailyBeast: Cubans, India Report New Ebola Cases 20 minutes ago
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A hospital patient is being tested for Ebola, health officials have today confirmed. Public Health England (PHE) said the man is being tested 'as a precaution', stressing they expect test results to show he is not infected.
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"Still recovering from years of conflict, Sierra Leone has seen at least 128 of its health personnel infected by Ebola as staff working in general wards and special treatment centres have been exposed to the disease. "Dr Michael Kargbo died this afternoon
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