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.
11th Sierra Leonean doctor dies from Ebola; fire destroys supplies
Ebola Air Ambulance Scheduled to Go to Canary Islands in Spain
Ebola toll rises to more than 6,900: WHO
Sierra Leone to start house-to-house searches for Ebola patients
Scientists Debate If It's OK To Make Viruses More Dangerous In The Lab
NIH Had No $$$ for Ebola Vaccine, Spent $100 Million on Meditation
Attkisson said, “I called CDC not long ago and I said how many cases are being monitored in the United States and they said 1,400. I said, ‘Where are these updates on your website? ‘ They said they’re not putting it on the web.
Pretty much confirms my suspicions. It's an absence of reporting. Well, that brings the CDC to the level of the Government of Sierra Leone. More third-worlding by the Obamites.
Attkisson: CDC Not Telling Public About Possible Ebola Cases (1,400 possible cases in the US)
A man suffering from Ebola-like symptoms was rushed from an Upper West Side apartment building to Bellevue Hospital on Tuesday, authorities said.
The patient recently returned from Liberia and started suffering symptoms such as high fever Saturday night, sources said.
Hazmat, police officers, EMS and fire officials helped transport the man from the building at 201 W. 70th St. near Amsterdam Avenue just before noon, FDNY said.
“We are taking precautions,” said fire officials. The person is currently being evaluated.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/23/man-exhibiting-ebola-like-symptoms-rushed-to-bellevue/
Feds give emergency approval to new Ebola testing kit for Americans,
Hollow tree was Ebola's Ground Zero, scientists say
(Is the 'cabbage patch' next? The tree can't get sick.)
This is the BBC Take on the Glasgow Ebola case.
Key information —
Patient flight details - 28 December
Flight AT596 from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to Casablanca
Flight AT0800 from Casablanca to London Heathrow
Flight BA1478 from London Heathrow to Glasgow, arriving 23:30
The HCW was symptomatic on the flight.
Now we get to see how good Algeria’s disease tracing system. is.
Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow hospital
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-30628349
29 December 2014
A healthcare worker who has just returned from West Africa has been diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated in hospital in Glasgow.
The woman, who arrived from Sierra Leone on Sunday night, is in isolation at Glasgow’s Gartnavel Hospital.
All possible contacts with the case are being investigated, including on flights to Scotland via Heathrow.
UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed that the woman would be taken to a specialist unit in London.
She will be flown from Glasgow and taken to the Royal Free Hospital in north London “as soon as we possibly can,” Mr Hunt said.
It is expected she will be transferred overnight by air ambulance.
The hospital has a specialist isolation unit and treated William Pooley, the British nurse who contracted and recovered from Ebola.
Low risk
Mr Hunt said the government was doing “absolutely everything it needs to be” to keep the UK safe.
He insisted NHS processes “worked well” after the woman starting exhibiting symptoms.
The health secretary added: “We are also reviewing our procedures and protocols for all the other NHS workers who are working at the moment in Sierra Leone.”
Nicola Sturgeon: Ebola risk ‘extremely low’
Charity Save the Children confirmed the woman was an NHS health worker who was working with them at the Ebola Treatment Centre in Kerry Town, Sierra Leone.
The organisation’s humanitarian director, Michael von Bertele, said: “Save the Children is working closely with the UK government, Scottish government and Public Health England to look into the circumstances surrounding the case.”
At a news conference in Glasgow, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon stressed that the risk to the general public was very low.
She added that the patient was thought to have had contact with only one other person since arriving in the city, but that all passengers on the flights the woman took will be traced.
Ms Sturgeon said: “Apart from other passengers on the flights and obviously the hospital staff since this patient’s admittance to hospital, she, the patient is thought to have had contact with only one other person in Scotland since returning to Scotland last night and that person will also be contacted and given appropriate reassurance.”
Glasgow Ebola case
Patient flight details - 28 December
Flight AT596 from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to Casablanca
Flight AT0800 from Casablanca to London Heathrow
Flight BA1478 from London Heathrow to Glasgow, arriving 23:30
Reuters
Alisdair MacConachie, of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said: “She’s being managed in an isolation facility by staff who are comfortable managing patients in such a situation. She herself is quite stable and is not showing any great clinical concern at the minute.”
NHS Scotland said infectious diseases procedures had been put into effect at the Brownlee Unit for Infectious Diseases at Gartnavel.
Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with the bodily fluids - such as blood, vomit or faeces - of an infected person.
The patient returned to Scotland from Sierra Leone late on Sunday via Casablanca and London Heathrow, arriving into Glasgow Airport on a British Airways flight at about 23:30.
While public health experts have emphasised that the risks are negligible, a telephone helpline has been set up for anyone who was on the BA 1478 Heathrow to Glasgow flight. The number is: 08000 858531
The woman had been admitted to hospital early on Monday morning after feeling unwell and was placed into isolation at 07.50.
The early symptoms are a sudden fever, muscle pain, fatigue, headache and sore throat.
This is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, a rash and bleeding - both internal and external - which can be seen in the gums, eyes, nose and in the stools.
Patients tend to die from dehydration and multiple organ failure.
A British Airways spokesman said: “We are working closely with the health authorities in England and Scotland and will offer assistance with any information they require.
“The safety and security of our customers and crew is always our top priority and the risk to people on board that individual flight is extremely low.”
Ms Sturgeon has chaired a meeting of the Scottish Government Resilience Committee (SGoRR) and has also spoken to Prime Minister David Cameron.
Mr Hunt is to chair a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee on Monday evening.
The patient had travelled from Freetown in Sierra Leone via Casablanca
Ms Sturgeon said: “Our first thoughts at this time must be with the patient diagnosed with Ebola and their friends and family. I wish them a speedy recovery.
“Scotland has been preparing for this possibility from the beginning of the outbreak in West Africa and I am confident that we are well prepared.”
Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer for England, said: “It is important to be reassured that although a case has been identified, the overall the risk to the public continues to be low.
“We have robust, well-developed and well-tested NHS systems for managing unusual infectious diseases when they arise, supported by a wide range of experts. The UK system was prepared, and reacted as planned, when this case of Ebola was identified.”
From the folks who wrote the book (well, handout) on Ebola safety protocols...
Back story in the links in the post this one responds to.
If true, score one for Thud.
Iraqi and Kurdish media are reporting an Ebola outbreak among ISIS forces.
See:
www.breitbart.com/ebola/2015/01/01/iraqi-and-kurdish-media-reports-isis-fighters-have-contracted-ebola/
bttt
It is not looking good for the UK nurse infected with Ebola.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/03/world/europe/uk-ebola-nurse/index.html
Laura Smith-Spark January 3, 2015
Pauline Cafferkey, 39, of Glasgow is the first person to have been diagnosed with the virus on UK soil.
The Royal Free Hospital said her condition “has gradually deteriorated over the past two days and is now critical.”
The hospital said Wednesday that Cafferkey had decided to have blood plasma treatment — using plasma from Ebola survivors — and to take an experimental antiviral drug.
British Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted that his thoughts and prayers are with Cafferkey.
The Royal Free Hospital is equipped with a high-level isolation unit where access is restricted to specially trained medical staff. A specially designed tent with controlled ventilation is over the patient’s bed.
Another British volunteer nurse, William Pooley, was treated in the unit after his return home from Sierra Leone in August after being diagnosed with Ebola.
British media outlets have said Cafferkey is a public health nurse who was part of a 30-strong team of medical volunteers deployed to Sierra Leone by the UK government last month in a joint endeavor with the charity Save the Children.
Cafferkey traveled back from Sierra Leone via Casablanca, Morocco, and London Heathrow Airport before arriving at Glasgow Airport on a British Airways flight late on December 28, the health agency NHS Scotland said.
After feeling unwell, she sought medical attention and was transferred to London on a military aircraft fitted with an isolation pod.
Amid concerns about the possible spread of the disease, authorities have been working to contact all those who may have come into contact with Cafferkey as she traveled back to Scotland.
What to know about Ebola
Public Health England, a government agency, said it had contacted all 101 UK-based passengers and crew who flew from Casablanca to Heathrow, while its Scottish counterpart had reached all 71 passengers and crew members who traveled from Heathrow to Glasgow.
“Passengers given advice & reassurance. Additional 31 international passengers being contacted by international public health authorities,” Public Health England said on Twitter.
The government has said the risk of infection to other passengers is “considered extremely low.”
The number of deaths in the three West African countries where the outbreak is centered has climbed to 7,989 as of December 31, the World Health Organization said Friday.
There have been more than 20,000 confirmed, probable and suspected cases in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, the WHO said.
2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa - Cumulative Reported Cases Graphs
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