>>May Almighty God help those people.
Joe,
That isn’t the worst of it.
The 200 death spike yesterday (9-9-2014) was from when the Ebola fomite “contamination cross over point.” That cross over happened ~16 August 2014 in Sierra Leone, West Africa, because that is where the death data came from.
I define the “fomite contamination cross over point” as the time when gross Ebola fomite contamination is such that anyone who went out in public with out BHL-4 P.P.E. and strict decontamination became Ebola fomite contaminated and then brought fomite contamination home to their private dwelling.
In so many words, this “Fomite contamination cross over point” has the same RO infection rate in densly populated areas an airbore pathogine
The burning datum for the arrival of “contamination cross over” would be Ebola infection outbreaks with high level government officials, like senior government ministers, or their immediate family in the Ebola affected countries.
And the flame for that datum just arrived, See —
Written by Rodney D. Sieh, rodney.sieh@frontpageafricaonline.com
Published: 10 September 2014
http://frontpageafricaonline.com/index.php/news/2974-ebola-hits-seat-of-liberian-presidency-1-dead-1-quarantined
Monrovia - Liberia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is also the seat of the Liberian presidency, has been hit by the deadly Ebola virus, FrontPageAfrica has learned.
On Monday, the Administrative Assistant to Foreign Minister Augustine Ngafuan reportedly died from what sources say is a suspected case of the deadly virus. Her husband, a staffer in the office of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, is currently under quarantine.
FrontPageAfrica is withholding the names of the officials because the government has not officially notified the public about the cases, so close to the Liberian presidency. Minister Ngafuan’s office is two floors below the floor now being used as the President’s office.
The wife of the President’s office staffer reportedly died on Monday and may have gotten the virus from a sister, who had previously died. A praying woman who reportedly had sessions and laid hands on the sister of the deceased Administrative Assistant, has also died.
Sources within the Executive Mansion informed FrontPageAfrica Wednesday that both the deceased Administrative Assistant in Minister Ngafuan’s office and her husband had been told not to return to the office until after 21 days.
“ They had not been coming to work for more than 21 days now,” the source, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not clothed with the authority to speak on the matter.
Minister Ngafuan is currently in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia attending an Emergency Meeting of the African Union’s Executive Council on the Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak. Attempts to reach the minister and his press aide have been unsuccessful. The AU members are recommending the urgent lifting of all travel bans imposed on countries affected by the Ebola outbreak in Africa.
[snip]
At least 160 health workers have been infected with the virus and 79 have died, in a nation that counted a paltry single doctor per 100,000 inhabitants at its onset. Landgren pointed out that the challenge also goes beyond the medical response.
“The enormous task of addressing Ebola has revealed persistent and profound institutional weaknesses, including in the security sector,” she said. “As the demands pile on, the police face monumental challenges in planning and implementing large scale operations.”
From the Comment section:
Jay Wion · Top Commenter · Works at NPRC
“...So, according to our LANS news confidential sources within the presidency, the person who died in the office of the Foreign Minister on Mionday is Mrs. Sharon Washington whose husband is J. Wesley Washington, a member of the Executive Mansion Presidential Press staff. LANS News is to air this story and the latest news on Ebola with its near 2300 deaths in West Africa and Liberia accounting for nearly half of all Ebola deaths in the next two hours.”
Liberia was worse, sooner than Sierra Leone.
Ebola outbreaks with Liberian government senior ministers and senior foriegn health care officials who have been visiting them in the late August to early September period will be showing up over the next 10 to 14 days.
Odds are better than even the Centers for Disease Control Director Tom Friedman will be among them.
We’ll see how much longer the AU, WHO, and UN vocal resistance to serious quarantine lasts.
“The enormous task of addressing Ebola has revealed persistent and profound institutional weaknesses, including in the security sector,” she said. “As the demands pile on, the police face monumental challenges in planning and implementing large scale operations.”
Yeah, no kidding. The countries’ executives, administrators and families are above the rules, Sawyer with ten times the status and perks.
President Sirleaf grasps that Ebola has become an existential crises for Liberia but maybe the tipping point has already occurred. Looking at the incomplete data from Liberia which is die enough, it is clear that they are totally swamped. Obama’s promise of a high tech 25 bed field hospital is futile gesture in light of the phantom patients that keep streaming from hiding places in search of medical help. How does one tracking these moving mini-hot zones in a crowded mobile urban environment?
Do you see any sign of a competent supply train in place at this time? As per your numbers and analysis, and that of others, if a supply bridgehead is established next week, it’s too little, too late, IMO.
I bet this development is behind the acknowledgement that possibly more than 4 are/have been treated for ebola in this country and that they won’t tell us who, where or how many.
There was a freeper on one of the threads yesterday who speculated just this. Turns out, I’d bet they were right.