Posted on 10/25/2014 11:21:52 PM PDT by knak
As the largest recorded Ebola epidemic in West Africa has infected over 10,000 people, a Belgian newspaper publishes rare footage from 1976 when the deadly virus was first identified in Congo, or in Zaire as it was then known.
The three videos were recently released by the Institute of Tropical Medicine and were published by the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws on Tuesday.
In 1976, a group of researchers headed by Belgian scientist Peter Piot who travelled to the remote village of Yambuku in the Republic of Zaire (currently the Democratic Republic of Congo). The scientists went to Africa to study what they thought to be the Marburg virus – a hemorrhagic fever virus that was discovered a few years earlier.
More and video at link.
http://rt.com/news/199304-ebola-disease-video-discovery/
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I’m getting Ebola mixed up with Obola. I was thinking “Discovery in 1976? I thought he was older than that!
#ebowla Latest Ebola virus symptoms: an elevated temperature and a desire to bowl a few frames, you know, get out and knock down some pins.
Army Colonel James Cummings, a doctor and director of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System in the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, said the battle against the virus since the outbreak began in West Africa in March focuses on trying to stop disease transmission.
“We had a large footprint in Africa,” Cummings said of the Defense Department’s response to the first Ebola cases reported in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire. Since that time, the Defense Department has answered numerous calls for assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO), nongovernmental organizations and ministries of heath and defense, he said.
Almost 40 years ago, and suddenly gee whiz now out of the blue it suddenly shows up in the USA. At the same time we have a radical Muslim from Africa as President. Right before an election.
Every time a republican mentions the president on the MSM, they should make a Freudian slip and call him President Obala.
That will drive the Liberals nuts!
Want to learn something? Personal protective gear and decontamination procedures—very well produced presentation. Some soldiers, Marines and others will recognize at least some of the steps.
A TASTE OF REMOVING AN EBOLA DEAD BODY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiwipDyfz_I
Thanks for that. Quite a lot of work. The video says removing one Ebola corpse takes about four hours. I can understand burial or incineration taking that long, but removal from the household? I;m glad that most the video’s message is done via action, because I can barely understand the speech of Mark, one of the medical staff. I almost need subtitles.
You can tell they take this dead seriously, yet, they are surrounded at all times by photographers who wear no protection whatsoever, not even shoe sole covers. I pray for their safety and their continued courage. The music playing in the background belies the profound seriousness and urgency of this task. It has a slow, lilting, lanquid tempo, flowered up by flutes and a samba like sound. I wish I could buy or capture that kind of music for times when I need that quality of sound and melody.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Bttt
Nice movie, but it could use a few subtitles.
There are quite a few movies now, showing various aspects of dealing with the Ebola outbreak. There just aren’t enough people to handle all of the cases, so it spreads.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Thanks for the ping!
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