Toronto hospital testing recent traveller to West Africa for Ebola

Lethbridge Herald ^ | 03/18/2015

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• Toronto hospital testing recent traveller to West Africa for Ebola

  TORONTO – A person who recently travelled in West Africa is being assessed in a Toronto hospital to see if she has Ebola. But an infectious diseases expert at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre says the likelihood the person will test positive for the ...

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[bgill]

The fact we’re having to test for Ebola doesn’t leave one with a warm and fuzzy feeling.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

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If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

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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...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Smokin' Joe]

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