Data on cases of Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola are being reclassified and no nation-wide data can be reported today."
Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola - update 13
And other excellent comments:
Well, HOW MANY cases and deaths are known to be occurring???????
We know that they're not telling us the truth. Our "trackers" here on FR can tell you different numbers. They stopped reporting numbers on Mondayish. I haven't seen any real updates since then and nothing saying it's any better either. So, that only leaves me to draw a very bad conclusion along with the new warnings on travel
As many of us have surmised, there has been a data blackout. Someone commented on the disturbing silence.
Indeed.
If this continues to follow the growth curve, then we would expect that the cumulative number of cases, and the active cases (cumulative cases minus deaths), to be:
| Date | Cumulative Cases | Active Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today, 4/15 | 330 | 115 | |
| Saturday, 4/16 | 369 | 154 | |
| Sunday, 4/17 | 413 | 198 |
Either this thing is under control, or when they finally begin to release data again, we may see a comparitive explosion of cases.
Re-classified? Does this mean they got a bunch of test results from the CDC? If it has been classified as Marburg, and has been re-classified as NOT Marburg, why? Is there some other hemorrhagic fever in play, here?
Or vice-versa--sometimes it takes more than one test to identify Marburg in a patient. There have been cases of false negatives. We could be seeing substantially higher official numbers.
I wish they would be more specific in the reporting.