Posted on 08/01/2014 8:13:13 PM PDT by blam
August 1, 2014
By Derek Gatherer, Lancaster University
It is 6am on a warm West African morning. Two men, Ahmed and Milton, are up early, getting ready for long journeys. Apart from that they have little in common.
Ahmed is a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Guinea. He is a successful doctor, drives a Mercedes and lives in an exclusive air-conditioned apartment block in the Kaloum district of Guinea's capital, Conakry. Milton has no steady job, no car and shares a crowded corrugated iron shed in East 3, the poorest part of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.
Ahmed is travelling today on important business, as he often does. Milton is simply fed up with living in poverty and is willing to risk his life to find something better. Their paths will cross in the evening of the following day, in Guéckédou, 500km to the east.
Guéckédou, situated in the eastern forested region of Guinea, is a small city, with a population of around 200,000. Even so, few people outside of Guinea had heard of it until March 2014, when it became the centre of the latest outbreak of Zaire Ebola virus, the deadliest member of the cluster of viruses that take their name from the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where they were first discovered in 1976.
Between 1976 and 2013, the virus caused 1,388 cases of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in the DRC and the neighbouring republics of Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville, killing 1,098 people, a 79% fatality rate.
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(Excerpt) Read more at allafrica.com ...
ditto
Recommended by someone here, I’m reading ‘ The Hot Zone.’
One of the symptoms of the Zaire Ebola strain is zombie-like behavior.
Good read except the last 3 pages.
Just heard on FoxNews that there are currently, since Febuary of this year, 1300+ cases.
From the article posted: “Between 1976 and 2013, the virus caused 1,388...”
1976-2013= 37 years = 1388 cases
Feb. 2014-July 2014 = six months = 1300 cases
Something is just not right
Who's going to want to be the next to fly on that plane? Will they be informed of the previous cargo/passenger?
What precautions do the flight crew get?
And so on.
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