Last Ebola-free region of Liberia falls to virus

News24 ^ | Aug 23, 2014

[Covenantor]

"...Aid workers said crematoriums in the capital of Monrovia were struggling to deal with bodies arriving every day, and earlier this week..."

[Covenantor]

Hot Zone continues to grow

[Cowboy Bob]

Ebola: The ISIS of viruses?

[VTenigma]

And the WHO numbers remain steady, does anyone else call B/S?

[Covenantor]

Ebola: The ISIS of viruses?

In the immortal words of William Jefferson Bythe Clinton:

"Depends on what Is Is..."

[Covenantor]

And the WHO numbers remain steady, does anyone else call B/S?

While WHO has soft peddle their numbers in some past instances bowing to UN political pressures, in this instance Ebola has just overwhelmed the health workers strugling to deal with the Ebola outbreak. They are woefully understaffed, contracting the disease themselves.

Add to that the uncountable possible cases in the Liberian cordoned off ghettos and the "ghost patients previously unknown hidden cases, drifting into care centers and the scope of the problem becomes evident. And then there is the matter of false negative test results on the living and dead.

It's not like taking morning roll call at summer camp. So the usual Fri afternoon WHO report does get adjust and data anomalys sometimes appear.

[huldah1776]

Two nurses of my mom’s friend have family there and are petrified for them.

[Robe]

Reading “The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston... Truly one of the most terrifying books I've ever read...he describes that during the last stages, the victim actually bleeds thru the skin, eyes all body orifices, then goes into horrible seizures spraying the room with contaminated liquids.
Most horrifying

[null and void]

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

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...

[null and void]

Me too.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

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

[Jane Long]

Yikes. How do you contain THAT, in a third world situation? Therein lies the terribly sad problem :(

[Veto!]

Ebola: The ISIS of viruses?

And ISIS is the Ebola of humanity.

[Veto!]

I’m reading it too…about 70 pages to go. Monkeys are melting in their cages..Really, it’s a bad choice for bedside reading.

I hope zMapp and the vaccine being tested by Canadian company , Tekmira, will be effective enough to be released soon.

[null and void]

Perhaps better bedside reading than breakfast table reading...

[PJ-Comix]

I’m still not figuring out why the two American ebola patients at Emory were simply declared “cured.” That’s it? So they are supposedly safe to just go out into society with no more quarantine. No chance of relapse?

[Black Agnes]

You don’t contain it.

Which is why I fully expect the West Point slum to be an inhuman place within a month or 6w.

I sincerely hope I’m wrong.

[Robe]

I guess that once the virus runs it’s course it dies leaving antibodies to prevent a relapse.
Don’t take that as gospel.. I’m no doctor

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[steve86]

"Two nurses of my mom’s friend"

I've never heard that expression before but prayers for the families just the same.