Posted on 09/30/2014 8:38:17 PM PDT by iowamark
With quick and coordinated action by some of its top doctors, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, appears to have contained its first Ebola outbreak, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.
As the epidemic rages out of control in three nations only a few hundred miles away, Nigeria is the only country to have beaten back an outbreak with the potential to harm many victims in a city with vast, teeming slums.
“For those who say it’s hopeless, this is an antidote — you can control Ebola,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the C.D.C.
Although officials are pleased that success was achieved in a country of 177 million that is a major transport and business hub — and whose largest city, Lagos, has 21 million people — the lessons here are not easily applicable to the countries at the epicenter: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Public health officials in those countries remain overwhelmed by the scale of the outbreak and are desperate for additional international assistance.
Nigeria’s outbreak grew from a single airport case, while in the three other countries the disease smoldered for months in remote rain-forest provinces and spread widely before a serious response was mounted.
Ebola, Dr. Frieden said, “won’t blow over — you have to make a rapid, intense effort.”
While the danger in Nigeria is not over, the health minister, Dr. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said in a telephone interview that his country was now better prepared, with six laboratories able to make diagnoses and response teams and isolation wards ready in every major state.
After the first patient — a dying Liberian-American — flew into Lagos on July 20, Ebola spread to 20 other people there and in a smaller city, Port Harcourt...
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Very pleasantly surprised to see Nigeria capable of getting its act together to this degree. Now lets see if they can apply the same level of common sense to their Muslim problems.
I do not believe this. The government lies to control masses.
I believe the NY Times like I believe.....
God bless them and keep them safe.
Now you’ve done it! Don’t you understand, Ebola can NOT be stopped and it is the harbinger of DOOM for mankind. Civilization will shortly come to an abrupt halt and the end is upon us!
Don’t you read the apocalyptic posts of so many alarmists on FR who have already declared that there is nothing that will stop the end of times that has been thrust upon us?
Ditto.
LOL, nothing to worry about, says...”Pox.”
;)
It’s BS.
Maybe the CDC can take a few pointers from the Nigerians. /s
Nothing to hyperventilate over at this point in time, but the situation bears watching and keeping up to date over.
I'm not particularly worried about it at this time due to what I've personally learned about the situation with much research and reason.
The one thing that just irritates me to no end is the unbridled alarmist posts I've read on the forum over the last two months on this subject and the surreal predictions that have been submitted by those who claim to possess superior knowledge upon this subject.
Meh!
Oh, and I understand the “point” you made in your post. :)
My worry level is about at “stay up all night reading FR for updates” level, which is pretty much where it has been stuck since November 2008.
My level is basically check in when I don’t have anything better to do, but stay abreast of developments.
Being wary and cautious is normal, but to obsess over this issue is not warranted at this time, IMO.
Why does the CDC own a patent on Ebola ‘invention?’
http://www.naturalnews.com/046290_ebola_patent_vaccines_profit_motive.html#
Really? The New York Slimes? It publishes nothing but lie after lie. As far back as April 1912, it was not accurate in the reporting of the RMS Titanic. Facts were, are and will be unknown to that subversive rag.
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