Liberia Records 2nd Ebola Death [Here we go again]

Sentinel Republic ^ | 7-18-15 | Jenny Christie

[markomalley]

A health report sent to officials in the anti-Ebola response unit said the woman died a few hours after admission, indicating that surveillance of known contacts from the earlier cases had not been rigorous enough.

The Ebola outbreak has killed more than 11,200 people, mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

The patient was on the list of contacts of the other cases, UNMEER said, adding that 132 contacts are being monitored in Montserrado and Margibi counties.

Liberian health authorities announced on Wednesday a second patient had died in the resurgence, the first case to be reported in the capital, Monrovia.

Thirty cases were reported last week in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

Commissioner for worldwide Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica said, “It’s important to remember that this Ebola epidemic has not just had an impact on the healthcare of the countries affected, it’s also crippled their economies, kept children out of school and brought trade to a standstill”.

This maybe a case of Ebola transmitted via sexual intercourse as it remained latent for a certain period before being set-off again by the survivor.

Liberia was declared Ebola-free on May 9 but reported a new case almost two months later.

In an update yesterday, the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) said the woman died Jul 12 on arrival at the Eternal Love Winning Africa Ebola Treatment Unit. Family came to visit them and now someone has died of Ebola.

Tests on the 17-year-old showed the variant which killed him was genetically similar to the 2014 outbreak.

The authors said their vaccine is the first inhalable one to be tested against Ebola or any other viral hemorrhagic fever virus. The virus can stay in the body for months after symptoms end and doctors believe it may be possible to still infect someone else via bodily fluids.

There were 30 confirmed Ebola cases reported in the week to Sunday, according to the World Health Organization – 13 in Guinea, three in Liberia and 14 in Sierra Leone.

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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......

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

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...

[Covenantor]

...Eternal Love Winning Africa Ebola Treatment Unit....

My brain just can not parse that.

[Covenantor]

Link to similar news item but includes reference to new inhaleable vaccine progress.

http://scienceblog.com/79283/liberias-ebola-cluster-grows-6-cases/#M6VZvKWh92x0zRtE.97

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

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

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the ping. Saw that on the Pandemic Flu Information Forum. It is not going away.

[Smokin' Joe]

You're Welcome, PA Engineer.

No, sadly and despite continuing efforts, it hasn't gone away.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Terrific. Just swell.

[Therapsid]

For sure you wont hear about it......

[metmom]

What caused the last epidemic to halt and it to reappear?

Has it got something to do with the weather? The rainy or dry season or something.

[Smokin' Joe]

If you are referring to last year's epidemic, there was a reduction in new cases due to attrition and prevention, existing cases resolved, but it didn't halt.

We got a new Ebola Czar, and the reporting went away.

Liberia had reached the point where there were no new cases reported for a while, but with porous borders with Guinea and Sierra Leone people brought the disease back in.