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Ebola outbreak sweeping West Africa started with two-year-old boy infected by a fruit bat
Daily Mail ^ | 24 August 2014 | Paul Donnelley for MailOnline

Posted on 08/24/2014 5:13:33 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister

"The largest outbreak of the deadly disease Ebola was caused by an infected bat biting a toddler say a group of international researchers.

The 17-strong team of European and African tropical disease researchers, ecologists and anthropologists have spent three weeks investigating the outbreak of the disease in Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Nigeria.

The researchers captured the bats and other creatures near the village of Meliandoua in remote eastern Guinea, where the present epidemic began in December 2013."

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ebola; ebolaorigin; ebolaoutbreak; epidemic; fruitbat; guinea; obama; origins; outbreak; pandemic
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I thought all my fellow FReepers would find this important to know.
1 posted on 08/24/2014 5:13:33 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
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Ebola news.


2 posted on 08/24/2014 5:14:11 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: CorporateStepsister

A near relative of the Moon Bat?


3 posted on 08/24/2014 5:16:52 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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Thanks. Very scary to think of the impact if it got into the animal population here.


4 posted on 08/24/2014 5:18:27 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (I want a Speaker who'll stick that pen and phone where no one but Reggie Love can find it!)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Fruit bats, however, are widely eaten in rural west Africa – either smoked, grilled or in a spicy soup


I’ll pass.


5 posted on 08/24/2014 5:18:49 PM PDT by boycott
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I was at a postoffice in Houston on Thursday, waiting in line. The black woman behind me was finishing some paperwork for priority mail. I glanced at it and she was sending envelopes to the Cammeroon Embassy in Washington DC. I looked up Camaroon on a map and it wasn’t good.

She didn’t cough or sneeze on me and I didn’t touch anything she had touched but it gave me a creepy feeling just standing next to her.


6 posted on 08/24/2014 5:20:04 PM PDT by Ditter
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“The 17-strong team of European and African tropical disease researchers, ecologists and anthropologists have spent three weeks investigating the outbreak of the disease in Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Nigeria.”

About as believable as one of BLS’s statistics!


7 posted on 08/24/2014 5:26:09 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (If you are reading this then you are probably one of the NWO designated 6.5 billion excess people.)
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Although the child in question did not get Ebola virus from another human, note that one of the reasons that virus may be spreading in Africa is because of lax quarantine procedures.
FR: Report: Ebola Virus Spread Because of Lax Quarantine Enforcement

8 posted on 08/24/2014 5:33:00 PM PDT by Amendment10
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Apparently bats are a well known vector for the virus.


9 posted on 08/24/2014 5:33:28 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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10 posted on 08/24/2014 5:34:57 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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Mixed Ebola strains now in new outbreak in Congo

“Dr. Niman over at rhizalabs is noting his concern about the reporting of a possible Ebola recombinant.

Dr. Niman comments:

Media reports describe the two confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as a Sudan cases and a mixture of Sudan and Zaire, raising concerns of a recombinant.

Dr. Niman’s next post follows:

Congo declares Ebola outbreak in northern Equateur province
KINSHASA Mon Aug 25, 2014 12:42am IST

Numbi said that one of the two cases that tested positive was for the Sudanese strain of the disease, while the other was a mixture between the Sudanese and the Zaire strain — the most lethal variety. “

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/08/24/us-health-ebola-congodemocratic-idINKBN0GO0R520140824


11 posted on 08/24/2014 5:41:25 PM PDT by Gadsden1st
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Personally, I’ve thought about moving to Sandpoint, Idaho.

Safety from all sorts of things is a BIG issue these days.


12 posted on 08/24/2014 5:47:30 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coups d’état .)
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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...

13 posted on 08/24/2014 6:26:21 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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God help us.


14 posted on 08/24/2014 6:28:19 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: Caipirabob

Apparently bats are a well known vector for the virus.

........

I thought bats were considered more a reservoir than a vector.


15 posted on 08/24/2014 6:31:02 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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16 posted on 08/24/2014 6:36:12 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Now that the ecologists are involved global warming will be the cause.
Speaking of fruit bats anyone been to the west coast lately/s


17 posted on 08/24/2014 7:08:45 PM PDT by glyptol
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I’m more worried about the Sumatran Rat Monkey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braindead_%28film%29

The “Sumatran Rat-Monkey” is a hybrid creature that, “according to legend”, resulted from the rape of tree monkeys on Skull Island by plague-carrying rats.


18 posted on 08/24/2014 7:48:06 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SOUL BROTHER! This house is not armed! (Signs people thought would protect them in the 1960s))
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To: CorporateStepsister
Watch out for those fruit bats.


19 posted on 08/24/2014 8:07:39 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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Ping...


20 posted on 08/24/2014 9:27:01 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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