Ebola outbreak - general thread #1

[Meryl12]

From what I have seen on television, infected people are walking (sometimes running) away from the hospitals because they don't like being in the hospitals. People are saying that they have stopped reporting to the hospitals because they don't want to go to the hospitals. That can only mean that they stay in their homes and are treated by their family until they die, and therefore infect everyone around them.
This explains why the Ebola outbreak is not contained.

 

[jjenny]

With some of the patients running around so much (even after they know they got Ebola), how are they going to contain it? And so much for us being told that after people develop Ebola, they don't feel like traveling (obviously bogus claim).
A doctor agreed to treat Ebola patient (who got it from Patrick Sawyer) in a hotel. Patient recovered, but the doctor got infected and subsequently died. Before he died, he himself infected a number of people. What in the world could possess a doctor to agree to treat Ebola patient in a hotel?

"According to him, Doctor Iyke Sam Enemuo who died from Ebola virus treated a diplomat, a staff of Economic Community of West Africa, ECOWAS, who escaped from a quarantine centre in Lagos to Port Harcourt."

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=184260

 

[atthelake]

http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Med-Center-to-Address-Possible-Transfer-of-Ebola-Patient-274003311.html
Ebola Patient Arrives At Nebraska Medical Center

Ebola patient Dr. Rick Sacra arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha at 6:38 a.m. Friday, a half-hour after his plane landed at Offutt Air Force Base. The Med Center will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. that will be streamed live on wowt.com.....As for why this patient is being treated here, Dr. Smith said based on the trajectory of the epidemic, "It seemed likely that we're going to continue to see people like this," and officials wanted to test facilities to prepare for the potential of additional cases....Along with the Med Center’s 10-bed Biocontainment Unit, there are only three other similar facilities in the United States. The list includes the unit at Emory University in Atlanta that is operated by the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana.

 

[Yoda]

"Sierra Leone will impose a four-day, countrywide "lockdown" starting Sept. 18, an escalation of efforts to halt the spread of Ebola across the West African country, a senior official in the president's office said on Friday."



http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/05/us-health-ebola-leone-idUSKBN0H029420140905

 

[Yoda]

With the current rate of growth in the hundreds of new cases per week and no easing of the rate of transmission, a jump into the quadruple digits seems to be where this unprecedented outbreak is heading, an epidemiologist working in the office of WHO Director General Margaret Chan said Friday.

http://www.baytoday.ca/content/news/national/details.asp?c=66073

 

[Yoda]

Sept 5th WHO update: 3944 cases 2097 deaths
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/5-september-2014-en.pdf?ua=1

 

[atthelake]

One hour special right now on NBC with Matt Laurer interviewing Dr. Brantley

Only 1 out of 45 of his first patients lived....

 

[jjenny]

One hour special right now on NBC with Matt Laurer interviewing Dr. Brantley

Only 1 out of 45 of his first patients lived....

That's only 2 % survival rate, not 50 % as we are told.

 

[jjenny]

http://www.wjbf.com/story/26451935/missionary-with-ebola-to-get-treatment-at-nebraska-hospital
Missionary infected with Ebola heading to Nebraska
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Sep 04, 2014 5:10 PM EST

A North Carolina-based charity says the missionary who was infected with Ebola while serving in Liberia is being flown to a Nebraska hospital for treatment.

A statement from SIM on Thursday says Dr. Rick Sacra is being flown to The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. He is expected to arrive on Friday and begin treatment in the hospital's Biocontainment Patient Care Unit....Sacra, a doctor from the Boston area, opted to head to Liberia after hearing that two other missionaries were sick. He was infected by the virus that has killed about 1,900 people.

The more Ebola patients they bring into US, the higher the chance somebody will make a mistake and it spreads. And now they don't even have any ZMAPP to give him.

 

[Soulmagent]

http://gawker.com/new-study-ebola-virus-will-likely-reach-the-u-s-by-l-1630618323

A new analysis of air traffic patterns by researchers shows that there's up to an 18 percent chance the Ebola virus will reach the U.S. by late September. Lead researcher Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern University told NPR, "What is happening in West Africa is going to get here. We can't escape that at this point."

Before you panic, know that if Ebola does hit the states, it would likely only be in "very small clusters of cases, between one and three." That's still not zero. In other western countries, the risk is even higher; according to the study, published Tuesday in PLOS Currents: Outbreaks, there's a 25 to 28 percent chance Ebola will hit the U.K. by the end of the month.

 

[trigger]

Deadly plague and botulism microbes found in US lab.

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29089867

 

[trigger]

Workers searching government laboratories in the United States in the wake of the July discovery of smallpox have found six more improperly stored, dangerous pathogens – including ricin, the neurotoxin botulism and the bacteria that causes plague.

http://m.smh.com.au/world/ricin-pla...operly-stored-in-us-labs-20140906-10dabb.html

 

[redheadedgal]

a look at NMC's biocontainment unit: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/09/0...ion-unit-where-american-ebola-patient-being/?


http://www.pressherald.com/wp-conte...ericans-Nebra_Acco-e1409911332894-250x250.jpg

 

[Yoda]

"The Hilton Hotel in Saint John, N.B., has been quarantined after a woman who just returned from a foreign country fell ill, according to a platoon chief on scene.

Responders wouldn't say which country she was in, only that it's not in North America.

“As a precautionary measure we’ve quarantined the building for now until we can determine what the cause of her illness is,” Saint John police Staff Sgt. Mike King.

"There was information passed on to us that caused us some concern."

People at the hotel have been told not to leave. The woman was taken to hospital.

The general manager of the hotel says the woman was found unconscious by cleaning staff."

JMO The staff must have seen something pretty alarming to think ebola.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-b...woman-had-visited-a-foreign-country-1.2758493

 

[matou]

Was just going to post the link about the hotel in St. John NB. If this is ebola, many people would have been exposed outside of the hotel as well.

 

[Yoda]

Was just going to post the link about the hotel in St. John NB. If this is ebola, many people would have been exposed outside of the hotel as well.

If she was so ill that she was found unconscious, I agree. It would seem she would have been infectious for at least one or two days before today, if it is ebola. JMO

 

[Yoda]

Lockdown lifted. She had travelled from Cameroon.
""So while she was in West Africa, it's clear she didn't go into any of the high-risk zones. So she isn't going to bring it back if she hasn't been exposed to it."


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/hilton-hotel-lockdown-lifted-in-saint-john-1.2758493

 

[Lyra500]

"The Hilton Hotel in Saint John, N.B., has been quarantined after a woman who just returned from a foreign country fell ill, according to a platoon chief on scene.

Responders wouldn't say which country she was in, only that it's not in North America.

“As a precautionary measure we’ve quarantined the building for now until we can determine what the cause of her illness is,” Saint John police Staff Sgt. Mike King.

"There was information passed on to us that caused us some concern."

People at the hotel have been told not to leave. The woman was taken to hospital.

The general manager of the hotel says the woman was found unconscious by cleaning staff."

JMO The staff must have seen something pretty alarming to think ebola.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-b...woman-had-visited-a-foreign-country-1.2758493

The article at the link has been updated to say that the lockdown has been lifted. They were just erring on the side of caution, but it sounds as if when they looked into it, it was not Ebola - indeed she was never even in the right countries to catch it. But since she was found unconscious, they probably would not have been able to ascertain that until later.

 

[Lyra500]

Vaccine tested in monkeys gave immunity for several months.

Not the Holy Grail of lifetime or decades long immunity, but given the severity of the disease at least it is a start. It just seems a terrible shame things had to get so out of control before the pharmaceutical industry got serious about getting on with developing vaccines and treatments. I know the profits are probably paltry in comparison to a new block buster drug for a condition prevalent amongst rich people in the developed world, but just now and again it would be nice if common decency and humanity counted for something when making priorities.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29076371

 

[Yoda]

Video showing how Liberia workers are going into the community and trying to identify anyone ill.
http://youtu.be/v6NcbqzcTt4