Ebola outbreak - general thread #1

[jjenny]

Ebola Spreading 'Exponentially' as Patients Seek Beds in Liberia

The Ebola virus is spreading exponentially across Liberia as patients fill taxis in a fruitless search for medical care, the World Health Organization said Monday.

In Sierra Leone, a doctor working for WHO tested positive and was preparing to be evacuated from the country. Meanwhile, the newest U.S. patient, a doctor infected in Liberia, was feeling a little better and could even eat a little, doctors treating him in Nebraska said.

The various reports illustrated in the clearest possible way the disparities driving the epidemic in West Africa, where there’s almost no medical system structure. The three patients evacuated to the United States have all begun to recover quickly once they get good supportive care, which includes around-the-clock nursing care and good nutrition.


read more ....... http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/eb...onentially-patients-seek-beds-liberia-n198516

They all began to recover quickly once they got good supportive care? It's not exactly accurate, is it? The two of them were being give experimental drugs, even before they got back to US. Dr. Brantly could even walk. The third one is also given some experimental drug from what has been reported.

 

[Yoda]

Ignorance is making me cautious. I am interested in seeing what happens in Nigeria. They jumped right on the infection and exposure. They have tracked those that they feel were exposed and quarantined them. Which IMO is wise. I am very uneasy about people being asked to self monitor and report as soon as they feel unwell. If we were potentially exposed, I am positive that a few members of my family, if they started feeling the symptoms, would ignore, deny, or try to wait it out for a day to two. Jmo

 

[popsicle]

US federal air marshal attacked with syringe in Lagos airport

The FBI and CDC are investigating an attack on a federal air marshal who was injected with a syringe full of an unknown substance inside the Lagos, Nigeria airport on Sunday, according to a Situational Awareness notice obtained by FoxNews.com.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...rshal-attacked-with-syringe-in-lagos-airport/


Shimon Prokupecz ‏@ShimonPro 9m
Tests on syringe that struck Federal Air Marshal in Lagos Nigeria so far has found nothing, the FBI sys.

 

[Yoda]

a patient on admission at the OAU Health Centre was a suspected Ebola Virus Disease victim.
Though the management of the school initially denied the development but the Oyo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Temitope Ilori, said the sick student had confessed having contact with the late Port Harcourt doctor, Iyke Enemuo, who died of the EVD after he secretly treated an infected ECOWAS diplomat, Olu-Ibukun Koye, in a hotel in the Rivers State capital.

http://thecitizenng.com/headline-2/...antine-confesses-contact-with-late-dr-enemuo/

 

[Yoda]

Possible case in Spain.
http://www.efe.com/efe/noticias/esp...posible-caso-ebola-sestao-bizcaia/1/5/2410153

 

[jjenny]

Ignorance is making me cautious. I am interested in seeing what happens in Nigeria. They jumped right on the infection and exposure. They have tracked those that they feel were exposed and quarantined them. Which IMO is wise. I am very uneasy about people being asked to self monitor and report as soon as they feel unwell. If we were potentially exposed, I am positive that a few members of my family, if they started feeling the symptoms, would ignore, deny, or try to wait it out for a day to two. Jmo

They did quarantine the contacts, but several of the patients run away. And self monitoring gotta be even more unreliable than quarantine.

 

[Yoda]

Ignorance is making me cautious. I am interested in seeing what happens in Nigeria. They jumped right on the infection and exposure. They have tracked those that they feel were exposed and quarantined them. Which IMO is wise. I am very uneasy about people being asked to self monitor and report as soon as they feel unwell. If we were potentially exposed, I am positive that a few members of my family, if they started feeling the symptoms, would ignore, deny, or try to wait it out for a day to two. Jmo

Clarifying my post: My ignorance is making me cautious.

 

[fran]

Ebola Outbreak Is a ‘Serious Threat’ to Liberia’s Existence, Says Minister

https://time.com/3315000/liberia-ebola-existence-civil-war/




Ebola death toll rises to 2,296 as Liberia struggles to keep up

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ises-to-2296-as-liberia-struggles-to-keep-up/

 

[Yoda]

Italy case tested negative.
The only Senegal case has recovered.

http://lufkindailynews.com/news/int...4cd-3447-51d4-a412-29e89e54e8d9.html?mode=jqm

 

[Yoda]

Gates Foundation pledges $50 million, to be released immediately.

The U.S.-based philanthropic foundation said it would release funds immediately to U.N. agencies and international organisations to help them buy supplies and scale up the emergency response in affected countries.

It will also work with public and private sector partners to speed up to development of drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics that could be effective in treating Ebola patients and preventing further spread of the haemorrhagic fever-causing virus.


"We are working urgently with our partners to identify the most effective ways to help them save lives now and stop transmission of this deadly disease," Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the Foundation's chief executive officer, said in a statement.

http://af.reuters.com/article/nigeriaNews/idAFL5N0RB1O420140910

 

[Lyra500]

For those in the UK, Horizon special on Ebola just started on BBC2

 

[HMSHood]

Ebola Outbreak Is a ‘Serious Threat’ to Liberia’s Existence, Says Minister

https://time.com/3315000/liberia-ebola-existence-civil-war/




Ebola death toll rises to 2,296 as Liberia struggles to keep up

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ises-to-2296-as-liberia-struggles-to-keep-up/

I suspect there are way more cases of Ebola unreported. :notgood:

 

[Yoda]

Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg told DW that he and his colleagues are losing hope for Sierra Leone and Liberia."The right time to get this epidemic under control in these countries has been missed," he said. That time was May and June. "Now it is too late."
Schmidt-Chanasit expects the virus will "burn out itself" in this part of the world.
With other words: It will more or less infect everybody and half of the population - in total about five million people - could die.
Schmidt-Chanasit knows that it is a hard thing to say.For Sierra Leone and Liberia, though, he thinks "it is far from reality to bring enough help there to get a grip on the epidemic."
According to the virologist, the most important thing to do now is to prevent the virus from spreading to other countries, "and to help where it is still possible, in Nigeria and Senegal for example."

Jochen Moninger, Sierra Leone based coordinator of Welthungerhilfe, an aid organization, told DW, Schmidt-Chanasit's statement is "dangerous and moreover, not correct." Moninger has been living in Sierra Leone for four years and has experienced the Ebola outbreak there from the beginning.
"The measures are beginning to show progress," he says. "If I had lost hope completely, I would pack my things and take my family out of here".

http://www.dw.de/virologist-fight-against-ebola-in-sierra-leone-and-liberia-is-lost/a-17915090

 

[Lyra500]

Doctor on UK C4 News - at this rate without intervention, in Liberia, 8000 cases in four weeks from now.

They are turning away 30 cases per day in just one location due to lack of capacity. Each turned away case gives rise to at least two new cases.

"You cannot rule out a Doomsday scenario. "

 

[Lyra500]

South African who has been working in Guinea and Sierra Leone

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/09/11/us-health-ebola-nigeria-idUKKBN0H613M20140911

(Reuters) - Nigerian health authorities said on Thursday they were holding for Ebola testing a South African national in transit to her country because she was showing potential symptoms of the disease after working in Guinea and Sierra Leone.

 

[Lyra500]

This is article from the front line in Liberia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29147797

With warnings from officials that the Ebola virus is "spreading like wildfire" in Liberia, Sarah Crowe, who works for the UN children's agency (Unicef), describes her week on the Ebola front line:

 

[atthelake]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/11/experimental-ebola-treatment/15443441/

American Ebola patient got transfusion from cured doctor

Physician Richard Sacra, who is being treated at the Nebraska Medical Center's special biocontainment unit, received the blood donation from doctor Kent Brantly, who was treated for Ebola and released from an Atlanta hospital last month. Both men contracted Ebola while caring for patients in Monrovia, Liberia, while working for missionary groups.

 

[Yoda]

The number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo doubled over the past week to 62. Thirty-five of the Congo patients have died, the W.H.O. said, including seven health care workers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/w...ble-in-democratic-republic-of-congo.html?_r=0

 

[Yoda]

The football federation said it had teamed up with the World Health Organisation and the United Nations to transform the Antoinette Tubman Stadium for use in the fight against the epidemic.The stadium, would "serve as the site for two urgently needed large-scale Ebola treatment units," it said.

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/in...d-to-virus-treatment-centre-fifa-says/1367457

 

[Yoda]

Another doctor from Sierra Leone who has tested positive for Ebola will be evacuated for medical treatment, an official said Thursday, making her the first citizen of a hard-hit country to be treated abroad.

Dr. Olivette Buck is the fourth Sierra Leonean doctor to contract the disease — and the three others all have died. Arrangements are being made to send her to another country for better treatment, said Health Ministry spokesman Sidie Yahya Tunis without specifying further.

http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/1b3c3022cfd8427d8fe461b8445039d7/Ebola/