Ebola outbreak - general thread #9

[SCHMAE]

Tinfoil hat alert!
How many people within the US currently have ebola ? TIA

 

[jjenny]

Tinfoil hat alert!
How many people within the US currently have ebola ? TIA

None known. Last patient (Dr. Salia) died in November.

 

[SteveS]

It's interesting how, instead of the apocalyptic predictions by some, the disease is waning once the easy targets and lax concern went away, as common sense predicted. 6-8 weeks ago, some were issuing warnings of an unstoppable disease and 170,000 with the disease by mid-December, and instead we're discussing deaths of 1 here and another there, not of 10's of 1000s. Hard work trumps fear-mongering.

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[Elley Mae]

Ebola crisis: Sierra Leone case number surpasses Liberia

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30387906

Liberia: Mass Gathering Banned

http://allafrica.com/stories/201412051517.html

 

[atthelake]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/09/ebola-airport-screening/20148019/

Airport screenings haven't turned up any Ebola patients

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/09/us-health-ebola-vaccine-idUSKBN0JN1S920141209

U.S. agency offers legal immunity to Ebola vaccine makers

http://www.modernghana.com/news/583532/1/ebola-virus-in-semen-of-men-who-have-recovered-fro.html

EBOLA VIRUS IN SEMEN OF MEN WHO HAVE RECOVERED FROM EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE
By World Health Organization (WHO)

GENEVA, Switzerland, November 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Key Messages

&#8226; Sexual transmission of Ebola virus disease has not been documented

&#8226; In four studies that investigated persistence of Ebola virus in seminal fluid from convalescent patients (a total of 43 patients), three men who had recovered from Ebola virus disease were reported to shed live virus in semen 40 days, 61 days and 82 days after onset of symptoms, respectively.

 

[SCHMAE]

Dbm

 

[SCHMAE]

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[SCHMAE]

DBM again, sorry Bosses !

 

[atthelake]

lol Yoda - stick with it!

http://guardianlv.com/2014/12/paul-allen-sends-smartphones-in-to-battle-ebola/

Paul Allen Sends Smartphones in to Battle Ebola


Paul Allen Sends Smartphones in to Battle Ebola
Added by Carl Auer on December 9,

Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen is sending over 10,000 specially programmed smartphones to help with the battle against Ebola in West African nations. The co-founder of Microsoft is sending the phones through his Paul G. Allen Family Foundation

In November, the billionaire indicated that his financial contribution to the fight against Ebola would increase to at least $100 million. Allen also donated $9 million to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September to help with the battle against Ebola.

 

[Harmony 2]

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[SCHMAE]

TIME mag names Ebola Fighters ' Person of the Year' ( so much better than what I heard it might be )

http://www.khou.com/story/news/heal...bola-fighters-as-person-of-the-year/20185997/

 

[Yoda]

Sierra Leone meanwhile reported 397 new cases during the week of Dec 7 &#8211; three times as many as Liberia and Guinea combined, WHO said.

http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1264498

 

[nrdsb4]

Nina Pham gives an interview:

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/12/10/ebola-nina-pham-interview/20213179/

 

[Yoda]

Ebola vaccine trial temporarily halted.

(Reuters) - A clinical trial of an Ebola vaccine developed by Merck and NewLink has been halted temporarily as a precautionary measure after four patients complained of joint pains, the University of Geneva Hospital said on Thursday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/11/us-health-ebola-vaccine-merck-idUSKBN0JP1KV20141211

 

[Yoda]

Coming in under the radar?

According to flight records, the private jet company contracted by the State Department to transport Ebola patients flew two air ambulances to West Africa on the same day.

One of this week&#8217;s flights brought an American nurse to the Washington area.

So far, no information is known about the mission of this week&#8217;s second Ebola flight. Messages left for Phoenix Air were not immediately returned on Thursday. A State Department spokeswoman said she could not immediately answer questions from Yahoo News."

There appears to be no public flight plan mapping either jet&#8217;s departure from Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. Yahoo News asked a Phoenix Air official last month about a noticeable increase in keeping flight information off of databases searchable by the public.

&#8220;The only thing I can say is that it's for operational security,&#8221; said Dent Thompson, the company&#8217;s vice president of operations. &#8220;There are a whole lot of things going on in the background, and whatever we do, it is in cooperation with the government and us.&#8221;

http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-rescues-require-rare-back-to-back-air-ambulance-flights-214504040.html

 

[Yoda]

Other ebola news:

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday appointed a Mauritanian national to head the UN Ebola mission set up two months ago to combat the world's worst outbreak of the virus.
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who currently serves as number two at the UN mission in Libya, will succeed American Anthony Banbury as head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response.

http://news.yahoo.com/un-ebola-mission-chief-named-221308785.html

Mali says has no remaining Ebola cases as last patient recovers

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/11/us-health-ebola-mali-idUSKBN0JP2HG20141211

 

[SCHMAE]

This is the basement thread more ' associated' with this topic . Previously I said ' politics' but that was not the right thread.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?252135-Contagious-Diseases/page13

A little more leeway with tinfoilhatisms !

 

[Yoda]

"Seirra Leone Cancels Christmas"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/12/12/sierra-leone-ebola-christmas-new-years/20310581/

 

[chipmunk]

Sierra Leone house to house searchs for Ebola cases is helping and will continue.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/ebola-sierra-leone-curfew

 

[Yoda]

Seirra leone's leading doctor has died. :/

Victor Willoughby was diagnosed with Ebola last week after he treated a man with organ-related problems. The patient, a senior banker, was later diagnosed with Ebola and has since died.The drug, ZMab, was transported in frozen form on a Brussels Airlines flight that arrived overnight. Before it could thaw, Willoughby's condition deteriorated, said chief medical officer Brima Kargbo.
His death brings to 12 the number of Sierra Leone doctors to have contracted the virus. Eleven have died.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/18/us-health-ebola-leone-idUSKBN0JW2O720141218