A new kind of Ebola?
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 02:42
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Geeze...
Eight bodies found after attack on Guinea Ebola education team
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"The eight bodies were found in the village latrine. Three of them had their throats slit," Damantang Albert Camara told Reuters by telephone in Conakry.
However, Guinea's Prime Minister Mohamed Saïd Fofana, speaking in a television message that had been recorded earlier, said 7 bodies of 9 missing people had been found.
He said six people have been arrested following the incident, which took place on Tuesday in Wome, a village close to the town of Nzerekore, in Guinea's southeast, where Ebola was first identified in March.
Since then the virus has killed some 2,630 people and infected at least 5,357 people, according to World Health Organization (WHO), mostly in Guinea, neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia. It has also spread to Senegal and Nigeria.
Authorities in the region are faced with widespread fears, misinformation and stigma among residents of the affected countries, complicating efforts to contain the highly contagious disease.
Fofana said the team that included local administrators, two medical officers, a preacher and three accompanying journalists, was attacked by a hostile stone-throwing crowd from the village when they tried to inform people about Ebola.
He said it was regrettable that the incident occurred as the international community was mobilising to help countries struggling to contain the disease.
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... it could conceivably continue in slums/impoverished megacities throughout the world until every vulnerable person was infected ...
IF it got into the megacities, I think every person would be vulnerable. I can think of no barrier between the people in the superslums and everyone else.
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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But Ebola isn't airborne, so why should it spread so easily ?
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
But Ebola isn't airborne, so why should it spread so easily ?
From the World Health Organisation
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Ebola then spreads through human-to-human transmission via direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and with surfaces and materials (e.g. bedding, clothing) contaminated with these fluids.
Health-care workers have frequently been infected while treating patients with suspected or confirmed EVD. This has occurred through close contact with patients when infection control precautions are not strictly practiced.
Burial ceremonies in which mourners have direct contact with the body of the deceased person can also play a role in the transmission of Ebola.
People remain infectious as long as their blood and body fluids, including semen and breast milk, contain the virus. Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to 7 weeks after recovery from illness.
Symptoms of Ebola virus disease
The incubation period, that is, the time interval from infection with the virus to onset of symptoms is 2 to 21 days. Humans are not infectious until they develop symptoms. First symptoms are the sudden onset of fever fatigue, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. This is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, symptoms of impaired kidney and liver function, and in some cases, both internal and external bleeding (e.g. oozing from the gums, blood in the stools). Laboratory findings include low white blood cell and platelet counts and elevated liver enzymes.
Unless you consider WHO apart of some socialist world conspiracy and an unreliable source?
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Well , I do, but that's another issue.
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Thanks Magons, but rappy is a troll and I wasn't going to respond.
And I don't think rappy quite understands how deeply our economy depends on the underclass - for our fast food, Tyson chickens, gas station help, Walmart greeters, child and nursing care, vegetables and tidy lawns - among other things. 'Those' people aren't 'there' somewhere, they're here, with 'us'. But he doesn't see 'them' or how much contact the 'rest of us' have with 'them'. If he did, he wouldn't be so confused as to how Ebola could spread from 'them' to 'us'.
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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yes, 1kiki. The underclass, like children, should be seen, but not heard.
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EBOLA !! IT'S HERE !!!!
Texas patient confirmed as first Ebola case diagnosed in US
DALLAS – A Texas man just back from West Africa has been confirmed as having the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the U.S.
Authorities with the Centers for Disease Control revealed the finding Tuesday, a day after the unidentified patient arrived at a Dallas hospital with suspicious symptoms.
Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas put the man into “strict isolation” and sent a specimen to the CDC in Atlanta for testing.
The CDC said preliminary results show the man has the deadly disease which has been linked to more than 3,000 recent deaths in Africa. According to the World Health Organization, there have been more than 6,500 cases confirmed in Africa, with Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone among the hardest hit.
Dr. Christopher Perkins with the Dallas County health department told reporters that the Texas man didn’t start showing symptoms until he arrived home.
http://news.yahoo.com/texas-patient-confirmed-as-first-ebola-case-diag
nosed-in-us-205031312.html
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So, it would seem the news industry is really amping up the fear mongering of Ebola.
Local big time radio station here in town devoted a full hour this afternoon to discuss the ' epidemic ' of 1 in Texas.
Casual references to our govt and the CDC and P not telling the public " the WHOLE story ", and that it's inevitable for more cases to crop up here in the states, and soon.
In fact, there may already have been " undocumented " cases, but we're not being told about it yet.
Sorry, but I'm not buying it. Not yet, at least.
There IS the matter of how the doctors in Africa, those TRAINED and who took precautions to avoid this very thing in the first place got infected. There's been speculation, but I've not heard anyone come out and declare for certain we know how they got sick in the first place.
Sit and wait. That's what I'm gonna do. If patient zero hasn't infected anyone else, then I guess the hype was a bit premature.
If , however, anyone else in the patients sphere of contact DOES get sick... eghads.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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So Magons, the Sierra Leone shutdown ran from roughly September 21 through 23. According to news articles it wasn't supposed to be necessarily a move to stop transmission by itself, but a public awareness and supply event.
If this graph is any good, we should be able to see over time if the course of the trajectory changes from those dates.
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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