I'm making this thread because everyone's pissing and shitting themselves over this (at least the misinformed/uninformed pop). Also, not sure if this should be in 'Serious' or not. Not everyone goes to 'Serious,' so I'm making this here so everyone can be informed.
Ebola virus disease (EVD) or Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) is a disease of humans and other primates caused by an ebolavirus. Symptoms start two days to three weeks after contracting the virus, with a fever, sore throat, muscle pain and headaches. Typically, vomiting, diarrhea and rash follow, along with decreased functioning of the liver and kidneys. Around this time, affected people may begin to bleed both within the body and externally.
Red Cross Team Attacked While Burying Ebola Dead - Sept. 24, 2014Spoiler>http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/09/24/ebola-guinea-red-cross-workers-attacked/16153887/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/09/24/red-cross-volunteers-attacked-in-guinea-while-trying-to-bury-an-ebola-victim/>http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-burial-team-from-red-cross-attacked-in-guinea-1.2776347SpoilerCONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — A Red Cross team was attacked while collecting bodies believed to be infected with Ebola in southeastern Guinea, the latest in a string of assaults that are hindering efforts to control West Africa's current outbreak.One Red Cross worker is recovering after being wounded in in the neck in Tuesday's attack in Forecariah, according to Benoit Carpentier, a spokesman for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.Family members of the dead initially set upon the six volunteers and vandalized their cars, said Mariam Barry, a resident. Eventually a crowd went to the regional health office, where they threw rocks at the building.The attack is the most recent in a series that have plagued teams working to bury bodies safely, provide information about Ebola and disinfect public places. The most shocking was the abduction and killing last week in Guinea of eight people, health workers educating people about Ebola and the journalists accompanying them.Ebola is believed to have infected more than 5,800 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria and Senegal. The outbreak has grown into the world's largest ever for the disease, partially because it went undetected for months, began in a highly mobile area and has spread to densely populated West African cities. Resistance to efforts to control the disease — from outright denials that Ebola exists to fears that the very people sent to combat it are in fact carriers — has frustrated efforts to end or even slow the disease's spread in all three of the most affected countries, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, say officials.In April, Doctors Without Borders briefly pulled out its team from the Guinean town of Macenta after their clinic was stoned. In Liberia, the homes of some of the infected have been attacked. Last week, Red Cross workers were threatened in Sierra Leone, Carpentier, the Red Cross spokesman, said.The disease is so new to this part of the world and so terrifyingly lethal that many people fear all outsiders associated with Ebola, even if they are coming to help, said Meredith Stakem, a health and nutrition adviser for Catholic Relief Services. In addition, many people in these communities may not be familiar with even basic biological concepts of disease transmission, and Ebola is contradicting what they do know."There's not a lot of diseases that can be transmitted by corpses," she said. "It's hard for people to comprehend that the dead body is actually a threat."Ebola is spread by bodily fluids including sweat and corpses are particularly infectious.The handling of dead bodies is deeply personal and rooted in tradition, especially in many parts of West Africa where the washing of bodies is common. It is often the teams trying to prevent those practices that have been targeted, said Carpentier. Much of the resistance is in remote, insular areas."It has gotten better," he said. "The problem is it has to be 100 percent" or the virus will persist.The conventional methods used to control Ebola — isolating sick people and tracing all their contacts — are buckling under the sheer size of the outbreak. On Wednesday, the World Health Organization offered hope that there may soon be another way to control the disease, saying there may be sufficient quantities of a vaccine by the end of the year to have some impact on the outbreak.That would make this the first Ebola outbreak to be tackled with vaccines or medicines in the nearly 40 years since the disease was discovered. Because Ebola only pops up sporadically, there has been little incentive to develop any drug or vaccine; most of the promising candidates have been largely funded by governments."It may be that without a vaccine, we may not be able to stop this epidemic," Dr. Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a co-discoverer of Ebola, told a news conference this week. "In this outbreak, we are reaching the limit of what classic containment measures can achieve."August 2014SpoilerBolivia patient isolated for Ebola check - Aug. 23, 2014Spoiler>http://www.9news.com.au/health/2014/08/24/08/14/bolivia-patient-isolated-for-ebola-check>http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/08/24/bolivia-patient-isolated-ebola-check>http://www.centnews.com/Health/Bolivia-patient-isolated-for-Ebola-check/S-2014-08-23/85608.htmlSpoilerAuthorities say they are investigating a first potential case of Ebola in Bolivia.The patient, whose name and age were not given, had made stopovers in several cities in Africa, Santa Cruz health service manager Roberto Torres told Oxigeno online."Yesterday, we had a report from a private hospital on an Indian patient who is being treated for fever, diarrhoea and vomiting," he said.The health ministry in South America's poorest nation just 10 days ago set rules on early detection of potentially infected people.On Friday, the World Health Organisation said the outbreak sweeping West Africa has claimed 1,427 lives.Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/health/2014/08/24/08/14/bolivia-patient-isolated-for-ebola-check#5J5P8MMoi7Gcdz6z.99Second Montreal patient tests negative for Ebola after scare - Aug. 23, 2014Spoiler>http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-patient-cleared-after-ebola-scare-1.1972887>http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/08/23/montreal_patient_being_tested_for_ebola_virus_after_returning_from_west_africa.html>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quarantine-case-at-maisonneuve-rosemont-hospital-not-ebola-1.2744915SpoilerA Montreal hospital said Saturday that a patient who had showed symptoms consistent with the often deadly Ebola virus had tested negative for the virus, according to a press release from the hospital.Dr. Karl Weiss, director of infectious diseases at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, said that since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a few months ago, all Quebec hospitals have put in place “some very stringent protocols.”“We have no choice but to implement our protocol because if it’s a real case, imagine if you don’t put in place all the measures,” Weiss told the Star.These protocols were put in place for the first time at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital two weeks ago for another patient, Weiss added, and the results were negative.A second patient, described as “a relatively young man,” was placed in isolation at the same hospital Saturday. The patient lives in Quebec but recently went to Guinea to visit his family, said Weiss.“Yesterday he started being sick with fever and general flu-like symptoms,” Weiss said. “He came to the emergency room, and as soon as he came the protocol was implemented . . . but the patient is not severely sick, far from that.”Weiss said the test samples were sent to the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, and other patients at the hospital weren’t at risk.Earlier this month a patient at a hospital in Brampton, Ont. was also placed in isolation over fear the person had contracted the virus, but ended up testing negative.More than 1,400 people in Africa have died so far in the largest Ebola outbreak on record.Weiss said that patients who have recently travelled to one of the four countries where Ebola is an issue — Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria — have their temperatures checked immediately upon arriving at the hospital.“If they do have a fever they are put into isolation right away, and this will start the protocols in terms of infection control,” said Weiss. “With only supportive treatment and about a 60 per cent mortality rate . . . better to be safe than sorry.”With files from The Canadian PressBriton living in Sierra Leone contracts Ebola virus - Aug. 23, 2014Spoiler>http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ebola-brit-tests-positive-deadly-4096038>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28914614>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2732679/BREAKING-NEWS-Briton-living-Sierra-Leone-tests-positive-Ebola-assessed-doctors.html>http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/briton-tests-positive-for-ebola-30530873.htmlSpoilerA Brit living in Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, the Department of Health has confirmed.The individual, who is the first British person to test positive for the deadly virus , is currently being assessed by medical experts "to ensure that appropriate care is delivered".Consular assistance is being provided.Professor John Watson, deputy chief medical officer, said: "The overall risk to the public in the UK continues to be very low. Medical experts are currently assessing the situation in Sierra Leone to ensure that appropriate care is provided."We have robust, well-developed and well-tested NHS systems for managing unusual infectious diseases when they arise, supported by a wide range of experts."http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ebola-brit-tests-positive-deadly-4096038#ixzz3BEdhSYNU Follow us: @DailyMirror on Twitter | DailyMirror on FacebookPatient at Montreal hospital showing signs of often deadly Ebola virus - Aug. 23, 2014Spoiler>http://www.cjad.com/cjad-news/2014/08/23/patient-at-montreal-hospital-showing-signs-of-often-deadly-ebola-virus>http://globalnews.ca/news/1523364/montreal-patient-placed-in-isolation-is-being-tested-for-ebola-virus/>http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/montreal-patient-tested-for-ebola-after-return-from-west-africa-1.1972853>http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2014/08/20140823-121530.htmlSpoilerA patient has been placed in isolation at a Montreal hospital after showing symptoms consistent with the often deadly Ebola virus.The director of infectious diseases at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital says the man recently returned from Guinea, one of the West African countries hit by an outbreak of the virus.Dr. Karl Weiss says test samples have been sent to the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.Weiss ads the hospital has followed a strict protocol and other patients are not at risk.Earlier this month, a patient at a hospital in Brampton, Ont. was also placed in isolation over fear the person had contracted the virus, but ended up testing negative.More than 1,400 people have died so far in the largest Ebola outbreak on record.WHO warns of "Shadow Cases," hidden cases in Ebola Outbreak - Aug. 22, 2014Spoiler>http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/08/22/who-warns-shadow-zones-hidden-cases-in-ebola-outbreak/>http://www.firstpost.com/world/who-warns-of-shadow-zones-hidden-cases-in-ebola-outbreak-1677993.html>http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/chi-ebola-outbreak-20140822-story.htmlSpoilerGENEVA (Reuters) - The scale of the world's worst Ebola outbreak has been concealed by families hiding infected loved ones in their homes and the existence of "shadow zones" that medics cannot enter, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.The U.N. agency issued a statement detailing why the outbreak in West Africa had been underestimated, following criticism that it had moved too slowly to contain the killer virus, now spreading out of control.Independent experts raised similar concerns a month ago that the contagion could be worse than reported because suspicious local inhabitants are chasing away health workers and shunning treatment.More than 1,300 people have died from the disease and many experts do not expect the epidemic to be brought under control this year.Under-reporting of cases is a problem especially in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The WHO said it was now working with Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to produce "more realistic estimates".The head of MSF, which has urged the WHO to do more, told Reuters in an interview on Thursday that the fight against Ebola was being undermined by a lack of international leadership and emergency management skills.The stigma surrounding Ebola poses a serious obstacle to efforts to calibrate the outbreak in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria, which has claimed far more victims than any other episode of the disease that was first discovered nearly 40 years ago in the forests of central Africa."As Ebola has no cure, some believe infected loved ones will be more comfortable dying at home," the WHO statement said."Others deny that a patient has Ebola and believe that care in an isolation ward – viewed as an incubator of the disease – will lead to infection and certain death. Most fear the stigma and social rejection that come to patients and families when a diagnosis of Ebola is confirmed."Corpses are often buried without official notification, the WHO said, while an additional problem is the existence of numerous "shadow zones", or rural villages where there are rumours of cases and deaths that cannot be investigated because of community resistance or lack of staff and transport.In other cases, where treatment is available, health centres are being immediately overwhelmed with patients, suggesting there is an invisible caseload of patients that is not on the radar of the official surveillance systems.STRATEGY PLANThe WHO said it had drawn up a draft strategy plan to combat Ebola in West Africa over the next six to nine months, implying that it does not expect to halt the epidemic before the end of the year."WHO is working on an Ebola road map document; it's really an operational document how to fight Ebola," WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said at a news briefing. "It details the strategy for WHO and health partners for six to nine months to come."Chaib, asked whether the timeline meant that the United Nations health agency expected the epidemic now raging in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to continue into 2015, said: "Frankly, no one knows when this outbreak of Ebola will end."Ebola will be declared over in a country if two incubation periods, or 42 days in total, have passed without any confirmed case, she said. Nigeria is the fourth country with known cases."So with the evolving situation, with more cases reported, including in the three hot places - Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia - the situation is not yet over," Chaib said."So this is a planning document for six to nine months that we will certainly revisit when we have new developments."The WHO expects to issue details of the plan early next week, she said.In a sign of spreading international alarm, Senegal, West Africa's humanitarian hub, said it had blocked a regional U.N. aid plane from landing and was banning all further flights to and from countries affected by Ebola, potentially hampering the emergency response to the epidemic.(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva, Ben Hirschler in London and Emma Farge in Dakar; Editing by Mark Heinrich)TL;DRThere are people hiding Ebola victims because they're familiy; this means that there are more possible cases than recorded.QuoteThe WHO said it had drawn up a draft strategy plan to combat Ebola in West Africa over the next six to nine months, implying that it does not expect to halt the epidemic before the end of the year."WHO is working on an Ebola road map document; it's really an operational document how to fight Ebola," WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said at a news briefing. "It details the strategy for WHO and health partners for six to nine months to come."Ebola Death Toll Rises To 1427 - Aug. 22, 2014Spoiler>http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-epidemic-s-death-toll-rises-to-1-427-1.2743735>http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/08/22/health-ebola-who-toll-idINKBN0GM1RS20140822>http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/167777/death-toll-in-west-africa-ebola-epidemic-rises-to-1427Spoiler(Reuters) - The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has led to 1,427 deaths out of 2,615 known cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.In its latest update, the WHO reported 142 new laboratory-confirmed, probable or suspected cases of Ebola and 77 more deaths from four affected countries - Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.Earlier, the WHO said the scale of the world's worst Ebola outbreak had been concealed by families hiding infected loved ones in their homes and the existence of "shadow zones" that medics cannot enter. It is due to issue a global strategy plan towards the end of next week in Geneva.Patients in Sacramento (Cali.), New Mexico, and Donegal (Ireland) Test Negative - Aug. 22, 2014Spoiler>http://www.sacbee.com/2014/08/21/6646200/sacramento-patient-tests-negative.html>http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_26380378/new-mexico-woman-tests-negative-ebola>http://online.wsj.com/articles/ebola-virus-firsts-suspected-case-in-ireland-1408703882
The WHO said it had drawn up a draft strategy plan to combat Ebola in West Africa over the next six to nine months, implying that it does not expect to halt the epidemic before the end of the year."WHO is working on an Ebola road map document; it's really an operational document how to fight Ebola," WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said at a news briefing. "It details the strategy for WHO and health partners for six to nine months to come."
August 20, 2014SpoilerClashes Erupt as Liberia Sets a Quarantine - Aug. 20, 2014Spoiler>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/world/africa/ebola-outbreak-liberia-quarantine.html?_r=0>http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/20/4299891/who-west-africa-ebola-death-toll.html>http://www.ibtimes.com/liberia-ebola-crisis-west-point-residents-police-clash-over-quarantine-monrovia-1664260>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2014/08/20/police-residents-clash-in-liberian-slum-under-ebola-quarantine/SpoilerMONROVIA, Liberia — Soldiers and police officers in riot gear blocked the roads. Even the waterfront was cordoned off, with the coast guard stopping residents from setting out in canoes. The entire neighborhood, a sprawling slum with tens of thousands of people, awoke Wednesday morning to find that it was under strict quarantine in the government’s halting fight against Ebola.The reaction was swift and violent. Angry young men hurled rocks and stormed barbed-wire barricades, trying to break out. Soldiers repelled the surging crowd with live rounds, driving back hundreds of young men.One teenager in the crowd, Shakie Kamara, 15, lay on the ground near the barricade, his right leg apparently wounded by a bullet from the melee. “Help me,” he pleaded, barefoot and wearing a green Philadelphia Eagles T-shirt.“This is messed up,” said Lt. Col. Abraham Kromah, the head of operations for the national police, looking at the teenager and complaining about the crowd. “They injured one of my police officers. That’s not cool. It’s a group of criminals that did this. Look at this child. God in heaven help us.”The clashes were a dangerous new chapter in West Africa’s five-month-old fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record. The virus continues to spread, yet the total number of cases reported in the affected nations — Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone — is already higher than in all other Ebola outbreaks combined since 1976, when the disease was first identified, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.So far, the outbreak has mostly been concentrated in rural areas, but the disease has also spread to major cities like the Guinean capital Conakry, and especially here in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. Fighting Ebola in an urban area — particularly in a neighborhood like this one, known as West Point, an extremely poor and often violent place that still bears deep scars from Liberia’s 14 years of civil war — presents challenges that the government and international aid organizations have only started grappling with.The risks that Ebola will spread quickly, and the difficulties in containing it, are multiplied in a dense urban environment, especially one where the health system has largely collapsed and residents appear increasingly distrustful of the government’s approach to the crisis, experts say.At least 1,350 people are estimated to have died in the current outbreak of Ebola, the first of its kind in West Africa. The deaths are rising most rapidly in Liberia, which now has the highest death toll, estimated to be at least 576.“Being the first time to get this problem, they didn’t know what they were dealing with,” Dr. David Kaggwa, a Ugandan physician working for the World Health Organization here, said of the Liberian government. “They didn’t know how to respond to it. By the time they realized, it was way out of control.”In a cholera ward at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center that he helped transform into an Ebola ward, Dr. Kaggwa said that his own nation’s long history with Ebola was limited to rural outbreaks.“This is our first experience in a capital city, and all the indications are that it spreads faster in a city because people are living closer together,” he said.Beyond the threat of Ebola itself, experts warn that there has been a broader collapse of the public health system here, resulting in a range of life-threatening illnesses and conditions that are being left untreated. Many hospitals closed after health workers died, and the facilities that remain open have become overwhelmed.“The emergency within the emergency is the collapse of the health care system,” said Dr. Joanne Liu, the president of Doctors Without Borders, who recently surveyed Liberia and other affected nations. “People don’t have access to basic health care,” she said, including malaria treatment for children, medical care for pregnant women and other common but essential needs.Dr. Liu said that her team had come across six instances of pregnant women who had been wandering around Monrovia for hours, looking for a facility that could help deliver their babies. “They couldn’t find one,” she said. By the time her team had attended to the women, she added, the babies had died.“All the health care facilities are basically closed in Monrovia,” she added. “There may be some marginal activities, but basically there’s nothing really working right now.”Sheldon Yett, the director in Liberia for Unicef, said the group had deployed volunteers to West Point and other poor areas to educate residents about Ebola. “The fact that it is really firmly entrenched now in the capital city makes it a real game changer for us,” he said.TL;DR (Coming soon)Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa: 221 New Cases, 106 Deaths - Aug. 20, 2014Spoiler>http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2014/08/ebola-virus-disease-in-west-africa-221-new-cases-106-deaths.aspxSpoilerBetween August 17 and 18, 2014, a total of 221 new cases of Ebola virus disease (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 106 deaths were reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to engage in high-level communication efforts with affected countries, companies and organizations doing business in and from Africa, and national and global leaders. Currently, some companies have taken the decision to suspend services to the affected countries. This includes airlines and shipping companies. As a result of these decisions, countries are beginning to experience supply shortages, including fuel, food and basic supplies. WHO is working with the UN World Food Programme to ensure adequate food and supplies, but calls on companies to make business decisions based on scientific evidence with regard to the transmission of Ebola virus.In the current outbreak, the majority of Ebola virus disease cases are a result of human-to-human transmission and failure to apply appropriate infection prevention and control measures in home care, some clinical settings, and in burial rituals. It is important to understand that EVD is not an airborne disease. Individuals may become infected as a result of contact with the bodily fluids (vomit, diarrhea, sputum, blood, etc.) from persons who are confirmed to have EVD or who have died from EVD. Companies bringing goods and services to the affected countries are at low risk for exposure to EVD and WHO, under the International Health Regulations, encourages companies and organizations to continue providing these necessary supplies.Countries around the world continue to engage in active surveillance for cases of EVD. Reports have been received by WHO of suspected cases and systematic verification is underway in a number of countries to confirm whether these are actual EVD cases. Overall, these reports are a positive sign that surveillance is working and countries are stepping up their preparedness to respond. As of today, no cases have been confirmed outside Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria or Sierra Leone.A high-level delegation from WHO is currently in the affected countries, working with the national authorities and partners to adapt strategic operations response plans. Meetings are planned with leaders in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where transmission continues to be high.WHO does not recommend any travel or trade restrictions be applied except in cases where individuals have been confirmed or are suspected of being infected with EVD or where individuals have had contact with cases of EVD. (Contacts do not include properly-protected healthcare workers and laboratory staff.)Source: WHO TL;DRQuoteBetween August 17 and 18, 2014, a total of 221 new cases of Ebola virus disease (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 106 deaths were reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
Between August 17 and 18, 2014, a total of 221 new cases of Ebola virus disease (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 106 deaths were reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
August 16 - 19, 2014SpoilerEbola Patient in Sacramento, California - Aug. 19, 2014Spoiler>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2729510/Patient-Sacramento-hospital-tested-Ebola.html>http://q13fox.com/2014/08/19/report-patient-in-sacramento-being-treated-for-possible-ebola-exposure/>http://kfor.com/2014/08/19/california-patient-being-treated-for-possible-ebola-exposure/>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/n-m-woman-tested-ebola-returning-africa-health-officials-article-1.1909383SpoilerA Sacramento hospital announced that one of its patients may have Ebola. The patient is at Kaiser South Sacramento Medical Center, according to a news release. The hospital's Dr. Stephen Parodi said in a statement 'We are working with the Sacramento County Division of Public Health regarding a patient admitted to the Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be testing blood samples to rule out the presence of the virus.'In order to protect our patients, staff and physicians, even though infection with the virus is unconfirmed, we are taking the actions recommended by the CDC as a precaution, just as we do for other patients with a suspected infectious disease. This includes isolation of the patient in a specially equipped negative pressure room and the use of personal protective equipment by trained staff, coordinated with infectious disease specialists. This enables the medical center to provide care in a setting that safeguards other patients and medical teams.'The safety of our members, patients and staff is our highest priority. Our physicians and infectious disease experts are working closely with local and state public health agencies to monitor developments and share information.'Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2729510/Patient-Sacramento-hospital-tested-Ebola.html#ixzz3AtZuCPFq Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on FacebookTL;DRSacramento patient may have been exposed and infected. Blood tests are being done to confirm whether or not this patient has Ebola.Photographer Recalls How Ebola Patients Were Carried Off In Liberia - Aug. 18, 2014Spoiler>http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/08/18/341308310/photographer-recalls-how-ebola-patients-were-carried-off-in-liberiaSpoilerWe told you over the weekend about protesters in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, who on Saturday attacked and looted a quarantine center holding Ebola patients, forcing at least 20 patients to leave the facility.John Moore, a senior staff photographer for Getty Images, was at the scene and told NPR's Kelly McEvers that the day began with a Liberian health ministry burial team that had come to collect four bodies of people who had died overnight. But the team, he says, was turned back by the families and the local community."The crowd was exuberant, having won this battle in their minds," he says. "And then they marched on the isolation ward and pushed through the door and basically pulled out the patients. Members of this mob literally pulled people out of the isolation ward. I saw a man carrying a small girl by one arm up in the air and she was screaming, and the crowd carried them off."Part of the problem, Moore says, is that there's "a fair number of people ... who believe that the Ebola virus and the epidemic is a hoax, that it's not real after all, and it's a way for the Liberian government to bring in foreign money."It's unclear what has happened to the patients: The BBC quoted a senior health official as saying they had all been moved to another facility; but a reporter told the BBC that some of the patients were taken away by their families. More than 1,100 people have died from the virus in West Africa since February. The death toll from the virus in Liberia is more than 400.TL;DRHe saw, and took pics of, the raid (what could he do?); some people were trying to stop said raiders; raiders ain't having any of it; people are denying that it's Ebola, saying that the gov. is lying to them to get foreign aid and shit; there's a bunch of people at the scene too, most whom probably have contracted Ebola nowEbola Clinic Raided by Autistic Fearful Mob - Aug. 17, 2014Spoiler>http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/08/17/liberia-expands-ebola-treatment-centers-as-more-airlines-halt-flights-to/>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/17/liberia-ebola-clinic_n_5685635.html>http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/08/17/west-africa-liberia-ebola/14195347/>http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/17/theres-no-ebola-in-liberia-looters-chant-as-they-steal-infected-items-from-health-clinic/SpoilerMONROVIA, Liberia – Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through the capital's largest slum after residents raided a quarantine center for suspected patients and took items including blood-stained sheets and mattresses.The violence in the West Point slum occurred late Saturday and was led by residents angry that patients were brought to the holding center from other parts of Monrovia, Tolbert Nyenswah, assistant health minister, said Sunday.Up to 30 patients were staying at the center and many of them fled at the time of the raid, said Nyenswah. Once they are located they will be transferred to the Ebola center at Monrovia's largest hospital, he said.West Point residents went on a "looting spree," stealing items from the clinic that were likely infected, said a senior police official, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the press. The residents took medical equipment and mattresses and sheets that had bloodstains, he said."All between the houses you could see people fleeing with items looted from the patients," the official said, adding that he now feared "the whole of West Point will be infected."Some of the looted items were visibly stained with blood, vomit and excrement, said Richard Kieh, who lives in the area.The incident creates a new challenge for Liberian health officials who were already struggling to contain the outbreak.Liberian police restored order to the West Point neighborhood Sunday. Sitting on land between the Montserrado River and the Atlantic Ocean, West Point is home to at least 50,000 people, according to a 2012 survey.Distrust of government runs high in West Point, with rumors regularly circulating that the government plans to clear the slum out entirely.Though there had been talk of putting West Point under quarantine should Ebola break out there, assistant health minister Nyenswah said Sunday no such step has been taken. "West Point is not yet quarantined as being reported," he said.Ebola has killed 1,145 people in West Africa, including 413 in Liberia, according to the World Health Organization.Other countries across Africa are grappling to prevent Ebola's spread with travel restrictions, suspensions of airline flights, public health messages and quarantines.Nigeria appears to be making progress in containing the disease. The country has 12 confirmed cases of Ebola, all of which stem from direct contact with the Liberian-American man who flew to Nigeria late last month while ill. He infected several health workers before dying.Since then three others have died in Nigeria from Ebola, according to figures released over the weekend.One Nigerian doctor has survived the disease and was sent home Saturday night and five others confirmed with Ebola have almost fully recovered, said the Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu in a statement Saturday night.The most important part of containing the disease is to track all those who had contact with Ebola patients and to closely monitor them in order to quarantine if they show any symptoms. Nigeria had 242 people under surveillance but now 61 have been cleared and released, after completing the 21-day period without showing any signs of Ebola, said the health ministry.In East Africa, Kenya will bar passengers traveling from the three West African countries badly hit by the Ebola outbreak. The suspension is effective midnight Tuesday for all ports of entry for people traveling from or through Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, said Kenya's Health Ministry. Nigeria was not included in the ban, which also allows entry to health professionals and Kenyans returning from those countries.Following the government's announcement Saturday, Kenya Airways said it would suspend flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone. Kenya Airways, a major transport provider in Africa flies more than 70 flights a week to West Africa.Several airlines have already suspended flights to Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, including British Airways, Emirates Airlines, Arik Air and ASKY Airlines.Officials in Cameroon, which borders Nigeria, announced Friday it would suspend all flights from all four Ebola-affected countries. Korean Air announced on Thursday it would temporarily halt its service to Kenya despite the fact there are no cases of Ebola in the country.TL;DRMob raids clinic full of patients and Ebolafied items; they take some patients (family members) and some bloodstained stuff; some patients ran off (20 came back thus far - Aug. 18, 2014); now fear of spreading because this shit happened nearby a densely populated slum with shit (no pun intended) for plumbing
ZMapp is an experimental biopharmaceutical drug comprising three humanized monoclonal antibodies under development as a treatment for Ebola virus disease. The drug was first tested in humans during the 2014 West Africa Ebola virus outbreak.
ZMapp - 'vaccine' or 'treatment' or some shit to combat Ebola>http://mashable.com/2014/08/17/ebola-serum-zmapp/
(COUNTRY)Cases/Deaths = New[1] - Confirmed - Probable - Suspect - Totals(Guinea) Cases = n/a - 482 - 141 - 25 - 648Deaths = n/a - 287 - 141 - 2 - 430(Liberia) Cases = n/a - 322 - 674 - 382 - 1378Deaths = n/a - 225 - 301 - 168 - 694(Nigeria) Cases = n/a - 13 - 1 - 3 - 17Deaths = n/a - 5 - 1 - 0 - 6(Sierra Leone) Cases = n/a - 935 - 37 - 54 - 1026Deaths = n/a - 380 - 34 - 8 - 422Totals Cases = n/a - 1528 - 694 - 354 - 3069Deaths = n/a - 897 - 447 - 179 - 15521. New cases number unrecordedUPDATE LINKS:August 26 2014Spoiler>http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4264-ebola-virus-disease-update-west-africa-28-august-2014.htmlAugust 19-20 2014Spoiler>http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4260-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-22-august-2014.htmlAugust 17-18 2014Spoiler>http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4259-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-20-august-2014.htmlAugust 14-16Spoiler>http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4258-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-19-august-2014.htmlChart InformationSpoilerconfirmed (any suspected or probable cases with a positive laboratory result); probable (any suspected case evaluated by a clinician, or any deceased suspected case having an epidemiological link with a confirmed case where it has not been possible to collect specimens for laboratory confirmation); or suspected (any person, alive or dead, suffering or having suffered from sudden onset of high fever and having had contact with: a suspected, probable or confirmed Ebola case, or a dead or sick animal; or any person with sudden onset of high fever and at least three of the following symptoms: headache, vomiting, anorexia/loss of appetite, diarrhoea, lethargy, stomach pain, aching muscles or joints, difficulty swallowing, breathing difficulties, or hiccup; or any person with unexplained bleeding; or any sudden, unexplained death).
Is this the new AIDS? Obviously I will have to glass Africa.
West Africa please...And the Middle East.
So basically Africa.
And some of Western Asia.
Seems like we should be fine as long as the CDC stays on top of who comes in and out.
-Bump for soon to be added update about possible Ebola patient in Sacramento, California-
You already glassed East Africa, isn't that enough?!
What's this!? 0.o
Person that may have Ebola in Cali. There's also the New Mexico suspect case. And the 2-5 people in Vietnam that may have Ebola as well... Still gotta add that...
Oh muh gosh. :cThat's not good.
They're hospitalized for testing now to see if they really do have Ebola, though. But it does bring up a question, is there someone running around with Ebola outside West Africa?
That would suck.They better get it under control soon >.>
If Ebola hits here, and people go apeshit... I'm going to Canada (w/ family of course)
Come to Toronto.I'll start pumping the inflatable mattresses.
We'll supply weapons, medical stuff, gas... Food...Considering almost everyone in my family drives, it'll look like a caravan
-"Chart" added to the bottom of the OP-
If this gets to North America or Europe we are soooo fucked. =/
Yeah, Liberia quarantined a Monrovia slum (West Point I believe) (the one where the clinic got raided because Africun logik). And it's filled with like 60,000 - 120,000 people, and they are bent.I'll post articles on it in the OP soon.
Imma watch the news in half an hour to catch up on this stuff.What happened with that case in Cali?
Eh, it's unknown. They're giving the tests back in what they say 'three days.' Once the deadline hits, we'll know if the end of the world has come yet
Well I'm glad I have 3 days to contemplate our inevitable demise.
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