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Michael W.F. Miles Send message Joined: 24 Mar 07 Posts: 268 Credit: 34,410,870 RAC: 0 |
I see this has gone to a global emergency alert. What a world. May God take care of the people in Africa. I hope this is quashed very soon. Otherwise we are all in big trouble. Reminds me of the Pale Horse..... Michael |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Liberians Protest, Demand Government Pick Up Riot police raced to quell a demonstration blocking Liberia's busiest highway Saturday as an angry crowd protested the government's delays in collecting the bodies of Ebola victims. The growing unease in Liberia, where nearly 300 people have died from the gruesome disease, raises the specter of social unrest. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/liberians-protest-demand-government-pick-ebola-bodies-n176916 Very Sad :( |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
Then the WHO should clamp down and quarantine those countrys. No one in and no one out. And the ignorant should be rapidly educated on what not to do if they suspect a loved one is infected. [/quote] Old James |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
Then the WHO should clamp down and quarantine those countrys. No one in and no one out. And the ignorant should be rapidly educated on what not to do if they suspect a loved one is infected. I am well aware of how the ignorant behave in a crisis. But they better start now. Or they will all die. [/quote] Old James |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30903 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Then the WHO should clamp down and quarantine those countrys. No one in and no one out. And the ignorant should be rapidly educated on what not to do if they suspect a loved one is infected. Just like the CIA polio vaccinations! |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
Then the WHO should clamp down and quarantine those countrys. No one in and no one out. And the ignorant should be rapidly educated on what not to do if they suspect a loved one is infected. And maybe ignorant ( our own ) governments should stay out of an impending medical disasters! [/quote] Old James |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
you only have to look back to the Swine flu or Spanish flu or days of the Black plague To see what happens when people start to panic no education will help those without cool heads in a crisis religion and customs won't matter when the panic sets in |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
you only have to look back to the Swine flu or Spanish flu or days of the Black plague I think you're right. Did see a report this morning on Aljazeera on the problem of trying to stop people eating what they call "bushmeat". Often the same species that are suspected of being affected by it or carriers of it. Hunters were very upset to find their livelihood had been decimated by health advice not to eat it. For some it's their only means of providing for their families and for others, it's their main and/or only affordable source of protein. Really difficult problem to solve this one :( |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24904 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Report: Ebola outbreak probably started with 2-year-old in Guinea (CNN) -- The worst outbreak of Ebola, which has killed 961 people and triggered an international public health emergency, may have started with a 2-year-old patient in a village in Guinea. http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/11/health/ebola-patient-zero/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
Report: Ebola outbreak probably started with 2-year-old in Guinea A link from your one Lynn... Experimental Ebola drug on its way to Liberia The government of Liberia says that sample doses of the experimental Ebola drug ZMapp will be sent there to treat doctors who have contracted the deadly virus. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24904 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Either it's not effective or he got given it too late... Infected priest dies "For the past few days he had been treated with an untested, experimental drug, Zmapp." |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
Either it's not effective or he got given it too late... :( That is a shame I think the nature of a drug this experimental is the "proof" can't be pinned down either way :( "Treated survivors" may simply be "survivors" or as here, like you said, treated too late or with an inappropriate dosage... ...or the drug just doesn't work, despite what a petrie dish somewhere might have suggested. Part of me wants to bark on about 38 wasted years again, but another part of me is saying "imagine 38 years of something this potentially deadly hanging about in a lab/labs somewhere...?" and then this noise interrupts me... "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!" :( |
Batter Up Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 |
Either it's not effective or he got given it too late...It's experimental so it will take time and study. The problem is if it kills someone it's the "blue eyed devil" using the black man as a guinea pig. |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
batter up the priest was a european white treated in spain after being evacuated plus i don't think anybody is gona complain the death rate is to high so stuff normal procedures i think ppl will try anything with this it's just to scary not even the spainish flu had such a high death rate |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
WHO reports 128 new Ebola cases, 56 deaths in West Africa The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday reported 128 new Ebola cases and 56 deaths in West Africa in the two days to August 11, raising the death toll from the worst ever outbreak of the disease to 1,069. http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/chi-ebola-outbreak-20140813-story.html |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Kissing the Corpses in Ebola Country Ebola victims are most infectious right after death—which means that West African burial practices, where families touch the bodies, are spreading the disease like wildfire. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/13/kissing-the-corpses-in-ebola-country.html |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
Kissing the Corpses in Ebola Country :( that's the tragedy of this disease Lynn... saying goodbye to a loved one is not a safe option, both before they die and afterwards... Many people touch and cuddle a loved one or hold their hand at or soon after death... :( burial practises are just an extension of that... so sad :( |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Kissing the Corpses in Ebola Country Can't someone in authority change this practice?? |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Exclusive: Emergency food drops eyed for quarantined Ebola region of West Africa WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - International agencies are looking into emergency food drops and truck convoys to reach extremely hungry people in Liberia and Sierra Leone, who are cordoned off from the outside world to halt the spread of the Ebola virus, a top World Bank official said on Thursday. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/14/us-health-ebola-hunger-exclusive-idUSKBN0GE2CW20140814 |
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