The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the deadliest ever seen and the virus is raging ”totally out of control,” an official with Doctors Without Borders said Friday. The virus, which causes a particularly nasty form of hemorrhagic fever, has killed 337 people out of 528 infected, the World Health Organization says — making it by far the biggest and deadliest outbreak of Ebola since it was first identified in 1976.
”The reality is clear that the epidemic is now in a second wave,” Bart Janssens, operations director for Doctors Without Borders in Brussels, told the AP. ”And, for me, it is totally out of control.”
h/t north of 60
Totally out of control? Yeah. Same as climate change. Meanwhile,yawn.
Oh yeah.And some idiot out of Brussels? Hummmmmm. Aren’t they the EU idjitis/
What does it mean for a viral epidemic to be “under control?”
keeping pace with the shootings in Chicago?
‘Under control’ means having trained personnel talk to the illiterate Africans and convince them they are going to die a horrible death wiping out their entire family if they don’t stop getting the body fluids of their infected relatives on them.
‘Under control’ means having trained personnel talk to the illiterate Africans and convince them they are going to die a horrible death wiping out their entire family if they don’t stop getting the body fluids of their infected relatives on them.
And you got this info from?
Ebola is notorious for killing it’s host off too quickly,before it has a chance to spread to a new host.
According to Richard Preston’s book,”The Hot Zone”,that feature is the only thing that prevents this virus from wiping out three quarters of the population of Africa.
I read somewhere that weapons research scientists were experimenting with genetically uniting the ebola and influenza viruses for use in warfare. Not a particularly comforting thought.
Didn’t the CDC in Winnipeg identify the animal host (green monkeys)for the virus a few years back?
Preston writes of ‘Charles Monet’ who travelled ,unaccompanied, all the way to Nairobi Hospital via road and air while crashing with ebola.
There is a 7 day lag from infection to symptoms.
Don Morris – That sounds like Tom Clancy’s “Rainbow Six”, which was probably the best “fictional” greeny story ever written. The greenies infecting everyone except their own kind (who, of course, got the antidote) with mutated Ebola…
“And you got this info from?”
From watching videos of and reading about the last Ebola outbreak in the Congo.
When the DWB first went in there, they put up signs all over the outbreak area and they weren’t getting any traction.
Wondering why not, they subsequently learned that the illiteracy rate was over 90% and virtually none of the people in the outbreak zone could read the warnings.
Illiteracy, coupled with the way people in these cultures care for their sick relatives(care at home by other relatives and then washing and burying the deceased themselves) led to whole families being infected and wiped out.
The westerners fighting Ebola outbreaks are up against illiteracy and the native culture as well as trying to avoid catching it themselves as they have to travel around, doing a lot of legwork, to personally verbally instruct people in the outbreaks zones about the outbreak and warn them about how the disease spreads and how to avoid risky behaviour.
They aren’t sure where Ebola goes when it isn’t breaking into the human population but the most popular theories are that it lives in the money or rat populations. So based on this theory, they’re also trying to get these people to stop eating rats and monkeys.
The scary part is that a large percentage of smugglers that get caught at western airports are trying to smuggle in ‘Bush Meat’, African monkeys and rats, often to contribute to traditional wedding celebrations.
Could be,I read a lot of books,and have read many of Clancy’s.
Wasn’t there one where the bad guys put aerosol containers full of ebola into football stadiums?
And of course, Clancy beat the Saudis to the punch on 9-11 by about two years. He said he felt kind of sick when his story line became real life.
When it hits tens of thousands than its an epidemic. Right now its just a local plauge.
“The virus, which causes a particularly nasty form of hemorrhagic fever, has killed 337 people out of 528 infected …”
Doesn’t tell in what timeframe: one week, month, year, decade.
In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated roughly 1.7 million hospital-associated infections, from all types of microorganisms, including bacteria, combined, cause or contribute to 99,000 deaths each year.
Pollack, Andrew. “Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics” New York Times, Feb. 27, 2010
One of our problems will be that many people in western civilization think that since they’ve graduated from our academic industry they are literate. This is not necessarily the case.
MERS is the one to keep an eye on.
“The virus, which causes a particularly nasty form of hemorrhagic fever, has killed 337 people out of 528 infected …”
Doesn’t tell in what timeframe: one week, month, year, decade.
The article linked states that it is the current outbreak that started this year and had killed 70 by the beginning of April when the world noticed.
“an official with Doctors Without Borders said Friday.”
Maybe they should start with some borders.
Open borders with the third world has never benefited the west.
Hasn’t helped the EU all that well either.
The good news is that when one of the deadly third world plagues lands in a Liberal Western city, we get to watch them go down first.
The Bugs are Winning !!!!!
Like I said….DON’T TOUCH PEOPLE….
Here in SW Morontario we had a Polio scare…seems a church “missionary” returned from Africa carrying the Polio bug….he systematically toured about churches to raise funds and spread the infection nearly province wide….
There was an Ebola case in Hamilton a while back and currently the scuttlebutt (unconfirmed)is some cases have emerge in Italy….If this is true…it’s predictably “all very hush hush ya know”.