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http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandso...what-science-says-about-how-the-virus-spreads

Ebola In The Air: What Science Says About How The Virus Spreads
December 01, 201412:29 PM ET
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Viruses can spread through the air in two ways: inside large droplets that fall quickly to the ground (red), or inside tiny droplets that float in the air (gray). In the first route, called droplet transmission, the virus can spread only about 3 to 6 feet from an infected person. In the second route, called airborne transmission, the virus can travel 30 feet or more.

Viruses can spread through the air in two ways: inside large droplets that fall quickly to the ground (red), or inside tiny droplets that float in the air (gray). In the first route, called droplet transmission, the virus can spread only about 3 to 6 feet from an infected person. In the second route, called airborne transmission, the virus can travel 30 feet or more.
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Here's an Ebola puzzle for you: If the virus isn't airborne, why do doctors and nurses need to wear full protective suits, with face masks, while treating patients?

After we dug through studies and talked to scientists, the answer slowly emerged.

Ebola does spread through the air. But not through the airborne route.
A comparison of reproduction numbers, or R0s, for several viruses. R0 is one measure of contagiousness.
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No, Seriously, How Contagious Is Ebola?

Oh, goodness! No wonder there's been such a kerfuffle about how the virus is transmitted.

The story began quite innocently at Harvard University way back in the 1930s. William Wells was a hotshot engineer there at the time. He was figuring out a slew of important ideas about infectious disease, like the fact that UV light kills bacteria.

One day in 1933, Wells discovered that pathogens (he was studying bacteria) get trapped in tiny droplets of fluid — maybe some mucus when you sneeze or some saliva when you cough. The pathogens stay alive in the fluid and can move through the air inside these droplets.

Clearly this is one way infections spread. But Wells didn't stop there.

He knew that liquid drops don't last for long in the air. They take one of two courses:
Data sources: David Ropeik/Harvard University, National Weather Service, World Health Organization, Northeastern University Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-Technical Systems, National Geographic, United States Census
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What's My Risk Of Catching Ebola?

1. Large droplets fall to the ground because of gravity. (Just like rain.)

2. Small drops start evaporating as they fall. Eventually, they become so light that they float in the air. (Just like fog.)

"It appears, therefore, that transmission of infection through air may take one of two forms depending upon the size of the infected droplet," Wells wrote in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 1934. He gave these two routes names:

1. Droplet route: The pathogen falls to the ground in large droplets. The pathogen doesn't make it very far away from the source of the fluid, but if you intercept the drop's path, you could get infected.

2. Airborne route: The pathogen is lifted up into the air inside tiny droplets. The pathogen floats and can move long distances with air currents. If you inhale this mist, you could get infected.

Over the years, the first term didn't really stick with the media or general public. But the second one sure has. And what we've ended up with is one term that often gets used to describe both routes of transmission.

But, oh, how they are different!

Viruses that move through the droplet route usually travel only about 3 feet (and no more than 6 feet). They stay in the air for less than a second. So to catch these viruses, you have to be within 6 feet of a contagious person.

Ebola spreads through the droplet route. There's no doubt of that. A splash of Ebola-infected fluid to your face can be deadly.

Viruses that move through the second route — the airborne route — can travel more than 30 feet and can stay in the air for minutes, even hours, when the humidity and temperature are right.

That means you don't even have to see the person to catch a virus from him or her. An infected person could sneeze, walk out of the room and leave an infectious mist behind.

A few viruses, such as measles and chickenpox, spread this way (that's why they have such high R0s). What about Ebola?

In the lab, scientists can infect monkeys with Ebola virus through the airborne route. They essentially stick a monkey's head in a plastic tube and spray the animal's face with a mist infused with Ebola. If the humidity and temperature are right in the tube, the monkey can get Ebola.

But scientists haven't found evidence that Ebola spreads through the airborne route in real outbreaks, with real people.

Does that mean Ebola never catches a ride on tiny, floating droplets? No.

As Wells wrote nearly a century ago, "Failure to discover air-borne infection ... [doesn't] prove its absence."

But if Ebola does transmit through the airborne route, the process is highly inefficient and contributes only an infinitesimal amount to the virus's total spread.

Take the case of Patrick Sawyer. Back in July, the Liberian-American businessman boarded a plane from Monrovia to Lagos, Nigeria. He was clearly very sick — and very contagious — with Ebola. He even vomited while on the plane.

There were about 200 other passengers on the flight. None of them got infected.

 

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http://news.yahoo.com/u-designates-35-hospitals-ebola-treatment-centers-171920063.html

U.S. designates 35 hospitals as Ebola treatment centers
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(Reuters) - U.S. health officials have designated 35 hospitals nationwide as Ebola treatment centers and expects to name more in coming weeks deemed capable of treating patients while minimizing risk to staff, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.

The list includes those that have already treated patients with the virus, such as Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, and other prominent hospitals, including Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Mayo Clinic Hospital in Minnesota, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and New York-Presbyterian.

More than 80 percent of returning travelers from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa live within 200 miles (320 km) of a designated Ebola treatment center, the CDC said.

"As long as Ebola is spreading in West Africa, we must prepare for the possibility of additional cases in the United States," CDC Director Tom Frieden said in a statement.

More than 6,000 people have died out of more than 17,000 Ebola cases in the three hardest hit countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, according to the World Health Organization.

Each U.S. hospital with an Ebola treatment center has been assessed onsite by a CDC Rapid Ebola Preparedness team, the agency said. CDC said it has conducted assessments of more than 50 hospitals in 15 states and Washington.

CDC has taken a far more active role in assessing Ebola treatment preparation after two nurses at a Dallas hospital contracted the virus while treating Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, who later died from the disease. Both nurses recovered.

There are currently no known patients being treated for Ebola in the United States.

(Reporting by Michele Gershberg and Bill Berkrot; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)

 

[aliens7]

Doomer Doug remembers way back in the 1970s during watergate when Nixon's secretary explained how she erased the 18 minutes of tape. She took up a very contorted position that looked like a pretzel.

I keep thinking at some point the delusional nature of the official figures will become so obvious it will overwhelm the spin control effort. Granted, Africa will have 150 million dead by that time. The total population of Liberia is around six million I think. Eventually, after 2 million people vanish the truth will come out.

The 1,000 death revision reaches a level of sustained lunacy it is almost mystical. It is the statistical version of Plan 9 from Outer Space, a movie that is so BAD IT IS GOOD, at least after a few beers, Brewer. LOL

I agree with you that they are lying, but the problem with this is that philosophically -- what is the truth? We can say 150 million died, but where is the evidence that 150 million people "allegedly" existed in the first place? Show me their birth records (most do not have), show me their graduation certificates (most did not graduate), show me their tax records (really?)-- and if the government has done their job right (translation, destroyed what little records existed), how can we prove it? Especially when everyone who knew them are also dead?

Person:I loaded 1000 bodies in the pit over there for mass burial...
Government: you mean that empty pit over there? (after cremating the bodies)

Its like "1984" book , with no records and nothing to contradict them, the government can say/do anything it wants and how can we say they are lying or even start to confront them? Any anyone who starts anything, magically disappears, gets sick, or some other fate befalls them or their friends/family.

It will be interesting what happens when this is all over (assuming we are still here). Will they say, "I can't believe how the world stood by and did nothing while millions and millions died", or "It was the worst outbreak of Ebola, fortunately only 1000 people died, and thank GOD for the leaders and modern medicine which saved us"...

 

[almost ready]

They want to have just enough sickness to keep aid flowing in to the coffers of the government "authorities". Hear that they want cash, not gowns and gloves, thank you very much.

 

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http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-reminder-seven-stages-of-ebola.html

Tuesday, December 2, 2014
A Reminder: The Seven Stages Of Ebola Reporting


1. What Ebola?
2. EBOLA! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
3. Don't Worry, the Government has TOP. MEN. on the case.
4. The TOP. MEN. Are Idiots! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
5. Ebola is killing everyone handy in droves, but they're mostly "just Africans".
6. Continued Ebola Stories upset the editorial bias and the entrenched bureaucracy.
7. What Ebola?

Remember that governing paradigm as the stories on this outbreak wax and wane, while the number of infected and dead climbs inexorably, and right on track with any number of estimates.

There are only two or three pending milestones worthy of note:
1) Collapse of one or more of the three affected counties' governments;
2) Widespread outbreak outside the current 3 (or 4) affected countries;
(note that #1 leads inexorably to #2)
{nota bene that Mali is overripe for this, since their current mode is to assume that no one who dies or has died there anytime since September has Ebola until they're literally shitting their guts out, AND someone official deigns to take notice. Which worked out so well with Imam Ebola the Magnificent. :roll: }
3) Any cluster of multiple cases here (or elsewhere in the "first" world) >10 cases nearly simultaneously (because that's my ballpark guess on what would overwhelm anyone's management capability, unless they revert to the West African "no actual treatment" modality, in which case 80+% die) because that's the point when the previous rosy outlook all goes to shit, and reality probably starts to kick in at the level of the average person on the street.

Any one of those takes this up another DefCon level IMHO.
The rest is merely the outbreak continuing to chew its way to one of those eventualities.

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http://www.theguardian.com/global-d...2/ebola-medecins-sans-frontieres-west-africa?

World's Ebola response slow, patchy and inadequate, Médecins sans Frontières says
By Lisa O'Carroll

Medical NGO MSF says response by foreign countries is ill-adapted to tackling the spread of Ebola in west Africa, warning the outbreak is far from over

The medical NGO Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a scathing attack on the international community for its slow and patchy response to the effort to stamp out Ebola in west Africa.


It says the response risks creating “a double failure” because ill-equipped locals inSierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea have been left to run hospitals and treatment centres.

Three months after MSF called for international intervention, its international president, Dr Joanne Liu, said it was “extremely disappointing that states with biological-disaster response capacities have chosen not to deploy them”. She said people “are still dying horrible deaths in an outbreak that has already killed thousands” and urged the world not to be complacent. “We can’t let our guard down and allow this to become a ‘double failure’: a response that is slow to begin with, and then is ill-adapted in the end.”

MSF compiled its briefing three months after calling for countries to get involved in the Ebola response. Liu criticised the concentration of international efforts on the construction of Ebola treatment centres without also providing staff and training, transport and laboratories.

Medical NGO MSF says response by foreign countries is ill-adapted to tackling the spread of Ebola in west Africa, warning the outbreak is far from over

It says the response risks creating “a double failure” because ill-equipped locals inSierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea have been left to run hospitals and treatment centres.

In rural areas of Liberia, where hopes had been raised that the Ebola infection rate had plateaued, there were still “active chains of transmission” and no transport facilities to test the patients. In Sierra Leone, the national Ebola response team was struggling, with callers to the emergency 117 helpline being told to isolate themselves at home.

“How is it that the international community has left the response to Ebola – now a transnational threat – up to doctors, nurses and charity workers?” said Liu.

MSF said the situation was “far from under control” in Sierra Leone, that the “situation is alarming” in Guinea and, while progress was being made in Liberia, there was no room for complacency. “The outbreak is far from over, as a single case can start a localised epidemic,” it said, reporting infection chains starting in remote rural areas with no access to treatment centres or testing facilities.

MSF said case numbers had dropped in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, where there was now surplus bed capacity, but added that many international agencies “seem unable to adapt to the rapidly changing situation” with outbreaks in Bong, Margibi, Gbarpolu, Grand Cape Mount and River Cess counties. In some areas, such as River Cess, patients must travel for up to 12 hours by road to reach a functioning laboratory and a community care centre, it said.

Guinea, where the outbreak started, was “long overlooked by international efforts”, according to MSF, which said the response was “painfully slow”. It said Guinea’s taskforce for dealing with Ebola was improving but that the caseload in November, month on month, was up 25%. It added: “New areas are reporting infections and 17 of Guinea’s 33 prefectures have reported cases in the past three weeks.

In rural areas of Liberia, where hopes had been raised that the Ebola infection rate had plateaued, there were still “active chains of transmission” and no transport facilities to test the patients. In Sierra Leone, the national Ebola response team was struggling, with callers to the emergency 117 helpline being told to isolate themselves at home.

 

[Doomer Doug]

Brewer, the seven stages of Ebola is funny, in a black, dark and cynical kind of way.

The reason, in Doomer Doug's opinion, Ebola is going to ravage Africa, between 100 to 200 million dead, is NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE N#$%%% IN AFRICA AT ALL.

Africa is viewed as a place where various resources can be looted with impunity by the globalist cabal. If rotting bodies are littered from Mali to South Africa nobody in the West is really going to care.

I find the continued utterances from WHO et al about how they are dealing with Ebola in Africa to be the press conference version of severe flatulence.

 

[Doomer Doug]

NGOs continue to tell the truth



Brewer, for the UMPTEENTH TIME the NGO groups paint a completely different picture of actual events in West Africa regarding Ebola compared to the WHO etc.

After the official WHO news conference is finished it starts to leak out, usually from the NGO or local health people just how screwed up the REAL SITUATION IS. This pattern has been repeated dozens of times since August.

Africa is doomed and I wish WHO would just shut up about the steps they are taking that are too little and too late.

 

[amarah]

Thank you for your posts today,DD and Brewer

 

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Greetings, Doomer Doug: Yes, nobody really cares about the people in Africa. TPTB don't care about us either judging by the plethora
of chemtrails overhead these days. The problem arises as we've detailed over the past year that Ebola exposed west Africans et allia
are not restricted by anything stronger than a gentle breeze from entering this country or this hemisphere for that matter.

Your numbers are pretty consistant since you started them. I can't help to think that after the first couple of months of 2015 there will be too
many infected in the USA to be hidden any longer. Stay tuned. BREWER

Amarah: You're welcome. Take care. BREWER

 

[JohnGaltfla]

PSST...I posted a new thread on some breaking news. It appears it is Boston's turn for some fun and barf!

 

[BREWER]

PSST...I posted a new thread on some breaking news. It appears it is Boston's turn for some fun and barf!

Greetings, John: Thanks for the heads-up. Good catch. Take care, my friend. BREWER

 

[bw]

I am not sure why this thread seems to be withering away.

Because it ends at the end of November and it's December now.

 

[bev]

I was just going to post that we need a new thread for December.

 

[Doomer Doug]

This is such BS as to be beyond comment. The people are out in the boonies dying you moron.


http://fluboard.rhizalabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=13037

The number of Ebola cases in Monrovia hospitals has fallen dramatically, including adrop to 8 in the 250 bed ELWA-3.

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Startling Statistic: Only 8 Patients In Largest Ebola Hospital

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Sometimes you stumble across statistics that just scream at you. I was looking this week through some reports on the Liberian Ministry of Health's website. The screaming statistic was an "8" listed as the number of people "currently in treatment" at the ELWA 3 Ebola Treatment Unit run by Doctors Without Borders in Monrovia.

That couldn't possibly be right, I thought. ELWA 3 is the largest Ebola hospital ever built, with 250 beds. I was at the site when it was being built in August, and later when it was full.

It's a massive complex, covering what used to be a huge empty field on the grounds of a missionary hospital. It's hard to get a sense of how big it is while you're walking amid the long white tents holding Ebola patients and suspected cases.

In August, ELWA3's size seemed depressing. The fact that such a large hospital was needed was an indication of how out of control the outbreak was.

As the wards were being erected behind her, Lindis Hurum, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Monrovia, told me the outbreak was worsening every day.

"It (ELWA3) is going to be the biggest unit ever by MSF, and the reality is that we think that that will not be enough," she predicted.

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At first it seemed she was right. ELWA3 opened originally with 120 beds, then quickly expanded to 250. In September it seemed that even that wasn't enough. Staff members had to turn away suspected Ebola patients at the gate.

So to hear that the hospital's patient roster had dropped to just 8 last week is great news.

A spokeswoman for Doctors Without Borders says the admissions fluctuate a lot, and the tally has since gone up from 8 to 17. But still 17 Ebola patients is a far cry from 250.

Part of why that statistic of 8 screams so loudly is that ELWA3 is now a sign of how dramatically the number of cases has come down in Liberia.

There's no denying that it was worth building the 250-bed hospital. It got all of those people out of circulation, so they couldn't spread the virus to others.

But now the international response once again seems out of step with epidemic. On the same day that ELWA3 had more than 200 empty beds last week, the Chinese government opened a brand new 100 bed Ebola treatment unit just down the street.

 

[Doomer Doug]

More WHO lies

The official lies for 12-3-2014

http://fluboard.rhizalabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=13036

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WHO has released a December 3 Ebola update

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· There have been 17 145 reported cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), with 6070 reported deaths.
· Case incidence is slightly increasing in Guinea, stable or declining in Liberia, and may still be increasing in Sierra Leone.
· The outbreak in Spain has been declared over.
· The UNMEER targets of isolating and treating 70% of EVD cases and burying 70% of EVD-related deaths safely have likely been met in most districts of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. All three countries now have sufficient capacity at a national level to meet both targets, though local variations mean capacity is still insufficient to stop transmission in some areas.

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A total of 17 145 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have been reported in five affected countries (Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, and the United States of America) and three previously affected countries (Nigeria, Senegal and Spain) up to the end of 30 November. There have been 6070 reported deaths. Reported case incidence is slightly increasing in Guinea (77 confirmed cases reported in the week to 30 November), stable or declining in Liberia (43 new confirmed cases in the 5 days to 28 November), and is still rising in Sierra Leone (537 new confirmed cases in the week to 30 November). The case fatality rate across the three most-affected countries in all cases with a recorded definitive outcome is 72%; in hospitalized patients the case fatality rate is 60%.

Response activities in the three intense-transmission countries continue to intensify in line with the UNMEER aim to isolate and treat 70% of EVD cases, and safely bury 70% of EVD-related deaths by 1 December, with the ultimate goal of reaching 100% by 1 January. At a national level, there is now sufficient bed capacity in EVD treatment facilities to treat and isolate all reported EVD cases in each of the three countries, although the uneven distribution of beds and cases means there are serious shortfalls in some areas. Similarly, each country now has sufficient and widespread capacity to bury all reported EVD-related deaths; however, because not all EVD-related deaths are reported, and many reported burials are of non-EVD-related deaths, it is possible that the 70% target has not been met in some areas. Every EVD-affected district in the three intense-transmission countries has access to a laboratory for confirmation within 24 hours of sample collection. All three countries report that more than 85% of registered contacts associated with known cases of EVD are being traced, although contact tracing is still a challenge in areas of intense transmission. Increasing capacity for contact tracing in areas with low levels of transmission will be necessary to end local chains of transmission.

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This situation report on the Ebola Response Roadmap[1] contains a review of the epidemiological situation based on official information reported by ministries of health, and an assessment of the response measured against the core Roadmap indicators where available. Substantial efforts are ongoing to improve the availability and quality of information about both the epidemiological situation and the implementation of response measures.

Following the Roadmap structure, country reports fall into three categories: (1) those with widespread and intense transmission (Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone); (2) those with or that have had an initial case or cases, or with localized transmission (Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Spain and the United States of America); and (3) those countries that neighbour or have strong trade ties with areas of active transmission.

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1. COUNTRIES WITH WIDESPREAD AND INTENSE TRANSMISSION
A total of 17 111 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of EVD and 6055 deaths have been reported up to the end of 30 November 2014 by the Ministries of Health of Guinea and Sierra Leone, and 28 November by the Ministry of Health of Liberia (table 1). The data are reported through WHO country offices.

Table 1: Confirmed, probable, and suspected cases in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone
Country
Case definition
Cumulative cases
Cases in past 21 days
Cumulative deaths
Guinea
Confirmed
1929
306
1117
Probable
210
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210
Suspected
25
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0
Total
2164
306
1327
Liberia§
Confirmed
2801
278
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Probable
1792
*
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Suspected
3042
*
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Total
7635
278
3145
Sierra Leone
Confirmed
5978
1455
1374
Probable
79
*
174
Suspected
1255
*
35
Total
7312
1455
1583
Total

17 111
2039
6055
Data are based on official information reported by ministries of health, through WHO country offices. These numbers are subject to change due to ongoing reclassification, retrospective investigation and availability of laboratory results. *Not reported due to the high proportion of probable and suspected cases that are reclassified. ‡Data not available. §Data missing for 29 and 30 November.

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A total of 77 new confirmed cases were reported nationally during the week to 30 November (figure 1), compared with 148 cases in the week before. The national trend in Guinea since early October has been slightly increasing, with between 75 and 148 confirmed cases reported in each of the past 6 weeks, though this picture of relative stability masks important changes in the pattern of EVD transmission within the country. The previous 3 weeks saw a large number of new cases in the eastern districts of N’Zerekore (6 new confirmed cases in the week to 30 November; 29 cases in the previous week), Macenta (15 new confirmed cases; 26 in the previous week), and Kankan (7 new confirmed cases; 7 in the previous week). The persistent transmission in Kankan, and the surrounding areas of Kerouane, Kouroussa and Kissidougo (figure 4), is of particular concern, because the local populations are likely to seek treatment in the north, and in neighbouring Mali in particular, rather than at existing facilities in the nearby south-eastern districts of Gueckedou (1 new confirmed cases in the week to 30 November) and Macenta. The first case imported to Mali travelled from a city in the northern district of Siguiri, which borders Mali, and where there has been persistent transmission since early November (2 new confirmed cases this week; between 1 and 3 cases for the past 7 weeks). The lack of established EVD treatment and isolation facilities in this northern, Sahelian zone of the country, combined with a higher than usual degree of resistance among local communities to safe burial practices, make this area vulnerable to an increase in cases.

In the centre of the country, the district of Faranah, which borders the north Sierra Leonean district of Koinadugu, has reported an average of 8 cases per week for each of the past 4 weeks. In the west of the country, the capital, Conakry, reported 14 new confirmed cases in the week to 30 November (figure 1). Together with the neighbouring district of Coyah (15 new confirmed cases in the week to 30 November), Conakry has now reported an increase in the number of new cases during each of the past 2 weeks. Although 10 districts are yet to report a case of EVD, there has been a geographical expansion in transmission: as at 1 October, 9 districts had reported an infection during the past 7 days; as at 1 December 14 districts had reported an infection during the past 7 days).

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Case incidence has stabilized over the past 5 weeks, after declining from mid-September until mid-October. A total of 43 confirmed cases were reported in the 5 days to 28 November, down from 78 the previous week.

The district of Montserrado, which includes the capital Monrovia (figure 2), reported 34 confirmed cases, and accounted for 79% of all confirmed cases reported nationally in the week to 28 November. Bomi (2 confirmed cases), Grand Bassa (4 confirmed cases), Grand Cape Mount (2 confirmed cases, compared with 21 the previous week), and Margibi (1 confirmed case) are the only other districts to report a case during the same period.

The district of Lofa, in the north of the country and on the border with Guinea and Sierra Leone, reported no cases for the fifth consecutive week.

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EVD transmission remains intense in Sierra Leone, with 537 new confirmed cases reported in the week to 30 November (more than Guinea and Liberia combined), compared with 385 cases the previous week. The worst affected area remains the capital, Freetown, which reported 202 new confirmed cases (figure 3). Transmission remains persistent and intense across the country with the exception of the south, with the districts of Bo (23 cases), Bombali (66 cases), Kambia (14 cases), Kono (15 cases), Koinadugu (6 cases), Moyamba (3 cases), Port Loko (94 cases), Tonkolili (40 cases), and Western Rural Area (72 cases) all reporting high numbers of new confirmed cases. Of the above districts, all but Moyamba reported an increase in the number of new cases compared with the previous week, although the overall trend in these districts may not be increasing. By contrast, the southern districts of Kenema and Kailahun reported 0 and 1 case, respectively. Kenema has reported one case since 1 November. Bonthe has not reported a case for the past 2 weeks.

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Ebola patients have slowed down because they are no longer coming to the "clinics" for "help." Word has spread that there's no room, you'll be turned away, and if you are unlucky enough to get in, you'll lay on a cot with no help squirting your insides out in agony until you die, because there aren't any health care workers left. And if perchance you don't have Ebola, after a week with no care sitting in a lake of other ppl's Ebola fluids, you'll get it. So no more ppl coming into clinics, relatively, and they say It's Declining. Meanwhile entire villages are decimated, dead.

 

[Cascadians]

Also word has spread that not only will you die, but your house and all possessions will be burned to the ground and your family left adrift to starve. So ppl elect to keep it secret, bury their dead and hope they don't get it. It has gone underground.

 

[summerthyme]

Also word has spread that not only will you die, but your house and all possessions will be burned to the ground and your family left adrift to starve. So ppl elect to keep it secret, bury their dead and hope they don't get it. It has gone underground.

I pray you're wrong, but I'm very afraid you are right. You don't stop exponential growth *suddenly* in a population like this. The educational efforts need a LOT more time to bear fruit. And really... you know that *every person* who has gone to the hospital for "help" has never come home... they have been buried without ceremony, or cremated, and half the time, family members already were ill and so also died anyway.

So, why WOULD you go to the hospital? You figure your family is as good as dead anyway, and you'll get more loving care at home until you die, which you see as inevitable.

Going underground was inevitable.

Summerthyme

 

[the watcher]

They want to have just enough sickness to keep aid flowing in to the coffers of the government "authorities". Hear that they want cash, not gowns and gloves, thank you very much.

Yeah that worked in Haiti. Almost all the money collected, was used to be hotels. For tourists to come see the devastation.

 

[BREWER]

Posted for fair use and discussion.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/03/us-health-ebola-usa-emory-idUSKCN0JH2P320141203

American possibly exposed to Ebola being transferred to Atlanta hospital

NEW YORK Wed Dec 3, 2014 6:33pm EST



(Reuters) - A U.S. healthcare worker who had been in West Africa and may have been exposed to the Ebola virus is being transferred to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, a hospital spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

The patient will be monitored and observed for signs of infection. The hospital said it did not have a time of arrival and was unable to share more details "out of respect for patient privacy and in accordance with the patient's wishes." It did not say where the patient is currently located or when he or she returned to the United States.

The announcement comes one day after U.S. health officials designated 35 hospitals nationwide, including Emory, as Ebola treatment centers.

Emory treated the first two Americans who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa, which is suffering the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded with 17,111 confirmed, suspected or probable cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and 6,055 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.

(Reporting by Sharon Begley; Editing by Chris Reese)

 

[Doomer Doug]

Another day, and another group of LIES FROM WHO. WHO TELLS US, PRESUMABLY WITH A STRAIGHT FACE, 110 EBOLA CASES ARE HAPPENING PER DAY. 17,145 ON 12-3 AND 17,256 ON 12-4. WHO SAYS WITH A STRAIGHT FACE THAT 43 PEOPLE DIED. 6,070 ON 12-3 AND 6,113 ON 12-4

THESE NUMBERS ARE FOR ALL OF AFRICA AND WEST AFRICA. Seriously, WHO actually has the nerve to get up and say one hundred per day are now getting infected with Ebola, and 43 are now dying per day.

DOOMER DOUG SAYS THERE ARE HUNDREDS/THOUSANDS OF DEATHS PER DAY NOW. THERE ARE LIKELY MULTIPLE THOUSANDS OF NEW EBOLA CASES PER DAY NOW.

Who is full of lying, incompetent, political shills and hacks doing their best to keep the sheeple calm.

The December 4th figures.
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WHO releases Dec 4 Ebola numbers for the three most affected countries

http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.ebola ... 04?lang=en

17,256 cases
6,113 deaths

 

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http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2014/12/04/msf-warns-liberia-ebola-progress-could-be-illusory

MSF warns Liberia Ebola 'progress' could be illusory

04 December, 2014

Global aid agency Doctors Without Borders urged caution Thursday over claims of a slowdown in infections in Ebola-hit Liberia, saying the apparent drop could be due to poor management of the sick.

The warning follows an announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO) that data from a range of sources including funeral directors and treatment centres indicated lower admission rates and burials.

But the medical charity, known by its French initials MSF, warned that "mandatory cremation of dead bodies and a poor ambulance and referral system could also be reasons for this decrease in admissions".

"It is too soon to draw conclusions on the reduction of Ebola cases in Monrovia," Fasil Tezera, MSF head of mission in Liberia, said in a statement.

"While the number of admissions in MSF's 250-bed Monrovia Ebola centre have dropped to around 80, we do not have a full picture of the extent of the outbreak and estimates might not be reliable."

An MSF spokeswoman in Dakar told AFP many people in the capital were calling the Ebola hotline to report that they were sick but were not being picked up because of a lack of ambulances and were going missing from the statistics.

"The present epidemic is unpredictable: we have seen a lull in cases in one area only to see the numbers spike again later," Faisal added.

WHO assistant director-general Bruce Aylward told reporters in Geneva on Wednesday that while labs were also seeing a "plateauing or slight decline" in the number of confirmed cases, the crisis was far from over.

He added that he was "terrified that the information will be misinterpreted and that people will begin to think Ebola is under control".

The Ebola outbreak that has been ravaging west Africa has claimed 4,922 lives, according to the latest update from the WHO. The vast majority of deaths were in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Aylward said that the number of Ebola cases registered worldwide had soared to 13,703 -- up from around 10,000 reported by the WHO on Saturday -- but he stressed the increase was mainly due to previously unreported cases being added to the statistics.

His cautious optimism on Liberia came a day after the Red Cross offered hope that progress was being made in the battle against the killer virus, noting a sharp drop in the burials it was being called on to carry out.

Health authorities in Liberia welcomed the apparent slowdown but echoed the call for caution issued by the WHO and MSF.

Deputy health minister Tolbert Nyensuah said that even if it managed to achieve no new cases, Liberia would not be able to consider itself Ebola-free until neighbours Guinea and Sierra Leone had eradicated the virus.

"We cannot do this alone -- we have to do it regionally. Liberia went down around April, and we never had a case for about 60 days, but then Guinea and Sierra Leone were still reporting, so we had resurgence and reoccurrence of the disease as the second wave."

He said however that Liberia, too, had evidence of the slowdown, with burials less frequent, lab confirmations down and reports of new cases "decreasing exponentially".

MSF warned that the epidemic had made obtaining treatment for malaria, which is endemic in Liberia, almost impossible in the capital, because of the "collapse of the healthcare system".

The majority of Monrovia's primary health centres are closed, with staff too afraid to work, MSF said, and in the rare clinics remaining open, patients showing fever are sent to Ebola centres.

"The first symptoms of malaria are the same as those of Ebola," said Chibuzo Okonta, MSF's deputy director of emergency programs.

"They include fever, headache and overwhelming fatigue. We decided to give this antimalarial treatment to both children and adults. It treats and prevents the disease."

The agency said it had begun distributing antimalarials to around 300,000 people in the city's poorest, most densely-inhabited neighbourhoods.

"The objective is also to eliminate the risk that patients with fever, suspected of having Ebola, will end up in Ebola treatment centres in contact with infected persons," Okanta added.

Malaria remains the leading cause of death in Liberia, with 1.7 million cases in 2012 according to the health ministry, 1,800 of them fatal.

 

[Doomer Doug]

I think several things are now very clear regarding the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

One is the difference between the official numbers and what is really going on is a minimum of one fourth to one tenth.

The second is there has been a consistent gap between what the powers that be say, WHO and the CDC, and what the local people on the ground and the Non Governmental Orgs, NGO, have been saying .

The third is Ebola is now totally out of control in West Africa.

You add all three up, Brewer and one comes to conclusion Ebola is now spreading widely in Africa, unknown to the powers that be in terms of numbers of cases and deaths.

It will take another year or so till the true scale becomes clear. The same WHO saying that Ebola is under control in Liberia is the same one that doesn't bother to go out into the countryside where DOZENS OF EMPTY VILLAGES ARE ROTTING IN THE SUN. Now, Doomer Doug asks the obvious question: where did the thousands of people who lived in those villages, and are no longer there, go. The answer is they are DEAD OR FLED.

WHO et al are saying there are now a total of 17,000 cases, gang. If you add up the people who have vanished from the DOZENS of empty villages in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea YOU COME UP WITH TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NO LONGER LIVING THERE. In fact, you can come up with 100,000 to 200,000 easily. And the WHO et al refuse to admit these people every existed, much less they left/died as a result of Ebola.

Yep, one year from now "they" are going to finally send some helicopters flying out over entire sections of Liberia etc AND FIND NO PEOPLE AT ALL. It will be interesting to see how the WHO and CDC spin that vast wasteland.

 

[Doomer Doug]

Gee, Doomer Doug thought the USA had "no Ebola cases at all." LOL Watch what they do, and not what they say!


http://www.11alive.com/story/news/l...-airport-symptoms-public-health-cdc/19909977/


Georgia monitoring more than 100 people for Ebola symptoms
Rebecca Lindstrom, WXIA 6:56 p.m. EST December 4, 2014
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ATLANTA -- When two nurses in Texas were diagnosed with Ebola after treating a patient in their care, Gov. Nathan Deal announced Georgia would have six hospitals specially equipped and trained to treat the illness.

"It is better to be overly cautious than it is to be not cautious at all," said Deal at an October 27 campaign event, where he announced the state's plan for dealing with increased screening checks at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Ebola treatment center at Emory

Ebola treatment center at Emory(Photo: NBC)

But more than a month later the state still has the same number of hospitals approved and ready to treat Ebola as it did back then: one.

A month after Governor promises six designated Ebola treatment facilities, the state still only has one.

According to a CDC report, there are 35 approved hospitals across the country. Emory University Hospital is the only Georgia facility on that list.

The Department of Public Health won't say when other hospitals will be ready or how many are even trying. Nor would it address concerns the state is falling behind others in preparedness.

DPH spokesperson Nancy Nydam did release this statement: "The hospitals and staff are going through intense training in preparation for treating Ebola patients or evaluating potential cases of Ebola. Some of the hospitals are making physical modifications to their facilities in order to properly care for patients or potential patients, while keeping their medical staff protected, along with other patients and or members of the public. The hospitals will also be visited by the CDC and others to ensure they have completed all the training and met all the requirements to be Ebola-ready treatment or evaluation facilities. Hospitals are at different levels of completion, but while preparation is still ongoing, DPH will not identify any of the hospitals."

Border patrol has stepped up screening at five airports. Right now, New York and Newark have six Ebola ready hospitals. Washington DC has three and Chicago has four. The CDC says there are seven other states with more hospitals ready to treat Ebola than Georgia.

While none of the passengers passing through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport have been diagnosed with Ebola, the state says it has passed out more than 300 Ebola care kits and has 111 people actively being monitored right now, to make sure they don't show signs of the illness.

 

[Doomer Doug]

The latest WHO lies about Ebola. The "official" totals are now 17,517 Ebola infected, along with 6,187 dead.


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CDC Health Advisory Regarding the Potential for Circulation of Drifted Influenza A (H3N2) Viruses


This is an official
CDC HEALTH ADVISORY
Distributed via the CDC Health Alert Network
December 3, 2014, 16:00 ET (4:00PM ET)
CDCHAN-00374

CDC is reminding clinicians of the benefits of influenza antiviral medications and urging continued influenza vaccination of unvaccinated patients this influenza season.

Summary
Influenza activity is currently low in the United States as a whole, but is increasing in some parts of the country. This season, influenza A (H3N2) viruses have been reported most frequently and have been detected in almost all states.

During past seasons when influenza A (H3N2) viruses have predominated, higher overall and age-specific hospitalization rates and more mortality have been observed, especially among older people, very young children, and persons with certain chronic medical conditions compared with seasons during which influenza A (H1N1) or influenza B viruses have predominated.

Influenza viral characterization data indicates that 48% of the influenza A (H3N2) viruses collected and analyzed in the United States from October 1 through November 22, 2014 were antigenically "like" the 2014-2015 influenza A (H3N2) vaccine component, but that 52% were antigenically different (drifted) from the H3N2 vaccine virus. In past seasons during which predominant circulating influenza viruses have been antigenically drifted, decreased vaccine effectiveness has been observed. However, vaccination has been found to provide some protection against drifted viruses. Though reduced, this cross-protection might reduce the likelihood of severe outcomes such as hospitalization and death. In addition, vaccination will offer protection against circulating influenza strains that have not undergone significant antigenic drift from the vaccine viruses (such as influenza A (H1N1) and B viruses).

Because of the detection of these drifted influenza A (H3N2) viruses, this CDC Health Advisory is being issued to re-emphasize the importance of the use of neuraminidase inhibitor antiviral medications when indicated for treatment and prevention of influenza, as an adjunct to vaccination.

The two prescription antiviral medications recommended for treatment or prevention of influenza are oseltamivir (Tamiflu®) and zanamivir (Relenza®). Evidence from past influenza seasons and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic has shown that treatment with neuraminidase inhibitors has clinical and public health benefit in reducing severe outcomes of influenza and, when indicated, should be initiated as soon as possible after illness onset. Clinical trials and observational data show that early antiviral treatment can:

shorten the duration of fever and illness symptoms;
reduce the risk of complications from influenza (e.g., otitis media in young children and pneumonia requiring antibiotics in adults); and
reduce the risk of death among hospitalized patients.
Background
As of November 22, influenza activity has increased slightly in most parts of the United States. Surveillance data indicate that influenza A (H3N2) viruses have predominated so far, with lower levels of detection of influenza B viruses and even less detection of H1N1 viruses. During the week ending November 22, 1,123 (91.4%) of the 1,228 influenza-positive tests reported to CDC were influenza A viruses and 105 (8.6%) were influenza B viruses. Of the 85 influenza A (H3N2) viruses collected by U.S. laboratories and antigenically or genetically characterized at CDC since October 1, 2014, 44 (52%) are significantly different (drifted) from A/Texas/50/2012, the U.S. H3N2 vaccine virus. Drifted H3N2 viruses were first detected in late March 2014, after World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for the 2014-2015 Northern Hemisphere vaccine had been made in mid-February. At that time, a very small number of these viruses had been found among the thousands of specimens that had been collected and tested, but these viruses have become more predominant over time. Most of the drifted H3N2 viruses are A/Switzerland/9715293/2013 viruses, which is the H3N2 virus selected for the 2015 Southern Hemisphere influenza vaccine. These drifted viruses will likely continue to circulate in the United States throughout the season. All influenza viruses tested for resistance to neuraminidase inhibitors this season have shown susceptibility to both oseltamivir and zanamivir. Given the likelihood that the drifted influenza A (H3N2) viruses will continue to circulate this season, CDC is issuing the following recommendations to remind clinicians of CDC’s guidance for the use of influenza antiviral medications.

Recommendations for Health Care Providers
Clinicians should encourage all patients 6 months and older who have not yet received an influenza vaccine this season to be vaccinated against influenza. There are several influenza vaccine options for the 2014-15 influenza season (see http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/vaccine/vaccines.htm).
Clinicians should encourage all persons with influenza-like illness who are at high risk for influenza complications (see list below) to seek care promptly to determine if treatment with influenza antiviral medications is warranted.
Summary of CDC Recommendations for Influenza Antiviral Medications for the 2014-2015 Season:
Influenza Vaccination

Clinicians should continue to vaccinate patients who have not yet received influenza vaccine this season.

Antiviral Use

Clinical benefit is greatest when antiviral treatment is administered early. When indicated, antiviral treatment should be started as soon as possible after illness onset, ideally within 48 hours of symptom onset. However, antiviral treatment might still have some benefits in patients with severe, complicated, or progressive illness and in hospitalized patients when started after 48 hours of illness onset.

Antiviral treatment with oseltamivir or zanamivir is recommended as early as possible for any patient with confirmed or suspected influenza who:

is hospitalized;
has severe, complicated, or progressive illness; or
is at higher risk for influenza complications. This list includes:
children aged younger than 2 years;
adults aged 65 years and older;
persons with chronic pulmonary (including asthma), cardiovascular (except hypertension alone), renal, hepatic, hematological (including sickle cell disease), and metabolic disorders (including diabetes mellitus), or neurologic and neurodevelopment conditions (including disorders of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerve, and muscle such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy [seizure disorders], stroke, intellectual disability [mental retardation], moderate to severe developmental delay, muscular dystrophy, or spinal cord injury);
persons with immunosuppression, including that caused by medications or by HIV infection;
women who are pregnant or postpartum (within 2 weeks after delivery);
persons aged younger than 19 years who are receiving long-term aspirin therapy;
American Indians/Alaska Natives;
persons who are morbidly obese (i.e., body-mass index is equal to or greater than 40); and
residents of nursing homes and other chronic-care facilities.
Clinical judgment, on the basis of the patient’s disease severity and progression, age, underlying medical conditions, likelihood of influenza, and time since onset of symptoms, is important when making antiviral treatment decisions for high-risk outpatients. Decisions about starting antiviral treatment should not wait for laboratory confirmation of influenza.

Oseltamivir is approved for treatment of influenza in persons aged two weeks and older, and for chemoprophylaxis to prevent influenza in people one year of age and older, while zanamivir is approved for treatment of persons seven years and older and for prevention of influenza in persons five years and older. Because high levels of resistance to adamantane antiviral medications continue to be observed among circulating influenza A viruses, adamantanes (rimantadine and amantadine) are not recommended for treatment or prevention of influenza.

Antiviral treatment also can be considered on the basis of clinical judgment for any previously healthy, symptomatic outpatient who is not considered “high risk” with confirmed or suspected influenza, if treatment can be initiated within 48 hours of illness onset.

Special Considerations for Institutional Settings

Use of antiviral chemoprophylaxis to control outbreaks among high risk persons in institutional settings is recommended. An influenza outbreak is likely when at least two residents are ill within 72 hours, and at least one has laboratory confirmed influenza. When influenza is identified as a cause of a respiratory disease outbreak among nursing home residents, use of antiviral medications for chemoprophylaxis is recommended for residents (regardless of whether they have received influenza vaccination) and for unvaccinated health care personnel. For newly-vaccinated staff, antiviral chemoprophylaxis can be administered up to two weeks (the time needed for antibody development) following influenza vaccination. Chemoprophylaxis may also be considered for all employees, regardless of their influenza vaccination status, if the outbreak is caused by a strain of influenza virus that is not well matched by the vaccine. Antiviral chemoprophylaxis should be administered for a minimum of two weeks, and continue for at least seven days after the last known case was identified.

To reduce the substantial burden of influenza in the United States, CDC continues to recommend a three-pronged approach:

(1) influenza vaccination. The influenza vaccine contains three or four influenza viruses depending on the influenza vaccine—an influenza A (H1N1) virus, an influenza A (H3N2) virus, and one or two influenza B viruses. Therefore, even if vaccine effectiveness is reduced against drifted circulating viruses, the vaccine will protect against non-drifted circulating vaccine viruses. Further, there is evidence to suggest that vaccination may make illness milder and prevent influenza-related complications. Such protection is possible because antibodies created through vaccination with one strain of influenza viruses will often “cross-protect” against different but related strains of influenza viruses;

(2) use of neuraminidase inhibitor medications when indicated for treatment or prevention. Antiviral treatment with oseltamivir or zanamivir is recommended as early as possible for any patient with confirmed or suspected influenza who: is hospitalized; has severe, complicated, or progressive illness; or is at higher risk for influenza complications. Antiviral chemoprophylaxis should be used for prevention of influenza when indicated for institutional influenza outbreaks, and may be considered for those who have contraindications to influenza vaccination. CDC recommends antiviral chemoprophylaxis for a minimum of two weeks, and continuing for at least seven days after the last known case was identified.

(3) use of other preventive health practices that may help decrease the spread of influenza, including respiratory hygiene, cough etiquette, social distancing (e.g., staying home from work and school when ill, staying away from people who are sick) and hand washing.

For More Information:
Influenza Vaccines Available in United States, 2014–15 Influenza Season
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/vaccine/vaccines.htm
Information for healthcare professionals on the use of influenza antiviral medications:
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/antivirals/
Summary of Influenza Antiviral Treatment Recommendations for clinicians:
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/an ... tm#summary
Diagnostic Testing for Influenza:
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/an ... diagnostic
Interim Guidance for Influenza Outbreak Management in Long-Term Care Facilities:
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/in ... idance.htm
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http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.ebola-sitrep.ebola-summary-20141205?lang=en

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Number of cases Number of deaths
Cumulative Cumulative
Guinea 3 December 2014 Confirmed 1956 1151
Probable 215 215
Suspected 21 0
Total 2192 1366
Liberia 2 December 2014 Confirmed 2824 Not availablei
Probable 1809 Not availablei
Suspected 3057 Not availablei
Total 7690 3161
Sierra Leone 3 December 2014 Confirmed 6201 1451
Probable 79 174
Suspected 1355 35
Total 7635 1660
All countries Total 17 517i 6187i
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Country Data as of Case definition
Number of cases Number of deaths
Cumulative Cumulative
Guinea 3 December 2014 Confirmed 1956 1151
Probable 215 215
Suspected 21 0
Total 2192 1366
Liberia 2 December 2014 Confirmed 2824 Not availablei
Probable 1809 Not availablei
Suspected 3057 Not availablei
Total 7690 3161
Sierra Leone 3 December 2014 Confirmed 6201 1451
Probable 79 174
Suspected 1355 35
Total 7635 1660
All countries

 

[Milk-maid]

Doug, you should post this to the December thread which is on the main now.

Don't want the info to get lost or not read because people have moved on.

MM

 

[Doomer Doug]

SUMMARY OF OFFICIAL WHO STATISTICS FOR 12-3, 12-4 AND 12-5-2014

WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVES THE FOLLOWING STATISTICS FOR WEST AFRICA.

EBOLA INFECTED:
12-3 17,145
12-4 17,257
12-5 17,517

EBOLA DEAD
12-3 6,070
12-4 6,113
12-5 6,187

WHO IS NOW SAYING THAT BETWEEN 45 AND 75 PEOPLE ARE NOW DYING FROM EBOLA IN WEST AFRICA DAILY.

WHO IS NOW SAYING FROM 12-4 TO 12-5 EBOLA INFECTIONS INCREASED FROM 112 TO 360 PER DAY.

WHO IS NOW, APPARENTLY SAYING, THERE WILL BE 10,000 "OFFICIAL EBOLA CASES" IN WEST AFRICA DURING THE NEXT 30 DAYS.

Obviously, WHO has no idea of what they are talking about.