HEALTH MAIN EBOLA DISCUSSION THREAD - WEEK OF 8/16/14 - 8/31/14

[bw]

So if you are moving from to and from the hospital in heavy traffic in one of these urban centers, I imagine that you just have to get off to the side of the street and go into an alleyway or a nearby public facility.

I haven't experienced explosive diarrhea, but I've seen it come on. There is no time to find an alley. You're lucky if you can get out of your car and get your pants down in time. It's fast.

 

[Possible Impact]

Just one returning Student/Volunteer/Aid worker...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPJOwi1uPxI

Thousands pack Chinese wave pools to escape summer heat

Are there similar parks in college towns in the USA & Europe?

 

[Melodi]

I just started a new thread for the first two weeks of this month - hope that was OK - thread is here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...us-is-heading-for-africas-cities-9702252.html

 

[Medical Maven]

Posted by Pixie at the PFI Forum.

Nigeria records another Ebola case in oil city, 16 cases in total

ABUJA, Sept 1 Mon Sep 1, 2014 9:29am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014...&feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssEnergyNews&rpc=401

(Reuters) - Nigeria has a third confirmed case of Ebola disease in the oil hub of Port Harcourt, bringing the country's total confirmed infections to 16, with around 200 people under surveillance, the health minister said on Monday.

A doctor in Port Harcourt died last week after treating a contact of the Liberian-American man who was the first recorded case of the virus in Africa's most populous country. That raised alarm that Ebola, which looked on the verge of being contained in the commercial capital, Lagos, may flare up again elsewhere.

Patrick Sawyer, the first case, came in from Liberia, then collapsed at Lagos airport on July 20.

The shift to Port Harcourt shows how easily containment efforts can be undermined. Nigeria's government acted quickly at the end of July, setting up an isolation ward and monitoring contacts closely. But one of Sawyer's contacts in Lagos avoided quarantine and travelled east to Port Harcourt.

He has since recovered from the disease, but he infected the doctor who treated him, who then himself died of Ebola. A third case in the oil city was a female patient in the same hospital as the doctor and caught the disease from him.

Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said in a press conference that 72 people in Lagos, a city of 21 million people, were still under surveillance.

"Two other contacts of the late Port Harcourt doctor, one of the doctors who managed him and a pharmacy technician working in the doctor's hospital, are symptomatic and have been admitted to the isolation ward in Rivers," Chukwu said, although he added that preliminary tests had been negative for Ebola.

The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa is the world's worst ever. It has killed at least 1,550 people, and the World Health Organisation says it could infect 20,000 more.

(Reporting by Camillus Eboh; Writing by Tim Cocks; Editing by Larry King)
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[JohnGaltfla]

I guess Saudi Arabia has more common sense than the good old USA or EU:

Saudi suspends labor visas for nations worst-hit by Ebola

The Daily Star- Lebanon News
Septemer 1, 2014 5:28RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has stopped granting visas to workers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the countries worst-hit by the deadly Ebola virus, the Labor Ministry announced Monday.

The "preventive measure" is based on "directives from the foreign and health ministries to avoid" the spread of Ebola to the kingdom, the official news agency SPA reported.

The virus, for which there is no treatment or vaccine, has claimed 1,552 lives out of 3,069 reported cases - 694 in Liberia, 430 in Guinea, 422 in Sierra Leone and six in Nigeria, according to latest figures from the World Health Organization.

Saudi Arabia made a similar decision in April when it announced the suspension of visas for Muslim pilgrims from Guinea and Liberia.

The hajj annual pilgrimage, the world's biggest Muslim gathering, draws two million people to Saudi Arabia each year, including many from the West African countries affected by the Ebola outbreak. This year it falls in October.

The "temporary suspension" of labor visas from the three African nations "will not affect the labour market in Saudi Arabia" where the number of workers from these countries "is very little," SPA quoted deputy Labor Minister Mufrej al-Haqbani as saying.

He said laboratory tests before arrival were "strictly required" by the Labor Ministry for all foreigners coming from West Africa.

Apart from Nigeria, Ebola has also spread to Senegal. pm

 

[Melodi]

OK THIS should be the REAL LINK to the New Thread - if we don't want one I can take it down, but I think having a new thread every 15 days or so may be a good idea and make searching easier

New Ebola Thread 9/1/2014 to 9/15/2014 here http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?454641-MAIN-EBOLA-DISCUSSION-THREAD-01-09-14-09-15-14

 

[nchomemaker]

So, I contacted my Facebook friend in Nigeria and asked him how he felt about sharing any news he could find about Ebola with me. Here is his response: "Generally I don't trust politicians and businessmen in the Pharmaceutical industry. But I think the Govt. is scared of the panic that may arise because much of the population believes in rumors about Ebola than facts about it, and ignorance has a way of generating damaging rumors and panic from facts.

Here is my Personal opinion, which the vast majority do not share.
I am very skeptical about the intentions of the Western powers. I think they are trying to play some hidden games by using Africa as a test ground for new vaccines and medicines, and are responsible for generating Ebola and introducing it. There is also the suspicion that the West is trying to make money out of Africa by the sales of the anti-Ebola medicines and test equipment that might already have been prepared before Ebola was introduced. If Ebola spread was actually how they say it is, then by now all of us would have been dead. We interact a lot, and control of its spread is still poor."

I have already given him the link to the Pandemic Flu forum. It seems he isn't reading it. I'll send him the latest posts about Ebola in Nigeria. It will be up to him whether he believes them or not.

 

[SheWoff]

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...01-14-09-15-14&p=5337120&posted=1#post5337120

New thread for the new week...

 

[Fred's Horseradish]

Remember those dogs that were eating the bodies that were left in the streets for days. It turns out that it's pretty common for Africans to eat dog meat.

Remember the low level these people operate on. Simple and primitive. A far distant from being a vegetarian/vegan.``

 

[Lilbitsnana]

First of all, I wouldn't and don't characterize PressTV as an 'Iranian propaganda site'. On the contrary.

Second, would you put more value in the content of the material if it was from an American propaganda site? I'm guessing 'no'.

Third, perhaps you could get past your self-applied characterization of the web host and look instead at the material presented. In this way, learning is possible. Unless you just like mind-numbing and non-ending doom stories about the Ebola disaster.

I read the whole article. It was wrong.

I see that PI posted some info to dispute the article and I and others have posted scientific info repeatedly that shows the article is bogus. look it up, a lot of info has been posted on multiple threads and I'm not going to pull it all up; but to make it easier on you, I have posted some of it and you can search my posts, as well as PIs, MMs, etc.

 

[Be Well]

So, I contacted my Facebook friend in Nigeria and asked him how he felt about sharing any news he could find about Ebola with me. Here is his response: "Generally I don't trust politicians and businessmen in the Pharmaceutical industry. But I think the Govt. is scared of the panic that may arise because much of the population believes in rumors about Ebola than facts about it, and ignorance has a way of generating damaging rumors and panic from facts.

Here is my Personal opinion, which the vast majority do not share.
I am very skeptical about the intentions of the Western powers. I think they are trying to play some hidden games by using Africa as a test ground for new vaccines and medicines, and are responsible for generating Ebola and introducing it. There is also the suspicion that the West is trying to make money out of Africa by the sales of the anti-Ebola medicines and test equipment that might already have been prepared before Ebola was introduced. If Ebola spread was actually how they say it is, then by now all of us would have been dead. We interact a lot, and control of its spread is still poor."

I have already given him the link to the Pandemic Flu forum. It seems he isn't reading it. I'll send him the latest posts about Ebola in Nigeria. It will be up to him whether he believes them or not.

Sadly, attitudes like his will spread Ebola far and wide.