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INSIDIOUS · #1 03-23-2014, 12:33 AM

Guinea confirms fever is Ebola, has killed up to 59 | Reuters First line is " Guinea has received confirmation that a mysterious disease that has killed up to 59 people in the West African country" Near the end says: "Though no epidemics of the disease have been recorded among humans in West Africa, a variety of Ebola infected a colony of chimpanzees in Ivory Coast's Tai National Park, near the country's border with Liberia, in 1994."

barry12345 · #2 03-23-2014, 02:46 AM

The world health organization has been worried about this disease breaking out and getting spread for a long time. I thought they were working on a usable vaccination.

John Galt · #3 03-23-2014, 03:47 AM

We may have a resilient plague with this hardy little microbe. The natural population checks on the planet will keep trying till it finds a means to balance a population growing in urban mega-slums unchecked like a cancer. Isolated regions survived the pandemic of 1918 as long as they maintained quarantine, when they thought it was over and let down their guard it hit them too. Science never did find a viable vaccine for that one, there's no guarantee they'll find any vaccine for this one either.

Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.

INSIDIOUS · #4 03-25-2014, 10:49 AM

Rubber meets Road: BBC News - Canadian man in hospital with Ebola-like virus

Botnst · #5 03-25-2014, 11:01 AM

history….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGAXfKP1JLg
Fort Detrick 1985 Accident | Researcher in isolation appears healthy despite possible Ebola exposure - Baltimore Sun
Russian Scientist Dies in Ebola Accident at Former Weapons Lab - NYTimes.com
Mystery: Did Experimental Vaccine Save Ebola Accident Victim's Life? | Science/AAAS | News

INSIDIOUS · #6 06-20-2014, 06:12 PM

Ebola 'Totally Out of Control,' Doctors Without Borders Says - NBC News

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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.’’

INSIDIOUS · #7 06-21-2014, 01:06 PM

West Africa Is 'Overwhelmed' By Ebola : Shots - Health News : NPR

More words of note:

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The death toll has risen to 330, making this the deadliest Ebola outbreak since the disease was first detected in 1976. The staff of Doctors Without Borders is "overwhelmed" by the need to set up new isolation wards and track down people who may be infected, Sprecher told NPR's Jason Beaubien.
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This time around, says Sprecher, the fear is that the outbreak will become "a regional health issue" that will not go away.

elchivito · #8 06-21-2014, 01:26 PM

How long before it jumps continents? What's the incubation period? Could some doctor or nurse inadvertently carry it back home before getting sick?

INSIDIOUS · #9 06-21-2014, 02:03 PM

See post #4. ...

The thing is, so far it is a small problem anywhere else, but this looks like it might have the potential to require quarantine of the African continent. What would we do then, shoot down planes and sink boats that tried to flee?

INSIDIOUS · #10 07-23-2014, 04:27 PM

This is a nasty bug

Sierra Leone's chief Ebola doctor contracts the virus | Reuters

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Even with the full protective clothing you put on, you are at risk."

Three days ago, three nurses working in the same Ebola treatment centre alongside Khan died from the disease.

INSIDIOUS · #11 07-25-2014, 11:49 AM

First Ebola victim in Sierra Leone capital on the run | Reuters Science deniers?

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Sierra Leone officials appealed for help on Friday to trace the first known resident in the capital with Ebola whose family forcibly removed her from a Freetown hospital after testing positive for the deadly disease. According to health ministry data and officials, dozens of people confirmed by laboratory tests to have Ebola are now unaccounted for in Sierra Leone, where the majority of cases have been recorded in the country's east.

INSIDIOUS · #12 07-26-2014, 02:00 PM

If this thing can't be contained at its current size, what next?

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Assistant Inspector General Alfred Karrow-Kamara said on Saturday that the protest was sparked off by a former nurse who had told a crowd at a nearby fish market that "Ebola was unreal and a gimmick aimed at carrying out cannibalistic rituals".

Protesters march on Ebola center in Sierra Leone | Reuters