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Is it the pandemic?
LIBERIA WARNS OF 'GLOBAL PANDEMIC'...
Europe and Asia on alert...
Proves how unprepared we are...
WHITE HOUSE: Africa summit in US will go on...
HUNT FOR 30,000 EBOLA 'VICTIMS'...
Doctor tells of his hell on ward...
CDC issues airline advisory...
Travelers could face flight restriction...
Fight against disease hampered by belief in witchcraft...
Sierra Leone deploys security forces...
Quarantines...
Peace Corps volunteers exposed...
Europe and Asia on alert...
Proves how unprepared we are...
WHITE HOUSE: Africa summit in US will go on...
HUNT FOR 30,000 EBOLA 'VICTIMS'...
Doctor tells of his hell on ward...
CDC issues airline advisory...
Travelers could face flight restriction...
Fight against disease hampered by belief in witchcraft...
Sierra Leone deploys security forces...
Quarantines...
Peace Corps volunteers exposed...
I saw the article about the dog and wonder why they could not put the dog in isolation. I thought it was really sad.
desrt, is that Texas? :)
desrt, is that Texas? :)
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/majority-americans-want-flights-banned-ebola-countries-survey-n221751
For any who feel total isolationism isn't enough, there's a real neat old mine shaft at 38 degrees 39' 10" N by 122 degrees 36' 18" W y'all can come hide in. Plenty of room.
For any who feel total isolationism isn't enough, there's a real neat old mine shaft at 38 degrees 39' 10" N by 122 degrees 36' 18" W y'all can come hide in. Plenty of room.
I heard the spanish nurses aide is getting worse, and they euthenized her dog too. They said they do know that dogs can get the disease, but do not know if they can spread it, carry it, or anything else about how it affects them. Now being a dog person meself, that hit me where I live...I just never thought about the animals getting it.....So many unknowns.
News from BBC re ebola
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29555849
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29555849
Thank you for all the links, I was looking for information to see what others thought on here, came across this.
Hope you and Riv are doing well :)
Hope you and Riv are doing well :)
Sorry Barb, was from drudgereport.com
Thanks for those additional links desrt.
Thanks for those additional links desrt.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/07/31/336872606/as-ebola-surges-cdc-sends-aid-and-warns-against-travel
"For the second time this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has raised the travel alert for three West African countries, as the death toll in the Ebola outbreak increased at an alarming rate.
"The bottom line is that the multiple outbreaks in West Africa are worsening right now," CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden told NPR on Thursday. "This is the biggest, most complex and the most difficult outbreak of Ebola that we've had to deal with."
In only four days, the total number of cases has risen by 122, or about 10 percent. Since March, the World Health Organization has reported more than 1,300 cases and 728 deaths in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Nigeria has reported one case in a traveler from Liberia.
In response, the CDC is sending at least 50 more doctors and scientists to the region to help get the outbreak under control and stop its spread, Frieden says. The agency already has 12 people on the ground there now.
The CDC also elevated the travel alert to "Level 3" — the most serious level — for Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. It now advises against any nonessential travel to the three countries because of the "high risk."
This advisory level is reserved for grave situations, such as the SARS outbreak in 2003 and the Haiti earthquake in 2010.
The measure reduces the risk of Americans catching Ebola, Frieden says. And it also helps to prevent overcrowding of clinics and hospitals with emergencies not related to Ebola.
"Even before Ebola, they [these countries] had relatively weak health care systems that ... weren't always as highly functional as the government wished they would be," Frieden says.
The West African countries have also intensified their response to the outbreak. On Wednesday, Liberia closed all schools, and Sierra Leone declared a state of emergency. Sierra Leone started quarantining Ebola-stricken communities and put nonessential government workers on leave; President Ernest Bai Koroma called the measures "extraordinary."
One of the big concerns this week has been the large number of health care workers getting sick.
"It's a terrible infection, and it's taken a terrible toll on the health care system," Frieden says. More than 100 doctors and nurses in the region have gotten infected, and about 70 of them have died.
Two leading doctors in Liberia and Sierra Leone died this week, and two American aid workers are in serious condition at a clinic in Monrovia.
Dr. Kent Brantly, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Nancy Writebol, of Charlotte, N.C., were working with the Christian aid group Samaritan's Purse when they caught the virus. They are both in "grave condition," the group said on its website.
The Peace Corps is evacuating 340 volunteers from the region. Two of them were under observation after potential exposure to Ebola.
Despite all of this, Frieden says he's confident that the outbreak can be contained — as long as health care workers are able to "meticulously" track down cases and isolate them before they spread the virus.
But it won't be quick or easy, he says. In fact, in the best-case scenario, it will take at least three to six months to stop the outbreak. And "we are not in the best of circumstances," he says.
There's little worry that Ebola will spread to the U.S., Frieden says. One reason is that the disease isn't transmitted through the air but rather through close contact of bodily fluids, such as blood, sweat and saliva.
"The good news — if there is any good news about Ebola — is that you don't spread it when you don't have symptoms," Frieden says. "So you can't get it from someone who's healthy."
"For the second time this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has raised the travel alert for three West African countries, as the death toll in the Ebola outbreak increased at an alarming rate.
"The bottom line is that the multiple outbreaks in West Africa are worsening right now," CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden told NPR on Thursday. "This is the biggest, most complex and the most difficult outbreak of Ebola that we've had to deal with."
In only four days, the total number of cases has risen by 122, or about 10 percent. Since March, the World Health Organization has reported more than 1,300 cases and 728 deaths in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Nigeria has reported one case in a traveler from Liberia.
In response, the CDC is sending at least 50 more doctors and scientists to the region to help get the outbreak under control and stop its spread, Frieden says. The agency already has 12 people on the ground there now.
The CDC also elevated the travel alert to "Level 3" — the most serious level — for Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. It now advises against any nonessential travel to the three countries because of the "high risk."
This advisory level is reserved for grave situations, such as the SARS outbreak in 2003 and the Haiti earthquake in 2010.
The measure reduces the risk of Americans catching Ebola, Frieden says. And it also helps to prevent overcrowding of clinics and hospitals with emergencies not related to Ebola.
"Even before Ebola, they [these countries] had relatively weak health care systems that ... weren't always as highly functional as the government wished they would be," Frieden says.
The West African countries have also intensified their response to the outbreak. On Wednesday, Liberia closed all schools, and Sierra Leone declared a state of emergency. Sierra Leone started quarantining Ebola-stricken communities and put nonessential government workers on leave; President Ernest Bai Koroma called the measures "extraordinary."
One of the big concerns this week has been the large number of health care workers getting sick.
"It's a terrible infection, and it's taken a terrible toll on the health care system," Frieden says. More than 100 doctors and nurses in the region have gotten infected, and about 70 of them have died.
Two leading doctors in Liberia and Sierra Leone died this week, and two American aid workers are in serious condition at a clinic in Monrovia.
Dr. Kent Brantly, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Nancy Writebol, of Charlotte, N.C., were working with the Christian aid group Samaritan's Purse when they caught the virus. They are both in "grave condition," the group said on its website.
The Peace Corps is evacuating 340 volunteers from the region. Two of them were under observation after potential exposure to Ebola.
Despite all of this, Frieden says he's confident that the outbreak can be contained — as long as health care workers are able to "meticulously" track down cases and isolate them before they spread the virus.
But it won't be quick or easy, he says. In fact, in the best-case scenario, it will take at least three to six months to stop the outbreak. And "we are not in the best of circumstances," he says.
There's little worry that Ebola will spread to the U.S., Frieden says. One reason is that the disease isn't transmitted through the air but rather through close contact of bodily fluids, such as blood, sweat and saliva.
"The good news — if there is any good news about Ebola — is that you don't spread it when you don't have symptoms," Frieden says. "So you can't get it from someone who's healthy."
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/31/336743868/peace-corps-evacuates-hundreds-of-volunteers-amid-ebola-outbreak
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/07/10/330390279/in-west-africa-officials-target-ignorance-and-fear-over-ebola
http://www.npr.org/2014/06/26/325760295/second-surge-of-ebola-strikes-west-africa
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/04/11/301439165/the-ebola-survivors-reborn-but-not-always-embraced
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/03/24/293754812/ebola-breaks-out-in-west-africa-for-the-first-time
and more recently....
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/31/336905823/sierra-leone-declares-quarantine-as-ebola-outbreak-worsens
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/07/31/336872606/as-ebola-surges-cdc-sends-aid-and-warns-against-travel
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/07/31/336950373/ebola-patient-will-be-treated-in-atlanta-hospital
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/30/336468234/doctor-treating-ebola-patients-in-sierra-leone-succumbs-to-the-disease
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/07/29/336328995/american-doctor-sick-with-ebola-now-fighting-for-his-life
Small sample of several pages of stories.
npr.org
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/07/10/330390279/in-west-africa-officials-target-ignorance-and-fear-over-ebola
http://www.npr.org/2014/06/26/325760295/second-surge-of-ebola-strikes-west-africa
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/04/11/301439165/the-ebola-survivors-reborn-but-not-always-embraced
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/03/24/293754812/ebola-breaks-out-in-west-africa-for-the-first-time
and more recently....
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/31/336905823/sierra-leone-declares-quarantine-as-ebola-outbreak-worsens
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/07/31/336872606/as-ebola-surges-cdc-sends-aid-and-warns-against-travel
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/07/31/336950373/ebola-patient-will-be-treated-in-atlanta-hospital
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/30/336468234/doctor-treating-ebola-patients-in-sierra-leone-succumbs-to-the-disease
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/07/29/336328995/american-doctor-sick-with-ebola-now-fighting-for-his-life
Small sample of several pages of stories.
npr.org
For the above? www.pantiesinabunch.hysteria.....
For real information about the above stories go onto npr.org, use their search engine, and you can read actual news about the outbreak going back to at least March.
Scary stuff, but facts can give you a better handle on what's actually happening there and what we're doing about it.
For real information about the above stories go onto npr.org, use their search engine, and you can read actual news about the outbreak going back to at least March.
Scary stuff, but facts can give you a better handle on what's actually happening there and what we're doing about it.
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