i don't critize Obama as i think he is doing a ok job . But man it took him long enough to finally realize just how dangerous this is and starts to do something about it. Now if only Mad Monk will step up and help out and a few other country's they might just get this under comtroll

Edit : Mad Monk is Tony Abbot for those that don't know some off the nick names of our great leader .....NOT
also known as Dumb DUMB

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i don't critize Obama as i think he is doing a ok job . But man it took him long enough to finally realize just how dangerous this is and starts to do something about it. Now if only Mad Monk will step up and help out and a few other country's they might just get this under comtroll

Edit : Mad Monk is Tony Abbot for those that don't know some off the nick names of our great leader .....NOT
also known as Dumb DUMB

Obama, does what he has to do.

I don't know Tony Abbot.

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WHO: Liberia Will See Thousands of New Ebola Cases

The United States and Britain will send medical equipment and military personnel to help contain West Africa's Ebola outbreak, as the World Health Organization warned Monday that many thousands of new infections are expected in Liberia in the coming weeks.

The current Ebola outbreak is the largest on record. It has spread from Guinea to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal and killed more than 2,000 people. An "exponential increase" in new cases is expected in the hardest-hit countries in coming weeks, the U.N. health agency warned.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/au-warns-efforts-stop-ebola-stigmatizing-25344292

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Another Ebola-Stricken Patient Heads to U.S.


Another person infected with Ebola virus is headed to the U.S. for treatment, Emory University Hospital confirmed Monday. This is the fourth person infected in West Africa to seek treatment in the United States, and the third to be treated at Emory’s special biocontainment unit. The staff there are experienced, after successfully treating the first two U.S. patients — medical missionaries Nancy Writebol and Dr. kent Brantly.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/another-ebola-stricken-patient-heads-u-s-n198661

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Oxford study predicts 15 more countries are at risk of Ebola exposure

Until this year's epidemic, Ebola did not exist in West Africa. Now with nearly 2,300 people dead from the virus, mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, scientists still don't fully understand how Ebola arrived from Central Africa, where outbreaks of this strain of the virus had occurred in the past.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/09/09/oxford-study-predicts-15-more-countries-are-at-risk-of-ebola-exposure/

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Ebola death toll rises to 2,296 as Liberia struggles to keep up

The death toll in the worst Ebola outbreak in history has climbed to at least 2,296 in West Africa, the World Health Organization announced Tuesday. The new figures are current through Saturday and showed a staggering spike of nearly 200 new deaths recorded in one day, according to WHO data.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/09/09/ebola-death-roll-rises-to-2296-as-liberia-struggles-to-keep-up/

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FBI: Air Marshal Attacked With Syringe in Nigeria

A U.S. air marshal was being monitored after being attacked with a syringe containing an unknown substance at a Nigerian airport, officials said Tuesday.

Preliminary tests showed the syringe did not contain any deadly pathogens, according to FBI spokesman Christos Sinos.

Authorities are still trying to determine what was in the syringe, but Sinos said initial tests by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are "negative for any bad stuff," including Ebola.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fbi-air-marshal-attacked-syringe-nigeria-25383680

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Ebola cases now past 4000.

http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/ebola-cases-number-more-than-4000/story-e6frfkui-1227053292667

THE number of people infected with Ebola has climbed to more than 4000 in the three West African countries at the centre of the epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

IN Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, there were 4269 suspected and confirmed cases and 2288 deaths as of Saturday, the UN health agency said on Tuesday.
"The increase in cases continues to accelerate in countries with widespread and intense transmission," the organisation said.

It's certainly not slowing down. :-(

Thanks not good Lynn . I spose it had to happen . Just like AIDS people have used Syringes fill with stuff to threaten people .

A few jihadi's let loose in a populated area and the next thing we know we all got a big problem

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Maybe someone needs to tell the CDC and world health org to start looking into weather mozzy's are spreading this thing seeing as they have no clue about how it has spread

Those pesky little things all ready spread Dengue and Malaria and possibly Ebola ?

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Maybe someone needs to tell the CDC and world health org to start looking into weather mozzy's are spreading this thing seeing as they have no clue about how it has spread

Those pesky little things all ready spread Dengue and Malaria and possibly Ebola ?

Glenn, the common belief is that it's very much like our Hendra virus in that it's transmitted by bats though wild dogs are also involved with Ebola.

Fruit bats and dogs are believed to carry and spread the virus without being affected. Human infection could occur through licking, biting, or grooming dogs.[3] Once human infection occurs, the disease may spread between people, as well. Male survivors may be able to transmit the disease via semen for nearly two months....

...Bats drop partially eaten fruits and pulp, then land mammals such as gorillas and duikers feed on these fallen fruits. This chain of events forms a possible indirect means of transmission from the natural host to animal populations, which has led to research towards viral shedding in the saliva of bats. Fruit production, animal behavior, and other factors vary at different times and places that may trigger outbreaks among animal populations....

...It is widely believed that outbreaks of EVD among human populations result from handling infected wild animal carcasses. Some research suggests that an outbreak in the wild animals used for consumption, bushmeat, may result in a corresponding human outbreak. Since 2003, such outbreaks have been monitored through surveillance of animal populations with the aim of predicting and preventing Ebola outbreaks in humans.

Sourced from Wikipedia

Cheers.

OK thanks Wiggo that would explain how it has jumped country borders bats do fly a long way . An lets hope Hendra doesn't mutate at least it is controllable at the moment , whep....

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Oxford study predicts 15 more countries are at risk of Ebola exposure

Until this year's epidemic, Ebola did not exist in West Africa. Now with nearly 2,300 people dead from the virus, mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, scientists still don't fully understand how Ebola arrived from Central Africa, where outbreaks of this strain of the virus had occurred in the past.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/09/09/oxford-study-predicts-15-more-countries-are-at-risk-of-ebola-exposure/

Interesting news article, Lynn.

I was unaware that the 'West African' strain was from one of the 'Zaire' strains. That would make the other outbreak in the DRC most likely the Bundibugyo strain (since it is found in that general area).

However there are a few issues I have with the article. 1st, the '15 more countries' refered to in that article are *not* countries where the outbreak might spread to, but countries where other outbreaks *might* occur.

2nd, Ebola *did* exist in West Africa prior to their current outbreak. The Cote d'Ivoire strain (1 person caught it in 1994 -- a Veterinarian that did an autopsy on a dead chimp in the Tai Forest).

Information is coming out very *slowly* about the more scientific aspects of the current outbreak -- frustratingly slow. I am finally seeing some phylogenetic charts of the virus running around West Africa in the current outbreak, and it is not good.

What has saved us before is that historically the Ebolavirus has been slow to mutate and was not both highly virulent and airborne transmissible at the same time. Ebola Zaire is highly virulent. Ebola Reston is airborne transmissible (it was suspected to be so in both the Reston, Virginia and the Alice, Texas outbreaks of late December 1989 to early January 1990 -- and has since been demonstrated to be airborne transmissible between monkeys and pigs). I haven't seen human figures from the 1990 Alice Texas outbreak, the 1992 Italy outbreak, or the 1996 Alice Texas outbreak, but I have seen figures from the 1989 outbreak in Reston Virginia. Six employees at that primate research facility were infected with Ebola Reston, but none of them showed signs of illness. Ebola Reston just does not make people sick (yet...), but can do quite a number on monkeys.

Well, the phylogenetic charts I have seen on the current West Africa outbreak show the virus to be mutating at a furious rate.



From: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/press/releases/2014/23-ebola/

By reference, here is the phylogenetic tree of Ebola (& Marburg) prior to the current outbreak.





From: http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000212

(that journal article describes the discovery of Ebola Bundibugyo in 2007).

Very worrying indeed. The outbreak is expanding exponentially. From reading the news on the subject, I must say that the estimate of 20000 cases is likely WAY too optimistic. I have a feeling that it is likely going to be much higher.

Oxford study predicts 15 more countries are at risk of Ebola exposure

Until this year's epidemic, Ebola did not exist in West Africa. Now with nearly 2,300 people dead from the virus, mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, scientists still don't fully understand how Ebola arrived from Central Africa, where outbreaks of this strain of the virus had occurred in the past.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/09/09/oxford-study-predicts-15-more-countries-are-at-risk-of-ebola-exposure/

Its this simple. The WHO lets people fly in and out of infected Countries with ease. Mark my words, In a month you will see outbreaks in Southern Africa, And the Middle East. I sure as hell hope Im wrong.

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Do we have our 1st Ebola case in Australia?

http://www.news.com.au/national/ebola-scare-in-australia-gold-coast-man-isolated/story-fncynjr2-1227054788832

PARAMEDICS have suited up to rush a severely ill man to Gold Coast University Hospital this morning amid suspected Ebola virus fears.

The Southport man has been seriously ill for two days with emergency crews confirming he had just returned from The Congo, where the largest Ebola outbreak in history has ripped through Africa, two days ago.

Paramedics were instructed to suit up in protective clothing before taking him to hospital.

A Gold Coast University Hospital spokeswoman confirmed they were preparing for an incoming patient who will be ‘isolated and assessed’.

‘We already have processes in place to manage these types of infections,” she said.

“Going by what the WHO (World Health Organisation) has been saying, we have recently done a review and we have an area within the hospital where the patient can be isolated.”

The man is yet to be confirmed with Ebola virus.

Only time will tell if we do.

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The problem in Africa is not just the disease itself, it's the lack of resources and facilities to isolate suspected cases (and those who are at risk through having been exposed to it) in isolation... not ten/twenty or more to a room (or worse). Under these circumstances, infection WILL be exponential irrespective of mutation of the virus itself :(

Some hospitals in Liberia have had to close their doors to new patients. Some have even locked the gates. You now have a case of the sick laying outside them in the hope that space will be found to treat them. Others are going home because there is nowhere else for them to go.

Technically - western medical provision and facilities will protect us from the spreading of the disease and it's high mortality rate. Technically...

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The problem in Africa is not just the disease itself, it's the lack of resources and facilities to isolate suspected cases (and those who are at risk through having been exposed to it) in isolation... not ten/twenty or more to a room (or worse). Under these circumstances, infection WILL be exponential irrespective of mutation of the virus itself :(

Some hospitals in Liberia have had to close their doors to new patients. Some have even locked the gates. You now have a case of the sick laying outside them in the hope that space will be found to treat them. Others are going home because there is nowhere else for them to go.

Technically - western medical provision and facilities will protect us from the spreading of the disease and it's high mortality rate. Technically...

And as Scotty said on the Tv show Star Trek, If my Aunt had wheels shed be a wagon.

I still think the WHO should have acted sooner and more restrictive. IF and I hope its an If. This goes global in the worst case scenario, Your looking at the minimum of a 60% world decline in population.

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Outbreak :(

CNN: Pilots Flying Ebola Patients to US Say More Exposed Brought to US than Reported

On Wednesday, CNN reported, "There may be a lot more ebola victims being evacuated to the United States than we are been told about."

Pilots demand right to refuse flights to West Africa

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/09/10/CNN-Report-Pilots-Flying-Ebola-Patients-Says-More-Exposed-People-Brought-To-US-Than-Being-Reported

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Gates Foundation gives $50 million to fight Ebola outbreak

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving $50 million to help fight the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa.

It is the giant philanthropy’s biggest donation ever for a health emergency, said Chris Elias, president of global development for the Seattle-based foundation.

The money will be released immediately to United Nations agencies and international aid groups to help scale up emergency operations and buy medical and quarantine supplies.

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/09/gates-foundation-gives-50-million-to-fight-ebola-outbreak/

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The move threatens to further isolate three nations most ravaged by the disease – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

According to Le Monde in Paris, François Hamant, a representative of the pilot’s union in France, filed an official government complaint Wednesday. It demands a commitment from Air France management that any pilot or flight attendant not wanting to fly to the Ebola-impacted West African nations can refuse to make the flight without suffering any adverse consequences, either financial or disciplinary.

[url]Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/pilots-demand-right-to-refuse-flights-to-west-africa/#fdw8wkikbOq31SVx.99[/url]

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