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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Are the wrong questions being asked? "One thing that has struck Rosling during his short time in Liberia is the global desire to help the region. Sitting in meetings, he says, "I have a US general on one side, a Chinese general on the other side and on the opposite side of the table sits a health professional from Cuba. We all work very nicely together." & is the rest of the world at that table? |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
Are the wrong questions being asked? Well China does have considerable economic intrest if Africa. So of cousre they would want to be seen as doing thier part in helping out. That will pay off down the line. Cuba, That is a suprise. Where is the rest of the world? [/quote] Old James |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
In the news. Ebola outbreak: Liberia president lifts state of emergency Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has lifted the state of emergency imposed to control an Ebola outbreak that has ravaged the country. She said the move did not mean "the fight is over", although numbers of new infections were no longer increasing. The confirmed death toll from the virus is now 5,160 people, almost all of them from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, clinical trials to find an effective treatment for Ebola are due to start in West Africa next month. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30044418 |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
:( Ebola-Stricken Surgeon Martin Salia Died Despite ZMapp, Plasma Transfusion The latest Ebola patient flown the United States for treatment died today despite receiving two experimental treatments -- the drug ZMapp and a blood transfusion from an Ebola survivor, officials with Nebraska Medical Center said. Dr. Martin Salia, who contracted Ebola in Africa, was the third patient treated for the virus at the medical center in Omaha, but the only one to have died. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-stricken-surgeon-martin-salia-died-zmapp-plasma/story?id=26964778 |
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Yep, He tested Negative at One Time, as A Certain VOCAL Nurse had Tested Negative. Result: Yep. Conclusion: Yep. A Certain VOCAL Nurse Now Wants To Move To Another Country, 'cause, well, Certain Politicians Use Fear to Rule US instead of Science. Thought: Yep. Science Helped this Recent Dr. Not. Thought: Mandatory Quarantine, WITH YOUR MOUTH SHUT to The Press might be a GOod Idea. Last Thought: Don't Let The OEbola Science Hit You In The ASS as You Leave The US. Yep. ' ' May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
:( :( Sad news. Thanks for keeping us up to date Lynn. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34053 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
:( +1 Thanx Lynn rOZZ Music Pictures |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
He will get good care. Cuban Doctor Diagnosed With Ebola HAVANA (AP) — A member of the 165-member medical team Cuba sent to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with the disease, according to state media. Dr. Felix Baez Sarria is being treated by British doctors in Africa but he will be transferred to a special unit in Geneva at the recommendation of the World Health Organization, Cuban state media said, citing the island's Ministry of Public Health. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/19/cuban-doctor-ebola_n_6185424.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices Thanks, and your welcome Julie and Annie :) |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Happy ending for Amber :-) Ebola Nurse Amber Vinson Gets Free Engagement Ring The Dallas nurse who flew to Ohio to plan her wedding in the days before she was diagnosed with Ebola and then said her engagement ring was destroyed when her apartment was decontaminated now has a new ring. https://gma.yahoo.com/ebola-nurse-amber-vinson-gets-free-engagement-ring-190900035--abc-news-topstories.html |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
update. WHO: Ebola transmission 'intense' in Sierra Leone FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — The World Health Organization says the transmission of Ebola remains "intense" and widespread in Sierra Leone, even as some improvements are being seen in the two other countries worst hit by the crisis. Nearly 200 new cases were confirmed in Sierra Leone's capital in a recent one-week period. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2014-11-20/who-ebola-transmission-intense-in-sierra-leone |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
:((( UPDATE 1-Doctor who treated source of second Mali Ebola outbreak dies Nov 20 (Reuters) - A doctor in Mali who treated the patient that sparked a second wave of Ebola in the West African nation has died, the government announced on Thursday. Oussa Koita, a 70-year-old imam from neighbouring Guinea, died in Mali after travelling there last month, exposing others to the disease. The doctor worked at the Bamako clinic where Koita was admitted and wrongly diagnosed with kidney problems. He tested positive for Ebola on Nov. 12. http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/11/20/health-ebola-mali-idINL6N0TA62R20141120 |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Ebola Death Toll Nears 5,500, All 6 Patients In Mali Have Died GENEVA, Nov 21 (Reuters) - The death toll in the Ebola epidemic has risen to 5,459 out of 15,351 cases identified in eight countries by the end of Nov. 18, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/21/ebola-death-toll_n_6199506.html _______________________________________ Car jackers steal suspected Ebola blood samples in Guinea Robbers in Guinea hijacked a Red Cross vehicle this week and made off with a cooler containing blood samples from suspected Ebola patients, a senior Red Cross official said on Friday. http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/chi-ebola-blood-20141121-story.html |
KWSN - MajorKong Send message Joined: 5 Jan 00 Posts: 2892 Credit: 1,499,890 RAC: 0 |
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/21/health-plague-madagascar-idUSKCN0J51ZE20141121 Plague in Madagascar has killed 40 people out of 119 cases -WHO |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
One day in the not so distant future diseases like the Plague will become resistant to antibiotics . When will man learn that poverty breads disease and will be as big a threat as it once was before sewage treatment and clean water and antibiotics |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
One day in the not so distant future diseases like the Plague will become resistant to antibiotics . Not only that but giving antibiotics to farm animals so they can gain more weoght and live to be slaughterd is a bane. Also idiot Doctors who hand out antiotics to idiots who have a virus but cry loud enough to get them. And dont forget the dolts who when giving a ten day script for an antibiotic stop taking them after 5 days because they feel better. And unless you are a surgeon getting ready to operate on someone you dont need anti bacterial hand soap. Regular soap works. And then folks wonder why antibiotics are getting less effective. [/quote] Old James |
Dimly Lit Lightbulb 😀 Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 15399 Credit: 7,423,413 RAC: 1 |
One day in the not so distant future diseases like the Plague will become resistant to antibiotics . Some bacteria in soil have already gained resistance to a few antibiotics. Source. Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club. |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
to idiots who have a virus but cry loud enough to get them. All thought these are a problem i have only herd of the Plague in poor areas and poor country's antibiotic's are causing different bugs to be resistant and there less dangerous but the Plague , well how many died in the last great outbreak before antibiotics , ten's of millions ! and would Ebola be as big a problem if there was not so much poverty in the country's where it is ?. |
KWSN - MajorKong Send message Joined: 5 Jan 00 Posts: 2892 Credit: 1,499,890 RAC: 0 |
Well, Glenn, Plague (caused by Yersinia pestis) isn't just a problem in poor nations. A friend of mine I went to High School with back in the 1970's died of it in the early 1980's. He caught it on vacation to West Texas, but didn't get sick until he had returned home. Yersinia pestis is endemic in fleas on rodents in this part of the world. Thankfully, the strains of Yersinia pestis that usually circulate in the wild around here are not all that dangerous, or there would be a lot more cases of it. As it is, the USA still gets 10 to 15 cases a year. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Some hope? Ebola crisis now 'stable' in Guinea, WHO says The Ebola outbreak is now "stable" in Guinea, where the latest crisis began, the World Health Organization says. There were still some flare ups in the south-east, but things were improving in other prefectures, WHO co-ordinator Dr Guenael Rodier told the BBC. More than 5,400 people have died in the latest outbreak, with Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia the worst hit. The outbreak can be ended by mid-2015 if the world speeds up its response, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30160659 |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30673 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Very much endemic here in California. Nearly every year they catch rodents testing positive and have to engage in flea control on wild animals. http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/eh/docs/Specialized/Vector_Management/plague.pdf |
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