Saudi Arabia bans hajj camel slaughter


Saudi Arabia on Friday banned the slaughter of camels during this year’s hajj pilgrimage, after a surge in deaths from the MERS virus linked to the animals.

Camels will not be allowed to enter the holy sites of Mecca and Medina, the Permanent Committee for Fatwa said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/healthy-living/2015/09/12/Saudi-Arabia-bans-hajj-camel-slaughter.html

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This is How Ebola Resists Treatment with Antibody Cocktails


Ebola can evolve quickly to “escape” the antibodies in treatments like ZMapp, but researchers are a step closer to understanding how mutations help the virus resist treatment.

Antibodies are proteins that bind with sites on the surface of viruses and bacteria, flagging the infection for destruction by the immune system’s defensive cells. Drugs like MB-003 and ZMapp use several antibodies at once to fight Ebola, but the virus has a way of slipping past them.

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-ebola-resists-treatment-with-antibody-cockt-1730386222

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Sad news for Sierra Leone.

Hundreds quarantined as Ebola returns to north Sierra Leone district

Health authorities quarantined hundreds of people in northern Sierra Leone on Monday after a 16-year-old girl died of Ebola in an apparent case of sexual transmission, the first confirmed death from the virus in the district for nearly six months.

Sierra Leone celebrated last month when it discharged the last remaining Ebola patient from its treatment centers. But since then a new spate of cases has erupted, leaving two dead and five people in treatment.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/14/us-health-ebola-leone-idUSKCN0RE1P620150914

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Bubonic plague case confirmed in Michigan


A Michigan resident has contracted the rare, life-threatening bubonic plague — the first documented case in Michigan’s public health history, state officials confirmed.

The Marquette County adult is recovering after apparently contracting the flea-borne illness during a trip to Colorado.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2015/09/14/bubonic-plague-case--michigan/72273070/

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Sierra Leone quarantines 700 after new Ebola death

FREETOWN (AFP) -

Health authorities in Sierra Leone said Tuesday they had quarantined almost 700 people as they battled to contain a new outbreak of Ebola which killed a 16-year-old girl.

The teenager died Sunday in a rural suburb of the city of Makeni, in a northern province that had not recorded a single case of the deadly virus in nearly six months.

http://www.france24.com/en/20150915-sierra-leone-quarantines-700-after-new-ebola-death

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Sierra Leone quarantines 700 after new Ebola death

FREETOWN (AFP) -

Health authorities in Sierra Leone said Tuesday they had quarantined almost 700 people as they battled to contain a new outbreak of Ebola which killed a 16-year-old girl.

The teenager died Sunday in a rural suburb of the city of Makeni, in a northern province that had not recorded a single case of the deadly virus in nearly six months.

warmer weather on it's way and so might the infection rate start to climb

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FDA Fast-Tracks Experimental Ebola Drug ZMapp

ZMapp, an experimental drug being tested against Ebola, has won fast-track status to get quicker Food and Drug Administration approval.

The drug, which made headlines when some high-profile American Ebola patients tried it out, is still being tested in Liberia, where there haven't been any cases of Ebola in months.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/ebola-drug-zmapp-gets-fda-fast-track-n429156

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Guinea reports Ebola-free week, but Sierra Leone has 5 cases

For the first time in more than a year, Guinea passed a week without a new lab-confirmed Ebola case, but the news out of West Africa last week was tempered by a flare-up of activity in Sierra Leone, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today in its latest update.

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2015/09/guinea-reports-ebola-free-week-sierra-leone-has-5-cases

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The doctor Helena Nordenstedt have recently come back after working with Ebola sufferers in Liberia and Guinea for Doctors Without Borders.
There is now only 10 patients with Ebola in West Africa.
She said also that Ebola is not that contagious.
It's only spreads with bodily fluids. Bats in West Africa and Indonesia are probably the only animal that spread the virus.

Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea knows that and keeping a good hygien will make Ebola disappear.

The doctor Helena Nordenstedt have recently come back after working with Ebola sufferers in Liberia and Guinea for Doctors Without Borders.
There is now only 10 patients with Ebola in West Africa.
She said also that Ebola is not that contagious.
It's only spreads with bodily fluids. Bats in West Africa and Indonesia are probably the only animal that spread the virus.

Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea knows that and keeping a good hygien will make Ebola disappear.

Janne, just a few more ways it spreads.
How it spreads
By blood products (unclean needles or unscreened blood).
By skin-to-skin contact (handshakes or hugs).
By saliva (kissing or shared drinks).
By touching a contaminated surface (blanket or doorknob).

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Good news for MERS.

Saudi minister says MERS cases are reducing before haj


A recent surge in cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a sometimes deadly virus, in Saudi Arabia has ebbed in the run-up to Islam's annual haj pilgrimage, the kingdom's Health Minister Khaled al-Falih said on Thursday.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/17/uk-saudi-haj-mers-idUSKCN0RH2OY20150917

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The doctor Helena Nordenstedt have recently come back after working with Ebola sufferers in Liberia and Guinea for Doctors Without Borders.
There is now only 10 patients with Ebola in West Africa.
She said also that Ebola is not that contagious.
It's only spreads with bodily fluids. Bats in West Africa and Indonesia are probably the only animal that spread the virus.

Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea knows that and keeping a good hygien will make Ebola disappear.

Janne, just a few more ways it spreads.
How it spreads
By blood products (unclean needles or unscreened blood).
By skin-to-skin contact (handshakes or hugs).
By saliva (kissing or shared drinks).
By touching a contaminated surface (blanket or doorknob).

Yes. You have to be very close to an Ebola infected person to contract Ebola. Blood, sweat, and tears, saliva, sperms are fluids from a body.
It's not air born like flue.
Helena explains this very well in a video but unfortunate only in Swedish.

Someone came down with MERSA (I know it's different) here in Upstate NY. She's out of danger but she was near-death for awhile.

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Someone came down with MERSA (I know it's different) here in Upstate NY. She's out of danger but she was near-death for awhile.

Sorry to hear the Blurf. Glad she is out of danger.

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Someone came down with MERSA (I know it's different) here in Upstate NY. She's out of danger but she was near-death for awhile.

Sorry to hear the Blurf. Glad she is out of danger.

Thank you. Yeah it's been rough. She lost a hand from it and had to have major skin grafts from her armpit to her hip on the right side and on the left side of her belly.

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Someone came down with MERSA (I know it's different) here in Upstate NY. She's out of danger but she was near-death for awhile.

Sorry to hear the Blurf. Glad she is out of danger.

Thank you. Yeah it's been rough. She lost a hand from it and had to have major skin grafts from her armpit to her hip on the right side and on the left side of her belly.

I feel so bad for her.
Has she been hospitalized for a period of time??

Did a google search on MERSA, this is what was found. Not a disease anyone wants.

http://enlightenme.com/mersa-disease/

Mersa Disease Definition

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Thank you. Yeah it's been rough. She lost a hand from it and had to have major skin grafts from her armpit to her hip on the right side and on the left side of her belly.

I feel so bad for her.
Has she been hospitalized for a period of time??

Yes she's been in the hospital since the end of May.

Did a google search on MERSA, this is what was found. Not a disease anyone wants.

http://enlightenme.com/mersa-disease/

Mersa Disease Definition

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Sorry to hear that Blurf ,It's also known as Golden Staph a very nasty thing to get .

http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Staphylococcus_aureus_golden_staph

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Ebola Virus Mutations May Help It Evade Drug Treatment


Genetic mutations called "escape variants" in the deadly Ebola virus appear to block the ability of antibody-based treatments to ward off infection, according to a team of U.S. Army scientists and collaborators.

Ebola virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates with high mortality rates and continues to emerge in new geographic locations, including West Africa, the site of the largest outbreak to date. Over 28,000 confirmed, probable and suspected cases have been reported in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, with more than 11,000 reported deaths, according to the World Health Organization. The virus overruns the immune system, thus overwhelming the host's ability to fight off the infection. One strategy for treatment is based on the administration of a "cocktail" of antibodies that have the ability to neutralize the virus and allow the host to mount an effective immune response.

http://www.science20.com/news_articles/ebola_virus_mutations_may_help_it_evade_drug_treatment-157187

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Found out Kate went home today...her husband texted me that "after 74 days in ICU and 24 operations, we're thrilled she's home with the kids and myself where she belongs".

Amen

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