Epidemiat maailmalla

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Pelko, kieltäminen ja äärimmäinen tyhmyys. Fear, denial and absolute stupidity.

 

[Samses]

Pelko, kieltäminen ja äärimmäinen tyhmyys. Fear, denial and absolute stupidity.

Ja lisäksi lähtöalue, joka tällä kertaa oli tiiviisti asutettu Länsi-Afrikka eikä Kongon mustimman sydämen viidakot kuten aiemmin.

 

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Someone who may have contracted the Ebola virus, the first possible case in Spain after the death of the Spanish missionary repatriated in Madrid on August 7, was placed in isolation in a specialized Alicante (west) hospital, announced Saturday night health authorities.

Examinations were carried out on the patient, but "we do not have the results until next week, maybe Monday" , said a hospital source.

Other suspected cases have been detected in Spain since the beginning of the Ebola outbreak, but none have been confirmed in the country.

On Wednesday, hundreds of people paid homage to the victims of the virus, at the funeral in Madrid of the Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, European first death of this epidemic. The missionary of 75 years had been repatriated from Liberia to Madrid a few days earlier and treated unsuccessfully with an experimental serum that American seems to have had positive results on two Americans. The body of the priest, who had contracted the virus in Liberia where he worked in a religious hospital, was cremated without an autopsy and disinfected room to avoid spreading the virus to high mortality rates and for which there is no vaccine.

http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/artic...-liberia-et-de-sierra-leone_4472520_3244.html

A mob descended on the center at around 5:30 p.m., chanting, “No Ebola in West Point! No Ebola in West Point!” They stormed the front gate and pushed into the holding center. They stole the few gloves someone had donated this morning, and the chlorine sprayers used to disinfect the bodies of those who die here, all the while hollering that Ebola is a hoax.

They ransacked the protective suits, the goggles, the masks. They destroyed part of Tarplah’s car as he was fleeing the crowd. Jemimah Kargbo, a health care worker at a clinic next door, said they took mattresses and bedding, utensils and plastic chairs. “Everybody left with their own thing,” she said. “What are they carrying to their homes? They are carrying their deaths.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jinamoore/t...-mob-destroys-ebola-center-in-liberia#1m6axep

 

[Tetra]

Ja lisäksi lähtöalue, joka tällä kertaa oli tiiviisti asutettu Länsi-Afrikka eikä Kongon mustimman sydämen viidakot kuten aiemmin.

Onko tämä merkittävin tekijä? Pelko, kieltäminen ja tyhmyys varmasti on nekin asiaan vaikuttavia seikkoja, mutta miksipä nuo seikat eivät olisi vaikuttaneet edellisissä ebolatapauksissa?

 

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Onko tämä merkittävin tekijä? Pelko, kieltäminen ja tyhmyys varmasti on nekin asiaan vaikuttavia seikkoja, mutta miksipä nuo seikat eivät olisi vaikuttaneet edellisissä ebolatapauksissa?

Koska ne oli niin pieniä ainakin minun käsityksen mukaan, ja ne oli sopivasti syrjässä jolloin ebolan puhjettua saattoi koko kylällinen ihmisiä siirtyä taivaaseen.

 

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Muistakaa mitä tapahtuu kun ebolaan sairastunut kuolee.

Emiraatin pääkaupungin terveysviranomaiset kertoivat sunnuntaina, että Nigeriasta Intiaan syöpähoitoihin matkalla ollut nainen oli nigerialainen.

35-vuotias naisen kunto romahti Abu Dhabin lentokentän transithallissa. Kun lääkärit yrittivät elvyttää naista, he huomasivat merkkejä, jotka viittasivat Ebola-tartuntaan.

Naisen aviomies ja viisi naisen hoitoon lentokentällä osallistunutta lääkäriä ovat karanteenissa odottamassa Ebola-testien tulosta.

http://yle.fi/uutiset/naisen_uskotaan_kuolleen_ebolaan_abu_dhabin_lentokentalla/7417222

http://virologydownunder.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/ebola-virus-may-be-spread-by-droplets.html

World Health Organisation has urged governments not to impose blanket bans on trade and travel on Ebola-affected countries after Kenya joined a growing number of countries and airlines severing links to three west African states.
The WHO has already said that the risk of Ebola transmission from air travel is low, but the level of fear is so high that several airlines have disregarded the UN agency's advice. The disease has already killed at least 1,145 people across west Africa this year.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/17/ebola-kenya-bans-travel-west-africa-virus-fears

Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through the capital's largest slum after residents raided a quarantine center for suspected patients and took items including bloody sheets and mattresses.

The violence in the West Point slum occurred late Saturday and was led by residents angry that patients were brought to the holding center from other parts of Monrovia, Tolbert Nyenswah, assistant health minister, said Sunday.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-armed-men-attack-liberia-ebola-clinic-freeing-patients/

 

[ctg]

No voi hel.....

Liberia's armed forces have reportedly been given orders to shoot people trying to illegally cross the border from neighbouring Sierra Leone, which was closed to stem the spread of Ebola.

Soldiers stationed in Bomi and Grand Cape Mount counties, which border Sierra Leone, were to 'shoot on sight' any person trying to cross the border, said deputy chief of staff, Colonel Eric Dennis, according to local newspaper the Daily Observer.

The order comes after border officials reported people continued to cross the porous border illegally.

Illegal crossings were a major health threat, said Mulbah, 'because we don't know the health status of those who cross at night'.

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/worl...oot-on-sight-order-in-ebola-wary-liberia.html

Seventeen suspected Ebola patients are "missing" in Liberia after a health centre in the capital was attacked, the government says. The government had previously denied they were missing, saying all patients had been moved to another facility.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28841040

 

[miheikki]

Pertti Rönkkö
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Konainen katu on sujettu Ebola-epäilyn takia Berliinissä sen jälkeen kun eräs työvoimatoimiston asiakas oli taintunut oireisiin sopivan sairauskohtauksen kourissa. Myös toimiston muut asiakkaat ja työntekijät ovat toistaiseksi karanteenissa. Kukaan ei pääse talosta ulos, kertovat berliiniläinen BZ-lehti ja muut tiedotusvälineet.

http://www.bz-berlin.de/

 

[crane]

No voi hel.....

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/worl...oot-on-sight-order-in-ebola-wary-liberia.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28841040

Tulee mieleen Ilkka Remeksen kirja Ruttokellot, jossa koko Etelä-Suomi julistettiin karanteeniin. Karua, mutta näköjään myös voi tapahtua oikeasti

 

[SJ]

Tulee mieleen Ilkka Remeksen kirja Ruttokellot, jossa koko Etelä-Suomi julistettiin karanteeniin. Karua, mutta näköjään myös voi tapahtua oikeasti

En ole lukenut kirjaa, mutta jos karantteeni toimia ei suoriteta tai niitä ei suoriteta kunnolla, niin homma menee aika ilkeäksi.

 

[Erkki]

Kyllä Suomessakin sotilaat ovat eristäneet alueita karanteeniin. Tosin tarvitsee mennä 1700-luvulle asti. Kyseessä oli tuolloin ruttoepidemia.

 

[Torrakko]

Afrikka ja muut syrjäiset paikat on pahoja koska sinne ei apu välttämättä ehdi ennenkuin on jo myöhäistä.

Tämmöset jos pääsee yllättämään valtion housut kintuissa niin se tietää kylmää, vai kuumeisen kuumaa, kyytiä aika monelle.

Varsinkin nämä missä kuolleisuus ylittää selviytymisen prosentit.

Noh, niitä antibiooteille vastustuskykyisiä superpöpöjä odotellessa..

 

[ctg]

Tässä toinen viittaus ebolan aerosoli muotoon. Huomatkaa nyt kuitenkin että vaikka tämä on ilmassa niin ei se kuitenkaan kierrä maapalloa kuin flunssa, mutta pahimmillaan se saastuttaa lähialueella olevia ihmisiä.

When news broke that the Ebola virus had resurfaced in Uganda, investigators in Canada were making headlines of their own with research indicating the deadly virus may spread between species, through the air.

The team, comprised of researchers from the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, the University of Manitoba, and the Public Health Agency of Canada, observed transmission of Ebola from pigs to monkeys. They first inoculated a number of piglets with the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus. Ebola-Zaire is the deadliest strain, with mortality rates up to 90 percent. The piglets were then placed in a room with four cynomolgus macaques, a species of monkey commonly used in laboratories. The animals were separated by wire cages to prevent direct contact between the species.

Within a few days, the inoculated piglets showed clinical signs of infection indicative of Ebola infection. In pigs, Ebola generally causes respiratory illness and increased temperature. Nine days after infection, all piglets appeared to have recovered from the disease.

Within eight days of exposure, two of the four monkeys showed signs of Ebola infection. Four days later, the remaining two monkeys were sick too. It is possible that the first two monkeys infected the other two, but transmission between non-human primates has never before been observed in a lab setting.

While the study provided evidence that transmission of Ebola between species is possible, researchers still cannot say for certain how that transmission actually occurred. There are three likely candidates for the route of transmission: airborne, droplet, or fomites.

Airborne and droplet transmission both technically travel through the air to infect others; the difference lies in the size of the infective particles. Smaller droplets persist in the air longer and are able to travel farther- these droplets are truly “airborne.” Larger droplets can neither travel as far nor persist for very long. Fomites are inanimate objects that can transmit disease if they are contaminated with infectious agents. In this study, a monkey’s cage could have been contaminated when workers were cleaning a nearby pig cage. If the monkey touched the contaminated cage surface and then its mouth or eyes, it could have been infected.

http://healthmap.org/site/diseaseda...ola-goes-airborne-112112#sthash.7ht1x9rx.dpuf

Tämä on huomattu, ja tämän lisäksi olen tietoinen siitä että ilmoitetut luvut on pienempiä kuin todellisuus koska lääkärit ja muut ihmiset eivät ole ehtineet tekemään paperitöitä, taikka he ovat kuolleet ja kuopattu/poltettu/dumpattu kadulle ilman että kukaan on ottanut noottia.

The international community has made "almost zero" response to the Ebola outbreak in west Africa, with western leaders more interested in protecting their own countries than helping contain the crisis that has now claimed more than 1,200 lives, a senior international aid worker said on Tuesday.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/...bola-outbreak-africa-medecins-sans-frontieres

The patient, who is a doctor, was cleared of the disease and released to go home but was taken back after showing symptoms

http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/2014/...rce=twitterfeed#sthash.QkXXag1Y.P4UOOxGo.dpuf

First the epidemic, now the snake oil. Fraudulent products claiming to fight the Ebola virus are being pushed to concerned US citizens online. More worryingly, West Africans are also turning to unproven treatments in their efforts to keep the virus at bay.

There have been no reported cases of a person contracting Ebola in the US and the virus does not pose a significant risk there. Nevertheless, since the start of the outbreak, which has now claimed 1,229 lives across Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received "a handful" of consumer complaints about bogus therapies, the agency told New Scientist.

And last week, the World Health Organization warned that rumours of alternative treatments were spreading on social media in West Africa, especially in affected areas.

"Untested treatments can be benign but they can also induce severe and sometimes deadly unintended effects," says Marie-Paule Kieny of the WHO. Indeed, at least two people have died in Nigeria after drinking salt water, which is wrongly claimed by some to protect against the virus.

http://www.newscientist.com/article...ours-and-bogus-cures-online.html#.U_RkHWN_9SM

 

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Violence erupted in an Ebola quarantine zone in Liberia's capital when soldiers opened fire and used teargas on crowds as they evacuated a state official and her family. Four residents were injured on Wednesday in the clashes in Monrovia's West Point slum, which has been closed off as part of new security measures aimed at containing the deadly virus. The crackdown in Liberia comes as authorities around the world scramble to stem the worst ever outbreak of Ebola, which has killed more than 1,200 people across west Africa this year.

The Liberian president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, quarantined West Point and Dolo Town, to the east of the capital, and imposed a night-time curfew as part of drastic measures to fight the disease. Residents of West Point, where club-wielding youths stormed an Ebola medical facility on Saturday, reacted with fury, hurling stones and shouting at the security forces. "It is inhumane," one resident, Patrick Wesseh, told AFP by telephone. "They can't suddenly lock us up without any warning. How are our children going to eat?

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/21/ebola-quarantine-violence-west-point-monrovia-liberia

Sierra Leone’s Ebola crisis has been traced back to a single healer in an isolated border village, who had claimed to be in possession of special powers to cure the deadly disease that started penetrating the border, it has emerged.

“She was claiming to have powers to heal Ebola. Cases from Guinea were crossing into Sierra Leone for treatment,” top medical official, Mohamed Vandi, who was based in the crisis-struck Kenema district, told AFP.

“She got infected and died. During her funeral, women around the other towns got infected,” he told the agency. The woman was based in the eastern border village of Sokoma.

http://rt.com/news/181616-sierra-leone-ebola-healer/

 

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For the last several years, researchers from Tulane University have been active in the African areas where Ebola is said to have broken out in 2014.

These researchers are working with other institutions, one of which is USAMRIID, the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, a well-known center for biowar research, located at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

In Sierra Leone, the Tulane group has been researching new diagnostic tests for hemorrhagic fevers. Note: Lassa Fever, Ebola, and other labels are applied to a spectrum of illness that result in hemorrhaging. Tulane researchers have also been investigating the use of monoclonal antibodies as a treatment for these fevers—but not on-site in Africa, according to Tulane press releases.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/what-a...e-researchers-doing-in-the-ebola-zone/5394582

West Africa’s Ebola-hit nations have agreed to impose a cross-border isolation zone at the epicentre of the world’s worst-ever outbreak, amid warnings that the deadly epidemic is spiralling out of control.

….“We have agreed to take important and extraordinary actions at the inter-country level to focus on cross-border regions that have more than 70 percent of the epidemic,” said Hadja Saran Darab, the secretary-general of the Mano River Union bloc grouping the nations.

“These areas will be isolated by police and military. The people in these areas being isolated will be provided with material support,”

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-1-265076-West-Africa-seeks-to-seal-off-Ebola-hit-regions

At least 70 people have died in northern Democratic Republic of Congo from an outbreak of hemorrhagic gastroenteritis, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, denying that the illness was Ebola.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/8/21/congo-who-disease.html

Every region of Liberia has now been hit by Ebola, officials said Friday, as the World Health Organization warned the fight against the worst-ever outbreak of the killer disease would take months.

http://medicalobserverph.com/intern...t-ebola-free-region-of-liberia-falls-to-virus

 

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If hundreds of doctors and nurses are becoming infected with Ebola, what chance is the general public going to have? This is not just a question that many of us are asking. As you will see below, this is a question that the World Health Organization is asking. When dozens of health workers started getting Ebola, nobody could explain how it was happening. More precautions were taken and health workers were even more careful than before. Then the number of sick health workers rose to 170. Even more measures were taken to keep doctors and nurses from getting the disease, but now just a couple of weeks later we have learned that a total of 240 health workers have contracted the virus and more than 120 of them have died. Overall, more than 2,600 people have been infected with Ebola since this outbreak began and more than 1,400 people have died.

http://investmentwatchblog.com/ebol...t-chance-is-the-general-public-going-to-have/

 

[ctg]

Back in early December, a little boy in southern Guinea caught a mysterious disease. He had a fever, was vomiting and had blood in his stool.

The boy died a few days later. Before he did, he passed the disease to his 3-year-old sister, his mother, his grandmother and a midwife. The latter was eventually hospitalized in , a nearby city of 200,000 people.

By March, the disease spread to four cities. And international health officials realized they had an Ebola outbreak on their hands. The virus quickly spilled over into Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. Now more 1,400 have died in the outbreak, the World Health Organization .

Back in April, an international team of scientists in The New England Journal of Medicine that this little boy, just 2 years old, likely triggered the entire Ebola outbreak in Guinea.

Some called the boy "patient zero." But others think his story offers insights to how the outbreak grew so fast.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandso...ld-boy-be-patient-zero-for-the-ebola-outbreak

 

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As the Ebola outbreak worsens — with the virus mutating, the death toll spiraling and the World Health Organization warning that 20,000 people could eventually be infected — another West African country has confirmed that the deadly virus has crossed its borders.

Senegal confirmed its first case of Ebola on Friday, according to a statement from Health Minister Awa Marie Coll Seck. The patient, a Guinean national who traveled to Senegal, is in quarantine.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...the-deadliest-outbreak-in-history-gets-worse/

Dogs in one community in Liberia are reportedly eating the remains of dead Ebola victims lying on the streets.

The New Dawn reports that the Liberian government buried bodies of those suspected to have died from Ebola a few weeks ago in Johnsonville Township, outside of Monrovia. A number of dogs were reportedly seen pulling the bodies out of the graves and eating the remains.

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/08...-bodies-of-ebola-victims-on-liberian-streets/

Genetic studies of some of the earliest Ebola cases in Sierra Leone reveal more than 300 genetic changes in the virus as it leapt from person to person, changes that could blunt the effectiveness of diagnostic tests and experimental treatments now in development, researchers said on Thursday.

"We found the virus is doing what viruses do. It's mutating," said Pardis Sabeti of Harvard University and the Broad Institute, who led the massive study of samples from 78 people in Sierra Leone, all of whose infections could be traced to a faith healer whose claims of a cure attracted Ebola patients from Guinea, where the virus first took hold.

The findings, published in Science, suggest the virus is mutating quickly and in ways that could affect current diagnostics and future vaccines and treatments, such as GlaxoSmithKline's Ebola vaccine, which was just fast-tracked to begin clinical trials, or the antibody drug ZMapp, being developed by California biotech Mapp Biopharmaceutical.

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/repor...ra-leone-show-virus-is-mutating-fast-2014589?

 

[Merten sheriffi]

Foorumilaiset antakaa veikkauksenne, että koska myös meillä täällä Suomessa?
Veikkaan vuoden sisällä. Ruotsi jo kuukauden sisällä!

 

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Foorumilaiset antakaa veikkauksenne, että koska myös meillä täällä Suomessa?
Veikkaan vuoden sisällä. Ruotsi jo kuukauden sisällä!

Ensimmäinen ongelma tässä on lääkärit ja hoitajat jotka kuuluvat "Without Borders" ohjelmaan, ja heidän tuleminen kotiin hoidettavaksi. Toinen ongelma on kuten tiedostat että länsinaapurissa on enemmän afrikkalaisia kuin meillä, mutta onneksi länsiafrikka on tällä hetkellä jotkinlaisessa karanteenissa. Toisaalta jos intialaisilla homma leviää käsiin niin me olemme kaikki enemmän ja vähemmän nesteessä kun heillä sitä populaa riittää aivan liiakseen kun ainakin neljä kymmennestä on intialaisia taikka kinukkeja. Ja jos ebola jatkaa mutatoimista miljardi kansassa niin ...