Epidemiat maailmalla

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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 ...

Juuri nyt: Tukholmassa tutkitaan epäiltyä Ebola-tapausta – mies kyyditettiin sairaalaan
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Tämäntyyppisissä tiloissa hoidetaan ihmisiä, joiden epäillään saaneen Ebola-tartunnan. Kuva on Lontoon Royal Free Hospitalin infektiotautien yksiköstä, jossa hoidetaan Ebola-viruksen saanutta brittiä.

ULKOMAAT | 31.8.2014 | 22:41 | PÄIVITETTY 22:430
STT, Aamulehti



Tukholmassa tutkitaan epäiltyä Ebola-tapausta, kertoo uutistoimisto TT. Asiasta tiedottaa Tukholman lääni.


Aftonbladetin mukaan henkilö, joka on käynyt riskimaissa, on sairastunut kuumeeseen.


Häntä hoidetaan Karoliinisen sairaalan infektio-osastolla.


- On hyvin pieni riski, että tauti on Ebolaa, mutta olemme äärimmäisen tarkkoja tässä tapauksessa, sanoo Tukholman läänin tartuntatautiyksikön päällikkö Åke Örtqvist.


Tänään kello 17.30 erikoisvarusteltu ambulanssi lähetettiin Tukholman Solnaan hakemaan miestä, jonka epäiltiin kantavan Ruotsin ensimmäistä Ebola-tartuntaa.


Mies oli sairastunut kuumeeseen käytyään äskettäin yhdessä niistä maista, joissa epidemia riehuu.


- Toimintasuunnitelmamme mukaan ihminen, joka on käynyt epidemia-alueella ja sairastuu 21 päivän kuluessa siitä yli 38 asteen kuumeeseen, käsitellään epäiltynä tartuntatapauksena.

 

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The first human trial for an investigational Ebola vaccine is set to begin this week.

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa prompted the National Institutes of Health to expedite safety testing for several vaccines already in the works. Since March, the deadly virus has killed 1,552 people, according to the World Health Organization, which predicted last week that the virus could infect 20,000 people in the next six months.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/human-trial-ebola-vaccine-begin-week/story?id=25204379

Toivottavasti tämä ei mene yhtä vituralleen kuin viime rokote. Ei silti en ota ennenkuin on pakko.

Health workers have gone on strike at a major Ebola treatment centre in Kenema, eastern Sierra Leone... hospital staff told Reuters on Saturday.

"The workers decided to stop working because we have not been paid out allowances and we lack some tools," said Ishmael Mehemoh, chief supervisor at the clinic.

Clothing to protect health workers being infected from the deadly virus is inadequate and there is only one broken stretcher which is used to carry both patients and corpses, he added.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014...dType=RSS&feedName=rbssHealthcareNews&rpc=401

The official of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) who took Ebola to Port Harcourt has been identified as Olu-Ibukun Koye.

Koye made contact with index case, Patrick Sawyer but later fled quarantine despite showing symptoms of the disease.

He travelled to Port Harcourt where he hired Dr. Iyke Samuel Enemuo to treat him at Mandate Hotel.

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Enemuo’s wife and child have been quarantined and about 200 people have also been placed under observation.

Reports have it that Koye might face charges of manslaughter for his actions which led to Enemuo’s death.

http://lhardellsblog.com/2014/09/01/meet-the-diplomat-who-took-ebola-to-port-harcourt/

 

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The Sudanese authorities have prohibited local media from covering any news related to the Ebola virus. Press sources who asked not to be mentioned for security reasons confirmed to APA on Saturday that the security authorities have circulated warning to all media outlets not to publish any news or articles related to the transmission of the Ebola virus in Sudan.

http://investmentwatchblog.com/suda...and-vaccines-ineffective/#UJErd42ZJ4U8d3Il.99

 

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On the virus mutation spectrum, Ebola has a relatively slow mutation rate compared with influenza and HIV, but its mutations still develop faster than those of the smallpox virus. Still, the longer the pathogen goes unchecked means that it will continue to accumulate mutations, some of which could prove more problematic and make it potentially more lethal or easily transmitted among humans.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/patient-zero-believed-to-be-sole-source-of-ebola-outbreak/

Ebola hemorrhagic fever caused by a virus is a severe disease with a case fatality rate of up to 90%. Humans can contract the disease from infected animals such as flying foxes, gorillas and chimpanzees. Human-to-human transmission is possible in direct contact with symptomatic patients and their body fluids and an outbreak can emerge. There have been several outbreaks in sub-Saharan Africa in recent years. The current epidemic in West Africa probably goes back to an index patient in Guinea in December 2013. Meanwhile the disease has spread to different countries. This outbreak is considered as an "extraordinary event" and a public health risk to other countries. One reason for this is the high mobility of populations including transnational-border crossing. In July 2014 this also happened in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria, when an infected patient arrived by airplane and people did not know he had Ebola hemorrhagic fever.

Challenges

Given a regional outbreak, one of the key challenges of computational, quantitative epidemiology is the assessment and estimation of risks to other regions in the world that is induced by global mobility and transportation. Computational, dynamical or statistical models attempt to estimate import probabilities and likelihoods and related numbers that quantify risk. The interactive network analysis we provide here (see image on the right) displays computationally estimated relative import risks.

http://rocs.hu-berlin.de/D3/ebola/

 

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Health workers spray the body of a amputee suspected of dying from the Ebola virus with disinfectant, in a busy street in Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. Food in countries hit by Ebola is getting more expensive and will become scarcer because many farmers won't be able to access fields, a U.N. food agency warned Tuesday. An Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 1,500 people, and authorities have cordoned off entire towns in an effort to halt the virus' spread. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

1900 kuollutta tänään

 

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About two weeks after he went missing, police announced an NIH scientist has been found dead in his car. Martin John Rogers, 54, left his Gaithersburg home around 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 21 to go to work.

As he was leaving, he told his wife of 25 years that he was going to a meeting -- but his co-workers said he never showed up to work that morning.

Martin Rogers had worked at the National Institutes of Health for 15 years and specialized in tropical diseases.

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Police said surveillance video captured Martin checking into a hotel in La Valle, Maryland, looking "stressed out."

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...273126461.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DCBrand

Hieman kummalliselta tuo kuolema vaikuttaa, varsinkin kun tietää kuin monta immeistä jenkit on pistänyt päiviltä vähintäänkin oudoissa merkeissä. Tässä joutuu foliohattua ruuvaamaan syvemmällä.

 

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A Sierra Leone health worker at an Ebola isolation unit in Kenema. Photograph: Michael Duff/AP

A four-day nationwide lockdown announced by the Sierra Leone government in a bid to contain the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola could instead exacerbate the spread of the disease, aid agencies have warned.

From 18 to 21 September people across the west African nation will not be allowed to leave their homes, a senior official in the president's office said on Friday.

But Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) raised concern about the drastic step, warning that it could lead people to try to conceal infections from the authorities.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/06/sierra-leone-lockdown-ebola-outbreak

Hieman itteä mietittää heidän metodinsa. Sulkemalla sairaat ihmiset pakosta muiden sekaan ei voi olla hyvästä.

 

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http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...273126461.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DCBrand

Hieman kummalliselta tuo kuolema vaikuttaa, varsinkin kun tietää kuin monta immeistä jenkit on pistänyt päiviltä vähintäänkin oudoissa merkeissä. Tässä joutuu foliohattua ruuvaamaan syvemmällä.

Onko tämä jokin vitsi vai onko vastaavia tapauksia paljonkin? En äkkiseltään keksi, että mikä salaliitto haluaisi tappaa virustutkijoita. Lääkeyhtiö peittää jäljet, kun on ensin luotu virus johon varastossa onkin jo lääke? Tulee mieleen tämä juttu: http://www.rense.com/general20/car.htm

 

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Onko tämä jokin vitsi vai onko vastaavia tapauksia paljonkin? En äkkiseltään keksi, että mikä salaliitto haluaisi tappaa virustutkijoita. Lääkeyhtiö peittää jäljet, kun on ensin luotu virus johon varastossa onkin jo lääke? Tulee mieleen tämä juttu: http://www.rense.com/general20/car.htm

Ehkä liittyy tähän uuteen artikkeliin samalta saitilta, http://www.rense.com/general96/eboutofgabo.html . Jos luet niin tekstistä tulee selväksi se miksi kanadalla oli mahdollisuus tuottaa kokeellinen rokote näinkin aikaisin, mutta en tiedä miten tuon tieteilijän mysteerinen kuolema liittyy tähän suorainaisesti. Kutina vain on että jotenkin hän liittyy näihin asioihin ja bioaseisiin liittyvään tutkimukseen. Luulen myös että tämä juttu lakastaan maton alle ebolan jatkaessa kulkuaan maailmalla. Huonolla säkällä meillä on ensimmäinen tapaus ennen joulua.

 

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President Obama said Sunday that the U.S. military will begin aiding what has been a chaotic and ineffective response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, arguing that it represents a serious national security concern.


The move is a significant ramp up in the U.S. response and comes as the already-strained military is likely to be called upon further to address militant threats in the Middle East. The decision to involve the military in providing equipment and other assistance for international health workers in Africa comes after mounting calls from some unlikely groups — most prominently the international medical group Doctors Without Borders — demonstrating to the White House the urgency of the issue.

The epidemic, which has killed at least 2,100 people in five African countries, is unlikely to spread to the United States in the short term, Obama said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” But if the United States and other countries do not send needed equipment, public health workers and other supplies to the region, that situation could change and the virus could mutate to become more transmissible, he said.

“And then it could be a serious danger to the United States,” Obama said.

“We’re going to have to get U.S. military assets just to set up, for example, isolation units and equipment there,” he said, “to provide security for public health workers surging from around the world.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...d8dc26-369a-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html

A respiratory illness that has already sickened more than a thousand children in 10 states is likely to become a nationwide problem, doctors say.


The disease hasn’t been officially identified but officials suspect a rare respiratory virus called human enterovirus 68. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the virus is related to the rhinovirus, which causes the common cold.

The disease hasn’t been officially identified in every state, but in some states a rare respiratory virus called human enterovirus 68 has been found. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the virus is related to the rhinovirus, which causes the common cold.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/unidentified-respiratory-virus-hit-kids-country/story?id=25334106

 

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http://virologydownunder.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/ebola-virus-disease-evd-2014-west.html

Ebola is spreading fast in Liberia, where many thousands of new cases are expected over the coming three weeks, the World Health Organisation has said.

"Transmission of the Ebola virus in Liberia is already intense and the number of new cases is increasing exponentially," the WHO said in a statement on Monday.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/08/ebola-liberia-thousands-new-cases-in-weeks-who

 

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Pitäisikö meidän ottaa mallia ja dumpata esim myyräkuume pakolaiskeskuksiin hoitamaan pois nuo jaloissa pyörivät tapaukset?[/sarcasm]

More than 30 Lynn Community Health Center employees and 800 patients are being tested to determine if they were exposed to tuberculosis after center doctors confirmed a case.
Center Director Lori Berry says after confirming the single positive test for tuberculosis in a male health care worker around Labor Day, center medical workers contacted and tested employees as well as patients ‘‘having sufficient exposure to warrant testing.’’

City Health Director MaryAnn O’Connor tells The Daily Item the identified case at the center is ‘‘not a reason to panic’’ and said people should not stay away from clinic

The Center for Disease Control’s website describes tuberculosis as bacteria ‘‘that usually attack the lungs’’ but can attack other parts of the body, and if not treated properly can be fatal.

http://patriotrising.com/2014/09/09...d-tuberculosis-massachusetts-illegals-dumped/

 

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Kannattaa tsiikata muutkin kuvat kuin tämä Wiredin sivuilta. http://www.wired.com/2014/09/peter-muller-ebola-photographs/#slide-id-1534121:full

 

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(CNN) -- As hospitals in nations hardest hit by Ebola struggle to keep up, desperate patients are turning to the black market to buy blood from survivors of the virus, the World Health Organization warned.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/18/health/ebola-blood-black-market/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The outbreak of Ebola that is ravaging parts of West Africa could cost affected nations billions of dollars and slash economic growth rates by double digits if the virus’ surge continues across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the World Bank estimated Wednesday in a new report.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/9/17/ebola-economic-impact.html

(Reuters) - The first planeload of hospital equipment in the U.S. military's battle against West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak will arrive in Liberia on Friday, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.

The United States hopes its expanded effort to contain the spread of the virus will help rally other countries in ramping up the global response to the epidemic, U.S. aid official Nancy Lindborg told a U.S. House of Representatives committee.

The plane is the first of 13 air shipments headed for Monrovia, carrying equipment for a 25-bed hospital to be built in Liberia's capital.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/...n=Feed:+reuters/INhealth+(News+/+IN+/+Health)

 

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  Ulkomaat 19.9.2014 klo 0:16 | päivitetty 19.9.2014 klo 0:38
  Ebola-valistajia surmattiin raa'asti Guineassa
  Uhrien joukossa on kolme toimittajaa. Jotkut afrikkalaiset uskovat, että Ebola-virus on lännen salajuoni.
  
  Ebola-valistusta tehneen ryhmän jäseniä on surmattu Guineassa. Maan kaakkoisosassa sijaitsevasta syrjäisestä kylästä löydettiin torstaina seitsemän guinealaisen ruumiit.
  
  Guinean viranomaisten mukaan kolme uhreista oli toimittajia, ja kolmen kurkut oli viilletty auki. Hyökkääjät olivat ilmeisesti paikallisia asukkaita.
  
  Osa länsiafrikkalaisista uskoo, että Ebola on pelkkää tarua. Joidenkin mukaan taas virus on lännen keksimä salajuoni.
  
  Elokuussa Liberian pääkaupungissa Monroviassa joukko potilaita joutui pakenemaan karanteenikeskuksesta, jonne hyökkäsi puumailoin aseistautuneita nuoria. Vastaavia tapauksia on ollut myös muualla.
  
  Lähteet:
  
  Reuters, AFP, AP, Yle Uutiset

 

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MONROVIA, Liberia — While the terrifying spread of Ebola has captured the world’s attention, it also has produced a lesser-known crisis: the near-collapse of the already fragile health-care system here, a development that may be as dangerous — for now — as the virus for the average Liberian.

Western experts said that people here are dying of preventable or treatable conditions such as malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia and the effects of high blood pressure and diabetes, such as strokes. Where services do exist, Ebola has complicated the effort to provide them by stoking fear among health-care workers, who sometimes turn away sick people or women in labor if they can’t determine whether the patient is infected. And some people, health-care workers said, will not seek care, fearful that they will become infected with Ebola at a clinic or hospital.

“If you stub your toe now in Monrovia, you’ll have a hard time getting care, let alone having a heart attack or malaria,” said Sheldon Yett, the Liberia representative for UNICEF. “It’s a tremendous threat to children and a tremendous threat to families.”

Good data on the deterioration of non-Ebola health services is difficult to find. But representatives...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...7dcfbe-400b-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html

 

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1900 kuollutta tänään

Tämä Ebola-case on omalla tavallaan hiukan hysterisoitu.
Koko epidemian aikana on siis kuollut mitä 2000 ihmistä?, voi vau!
Samalla alueella kuolee pelkästään keuhkokuumeeseen enemmän jengiä kuin Ebolaan ja sitä voisi sentään hoitaa.
Puhumattakaan muista alueen perussairauksista.

Ebola kauhistuttaa koska siihen ei ole tuotantotasolla olevaa lääkettä meille länsimaiden ihmisille. Ei kukaan kauhistele lapsia joita kuolee ripuliin Afrikassa laumoittain joka päivä.
Ebolahan ei edes tartu kovin helposti.

 

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Ymmärretty. Lopetan tämän levittämisen ennenkuin banaania tulee.

 

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http://virologydownunder.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/ebola-double-vision.html

 

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Todella mielenkiintoinen artikkeli ja väitämmä siitä, että korruptio teki ebolan lietsomisesta vaikemman kuin mitä sen olisi pitänyt olla.

Since last week, there has been some good news on the Ebola front: a suggestion that the epidemic in Liberia is beginning to slow down, with fewer new cases reported. At the same time, there is a new outbreak in Sierra Leone, in a part of the country that thought it had beaten the disease and then self-quarantined to keep it at bay. So it is probably too soon to hope that the entire international outbreak is on its way to being extinguished.

At the same time, two major international medical meetings happening this week have allowed researchers to discuss the newest reports from the field — but not with equal success. The annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the largest medical society devoted to diseases such as Ebola, lost a significant number of attendees when the conference’s host state, Louisiana, threatened to forcibly quarantine anyone traveling from a country experiencing Ebola, whether or not that person had been exposed. Meanwhile, Vienna, Austria had no such qualms, and so the International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance proceeded without any difficulties, allowing physicians and epidemiologists fresh from the Ebola zone to share reports.

It’s from that second meeting that this week’s news comes. Oyewale Tomori, president of the Nigerian Academy of Science and a leader of the World Health Organization’s Ebola response in 1995, used the IMED podium to deliver a stinging critique of the behavior of African governments during the current crisis, charging that internal corruption has crippled the continent’s ability to fight its own disease battles.

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/ebola-africa/