The 2014 Ebola epidemic is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries in West Africa. A small number of cases in Lagos and Port Harcourt, Nigeria, have been associated with a man from Liberia who traveled to Lagos and died from Ebola, but the virus does not appear to have been widely spread in Nigeria. The case in Senegal is related to a man who traveled there from Guinea.
On 9/30/2014, CDC confirmed, the first travel-associated case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the United States. CDC and partners are taking precautions to prevent the spread of Ebola within the United States. CDC is working with other U.S. government agencies, the World Health Organization (WHO), and other domestic and international partners and has activated its Emergency Operations Center to help coordinate technical assistance and control activities with partners. CDC has also deployed teams of public health experts to West Africa and will continue to send experts to the affected countries.
Recently:
October 5, 2014: Ebola Contact Tracing, Dallas, Texas
October 5, 2014: What You Need To Know About Ebola
October 4, 2014: Update: Sick airline passenger, Newark
Outbreak Update
On 9/30/2014, CDC confirmed, the first travel-associated case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the United States.
New cases have been reported from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Nigeria and Senegal have not reported any new cases since September 5, 2014, and August 29, 2014, respectively. In Senegal, all contacts have now completed their 21-day follow up, with no further cases of Ebola reported.
On August 29, 2014, Senegal’s Ministry of Public Health and Social Affairs announced a case of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Senegal. The case is in a man from Guinea who traveled to Senegal.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reported cases of Ebola. These cases are not related to the ongoing outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. For information on the outbreak in DRC, see the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in DRC page.
HHS has contracted with Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. to develop and manufacture ZMapp. Mapp Biopharmaceutical will manufacture a small amount of the drug for early stage clinical safety studies and nonclinical studies.
NIH will begin initial human testing of an investigational vaccine to prevent EVD in early September and is working with a company to develop an antiviral drug to treat Ebola.
U.S. Department of Defense has funded two companies that are developing drug therapies for Ebola and is working with another company to develop an Ebola vaccine.
CDC returned a staff member from West Africa by charter flight after the employee had low-risk contact with an international health worker who recently tested positive for Ebola. The CDC staff member was not sick with Ebola, did not show symptoms of the disease, and therefore posed no risk to friends, family, co-workers, or the public.
The above has several excerpts from the CDC.
Basically we have thousands infected in Africa at the moment.
Disease modelers project a rapidly rising toll from Ebola
A. Vespignani
If spread continues at the current rate, a model by Alessandro Vespignani and colleagues projects close to 10,000 Ebola infections by 24 September. (The shaded area provides the projection’s variability range.)
Vespignani is not the only one trying to predict how the unprecedented outbreak will progress. Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that the number of cases could ultimately exceed 20,000. And scientists across the world are scrambling to create computer models that accurately describe the spread of the deadly virus. Not all of them look quite as bleak as Vespignani’s. But the modelers all agree that current efforts to control the epidemic are not enough to stop the deadly pathogen in its tracks. http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2014/08/disease-modelers-project-rapidly-rising-toll-ebola
World Health Organization researchers issued a dire new forecast for the Ebola epidemic Tuesday, one that sees 20,000 cases by November, much sooner than previous estimates. And 70 percent of patients are dying.
That’s a big increase over the previous estimates of a 50 percent fatality rate.
“These data indicate that without drastic improvements in control measures, the numbers of cases of and deaths from Ebola virus disease are expected to continue increasing from hundreds to thousands per week in the coming months,” the WHO Ebola Response Team, led by Dr. Christopher Dye, wrote in a report rushed into print by the New England Journal of Medicine. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/ebola-death-rate-70-percent-who-says-dire-new-forecast-n209226
This morning (or late last night) a nurse in Spain was diagnosed with Ebola. She was a caregiver to two priests whom had contracted the disease, and subsequently died from the infection. As of an hour ago, her husband has been placed in isolation by the Spanish government, along with at least two other individuals believed to have been working with the nurse at some point. It is unclear whether they are medical workers or other people that were just in contact with her.
In recent days, a person in Hawaii was placed into isolation and tested for Ebola. That turned out to be negative.
Yesterday a cameraman was brought to Omaha Nebraska for treatment.
At least 100 people are said to have been in direct contact with Mr. Duncan, the traveler from Liberia who showed up in Dallas the other day with Ebola. He has taken a turn for the worse and is in critical condition as of today. His “family” – a girlfriend (apparently) and her children we believe have been moved to a nice, new home and placed in isolation (under government orders), complete with armed guards. The apartment was cleaned yesterday. The cleaning company owner stated he didn’t “know what would happen with the contaminated materials” and that was up to the “government”.
Obama has consistently refused to deny entry to the United States by people traveling from Ebola-stricken countries. Congress has yet to be heard from.
Various Department of Homeland Security Agencies are acting up, acting out, or simply asleep at the wheel.
Epidemics spread because people don’t wash their hands or take other precautions. Ebola allegedly spreads by “close contact” with individuals who are infected, because of bodily fluids.
It’s funny how the government, in trying to prevent a panic has not stopped lying about passing viruses. First it was “not air borne” and then it was “You have to have contact with bodily fluids:. Then we see where Mr. Duncan vomited all over a street outside the apartment complex, inside the complex, in his bed, the bathroom, on the floor. And then inside an ambulance. And the EMT personnel had NO IDEA IT WAS EBOLA. They are in isolation. The people who rode around in the ambulance (a homeless man for instance) walked away without knowing. (He has been found and apparently he too is in isolation).
Now, if you have a cold, the cold VIRUS eventually destroys the cells it takes over and you spew out virus inside of droplets you cough or sneeze out.
One of the symptoms of ebola is a “cough” (look it up for yourself, don’t believe me). Ebola is a virus. Ebola takes over cells in your body to replicate itself. Ebola then destorys the cell. How do you think that ebola is passed from person to person?
Through “bodily fluids”. Most LIKELY from droplets coughed/sneezed out of the body. Viruses, like all other forms of life are difficult to kill off. Usually viruses will remain viable for years because they are wrapped in a shell that protects them from the environment, until they can get inside a receptive host.
Ebola… is, pardon the pun, nothing to sneeze about. This could be the final plague of the planet.
And no, I am not attempting to scaremonger. The information in this article is factual, all check-able, and not opinion (except my statement about the “Final Plague” of course. In truth, a plague, like the Black Plague (Bubonic Plague) passed through the population due to poor hygienic conditions, fleas and dirty people.
Colds routinely pass rapidly through a population in America, and people carry viruses aboard aircraft from coast to coast daily.
Influenza (flu) also passed through the population in the US rather quickly.
Along with Ebola, America has a serious threat already here, already spreading and affecting dozens of children. Enterovirus D-68. This virus has already killed one child and affected many others. According to other news articles at least five people have actually died, while the media makes a huge point of saying “one”. So… more lies? (http://sharylattkisson.com/polio-like-outbreak-claims-fifth-life-in-u-s?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29)
There are more than 100 known varieties of non-polio enteroviruses in the world, and they cause 10 to 15 million infections every year, ranging from the common cold (rhinovirus), to hand, foot, and mouth disease (coxsackie), to meningitis and gastrointestinal illness. Enteroviruses are harbored in the GI tract, but they can cause symptoms all over the body depending on strain. (http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/10/03/6-things-all-parents-should-know-about-enterovirus-d68/)
Poliovirus (aka Polio) is also an enterovirus.
On Fox News, right now as this is being written, a doctor is telling us that indeed viruses, including ebola can live for SEVERAL hours allowing others to contact it, and perhaps contract the disease.
As a point of reference refer back to Mr. Duncan, the Liberian, who came here deliberately with the disease knowing full well he had contracted it and lied to authorities in an effort to ensure his survival, vomiting all over the apartment, the bedding, the outside street, the inside of the ambulance and quite probably the inside of the hospital.
Potentially thousands have been exposed to Ebola. All it will take is ONE PERSON to remain undiagnosed out on the streets, in contact with others. One person.
While a cold or the flu can kill, usually it doesn’t. Flu can kill people in weakened condition, the young, the elderly.
Ebola kills 90% of the people it infects, in horrible ways. Young, Old, middle aged, everyone. 90%.
Ebola isn’t called “Hemorrhagic Fever” for nothing.
Never mind “The Stand”, this stuff is Stephen King’s Nightmare.
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