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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Ebola Death Toll Rises to 887
2014-08-05
[An Nahar] The World Health Organization said Monday the corpse count from the Ebola epidemic in west Africa has now reached 887 after 61 more fatalities recorded at the end of last week.

Giving an update on the deadly virus -- the worst Ebola outbreak ever -- the U.N. health agency said the 61 deaths were reported between last Thursday and Friday in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

It said there had also been 163 new cases of people infected with the virus in that time, bringing the total number of confirmed and likely cases from the outbreak so far to 1,603.

According to the latest WHO tally, which includes both laboratory-confirmed and suspect cases, Guinea saw 13 new cases and 12 deaths last Thursday and Friday, Liberia, 77 new cases and 28 deaths, while Sierra Leone saw 72 new cases and 21 fatalities. One suspect case was also reported in that time in Nigeria.

WHO Director General Margaret Chan has warned that the response of some of the affected countries to the epidemic had been "woefully inadequate," and that the outbreak has been "moving faster than our efforts to control it."

Ebola, a form of hemorrhagic fever for which there is no vaccine, causes severe muscular pain, fever, headaches and, in the worst cases, unstoppable bleeding.

It has killed around two-thirds of those it has infected since its emergence in 1976, with two outbreaks registering fatality rates approaching 90 percent.

The death rate in the current outbreak is 55 percent.
Posted by:Fred

#12  The conventional wisdom about Ebola is that you either come down with symptoms 2 weeks or less after being infected, or you are not infected. I sure hope that wisdom proves true.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2014-08-05 23:20  

#11  How is someone to know if they have been around someone who has it. Do they ask?

"Would you like fries with that? And do you have Ebola? Been to Africa?"
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-08-05 20:45  

#10  Good question, anguper

How many thousands come each day

They need to be taken aside and quarantined at port of entry

Not questioned when and if they go to the dr weeks later

Bit of inconvenience but that is ok sometimes
Posted by: Anon1   2014-08-05 18:46  

#9  From today's NYTimes: Following the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every patient entering one of the city’s hospitals who has fever, headache and other symptoms associated with Ebola (as well as countless other ailments), is asked two new questions.

“Have you traveled to or from West African countries in the last 10 days? Have you been in contact with an Ebola patient or with anyone who has been in contact with an Ebola patient?”
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2014-08-05 18:17  

#8  "why wasn't he quarantined on his return" -- how many thousands of people a day come to the US from the Ebola hot zone, or who have been there in the last 2 weeks? Have seen nothing in the news about the numbers.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2014-08-05 18:07  

#7  If Ebola infections are here in the USA and unchecked, they will come to public attention rather quickly -- the violent symptoms, bleeding and death rate will draw most everyone's attention.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2014-08-05 18:06  

#6  Call me paranoid, but between the NYC hospitals disconnects about the number of patients ( is it only 1, or is it more?)and the various incoming folks from the African continent, I think the Ebola virus is already here and is also unchecked.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2014-08-05 15:49  

#5   Update Morristown.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-08-05 10:55  

#4   Patient self-quarantined in Morristown, TN -- about 50 miles NE of Knoxville.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-08-05 10:50  

#3  Saudi is now testing its first suspected case here

CBS reports here it is likely to be worse than the WHO figures suggest due to hidden victims.
Posted by: anon1   2014-08-05 09:20  

#2  new WHO stats here

US man being treated here
Posted by: anon1   2014-08-05 07:46  

#1  New WHO stats out

New cases:

163 31 July to August 3
122 July 24 - 27
108 July 21 - 23
85 July 18 - 20
67 July 15 - 17
18 July 13 - 14

5 new cases in Nigeria (1 new, 3 probable, 1 dead) of whom 1 was the doctor who treated Patrick Sawyer and another was a nurse.

One man is being treated in NEW YORK CITY who recently traveled to an ebola zone in West Africa. Why wasn't he quarantined on his return??????

He may have passed to 5 people by now
Posted by: anon1   2014-08-05 07:45  

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