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| Number Of Ebola Infections In West Africa Passes 16,000 |
| 2014-11-30 |
| [TheGuardian] Death toll from virus outbreak nears 7,000 as World Health Organisation warns figures may be significant underestimation The number of deaths is more than 1,000 higher than the figure issued by the WHO just two days ago, but it is thought to include deaths that have gone unreported in the weeks or months since the outbreak began. Most of the new deaths were recorded in Liberia. The WHO has warned that its figures could be a significant underestimation of the number of infections and deaths. Data from the outbreak has been patchy and the totals often rise considerably when backlogs of information are cleared. The latest confirmed data shows that almost half those known to have been infected with Ebola have died. Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy... two children tested for Ebola after arriving in Britannia from Africa are not infected, Public Health England confirmed on Saturday. It said the overall risk to the public of the virus continued to be âvery lowâ. Liberia has recorded the highest number of cases and deaths, but the rate of infection is slowing there. The disease is now spreading fastest in Sierra Leone. Mali has started recording infections after sick people crossed over from neighbouring Guinea. It has reported two new cases this week. Another UN agency, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, warned that families in the three countries were at risk of both malnutrition and under-nutrition. Vincent Martin, of the FAO, said 70% of people interviewed in Sierra Leone had been eating only one meal a day since the outbreak, rather than two or three. Restrictions on movement had led to panic buying, food shortages and severe price hikes, the agency said. The WHO said this week that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... had ended, as it did in Nigeria in late October. Its guidelines state that a country can be declared free of the virus once 42 days have passed and no new cases have been detected. The 42 days represents twice the maximum incubation period for Ebola. Scientists said on Thursday that progress towards creating an Ebola vaccine had been made. An experimental vaccine has triggered promising immune responses from 20 healthy volunteers in a preliminary trial, suggesting that it should protect against infection. Trials of a device that can diagnose an Ebola infection within 15 minutes are about to start in Guinea. The test, which can analyse blood or saliva, is six times faster than those being used in west Africa. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Nov 29 (Reuters) - Mali has no more confirmed cases of Ebola after the last patient known to be suffering from the virus was cured, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said on Saturday. Mali has registered eight cases of Ebola - seven of them confirmed and one probable - after the virus spread from neighbouring Guinea, the World Health Organization (WHO) said this week. Six of these people infected have died, the WHO said. A further 285 people who came into contact with them are being monitored but have shown no sign of the disease. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-11-30 01:27 |
| #1 Well they are right on track with the numbers. Did the gloves and masks not make it? Were the instructions complex? Was the guidance about NOT touching distributed, or was it ignored? Is the view of customs from the outside different than when they are your life circumstances and someone close to you need support in their illness? Its hard when you offer hospice in a charnel house. It might be different if the survival rate was better than 50:50 or people weren't too sick to move under their own power. Sometimes rubber gloves and aspirin aren't enough. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-11-30 01:01 |