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by Nordic » Sat Nov 29, 2014 6:17 pm
by Wombaticus Rex » Sun Nov 30, 2014 2:22 pm
Nordic » Sat Nov 29, 2014 5:17 pm wrote:\Trying to figure out how the Ebola terror could have been exploited in the midterms except for more of the silly "fear of foreigners" thing which is sorta ongoing.
Anyone?
by Twyla LaSarc » Sun Dec 07, 2014 3:03 pm
Nordic » Sat Nov 29, 2014 3:17 pm wrote:The 24/7 Ebola fearmongering seems to have died abruptly with the arrival of the midterm elections.
What's up with that?
Trying to figure out how the Ebola terror could have been exploited in the midterms except for more of the silly "fear of foreigners" thing which is sorta ongoing.
Anyone?
by winsomecowboy2 » Wed Dec 10, 2014 3:55 am
by elfismiles » Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:25 pm
Fort Hood soldier found dead in yard
Tiffany Pelt, KCEN 1:44 p.m. CST January 13, 2015
KILLEEN, Texas (KCEN) -- Killeen Police and Fort Hood Military Police currently have a home blocked off on the 3300 block of Cantebrian Drive where a man was found dead in a yard Tuesday morning.
Fort Hood officials confirm the man is a soldier who recently returned from a deployment to West Africa. Officials say there are no indications the soldier had Ebola, however medical personnel at Carl R. Darnall Medical Center are running tests as a precaution to make sure there is no threat to the community.
Troops returning from West Africa must undergo a 21-day monitoring period at a controlled monitoring site on post. Officials say this soldier was granted an emergency leave that was not medical related and involved a family emergency, according to officials. It is not known if the soldier was hospitalized or if the family emergency was a false report.
The soldier was under self monitoring where he had to check in with officials twice a day before his family emergency.
KCEN TV has a crew on the scene and will continue to update this story as the details become available.
http://www.kvue.com/story/news/local/20 ... /21698101/
by The Consul » Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:30 pm
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by Wombaticus Rex » Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:41 pm
by stillrobertpaulsen » Fri May 08, 2015 5:00 pm
American doctor declared free of Ebola finds the virus in his eye months later
By Faith Karimi, CNN
(CNN)American doctor Ian Crozier was treated for Ebola in Atlanta last year and declared free of the virus in his blood. But he had no way of knowing it still lurked in his eye.
About two months after being released from the hospital, he experienced a piercing pain in his left eye, he told The New York Times. The pressure in his eye elevated while his vision decreased.
After repeated tests, doctors discovered the virus was still living in his eye.
"It felt almost personal that the virus could be in my eye without me knowing it," he told the paper.
Perplexed
His case has left doctors stunned and highlighted the need for eye checkups for Ebola survivors.
Crozier, 44, was hospitalized at Emory University Hospital for more than a month in September after contracting the disease in Sierra Leone, where he worked at a hospital.
At the time, the hospital said he was the sickest of all the four Ebola patients treated there.
Crozier was discharged in October, and about two months later, he developed eye problems and returned to Emory. Doctors stuck a needle in his eye and removed some fluid, which tested positive for the virus.
"Following recovery from Ebola virus disease, patients should be followed for the development of eye symptoms including pain, redness, light sensitivity and blurred vision, which may be signs of uveitis," said Steven Yeh, associate professor of ophthalmology at Emory University School of Medicine.
Uveitis is an inflammation of the eye's middle layer. Ebola is also known to live in semen months after it's gone from the blood.
No risk of spreading the virus
Despite the presence of the virus in the eye, samples from tears and the outer eye membrane tested negative, which means the patient was not at risk of spreading the disease during casual contact, Emory said in a statement Thursday.
It did not name the patient, but The New York Times did. The New England Journal of Medicine also released a study on the case.
Though the patient was not at risk of spreading the virus, all health care providers treating survivors, including eye doctors, must follow Ebola safety protocols, said Jay Varkey, assistant professor at Emory University School of Medicine.
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Ebola patient for a second time
When the virus was found in Crozier's eye, the eye started losing its original blue hue, he told the paper.
Bewildered, doctors tried different forms of treatment as he relived his Ebola nightmare.
They gave him a steroid shot above his eyeball and had him take an experimental antiviral pill that required special approval from the Food and Drug Administration, the Times reported.
His eye gradually returned to normal, but it's unclear whether it was as a result of the steroid shot, pill or his body's immune system.
While Ebola survivors in West Africa have reported eye problems, it's unclear how prevalent the condition is and how often it happens.
"These findings have implications for the thousands of Ebola virus disease survivors in West Africa and also for health care providers who have been evacuated to their home countries for ongoing care," Varkey said. "Surveillance for the development of eye disease in the post-Ebola period is needed."
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Epidemic slowly fading
Over the past year, about 25,000 people have fought Ebola infections. More than 10,000 have died, mostly in the West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
While the intensity of the largest Ebola epidemic in history has died down, a few people are still newly infected each week.
At least 18 new cases of Ebola were reported in the week ending May 3, the latest World Health Organization report said. All were in Guinea and Sierra Leone.
But as the number of new cases plummet, many unknowns remain on the aftereffects of the virus.
by chump » Thu Sep 27, 2018 7:34 pm
https://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2018/0 ... -declared/
RED ALERT! EBOLA OUTBREAK IN DR CONGO IS EXPANDING RAPIDLY, 76 POSSIBLE CASES REGISTERED IN FIVE DAYS SINCE EPIDEMIC DECLARED
From Helen Branswell’s twitter feed…
#Ebola in #DRC: @WHO statement reveals that in addition to 43 confirmed and probable cases, there are 33 suspect cases pending test results. Three healthcare workers have been infected & 2 have died.
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https://www.kxly.com/news/69-confirmed- ... /799251398
(CNN) - Ebola virus disease has sickened 150 people and caused the deaths of at least 69 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern region, the nation's Ministry of Health reported Monday.
Of these 150 cases, 119 have been confirmed and 31 are probable. An additional 31 deaths have occurred among probable and suspected cases, which would bring total Ebola deaths to 100 once confirmed. Forty-one people have recovered, according to the ministry.
On average, Ebola kills about half of those infected, but case fatality rates in individual outbreaks have varied from 25% to 90%.
In a tweet posted Monday, Dr. Peter Salama, WHO deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response, stated that a case in Tchioma, an area of Congo that borders Uganda, "raises concern about further spread."
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https://www.vox.com/2018/9/25/17903092/ ... k-war-kivu
An Ebola “perfect storm” is brewing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The DRC’s most dangerous region is facing the seventh-largest Ebola outbreak in history.
By Julia Belluz@juliaoftorontojulia.belluz@voxmedia.com Updated Sep 26, 2018, 7:37am EDT
The fight against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a “perfect storm” that could help an outbreak spin out of control, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.
The storm’s main ingredient: insecurity brought on by war. The outbreak response is based in North Kivu, a conflict zone that borders Rwanda and Uganda. More than a million people are displaced there, and armed opposition groups have been carrying out deadly attacks on civilians. The conflict even forced the WHO to halt its response in one Ebola epicenter for a week.
But there are “no plans” to pull health workers out of the country, the WHO’s emergency response chief Peter Salama, said in a press briefing Tuesday.
Since the outbreak was declared on August 1, there have been 150 confirmed and probable cases, and more than 100 deaths. While the case toll has been slowing in recent weeks — from 40 per week to around 10 — Salama warned of “a series of grave obstacles” that the global health community is now facing to bring it to an end.
Chief among them: “community resistance and mistrust,” Salama said. This mistrust has caused some people who are eligible for Ebola vaccines and treatments to refuse them. Local politicians have also “exploited and manipulated” peoples’ Ebola fears ahead of a December election.
The challenging geography of this outbreak is another ingredient in the storm. Ebola cases are spread, from north to south, across a 124-mile area. And there are “red zones” often too violent for health responders to reach.
“It’s arguable that this is the most difficult context in terms of responding to Ebola outbreak,” Salama said.
The worst-case scenario is that the Ebola virus continues to spread in North Kivu’s “no go” zones, and moves across DRC’s border to other countries. If that happens, we could be facing a nightmare like the 2014-15 Ebola epidemic, during which more than 11,000 people died. The only good news: This time we have an effective vaccine.
There have been more than 30 known Ebola outbreaks in history — and a third of them happened in DRC
The Ebola virus is a hemorrhagic fever that kills many of its victims — but that death rate can be highly variable depending on the resources patients and doctors have access to. That means Ebola tends is deadlier in poorer countries like the DRC than it is in the US or Europe.
To get Ebola, you need to have direct contact with the bodily fluids, like vomit, urine, or blood, of someone who is already sick and has symptoms. When the disease strikes, it’s akin to the worst and most humiliating flu you could imagine.
People get the sweats, along with body aches and pains. Then they start vomiting and having uncontrollable diarrhea. They experience dehydration. These symptoms can appear anywhere between two and 21 days after exposure to the virus. Sometimes patients go into shock. In rare cases, they hemorrhage.
For fatal cases, death comes fairly quickly — within a few days or a couple of weeks of getting sick. Survivors return to a normal life after a months-long recovery that can include periods of hair loss, hearing loss, and other sensory changes, weakness, extreme fatigue, headaches, and eye and liver inflammation. In a phenomenon now called “post-Ebola syndrome,” the disease, scientists have learned, can continue to live in other parts of the body or bodily fluids, including the eyeballs or semen of survivors, for months after the blood is declared virus-free.
Since 1976, there have been more than 30 known Ebola outbreaks, including nine in the DRC before the current outbreak. The current one was identified only weeks after another Ebola outbreak in the DRC was declared over. That means health officials have plenty of experience responding to Ebola cases in the DRC.
This is already the seventh-largest outbreak in Ebola history
But this outbreak is worrying large — already the seventh-largest in Ebola history. And as Salama pointed out Tuesday, its backdrop is the most dangerous province in the country.
“As the days go on, if we do see unsafe burials that can’t be responded to, if we do see symptomatic people that can’t be accessed,” Salama said, “we can see this situation deteriorating really quickly.”
However, even in the unstable political climate, Salama said, more than 11,000 doses of the experimental Ebola vaccine have been given out, which is the vaccine’s largest field test during a live outbreak.
Merck’s rVSV-ZEBOV is the first highly effective Ebola vaccine, and it was thought to be an extremely useful tool in the DRC’s last outbreak earlier this year.
The success of the vaccine will depend on health officials being able to reach patients with it and patients accepting it. And if this “perfect storm” strengthens, neither will be a given.
by DrEvil » Fri Sep 28, 2018 3:37 am
by chump » Fri Mar 01, 2019 11:42 am
https://thefourthempire.blogspot.com/20 ... entre.html
February 28, 2019
GUNMEN STORM AND BURN DOWN EBOLA CENTRE IN DR CONGO, REPORTS THE EXPRESS
From the establishment Express with the predictable Globalist spin
Ebola HORROR as gunmen attack Congo health centre amid BRUTAL battle with security forces
GUNMEN stormed and burnt down an Ebola health centre amid a gun battle with security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday.
By BILL MCLOUGHLIN
01:10, Thu, Feb 28, 2019 | UPDATED: 01:40, Thu, Feb 28, 2019
The armed assailants attacked the centre which is run by French charity Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday. The identity and motive of the attackers are unknown but it comes two days after a mob set fire to another centre which resulted in the death of one man. According to the country’s health ministry, none of the 40 patients within the centre were hurt but four of the patients did flee during in what MSF termed as a “deplorable” attack on the centre in Butembo.
In a statement, MSF said: “This attack has not only put the lives of Ebola patients and their families in danger, but also those of MSF and Ministry of Health staff.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/10 ... irus-Katwa
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/worl ... rders.html
’Crippling’ Attacks Force Doctors Without Borders to Close Ebola Centers in Congo
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https://www.vox.com/2019/3/1/18245905/e ... reak-congo
Arsonists attacked 2 facilities treating Ebola patients in Congo. That’s a major setback.
The second-worst Ebola outbreak in history is proving difficult to contain.
By Julia Belluz@juliaoftorontojulia.belluz@voxmedia.com Mar 1, 2019, 10:20am EST
The humanitarian agency Doctors Without Borders was forced to suspend operations in two areas where it’s been responding to the Democratic Republic of Congo Ebola outbreak, following arson attacks on its health care facilities this week.
“More than six months after the beginning of the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri, the epidemic is not under control,” the agency, known as MSF, warned. At least 885 people have contracted the virus, and 555 have died, in an outbreak that’s been ongoing since August — the first known Ebola cases in a war zone (DRC’s eastern North Kivu and Ituri provinces).
The attacks happened on MSF’s treatment centers in the most active hot spots in the outbreak, neighboring cities called Katwa and Butembo. The first setback came on February 24 in Katwa. Late at night, assailants — who haven’t been identified — threw stones at MSF’s building and then proceeded to set it on fire, forcing workers to evacuate and to move patients to other hospitals.
“This attack has crippled our ability to respond to what is now the epicenter of the outbreak,” said Emmanuel Massart, MSF’s emergency coordinator in Katwa, in a statement.
Four days later, on February 27, arsonists set MSF’s Butembo operation on fire. “The blazes were contained and no staff or patients were harmed, but the teams were forced to immediately cease patient care,” according to a second MSF statement. “In light of these two violent incidents,” MSF emergency desk manager Hugues Robert added, “we have no choice but to suspend our activities until further notice.”
Butembo and Katwa are the two areas in DRC where the virus is most active, with a combined 317 confirmed cases to date and another 40 suspected infections. This pause on MSF’s operations in these cities is disturbing for two reasons. First, it means fewer workers will be available to identify, isolate, and treat Ebola patients. And in an Ebola response, when people with the virus remain in the community, they can spread it to others. “We can expect a significant increase in cases in the health zones of Katwa and Butembo in the coming days,” DRC’s health ministry warned on Thursday.
But even worse, the arson attacks suggest that at least some community members are resisting the humanitarian work to help stop the outbreak. They may be a minority, but they pose a significant threat to the Ebola response. Instead of cooperating with aid workers, they’re burning down the medical units set up to protect them. That’s a major setback for DRC and its Ebola responders.
The success of this Ebola response hinges on trust. The arson attacks suggest there’s a trust problem.
Stamping out an Ebola outbreak requires a very high level of community buy-in. The virus is spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids, like vomit, urine, or blood, of someone who is already sick and has symptoms. The sicker people get, and the closer to the death, the more contagious they become. (That’s why caring for the very ill and attending funerals is especially dangerous.)
Because we have no cure for Ebola, health workers rely on traditional public health measures: finding, treating, and isolating the sick, and breaking the chains of transmission so the virus stops spreading.
They mount vigorous public health awareness campaigns to remind people to wash their hands; that touching and kissing friends and neighbors is a potential health risk; and that burial practices need to be modified. (Again, funerals can act as Ebola super-spreaders since people who die of the virus are extremely contagious, and families prepare, touch, and kiss corpses as part of traditional funerary rituals.)
Responders also employ a strategy called “contact tracing”: finding all the contacts of people who are sick and following up with them for 21 days — the period during which Ebola incubates.
Every one of these measures can only succeed if community members trust and cooperate with Ebola responders.
They need to let aid workers into their home to test for the virus and agree to be followed up with for 21 days. They need to accept the painful reality of sending family members with the virus to treatment centers for isolation, so they can’t infect others around them.
They need to follow basic public health measures such as hand washing, and safe burial practices, which can mean putting aside centuries of family tradition and personal beliefs to stop the spread of the virus.
In this case, responders also have an effective vaccine at their disposal — and to date, more than 84,000 people have been vaccinated, including 21,662 in Katwa and 10,512 in Butembo.
But that doesn’t necessarily mean people are cooperating with the other parts of the Ebola response. A recent Lancet survey of locals’ attitudes toward the Ebola response in DRC suggested that people’s willingness to get the Ebola vaccine was really high — but most respondents said they would not send their family to treatment centers and would actively hide family members with Ebola from the authorities.
“To overcome [an Ebola] outbreak, we need to gain the hearts of the population,” Michel Yao, the World Health Organization’s incident manager in Butembo, told Vox. “We need to have them fully on board.” Yao believes community resistance has been improving overall, but the attacks on MSF suggest there may be more trouble ahead.
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