Deadly Ebola Outbreak In Guinea And Spreading

in SIERRA LEONE 5 NEW EBOLA INFECTIONS A DAY,RECKONS 10 A DAY BY END OF OCTOBER.

Badboy wrote:in SIERRA LEONE 5 NEW EBOLA INFECTIONS A DAY,RECKONS 10 A DAY BY END OF OCTOBER.

Apparently the Guy who went to the Hospital in Dallas with the symptoms was turned away by the Hospital initially even though the Staff knew he had just returned from Liberia!!!. Isolated when he returned a couple of days later seriously ill , his home has been decontaminated and it is thought 100 , including children , could be affected.

A FAMILY IN KENTUCKY IS UNDER QUARANTINE.
GUINEA RESPONCE TO EBOLA UNDERMINATED BY DELAY AND CORRUPTION

this disease is caught pretty much the same way as the HIV virus. it's not airborne. seems to me there's a lot of unecessary panic going on.

Marky wrote:this disease is caught pretty much the same way as the HIV virus. it's not airborne. seems to me there's a lot of unecessary panic going on.

It may not be airborne but it must be a lot easier to be infected than HIV. HIV does not cause loads of rotting bodies in the street after a few days (thank God), nor does it always make people vomit which Ebola does quite quickly.

Marky wrote:this disease is caught pretty much the same way as the HIV virus. it's not airborne. seems to me there's a lot of unecessary panic going on.

Over 3,300 deaths and rising Marky is cause for concern, I think for the following reasons:-

1. Zmapps used on the American Doctor worked but there is not enough to go round and won't be for quite a while.

2. The biggest obstacle is that it developed in Africa which has a poor record for hygiene and the Villagers are not burying their dead.

3. Even in the U.S. alarm bells did not ring when the Guy who fell ill after a visit to Liberia is now in a critical condition. It is estimated 100 people he has had contact with in the U.S.could be affected.

4.The latest is that there is a theory that tobacco leaves could be a cure if it works there are enough of those to treat millions.

Thanks Marky , let's hope they are right , the Plague affected thousands and I cannot believe that in a Country like the USA the guy first of all visits Liberia and when he tells the Hospital because he was ill they sent him home !!!!! It was only when his condition worsened that they put him in isolation.

It'snot going to be a World epidemic but it will take a while for the US to produce Zmapps and this will mean more deaths in Africa, Liberia
is the worst affected .You have to admire the Doctors and Nurses who go there to help and risk getting infected , over 100 Doctors so far have died .

Ebola Deaths Hidden As Fear Grips Liberia
Sky News Special Correspondent Alex Crawford gains rare access to burial teams doing one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.
07:16, UK,
Monday 06 October 2014
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By Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent, Monrovia

Liberia's few ebola treatment centres are overwhelmed with the sick and dying - with patients sharing beds and the dead laying near the desperately ill.

The country has accounted for more than half of the world's deaths from the latest ebola outbreak in West Africa and despite assurances from President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf that it is under control, evidence on the ground seen by Sky News appears to suggest otherwise.

Whole communities are gripped with fear about the virus - and terrified citizens prefer to die alone, unaided because of the stigma attached to admitting to the disease.

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Dozens of ebola victims are dying in their homes in Monrovia, increasing the chances of the virus spreading.

And official numbers of victims are almost certainly unrepresentative of the real death count because of the lack of co-ordination and nationwide spread of the disease.

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Small teams of about half a dozen workers set out daily to retrieve the ebola dead - most of whom have died after suffering in secret.

Their relatives are reluctant to admit ebola has caused the death, as this invariably invites ostracism from their communities and targets them as potential virus carriers.

The body recovery squads - still called "burial teams" despite government orders that all ebola victims be cremated - are doing one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.

They take extreme precautions, wearing multiple protective clothing layers along with goggles, boots, gloves and head coverings to try to stay safe.

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Head of Team Three, Mark Vayowan, told Sky News: "There's no day comes that people don't die in their house. Every day, every blessing day."

There's simply too much work for the recovery teams to do, not enough hours in the day for them to track down the dead.

Even as they were picking up the latest corpses from the Elwa Treatment Centre, a young man was sobbing outside.

He cried: "Oh my God, I was just bringing a phone for my sister. Now they say she's died. What am I going to do? She has children..."

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George Nyumah, like so many of Liberia's citizens, is frantically worried about catching the virus.

So the five children his sister cares for are left alone to fend for themselves in their one-room, corrugated iron shack home.

The eldest is 16, the youngest just two and they all sleep on the dirty mattress which their sick mother lay on in the days before she was taken into the ebola centre.

Their chances of catching or carrying the virus must be very high.

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For that reason, their uncle George - and the rest of the extended family - will keep well away for 21 days, just to see if they develop signs of the killer disease.

Even if they survive the virus, they'll have to fight poverty and the community's suspicions in the weeks and months ahead.

The video doesn't work on here but I watched it and it is worth accessing it from sky news......pitiful scenes.

This is breaking news and I suspect it was the Nurse who was in contact with the Spanish Priest who died a few weeks ago.

I READ THAT SIERRA LEONE ONLY HAS 367 HOSPITAL BEDS,121 EBOLA DEATHS OCCURED TODAY,81 CASES REPORTED TODAY.
I WAS THINKING THE OTHER DAY,I HOPE NO ECONOMIC MIGRANTS COMING IN BOATS ACROSS MEDITERREAN HAVE EBOLA.

Badboy wrote:I READ THAT SIERRA LEONE ONLY HAS 367 HOSPITAL BEDS,121 EBOLA DEATHS OCCURED TODAY,81 CASES REPORTED TODAY.
I WAS THINKING THE OTHER DAY,I HOPE NO ECONOMIC MIGRANTS COMING IN BOATS ACROSS MEDITERREAN HAVE EBOLA.

Hi Badboy, what is worrying is the Nurse who tended the Spanish Priest airlifted from one of the infected Countries who later died. That was over 3 weeks ago , how many more may be infected in Spain?

If you watched the Sky Report I posted here it really showed us what it is like in Liberia. Even to the young Aid worker whose Parents made him sandwiches to eat outside for fear he would infect them.

I'm off to Tenerife today so I will leave you to keep this thread updated.

THE EBOLA CASE IN SPAIN APPEARS TO HAVE AFFECTED TOURISM,POTENTIAL HOLIDAY CANCELLATIONS ON THE BOOKS.

SPANISH NURSE POSSIBLY CAUGHT IT WHEN GLOVES TOUCHED FACE.
SHARES IN TRAVEL FIRMS HAVE BEEN AFFECTED.
BRITAIN TO SEND 750 PERSONNEL TO SIERRA LEONE.
3800 DEATHS,POSSIBLY 4,000 BY END OF WEEK.
WORLD BANK SAYS SITUATION IS SERIOUS.
INVESTMENT IN HEALTHCARE SHOULD HAVE  BEEN UNDERTAKEN.

MACEDONIA HAS SAID A BRIT HAS DIED OF EBOLA IN MACEDONIA.

Badboy wrote:MACEDONIA HAS SAID A BRIT HAS DIED OF EBOLA IN MACEDONIA.

Apparently he hasn't been to any affected country, so IF he died of it where/how did he get it?

Angelina wrote:

Badboy wrote:MACEDONIA HAS SAID A BRIT HAS DIED OF EBOLA IN MACEDONIA.

Apparently he hasn't been to any affected country, so IF he died of it where/how did he get it?

I THINK THERE IS SOME DOUBT IT IS EBOLA

SEPARATELY,EBOLA DEATH TOLL OVER 4,000

TEXAS CASE HAS DIED,POSSIBLE ANOTHER USA CASE.
SPANISH NURSE DETERIOTING.

ONE OF THE STAFF WHO TREATED TEXAS CASE INFECTED,POSSIBLE CASE IN BOSTON.
SAID TO ONLY BE A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE CASES APPEAR IN BRITAIN.

One off the nurses who has contracted the disease wore full protective clothing yet still has caught it.



I think it is very wrong that the UK has sent 750 soldiers to areas where it will possible for these people to contract the disease, they have no choice but to go, they follow orders .


When they come back they obviously go into quarantine for up to a month...

kitti wrote:One off the nurses who has contracted the disease wore full protective clothing yet still has caught it.



I think it is very wrong that the UK has sent 750 soldiers to areas where it will possible for these people to contract the disease, they have no choice but to go, they follow orders .


When they come back they obviously go into quarantine for up to a month...

There was a breach of protocol when taking off the suit.

Claudia79 wrote:

kitti wrote:One off the nurses who has contracted the disease wore full protective clothing yet still has caught it.



I think it is very wrong that the UK has sent 750 soldiers to areas where it will possible for these people to contract the disease, they have no choice but to go, they follow orders .


When they come back they obviously go into quarantine for up to a month...

There was a breach of protocol when taking off the suit.

and you have it in one. mistakes have been made. this virus in the western world will be no more than a local issue. there will be no outbreak. hygiene is the issue. we have that. west africa doesn't.

Marky wrote:

Claudia79 wrote:

kitti wrote:One off the nurses who has contracted the disease wore full protective clothing yet still has caught it.



I think it is very wrong that the UK has sent 750 soldiers to areas where it will possible for these people to contract the disease, they have no choice but to go, they follow orders .


When they come back they obviously go into quarantine for up to a month...

There was a breach of protocol when taking off the suit.

and you have it in one. mistakes have been made. this virus in the western world will be no more than a local issue. there will be no outbreak. hygiene is the issue. we have that. west africa doesn't.

But that doesn't sell newspapers, does it?

Also the racists and xenophobes find it very convenient to big up the risks.

Claudia79 wrote:

Marky wrote:

Claudia79 wrote:

kitti wrote:One off the nurses who has contracted the disease wore full protective clothing yet still has caught it.



I think it is very wrong that the UK has sent 750 soldiers to areas where it will possible for these people to contract the disease, they have no choice but to go, they follow orders .


When they come back they obviously go into quarantine for up to a month...

There was a breach of protocol when taking off the suit.

and you have it in one. mistakes have been made. this virus in the western world will be no more than a local issue. there will be no outbreak. hygiene is the issue. we have that. west africa doesn't.

But that doesn't sell newspapers, does it?

nope and governments like to keep the people fearful. keeps them under control. 'we are in charge. trust us.'