subtlesixer03
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- Apr 22, 2010
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Contagious through direct contact with bodily fluids. As a middle aged, married, monogamous guy, my direct contacts with anybody else's bodily fluids are few and far between.
Interestingly enough, semen is the bodily fluid that Ebola survives in the longest. There are documented cases of male survivors infecting their mates weeks after all symptoms have disappeared and the virus is not detectible in their blood.
As the death toll rose to more than 2,400 people out of 4,784 cases, WHO director general Margaret Chan said the vast nature of the outbreak -- particularly in the three hardest-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- required a massive emergency response.
[SIZE=+0]The effective reproduction number, R[SUB]t[/SUB], which measures the average number of secondary cases generated by a typical primary case at a given calendar time, can be helpful to understand the EVD transmission dynamics over time in affected countries as well as gauge the effect of control interventions [8]. Values of R[SUB]t[/SUB]<1 indicate that the epidemic is in a downward trend. By contrast, an epidemic is in an increasing trend if R[SUB]t[/SUB]>1.
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Estimates of R[SUB]t[/SUB] using total case reports from June to July 2014, a period during which exponential growth of cases has been observed in Sierra Leone and Liberia, ranged from 1.4 to 1.7, respectively. In the hypothetical worst-case scenario that the current situation with an estimated reproduction number R ranging from 1.4 to 1.7 continues for the remainder of the year, we would expect to observe a total of 77,181 to 277,124 additional cases within 2014.
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Another thing I am fairly worried about is those crazy hajis in north western nigeria. They are very close to a jahad super weopon. They could very easily kidnap some infected people and wreak some serous havok.
1. Load plane with ebola patients. 2.Fly plane to Mexico. 3. Walk infected folks across the border.
Oh! It is already here we just are not being told about it yet.
His new job: to advise Sierra Leone’s government on a tiny Ebola outbreak in neighboring Guinea, at the behest of the U.S. Defense Department.
So I hear we are sending Military personnel over there to set up support and control.........
I heard it on the radio and have no links but the big "O" is sending our people that way.
U.S. pledges 3,000 troops to fight West Africa's Ebola crisis | Reuters
3000 more direct risks of American exposures soon to be returning stateside!
In an attempt to slow the outbreak and identify the sick in hiding, Sierra Leone's 6 million people must stay home starting Thursday at midnight, except for thousands of volunteers who will go house-to-house delivering bars of soap and information about how to prevent Ebola.
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Well, this is curious.
Sierra Leone hopes to slow Ebola outbreak with 3-day shutdown | CTV News
So... everyone stays inside. Understand that part. But, thousands of volunteers are going to go house to house. Ostensibly, from possibly contaminated houses to other non-contaminated houses.
This strikes me as a bad idea.
If you read the article in your post #168 I believe it references this as a large push by the Epidemiologist in that article and Sierra Leone's health ministry (or whatever it's called) to educate people, provide a means of cleansing themselves, and hopefully find other sick people.
One would think that the medical workers' hygiene would be good. Yet, they still contracted it.
"Forced quarantines and lockdowns are driving people underground and jeopardizing the trust between people and health providers," the charity group said in a statement this month. "This is leading to the concealment of cases and is pushing the sick away from health systems."