Ebola Outbreaks: Keeping Score

[overlord]

For reference, I am providing a link (as reliable as it may be) to the Center for Disease Control in the US to their page regarding the Ebola outbreaks from the year 2000.

www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/resources/outbreaks.html

As we are all aware of, the outbreak this year 2014 is the most serious and deadliest outbreak so far with deaths ranging in the hundreds and having a very high percent of mortality.

Currently, it is still confined within the African Continent but this may quickly spread beyond its shores due to the culture of the African people.

There have been major incidents of violence against UN health workers who try to approach families who have members that are infected with the Ebola virus.  These families think that the health workers are harbingers of death and hospitals are a sure death sentence.

If you hear anything regarding the Ebola virus, please feel free to share it here.

[myrrph]

mic.com/articles/95214/the-deadliest-ebola-outbreak-in-history-just-took-a-terrifying-turn

Bad news, world: The deadliest Ebola outbreak in history just became your personal problem.

Reports now say that on July 24, a Liberian man named Patrick Sawyer tested positive for the lethal virus — in the city of Lagos, Nigeria.

This is a major development. Until Sawyer’s death, the 660 Ebola fatalities recorded in 2014 were confined to three West African nations: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Now that the virus has spread to Nigeria, its global consequences could prove devastating.

A primer on Lagos: First off, it’s huge.

The largest city in Africa, this densely populated metro houses 21 million people at a concentration of 53,000 citizens per square mile. It’s also a major international hub, with at least 7.1 million passengers passing through Murtala Muhammed International Airport every year.

According to the Nigerian Tribune, Sawyer’s was the first Ebola case ever recorded in the country. But it might not be the last: Quartz reports that — due to the city’s density and poor health infrastructure — the virus’ appearance here sharply increases its likelihood of spreading to the rest of the world.

It gets worse: When Patrick Sawyer started having symptoms, he was on the three-hour flight from the Liberian capitol of Monrovia to Lagos.

After a lengthy bout of vomiting and diarrhea, he turned himself in to Nigerian authorities for quarantine. There’s just one problem: None of the other 100 or so passengers were detained. This means up to 100 people are walking around Lagos as we speak, unwittingly hosting a virus with a 90% fatality rate.

A frantic manhunt is currently underway to track down the remaining passengers, according to Quartz. Only in the days since have Nigerian health authorities started screening incoming travelers for Ebola.

What does the virus look like? Anyone who read The Hot Zone for biology class can tell you it’s an ugly way to die.

Ebola victims typically exhibit flu-like symptoms at first, which makes it incredibly difficult to detect. It’s often mistaken for malaria or typhoid, but from there, all hell breaks loose: Headaches, fever and stomach pain devolve into vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding from the mucous membranes, climaxing with massive boils on the skin and an eventual shutdown of the internal organs.

The virus spreads when victims “spew” blood or phlegm into the cuts or mucous membranes of its next host. You read that correctly.

Background: The battle to contain it thus far has been arduous.

Since March, doctors and aid workers have worked tirelessly to stop Ebola from spreading throughout the continent, even as it wreaked havoc throughout the region. In the four months before Sawyer, at least 1,100 people in the aforementioned nations had contracted the virus, including 100 health workers, 50 of which have died.

But Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are largely rural, meaning the outbreak has been slightly easier to contain, according to Quartz. Nigeria is a different story altogether. And the rest of the continent, and by extension, the world, may depend on how well Lagos can keep the virus from spreading.

[myrrph]

saudi dude suspected of ebola dies of heart attack

www.channelnewsasia.com/news/suspected-saudi-ebola/1299734.html

SCARY. What are they NOT Telling us?

[overlord]

GoblinMints do not speak of such things. The Sheeple are usually kept in the dark.

[overlord]

Here is the news on the Monrovia clinic that was raided (reposted from Ausprep.com by thereth):
www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/ebola-outbreak-fears-after-monrovia-clinic-is-raided-by-armed-gang/story-fneuz9ev-1227027524589

[overlord]

Additional Updates on the Ebola Spread:

www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/resources/distribution-map.html

WHO statement on Potential Ebola Cases:

www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-28/ebola-cases-may-surpass-20-000-who-says-in-updated-plan.html

[overlord]

The visualization I used is a simple line chart to show the various countries that have been affected by Ebola over the last 20 years.

I limited the view to just the Zaire variant of the virus.

These are the following observations you can see in the Chart:
1) Countries that have had previous Zaire infections have not exhibited major infections (Congo and Uganda have only had minor infections). WHO and CDC claim that it was the Fruit bat that carried it all the way to West Africa (about 2,500 miles)... I doubt this
2) The appearance of the Zaire Ebola Virus happens every 6-7 years in various areas. Highly suspicious due to its pattern. What is there every 6-7 years to cause it to rise in different areas yet remain quiet and dormant in the other years. The other variants did not exhibit such a behavior

I don't want to seem paranoid but it seems to be a "set-up" pandemic due to its regularity and locations. 6-7 years to develop a mutated strain (weaponized?), release in some remote African nation so as not to affect the West, effect a cure, and the whole cycle starts again.

Seems to merit an investigation...

Am trying to get day by day growth statistics so I can plot a possible spread since the exponential growth of 40% over the last 21 days is scary.

This will not take into account the potential for travel but only on the possible number of victims/cases.

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[myrrph]

thanks for keeping us up to date

[myrrph]

thanks for keeping us up to date