Ebola In The Media

Well I guess they aren't literally for free in the netherlands neither as we are all obligatory insured But if you want one you can go and get one. Personally I prefer to decline until I have a really really good reason to take it.

 

yes and no.

there are places/programs that will provide free flu shots for the elderly and toddlers/infants, other than that it costs $$$.

 

Maine District Court Chief Judge Charles C. LaVerdiere turned down the state’s request to prohibit Hickox from being in public places or using public transportation. He said the state did not prove its argument that such restrictions were needed to protect the public’s health.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-maine-nurse-ebola-quarantine-20141031-story.html

Liberty prevails.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f0gM5DfpM8

 

Apparently, Ebola seems to be on the decline in Lyberia.

No one tracking the outbreak is close to declaring the deadly hemorrhagic disease vanquished, and all are wary that the virus, which has receded at times over the past seven months, could suddenly flare again in this impoverished country, the epicenter of the West African Ebola catastrophe.

But five days after the World Health Organization said new infections were declining in Liberia, a 157-bed treatment center in the city of Foya, where the epidemic began seven months ago, held no patients Monday, according to a nurse there. The same facility received no new admissions last Wednesday, the most recent day for which government statistics were available.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/as-ebola-declines-in-liberia-health-officials-reassess-response-plans/2014/11/03/88126a4c-6365-11e4-bb14-4cfea1e742d5_story.html


Ebola seems on be on the rise in Sierra Leone.

A fresh outbreak of Ebola in a part of Sierra Leone where the virus was thought to have been contained has raised fears of a new, uncontrolled infection chain that could send the death toll soaring.

A Red Cross ambulance team was sent to the remote district of Koinadugu, which had prided itself on being the only area to have kept Ebola at bay, from on Tuesday to urgently collect 30 corpses for medical burial.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/04/ebola-outbreak-sierra-leone

 

Someone thinks Canada is looking pretty crappy right now.

First, in denying visas, Canada stigmatizes Africans, provokes retaliatory responses, disempowers the humanitarian response, and makes the contact-tracing work of public health professionals far more difficult.
Second, we undermine the global legal framework that 196 countries agreed would govern their pandemic responses and that Canada helped rewrite after it reeled from the travel advisory slapped against Toronto for SARS.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/11/03/canadas_ebola_visa_ban_puts_us_all_at_risk_in_the_long_run.html


Here's another one.


Ottawa’s sudden decision to stop issuing visas to travellers from the three West African countries hit by the Ebola epidemic may sound like a reasonable response to the outbreak. It isn’t. The travel ban is wrong in many ways. It is at odds with steps taken by Canada’s allies and friends. It is a violation of international agreements. And worst of all, if the goal is to protect Canadians against infectious diseases, it’s an unsound policy.

The visa ban quietly went into effect last Friday. It bars people from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea who want to emigrate to or travel in Canada, as well as foreign nationals who have visited those countries in the past three months. A number of smaller countries (Gabon, Haiti, Mauritius, North Korea) have imposed similar restrictions, but Canada joins Australia as the only wealthy, developed nation to do so.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/ottawas-ebola-overkill/article21430997/

 

like I said a few weeks ago, if people just let it alone, segregated the infected communities, it would have been over months ago. It is all the lame assed efforts at the beginning that caused it to get out of hand. Ebola has been known for decades and in that time every outbreak was handled by quarantining the effected community and essentially letting the virus run its course.
I know it sounds harsh, but it really is the most efficient way to deal with it.
We can see now the results of trying to deal with it by sending medical folks in and out of affected areas and by transporting infected individuals.

Again, when not mucked around with a lot, ebola is very inefficient at migrating from one host to another, and once symptoms develop, has a rapid course of action culminating in the death of the host the majority of the time.
Horribly designed virus and really not much to fear for the vast majority of the worlds population.

but if it mutated into an airborne virus then.......
oh wait a minute, that can't happen because of the type of virus it is, it is destined to always being a blood borne virus.
Too bad.

Oh well, so much for the ebola apocalypse, you can all go back to your normal lives now, whatever that may be.

 

There's a district in Sierra Leone who thought they were doing well with their quarantine but apparently not.

Koinadugu has been operating a self-imposed quarantine for four months, thanks to the intervention of an expat businessman, Momah Konte, who returned from Washington and worked with local officials and tribal chiefs to try to prevent the spread.

The Red Cross said an emergency burial team was making the five-hour journey from Freetown on Tuesday to collect the bodies in the Nenie chiefdom east of the district’s capital Kabala.

A spokesman said that there were reports of a further 25 ill with Ebola and another 255 being monitored after coming into contact with the dead and the sick.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/04/ebola-outbreak-sierra-leone

 

well if they quit messing around with the corpses and just doused them with gasoline and cremated them, it would be a lot easier to contain.

 

That is the order. They must be cremated. I suppose people are afraid to touch them while dragging them outdoors.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ebola-victims-bodies-must-cremated-3991455


It would be difficult for me to do especially with loved ones.

I sat by the funeral pyre of a cat once. Some people I knew wanted to do it. It was horrible.

 

The United States now has no known cases of Ebola.

Washington Post:

 

yay!

 

So...There's a doctor in Nebraska not doing well at all... There's an outbreak in Mali and the U.S. plans to screen everyone traveling from there...A senator wants Obama to pay New York back for treating Ebola patients...

Ebola is still happening. Are you hearing as much about it?

 

I think most people have accepted the reality that it's going to be around for a while, mostly in Africa, with an isolated case now and then in the US. We can handle that.

 

Dr. Martin Salia has died from Ebola in Nebraska.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/17/martin-salia-ebola-dies-dead-nebraska_n_6170730.html

 

And now the US has gone back to zero cases of Ebola.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAz-F1QnyCk Its about it