Ebola, now referred to as EVD for ebola virus disease owing to multiple strains, has taken a new turn as it has apparently spread from guinea now and even entered europe, ie italy. I found a page about prevention which sure saves a lot of typing. Here are also a few other links related and I'll add more as things progress. It seems this one is worth watching First, a good page about epidemic preparednes in general: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/how-an-average-person-can-prepare-for-a-pandemic_042014 WHO EVD Page: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/en/ WHO maps: Affected areas: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/geographic-ebola.jpg Outbreak Ground Zero: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/EVD-outbreak.jpg A dahboo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvblnVMh2wA&list=UUFjOi1ZpZVErr8EYxg8t1dQ So here we go ~ 4/24 latest update on "GAR" (global alert responce) http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_04_22_ebola/en/ And the outbreak in Pisa, Italy: EBOLA CONTAINMENT LOST -- INFECTION RATE UP 15% IN 24 HOURS; UTBREAK ARRIVES IN PISA, ITALY! Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:02 April 17, 2014 @ 10:03 PM EDT -- (TRN) -- The outbreak of Ebola Virus in seven west African countries has broken through all containment efforts and is spreading like wildfire. According to Christian Relief groups working in Guinea and Liberia, the number of confirmed infections jumped 15% in just the last 24 hours. In addition, 40 illegal alien migrant workers from the outbreak area, who came ashore in Pisa, Italy, are showing signs of Ebola infection and are being isolated in Pisa Italy because of fever and "conjunctivitis" (bloody around the eyes). According to the World Health Organization, this strain of Ebola is entirely new and although it is close to the Zaire strain, it is different, thus accounting for false-negative test results . . . . . for weeks! Those false-negative results meant people who were actually infected with Ebola, were returned to their families and neighborhoods to recover from what they believed was the Flu or a case of food poisoning, only to spread the Ebola further. The result has been a complete loss of containment of this Ebola outbreak. With the likely arrival of Ebola in Pisa, Italy, the European continent is now at severe risk. Italian Health Authorities are DENYING reports about infected workers in Pisa, Italy. They claim it is a HOAX; but they are not explaining why an entire hospital in Pisa is now under isolation. ------------------------------- So I guess we'll have to see about that ~ This is extreme and self explanatory, but even if it came half true it would still be a big one and so like if these guesses were half right we have like two months to stockup on gloves, masks and groceries: Probabilities of unchecked infection at this point, based upon a method of travel, times and frequencies of airline flights to various cities, also including certain assumed volumes of "mixed maritime" traffic between north Africa and southern Europe - the Probability that Ebola will strike is: 63% in Italy within 8 days (rumored above to already be in pisa) 44% in Spain within 15 days 77% in Riyadh/Saudi within 21 days 40% in Libya within 25 days 29% in the US within 28 days 37% in Egypt within 33 days By the time we get to 35 days, it can be in 25 countries on 4 continents. 35 days after that, nearly every place on the globe within 1000 miles of a commercial airport is fair game. So they should have named those movies "35 Days" not 28 and "35 Days Later". I don't think it will be quite so fast. I'd be amazed (outta my skin!) If it was even close in a worse case scenario, short of driving through the streets actually spraying people with blood.
not liking this much, while HIV is even more deadly (virtually 100% compared to UP TO 90%) at least you can avoid exposure
Both are spread by fluids, but there was one instance where determined little monsters did get it to spread on the air in poor lab monkeys. Another reason to be vigilant as we watch for more news about this strain.
Here is a blog on the recent outbreak: http://gvaop.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/ebola-time-to-panic/comment-page-1/#comment-16 And a comment that doesn't seem to match the theme of the blog ("no worries" essentially) that I pasted over as well: "While the above article is very well put together in layman’s terms, I have a couple of concerns which I am afraid may affect the spread of this “novel” strain of evd, if it in fact is a novel strain. My primary concern is the adopted policy of secrecy by the WHO. “Who” do they think they are? How does the who simply assert the power to restrict knowledge of any kind under the “panic” justification. It only makes reasonable people more leery of an organization wielding self-grabbed powers it should legally not have. Secondly, features of this strain are not fully understood or rather, fully known owing to the who’s attitude that the name they have taken implies fitness or recognition by “the world” and reasonable people may have doubts about both the who and un’s ability or right to assert powers in the name of a disease and outbreak they will not be forthright about. If this strain is truly novel, with survivability and airborne vector, then any high school student would be right in speculating a “New flu” status with probability of the virus becoming endemic in more places. If that were so, we would all know within 30 days and all be at risk within about 6 months. There is a LOT more I would like to say, but simply must watch while the loose canon, often inept “who” exercises powers it should not have and says to the world “You’ll know when it hits your town and we take over in the name of health, destroying your food supplies and quarantining your people. But no need to worry, we are the who! Second rate on all fronts by American scientific and medical standards, yet allowed vast powers.” I do not like this, yankee doodle I am! Best wishes ~ " BUT - As of yesterday 4/26, according to the who, it appears to be slowed down in africa...
