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Just got me some of that, well almost over it. Started like Bronchitis would but sure as hell didnt end like it. Mucus moved from the lungs to the throat and sinuses after day 4 or 5. And I've had what feels (and looks, I'll leave it at that) like a sinus infection for almost two weeks now but with a sustained flemy cough.

Really, if I had the mystery flu, its just a lil bitch. Nowhere near as debilitating as bronchitis or swine flue are. But I also listened to GLP about the Selenium. Thank you everyone who ever posted about that as it just seems to help and work.

It could be worse. I was ruthlessly *banned* three times (!) yesterday for posting a link to an Indian site (starts with Decc) about this.

this = link about the Nigerian patient in India.

Black Friday income figures came in 11% lower than last year.

When you include the loss of the dollar's value in that time, actual receipt value was almost 20% down from last year.

But the Great Recession ended in 2009...

This evil government is all lies, corrupt to the core.

Remember that in April when you pay your taxes -

Ebola stigma hindering medical response, says Red Cross

Stigma against travellers from Ebola-infected countries is hindering the fight against the disease, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) says.

The head of the IFRC, Mr Elhadj As Sy, warned that travel bans were preventing his organisation's medical workers from dealing with the outbreak.

He urged governments to avoid acting out of fear and misinformation.

/snip

Later on Tuesday, US President Barack Obama is expected ask Congress to approve $6.18bn (£3.95bn; €4.98bn) in emergency funds to fight the Ebola outbreak.

Much of the money is aimed at dealing with the immediate response to the outbreak.

However, it also includes $1.5bn in contingency funds to prepare US hospitals for possible cases, Rooter news agency reports.

In an IFRC statement released on Tuesday, Mr Sy acknowledged that governments were "legitimately putting measures in place to protect their citizens" against Ebola.

However, he criticised some of the more "drastic measures" taken to control the spread of the virus.

These included the "unnecessary" quarantining of health workers, preventing international staff from returning to their countries of origin, and forcing them to spend a 21-day "rest and observation period" in a third country.

The statement also criticised blanket restrictions placed on people with West African passports.

"Closing borders and limiting entry to people travelling from West Africa are not effective ways to contain the outbreak," Mr Sy said.

"Actions such as these only contribute to the stigmatisation faced by the very brave people who are volunteering to respond to this outbreak."

He said travel restrictions were preventing many medical workers from applying for positions in Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone, hindering his organisation's response.

[link to www.bbc.co.uk]

Comment: Bloody idiot... that's as polite as I could be at the (willful?) stupidity of the people in charge of this cluster fuck.

Last Edited by Ibayne on 12/03/2014 05:16 AM

Sierra Leone Doctor Who Got Ebola Is Not Relenting

For eight weeks, Dr. Komba Songu-M'briwa worked at the understaffed Hastings Ebola Treatment Center outside Sierra Leone's capital. When he began feeling sick, he thought it might be exhaustion but on Nov. 26 he got dreadful news: He had tested positive for Ebola.

Songu-M'briwa and just two other doctors, along with 77 nurses, work at the 120-bed treatment center. It was the "most difficult, most pitiful" work of his life, the 32-year-old said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from his isolation room. Even so, he vowed to return to that crucial work if he recovered.

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On Monday, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brima Kargbo announced that Songu-M'briwa had tested "completely negative" for Ebola after three tests came back clear.

Songu-M'briwa ? Ksong to his friends ? doesn't know when or how he became infected. Sierra Leone has lost seven doctors to the disease; on Tuesday, the Health Ministry announced that yet another one had fallen ill with the disease.

The country had only about 135 doctors to begin with, serving 6 million people. Denmark, with roughly as many citizens, has nearly 19,000 doctors, according to the Africa Health, Human & Social Development Information Service.

[link to abcnews.go.com]

Suspected case of Ebola emerges in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: A 41-year-old man has been kept under isolation at PIMS Hospital in Islamabad on suspicion of contracting the deadly Ebola virus.
The patient, identified as Tasavvur Hussain, has been kept at an isolation ward in the hospital. However, he is not being observed by doctors as kits for protection of doctors are not available.

Hailing from Chakwal, Hussain returned from Uganda last month and was shifted from Shifa International Hospital to PIMS today.

According to initial reports, the patient has been isolated as a precaution owing to symptoms similar to that of Ebola, even though he has returned from Uganda which is not an Ebola-infected country.

This is the third suspected Ebola case in Pakistan. Yesterday, less than an hour after landing at Jinnah International Airport on Monday morning, 47-year-old Muhammad Haroon was rushed to the hospital. The airport’s health officials were certain he had the Ebola virus.

Haroon arrived in Karachi at 6:25am via Qatar Airways from Monrovia – the capital of Liberia, one of the West African countries hit hardest by the outbreak of the Ebola haemorrhagic fever. Sources claimed that Haroon, who works as a sales person for an electric generator store, had a fever when he landed.

[link to tribune.com.pk]

U.S. sailors see life and death in Ebola blood tests

MONROVIA, Liberia — Ebola-infected blood arrives each day with a knock on the door.

Members of the U.S. military answer and take the samples. There's not a uniform or weapon in sight. The four sailors working in a laboratory at the end of a dirt road are deployed to fight a disease, not terrorists.

The vials they handle carry a name, gender and age — stark reminders, the sailors say, that what they learn can dictate if someone lives or dies.

Three of them are microbiologists, more accustomed to scientific research than fighting a deadly epidemic in West Africa. The fourth is a hospital corpsman. Their job since Oct. 2 has been to quickly identify patients free of Ebola, so they can be separated from those who have the disease; and to clear those who are recovering, so they can go home.

[link to www.usatoday.com]

Should Boston Worry About Ebola? An MGH Doctor Explains the Risk

On October 13 and October 17, Boston.com spoke with Dr. Ednan Bajwa, Massachusetts General Hospital’s intensive care unit director, about what Bostonions should be concerned about when it comes to Ebola. Given Tuesday evening’s news of a suspected case of Ebola at MGH, we reprinted excerpts from those conversations below.

Q: I know Ebola is not airborne now, but could it mutate and become more communicable? Is it worth buying those little masks that people wore during the SARS epidemic?

“It’s extremely unlikely. No virus has ever been known to mutate sufficiently to make the jump from non-airborne to airborne. In order to become airborne, a virus has to undergo major changes that would change other characteristics of the virus as well. For example, even when scientists have actually tried to manipulate viruses in the lab to increase their aerosol potential, usually it changes the virus enough that it becomes less dangerous. Masks are not going to accomplish anything for members of the public. They are only helpful to healthcare workers taking care of sick patients because they can protect the face from splashes of body fluids. That situation is not going to apply to anyone who’s not working around sick patients.”

[link to www.boston.com]

Spain declared free of Ebola virus by WHO

(CNN) -- Spain is officially clear of Ebola, the World Health Organization declared Tuesday, after no new cases were reported since a nurse's assistant who contracted the virus there tested negative for it.

Since then, 42 days have passed -- double the maximum known incubation period for the virus -- without another case, allowing Spain to be declared free of Ebola.

[link to edition.cnn.com]

Data as of 2nd December 14

[link to apps.who.int]

Closing borders and limiting entry to people travelling from West Africa are the only effective ways to contain Ebola .

Agree with your assessment, Epona. The guy is a bloody idiot.

Well..... they were already in a recession (like the rest of the world), but with the impact of Ebola it's a full-on depression.

Like I care.

Africa's barely-recognizable imitation of civil society isn't worth crying over, every time it falls apart. Because it's always falling apart, and there's always going to be something to blame it on, for those who want to find a reason. But the real reason is that Africa, and the Africans themselves, are incapable of maintaining a civil society. Period.

I honestly believe that they were better off, when they had a civil society imposed upon them from outside... Because there was much more economic activity, while more wealth was "stolen" from them under the mercantilist/colonial system, more was also left for them, as well.

And because order was imposed upon them, there was much less politically and religiously motivated violence. This greater "stability" resulted in better health, education, and overall quality of life.

But hey,
:racist5:

If true, that would be one point of the Trifecta I've been watching for...

By the time we see any statistics on cremation vs. burial, it will be too late... the statistics from the Mortuary and Funeral Directors associations typically run 2 years behind.

Also, cremation is less expensive than burial, so there are a lot of economic motivators that could be driving a change in peoples' final wishes...

Sorry to burst your bubble, but it doesn't look like we can isolate any meaningful data there.

Yep, "beans and bullets" is a very strong category, this holiday season.

As the veil is rent, we will see even more clearly why "Healthcare" was such an essential milestone
in the preparation for this War Without War against Liberty and Individualism...

They are called, "Transport-Stackable Caskets".

Behold the Bloom of Doom...



Because this is as close to an admission (of guilt) as we will ever get that Ebola is already out of the box here, and gaining momentum quickly.

Fuck the "Red Cross". Lying bunch of commie MoFos that they are.

The mosnters choose to bring this upon the world, and they began the process on December 21st of last year.

That their mouthpieces are now sounding an "alarm" is most ironic...

because to them it is a siren of success.

"More than 1,400 people being actively monitored for Ebola in U.S.: report"

[link to www.washingtontimes.com]

(sorry if posted before -dont think it was : ))

It's been posted multiple times in 24 hours.

That's fine though.......

It underlines the Gravity of the situation.

Many thousands are not being monitored.

Liberia's numbers seem to be increasing.
Huge increase in between November 28 and December 2.

Total cases by date:
November 21: 7082
November 26: 7168
November 28: 7244
December 2: 7635

Can't wait to see a updated Liberia Sit-Rep, last time they updated it was on November 24.

Sierra Leone daily update:
EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---December 3, 2014

DISCHARGED CASES

• Total Survived and Discharged Cases = 1,172

NEW CASES

• New Confirmed cases = 93 as follows:
Kailahun = 0, Kenema = 0, Kono = 0
Bombali = 2, Kambia = 0, Koinadugu = 0, Port Loko = 9, Tonkolili = 1
Bo = 1, Bonthe = 0, Moyamba = 5, Pujehun = 0
Western Area Urban = 53, Western Area Rural = 22
[link to www.facebook.com (secure)]

Not quite sure but i believe this is the biggest daily increase in the numbers of the Western Area so far (Freetown/capital city area). Please note that these are only confirmed cases. These numbers do not include suspected and probable cases.

The vaccine will be worthless. Ebola is mutating as fast as the flu.

A search shows that the test came back negative.

I'm going to post my custom graph a bit more frequently in here. It's getting more interesting every time i update it. You can clearly see it rising.

Sierra Leone, average new daily Ebola cases, per region and total:
[link to i.imgur.com]

Updated until December 2, using Sit-Reps published by Sierra Leone's MoH at [link to health.gov.sl]

Suggestions are welcome.

Last Edited by Alobe on 12/03/2014 02:20 PM

Thanks for posting this. That entire region needs to be watched closely and their willingness to share information is a bit thin on the ground.