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NawtyBits (OP) User ID: 76572535 United States 05/17/2018 09:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | h/t Monotreme: Hoping to head off an epidemic, Congo turns to experimental Ebola vaccine [link to www.sciencemag.org] Jon Cohen May 15, 2018 The first ever effort to use a vaccine to stop an Ebola outbreak in its initial stages is taking shape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The international response to health emergencies in sub-Saharan Africa is often maddeningly slow. But this time around, international agencies and the DRC government sprang into action, hoping to quickly extinguish the outbreak. “Everything is organized,” says virologist Yap Boum, who works with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and is helping launch the vaccine effort. Boum, who lives in Yaoundé, Cameroon, began planning his trip to the DRC as soon as it confirmed on 8 May that two Ebola cases had occurred in the remote Bikoro health district in the Équateur province. By tracing contacts between the infected people and others who had Ebola symptoms, such as high fevers and diarrhea, the DRC’s Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) determined that the virus has likely been spreading since early April. As Science went to press, a total of 25 other probable cases and 14 suspected ones had been identified in Bikoro and two adjacent health districts. Nineteen of these people have died. Boum says the most alarming news from the DRC so far is that two of the probable cases are in Mbandaka, a port city of 1.2 million people. “The possibility of the virus spreading is huge,” adds Boum, noting that while Ebola is incubating undetected—which can take several weeks—the victim is already infectious. DRC President Joseph Kabila has authorized MOPH to use every tool at its disposal, including the experimental vaccine against Ebola, which worked spectacularly well in a clinical trial that Boum helped run in Guinea in 2015 at the tail end of the recent West African epidemic. WWJBD-What Would Jimmy Buffett Do "If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it." Oregon H1N1 Summit speaker |
NawtyBits (OP) User ID: 76572535 United States 05/17/2018 09:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | h/t Monotreme AP Explains: Ebola reaches an urban area in Congo. What now? [link to www.washingtonpost.com (secure)] Cara Anna | May 17 The global health community gulped Thursday with the announcement that a case of Ebola had been confirmed in a city of more than 1 million in Congo, bringing the latest outbreak of the often deadly hemorrhagic fever out of remote rural areas. “Confirmation of urban #Ebola in #DRC is a game changer in this outbreak - the challenge just got much much tougher,” the World Health Organization’s emergencies chief, Dr. Peter Salama, said on Twitter. Here’s a look at the outbreak. [snip] Congo Health Minister Oly Ilunga says he is worried because Mbandaka is densely populated and at the crossroads of Equateur province. The city lies on the Congo River, a crucial travel hub in the vast country where infrastructure is largely poor. Downstream is Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, with a population of roughly 10 million. WWJBD-What Would Jimmy Buffett Do "If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it." Oregon H1N1 Summit speaker |
NawtyBits (OP) User ID: 76572535 United States 05/17/2018 09:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | h/t AC73972382 Thread: EBOLA: It has now spread to a city with million inhabitants WWJBD-What Would Jimmy Buffett Do "If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it." Oregon H1N1 Summit speaker |
Feistylorax User ID: 7247104 United States 05/17/2018 12:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm here as well, It's a port city upstream from the capital. looks like things are going to get serious fast. Does anyone know about the cultural aspects that caused issues in the last one dealing with things like burial? “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” Dr. Seuss, The Lorax ENTP SAHM raising chickens and kids preparing for whatever happens |
NawtyBits (OP) User ID: 76572535 United States 05/17/2018 12:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to crofsblogs.typepad.com] Branswell: WHO to weigh declaration of international emergency over Ebola outbreak WWJBD-What Would Jimmy Buffett Do "If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it." Oregon H1N1 Summit speaker |
NawtyBits (OP) User ID: 76572535 United States 05/17/2018 12:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | h/t crofsblog Quoting: NawtyBits [link to crofsblogs.typepad.com] Branswell: WHO to weigh declaration of international emergency over Ebola outbreak This is the Helen Branswell article that crofsblog referenced. Branswell is very reliable when reporting on infectious diseases. [link to www.statnews.com (secure)] WHO to weigh declaration of international emergency over Ebola outbreak By Helen Branswell @HelenBranswell May 17, 2018 The World Health Organization has convened a special committee of experts to help guide its response to the expanding Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. During its first meeting on Friday, the group will be asked if the outbreak should be declared an international health emergency. Comment: Tomorrow. The WHO is not messing around this time. WWJBD-What Would Jimmy Buffett Do "If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it." Oregon H1N1 Summit speaker |
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NawtyBits (OP) User ID: 76572535 United States 05/17/2018 12:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.promedmail.org] Communicated by: ProMED-mail Rapporteur Mary Marshall [Mbandaka is a port city of 1.2 million people. "The possibility of the virus spreading is huge," says virologist Yap Boum, who works with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) noting that while Ebola is incubating undetected--which can take several weeks--the victim is already infectious. - Mod LK] ************************************* Date: Tue 15 May 2018 Source: Focus Taiwan [edited] [link to focustaiwan.tw] Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on [Tue 15 May 2017] issued a travel warning for the Democratic Republic of Congo, citing a new outbreak of the Ebola virus there. In its Level 2 travel advisory, the CDC cautioned against travel to the affected areas and urged people to stay away from wildlife if such visits cannot be avoided and to take preventative measures against infection. ... ************************************** [link to www.mediacongo.net] Gabon, where Ebola has already arisen many times and killed many people in the past, has taken seriously the threat of a possible spread of the epidemic from the DRC. The country has decided to reactivate its Ebola Response Committee to be ready. ...-more *************************************** Date: Tue 15 May 2018 Source: This Day Live [edited] [link to www.thisdaylive.com (secure)] The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has directed Nigerian airlines, especially those operating international and regional destinations, to be vigilant in the screening of passengers before they are allowed to board flights to the country. This is aimed at preventing travellers who have Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) from coming to Nigeria. ******************************************* Source: Media Congo [in French, machine trans., edited] [link to www.mediacongo.net] The epidemic of Ebola presents risks, according to the WHO representative in the Congo, Dr. Fatoumata Binta Diallo, for some departments of the Congo. -Brazzaville and some countries in the region. "The epidemic has erupted in Equateur; the localities of Mbandaka and Bikoro are very close to the Likouala department, specifically the city of Liranga. As such, the WHO has declared some countries at very high risk. These are the Congo, the Central African Republic, all those countries that are bordering the DRC and especially this area [Congo]. We are on full alert, we are already in a position to prepare and respond quickly,..."she said. The Equateur region in the DRC is bordering the department of Likouala. The 2 regions, whose populations exchange daily, are separated by the Ubangi River which leads to the Central African Republic. [snip] Communicated by: ProMED-mail Rapporteur Mary Marshall [Bikoro is in a very remote area of a country that has poor road infrastructure; it is situated on a lake connecting the highly trafficked Congo and Ubangi rivers. From there, people infected with Ebola can hop boats to major cities like the DRC's capital Kinshasa or nearby Brazzaville -- a potential public health nightmare officials are trying to prevent quickly. Brazzaville, city (commune), capital, and river port of the Republic of the Congo and former capital of French Equatorial Africa, is situated on the north bank of the Congo River below Malebo (Stanley) Pool, across from Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its population is estimated to exceed 1.8 million. Over a third of the population of the Republic of Congo lives in the capital. [A HealthMap/ProMED-mail map can be accessed at: [link to healthmap.org] - Mod.LK] WWJBD-What Would Jimmy Buffett Do "If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it." Oregon H1N1 Summit speaker |
NawtyBits (OP) User ID: 76572535 United States 05/17/2018 12:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to virologydownunder.com] New Ebola virus disease case confirmed in a third DRC health zone Posted onMay 17, 2018 The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ministry of Health (MOH) today announced that 1 of 2 suspected EVD cases in the Wangata Health Zone has tested positive for Ebola virus. [snip] This is of particular concern as the case reportedly occurred within Mbandaka, the capital of Équateur province and a city of approximately 1 million people.[2] MSF maps [9] show the city of Mbandaka sitting in the Mbandaka Health Zone, not the Wangata Health Zone so someone is a bit confused. Now is certainly a good time to have the experimental Ebola virus vaccine (V920) onsite and ready to be distributed to healthcare workers and contacts of cases in a ring vaccination format. This approach encircles cases with vaccinated people to prevent further spread from known foci of infection. WWJBD-What Would Jimmy Buffett Do "If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it." Oregon H1N1 Summit speaker |
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NawtyBits (OP) User ID: 76572535 United States 05/17/2018 12:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to news.osu.edu (secure)] New pig virus found to be a potential threat to humans COLUMBUS, Ohio – A recently identified pig virus can readily find its way into laboratory-cultured cells of people and other species, a discovery that raises concerns about the potential for outbreaks that threaten human and animal health. Researchers at The Ohio State University and Utrecht University in the Netherlands collaborated to better understand the new virus and its potential reach. Their study, the first to point to possible transmission of this virus between species, appears online in the journal PNAS. Porcine deltacoronavirus was first identified in 2012 in pigs in China, but it was not associated with disease. It was first detected in the United States in 2014 during a diarrhea outbreak in Ohio pigs and has since been detected in various countries. Young, infected pigs experience acute diarrhea and vomiting. The disease can be fatal. As of yet, no human cases have been documented, but scientists are concerned about the possibility. Comment: Other coronaviruses include MERS and SARS. WWJBD-What Would Jimmy Buffett Do "If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it." Oregon H1N1 Summit speaker |
NawtyBits (OP) User ID: 76572535 United States 05/17/2018 12:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Are they using the Russian phage based vaccine? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74051736 or the American vaccine? [link to www.npr.org (secure)] [Summary of key points on vaccine from report. - Mod LK] Vaccine, rVSV-ZEBOV, first tested in 2015 in the waning months of the massive Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Ira Longini, a biostatistician at the University of Florida who helped run that trial, notes that 7500 people were given the vaccine. A total of 4000 doses of the vaccine have been shipped to the DRC -- with another 4000 to follow soon. The World Health Organization is coordinating the vaccination effort. [snip] Vaccine is still awaiting licensing, so governments need to give special permission for it to be used. Merck, which produces the vaccine, will be donating it. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the British-based charity the Wellcome Trust, and the British government have jointly contributed $4 million to carry out the campaign. Comment: That's the best info I can find so far. WWJBD-What Would Jimmy Buffett Do "If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it." Oregon H1N1 Summit speaker |
NawtyBits (OP) User ID: 76572535 United States 05/17/2018 12:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm here as well, It's a port city upstream from the capital. looks like things are going to get serious fast. Quoting: Feistylorax Does anyone know about the cultural aspects that caused issues in the last one dealing with things like burial? You mean like hand washing the dead body as part of the funeral process? WWJBD-What Would Jimmy Buffett Do "If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it." Oregon H1N1 Summit speaker |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 74051736 United States 05/17/2018 12:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Are they using the Russian phage based vaccine? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74051736 or the American vaccine? [link to www.npr.org (secure)] [Summary of key points on vaccine from report. - Mod LK] Vaccine, rVSV-ZEBOV, first tested in 2015 in the waning months of the massive Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Ira Longini, a biostatistician at the University of Florida who helped run that trial, notes that 7500 people were given the vaccine. A total of 4000 doses of the vaccine have been shipped to the DRC -- with another 4000 to follow soon. The World Health Organization is coordinating the vaccination effort. [snip] Vaccine is still awaiting licensing, so governments need to give special permission for it to be used. Merck, which produces the vaccine, will be donating it. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the British-based charity the Wellcome Trust, and the British government have jointly contributed $4 million to carry out the campaign. Comment: That's the best info I can find so far. we need the russian phage based vaccine america vaccine is garbage. |
NawtyBits (OP) User ID: 76572535 United States 05/17/2018 12:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Are they using the Russian phage based vaccine? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74051736 or the American vaccine? [link to www.npr.org (secure)] [Summary of key points on vaccine from report. - Mod LK] Vaccine, rVSV-ZEBOV, first tested in 2015 in the waning months of the massive Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Ira Longini, a biostatistician at the University of Florida who helped run that trial, notes that 7500 people were given the vaccine. A total of 4000 doses of the vaccine have been shipped to the DRC -- with another 4000 to follow soon. The World Health Organization is coordinating the vaccination effort. [snip] Vaccine is still awaiting licensing, so governments need to give special permission for it to be used. Merck, which produces the vaccine, will be donating it. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the British-based charity the Wellcome Trust, and the British government have jointly contributed $4 million to carry out the campaign. Comment: That's the best info I can find so far. we need the russian phage based vaccine america vaccine is garbage. It won't matter. 8,000 doses of anything will be like pissing on a forest fire. WWJBD-What Would Jimmy Buffett Do "If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it." Oregon H1N1 Summit speaker |
Crazy Harriet User ID: 76422312 United States 05/17/2018 12:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks for starting a new thread. Hope it isn't too much to handle, with the pile-on of hoaxers and trolls likely to visit. It's what they aren't saying about this outbreak that has me concerned. Unlike the last one, this is virtually D-Listed. Let's hope it doesn't create a stampede down the road. "I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace, than risk peace in pursuit of politics." - Donald Trump |
Crazy Harriet User ID: 76422312 United States 05/17/2018 12:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm here as well, It's a port city upstream from the capital. looks like things are going to get serious fast. Quoting: Feistylorax Does anyone know about the cultural aspects that caused issues in the last one dealing with things like burial? You mean like hand washing the dead body as part of the funeral process? Yea, we covered this in detail. Read that last thread which is linked on the OP here. You'll know more than you ever wanted to know about housing, food, cultural practices and weather where Ebola thrives. "I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace, than risk peace in pursuit of politics." - Donald Trump |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76588029 France 05/17/2018 01:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Just saw this article , it's in French, saying that 300 people potentially had direct or indirect contact with the infected (which were all regularly going to church). It also says that people in the city are starting to panick. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76588029 France 05/17/2018 01:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sorry I forgot to link the article : [link to www.google.fr (secure)] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 49476107 Germany 05/17/2018 01:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It looks very bad... Very populated area and directly linked to Kinshasa (17 millions inhabitants) and Kisangani (1 million inhabitants) by the river. :/ Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76588029 Bring it on. We're atleast 5 billion too many, and we've gone fubar on the entire planet. Then we should start with you right now. |
MissCleo User ID: 76541118 United States 05/17/2018 01:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I believe these pandemics happen every year during this season, and it's a spin of the wheel if there are massive casualties. The problem happens when infected people leave, or terrorists smuggle infection, or the disease breaks out to a new city. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76566622 Norway 05/17/2018 01:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It looks very bad... Very populated area and directly linked to Kinshasa (17 millions inhabitants) and Kisangani (1 million inhabitants) by the river. :/ Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76588029 Bring it on. We're atleast 5 billion too many, and we've gone fubar on the entire planet. Then we should start with you right now. We were only 3.5 billion when I was born. I never reproduced, and I live deep in the Scandinavian forests far the fuck away from cities. And systemic human stupidity and general mayhem. The ebola will most likely pass me by. Death will not. But for those who chose to reproduce, live and organise themselves in mega-cities, while we kill off the last rhino's and lions and smother the planet... Nature has a way to deal with species in overshoot. Several, actually. Plagues and epidemics is just one. I have no problem with that. Life is cheap, after all. Mine and yours too. Always was. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76588029 France 05/17/2018 01:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It looks very bad... Very populated area and directly linked to Kinshasa (17 millions inhabitants) and Kisangani (1 million inhabitants) by the river. :/ Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76588029 Bring it on. We're atleast 5 billion too many, and we've gone fubar on the entire planet. Hello Thanos |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 74051736 United States 05/17/2018 01:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It looks very bad... Very populated area and directly linked to Kinshasa (17 millions inhabitants) and Kisangani (1 million inhabitants) by the river. :/ Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76588029 Bring it on. We're atleast 5 billion too many, and we've gone fubar on the entire planet. yeah but how will the earth survive without 17 million black muslims? |
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