Ebola 660 Fatalities of 1093 Infected; MERS 327/850 Fatal

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PHOTO: The Ebola-stricken Americans will be treated in this isolation room and others similar to it.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/expert...doctor-walk-hospital/story?id=24820682&page=2

 

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Patients’ Ebola Symptoms Raise Concern in New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/h...s-ebola-like-symptoms-hospital-says.html?_r=0

By DENISE GRADY and MARC SANTORA AUG. 4, 2014

A patient went to Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan on Sunday with symptoms consistent with Ebola.

Heightened concern about the Ebola virus has led to alarms being raised at three hospitals in New York City. But so far, no Ebola cases have turned up.
The latest episode involved a man who had recently been to West Africa, and who went to the emergency room at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan late Sunday with a high fever and gastrointestinal problems, the hospital reported on Monday.

He is being kept in isolation at the hospital

while tests are being done for Ebola, a deadly disease, but also for other illnesses that could cause his symptoms.

But the city health department issued a statement on Monday saying that after consulting with Mount Sinai and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, “the health department has concluded that the patient is unlikely to have Ebola. Specimens are being tested for common causes of illness and to definitively exclude Ebola. Testing results will be made available by C.D.C. as soon as they are available.”

At NYU Langone Medical Center last week, a patient who went to the emergency room with a fever and who mentioned a recent visit to West Africa was given a mask and moved to a secluded area, said Dr. Michael Phillips, the hospital’s director of Infection Prevention and Control. But further questioning revealed that the patient had not visited any of the affected countries, “so we stopped right there,” Dr. Phillips said.

At Bellevue Hospital Center last week, a patient was placed in isolation, but it quickly became clear that he did not have Ebola.

http://7online.com/health/mount-sinai-patient-tested-for-ebola-virus/239663/

Testing for Ebola is done at the CDC. According to a CDC spokesperson

testing for Ebola takes 1-2 days

after they receive the samples. The primary testing is PCR. This is performed on blood that has been treated to kill and live virus. So far CDC has tested samples from around 6 people who had symptoms consistent with Ebola and a travel history to the affected region.

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In the past decade, five people have entered the U.S. known to have a viral hemorrhagic fever, including a case last March of a Minnesota man diagnosed with Lassa Fever after traveling to West Africa.

"This is no more than a low to a moderate risk" the man has Ebola,

said Mount Sinai President David Reich.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/second-american-ebola-patient-to-arrive-in-atlanta-tuesday-1407170747

 

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PHOTO: The Ebola-stricken Americans will be treated in this isolation room and others similar to it.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/expert...doctor-walk-hospital/story?id=24820682&page=2

I was trained in isolation procedures back when I was a candy striper. Like that would happen today That pic is NOT an isolation room!

Isolations rooms are stripped. Bare. Naked... Easy to shower down and scrub. What is pictured is not that...

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The Liberian Government announced Sunday that it has begun burning the bodies of victims of the deadly Ebola virus.


"We have decided to burn the bodies,"

Information Minister Lewis G. Brown told the New Dawn Sunday. He said the decision to cremate the bodies of Ebola victims was reached earlier on Sunday.

The government's decision to cremate the bodies of victims of the tropical disease follows the increasing wave of resistance by residents of several communities to allow the burial of Ebola victims in their areas.


The decision also comes days after President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told Health Ministry officials and officials of relevant agencies to consider cremation.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201408041798.html

On Saturday dozens of residents from several communities protested against the burial of Ebola victims in their areas.


The first burial site for over 25 bodies in the township of Johnsonville was abandoned by health workers after the land owner refused to sell the land to bury Ebola victims.


Angry crowd shouted at health workers at the second site as they tried to convince them. It took the efforts of soldiers from the Armed Forces of Liberia to bring the situation under control before burial could take place overnight.


The refusal by some landowners to sell parcel of lands to government to bury Ebola victims have made the collection of bodies of Ebola victims from homes and communities slow. Mr. Brown admitted that indeed the refusal was hampering government's effort to fast track the collection of bodies.

 

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Ebola travels to MERS country...
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/saudi-arabia-tests-man-suspected-ebola-24843477

[h=1]Saudi Arabia Tests Man Suspected of Having Ebola[/h] RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Aug 5, 2014, 7:40 AM ET

Saudi Arabia said Tuesday it is testing a man for the Ebola virus after he showed symptoms of the viral hemorrhagic fever following a recent trip to Sierra Leone.


The Health Ministry said the symptoms appeared in the 40-year-old Saudi man at a hospital in the western city of Jiddah. He is in critical condition and being treated in a unit with advanced isolation and infection-control capabilities.


Different types of viral hemorrhagic fevers have been found in the kingdom, but no case of Ebola has ever been detected there, according to the ministry.
The cause of the Saudi man's sickness is unknown, but Ebola cannot be ruled out given his travel history, the ministry said. He has already tested negative for dengue fever, and tests are underway for other viruses.


The ministry submitted samples to test for Ebola on the advice of the World Health Organization.


Health Ministry spokesman Dr. Khalid al-Marghalani told The Associated Press that the man arrived to Saudi Arabia from Sierra Leone on Sunday night. He said officials are looking into his flight details, including the passenger list, and what relatives or other people he may have been in direct contact with since landing in the kingdom.


Saudi Arabia earlier this year said it would not issue visas this year for religious pilgrims from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea because of concerns over Ebola.


The kingdom has been the epicenter of infections for the Middle East Respiratory Virus, another frequently fatal disease.

 

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OK, the terrorists won.

It's become clear to me that this whole Ebola thing is a terrorist plot...

We'll all be wearing burqas before you know it...

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[h=1]40 year old man dead. Suspected Ebola case in Donegal, Ireland.
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http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0821/638520-ebola/

 

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/22/health/california-possible-ebola-exposure/

California patient tests negative for Ebola virus

(CNN) -- A patient isolated in a California hospital after possible Ebola exposure does not have the virus, testing revealed.

The unidentified patient, who had recently traveled to West Africa, was isolated at the Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center during the testing.
"We're happy to report that we've heard from the Centers for Disease Control that the test result is negative," Dr. Ron Chapman of the California Department of Public Health told reporters Thursday night.

The patient was considered "low-risk," and tests were being conducted out of "an abundance of caution," the public health department said.

The CDC tested the patient's blood samples to determine whether the Ebola virus was present. The hospital said all necessary precautions were being taken to safeguard other patients and staff while the testing was carried out.

There are no confirmed cases of Ebola in the state, the agency said in a statement Wednesday.

More at link.

 

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The conventional methods used to control Ebola — isolating sick people and tracing all their contacts — are buckling under the sheer size of the outbreak.

So far, there have been 5,800 cases of Ebola reported, a majority of them in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. More than 2,800 deaths have been recorded. Yet many experts, including doctors at the CDC, believe the numbers are actually much higher, as many cases go unreported.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/24/liberia-ebola-conflict_n_5874194.html

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...a-guinea-red-cross-workers-attacked/16153887/

Dr. Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a co-discoverer of Ebola, told a news conference this week. "In this outbreak,


we are reaching the limit of what classic containment measures can achieve."

 

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And now apparently the dead are rising: Dead Ebola Patients Resurrect?

Two Ebola patients, who died of the virus in separate communities in Nimba County have reportedly resurrected in the county. The victims, both females, believed to be in their 60s and 40s respectively, died of the Ebola virus recently in Hope Village Community and the Catholic Community in Ganta, Nimba.

But to the amazement of residents and onlookers on Monday, the deceased reportedly regained life in total disbelief. The New Dawn Nimba County correspondent said the late Dorris Quoi of Hope Village Community and the second victim only identified as Ma Kebeh, said to be in her late 60s, were about to be taken for burial when they resurrected.

But now at least all of that Hollywood zombie-apocalypse/World War-Z mumbo-jumbo is beginning to make sense.

 

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