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Desperate WHO calls Ebola drug summit as crisis worsens

More than 100 scientists and industry executives will convene this week at the WHO’s headquarters Geneva to find a vaccine and/or treatment.

[link to time.com]



WHO ponders treating Ebola-infected people with blood of survivors

As the Ebola outbreaks rages on in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO), desperate for a way to help infected people, is reconsidering a potential Ebola treatment tried as far back as 1976, after the first documented outbreak of the deadly viral disease: using the blood of people who have recovered from an infection to treat those still fighting the virus. “Convalescent serum is high on our list of potential therapies and has been used in other outbreaks (eg in China during SARS),” WHO said in a written statement to Science Insider. “There is a long history of its use, so lots of experience of what needs to be done, what norms and standards need to be met.”

[link to news.sciencemag.org]

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WHO issues warning over Ebola in Port Harcourt

An Ebola outbreak in Nigeria’s oil producing hub of Port Harcourt could spread wider and faster than in the financial capital, Lagos, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday.

The UN health body said the arrival of the virus in Port Harcourt, which is 435 kilometres (270 miles) east of Lagos, showed “multiple high-risk opportunities for transmission of the virus to others”.

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Cuts at W.H.O. Hurt Response to Ebola Crisis

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Nigeria monitoring 400 contacts of doctor who died of Ebola

[link to news.yahoo.com]
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The Anoka Hennepin School District has provided principals with a fact sheet to be used when responding to any calls from parents concerned about Ebola.

The Twin Cities has a large Liberian population.

[link to minnesota.dotnewz.com]
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has the 1900 deaths now been rebuked by WHO. they, and wiki are posting the old numbers again. what gives?
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has the 1900 deaths now been rebuked by WHO. they, and wiki are posting the old numbers again. what gives?
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Yeah, what gives?
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Cuts at W.H.O. Hurt Response to Ebola Crisis

With treatment centers overflowing, and alarmingly little being done to stop Ebola from sweeping through West African villages and towns, Dr. Joanne Liu, the president of Doctors Without Borders, knew that the epidemic had spun out of control.

The only person she could think of with the authority to intensify the global effort was Dr. Margaret Chan, Shocked the director general of the World Health Organization, which has a long history of fighting outbreaks. If the W.H.O., the main United Nations health agency, could not quickly muster an army of experts and health workers to combat an outbreak overtaking some of the world’s poorest countries, then what entity in the world would do it?

“I wish I could do that,” Dr. Chan said when the two met at the W.H.O.’s headquarters in Geneva this summer, months after the outbreak burgeoned in a Guinean rain forest and spilled into packed capital cities. The W.H.O. simply did not have the staffing or ability to flood the Ebola zone with help, said Dr. Chan, who recounted the conversation. It was a fantasy, she argued, to think of the W.H.O. as a first responder ready to lead the fight against deadly outbreaks around the world.

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Okay, so what exactly IS their job?

We are at the precipice of one of the most dangerous disease outbreaks in history, and we have the most incompetent group of leaders in history to handle it.

WHO, led by communist Chan, who has pretty much just called meetings and make vague suggestions at what they need, but no real explanation on who, how, when, where to do it...

Then you have CDC being run by the equivalent of a medical community organizer who's skillset is pretty much the ability to make big pronouncements, but also who seems to have no real plan...

And a US president who seems to have checked out.

Of course all 3 off these seem to think that limiting PASSENGER air travel will hurt medical supplies/personnel going in and out. But we all know these folks have private charters, personal planes and military aircraft at their disposal. The either have difficulty thinking outside the box or refuse to.
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has the 1900 deaths now been rebuked by WHO. they, and wiki are posting the old numbers again. what gives?
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Yeah, what gives?
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waitwhat
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Door, this has what to do with Minnesota ??
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Door, this has what to do with Minnesota ??
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Check the video - Liberians coming into the state in droves. Liberia is the heart of the outbreak.

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CDC Director on Ebola: ‘The Window of Opportunity Really Is Closing’

“Despite tremendous efforts from the U.S. Government, from CDC, from within countries, the number of cases continues to increase and is now increasing rapidly. I’m afraid over the next few weeks, those numbers are likely to increase further and significantly. There is a window of opportunity to tamp this down, but that window is closing. We need action now to scale up the response. We know how to stop Ebola. The challenge is to scale it up to the massive levels needed to stop this outbreak.”

[link to www.cdc.gov]
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Gee - right from the script of the recent TV series "The Last Ship".

They used the blood of the Jamaican girl (black) in their vaccine against the "worldwide" pandemic.
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Desperate WHO calls Ebola drug summit as crisis worsens

More than 100 scientists and industry executives will convene this week at the WHO’s headquarters Geneva to find a vaccine and/or treatment.

[link to time.com]



WHO ponders treating Ebola-infected people with blood of survivors

As the Ebola outbreaks rages on in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO), desperate for a way to help infected people, is reconsidering a potential Ebola treatment tried as far back as 1976, after the first documented outbreak of the deadly viral disease: using the blood of people who have recovered from an infection to treat those still fighting the virus. “Convalescent serum is high on our list of potential therapies and has been used in other outbreaks (eg in China during SARS),” WHO said in a written statement to Science Insider. “There is a long history of its use, so lots of experience of what needs to be done, what norms and standards need to be met.”

[link to news.sciencemag.org]
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this could get dangerous for the survivors
how much blood would they take from each one?
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Door, this has what to do with Minnesota ??
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Check the video - Liberians coming into the state in droves. Liberia is the heart of the outbreak.


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he died in nigeria
so, if you want to panic
it's nigerian travel
also, he caught it via a catholic hospital
that hospital is no longer in use
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Door, this has what to do with Minnesota ??
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Check the video - Liberians coming into the state in droves. Liberia is the heart of the outbreak.


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he died in nigeria
so, if you want to panic
it's nigerian travel
also, he caught it via a catholic hospital
that hospital is no longer in use
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 56144605


He caught it via his sister who was ill with it.
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The Ebola outbreak can be stopped in six to nine months, but only if a 'massive' global response is initiated

[link to www.newsweek.com]
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Door, this has what to do with Minnesota ??
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Check the video - Liberians coming into the state in droves. Liberia is the heart of the outbreak.


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he died in nigeria
so, if you want to panic
it's nigerian travel
also, he caught it via a catholic hospital
that hospital is no longer in use
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DUDE...HE WAS PUKING HIS GUTS OUT AND HAD DIARRHEA ON THE AIRPLANE! EVERYONE ON THAT AIRPLANE DURING THE FLIGHT OR WHO HAS FLOWN ON IT THE PAST THREE WEEKS IS POTENTIALLY EXPOSED OR CARRYING IT.
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The Ebola outbreak can be stopped in six to nine months, but only if a 'massive' global response is initiated

[link to www.newsweek.com]
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It can be stopped in a few seconds, but only if we nuke the shit out of Africa... I don't see either of these things happening.
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Door, this has what to do with Minnesota ??
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Check the video - Liberians coming into the state in droves. Liberia is the heart of the outbreak.


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he died in nigeria
so, if you want to panic
it's nigerian travel
also, he caught it via a catholic hospital
that hospital is no longer in use
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DUDE...HE WAS PUKING HIS GUTS OUT AND HAD DIARRHEA ON THE AIRPLANE! EVERYONE ON THAT AIRPLANE DURING THE FLIGHT OR WHO HAS FLOWN ON IT THE PAST THREE WEEKS IS POTENTIALLY EXPOSED OR CARRYING IT.
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While I agree the plane might have harbored the virus for a while, the virus isn't stable for three weeks on surfaces. I've read at most 10 days. Not that that makes it any better.
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Right now Ebola is in somewhat of a holding pattern in terms of the rate that infection is spreading, but all it takes is one or two incidents to get things progressing rapidly.
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Nigeria monitoring 400 contacts of doctor who died of Ebola

[link to news.yahoo.com]
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Very professional behavior of that doctor. What a loving and sharing husband.
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Check the video - Liberians coming into the state in droves. Liberia is the heart of the outbreak.


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he died in nigeria
so, if you want to panic
it's nigerian travel
also, he caught it via a catholic hospital
that hospital is no longer in use
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 56144605


DUDE...HE WAS PUKING HIS GUTS OUT AND HAD DIARRHEA ON THE AIRPLANE! EVERYONE ON THAT AIRPLANE DURING THE FLIGHT OR WHO HAS FLOWN ON IT THE PAST THREE WEEKS IS POTENTIALLY EXPOSED OR CARRYING IT.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 61275492


While I agree the plane might have harbored the virus for a while, the virus isn't stable for three weeks on surfaces. I've read at most 10 days. Not that that makes it any better.
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Ebola MSDS sheet states it can survive on a surface for 23 days...
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Door, this has what to do with Minnesota ??
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Check the video - Liberians coming into the state in droves. Liberia is the heart of the outbreak.


 Quoting: DoorBert


he died in nigeria
so, if you want to panic
it's nigerian travel
also, he caught it via a catholic hospital
that hospital is no longer in use
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 56144605


DUDE...HE WAS PUKING HIS GUTS OUT AND HAD DIARRHEA ON THE AIRPLANE! EVERYONE ON THAT AIRPLANE DURING THE FLIGHT OR WHO HAS FLOWN ON IT THE PAST THREE WEEKS IS POTENTIALLY EXPOSED OR CARRYING IT.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 61275492


Not true fear monger dude. Patrick Sawyer died in Liberia.

He did however collapse in the airport while traveling Nigeria. That's in Africa.

[link to news.yahoo.com]

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Door, this has what to do with Minnesota ??
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Check the video - Liberians coming into the state in droves. Liberia is the heart of the outbreak.


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How many are from DC?
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alonescreamscreamscreamzombieszombieswtfdoom
now what

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i didnt see minnesota mentioned in the article what do u mean?
now what
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he died in nigeria
so, if you want to panic
it's nigerian travel
also, he caught it via a catholic hospital
that hospital is no longer in use
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DUDE...HE WAS PUKING HIS GUTS OUT AND HAD DIARRHEA ON THE AIRPLANE! EVERYONE ON THAT AIRPLANE DURING THE FLIGHT OR WHO HAS FLOWN ON IT THE PAST THREE WEEKS IS POTENTIALLY EXPOSED OR CARRYING IT.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 61275492


While I agree the plane might have harbored the virus for a while, the virus isn't stable for three weeks on surfaces. I've read at most 10 days. Not that that makes it any better.
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Ebola MSDS sheet states it can survive on a surface for 23 days...
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That 23 was for a footer reference, [23].... I think it was about a week....
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Door, this has what to do with Minnesota ??
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Check the video - Liberians coming into the state in droves. Liberia is the heart of the outbreak.


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Umm.. looks like we need to toss a net around Minnesota.??
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has the 1900 deaths now been rebuked by WHO. they, and wiki are posting the old numbers again. what gives?
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Yeah, what gives?
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