Official Ebola update thread

[Anonymous]

DFW community comes through for girlfriend of Thomas Eric Duncan: charitable dollars contribute to 3-bedroom apt with fireplace etc done by an interior decorator!

http://www.dmagazine.com/home-design/slideshows/20...ise-troh-home?img=IMG_6669.jpg

[Anonymous]

A nurse who may have been exposed to Ebola was admitted to the NIH hospital yesterday.

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/dec2014/od-11a.htm

[Anonymous]

And the official number of cases in West Africa has climbed to nearly 20,000.


Rising Ebola figures cause alarm

http://www.dw.de/rising-ebola-figures-cause-alarm/a-18126390

12.12.2014

The latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) show 6,583 people have died out of 18,188 recorded Ebola cases.

The Geneva-based UN health agency reported that the majority of infections and deaths were in the West African states of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

[Anonymous]

Sierra Leone has cancelled all holiday celebrations and a lockdown is put into effect for the people of Kono Town through the new year

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/12/sierra-leone-announces-holiday-ban-response-surge

[Anonymous]

An interview with a Spanish physician who returned recently from SL:

"In Sierra Leone, Ebola is completely out of control. We are now able to provide patients with better care [...]But we still need much more. It is said that there are currently 5,000 cases, but there are many more. The numbers authorities put out are very low. Right now, in Sierra Leone, there may be more than 1,000 new cases each week. The World Health Organization thinks that by the end of the year there could be more than 10,000 each week. If the mortality rate is 60 percent, you can figure out the results.

...We met a father who had two kids with fever. The mother had died from Ebola. After finishing our analysis, the two kids were negative and he was positive. We sent him to the treatment center, and he took his children there because he had nowhere to leave them. The situation remains the same. He is infected, but has no symptoms, and the kids have fevers, but are not infected. Three days later, the father develops a fever and suddenly the three of them are infected. He had no fever, but he was infected, which destroys the theory that says that without fever there won't be contagion. In medicine, two and two rarely make four..."

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6327466

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A nurse who may have been exposed to Ebola was admitted to the NIH hospital yesterday.

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/dec2014/od-11a.htm

So far this patient has not tested positive for Ebola.

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/dec2014/od-17.htm

[Anonymous]

I thought this thing was over or at least winding down?

[Anonymous]

http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-un-chief-vising-ebola-countries-urges-respect-for-health-rules/2565558.html

The report said the number of new cases is declining in Liberia, "fluctuating" in Guinea and may have stopped increasing in Sierra Leone. It noted there have been no new cases reported in Mali since November 24.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A nurse who may have been exposed to Ebola was admitted to the NIH hospital yesterday.

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/dec2014/od-11a.htm

So far this patient has not tested positive for Ebola.

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/dec2014/od-17.htm

The patient has been released and will be monitored at their private residence in Virginia for 21 days.

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/dec2014/od-19.htm

[Anonymous]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2014/12/29/scottish-government-confirms-ebola-case-in-glasgow/?tid=sm_fb

A health-care worker who recently returned to Scotland from West Africa has been diagnosed with Ebola, the Scottish government said on Monday.

The patient has been isolated and is receiving treatment at the Brownlee Unit for Infectious Diseases on the Gartnavel Hospital campus in Glasgow.

The patient returned late on Sunday night from Sierra Leone, traveling through Casablanca and London Heathrow Airport. The patient’s British Airways flight landed in Glasgow at about 11:30 p.m. local time, according to the government’s statement.

“The patient was admitted to hospital early in the morning after feeling unwell and was placed into isolation at 7.50am,” the statement continues. Officials are investigating and monitoring “all possible contacts” with the patient.

[Anonymous]

Here's another ebola case.

An American health-care worker who contracted Ebola while treating patients in Sierra Leone is in serious condition, the National Institutes of Health said Friday.

The NIH said the health-care worker was admitted at 4:44 a.m. Friday to its high-containment facility on its Bethesda, Md., campus, after being evacuated to the U.S. by chartered jet. No further details were released.

The health-care worker is the 11th person to be treated for Ebola in the U.S. All but two have survived.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/american-with-ebola-arrives-at-maryland-hospital-1426248485

[Anonymous]

The Ebola patient at the NIH has improved from serious to fair condition.

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/237355-nihs-ebola-patient-condition-upgraded-to-fair

The Scottish nurse who was treated for Ebola is allowed to return to her nursing profession.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-31763244

[Anonymous]

The Ebola epidemic of 2014 is over. There have been no new cases in Africa last week.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/10/07/there-were-no-cases-of-ebola-in-west-africa-last-week-for-the-first-time-since-march-2014/

[Anonymous]

Bunker dwellers may reemerge.