The Ebola virus will never satisfy its lust for organ failure and hemorrhage

Dave

Dave

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That was about as much of an outbreak as I am a long distance runner because I took a few steps.
 
strawman

strawman

Dramatic drop in ebola interest and coverage coincides with same drop in ISIS interest, and the midterm elections. More people have died in the US from the flu since the midterms than have ever died in the US due to Ebola. Out of over 18,000 cases of Ebola infection, over 6,000 deaths are attributed to Ebola. The director of the CDC is still worried Ebola may yet become an endless epidemic:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandso...a-endemic-thats-the-risk-we-face-now-cdc-says

Sierra Leone is cancelling Christmas & New Years - may use army to enforce rule disallowing travel and family gatherings:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/12/sierra-leone-christmas-gatherings-banned-ebola

At this clinic 59% of the admitted patients survive Ebola:
http://www.wired.com/2014/12/ebola-patients-sierra-leone-survival-takes-medecine/
 
Dave

Dave

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Also dropping off is the aid from Western countries, especially the US. Why? Not because they fear the disease or don't want to help, but they fear the reaction of people when they find out they were in these countries. Unnecessary mandatory quarantines, social stigmas, and uninformed and reactionary media coverage means that the doctors and nurses most in need aren't helping because it's too much of a pain in the ass for them.
 
strawman

strawman

So far we're at 24k people who have been infected during this outbreak, and 10k dead. That's a 42% mortality rate, which is better than the last big outbreak. Would be nice to see the mortality rate over time - I kindof expect to see survival rates improve over the period of infection due to better education, procedures, etc.

Further, we're seeing less than 100 new cases a week in the three most infected countries - down from peaks of 600, 500, and 200 new cases per week in the three countries respectively.

So while it's still harming and killing a lot of people, it appears to be on its way to becoming a footnote1 in history.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/03/ebola-graphics


1 Unless someone successfully weaponizes it.
 
Gruebeard

Gruebeard

Did - did you just footnote the word footnote? You're crazy, man. Like, Indiana Jones leaping from a plane on a rubber raft crazy.

... Huh. I bet Short Round was really wishing they had that raft on the rope bridge .



... Hmm, I bet rafting on that rush of water would be more fun than fleeing from it in that rickety mine cart. Would've saved them from that whole rope bridge scene, too, since they could have just para(raft)chuted down to the bottom of the canyon and leisurely cruised on home.
 
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Eriol

Eriol

New update to old-er story:

Successful Ebola vaccine will be fast-tracked for use

Yes, vaccine. That's f'n awesome. This is a HORRIFIC disease that the fact we now have a vaccine is beyond awesome.

For the TL;DR; crowd, a trial of 6000 people injected, only one reaction (they recovered, and think it was HOW it was administered to the one person), and NO infections. For reference, 23 people in the "control" (no vaccine) group got Ebola.


New Vaccines is always good news. I hope it's not necessary, but I'm EXTREMELY glad we have it now.
 
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