Anybody monitoring the Ebola outbreak ?

Current death toll at 632

 

Now 660 dead and it's jumped another border into Nigeria's capital city.
Keep in mind this city has an international airport.

Incubation period varies from 2 to 21 days and then for up to another three weeks. So one can be contagious for up to six weeks. Think of how many individual persons one may come into contact with over that time period, and then all the people they might come into contact with.

At an international airport.

 

I don't know how long the germs can survive without a human host, but I always think of the stuff people touch all the time. The TV show that had a 2parter dealing with a Marburg outbreak(which is what prompted me to do some research on hemorrhagic fever), it was terrorist-induced, and he did it by infecting himself, then cutting himself and smearing his blood on items that are touched constantly by people all day. ATM keypads(I'm really wondering how no one would notice blood on the ATM, but it's Hollywood), handrails on buses, etc.

So I wonder if the guy that collapsed at the airport, if he touched anything or anyone that will now be a carrier onto a plane, therefore potentially turning every passenger into a carrier as well.

 

The man that landed in the largest city in Africa and collapsed has been confirmed to be an ebola victim. Additionally....

In a separate concerning incident, the first person to test positive for Ebola in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown was forcibly removed from a hospital by her family.
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Ebola claims first victim in Africa's largest city - Telegraph

 

Also keep in mind the WHO changed the manner of reporting how they count the death toll.

Nobody's including anyone NOT in any hospital. Between the distrust of doctors and hospitals and local customs for washing the bodies and eating a meal in the presence of the deceased the actual death toll could me much higher than reported.

 

According to the WHO it's up to 672 dead now. So probably double that considering all the people that never made it to seek medical care.

 

Capt Tripps is loose !

 

What is the incubation time?

2 to 21 days? Sonova!
Ebola crisis: US doctor working in Liberia tests positive | World news | theguardian.com

 

Note to self. Buy more NATO filters tomorrow online. That and heavy duty rubber gloves.

 

And based on the STDness it can do, alot of people should start stocking up on condoms too. We're probably gonna get some face masks next week, mainly in case of smoke from wildfires, but they also help when cleaning out the chicken coop.

 

I'm thinking abstinence is the best option. You keep moving down the road. If'n you stop and try to cross the fence, (key word try) and you be stopped DRT and I've got plenty of denatured alcohol and road flares to sanitize things.

 

Its probably here already.

One can be contagious before showing symptoms. If the family and everyone they have come into contact with has not been isolated this can get ugly real fast.

Check your preps monkeys.

 

It's interesting in a sad way that this might come to the U.S. via an aid worker. The road to Hell...

 

It might be time to dust off and re-purpose Sydney's old North Head Quarantine Station back to its original use of screening potentially infectious disease cases.



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