by gerald » Tue Oct 28, 2014 4:02 pm
John wrote:Guest wrote:With cases well into five figures, why is the number of people who have carried the virus outside the three nations unawares still in single digits?
Factors that are specific to Liberia are lack of health care
infrastructure, superstitions, illiteracy and lack of education,
anti-Western hostility, and funeral rites. These are the main factors
that caused the initial spread, and now there's an extremely fast
exponential rate of growth caused by three more factors: Lack of
enough Ebola clinics, deaths of many health workers, and isolation of
Liberia from the rest of the world -- meaning that many new Ebola
patients are literally receiving no care whatsoever.
Hmmm I guess we shall see ---
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-2 ... -hit-china
Ebola Discoverer Warns Deadly Virus Will Hit China
One of the scientists who discovered Ebola has warned that China is under threat from the deadly virus because of the huge number of Chinese workers in Africa.
Professor Peter Piot also made the grim prediction that Ebola would claim thousands more lives in the months ahead.
"It will get worse for a while, and then hopefully it will get better when people are isolated," said Piot, who is in Hong Kong for a two-day symposium. "What we see now is every 30 days there is a doubling of new infections."
He estimated the epidemic would last another six to 12 months.
There will certainly be Ebola patients from Africa who come to us in the hopes of receiving treatment. And they might even infect a few people here who may then die. But an outbreak in Europe or North America would quickly be brought under control. I am more worried about the many people from India who work in trade or industry in west Africa. It would only take one of them to become infected, travel to India to visit relatives during the virus's incubation period, and then, once he becomes sick, go to a public hospital there. Doctors and nurses in India, too, often don't wear protective gloves. They would immediately become infected and spread the virus.
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Keep our fingers crossed --- if it does get bad it will get very interesting -- not in a nice way
[quote="John"][quote="Guest"]With cases well into five figures, why is the number of people who have carried the virus outside the three nations unawares still in single digits?[/quote]
Factors that are specific to Liberia are lack of health care
infrastructure, superstitions, illiteracy and lack of education,
anti-Western hostility, and funeral rites. These are the main factors
that caused the initial spread, and now there's an extremely fast
exponential rate of growth caused by three more factors: Lack of
enough Ebola clinics, deaths of many health workers, and isolation of
Liberia from the rest of the world -- meaning that many new Ebola
patients are literally receiving no care whatsoever.[/quote]
Hmmm I guess we shall see --- http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-28/ebola-discoverer-warns-deadly-virus-will-hit-china
Ebola Discoverer Warns Deadly Virus Will Hit China
One of the scientists who discovered Ebola has warned that China is under threat from the deadly virus because of the huge number of Chinese workers in Africa.
Professor Peter Piot also made the grim prediction that Ebola would claim thousands more lives in the months ahead.
"It will get worse for a while, and then hopefully it will get better when people are isolated," said Piot, who is in Hong Kong for a two-day symposium. "What we see now is every 30 days there is a doubling of new infections."
He estimated the epidemic would last another six to 12 months.
There will certainly be Ebola patients from Africa who come to us in the hopes of receiving treatment. And they might even infect a few people here who may then die. But an outbreak in Europe or North America would quickly be brought under control. I am more worried about the many people from India who work in trade or industry in west Africa. It would only take one of them to become infected, travel to India to visit relatives during the virus's incubation period, and then, once he becomes sick, go to a public hospital there. Doctors and nurses in India, too, often don't wear protective gloves. They would immediately become infected and spread the virus.
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Keep our fingers crossed --- if it does get bad it will get very interesting -- not in a nice way