Ebola kills 84 in three days., bringing the global death toll to1,229 WHO says

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OP - August 19, 2014, 10:30 AM

Ebola kills 84 in three days., bringing the global death toll to1,229 WHO says

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GENEVA: The Ebola virus killed 84 people in just three days, bringing the global death toll to 1,229, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. The death toll, which passed the 1,000-mark over a week ago, soared higher from last Thursday to Saturday.

The number of confirmed infections jumped by 113 over the three days, bringing the total number of cases to 2,240, the UN health agency said. The epidemic, which has hit four west African nations since it broke out in Guinea at the start of the year, is by far the deadliest since Ebola was discovered four decades ago in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Liberia was the hardest-hit country in the latest figures, with 48 new cases and 53 deaths. That lifted its total count of cases to 834, with 466 deaths.

The new WHO toll predates an attack overnight Saturday on a quarantine centre in the Liberian capital Monrovia that caused 17 Ebola patients to flee who remain missing. Sierra Leone recorded 38 new infections and 17 fatalities, the new WHO data showed. As a result, Sierra Leone´s total case count increased to 848 and its death toll to 365.Guinea counted 24 new cases and 14 new deaths. That lifted the total number of cases to 543, with 394 deaths.

Nigeria, meanwhile, recorded three new cases but no deaths. All told, Nigeria has now seen 15 cases and four fatalities, the data show.

that is the news from that dreaded viral infection..

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The virus may be acquired upon contact with blood or bodily fluids of an infected animal. Spreading through the air has not been documented in the natural environment. Fruit bats are believed to carry and spread the virus without being affected.

Once human infection occurs, the disease may spread between people, as well. Male survivors may be able to transmit the disease via semen for nearly two months. To make the diagnosis, typically other diseases with similar symptoms such as malaria, cholera and other viral hemorrhagic fevers are first excluded. To confirm the diagnosis, blood samples are tested for viral antibodies, viral RNA, or the virus itself

boy. that looks like all in one Disease and sounds like as bad as man made religions..

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Reply #1 - August 19, 2014, 11:05 AM

The reason it seems like an all-in-one disease is because the virus targets the body's connective tissue. It digests collagen to make more copies of itself. IOW, it basically makes you fall to pieces.

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Reply #2 - August 19, 2014, 11:14 AM

Those symptoms are so vague you wouldnt know you had it
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Reply #3 - August 19, 2014, 11:20 AM

Ebola is really like a Swiss army knife of shittiness.

Imagine it mixed with HIV/AIDs!
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Reply #4 - August 19, 2014, 12:26 PM

Quote from: Lilyesque on August 19, 2014, 11:20 AM
Ebola is really like a Swiss army knife of shittiness.

Imagine it mixed with HIV/AIDs!

Hmm good idea .. they may fight each other and either both will die or one will eliminate other.. lol..

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Reply #5 - August 20, 2014, 11:02 AM

It is not being taken too seriously by other countries as it is seen as a particularly African problem.
The press here (UK) seemed to try to start a panic about it but then this specialist doctor put a dampner on it.
He makes several good points as to why it has such success in Africa due to lack of health infrastructure and lax health practices rather than it being easy to catch.

http://www.itv.com/goodmorningbritain/news/doctor-terrified-of-ebola-virus

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Reply #6 - August 20, 2014, 09:21 PM

Yes that's all true, but at least the Africans might get a decent vaccine out of all this hoo-ha, which would be a big bonus for them.

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Reply #7 - August 20, 2014, 11:48 PM

This is starting to get really ugly.

Liberian police shoot to disperse West Point protest as death toll hits 1,350

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Police in Liberia have fired live rounds and tear gas to disperse a stone-throwing crowd trying to break an Ebola quarantine imposed on their neighbourhood, as the death toll from the epidemic in West Africa hits 1,350.

In the West Point neighbourhood of capital Monrovia at least four people were injured in clashes with security forces, witnesses said.

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) said countries hit by the outbreak of the deadly virus were beginning to suffer shortages of fuel, food and basic supplies after shipping companies and airlines suspended services to the region.

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Liberia, where the death toll is rising fastest, said its health ministry warehouse had run out of rubber boots and hand sanitiser bottles, essential for preventing the spread of the disease.

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Liberian authorities introduced a nationwide curfew on Tuesday and put the teeming West Point neighbourhood under quarantine to curb the spread of the disease.

Witnesses said clashes started after security forces blocked roads early on Wednesday with tables, chairs and barbed wire.

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Reply #8 - August 20, 2014, 11:49 PM

Very sad. As if Liberia needed any more problems.
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