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@obi_jon | 24 March 14 | |
Properly scarey disease.
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@shrek | 24 March 14 | |
@ mok214 - 24.03.14 - 10:01pm Samples from victims of a viral hemorrhagic fever that has killed more than 50 people in Guinea have tested positive for the Ebola virus, government officials said Sunday, marking the first time an outbreak among humans has been detected in this West African nation. Government spokesman Damantang Albert Camara said the virus was found in tests conducted at a laboratory in Lyon, France. A Health Ministry statement on Saturday said 80 cases including 59 deaths had been reported, most of them in three southern prefectures near Sierra Leone and Liberia. Three cases, including two deaths, were reported in Conakry, the capital, according to the statement. A team including the health minister had been dispatched to the region, Camara said, and Doctors Without Borders had set up an isolation unit in Gueckedou to try to stop the disease from spreading. In Guinea, a country with a weak medical infrastructure, an outbreak like this can be devastating, Dr. Mohamed Ag Ayoya, country representative for UNICEF, said in a statement Sunday noting that three children had died in the outbreak. Previous Ebola outbreaks have been reported in Congo and Uganda, most recently in 2012. The only prior case of a human contracting the virus in West Africa came in 1994, when a scientist fell ill while responding to Ebola cases among chimpanzees in a national park in Ivory Coast, said Dr. Esther Sterk, tropical disease adviser for Doctors Without Borders. The scientist eventually recovered. Sterk, who is coordinating the Doctors Without Borders response from Geneva, said the organization had confirmed 49 cases including 29 deaths. Samples from six victims had been linked to Ebola, she said, though it was quite likely the others also contracted the virus. The End is nigh. |
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@r3ckless | 24 March 14 | |
@ mandain - 24.03.14 - 11:32pm does this have to do with Papua New Guinea? Shows how much attention I was paying. |
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@shrek | 24 March 14 | |
@ mandain - 24.03.14 - 11:32pm does this have to do with Papua New Guinea? Agree, tell him. Melanesians aint African too. |
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@obi_jon | 25 March 14 | |
A man is being treated for an unknown heamorragic fever in hospital in Canada, after having recently been travelling in west africa. http://m.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26726745 The report says that the current disease outbreak in west africa is an Ebola like virus but is not thought to be Ebola itself. |
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@eyesore | 25 March 14 | |
@ dodgey - 24.03.14 - 11:03pm I hope this means the uk gets a rebate on foreign aid to west Africa seeing as there won't be as many of them lol Ha |
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@mok214 | 25 March 14 | |
@ obi_jon - 25.03.14 - 09:58am A man is being treated for an unknown heamorragic fever in hospital in Canada, after having recently been travelling in west africa. http://m.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26726745 The report says that the current disease outbreak in west africa is an Ebola like virus but is not thought to be Ebola itself. Yep, we are starting to see more human to human transmission of Ebola. If it sticks around long enough it may learn how to become airborne. |
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@obi_jon | 23 July 14 | |
The current death toll stands at over 630 people across 3 different countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, making it the most deadly Ebola outbreak so far recorded. To make matters worse, the man leading the team fighting the disease in Sierra Leone, Dr Sheik Umar Khan, has now been diagnosed with the disease himself. http://m.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28439941 |
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@obi_jon | 23 July 14 | |
Oh and there has been an outbreak of bubonic plague in parts of north western China, 3 cities have been closed off and placed under quarantine.
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@0gypsy0 | 23 July 14 | |
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