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[DIRECTOR]

AS YOU'D EXPECT, I'VE GOT GOOD SOURCES, FOLKS. I THOUGHT, EARLIER TODAY, THAT I SHOULD POST WHATEVER I FIND OUT ABOUT THE EBOLA EPIDEMIC IN WESTERN AFRICA FOR MY FRIENDS ON THE US MESSAGE BOARD...

I should be able to keep you all updated with two-three new posts per week. Not epic, but straight from the best sources out there, nonetheless!

• One interesting thing I received today, concerning healthcare over there in Western Africa, is that the leading Ebola doctor actually quarantined HERSELF this week! Her poor assistent died of the disease a-few-days-ago and she'd been seriously worried that she may also have it, too...

IF ANYONE OUT THERE HEARS ANY MORE ON THIS STORY, OR RECEIVES ANY OTHER EBOLA-RELATED INFO THEMSELVES, THEN PLEASE POST IT ON HERE. THANK YOU!

 

[DIRECTOR]

As you've all seen, I posted this thread HOURS before today's BIG "Ebola Case found In Dallas, Texas" threads that are all over the internet, now!!!!

FIRST EBOLA CASE IN DALLAS! SEE THREAD ON THIS FORUM FOR MORE INFORMATION.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Thanks for the updates.

 

[DIRECTOR]

^ Many thanks, sir! I've been feeling something about this Ebola scare this week and really got tuned-into it all — TODAY I see the BIG "First Ebola Case In Dallas" thread! Coincidence?! I think not...!

I may be back tomorrow with more, too...

 

[waltky]

Granny says all dem people bringin' ebola back with `em, it gonna be the endtime plague inna America...

American cameraman for NBC News diagnosed with Ebola in Liberia
3 Oct.`14 - An American freelance cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola, the network said on Thursday, making him the fifth citizen of the United States and its first journalist known to have contracted the virus in West Africa.

The 33-year-old cameraman and writer, who has worked in Liberia for the past three years and has covered the recent Ebola outbreak for various U.S. media outlets, will be flown back to the United States for treatment, NBC said in an online report. Four other NBC News team members who have shown no signs of infection also will return to the United States to undergo a precautionary quarantine, the network said. Word that a journalist had fallen ill with the potentially lethal virus seemed to raise the stakes for other members of the news media trying to cover the worst Ebola outbreak on record on the ground in Liberia, the nation hardest hit by the epidemic. The outbreak has killed at least 3,300 people in West Africa.

NBC declined to give the man's name at the request of his family. He began experiencing symptoms on Wednesday that included aches and fatigue, the network said. He was hired on Tuesday to serve as a second cameraman for NBC News chief medical editor and correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman, who has been with three other network employees on assignment in Liberia's capital, Monrovia. Immediately after beginning to feel sick and discovering he was running a slight fever, the cameraman quarantined himself and sought medical advice. He then went to a Doctors Without Borders treatment center to be tested for the virus, and the positive result came back less than 12 hours later, NBC said. "We are doing everything we can to get him the best care possible," NBC News President Deborah Turness said in a note to network staff.

Turness also said that as a precaution, Snyderman and the rest of the NBC crew would be flown back to the United States on a private charter plane and will place themselves under quarantine for 21 days, which she said is "at the most conservative end of the spectrum of medical guidance." For now, she said, Snyderman and her crew were being closely watched and had shown no symptoms of signs of the illness. In an interview Thursday with the host of "The Rachel Maddow Show" on NBC's sister cable network, MSNBC, Snyderman said the cameraman's exposure to the potentially lethal virus is believed to have occurred before he began working for the network.

'ZERO RISK MEANS NEVER COMING TO LIBERIA'

See also:

Ebola patient's leaving Liberia was 'unpardonable,' its President says
October 3, 2014: "Flaw" in electronic records hid Thomas Eric Duncan's travel history, hospital says; Thomas Eric Duncan denied contact with Ebola in Liberia, official says; "The fact that he knew and he left the country is unpardonable," Liberia's President says; So far there's no sign anyone else in Texas has contracted Ebola, officials say

Days before he became the first person diagnosed with Ebola on American soil, Thomas Eric Duncan answered "no" to questions about whether he had cared for a patient with the deadly virus. Before leaving Liberia, Duncan also answered no to a question about whether he had touched the body of someone who died in an area affected by the disease, said Binyah Kesselly, board chairman of the Liberia Airport Authority. Witnesses say Duncan had been helping Ebola patients in Liberia. Liberian community leader Tugbeh Chieh Tugbeh said Duncan was caring for an Ebola-infected patient at a residence in Paynesville City, just outside Monrovia.

Earlier Thursday, Kesselly told CNN that the authority "will seek to prosecute" if Duncan lied on his health screening questionnaire before leaving West Africa. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told Canadian public broadcaster CBC on Thursday that she would consult with lawyers to decide what to do with Duncan when he returns home. "The fact that he knew (he was exposed to the virus) and he left the country is unpardonable, quite frankly," Johnson Sirleaf told CBC. "I just hope that nobody else gets infected." "With the U.S. doing so much to help us fight Ebola, and again one of our compatriots didn't take due care, and so, he's gone there and ... put some Americans in a state of fear, and put them at some risk, and so I feel very saddened by that and very angry with him, to tell you the truth."

Duncan's family said he hadn't mentioned any exposure to Ebola in Liberia. His girlfriend says he told her he hadn't been in contact with anyone with Ebola. Wilfred Smallwood, Duncan's half-brother, said Thursday that he doesn't believe Duncan knew he had Ebola when he left Liberia for the United States. But he said it isn't out of the ordinary to come to the assistance of suffering people. Asked about whether Duncan had contact with Ebola patients, he said, "(it's) what we do in Liberia -- our tradition is to help somebody who needs help."

Screened several times before leaving Liberia

 

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EBOLA Chief Medical Director Places Herself Under Quarantine After Her Assistant Tests Positive Nigeria Tell
Liberia’s chief medical officer is placing herself under quarantine for 21 days after her office assistant died of Ebola. Bernice Dahn, a deputy health minister who has represented Liberia at regional conferences intended to combat the ongoing epidemic, told The Associated Press on Saturday that she did not have any Ebola symptoms but wanted to ensure she was not infected. The World Health Organization says 21 days is the maximum incubation period for Ebola, which has killed more than 3,000 people across West Africa and is hitting Liberia especially hard.

21 days quarantine.

 

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Granny says all dem people bringin' ebola back with `em, it gonna be the endtime plague inna America...

American cameraman for NBC News diagnosed with Ebola in Liberia
3 Oct.`14 - An American freelance cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola, the network said on Thursday, making him the fifth citizen of the United States and its first journalist known to have contracted the virus in West Africa.

The 33-year-old cameraman and writer, who has worked in Liberia for the past three years and has covered the recent Ebola outbreak for various U.S. media outlets, will be flown back to the United States for treatment, NBC said in an online report. Four other NBC News team members who have shown no signs of infection also will return to the United States to undergo a precautionary quarantine, the network said. Word that a journalist had fallen ill with the potentially lethal virus seemed to raise the stakes for other members of the news media trying to cover the worst Ebola outbreak on record on the ground in Liberia, the nation hardest hit by the epidemic. The outbreak has killed at least 3,300 people in West Africa.

NBC declined to give the man's name at the request of his family. He began experiencing symptoms on Wednesday that included aches and fatigue, the network said. He was hired on Tuesday to serve as a second cameraman for NBC News chief medical editor and correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman, who has been with three other network employees on assignment in Liberia's capital, Monrovia. Immediately after beginning to feel sick and discovering he was running a slight fever, the cameraman quarantined himself and sought medical advice. He then went to a Doctors Without Borders treatment center to be tested for the virus, and the positive result came back less than 12 hours later, NBC said. "We are doing everything we can to get him the best care possible," NBC News President Deborah Turness said in a note to network staff.

Turness also said that as a precaution, Snyderman and the rest of the NBC crew would be flown back to the United States on a private charter plane and will place themselves under quarantine for 21 days, which she said is "at the most conservative end of the spectrum of medical guidance." For now, she said, Snyderman and her crew were being closely watched and had shown no symptoms of signs of the illness. In an interview Thursday with the host of "The Rachel Maddow Show" on NBC's sister cable network, MSNBC, Snyderman said the cameraman's exposure to the potentially lethal virus is believed to have occurred before he began working for the network.

'ZERO RISK MEANS NEVER COMING TO LIBERIA'

See also:

Ebola patient's leaving Liberia was 'unpardonable,' its President says
October 3, 2014: "Flaw" in electronic records hid Thomas Eric Duncan's travel history, hospital says; Thomas Eric Duncan denied contact with Ebola in Liberia, official says; "The fact that he knew and he left the country is unpardonable," Liberia's President says; So far there's no sign anyone else in Texas has contracted Ebola, officials say

Days before he became the first person diagnosed with Ebola on American soil, Thomas Eric Duncan answered "no" to questions about whether he had cared for a patient with the deadly virus. Before leaving Liberia, Duncan also answered no to a question about whether he had touched the body of someone who died in an area affected by the disease, said Binyah Kesselly, board chairman of the Liberia Airport Authority. Witnesses say Duncan had been helping Ebola patients in Liberia. Liberian community leader Tugbeh Chieh Tugbeh said Duncan was caring for an Ebola-infected patient at a residence in Paynesville City, just outside Monrovia.

Earlier Thursday, Kesselly told CNN that the authority "will seek to prosecute" if Duncan lied on his health screening questionnaire before leaving West Africa. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told Canadian public broadcaster CBC on Thursday that she would consult with lawyers to decide what to do with Duncan when he returns home. "The fact that he knew (he was exposed to the virus) and he left the country is unpardonable, quite frankly," Johnson Sirleaf told CBC. "I just hope that nobody else gets infected." "With the U.S. doing so much to help us fight Ebola, and again one of our compatriots didn't take due care, and so, he's gone there and ... put some Americans in a state of fear, and put them at some risk, and so I feel very saddened by that and very angry with him, to tell you the truth."

Duncan's family said he hadn't mentioned any exposure to Ebola in Liberia. His girlfriend says he told her he hadn't been in contact with anyone with Ebola. Wilfred Smallwood, Duncan's half-brother, said Thursday that he doesn't believe Duncan knew he had Ebola when he left Liberia for the United States. But he said it isn't out of the ordinary to come to the assistance of suffering people. Asked about whether Duncan had contact with Ebola patients, he said, "(it's) what we do in Liberia -- our tradition is to help somebody who needs help."

Screened several times before leaving Liberia

I do not know if that is a good idea to ship people with the virus to the U.S. and that it might encourage people with the virus to do the same thing and get to the U.S. any way possible for their treatment.

 

[DIRECTOR]

^ I agree! It's an insane idea to fly Ebola sufferers over to America. Look at what just ONE case has done, already! Yeah, over there in Africa things will eventually get outta' hand, due to the exponential rise in Ebola cases; but it would be smarter if America (and the rest of the West!) would put up emergency hospitals in the countries where needed in Western and Central Africa. It wouldn't have to be expensive, neither. Just beds under a roof! The climate is warm and there would be no need of heating fascilities. Just good roofing over vast long medical wards to take car of the coming HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CARRIERS would be sufficient. HUNDREDS of smart, patriotic Western Africans could be purposely flown-out to America/Europe/Australia to be taught specialised nursing/containment skills to be able to help-out in their own countries after a few weeks of learning.

I SERIOUSLY SEE ALL COMMERCIAL AIRLINE FLIGHTS TO AND FROM WESTERN AFRICA BEING STOPPED BY CHRISTMAS TIME...

 

[waltky]

121 Dead In One Day Of Ebola...

US military to put up tent at Liberia Ebola clinic
Oct 6,`14 -- Poor infrastructure, difficulties with equipment and torrential rains have slowed work for the U.S. military's initial response to the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa, but it is now ready to start erecting the main tent for a field hospital in Liberia.

Lt. Col. Jason Brown, who was at the site near the airport in the capital Monrovia, said work is supposed to begin Monday afternoon on the main structure of the 25-bed clinic that will treat health care workers infected with Ebola. It should be ready to accept patients at the end of the month, according to spokesman Chuck Prichard at the U.S. military's Africa Command. "Every time it rains it slows things down," said Brown, noting that construction for the field hospital was supposed to begin Monday morning and has been pushed to the afternoon. Military teams have also been slowed by equipment that's broken down - including the steering on a road grader - or mix-ups in the delivery of supplies.

On any construction job, there are delays, Brown said, but Liberia presents added challenges. "Imagine those same frustrations multiplied by a country that has challenges with their infrastructure and challenges with the schedule," he said. But, he said, engineers from the Army, Navy and Marines "have workarounds and solutions for everything." The Ebola outbreak is believed to have killed more than 3,400 people in West Africa and has taken the biggest toll in Liberia. There aren't enough beds in isolation units to keep up with the hundreds who get sick each week.

Volunteers push cart with a man suspected of having Ebola virus, to a health centre in central area Monrovia, Liberia

The U.S. has also promised to build 17 other Ebola treatment centers, which would have space for 100 patients each. Work on at least two of the clinics has begun, Prichard said. While the space is sorely needed, some experts are worried about who will staff them. The three hardest-hit countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone had too few doctors and nurses to begin with, and a tremendous number of infections in health care workers during the outbreak has only further reduced their numbers. With more than 370 health care workers sickened by the disease so far, many other clinicians are afraid to care for Ebola patients.

The White House said President Obama plans to meet with his national security advisers on Monday to discuss the Ebola outbreak and the administration's response. The Pentagon's spokesman said Friday that up to 4,000 U.S. troops could be deployed to West Africa. Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said the military has begun medical testing for Ebola at two new labs in Liberia. Kirby said that the service members are not going to treat patients and are not expected to come in contact with anyone who is infected. There are about 230 U.S. troops deployed for the Ebola mission now. About two dozen are in Senegal setting up a transportation center and the rest are in Liberia.

News from The Associated Press

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Sierra Leone records 121 Ebola deaths in a single day
Sun Oct 5, 2014 ) - Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease appeared in the West African country more than four months ago, government health statistics showed on Sunday.

The figures, which covered the period through Saturday, put the total number of deaths at 678, up from 557 the day before. The daily statistics compiled by Sierra Leone's Emergency Operations Centre also showed 81 new cases of the hemorrhagic fever. Ebola was first reported in Guinea in March and has since spread to neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone in what has become the worst epidemic of the disease since Ebola was identified in 1976. Smaller outbreaks in Nigeria and Senegal were brought under control. The United States last week confirmed its first Ebola case, a Liberian national who had traveled to Texas.

A health worker takes the temperature of people at a news conference on the opening of a new Ebola clinic, outside Monrovia

The overall death toll from the epidemic reached 3,439 out of a total of 7,492 cases in West Africa and the United States as of Oct. 1, the World Health Organization said last week. The U.N. agency's statistics varied from those compiled by Sierra Leone. After an initial slow response, international assistance and supplies are now pouring into West Africa. The United States is deploying around 4,000 military personnel to the region to support efforts to combat the outbreak in Liberia, the country worst hit by the disease.

Britain and China have sent personnel to Sierra Leone. Cuba dispatched a 165-member medical team, including specialists and nurses, to Sierra Leone last week. The country's deputy health and sanitation minister Madina Rahman said on Saturday that the Cuban team's mission would last at least six months. She said the team would be deployed to areas across Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone records 121 Ebola deaths in a single day Reuters