Guinea declares health emergency as Ebola outbreak worsens


Ebola is still with us — remember the 3 week incubation period!

Patient with Ebola-like symptoms quarantined in Canada as UK develops new vaccine


Lets hope it isn’t Ebola!

WHO Warns “No End In Sight” As 170 Ebola Healthcare Workers Now Infected


Just keeps getting worse

Ebola Update: Spanish priest evacuated to Madrid dies in hospital


More bad news.

Nigeria Man Tested For Ebola In Hong Kong


Nigeria Man Tested For Ebola In Hong Kong; Would Be First Case Of The Disease In Asia if tests are positive!

Re-Post from ZERO HEDGE Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/10/2014 09:55 -0400

With increasingly more cases – for now, largely isolated – of suspicious Ebola infections reported out of Africa and around the globe, it was only a matter of time before one of the world’s most densely populated megapolises at 17,024 people per square mile, Hong Kong, raised the alarm as well. Which it did moments ago when Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection said on Sunday that a man from Nigeria is being tested for the deadly Ebola virus at Princess Margaret Hospital. If confirmed, it will be the first case of the disease in Asia.

From Xinhua:

The 31-year-old who had been vomiting and suffering from diarrhea — both symptoms of the disease — arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday.

He was sent to the hospital from ChungKing Mansions where he had been staying at a guesthouse.

More than 900 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The World Health Organization has described the outbreak as a global emergency and the worst in four decades.

Hong Kong’s RTHK adds, that the 31-year-old Nigerian man showed symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea after arriving in Hong Kong on Aug. 7. He was sent to Queen Elizabeth Hospital from ChungKing Mansions in Hong Kong’s Kowloon area, before being transferred to Princess Margaret Hospital.

Red Alert! CDC Admits Ebola is Airborne, Changes Criteria to ‘Being Within 3 Feet’ or ‘Same Room’


They finally admit it!

Want to Know What Martial Law over Ebola Will Look Like? Check Out What’s Happening Right Now in Africa


All I can say is keep informed!

Nigerian With Ebola Symptoms Quarantined In Canada…


Way to close to home — if Ebola is in Canada it will get here as well!

What Ebola outbreak would look like in U.S.


Lots of good information here!

WHO Declares “Health Emergency”, Admits “Stretched To Limit” On “Out Of Control” Ebola Outbreak As Nigeria Cases Soar


Re-Post from ZEROHEDGE

CDC Director Frieden’s worst nightmare is coming true – Nigeria, of which he was “deeply concerned” due to the population density in Lagos for instance, has admitted 139 patients are now being monitored for Ebola (up from 8 mere days ago). This, along with “the outbreak moving faster than we can control it,” drive the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare West Africa’s Ebola epidemic, an “extraordinary event” and now constitutes an international health risk. As Reuters reports, the agency said that, all states with Ebola transmission – so far Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone – should declare a national emergency, as former WHO official warned “governments appear to not have been engaged as necessary.”

Nigeria has escalated rapidly – just as CDC Director Frieden had feared:

  • *NIGERIA SAYS TWO MORE CASES OF EBOLA CONFIRMED IN LAGOS
  • *NIGERIA SAYS 6 SUSPECTED CASES OF EBOLA BEING INVESTIGATED
  • *NIGERIA SAYS 139 PEOPLE BEING MONITORED FOR EBOLA

As Reuters reports,

The Geneva-based U.N. health agency said the possible consequences of a further international spread of the outbreak, which has killed almost 1,000 people in four West African countries, were “particularly serious” in view of the virulence of the virus.

“A coordinated international response is deemed essential to stop and reverse the international spread of Ebola,” the WHO said in a statement after a two-day meeting of its emergency committee on Ebola.

The declaration of an international emergency will have the effect of raising the level of vigilance on the virus.

“The outbreak is moving faster than we can control it,” the WHO’s director-general Margaret Chan told reporters on a telephone briefing from the WHO’s Geneva headquarters.

“The declaration … will galvanize the attention of leaders of all countries at the top level. It cannot be done by the ministries of health alone.”

Contagion is still not well understood…

It also said inexperience in dealing with Ebola outbreaks and misperceptions of the disease, including how it is transmitted, “continue to be a major challenge in some communities”.

“If we do not in global solidarity come together to help these countries, they will be set back for many years,” Chan said. She noted the three hardest-hit nations had only begun to emerge and rebuild after “years of conflict and difficulties”.

What is fascinating is that WHO does not ask for international trade or travel bans

  • *WHO: NO GENERAL BAN ON TRAVEL OR TRADE
  • *WHO: SHOULDN’T BE INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL OF EBOLA CASES, CONTACTS

because:

  • *WHO’S CHAN: STOPPING AIRLINE ROUTES WOULD HURT ECONOMIES

Which is a somewhat stunning reason and not shared by Russia:

If flights from the countries affected by the Ebola virus are not halted, the disease could reach Europe and become a new plague, Alexei Pushkov, the head of the State Duma international affairs committee, said Tuesday.

“Unless all flights are stopped from Ebola affected countries, there is a risk it will reach Europe, becoming the plague of the 21st century,” Pushkov said on Twitter.