Nurses put on protective gear to treat Ebola patients in the southern Guinean town of Guéckédou. Photograph: Médecins sans Frontières/AFP/Getty Images
Guinea faces Ebola epidemic on unprecedented scale, doctors warn
- theguardian.com, Monday 31 March 2014 11.33 EDT
Guinea faces an Ebola epidemic on an unprecedented scale as it battles to contain confirmed cases now scattered across several locations that are far apart, the medical charity Médecins sans Frontières said.
The warning from an organisation used to tackling Ebola in central Africa came after Guinea's president appealed for calm as the number of deaths linked to an outbreak on the border with Liberia and Sierra Leone passed 80.
The outbreak of one of the world's most lethal infectious diseases has alarmed a number of governments with weak health systems, prompting Senegal to close its border with Guinea and other neighbours to restrict travel and cross-border exchanges.
Figures released overnight by Guinea's health ministry showed that there had been 78 deaths from 122 cases of suspected Ebola since January, up from 70. Of these, there were 22 laboratory-confirmed cases of Ebola, the ministry said.
"We are facing an epidemic of a magnitude never before seen in terms of the distribution of cases in the country," said Mariano Lugli, the co-ordinator of Médecins sans Frontières' project in Conakry, the capital of Guinea.
The organisation said on Monday it had been involved in dealing with nearly all other recent Ebola outbreaks, mostly in remote parts of central African nations, but Guinea is fighting to contain the disease in numerous locations, some of which are hundreds of miles apart.
"This geographical spread is worrisome because it will greatly complicate the tasks of the organisations working to control the epidemic," Lugli added.
The outbreak of Ebola – a virus which has a fatality rate of up to 90% – has centred on Guinea's south-east. But it took authorities six weeks to identify the disease, allowing it to spread over borders and to more populated areas.
Cases were confirmed in Conakry last week, bringing the disease – previously limited to remote, lightly populated areas – to a sprawling Atlantic Ocean port of two million people.
Guinea's president, Alpha Condé, appealed for calm late on Sunday. "My government and I are very worried about this epidemic," he said, ordering Guineans to take strict precautions to avoid the further spread of the disease.
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Permalink Reply by Christopher on
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This can indeed be a scary news situation for many, and it should not be trivialized, either.
But how significant, or thought provoking should this be, relative to other situations involving a loss (deaths) of human life; many of which, are actually premeditated death sentences.
Former President (39th) of The United States of America: "There were about 40 million people killed in the Second World War, the most devastating war in history. There have been four times that many girls killed by their own parents when they were either born, they were strangled because they were girls and not boys, or they now find through sonograms that the fetus is female and they abort it so it won't be born as a girl."
Just one, huge, and astoundingly sad example.
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Permalink Reply by Not mainstreamer on
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Death world total: 110-120 mill per year
- Death by medicine: the most common desease
- Coronary heart disease: 7 mill? http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/coronary-heart-di...
- Lung cancer: 1 mill?
- Cancer: 7 mill?
- Death by milk: millions?
(10 deaths per 100,000 per year = 0.7 mill world total per year)
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Permalink Reply by Patriot Pete on
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Who knows what can happen when you eat bats and monkeys. Didn't AIDS start from monkeys somehow?
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Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on
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In 1962, under the cover of cancer research, the United States charts a path to commit premeditated murder, the “Special Virus” program begins on February 12th. Dr. Len Hayflick sets up a U.S. mycoplasma laboratory at Stanford University. Many believe the “Special Virus” program began in November 1961 with a Phizer contract. Beginning in 1963 and for every year thereafter, the “Special Virus” program conducted annual progress reviews at Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA. The annual meetings are representative of the aggressive nature in which the United States pursued the development of AIDS. In 1964, the United States Congress gave full support for the leukemia/lymphoma (AIDS) virus research. In 1967, the National Academy of Sciences launched a full scale assault on Africa. The CIA (Technical Services Division) acknowledged its secret inoculator program. In 1969, Fort Detrick told world scientists and the Pentagon asked for more money, they knew they could make AIDS.
Nixon’s July 18 secret memo to Congress on “Overpopulation” serves as the start of the paper trail of the AIDS Holocaust. In 1970, President Nixon signed PL91-213 and John D. Rockefeller, III became the “Population Czar.” Nixon’s August 10 National Security Memo leaves no doubt as to the genocidal nature of depopulation. In 1971, Progress Report #8 is issued. Eventually the Special Virus program will issue 15 reports and over 20,000 scientific papers. But I digress ;)
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Once I read Jim Phelps about "The discovery of the causation for AIDS epidemics", which seems to be about immune system being disabled by metal poisoning. As we have learned later, there is no infectious virus that causes AIDS (I don't remember source any more ... check "Why HIV was never discovered")
Similar quest
One of the most important findings was that a new measles vaccine used in low-income countries was associated with a two-fold increase in mortality among girls. This discovery led to the withdrawal of the vaccine. Had it not been withdrawn, it could have cost at least ½ million additional female deaths per year in Africa alone. ... The Bandim Health Project is led by Peter Aaby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandim_Health_Project
The cause seems to be related to poisoning by vaccines, destroying immune system. No viruses here, the vaccines are made dead
Similar: The best way to create cancer is by radiation.
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Permalink Reply by karen arsenault on
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Here is a link to track Ebola and other epidemics....http://outbreaks.globalincidentmap.com/home.php
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Permalink Reply by Cryptocurrency on
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Thanx
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- NPR (blog) - 1 day agoDoctors Without Borders has called the current outbreak of the Ebola virus in Guinea "unprecedented" — not because of the number of victims ...
- Fox News - 12 hours ago
- USA TODAY - 5 hours ago
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Bushmeat being prepared for cooking in Ghana, 2013. Human consumption of equatorial animals in Africa in the form of Bushmeat has been linked to the transmission of diseases to people, including ebola.[18] (75 cases per year)
Canned food found sold i U.S. Human consumption of canned food has been linked to the developement of lethal diseases, including cardiovascular disease. (7 mill. cases per year). Deaths are seldom reported in media.
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- The Guardian - 3 hours agoFear and frustration as Guinea struggles to contain Ebola outbreak ... body on a stretcher at a centre for victims of the Ebola virus in Guekedou, ...
- BBC News - 7 hours ago
- Salon - 2 hours ago
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