2014 Ebola Outbreak

[Meresgi]

I know someone that blames Ebola on Obama cause they are both from Africa. Today I asked if they survive then its also Obama's fault? He said no cause nobody survives Ebola, cause he read it in a book in middle school. LOL

Future republican candidate

[Drex]

tell him about how since elephants never forget, the NSA is training them to assist in surveillance. then point out that they, too, are from africa. if by some chance he knows about indian elephants, tell him they migrated there.... from africa.


get him goin on a full-blown african conspiracy. africa being poor is a facade to make people not care about what theyre doing! they've been manipulating the UN to help them build their military! The black helicopters aren't actually painted black, they just contain africans! GOVERNMENT AGENTS ALWAYS WEAR BLACK SUITS.

don't forget to point out the "coincidence" that african elephants have africa shaped ears. you can't explain that.

[Brill Weave]

don't forget to point out the "coincidence" that african elephants have africa shaped ears. you can't explain that.

[Waraji]

So glad I saved this.

[tyven]

And now look at you. Which year did you pick up the foot locker catalog that changed your life for good?

i actually worked at footlocker in high school. it was p dope

[Mojo]

The latest data.

Spoiler: show

[6souls]

Ebola outbreak believed to have been started by a 2-year-old

The worst outbreak of Ebola, which has killed 961 people and triggered an international public health emergency, may have started with a 2-year-old patient in a village in Guinea.

About eight months ago, the toddler, whom researchers believe may have been Patient Zero, suffered fever, black stool and vomiting. Just four days after showing the painful symptoms, the child died on December 6, 2013, according to a report published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Scientists don't know exactly how the toddler contracted the virus. Ebola is spread from animals to humans through infected fluids or tissue, according to the World Health Organization.

"In Africa, infection has been documented through the handling of infected chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines," WHO says, though researchers think fruit bats are what they call the virus's "natural host."

Researchers who published the paper this year found a chain of illnesses in the toddler's family.

After the child's death, the mother suffered bleeding symptoms and died on December 13, according to the report. Then, the toddler's 3-year-old sister died on December 29, with symptoms including fever, vomiting and black diarrhea. The illness subsequently affected the toddler's grandmother, who died on January 1, in the family's village of Meliandou in Guéckédou.

The area in southern Guinea is close to the Sierra Leone and Liberia borders.

The illness spread outside their village after several people attended the grandmother's funeral.

Two of the funeral attendees appeared to bring back the virus to their village, and it spread to health care workers and other family members who took care of infected patients.

"A health care worker from Guéckédou with suspected disease, seems to have triggered the spread of the virus to Macenta, Nzérékoré, and Kissidougou in February 2014," stated the report, noting that more Guinea towns were affected.

Clusters of the disease popped up in early 2014 in these areas, with the initial patients suffering fever, vomiting and severe diarrhea, according to the report.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/11/health...t=hp_inthenews
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...4505#t=article

[Athas]

Anyone else have a swine flu flashback just now?

http://cdn.randomfunnypicture.com/pi...-swine-flu.jpg

[vagus]

Ebola is horrible.Chances of contracting it is unlikely.

[mallister]

mob destroys ebola center because ebola's a hoax. way to go.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jinamoore/tw...iberia#1n3sri5

[Helm]

Hope they enjoy their ebola. `- . ) derp

[Not Kuno]

mob destroys ebola center because ebola's a hoax. way to go.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jinamoore/tw...iberia#1n3sri5

The first two words of the story says everything:

MONROVIA, Liberia


That's all that needed to be said.

[BaneTheBrawler]

african illuminati

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

[Mojo]

Latest data, etc.

http://i.imgur.com/eNpqZ0a.png

Also, it's probably been said already, but I really wish the news would stop finishing every update with "Ebola can kill up to 90% of its victims".

[Byrthnoth]

I hate the phrase "can * up to", which is essentially meaningless. However, your graph isn't exactly conclusive. The lower end of the graph (back towards May) indicates that most people were only being diagnosed with Ebola when they died. The lines start pulling apart as people respond to the crisis and start diagnosing before death. Beyond that, you'd expect the deaths line to lag the cases line by the average detection -> death time and then be shifted down by the survival rate.

The average time from first symptoms to death is 8-9 days. Based on that and your graph, I'd estimate about a 60-70% mortality rate from this epidemic, which is consistent with wikipedia. A case-by-case survival/death rate would really be necessary, though.


But yeah, a 90% mortality rate is just another case of the media being a hyperbolic echo chamber.

[Qalbert]

THE MEDIA HAS HYPEREBOLA???

[Niiro]

Yes, and you can catch it from watching too much.

Tune in at 11:00 to find out how you can reduce your risk.

[BaneTheBrawler]

that's why i never watch news programs or political debates/speeches/whatever. almost everything they say is just a completely meaningless string of words. kinda like this:



reddit top comments are usually a better source for information. BG, too.

[6souls]

Ebola might be in Sacramento, California - http://www.kmbc.com/national/patient...osure/27633718