Fresh Ebola outbreaks

http://www.enca.com/africa/liberias-new-ebola-cases-shared-dead-dog

Liberia's new Ebola cases 'shared dead dog'
AFRICAFriday 3 July 2015 - 10:45am

MONROVIA - Liberia confirmed a third Ebola case on Thursday, nearly two months after it was declared Ebola free, and officials said they were investigating whether the disease had spread through animals before resurfacing.

Dr Moses Massaquoi, case management team leader for Liberia's Ebola task force, said the three villagers who had tested positive for the disease "have a history of having had dog meat together." Dog meat is commonly eaten in Liberia.

The first new Liberian sufferer, 17-year-old Abraham Memaigar, died on Sunday in the village of Nedowein, about 50 km (30 miles) from the capital Monrovia. Two others have since tested positive in the village.

Some locals said Memaigar and others in the village had recently dug up and eaten a dead dog.

It has not been proved that dogs can carry the virus, although humans have been infected by eating monkey flesh in past outbreaks. A number of West African nations have banned the consumption of bush meat as a precaution.

Massaquoi said the response team was investigating whether domestic animals might be carrying the virus and was also checking on deaths of hundreds of cattle in remote Lofa county.

Liberia, worst hit by the West African Ebola outbreak last year, had been declared Ebola free on May 9 even as more cases emerged in neighbouring Sierra Leone and Guinea. Liberia accounts for more than 4,800 of the 11,220 deaths in the West African outbreak.

"The two (latest) live cases are 24 years old and 27 years old. They are stable," Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah said on Thursday.

None of the new victims is known to have travelled to Guinea or Sierra Leone, and Nedowein is far from the borders, leading to speculation that there could be hidden pockets of the virus or new means of transmission.

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It did seem to have gone away rather quickly.....

This is seriously bad:

http://news.sky.com/story/1566472/british-ebola-nurse-in-a-serious-condition

A British nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone last year has been readmitted to hospital with an "unusual late complication" from the infection.

Pauline Cafferkey was transferred from the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow to the Royal Free London hospital this morning in a military aircraft under supervision.

In a statement, the Royal Free said she is in a serious condition.

"She will now be treated in isolation in the hospital's high-level isolation unit under nationally agreed guidelines," the statement read.

"The Ebola virus can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person while they are symptomatic so the risk to the general public remains low and the NHS has well established and practised infection control procedures in place."

Professor Paul Cosford, medical director at Public Health England, said the Scottish health authorities will be following up on a number of close contacts of Ms Cafferkey's as a precaution.

he nurse is believed to have carried out vaccinations on children in the last couple of months.

One viewer wrote to Sky News saying she was a "very competent nurse, done my boys jabs, lovely lassie, hope she's ok. Still scares you a wee bit though".

Another Sky News viewer said: "She did my daughters jabs too, only a couple of months back".

The nurse was first diagnosed with Ebola in December last year and spent almost a month in isolation at the Royal Free before being discharged in January.

She was treated with an experimental anti-viral drug and blood taken from survivors of the disease.

However, Professor John Edmunds, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the Ebola virus can occasionally persist for some months in certain tissues within survivors.

"The risk of transmission from these individuals appears to be very low," he said.

"However, with so many survivors in West Africa now, there is a risk that further outbreaks can be triggered, which is why authorities have to remain very vigilant."

Ms Cafferkey won a Pride of Britain award last month and met the Prime Minister's wife Samantha Cameron at Downing Street along with other winners.

Her complications come after the three West African countries at the centre of the Ebola epidemic recorded their first week with no new cases since the outbreak was declared in March 2014.

More than 11,000 people have died in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to figures from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

OMG.  Hope this is not a catastrophe for the children and others.

Please no.  Not the children. 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ebola-nurse-pauline-cafferkey-live-now-critically-ill-after-her-condition-deteriorated-hospital-says-a6693726.html

Pauline Cafferkey, a Scottish nurse being treated for complications from Ebola, is now "critically ill" after her condition deteriorated, hospital staff have said.

Ms Cafferkey, 39, was admitted to the isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north west London on Friday after becoming unwell in Glasgow.


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Why am I not surprised?  I do feel for her and hope that she has not contaminated anyone else.

What about all the other Ebola patients that were seemingly 'cured' by vaccines taken from previous survivors? I don't like ANY of this....

Bonny, I know.  I don't like it either.  Who knows how many thousands have been contaminated?

ETA:  How many of those so called asylum seekers from Africa are infected?

That is one of many things to do with 'refugees' I try not to think about, Lily, as NO checks seem to be being made on the hundreds of thousands pouring into Europe.

The ones the UK are taking direct from the camps have been vetted, checked, etc, and tend to be the most vulnerable, not the ones with most money and sharpest elbows.

A couple of days ago on Austrian TV there was a doctor who had worked on the last Ebola outbreak and he was saying that this has happened before; Ebola appears to be eradicated and then, some time later it will appear in someone who shows as having been cured. He described it as being able to lie dormant for years, rather like bubonic, pneumonic and septicaemic plagues, which can 'disappear' for hundreds of years and then reappear suddenly and without warning. LL

What awful thoughts, LL.  I guess it's one of nature's way to keep the population controlled.

Ebola lingers in semen for nine months.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34530948

The implications of that are horrifying, LL.

lily wrote:The implications of that are horrifying, LL.

If men were sensible, and they aren't where their desires are involved, then the sales of condoms should skyrocket! LL

Whilst I believe that some are, LL, some could care less.

Trouble in, there are also all kinds of superstitions in Ebola Central...

lily wrote:Whilst I believe that some are, LL, some could care less.

Yep, like the ones who said they couldn't get AIDS cos it couldn't happen to them and went on infecting others.   I think it's called HITSS - Head in the Sand Syndrome.   LL

It's worse than that, LL - it's ones like those who believe that if they have sex with a virgin girl, their AIDS would be cured.....the unfortunate children don't get a choice in the matter.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/2311067.stm

South Africa is in the grip of an unprecedented increase in the most despicable crime - baby rape. Allan Little reports for BBC Two's Correspondent on the devastating phenomenon and talks to the individuals involved in a case that shook the world.
Some surveys suggest that up to a third of South Africans believe in an ancient and bizarre "cure" for AIDS.

This "cure" involves having sex with a virgin in the belief that it will cleanse the body of venereal diseases like AIDS.

It was this belief which led to the rape of an eight-month-old baby called Tshepang in Louisvale, South Africa...more horror at link.

There is sick and there is ****** sick.