Ebola on the horizon?

[T.Lex]

Friendly word of warning to INGOtarians.

U.S. CDC cautions against unprotected sex with Ebola survivors | GlobalPost

Until more information is known, CDC recommends that if male survivors choose to have sex - oral, vaginal, or anal - they should use a condom every time.

 

[T.Lex]

You want the good news or bad news first?

Ok, the good news - Liberia is a day away from officially being ebola-free. w00t! Go Liberia!

Bad news - live ebola virus has been found in another bodily fluid after the patient recovered from the primary infection. For some reason, this creeps me out more than the private-part bodily fluid.
Ebola 'lives on in eye of US survivor' - BBC News

Now a team, including scientists from Emory University School of Medicine, say it could also persist in the eye and lead to further damage.
Their 43-year-old patient recovered from a serious Ebola infection that needed weeks of intensive care.
But shortly after being discharged, he had a burning sensation in his eyes and suffered worsening blurry vision.
Tests showed the fluid in his left eye had live Ebola virus.

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

YIKES!

 

[Cldedhnds]

Very interesting to see the consequences if it can survive in the body somewhere after "treatment".

 

[Double T]

why surprised? herpes lies dormant on the spinal cord...

 

[pudly]

So, Liberia is Ebola-free, but the US is not. Sigh...

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

Can it be transmitted post recovery? I want to know that. Iif so, some ticking time bombs out there.

 

[T.Lex]

Can it be transmitted post recovery? I want to know that. Iif so, some ticking time bombs out there.

Yes, at least so far they know that it is transmitted post-recovery in semen. They're not sure of other fluids.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

So, I'm definitely going to have to stop loaning my contact lenses to that new guy at work with the funny accent.

 

[T.Lex]

So, I'm definitely going to have to stop loaning my contact lenses to that new guy at work with the funny accent.

First, as a guy who wore contact lenses for 20 years: ick.

Second, Liberia is ebola-free.
Liberia declared Ebola-free after weeks of no cases - BBC News

But, in a SMH misuse of a great metaphor, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said, "We will celebrate our communities which have taken responsibility and participated in fighting this unknown enemy and finally we've crossed the Rubicon."

Well, no ma'am, you did not. I do not think that phrase means what you think it means.

Point of no return - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• "Crossing the Rubicon" is a metaphor for deliberately proceeding past a point of no return. The phrase originates with Julius Caesar's seizure of power in the Roman Republic in 49 BC. Roman generals were strictly forbidden from bringing their troops into the home territory of the Republic in Italy. On 10 January, Caesar led his army across the Rubicon River, crossing from the province of Cisalpine Gaul into Italy. After this, if he did not triumph, he would be executed. Therefore the term "the Rubicon" is used as a synonym to the "point of no return".

• "Alea iacta est" ("The die is cast"), which is reportedly what Caesar said at the crossing of the Rubicon. This metaphor comes from gambling with dice: once the die or dice have been thrown, all bets are irrevocable, even before the dice have come to rest.

Great reference, misapplied.

 

[T.Lex]

Good news.
Ebola crisis: UN's Ebola mission HQ in Ghana to close - BBC News

Deaths and mortality are way down, although they continue to find unknown lines of the outbreak. It seems like it is on a very low simmer in some areas. Overall, though, things seem under control.

 

[T.Lex]

Well, as with most things ebola-related, may have spoken too soon.
Ebola spikes again in Guinea, Sierra Leone: WHO

Small increases - numbers still < 20 new cases per week - but it is the upward trend that has people worried.

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

Sheesh! This has been one hell of an outbreak. It just keeps going. I hate to think what the next one will be like.

 

[T.Lex]

Yeah, I've read different things trying to forecast what The Next One will be. IMHO, they range from silly to staggering. Only time will tell.

My gut reaction, though, is that ebola will be pretty well controlled from now on (unless there's a significant mutation). Dealing with 15-20, or even double that, won't be a problem for them from an infrastructure standpoint. If it tops 100 in a week again, with significant mortality, that'll be different.

 

[T.Lex]

Well, slow simmer.
Ebola outbreak: New cases in Freetown, Sierra Leone - BBC News

Just a few, but cases still popping up in Sierra Leone and Guinea.

 

[T.Lex]

Aaaaand its back. Ebola in Liberia.
Ebola crisis: Liberia quarantine after death - BBC News

Liberia's authorities have quarantined the area where a 17-year-old boy died of Ebola.
This is the first reported case of Ebola in Liberia since it was declared free of the disease seven weeks ago.

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

Oh crap!

 

[T.Lex]

Simmering summer.
Africa's Ebola outbreak has not run its course: U.N. envoy | Reuters

Africa's Ebola epidemic has not run its course and around 30 people are still getting infected each week, the United Nations' special envoy for the disease said on Monday.
...
He said under normal circumstances, an infection rate of 30 people a week would be considered "a major, major outbreak".
"Probably about one third of these people are not coming from the contact list, which means they are surprise cases, and that’s a big worry," Nabarro earlier told a conference organised by the World Health Organization.

Or there's a transmission mechanism that we don't recognize.

 

[subtlesixer03]

Simmering summer.
Africa's Ebola outbreak has not run its course: U.N. envoy | Reuters


Or there's a transmission mechanism that we don't recognize.

This is what ive been sayin for a long while...

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Liberia confirms new Ebola case as outbreak spreads