Ebola

[chesters1]

 

even more surprising it was unloaded and removed exactly the same

good job hes being taken to a remote high tech high security hospital and not to one of the biggest cities in europe .....DOH

at lest if all of london citizens die a large number will be foreigners,quick quick build that high speed rail link to the north we could take out a load more if were lucky

Edited August 25, 2014 by chesters1

[rob.imk2]

My thinking is could this chap not be treated where he came from rather than treat him here .

[Steve Walker]

His chances of survival, and the chances of those who look after him not catching it are better here.

[Phone]

All,

 

This may belong in "have a laugh".

 

Z MAPP first identified as a drug candidate in January 2014 that has, thus far, proved to be 100% therapeutic for Ebola cannot be used until it undergoes a 2 year "safe and effective" trial. Approval for manufacturing could take another year.

 

Phone

Edited August 27, 2014 by Phone

[Ken L]

Might be old news (relating to just the missionaries) or "100% therapeutic for Ebola" might mean that the Spanish priest and the Liberian doctor who also received it felt a bit better before promptly dying.

The British guy who has just been flown home has also been given it but so for, the survival rate with Z-Mapp looks to be about the same as without it.

 

Interesting events in DR Congo. They've had over 70 deaths from what they were calling a haemorrhagic enteritis but have recently announced that two blood tests are positive for Ebola that is a different strain from the one in West Africa.

 

The only good news is that Nigeria does indeed seem to have dodged the bullet.

[Phone]

All,

 

Just an "I told you so" update.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29034682

 

Phone

[Ken L]

Just looking back at post #92 from 19 August, where I said that "A little over 900 deaths on 06 August and now, 12 days later it's over 1,200".

Roughly the same time period again and the death toll is now more than 1,900 people.

A 50% increase in the death toll every 12 days will see over 14,000 dead in the next 60 days and if it were to continue at the same unchecked rate, it would reach two million in six months.

That's a sobering thought.

[Phone]

Ken,

 

Compounding Ebola by the rule of 72 is scare mongering.

 

Phone

 

PS you can thank all of us that use tobacco now

[Ken L]

Exponential progressions are properly scary and you can bet that the advisors of just about every political power broker on the planet are using them to explain why money and resources need to be urgently funnelled into Africa to stop this thing.

You want to be really rocked back on your heels, just run the same sort of calculation over a longer period - say 9 or 12months.

 

 

BTW: Just did the back of a fag packet calculation for 12 months and it comes out at close to a billion - like I said, "properly scary".

Edited September 4, 2014 by Ken L

[Phone]

Ken,

 

Given there are 7 billion(ish) of us - calculate your "stats" for a generation.

 

Phone

 

As for fags - I know I know (I said I'd NEVER pay fifty cents for a pack) yet I still smoke. Best I've ever done is to cut back to "0" for 20 yrs. My comment was intended to point out the oxymoron that "tobacco is now the source for saving the world from disease - Ebola"