Liberia Confirms new Ebola Outbreak - Polidicks

[quote]MONROVIA, LIBERIA— A Liberian woman has died of Ebola in a hospital in Monrovia shortly after being admitted, becoming the sixth confirmed case of the virus since it resurfaced last month after a seven-week lull, a senior medical official said on Tuesday. The victim from Montserrado County, which contains Monrovia, is thought to be linked to the other five cases from neighboring Margibi County, where the disease reappeared. Her detection raised fears that the infection may be spreading in a new area of the country. "There is one new case. This time, the response area is Montserrado County. The person died in Monrovia," Liberia's chief medical officer, physician Francis Ketteh, told Reuters.[/quote] Oh great.. [quote]More than 11,200 people have died from Ebola since the epidemic began in December 2013. Liberia was declared Ebola-free on May 9 but reported a new case nearly two months later. Health officials say the virus probably remained latent in the country during that period and could have been reactivated by a survivor, via sexual transmission[/quote] :tinfoil: Read all of it here: [url]http://www.voanews.com/content/liberia-confirms-new-ebola-case-as-outbreak-spreads/2860888.html[/url]

An outbreak has been also spotted in Sierra Leone.

God damnit guys.

it ain't over till it's over

I'm not surprised. Poor African nations aren't exactly known to keep the best sanitation standards.

Get it together, Africa. This outbreak was over a few months ago.

Jesus fucking dickchrist, not fucking [i]again[/i].

Unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised if a good chunk of the rest of Africa (save for the more developed areas like SA, Egypt, etc) had atleast a few cases period.

Great, can't wait to see more ebola themed stuff being sold, ebola related news and outright panic from everyone when someone sneezes.

As long as the Africans keep eating bushmeat, there will be ebola outbreaks.

[QUOTE=Orkel;48213219]As long as the Africans keep eating bushmeat, there will be ebola outbreaks.[/QUOTE] The governments have tried to outlaw it, but it's not a feasible action because a lot of people need it to survive.

[QUOTE=SuperPlamz;48209557]I'm not surprised. Poor African nations aren't exactly known to keep the best sanitation standards.[/QUOTE] Considering the stuff is only transmitted from direct body fluid contact I'm surprised still how far these diseases manage to spread [editline]16th July 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Orkel;48213219]As long as the Africans keep eating bushmeat, there will be ebola outbreaks.[/QUOTE] Is this true? I thought the original source of Ebola was a mystery.

Ebola Panic Part 2: Panic Harder. It'll be interesting to see how this one plays out. Is the news going to blow this one up like they did the last one?

I wonder what the colour of this outbreak will be, hospital green was so last season.

[QUOTE=Faunze;48220208]I wonder what the colour of this outbreak will be, hospital green was so last season.[/QUOTE] Maybe it'll be Blood Red

They really need to break, or at least contract the tradition of communal washing of the body at funerals to just last rites in light of this, it's never going to be truly eradicated if they keep up like this for people that die of ebola. [editline]16th July 2015[/editline] In reality an ebola outbreak outside of conditions like this is entirely unlikely due to how it spreads. Unless it somehow mutates and becomes airborne or something instead of just on particulates, then we'd really be super fucked.

[QUOTE=OutspokenGolf;48220586]They really need to break, or at least contract the tradition of communal washing of the body at funerals to just last rites in light of this, it's never going to be truly eradicated if they keep up like this for people that die of ebola. [editline]16th July 2015[/editline] In reality an ebola outbreak outside of conditions like this is entirely unlikely due to how it spreads. Unless it somehow mutates and becomes airborne or something instead of just on particulates, then we'd really be super fucked.[/QUOTE] Fun fact, there is an airborne strain of Ebola that shows no symptoms in humans. Most people have had it iirc

[QUOTE=Kylel999;48221840]Fun fact, there is an airborne strain of Ebola that shows no symptoms in humans. Most people have had it iirc[/QUOTE]No, no there isn't. Ebola Virus has little presence in primate lungs.

[QUOTE=Orkel;48213219]As long as the Africans keep eating bushmeat, there will be ebola outbreaks.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Kylel999;48220066]Considering the stuff is only transmitted from direct body fluid contact I'm surprised still how far these diseases manage to spread [editline]16th July 2015[/editline] Is this true? I thought the original source of Ebola was a mystery.[/QUOTE] It's not so much eating but more in the hunting and preparation of the food. The suspected primary host of ebola are fruit bats, a common source of bushmeat, and being bitten, scratched, or cut from knives while butchering means potential fluid contact if handled without protection such as gloves. You could also have kids handling carriers because kids like messing with animals and the virus could be transmitted from there.