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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2014 18:12:01 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2014 20:52:49 GMT
President Hollande visited Guinea today. That was a bit of a surprise. But the summit of the French speaking countries of the world opens in Senegal tomorrow, so that explains the stopover.
The article that mentioned that said that the death toll is now at 5,600.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2014 15:21:40 GMT
I suppose it's better than nothing, but using the same dreary old song that Bob Geldof created 30 years ago, some French singers including Carla Bruni have made a benefit recording to raise money for the Ebola crisis.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2014 17:48:49 GMT
Now that we have all lost interest:
20,000 cases 7,600 deaths
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2014 20:00:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2014 13:00:04 GMT
I heard on the news this morning that a study that was done has determined that the first case of the Ebola outbreak originated from a child playing in a hollow tree that was inhabited by infected bats.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2015 7:14:29 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2015 16:23:37 GMT
Thank goodness. Thanks for reporting, K.
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Post by mossie on Jan 21, 2015 19:20:49 GMT
The headline in The Times this morning "Africa winning battle against ebola as cases fall to six month low.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2015 16:13:20 GMT
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Post by bjd on Jan 29, 2015 17:03:42 GMT
I don't remember where I saw it (BBC website recently?), but the headline was that the ebola virus had mutated.
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Post by tod2 on Feb 4, 2015 17:14:17 GMT
Things have gone very quiet on the news. Even stopped the advertising telling us not to eat bats.......
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 17:28:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2015 17:00:33 GMT
While the Ebola epidemic is now considered to have been vanquished by about 98%, it should be mentioned that this could not have happened without all of the medical personnel who worked at great risk to try to save victims.
While I'm sure that most of them took as many precautions as possible and hoped that they would not be contaminated, today's newspaper announced that 507 of them perished at their job. As for the sick, the number of dead now stands at 11,120 since the beginning of the epidemic, out of a total of 27,000 patients.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2015 16:32:07 GMT
After Liberia at the end of September, Sierra Leone was declared free of Ebola today after 4000 deaths, with no new case declared in the last 42 days (twice the length of the incubation period).
The other countries that had cases are still struggling.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2015 17:52:46 GMT
Three new cases of Ebola in Liberia. I hope it's not starting again.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2016 12:15:31 GMT
The end of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was officially announced today by the World Health Organisation. The official figures are 28,637 cases with 11,315 deaths, but the WHO says these are definitely underestimated. In any case, that is more cases that all of the previous outbreaks of Ebola combined since the disease was identified in 1976. One piece of good news: the death rate is below 40% now. I remember that in the "old days" the death rate was close to 90%. Nevertheless, many survivors must face arthritis and/or sight and hearing loss.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2016 18:32:53 GMT
And then, suddenly they announced that there might have been a new case in Sierra Leone...
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 13, 2019 13:55:43 GMT
And so, a couple of years later, we have 1186 cases of Ebola in the Congo DR with more than 750 deaths. Not that anybody on our other continents really cares.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 3, 2019 14:21:48 GMT
The death toll is estimated to have exceeded 1000 in the Congo as of today. No end in sight.
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Post by whatagain on May 3, 2019 14:30:53 GMT
God ! I was expecting you'd say there was no more Ebola... I had no idea. These poor congolese, between the number of death due to fighting, the rapes, now Ebola. Hardly anybody talks about it here in we prefer to split hair about internal political discussions.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 1, 2019 15:19:58 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 25, 2020 17:21:35 GMT
Good news for once: Congo's health minister has declared the end of the ebola outbreak that began in August 2018. 2,280 people died in the Congo, but ebola has a fatality rate of 66%. Just imagine if another trendy disease were that bad.
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