The Epidemic May be Over, But Liberia Has New Ebola Cases

Three new cases of Ebola have been reported in Liberia. Reuters reports that despite the declared end to the Ebola outbreak in that country in May, the medical community is speculating that a cluster of infectious carriers somehow survived longer than was previously believed possible, or that there is a previously unknown means of transmission. Health officials "were monitoring 175 people believed to have come into contact with the three cases, though none had yet exhibited symptoms of the disease." The report notes that "A U.S. military operation aimed at helping Liberia's government counter the outbreak has mostly withdrawn. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a U.S. health body, said it was working with local authorities to study the origin of the cases and stop the virus spreading."

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THIS is why I don't vacation in Liberia anymore

[NotDrWho]

I mean, don't get me wrong, the drinks and resorts are great and all. But the drinks and resorts in Somalia are just as good, and much less ebola.

Re:THIS is why I don't vacation in Liberia anymore

[slashmydots]

If I want to go on a vacation I go down the street to Arby's then back to my house to play video games and watch marathons or things on Netflix. Why do people even travel? "Ohhh I just have to see the sights!" It's called Google images. I've never had to get a passport to use Google images nor did I ever get mugged, get pickpocketed, have my luggage lost or stolen by customs, caught a disease, had drugs stuffed into my luggage, gotten stuck by grounded planes, had my hotel bombed, been kidnapped, etc. Fuck other counties.

Unknown means of transmission?

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe someone should show the doctors over there this Slashdot post from a month ago:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/05/08/2117239/ebola-lurked-in-cured-patients-eye

During the Ebola outbreak last year, Dr. Ian Crozier was infected. He was eventually airlifted to Emory University for treatment, and a couple months later he was cured of the disease — or so physicians thought. Not long after he was released, his left eye began bothering him. His sight faded, and he felt intense pressure and pain in his eye. Examination of the eye found it teeming with Ebola. His doctors were surprised. Cured patients frequently deal with health issues long after the virus is gone, but this adds a new dimension to the course of the disease.

Apparently, Ebola can still hang around your system, hiding in areas like the eyes or testicles which are "immune privileged". In the case of ebola replicating in the testicles, it can last in the semen for months, which I guess means that even for a survivor not currently exhibiting symptoms, they could infect sexual partners if they had sex without protection. Not sure about that though since the articles linked in the Slashdot story didn't go into details about this transmission route.

Ebola survives in odd places like the

[Anonymous Coward]

Ebola can survive in odd places, like the liquid in our eyes, for an extended period of time... It can even change your eye color. Remember all those plans for retina biometric scans? Bad idea!

These new cases will happen frequently for a long time.

Bad Idea Jeans

[swb]

Normally I wear protection, but then I thought, 'When am I gonna make it back to Haiti?'

Re:Bad Idea Jeans

[Anonymous Coward]

Featuring a young Bob Odenkirk, when he was still an SNL writer.

Re:HA ha ha! What a load of bullshit this is!

[DanJ_UK]

What the blithering fuck are you actually on about?

You need to lay off, whatever the hell it is you're smoking.

Are they really this stupid?

[slashmydots]

"He medical community is speculating that a cluster of infectious carriers somehow survived longer than was previously believed possible, or that there is a previously unknown means of transmission."
I have a crazy idea that apparently the group of "medical experts" haven't considered. Maybe someone who was infected traveled to Liberia from somewhere else. You know, instead of some sort of magical disease-resistant silent carrier bypassing the normal incubation period. Seriously, they didn't think maybe that happened?

Re:Are they really this stupid?

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a crazy idea that apparently the group of "medical experts" haven't considered

Nobody has ever said this and been right.

Re:Are they really this stupid?

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's a better question: Allegedly (I don't believe it for one moment), Ebola came from the jungle. So, why the fuck aren't there constant small outbreaks from "the jungle" where a sizable pool of Ebola clearly still lives in order for it to have survived to infect humans in the first place? Why aren't the doctors just defaulting to "meh, another jungle borne case of Ebola, like ones that (allegedly) started the outbreaks" -- Why? Because that shit was manufactured just like Marduk. It even shares an infection vector with the AIDS virus. In fact, there's a gene sequence which if you have it then you don't have the protein "key" that both HIV and Ebola latch onto and you're immune to both of these viruses. HIV is so small -- REALLY small, but Ebola is HUGE comparably. We know biological warfare was big back when Ebola was first introduced (in a town called Ebola), so what if the HIV infection vector was grafted onto the same sort of thing Marduk came from, in order to create Ebola. Another interesting thing that NO ONE is talking about: HIV was supposed to have come from monkeys... but it doesn't. It can't live in them as current research shows. The "aids monkeys" were just propaganda, apparently.

Now, having read this, rethink your question. what makes more sense? That medical experts didn't consider obvious infection via an infected person traveling te Liberia from outside, or the eating infected bush meat in the jungle there -- OR that the story doesn't make sense because it's just propaganda? Maybe that's why we STILL have zero real evidence anyone is actually infected with Ebola -- literally zero new pictures of piles of people bleeding from their eyes?

Now that you've begun to doubt the media narrative, don't stop. As a famous CS Linguist showed in the 70's / 80's: The mainstream press is a state propaganda outlet. Always ask yourself: What could the story be manufacturing public consent for? Perhaps selling that new retroviral cure for Ebola that's patented by the same dude who holds the H1N1 patents? Perhaps to incentive African oil extraction to purchase US manufacturing for the big oil pipe they're putting in on the east side? Buy US extractive and get Ebola cures too!