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New Ebola Case Emerges In Sierra Leone (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Just hours after the World Health Organization declared an end to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, officials from Sierra Leone confirmed a death from the virus. The country was declared free of Ebola on November 7. "Ebola test center spokesman Sidi Yahya Tunis told the BBC that the patient had died in the Tonkolili district. He had traveled there from Kambia, close to the border with Guinea." WHO was quick to put out another press release saying there is an ongoing risk of flareups, and local governments and medical workers need to remain vigilant.
We just have to remember that it's a virus, like the annual cold and flu bugs, and never grow complacent.
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No need to euthanize, it sounds like they're doing it to themselves.
Wow, just wow.
Hunger and lack of food in these areas, especially meat, is a real problem. If your choice is risk ebola vs. guaranteed no dinner for several weeks, you might reconsider eating a wild animal. Maybe come out of your protected bubble of the first world and look at some of the real problems in the world today.
As for "bush meat" - in other countries, deer, pheasant and grouse are considered "fair game.
In Europe, people go for a "walk in the countryside" in Africa, the same thing is called a "trek through the bush". It is more about use of English and prejudice than anything else.
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Tell that to the dogs who gnawed at dead animals and returned to village. They're not idiots. Just dogs being dogs. Euthanizing dogs? Not unheard of.
> It probably started through playing with an infected, imported, pet monkey.
Is there any evidence for that?
None at all. I've been playing with my infected, imported, pet monkey all day and I am fine.
so systemd is responsible for both the ebola outbreak AND WWII? Holy shit!
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No, the epidemic was started by the eating of bats in Guinea, according to the Frontline Ebola Documentary ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontl... ) But then, what do they know?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Way to go,, man it must be very slow, for this BOT to pickup something so far removed from /. to publish..
Given that fruit bats are the natural host for Ebola virus, not monkeys, I'm going to go with this guy.
It probably started through playing with an infected, imported, pet monkey. The sort of thing that could easily happen in America.
Outbreak (1995) with Dustin Hoffman is not a valid source of information. You better not just have seen it rerun on Australian television and be taking it as Gospel.
It takes just one person getting infected by some route (of which eating bush meat is one); how perfectly can do you think it's possible to insulate 340 people living West Africa from the wildlife there?
There's basically three places to attack a zoonotic infectious agent:
(1) In the enzootic reservoir (very likely impossible, otherwise we'd have eradicated flu);
(2) at the point of contact between the enzootic reservoir and the human population (worthwhile but will never be 100% effective);
(3) at the point of transmission between humans (potentially highly effective; if R0 1 the epidemic will "burn itself out").
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"playing"....nice euphemism for bestiality.
I think bush is accurate for upon your vacation of premises that i retinue my entry with sausage unto the house of your former wife.
Those animals aren't closely related to us. And while they can still transmit diseases, it's not even close to the risk level of cannibalism.
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