Some bad news

If i can get a couple of verifications this would indeed be bad news. It is from the "punch", so i need a second source.

Ebola: Panic at LUTH over death of patient
September 2, 2014 by Bukola Adebayo 2 Comments
   


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The death of a patient, who is suspected to have Ebola, has caused panic among patients and doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi- Araba, Lagos State.

A reliable source, who confirmed this development to our correspondent in Lagos on Tuesday, said the patient was brought in by members of the health authorities at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, to the hospital on Monday.

According to the doctor who was on duty when the patient was admitted into the Accident and Emergency Unit, the patient was vomiting blood and stooling, symptoms which are similar to that of an Ebola patient, before he died in the early hours of Tuesday at the Spill-Over ward of the hospital.

He said, “They rushed him to the Accident and Emergency Unit, and since he was vomiting and purging and he also had high fever, we quickly took his temperature, it was very high. We were all scared to take his blood samples because we were not wearing any Protective Protective Equipment.

“We had to take him out of the emergency ward to the other spill-over ward to avoid any form of contamination. We also reported to the Lagos State Government so that they can take him to the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Yaba for proper treatment. But he had started vomiting blood by this morning , and few hours after he died.”

The doctor said that the body has being transferred to the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, for testing and confirmation of the cause of death.

The source said, “Like I said, we could not take any blood sample when he was alive because we were not wearing PPE, and we could not manage him effectively because of the severity of the symptoms we saw and considering the fact that he was coming from the airport. He could have been coming from an Ebola-affected country.

“They will need to establish the cause of death, so as to be able to know whether to quarantine those that he had contact with from the airport to the hospital. LUTH does not have the facilities to handle any suspected case of Ebola, government should know that, so they don’t keep bringing suspected cases here. All suspected cases should be taken to IDH.”

Several calls to the LUTH’s Chief Medical Director, Prof. Akin Oshibogun, to confirm if the patient had died of Ebola were unanswered as at press time

This airport is a major hub for the city of Lagos, 21 million people?

http://www.punchng.com/news/fear-over-suspected-ebola-death-at-luth/

There was a press conference this am, but no numbers.

Also the doctors without boarders group is calling for U.S. and other country's to bring in bio/nuclear teams to help, or the military.

Ill see if i can find the story.

This story is also on the AP, and is pretty significant if you read it carefully.

A key international doctors group is warning that the world is 'losing the battle' against Ebola and U.N. officials are imploring all countries to step up their response by sending help to affected countries.

Doctors Without Borders President Joanne Liu says her organization is completely overwhelmed as it treats Ebola patients in four West African countries. She is calling on countries with biological disaster response capacity to respond with civilian and military medical personnel.

"Six months into the worse Ebola epidemic in history, the world is losing the battle to contain it," Liu said at a United Nations forum on the outbreak. "Ebola treatment centers are reduced to places where people go to die alone, where little more than palliative care is offered."

World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan says the United Nations is urgently scaling up its response and called on all countries to contribute to the effort. David Nabarro, who is coordinating the U.N.'s response to the Ebola crisis, says the U.N. is "bringing in as outside health workers as much as we can."

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-09-02/news/world-losing-ebola-fight-doctors-group-6437109760/

Something is not right.  They keep telling us not to worry, that it won't spread to the US or other countries, yet it continues to spread throughout Africa.

Panic is a condition of the vulnerable.

Dang, I may not travel home Thanksgiving!

I completely agree inthesticks.  It's about the only option.   Containing it to Africa could also be difficult with regard to preventing it from eventually going into Asia.  It could march across Africa and straight into Asia with very little air travel as it's currently doing.  Like a wave.  At that point they will also have to seal off Asia, which would be impossible.  Suspend flights and seal borders - and make an attempt to burn itself out.   The WHO for some reason is not big on them sealing borders.  It must be so they can move their personnel from region to region via commercial flights still.  I suppose it's cheaper for the WHO to do it that way.    They need to control/stop travel to control/stop the spread.

The WHO should just stick to giving case counts if that's all they can do, of which we haven't had in a week.

Yep - and look how that's turning out...

NATO is forming a coalition to take out Isis for what they did.  As they say at soldier field-   "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty. - JFK

Isis needs to prepare.  

JD likes Isis, but I'm sworn to secrecy on it. 

"ISIS"...sounds like a drink from McDonalds. I didn't know those guys love the English language so much that they would name their group with English words. How 'bout "al Kol Khara" instead. Sounds a little more appropriate to me.

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