We had 60 days to beat this.
http://news.sky.com/...d-nations-warns
It's been 103 days now, how are we doing?
At the time the article was written there were over 9000 to the year of reported infections. They said if we didn't beat/control the outbreak in 60 days (nice round number there), there would be up to 10,000 (another round number plucked from the air) new infections EVERY WEEK.
Did we succeed? The media on the Ebola epidemic has gone pretty quiet now.
Wikipedia has reported a total of just over 20,000 cases and from the 1st of December (the 60 days we had) There have been around 500ish reported cases each week from then. 20x less than was feared. So does that mean we are relativly on top of this?
http://en.wikipedia...._in_West_Africa
After the Ebola czar was put in place in the US is when the news started to change drastically. The real number WHO and the CDC have warned may be 4 times higher that what is reported. This happens for a lot of reasons and not all of it is to hide the truth politically.
Many cases happen and hide out, and then get secretly buried in the jungle under the cover of night. They don't want to catch ebola if they don't have it by going to an ebola centers, and few come back from them as survivors and they have heard this. They also don't want to be outcasts in their own villages, which can happen even after the survive if they are one of the lucky ones. So most of those cases and dead never show up in the numbers.
One thing I can say with certainty is the number of dead (8000) does not match up with the number of infected (20,000). The first American doctor brought back here said out of the first 41 cases they had all 41 died. Here is a story today with 1 survivor and 29 dead.
http://www.frontpage...erian-household
Here is another story of a doctor coming back who kept a diary while there, and it is called death becomes disturbingly the routine.
http://wwno.org/post...ry-ebola-doctor
How about 10 million bats it might be in
http://www.businessw...mbian-fig-trees
We are going to ignore the rats, monkeys and dogs, along with everything else, that might have it too LOL
Now as far as good news they seem to have a cure for it, if FDA allows it.
https://finance.yaho...-121500401.html
It is quite amazing what it does and what it did with one very advanced ebola case that should have been a goner. In about 6 hours they were able to filter much of it out of their blood, and of course the immune system then could mop up what ebola was left behind. Not only does it seem to work for ebola, but also for some other viruses and maybe even cancers. Who knows....
https://finance.yaho...-121500401.html
There is war going on over there to try and stop it, as it continues to grow and spread. 40,000 Africans are joining the fight and 1000 Chinese.
http://mgafrica.com/...e-is-real-hope/
Korea and a bunch of countries are sending in large numbers of medical forces, to save the planet.