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2014-07-27 Africa Subsaharan

Ebola wrap - spreads to Lagos, Nigeria, by plane; US doctor infected

The plague is coming...

Motherboard at Vice reports here the ebola outbreak is expected to last until October.

The Guardian reports here that Fort Worth doctor Kent Brantly has tested positively for ebola.

Worryingly the story states his family - wife and two kids - had been with him in Liberia earlier this year as he was wandering around infected people treating them.

They are back in the US. But the question in everyone's mind is - how long ago did they come back? Incubation is 2 to 21 days.

Are they being monitored/isolated or tested?

It's an important question because AllAfrica reports here that Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian finance ministry consultant who also worked with UNICEF, took ebola on a plane Tuesday from Liberia to Nigeria via Togo.

He was symptom free when he got on the flight, but by the time he reached Lagos he was vomiting and struck with diarrhoea.

By Friday he was dead.

Patrick's sister had ebola, and died three weeks ago. Patrick had said he had no contact with her, All Africa reports here.

So someone better be following up Kent Brantly's family to make sure they didn't fly ebola back to the US.

Meanwhile Britain is going to screen those flying in from the infected countries: Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria.

The Telegraph reports here security is to be stepped up around the Commonwealth Games.

In a new twist, superstitious ignorant rubes are attacking health workers after troublemakers spread rumours that ebola doesn't exist

Or worse, like this Muslim publication on a ramadan special, which printed journalist Abdul Fonti here spreading the rumour that western doctors are kidnapping and killing ebola patients.

This nasty Muslim rumour is what led to the family of an infected woman storming the hospital in Sierra Leone and kidnapping her as reported by ABC here. She later died - but not before infecting an unknown number of rubes.

Posted by anon1 2014-07-27 10:21|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top

#1 forgot to add: ebola is so deadly that in 2012 a ugandan man got it from an infected thumb print on a stolen mobile phone, as reported by NY daily news here and now it is potentially out in both the international air travel system and also the city of Lagos, Nigeria, home to 21 million people packed into 400sq km like a festering pit of sardines.

Well if it spreads that will be the end of those emails telling me I won the lotto...

Posted by anon1 2014-07-27 11:19|| 2014-07-27 11:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Here is the story from BBC on the woman who was busted out of hospital and later died. She was the first recorded case in the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown.

Posted by anon1 2014-07-27 12:52|| 2014-07-27 12:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Rumours of cannibalism are causing near riots and police have to guard Ebola centres in Sierra Leone. As reported by the Independent here.

Posted by anon1 2014-07-27 13:15|| 2014-07-27 13:15|| Front Page Top

#4 A second US citizen has been infected. Another Samaritan's Purse missionary who worked with dr Kent
as described in TWC news here.

Posted by anon1 2014-07-27 13:29|| 2014-07-27 13:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Stand by, let ISIS get one of their suicide jockeys to become infected, and then hit the mighty southern US border. by the time ebola is confirmed it has already been shipped all over the country.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-07-27 21:06|| 2014-07-27 21:06|| Front Page Top

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