THINKING OUT LOUD (EBOLA IN WEST AFRICA) Just how the Ebola virus has gotten so out of hand in West Africa, is a puzzle to me. Research from the first Ebola outbreaks points to a major difference in the manner and rate the current West African Ebola is spreading the infection. I would like to know the major differences in this current strain of the virus and those done between 1976 and 2008. Who is Directing the United Nations WHO operations in the effected states. Where is he or she from and what is in there backgrounds? What quarantine measures were taken and when were they instituted. What are the explanations or reports, saying, about the connections between initial victims and cases reported elsewhere. If the virus was caused by eating an animal the virus will contain elements of the animals DNA. If it derived from a laboratory or was tempered with in anyway - that too can be traced. (Various countries who research diseases, for whatever reason, use different chemical agents and research methods, along with other means of identifying the source). In light of the paths the Ebola virus has presented, what quarantine changes have been recommended or instituted to halt the spread? For the last two years or more, Haitian citizens have been overcome by the disease, CHOLERA. Before the Cholera epidemic, Haiti had never before had a case of the disease. It was late traced to a United Nations compound. No information regarding the strain has surfaced. The United Nations WHO managed the Haitian International medical operations. The families and communities effected by the disease have received no form or fashion of compensation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I weep at the treatment of the Nation and People of Haiti, by all European nations. Its as though European nations are continuing to oppress Haitians for defeating France, during the Haitian Rebellion. There is no other way, to put it, the poverty of the Nation of Haiti is a from of international racism, accepted and enforced by the United States of America. . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Updated April 2014 Key facts about EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE (EVD) Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. EVD outbreaks have a case fatality rate of up to 90%. EVD outbreaks occur primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests. The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission. Fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are considered to be the natural host of the Ebola virus. Severely ill patients require intensive supportive care. No licensed specific treatment or vaccine is available for use in people or animals. Ebola first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks, in Nzara, Sudan, and in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. The latter was in a village situated near the Ebola River, from which the disease takes its name. Genus Ebolavirus is 1 of 3 members of the Filoviridae family (filovirus), along with genus Marburgvirus and genus Cuevavirus. Genus Ebolavirus comprises 5 distinct species: Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV) Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) Reston ebolavirus (RESTV) Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV) Taï Forest ebolavirus (TAFV). BDBV, EBOV, and SUDV have been associated with large EVD outbreaks in Africa, whereas RESTV and TAFV have not. The RESTV species, found in Philippines and the People’s Republic of China, can infect humans, but no illness or death in humans from this species has been reported to date. Transmission Ebola is introduced into the human population through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals. In Africa, infection has been documented through the handling of infected chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found ill or dead or in the rainforest. Ebola then spreads in the community through human-to-human transmission, with infection resulting from direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and indirect contact with environments contaminated with such fluids. Burial ceremonies in which mourners have direct contact with the body of the deceased person can also play a role in the transmission of Ebola. Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to 7 weeks after recovery from illness.
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