Thanks to Jim Stone for the following: Ebola spread rate at current trend Mar, 2014 - Infected: 104 Dead: 62 Apr, 2014 - Infected: 194 Dead: 116 May, 2014 - Infected: 360 Dead: 216 Jun, 2014 - Infected: 670 Dead: 402 Jul, 2014 - Infected: 1,247 Dead: 748 Aug, 2014 - Infected: 2,319 Dead: 1,391 Sep, 2014 - Infected: 4,313 Dead: 2,588 Oct, 2014 - Infected: 8,022 Dead: 4,813 Nov, 2014 - Infected: 14,921 Dead: 8,953 Dec, 2014 - Infected: 27,753 Dead: 16,652 Jan, 2015 - Infected: 51,621 Dead: 30,973 Feb, 2015 - Infected: 96,016 Dead: 57,610 Mar, 2015 - Infected: 178,590 Dead: 107,154 Apr, 2015 - Infected: 332,177 Dead: 199,306 May, 2015 - Infected: 617,849 Dead: 370,709 Jun, 2015 - Infected: 1,149,199 Dead: 689,519 Jul, 2015 - Infected: 2,137,510 Dead: 1,282,506 Aug, 2015 - Infected: 3,975,768 Dead: 2,385,461 Sep, 2015 - Infected: 7,394,928 Dead: 4,436,957 Oct, 2015 - Infected: 13,754,567 Dead: 8,252,740 Nov, 2015 - Infected: 25,583,494 Dead: 15,350,096 Dec, 2015 - Infected: 47,585,299 Dead: 28,551,179 Jan, 2016 - Infected: 88,508,656 Dead: 53,105,193 Feb, 2016 - Infected: 164,626,099 Dead: 98,775,660 Mar, 2016 - Infected: 306,204,545 Dead: 183,722,727 Apr, 2016 - Infected: 569,540,453 Dead: 341,724,272 May, 2016 - Infected: 1,059,345,243 Dead: 635,607,146 Jun, 2016 - Infected: 1,970,382,153 Dead: 1,182,229,292 Jul, 2016 - Infected: 3,664,910,804 Dead: 2,198,946,482 Aug, 2016 - Infected: 6,816,734,096 Dead: 4,090,040,457 It would not be a bad idea at all to get a big 500 pill bottle of 1000 milligram vitamin C NOW, though it is doubtful this ebola trend will continue at its current rate, VITAMIN C IS CHEAP AND GOOD TO HAVE AROUND ANYWAY. I cannot help but think that the many countries that have tried to ban the sale of vitamins without a prescription may have been convinced to do so in preparation for this, in any country that has done this the population will be doomed if vitamin C really is the treatment for ebola. Once again, I believe the ultra high dosages will not be needed. Max benefit is very likely to be achieved at 12 grams per day, with each 1000 milligram tablet taken at two hour intervals, and a few in the morning (all the ones you skipped while sleeping.) It is probably pointless to take more than that for preventive purposes (but obviously at least double that amount if you do come down with ebola). An anonymous nurse posted the following to a forum: The human population of this world has always been kept in check by viruses, or some other method of sheer destruction. The Flu, Polio, Smallpox, you name it, these things have a purpose in nature. They keep populations under control. Since the dawn of the industrial age we began to outsmart them all. We Vaccinate against the flu, we all but eradicated Polio in this country. We had beaten our enemies into near submission, and as a result, the worlds population has exploded. But our Genius is beginning to catch up with us. Anti-biotic resistant bacteria are on the rise, the flu is devising new ways to counter attack our defenses. And Ebola, well, lets just say its doing what all viruses do. Its trying to survive, its trying to find a way to use our own immune system against us. Think about this for a minute... The Flu infects you, your body goes into defensive mode, realizing that it must expel the invader. So your own body fills your lungs with mucus and fluid, which forces you to cough. This is the real genius of the flu. It actually depends on your immune response to spread itself. And it doesnt have much time to do it either. Because your body begins to increase its own temperature. Yes, having a fever is an immune response, not caused by the flu, rather it is literally your body attempting to make you so hot that the protein coat protecting the flu virus breaks down, allowing your white cells to attack. This is what all viruses do. ALL of them. They find a way to exploit your natural immune responses to propagate themselves. Ebola.... once just a hemorrhagic fever on steroids, now is a bona-fide menace. I work in a hospital laboratory at a major hospital in a major Metro Area. My wife works clinical micro for the same company. Im very well versed in just about everything a STAT lab in a hospital can, and does do. My wife on the other hand, actually majored in micro, with emphasis on virology. So I wanted you all to know a few things about this outbreak that became apparent to us as it began to spread. #1. Something has changed. This virus used to have a much shorter incubation period. And it would kill within a week. The mortality rate was much higher once upon a time. However, this is not the case anymore. Based on the sheer number of infected, the virus it seems, may have found a way to transmit itself easier. Typically when a virus evolves it gains in one area, while giving ground in another. It makes sense to me that Ebola gave up alot of its lethality, for the ability to spread itself easier, and incubate much, much longer. #2. Africa is a mess. There is no way to tell how many are infected. Once upon a time Ebola would strike a village and wipe everyone out, and that was it. It would kill so fast that it could not spread out of the hotzone. Because of what I said above that is not the case anymore. On a continent where borders still mean very little to the native population, it is a scary mix. Even if the CDC or the WHO wanted to get accurate numbers, it would be hopeless due to the unknown number or people that distrust western medicine, refuse to get help, or wander around from village to village. The infrastructure simply does not have the same capabilities we do in the west. #3. Even in the United States, out of all the various hospitals I have worked at, there is no hope of containing anything like this. One of the largest hospitals I worked at only had two reverse flow isolation rooms. [b]TWO[/b], let that sink in for a minute. If this thing goes as bad as some think it will, we are, quite literally, screwed. Patients only show up to the hospital when they go symptomatic. So by the time they get there, theyve already infected their entire family, their work group, and anyone they got within a few feet of on the way to the hospital. When they get there the ER nurses would treat it either like Flu, or Sepsis. But the whole time the patient is infecting all of them. And all of them, in turn, begin to infect everyone else in the exact same way. If this is as virulent as the WHO thinks it might be, by the time people realize what is going on, there will be more sick people than there would be beds available at every hospital in the US combined. #4. Testing blood for anything is not as simple as looking under a microscope. And hospital labs are not set up for exotic virology. We run basic Chemistries, Cardiac enzymes, blood counts, sed rates, drug levels, bacterial cultures, all the basic hands on shit. The kind of things that old people usually present for, blood loss, infection, and cardiac events. Anything exotic gets sent out. Sometimes to the State lab, most of the time specimens get sent across the country to Quest Diagnostics, or to other organizations actually set up for it. Your average city hospital is pitifully, laughably, not ready for anything of this nature. Sure, running a CBC can tell if you are dehydrated, it can tell of you are loosing blood, it can tell if you are fighting something off. It just cant tell what. A sed rate can determine if you have excess inflammation, but it cant tell you why. A Lactic Acid level can indicate Sepsis, but it cant tell you from what. The point is, at the early stages of an outbreak, people will get treated for run of the mill things. Because nothing a hospital can test immediately will be able to tell anyone that you are carrying the most deadly hemorrhagic fever currently known. Honestly, if a person came into a busy ER with a fever, the triage nurse would put them in the waiting room until a non urgent room opened up in the back. They simply have no way to know who is carrying what. Im not saying were all gonna die. This thing could fizzle out. And everything could be fine. What I am trying to illustrate here is that just because a lab exists in a hospital, does not mean that it can tell you everything. There are triage algorithms that work for everyday field medicine, but nothing for an outbreak. Thinking that living in a developed nation will curb the spread is ridiculous. If anything, it makes it worse. Our commute, our workplaces, our homes, our methods of entertainment, all of those things that we love so much about living in the the west, are the things that viruses depend on to spread. If this virus truly has found a way to transmit easier, the healthcare system would be completely overloaded with something they simply can not handle. Anyway, Im not trying to scare anyone, I just hope people can be realistic about the capabilities of hospital containment, hospital laboratory testing, and the fact that the healthcare system, in ANY country, could not handle a massive outbreak. So dont expect miracles from front line hospital staff, we dont have the tools, and we certainly do not have the manpower. Ask anyone in the medical field how much overtime they could work if they felt like it, dont even get me started on how thinly stretched people in the industry are. Though I suppose if this does turn into something, that will become apparent very, very fast. Good luck, dont freak out, wash your hands, be prepared, hug your kids
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 08:30:37 +0000
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