Ebola virus outbreak

Billy86 · 15-10-2015 10:59PM

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Thank fcuk, cause I'm a white person and I didn't fancy catching Ebola.

Which is exactly what the most powerful people in the world were thinking. Funny (actually, appalling) how quickly they were able to deal with it after so many years of labeling it "unstoppable" as it ravaged parts of Africa.

The Black Oil · 19-10-2015 09:09PM

Pauline Cafferkey's condition has improved from critical to "serious but stable".

Hopefully she makes a full recovery.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34574899

Stheno · 19-10-2015 09:10PM

The Black Oil wrote: »

Pauline Cafferkey's condition has improved from critical to "serious but stable".

Hopefully she makes a full recovery.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34574899

Best wishes for her, one thing to beat the fecker once, but twice!

Baggy Trousers · 07-11-2015 01:07PM

Great news from Sierra Leone.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/1107/740292-sierra-leone-ebola/

Sierra Leone celebrates end of Ebola epidemic

Residents of Sierra Leone's capital held a candlelit vigil and celebrations overnight to mark the end of an Ebola epidemic.

The virus has killed almost 4,000 people including more than 200 health workers since it began last year.

Following 42 days with no new cases, the West African nation's epidemic will be declared officially over today at a ceremony attended by President Ernest Bai Koroma and UN World Health Organization representative Anders Nordstrom.

ceadaoin. · 24-02-2016 08:54PM

Pauline Cafferkey has once again been admitted to hospital in London due to complications caused by her Ebola infection. Hope she makes a full recovery. This disease seems like a bastard to recover from. I wonder how survivors in Africa are faring given that they won't have access to the same level of medical care.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-35639748

Stheno · 24-02-2016 08:57PM

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Pauline Cafferkey has once again been admitted to hospital in London due to complications caused by her Ebola infection. Hope she makes a full recovery. This disease seems like a bastard to recover from. I wonder how survivors in Africa are faring given that they won't have access to the same level of medical care.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-35639748

Lots of issues being reported in terms of side effects to hearing and sight

cowboyBuilder · 24-02-2016 09:06PM

and would it still be infectious once symptoms show again ?

ceadaoin. · 24-02-2016 09:16PM

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

and would it still be infectious once symptoms show again ?

It says in the article that a person is infectious when showing symptoms so presumably she is. According to the guardian patients who were in hospital with her could be offered the Ebola vaccine.

gctest50 · 24-02-2016 09:27PM

bye bye Glasgow

Poor thing, it never went away at all

Cafferkey became critically ill from meningitis triggered by a hidden reservoir of Ebola virus in her nervous system.

The sudden onset of illness, which resulted in her being flown back to the infectious diseases unit of the Royal Free hospital in London which treated her on her return from Sierra Leone, shocked doctors.

Until then, it was not understood that the Ebola virus could linger and cause disease nine months later.

Stheno · 24-02-2016 09:38PM

gctest50 wrote: »

Poor thing, it never went away at all

Yeah, it seems that this is the first time there have been enough survivors for the long term effects to be studied.
One of the americans who survived was found to have the virus in his hours months after "recovering"

zell12 · 04-01-2019 02:30PM

Potential case in Sweden

A young man had been in Burundi for around three weeks, and was exhibiting classic symptoms of haemorrhagic fever, including vomiting blood, according to the hospital’s chief medical officer.
The emergency clinic at Enköping hospital, where the patient was first admitted, has been closed and staff who were in contact with the patient are also being looked after.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/04/suspected-ebola-case-being-investigated-swedish-hospital

rgodard80a · 04-01-2019 03:15PM

So, avoid IKEA then ?

Zorya · 04-01-2019 03:23PM

The very thought of Ebola gives me the heebie jeebies.

That Swedish person would have gone through so many places on the way back from Burundi. That's it, I'm digging a moat and manning the ramparts.

Ebola virus outbreak

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