Haemorrhagic fever / Ebola outbreaks have been reported - accident, natural or bio-weapon?

[Bob]

Sierra Leone Flare-Up - Ebola by Sea

(Source)

Nearly Halted in Sierra Leone, Ebola Makes Comeback by Sea

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — It seemed as if the Ebola crisis was abating.

New cases were plummeting. The president lifted travel restrictions, and schools were to reopen. A local politician announced on the radio that two 21-day incubation cycles had passed with no new infections in his Freetown neighborhood. The country, many health officials said, was “on the road to zero.”

Then Ebola washed in from the sea.

Sick fishermen came ashore in early February to the packed wharf-side slums that surround the country’s fanciest hotels, which were filled with public health workers.

Volunteers fanned out to contain the outbreak, but the virus jumped quarantine lines and cascaded into the countryside, bringing dozens of new infections and deaths.

Two wooden boats carrying three sick fishermen arrived at a small wharf in Freetown in early February, cutting short a two-week trip. “The captain was vomiting,” said Mohamed Bangura, 23, a crew member of one boat.

The wharf, Tamba Kula, is an informal settlement where hundreds of people live in shanties made of reclaimed wood and corrugated metal roofs. At the slum’s entrance, a towering sign displays an image of the Statue of Liberty, an advertisement for daily British Airways flights with connections to the United States that were canceled when the Ebola outbreak was declared.

Now, commerce in Tamba Kula is also restricted. Those who contracted Ebola there and nearby — two dozen people since early February — include fishermen, boat cleaners and two women who sold fish.

When the cluster erupted at the wharf area — part of a large neighborhood known as Aberdeen, with about 9,000 residents — some Ebola prevention workers were taken by surprise because they had been continuing surveillance efforts. Officials imposed a quarantine, prompting many fishermen to take to the sea to avoid it. The authorities sent out word for them to return.

On a recent afternoon, James Bangura, an official leading the Ebola response in the capital, chastised the deputy harbor master of Tamba Kula for failing to keep arriving fisherman on their boats to be evaluated.

“Once they’re lost and nobody accounts for them, we can’t get to zero,” Mr. Bangura told the man.

“They scatter,” the deputy harbor master responded, but he checked the men from the next boat that arrived.

As cases mounted, Dr. Conteh, the district’s Ebola response coordinator, summoned about 125 traditional healers, tribal chiefs and other local leaders. He called for a suspension of traditional practices and warned that criminal summonses were being issued to anyone accused of hiding the sick. Experts fear that such threats will lead more people to go underground.

“The war is still on,” Dr. Conteh told colleagues the next day. “We’re at a critical stage. We can either make or break.”

[Bob]

Ebola Patient coming to the US for treatment

This came in on the Reuters wires today..

Ebola is still here, although it is out of sight and out of mind of many of the US public.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health will admit to its hospital on Friday a U.S. healthcare worker who tested positive for the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone.

The NIH said the patient will be transported in isolation by chartered aircraft to its high-security containment facility on its Maryland campus.

Ebola is in London also - Earlier on Thursday, a British military healthcare worker infected with the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone was flown to London for treatment, and health officials said four more workers were being assessed for possible infection.

The unidentified American will be admitted and treated at the NIH Clinical Center's Special Clinical Studies Unit. The patient will be the second confirmed Ebola patient to be treated at the facility, which also took care of Texas nurse Nina Pham, who became infected with Ebola while treating a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

In addition to the two confirmed patients, NIH has also cared for two individuals who experienced high-risk exposures to Ebola while working in West Africa, but who were subsequently found not to be infected.

The NIH said it is not releasing any more details about the patient at this time.

The death count now is close to 10,000 people.

Liberia last week says that it doesn't have any more living Ebola Patients.. and release its "last known" Ebola patient from hospital, but Sierra Leone still had 127 patients in Ebola treatment centers as of March 10. The area in the bush is just so large, so out-of-touch with the rest of the country infra-structure, to actually know how many un-reported are present, continues to stymie efforts for total guaranteed suppression of the infection..

[Bob]

Honduras - first suspected Ebola Case being analyzed

COMAYAGUA, Honduras — Spanish-language news agencies in Honduras are reporting the first suspected case of Ebola in Honduras, where an American (norteamericano) patient has reportedly been isolated in a hospital in Comayagua.

The Honduran Minister of Health, Yolany Batres, confirmed Friday night that the protocol for treatment of suspected Ebola cases was being followed.

Health officials stressed that it was not a confirmed case. The patient is an American resident of Comayagua who recently traveled to Africa.

[Bob]

New Zealand - EBOLA scare with a nurse back from Sierra Leone..

Nurse in strict isolation

"Bronwyn is recognised for going above and beyond the call of duty, she is highly regarded by all who have contact with her and readily shares her skills and knowledge," a statement said at the time.


Health authorities yesterday moved to reassure people that if it is New Zealand's first Ebola case they are well-equipped to deal with it. "This eventuality has been foreseen and has been very carefully planned for," said Health Minister Jonathan Coleman in a statement.

Hospitals have introduced specialist equipment, safety checklists and staff have undergone infection control training.

Forty-four St John staff have been trained to respond to an Ebola scare and there are four isolation pods in the country to transport people.

Results of blood samples sent to Melbourne for testing should be known today.

The nurse had returned to her home in the small town 65km north of Invercargill after a posting to help those suffering from the contagious disease in Sierra Leone.

On Friday she told a public health officer she was unwell and it was decided to take her to an isolation unit at Christchurch Hospital.

The woman's partner - the only person in direct contact during the potentially infectious period - was last night self-monitoring at home.

[Bob]

Ebola - in the US?, 10 AID workers being flown back to the US due to possible exposure

At least 10 American aid workers who may have come into contact with the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone were preparing on Saturday to be evacuated to the United States, according to a United States Embassy spokeswoman in the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown. They will be the largest number of Americans returned home over fears of exposure to the virus since an outbreak in three West African countries was declared last year.

An American clinician with Ebola was flown from Sierra Leone to the National Institutes of Health’s clinical center in Bethesda, Md., on Friday.

He tested positive for the virus on Tuesday, and health workers feared that he had exposed others to it.

But so far, none of the other 10 aid workers have developed symptoms, said the embassy spokeswoman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to talk to the news media. (MEDIA BLACKOUT once again.. decree from the "ebola czar"..)

“The U.S. takes care of its U.S. citizens,” she said. “We’re doing everything we can to give them excellent support.” An investigation is continuing, and more workers will be evacuated if necessary.

Reference - New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/wo...o-us.html?_r=0

[Bob]

Update on the Americans - 1 confirmed, 4 high likelihood, 6 potentially of concern..

CDC and the State Department are facilitating the return of additional American citizens who had potential exposure to the index patient or exposures similar to those that resulted in the infection of the index patient," the CDC said in a written statement.

Subject/Patient Distribution

Positive test patient - NIH Maryland

Four people who had "more exposure than the others" to the patient with Ebola will isolate themselves in housing on the campus of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, said Nebraska Medicine spokesman Taylor Wilson. They arrived on the medical campus Saturday evening.

The other six are scheduled to fly into Washington on Sunday to go to the NIH, and into Atlanta on Monday to go to Emory, Skinner said.

Skinner said the Americans coming home will stay at hotels and other housing near the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health in Maryland or Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. (confusing where they will be, but not in hospitals, but in hotels..)

Status

The heath care worker with Ebola was in serious condition Friday, the NIH said. Details about the patient's identity weren't released.

The patient and all but one of the Americans being sent home work for Partners in Health, which provides health care "in settings of poverty," according to a news release from the group.

"Ten clinicians who came to the aid of their ailing colleague were subsequently identified as contacts of the evacuated clinician," the statement said.

"These clinicians are being transported to the United States via non-commercial aircraft.

They will remain in isolation near designated U.S. Ebola treatment facilities to ensure access to rapid testing and treatment in the unlikely instance that any become symptomatic."

[Cidersomerset]

Hi Bob like most of these 'news memes' Ebola has slipped out of the main news
slots but it is still going on, as you have been posting. This happens all the time ,
Israel are still surpressing the Palestinians, The Jimmy Saville and operation Yew
tree is still 'bumbling' along with its third chairperson still not universally accepted,
and other stories coming and going. I saw this article and realised its still
simmering in the background. The extra health workers and mil medical units seem
to be helping.

keep up with the posting , I am in the same boat on the Jimmy Saville thread. I
keep it going and stray off at tangents as it is a massive subject if you
take in all abuse in its many forms. I mainly set it up to find out savilles links
with the Royals and other elites and see if it leads any where near the David Icke
and other researchers work on the possible 'dark activities , child sacrifice etc'. We
are not there yet but there are sinister accounts. This is mixed in with the celeb and
criminal cases that are terrible, but unfortunate human behaviour which is also
cover for the elites to hide behind. Anyway........

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13 March 2015 Last updated at 16:31




Ebola: British patient and five colleagues flown home Hospital
arrival The confirmed patient with Ebola was taken to the Royal
Free Hospital in London on Thursday


A sixth British healthcare worker has been flown home to the UK
after suspected contact with the Ebola virus. It happened after an
accidental "needle-stick injury" at a treatment centre in Sierra Leone.

Three other people have been discharged after coming into
"close contact" with a confirmed British Ebola case.

The female British patient with Ebola is being cared for at the Royal
Free Hospital in London. One other person is still being tested.

Meanwhile, the death-toll from the current Ebola outbreak has passed 10,000.

'Close contact'

Between 600 and 700 UK defence personnel are based in Sierra Leone
as part of efforts to tackle the largest ever outbreak of Ebola. One British
military healthcare worker was diagnosed in Sierra Leone and was flown
back to the UK on an RAF plane on Thursday.She was then taken to the
special isolation unit at the Royal Free, where two British nurses infected
with Ebola - William Pooley and Pauline Cafferkey - were successfully treated.

Also on board the RAF flight were two colleagues who had also come into
"recent close contact" with the diagnosed woman.

They have now been discharged as there was no sign of the virus in their bodies.

A further two close contacts were flown to Newcastle Royal Infirmary on
Friday. One has been discharged, while the other is still being tested.
In a separate incident, the sixth person - a healthcare worker - was pricked
with a needle while caring for a patient. It is one of the most dangerous ways
of being exposed to the virus because there is direct access to the bloodstream.

This individual has also been taken to the Royal Free Hospital.

Dr Jenny Harries, from Public Health England, said: "All appropriate support has,
and will continue to be offered, to these six individuals. Our thoughts are with all
the healthcare workers, and their families, affected at this time.

"The UK has robust, well-developed and well-tested systems for managing Ebola.
All appropriate infection control procedures continue to be followed to minimise
any risk of transmission. There remains no risk to the general public's health and
the overall risk to the UK continues to be very low."

'Robust'

Prof Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer, said: "The UK has robust,
well-developed and well-tested systems for managing Ebola virus disease.

"All appropriate infection control procedures have, and will continue to be,
strictly followed to minimise any risk of transmission."

Dr Ben Neuman, a virologist at the University of Reading, said flying the
patient back to the UK offered the best chance of recovery.

"The Royal Free Hospital has a 100% record in treating Ebola cases so far,
let's hope that doesn't change.

"While the new batch of ZMapp is not yet available, she could be treated with
favipiravir, which has shown some early promising results in West African Ebola clinics.

"She may also be given antibody-rich serum from Ebola survivors to knock down
the amount of virus in her blood while her immune system is learning to fight Ebola."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31845947

[Bob]

Thanks Steve, I didn't have the update on the UK situation.. Appreciate the help on that. B.

[Bob]

Honduras American gets the ALL-CLEAR and the New Zealand Nurse gets the ALL-CLEAR

The UK Patient who worked with Ebola sufferer remains under care of Newcastle hospital

A patient who came into contact with a diagnosed Ebola patient remains under assessment at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary.

The military health worker was one of two flow into the city from Sierra Leone for monitoring on Friday.

After 48 hours in the hospital’s infectious diseases’ unit, the worker remained under observation on Sunday.

A colleague was discharged before the weekend but will need to be monitored for the next 21 days to ensure they show no signs of the disease.

Public Health England said the situation remained as prior to the weekend and both cases were being treated in line with UK health policy on Ebola

Nurse in New Zealand

The nurse who recently returned from Sierra Leone has tested negative for the Ebola virus.

Health Minister Jonathan Coleman said the initial negative result was "great news", but a second test was required to confirm the result.

"We should have the results of the second test within 48 hours. It is highly unlikely that it will come back with a positive result," Dr Coleman said.

"The patient continues to be in a stable condition, and will remain in one of Christchurch Hospital's dedicated specialist medical isolation rooms until the result of the second test is known."

The nurse is understood to be Bronwyn McBain. She has previously spoken about her desire to make a difference in the fight against Ebola.

Honduras American

(Reuters) - An American who was hospitalized in Honduras pending Ebola checks has been released from hospital, authorities said on Saturday, though he will be kept under watch for 21 days.

The 66-year-old American had spent time in Liberia before coming to Honduras on March 11, authorities said. He was hospitalized on Friday in Comayagua, about an hour north of Tegucigalpa, with a fever.

The vice minister of health, Francis Contreras, said the American did not have any symptoms of Ebola, but authorities are being extra careful because he came from a country that has been affected by the epidemic.

[Bob]

Ebola's back in Liberia

Was it really gone tho?

(Source)

(Reuters) - Liberia has reported its first Ebola case in weeks on Friday, health officials said, in a setback for its efforts to stamp out the worst recorded epidemic of the deadly virus.

A government official, who asked not to be named, said the patient came from Caldwell, a suburb of the capital not far from the last cluster of cases in the St Paul's Bridge neighborhood.

The outbreak has killed more than 10,200 people, mostly in Liberia, neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone, which are all still battling the disease.


"Today, a patient tested positive of Ebola at the transit center run by Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Liberia's Ministry of Health's Redemption Hospital," said Adolphus Mawolo, spokesman for MSF in Monrovia.

[avid]

That 'E' word has to be prompted in the media frequently, due to the media hype previously. It's a 'Cry-Wolf' MSM scenario, so just stoke that wee burner now and again to avoid losing face, or to avoid being totally negligent in the face of very sinister/ignored situation. The seed was planted - just let's follow it from time-to-time, thanks Bob.

[Bob]

Ebola spread continues to grow in a flareup in Liberia. 4 current new cases, search for whom they came in contact..

Liberia has stated that it was hoping to have no new ebola cases for 42 days in a row. On the 20th it was reported that a new case had appeared.

Now there are 3 more..

(Source)

Liberia received yet another setback on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 when two additional Ebola cases were diagnosed.

Although it was initially believed that the Monrovian woman was an isolated case, an 18-year old woman who had taken care of her was taken to an Ebola treatment unit on Tuesday, March 24th, after developing a headache and weakness. On March 25th she tested positive for Ebola. This secondary case most likely became infected while bathing and caring for the initial case.

The third Ebola case is a young man from the New Kru Town area, which is located south of Monrovia. He was taken to an Ebola treatment unit after individuals witnessed him vomiting blood in Clara Town.

The exact source of infection is unknown for this third case.

However, his girlfriend is believed to be involved in cross-border trade, which may have resulted in exposure.

Health officials are in the process of obtaining information on individuals he came into contact with while infectious, so that they can be located and monitored for infection.

Update - medical sources in Liberia working on these cases say, at least 50 people were potentially exposed by coming in contact with bodily fluids from the active ebola cases. They are being monitored for signs of infection.

[Bob]

At the beginning of this thread, we pointed out the 'mysterious illness' which was appearing.. and the thread progressed to follow the developments, potential solutions, and the statistics..

The first reported case in the Ebola outbreak ravaging west Africa dates back to December 2013, in Guéckédou, a forested area of Guinea near the border with Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Travellers took it across the border: by late March, Liberia had reported eight suspected cases and Sierra Leone six.

By the end of June 759 people had been infected and 467 people had died from the disease, making this the worst ever Ebola outbreak.

The numbers keep climbing. As of April 5th 2015, 25,550 cases and 10,587 deaths had been reported worldwide, the vast majority of them in these same three countries.

Currently the ebola patient in the US at NIH facilities is reported to be improving.

Currently there are various actions being taken in the 3 hotzone countries in West Africa to contain, and treat when a case appears. Statistically 42 days of zero incidence is required to declare the area 'ebola free'.. Due to the remoteness, and lack of reporting, to actually see ebola disappear is unlikely.. NON-REPORTING for 42 days is very likely..

Vaccine development has proceeded, and two vaccines are being tested in Africa, with good reported success. (and minimal side effects)..

Treatment substances have been developed at some extreme costs (and such ended up being developed by military sponsorships for eventual military use of the products).

[Bob]

Ebola treatment progress continues.

(Source)

A study in monkeys offers the first evidence that a leading drug developed to fight Ebola works against the strain causing the current outbreak in West Africa.

Six animals were infected with a very high dose of the virus and then, three days later, half were given the drug, TKM-Ebola-Makona, which was designed specifically to fight the West African strain. The monkeys that received the drug survived, but all three untreated monkeys died, researchers reported on Wednesday in the journal Nature.

TKM-Ebola-Makona is already being tested in Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, but results are not yet available. An earlier version of the drug, created to treat a slightly different strain, was given to several Ebola patients in the United States, but it was impossible to tell whether it helped them because they also received other treatments at the same time.

­A grandfather, right,

looking over the graves of his daughter and granddaughter outside an Ebola treatment center in Liberia, one of the West African nations ravaged by the virus during the current outbreak, in October.

The drugs are given intravenously and can cause flulike symptoms, including headaches, chills and fever.

They belong to a category called short interfering RNAs, or siRNAs, which work by blocking certain genes in the virus, impairing its ability to replicate.

The design of these drugs varies depending on the genetic sequence of the virus.

But viruses can mutate, and new strains can evolve. Researchers have wondered whether a drug made to treat one strain would also work against other strains of the same virus.

“There has been concern that small changes in sequence can impact treatments,” said Thomas W. Geisbert, an Ebola expert at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and the senior author of the report.

The original TKM-Ebola was created to fight the Kikwit strain, from an earlier outbreak. The new strain, Makona, is closely related but not identical.

Lab tests show that the drug for Kikwit works against Makona, and vice versa, but Dr. Geisbert said, “The best results would probably be to use siRNAs specific for each strain.”

The great advantage of the technology, Dr. Geisbert said, is that the drugs can quickly be retooled to keep up with changes in the virus.

Dr. Geisbert was one of the main inventors of the siRNAs for Ebola and holds a patent on them but receives no royalties, he said. Other authors of the report included employees of Tekmira, the Canadian company that makes the drugs.

An Ebola expert not involved in the study, Dr. Daniel Bausch, a senior consultant to the World Health Organization and an infectious-disease specialist at Tulane University, said, “They showed universal protection in a highly lethal model three days after infection, so that’s obviously good.”

Creating a treatment that is effective can have broad spectrum ability across different strains. A proper anti-viral drug would be well worth developing, not just for Ebola but many hemorrhagic viral diseases.

[Bob]

Has Ebola really left when folks have been cured? Maybe not.. scarey stuff..

(http://abc7.com/health/report-5-mont...ia-sex/693124/, Source)

5 MONTHS AFTER INFECTION, MAN SPREADS EBOLA VIA SEX

Health officials now think Ebola survivors can spread the disease through unprotected sex nearly twice as long as previously believed.

Scientists thought the Ebola virus could remain in semen for about three months.

But a recent case in West Africa suggests infection through sex can happen more than five months later.

Based on the case, officials are now telling male Ebola survivors to avoid unprotected sex indefinitely. They had previously advised using condoms for at least three months.

A report released Friday detailed the case of a 44-year-old Liberian woman whose infection likely came from a 46-year-old man who had Ebola symptoms last September.

She fell ill in March, a week after sex with him, and died.

Another woman he had sex with around the same time tested negative.

The Ebola virus spreads through direct contact with an Ebola patient's blood or other bodily fluids like urine, saliva, semen and sweat. Once patients recover, health officials say they aren't contagious except there's a chance it could still be in semen.

Investigations of other recent Ebola cases in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have pointed to sexual transmission from survivors, but those have not been confirmed, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

There have been fewer than 10 such cases, said CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund. It's been difficult to pinpoint that sex was the only way they may have been infected, she added.

In Guinea, Dr. Sakoba Keita, the national coordinator for Ebola response, said a woman in the southeastern town of Macenta contracted Ebola after having unprotected sex with her husband.

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This raises a question - how many other viruses, such as those responsible for cancer, can be transmitted through semen?

[Bob]

Has ebola really left when the blood tests say so?

Apparently not in some cases..

Can countries declare themselves EBOLA-FREE if no patient has shown up with monitorable symptoms in 42 days?

There has been a concern where is Ebola lying around latent.. what reservoir is it residing within?

(Source)

Recently even 3 months after being declared CLEARED Ebola can affect a person from the semen.

Another study is showing Ebola resides IN-THE-EYE.

For one Ebola doctor-turned-patient, being discharged with virus-free blood wasn't the end of his brush with the potentially deadly pathogen.

Three months later, the virus was still lingering in his left eyeball, according to a case study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The infection baffled doctors when it turned his blue eye green until the infection resolved itself, according to The New York Times. Emory Eye Center said it was not able to provide the photos to ABC News.

The patient was a previously healthy 43-year-old man who was working at an Ebola treatment ward in Sierra Leone when he was diagnosed with Ebola in early September, according to the study. He was flown to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for treatment, where he spent 12 days on a ventilator and 24 days on dialysis.

About nine weeks after the patient's blood and urine tested negative for Ebola, he complained of redness, blurred vision, sensitivity to light and pain in his left eye, according to the study.
He was diagnosed with inflammation of the eyeball and tests revealed active virus inside the eye. The virus wasn't present in his tears, however.

Mystery Doctor now Identified

Though he's not named as the patient in the case study, The New York Times identified the man as Dr. Ian Crozier, who had been Emory's unnamed Ebola patient until December when he revealed himself to the Times. Crozier is named as a study author in the New England Journal of Medicine study about his eye.

"He's a full partner in his own investigation and the other investigations going forward," said Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, who said he was one of Crozier's mentors. Crozier did his training at Vanderbilt and spoke on its campus about Ebola in April. "All of this is in the context of his sense of mission and being devoted to the medical care of people in underprivileged circumstances abroad."

Crozier is back in Africa to study the health effects on patients after Ebola, Schaffner said.

Schaffner said Ebola is known to cause eye problems and even blindness in patients in Africa. The eye is somewhat cut off from the rest of the immune system, which could have led the virus to linger there, he said.

Treatment and the body's immune response eventually allowed the patient's eye to begin to resolve, Schaffner said, but his remaining Ebola-related health problems also include lower back problems.

There were 26,312 Ebola cases as of April 26, including 10,899 deaths, according to the study, citing World Health Organization figures.

These HIDDEN reservoirs can mean an otherwise 'healthy' in appearance human after having been exposed to Ebola may be a silent carrier, with odd symptoms..

It also suggests that these viral diseases do have spots where they can hide and possibly become active at later times..

It also means, eating bushmeat (primates) who appear healthy, is risky.. They may NOT in-fact be healthy..

[Violet]

I don't know if you had this one already, just throwing it in:

Ebola hiding in eyes after recovery,...and changing the color:

ATLANTA — When Dr. Ian Crozier was released from Emory University Hospital in October after a long, brutal fight with Ebola that nearly ended his life, his medical team thought he was cured. But less than two months later, he was back at the hospital with fading sight, intense pain and soaring pressure in his left eye.

Test results were chilling: The inside of Dr. Crozier’s eye was teeming with Ebola.

(rest: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/he...ctors-eye.html)

[Bob]

That's the original article in NY times, where Dr. Ian Crozier, who had been Emory's unnamed Ebola patient until December when he revealed himself to the Times. Crozier is named as a study author in the New England Journal of Medicine study about his eye. (Post 916 above)

Seeing studies now, that 5 months later after an Ebola patient had no obvious signs of the disease, was able to infect his wife with Ebola, the virus demonstrates how it is able hide..

What other virus is able to hide that way too?

[Bob]

Ebola.. New Patient - second one in Italy

An Italian nurse who had recently been working in Sierra Leone with medical charity Emergency tested positive for Ebola on Tuesday in the country's second case of the virus.

The health ministry said in a statement that the male nurse was in an infectious diseases ward of a hospital at Sassari on the island of Sardinia, awaiting transfer by a specially-equipped airforce plane to a Rome clinic that cured Italy's first Ebola victim, a doctor who had also worked for Emergency in Sierra Leone.

The nurse began displaying possible symptoms of the virus on Sunday evening, two days after arriving home from Africa, the ministry said. Tests confirmed he had contracted the disease that has killed more than 4,700 people in its latest outbreak in West Africa.

The doctor who was successfully treated at the Lazzaro Spallanzani clinic in Rome was evacuated from Sierra Leone in mid-November. The 50-year-old left hospital in January following treatment with a combination of experimental drugs and the blood plasma of an Ebola survivor.

(Source)

Ebola is FAR from over, and as seen healthcare workers STILL can catch this.

[Bob]

Ebola's back.

Sierra Leone -

The government says 578 patients are in quarantine across the country, most in the Western Area which includes the capital.

The seven days ending Sunday "saw the highest weekly total of confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease for over a month", the WHO said in its latest update.

A full 35 new cases were reported during the week in Guinea and Sierra Leone, up from just nine a week earlier.

According to the latest figures, the outbreak has infected 26,933 people and killed 11,120, mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and neighbouring Liberia, which was declared Ebola-free on May 9.

Guinea, where the outbreak began in late 2013, was hardest hit last week, with 27 new cases reported, compared to just seven the week before.

Since the beginning of the outbreak, 869 health workers have been confirmed to be carrying Ebola, and 507 of them have died, according to the WHO.

And “because of the proximity to Guinea-Bissau of the recent cluster of cases in the Guinean prefecture of Boké, a response team from Guinea-Bissau has been deployed to the border to assess points of entry,” WHO reported. “An epidemiological investigation team has also mobilized to ensure any contacts who cross the border are traced.”

Background Guinea Bissau - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13443186