Ebola deaths pass 11,000 mark: WHO

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo News / AFP

Geneva (AFP) - The number of deaths from the Ebola epidemic now exceeds 11,000, figures from the World Health Organization showed on Wednesday.

In the three countries worst affected -- Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea -- 26,593 people were infected, and 11,005 had died, the WHO said.

The worst ever outbreak of Ebola began in southern Guinea in December 2013 before spreading to Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Liberia has recorded the most deaths with 4,716, while 3,903 have died in Sierra Leone and 2,386 have died in Guinea.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-deaths-pass-11-000-mark-223707192.html

[niyad]

1. is the msm covering this??

why am I even asking??

[FLPanhandle]

2. The CDC estimates the common flu kills over 50,000 just here in the US annually.

Ebola is small potatoes compared to the flu, accidents, heart disease, cancer, etc.

No one panics about the flu because we are used to it. Ebola creates panic because it's new and therefore scary.

[uppityperson]

3. There is also the higher death rate % from ebola than flu

I really wish that stupid Hot Zone book had never been published, so much hysteria and misinformation and panic from that (omg, bleeding from every orifice!!!!!!!111) (for example).

But still, influenza does not kill half the people who get it. I also wish people understood the numbers it does kill and get immunized, or even understand influenza is a respiratory disease not gastrointestinal.

[FLPanhandle]

4. True

I remember reading that Hot Zone book way back too.

I wish people would truly understand risk. When the big Ebola scare was happening, people were choosing to drive long distances vs. fly on an airplane.

Any rational person would have realized that driving was far more likely to kill them than catching Ebola on a passenger plane.

Human beings are silly creatures though.

[Suji to Seoul]

5. All the coverage before the election.

Nothing after. Surprise, surprise.

[Skittles]

6. I don't understand why more resources weren't thrown at this when the outbreak first occurred

there's plenty of money for senseless war and war profiteers

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Frontline is showing a documentary - "Outbreak" on this -

Lots of blame to go around. WHO was unprepared for the magnitude of the outbreak -- nat'l gov'ts didn't want to call it an epidemic, didn't act fast enough -- local people believed wild rumors about cannibalism, Ebola a fraud, doctors killing patients, etc. etc.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/outbreak/

[Princess Turandot]

7. On a hopeful note, Liberia has not had a new case identified since 3/20...

if that continues, the 2014/2015 outbreak will be declared over in that country on May 10, just three more days. They almost reached that milestone in March, until a single case was identified on 3/20. Until that case, there had been no new identified cases since January.

Of course, the recovery of the human and organizational infrastructure is going be a very difficult haul.

http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-6-may-2015
https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=396&language_id=ENG