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The medical approach of mitigating symptoms is obviously failing. It is time to start thinking like a microbiologist/immunologist.
....I doubt any of them were doing anything to expose themselves to the way Ebola is classically transmitted.
1. Based on 3,069 reported cases (at August 26, 2014), the case total will reach 196,416 within about 6 months, and up to 12,570,624 cases after a year.
2. The WHO estimates unreported cases bring the total to 12,000 cases, which means cases would rise to 384,000 cases with in 6 months and 24,576,000 cases after a year.
3. Most likely the real case rate is much higher. There are no accessible hospitals or clinics for most West Africans - no one to test and diagnose, and no one to report new cases. Realistically, the actual case total is probably closer to 20,000 already. If that's true, then by 6 months the case total will be 640,000 and by one year - 40,960,000 cases.
If the transmission rate does not speed up.
Five of the scientists involved in the research caught Ebola and died. It's one of the most interesting -and alarming- factoids in the source report.
ETA: ….Did they make the same mistake about the safety of their patients' exposures as they did about their own? Is that how this epidemic started?
originally posted by: GogoVicMorrow
a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
It's 50 doctors in the field in areas where there are outbreaks. They were spread out all over I believe. It wasn't a group working together, but all over. I would say they just came into contact with sick people or made a mistake in the field.