WHO: 10,000 Ebola Cases A Week In Africa By December

by JASmius



"Here it comes, and we can't stop it.  We can only hope to slow it down."

Sorry, I'm translating the BS as best I can:

The number of Ebola cases in three West African nations may jump to between 5,000 and 10,000 a week by December 1st as the deadly viral infection spreads, the World Health Organization said.

The outbreak is still expanding geographically in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia and accelerating in capital cities, Bruce Aylward, the WHO's assistant director-general in charge of the Ebola response, said in a briefing with reporters in Geneva. There have been about 1,000 new cases a week for the past three to four weeks, he said.

"Any sense that the great effort that's been kicked off over the last couple of months is already starting to see an impact, that would be really, really premature," Aylward said. "The virus is still moving geographically and still escalating in capitals, and that's what concerns me."

Or, in non-medicospeak.....we can't stop it.

How about that morbidity rate, Bruce?:

He also said the virus still kills most of those it infects.

"What we're finding is 70% mortality," said Aylward.

Ah.  Well.  That sucks.

This pandemic has the look and feel of being a quadriplegic (courtesy of the entero-68 virus, natch) being pursued by a glacier.  You can see it coming from a great distance away, it's not moving at any breakneck pace, but because your nervous system has betrayed you, you know it's still going to eventually overtake and crush you.

I will say this for the World Health Organization, though; they might genuinely want to stop the pandemic, even if they lack the means. Unlike other parties I could name:

The effects of the epidemic have rippled outward in recent weeks, adding to concerns that Ebola may spread in the U.S. and Europe. The first two cases of Ebola being contracted outside Africa have happened, with health workers in Madrid and Dallas falling ill after caring for infected patients. The U.S. and the U.K. began screening some airline passengers on arrival in the past few days. [emphasis added]

"Some".  But only healthy white airline passengers; the sick ones "of color" were waved right through.

We would have confirmed this with "Ebola Tom," but he's already drowned in his own blood.