I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO~ Deadliest Ebola case ever ravages the Dark Continent

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Digi_Kraken: Sep 4, 2011

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The World Health Organization has warned that dramatic steps are needed to fight the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record, calling an 11-nation meeting to address the crisis.

"As the number of deaths and cases of Ebola virus continues to rise in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the World Health Organization is warning that drastic action is needed," the UN agency said on Thursday in a statement.

As of Sunday, 635 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola have been reported, including 399 deaths, making the ongoing outbreak the largest ever "in terms of the number of cases and deaths, as well as geographical spread," WHO said.

The agency was now "gravely concerned (by) the on-going cross-border transmission into neighbouring countries as well as the potential for further international spread," said WHO's regional director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo.

"This is no longer a country specific outbreak but a sub-regional crisis that requires firm action by governments and partners," Sambo warned.

Since west Africa's first-ever epidemic of the deadly haemorrhagic fever emerged in Guinea in January, WHO has sent in more than 150 experts to help tackle the crisis.

But despite the efforts of the WHO and others, there had been a "significant increase" in the number of cases and deaths reported each day for the past three weeks, it said.

To address the growing crisis, the WHO said it would convene a meeting of the health ministers from 11 countries in Accra, Ghana on July 2 and 3 "to discuss the best way of tackling the crisis collectively as well as develop a comprehensive inter country operational response plan."

WHO has described the epidemic as one of the most challenging since the virus was first identified in 1976 in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

That outbreak, until now the deadliest, killed 280 people, according to WHO figures.

Ebola is a tropical virus that can fell its victims within days, causing severe fever and muscle pain, weakness, vomiting and diarrhoea - in some cases shutting down organs and causing unstoppable bleeding.

No medicine or vaccine exists for Ebola, which is named after a small river in the DRC.

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"This is no longer a country specific outbreak but a sub-regional crisis that requires firm action by governments and partners," Sambo warned.

lol good loving luck with that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs

# ? Jun 26, 2014 13:17

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# ? Apr 24, 2024 17:37

Chris Awful: Oct 2, 2005; Tell your friends they don't have to be scared or hungry anymore comrades.

We all know quarantines fail on geographic scales. There is only one solution:

# ? Jun 26, 2014 13:25

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drat if those hazmat suits don't look good though

# ? Jun 26, 2014 13:43

Cucking Mama: Sep 27, 2013; Gold Medalist, 2014 shit post olympics

my moms family is mostly from africa and they say that those countries are really lovely anyway

# ? Jun 26, 2014 13:47

Loqieu: Feb 27, 2001

Goons should be safe even if it spreads because it's transmitted through bodily fluids.

# ? Jun 26, 2014 13:54

Irish Joe: Jul 23, 2007; by Lowtax

First AIDS, now this. We should just wall off Africa and pretend it doesn't exist. When was the last time Africa gave us anything worthwhile, anyway, 1865?

# ? Jun 26, 2014 13:57

Suicide Sam E.: Jun 30, 2013; by XyloJW

It turns out never washing your hands and eating "bushmeat" is a bad plan for staying alive.

No one asked that this be confirmed. Thanks anyways, Africa?

I've been following the ebola outbreak since earlier this year, and later on picked up epidemic spreading out from the Carribean, and only recently I learned that MERS is a thing. Apparently MERS is some deadly poo poo you get for being a heathen camel-licker in the desert wasteland that is the Middle East.

# ? Jun 26, 2014 14:06

Digi_Kraken: Sep 4, 2011

Heartbroken 2Twice posted:

drat if those hazmat suits don't look good though

they don't look that safe to me

# ? Jun 26, 2014 14:47

Seth Pecksniff: May 27, 2004; can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

we are all going to die

start scoping out the best places to find food in your area, because when the ebolapocalypse happens you're going to want to stake your turf

# ? Jun 26, 2014 14:48

Alien Sex Manual: Dec 14, 2010; is not a sandwich

So has Madagascar shut down its ports yet or what.

# ? Jun 26, 2014 14:49

Digi_Kraken: Sep 4, 2011

Glaucus atlanticus posted:

So has Madagascar shut down its ports yet or what.

haha nice meme my friend. Really nice memeage you got going on there.

# ? Jun 26, 2014 14:50

concerned mom: Apr 22, 2003; by Lowtax; Grimey Drawer

Cucking Mama posted:

my moms family is mostly from africa and they say that those countries are really lovely anyway

Aren't you belgian?

# ? Jun 26, 2014 14:52

Suicide Sam E.: Jun 30, 2013; by XyloJW

Ron Darling posted:

we are all going to die

start scoping out the best places to find food in your area, because when the ebolapocalypse happens you're going to want to stake your turf

I'm just gonna wash my hands, same as every day. Not planning on eating any primates, either.

# ? Jun 26, 2014 14:55

Digi_Kraken: Sep 4, 2011

Suicide Sam E. posted:

I'm just gonna wash my hands, same as every day. Not planning on eating any primates, either.

the first guy to get aids must have hosed a monkey

makes you think

# ? Jun 26, 2014 14:57

Alien Sex Manual: Dec 14, 2010; is not a sandwich

Jew Macklemore posted:

haha nice meme my friend. Really nice memeage you got going on there.

Thanks man, I'm just here to help.

# ? Jun 26, 2014 14:58

Seth Pecksniff: May 27, 2004; can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

Suicide Sam E. posted:

I'm just gonna wash my hands, same as every day. Not planning on eating any primates, either.

what if the water contains ebola

WHAT THEN

# ? Jun 26, 2014 14:58

happyhippy: Feb 21, 2005; Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup; Pillbug

You get ebola from loving an ewok.

# ? Jun 26, 2014 14:58

Tumble: Jun 24, 2003; I'm not thinking of anything!

somebody get bill gates on this

# ? Jun 26, 2014 15:06

Funky See Funky Do: Aug 20, 2013; STILL TRYING HARD

loving great! First the forums go down and now ebola. What a week!

# ? Jun 26, 2014 15:06

Sheng-Ji Yang: Mar 5, 2014

what are teh chances this spirals into black death proportions

# ? Jun 26, 2014 15:07

Suicide Sam E.: Jun 30, 2013; by XyloJW

Sheng-ji Yang posted:

what are teh chances this spirals into black death proportions

So far this outbreak is 100% black death.

happyhippy posted:

You get ebola from loving an ewok.

Also this ^^^^

# ? Jun 26, 2014 15:14

Nonsense: Jan 26, 2007

yeah well polio was discovered in brazil's water like it aint no thing

# ? Jun 26, 2014 15:34

Skeleton Ape: Dec 21, 2008

I toad a sew. I loving toad a sew

# ? Jun 26, 2014 15:35

Rivethead: Feb 22, 2008

If it wasn't for those delicious monkeys they wouldn't be in this mess. Same with AIDS only replace 'delicious' with 'sexy'.

# ? Jun 26, 2014 15:43

de_dust: Jan 21, 2009; she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.

I like how that dudes name was literally sambo.

afrikkka $ux lol

# ? Jun 26, 2014 15:50

Mud Shark: May 12, 2012

if there is one thing i know, iceland is pretty much impossible to infect so everyone just move there.

i'm assuming they aren't playing on casual mode ofc

# ? Jun 26, 2014 16:08

Digi_Kraken: Sep 4, 2011

Back in the good ol days the jews would poison a few wells, we would have a few pogroms, and everybody walked away having had a good time.

No, Ebola is a whole different ball game. Ebola hangs out in parking lots and peers through your car windows. Ebola takes lsd before his daughter's elementary school play and loudly undergoes ego-death during the final number.

Ebola is just stank man.

# ? Jun 26, 2014 16:09