Meanwhile in Africa...

[Russell]

Ebola will be absolutely amazing!

Amy Childs has taken her cluelessness to a whole new level after mistaking the deadly virus Ebola for a band.

The gaff occurred when the former TOWIE star was being interview by The Revolution Will Be Televised presenter Jolyon Rubinstein on the MOBO’s red carpet in London last month.

Jolyon questioned: ‘Have we done enough to prevent the spread of Ebola?’ To which a perplexed Amy responded: ‘What?’

The video then cuts to the presenter saying: ‘You know Ebola is going to be huge, don’t you?’

Then an enthusiastic Amy replied: ‘I might be a big fan after tonight… I think it will be absolutely amazing.’

She was on a red carpet...

LOL

[Cyka UchuuJin]

Ebola will be absolutely amazing!

Amy Childs has taken her cluelessness to a whole new level after mistaking the deadly virus Ebola for a band.

The gaff occurred when the former TOWIE star was being interview by The Revolution Will Be Televised presenter Jolyon Rubinstein on the MOBO’s red carpet in London last month.

Jolyon questioned: ‘Have we done enough to prevent the spread of Ebola?’ To which a perplexed Amy responded: ‘What?’

The video then cuts to the presenter saying: ‘You know Ebola is going to be huge, don’t you?’

Then an enthusiastic Amy replied: ‘I might be a big fan after tonight… I think it will be absolutely amazing.’

She was on a red carpet...

LOL

:facepalm:

[Coligny]

Meanwhile in the USA... Again...

Is Ebola back in New York? FDNY arrives in Hazmat suits as woman who had 'recently traveled from Guinea and was being monitored for Ebola drops dead with blood coming from her face, nose and mouth'

Moar:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... mouth.html

[Coligny]

Unrelated... But so totally related...

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ad ... 7138327714

[Coligny]

why the fixation on norovirus ?

because norovirus is p00p transmitted only...

ebola is p00p, blood, sweat, tear (...)

[Coligny]

Ok, which novel from Tom Clancy was it from ?

ISIS fighters 'have contracted Ebola': World Health Organisation investigating reports militants showed up at Iraqi hospital with lethal disease

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... pital.html

[Russell]

Ok, which novel from Tom Clancy was it from ?

ISIS fighters 'have contracted Ebola': World Health Organisation investigating reports militants showed up at Iraqi hospital with lethal disease

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... pital.html

Allah will protect them all.

Supposedly...

The reports have appeared in pro-government and Kurdish media but if true it could have catastrophic implications for people in ISIS-held areas as the group is against western science and medicine.

Great.

I guess it's then down to survival of the fittest...

It is not known if any of the surviving doctors in Mosul are equipped to test for Ebola or trained to treat patients and prevent the spread of the disease.

But one can easily imagine the answer to that question...

[Coligny]

Wonder at which point we stop calling these people humanitarian heroes...

BREAKING: Brit nurse with Ebola now in 'critical' condition, doctors say

moar

And more realistically decide to choose between suicidal morons or bioterrorists...

[Coligny]

Long night...


http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/550028 ... s-of-Ebola

Not just for me it seems...

BREAKING: ANOTHER Briton rushed to hospital after showing signs of Ebola

[Coligny]

And if we wuz in Englistan I'd end up with Scotland yard up my ass...

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Police CONFIRM investigation into 'a number of complaints' regarding Katie Hopkins' tweets

http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/5 ... witter-war

Because between drunkard tweets and why someone potentially having ebola was let in without health check or quarantine it's twitter asshattery that will end the world...

How lower can those guys fall after the standard set by losing the empire...

(Sidenote, landing on Scotland Yard's shit list would be something i'd be proud to have on my resume...)

[Grumpy Gramps]

For a terrorist, Ebola must just look like a wonderful opportunity. Go Africa, get yourself some Ebola and when you start to feel a little kasegimi, you go busking in a large subway station in Tokyo or New York and sing a little hippie song 'Let's love one another, make love not war" and give everyone a hug. Three buskers should get 1000 hugs for love and peace each in a morning? Maybe more effective than suicide vests.

[Coligny]

Th3 FBI/CIA/DHS/Blackwater local chapter will come knocking at your door shortly...

[Coligny]

WHO adopts reforms to repair reputation after bungling Ebola...

http://www.philstar.com/world/2015/01/2 ... ling-ebola

Step #1 form a investigation panel with a budget sufficient to buy 2 small aircraft carriers and their air wings.

Step #2 pretend to go through the 90000 pages of the preliminary report mostly comprised of copy pasta of all known phonebook ever published in country possessing indoor plumbing.

Step #3 act upon the recommendation of rebranding the organisation as quickly as possible and to do so, commit a budget to hire the best publicity and reputation damage control expert (for the cost of half a dozen aircraft supercarriers)

Step #4 Change the name to Blackwater then after all the visit cards, vehicle branding, stationery and website have been redone... at the cost of 4 more aircraft carriers...

Step #4.5 realise that the previous owner of the Blackwater trademark... still own it... and should better keep it...

Final step: go back to the previous name and act like if nothing happened.... also, try to find where those 12 fucking aircraft carriers have gone...

[Coligny]

Complete mess of an article trying to make people shit their pants aboot a non existent airborne transmission that could happen. But minimize discovery by the French institut Pasteur researcher of a new mutation where transmissibility exist in non symptomatic patients....

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/554 ... e-Airborne

Is their a single new outlet in britain that is not an asswipe ?

Edit:

Ok, maybe those guys:
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Wheelie ... story.html

[Russell]

'Mysterious' disease kills 18 in Nigeria

A “mysterious” disease that kills patients within 24 hours has claimed at least 18 lives in a south-eastern Nigerian town, the government said.

“Twenty-three people were affected and 18 deaths were recorded,” the Ondo state health commissioner, Dayo Adeyanju, said on Saturday.

The government spokesman for the state, Kayode Akinmade, earlier gave a toll of 17 dead.

“Seventeen people have died of the mysterious disease since it broke out early this week in Ode-Irele town,” Akinmade told AFP by telephone.

The disease, whose symptoms include headache, weight loss, blurred vision and loss of consciousness, killed the victims within a day of falling ill, he said.

Laboratory tests have so far ruled out Ebola or any other virus, Akinmade said.

The World Health Organisation meanwhile said it had information on 14 cases with at least 12 dead.

“Common symptoms were sudden blurred vision, headache, loss of consciousness followed by death, occurring within 24 hours,” WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told AFP by email, adding that an investigation was ongoing.

Another WHO spokesman, Gregory Hartl, said that according to a preliminary report, all those affected began showing symptoms between 13 and 15 April.

Akinmade said health officials and experts from the government and aid agencies, as well as WHO epidemiologists, had arrived in Ode-Irele to search for answers.

The state’s health commissioner, Adeyanju, said that he and his officials had gone on a “field visit with the WHO, Unicef, NCDC (Nigerian Centre for Disease Control). This was basically a case search to unravel the cause (of the disease),” he said.

Jasarevic said blood and urine samples had been taken from two victims and cerebrospinal fluid from another.

“All samples have been sent to Lagos University Teaching Hospital this morning, and results are still pending. Investigations are still ongoing,” he said.

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Probably not too much of a threat. Disease kills off the patient before it has much chance to transfer to another patient.

And Nigeria did very well in dealing with Ebola.

[Russell]

Latest news (in the Dutch media) has it that weed killers are to blame...

[kurogane]

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/i ... A520150429

Man sentenced for killing, eating heart of victim in South Africa

Wed Apr 29, 2015 2:36pm EDT

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A man who ate his victim's heart after stabbing him to death was sentenced to 18 years in prison by a South African court on Wednesday.Andrew Chimboza, a 35-year-old Zimbabwean national, killed his girlfriend's lover Mbuyiselo Manona on June 2014 in Cape Town's Gugulethu township. Judge Ashley Bins-Ward said that Chimboza had shown no remorse and refused to acknowledge his "unpredictable and uncontrollable rage", the Rand Daily Mail reported. He was found to have no mental illness after being placed under psychiatric evaluation. Psychiatrist Tuviah Zabow told the court that Chimboza said the woman coerced him to kill Manona and that "she also demanded that he present her with the deceased's heart", news website News24 reported.

"His memory of the period of the offense was good but he declined to explain why he had sliced up the heart and was found eating it," Zabow said.

(Reporting by Zandi Shabalala; Editing by Tom Heneghan)

This is truly an offal crime, and while I cannot imagine the victim's heartbreak I do take heart that this crazed maniac has been sentenced to what might strike some as a rather light sentence given the killer's heartlessness.

[Russell]

MERS fears in South Korea: Nearly 700 isolated as health officials seek to block spread

South Korean health officials isolated nearly 700 people on Monday in an effort to stop the spread of the potentially deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome within its borders after 18 people became infected over the past 10 days -- a rate of transmission that appears more aggressive than in other countries.

South Korea has been on high alert since May 20 when a 68-year-old man who had been traveling in Bahrain tested positive for the virus. Since then, the virus has been detected in a number of patients and visitors to the hospital where he was treated -- triggering global concern about whether the virus had mutated or genetic or environmental factors may have been at play.

MERS, a coronavirus, is related to the one that infected thousands during the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and has no cure or vaccine.

"We must find the reason for the high rate of transmission unlike in the cases of other countries," President Park Geun-hye told a meeting on Monday, according to Reuters.

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[matsuki]

"We must find the reason for the high rate of transmission unlike in the cases of other countries," President Park Geun-hye told a meeting on Monday, according to Reuters.

Too many people in the elevators? I shit you not...

[kurogane]

It's official. Americans have better taste!

US woman mauled to death at Sith Effriken Gim Perk

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/0 ... 84088.html

I would like to take this opportunity to say that while I see no need to lionise the victim after her fatal mistake, I also hope that we can use this opportunity to show some compassion, and maybe even claw our way back to a modicum of decency, if only to take a bite out of the usual nasty internet commentary following incidents like this. In that sense, we could see this as a window of opportunity through which we all might leap. The usual jokes aside, it must have been a real drag for the poor victim.

[wagyl]

Those felines are developing new skills

Perhaps this is the vanguard for the revolution Coligny talks about.

Of course why anybody would drive near Johannesburg with the doors unlocked is a mystery.

[kurogane]

That's scary. Really, really scary. Never mind the apes, I think we should be worried.

[wagyl]

I don't think we are allowed to called the black people "apes" after Apartheid...

[kurogane]

Ooooh, that was catty.............

I speak a bit of Great Ape you know. So Kreeagh! to you

In case Klingon isn't made up enough for you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangani

[Russell]

It's just as with Microsoft.

If you open windows, you can be in for a nasty surprise...

[Russell]

South Korean MERS outbreak likely to spread, health officials say

A MERS outbreak in South Korea, the largest outside Saudi Arabia where the disease first emerged in 2012, is likely to grow, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

MERS, or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, has infected at least 25 people in South Korea and killed two, according to the World Health Organization.

Doctors have diagnosed five new cases not yet confirmed by the WHO, bringing the total to 30 cases, said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, who is in contact with South Korean doctors who are treating the patients. South Korean officials have isolated 680 people to limit the spread of the disease, which spreads when sick people cough.

There have been at least 1,154 lab-confirmed cases of MERS worldwide since 2012, along with 431 deaths — a mortality rate of 37%.

MERS belongs to the same family of viruses as SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which was identified in 2003. Symptoms include fever, cough and shortness of breath, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The first MERS case in South Korea, confirmed May 20, was in a 68-year-old man who had traveled to four Middle Eastern countries. He developed symptoms May 11 and sought care at two outpatient clinics and two hospitals, the WHO said.

Doctors didn't isolate the man because he didn't report exposure to MERS, the WHO said. He was exposed to a number of medical staff and hospital patients, as well as their family members and visitors. Health officials are seeking more information about how he was exposed during his Middle Eastern travels, the WHO said.

Other patients may have spread the virus at other hospitals before they were diagnosed.

The first MERS patient in South Korea shared a hospital ward with a 35-year-old man whose son had tuberculosis and who was taking medication to prevent infection. That man developed a fever after being discharged. He visited two hospitals and was given antibiotics by staff who probably assumed his symptoms were caused by tuberculosis, said Daniel Lucey, an adjunct professor of microbiology and immunology at Georgetown University Medical Center. That man then visited the hospital again, where he was isolated.

Another man infected with MERS in South Korea traveled to China on May 26, against his doctor's orders, and was diagnosed a hospital in that country three days later. The man had symptoms of MERS during his travel, the WHO said.

South Korea's Ministry of Health confirmed that there have been three generations of MERS spread — from the initial patient to a second patient and then to a third patient with no contact with the original patient.

Given how many people were exposed, "further cases can be expected," the WHO said in a statement. People are more likely to spread the disease when they are very sick and coughing more, Osterholm said.

The first MERS case in the United States, a health professional who had traveled to Saudi Arabia, was diagnosed in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Doctors have long known that coronaviruses such as MERS spread easily in hospitals, Osterholm said. Hospitals helped to spread the SARS outbreak in Toronto in 2003, as sick patients waited in crowded emergency departments, Osterholm said.

The current South Korean outbreak underscores the need to develop a vaccine against MERS, said Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

There's a lot that doctors don't know about coronaviruses, such as why some people appear so much more contagious than others. During the 2003 SARS outbreak, doctors called highly infectious people "super spreaders" because they infected dozens of people. Other patients, however, never infect anyone. "These people may have more of the virus, or their coughs may be more efficient at spreading it," Osterholm said.

Osterholm notes that it's difficult to tell if the South Korean outbreak is spreading any more quickly than usual. In past outbreaks in Saudi Arabia, world health officials often received information long after patients had been treated.

South Korean officials have been quick to notify international authorities of new developments, allowing people to follow the outbreak "in real time," Osterholm said.

"There is a lot more transparency here than on the Arabian peninsula," Osterholm said.

Because South Korea has an advanced medical system, it is better positioned to contain the MERS outbreak than developing nations, Osterholm said.

"The fact that MERS has spread around the world is not surprising," Osterholm said. "The question is, 'Where is it going to spread to next?' It could very easily come to America. Very easily. Any flight could contain someone who was infected in the Middle East."

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[matsuki]

Osterholm notes that it's difficult to tell if the South Korean outbreak is spreading any more quickly than usual. In past outbreaks in Saudi Arabia, world health officials often received information long after patients had been treated.

South Korean officials have been quick to notify international authorities of new developments, allowing people to follow the outbreak "in real time," Osterholm said.

"There is a lot more transparency here than on the Arabian peninsula," Osterholm said.

You mean they're not blaming it on gaijin and are openly dealing with the problem?!

[Samurai_Jerk]

Did you hear about the guy in Jersey who died from Lassa Fever because he decided not to tell his doctors he has just been in West Africa?

[Coligny]

That's because as a recent traveler to a country that had been part of last year's Ebola outbreak, the man was subject to daily monitoring by local health officials under a protocol established by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health officials screen travelers from Ebola-affected areas at major airports, including JFK International, where his flight landed. Their cases are referred to their local health departments for ongoing monitoring.

At least now they know how efficient their proctocolog is...
... Like in every zombie apocalypse, those bitten hide it because they hope they will not turn... Then the next morning they've eaten their whole household...

[Russell]

It's official. Americans have better taste!

US woman mauled to death at Sith Effriken Gim Perk

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/0 ... 84088.html

I would like to take this opportunity to say that while I see no need to lionise the victim after her fatal mistake, I also hope that we can use this opportunity to show some compassion, and maybe even claw our way back to a modicum of decency, if only to take a bite out of the usual nasty internet commentary following incidents like this. In that sense, we could see this as a window of opportunity through which we all might leap. The usual jokes aside, it must have been a real drag for the poor victim.

Caught on camera - the moment safari-goer was mauled to death by lion