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Biotech / Medical : Ebola Outbreak 2014 - News, Updates and Related Investments
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To: statesidereport who wrote (284)9/23/2014 8:20:55 AM
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Staggering Ebola PredictionsThe WHO says more than 20,000 people could be infected by November, while the CDC estimates the epidemic will strike some 500,000 people by the end of January.

***Oh please......you said a few months ago it's contained. I'm too busy watching "The Voice" to be bothered************

stateside

By Tracy Vence | September 23, 2014

WIKIMEDIA, PLOS BIOLOGYMore than 20,000 people are likely to have been infected with Ebola by November 2, the World Health Organization (WHO) Ebola Response Team predicted in the New England Journal of Medicinetoday (September 23). Extrapolating data from the beginning of the outbreak and accounting for the increased pace of infections, the team noted that “transmission has to be a little more than halved to achieve control of the epidemic and eventually to eliminate the virus from the human population.”

Meanwhile, at the current rate of transmission and without any further aid, scientists from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that “the Ebola epidemic sweeping West Africa could infect up to 500,000 people by the end of January,” The Washington Post reported (via Bloomberg News). The Post also noted that the CDC prediction, which is still under development and set to be released next week, is subject to change. “One of the scary things about this outbreak is that all the general models of the past have been broken,” microbiologist John Connor of Boston University School of Medicine told the newspaper.
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