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Biotech / Medical : Ebola Outbreak 2014 - News, Updates and Related Investments
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From: sense10/26/2014 1:23:21 AM
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"As of 25 October 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a total of 10,141 suspected cases and 4,922 deaths (5,488 cases and 2,945 deaths having been laboratory confirmed), [4] though the WHO believes that this substantially understates the magnitude of the outbreak [18] with true figures numbering three times as many cases as have been reported. [19] [20] The assistant director-general of the WHO warned in mid-October that there could be as many as 10,000 new EVD cases per week by December 2014. [21]"
en.wikipedia.org

News reports this week have claimed that the mortality rate in the current outbreak is closer to 70% than 50%.... which % numbers seem they're not supported by the numbers generated by the existing reporting systems... which are, however, known to be under-reporting by a significant percentage.

That changed view is also paired with a recently revised set of predictions, as here:

"World Health Organization researchers issued a dire new forecast for the Ebola epidemic Tuesday, one that sees 20,000 cases by November, much sooner than previous estimates. And 70 percent of patients are dying.

"That's a big increase over the previous estimates of a 50 percent fatality rate.

“These data indicate that without drastic improvements in control measures, the numbers of cases of and deaths from Ebola virus disease are expected to continue increasing from hundreds to thousands per week in the coming months,” the WHO Ebola Response Team, led by Dr. Christopher Dye, wrote in a report rushed into print by the New England Journal of Medicine."
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