{"id":34562,"date":"2018-05-28T08:54:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T13:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34562"},"modified":"2018-05-28T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T13:54:36","slug":"ebola-breach-vomiting-patients-in-active-phase-smuggled-out-of-quarantine-die-within-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34562","title":{"rendered":"Ebola Breach: Vomiting Patients “In Active Phase” Smuggled Out Of Quarantine, Die Within Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ebola Breach: Vomiting Patients “In Active Phase” Smuggled Out Of Quarantine, Die Within Hours<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Congo health officials are scrambling to contain the country’s newest Ebola outbreak, which has\u00a0made its way from the small remote town of Bikoro\u00a0to the town of Mbandaka, home to around 1.2 million residents.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday, Dr. Jean-Clement Cabrol of\u00a0Doctors Without Borders revealed<\/a> that\u00a0two vomiting patients “in the active phase of the disease” were smuggled out of quarantine on Monday, put on motorcycles, and taken to a prayer meeting with 50 people – where they died hours later.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The escape was organised by the families, with six motorcycles as the patients were very ill and couldn\u2019t walk,\u201d Cabrol said at a news briefing in Geneva after returning from the affected region.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were taken to a prayer room with 50 people to pray. They were found at two in the morning, one of them dead and one was dying<\/strong>. So that\u2019s 50-60 contacts right there<\/strong><\/u>. The patients were in the active phase of the disease, vomiting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Health officials started trying to trace the motorcycle drivers and other people who came into contact with the patients as soon as the escape was reported, Dr. Peter Salama, head of emergency response at the World Health Organization (WHO), told Reuters on Thursday. -Reuters<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cFrom the moment that they escaped, the (health) ministry, WHO and partners have been following very closely every contact,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ebola is highly contagious through bodily fluids, and can move from infected animals to humans who come into contact with contaminated blood. For those who come into contact with the disease, the incubation period lasts between two and 21 days,\u00a0with a fatality rate of 42.3% in the current outbreak<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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While Congo’s health ministry\u00a0says the death toll stands at 12, the WHO<\/a>\u00a0puts the total number at 52 cases and 22 deaths as of Wednesday,\u00a0<\/b>while the number of suspected cases has\u00a0spiked over the last several days.<\/p>\n

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Ebola Breach: Vomiting Patients “In Active Phase” Smuggled Out Of Quarantine, Die Within Hours Congo health officials are scrambling to contain the country’s newest Ebola outbreak, which has\u00a0made its way from the small remote town of Bikoro\u00a0to the town of Mbandaka, home to around 1.2 million residents. On Thursday, Dr. Jean-Clement Cabrol of\u00a0Doctors Without Borders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10961,223,664,4318],"class_list":["post-34562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-congo","tag-ebola","tag-quarantine","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34563,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34562\/revisions\/34563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}