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[Ekdrm2d1]

Ebola virus: New case emerges in Sierra Leone
By Writer | Friday, January 15, 2016 | bbc.com

Sierra Leone officials have confirmed a death from Ebola , hours after the World Health Organization declared the latest West Africa outbreak over.

The country was declared free of the virus on 7 November, and the region as a whole was cleared when Liberia was pronounced Ebola-free on Thursday.

Tests on a person who died in northern Sierra Leone proved positive, an Ebola test centre spokesman told the BBC.

The WHO has warned, however, that more flare-ups are expected.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35320363?

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

I wonder what the mishap was. Just hours after the WHO news?

 

[Grym]

Well the WHO in the article was stated as warning

The WHO has warned, however, that more flare-ups are expected.

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

Well the WHO in the article was stated as warning

Oh okay. Whoops I read too fast.

 

[Cornballer]

There's more information in the USA Today article. Protocol states that they declare a country 'ebola-free' if they've gone 42 days with a new case, but because of the large number of cases and survivors, the odds of a flare up are more likely here.

The WHO declares counties "Ebola-free" after 42 days. That's because the typical incubation period for a new Ebola case is 21 days. To be on the safe side, the WHO waits for two incubation periods to pass before concluding an epidemic is over.

The sheer size of the West African outbreak — the largest in history — is challenging conventional wisdom about Ebola outbreaks, which in the past were relatively small.

Twenty-one days after the last Ebola case, there is a 95% chance that the epidemic is over. That rises to about 99% after 42 days, said Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Traditionally, patients have been declared cured of Ebola if two tests fail to find the virus in their blood. In rare cases, however, survivors may continue to be contagious.

Past outbreaks affected only a few dozen or few hundred people — not enough for rare recurrences to occur. The West African outbreak, however, has left about 17,000 survivors.

A Liberian survivor spread the virus, for example, after she became pregnant, perhaps because her immune system was compromised by the pregnancy, allowing the virus to stage a comeback, said Amesh Adalja, a senior associate at the Center for Health Security at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

 

[Dazzler]

doesn't it live on in sperm for months?

So it's like a SUPER STI

 

[iamaustrian]

doesn't it live on in sperm for months?

So it's like a SUPER STI

yeah
I think the virus also survived for a super long time in the dead eye of that US doctor.
afair the virus even changed the color of the iris

(imo) by far the most scary virus out there. true hell

A Liberian survivor spread the virus, for example, after she became pregnant, perhaps because her immune system was compromised by the pregnancy, allowing the virus to stage a comeback, said Amesh Adalja, a senior associate at the Center for Health Security at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

man, that's really fucked up. urgh