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Ebola: [New] Updated Charts

Mens et Manus

Last Update: 14 August 2014 [Charts]
Current Update:
15 August 2014 [Data Source]
all_epicurve_8.18.14liberia_cfr_8.18.14SL_cfr_8.18.14guinea_cfr_8.18.14bycountry_cfr_8.18.14bycountry_new_8.18.14all_new_8.18.14bycountry_cumulative_8.18.14all_cumulative_8.18.14lcr_8.18.14cfr_8.18.14Historical Data Sources:
[1] World Health Organization. Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Zaire, 1976. Report of an International Convention. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 1978;56(2):271-293.
[2] World Health Organization. Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Sudan, 1976. Report of a WHO/International Study Team. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 1978;56(2):247-270.
[3] Heymann DL, Weisfeld JS, Webb PA, et al. Ebola hemorrhagic fever: Tandala, Zaire, 1977-1978. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 1980;142(3):372-376.
[4] Baron RC, McCormick JB, and Zubeir OA. Ebola virus disease in southern Sudan: hospital dissemination and intrafamilial spread. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 1983;61(6):997-1003.
[5] Georges AJ, Leroy EM, Renaud AA, et al. Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in Gabon, 1994-1997: epidemiologic and health control issues. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 1999;179:S65-75.
[6] Le Guenno B, Formenty P, Wyers M, et al. Isolation and partial…

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A Gratitude Prayer

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Let Yourself Off the Hook.

It’s OK to unplug and disengage from the news of the day, from the horror, genocide, war, poverty and sickness that seem to be everywhere. We aren’t terrible people if we need to sit and look at the sky, silently counting clouds, feeling the wind as it shifts. We aren’t selfish or awful or lacking compassion if we take time to care for ourselves, as best we can.

What’s Good? What’s Right About the World?

No matter how bad we feel about what’s happening in the world, feeling bad will not make others feel good. Only by making small choices to focus on what’s good, what’s right, what’s important — moment by moment by moment — can we ever hope to change things. Only that will foster the kind of life condition that will allow us to energetically shift and shape our future.

Use…

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Margaret Thatcher’s father – a paedophile?

Pride's Purge

(not satire)

A 15-year-old girl who used to work in a grocery shop owned by Margaret Thatcher’s father said that he had regularly molested her.

In 1997, the girl told a journalist from The Independent:

He was a bad one. He came round and put his arms around me, feeling my breasts. He used to put his tongue in my mouth. I got quite frightened. I didn’t like it and I’d push him away.

She also said Thatcher’s father used to regularly molest other teenage girls who worked in his shop:

He’d say nothing and go, but then he would come back again. He used to chase other girls round the counter.

Looks like abusing helpless people was a bit of a family trait in the Roberts family.

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First Light #poetry #photography #sundaydevotion

penned in moon dust

Beneath the first light

I raise my heart in supplication

lift me up Oh Lord

off my trembling knees

life’s burdens can keep me down

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Beneath the first light

I raise my eyes to meet the sun

reflections of grace dance on the hillside

I am beckoned to dance

nature comes alive

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Beneath the first light

I raise my voice to sing your glory

notes flutter on the breeze like butterflies

I am reminded I am free

not shackled to this world

Racing Dawn

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Profile: Hamas’s Mohammed Deif

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Hamas's Deif

A rare video image of Deif in 2005 via Ma’an News

The war in Gaza has brought the focus back on Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, and its mysterious leader Mohammed Al-Deif. Here is a collection of old and new profile analyses about him from various sources. 

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Never in a Straight Line #poem #dpchallenge #photography

The ocean refuses no river

penned in moon dust

Water flows
circuitous route off mountains
it was a warm winter
the river never runs in a straight line
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feelings flow
never making any sense
two hearts spring
the river never runs in a straight line
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passion flows
dawn collides with day
heat beads off summer skin
the river never runs in a straight line
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life flows
making confusing rules
fall of three streams
the river never runs in a straight line

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Today’s prompt at DP photography challenge is Zigzag.

What zigzags in your life???

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