Taos Pueblo 16-Year-Old Demetria Maestas Missing

Demetria Maestas, 16, missing since last Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016

Demetria Maestas, 16, missing since last Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016

Demetria Maestas

Demetria Maestas

Published January 9, 2016

TAOS PUEBLO — Demetria Maestas, 16, of the Taos Pueblo, has been missing since last Sunday, January 3, 2016. Family members of Demetria are concerned about her safety and are asking to public to help them locate her.

Demetria was last seen Sunday at the Railrunner station in Bernalillo, New Mexico where she was to board a train at 4:46 p.m. to Santa Fe. From Santa Fe, she was due to board a shuttle to the Taos Pueblo, which she never did.

The 4 ft. 11 in. teen was wearing a pair of gray jeans, a faded gray sweater and a pair of black boots. Demetria wears glasses and was carrying a neon green backpack. She weighs 160 pounds; has brown eyes and hair is dyed orange.

“She is very close to her mother,” says Christina Loretto, a family cousin. “If she was a run-away, she would have contacted her friends by now.”

Demetria has not been on any social media since her disappearance, according to Loretta.

Demetria  had stayed behind to spend more time with her extended family for an extra day after a birthday party for her little sister, who turned one-year-old. Her mother and other five siblings returned to the Taos Pueblo.

Please contact police is you know about Demetria's whereabouts.

Please contact police is you know about Demetria’s whereabouts.

Because there were no witnesses when Demetria went missing, law enforcement will not issue an Amber alert, according to Loretto.

Anyone who may have seen suspicious activity involving Demetria last Sunday at the Railrunner station in Bernalillo or on the train to Santa Fe are asked to contact authorities. Additionally, anyone with information about the whereabouts of Demetria are asked to contact the Taos Tribal Police at 575-758-8645 or the New Mexico State Police at 575-758-1466.

 

 

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Nigeria: Lassa Fever Outbreak With 40 Fatalities

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Although endemic in West Africa, for the past three years Nigeria has seen a steady decline in the number of Lassa Fever cases  – and deaths – with the last significant outbreak reported in 2012.

Last year, Nigeria reported only 250 cases (likely a substantial under count) and 8 deaths.   By contrast – in 2012 – 117 deaths were recorded.

Lassa is a Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF), although it is nowhere near as virulent as Ebola or Marburg. The Lassa virus is commonly carried by multimammate rats, a local rodent that often likes to enter human dwellings.

Exposure is typically through the urine or dried feces of infected rodents, and roughly 80% who are infected only experience mild symptoms.  The overall mortality rate is believed to be in the 1%-2% range, although it runs much higher (15%-20%) among those sick enough to be hospitalized.

Like many other hemorrhagic fevers, person-to-person transmission may occur with exposure to the blood, tissue, secretions, or excretions of an individual, although the CDC reassures:

Casual contact (including skin-to-skin contact without exchange of body fluids) does not spread Lassa virus. Person-to-person transmission is common in health care settings (called nosocomial transmission) where proper personal protective equipment (PPE) is not available or not used. Lassa virus may be spread in contaminated medical equipment, such as reused needles.

Over the past couple of days alarm bells have started ringing in Nigeria as it was revealed that 86 Lassa cases have been reported from 10 states over the past 6 weeks, and of those, 40 have died. 

An initial mortality rate (among hospitalized cases) of 46% –  roughly triple that normally expected. 

While this high mortality rate is getting a lot of press, this is a relatively small sample, there is often a bias towards identifying the most critically ill subset of patients early in any outbreak, and that there may be unreported co-factors at work here.

All of which could help to skew the mortality figures higher. 

Forty deaths in such a short time period, however, is a substantial jump over recent years. Last night (Friday), the Health Minister Isaac Adewole, speaking at a news conference, announced the latest case counts and called the number of deaths `unusual’. 

 This report from NAIJ.COM.

Lassa Fever Kills 40 In 10 States
 
Isaac Adewole, the minister of health, has confirmed that 40 people have died in Nigeria in a suspected outbreak of Lassa fever.

Speaking at a news conference in Abuja, the minister said: “The total number (of suspected cases) reported is 86 and 40 deaths, with a mortality rate of 43.2 percent.”

He also warned Nigerians that the disease has already spread to ten states in the six weeks since the first case was reported.

Seven of the affected states are in the north: Bauchi, Nasarawa, Niger, Taraba, Kano, Plateau and Gombe, while the remaining three are in the south: Rivers, Edo and Oyo.

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The twitter hashtag  #Lassafever  is seeing a lot of traffic overnight, with @EbolaAlert posting public health infographics and links.

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While Lassa is unlikely to spark a major epidemic, the same could have been said for Ebola a couple of years ago. Of late – when it comes to infectious diseases – conventional wisdom has suffered some setbacks.

So we’ll keep an eye on this outbreak, and I’ll report back any significant information.

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