WHO: Audio Press Conference On Re-Emergence Of Ebola In Liberia

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UPDATED: 10:30 Hrs EST  11/20

My thanks to Crof for posting a link to an announcement by Liberia’s Ministry of Health, indicating there are now 3 confirmed Ebola cases, the original, and two family members.  More testing of contacts is underway.

 

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As I blogged earlier this morning, roughly 4 months after Liberia’s last positive Ebola test, a new case has emerged near the capital city of Monrovia, that of a 10 year-old boy who fell ill about a week ago. This effectively `resets the clock’ for the second time this year, putting Liberia back into the active Ebola category.

Since this boy appears to have had no travel history to areas still seeing Ebola transmission, the assumption is his infection is the result of exposure to a convalescent Ebola case who continues to harbor and shed the virus. 

 

This is a topic we’ve looked at repeatedly over the past year, but most recently in ECDC On Ebola Persistence & Rapid Risk Assessment, which looked at the unexpected relapse of Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey, nine months after her recovery from the the virus

 

In WHO: Study Shows Ebola Virus Fragments May Be Detectable In Semen For > 9 Months, we saw additional evidence of the long-term presence of the Ebolavirus in male semen, and last May (see MMWR & WHO On Risks Of Sexual Transmission Of Ebola) we saw evidence of the sexual transmission of the virus.

 

All of which makes `getting to zero, and staying there’ a daunting task.

 

The audio recording of the press briefing held today at 12.30 (Geneva time) by  Dr R. Bruce Aylward, Executive Director a.i., Outbreaks and Health Emergencies and Special Representative of the Director-General for the Ebola Response may be accessed at the following link:

 

AUDIO LINK

My Feminism Is: Justice Everywhere | National Women’s Law Center

You see injustice everywhere. And one day, you’ll have a word for what you’re feeling, a word for what you’ve been all along but hesitate to call yourself – “feminist.”When you finally find feminism, you’ll find the incredible community of it. You’ll connect with so many people over the simple belief of equality. You’ll grow to recognize that there are systems in place that keep not only women down, but people of color, people with disabilities, and people of lower socioeconomic status down, too.You have always been driven by the desire to help others. You’ve always been driven by seeking to right the wrongs you see everywhere. You’ve always known the power of words. You’ve always known that words and ideas and that feeling deep in your gut that something’s not right here can change the world, or at least change a person. Soon you’ll discover a word and a community that will accept you just as much as you accept it.You’ve come from a long line of women who didn’t always have the word for feminism but always had the strength of a thousand men – no, not a thousand men. The strength of a woman. Your grandmothers, your mother, your aunt, and everyone before them. Their jobs may not have been glamorous or historic, but they worked hard without complaint. Whatever life throws at them, they bear with gritted teeth and the determination you have inherited.Your feminism began by seeing unfairness in your own life and in the lives around you. How is it fair that we have to decorate the whole school at 7am on Friday mornings and receive no recognition or thanks? How it fair that few spectators come to the girls’ basketball games, and even fewer at our cheerleading competitions?

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Source: 40% of Millennials OK with limiting speech offensive to minorities | Pew Research Center

Understand the intent but risks freedom of speech, I believe. If speech is equivalent to causing violence or yelling fire in a room full of people that causes panic – limit it and make illegal otherwise just speak up to let haters know to not use that speech in your presence.

Amazon.com: Club 8 review

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