Magic formula that will determine whether Ebola is beaten

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... eaten.html

Magic formula that will determine whether Ebola is beaten

Is west Africa turning the corner in the fight against Ebola? On Wednesday, the World Health Organisation reduced its estimate of the number of fatalites from the virus, saying that there had been more than 400 fewer deaths than previously thought in Sierra Leone. Last week, meanwhile, the WHO said it was seeing a decline in the virus's spread in Liberia, the worst-affected country so far, with a fall in the numbers admitted to clinics for treatment.
Health experts stress that it's too early yet to be optimistic. The fall in deaths in Sierra Leone, for example, is due to a new method of recording and analysing reported fatalities, which has always involved a degree of guesswork because of the havoc that Ebola has wreaked on health care systems. Such is the strain that many bodies are simply buried first without testing to see whether the cause of death was Ebola or another illness such as malaria.
Likewise, while Ebola clinics in Liberia are no longer having to turn away patients - some are now only half-full - aid workers believe that may be because Ebola sufferers are avoiding them altogether. Another explanation is that the drop may be a simple statistical "blip". This could be due either to the continuing lack of reliable statistics, or the possibility that the virus has encountered temporary - and random - bottlenecks in its spread.

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[JimC]

Perhaps the virus itself is evolving towards greater transmittability via lower lethality...

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Perhaps Allah has a more severe Judgement waiting us?

[cronus]

Perhaps Allah has a more severe Judgement waiting us?

Not Allah. I have plans for you all here, and 2015.

[JimC]

Perhaps Allah has a more severe Judgement waiting us?

Not Allah. I have plans for you all here, and 2015.

You're both wrong.

It's Allan from Scunthorpe, and he is slightly miffed with us. He may even frown a little...