375 Times More Likely To Die From Diarrhea than Ebola

[Delta4Embassy]

375 times more likely to die from diarrhea than ebola.

"The top 10 causes of death

Fact sheet N°310
Updated May 2014
The 10 leading causes of death in the world, 2000 and 2012

Ischaemic heart disease, stroke, lower respiratory infections and chronic obstructive lung disease have remained the top major killers during the past decade.

HIV deaths decreased slightly from 1.7 million (3.2%) deaths in 2000 to 1.5 million (2.7%) deaths in 2012. Diarrhoea is no longer among the 5 leading causes of death, but is still among the top 10, killing 1.5 million people in 2012.

Chronic diseases cause increasing numbers of deaths worldwide. Lung cancers (along with trachea and bronchus cancers) caused 1.6 million (2.9%) deaths in 2012, up from 1.2 million (2.2%) deaths in 2000. Similarly, diabetes caused 1.5 million (2.7%) deaths in 2012, up from 1.0 million (2.0%) deaths in 2000."

rest,
WHO The top 10 causes of death

Just stop with this decietful quoting of a useless statistic. The nature of a contagious disease could turn your statistic, that is based on data from right now, on its ear. We should not panic about Ebola, but I can't stand that lie.

Wasn't a stat, I got out the calculator. Diarrhea kills 1.5 million every year. Ebola's killed about 4000. Hence about 375 times.

 

[PredFan]

375 times more likely to die from diarrhea than ebola.

"The top 10 causes of death

Fact sheet N°310
Updated May 2014
The 10 leading causes of death in the world, 2000 and 2012

Ischaemic heart disease, stroke, lower respiratory infections and chronic obstructive lung disease have remained the top major killers during the past decade.

HIV deaths decreased slightly from 1.7 million (3.2%) deaths in 2000 to 1.5 million (2.7%) deaths in 2012. Diarrhoea is no longer among the 5 leading causes of death, but is still among the top 10, killing 1.5 million people in 2012.

Chronic diseases cause increasing numbers of deaths worldwide. Lung cancers (along with trachea and bronchus cancers) caused 1.6 million (2.9%) deaths in 2012, up from 1.2 million (2.2%) deaths in 2000. Similarly, diabetes caused 1.5 million (2.7%) deaths in 2012, up from 1.0 million (2.0%) deaths in 2000."

rest,
WHO The top 10 causes of death

Just stop with this decietful quoting of a useless statistic. The nature of a contagious disease could turn your statistic, that is based on data from right now, on its ear. We should not panic about Ebola, but I can't stand that lie.

Wasn't a stat, I got out the calculator. Diarrhea kills 1.5 million every year. Ebola's killed about 4000. Hence about 375 times.

You missed the point. It's a contagion. If it broke out it would change your numbers exponentially and your numbers would be shown to be as meaningless as they truly are.

If you had got on your abacus on the day the first European died of the Black Plague, you would have had similar statistics.

 

[skookerasbil]

Really wanna make jokes about millions of dead people?

Dude, you are such a frick'n moron.

Who's MAKING JOKES ABOUT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, RETARD???

What I was saying is that WE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GOOGLING TONIGHT — DIARRHEA!!!

I guess you've gotten tired of reading about pedophilia, for a change, eh?

Your empathy is clearly saving lives!!


Fuck......how do these people manage to get out of bed every day??

 

[emilynghiem]

375 times more likely to die from diarrhea than ebola.

"The top 10 causes of death

Fact sheet N°310
Updated May 2014
The 10 leading causes of death in the world, 2000 and 2012

Ischaemic heart disease, stroke, lower respiratory infections and chronic obstructive lung disease have remained the top major killers during the past decade.

HIV deaths decreased slightly from 1.7 million (3.2%) deaths in 2000 to 1.5 million (2.7%) deaths in 2012. Diarrhoea is no longer among the 5 leading causes of death, but is still among the top 10, killing 1.5 million people in 2012.

Chronic diseases cause increasing numbers of deaths worldwide. Lung cancers (along with trachea and bronchus cancers) caused 1.6 million (2.9%) deaths in 2012, up from 1.2 million (2.2%) deaths in 2000. Similarly, diabetes caused 1.5 million (2.7%) deaths in 2012, up from 1.0 million (2.0%) deaths in 2000."

rest,
WHO The top 10 causes of death

Hi Delta4Embassy:
Treating regular Diarrhea doesn't require a level 4 biocontainment unit and suits for all people making contact.

This Ebola has devastated and CRASHED the health care systems in countries
because the medical staff was wiped out from making contact with bodily fluids or dying people who are most contagious.

The retired doctors and nurses can't even come out to help until there are proper
procedures and facilities in place to prevent them from dying as their colleagues did in mass numbers, like a genocide.

Whole industries of farming and shipping food and supplies, running businesses
have SHUT DOWN leaving poor areas at risk of black market trafficking worse than before.

Please refrain from spreading false information that is killing people.
Because health care workers in Africa and now the US were underinformed,
and given standard protective gear, instead of using full isolation procedures with NO contact with fluids,
people -- especially Doctors and Nurses -- have died, leaving countries in Africa with EMPTY hospitals.

Can you show me ONE epidemic of Diarrhea that has emptied a whole hospital
leaving the population without help, suffering from malaria and other treatable conditions in addition to
something as hard to contain as Ebola?

Official: Duncan should have been moved

An official close to the situation says that in hindsight, Duncan should have been transferred immediately to either Emory University Hospital in Atlanta or Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Those hospitals are among only four in the country that have biocontainment units and have been preparing for years to treat a highly infectious disease like Ebola.


"If we knew then what we know now about this hospital's ability to safely care for these patients, then we would have transferred him to Emory or Nebraska," the official told CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.

"I think there are hospitals that are more than ready, but I think there are some that are not."

1 Texas Ebola patient will be moved to Atlanta - CNN.com

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Go F yourself Em. This ebola panic is media generated and entirely racist in origin. It's a'black people disease' coming here and part n parcel with conservative desires to build a big wall around our border. "If we had the wall we wouldn't have ebola here now" is all that's going on.

 

[emilynghiem]

375 times more likely to die from diarrhea than ebola.

"The top 10 causes of death

Fact sheet N°310
Updated May 2014
The 10 leading causes of death in the world, 2000 and 2012

Ischaemic heart disease, stroke, lower respiratory infections and chronic obstructive lung disease have remained the top major killers during the past decade.

HIV deaths decreased slightly from 1.7 million (3.2%) deaths in 2000 to 1.5 million (2.7%) deaths in 2012. Diarrhoea is no longer among the 5 leading causes of death, but is still among the top 10, killing 1.5 million people in 2012.

Chronic diseases cause increasing numbers of deaths worldwide. Lung cancers (along with trachea and bronchus cancers) caused 1.6 million (2.9%) deaths in 2012, up from 1.2 million (2.2%) deaths in 2000. Similarly, diabetes caused 1.5 million (2.7%) deaths in 2012, up from 1.0 million (2.0%) deaths in 2000."

rest,
WHO The top 10 causes of death

Not if you live in west africa.

You're right. If in West Africa you're most likely to die from malaria,

"Malaria kills over a million Africans every year, most of these are children under the age of five."
Africa s Most Dangerous Animals Hippos Lions More

Well, Delta4Embassy, with Ebola wiping out hospitals and staff,
now you have even greater chances of dying from diarrhea, cholera, malaria, labor, etc.
in addition to Ebola.

So ADD the numbers together: all rates have gone up. There is an epidemic of cholera
going on at the same time that can't be properly treated because of the Ebola Crisis and losses of health services.

That's what's happening in Africa.
It's all of the above, not either/or.

Are you okay, Delta?
Are you trying to stay calm by telling yourself this?
If you are not ready to deal with it, I don't blame you!

I think there would be mass panic if people understood what is really happening here.
We DO need to remain as calm and collected as you are here,
but we DO need to process the facts and not deny the severity of the situation.

The contagion from lack of safe burials is another major area,
because that's where Ebola is most contagious.

Right now, Africa needs 500 safe burial teams to be trained to handle that part,
and they only have 50.

So this has already gotten farther out of hand than they can safely contain,
and it will continue to grow exponentially through the end of the year.

The rate of infection is between 1.5 and 2.
The largest epidemic in history was 2 which is all it takes to have
a genocidal level catastrophe, such as the 1918 Spanish Flue that killed 100 million with a rate of 2:

R0 was 1.7 to 2 during the initial period of exponential growth in West Africa, while the current Rt is 1.4-1.8 [1]. (Calculations by the WHO Ebola Response Team are roughly in line with estimates by other researchers.) R = 2 doesn’t sound high until you hear that the deadliest pandemic in recorded history, the 1918 Spanish flu, killed up to 100 million people even though the influenza virus had an R of 2.
^ from ^ 4000 Deaths And Counting The Ebola Epidemic In 4 Charts - Forbes ^
also see:
The ominous math of the Ebola epidemic - The Washington Post

The advisors cited goals of getting this CLOSER to 1 (1.2 1.3) to start de-escalating.
And their goals just to contain it are
70% getting isolated properly
70% safe burials

but right now it is estimated at 70% fatality rate
because the numbers of deaths take longer to assess and report
than the number of new cases, so it looks like twice as many people reported infected than people reported dying
(at 50% but it's really closer to 70%)

WHO Ebola cases may soar CDC Team to help hospitals - CNN.com

 

[emilynghiem]

Go F yourself Em. This ebola panic is media generated and entirely racist in origin. It's a'black people disease' coming here and part n parcel with conservative desires to build a big wall around our border. "If we had the wall we wouldn't have ebola here now" is all that's going on.

????

NO, it's the OPPOSITE
it's saying we SHOULD have already had those vaccines or treatments in place
so this WOULDN'T Happen.

So Delta4Embassy You should see this as GOOD NEWS!!!!

Because it is finally affecting people in the West with resources to fight this correctly.
wow, maybe we will tear down those walls and invest in building hospitals in Africa instead of waiting for the next big plague.

This is GREAT then, if you believe in tearing down the divide.
It is being forced upon us, we have no choice.
We have to get involved because it is affecting and infecting the US population.

Do you agree? It is forcing integrated efforts, raised awareness and global cooperation?

 

[Toro]

 

[emilynghiem]

Go F yourself Em. This ebola panic is media generated and entirely racist in origin. It's a'black people disease' coming here and part n parcel with conservative desires to build a big wall around our border. "If we had the wall we wouldn't have ebola here now" is all that's going on.

Hi Delta4Embassy
Thanks for explaining that you are reacting to the hysteria and not the Ebola.

You can fight and contain Ebola without building walls but need the RIGHT containment procedures, training and gear:
Firestone Did What Governments Have Not: Stopped Ebola In Its Tracks Goats and Soda NPR

^ Firestone was able to contain it within their community in Liberia without excess hysteria going on. ^
So KNOWLEDGE (and not DENIAL) does help prevent "mass hysteria" which doesn't help.

Thanks for Explaining, Delta4
but that's NOT what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about dealing with a level 4 pathogen
so it DOESN'T become hysteria and DOESN'T get abused to scare or manipulate anyone politically!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Unlike Ebola, diarrhea is not lethal 70% of the time

Back to the Obama Kneepads

 

[emilynghiem]

Hi Toro: Nice to have you chime in.

I'm glad the people saving lives in Africa know what a level 4 pathogen is,
and aren't listening to you.

Firestone Did What Governments Have Not -- Stopped Ebola In Its Tracks Goats and Soda NPR

Firestone didn't stop Ebola in Liberia
by pretending it was no big deal. ^ See above ^

Ironic that maybe that's why more people HAVEN'T died,
because they DID treat it seriously so it WOULD BE CONTAINED
(unlike this outbreak that shut down whole health care teams and hospitals
in major cities so it could not be contained as in the past)

And if they DID treat it casually as you do here,
then more people WOULD die at the rate of the Spanish
flu epidemic that also had the same infection rate of 2.
(killing 100 million people, whereas here they expect
it to kill tens of thousands before it is capped, and with over 1 million infected
by next year at the rate it's going and the months it will take to contain it)

 

[waltky]

Another Diarrhea Outbreak in Ethiopia...

Ethiopia Declares Another Diarrhea Outbreak
April 07, 2017 - Ethiopia has declared an outbreak of acute watery diarrhea, also known as AWD, in the country's Somali region, where people are already struggling to cope with a persistent drought.

Dr. Akpaka Kalu, the World Health Organization representative to Ethiopia, told VOA on Friday that 16,000 cases of AWD had been recorded in the region since January. The total number of deaths is uncertain. Regional President Abdi Mohammed Omar said Friday that 19 children had died of AWD in Dollo zone, an area near the southern border with Somalia. This week, residents of a remote village, Qorile, told VOA’s Somali service that dozens had died and more than 700 had received treatment for the illness.

Omar said some of the treatment centers set up to address the outbreak were making headway. “We have managed to control the worst effects of the disease by establishing temporary emergency medical posts in remote villages," he said. Federal authorities have deployed 500 nurses and 68 doctors to fight the disease, in addition to 700 trained health officers, he told VOA's Amharic service. Additionally, the WHO has deployed teams on the ground and set up treatment camps to address the outbreak.

People wait for food and water in the Warder district in the Somali region of Ethiopia, Jan. 28, 2017. Ethiopia is struggling to counter a new drought in its east that authorities say has left 5.6 million people in need.​

Kalu said a U.N. team regional coordinator, WHO representatives and a few others would go to the Somali region, also known as the Ogaden, on Saturday to assess the situation. “From WHO, for example, we have nearing 40 people on the ground right now. A team went there today in addition to the team that’s been on the ground for some months now," he said over the telephone. "So we are there working, supporting them to bring it under control."

Managing the outbreak

Ethiopian officials insist on describing the outbreak as one of AWD, not cholera, which has similar symptoms. On Monday, a woman who told VOA Somali that she had lost five relatives to cholera and that hundreds of people were suffering from the disease was reportedly arrested by Ethiopian authorities. She was released Wednesday. In neighboring Somalia, government officials have reported more than 13,000 cases of cholera and 300 deaths since January. WHO said cholera cases were five times greater than what the country experienced last year.

A woman holds her child as they wait to receive treatment in Kobo health center in Kobo village, one of the drought stricken areas of Oromia region, in Ethiopia​

It is not clear what is causing the outbreak in Ethiopia. But Kalu said the government was assessing the situation to try to determine the cause. Asked whether it was a cholera outbreak, Kalu said, “Cholera is a laboratory diagnosis. You have to test the stool to confirm the cause of the acute watery diarrhea. The government of Ethiopia has declared it acute watery diarrhea. The [assessment] is going on to confirm the causes of acute watery diarrhea, and government is doing that.”

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