– Man Carrying Ebola Virus In World’s Fourth Most Populous City, Dies In Quarantine (ZeroHedge, July 25, 2014):
Update: It has been confirmed that the Liberian man who died in quarantine, did in fact have Ebola. Cue panic mitigation.
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While the state of Sierra Leone is scrambling to locate the missing woman who is “on the loose” in the capital Freetown with a documented case of Ebola, we can at least close the book on the other developing story we reported yesterday involving a person who collapse in the international airport of Nigeria’s megacity, Lagos, and who was being tested for Ebola. The man has died.
From Reuters:
A Liberian man suspected to have Ebola virus has died in quarantine in Lagos, Nigeria, a Nigerian official in Geneva told Reuters on Friday.
The man, who collapsed on arrival at the airport in Nigeria’s commercial centre, Lagos, on Thursday, was being kept in isolation by authorities and had not entered the mega-city of 21 million people, he said.
“While he was in quarantine he passed away,” the official said. “The Liberian came in and he was quarantined at the airport and not allowed to go to the city. While he was quarantined he passed away. Everyone who has had contact with him has been quarantined,” he told Reuters.
If confirmed, the Liberian man would be the first case on record of one of the world’s deadliest diseases in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy and with 170 million people, its most populous country. However, Ebola is one of a number of viruses that can cause hemorrhagic fever.
It is unclear if he passed away from natural causes, such as being beaten to death to avoid any loose ends, or because the Ebola virus he was carrying was in very late stage.
No matter the open questions, we are confident that there is nothing to worry about and that the risk of anyone else encountering the man (who may or may not have died from Ebola 24 hours later) while at the airport, and certainly flying off to non-African destinations, is below zero. In fact, we are confident that no matter what the story is, it is bullish for risk assets and certainly for global healthcare companies.
I would not be so sure of that. That disease is cropping up in too many different places to be happening by accident. Africa is a huge place, and it doesn’t spread all the way to Liberia from the original city where it first showed up unless someone is releasing the disease into the public forum.
It is time to examine the so-called scientific labs that store this disease, and see who is working there, and who is putting this into the public. This disease is spreading far too fast and too far……it is getting help.
Why have these labs developed and saved these dreadful diseases? Certainly, not for any good purpose. If they really want to find the source, look there.