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75% of Ebola Victims are Women
About 75 per cent of people contracting Ebola are women because they are often the primary care-givers, nurses and traders within their communities, health officials have said.
….The Ministry of Health in Liberia also said about 75 per cent of the Ebola deaths it has counted so far have been women, Buzz Feed reports.
Ebola is introduced into the human population through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals. In Africa, infection has been documented through the handling of infected chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found ill or dead or in the rainforest.
Ebola then spreads in the community through human-to-human transmission, with infection resulting from direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and indirect contact with environments contaminated with such fluids. Burial ceremonies in which mourners have direct contact with the body of the deceased person can also play a role in the transmission of Ebola. Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to 7 weeks after recovery from illness.
Health-care workers have frequently been infected while treating patients with suspected or confirmed EVD. This has occurred through close contact with patients when infection control precautions are not strictly practiced.
Among workers in contact with monkeys or pigs infected with Reston ebolavirus, several infections have been documented in people who were clinically asymptomatic. Thus, RESTV appears less capable of causing disease in humans than other Ebola species.
However, the only available evidence available comes from healthy adult males. It would be premature to extrapolate the health effects of the virus to all population groups, such as immuno-compromised persons, persons with underlying medical conditions, pregnant women and children. More studies of RESTV are needed before definitive conclusions can be drawn about the pathogenicity and virulence of this virus in humans.
Kenema (Sierra Leone) (AFP) - It has laid waste to the tribal chiefdoms of Sierra Leone, leaving hundreds dead, but the Ebola crisis began with just one healer's claims to special powers. The outbreak need never have spread from Guinea, health officials revealed to AFP, except for a herbalist in the remote eastern border village of Sokoma.
"She was claiming to have powers to heal Ebola. Cases from Guinea were crossing into Sierra Leone for treatment," Mohamed Vandi, the top medical official in the hard-hit district of Kenema, told AFP. "She got infected and died. During her funeral, women around the other towns got infected."
originally posted by: beansidhe
a reply to: soficrow
That is the obvious reason, but I wonder too. Are you thinking that women are more likely to have a compromised immune system, or something like that?
Very interesting, S&F
originally posted by: beansidhe
a reply to: grandmakdw
Oh, I see, thanks grandmakdw . That's horrible. I'm a crap conspiracy theorist, I don't think mean enough!
So no women, no babies, no future? That is a bleak outlook, very evil.
originally posted by: new_here
a reply to: grandmakdw
I agree with the caregiver role conclusion.
A whole other issue which may further result in women being more likely to be infected:
The Ebola virus can remain alive/transmittable in semen up to several months beyond the recovery of a male Ebola patient. How many women does the average man have relations with in that time period? (Rhetorical question because... who knows???) Point is, I'm just throwing this concept out there as a possible additional reason that women may be more affected.
If each recovered man had sex with 3 women within the 3 month window, well... you get the picture.
In collaboration with its research partners from the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium (VHFC), Corgenix recently completed a multi-year study conducted at the Kenema Government Hospital (KGH) in Kenema, Sierra Leone. The clinical trial investigated the clinical utility of several VHFC diagnostic products, including Corgenix' recently CE marked ReLASV(R) Antigen Rapid Test for Lassa virus. The VHFC is a collaboration of academic and industry members headed by Tulane University and partially funded with support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
[NOTE: This consortium includes military bio-war scientists from Fort Dettrick.]
originally posted by: grandmakdw
originally posted by: new_here
a reply to: grandmakdw
I agree with the caregiver role conclusion.
A whole other issue which may further result in women being more likely to be infected:
The Ebola virus can remain alive/transmittable in semen up to several months beyond the recovery of a male Ebola patient. How many women does the average man have relations with in that time period? (Rhetorical question because... who knows???) Point is, I'm just throwing this concept out there as a possible additional reason that women may be more affected.
If each recovered man had sex with 3 women within the 3 month window, well... you get the picture.
excellent point
And Africa has different mores regarding sex than many in the west do.
Multiple sexual partners is not frowned upon on Africa as it is in other places in the world.
originally posted by: beansidhe
a reply to: grandmakdw
Oh, I see, thanks grandmakdw . That's horrible. I'm a crap conspiracy theorist, I don't think mean enough!
So no women, no babies, no future? That is a bleak outlook, very evil.
In collaboration with its research partners from the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium (VHFC), Corgenix recently completed a multi-year study conducted at the Kenema Government Hospital (KGH) in Kenema, Sierra Leone.
The VHFC is a collaboration of academic and industry members headed by Tulane University and partially funded with support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
[NOTE: The Consortium includes military bio-war scientists from Fort Dettrick.]
Press Release - Corgenix expands Lassa virus rapid test research to Ebola test development
The DoD gave a contract worth $140 million dollars to Tekmira, a Canadian pharmaceutical company, to conduct Ebola research, which apparently involved injecting and infusing healthy humans with the deadly Ebola virus.
The DoD is listed as a collaborator in a “First in Human” Ebola clinical trial (NCT02041715, which started in January 2014 shortly before an Ebola epidemic was declared in West Africa in March.
Four out of five families who contracted Ebola in 1979 received the deadly virus from a local hospital, according to a World Health Organization report from 1983.
“Between 31 July and 6 October 1979, 34 cases of Ebola virus disease (22 of which were fatal) occurred among five families in a rural district of southern Sudan; the disease was introduced into four of the families from a local hospital. Chains of secondary spread within the family …”
originally posted by: grandmakdw
a reply to: soficrow
Ok, so I was correct in my assumption of what you were trying to get at in your OP
Thanks for the confirmation.
I don't agree with you, but appreciate the clarification
and all the research you have done to support your theory.
My guess was the OP thinks Ebola is a genetically engineered virus as part of some sort of conspiracy.
I think, I may be wrong, the OP is wondering if it was genetically engineered to be more easily transmitted to females.