Intercontinental News

Virus and Mass Infant Deaths Internationally

Infographic and Outline

originally published October 24, 2014

Outline:

• Ebola
• Outbreaks in Africa
• Guinea (noted December 2013)
• Sierra Leone
• Liberia – April 2014 cases confirmed
• Nigeria – case confirmed about last week of July 2014
• Nigeria—officially declared free of Ebola virus transmission as of October 20th 2014, by World Health Organization (WHO) per CDC.gov
• Senegal declared free of Ebola virus transmission as of October 20th 2014
• Mali – a case
• Post Ebola victim transported cases:
• Spain (around end of September, beginning of October 2014), after health care workers were evacuated to Spain
• France, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom, USA
• United States
• Texas – a few cases reported at a hospital, after patient was transported from Africa to there
• Washington DC
• New York –October 23rd, a case is said to have occurred; level of confirmation is still in consideration of early news release

• MERS | Middle East Respiratory Syndrome || Countries with Lab-Confirmed MERS Cases:
• Countries in or near the Arabian Peninsula with Cases
• Saudi Arabia reported in 2012 (per cdc.gov)
• United Arab Emirates (UAE)
• Qatar
• Oman
• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Yemen
• Lebanon
• Iran
• Countries with Travel-associated Cases
• United Kingdom (UK)
• France
• Tunisia
• Italy
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Greece
• Egypt   
• United States of America (USA)
• Netherlands
• Algeria
• Austria

                              (Source: http://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/mers/)

• Infant deaths in West Bengal
• Malda Medical College West Bengal, India
• Burdwan Medical College
• Disappearances of children from China
• Instances in Shaanxi province, of ‘baby stealing’ (lifenews.com December 31, 2013)
• Over 380 babies rescued after 4 websites found to selling babies under guise of adoption, after crackdown; story broke late February early March of 2014.  Occurrence Beijing, and Jiangsu Province.

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