Deadly Ebola Virus Kills Eleventh Doctor In Sierra Leone Before Treatment Drug Could Be Given

ANOTHER doctor in Sierra Leone died Thursday due to the deadly Ebola virus, making him the eleventh doctor in the country to die from the disease. Dr. Victor Willoughby, reportedly tested positive for the Ebola virus on Saturday, The Associated Press (AP) reported, citing Dr. Brima Kargbo, the country’s chief medical officer.

 

The virus has killed more than 350 health workers in West Africa, making it difficult to arrange for personnel to treat the existing patients. Kargbo added that Willoughby, 67, was being treated at a clinic run by medical charity Emergency, near the capital. He died before the experimental drug could be given to him.

 

“Dr. Victor Willoughby was a mentor to us physicians and a big loss to the medical profession,” Kargbo said, according to AP, adding: “He has always been available to help junior colleagues.”

 

The new drug ZMAb, which was yet to be administered to him, was developed in Canada and is related to ZMapp, another experimental drug that has cured some Ebola patients. However, it has not been proven how effective the drugs are, yet.

 

The disease, which is witnessing its worst outbreak, has killed nearly 7,000 people so far and has affected over 18,600 people in the West African countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

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Volcanic eruption in Eastern Indonesia hurts 4 hikers, leaves 1 missing, shuts airport

A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted Friday, spewing towering clouds of hot ash into the air and leaving four hikers injured and one missing when they scrambled to safety, an official said.

 

Mount Gamalama on Ternate island in North Maluku province shot thick gray smoke up to 2,000 meters (6,560 feet) into the sky just before midnight Thursday, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman for Indonesia’s Disaster Mitigation Agency.

 

He said nine panicked hikers fell while fleeing to safety. Four of them were hospitalized and rescuers were searching for the tenth.

 

Slow-moving red lava was visible at the peak of the eruption Friday and villages were blanketed with thick ash, but no evacuation orders have been issued, Nugroho said.

 

An airport in Ternate, the provincial capital about30 kilometers (20 miles) from the volcano, was forced to close Friday as did schools and offices.

 

Mount Gamalama is one of about 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia. Its last major eruption was in 2012. No deaths were reported then.

 

Indonesia, a vast archipelago of 240 million people, is prone to earthquakes and volcanoes because it sits along the Pacific Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped string of faults that lines the Pacific Ocean.

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MEGA DIP SPIKES ON THE MAGNETOSPHERE @ APPROX 17:45, 21:00, 21:15, 21:30, 22:00 hrs UTC

**EXTREMELY URGENT**

   MEGA DIP SPIKES ON THE MAGNETOSPHERE @ APPROX 17:45, 21:00, 21:15, 21:30, 22:00 hrs UTC. FURTHER EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANO ACTIVITY & ADVERSE WEATHER PATTERNS WILL BE GREATLY INFLUENCED BY THE COSMIC RAYS STRIKING THE EARTH’S CORE

***BE ALERT***

MAGNITUDE 5.6 GUADELOUPE REGION, LEEWARD ISL.

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Subject To Change

Depth: 122 km

Distances: 22 km NW of Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe / pop: 11,472 / local time: 15:49:30.8 2014-12-19
13 km W of Bouillante, Guadeloupe / pop: 7,540 / local time: 15:49:30.8 2014-12-19

MAGNITUDE 5.4 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION

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Subject To Change

Depth: 30 km

Distances: 575 km NW of Medan, Indonesia / pop: 1,750,971 / local time: 21:41:46.4 2014-12-19
162 km NW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia / pop: 250,757 / local time: 21:41:46.4 2014-12-19
130 km NW of Sabang, Indonesia / pop: 24,519 / local time: 21:41:46.4 2014-12-19

MAGNITUDE 5.1 OFF E. COAST OF N. ISLAND, N.Z.

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Depth: 37 km

Distances: 436 km NE of Wellington, New Zealand / pop: 381,900 / local time: 01:51:22.2 2014-12-20
43 km N of Gisborne, New Zealand / pop: 34,274 / local time: 01:51:22.2 2014-12-20

MAGNITUDE 4.7 NORTHERN ALGERIA

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Subject To Change

Depth: 10 km

Distances: 30 km S of Algiers, Algeria / pop: 1,977,663 / local time: 12:06:05.4 2014-12-19
5 km SW of Bouinan, Algeria / pop: 30,271 / local time: 12:06:05.4 2014-12-19

MAGNITUDE 4.4 CENTRAL ITALY

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Subject To Change

Depth: 10 km

Distances: 225 km NW of Roma, Italy / pop: 2,563,241 / local time: 11:36:32.6 2014-12-19
15 km SW of Florence, Italy / pop: 371,517 / local time: 11:36:32.6 2014-12-19

MAGNITUDE 4.0 CENTRAL ITALY

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Subject To Change

Depth: 9 km

Distances: 215 km NW of Roma, Italy / pop: 2,563,241 / local time: 10:39:41.2 2014-12-19
19 km S of Florence, Italy / pop: 371,517 / local time: 10:39:41.2 2014-12-19
6 km W of Greve in Chianti, Italy / pop: 12,855 / local time: 10:39:41.2 2014-12-19

CME x 2 TO STRIKE THE MAGNETOSPHERE ON 21st DECEMBER 2014

***VERY URGENT***
CME x 2 TO STRIKE THE MAGNETOSPHERE

  ON 21st DECEMBER 2014

***BE ON ALERT***