Does anyone know if the Taiwan government has some kind of plan in place in the event of an Ebola outbreak?
Is it on their radar? I presume so.
[quote=“SloanRanger”]Does anyone know if the Taiwan government has some kind of plan in place in the event of an Ebola outbreak?
Is it on their radar? I presume so.[/quote]
The main plan will be denial because it will cause some financial turmoil.
Here is something I stumbled across while researching the stats about SARS.
[quote] Cumulative number of cases
Areas Female Male Total Median age (range) Number of deaths^a Case fatality ratio (%) Number of imported cases (%) Number of HCW affected (%) Date onset first probable case Date onset last probable case
Australia 4 2 6 15 (1-45) 0 0 6 (100) 0 (0) 26-Feb-03 1-Apr-03
Canada 151 100 251 49 (1-98) 43 17 5 (2) 109 (43) 23-Feb-03 12-Jun-03
China 2674 2607 [color=#0000BF]5327[1]b Not available 349 7 Not Applicable 1002 (19) 16-Nov-02 3-Jun-03
China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 977 778 1755 40 (0-100) 299 17 Not Applicable 386 (22) 15-Feb-03 31-May-03
China, Macao Special Administrative Region 0 1 1 28 0 0 1 (100) 0 (0) 5-May-03 5-May-03
China, Taiwan 218 128 346^c 42 (0-93) 37 11 21 (6) 68 (20) 25-Feb-03 15-Jun-03[/quote]
I marked the % of death rates in red, and the total number of cases in blue. As you can see, there is a mismatch.
While Canada and Hong Kong have a 17% death toll, China has only 7% and Taiwan 11%.
They must have the better health care system then.
[quote]a. Includes only cases whose death is attributed to SARS.
b. Case classification by sex is unknown for 46 cases.
c. Since 11 July 2003, 325 cases have been discarded in Taiwan, China. Laboratory information was insufficient or incomplete for 135 discarded cases, of which 101 died.
d. Includes HCWs who acquired illness in other areas.
e. Due to differences in case definitions, the United States has reported probable cases of SARS with onsets of illness after 5 July 2003.[/quote]
http://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/table2004_04_21/en/
sorry I forgot Singapore
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Lies, damned lies and statistics…
I heard on the news that there was an Ebola outbreak in Switzerland several years back. Nobody realised it was Ebola until much later when the epidemiologists had samples, but it wasn’t anywhere near as deadly as it is in west Africa at the moment. So it seems to be particularly bad where there’s poverty - as with any other disease I suppose.
Even so, if it made it to Taiwan it could spread incredibly fast…