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09-26-14 21:18 #3588
Posts: 840Thanks for your feedback, Simian.
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09-25-14 20:04 #3587
Posts: 156Originally Posted by Lonely566 [View Original Post]
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09-25-14 16:22 #3586
Posts: 367Originally Posted by Loso69 [View Original Post]
Aquarius (german bar in Osu) closed a few years ago and as far as I know has never reopened.
I think that Vienna is open but unsure of its exact status.
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09-24-14 22:33 #3585
Posts: 840Closed?
According to Google maps, Vienna, Aquarius & Champs Sports Bar are permanently closed. Can anyone confirm?
Loso
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09-05-14 13:13 #3584
Posts: 150My Ghana baby
I tried to load photo here, my first time, think I failed and may have viloated policy in process. I have a bunch of nice vids I'd like to post but teck / brain incompatibility becoming insurmountable. Sad face. Lonely.
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09-02-14 11:32 #3583
Posts: 367Originally Posted by TheGreek [View Original Post]
Yes, Cholera is not known as a sexually transmitted disease (although it could arguably be transmitted via some kinds of sexual activities. Use your imagination).
I too have heard the statistics you quote that were put out by the Ghana government but I am very sceptical of them. There is a history of governments either downplaying the stats (especially through reclassification of the condition as something else) or of not being effective in gathering all the stats. Based on what I have heard from people who have been to the big teaching hospital in Accra and the military hospital, I would be surprised if the hospital mortality rate is not much higher. Certainly the gathering of stats of cases that did not make it to a health centre or hospital would be much worse. There will be cases in the villages where people die and are buried but not captured in the stats as victims of cholera.
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09-01-14 19:36 #3582
Posts: 112Cholera in Ghana
Originally Posted by Simian [View Original Post]
Thanks for bringing up the Cholera 'alert' for Ghana. My 2 cents.
1st. Just a clarification: the cholera vaccine does not provide complete protection. For example, it does not protect against all strains of cholera. Therefore, it is still important that you should be careful with regard to what you eat and drink in the usual way.
2nd. It has only a 2- year lifetime.
3rd. It is not sexually transmitted.
4th. As of a week ago, 67 people died- 5000 infected: http://www.ibtimes.com/ghana-cholera...ls-say-1666994.
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08-29-14 11:42 #3581
Posts: 367Originally Posted by Wolvenvacht [View Original Post]
The problem now is that Ebola is running an epidemic in urban and semi-urban areas in those countries in West Africa but with a population and an economy devastated by war (Liberia and Sierra Leone) with all the problems you would expect, such as low levels of medical care, very little quality education, bad infrastructure and building quality, overcrowding, malnutrition etc etc. When they blockade a slum, the people cannot get access to their work or to the markets for food.
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08-29-14 07:14 #3580
Posts: 2502Originally Posted by TheGreek [View Original Post]
Now we see many areas affected and a much larger number of people that can become infected, so I would not trust previous statistics anymore.
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08-29-14 01:44 #3579
Posts: 367Originally Posted by TheGreek [View Original Post]
The Red Alert is dated August 11. To put it in context, Ireland had a suspected case of Ebola since then, about a week ago, that turned out not to be Ebola. So should everyone stay away from Ireland?
The American who died in Ghana did not die of Ebola but of another illness with similar symptoms. The trouble is that many illness (including Malaria) are similar in symptoms to Ebola. Just because someone has "Ebola symptoms" means nothing.
Ghana has an international standard lab for testing suspected Ebola cases (this lab is of WHO standard).
Every country with a government and a few people in key positions with brains will have briefings and strategy discussions about Ebola outbreak. Countries like the UK have had such discussions. I would guess that all European countries have had such discussion as have many African countries.
Currently, there are no flights from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea. I know quite a few people who are stranded as a result.
You are probably as safe in Ghana as in any African country. By the way the second most recent outbreak (a different version of Ebola virus) was in DRC. Previous to the West African outbreak was in Uganda in 2012.
Just to mix it up, there is currently a cholera outbreak in Accra. Bet you did not hear about that. But very few foreigners are affected because foreigners do not eat street or market food and are unlikely to be exposed to it.
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08-28-14 18:00 #3578
Posts: 36Selfies
Not in Accra at the moment and can't wait for a return trip. Probably as a tourist in the autumn.
Nearly all of the honeys I met earlier this year keep in touch. You guessed it. Asking for money.
The more enterprising send me lots of selfies showing me what I am missing.
These are two sets of selfies from my long-legged lusty Liberian lady friends in Accra. Enjoy.
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08-28-14 12:04 #3577
Posts: 112Ebola in Ghana?
Originally Posted by Simian [View Original Post]
To the best of my knowledge and search abilities, there has never been a ebola outbreak in Ghana. That said:
1. there is a Red Alert issued: http://saharareporters.com/2014/08/1...hana-red-alert.
2. Students at some summer university courses were sent home 2 weeks ago.
3. Accra Radio Joy FM announced on the 8th of August that there is an American who died at a hospital in Accra with ebola symptoms.
4. The US has committed to help Ghana in case of Ebola spread (google it).
5. Ghana Medical Group has briefed the Parliament on Ebola preparations.
That's all I know.
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08-25-14 21:31 #3576
Posts: 367Originally Posted by RomanGuy [View Original Post]
The food stalls are still going on the roads around Accra and presumably the rest of the country. That is probably because there is no Ebola currently in the country.
I don't use the nightclubs of Accra but my usual providers have not changed their behaviour. I would be very surprised if there is any change in the nightclubs. I have noticed that the SWs around the Togo Embassy circle had disappeared last weekend but that may be because of a local crackdown rather than any Ebola fear or policy.
Given that Ebola can go anywhere a plane can go, it could be in your backyard any time soon. So far, in Ghana there have been no Ebola reported in the country or even in an immediate neighbouring country.
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08-25-14 12:47 #3575
Posts: 861For The Greek and All
Originally Posted by TheGreek [View Original Post]
How is it going in the temples of mongering such as Jocker's, Makumba, Waikiki, Vienna, . Do people still approach each other or they just chat via Bluetooth?
Somebody has told me that in Nigeria authorities have forbidden food stalls on roads (such as suyia, kebab, rice, coconuts, yam, mais) and also hawkers are not allowed to sell chopping goods. How is it in our beloved GH?
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08-13-14 09:47 #3574
Posts: 112Ebola + Sex
Originally Posted by RomanGuy [View Original Post]
If you have a look at all Ebola outbreaks, you will see that most of them have been in Congo and to the best of my search abilities, there has never ever been an ebola case in Ghana. And people tend to be. 'oblivious' to whatever is away from home because it doesn't touch their daily reality. AIDS has long been in Africa- but how many women and men are still ok to have sex without a condom?
That said, the local people I know in Freetown (Sierra Leone) go on with their lives. 'business as usual'. But if you look the new Ebola cases per week, it seems that SL seems to be stabilizing and Liberia is loosing the game. Who knows. Based on previews statistics, it seems that an ebola outbreak has a 6 months "life" after it's peak. So in theory it could last till Christmas.