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EBOLA VICTIM HAD BEEN TRAVELLING BACK TO THE US WHEN HE BECAME ILL

Ebola victim who sparked global panic had been travelling back to his home in Minnesota when he became ill in Nigeria, where he died. Patrick Sawyer worked for the Liberian government, but lived in the US with his wife and three children. Mr Sawyer, had been caring for his sick sister, in Liberia, (who he did not know to be suffering the Ebola virus) before travelling to Lagos, Nigeria for a conference. Whilst on the plane Mr Sawyer became ill, on arrival in Nigeria he booked himself into a private hospital, where he later died.

Ebola virus has an incubation period of up to 21 days, and first looks like any other virus: fever, vomiting, and diarrhoea. The virus then causes internal bleeding, and can be 90% fatal.

Had Mr Sawyer reached the States he could have become patient zero in a US epidemic.

Read More: The Telegraph

STDs Continue to rise in San Francisco

According to reports, STD’s in San Francisco are in a “multi-year rise”

Despite a decline in HIV, instances of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia continue to increase, with homosexuals being most vulnerable.

In January of 2011, San Francisco city public health officials declared a Syphilis epidemic which was occurring, primarily among gay men.

See Aids Down But STDs Up in SF | NBC Bay Area.

HIV Incidences in gay/bisexual men inexplicably continues to rise in US

The cumulative incidences of HIV in gay men in the United States is only slightly lower than that of gay men in portions of Africa and has been rising steadily since 2001.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), gay and bisexual men are the only group seeing this rise in rates of HIV infection.

See The Shocking Second HIV Epidemic Among U.S. Gay Men That No One Is Talking About | Alternet.