Comments on: #Ebola Outbreak: Rate of new cases remains high, Nigeria may now have outbreak https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/06/ebola-outbreak-rate-of-new-cases-remains-high-nigeria-may-now-has-outbreak/ Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:05:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/06/ebola-outbreak-rate-of-new-cases-remains-high-nigeria-may-now-has-outbreak/#comment-481403 Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:05:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20162#comment-481403 Thanks for updating. I’m in a remote forest region (with a good internet connection but not a phone connection) and my ebola spreadsheet is not with me; I won’t be updating until Monday.

Yes, that looks like a very serious increase.

]]> By: Jim Bouldin https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/06/ebola-outbreak-rate-of-new-cases-remains-high-nigeria-may-now-has-outbreak/#comment-481402 Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:44:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20162#comment-481402 Huge jump in the numbers today, primarily due to the Liberian situation:
http://ecologicallyoriented.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/ebola-rates-updated/
http://ecologicallyoriented.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/liberian-ebola-rate-jumps/

]]> By: Jim Bouldin https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/06/ebola-outbreak-rate-of-new-cases-remains-high-nigeria-may-now-has-outbreak/#comment-481401 Thu, 07 Aug 2014 16:34:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20162#comment-481401 “The number of new cases per unit time seems to have increased, or at least, stayed high as it has been for the last several days”

It absolutely has increased, no question about it. It’s exponential growth:
http://ecologicallyoriented.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/ebola-rates-updated/

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