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Liberian Man Tested For Ebola In World's Fourth Most Populous City
Yesterday, when reporting on the latest tragic development in the wost ever Ebola outbreak to sweep through west Africa, namely that the head doctor tasked with containing the virus had himself contracted it, we commented that the "only good news, if any, is that even as the epidemic which has raged for months, and now appears to be out of control, it has not spilled out of Africa into other continents yet." That may not be the case for much longer following an update earlier today by Reuters that a Liberian man in his 40s is being tested for the deadly Ebola virus in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, a megacity of 21 million people, the Lagos State Health Ministry said on Thursday.
This would be the first recorded case of one of the world's deadliest diseases in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy and most populous nation, with 170 million people and some of Africa's least adequate health infrastructure.
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A Liberian man in his 40s is being tested for the deadly Ebola virus in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, a mega-city of 21 million people, the Lagos State Health Ministry said on Thursday.
A spokesman for the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva confirmed Nigeria had "one suspect case" and said samples had been sent to a WHO lab for testing.
"The Nigerian Ministry of Health has implemented control measures in the meantime," he told Reuters.
And the worst part: the man was at the airport when he was intercepted:
The special adviser on public health to the Lagos state government, Yewande Adeshina, told a news conference the man had collapsed on arrival at Lagos airport from Liberia on Sunday. He was rushed to hospital and put in an isolation ward, she said.
"The patient was admitted and detained on suspicion of possible EBV (Ebola virus) infection, while blood sample collection and testing was initiated," she said in her statement, adding that "results are pending."
Ben Neuman, a virologist and Ebola expert at Britain's University of Reading, said it was important to note that Ebola is one of a number of viruses that can cause hemorrhagic fever, and that others, including Lassa fever virus and Dengue virus, could turn out to be the diagnosis in this case.
"Some of these other, more common hemorrhagic fever viruses have already been the cause of false alarms in the ongoing west African Ebola outbreak," Neuman told Reuters in London.
"For now, it is important that we wait for the lab results on the patient in Lagos," he added. "Even if Ebola is confirmed, this will be a cause for concern, not panic. Ebola spreads slowly, and can be contained by quarantining suspected cases immediately in hospitals."
Soothing words aside, what is worse is that, if indeed confirmed that he has been infected, the scramble will now begin to find and quarantine any and all other people he may have been in contact with in recent weeks, a task which in a city of over 20 million - the world's fourth most populous city after Being and above Istanbul - will be like finding a rational thinker in the Princeton economics department.
And where things get really dicey is if any of those infected people were among the passangers who were at the Lagos airport at the time, and somehow managed to get on a plane in the last few days and departed for destinations unknown. At that point a watching of the 1995 Ebola thriller "Outbreak" may be in order.
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Everything remains as it never was.
Peak corruption causes peak "accidents" and reactions.
No, it's just according to their plans.
Moar climate change evidence!
Nigeria has lots of Oil. Surpised?
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Is this the next AIDS? Another part of the population reduction plan? This shit is scary...
I have no position - just researching ebola-related companies:
Tekmira hopes to resolve TKM-Ebola hold by Q4 2014
2014-07-21 12:25 ET - News Release
Ms. Julie Rezler reports
TEKMIRA PROVIDES UPDATE ON TKM-EBOLA PHASE I CLINICAL HOLD
Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp. has provided an update on the TKM-Ebola phase I clinical hold. The company has received the clinical hold letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is preparing a complete response to the agency. The company anticipates this matter will be resolved by the fourth quarter of 2014.
Tekmira's other clinical development programs are unaffected by the TKM-Ebola clinical hold and all remain on track. The key milestones for these programs in the second half of 2014 are:
Presentation of TKM-HBV preclinical data;
Filing IND (investigational new drug) (or equivalent) application for TKM-HBV;
Interim phase IIa TKM-PLK1 data;
Nomination of the next product development candidate.
The clinical hold letter confirms that the FDA is seeking data to elucidate the mechanism of potential cytokine release and a modification to the protocol for the multiple-ascending-dose portion of the trial to ensure the safety of healthy volunteers.
"It is important to highlight that the study protocol for the TKM-Ebola phase I trial called for an interim review of the data from the single-ascending-dose portion of the trial before proceeding to the multiple-ascending-dose portion of the study. I wish to emphasize this trial is unique. It represents the first RNAi study involving the daily treatment of healthy volunteers, without steroid premedication or any other type of premedication, and with multiple ascending doses," said Dr. Mark Murray, president and chief executive officer of Tekmira Pharmaceuticals. "Furthermore, the multiple-ascending-dose portion of the study, as originally proposed, reflects the intense dosing regimen that would be used in patients lethally infected with Ebola virus."
On May 21, 2014, the company disclosed the results of the single-ascending-dose portion of the study, which demonstrated the administration of TKM-Ebola in the absence of any steroid-containing premedication was well tolerated at a dose level of 0.3 milligram per kilogram, determined to be the maximum tolerated dose in the absence of steroid cover. At that time, Dr. Murray said, "These (TKM-Ebola phase I) results are significant as they establish the safety of third-generation LNP [lipid nanoparticle] formulations and confirm that dosing at efficacious levels may be accomplished without the need for premedication."
The company is assembling the data requested by the FDA and shares its commitment to patient safety. Dr. Murray added: "The mechanism for cytokine release is understood, and we will be modifying our study protocol to further ensure subject safety. Our team is working expediently to respond to the FDA. We are mindful of the need for this important therapeutic in situations such as the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa. However, TKM-Ebola is currently an unapproved agent and the regulatory framework to support its use in Africa has not been established at this time."
The company will provide a full business update at the coming earnings release on Aug. 13, 2014.
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So, to sum up the above...
They hope to have it fully weaponized and in this fall's Flu Vaccine.
Super.
Shit like this is the most terrifying of all. No amount of prepping, preparing, or saving can stop this from royally fucking up your day.
At the moment (in the US anyway) you are still more likely to die this week from choking on your food than any of this other crazy shit.
Try to keep everything in perspective. I'll let you know when it's time to worry.
Read Tom Clancy "Executive Orders"
Iraq and Iran unite under one flag.
Ebola is weaponized and released throughout the US at conventions, airports and planes.
China accidently shoots down a Taiwanese airliner.
Read Tom Clancy "Executive Orders"
Iraq and Iran unite under one flag.
Ebola is weaponized and released throughout the US at conventions, airports and planes.
China accidently shoots down a Taiwanese airliner.
It kills monkey as fast as humans. So monkey's have it but it isn't 'from' them. Epidemiologists suspect fruit bats as the vector.
Are you suggesting someone attempted sexual congress with a fruit bat?
Congress has bats?
Definitely "bat country"
Someone is finally targeting those F'n spammers.
from what I've been able to gather from various reports, interviews and some independent research and of course going on a laymen's understanding of how these things usually work, this incident is a little disconcerting.
this time apparently is different.
from what I have come to understand these outbreaks typically start outside of heavily populated urban centers, in more remote areas, small villages and other jungle settings. then the virus, for obvious reasons works it way into more heavily populated areas. this method of spreading makes it easier to track and contain plus the method of transmission makes it far more difficult to "catch" than say the flu or the common cold which are airborne and do not require any direct exchange of fluids to contract.
but apparently that didn't happen this time, the outbreaks started in several urban areas within a very short time period of one another, there were no reports of remote infections preceding the urban outbreaks, at least none that I could find as halving been reported. also the potency of transmission is up for debate, while there doesn't seem to be indication that it is airborne, I have read reports of doctors and other health professionals where there is some concern that it may be making the jump from person to person easier and faster than previous strains. possibly surviving outside a host for longer periods of time making it easier to contract with less exposure.
but the most dangerous part, as I understand it, is the incubation period, it can be a week before an infected person starts showing symptoms so who know how many people this guy came into contact with before even arriving in Lagos? the airport thing is a nightmare we won't know how many infected went where until the cases in Europe of the US start making the news.
Hmm. Well as I've written above those are the kinds of "observations" (not sure what to call them) that suggest the infectious agent is learning some new tricks. When we heard that a lead doctor and three nurses were sick (or had died) from the virus I was wondering in the back of my mind what that meant. Healthcare workers are really really careful. They know the score, and don't take chances. Maybe a field worker gets caught making a mistake, but not a research scientist and his staff.
So had the bug learned something the guy wasn't ready for?
Might be.
It's the sort of thing to pay attention to, anyway. The media will report it thinking it's just a human interest story not aware that some of us are reading between the lines and making connections.
More of the like -- people who should know better getting the bug -- would be indicative of a serious problem to pay attention to in the west. At the same time a sudden total lack of reporting of any kind coupled with unexplained flight cancellations and border closings and long airport delays would put me in a very high state of alarm.
Things to watch for. Not too soon to pay close attention.
From what I've read, even those that "survive" probablly wished they didn't.
I think the fever cooks your noogin pretty hard.
Again, this would have been a great post to have Miffed ring in on....
Maybe she'll fill in some blanks later tonight?
Maybe.
For the record, I happen to be a research biologist myself, though my work has been in whole-systems rather than microbiology. A lot of the epidemiology stuff is not my background though a whole-systems approach still informs, at the model layer of course but also some of the fluid dynamics. The medical fields tend to approach these outbreaks following traditional modalities (throw antibiotics at it, even though viruses don't respond directly) whereas the systems side looks at the dynamics. For example, the trans-genetic drift these organism (whatever) are subject to. The various flavors of bird flu, for example, have more to say about microevolutionary pathways than they have to say about vector management. Not that the transmission modes are not important, just that by the time you are looking at how the damned thing is moving through your human population you've already jumped the shark on the question of where the hell the damned thing came from in the first place and how is it making these seemingly impossible jumps to human vectors?
Something ain't right, that's for certain.
We've been playing around with some dangerous toys for a while now, certainly since the industrial revolution and probably as far back as the domestication of animals. We've probably been burned many time already and didn't get it at the time, couldn't connect the dots; something just up and murdered us one day, and that was that. More recently "something" is starting to look more lethal than anything we've seen before. What are we doing wrong? How are these things happening, and why now?
Warnings. We're getting these creepy warnings, but that's all we get. Nothing to work with, nothing at all. Like it's out there watching us, testing some things on us once in a while, waiting, but not letting us know what's coming.
Extremely interesting.
Almost like chasing the robber all the time rather than shoring up security at the store.
As for atypical jumps and mutations, my tinfoil dowsing rod points right @ Ft. Detrick.
As a bonus, I think just last week some shlep found some flu virus samples with some small pox samples just laying around some freezer in a random research lab. Some of the samples weren't even labeled. They were turned over to Homeland Security, which makes me feel so much safer now.
I could find a link but just too lazy right now. It was on Drudge last week.
From what I have read, it is not communicable during the incubation period...
Only a matter of time before Ebola rides into London Heathrow inside an African migrant seeking a better life on England's welfare system. Waiting for him at the local benefits office is a free apartment suited to his family size, free and unlimited health care, cash payments every month, plus free education for all. Now, his little pal ebola can spread to an English man as well as the blacks of Africa, it does not care. Imagine the horror when an Ebola case turns up at a National Health Service emergency room. Fucking Daily Mail will go nuts with that story!
...Daily Mail will go nuts with that story...
Im thinking they wouldnt say a word....by gunpoint.
You'll only know when someone is shitting blood outside your house.
Pretty much. Certainly, if ebola becomes aerosol-born. Oh man, the authorities will go bat-shit crazy if that happens.
It will go from a precautionary lock-down at Heathrow -- to full-on police state and media control -- in a matter of days. People out in the suburbs won't know what hit them.
....People out in the suburbs won't know what hit them....
Lulz.
I'm pretty sure most will chalk it up to Taco Bell.
At first, anyway.
Remember the movie, Outbreak? I saw it like 5 times in the theater the summer it came out. It was good, but not 5-times good.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114069/combined
Lagos is the true definition of "hell on earth", unless you are a pharmacy student, then you will be recruited by U.S. pharmacies such as CVS, and Rite Aide... They have recruiters down there looking for these students! When was the last time you had an American Pharmacist serve you? Fuck it!
There was a sick joke back in the 80s. Freddy Mercury is being ass reamed by another guy and suddenly the guy stops and says, "Freddy, I hope you haven't got AIDS." Freddy looks around and says "No, of course not." The other guy says "Thank God. I'd hate to catch it twice."
This Ebola looks like a set of twigs and "Barrys". But hey what do I know, my Rorschach test says I'm a sexual deviant
This doesn't even take into account the sick fucks creating viri in the labratory.
http://www.businessinsider.com/yoshihiro-kawaoka-creates-deadly-flu-stra...
a Liberian!?,
wow no more books for me I'm gonna get a kindle and download books from now on.
The good thing is, Liberians can always move to Montreal - there's no ebola virus. There's also no snakes.
-David McMillan, Joe Beef
Been reading ZeroHedge for *years*, only ever commented once or twice if that, but after reading y'all's comments, I must just quickly interject that you all seem to be a bunch of effin crazy, loony, bunker-lovin' social outcasts whose only communication is with each other, here, where no good & necessary social norms like hope for the future, optimism or belief in fellow man exist.
Yes, I'm sayin' it, you ZH commenters are no officially *detracting* from the experience.
Keep on takin' tha blue pill, then.
Unicorns, rainbows and skittles to infinity!