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Second US Citizen Infected With Ebola In Liberia, Which Shuts Down Borders To Slow Epidemic
Update, one which many will say has been long overdue: Liberia Shuts Border Crossings to Slow Ebola Spread. From Bloomberg:
- Liberia Shuts Border Crossings to Slow Ebola Spread: Allafrica
- Only major border crossings at Roberts International Airport, James Spriggs Payne Airport, Foya Crossing, Bo Waterside Crossing, Ganta Crossing to remain open, AllAfrica.com says, citing Liberian govt statement.
- At those entry points, testing centers to be set up; “stringent” preventive measures to be announced
- New travel policy by Liberia Airport Authority on inspection, testing of all passengers to be strictly observed
- There will be restrictions on public gatherings incl. solidarity marches, demonstrations
- Hotels, restaurants, entertainment centers, video clubs to play 5-min. film on Ebola awareness, prevention
- Govt vehicles to be commandeered, as needed, to support health delivery system
- All govt facilities, public places to install/provide public access for hand-washing
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It was a few short hours ago when we reported that as part of the escalating Ebola epidemic in West Africa a US doctor, Kent Brantly had himself succumbed to the deadly virus. Moments ago we found out that a second US doctor from the same aid organization in Liberia, Nancy Writebol, has been infected with Ebola.
Writebol in a June 2011 photo from the Rafiki missionary foundation
From CBS:
Two U.S. citizens are now reported to be infected with the deadly and incurable Ebola virus in West Africa.
The first American reported to have contracted the disease is an American doctor working with Ebola patients in Liberia, who tested positive for the deadly virus, North Carolina-based Samaritan's Purse issued said in a news release on Saturday.
The second person who reportedly tested positive for Ebola is a woman employed by an aid organization in Liberia who is a married mother of two.
In a statement on Sunday, Samaritan's Purse said: "Nancy Writebol is employed by SIM in Liberia and was helping the joint Samaritan's Purse/SIM team that is treating Ebola patients at the Case Management Center in Monrovia."
Writebol's age and hometown have not been released at this time.
What is most disturbing is that the two physicians have contracted the lethal disease despite apparently taking much needed precations to avoid infection as the following photos below demonstrate.
Dr. Kent Brantly assists two ELWA Hospital staff in transporting an Ebola patient from the triage unit to the isolation unit in the rain on Tuesday July 22, 2014, in Liberia.
Dr. Kent Brantly (right) collects a blood sample from a suspected Ebola patient in the ELWA isolation ward in Liberia
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Something I found on Doctors without borders
Syria
No matter what article one has read of the newspapers in the West in recent days, all cite the same source for the claim that the government in Syria has used chemical weapons.
The following is mentioned everywhere: “The organization Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières / MSF) reported about 3600 injured and 355 dead as victims of an unknown nerve agent near Damascus.”
But who is this organization and who is behind it? Can one believe their statement? The media describe this organization (Doctors Without Borders) as “independent” – while this organization is anything but independent.
Their “evidence”, by which the West tries to justify its upcoming war of aggression against Syria, is no real evidence, because the guys of MSF (Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières) are not on site; the “evidence” is only hearsay.
Let’s see who mainly financially supports the so-called “Doctors Without Borders”. They are the financial criminals on Wall Street and the City of London, which control the foreign policy of the West and the guys who benefit from wars.
According to their own annual report of 2010, among the list of donors are the usual suspects like Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg and a number of other members of the military-industrial-financial complex. Among the Board of the MSF (Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières), there are also banksters such as Elizabeth Beshel Robinson of Goldman Sachs.
another article:
Guinea Locals Fear Doctors Without Borders Spreading Deadly EbolaTwo years ago, the Ebola virus mysteriously appeared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 1976 and has sporadically reappeared in the area without explanation ever since.
Media reported medical professionals believe that eating monkeys who are infected with Ebola is the initial mode of transmission.
However this is accepted speculation because the scientific community agrees that the natural reservoir of the virus is unknown and therefore knowledge of transmission is only hypothesized.
In July of 2012, a sudden outbreak of the Ebola virus surfaced, killing 14 people.
Paul Roddy, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a French charity, asserts that the outbreak of the Ebola virus in Uganda has been stabilized, however an additional outbreak could erupt in another location. Roddy believes that natives eating bush-meat were the catalyst for spread. He assumes that monkeys who have eaten infected bats, that were then consumed by Ugandans was the chain of infection.
Eight days later, in the DRC, a new strain of the Ebola virus has surfaced according to medical volunteers from MSF. It is not the same strain as was discovered in Uganda.
This new epidemic was being monitored because “not every person who develops the disease will develop clear symptoms that are recognized as Ebola. For the moment it seems that there are not that many cases but the exact number of cases is unknown,” said Anja de Weggheleire, representative of MSF.
Overseen by the US Department of Defense (DoD) under the Transformational Medical Technologies program (TMT) of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have spent millions of dollars conducting scientific research into the Ebola virus, its potential for being turned into a bio-weapon and certain vaccine efforts through two drug corporations, Massachusetts-based Sarepta Therapeutics and Tekmira Pharmaceuticals of Canada .
Then the funding was abruptly cut.
The TMT creates relationships with private sector biotech firms, pharmaceutical corporations and academic institutions, as well as other government agencies to advance biological warfare, research viral and biological weapons and estimate threat levels of all biological agents based on ability to infect and effectiveness of devastation.
The DoD suddenly stopped funding Ebola vaccine research through these two corporations due to financial constraints.
With the sporadic nature of Ebola outbreaks, combined with the absolute deadly nature of the virus makes it a hard sell to large pharmaceutical corporations because it “isn’t a huge customer base and big pharma is obviously interested in big profits. So these niche products which are important for biodefense are really driven by small companies,” according to Larry Zeitlin, president of Mapp Biophamracueticals, who is developing therapies to combat Ebola.
Mysteriously, microbiologists and virologists who were involved with research into immunology and bioweapons have either gone missing or found dead over two decades. Some of these scientists had ties to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the NIH, the DoD – just to name a few. While the number of experts involved in infectious disease research having died under questionable circumstances has risen exponentially, the US government has remained non-chalant.
Shockingly in 2006, Eric R. Pianka, scientist at the University of Texas (UT) spoke to an audience of fellow scientists, students, and professors and proclaimed that 90% of the world’s population needed to be killed using a weaponized form of the Ebola virus.
Pianka stated that an airborne version of Ebola would be more effective than the HIV/AIDS virus has been since its release in 1979 because of the speed in which the victim dies.
Another white American liberal do-gooder bites the dust.
Faster, please.
Last paragraph had a "Winter Solider" vib to it.
Source?
http://www.occupycorporatism.com/home/guinea-locals-fear-doctors-without...
off topic - but if you search for 'zerohedge' a top result [at least with some SEs] is something calling itself Rational Wiki...
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Zero_Hedge
Little harsh, no?
pretty good effort at 'debunking' 9/11 truthers... http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories
I leave it to others to decide what errors or omissions they may have made...
Yeah. I saw that the other day.
Nice little NSA propaganda psy op wiki that appears out of nowhere, eh?
If you are taking flack, you are close to target.
They make no predictions, only depictions. They looked and described.
Thing is, you cant bamboozle 'americans' on 'americanism'.
Rather funny. The thing is, you cant bamboozle an 'american' about 'americanism'
"anyone listening to him from the beginning missed the entire 2009-2013 rally in the equities market."
You mean the Bernanke Bubble? It ain't over untill the fat lady sings! Tyler's, wear this as a badge of honor, because as Ghandi noted: First they laugh at you...
Not harsh. Seems like a recommendation to me.
Forgot to mention the main theme...Banksters need to die, by law or nail gun.
NEWS : ioukos expropriated 100 billions fine for russia.
after the planes, after the sanctions, after the ebola in west africa, let's go back to russia , weeeeeeeeeeeee
The five Ebola treating doctors who caught Ebola despite every precaution and barrier they could come up with is disturbing. They claim it is not airborne, but the Ebola isolation wards next to hospitals are given negative air pressure in their units.
Where does the hospital put the air that comes out of those negative pressure units?
Thru exhaust fans in back of the hospital.
I can't help but think of David in the movie Prometheus looking at the alien virus on his finger and saying "big things have small beginnings"
Like how they prime us for it.
Just like the "all life came from Africa" thing,
Makes it double plus ironic to have The End potentially spring from there.
Comments like this disclose you as a moron. Like the - what do you call it? Predictive Programming?
Remember Soylent Green? Did not happen. I could list thousands of dystopian 'predictive programming stories that prime us for it' (sic) that did not happen.
It's called random chance. If enough people post a video to youtube, eventually one of their stories will come true.
Soylent Green did not happen? Then just what do you think is in those fast food nuggets?
Ain't chicken.
Chuck: "OMG, Soylent Green......is......Mexicans!
Makes it double plus ironic to have The End potentially spring from there.
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The ebola virus will need a serious 'american' boost to achieve that. Very serious.
".......All life came from Africa," hahahhahaha!
Africa is a toilet, down into which we have flushed billions. Ebola is a disease that should be confined to Africa, and would be, if the West had the common sense to quaratine the whole damned continent off, before we all die horrible deaths, thanks to traveling do-gooders, and imported africans.
Quarantining the 'american' world would achieve a much better success. It will ensure that humanity does well.
A thousand cases, of Ebola, worldwide, are not enough to scare me, yet, but with all the goings on here and around the world, I'm preparing as best I can.
Also, with Ebola, universal precautions, or up to level 4 precautions, are inadequate. I don't think mainstream medical has figured that out yet.
I know I'm cynical as hell but dammit, if these 2 doctors have families, and I assume they do, this is just plain irresponsible on their part. God bless 'em for altruistic intentions but they've left their loved ones in the lurch.
Military familes with members in combat are similar. It is what they are traind for, and choose to do with known risks.
Nancy Writebol and her husband have 2 grown boys and a long history of "working" with darks in Central America. http://heavy.com/news/2014/07/nancy-david-writebol-american-missionary-contracts-ebola-virus-liberia/
Do they go into any kind of sterilization chamber before removing the safety gear?
I'd imagine just taking the stuff off can't be that safe. Personally I would close my inlets and want to be submerged in bleach or fucking gasoline. Of course I wouldn't be there in the first place.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201407280544.html
Arik Air Suspends Flights to Liberia, Sierra Leone
Hey - we are well off into a new news cycle without any update. How many have now succumbed to Ebola?
My sentiments exactly, these do gooder fools will probably bring the virus back here - still - from what I've read there aren't even a thousand deaths on the whole stinking continent, but the tone of the articles on the subject are that thousands are dying - but every Kaffirs life is so precious, just ask the Boers.
A Link Between the Ebola Outbreak and a US Bioweapons Lab?
27 July 2014, by Robert Wenzel (Economy Policy Journal)
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/07/a-link-between-ebola-outbreak-and-us.html