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Canadian Doctor Quarantines Himself Over Ebola Fears After Returning From Liberia
Earlier today we wondered, rhetorically, if the CDC was wrong when it stated, with confidence, that there is "little risk" for the Ebola virus to leave the African continent, and cross the Atlantic, landing in North America. We may have gotten the official refutation less than 6 hours later, when moments ago Canada's CTV reported that a Canadian doctor is in self-imposed quarantine after spending nearly a month in West Africa treating patients in the deadly Ebola outbreak that has claimed nearly 700 lives. "Dr. Azaria Marthyman of Victoria, B.C. was among a handful of Canadian health-care workers who traveled to Liberia, where the Ebola epidemic is currently raging. He was part of a North American team from the Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse." This is the same charity organization whose two US citizen members were previously reported to have caught the virus.
Dr. Azaria Marthyman of Victoria, B.C. is seen putting on protective
gear before treating Ebola patients in Liberia.
Dr. Marthyman worked at the agency’s facility in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, before returning to Canada last Saturday. While he has not tested positive for the disease, he has quarantined himself as a precaution.
And immediately, the attempt to spin this as good news emerges: "Azaria is symptom-free right now and there is no chance of being contagious with Ebola if you are not exhibiting symptoms," Melissa Strickland, a spokesperson for Samaritan’s Purse, told CTV Vancouver Island.
That last statement may be worth a #timestamp, especially considering that one of Marthyman’s colleagues with Samaritan’s Purse, Dr. Kent Brantly, is confirmed infected. The 33-year-old married father of two children is undergoing intensive treatment for the disease, but has been able to speak with doctors and work on his computer.
From CTV:
Health care workers undergo rigorous decontamination processes to avoid infection.
“It takes about 45 minutes to suit up before going into the isolation area,” Marthyman said by telephone.
His journey to West Africa is not his first to an area ravaged by disease or disaster. Last year, he travelled to the Philippines to provide medical care to victims of Typhoon Haiyan. In 2010, he joined a medical team that treated patients affected by a cholera epidemic in Haiti.
In an interview prior to his trip to Haiti, the father of seven shared why he risks his life to help others.
“We have this slogan at home that we always say at the table, and it’s ‘do your share and let the love go around,’” Marthyman said.
We congratulate Dr. Marthyman for doing the right thing, and we certainly hope that all of his Ebola tests turn out negative.
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Yup, all valid observations.
I haven't seen anything written up on the current epidemic, but it seems a lot worse to me that previous ones. Like the pathogen is more easily spread, and travels further. This sort of development would be entirely expected but is very troubling.
I'm starting to wonder if ebola is becoming aerosolized. If it can be spread (even poorly) by coughs and sneezes then we're in for a very hard time if this thing ever turns up in an urban area with poor health care.
Opps, oh yeah ...
The guy that died in the Lagos airport was on his way to Minneapolis.
That makes sense
MPR...uckier than Ebola.
Wear a gas mask, safety glasses and gloves the next time you're at the airport.
/ If people have a problem with that, wear a Burka. / sarc. Alternatively, wear an "Anti-Ebola Suit" sign.
Plane ticket: $400.
Anti-Ebola outfit (mask, glasses, gloves): $400
Peace of Mind: Priceless.
Plane ticket to Ebolistan: Canceled
Man.. http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/07/28/ebola-minnesota
This current strain of ebola does seem to spread more easily than previous strains, with a longer incubation period.
"Azaria Marthyman of Victoria, B.C."
Used to be a lovely English town, something tells me there's been a change, similar to Vancouver.
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And that includes diseases.
These doctors and nurses are very selfless people. I can't imagine It takes a lot of courage to do what they they are doing. It's unfortunate that events have to turn out in this manner. Let's hope their sacrifice wasn't for nothing.
Let's hope his carelessness doent kill someone you love.
He could have quarantined himself in Lagos for 21 days.
Getting on a flight the fuck out of dodge was not selfless.
There is a lot of truth to what you said. We however, are not walking in their shoes.
True dat.
It's easy for me to throw blame from the comfort of my office.
The next time you go to see your MD, make sure you ask the people in the office if they've been to Africa in the last few weeks.
This is unusual behavior. He was certain he didn't have it when he left. Now he is not certain. Incubation period is 2 to 21 days. I suspect he will be dead in a week.
::HAIR ON FIRE WAVING ARMS IN AIR::: we are all going to die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So does that mean it won't spread after we all spontaneously combust?
Than God for Inexplicable Mysterious Phenomenon.
Now they are flying doctors home... Risk is too high.
They better quarantine:
http://wallowa.com/news/state_regional/medical-teams-international-flies-doctor-home-because-of-ebola-risk/article_f7eadbea-6611-5043-886b-e76c0cd7778a.html
OREGON?
Joe DiCarlo with Oregon-based Medical Teams International, says one of their volunteer American doctors is flying home. "The risk is too high to be working at that hospital at the moment," he said.
holy shit
There doesn't seem to be enough info here. So a Canadian doctor (Dr. Kent Brantly) was diagnosed with ebola - is that doctor still in Africa undergoing treatment? When did Dr. Azaria Marthyman learn of Brantly's diagnosis? If it was in Africa then he should have quarantined himself in Africa...
btw, Dr. Brantly is an American. His family returned to the US
They should be quarantined for one month before getting on a plane!
I thought these guys were smart?
Nah... there's something cultural going on here....
http://weaselzippers.us/194734-black-leaders-outraged-after-fresno-schoo...
Looks like Dick Cheney's germ lab screwed up yet again. This Ebola strain still kills white people too.
What's with these docktors who run to ShitPissia, seemingly to find out if Ebola is as virulent as their colleagues say it is?
The "new normal" coming will be nothing like we've ever seen before.
All part of the Grand Cosmic NWO Plan.
Unfolding like a text book.
The elites must be staining their pants
And Krugman must be having multiple aneurisms with all the broken windows
If Muslim women can wear Burkas, then the New Normal will be Masks and Gloves on plane flights.
It must not be that serious. Corgenix Medical (symboll CONX), a small, profitable, debt free medical company in Colorado was awareded $2.9 million last month to continue their development of the world's only Ebola Rapid Diagnostic Test kit. The proto-types, which were sent to Liberia a few months ago, can detect ebola in 15 minutes vs several days right now. The stock is selling for $.27 and has a market cap of around $15 million. We will know ebola is serious when the stock cracks the $10 price. No one cares right now.
stateside
Speaking of "rapid virus testing technology"
A team of German university engineers and scientists has created a fail proof quick virus scan based on saliva samples.
The key component of this testing device is a pure gold plate which I'm guessing is about 1/8th to 1/4 ounce worth.
Should this device become mainstream and find applications around the world's airports and other points of entry, the run is on.
I'm sure the Fed will be happy to supply all the reserves it's been holding onto for this noble purpose. They would be heroes!
Scene from: The Road
Guy holds gold coin in front of new arrivals to the final frontier survival camp. "spit on the coin" he says. "ne need" says the new arrival, "I have my own and test regularly" "right" says guy at door "you wouldn't have made it this long without coins".
Highly speculative small company. The stock went up 50% at the sight of ebola and has stayed there. It didn't move at the NIH grant award last month since it was already pumped. If ebola clears up the stock is likely to shrink >50% when speculators jump ship.
Beware the pump and dump on this fucker.
It must not be that serious. Corgenix Medical (symboll CONX), a small, profitable, debt free medical company in Colorado was awareded $2.9 million last month to continue their development of the world's only Ebola Rapid Diagnostic Test kit. The proto-types, which were sent to Liberia a few months ago, can detect ebola in 15 minutes vs several days right now. The stock is selling for $.27 and has a market cap of around $15 million. We will know ebola is serious when the stock cracks the $10 price. No one cares right now.
stateside
Obama and the liberals made it easy for anyone to cross the Mexican border.
Plenty of planted illegals work at top-shelf restaurants in Manhattan and Los Angeles, Hollywood infected and purposely infecting patrons (like typhoid Mary) would create mass hysteria. Far worse than 911.
Especially very high profile people.
and here is the not news.
uk royal appointed canadian doctor did what he was rothschild control grid told.
ebola sounds betta dan gaza init.
mossad royalty rupert menachem murdoch does such fine jew news
my advice stay clear od doctors and hospitals and fast food joints.
filter your water properly make collodial silver at home.
check out the book by eustace mullins called murder by injection
Didn't Obama visit West Africa. Can't he do the world a favor and lock himself up?
The President is safely secured between the 8th and 9th holes.
Seems like its precaution rather than from concern. Good for him. Shame on the fearmonger media.
Good for him?
It was totally irresponsible for him to fly home immediately after treating Ebola patients, he exposed everybody in the airplane, airport, and after anybody using his plane, all the Ebola workers need to be taking a mandatory 30 day minimum hiatus after exposure in the field before allowed reentry to America.
try the Marianas Islands.
More like brain dead shameless media, disease not just Ebola is a true threat to our nation, it causes huge damage.
Our own govt has higher standards for Pig farmers, cattle ranchers and Chicken farmers than humans.
Saudi Arabia has the world's highest standards for pig farmers.
I wonder how long Ebola can live in the environment outside humans?
How much does it cost to decontaminate an aircraft from Ebola exposure, and what is the decontamination procedure?
got it 23 days http://www.msdsonline.com/resources/msds-resources/free-safety-data-shee...
Decontaminate? LOL
Safe to say that Ebola is probably here.
Christians never seem to fail their own doctrine and keep messing in God's affairs.
It's God's work. Let God sort it out. Stay out of it.
Nobody is like the character named Jesus as described in the "gospels".
So quit trying to be like that guy.
Take care of your own, teach your own whatever you think is right and leave everyone else to their own devices.
"'When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' 40"The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.' 41"Then He will also say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;" - Matthew 25:39-41
When will you Bible know nothings quit commenting on things you know nothing about?
You are selfish, these folks helping their brothers are selfless.
These selfless individuals are Christ like.
Self-centeredness and self-indulgence never helped another human.
Someday that needy person might be you.
It's all up for interpretation which is the funniest part about the whole doctrinal debate. Trust me, I've sat in on a few and tried to see the argument.
Like I said, quit trying to be like the (fictional) guy in that story ("Christ like"). Plenty good people in the world who help others and not feel the urge to share their fantasies.
Example: He turned water into wine. I tried and it didn't work.
But even that miracle is offensive to some "Christians" who are of the "conviction" that all alcohol is from the dark forces of the devil.
Gimme a break!
What about that Scripture needs interpretation?
It is as straightforward as can be.
You weren't given the power to work miracles, and the fact that you think Jesus was fictional would make that clear to any believer.
As for those "christians" who clearly misinterpret numerous Scriptures because they wish to, they shall be judged:
"I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; 19and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book" - Revelation 22:18-19
ask yourselves a simple question
why should baron edwyne de rothschild let you live?
these bio agents have been worked on for over 50 years
hundreds of millions spent
why should that technology go to waste.
the bbc documentary has already been made the bacteria and virus chosen.
the vaccine shot has mostly been given just waiting for the time and method water ingest or nasal for recombination
May I take it you don't believe Oswald acted alone?
The Doc. has 7 kids at home. Who is taking care and raising those kids when he dies this time or the next time he's out and about? Sure, the kids will remember their Dad as being a great guy who gave his life helping others. BUT IT is still shitty for them growing up without a Dad. For Fecks sake, some people are stupid beyond help.
I agree. I believe that apostle Paul felt that the single, unattached adults make the best Christians and ambassadors of Christ as they were unburdened by their dependents. If you have children you have made a choice. To reneg on that commitment and to follow another path no matter how noble is irresponsible IMO .
Rolling on the floor LMAO. Here we go...an airline flight way. Riggggggggggggght.
" This is the same charity organization whose two US citizen members were previously reported to have caught the virus."
This cunts work with Ebola patients, and then get on planes and fly back to the USA and Canada? Now, how fucking stupid can you get. Oh wait, these are volunteer christains helping Africa. Stupid fucks! SPend a month handling Ebola vicitms and jump on a plane home. They are freelance helpers, who put all the world under threat by their do gooding? Fly home? Maybe stay there for a month to ensure you are free of any contamination or infection? What happened to fucking common sense?
brutally honest.
The one responsible and their minions are stupid like a FOX
http://www.menphis75.com/images/foto_varie/Fox666.jpg
You find out who the rookies are once shit gets real.
Here is the good SIMaritan's last patient review. Seems like a fairly typical type of treatment from the medicine men in the cult of death. Ignore symptoms, claim superior knowledge, withhold access to knowledge and information, deny treatment, inflict pain, prescribe poison, make profit
"I don't know why this dr gets so many good reviews. Because he is nice and doesn't make patients wait too long? He is NOT HELPFUL. I diagnose myself and research the situation and then figure out what the treatment should be and then tell him. He sometimes goes along with me and sometimes calls me a hypocondriac for wanting to address my problems instead of ignoring them. I knew something was wrong with me for some time, and when I finally figured out what it was (after doing extensive research) and told him, he said that he had realized a long time ago what condition I had but didn't want to mention it!! I could have been getting treatment for MONTHS! Many examples of him doing nothing in situations in which a good dr would explore and try to find treatment."
One guy died before he made it here. Next time we not be as lucky: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10998222/Ebol...
Yes, that is the guy from Minnesota I heard about today on Minnesota Public Radio. "On his way home". That is insane. Anyone handling Ebola victims must be held in place until it is proven they can not be infected. What, a few days or a week? A small price to pay for god knows how many lives. People are stupid beyond the right to live sometimes.
That's why we have the Darwin Awards
Sometimes the gods must have been stoned out of their minds when they created certain people. Alas, they make us mere mortals laugh or cry. Depends on their drugs.
Maybe we should take it a little easy on a guy who has circumnavigated the globe several times over the past few years to treat those the rest of the world would rather forget. Haiti, Ebola, Tsunami, this guy is like one of those nutty storm chasers, but he was risking his life to help people.
I like to think of myself as a charitable person, but I couldn't fathom showing up in Haiti or Ebolaville to lend a hand.
I know, I enjoy a good jab at just about everyone in the news as well, but this guy sounds like a saint.
On a side note, I'm beginning to wonder if everything told about the virulence of Ebola is accurate, seeing how the doctors and nurses are dropping left and right. You'd think they'd be able to protect themselves adequately. It seems the virus may transmit a bit more easily, or be contagious over a greater time span, than health guidelines would indicate.
"Wasting away again in Ebolaville. Looking at the brown stains in my shorts. Some people claim that there's a virus to blame, but it's Obama's fault." Sorry, couldn't help myself. Once Ebolaville came into my head - it was all over.
What, too soon?
If I were working in an environment where people were shitting out their insides and gushing blood, I would certainly think twice about jumping on a plane as if I were leaving Disneyland...
Anyways,
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.
–Frederic Bastiat
Looks like we're going to get a catastrophe which will bring mega-change on to the stage...
Just read Sierra Leone's top ebola doctor has died from the disease.
It can live outside human body 23 days. To kill virus must be boiled for 60 minutes.
So does this mean you can't wash it off hands?
Doctors protective gear burned after each use.
Mormons shall inherit the earth, self quarantine with food and water.
http://www.msdsonline.com/resources/msds-resources/free-safety-data-shee...
That is not what the above posted link said: http://www.msdsonline.com/resources/msds-resources/free-safety-data-shee...
The fact sheet, updated in August 2010, said:
Physical inactivation: Boiling = above 100 degrees C at sea level for 5 minutes. If heated to 60 degree C - which is normal for hot water tanks etc. to kill Legionella, it must be heated for 30-60 minutes.
Survival outside the host for a number of days - what ever that means. The (23) appear to be a footnote number, even if no foot notes are included. You find (23) at the Immunization paragraph as well. It keeps its ability to infect at room temperature and 4 degrees C for several days - again whatever that means precisely. I don't think the (23) represent the number of days.
In any case several days/a number of days is bad enough. The really concerning part is that the sheet also included these three snippets:
"Humans may be infected by handling sick or dead non-human primates and are also at risk when handling the bodies of deceased humans in preparation for funerals, suggesting possible transmission through aerosol droplets (2, 6, 28)"
"PRIMARY HAZARDS: Accidental parenteral inoculation, respiratory exposure to infectious aerosols and droplets, and/or direct contact with broken skin or mucous membranes (35)""INFECTIOUS DOSE: 1 – 10 aerosolized organisms are sufficient to cause infection in humans (21)."
Handwashing? Yes. The document says:
"SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DISINFECTANTS: Ebola virus is susceptible to sodium hypochlorite, lipid solvents, phenolic disinfectants, peracetic acid, methyl alcohol, ether, sodium deoxycholate, 2% glutaraldehyde, 0.25% Triton X-100, ?-propiolactone, 3% acetic acid (pH 2.5), formaldehyde and paraformaldehyde, and detergents such as SDS (20, 21, 31-34). "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_lauryl_sulfate
So according to wiki you can check to see if your soap, shampoo and laundry detergent etc. has SDS in it or you can use Methyl Alcohol to clean your hands.
Well, there you have it, folks:
"respiratory exposure to infectious aerosols and droplets, and/or direct contact with broken skin or mucous membranes (35)"
"INFECTIOUS DOSE: 1 – 10 aerosolized organisms are sufficient to cause infection in human"
Aerosolized it is.
Put a fork in that debate.
@ Seek Truth: It is possible that the "aerosolized droplets" could be from washing a body or from mucus coughed straight in the face of someone else or similar. It does not necessarily mean from normal breathing, as other sources still maintain that it is not airborne yet.
However - The link has been taken down now. So either this information was too erroneous - or it was too correct, I would say. There is no explanation, so I assume it is censorship to prevent people from learning anything relevant and valuable from a seemingly scientific source. Nice world we live in!.
"The Page Requested is Unavailable
We're sorry. The page you are looking for does not exist.
EDIT: Please note that Methyl Alcohol mentioned in my comment above is very very toxic, if ingested.
If it can be aerosolized by a cough, it can be aerosolized by sneezing or even heavy breathing.
Shame they censored the link, now we know why.
And of course any proper imbiber of spirits knows it's ethyl, not methyl alcohol that brings a warm glow and a gentle smile to those who partake.
Methyl is for fuel and industrial uses.
"there is no chance of being contagious with Ebola if you are not exhibiting symptoms,"
To be clear, this is not known with absolute certainty, most doctors/scientists believe it is not contageous if the poor soul is not exhibiting symptoms. The most vulnerable phase is however when the onset of symptoms look like a cold or flu.
I think I read that a guy got on a plane symptom free and by the time he arrived in Libya he was ill.
God help us it does not go live during cold or flu season, people will think it is just a cold and not quarantine.
So what about hte rest of the airplane crew and other passengers on the same plane with him?
Not to mention everyone at both airports, who was within a certain proximity of him, any other transport he took to get to the quarantine site, etc. It's hundreds of people.
"People can be exposed to Ebola virus from direct physical contact with body fluids like blood, saliva, stool, urine, sweat etc. of an infected person and soiled linen used by a patient. It can be spread through contact with objects, such as needles, that have been contaminated with infected secretions." http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/epr-highlights/3648-frequently-asked-questions-on-ebola-hemorrhagic-fever.html
"Secretions". Spit is a secretion. Coughing and sneezing spreads spit into micro droplets. If sweat spreads Ebola, if urine spreads Ebola, then spit from coughing and sneezing spreads it too. Anyone who says no, show me the testing that proves it doesn't. "Officials" are trying to get us to be in denial like they are.
Closing US borders can't be done too soon.
If that's the case it's airborne
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And I'd like to know how the Ebola virus survives in sperm, so you must refrain from having sex for 7 weeks, according to reports I've read.
Either you're done with it or you're not.
And yeah, ebola is like having a cold.
This is disinformation being spread to keep the sheep from panicking.
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V-V
Let's keep it simple and direct: EBOLA is a BSL-4 (Biohazard Safety Level 4).
See http://www.cdc.gov/training/quicklearns/biosafety/ tabs 10 and 11*
Tab 11: In addition to BSL-3 considerations, BSL-4 laboratories have the following containment requirements:
Laboratory practices
Safety equipment
Facility construction
Plan and act accordingly.
p.s. If any Western health professionals tending to Ebola patients did anything less than this, they are/were reckless and arrogant asses, who fully deserved the consequences they suffered -- as neither Ebola nor their (real or imaginary) Deity gave a damn about them, given the results.
None to beam up. -Kirk out
I just talked to a nurse who is trained in those bio suits. She says they are very safe and some sort of lock tight at the neck. Then a substance is sprayed at them to see if they can taste it, if they can it is locked tighter.
I do know a nurse who got a stick and got Hep B from it, even though she said she treats those things as snakes.
It happens.
You can't close borders, that be raciss and sheeeet...
In a previous ZH article said http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-27/second-us-citizen-infected-ebola-liberia (confirmed when I checked other sources online) Dr. Brantley died of Ebola. "US doctor, Kent Brantly had himself succumbed to the deadly virus." Succumbed: "to stop trying to resist something. : to die." Brantley's family returned to the US. The story of the family's visit was picked up by some online sources but seems now to be buried. http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2603861/pg1
Family's travel is mentioned in this article http://cw33.com/2014/07/28/dr-oh-no-prayers-for-fw-doctor-with-ebola/ but otherwise, it's like it never happened.
Perhaps the first ZH article 7/27 was wrong and Dr. Brantly is still alive?
He was alive as of three hours ago but his condition is now grave.
Spanish flu 1918,
1914 financial crisis
WW 1 1914 100th anniversary
Federal Reserve established 1913
History may not repeat but it sure as hell rhymes.
Texas man Dr. Kent Brantly ask for prayers, his condition is now grave.
Hong Kong may have its first case of ebola:
https://hk.news.yahoo.com/%E5%A5%AA%E5%91%BD%E4%BC%8A%E6%B3%A2%E6%8B%89%...
"As of yesterday afternoon, the Department of Health in Hong Kong has also received public forty-five inquiries about the Ebola virus. A woman returning from the Africa Kenya symptoms appear similar to Ebola virus has been isolated for treatment."
Then the angel poured the bowl of tribulations over the mankind --- Revelation
When Antichrist rules (BO)
The CDC used the same "little risk" that The Fed uses when describing bubbles, systemic risk, etc. It translates to "huge risk."