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CDC Issues Level 3 Travel Alert As 'Largest Ebola Outbreak In History' Spreads
Things appear to be going from worse to worst as the deadly Ebola epidemic surges on. The CDC has issued a Level 3 - Avoid All Non-Essential Travel - warning.
CDC urges all US residents to avoid nonessential travel to Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone because of an unprecedented outbreak of Ebola.
An outbreak of Ebola has been ongoing in Liberia since March 2014.
This outbreak also affects Sierra Leone and Guinea; to date more than 1320 cases have occurred in the three countries and more than 725 people have died, making this the largest outbreak of Ebola in history.
At least three Americans have been infected; two are health care workers in an Ebola clinic. Affected districts include Bomi, Bong, Grand Gedeh, Lofa, Montserrado (including the capital city of Monrovia), Margibi, and Nimba.
Instances of civil unrest and violence against aid workers have been reported in West Africa as a result of the outbreak.
The public health infrastructure is being severely strained as the outbreak grows.
CDC to send additional 50 experts to region in next 30 days.
Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday that even in a best-case scenario, it could easily take three to six months to stem the epidemic in West Africa.
Do not worry though, as the US reassures there is no risk...
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*WHITE HOUSE SAYS `NO INDICATION' OF EBOLA RISK TO U.S.
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The CDC is going to get fined $5,000,000,000, just watch.
the _____________ is "contained" and there is no danger to __________ as any and all contagion has been "ring fenced".
The CDC has issued a Level 3 - Avoid All Non-Essential Travel - warning.
If I am living in any of these areas of outbreak it is ESSENTIAL for me to get the hell out...
I'll be adding powdered pool shock to my bug out gear
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the nih on national news last night admitted the returning religious nuts "helping" africa will not be tracked in the very least so come on home infected. sounds alot like our southern border policy with similar results im sure.
Tapering is not tightening
Regardless of how Ebola arrives to the US, the incurable disease will exterminate at least 200+ million Americans: the majority of people living in the United States are extremely addicted and dependent on prescribed medications, over-the-counter medicines and synthetic vitamins, thus their immune systems are weaker and unable to fight any disease naturally. Senior citizens, the disabled and baby boomers who happen to be the majority in this country (as a population group) will be the first casualties of Ebola.
Fuck you asshole.
Bold letters made me believe it. Didn't work for you?
pods
Well in that case it should be
FUCK YOU AGAIN ASSHOLE WITH AN EBOLA INFECTED CHAINSAW!
Is that moar believable now??
Only 200m?
Still a few more we could spare to lose.
""Up To 20 DAY Incubation Period""...
Soo...
If He Comes In To USA Fine, No Symptoms, He Can Start Spreading The Virus Unbeknownced To Anyone, And Then BOOM!!!
Yeah, Absolutely NO USA Risk...
Oblunder's final solution
Maybe this is what Dear Leader meant when he was discussing "fundamentally transforming the United States of America."
Forward (over the cliff)!
"It's only a tiny leak," the PM of Japan annoounced to his peeples ....
At least 1 of the 2 ebola Americans that are being flown to the U.S. will be at Emory University Hospital. It kind of sounds like Emory is not to happy about it "Emory University Hospital officials said they have been informed that there are plans to transfer a patient with the Ebola virus infection to a special containment unit at their facility." I'm not too happy about it either. To me this is full retard, putting 320 million people at risk so that 2 people , in the words of a Fox news anchor "can be with their families." I say fuck that shit.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/ebola-outbreak-worsens-cdc-issues-l...
To the Bat Bunker!
It's not incurable
Half the reason why these diseases even come about is due to malnutrition.
Why is it that all these diseases always thrive in the third world?
And don't get me started on AIDS. If Amerika used the same criteria for diagnosing AIDS as is used in Africa anyone that has recently eaten at Taco Bell has AIDS. Toss in some AZT poisoning and voila!
pods
But it's all natural, wild caught, sustainably hunted free range low fat organic fruit bat they're eating.
Bet the american dr was well nourished.
Probably by american standards.
Which means he is more than likely severely nutrient deficient.
Sure, it can infect and kill truly healthy people, but there is a reason why these diseases proliferate in third world areas.
pods
absolutely wrt the 3rd world areas, I watched the liberia you tube video that someone here posted. God awful.
It has a 90% fatality rate. And your point is...
The frightening part, is if one is among the 10% to survive, or in some case 30% depending on treatment, and luck, is this gem from the World Health Organization:
This could indeed be a gift that keeps on giving.
That is the thing with viruses. You can have them inactive in you for a long, long, long time and they can be transmitted via sexual fluids. Also, supposedly they are too small for condoms to stop.
?? The current outbreak has a mortality rate of about 55%, did you just come from CNN?
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So your sayin i should short all mega retailers like WMT, TGT and COST....ok then
Hmmm. I think they are saying STWFP.
Short The Whole Fucking Planet;)
On the plus side housing should crash to zero in your rosy scenario.
Oh, and just about every other sector too.
@Comte: As a boomer, I'm in full agreement with you.
"A man that would tell the truth, should have one foot in the stirrup".......Old Russian Proverb
You need to take some prescribed meds yourself to cure your delusions. In can be done. Take heart.
Too early to tell,but it appears the disease kills in the 40-51 age group, sparing retirees!
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/7/09-1525_article
"overall attack rate in the district was 43 cases/100,000 population. The highest rate occurred in Kasitu subcounty, followed by the rate in Bundibugyo town council (within Bundibugyo district (Table 2). By sex, the attack rate for men was higher than that for women (64 vs. 47/100,000 population). By age group, the attack rate was higher for persons 41–50 years of age than for persons 51–60 years of age (146 vs. 122/100,000 population)."
"Senior citizens, the disabled and baby boomers who happen to be the majority in this country (as a population group) will be the first casualties of Ebola."
I think the young are usually most vulnerable to infections diseases. Generally younger people believe they are invulnerable and take less precautions than older and the elderly. The retiree also don't need to to work and can better isolate themselves from the public.
Bernanke also said there had never been a nation-wide decline in housing prices - although housing prices did decline across the country during the 1930s depression.
But Bernanke doesn't know much about the Depression.
Bernanke's dissertation was on the Great Depression. This is NOT an argument that he is an expert on the Great Depression, just thought this added to the context.
Edit: deleted
And Obama was a Consitutional professor. What's your point?
He is not a "professor" and there is no evidence that he ever "studied" the constitution.
In fact he surrendered his legal license in the state of Illinois which is only done to stop disbarment
He did profess to know something about the constitution.
I guess I'm hatin' now.
I think his title was Senior Lecturer.
Duality
Irony
"Higher" Education
Shall I continue?
I'll be skipping church for a while.
Avoid the Ebola water.
Someone is going to jump on a plane with this shit and then we're really gonna see how good we are at modern medicine.
Until then, shelter in place comrades!
Where's that chick that makes $15k a month working from home?
pods
She comes in contact with lots of bodily fluids though, not the best careeer choice right now.
She should be just fine holed up there in her basement with her nude chat cam business.
Should see biz pick up
CDC to send additional 50 experts to region in next 30 day
thats great, thats 50 more ppl to get infected and then to return back to their home countries in order to spread the virus there...
And as we all know, once it gets into the U.S...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYzPYhiK__Q
/sarc ...?
I would be more worried about 1) those already over there (300+ Peace CORPSEmen being returned, not sure about the two CORPSEmen presently in quarantine) or 2) already those already back from there who might come down deadly explosive vomit or diarrhea at any moment.
The 725 deaths is a couple days old, so add 30 per day since the 29th...
In the mean time, I read "bitter-kola not a cure for ebola virus"...
Only this universe we inhabit would surely be capable of such irony as the "returning religious nuts" being responsible for bringing ebola to the shores of the US. OH THE FUCKING IRONY. It's about time these arrogant fucks minded their own business and maybe concentrated on improving the morals of their congressmen and woman and leaving the hell alone people from other cultures.
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"CDC urges all US residents to avoid nonessential travel'
this is a great opportunity to stay indoors and work from home.
the rising number of high-paying knowledge-based jobs for people with informatics know-how and a college degree has Never Been Higher.
hugs,
university of phoenix
I'm a Phonics.
Ebola is Ebonics for the shit has hit the fan
This is how Obama puts us under martial law.
Remember, Cambridge University shut down for 6 months when the plague hit England back in Newton's day.
"Escape the Ebola virus, show up at your nearest disease-free FEMA camp."
The great fire of london did finally erradicate the plague.
Has DC had a great fire yet ?
Not recently, just when the Canadians (British living in Canada) burned the white house down.
metaphorical fire been burning for a while
You know you are REALLY having a bad day when the camp names are Silent Hill, Raccoon City, Terminus, and Arcadia.
There is a chick here that makes crazy money working from he on the web. It is so easy! Just talk to her...
LA gang bangers
with ebola....
Sudden Debt says that it is just propaganda to distract us from more important topics.
Do not concern yourselves. He knows best.
Pay attention to the European Central Bank woes, the Argentine Default, the Portugal Espirito Santo Bank Meltdown...
And by all means pay attention to the House of Representative's Lawsuit against Obama because these are life and death issues.
Sudden Debt is wise.
Langley: "How do we get these damn Chinese off our African natural resources?"
Boring "news". More people are killed every day in ME.
True, but "normally" the ME can't land at O'hare or DFW.
Or Manhattan.
Oh fuck! Maine now too!?
As I have said before, the chances of any given (named) outbreak becoming a global pandemic are pretty small. The chances that one will eventually come along and beat the odds are not so small. Do something that has a 1% chance of getting you killed every time you do it every single day and chances are that you'll not survive a year. Yet it will be hard to predict just what day you are going to die, because 1% isn't a huge probability.
It's why every time something like this comes up, if you ask me point blank if I think it's going to become a global pandemic, I'm going to bluntly answer "nope." I'll mostly be right. It's the one time that I'm wrong that'll get you though.
Sudden Debt made me see the error in my ways this morning. There is nothing to concern yourself with as it is all just a propaganda ploy. We should really be concentrating on the killing of Palestinians over in Gaza. Hell that might come into JFK Airport next.
We need to be concerned with the Ukraine shooting down our jets flying over in Europe.
There is no risk whatsoever. It is propaganda.
Of course there is no need to concern yourselves whatsoever with the EXPONENTIAL GROWTH of the Cases. None whatsoever. That Math stuff is for geeks and those high brow Scientists. We all know that they are clueless when that deals with anything real.
My thanks to Sudden Debt.
I think that people fail to understand risk. People freak the fuck out over little things and fail to see the big things until they get smacked right between the eyes with them. I'm not going to do more than keeping an eye on the ebola stories until it does start becoming a global pandemic. That's when I'll start to worry. There's not much else that can be done anyway. Viruses and bacteria are funny that way. Do I think ebola is going to be a global pandemic? No. Will I be surprised if I am wrong? No. With over 7 billion people on the planet, there are an awful lot of chances for some super bug to appear and fuck us up.
That being said, I am not going to Africa anytime soon.
There is a 100% chance that a super bug will appear, let's get this point straight. By definition a superbug is simply a bacteria or virus that has circumvented our abaility to combat it with our antibiotics and antiviral drugs. The incredible rate of reproduction of bacteria and the adaptive power of evolution ensures, as night follows day, that such bacteria or virus will emerge.
Let me provide a brief lesson for all those people who think evolution by natural selection is anything but fact. Consider the world a petri dish. Inside that petri dish is a cocktail of antibiotic drugs. Also inside that petri dish are trillions upon trillions of bacteria. Only one of those trillions upon trillions of bacetria need, by pure chance or random mutation, develop characteristics that give that one cell a 0.0000001% greater chance of survival. Given enough time the characteristics displayed in that first cell now inhabit a large portion of the population as they have outbred the rest. Now the antibiotics aren't quite as effective. Repeat this cycle billions of times and you will "naturally" select only super bugs for survival. It is a beautiful system, so simple but so radically powerful and effective.
Hands down one of the greatest scientific insights in human history.
I'm just wondering what happened to the family of that woman who busted out of a hospital after being diagnosed with Ebola. ZH ran the story about her dying in an ambulance (after being "caught" I guess).
But what is the appropriate criminal charge for her family members (and her were she still alive) here? "Attempted murder of 6 billion people"?
And what about those who refuse an "order" to report to their local FEMA camp, or who get broken out?
They Will be eliminated for non compliance by a commissioned tactical team courtsey of the U.S Government.
They Will be eliminated for non compliance by a commissioned tactical team courtsey of the U.S Government.
The whole idea of Ebola tends to make one feel a rather helpless.
Not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing at this point -- probably a little bit of both.
I get your point but I think a statistician will disagree with you. Each individual case it is still only a 1 percent chance. You can't add them together.
That was my point. The probability that you'll survive any one "event" is 99%. The probability that you'll survive 365 "events" in a row is .99365 or 2.55%.
Take a look at hospital HEPA filter design, the size range of the ebola virus, and Brownian motion (I hope the math wizzes who did the those calculations were better at identifying external variables than the bankers who used to work for me).
It's all a calculated odds game, whether the serfs want it to be or not.
It's also all an odds game whether the oligarchs want it to be or not. The thing that being rich gets you is better medical care and the ability to better isolate yourself, i.e. to increase your odds. It does not make you outright immune.
Interestingly enough, the oligarchs of the dark and middle ages lost some of their power because of the black death, even though they retreated to their country estates and weren't exposed to the plague. When the plague had run its course, labor was at a premium, and those surfs who survived had some leverage.
Where were you when I was loosing at roulette?
maybe it's actually .255%
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
Jim Cramer "Bear is fine"
Timothy Geithner: There is no risk of USA losing it's AAA ratings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HDCvqgxrrE
Colin Powell: Iraq has WMD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpsP_flmdqA
Guantanamo and everything else Obama:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDDbTaWpwoc
And the finale: I DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT WOMAN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBe_guezGGc
yeah this is different...
this is bad.
I'm going to adhere to this one.
Like I need another reason not to go to Africa.
Did they every #BringOurGirlsBack?
pods
It isn't so much you don't need to go to Africa. It is that you don't need to be near anyone that has been there in the last month. In a month, it will be you don't need to be near anyone who has been near anyone who was in Africa two months ago. In two months, it will be you don't need to be near anyone.
#leavethosegirlsthere
sorry, I had to.
Too soon?
One thing to be kidnapped by crazed terrisissis but another in an area with Ebola rolling around from Fruit bat to monkey to human.
Mosquitoes have the magic ability to suck blood out of one creature and inject it into another.
Q: Mosquitoes are:
a) Communist
b) Socialist
c) Fascist
d) Terrizzzt
e) All of the above
Oh, I will also be on the lookout for cab drivers (or mosquitoes) who are bleeding out of their arses.
I don't think I have to worry about coming into contact with any African semen anytime soon so we're good there.
pods
That's right! Africa does not have a Navy. Good thing!
just remember a jet of semen can travel 12 inches at least...
WTF?
Sorry to hear you've been struggling in the dating department.
Mosquitoes are disease spreaders, so all of the above.
"Mosquitoes (government) have the magic ability to suck blood (FRNs) out of one creature (wallet) and inject it into another."
Oh, shit!
#whataboutfuckingdetroit
Fucking? Isn't it already fucked?
fonz, this place has eaten your young mind down to its most basic sick fuck reptilian stub
I commend your wisdom and insights.
According to the rule of 72 it will be a million deaths by Christmas at current rate.
Rather conservative estimate, I'd say, given that if only 0.01% of just the 30,000 they are said to be tracking turn out to be positive, and infect just 3 others for the first 3 days they are communicable carriers of Ebola, that is before they can no longer function.
72 virgins dead by Christmas? Wait, what?
That rule doesn't apply here.
The function in this case is more like a network graph than a simple mathematical exponent. System dynamics apply, and they change everything.
It's a complete shit hole. I've been to Gabon a few times and the place is swimming in garbage. The Mauritanians kicked the French out about 40 years ago and nobody has picked up a single piece of garbage since. It does give the cows and goats something to graze on I guess. I would only eat seafood when I was there. Extremely well done, of course.
Interstingly enough the Gabonese seem to have the highest natural immunity to Ebola.
http://en.ird.fr/the-media-centre/scientific-newssheets/337-possible-nat...
The only scientific explanation, akin to the kid picking up used gum out of the toilet and chewing on it, is that they've been culturally inoculated with chimpanzee related french kissing and anal sex. I'm not sure how chimp hand-jobs go....
This is my rifle, this is my gun...
A chimp will bite yer dick right off and eat it. Horrifying creatures, chimpanzees.
Looks like they are sending them back one at a time.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/07/female-suicide-bomber-kills...
@pod
In Amerika You don't go to Africa, Africa comes to you.
Texas Doctor who has Ebola. His wife and kids left a 2 days before he got sick, if you believe the main stream media.
maybe if they spent less money on spying on people while they masturbate, they could have put a little more emphasis on containment procedures for these sorts of things. trillions wasted. way to go fuck heads
With today's phones having cameras on both sides of the phone chances are the US gubmint has O faces and crotch shots on each and every one of us.
I make sure I look over at the webcam when I am in the vinegar strokes and wink after the money shot.
But hey, I have always had a flair for the dramatic.
pods
I know this is probably incredibly racist to say somehow... but wouldn't it be wiser to ban flights/boats/buses donkey carts etc. from leaving these areas rather than focusing on warning incredibly stupid people not to go there?
You are a racist!!!!!!!!! Logical with common sense. But still a racist.
Yes, you are likely a rat-bastard tea-bagging racist.
Next thing you will likely be calling for immigration control and protecting the border from invading diseased children and criminals.
Join the club.
Is a border still a border or is it merely a transition zone now?
They will be asking these deep questions soon in Africa if this disease gets out of hand...
Yes in fact that is exactly the way it used to be done. Very common.
As if 'they' care about your well-being and this was just a misallocation of resources due to bad planning and prioritization. I agree with the sentiment, but I don't think containing these sorts of things is high on their priority list, and that's why it wasn't emphasized.
Nothing to worry about here folks.....just keeps getting worse and worse.....but don't worry we are all OK......wonder if the market tanking has a connection.....smart money pulling out fast......
Ebola has hit the Bong!
Huh. If it escalates, could be useful for border lockdown (multi-nation, at that.)
That's the excuse I would use.
Just sayin'.
At least President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia have decided to skip the US-African summit in DC on Monday. As much as I dislike Washington DC I really don't wish Ebola on anyone.
Too bad President Alpha Conde of Guinea is still going to attend.
"I really don't wish Ebola on anyone" if janet or ben or jamie or llyod or alan or hank, etc were to get it, i'd probably chuckle.
I am now conflicted.
call Dustin Hoffman - he knows what to do
Or better yet that really hot doc in the Last Ship.
Just wait until it goes airborne
According to recent studies it indeed has...http://scgnews.com/ebola-what-youre-not-being-told
From the article - "
A study conducted in 2012 showed that Ebola was able to travel between pigs and monkeys that were in separate cages and were never placed in direct contact.
Though the method of transmission in the study was not officially determined, one of the scientists involved, Dr. Gary Kobinger, from the National Microbiology Laboratory at the Public Health Agency of Canada, told BBC News that he believed that the infection was spread through large droplets that were suspended in the air.
"What we suspect is happening is large droplets; they can stay in the air, but not long; they don't go far," he explained. "But they can be absorbed in the airway, and this is how the infection starts, and this is what we think, because we saw a lot of evidence in the lungs of the non-human primates that the virus got in that way."
Translation: Ebola IS an airborne virus."
So all we have to do now is keep the pigs far away from the monkeys.
If this shit ever hits Washington D.C. it's all over... nothing there but big buildings full of pigs and monkeys as far as the eye can see...
Some believe it already has. The Reston version of it is so it's just a mutation away.
If people are collapsing in airports it most certainly has gone airborne. It has also gone busborne, trainborne and boatborne.
It can't go airborne, unless it does.
Not sure if ebola is airborne yet -- but something certainly changed -- because it's now traveling further and faster than it used to. And it clearly caught some researchers and health care workers by surprise.
I've been saying keep an eye on this one and I guess the CDC is of the same opinion.
If it (which has been proven) can be aerosolized such that pigs can get it from pigs, pigs can get it from bats, etc- why is there even a question that is has become aerosolized such that human to human transmission is not possible?
I fail to see how those dots refuse to be connected by some. Cognitive Dissonance?
Of course, maybe there a invisible spaceships and aliens that are acting on our behalf, and preventing humans from being infected by clearly pneumatic means that have been observed in other species.
No, guess not:
http://www.msdsonline.com/resources/msds-resources/free-safety-data-shee...
It's not the way you think. There are many strains of this bug and each behaves differently. There are aerosolized ebola that infect humans without the person showing any symptoms of any kind. So those variants need to learn how to kill us.
On the other hand the one that can kill us, doesn't spread via aerosols. Why? Don't know. Could it learn that trick? Oh yeah you bet. So has it learned that trick ...
Maybe.
Or maybe, it learned it but not really well. Which is not quite the same thing.
It's complicated. There are not just a few dots to connect. These are evolutionary pathways. But they might be connecting right now, we don't know.
I am genuinely concerned, but not alarmed ... not yet.
By "learned it but not really well," you mean aerosolized, but you have to be sneezed on directly because the virus will die within 10 or 20 seconds of leaving the body or some such thing?
"The Ebola virus can survive for several days outside the body, including on the skin"
Source:
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/07July/Pages/Ebola-threat-to-the-UK-is-very-...
Or it can be aerosolized but only inefficiently, or only under rare circumstances.
But notice, if the bug that learns the trick even a little has an advantage, then that become the evolutionary pathway for the next round of spread. That's what happens over time, these things "suddenly" seem to learn a new trick, but really it was just one variant getting an advantage and becoming more common.
These things do not evolve gradually, rather they jump into whole new configurations nearly overnight. It is called "saltation" and unless you have the right training you would not believe it happens. It just blows you away when you see it happen. Like it's the work of God or something.
I think ebola jumped last year. Big time. It can spread further and faster now and subsequently has escaped the confinement of the countryside. And now that it is being found in urban areas the chance of another jump just went up a lot. We might see something really terrifying any day emerge from Monrovia or Lagos or some similar.
I believe that things like that can happen, especially with something as (comparatively) simple as a virus. If a bacteria can evolve the ability to eat nylon, a virus can damned sure be subjected to some minor mutation that has a huge effect on us.