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Ebola Comes To America
The #ebola outbreak...by the numbers: pic.twitter.com/qiSrxS0wt9
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) July 31, 2014
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,
If the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history reaches the United States, federal law permits "the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease". These individuals can be "detained for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary". In other words, the federal government already has the authority to round people up against their will, take them to detention facilities and hold them there for as long as they feel it is "reasonably necessary".
In addition, as you will read about below, the federal government has the authority "to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill". If you want to look at these laws in the broadest sense, they pretty much give the federal government the power to do almost anything that they want with us in the event of a major pandemic. Of course such a scenario probably would not be called "martial law", but it would probably feel a lot like it.
If Ebola comes to America and starts spreading, one of the first things that would happen would be for the CDC to issue "a federal isolation or quarantine order". The following is what the CDC website says about what could happen under such an order...
Isolation and quarantine are public health practices used to stop or limit the spread of disease.
Isolation is used to separate ill persons who have a communicable disease from those who are healthy. Isolation restricts the movement of ill persons to help stop the spread of certain diseases. For example, hospitals use isolation for patients with infectious tuberculosis.
Quarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill. These people may have been exposed to a disease and do not know it, or they may have the disease but do not show symptoms. Quarantine can also help limit the spread of communicable disease.
Isolation and quarantine are used to protect the public by preventing exposure to infected persons or to persons who may be infected.
In addition to serving as medical functions, isolation and quarantine also are “police power” functions, derived from the right of the state to take action affecting individuals for the benefit of society.
"Isolation" would not be a voluntary thing. The federal government would start hunting down anyone that they "reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease" and taking them to the facilities where other patients were being held. It wouldn't matter if you were entirely convinced that you were 100% healthy. If the government wanted to take you in, you would have no rights in that situation. In fact, federal law would allow the government to detain you "for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary".
And once you got locked up with all of the other Ebola patients, there would be a pretty good chance that you would end up getting the disease and dying anyway. The current Ebola outbreak has a 55 percent percent mortality rate, and experts tell us that the mortality rate for Ebola can be as high as 90 percent.
Once you contracted Ebola, this is what it would look like...
Sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. That is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function and internal and external bleeding.
The "external bleeding" may include bleeding from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and just about every other major body cavity.
So how is Ebola spread?
Well, medical authorities tell us that it can be spread through the blood, urine, saliva, stools and semen of a person or animal that already has Ebola.
If you are exposed to the disease, the incubation period can be from anywhere from two days up to 21 days. But the average is usually about eight to ten days.
In other words, you can be spreading it around for over a week before you even know that you have it.
There is no vaccine for Ebola and there is no cure.
Not everyone dies from the virus, but most people do.
Needless to say, this is about the last disease that you want to catch. And the doctors that are treating Ebola patients in Africa are going to extreme lengths to keep from getting it...
To minimise the risk of infection they have to wear thick rubber boots that come up to their knees, an impermeable body suit, gloves, a face mask, a hood and goggles to ensure no air at all can touch their skin.
Dr Spencer, 27, and her colleagues lose up to five litres of sweat during a shift treating victims and have to spend two hours rehydrating afterwards.
They are only allowed to work for between four and six weeks in the field because the conditions are so gruelling.
At their camp they go through multiple decontaminations which includes spraying chlorine on their shoes.
But despite all of those extraordinary measures, multiple doctors have already gotten sick.
For example, one of the doctors leading the fight against Ebola, Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, died on Tuesday...
A doctor who was on the front lines fighting the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has died from complications of the disease, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.
Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan fell ill early last week while overseeing Ebola treatment at Kenema Government Hospital, about 185 miles east of Sierra Leone's capital city, Freetown.
He was treated by the French aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres -- also known as Doctors Without Borders -- in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, up until his death, spokesman Tim Shenk said.
And two American doctors that went over to Africa to help fight the disease are now battling for their own lives...
Dr. Kent Brantly, who was treating victims of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, is currently being treated in an isolation unit in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, the AP reported Tuesday.
"I'm praying fervently that God will help me survive this disease," Brantly said in an email Monday to Dr. David Mcray, the director of maternal-child health at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. The Texas-born Brantly, 33, completed a four-year medical residency at the hospital, the AP said.
Brantly's wife and two young children left Liberia to return to Abilene, Texas, days before he began to show symptoms of Ebola. They are being monitored for any signs of fever, a City of Abilene spokeswoman told the AP.
A second American, aid worker Nancy Writebol of Charlotte, N.C., is also stricken with Ebola, according to CBS/AP. Writebol had been working as a hygienist to help decontaminate people at an Ebola care center in Monrovia.
This is not like other Ebola outbreaks.
Something seems different this time.
But instead of trying to keep things isolated to a few areas, global health authorities are going to start sending Ebola patients to other parts of the globe. For example, one German hospital has already agreed to start receiving Ebola patients...
A German hospital has agreed to treat Ebola patients amid widespread fears of a possible outbreak of the deadly disease in Europe. Over 670 people have already been killed by the disease in West Africa with doctors struggling to control the epidemic.
A German hospital in Hamburg agreed to accept patients following a request from the World Health Organization (WHO), Deutsche Welle reports. Doctors assure that the utmost precautions will be taken to make sure the disease does not spread during treatment. The patients will be kept in an isolation ward behind several airlocks, and doctors and nurses will wear body suits with their own oxygen supplies that will be burned every three hours.
Will Ebola patients also soon be sent to hospitals in the United States?
And of course there are many other ways that Ebola could spread to this country. For instance, all it would take would be for one infected person to get on one airplane and it could all be over.
Federal authorities seem to have been preparing for such an outbreak for quite a while. As my good friend Mac Slavo has pointed out, "biological diagnostic systems" were distributed to National Guard units in all 50 states back in April...
The Department of Defense informed Congress that it has deployed biological diagnostic systems to National Guard support teams in all 50 states, according to a report published by the Committee on Armed Services. The report, published in April amid growing fears that the Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus might spread outside of West Africa, says that the portable systems are designed for “low probability, high consequence” scenarios.
Some 340 Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System (JBAIDS) units have thus far been given to emergency response personnel. The systems are “rapid, reliable, and [provide] simultaneous identification of specific biological agents and pathogens,” says executive officer for the DOD’s Chemical and Biological Defense group Carmen J. Spencer.
Let us certainly hope for the best.
Let us hope that this latest outbreak fizzles out and that we won't even be talking about this by the end of the year.
But experts are warning that if a major global pandemic does break out that millions upon millions of people could die.
If that happens, many people will go crazy with fear.
And we got just a little taste of some of the paranoia that an Ebola epidemic in America would create in Charlotte, North Carolina earlier this week...
A corridor of Carolinas Medical Center – Main’s Emergency Room was roped off on the first floor, near the entrance Wednesday.
A security guard was posted outside, to prevent anyone from crossing the line.
During a 4 p.m. press conference Katie Passaretti, who is an infectious disease specialist with CMC, said precautions were put into place when patient was brought in Tuesday night. The patient was traveling from Africa and arrived at the hospital around 11:30 p.m.
Around 3 a.m. the security precautions were put into place at the hospital, Passaretti said.
Passaretti said they determined the patient did not have Ebola. The patient has been discharged home.
It is not too hard to imagine forced quarantines and people being rounded up and shipped off to Ebola detention facilities.
In fact, if Ebola were to start spreading like wildfire in this country, many people would actually start demanding such measures.
For example, one member of Congress is already proposing that citizens of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone (and any foreigner that has recently visited those nations) be kept out of the United States...
In a letter addressed to Secretary of State John Kerry and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Alan Grayson, a Florida Democrat, proposed that citizens of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as "any foreign person who has visited one of these nations 90 days prior to arriving in the United States" be kept out of the country. He urged the secretaries to "consider the enhanced risk Ebola now presents to the American public".
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If you think that is all a little far-fetched since we have been reassured that there is no risk to the US... it's already here...
As NBC News reports, Emory University Hospital in Atlanta said Thursday it was preparing a special isolation unit to receive a patient with Ebola disease within the next several days.
“We do not know at this time when the patient will arrive,” Emory said in a statement. The university also did not say whether the patient was one of two Americans battling Ebola infection in Liberia – charity workers Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly.
“Emory University Hospital has a specially built isolation unit set up in collaboration with the CDC to treat patients who are exposed to certain serious infectious diseases,” the hospital said. “It is physically separate from other patient areas and has unique equipment and infrastructure that provide an extraordinarily high level of clinical isolation. It is one of only four such facilities in the country."
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Thomas Frieden said he doubted Ebola could spread in the United States. "That is not in the cards," he told reporters Thursday.
"If and when that happens...every precaution will be taken to move the patients safety and securely to provide critical care en route and to maintain strict isolation upon arrival in the United States," she added.
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What do you believe will happen if Ebola comes to America?
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That's a GLOCK-brand GLOCK.
Get it straight.
That's a JOKE-brand JOKE.......
"Not everyone dies from the virus, but most people do."
So.........I survive ebola I end up with chronic joint and bone pain, blindness, and hair loss
Well, Yippie Ki Ya.
Good thing I live in Colorado........I love my medical marijauna!
This Snyder guy must be reading my posts. Posted the exact same concern on another Ebola story about 4 hours ago. It occured to me that it's a lot easier for the gov to use something like Ebola as a scare tactic, in order to incarcerate those they deem "a threat". BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID! And I don't mean of Ebola.
Mandatory vaccinations , watch.
Did you get your gov. Shot?
I understand that Emory University will have a containment area - but any volunteers want to sit in the plane or car that brought them to Emory?
Too-BIG-to-fail knows they are going down BIG time and obviously
planned to have a major distraction event like this to make the public attention span divert to a virus outbreak and pandemic that will wipe out a major portion of the entire USA population leaving the Banksters
in a position to start all over again after the clean up of dead bodies.
Moreover, the unveiling of the pandemic will cause contagion and that's when the MIC will step in and sl;aughter the population that is posing a threat to the safety of the 'administration'. Clearly, all the wealthy people will BUG OUT until the heat is off and they can come back. The remaining serfs will be used to rebuild whatever is left over. Frankly, if the wealthy think the masses are going to rise up and attack them they will slaughter as many of the 99% that they can slaughter because the 99% are not human to them and are expendable if it means their asses are going to be on the line.The Department of Homeland Security has already armed the police to the teeth in preparation of such an event as this and we all have seen the polypropoline coffins by the thousands on-line.
1]...Amunition purcahse by the USA two years ago.
2]...Coffins at the ready in compounds.
3]...Militarization of Police Forces throught the USA.
4]...1/3 of Americans can't pay their bills and are in collections.
5]...Subprime loans are melting down housing, car sales, tuition
6]...QE Infinity is going to blow, Captain. [btw...Scotty just died]
7]...Banker suicides in preparation for what?
8]...The MIC has obviously been thinking about contagion 'if' and
contagion 'when' prospects.
9]...USA is heading for certain bankruptcy in every state but one.
0]...Ground Zero = Ebola
BINGO
Where is my prize, Z/H?
Good thing they have all those recently completed FEMA camps just sitting there waiting.
Nice Ebola video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnQVUf775VE
^^^^^^^Must Watch Video^^^^^^
Ebola in the US with the eventual isolation would be the opportune time to round up all those guns................and "troublemakers"
just sayin, i wouldnt put anything past this regime
Or the last regime, or the one before that, or the one before that one, and certainly the one before that one. The new boss is the same as the old boss.
No tribal bullshit allowed. Just sayin.
NIH aims for human vaccine trials by September
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/31/ebola-vaccine-trial...
Watch, It will be mandatory that every man,women and child be vaccinated.
Then the next mandatory one and the next.
Even if you didn't want it.
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Been watching this since early winter and they've consistently been lying through their teeth about this.
One week ago, there were 672 dead and 1003 infected. Today? 729/1323
It's growing at an exponential rate.
And now they're looking to track down 30, 000 people in the armpit of the world.
We're in big trouble.
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The dangerous thing about exponential growth is that early on it might look like it's barely sprinkling, then a moment later it's the heaviest rain you ever saw, in another moment you are 1000 feet underwater. If ebola gets into a large population center, the doubling time for new cases might only be a few days. At first it might seem like the number of new cases is manageable, but after a month and 10 doublings, the whole population can be exposed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ghHia-M54
Ebola don't care if you are a billionaire hedge fund manager or Federal Reserve banker.
It is easy enough to infect the hired help....
These people can't survive without them or operate in a bubble while keeping the system afloat.
And as your knowledge bonus for "Ebola coming to America"...
A bit of trivia...
Where was it USUS20120251502 patented???...
Best of all it comes from Google!
This is a little too Dan Brown's "Inferno" for me.
Ebola - What you're not being told
http://www.sott.net/article/282930-Ebola-What-you-re-not-being-told
"if you read virtually any mainstream article on the topic that they make a point of insisting that Ebola is only transferred by physical contact with bodily fluids. This is not true, at all.
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."
It is believed one of the local staff was infected with EVD and came to work with the virus on 21 and 22 Jul 2014, Samaritan's Purse Vice President Ken Isaacs said. That staff member died Thursday [31 Jul 2014]. "We think it was in the scrub-down area where the disease was passed to both Nancy and Kent," Isaacs said.
Obviousy, the scrub area is not contact with patient.
Google SUPERBUGS and high speed photo of sneezing. If you investigate containment in hospitals you will find that highly contagious
rooms are sealed and the air for the room is vented to the outside of the building. As long as people are contained in a room with positive
ventalation to the outside of the room the virus/SUPERBUG cannot
beat the airflow and get out of the room and into the building. If a virus/SUPERBUG is blown outside into fresh air it cannot survive.
Hospitals are filled to the brim with pathogens and the highly contagious viruses are handled by total containment to a few select rooms that are especially designed to handle virus containment
issues. Monitoring is key and detection is too. Not much money and research goes into detection and the Research/Teaching Hospitals
have zero money to invest in detection or mass containment facilities. If masses of people start to get sick they will be warehoused and killed off en masse until the hospitals can take the remaining infected people. If a pandemic actually hits people will be herded like cats into death camps.
check out nanotitanium paint that kills SUPERBUGS.
Africa is a pit, has no health care and the IQ tends to be under 70. IF Ebola come to America, there is healthcare in the form of IVs and meds to reduce symptoms. In diseases like this, the cause of death can be a loss of fluids and electrolytes. If there are IVs, the patient is more likely to survive and that would lower the death toll.
Activist Post is saying this American Ebola thing is phychological warfare.
Remember when they did the same thing with H1N1 flu? They had some of us in a frenzy, demanding our flu shots.
1400 cases, worldwide.
sorry but there is "only" 1300 case of ebola in like 3 month spread over 3 different country. Knowing that the hygiene is those country is mostly bad (specialy with handling of dead bodies), I am really not too worried about the virus. If it would easily spread airborn the number of cases would be enormous but it is not.
We're actually in the 7th month.
Having started from some single unknown case in one remote town, it has now spread to the broader populations at least 3 countries and is showing no signs of slowing down, particularly after hopping 3 rides on the aluminum birds of global interconnectedness to Lagos.
Look at the plot of any exponential function over time... The first 3/4 of the plot is can be disregarded as the quantity is comparatively insignificant. The critical issue is whether the virus is spreading or being effectively contained.
I'm not sure what this means but my emails say that Sierra Leone and LIberia have just declared a state of emergency. Guess what that means will become clear soon.
Word is out they are bringing those unfortunate docs back here to put more people at risk. I'm not sure who is making these decisions but they are playing with fire. I don't see how this could be described as anything but criminal wreckless endangerment to bring those cases back here.
Call my crazy, but I have had a feeling this would happen for the last two-three years. It's called culling the herd.
A pandemic is the perfect vehicle for ushering economic collapse and Global governance. Get ready herd, it's about to get real.
This is also very Biblical. You are up against Satan, and he is much more powerful than you. That is why we all need to seek God almighty, whom Satan needs to ask permission to act. See http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Job&c=1&t=KJV&q=job
I think Judgment is upon us, and as Christ said Mat 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Mat&c=24&v=8&t=KJV#s=953008
great joke on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2car5j/two_ebola_patients_are...
In all seriousness though, we're bringing Ebola into the US but I can't bring in a Cuban cigar?
Cuban cigars are communist. You buy a box and you share them with your friends.
Ebola is capitalist. It enters a host and uses up all the resources, killing itself in the process.
Follow the money:
Monsanto and Dept. of Defense help fund pharma company that could earn billions from Ebola treatment
http://www.naturalnews.com/046259_Ebola_outbreak_drug_treatments_Monsanto.html
Can this be called a False Flag?
A distraction, manufactured fear?
Wag the dog?
bad idea to bring it here...but I am sure they will do everything to avoid it getting into the population...do gooders at work to save the world, even if they kill us all.
no worries what has .gov and cdc screwed up in the past? the example of Aids HIV is one to look at. not that it will happen again, stay healthy my friends go far and stay long.
There is a whole industry now that lives for this shit. Research dollars, fame on the lecture circuit, career advancement, etc.
Kind of like "Global Warming", isn't it?
The important difference being:
Global Warming (AGW) isn't real.
Ebola IS real.
Quite a difference there.
one reason for bring it here, is the cdc knows we cannot quarantine it for political reasons, and perhaps they know it is here. then study of human model makes sense..although an isolated island we control would make alot more sense..perhaps those with medical knowledge just don't want to live in isolation, so they said bring it here, or I don't go.
Ebola has already been here...years ago. It emerged at Reston, in an airborne form. Luckily that particular strain wasn't fatal to humans.
But the fact that even a gentler strain showed airborne potential is pretty scary. And there is the question of where it went...was it wiped out, or did it merely 'retire' in some local population of critters, waiting?
So, who will be responsible if we have an outbreak in North America?
Ooops, incompetence?
CNN has been very careful to point out that the Ebola patient is not coming to Emory University Hospital, but rather to Sanjay Gupta's hospital. This is a staged entertainment event. And Dr. Nancy Snyderman informed us all that it is perfectly safe and the smart thing to do.
Well if I were a flight attendant making crappy wages and already having to be on the lookout for nut-case Islamic "bombers" of one sort or another this would be the final straw.
3 card montee at play. Look at the Ebola, look at the Ebola...
Don't look at the MDR-TB streaming across the Southern Freeway (formerly known as the Border).
Maybe they'll load up the water cannons with Ebola virus
Population control, natural or man-made... if they can expedite the deployment of robot soldiers they won't need very many people anyway.
I called the main number at Emory U 404-778-5000 to ask who was responsible for the decision to bring Ebola patients to the USA and was told that information was not being disclosed at this time. I pressed for more information and was refered to communications dept. Vincent Dollard 404-727-3366 and Janet Cristenbury 404-727-8599.
Janet was available for comment on her cel 404-227-4785, although she said the identity of the person or persons responsible for the decision were currently being withheld. However she said the decision was based on the need to care for a sick person,I argued that the care could be provided by moving portable facilities to the location in Africa instead of portable facilities being used to transport to the USA and endangering and potentially exposing the population here, and stating that I thought it was a poor decsion. I hope that others will take the time to call and express concerns.