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First Ever Ebola Case On US Soil As Patient Lands In Atlanta; CDC Urges Calm - Live Feed
A plane carrying Dr. Kent Brantly, the American doctor who contracted Ebola while treating patients in West Africa, landed at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, at around 11am this morning - the first ever case of Ebola on US soil. He is being escorted to Emory Hospital under police escort. His colleague Nancy Writebol will arrive later on a separate flight as the planes are equipped to deal with one quarantined patient at a time. As ABC reports, both are listed in "serious but stable condition." The CDC's director explained the infected patients pose little risk to others, adding "these are American citizens. American citizens have a right of return. I certainly hope people’s fear doesn’t trump their compassion." What is perhaps raising that fear among Americans (and frankly the world after yesterday's WHO warning of "high risks of spread to other countries") is the fact that, as Reuters reports, more than 100 health workers fighting Ebola have contracted it themselves.
Live Feed of arrival...
Here is a picture of the plane landing at @DobbinsARB. More information here: http://t.co/3bgiJroVl4 pic.twitter.com/pN7t3leyS5
— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) August 2, 2014
Ambulance carrying first Ebola patient on US soil en-route to Atlanta hospital (via NBC11) pic.twitter.com/RqDqcuT2ni
— PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) August 2, 2014
News coverage looks OJ-esque as helicopter cameras follow white ambulance carrying #Ebola patient through Atlanta streets.
— T.J. Holmes (@tjholmes) August 2, 2014
PHOTO: Ebola patient in protective clothing being taken out of ambulance at Atlanta hospital pic.twitter.com/32HSa8pSLb @brianstelter
— PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) August 2, 2014
As ABC reports, this is the first time the Emory Hospital unit will house patients who are truly infected with a dangerous disease.
Samaritan's Purse confirmed that Dr. Kent Brantly was the first American patient to be evacuated from Liberia aboard a private air ambulance. The flight landed about 11 a.m. Saturday.
Brantly and Nancy Writebol, an aid worker, will be treated at a specialized unit at Emory University in Atlanta.
Both Brantly and Writebol are listed in "serious but stable condition," according to Samaritan's Purse, the aid group Brantly for which worked. Writebol is expected to arrive in the U.S. early next week.
Brantly and Writebol worked at a hospital in Liberia. He's the first patient infected with Ebola to be on U.S. soil.
The NY Times explains the treatment...
“The reason we are bringing these patients back to our facility is because we feel they deserve to have the highest level of care offered for their treatment,” Dr. Bruce S. Ribner, an infectious disease specialist at Emory who will be involved in their care, said at a Friday afternoon news conference.
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“We depend on the body’s defenses to control the virus,” he said. “We just have to keep the patient alive long enough in order for the body to control this infection.”
And precautions...
“From the time the air ambulance arrives in the metropolitan Atlanta area, up to and including being hospitalized at Emory University Hospital, we have taken every precaution that we know and that our colleagues at the C.D.C. know to ensure that there is no spread of this virus pathogen,” he said.
But fear remains...
The director of the disease centers, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, agreed that the patients posed little risk to others. And he added: “These are American citizens. American citizens have a right of return. I certainly hope people’s fear doesn’t trump their compassion.”
And perhaps rightly so as Reuters reports up to 100 health workers have been infected while treating Ebola patients... As The American Dream's Michael Snyder notes, something is different this time...
This is the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history, and this particular strain appears to be spreading much more easily than others have. So far, 1,323 people have been infected in the nations of Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Of those 1,323 victims, a whopping 729 of them have died. But a number that is even more alarming was buried in the middle of a Reuters report on Friday. According to Reuters, “more than 100 health workers” that have been fighting Ebola in Africa have contracted the virus themselves. Considering the extraordinary measures that these health workers take to keep from getting the disease, that is quite chilling. We are not just talking about one or two “accidents”. We are talking about more than 100 of them getting sick. If Ebola is spreading this easily among medical professionals in biohazard body suits that keep any air from touching the skin, what chance are the rest of us going to have if this virus gets out into the general population?
In case you are tempted to think that this could not be possible and that I am just exaggerating, here is the relevant part of the Reuters article that I was talking about…
More than 100 health workers have been infected by the viral disease, which has no known cure, including two American medics working for charity Samaritan’s Purse. More than half of those have died, among them Sierra Leone’s leading doctor in the fight against Ebola, Sheik Umar Khan, a national hero.
This has the potential to be the greatest health crisis of our lifetimes.
But don’t just take my word for it. The following is what the head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, just told the press about the disease…
“If the situation continues to deteriorate, the consequences can be catastrophic in terms of lost lives but also severe socio-economic disruption and a high risk of spread to other countries.”
That certainly doesn’t sound good.
Remember, there is no vaccine for Ebola and there is no cure.
Most of the people that get it end up dying.
And right now even our most extreme containment procedures are failing to keep health workers from contracting the disease.
I put the following quote in an article the other day, but I think that it is worth repeating. The health professionals that are on the front lines of the Ebola fight in Africa are going to extraordinary lengths to keep from getting the virus…
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 those precautions are not working.
More than 100 of them have already gotten sick.
So why is this happening?
Nobody seems to know.
Like I said, something is different this time.
A top Liberian health official has already stated that this outbreak is “above the control of the national government” and that it could easily develop into a “global pandemic”.
It is absolutely imperative that this disease be contained until experts can figure out why it seems to be spreading so much more easily than before.
But instead, health officials are beginning to ship Ebola patients all over the planet.
In fact, two American health workers that have contracted Ebola are being shipped to a hospital in Atlanta…
Two American medical missionaries diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia could be back in the USA next week for treatment at a special medical isolation unit at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital, the U.S. State Department said Friday.
The State Department did not name the two individuals, saying only that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was facilitating their transfer on a non-commercial flight and would “maintain strict isolation upon arrival in the United States.”
One is to arrive Monday in a small jet outfitted with a special, portable tent designed for transporting patients with highly infectious diseases. The second is to arrive a few days later, said doctors at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital, where they will be treated.
Could this potentially spread the virus to our shores?
I am sure that they are taking as many precautions as they can.
However, even if those patients do not spread the disease to this country, the reality of the matter is that it will always be just a plane ride away. All it takes is for one person carrying the virus to get on one plane.
And if Ebola does start spreading in the United States, it could change life in this nation almost overnight.
We could very easily see forced quarantines and draconian restrictions on travel. For much more on this, please see my previous article entitled “This Is What Could Happen If Ebola Comes To The United States“.
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Finally, since every crisis and tragedy has an opportunistic silver lining, and "can't be put to waste," those who prefer to see the Ebola epidemic as opening avenues of profitability are encouraged to read the following article on a Canadian company which just may be the next CYNK, especially if the Ebola crisis does indeed spread away from "only" Africa.
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Instead of bringing ebola to America, why not send the ebola to Russia? It would probably do more economic damage than a bunch of fake sanctions.
I guess they'll put the patient on a diet of pizza, pancakes, and pita bread. It won't cure the Ebola, but they're the only foods the doctors can slide under the door.
Brilliant, effin brilliant! Is this CDC Head that says there's no cause for alarm, the same one that stated the bodily waste will simply be "flushed down the hospital's toilet, as the sewage treatment system will make it harmsess?"
As Chief Engineer on ocean going vessels, and a former construction worker, I've dealt with my fair share of sewage piping. You know what I find in there? Piss and Shit, Yes shocking, isn't it. FFS
I'll bet you this CDC guy has a Phd. Another brilliant axample of "Educated Idiots" we face in this world.
CORRECTION NOTICE! It was the Head Dr. at Emory Hospital, treating the patient that said Flushed waste is OK. Not the CDC head.
I still stand by my Opinion portion of comment listed above.
Note; "axample" I guess old blind men should proof-read Twice.
History book of the future:
First ever patient that caused the death of millions of US citizens lands on US soil on 2nd August 2014. The population of the US fell 90% over the following year
(I very much hope that is not true!)
It seems more logical to ME to seek medical service volunteers to go to the site of the Ebola outbreak than to move highly contagious patients out of the hot zone.
Compassion? You gotta be shitting me...
The same compassionate government run by criminals that admit to murdering people with drones, funneling money to 'moderate' al-CIA-duh, and torturing people in foreign prisons?
Maybe these people should be being treated in the clinic at Guantanamo by the shit-heels at the State Dept.?
There's no point of decontamination if you fly them out of it to get treatment...
What about the Canadian doctor I assumed flew a normal flight back?
Decontamination.......
That seems so familiar.
Wasn't that the excuse for the gas chambers? Methyl Bromide?
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.
You're so cute.
Did you pray too?
You think those phone numbers have been changed yet?
Yeah, to a call center in India where "Steve" will assure you (in perfect English) that everything is under control.
Speaking of India, just wait til this thing gets loose over there. You think Africa's a crowded rat hole filled with superstitious idiots? Brother, they got nothing on India.
Incurable TB coming with the invaders from South of the Border, along with bacterial pneumonia, chagas, chikungunya virus, Scabies, Whooping Cough, BED BUGS, Chicken pox, and a few dozen others, seems to indicate that .gov WANTS this in the USA. Now add Ebola, and you have a perfect storm. One which furthers the ULTIMATE GOAL, of the PUPPETMASTERS, i.e. the genocide of the White race. The more you know about the history of the Puppetmasters, and their 3,000 year HATRED of the White race well, they also have their German supplied nuclear armed attack Dolphin submarines just in case they can't do it this way.
The truth is NEVER told in school, church, mainstream media, because they are all arms of the Genocidal Maniacs who run Wall Street and Hollyweird and OWN both DNC AND GOP.
So right. Ignore those red arrows.
Merely one of Four Horsemen...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFrk25ncadU
The Chameleons UK – Monkeyland [CDC]
Life is a illusion.. Trick of the lights.
Why not send someone from US ebola med team TO AFRICA to care for them? Seems more heroic to me, and safer for the other 360 million of us here.
Just hope someone doesn't accidentallyreformat their computers while this is happening...
http://www.infosecnews.org/emory-university-windows-network-wiped-out-bl...
This is TRULY a BS story. If they really wanted "to have the highest level of care offered for their treatment,” they should have deployed the USNS Comfort and parked it off the coast of Liberia and given them treatment there. That way they could have had the best care AND contained any possible outbreaks.
Wow, a real lot of emotion on ZH this morning. I suppose Ebola and illegals will do that
And both have to do with government criminals not enforcing boundaries putting the publics well-being in harms way.
There s a full-court propaganda press on this. Even my local TV station in the midwest kept saying, "There nothing to fear. They know what they're doing."
Did they know what they were doing when 100 medical workers got infected over there too?
People who "know what they are doing" always seem to think the laws of nature don't apply to them. They can harness biological forces with a pitri dish and a government grant. They can drop bombs on people and then control their emotional reaction with a win-the-hearts-and-minds campaign and enough foreign aid funding. They can declare null and void the laws of supply and demand, and outlaw speculative manias with one tick in the artificial interest rate. They can create a world immune from resource scarcity, where unlimited sustainable energy resources overflow in abundance. Of course they can - they know what they are doing.
The sad thing is, some of them actually think they possess such knowledge and power. The rest of them know they don't, but are made wealthy by the prevalence of fear and the illusion that the best interests of the people is the first priority. I'm not sure which type is more dangerous on its own -- but combined, they are a lethal force.
They knew what they were doing on the Titanic too, it sank anyway. This episode reminds me of some of the arguments made in favor of nuclear war, to wit: the aftermath would permit the rebuilding of a moral order. Total psychopathy.
Bringing ANYONE with Ebola into the US is a catastrophe waiting to happen. Only this Federal government could possibly be so stupid.
Those Americans chose to live in Africa and treat Ebola patients as part of their career. They knew the risks.
A good Ebola outbreak down south where the conservatives live would kill two birds with one stone: (1) offer cover for a US default; and (2) liquidate (literally) resistance to Marxism.
Ebola is hard to get. You have to have direct contact with body fluids. Not one person has contracted it with casual contact. That is why most are healthcare workers.
I pray for these two, doing what few would do.
Suggest you watch this video What you are not being told about Ebola
A study from 2011 published by BBC revealed enough virus can live in larger droplets to trnasfer Ebola from animals in a lad in separate cages. So being in a room with a sneeze from an ebola infected person has potential to infect. Animal studies showed Ebola entered through the lung tissue. I might also add, that the more infected people, the higher the mutation rate of the virus. It seeks to survive be evolving. Any virus which makes a mutation that favors easier infection would be favored and multiply. Right now, yes, mostly direct contact and sex. But do not assume that then all is well. Hundreds are dying who thought all was well. God help us if enough people carry it long enough to produce a favorable mutation to make the droplet route get easier.
Bodily fluids such as sweat or saliva. Nobody has every touched their mouth and then reached out and touched the handrail in a subway station? When you go through the TSA, nobody removes their sweaty clothing and puts them in the same plastic bins as everyone else? They don't sit in a plane on a hot tarmac and sweat and sneeze and cough all over each other? Nobody every pisses on a toilet seat or touches doorknobs without washing their hands after taking a shit? Fleas and mosquitos don't suck the blood of one person right after another?
Next time you touch your lips to a glass at a restaurant or bar, ask yourself if the minimum wage employee in the back of the kitchen really washed that glass, or didn't toucht he rim of someone else's used glass just before pouring your drink.
Correct me if I"m wrong, but airborne transmission usually refers to the virus transmitting by air -- breathing, etc, in small enough particles to stay suspended in the air? Someone sneezing and letting out larger amounts of saliva/mucous, is a different story, is it not? If you can contract it by kissing someone, it seems that a sneeze and then someone touching their own mouth within a short amount of time would be enough. And the transmission via sweat -- have you seen how much a person with a fever sweats? A few years on NYC subways opened my eyes to how much of each other's bodily fluids humans share with e/o. Ebola can stay alive on a surface for several days, if i am not mistaken. How many people touch a doorknob or the credit card machine at a checkout counter in a couple days time? How many of them touch their own face at least a couple times per hour?
Don't forget those people that spit when they talk. I fucking hate that!
This whole "scare" is a big sham. This is easily communicated in a wet, damp region in which people live in close quarters, but not in a place like sterile old America. Just the latest conspiracy theory unfortunately making its way to ZH. Don't worry, two months from now people here will be denying they were ever scared of this to begin with.
I'll still hate those people that spit when they talk, though.
More people die each day than this Ebola statistic.
Outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone
Please fund CDC, we are broke and need monies to continue are Alarmist cause.
You can be the bed pan guy, please go offer your services, it won't cost you a dime.
Looking at the pictures, I see why THESE ebola patients are so special.
They are white.
A race-specific strain of ebola, which targets the whiteness of it's victims, would be priceless to the white-haters of the world.
They are special because they risked their lives to care for others the world has forgotten.
So did hundreds of others.
How many more are being put at risk by bringing them back here? Fool.
Well the US Gov tried to make a black one.
I agree with many. I don't think fly Ebola to a new continent and away from it's Isolation in Africa makes sense. But I also agree that we are going to get an Ebola infection not from those two patients. But from other health care workers, missionaries or AMerican visitors to Africa. They can fly home fully infected with no one knowing, cross customs and go home, only turning up sick later.
Here in Minnesota a resident was over there to visit, got infected and fell sick not long before boarding the plane to fly to Minneapolis. No screening can catch infected with no symtoms yet. I feel sure at least one case will get here, maybe more.
The treatment is massive doses of vitamin C, 550,000 mg.
go read at
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It's incomprehensible that your comment and link would get 3 down votes. Who down voted you and why would they and not leave a comment? The link explains how ebola virus interacts with the human body. That 3 people would down vote this is startling to say the least. Propaganda machine at work ... that should worry us even more so.
I downvoted him because he's full of shit. Vitamin C ain't gonna do shit. You wanna be the one to test the theory? I know I sure as fuck don't.
Presumably Vitamin C intravenously in that amount?
So what difference does it make? None to the overlords with a plan, apparently.
"Exactly how are health professionals getting infected?
No one knows at this point. There was some speculation on the exact method of transmission at the CDC. But a WHO spokesperson told Vox "it's a bit of a mystery" right now. "There have obviously been lapses somewhere in how the doctors and nurses have protected themselves and we don't know if it's clinics that they're working in or elsewhere."
http://www.vox.com/2014/8/2/5960449/why-are-many-ebola-outbreak-health-w...
And what could go wrong?
http://www.naturalnews.com/046275_Ebola_victim_air_transport_continental...
100 health care workers infected..... With that level of protection is highly unlikely for a virus that is only infecting its host by fluids/ contact.
However their level of protection would be almost useless if it was airborne now.
Has anyone considered that a strain has mutated as these viruses do and has become airborne . Nah, I'm sure they would have picked that up when they were testing the infected, and they would've let us know by now....
Bringing infected people into your own country with one of the worst viruses known to man, possibly now airborne transmission......
What the fuck could go wrong!!!
^^^^^DING DING DING^^^^
We have a winner!
"NYT explains the treatment"
Tylers, please give us all information about NYT's ebola unit.
I know...I know... it's different this time.
I feel so much safer after seeing these pictures, that I thought I'd share them with my fellow ZHers.
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http://i.imgur.com/XgTMear.png
http://i.imgur.com/8Jupe9z.png
http://i.imgur.com/1gbY73i.png
http://i.imgur.com/4965H2F.png
That saran-wrap tent with PVC framework sure makes me feel a whole lot safer. I'm sure CDC know what they are doing and have this totally under control. No worries.
Do I really need the /s?
How could you forget the CDC's brilliant use of DUCK TAPE
http://butnerblogspot.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/cdc-uses-duct-tape-after-...
Maybe it can be re-engineered to only infect Washington D.C.
Notice how all the shortcoming of the CDC are forgotten?
Like SAFETY?
http://www.vindy.com/news/2014/jul/15/more-anthrax-problems-at-cdc/
You can bet there is a military application being considered.
How many viruses have mutated because of lab experimentation where they are grown and injected into varying animal hosts, just to see what the virus can do? And we are surprised that the viruses have mutated and grown stronger? Yes, research can lead to cures, but sometimes the research itself can also strengthen the disease, by introducing it to new pathways to grow. No?
When you don't know everything about what you're playing with [and we don't], you can get severely burned [and we probably will]...Unbelievably bad decision...
American citizens have a right of return. I certainly hope people’s fear doesn’t trump their compassion."
This has nothing to do with compassion. They are playing politics here and a dangerous one at that.
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/07/a-link-between-ebola-outbre...
hat's behind the ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone? Could it possibly be a US bioweapons project gone amuck? Why are US military agencies taking the lead in responding to the breakout? These are questions that need to be asked.
"There are many villages in the eastern part of Sierra Leone that are basically devastated," virologist Robert Garry of Tulane University told National Pubic Radio. "We walked into one village ... and we found 25 corpses. One house with seven people, all in one family, were dead.
"It's a very serious situation there," adds Garry, who just returned to the U.S. from West Africa. "This is about as bad as it [an Ebola outbreak] gets."
The epicentre of the current Ebola epidemic is the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. BeforeItIsNews claims the hospital houses a US a biosecurity level 2 bioweapons research lab. That claim is unconfirmed, however, this we do know.
Analysis of clinical samples from suspected Lassa fever cases in Sierra Leone showed that about two-thirds of the patients had been exposed to other emerging diseases, and nearly nine percent tested positive for Ebola virus. The findings, published in this month’s edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases, demonstrates that Ebola virus has been circulating in the region since at least 2006—well before the current outbreak, reports Global BioDefense.
According to GBD, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases has been operating in the area since 2006, supposedly working on "diagnostic tests."
Author Randal J. Schoepp, PH. D. reports that because the USAMRIID team just happened to be working on disease identification and diagnostics in the area, they had pre-positioned assays in the region to address the ebola outbreak:
The laboratory testing site in Kenema is supported by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System. Other contributors to the work include the Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office-Critical Reagents Program, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Cooperative Biological Engagement Program, and the DTRA Joint Science and Technology Office.
Metabiota Inc., a non-government organization (NGO) is also involved in the testing. It lists among its partners, the Department of State, Biological Engagement Program and the Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Advisors to the NGO include Admiral Gary Roughead, former US Chief of Naval Operations.
Oh, and about Robert Parry, the virologist that I quote above who was in Sierra Leone, BioMed Central reports, that:
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They don't need to bring these people out of infected areas to treat them when they already have the capability to treat and quarantine them right at the epic center of where it is already prevalent.
There is absolutely no fucking logical reason to even chance an outbreak outside the area when you have to capabilities to deal with it already within.
This sort of behavior you should be angry at and it has nothing do with compassion and everything to do with simple common sense. They can guinea pig these people over there for starters. Even risking more 'us persons' to infection when it is not neccesary is not compassion...
Maybe the ebola is just being used as an excuse for what really killed them, some other pathogen.
Dewey, Any connection to this?
http://www.markswatson.com/deadmicros.pdf .
Author Theorizes 40 Microbiologists Killed Before Unleashing 'The Ultimate Epidemic' .
http://www.rense.com/general62/microvv.htm .
(Sorry about the Rense ref. But it asked the right question.) .
You probably remember, 10 years ago, 12 microbiologists died mysteriously
"It began in AFRICOM-com-com...
I like my Ebola shaken, not stirred...
Does hand sanitizer kill the virus?
No, not likely.
Viruses are not alive, contrary to popular myth, they are just a chain of proteins (a bunch of interconnected molecules) that is organized in such a way that it can penetrate the nucleus of cells passing both through the cellular membrane and nuclear membrane and modify the genetic code inside the those cells, since that code tells the cell what to do, it is like its software, the cell starts doing crazy stuff, most viruses are neutralized by the immune system recognizing the affected cells and destroying them, this process is going on 100% of the time, we are alive and well because our immune system is continuously winning this battle.
Ebola is a nasty little arrangement of molecules that when it gets inside us due to fluids, makes our cells do staff that kills us before our immune system can kill the affected cells.
To destroy a virus you need to destroy that arrangement of molecules, something not easy. For instance the reason that we stopped using reusable glass syringes was that the conventional way to sterilize them, boiling them or high pressure autoclaving them, didn't destroy viruses, it destroyed bacteria, that are live organisms, but it didn't destroy the organization of virus molecules, leaving them as lethal as they were before the sterilization procedure..
That is why these things are so dangerous, once out there, there is NO WAY to actually completely confine them or to be sure you have destroyed them all. Also if the conditions that enabled the creation of the first arrangement of molecules don't change, then you know that the same sequence of events will repeat itself.
Once it has spread as widely as it has now, I'm not aware of any physical means of stopping it, short of nuking the whole region with proton bombs, not even nuclear would do the trick. If you are scared, go live high up in the mountains, above the tree line where few, few people live and you will be safe.
Otherwise, pray!
Thnx for the info. I read that even some of my Roach ancestors survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They looked a little strange afterwards --all burnt up and sutff, but at least they survived and even glowed at night.
I think of viruses as little biologic machines that rewire the cell's DNA to stop what it's doing to instead replicate more little biologic machines. When the cell is full of these little virus particles, the cell walls rupture so the process continues in more cells until it tips a point past the immune system containment and thus, infection.
And you're right, viruses aren't alive in the way we think of living organisms.
A virus walks into a bar. The bartender says, "We don't serve your kind in here!" So, the virus replaces him and says "Now we do."
I understand that our human DNA has accumulated more genetic information via (H)orizontal (G)ene (T)ransfer by contact with viruses than we have received vertically from our parents, which is essentially a copy of the viral accumulation. Computers communicate using electrons, biological organisms use viruses to perform the same function.
Since our immune system is dominated by the colon, which I understand handles 75% of our immune response, we need to all take enemas that contribute wholesome bacteria on a regular basis.
Another reason to deny anal penetration of foreign, bacteria laden objects. Lissen up, Barney, Neil Patrick, Nathan and the rest of you homosensuals.
TPTB have gone even more completely stark raving bonkers to consider, let alone go ahead and bring someone infected with Ebola onto US soil
...military agencies taking the lead in responding to the breakout...
So it's not one, not two possible vectors of ebola, but "agencies" of vectors?! Can we get an accurate count, please, of how many?
Lets see, if you read the 1994 http://www.amazon.com/The-Hot-Zone-Terrifying-Story/dp/0385479565/ref=sr...
You can infer:
USA, Australia, Israel, UK, Germany, France, Russia, China, at the least have the virus on storage, and some may have it weaponized and ready to go, or better off read the book adn you tell me what you think, and this was happening in the 1980's and 1990's. God only knows what is happening now with 2014 technology, the genetic, molecular and viral understanding and synthesis capabilities it has brought to a non-prepared human race.
Now, about those dozen or more Microbiologists that died mysteriously about 10 years ago... Working on what? For Whom?
http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/what1s-the-connection-between
In the five-week period from November 16, 2001 through December 23, 2001, five world-class microbiologists in different parts of the world were reported dead. Four undoubtedly died of "unnatural" causes, while the fifth's death is quite questionable.
In the ten weeks prior to December 12, 2001, two additional microbiologists were killed, and possibly another five. The period also saw the deaths of three Israelis holding high-level positions in either medical research or public health.
http://www.markswatson.com/deadmicros.pdf
Google '12 dead microbiologists'
I need to command every zerohedge reader to PLEASE, please if you are from Atlanta, DO NOT read the book HOT ZONE. It was written by a real life microbiologist who used to work for the US defense department.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Hot-Zone-Terrifying-Story/dp/0385479565/ref=sr...
If you are not from Atlanta, please don't read it either, or you will be changed for life. If you don't do what I say and read it, DON'T BLAME ME!~ for what will happen to you.
/sarc off
"A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C."
Are we talking here about the "Obama virus"?
Look,I think these people are absolute Saints for doing this work overseas.
That said,they knew the risks were high.They also should understand about quarantine.
One Pakistani fellow brought a roast beef sandwich through Heathrow customs and they had to destroy the entire English beef cattle herd due to Asian Anthrax infection.Google it if you don't believe me.
As far as compassion goes,I remember the amount of compassion shown to the Haitian refugees swimming to Florida.Can't have those HIV positive "Nong's" wandering about.
This policy should have been publicly debated before this event. No one person should have this amount of authority.
Hippocratic Oath: "First do no harm".
Hippocrites.
"Look, I think these people are absolute Saints for doing this work overseas."
I'd have more respect for them if they were training local doctors to deal with the problem, rather than go into the field themselves, where, as we can see, their lives are at risk and their skills and training are thus lost.
This is just another version of the white man's burden. Africa will never emerge from ignorance and superstition until they find the resolve to fix their own problems the way the Chinese have done.
By all means, supply the knowledge and materials to help them, but in the end it has to be their own initiative that saves them. All these missionaries do is slap a bandage on the problem, while creating a dependancy that keeps Africans from working out their own solutions to their own problems.
Hear the plane is called Ebola Gay, has it dropped its load yet?
Now that is funny. I don't care who you are...
The American public deserves a list of the people that signed off on moving infected Ebola sufferers into the US. And I want to know who directed them to Altanta.
Most definitely charge them with murder should this virus take off. Anyone who has been on a long flight knows that if there is one person on board with the flu, most of us will have the flu by the time we land. The air circulation is within the cabin. Oxygen tent, iron lung would be needed to prevent an ebola patient from contaminating the rest of the personnel on board.
Also, came across article that stated ebola impacts ability of Vitamin C to perform. Vit C deficiency weakens walls of blood vessels (scurvy = bruising, petechiae).
In light of all we have before it, that this is being done intentionally as a "false flag" event to divert attention away from the scam of the century and a silent coup is a very real possibility.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1oRbnzaP90
Deadly outbreak (not just an outbreak but a deadly outbreak with the most (9 out of 10 people will die)
Given the number and nature of Federal lies, there are a LOT of Americans who are locked and cocked @ DEF-CON 2. If I hear something to the effect of DHS/FEMA locking down my area as a precaution against the spread of Ebola, I intend to honor the memory of Francis Marion and John Mosby. Ebola just might prove a gentler affliction.
Does vodka kill the virus?
No, but if you have enough shots you won't care as much.
it turns you into a jello shot, from the inside out.
I for one don't care much for the sound of screwed pooches yelping in the morning.
This is an epic clusterfuck of hubris run amok.
I wouldn't trust the CDC to issue aspirin in a sealed pouch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnQVUf775VE&list=UUEHsSWvrGVSIA63OV3J6vhA
This is duplicate post for ppl who may not see it higher up in the comments. This is NOT Zaire strain ebola, is new, passed by coughing/sneezing; not widely acknolwedged yet.
If we do not live in lunatic tyranny...how can this ..."Ebola Cases... Land In Atlanta; CDC Urges Calm" happen?
I totally trust the affirmative action hirees that make up a significant portion of government, university, and medical employees to not accidentally release ebola.
LOVE it! Wish I could give 1000 up votes...
Thank you.
...here have some Ebola.
Cuz the numbnuts running our nation just can't screw ANYTHING up.
I've seen this movie before; there is always an unexpected power failure.
My speech, err, I mean, words of comfort to our fellow 'humanitarian' workers:
Sorry Bitchez; ya ain't gonna make it. And next time, stick with treating your fellow citizens instead of risking your lives half way around the world, fer nuttin.
Would I be wrong to ask for an "Amen" now? Cause really, that's what this bull-shitz is about, ain't it?
Take up the White Man's burden, The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your hopes to nought.
"Watch sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your hopes to nought."
Ain't that the truth. But the majority of the folly hasn't been heathen. The Middle East is exhibit A. Here we are at the centennial anniversary of the Greatest Crusade, and what's been the use? It's a perfect time to review the results produced by these activist numbskulls. Everywhere one looks, and several tens of millions dead later, the same conflicts are still smoldering. The hell with Ebola, reformist (psychopathic) fever is now cultural and the record shows it's far more lethal.
Nor do I expect an apology to the dead forthcoming from left/right progs. Rest assured, that they're too busy saddling up for another change the world adventure somewhere, somehow.
another gift from africa
Actually the gift was from the US MIC to Africa. Unfortunately (or by design) it is coming home.
"Its coming home...Its coming home..Eboals coming home...."
#bringbackourebola
Paul Craig Roberts: If Nuclear War Doesn’t Exterminate Us Ebola Virus Might
Unless the world reins in the demented criminals in Washington, the world has signed its own death warrant
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/08/01/nuclear-war-doesnt-exterminat...
Well the title is somewhat misleading... There is actually a strain of Ebola called Ebola Reston that was isolated in Reston Virginai back in (I think,,,) the 70s or 80s. Read the book "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston. It is super scary, and he did an even scarier book called, "The Demon in the Freezer". The Hot Zone is about Ebola and the Demon in the Freezer is about Smallpox (and weaponized versions thereof...). Very very scary!!!
IMHO, this is just as plausable a scenario as an EMP.
TYLER, PLEASE ENLARGE THE FONT ON THE EDITING SCREEN!!! I AM GOING BLIND HERE...
Flight carrying Ebola patient lands in Maine
http://www.wcsh6.com/story/news/local/bangor/2014/08/02/bangor-ebola-pat...
Why would a plane coming from Africa fly all the way North to Maine, for refueling, then go back South to Atlanta?
obama organized an "african leaders" summit.... to be held in wash dc, in case the virus fails to infect atlanta, its a backup plan...
maybe obama can bring it to the vineyard with him... most leaders have tasters, obama has a breather.....
When they tell your to stay calm you know it is time to panic
You should have all learned that in America by now
How is it even remotely intelligent for them to purposely fly and infected person into your country unless they have other intentions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro
no good deed goes unpunished.......
Notice that Congress started summer vacation just as first patient arrived on US soil
there are better ways to kill, the water and vaccines.
Its going to die out, it will be a like all the other scares.
That's true until it's not. No way to predict when something goes "viral" (any pun unintended). Sure, the vast majority of such plagues, viruses, etc. don't become fatal pandemics. They HAVE happened in human history. Now we live in times where humans and cargo move around the planet more than ever before and faster. Who knows what or when there will be a breakout of this or some other danger? The black plague didn't "die out", the Spanish flu didn't "die out" until they both wreaked havoc. Now that we are so interconnected, you really think you can sit back and be so SMUG???
Lets hope and pray this information is wrong..
"Ebola IS an airborne virus"
Ebola - What You're Not Being ToldNot being smug, but I am not going to panic. Where will that get me?
I can't afford not to work for 6 months, I can't afford to buy months worth of food for all my family members.
I am going to die of something anyway.
Im not going to go hysterical with fear.
Most these sites online have nothing but panic and fear to sell, or there is no reason for them to exist.
I agree with you there. I'm not in any way panicked. However, they ARE playing with fire. It IS a bad decision to bring these infected people to a country free from the disease when any research could be done simply with samples. Even that should be done somewhere in Africa. For all the money spent and boondoggled, how difficult would it be to create an advanced research facility where the disease is?
Given that the CDC just exposed a bunch of its workers to anthrax, well...maybe today's action wasn't exactly thought through.
Do I really believe Ebola is going to escape and infect the entire country? No. At least not at this point. But who gave these zombies the right to play Russian roullette with such a dangerous virus? I'm not even including the possibility of evil intent.
1) Ebola is a serious threat. Even if this outbreak does not become a pandemic, at some point there will be a virus that humans cannot control.
2) When I think of a global ebola (or other virus) pandemic, I am less afraid of the virus as I am the panicked manic mob mentality of my fellow humans, as well as the government response to this panic.
get well soon. The US still has much hope with such people!!!!
Just remove those criminals from DC and Langley.
I'm sure the CDC and the DoD has had Ebola and even weaponized Ebola in their labs here for longer thean they'd admit.
Ebola is a single-stranded RNA virus of order Mononegavirales. Researchers have been producing novel chimeric Mononegavirales viruses for over fifteen years (examples in literature: measles and VSV, measles and parainfluenza).
Only those who have ObamaCare insurance policies are eligible for admissions to Emory Hospital.
If black with fever and headache, passes fire that may have Ebola.
If it is white with headache and fever, fire passes, may have gone in Africa, be of some church, kill better soon.
The first suspect here in Brazil now heard in the morning, in Goiania (48 miles from where I live).
I passed a gas station, fueling the mototocicleta, two reservoirs each filled with five liters went Office, sent to replace the engine oil, tires calibrated.
I put the bike in the garage, wait twenty days, if things tighten send me out to the farm of my father who is 400 kilometers.
The plan C. I will not tell because it involves a lot of people.
hehe.
Goodbye urban area.
http://noticias.r7.com/saude/suspeita-de-ebola-em-goiania-e-descartada-p...
Looks like the case was ruled out.
If you believe in your government, okay.
I do not believe in me.
If shit grab, will each man for himself.
Structured like ours survive if God willing families.
What I did this morning, my in-laws and wives also made the difference is that there were SUV's, food supply etc..
Each has its particular task well.
Is that mug shot before or after being infected with Ebola?
I blame the Democrats and Republicans for bringing Ebola to the United States of America.
If it were.me and knowing the odds, I would never have gotten on the plane. I wouldn' t want to be that guy that brought this to my country.
I'm not too worried yet with these two cases.....
It's when the Headlines Scream ..."Third and/or Fourth Cases" identified ... that's when I head down to the bunker and lock it tight and say, 'Hasta la Vista!"
DC US is preparing something really sinister and they need divert people's attentions away. Mark my words, something is coming up.
shit, it can be airborned!!! @@@@@@@@
Be safe people. Get those face mask.
"Be safe people. Get those face mask."
What, like these?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32HT9LRq6D0
No, more like this:
Goodbye_blue_sky
http://www.threatjournal.com/archive/tj08022014.html
CDC Warns of Possible Ebola Transport to U.S.
WHO Warns of Possible Catastrophic Loss of Life
Airports On Alert To Look For Symptoms
AlertsUSA strongly recommends that airline travelers, including domestic passengers, become hyper sensitive about their proximity to those visibly ill during your trips. While health authorities stress that Ebola is not airborne, a fact they chose to dance around is that it is transmissible, as with most other contagions, via airborne saliva particles, such as those released via coughs and sneezes (also see this).
Given that planeloads of individuals arrive hourly from impacted international locations, only to then diffuse into the domestic airline network, your increased, polite vigilance can only be a benefit to your overall safety.
We also feel it is prudent to point out that while the current "hot zone" is West Africa, take note of the fact that this region is widely visited and populated by individuals of European, Middle Eastern and Chinese descent.
We have done the noble thing for these Americans. Doing the noble thing is more important than the sensible thing.
Don't Ebola me, bro!
Don't worry, guys. If there's an outbreak all the important people will retreat to their underground bunkers until the coast is clear. We shant lose any of our precious leaders or bankers.
Which reminds me, we should all get to the nearest underground bunker with our elected representatives before it's too late.
Looks like they probably got a vaccination for this disease.....but just not for you and I. No, just like Bush Admin administering vaccines against Anthrax....right before there was Anthrax unleashed on the population...
"The CDC's director explained the infected patients pose little risk to others, adding "these are American citizens. American citizens have a right of return. I certainly hope people’s fear doesn’t trump their compassion."".
No but my health and my AR-15 will trump their compassion! Dr. Thomas Frieden, why don't you put your kids right next to these people and see how they are doing after a few days of exposure to them! Thanks for contaminating us!
You have a right to return to the prison
You have a right to be tortured
You have a right to be indefinitely detained
You have a right to be executed without due process
You have the right to have your food, water and air poisoned without your knowledge and consent
You have a right to bend over and keep taking it up the ass as long as you don't mobilize into lawfully organized militias and legally stop the real terrorists in your midst
There's always a way out. They just aren't going to tell you how or make it easy for you when you figure it out. As a matter of fact when you do figure it out you'll know it. You'll piss the f*ck out of them.
So among other things it appears they really don't like:
Truth (ers)
Weapons, except for themselves
The Constitution & Bill of Rights
Non Compliance
Independent thinkers (ie. Lone Wolves)
Freemen
Christians (At least those not run by their puppets)
etc.
Children in a family that home schools
On a global scale who, other than Satan and his minions, could possibly hate these things?
Smart.
I don't trust the government in very many things but honsetly I think the CDC can safely handle two ebola patients. The facility is specially designed for dangerous diseases; ebola is not highly contagious (spread by fluid contact, not airborne) ; and the people dealing with the patients will be highly motivated not to fuck up. We've got smallpox in storage, that's much more dangerous than these patients. Lots of things to panic about in the US today but this is not one of them.
You did read they are being admitted to Emory Hospital not a CDC Bio 5 containment cubicle? Sorry, importing this disease in living victims into a continent free of the virus is pure insanity. Sure, nothing may come of it but the ramifications if it does are unspeakable. You are quite mistaken here.
Probably at least as well as the BP oil spill was handled in the gulf of Mexico there .... oil watcher. How ironic. Is there anything else we should not worry about and then just go shopping? Your air head attitude goes a long way in explaining why this country is in serious trouble
http://cosmicconvergence.org/?p=7699
Despite your downvotes, one thing is guaranteed: two months from now, no one here is going to admit how grossly inaccurate they were about all of this. About the chances of it spreading, the government's intentions -- all of it a giant conspiracy theory, of course. But of course, by then their brains will be single-mindedly focused on the next scary thing to come out of Africa, the middle-east, or whatever other area of the world white people don't come from.
yo,
When dealing with something this deadly, you err on the side of extreme caution.
Nothing conspiratorial about that. It's just responsible behavior. I'd call it common sense, but there's so little of ithat around these days I prefer to use more precise language.
so now tell us....
is "one thing is guaranteed" a responsible statement?
You're going to guarantee our safety, are you?
Using what super powers might I ask? Rhetoric and Non-Sequiturs?
Who doesn't like pulling the pins out of grenades and tossing them back and forth?
Most posters here are not predicting the end of the world due to this virus so quit the bullshit. The discussion centers around the appropriateness of importing living patients with an uncurable and communicable disease. Issues of whether passing these very dangerous individuals over to a public hospital, you know, that sort of thing. Geez, what a moron.
Hi mom, dad, I'd like you to introduce to Ebola. She's so sweet.
Did I miss the vote on this?
So much for containment!!
it's here to stay now
Now 1440 cases, 826 deaths.... http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic...
Instantaneous infection rate (smoothed over three data releases) is now:
02 Aug 14 - 43/day
29 Jul 14 - 38/day
27 Jul 14 - 23/day
23 Jul 14 - 12/day
17 Jul 14 - 10/day
(Date above is day the statistic is posted, e.g 02 Aug is compiled data as of 30 Jul).
"WHO does not recommend any travel or trade restrictions is applied to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone or Nigeria, based on the current information available for this event."