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Ebola Deaths Go Exponential; Nigeria Demands Experimental Drug From US, Saudi Death First In Arab World
The official Ebola death toll is now at 932 with over 1,700 reported cases but as the WHO reports, in the last 48 hours, deaths and cases have exploded (48 and 108 respectively). As the charts below show, this epidemic is going exponential. What is perhaps most worrisome is, while playing down the threat in Nigeria (most especially Lagos - which the CDC Director is "deeply concerned" about), officials have formally asked the US for the experimental Ebola drug, which suggest things are far worse than the 3 deaths reported so far in Nigeria would suggest. Finally, as we warned yesterday, Saudi Arabia is suffering too as the main who was hospitalized yesterday with symptoms has died - the first reported casualty in the Arab world.
It is the world's deadliest outbreak to date and has centred on Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Eight people are currently in quarantine in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, and two have died there.
The Saudi man died after showing Ebola symptoms when he returned from a business trip to Sierra Leone, the Saudi health ministry said.
The Ebola outbreak has gone exponential...
Cases...
Deaths...
And then there is this...
- *NIGERIA FORMALLY REQUESTS EXPERIMENTAL EBOLA DRUG FROM U.S.
- *NIGERIA HEALTH MINISTER IN TOUCH WITH U.S. CDC DIRECTOR
Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu has sent request to director of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he tells reporters in capital, Abuja.
“We have been in communication in the last 36 hours”
“We are getting reports that the experimental drug seems to be useful”
Which suggests things are far more serious in Nigeria than officials are letting on. As The BBC reports,
But it is not clear if the ZMapp drug, which has only been tested on monkeys, can be credited with their improvement.
Prof Peter Piot, who co-discovered Ebola in 1976, Prof David Heymann, the head of the Centre on Global Health Security, and Wellcome Trust director Prof Jeremy Farrar said there were several drugs and vaccines being studied for possible use against Ebola.
"African governments should be allowed to make informed decisions about whether or not to use these products - for example to protect and treat healthcare workers who run especially high risks of infection," they wrote in a joint statement.
The WHO, "the only body with the necessary international authority" to allow such experimental treatments, "must take on this greater leadership role", they said.
As CDC's Director warned...
Deeply concerned about Ebola spread in Lagos, Nigeria. Urgent emergency response needed.
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrFriedenCDC) August 5, 2014
A Saudi man, who was hospitalized for suspected Ebola infection, died on Wednesday.
The man, in his 40s, had returned recently to Jeddah from a business trip to Sierra Leone, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. He was admitted to hospital on Monday and showed symptoms of Ebola virus infection.
His death marks the first reported casualty of the Ebola epidemic in the Arab world and comes as an emergency World Health Organization summit was being held in Geneva to discuss measures to tackle the epidemic.
And finally - some humor from Michael Ramirez at Investors.com
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Sure, you just split the genes from the antibodies of survivors of the three known types of ebola. Then you toss them into the splicer and splice the all together, and dump them into a frame solution made up of some Kentucky tabbacco.
You got all that. I am sure there are just hudreds of gene splicers in Nigera, and the personnel to go along with them.
Otherwise, wait in line like everyone else.
Except White Americans. Because we rock.
And we're exceptional, too.
No, just more equal.
They hate us for our whiteness.
Bung..., -- I thought that I was the only one who knowed that.
Ssssh. We'll keep it our secret.
tell me about it..
http://www.theonion.com/articles/experts-ebola-vaccine-at-least-50-white...
Is any one recording these "experts" stating that it can never happen here?....just wondering, you know....just in case.....
Up to date info with handy patient assessment algorithm:
http://www.health.belgium.be/internet2Prd/groups/public/@public/@shc/doc...
I seem to recall an interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, where he states that the first Dr. would be arriving on a stretcher in a bubble....and then I see him walk out of the back of a normal ambulance in a white suit (open to the air)...why was'nt there a bubble in the ambulance like in the plane? ...just wonderin..
all the bubbles were currently employed in the US economy.
well played..
ok, thats funny...(wipes bloody tear from eye)
LOL! I seen what u did
He does have that 1000 yard stare...
still.
Very still
Like the JFK autopsy photos.
Indeed, very suspicious
inaction by the Federal Reserve
Ebola Crisis Spurs Passenger Checks as Airlines Still Fly http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2014-08-05/ebola-crisis-spurs-passen...
Plenty of ways to spread Ebola.
Not fear mongering but I suspect the figures coming out of Africa are similiar to BLS stats. Have they been seasonally adjusted? What's being reported is surely less than the truth.
Next time your riding that elevator up to the 20th floor and someone sneezes with really red eyes it's going to make you wonder if it was worth coming to work that day.
Same if your riding the train or bus.
Listen up Yogi, the next time I take an elevator, it'll be either with people I know, or people I've checked out before getting in. Subject to ANY criteria I deem relevant.
Looking at the charts, Ebola's clearly a bubble.
Once the population bubble pops it will pop too, they always do.
Not before you pop first.
How many cases will Obama and the media hide before it's obvious your screwed.
US has nothing to worry about. Not that many monkey F'ers outside of Washington D.C.
Watch for those in the government to isolate themselves even more now.
Flu season is coming and it's Ebola's prime time for the US.
LOL, can't happen to us. The US is exceptional. Exceptionally screwed when it gets out of control here.
So now it's in Saudi Arabia too.
Will be interesting to see how different cultures around the world respond to the spread of this.
As for Lagos, may be easier and more humane to nuke it (at some point).
>>...how different cultures around the world respond...
Easy to answer - they die. Don't forget to gift your stacks, do it now before it's to late...
I mean how they respond from a public health perspective, like quarantine, using their army, marshall law, etc.
*Word Nazi Alert*
It is martial law not marshall law. Martial definition: of or appropriate to war; warlike.
Sorry but its a pet peeve of mine as I see so many people write marshall law when referring to martial law.
And that is way different than marital law...in some households.
no prob, I knew there was something wrong with it but didn't know what and I was too lazy to look it up.
The first thing to ship is pallets of CLOROX.
Is that my buy signal?
What Will You Do If They Make It Mandatory For All Americans To Take An Ebola Vaccine?
If everybody else is taking it then I don't need it...
Would you want to be served by someone who hadn't been vaccinated?
I too depend on good old herd immunity. No needles for me.
I too depend on good old herd immunity. No needles for me.
Presuming that it would be effective against Ebola ...
or Panic causing wide acceptance ...
Conspiracy mongers suggest the Ebola vaccine will be spiked with anti-fertility anti-bodies
as another method to limit the world population, albeit slower.
Mother nature is a glorious bitch. She always finds her way. We may not like it. I'm sure she looks at schemes like that and says "Bring it." If some group of fucktards did that, it's so funny, it is another iteration, another variation on a theme, part of the genetic symphony, Darwin's ideas writ very fucking large. If we try to overwrite the code, we flunk. The effort to overwrite, if it were to come off, is the experiment. That is the real reason central bankers will fail for that matter, they too are fighting nature. It is an illusion that we are anything that is NOT part of nature. I need to stop with this and get to the point. On the longest timeline, it won't work and it won't matter, she will have her way. We war, we scheme, we shirk our duty, we have our opinions, its all her.
She bats Last
Here's how it goes down.
Lets say, it gets out and goes exponential in the USA population somewhere. All you have to do is stay inside for a few weeks. The rest of them die off, and there's a horrible mess, but the infection cycle stops. There's a reason this type of outbreak is usually not long-lived, it kills so many that it can't spread any more.
But sure, lets have a few more yellow-and-white bunnysuit pics on every Ebola article at ZH, because < pageviews >. Give me a fucking break.
Who has weeks of food, drink, meds and supplies stored? Almost nobody. It's impossible, for most, to stay inside.
If you can, STOCK UP.
I do, and anyone who has been paying attention these past ten years should as well.
Just because you may be prepared to survive with no food, water, electricity, heat, or fuel - doesn't mean a true global pandemic is going to be a picnic - especially when surrounded by folks who are not so well prepared.
That's what the concept of being a grayman is all about. Remember, the tallest nail gets hammered first.
Anytime anyone starts to tell you how to solve some huge problem or survive some horrendous disaster by stating that: "all you have to do is. . . " I get pretty suspicious.
A global pandemic the scale of the Spanish Flu now would crush trade, the economy, and more importantly, critical infrastructure. The probable breakdown of food water and sanitation systems alone could result in the deaths of millions.
Being prepped would make somthing like this survivable - at least initially - but it could be a game-changer for civilization as well (Are folks going to keep coming to work to keep all those cooling pumps working at all those reactors?)
I agree with you completely. I've not insinuated that life would easy. It wouldn't be. But, we wouldn't immediately go back to the 1890's with regards to technology. Rome didn't crash immediately, and we wouldn't either. What will work against the US is how many different ethnic/cultural/regional divisions we have internally. I think that the country would become fragmented as a matter of course.
I work in an industry that operates, in part, on federal/state and municipal funding. When the purse strings tighten, plans get shelved. In 2008, every municipality reigned in their projects, and there was an ample amount of uncertainty. Anybody making a living regarding public infrastructure experienced some amount of pucker factor. Since nothing was fixed in 2008, it'll happen again, but will most likely be worse this time around. A global pandemic would definately be a black swan event. Given the global population and a 50%+ kill rate, a pandemic would cripple the economy for decades probably.
Prepping? I prep for everyday. I may have a natural disaster, I could get laid off. Long term storage food is extremely cheap insurance. So is a water well. If there is no work to be had, I have a varied enough background to be useful, and am intelligent enough to get by. Sadly, most people aren't.
I was responding to Esponere Mendaces.
You seem to have a very healthy appreciation for what the implications of a pandemic might be.
Our current economic collapse seems to be plodding along at a pace that hasn't been too hard to keep up with. It's the black swans that could catastrophically interrupt food/fuel/sanitation/power that get me worried.
There is only one weak link in my preps, skills and plans and that is medical care.
A medical emergency is the one - and only one event that could cause me to need society in the event of a grid down event.
I really need to enroll in some first responder education. Guns, water, meat, gardens, commo, sanitation - all check, check, check. Rotten tooth - oh shit.
silly question for ZHers. Answer: most of us, except for those that have bitcoin instead.
Land in the middle of nowhere, water well, livestock, year's worth of long term storage food for a family of 4, weapons, etc... Yeah, I'm ready for this.
More than just a few weeks required ...
The epidemic could cycle thru your neighborhood many multiple times
over the course of several months in different batches of victims
before everyone is killed.
History channel. They talk to sociologists, dietitians, historians, gun professionals, and others. This takes a family through hypothetical break out of a pandemic. They go through hell and the end is not all good. With that said, this still pulls punches relative to what would be real. Worth the watch, though cheezy in places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Eym4PwHmUvI
a few months, not weeks. long period of being infected not infectious, and there will be waves/peaks of infection.
I'd guess.
the dead bodies remain contagious for a long and uncertain time, especially if not burried.
Sorry gang, you can't have it. They had all of 3 vials of it and have now used two. The stuff is created by creating junk genetically in tobacco plants and it takes time to make any of it. Just lay off the monkey meat and don't order any batburgers at the MCD and you folks will pull through. Or not. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-06/ebola-drug-from-tobacco-part-of...
Who'd of thunk...GMO tobacco saves mankind. Maybe it's a big plot by the Marlboro man.
(so much gallows humor means I'm quite frightened - gotta bug out before my eyes do)
edit: see below that you beat me to it Willy G.
"Deeply concerned about Ebola spread in Lagos, Nigeria. Urgent emergency response needed."
i. Stop flights into the United States until this over.
ii. Close the borders.
Sure it'll fuck some shit up economically but it's better than all of us bleeding out of our assholes until we fucking die.
"Close the borders"
Hahahahahahahaha!!!!! Good one.
so amerikans
can't get out ...
Racist! Better watch out or Rev. Al will be after you.
Someone is down-arrowing *every* post :)
CDC bot
A public servant... ;-/
Our tax dollars at work!!! Pay slave! And agree or else, extreme rendition.
It 's becoming really hard to find a place to go on holiday these days.
Between ebola, MH-17, Fukushima, DHS and so on ....
I guess I will spend some time sunbathing in Antarctica.
Watch out for the ozone holes in September and bring a tanning bed.
It's dark for 3 months right now...
" Watch out for the ozone holes. "
Thanks for reminding me of that. I had forgotten.
" Plus it's dark for 3 months right now... "
Yes, I know that the earth is more or less a sphere whose rotational axis is tilted about 67 degrees from the ecliptic plane ....
I not that ignorant, you know.
OK forget the tanning bed and enjoy the sun that is below the horizon.
And bring a parka...
bring lotz of penguin repellent ..
Its winter there now.
" Its winter there now. "
I know , I know . Thanks.
I think we're going to need some logarithmic scales on those charts.
" .... we're going to need some logarithmic scales on those charts. "
If that happens, maybe there will be no need for WW3.
ebola just following a trend set by everything else except wages
This is nothing more than a devious plot to crank up the sales of Marlboro.
Lung caner<-->ebola, hmmm....
Go long R.J. Reynolds.
BS by the CDC, Obama and the MSM ain't going to stop the spread in the US.
When there are those with Bubonic plague they get very worried but keep it quiet while tracking these people down.
Heard that GS and BofA folks are nervous as they just now remember meeting with a guy who was coughing all over the place. This was during a meeting where they were discussing coke whores and where the best cocktail was served. Anyhoo, the guy was back from South Africa and so it was OK, right? Well...turns out he flew out from Lagos three weeks ago after visiting a sick, rich relative in South Africa.
Banksters are very prone to this disease as they mix body fluids nightly.
Notice how many banksters where off work this week? Hamptons are hot bed of Ebola!
Wasnt it the Nigerian Finance minister who died not too long ago? Hmmmmmmmm....
Now that was straight up financial revenge porn.
I like it.
No need to worry. There are many websites offering instant cures for Ebola. All you need is a credit card.
And judging from the many emails I've received from Nigeria, they've developed and are offering for sale guaranteed cures, too.
Relax. We’ve made it to E-Z street. You can shoot whomever you want, it's not as if you'll live to the trial.
If you think you are going to get the truth out of Africa....just look at how our one half black President lies..and extrapolate from there
Compared to the fully white liar who preceded him?
Hard to see a difference.
Lagos is just another overpopulated shithole. Let mother nature do her work. Central planning didn't work at the FED, it won't work there either.
hedgers.
We are long overdue for a meaningful plague. It'll happen once again, probably when confidence in governments/money fall apart. Pathogens have always been what keeps the human population in check---until the last 100 years or so. Wars aren't even remotely as effective with regards to population reduction. During one of the last bubonic plague outbreaks, some cities in China experienced an 80% population loss. The big cities worldwide are in for quite an experience as our species has such a short memory. Que Sera.
Maybe those in China had no inherited immunity from the middle ages Bubonic plagues ?
I keep wondering if this has anything to do with China's growing African oil interests.
Instability is a key element of warfare for a certain group of people....
An ebola treatment was created over 20 years ago.Take plasma from survivor of Ebola and do a tranfusion. The plasma has the antibodies that fight Ebola already in it.
http://www.newsweek.com/20-year-old-ebola-treatment-could-save-kent-bran...
Yep dutch nurses did this too survive.
And let's start this experiment with all elected officials
Come to think of it, my Nigerian spam emails have been decreasing lately.
If this continues there will be 500,000 infected and 250,000 dead from this in 7 weeks.
Will we survivors get raises?
No, but housing will be damn cheap.
Fock! And I just bought that damn house.
Plus you don't have to share as much food and water.
I suggest we make DC the place to quarantine those infected in the US.
Dr. Obama is the cure. Send him over there!!!
On a long enough timeline you can fool me once, but if you fool me again with, and then, sooner or later, the chicks come home to roast and eventually someone will get sued. Well, it went something like that. Anyway, the chart looks bad. No one ever understands what I'm saying and I don't know why.
Nothing exceeds like excess!
Who knew the fed's balance sheet and ebola has soooo much in common
Exponential is the "new" baseline in immunology and economics.
Maybe Ebolama caught it from one his butt buddies at that all-African schmooze fest last night (plus the token white guy Bobby Di Niro).
Nigeria wants that experimental drug even though it works only on monkeys.
Mmmm....let me think about that.
Because it seems to have helped the two Americans.
Ricolaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa is the cure
The request for the drug will be refused because it's "experimental" and "in short supply." In a few months "limited supplies will be available" at astronomical prices.
And of course, the outbreak will be allowed to continue. China pulls out of Africa. Cases start appearing in Sudan and anywhere else Islamic radicals look like they might be causing a problem. Collateral damage be damned.
Inoculated USA business representative will negotiate, and counter the Chinese deals with better offers. Africa as a training ground for radicals is neutralized. Afghanistan is next, of course. Pakistan too, most likely. The remaining jihadis flee to whatever countries they can, spreading death in their wake. They will not be welcomed.
Cheers!
Either send Obama the white/black messiah or nuke em.
"[Nigerian] officials have formally asked the US for the experimental Ebola drug,"
Have they also asked for bank account information and routing numbers?
US should demand that they release the kidnapped schoolgirls before even considering the request.
Poland, of all places, had the lowest fatality rate during the plague because it closed its borders. Oops.
Pretty sure that the infection rates in Patagonia, Alaska and Yukon were a LOT lower.
Plan accordingly.
This is what happens when Doctors view there job as preventing damage to the tourist industry of a African country as more important then doing everything possible to prevent a disease like Ebola from spreading.
Treating Ebola like AID's bullshit needs to stop.
I am sure Obummer has it all worked out at his African nation dinner party.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2718143/Obamas-monsters-ball-How-White-House-opened-doors-Africas-evil-dictators-homophobes-turned-blind-eye-human-rights-record.html
I am sure Obummer has it all worked out at his African nation dinner party.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2718143/Obamas-monsters-ball-How-White-House-opened-doors-Africas-evil-dictators-homophobes-turned-blind-eye-human-rights-record.html
Fuck the Daily Mail. Putting Goodluck Jonathan in this list of shit bags is insulting to the intelligence of anyone who even casually follows Africa.
Faggots supporting faggots, yeah.
Ebola outbreak to be blamed on global warming in 3, 2, 1 ...
Just passing on what I heard elsewhere: There are multiple Ebola drugs being developed including by the US Army bio war lab
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrodgers/2014/08/04/biowar-lab-develops-c...
The problem is long human trials must be financed by the drug company. Try an unapproved ebola drug on Africans. and they die, it is racist. Ship home some non Africans and test on them, and African countries begin demanding the drug. The US can can grant exceptions to drugs.
Pretty good marketing
if Obama made a grand humanitarian gesture at the upcoming African conference, pretty good press. I bet he would even offer to have the US pay for the drugs. Obama did not cancel his visit to Africa despite the epidemic. No explanation has been given why the victims had to be shipped back here. They could have shipped the drugs to africa. This epidemic is bad, but so are all ebola epidemics. The risk has not changed. Africans still eat bush meat, and they still fly to other countries
The drugs were shipped to Africa and administered there, no?
You are right. My source was wrong
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/04/health/experimental-ebola-serum/index....
Writebol got what was called the only dose. Then Brantley got the next dose when it thawed.
however, it was still good marketing.
You know who should be safe from ebola is most mlb outfielders
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/08/05/tobacco_serum_saved_two_whi...
http://www.ibtimes.com/second-us-ebola-patient-treated-zmapp-experimenta...
watch some anti-cholesterol medication end up being effective, re-patented for the purpose of treating ebola and made cost prohibitive...
Scary stuff, and bound to be made worse by both stupidity and greed.
Ebola, could it be the actual event the preppers have prepared for? We talk about dollar crashes and war...yawn And in struts Ebola.. Way too many varibles out there these days pointing to somekind of global crisis.. If you're not prepared for Chaos by now, it's your own frickin fault...Don't go down with the sheep, become a leader. This is well worth the watch just to get the brain on the right thought pattern..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eym4PwHmUvI#t=11
Highly recommended - and truly frightening.
That last cartoon reminded me of 60's-70's and Firesign Theater.
The Firesign Theatre- "Beat The Reaper"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3zZ_ih0Jpc
"Thank you Doctor, You have the Plague"
(Remember the best part is the very end. You can hear the panic start slow with whispers and continues till the whole country had it. The Album was great...
I did the numbers on this a few days ago and posted in another thread. The doubling rate has been ~30 days for the last 4 months. The number to watch out for is 25k deaths. If it happens at/before New Years they haven't been able to make a dent in it and everyone will have 3-4 months to prepare to avoid society in general. If they are unable to stop/slow the 30 day doubling I believe the 'critical' point will be 250k-500k deaths by April. If that happens there has been absolutely no success at containment and there would be mere 6 months or so before it is 20% of the population (at these current rates).
Hopefully the virus hasn't gotten partially airborne and it IS due to the washing customs etc.
From Daniel Defoes historic collection of stories about the great black plague of europe called 'the journal of the plague year'. Defoe spoke of the psychology in different countries as the plague hit. THe french called it the Italian disease, the english called it the french disease, and so on so that every country looked for a scapegoat. Somehow if Ebola goes worldwide the US will be a favored scapegoat of the african origin disease. One positive note is that winter is aproaching and this virus seems to not thrive in cold climates with less crowded, sweaty, unbaithed populace.
Deleted post due to misreading your intent.
A private company owns the rights to the ebola drug cure.
So what do I owe you for the cure?
How much you got?
Come on, quit kidding, how much do I owe you?
All of it.
Don't worry, The "Right People" will get a some.
I just paid $10,000 for 4 bald tires and a dose of ebola vaccine!
Loads of Nigerians working in the Hamptons. Mabe that will be the first US hot zone.
Can a virus 'discover' HFT????
HFT is a virus.
Trick question.
I really pity any black person who gets a sudden nosebleed in public these days - like on the NYC subway. Can you imagine?
The two patients who responded positive to ZMAPP are white. Maybe it doesn't work on blacks? Just asking a question.
Well, he/she would have their choice of seats.
Dont forget collodial silver,cheap and easy to make,two small silver rods and 12volt battery.15mins to make a litre.Thats why the elite of the past and all there silver knives spoons etc gave them immunity for generations.
Until Napoleon III came along, who forced guests to eat from aluminium utensils, as then it was a precious metal and goods crafted from it were extremely valuable.
Let them eat aluminum!!
Now the government of the USA tells you to NOT WORRY about this, nothing to see here folks, just like the disease ridden invaders from Central America and the ENTIRE world, in fact, coming ILLEGALLY through our southern border.
I feel sorry for the white children going to school this fall and for the teachers.
Good resources on this topic:
www.vdare.com http://americanborderpatrol.com/ http://www.nafbpo.org http://oneoldvet.com/