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Nigeria Declares State Of Emergency: "Everyone In The World Is At Risk" From Ebola, CDC Issues Level 1 "All-Hands Call"
With over 932 dead, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its highest level alert for an all-hands on deck response to the crisis in West Africa (that is spreading across the world). While President Obama proclaimed we are prepared and itis "not easily transmitted," it appears that is not entirely true. Meanwhile, CDC Director Frieden's "deep concerns" have been confirmed as Nigeria’s health minister has declared a health emergency as the deadly Ebola virus gained a foothold in Africa’s most populous nation, according to news reports. Nigerian authorities moved quickly late Wednesday, gathering isolation tents as five more cases of the Ebola Virus were confirmed in Lagos (the world's 4th most populous city with 21 million people). Most international flights from West Africa are also now screening passengers.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday issued its highest alert for an all-hands on deck response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa.
"Ops Center moved to Level 1 response to given the extension to Nigeria & potential to affect many lives," CDC chief Tom Frieden said on Twitter.
Level 1 is the highest on a 1-6 scale and signals that increased staff and resources will be devoted to the outbreak.
"Basically this activation allows us to pull resources from throughout the agency to respond to this," said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner.
He said it was the first time since 2009 that the Level 1 alert had been issued. Back then it was in response to the outbreak of H1N1 flu.
As The Washington Post reports,
Nigeria’s health minister has declared a health emergency as the deadly Ebola virus gained a foothold in Africa’s most populous nation, according to news reports.
“This is a national emergency. Everyone in the world today is at risk. The experience of Nigeria opens the eyes of the world,” Minister of Health Onyebuchi Chukwu told the country’s House of Representatives. Nigerian authorities moved quickly late Wednesday, gathering isolation tents as five more cases of the Ebola Virus were confirmed in Lagos, a city bursting with 21 million people.
All five people are believed to be health workers who had direct contact with one man traveling from Ebola-ridden Liberia to Nigeria — making this country the fourth now infiltrated by the deadly disease.
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“Yesterday the first known Nigerian to die of Ebola was recorded,” Chukwu told reporters in Abuja on Wednesday. “This was one of the nurses that attended to the Liberian. The other five [newly confirmed] cases are being treated at an isolation ward.”
Idris said this is the time “for everyone to be vigilant, especially with regard to relating to people who are ill.”
Most international airlines flying to West Africa in the grip of the deadly Ebola outbreak are counting on stepped-up passenger screening as they continue serving the region.
Air France fliers in some cities must complete health questionnaires and be checked for symptoms, including an elevated temperature, before boarding cards are issued. Delta Air Lines Inc. said travelers are being checked at the airport in Monrovia, Liberia, one of the countries hit by Ebola.
Only two airlines have suspended flights to West Africa so far, with British Airways opting yesterday to join Gulf carrier Emirates in pulling back.
U.S. carriers “that fly to the affected countries remain in steady contact with government agencies and health officials, and have procedures in place to monitor and quickly respond to potential health concerns,” said Victoria Day, a spokeswoman for the Washington-based Airlines for America trade group.
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Barack Obama says that Ebola is "not something that is easily transmitted" and that everything is under control...
According to this comment - supposedly written by someone who works in a hospital laboratory. Michael Snyder shares three quotes that we found particularly sobering...
#1 "Even in the United States, out of all the various hospitals I have worked at, there is no hope of containing anything like this. One of the largest hospitals I worked at only had two reverse flow isolation rooms. TWO, let that sink in for a minute."
#2 "Patients only show up to the hospital when they go symptomatic. So by the time they get there, they've already infected their entire family, their work group, and anyone they got within a few feet of on the way to the hospital. When they get there the ER nurses would treat it either like Flu, or Sepsis. But the whole time the patient is infecting all of them. And all of them, in turn, begin to infect everyone else in the exact same way. If this is as virulent as the WHO thinks it might be, by the time people realize what is going on, there will be more sick people than there would be beds available at every hospital in the US combined."
#3 "So don't expect miracles from front line hospital staff, we don't have the tools, and we certainly do not have the manpower. Ask anyone in the medical field how much overtime they could work if they felt like it, don't even get me started on how thinly stretched people in the industry are. Though I suppose if this does turn into something, that will become apparent very, very fast."
There is no way in the world that our medical professionals are going to be able to handle a full-blown Ebola pandemic.
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Your generalization of teachers is disheartening.
'Generalization is a sign of a weak mind.'
I know many many teachers that work hard on behalf of children.
And while unions have issues to be addressed, remember it was the unions that brought up the much vaunted middle class.
I worked in companies that were unionized. It was generally really annoying to have to deal with the shop steward etc. etc.
But if you read history, you can see where unions accomplished many good things in the face of violent thugs hired by the elite.
A sign of a weak mind is one who only repeats dogma.
LOL...if you are referring to this "'Generalization is a sign of a weak mind.'"
I'm not repeating it.
I wrote it.
You speak of the past. The violent thugs have been unionized.
Now that is funny!
Whatever the case may be.......let's make damn sure we don't let anymore of that 'unethical' cure out to anyone that needs it we need to test if for a few more years.
Does Ebola get transmitted by RATS?
If so, it's game over. If not, we have a fighting chance.
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/3/04-0981_article
Among dogs from villages with both infected animal carcasses and human cases, [ebola antibody] seroprevalence was 31.8%.
"Epidemiologic observations and genetic analyses identified gorilla, chimpanzee, and duiker carcasses as the main sources of human cases (5). Once the species barrier has been crossed between animals and humans, the disease spreads among humans by direct physical contact.
Some human cases in the recent outbreak in the Gabon/Republic of Congo region did not have a documented source of exposure to Ebola hemorrhagic fever. Similarly, 14 (4.9%) of the 284 cases in the 1976 Sudan outbreak (6) and 55 (17.4%) of the 316 cases during the 1995 outbreak in Kikwit (7), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, former Zaire), had no direct physical contact with an infected person or known infected carcass. These observations point to other routes of transmission (e.g., human-human respiratory tract infection through droplets and aerosols) or may suggest that other, unidentified animal sources may be involved in Ebola virus transmission to humans.
Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks occurred in villages where people keep domestic animals, including dogs. The dogs are not fed and have to scavenge for their food. They eat small dead animals found near the villages and also internal organs of wild animals hunted and slaughtered by villagers. Some dogs are also used for hunting in the dense forested area. Although canine infection by Ebola virus has never been documented, domestic dogs’ behavior and diet place them at risk.
We examined whether pet dogs could have been infected by Ebola virus and their potential role as primary or secondary sources of human infection. We conducted a large-scale serologic survey to determine the prevalence of Ebola virus infection in pet dogs in an Ebola virus–epidemic area of Gabon... Neither Ebola virus antigens nor nucleotide sequences were detected in any of the positive or negative dog blood samples. We also failed to isolate the virus cells from 3 positive and 3 negative samples on Vero-E6."
Worst case, rats are immune themselves but carry the virus and contaminate the food supplies. We will find out soon.
"Coca-Cola announces new drink that fights against the Ebola virus. It's called Ebola-Cola. Buy it at your grocers today."
No, the Washington politicians have green printer's ink for blood so the American people can't get Ebola from them.
Close the borders now!!!
Signed: an American.
What about the 'thousand points of light' Bush told us about?
Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free Worldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdiCJUysIT0
ROFL!
I shit you not here boys... in my sidebar theres an beg-a-thon ad for "Doctors without Borders". Only 25 cents a day will ensure that Ebola gets properly grown in a cowShitHut incubater and then spread across the known world.
Meanwhile, in a country without borders...
The Ebola virus is killing people. Why make it a personal thing? It is no different from viruses that wiped out the Indian populations.
'Americans' did not do that. The viruses did.
So why a different treatment?
Kidding, the question is all rhetorical.
Great news for the environmentalists! They are all about a few less billion peeps on the planet!
i really picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue.
Not everyone in the world is at risk, some have immunity others resistance. If the same people who are immune to AIDS are also immune to this ebola virus then, i found a vary deep and dark rabbit hole.
"If the same people who are immune to AIDS are also immune to this ebola virus"
Not, so look somewhere else for meaning.
As I noted yesterday on this forum there is one substance which US Department of Defense research (declassified in 2009) is able to definitively inactivate/neutralize the Ebola virus.
That research is posted at http://TinyURL.com/StopEbola as is other vital informaton.
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The evidence is so powerful that the Natural Solutions Foundation, of which I am the Medical Director, is now setting up clinical trials with one of the countries afflicted by Ebola (not the US yet) to document the effectiveness of this substance.
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Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.com