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Nigeria Declares "State Of Emergency" As Study Finds West African Ebola Virus Is Previously Undetected "New Strain"
Following the WHO's warnings, (the ironically named) Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a "state of emergency" over the Ebola outbreak that is rapidly escalating in his nation. This comes on the heels of a US medical journal study that finds, as Reuters reports, the Ebola virus that is ravagaing West Africa was not imported from Central Africa but caused by a "new strain" of the disease - raising the specter of further regional epidemics.
Ebola is endemic to Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, South Sudan and Gabon, and scientists initially believed that Central Africa's Zaire strain of the virus was responsible for the outbreak. However, as Reuters reports,
Using analysis of blood samples from infected patients, however, researchers determined that while the Guinean form of the Ebola virus (EBOV) showed a 97 percent similarity to the Zaire strain, the disease was not introduced from Central Africa.
"This study demonstrates the emergence of a new EBOV strain in Guinea," wrote the group of more than 30 doctors and scientists, who published their preliminary findings on the website of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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"It is possible that EBOV has circulated undetected in this region for some time. The emergence of the virus in Guinea highlights the risk of EBOV outbreaks in the whole West African subregion," the report continued.
"What is clear to us from the study is that the virus wasn't brought in from the outside, that it is indigenous," said Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesman for the WHO, which was not involved in authoring the study.
The awful conclusion:
"It means there were possibly outbreaks in the past that were just not detected," he said.
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Nigerian President Jonathan has declared a national state of emergency...
As an example of the concern, banker sin Nigeria are now wearing gloves to serve customers...
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CDC Director Frieden explains his fear about Lagos, Nigeria...
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But President Obama said it would be ok?
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Colloidal silver does have some anti-viral properties, but if you are looking for alternate medical procedures you might consider Vitamin C.
If you take time to think about it Ebola produces a lot of symptoms similar to what your body does without vitamin C ... aka scurvy
Ebola --> Acute Induced Scurvy
Might be off a little bit but it cant hurt to continue your own research.
Ebola does not attack collagen, it is hemorrhagic and attacks cells in tissues. Taking Vitamin-C will not save you because you do not stem a viral disease by treating the symptoms.
Your skin is the first line of defense from most pathogens. Which is why not touching people and animals is key and if you do touch a lot of people or animals then wash the shit out of your hands.
Remember.....condoms are made for a reason.
Cuts on your skin are NOT a sign of strength.....but are an open door invitation.
Also....remember....where there are openings in your skin......mouth, nose, ears, eyes, assholes, peckers and cootchies......these are open door invites to the bugs. The more things you put in them or allow to be put in them.....well.....you do the math.
Bullshit. Up until recently we didnt HAVE anti-viral drugs, so all medicine for viral infections was in fact palliative.
Until they have a vaccine, it's your immune system that's going to beat Ebola. OR, you can die.
Why do you think Airborne helps so much to stop the cold in its tracks?
Vitamin C is not a vaccine.
And Airborne has been proven no better than placebo. It's just Alka-Seltzer mixed with Vitamin C and herbs.
Waste of money. Eat better, wash your hands, and wear a mask like the Asians do in public.
I am well aware that Vitamin C is not a vaccine. But it works against viruses.
Bullshit.
You're immune system works against virii. Vitamin C along with other vitamins and nutrients ENHANCES your immune system.
Honey Virus doesn't care about Vitamin C. Honey Virus doesn't give a shit.
Jumbo Rhino
Yall are converging to the same thing. The human body is an incredible design, but ultimately we all have discreet differences and similarities. There ia a mortality rate for a reason -- because Eboler is survivable. Just give your body the ammunition it needs to run optimally. I'm not going into nutrition but I'll just sy that eating well is not a bag full of Pink Slime McNuggets, but rather Organic Arugula (or Kale if you prefer).
God bless yall good folks
>>Vitamin C along with other vitamins and nutrients ENHANCES your immune system.
Well no shit Sherlock.
Look asshole. Ebole is not scurvy. Vitamin C is of absoultely NO use against Ebola. Even if you ate assloads of Vitamin C rich foods, ate 2000mg of Vitamin C tabs a day and BATHED in Orange Juice....you will still contract and probably die from Ebola if you went over to Africa and picked it up somehow.
But I guess you think changing your password every month and keeping your antivirus files up to date keeps your computer safe too.
If a virus wants to nail you it will. It's an organic algorithm. And like its digital counterpart.....it's always morphing....always changing in order to crack your protection and get inside and live and replicate.
And Vitamin C won't do shit about either one.
Two citations for you. Basically the ebola digests your collagen as it mulitplies in those tissues.
http://www.brighthub.com/science/genetics/articles/57205.aspx
http://www.medecine.ups-tlse.fr/anglais/docs/DCEM1-Ebola.pdf
See page 3
Google ebola collagen if you wish.
You can believe anything you like.
How can they conclude that this "was not brought in from the outside, that it's indigenous". It could easily have been flown in from the lab outside Atlanta where this new strain was developed!
Exactly - indigenous.
The Ebolian Andromeda Strain? Eats through gloves, rubber, even metal?
Just as long as they don't have SARS, Mad Cow, Avian Influenza, AIDS, TB, etc etc etc ....yawn!!!
Anti-Bacterial Soap?
BULLISH
Ebola isn't a bacterium. But now you mention it yeah all kinds of useless shit is going to fly off the shelves now.
I'm still getting over 'Disco Fever!'
Once infected......never cured
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yqEyytDtEs
I was saying it had to be a new strain a week ago. All the arrows were pointing that way.
In fact, there are at least two strains in motion right now.
I think the one that is spreading is semi-airborne. Meaing you can maybe get it from being around someone sick if they are coughing on you.
That's really really bad news, folks. I said so last week and I'm saying it again today.
Really really bad news.
This epidemic is just getting started. We might not end up with millions dead, but I think we'll see many thousands spread over every populated continent. And then what happens is that ebola becomes part of the human population, you don't have to eat a bat or monkey any more to get it. You can get it sitting next to someone in the subway.
Think about how that is supposed to work out. Of course, it doesn't work out at all.
Below I linked one of the original confirming articles that placed the current strain outside the Zaire lineage. Since then there have been two follow-on articles appended that bring doubt upon the original conclusions. Obviously ebola mutates like all viruses, and it appears they really weren't certain about where to root the current strains. From May:
"The phylogenetic analysis of the five ebolavirus species here does not substantially improve on that presented by Baize et al.1 in that even when partitioning the alignment into coding and non-coding regions we get inconsistent rooting positions for the EBOV clade. We believe that at present no suitable outgroup sequences to root the EBOV phylogeny exist and that a temporal rooting gives the most consistent results.
This approach indicates that the outbreak in Guinea is likely caused by a Zaire ebolavirus lineage that has spread from Central Africa into Guinea and West Africa in recent decades, and does not represent the emergence of a divergent and endemic virus.
As the GP sequences show, without more diverse sequences, especially those from the animal reservoir, it is difficult to narrow down the estimates of when and through what means the Central African EBOV lineage has been introduced into West Africa."
In June:
"For the Zaïre lineage, the posterior tree samples that we analyzed (one sample per demographic model) did not comprise a single tree whose root would be located on the branch leading to Guinea 2014 EBOV (Figure 1). Hence, under the assumption of a relaxed molecular clock it seems extremely unlikely that this virus falls outside the genetic diversity of the Zaïre lineage. The clock rooting approach implemented here therefore provides strong statistical support to the conclusion reached by Dudas and Rambaut (2014)2 [the quotation, above] . We also note that in our analyses the split of Guinea 2014 EBOV and the closest Central African EBOV was inferred to have taken place in 1999 (Bayesian skyride; 95% HPD interval 1996-2004) or 2001 (constant population size or exponential growth; 95% HPD interval 1996-2003), which comes very close to the GP-based estimates of Dudas and Rambaut (2002; 95% HPD interval 2000-2006)2 ."
http://epidemic.bio.ed.ac.uk/ebolavirus_phylogeny
Yeah it's probably Zaire. It is not restonii (the airborne ebola everyone points to). But that's not really the point. We don't care what branch origin it has we only care about its behavior. And this strain of Zaire seems to have acquired some kind of ability to get airborne to a degree. Other ebola can do it, so it was probably only a matter of time for Zaire to come up with a mechanism to accomplish the same thing.
This jump into a new viral state is adaptive since it can aid the virus to find new hosts. If a strain can figure it out (how to spread) then that strain becomes the dominant pathogen in the pool of infection and it claims that place very quickly.
The question about which clade it falls under is interesting in an academic sense but not germain to the health implications. The RNA sequencing is the only thing they can talk about, since they don't have a cure nor a vaccine.
If this bug takes off they'll give it a new name. That's all they can do.
Agreed, I just wonder if such phylogenetic analysis can be used to detect engineered bioweapons.
This I can address.
"Weaponizing" pathgens is not genetic engineering. Rather it is a somewhat mechanical problem. You try to find ways to package a pathogen so it can survive transport without killing your own people (this is not the same thing as yourself having an antidote, notice) then be loaded into a weapon of some kind, and then when delivered activate itself and spread. Not an easy set of requirements by the way. And not all pathogens lend themselves to the process of weaponization. Bacteria tend to (anthrax, to name one) because they have resistive stages that transport well. Virus tend to be too fragile but I wouldn't rule that out as a project.
What I think you are meaning is weaponization as genetic engineering, meaning make the virus more lethal, more mobile, more resistant to environmental abuse, etc. Now this is VERY hard to do. You would need either a clear example from nature (these are very rare) or you would just have to try a bunch of random things and see which ones stick. Lots of animal testing, very large labs, lots of workers and vast secrecy, and mostly wasted effort. And of course EXTREMELY dangerous work. I mean genetic manipulation of virus, this is very hazardous all around, real sci-fi end-of-the-world scary shit. Not even making that up, no way I'd work in a place like that. Just completely out of the question.
And get this; if anyone ever had a look at your super-virus they would know exactly how you made it. Which parts of what other virus you grafted in, the way you went about it it, the hosts involved. It would look like a fingerprint at a crime scene, anyone with any skill at all in the field would say something like "oh for fuck sake, they weaponized ebola using SARS and influenza! Look at these sequences here -- and here -- I can do the math for you but fuck that, this is all straight out of Barlow's work from 1996! Had they no imagination at all? Now look around and find out who the fuck worked with Barlow and that team he had for a while at the CDC and you've found your sociopath."
Like that.
Yeah it would be a fun book to write, but I'm up to my ears in projects now.
Delta 34, same mutation that allows immunity to AIDS. Im willing to bet grants immunity to this "Strain".
Isn't that mutation most common in Caucasians with A blood types?
Delta32*
There is no experimental evidence any of the Ebola strains transmit by air between humans. All evidence for airborne transmission thus far is anecdoctal or only shown experimentally in pigs. The study (see below) I think you are alluding to demonstrated apparent airborne transmission from pigs to nonhuman primates (NHPs). It was done with the Zaire strain. No test was done for the other direction (NHPs->pigs) or between pigs. May I note that humans are not very biologically related to pigs, so one cannot assume that just because pigs can transmit Ebola through the air that humans can do so as well. For a virus to achieve efficient aerosolization, it needs to (1) induce respiratory symptoms (coughing, sneezing, nasal discharges) and (2) replicate to high titers in the respiratory tract. However, in most cases of human disease, Ebola virus is not respiratory in nature. It replicates primarily in the cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems.
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html
More pertinently, results from this well-designed study argues that airborne transmission between NHPs is unlikely:
http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140725/srep05824/full/srep05824.html
When the first case hits Britain it's 'world-beating', debt-fuelled economy will be destroyed :(
There just had to be a flaw to selling property to each other with ever increasing silly price tags.
Damn, are people STILL talking about how ebola's headed to the States? Give up already, people. Like usual, this is clearly a West African problem and the disease isn't going to magically leap-frog its way from the bodily fluids of some guy in Africa to some different guy in America.
DOOM OFF ALREADY
Such an inane comment. Look at the facts before you post. The present ebola virus is obviously not difficult to transmit. There are already cases of infected people traveling to other countries, and it takes days to weeks before symptoms show. What used to be called common sense should tell you infected people boarding planes and infecting more people in other countries is still happening, but the symptoms have yet to appear, or haven't been properly diagnosed yet. It may be a matter of days or 1 to 2 weeks before infection is verified in the US.
If things get worse
http://thebookgallery2014.blogspot.com/2014/08/beyond-ebola-preparation....
Interesting!
Very Interesting!!!
I wonder how long Ebola can live on a dollar bill?
How long can Ebola live on a truck tire?
Or a shoe?
Or an airline seat?
Or I should say this "Ebola Guinea"
Do these African countries have an accurate census? (not that we do)
If they lost 500,000 people in the bush would they even notice?
We tested serum samples from 253 patients submitted to the Lassa Diagnostic Laboratory during 2006–2008 for IgM to the arthropod-borne and hemorrhagic fever viruses of interest (Table 2). Because of limited amounts of serum, not all samples were tested for antibodies to all viruses. Of the arthropod-borne viruses, the prevalence of DENV antibodies (4.3%) was highest, followed by CHIKV (4.0%). The prevalences of other viruses were <3.0%; WNV, 2.8%; YFV, 2.5%; and RVFV, 2.0% of patients tested. No antibodies to the tick-borne virus, CCHFV, were found in any samples tested. Antibody prevalence to the hemorrhagic fever viruses, EBOV and MBGV, were 8.6% and 3.6%, respectively.
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/7/13-1265_article
That American doctor is feeling stronger every day.
Some of today's bad Ebola news is available here:
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_08_08_ebola/en/
For each day's update go here to WHO and at 'Outbreak News' on right click the latest date:
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/en/
WHO isn't listing 1 death in Saudi Arabia nor the ebola patients being treated in the u.s. and outside of the 4 African countries. O'BOLA wants to do the talking points himself, and write the living history as only he sees fit, so you need other sources.
While it is true that global governments will try and contain the flow of information on this, I wouldn't then encourage people to consider every other possible source of information as all equally valid. There are some shmucks on here flogging all kinds of self-enriching ideas, for example. I wouldn't listen to anything they say about the disease so long as they have a clear agenda that inlcudes profiting from the disease. I also wouldn't put much store in man-on-the-street wisdom, everyone has a "theory" and most of those are random uninformed BS.
Information will leak through the net of deceptions, it is prudent to be wary but foolish to grasp at the nearest conspiracy theory as some kind of floatsom that will keep anyone from sinking. Rather than be taken for a ride it is best to just sit this out and wait ... watchfully.
HIV may survive in dried blood at room temperature for up to five or six days...
Sewage is highly unlikely to pose a risk because infectious HIV has never been isolated from feces or urine. However, research by Thames Water has shown that HIV can survive for several days in sewage...
HIV does not survive as long as other viruses in sea water...
i suspect ebola survives outside the body a long time. any infected surface is a menace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomite
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17940942
Found on 2 of 33 environmental specimens they tested. They say cleanliness is next to godliness...
Most virus are little more than chemical compounds -- proteins and RNA sequences -- and are easly broken down by sunlight or even exposure to oxygen in air. You will notice that a lot of the time you catch these things via exposure to bodily fluids, meaning some form of direct contact. Influenza is one of the important exceptions, as is the common cold, but even here they are being spread by sneezing and runny noses. The fact they are making you sneeze in the first place is because they can infect the mucosal lining of the respiratory tract, and can pass out of the body via mucosal discharges.
Ebola doesn't make people sneeze, I suspect. Or perhaps, even cough very much. There is a huge risk during later stages where the victim is beginning to bleed due to the hemorrhagic nature of the pathogen, but by then you can stay away. So it hasn't been able to spread easily.
I suspect that is beginning to change.
If I'm right then the WHO and CDC think so too, and when I see them starting to panic I start to wonder what else I might be guessing right about this pathogen.
The ebola virus loves to hang out in the lungs, throat, mouth, etc. Blood fills the lungs as the disease continues to feed and destroy healthy tissue. Choking and coughing ensues, which transmits the virus easily onto other surfaces (and onto you if you're in the way). The virus can sustain itself for days outside a living host.
I don't know what most people think when they hear the word "airborne", but it isn't you sneezing or coughing up one simple RNA strand of this stuff to float harmlessly around awhile before it croaks off. It's big enough liquid-borne particles that can feed a virus for days.
To date Ebola is not an easy virus to pass from human to human, it typically requires direct passage of bodily fluids much like HIV. Unfortunately since the 1980's the assholes in bio-weapons research have been trying to figure out a way to come up with a genetically modified form that can be transmitted via airborne particulates coughed up by an infected person - such as mucous droplets. If that happens, or has happened, we're fucked.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?320862-1/hearing-ebola-outbreak-africa
Yeah I saw that, he looked like a guy staring into the dark, bottomless abyss of eternity.
Left me shaken.
This shit is really bad.
I watched Ken Isaacs's testimony and he's saying that the WHO could be under reporting the numbers by as much as 25 to 50%. That's a big spread. That's why I'll be paying close attention to any cases in the US, because there could be many more not being reported.
here is ken Isaacs statment
http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4506064/ken-isaacs-opening-statement-ebola
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Starts at about 1:48 Isaacs estimates the under reporting of this as only 1/4 to 1/2 of the real number of cases.
States we should have been "building capacity" to deal with this kind of thing 3-5 years ago and that there is really no way to start that now (establishing institutions, funding, education, labs, etc which are domestic to each of these countries).
@ 1:53 - states he could only find one biohazard level 4 ready plane in the entire world, which is located in the US. This is the level of isolation needed for this type of disease and transporting these types of Pts (back to US or other more developed countries).
@ 2:02 - states he is concerned where the recently allocated money will be going (list four measures), states that $200 million which was allocated in a prior incident never found its way to the care providers.
@ 2:03 - states, "I'm afraid the cat is already out of the bag" with regard to too late to "contain".
@ 2:12 - states "this is a nasty, bloody disease", expresses concern Nigeria and "global national security issues" (I take this as a threat to oil exportation).
This guy has absolutely no illusions. IMO he knows that this opportunity to address a subcommittee of Congress is laughably so far behind the curve that his expectation is the total collapse of any kind of civilization in these three countries at the least. A moderate read would be this migrates to other places where social order is relatively loose (such as China and India) and runs havoc, decimating populations.
Thanks much for the excellent summary of the key points of his testimony.
By implication Lagos and every other major municipality will be like London in 1666.
There is nothing that can be done for Africa, really. A place where people have little willingness to change their lives based on a vague set of "facts" spouted by a bunch of western whites. This will run through the populations like a vapor explosion. We are talking 2-21 day incubation periods. We are talking about "recovering/recovered" patients who spew ebola out in their body fluids for 4-8 weeks after they are supposedly free of the disease. We have no clue if there are people who have the disease who are infectious but do not lapse into the later stages of the path of lethality.
Dr. Grove (Grover) stated that the TOP MD in Liberia did not believe that Ebola existed, and attempted to barge into an isolation room without ANY protective equipment, including gloves. He and a companion Doc left and went to treat a set of Pts in another city and both died within 4-5 days. They also infected a huge number of others. And those are (were) the top intelligencia of their professions domesticly.
Grove stated that half of all diseases in Africa present with the same onset symptoms that Ebola does. Paradoxicly, Grove said he felt the front line care providers would be protected well enough if they had basic barrier stuff like gloves and masks. Isaac's studied none response to Grove's comments about the protective gear spoke very loudly, IMO. IE - even our own well educated people have no clue how incredibly contagious this disease really is, and what it takes to keep from being infected.
The best thing about Ebola is.....it seems to cure stupidity. At least that one doc is not going to pass along the stupid gene to any more kids.
Arcelor Mittal Liberia contractors declare force majeure
http://af.reuters.com/article/nigeriaNews/idAFL4N0QE6AB20140808
Seven Filipino workers returning from Sierra Leone test negative
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/373259/pinoyabroad/news/7-ofws-from...
ECOWAS suspends meetings over Ebola
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/142128/ecowas-suspends-meetings-over-e...
Nigeria offers life insurance to healthcare workers involved with ebola cases
http://en.starafrica.com/news/nigerias-health-workers-to-get-insurance-c...
With thousands of visas suspended, Nigerians hope to complete Hajj amid ebola outbreak
http://www.voanews.com/content/nigerians-hope-to-complete-hajj-amid-ebol...
"Just a few days ago we received a password for processing the Hajj visas from the Saudi authorities," said Okenwe. "So there is no cares of banning Nigerians from participating in Hajj because of Ebola."
Hajj and also during Ramadan, too. Massive movements of Muslims to Mecca and back. A few "silent cases" and this will absolutely explode across the muslim world. Gonna get fugly, not sure the Farsi word for that.
Undetectable? No wonder US brought it back.
Break the SST Concorde out of mothballs and start ferrying these vectors to the continental United States STAT!
New Strain = CDC created
New Strain = CDC created
US Army biowar creation USSA university running a biowar lab in the epicenter of the outbreaks
one small question was the release of the agent deliberate or due to criminal stupidity
I tend to think deliberate knowing the shit the .gov has done in the past
Plum Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Island_Animal_Disease_Center
http://rense.com/general28/truths.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/plumbing-the-mysteries-of-plum-island/
http://www.amazon.com/Lab-257-Disturbing-Governments-Laboratory/dp/00600...
The majority of west africa by western standards has no flusing toilets. Ground surface urination and defication are universal in the countryside and commonplace in metropolitan areas. Not to mention that one of the symptoms of EBOLA is diarea. Bare feet, shoes, and hands all are deficant related vectors for EBOLA. America is very different in such hygene practices.
If you like your lack of Ebola, you can keep your lack of Ebola.
airport in spain today
its not airborn see :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eHr5sroQZ4
Whatever...once it approaches Baghdad Obama will launch airstrikes anyways.
Send money bitchez.
"Following the WHO's warnings, (the ironically named) Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a "state of emergency" over the Ebola outbreak that is rapidly escalating in his nation." Meanwhile, the aptly named Vice President of Nigeria, Webefucked Mogumbo, declared "we be fucked."
...then again, to be fair, they were already fucked long before Ebola came along.
'We be fucked'
True, but now they are admitting it!
Can't wait for the Nigerian emails to start, 'My rich Uncle recently died of Ebola without a will and left a large amount of currency in an account that I need to get out of the country, if I could just have your full name, account details, date of birth, parents full names, mums maiden name I could in exchange for using your account pay you a $50,000,000 facilitation fee.'
signed,
honest Nigerian Tom.
I LOVE the fact that the main stream media AND the Health "authorities" are continuously changing their story on this "ebola" outbreak. This article is full of glaring inconsistencies with all the previous "stories" that have been perpetuated in the media..... is it because their lies are being uncovered and they are now in panic mode? hmmmmmmmm.....
The Ebola Outbreak: The "Pandemic" that isn't.http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-ebola-outbreak-pande...
When is Ebola not Ebola? ... When it walks off an airplanehttp://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/2014/08/when-is-ebola-not-ebola-...
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Unfortunately, this article is also poorly written, has a sensationalist slant, and is short on specifics. Therefore its usefulness is limited.
Has anyone seen a well-researched, well-written article from a calm perpective?