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The One Question About Ebola That Nobody Can Seem To Answer

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Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,

How in the world is it possible that more than 170 health workers have been infected by the Ebola virus?  That is the one question about Ebola that nobody can seem to answer.  The World Health Organization is reporting this as a fact, but no explanation is given as to why this is happening.  We are just assured that Ebola “is not airborne” and that getting infected “requires close contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person”.  If this is true, then how have more than 170 health workers caught the disease?  These workers are dressed head to toe in suits that are specifically designed to prevent the spread of the virus.  So how is this happening?  I could understand a handful of “mistakes” by health workers, but this is unlike anything that we have ever seen in the history of infectious diseases.  These health workers take extraordinary precautions to keep from getting the virus.  If it is spreading so easily to them, what chance is the general population going to have?

Overall, more than 1,700 people have been officially infected and more than 900 people have officially died so far.  But an official from Samaritan’s Purse says that the real numbers are probably far, far higher

Ken Isaacs, the vice president of Program and Government Relations for Samaritan’s Purse, painted an even bleaker picture. According to the World Health Organization, West Africa has counted 1,711 diagnoses and 932 deaths, already, which could represent only a small fraction of the true number. “We believe that these numbers represent just 25 to 50 percent of what is happening,” said Isaacs.

 

In a six-hour meeting with the president of Liberia last week, Isaacs said workers from Samaritan’s Purse and SIM watched as the “somber” officials explained the gravity of the situation in their countries, where hundreds lie dead in the streets. “It has an atmosphere of apocalypse,” Isaacs said of the Liberia Ministry of Health’s status updates. “Bodies lying in the street…gangs threatening to burn down hospitals. I believe this disease has the potential to be a national security risk for many nations. Our response has been a failure.” Isaacs says that the epidemic is inciting panic worldwide that, in his opinion, may soon be warranted. “We have to fight it now here or we’re going to have to fight it somewhere else.”

In an official statement released on Monday, the World Health Organization even admitted that some potential Ebola patients “are being turned away”…

The recent surge in the number of cases has stretched all capacities to the breaking point. Supplies of personal protective equipment and disinfectants are inadequate. The outbreak continues to outstrip diagnostic capacity, delaying the confirmation or exclusion of cases and impeding contact tracing.

 

Some treatment facilities are overflowing; all beds are occupied and patients are being turned away.

Like I have said before, this has the potential to become the greatest health crisis that any of us have ever seen.

Up until this point, the outbreak has been primarily limited to Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

But now it is starting to pop up in more countries around Africa.

For example, the number of confirmed cases in Nigeria has reached ten…

Nigeria on Monday confirmed a new case of Ebola in the financial capital Lagos, bringing the total number of people in the country with the virus to 10.

 

Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said the latest confirmed case was a female nurse who came into contact with a Liberian-American man, Patrick Sawyer, who died of Ebola in a Lagos hospital on July 25.

 

In addition to Sawyer, another nurse who had contact with him died last week, while seven other people have been confirmed to have the virus in the city, he added.

And it looks like we may now have our first case of Ebola in Rwanda

Rwanda’s health officials have placed a man suspected of suffering from Ebola in isolation at King Faisal Hospital Kigali. A statement by the Ministry of Health released on Sunday indicates that the patient had been tested with results still expected. Samples from the suspected case have been sent for testing to an international accredited laboratory, and results will be available in 48 hours, the statement said. The suspected case is a European medical student, according to the statement. It is the first suspected Ebola case in Rwanda since the outbreak of the virus in West Africa. The government urged the public to remain calm and vigilant, as the ministry is closely monitoring the situation.

 

All the preventive measures needed in line with national standards are already in place, including surveillance systems and emergency management systems, it assured, adding “Health workers have been trained across the country and are vigilant.” This will enable timely detection, notification and appropriate management of any suspected cases to safeguard Rwandans, the statement concluded.

Over in Ghana, a man that just died is being tested for the Ebola virus…

Ghana may be recording its first case of Ebola if tests on the blood samples of a Burkinabe man suspected to have died of Ebola proves positive. The man who was rushed to the Bawku Presby Hospital in the Upper East Region from Burkina Faso, died on arrival. The Medical Director at the Hospital, Dr Joseph Yaw Manu, who confirmed the incident to Citi News, said they sent the blood samples for testing because the man was brought in showing symptoms of Ebola. In an interview with Citi News, Dr. Manu said the patient was bleeding from his nostrils which raised their suspicion he may have died of the Ebola disease. Dr. Manu said they are awaiting the results from the blood sample test to verify the cause of death. He gave the assurance that the hospital is prepared to battle the disease. This is the fourth suspected case of Ebola reported in Ghana; two in Kumasi, one in Accra and now the Upper East Region.

Lastly, the little nation of Benin is now reporting two potential cases of Ebola

Benin has reported two cases of the deadly Ebola virus in the west African country. Health Ministry official Aboubacar Moufiliatou said that a man suspected to have contracted the virus had died. “Fortunately, blood samples have been taken from the deceased patient to examine if his death was linked with Ebola,” Moufililatou told the state television Thursday night. He said another man has been quarantined after showing symptoms of the deadly virus after returning from the Nigerian city of Lagos. “Blood tests from the suspected case will be conducted in laboratories approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) to confirm or deny the infection,” he said. The WHO has declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an “international public health emergency” as the virus reportedly continues to spread through the region in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. According to the latest WHO report, Ebola has killed 932 people in West Africa. The Ebola virus, a contagious disease for which there is no known treatment or cure, can be transmitted to humans from wild animals and also spreads through contact with the body fluids of an infected person or someone who has died of the disease. Medical doctors say common symptoms of Ebola include high fever and headaches, followed by bleeding from openings in the body. If the cases turn out to be Ebola, this would be the fifth country in Africa where the virus has spread.

We are quickly getting to the point where it will become impossible to contain this virus.

And if it spreads to the United States, we are going to be in a massive amount of trouble.  The truth is that we are not prepared for an Ebola pandemic, and such a crisis would create a massive wave of panic and fear all over this country.

Unfortunately, despite the risks, we continue to bring people back to this country before we know that it is safe to do so

Health officials in North Carolina said on Sunday they will require missionaries and others coming home after working with people infected with Ebola in Africa to be placed in quarantine.

 

The quarantine is set to last for three weeks from the last exposure to someone infected in the West African Ebola outbreak, which is centred in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the officials said.

 

Missionaries from the North Carolina-based Christian aid groups SIM USA and Samaritan’s Purse have been working to help combat the world’s worst outbreak of the disease. Two of the relief workers, Dr Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, contracted the disease and are being cared for at Emory University hospital in Georgia.

Why couldn’t those individuals just be quarantined over there an extra three weeks in a safe area and then come home?

All it takes is one sick person.  Once the disease gets here and starts spreading, there isn’t much that we can do about it.  There is no cure for Ebola, and according to the New York Times it is going to be quite a while before one is potentially available…

The drugs that could potentially treat those already infected and the vaccines to protect healthy people from infection are all in the earliest stages of testing. And even if they do pass muster in clinical trials, they cannot be produced in large quantities quickly enough to stem the widening epidemic anytime soon.

And the CDC agrees with this assessment

“We do not know how to treat Ebola or vaccinate against it - and it will be a long time before we do.”

Those are very sobering words.

For now, our health officials are telling us that we have very little to be concerned about.

But they can’t even tell us why more than 170 health workers have caught the virus.

So let’s hope for the best, but let us also prepare for the worst.

 

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Tue, 08/12/2014 - 23:57 | 5085703 shankster
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Don't sneeze on me Bro'!

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 00:06 | 5085720 pashley1411
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If they can't contain the spread to health workers = they don't know the vector.  

Might as well dump the victums down a volcano.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 12:28 | 5087688 IndyPat
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There's a plan for that.

They will be flown to Hawaii...with stops @ JFK and LAX.

Should solve the problem.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 00:12 | 5085732 duck dodgers
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The government is using mexicans to bring the virus here. We know They planned this illegal invasion because they were requesting the bids for the transport of the illegals back in january, and its why they're sitting on their hands now while our border is wide open. Does it seem a mere coincidence that at the exact same time a deadly contagious disease is spreading around the world the .gov opens the borders to anyone and everyone? And why else would they lie about it being airborne? From their piont of view an outbreak makes perfect sense and accomplishes many goals.

1. Power grab...the people will beg them to do something and provide an answer.

2. Depopulation...less people to control and consume resources.

3. An external scapegoat to take the blame off of themselves when this system inevitably crashes.

4. Who in thier right mind would ever believe our loving government would ever do such a thing? Crazy right wing gun nuts.

 

Ebola has already been found in mexico, and heres a story of an entire town in texas under quarrantine, 3 miles from the border.

http://dailyleak.org/2014/07/epidemic-due-to-illegals-the-ebola-virus-ha...

Not a peep from the CDC or MSM.

 

 

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 00:40 | 5085794 stacking12321
Wed, 08/13/2014 - 00:42 | 5085799 jomama
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that's simply because your daily link 'story' is bullshit.

FEMA reported cases of the Ebola virus appearing along the southern borders of New Mexico and Texas.

ORLY?  I can't seem to find that report anywhere.  help us out, wouldya?

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 03:24 | 5086050 atthelake
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Fake story. Fake site.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 10:46 | 5087150 Seek_Truth
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"The government is using mexicans to bring the virus here."

It's all true!

They're also smuggling Tiger Weasels and Crocadillos into this once great country!

The only thing that helps is to mix Tropicana brand orange juice with Drano (half and half), and then add EXACTLY three (3) goat pellets (not two, not four, but EXACTLY THREE (3)!!!) goat pellets to this concoction, take a SINGLE bow to the North-Northwest (NNW), then pour the mixture into a jar of genuine Canadian Maple Syrup. Carry this with you to ward off the Tiger Weasels and Crocadillos.

(But it's a Tippy Top Secret, so don't tell anyone else, ok?)

/PANIC!!!

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 12:36 | 5087732 IndyPat
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The concoction doesn't work now.

The CDC now reports that the Tiger Weasels and Crocadillos have mutated and are now airborne.

Ass in the air folks. We are fucked.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 00:20 | 5085754 acetinker
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Oh, fuck off Michael.  Ebola only occurs in populations that haven't acquired proper sanitary facilities, and you know it.

Do I feel lucky to be living in the Fascist States of America just now?  Yeah.  Fuck yeah!

Then again, my so-called leaders decided to import the disease to a town near me.  They know not what they do.

Nor do you.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 00:38 | 5085780 Joe A
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A woman called Jane Burgermeister who in 2009 filed complaints against Baxter for sending a batch of anti flu vaccines contaminated with bird flu (...) has a blog about bird flu and now ebola. She is a conspiracy theorist for sure (but was right on with the bird flu case of 2009) and some say a looney but there is interesting information to be found there. For instance about why when this American doctor that was sent back to the US serious security flaws happened.

http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 03:06 | 5086029 atthelake
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They've been into depopulation for years and nothing has been a big winner for them. All they've been able to do is slow kill with aspartame, GMOs and false medical information.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:31 | 5086263 Urban Redneck
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I'll bite (and refrain from ripping the birdflu666 nut a new asshole from which to bleed).

If I was running a bid bad pharma company (other than the S.O.P. long term mission of buying government "recommendations" and "requirements" that the masses purchase my companies products, regardless of their efficacy) I would be sending a whole bunch of researchers TO WEST AFRICA, RIGHT NOW.

The reason being, that once you get beyond the little stuff, like serfs dying, or problems where your PR department can Juncker your way out of the problem, intellectual property becomes worthless. Not because you can't sell/license the intellectual property to suckers and serfs, but because there actually are men in the US government whose job it is to approach international businesses and make them offers that they can't refuse. Intellectual property is only protected as long as it is in the State's interest to protect your intellectual property.

So, why SEND RESEARCHERS TO WEST AFRICA, RIGHT NOW? Because there is one avenue of potential "cure" revenue in Africa that cannot be instantly undercut by revoking or ignoring intellectual property protections. There are literally tens of thousands of people running around with Ebola antibodies in their blood right now. Research needs to be done (papers establishing methods and efficacy need to written or doctored), and access to raw materials needs to be secured, but if you're running a big pharma company and want TBTF status-- running a blood BANK with a 10,000% markup is as close to being "made" and insulated from Langley's horse head delivery boys as you are going to get.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:31 | 5086314 Ghordius
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Amen. And isn't this a wonderful example of "Tragedy of the Commons" ?

Which in turn would - gasp - call for *reasonable* state intervention? Which of course can't happen if the role of the state is only about protecting private property for a few privileged and well entrenched interests with expensive lawyers?

(LOL - "Juncker your way out" is good. I'm having a row with Tall Tom about lying. His point seems to be that it's a mortal sin...regardless of circumstances. Gives me a cultural shock, this kind of thinking...)

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 15:50 | 5088709 Joe A
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I read somewhere that this is a new strain of Ebola so perhaps there are not yet enough people running around with antibodies. Anyways, it either is a natural mutation, comes out of a lab in order to kill a bucnh of people or part of a 'constant garderner' scheme (you know, developing a medicine and testing it on Africans who nobody outside of Africa cares about).

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 16:45 | 5088988 Urban Redneck
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It does not appear to be a new strain*. However, there is something that did change (this year) in a previously unknown West African strain that forked from the Zaire strain between 8 and 15 years ago (* the articles below are listed in reverse chronological order for a reason, but the first two were actually both published in July). If you take the WHO's numbers at face value - there are about a thousand survivors this year, but the WHO's numbers for survivors are under-counting both survivors and fatalities. In addition to this reservoir of one (or a few) thousand survivors there "should" also be a couple thousand survivors for each year going back to somewhere between 8 and 15 years (with the caveat that the human body does appear to stop producing ebola antibodies after a few years based on research into other strains). Once you get over the initial hurdle of the research required into using survivors anti-bodies for a treatment (which has not been conclusively proven for ebola), then the 64k dollar question is whether last year's survivors antibodies could also be used against this years virus, and if so, does the same hold true for the previous years survivors, because the EBOV/ZEBOV species of the virus is estimated to naturally evolve at a rate of 7x10-4 nucleotide substitutions per site per year.

It's a shitload of work to do, which is exactly why Mr. CEO needs to "get to work"...

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/7/13-1265_article
http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/clock-rooting-further-demonst...
http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/phylogenetic-analysis-of-guin...

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:51 | 5086356 Dickweed Wang
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She is a conspiracy theorist for sure . . . .

Conspiracy "researcher" is a much more appropriate term.  Conspiracy "theorist" was coined by the CIA to dismiss folks that had problems with the "official" explanation of the JFK assassination.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 09:04 | 5086595 Urban Redneck
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Research is process of gathering evidence to support one's theory as to the nature or interpretation of a given (mutually agreed) set of facts. That evidence usually takes the form of additional facts which eliminate or reduce the probability of alternative interpretations of the given (mutually agreed) set of facts.

Once one has done the proper research, they proceed to advocacy, and fine tuning the presentation of their evidence for a given audience. It is possible that Jane Bürgermeister just has some truly incompetent advocates and no skill in advocacy herself. However, the research that accompanies her advocacy is not evidence, the "research" is unsubstantiated theories (and poorly organized and laid out at that).

There is a reason they make people get a lawyer who has passed an exam which supposedly (or at least used to) demonstrates a basic proficiency in both the technique advocacy and reading of the laws before they file lawsuits. Apparently, things have changed since I was at university, because no advocate would call this evidence to substantiate this claim. (Then again, I never sat for the bar exam since the 8000-hour two-year meat grinder that the banking industry was offering paid a fuck-ton more... and hookers and blow on the company's dime beats being a shyster's bitch any day of the week) When lawyers like whoever filed that crap have enough years to be appointed judges, the State will achieve an absolute 100% conviction rate of the serfs. If you think the legal system is evil and corrupt now, you are going to hate and fear what's coming down the pike...

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 10:18 | 5086975 dizzyfingers
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..."you are going to hate and fear what's coming down the pike... "

Already do, prescient warning but singing to the choir here(?).

Wiki says Model State Emergency Health Powers act has passed in 33 states  (might be more by now). More power of the democracy mob at slightly lower administrative level. Next it'll be street by street. ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_State_Emergency_Health_Powers_Act

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 12:58 | 5087816 IndyPat
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Good stuff.

The following external link from that might be helpful.
My state actually snuffed the more draconian parts and watered down the two they passed. (Indiana)

http://www.publichealthlaw.net/Resources/ResourcesPDFs/MSPHA%20LegisTrac...

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 15:45 | 5088687 Joe A
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The term doesn't mean she is wrong but I get your point. Cheers.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 00:43 | 5085805 tumblemore
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Assuming they are lying about something as they always are one simple possibility is like with HIV there is a sexual transmission element they don't want to talk about.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 00:44 | 5085808 KingTut
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You would think world health organizations would provide sufficient protective suits, this is not the case.  More than likely these workers were simply not protected.  This is the poorest part of Africa, not Greenwich CT.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 13:03 | 5087832 IndyPat
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Grannies croak in CT hospitals from less aggressive pathogens than Ebola and the pathogens they contracted were totally unrelated to the reason of their initial hospitalization.
This is nation wide, Every doctor at my wife's hospital was just tested for Resistant TB. It's out there...with other fun friends as well.

To put it more clearly...our hospitals are Petri dishes.
Sick people go there and lazy fucks clean it.
So there's that.

What was that about Africa..and protocols?

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 01:05 | 5085850 EZYJET PILOT
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It's bullshit, i'ts just another fake scare to get people to take a vaccine, the vaccine will be the killer. Wouldn't mind betting the number of dead healthcare people is lies or they took the vaccine. Come on, people on this web site should know better. Viruses don't just come out of nowhere and start killing.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 01:38 | 5085931 lasvegaspersona
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EZ this is one time when a conspiracy theory is out of place.

YES, viruses DO just come out of nowhere and kill people. There is a ton of shit that can kill, or worse, you especially in the tropics! Measles used to cause mental retardation if it effected the brain (encephalopathy). We who have survived without that problem wonder what the big deal is. The parents and physicians of victims see thing a whole lot differently.

Vaccines have caused the number of involved patients and families to drop. There are not that many 'examples' to point to and say ...'see'!  For this you should be grateful.

One way to tell if something is solid or questionable is to see what well trained doctors do with their kids and family members.

Tonsillectomy and hysterectomy...no..they usually don't. vaccination..yes they do.

For those who get to see medical problems up close these decisions are easy.

 

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 01:06 | 5085851 Spungo
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It's not in the air. Those doctors just don't want to admit they were fucking their patients.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 13:09 | 5087850 IndyPat
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Yeah, buddy.

Nothing makes me get a big ol raging boner than a chick bleeding out of her eyes, ears, nose and asshole. That's hawt!

Dildo. Complete dildo. If I were Tyler, I'd smack your mom.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 01:06 | 5085852 freedogger
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And there's the woman taking a taxi ride that gave it to all five passengers ( guess they all sat in the back right?). The top medical experts getting this have survived previous ebola outbreaks haven't they? Then there is something different about this one.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 01:11 | 5085860 JoJoJo
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The health workers are not always wearing the space suits. Ebola lives quite happily in monkeys, fruit bats and other bushmeat. These animals,dead,alive, eaten or not can transmit ebola in bites,scratches as well as their feces which is EVERYWHERE. Favorite foods are monkey and fruit bat - chuck full of Ebola. Caused by Global Warming induced food shortage according to the environmentally ill at Washington Post.

 

 

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 01:27 | 5085885 lasvegaspersona
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Unicorn scabies and elephant pox and tiger measles are all due to global warming...and those don't even exist in the real, non WAPO world....it just take hope!..or something like that 

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 01:22 | 5085867 lasvegaspersona
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As a physician of over 40 years I know that the procedures for isolation are usually not followed...ask your local infectious disease specialist. There are several types of isolation. Some are to protect the patient from outside sources and some to protect the staff. Training is required to learn and correctly carry out the practices. In most hospitals it is uncommon the really require isolation but it is commonly ordered. This leads to lax practices because an attitude that 'this is being done for show' develops. 

I would think that an epidemic would really really try to impress the staff with the real need for isolation at the correct LEVEL. I can imagine that, before there are deaths that the staff might not get the message. It is also possible (though I do not know in this case) that staff was not fully trained.

Whatever happened there was a lapse! These procedures do work. If I were trained I would not hesitate to treat ebola patients. I'd first want to know that the people in charge knew what they were doing AND that EVERYONE involved adhered to good practices. It would only take one slip up to allow fluids to be transmitted outside the isolation area. Once there it could rapidly be spread.

I worked in a hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland in the early 70s. There had an outbreak of hepatitis B in a dialysis unit before I got there. Doctors , nurses, techs and patients died in the dozens. By the rime I arrive their procedure were solid. The price they paid to get to that level of seriousness was high. Two transplant surgeons died. That was a high cost to society, those guys takes a lot of training.

So ...the right teams could do this safely. It is a fact that there were screw ups in the past.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 03:19 | 5086045 MsCreant
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Thanks for posting this. Very reassuring to hear from those who have had some experience. Sounds like if folks can get up to speed quick enough we could, mostly, be okay here. Sounds like that high cost is taking place in Africa, now. Hope it scares the shit out of the right people. You sound pragmatic. Thanks again.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 13:14 | 5087868 IndyPat
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..."Hope it scares the shit out of the right people. "

Abandon that hope right fucking quick. Those "right people" put them on a plane and flew them here.

That's all you need to know.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 08:44 | 5086502 Uncle Remus
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You have a point, but I contend that it has in fact gone airborne and nobody wants to fess up. Self-preservation would seem to dictate that one would take every isolation precaution available and seriously so.

No, this is spreading because the isolation procedures and equipment are only adequate to the presumed means of disease transmission. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING is beneath TPTB to protect the status quo. Absolutely nothing.

My wife is in microbiology.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 10:25 | 5087012 dizzyfingers
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Uncle Remus  this is spreading because the isolation procedures and equipment are only adequate to the presumed means of disease transmission. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING is beneath TPTB to protect the status quo. Absolutely nothing.

Ditto.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 14:44 | 5088308 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Given that you know someone directly related to microbiology I will state that contemporary microbiology has absolutely zero capability to detect superbugs in the environment and the Metrology of Superbugs

is antiquated in so far as one is limited by measures that come from

lab testing that has a turnover rate of approximately three hours. In brief, Infectious Disease MDs get a reading every three hours from the lab which limits the window of opportunity to detect pathogens in the environment by sample data from infected patients. Actual environmental metrics through appropriate metrology is presently

non-existent. Top global Clinical Microbiologists in the world are screaming for systematic investigation into detection and the rate of new discoveries of new superbugs is approximate one per week now. Protocols for housekeeping in tertiary level teaching hospitals

is the only defence contemporary microbiology offers up here. There is so syetmatic Superbug Metrology for environments as opposed to (Ss) patients. Detection in airports is through survey

level data and that is the lowest level of empirical data with the least amount of efficacy over sampling.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 09:52 | 5086838 IridiumRebel
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My wife did work in Sierra Leone in 2008 and said that they reuse a lot of things like gloves and surgical tools due to lack of resources. Operating rooms are, oftentimes, open air so yes...I just hope there is nothing more going on and you are correct. My wife believes that mosquitoes and aeroslized viral passage are possible. 

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 01:16 | 5085868 Oxygen
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Have you ever see the new movie
'Goodbye World'
It's really interessting
It's about the End of the World
And they talk about Ebola and
Said if's the world virus ever..
Look like Hollywood try to prepare
Population for what is it coming..

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:45 | 5086339 Dickweed Wang
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It's called predictive programming.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 10:25 | 5087030 Uncle Remus
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Or self-fulfilling prophecy.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 01:29 | 5085882 AgentScruffy
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"On Monday, Mapp, the company that makes the drug, said that the "available supply of ZMapp is exhausted” and that it had sent the remaining doses to a West African country, the Washington Post reports

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/who-says-zmapp-ethical-too-bad-...

Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. said in a brief online statement it had complied with every request for the drug that had the necessary legal and regulatory authorization. The company said it provided the drug, called ZMapp, at no cost in all cases. San Diego-based Mapp didn't name any countries that requested the drug and didn't release additional details.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/maker-of-experimental-zmapp-ebola-drug-sa...

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 02:05 | 5085963 Haager
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Stunning. Could've been due to Anopheles and Cullicidae, adding to a possible contamination by air. 170 people on a total of 1700 is too high to be a contamination 'by mistake'.

Stunning, too,that the US has just recently sent troops to the border to 'fight illegal immigration'. It could be a counter measure in advance by someone who already knows what is going to happen.

And the most stunning fact is this: Bringing infected health-workers/priests back into their home countries, trusting in the superiority of 'their' national health-system. 

Since I don't believe in coincidence I consider it a possibilty that this is a planned attempt to spread the disease, pushing it into a pandemia.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 06:40 | 5086224 Farqued Up
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We are all aware of the frailty of the supermax health care system here in the States. A friend went into an university for a liver transplant only to die of staph prior to the transplant. My mother went to the hospital in Houston loaded with cheap Nigerian nurses and one emptied her bedpan in her lavatory within 4' of her bed with me looking! There's a hospital admin idiot somewhere that hates my guts. Makes us even.

The mighty sacrosanct Duke U. Hospital killed a young lady during a lung-heart transplant because they used the organs of a different blood type. Criminal.

Moral of the story: Stay out of hospitals, as Willie Horton would say, they are where the diseases are. Extrapolate that to Ebola, keep Americans out of Africa, and everyone else that wants to live. Oh wait, what about the oil, gold, silver, platinum, palladium, etc.? Forget it, load the wagons and roll! Take one of Jeremiah Peabody's Little Green and Purple Pills, good to go. Thank you Ray Stevens.

Ebola is staph on steroids. 

 

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 02:30 | 5085988 are we there yet
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It is summer in hot sweaty un-air conditioned Africa filled with Mosquitos biting people. Some have Ebola.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 02:39 | 5085997 dirty belly
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You have to clean out your colon and intestine with vinegar and start on apple cider vinegar at least 8 table spoons a day with filtered water.  Then take oil of oregano, either strong drops or in capsule.  The drops are the strongest and have to get in your stomach by putting the drops on a green leafy vegetable, swallow whole with the apple cider and water.  You can do it if you really want to kill off just about anything in your colon and intestine.  In some really bad fungal infections, this simple routine may have to be done for a year or more.  It will clean you out along with probably years of fungus built up all inside you everywhere. 

Look at these links and copy and go ahead and make your jokes and adolescent comments, but we are talking being well here and staying well.

http://www.enema-health.com/apple-cider-vinegar-enema.htm

http://www.uncleharrys.com/store/aromatherapy-oils/essential-oils/90-car...

 

Wild Mediterranean Oil of Oregano

In the modern world you need a remedy that works. An ancient remedy comes to the rescue! Antibiotic resistant bacteria, killer flus, food poisoning and more are all in a day's work for Wild Mediterranean Oregano oil. Oregano oil has proven itself in lab testing against the "germs" that cause common illnesses. Even antibiotic resistant mutant bacterial strains have no defense against Oregano oil.

 

Proven properties of Oregano oil:

Immune modulator

Antibacterial

Antifungal

Antiviral

Anti-parasitic

Anti-carcinogenic

Antioxidant

Antivenom

Analgesic

Expectorant

Antimutagenic

Antiplaque

Anti-inflammatory

Antirheumatic

Anti-toxic

Digestive

and more!

 

Internal use:
  • Improving immune function
  • Acne, allergies, asthma
  • Arthritis
  • Autoimmune disorders
  • Bad breath, bronchitis
  • Bladder infections
  • Candida infections
  • Bloating
  • Colds, cough
  • Childhood diseases
  • Colitis, Crohn's
  • Dengue fever
  • Eczema, earache
  • Fatigue, food poisoning, flu
  • Gastritis, gallbladder
  • Headache, hepatitis, herpes
  • Indigestion, irritable bowel
  • Kidney infection
  • Pneumonia, psoriasis, parasites
  • Prostate disorders
  • Sinusitis, sore throat, stomach ulcers
  • Urinary tract infections and more.

Directions: Start with 2-3 drops under the tongue 2-3x daily. Hold under tongue a minute or two to increase absorption. Heat sensation is normal. Swish around in the mouth to reduce plaque and treat gum disease. Dosage levels may be slowly increased over a few weeks to a maximum of 4-6 drops up to 6x daily in cases of stubborn health challenges. Take immediately at the first symptom of a cold or flu; take a couple of drops every hour and drink lots of water. Treat Candida infection gradually, starting with low dosages and slowly increasing to maximum dosages over a two week time frame. Add to questionable drinking water to kill pathogens.

 

Children: For ease of use avoid oral administration of Oregano oil in children under eight. Rub a drop or two on the soles of the feet and/or dilute 3x with olive oil to rub along the spine. Place a few drops on a tissue or cloth and put by the bedside at night to help with colds, flu and chest congestion. For earaches rub a drop around the outside circumference of the ear, morning and evening. Never put Oregano oil in the ear canal. Older children who can tolerate the taste can be given 2-3 drops with a spoon of honey or added to juice or consomme.

 

The importance of drinking water: Oregano oil kills pathogens. These bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites leave toxins in the blood when they die. These toxins can cause a Herxheimer reaction, commonly known as a healing crisis, with symptoms such as fatigue, headache or flu-like symptoms. By drinking water throughout the day your body is able to flush these toxins away before symptoms can occur. Spring water is best.

Vinegar is one of the most underrated remedies in the world. It is used by people as a cleanser, and medicine. you can use vinegar to clean your windows, stain remover, chewing gum dissolver. It can also be used in an enema solution to increase the acidity in the colon. The PH factor in the colon and small intestine need to stay in the optimum range to function correctly. When the urinary pH is between 6.5 in the a.m. and 7.5 in the evening, your body is functioning in a healthy range.
6.5 being alkaline, 7.5 being acidic. Apple Cider Vinegar has been  used as a successful remedy for a number of ailments, including a method of dissolving internal stones in horses.   Humans tend to abuse their bodies under some strange theory that we are invincible, allowing  huge amounts of waste matter  to accumulate within the system.  Occasionally the body could do with some help.
 Apple cider vinegar contains over forty vitamins and minerals.  It releases toxins from the liver and gallbladder and has helped, people with high blood pressure, and many other problems. Other ailments helped by consuming apple cider vinegar are people with high cholesterol, insomnia and fatigue, liver and kidney problems, asthma, plus many more.  After prescription pharmaceuticals entered the world, people tend to forget about alternative healing methods that can help cure or reduce the aches and pains that we spend thousands of dollars on daily. In enemas, try to hold the vinegar and water mixture about 5 or 10 minutes before releasing it.. This will allow for greater absorption in the colon.

http://owndoc.com/candida-albicans/candida-facts/

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 04:16 | 5086099 Wild tree
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True that Belly. I have taken Z-packs and everything in between to keep from drowning to death when I get sick with respiratory ailments from being a Type 1 diabetic for the last thirty years. I am now 60.

A year ago, I came across some testimonals from users of oil of Oregano. I tried it, and it works. At the onset of me feeling stuffy or rundown, I take three pills a day at morning, lunch, and supper for about a week. Each pill contains three drops of 100% Oil of Oregano. Bought the capsules off Amazon, along with a manual pill assembly machine, and make them myself. The oil taken by itself leaves a lot to be desired.

I have routinely taken Apple cider as well in the form of vegtable dip and used in barbeque sauce.

I have been well now for the year I have been taking the oil of Oregano, the first time in the last thirty years of being free to breathe.

True that.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:33 | 5086317 MassDecep
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Thanks for the information. I will try this.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:42 | 5086331 Dickweed Wang
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Personally, I prefer a Tabasco enema . . .

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:45 | 5086342 Ban KKiller
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Treats fistulas as well.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 08:06 | 5086380 Farqued Up
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Good info except that a pH below 7.0 is acidic and above 7.0 is basic, or alkaline.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 13:30 | 5087937 IndyPat
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Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

To cure Ebola...

You need 1 shot glass, three candles, I bottle of rum (dark), 1 cigar (Cuban) 1 Jobu statue and a python.

They have tried voodoo over there already, folks. It didn't work.

Jobu very angry. Es very bad.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 03:04 | 5086025 rbianco3
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Who is not going to work tomorrow and spending the day buying food and water? Mr. boss can find someone else or I want hazard pay.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 03:18 | 5086044 ironymonger
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Wow, yeah, except for the fact that the outbreaks occur in locations with 98% humidity. And that the HC workers have to scrub into vinyl suits that basically sweat the workers to death.

Yeah, how can these HC workers become infected after shedding protective gear after 3 -4 shifts with no relief in sight?

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 03:20 | 5086047 Ms No
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Lets just hope these assclowns tinkering with virus for the last 40 years engineered it to lose virility quickly.  That way they maximize the big scare (bodies liquifying, oh the horror), cash in on their panic-purchase frenzy with their miracle cure (that just happened to be ready to go in the fridge) and then this thing dies out.

Then, lets hope that the coincidence theorists get a clue.... GOOD GAWD, they went public within two days of flying infected into the country for crying out loud.  Sorry Africa, the cure was unavailable 4 months ago. 

Then, lets hope that Russia investigates and finds some evidence and narks these bastards out because we all know that 70% of the population in the US believes in incredible coincidence occuring constantly, hope wont be coming from here.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 03:30 | 5086057 barre-de-rire
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"ass clowns "

 

ass again. you definitivly take if from the ass. you are here in ZH our national cauliflower :) any pictures available ?

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 03:36 | 5086067 Ms No
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Yeah, I guess with those psychology theories on word choice I should probably tone down the ass comments but I am definitely not down with the Cauliflower... that's just weird.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 05:08 | 5086147 MsCreant
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You are letting a poster named barre-de-rire hassle you about ass posts?

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:39 | 5086328 Dickweed Wang
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His/Her avatar is a close-up picture of his/her asshole . . . . and it has TEETH!

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 03:32 | 5086062 Ms No
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And on another note, people are too quick to dismiss the opinions of Africans.  You don't have to have a pot to piss in or know how to read to have common sense. These people have been experimented on for ages, they know the drill (remember African mothers burning their children with corn kernels to fein vaccination, now you know why) I have repeatedly seen references to locals claiming the whole thing is overblown if not outright fraudulent, this is a possibility also.  It is doubtful that there is anyone overseeing the disease positive determinations or even checking that the samples didnt all come from the same source. 

All options are on the table with this crowd... except the truth.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 03:33 | 5086064 Aussiekiwi
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Puzzled how so many health workers in protective suits are getting infected.......airborne.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 03:54 | 5086082 Global Observer
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If the virus is so deadly that a mere exposure can infect the patient, infection has a fatality rate of over 50% and there is no explanation as to how it has been spreading, there are no precautions that can be taken to prevent its spread.

Your best chance of survival is your immunity to the virus, that is you don't get infected even with an exposure to the virus.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 03:55 | 5086084 The Magus
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OK, so the number of deaths is officially ~1000. Let's suppose the number is really ~2000. So what? Around 6000 people died of malaria today.

As my mother would say, this is a storm in a teacup.

 


Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:35 | 5086319 Dickweed Wang
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10 cases in Lagos Nigeria equates to .00005% of the population there.  My guess is they have a hundred times more people dying of HIV/AIDS than Ebola.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 04:13 | 5086096 CHX
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If there is no answer to an obvious question, the answer is obvious.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 04:18 | 5086102 The Magus
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He said with more feeling than logic.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 04:24 | 5086105 Ms No
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Well on the bright side, maybe hospital staff will finally be pressured out of wearing their damn scrubs at restaurants and grocery stores.  And, if you head on out into the epidemic and are among the first infected and survive.... it may be a great opportunity to upsurp that psychopath you work under... maybe even some hazard pay.  Even when your bleeding out of your eye sockets and arse there is always a bright side ( ;   

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 05:06 | 5086145 Invinciblehandaxe
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I wonder whether MMS in large doses would kill that Ebola virus.

It can kill Malaria in like 4 hours in large doses.

So I rather puke and shit myself from a large MMS dose

than bleed out of my ass from Ebola.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 13:28 | 5086300 Dickweed Wang
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I wonder whether MMS in large doses would kill that Ebola virus.

There has been some pretty convincing research done that showed mega-doses of intravenous vitamin C followed by mega-doses of oral vitamin C could potentially stop Ebola in it's tracks.  The gist of the study done was that the symptoms of Ebola, capillary collapse which leads to massive bleeding from all bodily orifices, are very much like severe scurvy - which is caused by a lack of vitamin C.  When they looked at the blood chemistry of Ebola patients they found there was ZERO vitamin C in the blood.  Apparently the treatment of mega-doses of vitamin C reverses the symptoms very quickly. The main problem with this treatment is the initial mega-doses of vitamin C have to be administered via an IV because the body can only absorb so much via the gastrointestinal tract.  Funny how this treatment has not been reported much. I guess it's not neus worthy if Big-Pharma can't make a few 100 million bucks off it. 

Here's an excerpt from the article where I saw this information:

"The very first symptoms of ebola are exactly the same as scurvy, which is caused by inadequate vitamin C. Though scurvy is seldom fatal as a primary condition, scurvy also represents only a partial deficiency of vitamin C, the body still has a LOT of vitamin C compared to zero, which ebola causes. Absent ANY vitamin C, blood vessels become very weak and start to lose blood, and platelets become ineffective and unable to trigger clots. So death by ebola is caused by massive internal bleeding and loss of blood, which can be stopped simply by taking enormous doses of vitamin C until the immune system succeeds in killing off the virus."

 

Ebola is probably the best known of a class of viruses known as hemorrhagic fever viruses. In fact, Ebola virus was initially recognized in 1976. Other less known but related viral syndromes include yellow fever, dengue hemorrhagic fever, Rift Valley fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Kyasanur Forest disease, Omsk hemorrhagic fever, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever, Brazilian hemorrhagic fever, Argentine hemorrhagic fever, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, and Lassa fever. The Ebola virus infection, also known as African hemorrhagic fever, has the distinction of having the highest case-fatality rate of the viral infections noted above, ranging from 53% to 88%.

These viral hemorrhagic fever syndromes share certain clinical features. The Cecil Textbook of Medicine notes that these diseases are characterized by capillary fragility, which translates to easy bleeding, that can frequently lead to severe shock and death. These diseases also tend to consume and/or destroy the platelets, which play an integral role in blood clotting. The clinical presentation of these viral diseases is similar to scurvy, which is also characterized by capillary fragility and a tendency to bleed easily. Characteristic skin lesions develop, which are actually multiple tiny areas of bleeding into the skin that surround the hair follicles. some cases even include bleeding into already healed scars.

In the classic form of scurvy that evolves very slowly from the gradual depletion of vitamin C body stores, the immune system will be sufficiently compromised for infection to claim the patient’s life before the extensive hemorrhage that occurs after all vitamin C stores have been completely exhausted. Ebola virus and the other viral hemorrhagic fevers are much more likely to cause hemorrhaging before any other fatal infection has a chance to become established. This is because the virus so rapidly and totally metabolizes and consumes all available vitamin C in the bodies of the victims that an advanced stage of scurvy is literally produced after only a few days of the disease.

  The scurvy is so complete that the blood vessels generally cannot keep from hemorrhaging long enough to allow an infective complication to develop. Also, the viral hemorrhagic fevers typically only take hold and reach epidemic proportions in those populations that would already be expected to have low body stores of vitamin C, such as is found in many of the severely malnourished Africans. In such individuals, an infecting hemorrhagic virus will often wipe out any remaining vitamin C stores before the immune systems can get the upper hand and initiate recovery. When the vitamin C stores are rapidly depleted by large infecting doses of an aggressive virus, the immune system gets similarly depleted and compromised. However, this point is largely academic after hemorrhaging throughout the body has begun.

To date, no viral infection has been demonstrated to be resistant to the proper dosing of vitamin C as classically demonstrated by Klenner. However, not all viruses have been treated with Klenner-sized vitamin C doses, or at least the results have not been published. Ebola viral infection and the other acute viral hemorrhagic fevers appear to be diseases that fall into this category. Because of the seemingly exceptional ability of these viruses to rapidly deplete vitamin C stores, even larger doses of vitamin C would likely be required in order to effectively reverse and eventually cure infections caused by these viruses.

Cathcart (1981), who introduced the concept of bowel tolerance to vitamin C discussed earlier, hypothesized that Ebola and the other acute viral hemorrhagic fevers may well require 500,000 mg of vitamin C daily to reach bowel tolerance! Whether this estimate is accurate, it seems clear as evidenced by the scurvy-like clinical manifestations of these infections that vitamin C dosing must be vigorous and given in extremely high doses. If the disease seems to be winning, then even more vitamin C should be given until symptoms begin to lessen. Obviously, these are viral diseases that would absolutely require high doses of vitamin C intravenously as the initial therapy. The oral administration should begin simultaneously, but the intravenous route should not be abandoned until the clinical response is complete. Death occurs too quickly with the hemorrhagic fevers to be conservative when dosing the vitamin C. (from Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins:Curing the Incurable by Thomas E. Levy MD JD)

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 14:29 | 5088255 palmereldritch
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Interesting info, please provide a link.

Such treatment would be consistent with Pauling et al (now demonstrated to be effective cancer treatment http://www.chelationbc.com/vitc.html and http://www.cmaj.ca/content/174/7/937.full) and the proposition that a significant amount of cancer cases are the result of viral infections

http://www.sv40foundation.org/ 

http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2013/07/12/cdc-admits-as-many-as-30-mill...

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 05:15 | 5086153 Gief Gold Plox
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Quote:

...Ebola infections in doctors and missionaries appear to be driven by false negatives. Initial symptoms of Ebola can mimic Malaria, which is not infectious. Ebola is detected in blood, but initial testing can produce false negatives because a positive requires relatively high viral loads.

The PPE's being used for suspected Ebola cases is very cumbersome to put on and take off and are also very hot. Thus, such PPE's are not used while treating non-infectious patients, such as those who are thought to have malaria because Ebola tests are negative.

Source: flutracker

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 05:58 | 5086178 Lord Flashheart
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Nigeria oil US bio warfare scare journalists chinese medical team sent, sth like that...

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 06:03 | 5086182 SweetDoug
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I'll print this again.

 

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Ebola is already ‘airborne’.

They are lying to you utilizing the deception that nobody is asking, and certainly nobody is providing a suitable explanation or definition of exactly what “airborne” means.

Here’s what is an example of this deliberate obfuscation…

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The Most Destructive Myths About Ebola Virus, Debunked
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/06/ebola-myths_n_5655662.html

Myth: Ebola virus is airborne, waterborne or spreads through casual contact.
In Western hospitals, transmission is easily prevented with precautionary measures like face masks, gloves, protective gowns and isolation units.
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“Airborne” means, it can survive in an aerosolized state.

From Wikipedia…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_disease
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Airborne diseases include any that are caused by pathogens and transmitted through the air. Some are of great medical importance. The pathogens transmitted may be any kind of microbe, and they may be spread in aerosols of dust or liquids. The aerosols might be generated from sources of infection such as the bodily secretions of an infected animal or person, or biological wastes such as accumulate in lofts, caves, garbage and the like. Such infected aerosols may stay suspended in air currents long enough to travel for considerable distances on air currents, though the rate of infection decreases sharply with the distance between the source and the organism infected.
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Also, just for $#!+$ and giggles, no pun intented! Read the piece as well,

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“fecal-oral route, which means that one person has expelled stool contaminated with a pathogen and another person has consumed that stool (hence the outrage when news outlets expose the amount of fecal matter present on escalator rails and doorknobs”

http://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/infectious/infection...
Yummy down on that one, eh! But I digress…
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Then! Read the safety data sheet on ebola from Canada!

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php

Let me quote…
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MODE OF TRANSMISSION: Humans may be infected by handling sick or dead non-human primates and are also at risk when handling the bodies of deceased humans in preparation for funerals, suggesting possible transmission through aerosol droplets (2, 6, 28). In the laboratory, infection through small-particle aerosols has been demonstrated in primates, and airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected, although it has not yet been conclusively demonstrated (1, 6, 13). The importance of this route of transmission is not clear. Poor hygienic conditions can aid the spread of the virus (6).

INFECTIOUS DOSE: 1 - 10 aerosolized organisms are sufficient to cause infection in humans (21).

SURVIVAL OUTSIDE HOST: The virus can survive in liquid or dried material for a number of days (23). Infectivity is found to be stable at room temperature or at 4°C for several days
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Aerosolization. Now you get it? You know… Sneezing!? Coughing?!

Like the common cold, in other words. Spreads like the flu.

And it survives in a liquid, OR DRIED MATERIAL (feces, spit, sweat… Handrails, doorknobs, money…) for ‘a number of days’. Wipe your sweaty forehead and open the door?…

Reviewing medical sites, it also appears that you are infectious during the 3-21 incubation period, while other sites, this tidbit remains glaringly ambiguous.

But don’t take my word for it! Take… THE CDC’s! They just revised its criteria on the virus and contracting it, but you have to read the footnotes!
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http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/case-definition.html

“Epidemiologic risk factors within the past 21 days before the onset of symptoms, such as contact with blood or other body fluids or human remains of a patient known to have or suspected to have EVD”

1 Casual contact is defined as a) being within approximately 3 feet (1 meter) or within the room or care area for a prolonged period of time (e.g., healthcare personnel, household members) while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment (i.e., droplet and contact precautions–see Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations); or b) having direct brief contact (e.g., shaking hands) with an EVD case while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment (i.e., droplet and contact precautions–see Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations). At this time, brief interactions, such as walking by a person or moving through a hospital, do not constitute casual contact.
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and if you follow the link from the above…

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/infection-prevention-and-control-recomm...

You get this…

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“use a combination of measures to reduce exposures from aerosol-generating procedures when performed on Ebola HF patients”

“Conduct the procedures in a private room and ideally in an Airborne Infection Isolation Room (AIIR) when feasible. Room doors should be kept closed during the procedure except when entering or leaving the room, and entry and exit should be minimized during and shortly after the procedure”
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IT’S AIRBORNE.

Ask yerselfs: “How do medical professionals, trained specifically in treating this disease, account for such a high %tage of the dead with all the precautions they’re taking??”

Dum-de-dum-dummm… Dum-dee-dummm… Dum-da-dum-dum--dum-dum-dum!

When the people put two and two together, there will be sheer, unadulterated, panic.

•?•
V-V

PS. I’m just do’in the math people. That’s why I post sources and links. Tell me I’m wrong. Please!

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 06:37 | 5086221 dearth vader
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Thanks for this, sweetDoug, it confirms my dire suspicions.

One remark: to produce aerosols there's no need for coughing or sneezing. Plain breathing suffices imo. In any case, the light respiration of a sleeping person is enough for any mosquito to pick up the trail.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 06:41 | 5086209 buzzsaw99
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aids basically requires butt sex to acquire and it kills 2 million per year. this thing can be transmitted in a hundred different ways with a high and fast death rate. this doom is for real.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 06:43 | 5086230 Kyddyl
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Hundreds of dead in the streets..."Gangs roaming the streets threatening to burn down hospitals"...Why aren't the gangs being decimated? Are really, really stupid people immune?

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:01 | 5086251 buzzsaw99
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burning down the hospitals might be a really good idea actually

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 06:53 | 5086241 Pumpkin
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Because those health workers probably took some type of immunizations injects to 'help' protect them.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 06:56 | 5086245 rsnoble
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Are the workers put in decontamination chambers before taking off equipment?

Are they only working a couple hours at a time so they can stay aware?

What's done with the suits afterwards?  Ebola can live outside it's host for days.

What freaked me out about the victims coming to the US was thinking about times i've been in the hospital and seen how non-alert some people are after working 15hr shifts. One screw up after another.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:05 | 5086254 buzzsaw99
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i'm guessing ebola is on/in everything over there. surfaces, insects, water, sewage, body fluids. Decontamination chamber notion is absurd in that environment.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:06 | 5086257 danpos
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Ebola is interesting, but in my view, it's not one of the major problems the world faces today.  It's not even among the diseases that cause the most problems -- flu, measles, cancer, tuberculosis, AIDS, heart disease, malaria...

Ebola first appeared in 1976.  So it's been around for nearly four decades.  By the time AIDS had been around that long, it had caused millions of deaths.  Ebola has killed thousands.  And not with exponential growth.  It killed a few hundred here or there when it was first discovered.  It kills a few hundred here or there, once in awhile, now.

It's very hard to transmit, and people who transmit it tend to be visibly sick.  That it kills fairly quickly also makes it harder, not easier, to transmit.

I'm much more concerned about, say, a flu pandemic like the one in 1918 that killed tens of millions.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:25 | 5086290 buzzsaw99
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 That it kills fairly quickly also makes it harder, not easier, to transmit...

 

Oh really? One survivor who was working in a hospital lost his entire family. Seventeen people in all, just in HIS FAMILY. 170 health care workers caught this shit. When was the last time you saw 170 health workers all catch aids?

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 12:56 | 5087805 dizzyfingers
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"Ebola first appeared in 1976."

"First appeared" may mean "first named after being identified as a formerlly unknown cause of disease", or it could mean "first appeared" but I doubt the latter. It's probably been around for a long time but not as dangerous as now or not as widespread.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:17 | 5086271 acrabbe
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Where's the evidence that this shit is really happening? All I've seen so far are a bunch of news stories and videos of people moving body bags around. Nothing definitive. CDC and WHO are alphabet agencies firmly under the control of the cabal / cartel / shadow gov / whatever you want to call them. we all know the media is a pile of shit, so no real investigative journalism will come from their end.

The DoD has been leading a Consortium of companies doing bioweapons research at the Kenema Gov Hospital in Sierra Leonne since 2006. It's very well known. They've been working with arenaviruses like ebola, lassa fever, marburg, etc. When you look at the people involved it makes you go HMM.... Soros Foundation, Bill and MElinda Gates Foundation, Schripps Research institute, harvard uni, tulane uni, Corgenix Medical corp, Autoimmune technologies llc, u of cali san diego, u of texas medical branch, and other west african partners. The program was recently SHUT DOWN / RELOCATED / BURIED after a WHO DOCTOR started outing their crazy research and experiemntation practices. People were listening because he was a really credible guy with a history of research, papers, etc. Then we get an outbreak? And this particular WHO doctor is DEAD from EBOLA? One of the first to die.

So, the question is, is this a hoax, a controlled release, or an ACCIDENT as a result of ILLEGAL RESEARCH? The latter would be the scariest option because it would mean that they didn't mean for this shit to happen and the most virulent strain that adapts/mutates to be most lethal could potentially set off a real pandemic.

This is Zerohedge, why is nobody talking about facts? "Oh man we are fucked" is all you can say??? What about the facts? The uncanny sequence of events??  There's more to this than we're being told.

If they could straight up FAKE sandy hook, the boston bombings, the colorado shootings, the capture and burial of osama, etc with straight up captured media assets, then imagine what they can pull on us when they take it to the next level and activate their international alphabet agency assets in the WHO and CDC?

Zerohedge has become a haven for a bunch of muppets. It must have become fashionable to be a zero hedge poster because now it's dominated by Paid Trolls and gullible pseudo-intellectuals who can't tell a False Flag from a Puppet Stick that's been jammed so far up their ass they sound like one of those dumb fucking reporters constantly spreading lies and fiction all over the airwaves. MUPPETHEDGE.

Troll Activation in 3... 2... 1...

“The Consortium is a collaboration between Tulane, Scripps Research Institute, Broad Institute, Harvard University, University of California at San Diego, University of Texas Medical Branch, Autoimmune Technologies LLC, Corgenix Medical Corporation, Kenema Government Hospital (Sierra Leone), Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (Nigeria) and various other partners in West Africa. - See more at: http://humansarefree.com/2014/08/breaking-us-bioweapons-lab-at-epicentre... “The Consortium is a collaboration between Tulane, Scripps Research Institute, Broad Institute, Harvard University, University of California at San Diego, University of Texas Medical Branch, Autoimmune Technologies LLC, Corgenix Medical Corporation, Kenema Government Hospital (Sierra Leone), Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (Nigeria) and various other partners in West Africa. - See more at: http://humansarefree.com/2014/08/breaking-us-bioweapons-lab-at-epicentre...
Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:23 | 5086286 himaroid
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Learn to profit from it.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:46 | 5086338 bombdog
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Why don't you go catch it and figure out the profits for us?

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 08:30 | 5086449 himaroid
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You missed the point.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:51 | 5086350 Urban Redneck
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Facts. (too many and too complex for most muppet minds to properly absorb, particularly when wearing Soros/Gates goggles to obstruct their vision and reason)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-11/who-warns-no-end-sight-170-ebol...

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 09:08 | 5086613 luckystars
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I think its possible that it is a hoax. So easy for them, bodies all covered up, too dangerous to bury.

Everyone with face covered. Who knows, they do like fear to keep you from questioning, and shelter in place is a great option for them. Now is the time for revolution, handy to have pandemic ready to go.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:27 | 5086297 himaroid
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OK, so it's no big deal. Try telling that to the stampede of panicked mofo's if this breaks out. Do you think that medical, transportation or any other worker will react the same, as if it is the flu?

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:38 | 5086325 3rd Pig
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My Answer: It works on the principle of the Star Trek team that beam down to the surface; the one member who wears the red shirt always gets killed.

My guess is when you are a health worker picking your suit; make sure the previous owner left no red bits on it.

 

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:49 | 5086343 sbfeibish
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Sounds like this is one case where the government should step in and, in a major way, fund the development of a vaccine/treatment.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:56 | 5086365 sam site
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It's telling that we brought back infested patients to the states instead of quarantining them in Africa.  Liberal and self-appointed expert Whoopi Goldberg called Donald Trump "Stupid" for critisizing bringing Ebola patients to America.

I would not be surprised if it ever gets revealed that this is just another way to scare the masses and drive them towards Big Government protection and control just like another false flag attack - 9-11.

The good news - This may kill off masses of pro-Big Government sheeple that obstruct our solving our many problems.

Protect yourself by building up your natural immune system with Natto and Liposomal Vitamin C.  Avoid Monopoly Quack Medicine with it's dangerous antibiotics, synthetic drugs that are foreign to the body and avoid bogus vaccines, mercury teeth fillings, GMO food and fluoridated water.  All a collosal hoax and in reality a poison delivery system by our Jesuit hidden rulers to control us.

 

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 10:44 | 5087135 dizzyfingers
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"Protect yourself by building up your natural immune system with Natto and Liposomal Vitamin C.  Avoid Monopoly Quack Medicine with it's dangerous antibiotics, synthetic drugs that are foreign to the body and avoid bogus vaccines, mercury teeth fillings, GMO food and fluoridated water.  All a collosal hoax and in reality a poison delivery system..."

Ditto x10. Don't eat anything your gggg-grandparents wouldn't recognize. Don't drink municicpal water. Don't use products that contain halogens (bromine, chlorine, fluorine). We do require iodine but don't supplement; use iodized salt AND sea salt.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 15:14 | 5088496 IndyPat
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And avoid those who would attempt to corrupt and impurity....
...our precious bodily fluids.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 07:57 | 5086368 Spungo
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Maybe we should use the ebola outbreak as an excuse to hang bankers

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 08:08 | 5086385 Ban KKiller
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+ one!

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 08:05 | 5086377 Ban KKiller
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Are you prepared to shelter in place for six weeks? 

So far bankster crime has killed more folks but that is sanctioned.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 08:24 | 5086430 limacon
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The reservoir and vectors are in plants .See https://www.academia.edu/7956770/Deader_guide_to_Ebola

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 10:34 | 5087094 dizzyfingers
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"The reservoir and vectors are in plants"

I believe this has happened in the US also, food plants picked in fields where no sanitation was provided. Washing the plants before eating didn't wash off the bacterium because plants picked it up from contaminated soil. BTW, soil and water are often contaminated and are vectors for disease. Source, my microbiologist friend.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 09:05 | 5086582 my_nym
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Just as predicted....

 

Just kidding.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 09:04 | 5086594 luckystars
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Doctors without Borders stated that they have never had a case amoung themselves because they are experts at using the protective gear and the dressing and undressing of it.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 09:11 | 5086632 Obamanism
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There have been many Ebola Outbreaks and very few Medical personnel infected. The personnel could be given experimental vaccine which have cross infected them.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 09:16 | 5086658 d edwards
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When you put infected people onto airplanes and fly them half way around the world, the virus has literally become airborne.

 

 

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 09:57 | 5086869 dizzyfingers
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"many Ebola Outbreaks and very few Medical personnel infected"...

If you know of records of few medical  personnel infected in other outbreaks, please give links. Do you work in biochem?

 

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 09:54 | 5086850 dizzyfingers
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Some are not telling the truth because they don't realize the truth(new strain of Zaire?, airborne), some know the truth and are lying because they don't want the publiic to know. Simple. Eventually all will claim "we didn't know" for various different reasons.

Has happened before, will happen again, similar to the financial plague, Wall Street's collapse of the world economy...

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 11:28 | 5087355 gcjohns1971
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Hard to say why.

Having the equipment isn't the same as knowing how to use it effectively.

Few health workers use this level of protective gear routinely.  Like with Chem/Bio gear for mlitaries - how you put it on, and how you take it off, and what are the procedures and facilities for doing that - are at least as important as the gear...and maybe more important.

Being truly sterile is more a question of behavior habits than of equipment, strictly speaking.  All the behavioral 'ticks' of touching oneself - scratching a chin, pensively resting ones head on a hand, folding of arms, etc. can all spread the infected material around the suit, thus making the chance of touching the infection while disrobing the suit more likley.

The traditional answer to all this is to be sprayed down with noxious chemicals when leaving the 'infected' area, and then disrobing in a 'safe' room, using a particular method for disrobing.  The protective gear must then all be destroyed for fear of lingering infection on it.   And ideally the room would then be sanitized to prevent the next person to disrobe from being infected by anything that dropped off the last person's suit.

Very doubtful that all of that can be done safely on a large scale in most any hospital anywhere.  Decontamination procedures become a bottleneck, and get modified as the scale of the epidemic increases. 

Probably the modified decon procedures or facilities & procedures used there cause health worker infections.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 11:49 | 5087478 NeverRetiring
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You're all assuming these workers had full suits just because it's in the Tyler's article. That obviously wasn't the case. The problem was (possibly still is) these workers likely weren't suited up until recently and likely treated the infected as if they had common flu symptoms. At that point it was too late.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 15:31 | 5088604 IndyPat
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Consider the locale.

This IS an area where EBV outbreaks have happened before and it's monitored.

Sure, the first person they treated in the beginning could have looked like flu....right up to the point of spraying blood and fluids like a garden hose.
I'm pretty sure once that phase hit, they all knew exactly what the fuck was going on.
Granted, quiet a few would have been infected up to that point, but not what we are seeing now.
Efforts to contain the worked before...aren't working now.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 12:28 | 5087666 matrix2012
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The following is a direct quote from Richard Preston's "The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus" (1995):

 

"In a sense, the earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human parasite, the flooding infection of people, the dead spots of concrete all over the planet, the cancerous rot-outs in Europe, Japan, and the United States, thick with replicating primates, the colonies enlarging and spreading and threatening to shock the biosphere with mass extinction. Perhaps the biosphere does not "like" the idea of five billion humans. Or it could also be said that the extreme amplification of the human race, which has occurred only in the past hundred years or so, has suddenly produced a very large quantity of meat, which is sitting everywhere in the biosphere and may not be able to defend itself against a life form that might want to consume it. Nature has interesting ways of balancing itself. The rain forest has its own defenses. The earth's immune system, so to speak, has recognized the presence of the human species and is starting to kick in. The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by the human parasite. Perhaps AIDS is the first step in a natural process of clearance."

 ~ End of quote

 

Note: in 1995 it came up with 5 billions of human's population; then nearly 20 years later it calls for 7 billions nowadays :-) lol

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 15:33 | 5088620 IndyPat
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That's pure 100% Agenda21 horseshit right there.
Predictive programming at its finest and you are lapping it up.

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 19:34 | 5089831 SweetDoug
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So here’s a key takeaway from the article…
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/07/ebola-experts-describe-...
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    Ken Isaacs, the vice president of Program and Government Relations for Samaritan’s Purse, painted an even bleaker picture. According to the World Health Organization, West Africa has counted 1,711 diagnoses and 932 deaths, already, which could represent only a small fraction of the true number. “We believe that these numbers represent just 25 to 50 percent of what is happening,” said Isaacs.

    In a six-hour meeting with the president of Liberia last week, Isaacs said workers from Samaritan’s Purse and SIM watched as the “somber” officials explained the gravity of the situation in their countries, where hundreds lie dead in the streets. “It has an atmosphere of apocalypse,” Isaacs said of the Liberia Ministry of Health’s status updates. “Bodies lying in the street…gangs threatening to burn down hospitals. I believe this disease has the potential to be a national security risk for many nations. Our response has been a failure.”
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When is the WHO and the CDC going to stop lying to us, and start counting all these dead bodies?

And who's counting all the bodies in the little towns that are stuck way back in the boonies in these countries?

I’m betting by the middle of September, the numbers might be 3-4000 dead.

Just do’in the math…

•J•
V-V

Thu, 08/14/2014 - 22:07 | 5095523 WalterWhite
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How can 170 workers have ebola?

How can three buildings be taken down with two planes?

Its all Bull@#$%!!!!

Wake up dummies

 

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