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Priest With Ebola Dies In Spanish Hospital As Eight Chinese Workers Quarantined
Sadly, the Spanish missionary priest who became infected with Ebola treating patients in Liberia has died in hospital in Madrid. As AP reports, Father Miguel Pajares died despite receiving the experimental drug ZMapp, and is one of 3 patients to receive it (the American doctors in Atlanta being the other 2). This morning the WHO confirmed the use of "experimental, unproven" Ebola drugs such as ZMapp was ethical in this situation, as the death toll tops 1000 in what WHO called the "most severe and most complex outbreak of Ebola virus disease in history." Perhaps most concerning of all this morning is news that China is quarantining 8 of its West African nurses (as the death toll among health workers surges).
A Spanish missionary priest being treated for Ebola died Tuesday in a Madrid hospital, authorities said.
Spain's Health Ministry said a day earlier that it had obtained a course of the U.S.-made experimental Ebola drug ZMapp to treat Father Miguel Pajares, 75.
Pajares died Tuesday at Carlos III Hospital, the hospital and his order said. The hospital would not confirm that he had been treated with the drug, but his order said earlier that he would be.
He is one of only three Ebola patients thought to have received the experimental drug. The others are two Americans evacuated to Atlanta.
Pajares, who was treating people with Ebola at the San Jose de Monrovia Hospital in Liberia when he became infected, was evacuated to Spain on Thursday. He worked for the San Juan de Dios hospital order, a Spain-based Catholic humanitarian group that runs hospitals around the world.
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The World Health Organization confirms use of experimental and unproven Ebola drugs is ethical:
- *WHO PANEL SAYS ETHICAL TO USE UNPROVEN EBOLA DRUGS
- *WHO: LOOKING AT 3 TYPES OF PRODUCTS TO TREAT EBOLA
- *WHO: HOPE THERE ARE MORE ZMAPP DOSES BY END OF YEAR
- *WHO: WE DON'T MAKE ANY CHOICES ON WHO GETS EBOLA DRUGS
- *WHO: IT'S A MARKET FAILURE THAT NO DRUG APPROVED FOR EBOLA
- *WHO: APPEARS THAT ZMAPP HAD `DRAMATIC' EFFECT ON 2 AMERICANS (but not on the Spanish priest)
- *WHO: DIFFICULT TO SAY WHETHER ZMAPP WORKS
- *WHO: IMPORTANT NOT TO GIVE FALSE HOPE ABOUT EBOLA DRUGS
An ethics panel ruled that the drugs, which have not yet passed clinical trials but have shown early promise in combating the virus, could provide a “potent asset” in the battle to contain the epidemic, which it called the “most severe and most complex outbreak of Ebola virus disease in history.”
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Perhaps even more concerning is China's quarantining its West African nurses (as the death toll among health workers surges):
Eight Chinese medical workers who treated patients with Ebola have been placed in quarantine in Sierra Leone, Beijing's ambassador said Monday, but would not be drawn on whether they were displaying symptoms of the disease.
In addition, 24 nurses have been quarantined, health officials said, while a senior physician had contracted Ebola but was responding well to treatment.
The nation's sole virologist, who was at the forefront of its battle against the epidemic, died from Ebola last month.
As countries around the world were on alert, Japan said it was evacuating two dozen staff from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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And here is Bloomberg's roundup of the latest Ebola headlines:
- Latest WHO death toll: 1,013
- Spanish priest Pajares dies in Madrid hospital
- WHO panel says ethical to use unproven Ebola drugs
- Africa’s biggest city fights “wicked lies” on Ebola myths
- U.S. approves experimental Ebola drugs for 2 Liberian doctors
- Turkish Air sick passenger not suspected of Ebola: Official
- Rwanda Health Ministry says suspected Ebola case tests negative
- Japan pulls aid staff from West Africa: ENCA
- Experimental Ebola drug supply exhausted, manufacturer says
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hey mecreant,
beside your fucking brainwashed, imposed belief system that make you worship everything that big pharma tells you as pure and unaltered truth, what do you have to bring to the debate ?
or is it just a forgotten "most" that makes you fart sideways ?
I brought something to the table that you are the one who refuses to deal with. Nothing can "SURELY" guarantee that you will live through an Ebola infection.
You are done.
You are washed up.
You are a fraud.
If you had anything good to offer, you would not make a claim that a person who was infected would surely survive.
If you do have something good to offer, you just shot yourself in the foot with your presentation of the message.
unless it's you that just shot yourself in the foot.
being just a messenger & not a lceithin or vitamin c retailer shareholder, i have nothing to gain nor to offer here : you're so confused.
i wonder what will be your reaction when you'll face the proof that it is the absence of vitamin c in the system available for the cells that allows for the killer hemoragies ? you'll shot yourself in the face because it'll be easier than accepting the truth (on big pharma lies & your moronic behaviour) ?
won't happen anyway because it looks like you don't have the iq to read an (independent) science paper, just the one necesary for fox news & cnn.
rejection & anger won't lead you very far; but how could you know that either ?
ps: psychologie is surely not your field either, but just in case you recognize yourself http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model
You still don't address the issue I brought up.
the semantic issue ?
go fuck yourself with your semantic stiffness.
(just mirroring your semantic, dont worry - i have pity for your kind, not anger or hate - nb your kind : minds built by decades of massive NLP)
Ribavirin interferes with replication of Lassa virus. Maybe it would work with vitamin C for ebola? http://www.atsu.edu/faculty/chamberlain/website/lects/interfer.htm Might need interferon too. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/cums-rdk101606.php
vitamin c shall prevent/contains the hemoragie (that is the killer in case of ebola) therefore allowing the immune system to fight ebola.
the idea is that the vit c allow the conditions for your immune sys to kill the virus rather than the vit c killing directly the virus.
Maybe this old nursery rhyme needs an update: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ring+Around+The+Rosey
Ring around the Rosey.
A pocket full of posies.
Ashes, Ashes.
We all fall down.
Wait, HOW THE HELL did this new strain of ebola just show up in a baby? It all started from that
Good question.
But really, as if they are so smart as to track it down like that.
Shall we call them "Pathological" liars?
;-)
intric8
"How did a new strain of ebola just show up in a baby?"
Ebola is carried by primates including chimps, so the virus can spread to people who have contact with earth contaminated by ebola-carrying animals' urine or feces or by conntact with animals that are carriers or that are sick, or by eating fruit that is contaminated by contact with sick primates or by ebola-contaminated soil. The pathogen is endemic.
you want zmapp
you dont want zmapp
know, its gmo, anything can be in there, especially regarding where it comes from.
and, i was waiting for this, ebola coming into spain. i was a few years ago in a hospital in portugal and was shocked, it was equiped like some 3.world hospital. one big room, everybody in there for days, an old woman died beside me, i suspect just of dehydration. i couldnt move and couldnt help her. and notice, this was before the crisis. now everything is worse there.
good luck everybody.
As a foreigner in Madrid (and a black one, the worst kind!) I showed up at a clinic and was treated without ever showing id, filling out any paperwork, or being billed. Socialism is great
Until other peoples money runs out and the hospital shuts down.
Then socialism gets less good.
The Kurds will stop ISIS.
Putin will stop with Crimea.
The economy is great.
oBUMMERcare will be wonderful.
Ebola is contained.
Disease is not new. Mass transit for thousands is new. Billions of people hours away is new.
Long crematoriums and body bags.
Hamptons are new hot zone as Banksters hide their symptoms. Now they are sorry to have sucked Ebola Dick Cheney...yeah, he has it from his maid.
Pray for Dominique Straus Kahn...
I hate to be a Debbie Downer but...
I think one of the Four Horsemen just made his debut.
The scary part is nobody heard his hoofbeats coming...he just shows up and starts swinging that scythe.
I can't wait until the Mad Mullahs start flying kids to the US with a West Africa stop first.
There are many who heard the "hoofbeats" a comin' for quite some time now.
Amen, bro. I been called a nutcase for years for all this and that and them and those and , etc.....
That's great, knukles! Whenever they call us "Nutcases" and other derogatory terms I always keep in mind:
"Remember what I told you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also." - John 15:20
"What blessings await you when people hate you and exclude you and mock you and curse you as evil because you follow the Son of Man." - Luke 6:22
His day approaches quickly- keep the faith, bro!
What impact will this have on sporting events, concerts, the E-Rs or even going to work if it ever does get to the stage America is a hot zone?
.. fatal shutdown of our economy at min, along with east SL going full time in every blue collectivist preserve.
same as always.. you are on your own.
It’ll be fun watching the Superbowl with only eight fans in the crowd…. Sneezing blood on the seats.
And they'll have them spread across different sections so as to show the concerns of transmission being considered.... politically correct....
Where's the good olde football days of my youth when ya' yelled and screamed bloody (no pun intended) murder for mayhem and dismemberment?
Everything's being pussified these days.
Even war, people being killed for 4,000 miles away from game consoles.
Just you wait.
There is no way under the sun that ISIS/L hasn't gotten several people into Africa, contaminated and across the southern border.
No Fucking Way.
Early November: President Obama goes on national TV and declares a health emergency and total quarantine. Elections are cancelled. Dems retain Senate, but representatives and senators are not allowed to fly back to DC. "I am very reluctant to take this action, but I will assume total control of everything until this emergency has passed."
I hope this doesn't hurt Liberia's thriving tourism industry
I just don't think the Padre and the patients exchanged bodily fluids.
Mosquitos are the conduit.
uh...got links?
It would make sense but then again, there are some bugs that cannot live in the gut of.....well....bugs.
I haven't seen any mention of this virus being transferred in such a manner (can't remember the term for it at the moment and no time to look it up).
Not to say it is not true or anything like that.
I'm just trying to stay up on my reading. Particualrly in the face of all the mis-information out there.
Thanks!
ZMapp, TamaFlu, Whatever, they ain't going to work. If you need the antidote you'll have to get Cheney or Rumsfeld in a headlock until they hand theirs over to you.
the treatment was given to you by another poster & i in this comment section...
Living in a highy-complex world, the worst attitude one could have is that things will remain the same or get better FOREVER. Those who realize the very thin veneer of sustainability that overlays complexity and plan accordingly will live the longest; that being said, "What's in your attitude?"...Ebola, practicing hybrid vigor for millions of years and brought to the USA by compassionate people...I thought we were smarter than that...
As long as Obomba can quarantine on a golf course we won't have any tantrums.
~1000 in what? 6 months! That's not exponential, its glacial. It'll all be over by Christmas.
And that is view from the core of my brain.
Let's see how long that 1000 stays within 1000 to 2000. If it goes up a small percentage and stays there, then we know the WHO is lying. If it goes up and tapers off then we know the WHO is trying to report factual numbers and the healthcare workers are getting ahead of Ebola.
I figure we'll know by November if the WHO is lying or not.
And to the poster that posts the daily infected numbers, please keep doing it (I forget the name, starts with a "C").
The fuggin double-digit IQ do-gooders like this priest and the doctor who got shipped back to the USA last week are ultimately going be at least partly reponsible for any major global Ebola plague that might arise out of this situation.
The rest of the world should have cut off all travel to and from Sub-Saharan Africa several weeks ago.
Selfish for sure. All you need to know about their attitude shows itself everyday when clearly sick persons go about their daily business (e.g. working, shopping or whatever).
Ebola virus has been detected in a foreign tourist at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, Turkish Hurriyet newspaper has said.
http://en.trend.az/news/incident/2302186.html
Nigerian passenger causes panic over Ebola suspicion at Istanbul airport
http://news.az/articles/region/91121
Airport personnel didn't appear very worried... short sleeves, food service poly gloves and single ply paper face masks.
http://www.airporthaber.com/havacilik-haberleri/ataturk-havalimaninda-eb...
Dang....the quality of reporting is sinking to all time lows.
It takes three days to test for Ebola.
They found it in an airport?
Layovers must be a real bitch.
ok, here some links to explain my suspicion about zmapp.
start with this:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/larry-zeitlin/4/324/a1b
you see, larry zeitlin worked for and was direktor of epicyte.
epicyte now biopharmaceuticals.
larry zeitlin made the contraceptive corn, see:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2001/sep/09/gm.food
then check this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Study_Memorandum_200
larry zeitlin designed the tobaccoplants, that create antibodies against ebola.
and then check this:
www.awel.zh.ch/internet/baudirektion/awel/de/biosicherheit_neobiota/gvo/...
tipe ctrl+f and search for "Tabelle 11"
its about if you can recognise a change in the gene, "mit Vorwissen" means "with knowledge" of what to search for, "ohne Vorwissen" means "without knowledge", what to search for, like any kind of manipulation, they wont tell you, like some contraceptive thing for example... its all about the new technologies in gmo.
beside this, fda approval has been shown to be very nice to big enterprises, the enterprises do the safety studies themselves and shurely wont find any trouble (oh they must be in a big hurry, every government will order zmapp, big money!). they can prohibit further independent studies by saying its patented .
and so on.
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101st or 182nd?
A Catholic priest, an African boy, and Ebola walk in to a bar...
... they wank in a bar?
They're one comic short today..
- dust off that resume.
With 45 new EVD cases in the recent two day WHO reporting period, and 29 deaths, Liberia is the leading indicator of how fast Ebola can spread. WHO is sanitizing the breadth and depth of the pandemic, omitting deaths in saudi arabia and Madrid, as well as the deaths of some 150-plus well protected health care workers, which suggests a new strain with airborne contamination:
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_08_11_ebola/en/
I may not be understanding something I should but the way that chart breaks down, it looks like they have a lot of problems getting a diagnosis.
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all this apocalyptical nonsense, 'millions dead by christmas' etc
i hope you guys are going to come and say what numb nuts you were when this fades away
get a fucking grip
You don't need to panic. You do need to take a look at what I outlined there and ask yourself if this is under control or not.
What I see is that it will be under control when it leaves africa.
There might be lots of dead in africa for a reason, but what you outlined won't happen in a modern country.
History Channel: "After Armageddon"
Yes, I have posted that one around a couple of times too. After the health care system anywhere is over run, everyone resorts to what they can do to survive. There is no system any more. This is what I fear has ALREADY happened in Africa. No I cannot prove it.
MsCreant - I don't think you have to prove anything. Most of these nations readily admit they are ill-equipped to deal with the problem. One Ebola patien is too many in most cases. And, as you said, their human survival instinct kicks in to try to save themselves and their families - which is what makes this disease more deadly.
What people perceive to be in their best survival interests helps spread the disease.
Yeah, what a bunch of assholes, carrying on eons old burial traditions, not believing 'governments' that have lied and killed them for decades, continued eating the diet they've had for centuries, and fearing that something really fucked up is going on, rather than just a normal course of Ebola. Jeez, the should all know better and trust those public officials. Lord knows we all trust the government in the good old U.S. of A.
Just in case it's needed /sarc /
prayers don't work???
From a different Thread elsewhere:
"It seems to be a common assumption that Ebola isn't Aerosol and cant be transmitted via inhalation (a lot of news stories I read seem to make this assumption when talking about a story surrounding an infected person). While this is true for SOME strains of Ebola (4 out of 5), there is a strain that is Aerosol and transmittable via inhalation; the Zaire strain, which this current virus is a genetic variant of. Because of this I find that a lot of the precautions being taken, especially at airports, and in planes involving visibly sick people, really aren't going to stand a chance for containing this virus (they seem to just let other passengers go assuming they are not also infected due to not actually touching the suspected person...). Truth is an airplane is extremely close to a "hospital environment", which is the perfect condition for Ebola-Zaire to transmit via aerosol. For those that say that Ebola isn't aerosol or transmittable via inhalation, please check out the follow .gov sources that blatantly say otherwise."
Australia Group Common Control List Handbook – Volume II - V13.Ebola virus
Exposure / Infection Routes:
-Inhalation (lungs): Aerosols
Human Transmissibility:
-Yes (direct and respiratory)
Human-to human transfer usually occurs through direct contact with bodily fluids from an infected individual though aerosol transmission can occur between individuals in close proximity to one another.
[link to www.defence.gov.au]
Federal Ministry of Health Abuja, Nigeria - Ebola Virus Disease Fact Sheet
How is Ebola Virus Disease spread?
6.Inhalation of contaminated air in hospital environment;
[link to www.health.gov.ng]
CDC defines transmission for Ebola as follows.
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.
* Outbreak affected countries include Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Lagos, Nigeria, as of 4-August-2014
[link to www.cdc.gov]
"The Ebola virus is only transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids of the sick, such as blood,saliva , urine, sweat or semen." http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_WEST_AFRICA_SURVIVING_EBOLA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-08-12-13-14-34