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WHO Urges "Exit Screening" Of All Travelers In Ebola-Infected Countries As Reported Cases Go Parabolic

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In its strongest-worded statement yet, the World Health Organization is urging strengthened international cooperation to stop transmission of Ebola to other countries. Most critically, WHO urges: "Affected countries are requested to conduct exit screening of all persons at international airports, seaports and major land crossings, for unexplained febrile illness consistent with potential Ebola infection." Falling short on banning international travel, WHO does warn non-affected countries to strengthen the capacity to detect and immediately contain new cases. Of course, in the interests of avoiding panic, they reiterate the risk of infection on a flight is low - which seems odd given that we get a cold every time we fly...

 

Full WHO Statement:

The current Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak is believed to have begun in Guinea in December 2013. This outbreak now involves community transmission in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and recently an ill traveller from Liberia infected a small number of people in Nigeria with whom he had direct contact.

On 8 August 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) in accordance with the International Health Regulations (2005).

In order to support the global efforts to contain the spread of the disease and provide a coordinated international response for the travel and tourism sector, the heads of the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Airports Council International (ACI), International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) decided to activate a Travel and Transport Task Force which will monitor the situation and provide timely information to the travel and tourism sector as well as to travellers.

The risk of transmission of Ebola virus disease during air travel is low. Unlike infections such as influenza or tuberculosis, Ebola is not spread by breathing air (and the airborne particles it contains) from an infected person. Transmission requires direct contact with blood, secretions, organs or other body fluids of infected living or dead persons or animals, all unlikely exposures for the average traveller. Travellers are, in any event, advised to avoid all such contacts and routinely practice careful hygiene, like hand washing.

The risk of getting infected on an aircraft is also small as sick persons usually feel so unwell that they cannot travel and infection requires direct contact with the body fluids of the infected person.

Most infections in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, are taking place in the community when family members or friends take care of someone who is ill or when funeral preparation and burial ceremonies do not follow strict infection prevention and control measures.

A second important place where transmission can occur is in clinics and other health care settings, when health care workers, patients, and other persons have unprotected contact with a person who is infected. In Nigeria, cases are related only to persons who had direct contact with a single traveller who was hospitalized upon arrival in Lagos.

It is important to note that a person who is infected is only able to spread the virus to others after the infected person has started to have symptoms. A person usually has no symptoms for two to 21 days (the “incubation period”). Symptoms include fever, weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. This is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, and in some cases, bleeding.

The risk of a traveller becoming infected with the Ebola virus during a visit to the affected countries and developing disease after returning is very low, even if the visit includes travel to areas in which cases have been reported.

If a person, including a traveller, stayed in the areas where Ebola cases have been recently reported, he/she should seek medical attention at the first sign of illness (fever, headache, achiness, sore throat, diarrhoea, vomiting, stomach pain, rash, red eyes, and in some cases, bleeding). Early treatment can improve prognosis.

Strengthened international cooperation is needed, and should support action to contain the virus, stop transmission to other countries and mitigate the effects in those affected.

Affected countries are requested to conduct exit screening of all persons at international airports, seaports and major land crossings, for unexplained febrile illness consistent with potential Ebola infection. Any person with an illness consistent with EVD should not be allowed to travel unless the travel is part of an appropriate medical evacuation. There should be no international travel of Ebola contacts or cases, unless the travel is part of an appropriate medical evacuation.

Non-affected countries need to strengthen the capacity to detect and immediately contain new cases, while avoiding measures that will create unnecessary interference with international travel or trade.

The World Health Organization (WHO) does not recommend any ban on international travel or trade, in accordance with advice from the WHO Ebola Emergency Committee.

Travel restrictions and active screening of passengers on arrival at sea ports, airports or ground crossings in non-affected countries that do not share borders with affected countries are not currently recommended by WHO.

Worldwide, countries should provide their citizens traveling to Ebola-affected countries with accurate and relevant information on the Ebola outbreak and measures to reduce the risk of exposure.

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As we warned last week, the pace of cases reported is exploding...

Source: Ecologically Oriented blog

 

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Mon, 08/18/2014 - 17:42 | 5110880 herohedge
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Transmission requires direct contact with blood, secretions, organs or other body fluids of infected living or dead persons or animals, all unlikely exposures for the average traveller.

Maybe unlikely in the roomy seats of first class... but in coach?

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 06:44 | 5113408 Urban Redneck
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I don't see any comments.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 20:04 | 5111816 Kirk2NCC1701
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Note the legal weasel word "unlikely" What Statistical Confidence Level (SCL) do they associate with "unlikely"?

And what the hell is "average traveller" "Average" how?  Traveling 2x/yr?  What about 1-2x/Month, on long, overseas flights to/from major airports that connect with Lagos?  Is that "UN-average" enough to reduce the SCL to something that would scare most people?  Probably.

TPTB clearly do NOT want airline travel to halt, lest the global (Western!) economy goes into a full-blown Depression.  They are "MANAGING THE TRUTH", FBO the 0.1%.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 20:33 | 5111980 samsara
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I think they want to make sure it moves.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 17:45 | 5110891 SmittyinLA
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"screening" would require the possession and use of Ebola tests, tens of thousands, at least 1 for every border crosser from an infected area also testing of goods passing through Ebola areas, if* they're dumping bodies on the streets or have open sewers Ebola will be on the roads and living in the dust clouds kicked by by trucks driving through contaminated areas.

 

BTW at which point after infection does the Ebola test work? a day a week 3 weeks?  

 

 

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 17:50 | 5110921 morning
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Only PCR is effective during incubation period, ELISA is fallible. But they don't even reach that point, settling with moronic questions like "have you touched blood".

We're fucked.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:01 | 5110982 knukles
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No, it looked clotted this morning at breakfast, so I had a small glass of puss instead.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 19:19 | 5111483 MsCreant
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First time I ever down voted you love. Ewwwwwwww!

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 20:04 | 5111814 WillyGroper
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Has anyone you're not aware of had access to your luggage?

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 19:21 | 5111484 MsCreant
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More of that eeewwwwww sound. It went on a while and took 2 posts to complete the effect.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 17:48 | 5110900 dot_bust
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During the alleged swine flu pandemic a few years ago, the World Health Organization had more than a few conflicts of interest. Specifically, advisors to WHO had direct ties to the pharmaceutical companies that were tasked with making vaccines for H1N1.

The following article provides the details:

Swine flu advisers' ties to drug firms: Five WHO experts linked with vaccine producers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1302505/WHO-swine-flu-advisers...

More importantly, according to an article from CBS News, most patients who were diagnosed with the swine flu were never given lab tests. They were diagnosed based on symptoms only. Here's the article:

Swine Flu Cases Overestimated?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/swine-flu-cases-overestimated/

So, it's certainly possible that alleged cases of Ebola may not, in fact, be Ebola. Already, various newspapers have fed public hysteria by reporting "suspected" cases of Ebola. In my humble opinion, that's irresponsible and is akin to yelling fire in a crowded room.

 

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:12 | 5111038 bbq on whitehou...
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Dont forget most people will never go to the ho-spit-all unless they are diying or dead. So the tests will never be done. If you recover, then alls well that ends well if you dont, well you no longer care.

With ebola even less will get tested. Who can afford to be locked away for 2-3 months? Most would lose everything (even if your insureance will pay in full), your job, your kids, your wife. Most people will just use will power and trudge through untill they drop dead. Just like we are seeing and will see the more people this affects.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 20:41 | 5112012 boodles
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On a long, long international flight from NY to Australia back in the swine flu days, my husband
"caught" swine flu from ONE passenger (of about 500) who was infected and on that plane, an A380, the huge plane that packs people in rows. 

This is the two-floor plane, with an upstairs and downstairs.  My husband was downstairs.  The contagious man was upstairs.

Many people got the flu on that same plane.  Conclusion -- DO NOT FLY unless you absolutely have to as the climate control and air-circulatory systems will surely spread airborne disease.

 

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 00:38 | 5113043 Matt
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I was working in a call centre at the time the swine flu outbreak was happening, they had a policy that anyone who missed a day of training for new hires was terminated, so there were sick people sitting through classes with trash cans to vomit in so they wouldn't lose their job. After a day or two of that I think the management relented and postponed that wave of new hires so they could go home and recover.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:06 | 5110924 franzpick
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Don't read or believe WHO propaganda (or print it?).

180 "protected" M.D.s and health care professionals have contracted Ebola/EVD in the current episode, and 80 of them are dead, and NOT because these professionals made the mistake of exchanging or making contact with bodily fluids, but likely because this strain is transmissable through inhaled moist air or by touch. 

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:37 | 5111192 RaceToTheBottom
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I am afraid you are correct.  Then in an airplane, the air distribution system will make sure it is distributed around the plane at 100%

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 17:52 | 5110941 NoWayJose
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Don't worry if you sit next to an Ebola patient on a plane - you can only catch it if you are covered head to toe in a protective suit, and have gloves, masks, respirators, and goggles on.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:11 | 5111034 Rhal
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Well ya, if it was His protective suit, gloves, mask resperator, and goggles...

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 19:54 | 5111734 barre-de-rire
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lmfao

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:02 | 5110990 ShrNfr
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From the Nigerian Tribune:

 

Also, fears of an outbreak of the Ebola virus has been reported in Nasarawa State.

The state Commissioner for Health, Emmanuel Akabe, confirmed the development.

Akabe, however, said the state government was on top of the situation, though he did not state categorically if the outbreak was as a result of Ebola.

The outbreak was reported in Taka-Lafia, a community in Karshi, which borders the Federal Capital Territory.

A report at the press time said five people were taken to an undisclosed hospital, while series of tests were being carried out to determine the exact cause of their ailment.

In another development, universities in the United Kingdom (UK) have been put on alert over a potential outbreak of the Ebola virus when the new term starts in September.

 

Gosh, I feel better already. They are on top of the situation instead of being on top of the nurses, like they usually are.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:24 | 5111118 RadioactiveRant
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Nigeria is the third biggest market for non-European students with around 20,000 Nigerian nationals registered to study in the UK.

Freshers flu is gonna be serious this year.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:06 | 5111008 poldark
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If it is so difficult to catch this disease how come these aid workers in all the protective gear manage to catch it. 

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 20:08 | 5111846 Kirk2NCC1701
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That's why you should not wear all this protective gear on a plane -- it may just CAUSE you to get it.  /s

Like I said:  It's ALL about preventing planes to stop flying, which would crash the global economy.  Bad for USD, Treasuries, bad for TPTB.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:12 | 5111048 Rhal
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I find myself wondering if the elite want to stop international travel.

?

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:33 | 5111176 Winston Churchill
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Had occured to me also ,but if that was planned they would have done it much sooner,

with justification. One of my elite clients is also an MD, and is truly pissed off about

a quarantine not being enforced on Africa. Scared actually.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:44 | 5111239 Uber Vandal
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Perhaps your MD client is not "elite" enough.

Many who think they are in the club will find themselves dying in the same ditch with the rest of us.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 19:39 | 5111619 Sages wife
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Just like in poker.  If you've been in the game for a while and you don't know who the mark is,...it's you.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 20:57 | 5112069 Winston Churchill
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You could be right, for the wrong reasons.This client is in  the top ten of

the Forbes list.I have two other clients that are probably richer(control more

wealth) who will never be on Forbes list by their choice.Being on it is an ego thing

for most.Their dick is bigger than yours,see.

I have often wondered if the Rothchilds were merely frontman for someone else,

much like JP Morgan was their foil in turn.

The trillionaire living in obscurity next door.It would make a lot of sense from a security POV.

Who knows what the real hierarchy is.For sure its not as it appears.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 20:28 | 5111944 samsara
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The elite would like to have 5 Billion+ LESS people.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 07:08 | 5113440 MeelionDollerBogus
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No, that's what nature wants.

The elite want 5 billion MORE people. Almost all of them would be slaves making it to working-slaving age but dying before having a chance to rise up.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:13 | 5111055 Uber Vandal
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What the WHO is saying about one's safety is contradicted in this article from July 31 in which an infected woman was in a taxi cab, and everyone in the taxi cab is now dead.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-health-ebola-transport-idUKK...

What the WHO says:

The risk of getting infected on an aircraft is also small as sick persons usually feel so unwell that they cannot travel and infection requires direct contact with the body fluids of the infected person.

What the July 31 article said:

Feeling unwell and fearing a similar fate, the sister wanted to see her husband - an internal migrant worker then employed on the other side of Liberia at the Firestone rubber plantation.

She took a communal taxi via Liberia's capital Monrovia, exposing five other people to the virus who later contracted and died of the Ebola.

And of course, there is this to keep in mind from the CDC:

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/case-definition.html

HINT: Pay close attention to the definition of casual contact, and keep in mind that 3 feet / 1 meter distance for prolonged periods of time, and think of how long a flight often is, and how closely the seating is in same.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:42 | 5111217 Citxmech
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When in doubt - assume the worst.  I figure that being conservative can't hurt in this situation. 

Accordingly, I'm avoiding any form of public transportation or restaurants for the time being.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 20:38 | 5112004 msmith9962
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I'm trying to do the same.  Printing most everything I need with my 3D printer.  Cat litter, toilet paper, milk, etc.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:21 | 5111095 RadioactiveRant
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Daily Wail reports: British woman tested for Ebola 'as a precaution' after collapsing and dying following journey from Nigeria to Austria

Another Nigerian is also being tested in Abu Dhabi. Meanwhile Liberia authorities have lost 17 suspected Ebola victims after a quarantine centre was attacked by an angry mob.

Its obvious they're not going to find a cure any time soon so why aren't our genius leaders bringing back draconian quarantine measures just as they would 100 years ago when faced with the same problem. Disease control hasn't changed that much and if you're out of ideas go back to basics.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:27 | 5111136 limacon
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See http://lyricstranslate.com/en/ad-mortem-festinamus-we-hurry-death.html

Expect Flagellant resurgance.

Wonder who will be scapegoat-of-the-plague?

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:27 | 5111144 acrabbe
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i call bullshit on the ebola hoax. Outbreak occurred in December 2013??? 8 months ago??? No way an Ebola outbreak is lasting that long. Where are the extensive televised panels with global experts and well-known medical researchers? Oh wait, they've been killing them off the past 10 years. (clue???) We just rely on the media and the WHO and CDC. Very trustworthy institutions.

You all have forgotten you live in an alien version of a Disney cartoon and are bathing in the kool aid. Proving once again that although ZH regulars are definitely a whole head and shoulder above the average idiot on the net blogging and forum trolling, they're still some gullible podunks who live INSIDE the matrix.  Bunch of fucking muppets. Fuppets!

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:39 | 5111209 himaroid
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What we really need is a first hand, on the ground reporter. Maybe you could have fun travelling to west africa and exposing us as the idiots that we are. Sounds like a mockers heaven. We await your reporting.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:44 | 5111236 Winston Churchill
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Maybe we should pass a hat around for him.

Add cannukhead to the expedition, and we can prolly make a profit on the deal.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 19:47 | 5111672 Ban KKiller
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As beneficiary I'll pay for insurance. 

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 05:06 | 5113331 acrabbe
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I live in West Africa. Ghana to be exact. The reports coming over the border are all hysteria, no evidence. None. When the first possible case of Ebola occurred here months ago, it happened at a clinic that is literally 200 FEET from the WHO Ghana HQ. I know because I have offices down the street and 5 mins away.

I'm guessing you've never stepped foot in any country in Africa?

 

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 07:00 | 5113430 Urban Redneck
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Enjoying the 3 month ban on EU vegetable exports or the cholera outbreak? I have a friend who just over a nasty bout of malaria.. and he's an ex-banker... I'm (unfortunately) quite intimately aware of what other projects the Ministry of Health is dragging its feet on (more than usual) because resources are being diverted to focus on ebola. None of that means that this ebola outbreak isn't deadly serious.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 00:48 | 5113077 Matt
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"i call bullshit on the ebola hoax. Outbreak occurred in December 2013??? 8 months ago??? No way an Ebola outbreak is lasting that long"

Well, people were eating fruit bats then, and they are still eating them now. Are Fruit Bats adversely affected by the Ebola, or are they just carriers with no ill effects to themselves, but contagious if eaten, or if they poop on your fruit?

What about the monkey meat? Do the monkeys die fast from it? Or pigs?

We have been following this story on Zerohedge since at least March.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:50 | 5111231 freedogger
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Not airborne BUT 

- one of the original cases, woman in taxi infects 4 others in that taxi

- many leading Ebola doctors who've survived past outbreaks following the same protocols as now are dead

- the Canadian study that showed animals without direct contact could indeed transmit between species

Seriously pisses me off that they don't speak to this any any of the official don't worry travel is okay discourse. 

And shit, for people in these hell holes who think they are sick with this, why the hell wouldn't they try to scrape together enough funds  to fly to a first world country? They get off the plane and right away they are whisked into the best kind of care they could get. The news is practically begging them to fly away from the shit storm into helping first world hands.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 00:50 | 5113079 Matt
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Except a lot of them are superstitious and think this is all a plot by white people to oppress them, so they flee away from white people, hospitals and western medicine.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 07:01 | 5113432 Urban Redneck
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White people wear tinfoil hats too...

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 18:57 | 5111295 atthelake
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People in authority, or people, in general, are a lot less careful with your things, your life, you, everything, than you are. If you die, they just say "Ooops" and move on. People don't, generally, care about other prople, their lives or their property. If there is a question about whether or not you and yours are safe? Assume no. You are not safe. WHO is still saying Ebola is NOT airborne and there is no doubt in my mind that it is airborne. When it comes to your life, assume incompetence, or at worst, malice.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 19:45 | 5111660 Ban KKiller
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I read the CDC information and it sure sounds like, to me, that it is airborne but not "officially" as they don't want to freak the fuck out of the world quite yet. Needs to reach overseas first. 

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 19:03 | 5111327 franzpick
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For some reason WHO is delaying today's release of what my notes say is their usual 3 pm EST issuance of their Mon-Wed-Fri 'Outbreak News' African Ebola new case and death report statistics. Based on last week's figures,  I estimate today's numbers for new cases and deaths for the 2 days 8/14 and 8/15 to be so parabolically bad that a 'Lisa Jackson' STOP THE RECORDING scheme may be being 'polished' for public release, of modified, or, no data at all.

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/en/

Liberian new cases and deaths for last week's 2 day period 8/12-8/13 represented 76% each of the new case and death totals for the 4 African countries covered: Liberia is the example of how tragically fast the current EVD strain can spread, into Lagos and other areas, when ignorant air travelers and 'escaping' village victims enable the viral emergence.

http://who.int/csr/don/archive/year/2014/en/

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 19:29 | 5111553 Flagit
Mon, 08/18/2014 - 19:56 | 5111752 Jena
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At some point there won't be any public release of the numbers.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 19:34 | 5111580 bigrooster
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This is Ebola 2.0.  It will defeat QE X.0!

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 19:45 | 5111653 The Fonz...befo...
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You know...they supposedly killed Osama Bin Laden and made sure that body never touched mainland USA...was just buried out to sea...yet they have no problems flying back an infected patient back to mainland USA....

Wtf were the navy hospital ships all full or something? Seems to me a ship at sea is the best quarantine...

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 19:54 | 5111738 Jena
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I don't know how to cut and paste Tweets properly but here goes from Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) just now:

The situation in Freetown is desperate. Sources tell me at least 1000 people are infected, but unaccounted for (more)

In Freetown sources tell me there's dire need to come up w/new methods 4 contact tracing, 2 find some1000 cases (more)

Sources tell me health care system nationwide is in collapse. One 40-bed hospital has 137 patients & no room for else (more)

More than 170 healthcare workers have contracted in & & 83 have died of the disease since March. (more)

and finally:

The numbers you have heard for the scale of cases/deaths in Africa "grossly underestimate the reality," sources tell me today.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 20:21 | 5111910 samsara
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Those reports ring truer than the Who statement. The effect on the Heath infrastructure sounds more true.

Keep reporting Laurie's posts Jena

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 20:57 | 5112073 Jena
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I asked her about the release by WHO of Ebola numbers and she answered that they're being done every day. Maybe the pros are getting a different site than the public is, which would make sense. I told her they hadn't been released for today per their M-W-F schedule and she didn't reply.

One thing I see her stress in her timeline is that all other medical care in the affected countries, from trauma to childbirth has come to a halt and all resources (human and material) are being shunted to deal with Ebola and suspected Ebola cases. Can you imagine how crippling that would be for any society where in a day, you'd normally deal with all sorts of surgeries and have different medical needs?

Here's one with an article from Buzzfeed that she linked:

 ·  4h

It's an inconvenient time to be pregnant in & thanks to. : health collapse

 

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 19:57 | 5111754 Ban KKiller
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If it were not for the black death (happened in three stages in Europe) things might have been much different now. Black death elevated the slave/serf class as nothing else has. It was quick too. In under a hundred years you had a whole new class of people...upwardly mobile. Black death helped to wipe out the useless landed gentry who were parasites on the land and people. Sound familiar? 

I heard banksters suck a lot of ebola dick on the Hamptons. OR...they boff a lot of ebola pussy..anyway they like depraved things. If you do get infected, please head (ha-ha) to Wall Street. Death, by law, to banksters and their stooges. Might as well be ebola. 

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 20:23 | 5111921 iamrefreshed
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My daughter went to the doctor's on Wednesday. The first question they asked was "have you traveled to Africa recently"? We live in a small town in Florida. Scary.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 20:29 | 5111948 Wahooo
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By now it's everywhere. This time next year, there will be millions dead from it.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 20:48 | 5112042 Sizzurp
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Saw this article.  Looks very dire over there and I imagine food and water supplies will soon, if not already, be a serious issue.  So even if you are not infected, how are you supposed to eat?  That place is going to be a deathzone.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Indians-stuck-in-Ebola-hit-Libe...

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 21:02 | 5112093 NeverRetiring
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Since there's been no update in 3 days on WHO website, does that mean they're all dead?

http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 23:24 | 5112775 franzpick
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WHO reports on Wed around 3pm EST for the 2 previous days Sun-Mon new case and death totals for the 4 countries, and reports at Fri 3pm for the 2 day totals for the previous Tues-Wed. They should have before now reported total new cases/deaths for the 2 days Thu-Fri 8/14-15, but their GAR Global Alert and Response page has shown nothing past the 8/15 report for 8/12 and 8/13:

http://who.int/csr/don/archive/disease/ebola/en/

Something is very wrong: the Liberian 2 day new cases have been increasing at 4%, 10% and 17% over the past week, are probably actually double or perhaps much more than that rate because of victims 'escaping' confinement and other sickened victims fleeing into the countryside before being confined, and both the recorded cases/deaths and the hidden cases/deaths must be vastly understated and unknown.

http://who.int/csr/don/2014_08_15_ebola/en/

I suspect both Liberia and WHO have reached the point of seriousness wherein they see it is time to either just lie about the parabolic numbers, or do the Lisa Jackson/EPA 'disappearing' data trick.

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 21:35 | 5112254 spanish inquisition
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Headline - "WHO Suggests Closing Barn Door"

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 22:12 | 5112462 tonybbb1
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Did a similar chart for myself over the weekend because no one in the media was doing their job (except ZeroHedge, now), but did my chart on weekly infection rate to smooth the lines.  I also drew my parabolic UNDER the current outbreak from May 15th (when SOMETHING appears to have changed) to the latest reported numbers and came up with a MINIMUM new infection rate increase of 23% per week for 12 weeks straight. 

Then I carried it out 4 months to the end of the year and came up with a projected 10,000 new infections per week.  Another 3 months with a 23% weekly increase in new infections... 150,000 new infections per week.  3 more months to the end of June, 2015... 2.5 million weekly new infections. 

Decided to carry it out to the end of 2015 and found out it'll probably slow down by then... as we run out of people to infect.

 

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 23:29 | 5112705 atthelake
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If you can, STOCK UP. If it gets bad the stores will close. It's best to have much more food, drink and supplies than you need. Buy the stuff you can eat easily... the stuff you don't have to heat, unless you have a woodstove. What would happen if the grid goes down? If the water treatment facilities go down? If all stores close? Think about it.

You should assume the number of infected is 10X the number we're being told. And you should assume our government, or any government, will never tell the truth because of incompetence or, malice or concern for financials or, or ... 

CYA!

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 10:44 | 5114318 franzpick
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We started stocking to prepare for civil unrest and empty store shelves during the Bear Stearns-Lehman collapse. Then we stacked again, including years of long-dated canned fish and protein, right after Fukushima 3/11, anticipating contaminated Pacific seafood supplies, and now we are stacking more water, canned food and supplies for a 3rd time, knowing WHO and CDC will only do their utmost to prevent us all from seeing the upcoming empty shelf - civil strife liklihood.

The message may be: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PREPARE FOR.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 04:28 | 5113306 OsoPolar
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More than 5000 cases by September

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O9wgD7vj_w

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 05:37 | 5113346 acrabbe
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Again, where is the evidence? There is none. "Oh, they are trying to avoid a panic" Are you kidding???? The way the media sensationalizes everything and fans negativity until it is frothing you think they would REPORT on a real pandemic but HIDE the images and evidence? Cuckooo... cuckoooo... They're withholding images and evidence because they don't have any, nor do they NEED ANY!  Didn't cog dis just write an article yesterday about controlling the language and you control the mind? You guys are being manipulated by the MEDIA. Remember them? The same guys who brought you sandy hook, 9/11, boston marathon bombings, batman the hero colorado version, and a bunch of other false flag mind control psy-op shit that has your heads so far up your ass you belong in one of those trippy psychadelic dysmorphic paintings. Same people who read that cog diss piece and began pontificating all intellectual can't see through the veneer of targeted emotional manipulations and psychological warfare tactics. Baffle them with Bullshit!

Downvoting me doesn't change the fact that you're all firmly in the grip of the matrix. So firm that you think this shit is real. If it was real and there was really a virus that has lasted this long and spread throughout this many countries then it would have definitely hopped to Asia, North America and the Middle East by now. People are CONSTANTLY traveling in and out of countries in Africa. Just because YOU haven't been it doesn't mean the rest of the Western and Asian world is staying away. READ. THAT. AGAIN. Let it sink in very. slowly. I have a strong suspicion that most of you who are falling for this shit are people who have DEFINITELY never been to Africa and only know what you've seen in movies, news reports and those save a child commercials with the shit-smeared kids covered in flies. Fucking Idiots. You’ve been primed for this your whole life with the heavy doses of racialized propaganda you’ve been fed. "OF course those dirty Africans are spreading Ebola everywhere! Of course it’s not jumping continents because nobody goes to Africa right??? Who the F would wanna do that?" Definitely Bizarro World shit. Good old subjects of the US of fuckin' A. Definitely one of the dumbest countries in the world right now in terms of cognition and comprehension. The past few decades of poisoning and brainwashing have had a heavy doping effect on you guys. Glad I left when I did.

You muppets are pathetic! Fight club is dominated by mental midgets.

 

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 06:45 | 5113409 MassDecep
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I am against mind altering antidepressant’s, but in your case acrabbe, please take a chill pill.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 07:26 | 5113469 Wahooo
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Or just some fresh air. It's a beautiful day away from the internet.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 07:01 | 5113429 MeelionDollerBogus
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Most people have the sense to avoid the isolated areas Ebola came from but when it mutates, and it has, and when people increase density of population, this is the inevitable outcome.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 06:58 | 5113426 MeelionDollerBogus
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Hyperinflationary theft + ebola zombie apocalypse + Fukushima + global warming crop failures!

I hope everyone's got their popcorn.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 11:28 | 5114536 franzpick
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WHO has announced the 3 day 8/14-15-16 totals for new Ebola cases and deaths, a surprisingly low 113 new and 84 dead. Closer examination reveals that they have employed the Lisa Jackson/EPA/TEPCO data elimination scam by, without any more explanation than an asterisk,  only reporting 2 of the 3 day totals for the worst, most rapidly rising country of infection, Liberia.

Tue, 08/19/2014 - 11:44 | 5114633 franzpick
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Tomorrow's WHO release of the 4 country 2 day 8/17-18 new case/death totals will reveal that they are fully intending to permanantly bury new case/death numbers from the most infected country Liberia, whose new case/death numbers constituted 76% of the 4 country totals in the last WHO report, so as to understate and obscure what is probably an emerging worldwide pandemic.

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