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"Isolation Procedures Put In Place" After Ebola Suspect Dies In Ireland; Ebola-Like Disease Claims 70 In Congo

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Last week Ireland rushed to deny that a man with Ebola-like symptoms who was being tested in Dublin, did not have the disease. It may find such a refutation more difficult this time after Irish Times reported that a man was found dead last night in Donegal, after working in Sierra Leone, the epicenter of the current Ebola outbreak, and where "it is understood that a number of colleagues had contracted the virus." The deceased was taken to Letterkenny General Hospital where the HSE is carrying out tests to see whether the death resulted from Ebola.

Letterkenny General Hospital. Photograph: Google Street View

From the Irish Times:

In a statement, the HSE said it was currently assessing a suspected case of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Donegal.

 

“The public health department was made aware earlier today of the remains of an individual, discovered early this morning, who had recently travelled to the one of the areas in Africa affected by the current Ebola virus disease outbreak,” it said.

 

“The appropriate national guidelines, in line with international best practice, are being followed by the public health team dealing with the situation. This means that the body of the deceased has been isolated to minimise the potential spread of any possible virus.”

 

The statement said blood samples had been sent for laboratory testing to confirm whether or not this individual had contracted Ebola virus disease.

 

“Until a diagnosis is confirmed, and as a precautionary measure, the individual’s remains will stay in the mortuary pending the laboratory results which are expected late tomorrow.”

As usual, attempts to minimize a panic were implemented and the HSE said the risk of transmission of any disease was considered to be “extremely low”. Nonetheless while tests are being carried out for the Ebola virus, "isolation procedures have been put in place."

Dr Darina O’Flanagan, head of the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre, said: “In general, the risk of contracting Ebola virus disease is extremely low and would involve very close personal contact with the infected individual or their body fluids for there to be any risk at all.” “We await the outcome of the laboratory tests before we will know whether or not this individual had contracted Ebola virus disease. The appropriate public health guidelines are being followed at every stage in this process as a precaution.”

And while Ireland awaits results of the latest Ebola test, the Congo, where as we reported yesterday a mysterious Ebola-like disease had claimed the lives of 10 people, has denied the diseases is Ebola, even as the death toll has now soared to some 70 casualties according to Reuters.

A WHO report dated Thursday and seen by Reuters said that 592 people had contracted the disease, of whom 70 died. Five health care workers, including one doctor, are among the dead.

 

"This is not Ebola," a WHO spokesman said in an email to Reuters on Thursday.

 

Then again, perhaps the WHO is fibbing just a bit to prevent another all out panic: "A local priest who asked not to be named said that the illness had affected several villages and estimated that the death toll was over 100 people. Kinshasa sent its health minister, Felix Kabange Numbi, and a team of experts on Wednesday to the region after reports of several deaths."

If not Ebola then what? According to WHO, the deaths are the result of an outbreak of hemorrhagic gastroenteritis, a disease prevalent in... dogs? Symptoms of the two diseases are similar; they include vomiting, diarrhoea and internal bleeding. But the fatality rate for this outbreak of haemorrhagic gastroenteritis is much lower than the West Africa Ebola outbreak, at around 12 percent versus close to 60 percent. "The WHO, which sent representatives to the area on Wednesday together with the Congolese team of experts, said four samples would be flown from the town of Boende on Friday to the capital Kinshasa for further testing."

So is the WHO simply trying to prevent the spread of panic and deny that Ebola has now spread to the second largest country in Africa? We will surely find out soon enough, especially if the WHO, too, advises the population "to keep calm and BTFD"...

 

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Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:01 | 5126518 Blazed
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Right!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:01 | 5126519 Blazed
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WTF?!

Africa Day Dublin 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBs_DYJwlGw

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:32 | 5127331 Monty Burns
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Shatter is a truly evil piece of shit.  He knows exactly what he's doing, wrecking the nation's ethnic cohesion and its institutions.  Who else leads the rush for mass immigration to Ireland?  Ronit Lentin and Ivana Bacik, both Jews.  There's supposed to be only 2,000 Jews in Ireland but half of them must be devoted full time to wrecking the country. 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 21:38 | 5128121 paddyirishman
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who are the  two dirty hasbara kike dual citizens or worse zionist cocksucking goyim that downvoted me?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:40 | 5127053 RadioactiveRant
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Stop blaming the Jews. Even when its their fault, its actually someone elses fault.

Berlin knows this, its trying to recover money stolen by a Jew and in all probability ended up in Israel, by suing a Swiss bank:  Berlin sues Swiss bank over missing East German money

 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:00 | 5126517 tony wilson
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men on der moon men spinnin around der earth

no attention  payed earthly matters no

only one way to treat irish obolo distemper

beat it outta der micks thrash a paddy.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPu83WMl92Y

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:01 | 5126521 Sid James
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They'll deny it until there are funeral pyres in the fields. Then they'll bury themselves in their bunkers.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:07 | 5126547 pashley1411
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I know this is going to sound obvious, one of the "Ur" reasons you had border controls, you know, back in the day when government's were concerned about disease control, but are now more concerned with the size of your fckin soda drink, was to limit the spread of communicatable disease.

Forget "peak oil" or "peak water", if we aren't on the cusp of "peak stupid", I'm afraid to look at what comes next.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:18 | 5126605 cougar_w
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Well put.

You do understand that the open-border thing is all about economics, right? Same reason they refuse to curtail flights in/out of African hot spots. They are quite open about it too, know exactly what they are after and will tell you to your face, and expect everyone else to just go "oh if that's how it is then fine" because profit comes before all other earthly things.

Humans ain't the smartest bunch of monkeys.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:36 | 5127023 Alea Iactaest
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Peak StupidTM

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:41 | 5127390 Citxmech
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Peak human population.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:19 | 5126552 Ribeye
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shatter is no longer a Minister, 

he is however still a total scumbag, and one of the most despised people on this rotton little nation, 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:12 | 5126576 MalteseFalcon
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Wait this isn't Ebola?  It's NotEbola?  What do we do with 100 million doses of Ebola vaccine?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:23 | 5126625 atthelake
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If Ebola comes to America, our government will never, in a million years, tell the truth about it.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:30 | 5126657 The Carbonator
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As a virus is first introduced the kill rate is usually very high.  90%.

That rate is very bad for the virus, as it will kill all the hosts and 'burn out'.

 

The virus will adapt and reduce its lethality but at the same time ratchet up its transmutability.

 

When the death % drops to the 20s or 10s, then that thing will replicate all over the globe 1918 style.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:34 | 5126668 cougar_w
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Correct.

Cannot predict when -- and not every virus can figure out the tricks required -- but yes that is sometimes how these things go.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 05:57 | 5128856 Parrotile
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If we're unlucky, it might not ever drop to below 30%. Smallpox remained a successful opportunist pathogen for centuries, with a pretty steady 30% case mortality rate.

The "job" of Ebola is the same as any other virus - make as many copies of itself as possible, and spread as many copies of itself as possible. Some viruses have adapted to slow replication in immunologically sheltered sites, with propagation via a steady (but slow) stream of progeny; others successfully follow the "hit them hard, grow like mad, and reach high titres in excreted body fluids" approach. If Ebola finds the latter strategy successful, then there's no reason why mortality should drop.

It's useful to remember that Smallpox has been a human disease for centuries (lots of evidence of outbreaks in ancient Egypt for example). Ebola has only just made the jump in a substantial way, so it may be some time (tens, hundreds, or maybe thousands of host-to-new-host passages) before we see any real signs of reduced mortality.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:13 | 5126886 css1971
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The virus will do no such thing.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:35 | 5126672 Skip
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I was surprised to find that Ireland has a substantial African population and have elected an African mayor in a city.
Well the Hive have been busy helping each white homeland achieve the blessings of DIEversity.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:49 | 5126714 cougar_w
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In the back of my mind I sometimes wonder if the process of mixing will some day reverse itself. There is no reason to automatically assume it would, but I wonder if it might. When I look at world events I sense a growing intolerance.

Should TSHTF someday I wonder if our centuries-long experiment in continental desegregation might halt, and then reverse itself, and then everyone simply "go home" to eventually let those memories of other peoples devolve into myths.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:17 | 5127245 trader1
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as it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end.

maybe.  

 

who knows?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:23 | 5127289 Monty Burns
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Wonderful were it to happen but I doubt it will.  The globalists want a dumbed-down deracinated denationalized army of helots, intelliegent enough to work but too dumb to revolt against their Masters.  

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 20:14 | 5127832 Socratic Dog
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So... everyone white/black/brown/yellow is going to leave the US?  Not much business for the Indian casinos then.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:20 | 5127266 Monty Burns
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Yes indeed Ireland has a 'thriving' African 'community', almost all of whom are on welfare of one kind of another.  Traditionally new citizenships were awarded to about 300 people annually. But when one of our own dual-citizens got his hands on the appropriate Ministry he awarded 58,000 in two years from every Third World hell hole you could imagine.  Same guy is passionate about Israel remaining 'a Jewish state'.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:42 | 5126693 samsara
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"Can you tell us doctor what the patient had?

According to my careful prosthesis , this man has the Plague.

Thank you doctor,  You have the Plague"

The Firesign Theatre- "Beat The Reaper"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3zZ_ih0Jpc

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:43 | 5126695 buyingsterling
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Mercenary, but:

How would you play this from an investment perspective, assuming you think it's airborne and that will eventually become widely known? Puts on airline index? Trannies in general (not that kind)? I want to put a few thousand into a few bets. Ideas? Thanks

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:55 | 5126758 cougar_w
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Short airlines maybe.

Not sure about Big Pharma, could go either way. There might be a lot of pump-n-dump as they claim to have vaccines, cures, etc.

Large retail would probably die. Nobody will be hanging out in malls, in crowds, standing in lines. Nope.

People would start scrambling around for miracle cures, so long over-the-counter health vendors. Vitamins, tonics, CS. Just about anything.

Short life insurance.

Long funeral homes.

 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:38 | 5127364 Citxmech
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The likelyhood of a viable vaccine depends on the variability of the virus.  

For example, HIV exhibits extreme variability - hence no workable vaccine so far.  Flu is very variable, so you need to formulate a directed vaccine each year at a minimum.  Ebola typically has less variability than flu - so that's good - but this looks like the 5th strain we've encountered.  A successful vaccine for this strain might not work for the next outbreak.  

Also, if generating a good immune response takes say 6 months including a course of booster shots - they'd have to have been shipping finished vaccine to folks yesterday to help anybody in Africa out.  

If this outbreak continues to grow exponentially- something like a six-month wait from now for a vaccine could render the whole exercise moot. 

 

 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:52 | 5127448 himaroid
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Long tbonds.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:46 | 5126702 bigrooster
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How fucking stupid are our world leaders who refuse to lock down all travel to/from Africa and not expect this shit to spread.  This has to be by design.  It is going to be a long winter.  

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:30 | 5126988 RadioactiveRant
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Its more likely another example of our leaders being enthralled to big business. Nice bribe for looking the other way, expensive legal battle for taking action.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:51 | 5126721 Jack Burton
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I just heard a news story about Ebola on NPR. The report quoted an American Health Official as says that Ebola presented no threat at all in the United States. Even when if it arrives, he said there can be no prospect of it causing disease or spread inside America. I assume this is more American exceptionalism? I understand our modern health care system will be able to isolate and treat. No doubt. But to say "No Threat", well, if you believe that, then you watch too much CNN and too many Obama press conferences!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:58 | 5126783 cougar_w
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Anyone willing to stand there and claim bald-faced there is no threat to any segment of Americans is a fool.

There is simply no epidemiologic or biological rational for saying such a thing. None. Zero. We simply do not know, and since we do not know we cannot rule it out.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:28 | 5127318 IridiumRebel
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..and because that was said, we now know for certain that it is here and it will spread. 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 20:46 | 5127812 Central Bankster
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"When it's serious, you have to lie."

 

 

 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:30 | 5127324 Citxmech
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" I understand our modern health care system will be able to isolate and treat. . . "

Well - maybe. . .   

We can certainly isolate and treat victims into the tens, but i'm not so sure about hundreds.  And thousands?  No way.  

If this strain continues to demonstrate such high transmissability - it is a absolutely a threat. 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:33 | 5126994 Irishcyclist
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"While the cause of death is unknown the HSE is carrying out tests to see whether it was due to exposure to Ebola."

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/tests-under-way-for-ebola-followin...

We await the HSE report.


Thu, 08/21/2014 - 19:36 | 5127654 Aussiekiwi
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Fortunately direct contact with bodily fluids is needed to contract Ebola, otherwise it would be spreading to other countries......oh, wait a moment.

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