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"Current Ebola Outbreak Is Different," WHO Warns "Unprecedented" Number Of Medical Staff Infected
The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa is unprecedented in many ways, including the high proportion of doctors, nurses, and other health care workers who have been infected, warns the World Health Organization. Despite all precautions possible, more than 240 health care workers have developed the disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, and more than 120 have died. Simply put, they conclude, the current outbreak is different. The loss of so many doctors and nurses has made it difficult for WHO to secure support from sufficient numbers of foreign medical staff. Even WHO admits, if doctors and nurses are getting infected, what chance does the general public have?
The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa is unprecedented in many ways, including the high proportion of doctors, nurses, and other health care workers who have been infected.
To date, more than 240 health care workers have developed the disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, and more than 120 have died.
Ebola has taken the lives of prominent doctors in Sierra Leone and Liberia, depriving these countries not only of experienced and dedicated medical care but also of inspiring national heroes.
Several factors help explain the high proportion of infected medical staff. These factors include shortages of personal protective equipment or its improper use, far too few medical staff for such a large outbreak, and the compassion that causes medical staff to work in isolation wards far beyond the number of hours recommended as safe.
In the past, some Ebola outbreaks became visible only after transmission was amplified in a health care setting and doctors and nurses fell ill. However, once the Ebola virus was identified and proper protective measures were put in place, cases among medical staff dropped dramatically.
Moreover, many of the most recent Ebola outbreaks have occurred in remote areas, in a part of Africa that is more familiar with this disease, and with chains of transmission that were easier to track and break.
The current outbreak is different. Capital cities as well as remote rural areas are affected, vastly increasing opportunities for undiagnosed cases to have contact with hospital staff. Neither doctors nor the public are familiar with the disease. Intense fear rules entire villages and cities.
Several infectious diseases endemic in the region, like malaria, typhoid fever, and Lassa fever, mimic the initial symptoms of Ebola virus disease. Patients infected with these diseases will often need emergency care. Their doctors and nurses may see no reason to suspect Ebola and see no need to take protective measures.
Some documented infections have occurred when unprotected doctors rushed to aid a waiting patient who was visibly very ill. This is the first instinct of most doctors and nurses: aid the ailing.
In many cases, medical staff are at risk because no protective equipment is available – not even gloves and face masks. Even in dedicated Ebola wards, personal protective equipment is often scarce or not being properly used.
Training in proper use in absolutely essential, as are strict procedures for infection prevention and control.
In addition, personal protective equipment is hot and cumbersome, especially in a tropical climate, and this severely limits the time that doctors and nurses can work in an isolation ward. Some doctors work beyond their physical limits, trying to save lives in 12-hour shifts, every day of the week. Staff who are exhausted are more prone to make mistakes.
All personal protective equipment despatched or approved by WHO meets the appropriate international safety standards.
The heavy toll on health care workers in this outbreak has a number of consequences that further impede control efforts.
It depletes one of the most vital assets during the control of any outbreak. WHO estimates that, in the three hardest-hit countries, only one to two doctors are available to treat 100,000 people, and these doctors are heavily concentrated in urban areas.
It can lead to the closing of health facilities, especially when staff refuse to come to work, fearing for their lives. When hospitals close, other common and urgent medical needs, such as safe childbirth and treatment for malaria, are neglected.
The fact that so many medical staff have developed the disease increases the level of anxiety: if doctors and nurses are getting infected, what chance does the general public have? In some areas, hospitals are regarded as incubators of infection and are shunned by patients with any kind of ailment, again reducing access to general health care.
The loss of so many doctors and nurses has made it difficult for WHO to secure support from sufficient numbers of foreign medical staff.
The African Union has launched an urgent initiative to recruit more health care workers from among its members.
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Just don't read what you just wrote. That will really mess with your head.
"Only five people in the world are known to have received ZMapp. The small supply is now said to be exhausted, and it is expected to be months before more can be produced by its U.S. maker."
Kaboom! When it hits the west it will be devistating. No funeral directors touching these bodies. they will be burning the bodies. Mass panic. Restaurants will be a great place to spread the disease. The terrorist groups can target the Wall Street area (Money centers).
"The terrorist groups can target the Wall Street area (Money centers). " -- You sir, are an optimist.
Long funeral pyres.
ZMapp is produced using Nicotiana benthamiana a relative of tobacco, and produced by a subsidiary of Reynolds American.
Go down to your local tobacconist and buy a pouch of Levi Garret or a tin of Kodiak, use a spittoon.
If you follow the links in the article linked below you will find that the drug was partially funded by the U.S. Army, and uses humanized monoclonal antibodies produced using Nicotiana plants and a soil bacteria Agrobacterium that can transfer the desired DNA into the plants cells to be reproduced then harvested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMapp
Your stock tip for today if you think Ebola will get worse is to buy Reynolds American.
Move on. Nothing new here. Ebola is simply another method of population control in Africa.
"Ebola is simply another method of population control in Africa."
Ad extremely useful tool for terroist in the US. Spreading a disease from resturants while the Whitehouse and the media keep qiuiet and misinform is a perfect way for this disease to take hold. When people see others dying and the media isn't reporting it will be the last straw of the lies generated by the White House.
looks like the guys at the lab really outdid themselves with this new strain.
set up a spread for them in Uraguay.
The Soviets were experts in biowarfare and had trouble weaponizing Ebola,
They turned to the Marburg virus as a hemorrhagic fever of choice and put the virus in MIRVed post-boost buses. They kept the warheads in refrigerated buildings next to SS-18 silos.
Bottom line is Ebola is fragile virus and needs hot-humid weather to survive. It doesn't do well outside its host and people in northern climates are protected by the cold and dry weather.
No, it survives for quite a long time outside the body, even in cold and dry climates. Comparable to flu virus.
It mutated. Half Zaire half Sudanese. It doesn't mutate fast.... Until it does. I'm sure it took a whole for the 1918 to mutate, and when it did!!! Boom!
With US open borders it's a very good way to get middle eastern terrorist into the US and infect the US masses and overwhelm the system.
Plenty of restaurants willing to hire illegals.
This was foretold in the movie, 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'.
This "new" WHO fact that this outbreak is signficantly different from previous ones is something I've been thinking since the beginning as doctor after doctor became infected. It should be of great concern to the general public, that the ones who are supposedly most knowledgeable of this disease, and its means of spreading are themselves becoming infected. Transimittance through air, even over short distances, is the only sensible way to explain what has been happening...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/airborne_transmission_of_ebola.html
Congo Appears To Include A New Hybrid Strain
http://investmentwatchblog.com/congo-appears-to-include-a-new-hybrid-strain/
Ebola Tracking Maps
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/resources/distribution-map.html
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&t=h&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=202977755949863934429.0004c658eb30f9c4fb1c0&dg=feature
It's going apeshit. Mutated strains coming to the US and Europe.
The media can only be silenced util people have friends and relatives dropping dead. It's already out of control.
That info-graphic from WHO is about as useful as that old turtle teaching kids to "duck and cover" to survive an atomic blast.
Yeah... Inform airline personel... I'm sure they know EXACTLY what to do, to keep everyone safe, and calm.
We're all fucked. Well, at least 55% of us are fucked. Next time you're in a crowd, just look around and start counting people: one, two, one, two, one two... Count yourself LAST. Now imagine that in 6-12 months, all the "twos" are dead. That's what's coming.
Short: Residential real estate.
Long: N99 masks.
Excuse me miss, there seems to be a dead body in 37C and it is bleeding from all orifices. Miss? MISS?! HEY, COME BACK!!!
Doubling every 29 days, dude.
Won't be long before everyone is either an ebola survivor, or dead.
Mutated strains and a 90% kill rate. Maybe better than 90% if the various strains are mixed throughout the US.
If terroist want an impact, they'll hit the financial districts and the high profile people first.
It's 50-55% kill rate in west Africa- 12-20% kill rate in Congo. It has mutated. It only took the WHO 4 months to maybe realize this?
The object of "terrorists" is to instill terror. This is entirely different from tactical effect. Just spreading the virus on a crowded train, bus, restaurant, movie theatre, super-market... Any of these would "do the job".
The earlier known Ebola strains had higher fatality rates ("up to" 90%), but also shorter incubation periods (and IIUC, they were all NOT airborne, except for Ebola Reston, which only affected non-human primates, although humans working in the affected area DID test positive for the antibodies; I wonder if they still test positive, and if those antibodies will kill off this strain?). When human villages were hit by Ebola, the earlier strains burned themselves out fairly quickly. This strain seems to have traded lethality for communicability, and overall that's proving to be an effective trade-off in favour of the virus. It may even be airborne (there's reason to suspect, but I'm not aware of any real proof for or against), but in any case it seems to be more easily transmissible than previous strains. Point is, this IS a mutated strain, very different than previous known outbreaks.
I'm not an expert, but IIUC the nature of RNA viruses (such as Ebola, Marburg, cold, flu, HIV) is that they tend to mutate quickly. So don't worry... The same brilliant minds that have been trying to cure colds and flus for the last 60 years, and cure HIV/AIDS for the last 30 years, will soon be working on this... As soon as the funding materializes... Which is to say, AFTER it starts killing thousands of white people in US and EU.
Post-graduate level Ebola discussions going on at FluTrackers.c regarding the scary possibility of EVD transmissability by 'latent', asymptomatic but contagious carriers:
"If there is a period of transmissibility prior to clear onset of symptoms i.e in the early fever stage, it would suggest that contacts need to be quarantined, not monitored."
"Do we know if there are asymptotic cases, or what percentage of the West African people are naturally immune to its infection, and if this subset of people can be carriers passing on the disease. No virus has the ability to replicate in every individual. Natural immunity can come from previous exposure, I.e. living close to the natural vector (perhaps the fruit bat), or different genotypes"
If these guys are right, it may be getting to be Tyvex time.
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=226864
That's what I considered the biggest threat here. Sure, not easily transmissable, but there is a period of 21 days to spread low transmissability in a lot of places with a lot of people.
And if it's weaponised/airborne, which it seems to be, then we'll be seeing cordons and quarantined cities spread outside of Africa.
So, Typhoid Mary walks among us?
Even though Afticans with Ebola that come across the Mexican border will be taken care of by Obama and cured, they'll still suffer the long term effects of Ebola such as: inflammed testicles.
They brought an active Ebola patient back to England the other day. I recall photos posted on ZH of Brantley wearing FULL HAZMAT gear when interacting with patients. So HOW do these medical people who are OBVIOUSLY obeying protocol GET it???
The answer is one of two possibilties:
Either A. the people in control of America and Europe are IDIOTS
Or B. EVIL
If we had SERIOUS immigration and border control laws this would NOT be an issue.
DIEversity in the USA:
The Ebola Amnesty
The number of EVD infected M.D.s and trained healthcare workers has now reached 240, and 130 of them are dead, not because 240 professionals made the careless mistake of making skin contact with patient bodily fluids, but because this is a new strain transmissible through moist air and/or by moist skin contact, and perhaps by infectious, asymptomatic, carriers.
It used to be said 'Doctors bury their mistakes, architects plant a bush': but now, financially-minded medical, vaccine and political braniacs are burying the doctors
ISIS thinking about moving Ebola-infected to many locations in the USA?
Too late.
Obama already moving masses of illegals to many locations in the USA...many with 3rd World diseases USA citizens are no more used to, than when the President in earlier American distributed disease-infected blankets to the native Indian tribes.
Biological warfare by Obama upon the citizens.
Great guy, him, what?
And among the many diseases Obama is importing to infect the USA citizens, Ebola cases will sooner or later sneak in.
But that won't stop the Free Sh*t Army (the 47%?) from voting Dem.
DK
FSA = Democrats' fifth column.
"Worst affected (by the 1918 "Spanish Flu") was Western Samoa, a territory then under New Zealand military administration. A crippling 90% of the population was infected; 30% of adult men, 22% of adult women and 10% of children died. By contrast, the flu was kept away from American Samoa when Governor John Martin Poyer imposed a blockade.[" WIKIPEDIA
Earth to Washington open immigrationists, and low-risk air travel proponents, do you read?
I bet it evolved some from the last outbreak a few years back. Now it's more efficient at getting into its host.
The travel advice is about as useful as the duck and cover drill when a 5 megaton blast goes off in your city.
This scaremongering by the complicit-media is amusing. Seems something is always just about to strike the relatively low density western and/or DC US cities.
Call me when it is rampaging through Mexico city or even Jakarta or something.
Until then, I'm going back to rereading "The Law" by Bastiat.
An American, not US subject.
this outbreak is different, it started in west Africa while previous ones have been confined to central Africa. this one started in heavily populated urban areas, not the small isolated communities as in the past. this one has spread in ways not seen before, it has been admitted to be a new strain and appears to be spreading much faster and eaiser than previously thought possible.
now they keep pushing this idea, this notion that it spreads like HIV only through direct contact with fluids. thats the implication you see, you can't become infected unless the fluids have a pathway into your system, a cut, an open wound or sore or through some sort of membrane. but they keep assuring everybody that it can't be transmitted through water droplets in the air, it can't be inhaled by passing after an infected person who just sneezed or coughed. you have to make direct contact so there is a low risk of person to person transmission even if you are sitting right next to an infected person.
but do the facts, as we know them support these claims about method of transmission? how much do we really know about the sisuation in Africa? how many infected are there in these shadow zones? thousands? tens of thousands? if the WHO lied about the DRC then what else are they lying about and under who's influence and authority are the lying? we see a lot of suspected cases, not just in one or two other countries but all over the world, Europe, Asia, North America, South Amerca and everyday a suspected case or cases are popping up in new places. what is this? paranoia? public health authorites erring on the side of caution? maybe, it could be exactly that as the vast majority of these cases resault in a negitive test being reported. but then again we have to go back to the WHO, if they lied about the DRC outbreak, then who else might be lying about others? and if the negitives are being reported are there other suspected cases that are not being covered, tests that are unclear or even positive? are those cases beind surpressed to prevent panic. personally I know of at least two suspected cases here in the US that have vanished down the memory hole, no test resaults were made public, no media reports of any kind after these people were hospitialized as suspected cases.
what happened to them?
the implications of these suspected cases showing up all over the world are pretty clear. it would mean that it is spreading farther and faster than anybody would have thought possible given ebolas history. more importantly, it would suggest that the virus has found a new pathway of transmission beyond the classic direct contact. there is some evidence that supports the concern that this strain can be transmitted, at least in some limited fashion, through the air. a study done in Canada in 2012 showed that the virus transmitted between lab animals even though those animals never came into direct contact with each other. the lead doctor on the project concluded this was the resault of the animals becoming infected by absorbtion of the virus through the mucus membranes in the sinus cavity via heavy water droplets in the air.
if it were to become public knowledge that ebola could spread even in some limited way through the air and was already traveling around the globe...
what would you expect government and public health officials to do except lie thier asses off? after all they lie all day, every day about everything else so why would this be any different? and we have already caught the largest public health body not only lying, but attempted to cover up an outbreak of ebola by attempting to pass it off as something else.
this is not helpful when trying to maintian public trust and credibility on such an important issue and leads one to wonder...
is this sisuation already so far gone that they no longer care about public trust? is this the plan to prevent panic for as long as possible, lie, supress and deny until the truth becomes so evident, so clear that it no longer matters what is said and what is not?
hedge accordingly...
Everything you state is correct, and many have come to the same conclusions you have. The lying RE Congo was the tell; not handled well, because they didn't care. Ebola will escape Africa, maybe not soon but eventually, and they know they have lost the war already. The situation appears grave. I have no recommendation except my usual advice being to remain watchful.
Thank you for your well-reasoned post. Based upon the facts you present, a reasonable man should conclude that the government is lying. Remember the EU official who said that when something gets serious, you have to lie.
No doubt officials believe they have good reasons to lie. The threat to our lives and well-being is probably nothing more to them than a statistical risk they are assuming--of course, without any liability at all for the result.
Yes they have to lie.
Not defending them, but they just have to. Panic is the enemy now. If people in Africa panic any more than already the west half of Africa could go experience a complete societal breakdown -- healthcare, communications, command-and-control, everything -- and go dark. We would have zero visibility into events there. Then, people would have to leave just to survive, and they would leave via every flight out, via private planes, via every highway, via private boats and rafts and by walking. The flood would be impossible to stem. Most would go to other parts of Africa where the story we see now will play out again, only worse. But some (having money and means) will head for Europe bringing disease with them. The results would be staggeringly bad. Even if fatalities were few ebola in Europe (any part of Europe) would at least collapse world travel nearly over-night. At which point the real panic begins.
Panic in the Facebook era. Well that should be interesting.
They have lost control of the situation, assuming they ever had control which I doubt. So long as ebola stayed in the countryside it was fine. Now, it is not. So now I guess we get to see how the current generation will deal with a deadly and horrifying pandemic.
My expectation (just from what I read at ZH) is -- poorly.
As I've mentioned before, just review Margaret Chan's Podcast from a few weeks back. The VERY CLEAR message was that the figures reported by the WHO "may be a significant underestimate, possibly by a factor of 20". Her words, not mine. And 3 weeks ago.
The big problem is that initial symptoms are very similar to those of other very common illnesses in Africa, e.g. Malaria, so there's nothing particularly special to act as an early warning. The seriously ill often cannot get to healthcare, and will be treated at home.
I'm rather surprised that some enterprising (though ghoulish) commentator hasn't posted photos on Facebook of an "Ebola Mock Up" complete with the trademark (though actually not that common) blood leakage.
Do that in the USA and you'd be finding most of your "Friends" urgently "Defriending" you!!
If you do "plan to stay around", nitrile gloves, Tyvek oversuits, Gaffer Tape, rubber boots, Goggles and good quality disposable masks (N95 or better - learn how to use them correctly too) should be on your shopping list, along with 50kg pool chlorine, and a few 5l heavy duty garden sprayers . . . . . .
What does Bono think?
Bono's still in litigation about that embarrasing "Randy Marsh" incident...He's now questioning the accuracy of the scale used to weigh Mr Marsh's submission in 'Courics'....
Especially if you believe the Official Line .
This scares the shit out of me, I've already given up drinking corpse runoff. What will I have to give up next?
Probably 'Ball Butter' unless you have low cholesterol, then go ahead and suck down a cold one!
Bum sweat?
This is pure, unadulterated psy-ops bullshit. The Ebola virus transmits in exactly the same way as HIV; in other words, by contact with body fluids, and body fluids only. This was even clearly stated earlier by the WHO director herself.
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=226864
Reposting from an earlier thread.
Best Ebola discussion I've seen.
I wish you all would use sarc. It occurs to me some of you, actually, believe the bullshit.
Sorry, repeating the official script issued by WHO and governments sadly does not progress our understandng of how Ebola spreads. I would take a lot of convincing to believe that it can only be contracted by contact with body fluids. That hardly explains the numbers of people being infected.
I suggest it can be airborne, at least for a period of time.
Yes psy-ops bullshit http://www.cdc.gov/biosafety/publications/bmbl5/bmbl5_sect_iv.pdf
Biosafety Level 4
Biosafety Level 4 is required for work with dangerous and exotic agents that pose
a high individual risk of aerosol-transmitted laboratory infections and life-threatening
disease that is frequently fatal, for which there are no vaccines or treatments, or a
related agent with unknown risk of transmission. Agents with a close or identical
antigenic relationship to agents requiring BSL-4 containment must be handled at
this level until sufficient data are obtained either to confirm continued work at this
level, or re-designate the level. Laboratory staff must have specific and thorough
training in handling extremely hazardous infectious agents. Laboratory staff must
understand the primary and secondary containment functions of standard and
special practices, containment equipment, and laboratory design characteristics.
All laboratory staff and supervisors must be competent in handling agents and
procedures requiring BSL-4 containment. The laboratory supervisor in
accordance with institutional policies controls access to the laboratory.
There are two models for BSL-4 laboratories:
1. A Cabinet Laboratory—Manipulation of agents must be performed in a
Class III BSC; and
2. A Suit Laboratory—Personnel must wear a positive pressure supplied
air protective suit.
BSL-4 cabinet and suit laboratories have special engineering and design
features to prevent microorganisms from being disseminated into the environment.
All virus & bacteria are airborne, what makes one contagious over another is the size and quantities of the particles necessary for infection, in this Ebola's case it appears a small amount.
It's time for WHO to come clean and admit that Ebola virus can be airborne. The virus may not live a long time after it leaves the body, but long enough to infect others in planes, trains, buses or enclosed spaces: public buildings and shops etc where other people are breathing and gasping.
That's exactly how I caught a nasty virus several years ago, flying from Bangkok to London (13hrs) with the guy in front of me sweating/coughing like hell and obviously suffering from a bad dose of something which got spread around the plane and infected me. 36 hours after arriving home I went down with it and spent three days in bed unable to move or eat etc. There is little or no incentive for airlines to voluntarily screen people to deny boarding to anybody who is ill. If that passenger has Ebola, God help other passengers and flight/cabin crew.
They would admit if they had clinical proof, but they don't so they can avoid doing so. But it doesn't matter, we can all make our own decisions from evidence and the evidence is that Ebola can get around isolation procedures and is probably weakly airborne. So that's the story as it stands, think what you like.
"...the evidence is that Ebola can get around isolation procedures and is probably weakly airborne."
Mweh! Well, you agree with me, but I'm not sure whether you think there is or isn't evidence to support this view. Is "clinical proof" the same as "evidence"? or are they different things?
They are different things. This is not a crime scene this is science, and the burden of proof for science is much much higher than opinion or guestimation.
They'll be publishing a discussion of the new airborne nature of ebola 6 months after we've all boarded over our windows and learned to avoid crowds. That's just how it works.
An old friend pulled and burned all the poison ivy on his, extensive, acreage. A month, or so, later, a neighbor told him his wife was severely ill with poison ivy. She, even, had it in her lungs. If you burn dead Ebola patients, will that spread Ebola? Just askin'.
The story you tell is common, I had an aunt die that way. Ebola is not an oil and should not survive heat to become airborne. Burning the dead is probably preferred over burial to prevent handling of the dead. However the bodies must burn completely which is a lot harder than you think, so in most cases the problems will remain even after burning. Not sure how this plays in the spread of disease, but it cannot help.
It takes only one to ten ebola particles to infect someone. The ebola particles can survive outside a body for at least ten days (I'm not sure of exact time period). Ebola particles are extremely small (I believe millions and millions of ebola particles can be present in a small drop of bodily fluid). It has to be present in lungs and saliva if it causes sore throats coughing - and bleeding throughout the body (internally and externally). Concentrations become high enough for the virus to crystalize in a human body. I am far from an expert, but, how can it not be airborne?
There are varying degrees of airborne. But it is atleast 'airborne' on the smallest scale (3-6 ft) IMO.
Some virus (influenza) are so easily airborne they can leave the body of an infected person while they speak. Sounds crazy, but there you go. Nearly any virus that can lodge in the lungs and airways can leave the body when an infected person coughs. To leave the body during a sneeze the virus must be present in the naso-pharynx (sinuses and throat). These are all specific viral behaviours, not all virus behave the same. I don't know for sure about ebola, but it seems to infect the entire body. They warn us against contact even with sweat. That means it will be in the airways and naso-pharynx. But that doesn't mean it is able to become airborne just for that. In fact up to recently it was evident that ebola could not spread that way. Well now clearly something has changed; I was saying a month ago that healthcare workers and researchers falling ill was enough to suggest it had become airborne (a little) and I believe that is now largely accepted.
Ebola is really fragile. That part isn't going to change, it cannot mutate away from how it is constructed. It can probably always be damaged by exposure to both atmospheric oxygen and hard UV rays (sunlight). I don't think we have to worry about that kind of exposure unless there is a lot of infection in an area, then yes absolutely you will get it from handling door knobs, hand rails, ticket machines etc. That is not even an exaggeration, just statistics.
Anyone working with the infected is at extremely high risk. They are already saying that doing so amounts to a kind of suicide. I'm sure that is how we will see it ere the end. But for the rest of us if we can stay out of infected areas I don't see a huge risk.
But I might change my tune in a few weeks. The situation is evolving rapidly.
Do you think these medical personnel had been given a trial vaccine and there is a big cover up?
No and no.
Vaccine is almost out of the question. As for a cover up I don't know what you think is being covered up this thing is all over the news.
It is what it is, and it is really bad, and you don't have to imagine anything worse in fact I'm pretty certain your imagination isn't up to it. My imagination certainly is up to it but I'm trying not to go there.
Here is (another) vaccine in development, hadn't heard of it before. So far tested on four 'non-human primates'...
http://www.imvaccine.com/releases.php?releases_id=334
Working list of those with ebola / marburg vaccines in development or testing:
Immunovaccine Inc - Non-human primate trials
Crucell - Phase I safety trial completed
Profectus Biosciences - Multiple non-human primate trials completed
Newlink - Funding for pre-clinical toxicology studies
Another treatment path to keep an eye on, small interfering RNA:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140820-marburg-ebola-vir...
Anyone thinks these will be on the market available to anyone -- and in less than 5 years -- is delusional.
Most of these trials end in failure or nearly so. They worked on HIV for decades and have nearly nothing to show for it.
1/4 of frout page of NY times today
is an article about using towels too often in pro tennis .
This is news ?
Just a distraction. Get used to it. So long as people welcome that kind of thing it's not going away.
I am not usually paranoid, but something is not right here. Normally, during every past Ebola outbreak, the WHO personnel was seriously concerned and very strict measures were taken. I even heard a story about some monkeys landing in the USA, and because they feared some were infected, they gassed the monkeys and burnt the whole thing, monkeys and cages, to the ground.
This time, they were very cool about it all, not even considering shutting down airports and going as far as bringing back two infected people to America. Why the change in attitude? I don't believe in the theory of the population reduction objective. Normally, the ones who want to reduce the population hate the idea of reducing themselves. With an Ebola pandemic, they would be just as exposed as everyone else to the disease.
The WHO is not anyone anymore in the field of real science (lobbies have eaten it like a disease) and has probably lost all its past competence, but yet... what's behind such nonchalance? Only incompetence?
An Ebola pandemic would make AWESOME cover for the collapse of the financial systems in the West.
Cover? I think you mean it would provide acceleration.
"This time, they were very cool about it all"
They do not as a rule gas and burn people. Right? So I'm a little confused what point you are attempting to make here. As for airports they don't serve bushmeant on planes so I think the idea was that the planes were not part of the problem.
"the ones who want to reduce the population"
Who are you talking about specifically? Or did you just make that up?
"what's behind such nonchalance? Only incompetence?"
Um ... yes? I mean that happens to be the simplest and most obvious answer. Comports with everything else one sees happening in the world.
Keep trying. Maybe you'll stumble on an evil, deep nefarious plot of evil that everyone else simply overlooked. Because it was so evil. But honestly I doubt it.
Pity they don't gas some of the monkeys I see every time I go to the USA.
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Ebola IS airborne.
I posted comments with links several days ago. But now we have this…
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/ebola-outbreak-five-reasons-why-it-s-out-of...
See bullet #2 Ebola is easy to transmit
This is a major departure from the usual media take, that ebola is difficult to spread.
Now we have this piece…
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/airborne_transmission_of_ebola.html
Dr. Cherry brings together a list of articles which point to the airborne transmission of ebola.
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http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates
Complete article.
Iniquity abounds ...
USA ,west, its allies have embraced homosexuality and violence of war based on lies.
One affects the soul , another kills it.
Morality is the causality.
With it the hells awaken
and pour down its demons in the form of disease.
Are we in end times ..
When the Armageddon happens.
(ZH: The WHO has again delayed for 1 day their usual MON new case/death 4 country report for the 3 days THU-FRI-SAT, as they did last Mon-Tues, during which delay last week they came up with the ASTERISK PLOY wherein they simply omitted 1 of Liberia's 3 days, thus reducing the 4 country 3 day totals of new cases and deaths by about 25%, as Liberia's totals have been constituting 75% +/- of the 4 country report numbers. This is apparently what WHO does best.
This time however, WHO has the added task of hiding the 70 plus probable EVD Congo deaths, as well as preventing worldwide awareness that EVD has spread outside west Africa to a 5th country. It looks like they may have arranged the coverup by declaring Congo a different strain, and then by acknowledging only 13 EVD deaths and only 2 positive EVD tests.
The understated and concocted WHO numbers are due out any minute, missing numbers the result of the new 'GAP' accounting).