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"World Is Losing Battle To Contain Ebola Epidemic," MSF Warns Response "Lethally Inadequate"

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The CDC's worst nightmare is coming true. Despite reassurances from the government that it was 'contained', the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria is accelerating fast. Health Minister Chukwu said that 17 had now been infected and 271 were under surveillance (including most horrifyingly, 72 in Lagos). In addition, Congo is seeing cases increase rapidly, with WHO reporting 53 cases of Ebola (31 dead) and warning, perhaps ominously, that there is no link with the West Africa strain. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said the situation in her country "remains grave," adding "People now don't see this as a Liberia or West Africa crisis. It could easily become a global crisis." Furthermore, Doctors-without-Borders warns, "the world is losing the battle to contain the Ebola epidemic."

 

 

  • *WORLD LEADERS ARE FAILING TO ADDRESS EBOLA EPIDEMIC, MSF SAYS
  • *INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TO EBOLA 'LETHALLY INADEQUATE', MSF SAYS
  • *MSF: WORLD IS LOSING BATTLE TO CONTAIN EBOLA EPIDEMIC
  • *MSF: NATIONS WITH DISASTER RESPONSE CAPACITY MUST ASSIST

Via Doctors Without Borders,

Six months into the worst Ebola epidemic in history, the world is losing the battle to contain it. Leaders are failing to come to grips with this transnational threat.

 

In West Africa, cases and deaths continue to surge. Riots are breaking out. Isolation centers are overwhelmed.  Health workers on the front lines are becoming infected and are dying in shocking numbers. Others have fled in fear, leaving people without care for even the most common illnesses. Entire health systems have crumbled.

 

Ebola treatment centers are reduced to places where people go to die alone, where little more than palliative care is offered. It is impossible to keep up with the sheer number of infected people pouring into facilities. In Sierra Leone, infectious bodies are rotting in the streets.

 

Rather than building new Ebola care centers in Liberia, we are forced to build crematoria.

 

Last week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) projected as many as 20,000 people infected over three months in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.

 

We are in uncharted waters. Transmission rates are at unprecedented levels, and the virus is spreading quickly through Liberia’s capital, Monrovia.

 

...

 

We have been losing for the past six months. We must win over the next three.

Nigeria is bad and getting worse fast.. (via Reuters)

Nigeria has a third confirmed case of Ebola in the oil hub of Port Harcourt, bringing the country's total confirmed infections to 17, with 271 people under surveillance, the health minister said on Monday.

 

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Patrick Sawyer, the first case, came from Liberia, and then collapsed at Lagos airport on July 20.

 

The shift to Port Harcourt shows how easily containment efforts can be undermined. Nigeria's government acted quickly at the end of July, setting up an isolation ward and monitoring contacts closely. But one of Sawyer's contacts in Lagos avoided quarantine and traveled east to Port Harcourt.

 

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Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said in a press conference that 72 people in Lagos, a city of 21 million people, were still under surveillance. Another 199 people were under surveillance in Port Harcourt.

Congo is accelerating... (via WHO)

  • *WHO SAYS IDENTIFIED 53 CASES CONSISTENT W/EBOLA IN DRC, 31 DEAD
  • *NO LINK BETWEEN WEST AFRICA, CONGO EBOLA OUTBREAKS, WHO SAYS

"There are now 31 deaths," Eugene Kambambi, the WHO's head of communication in DR Congo, told AFP, citing Congolese authorities and stressing that the epidemic "remains contained" in an area around 800 kilometres north of the capital Kinshasa.

 

Kabamba added that there were "53 confirmed, suspected or likely cases" of Ebola, while 185 people were under medical watch because they had admitted to contact with patients or were believed to have had dealings with people stricken by the highly contagious disease.

 

The government announced on August 25 that the DRC was facing its seventh Ebola outbreak since the disease was first identified in the former Zaire in 1976.

 

The health minister has ruled out any link with a serious Ebola epidemic sweeping parts of west Africa, at a cost of more than 1,500 lives, on the grounds that there had been no contact between those distant nations and Boende. The WHO has taken the same position.

And Liberia is a disaster... (via CNN)

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said Monday that the situation over the massive Ebola outbreak in her country "remains grave."

 

"Our health delivery system is under stress. The international community couldn't respond quickly," Johnson Sirleaf told CNN's Nima Elbagir in an interview.

 

She warned a bigger response is needed to prevent that.

 

"People now don't see this as a Liberia or West Africa crisis. It could easily become a global crisis."

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"contained"

 

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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:58 | 5171369 p00k1e
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In 2003 world population was 6,320,371,175.

In 2014 world population is 7,176,023,055.

Are the Gates winning? 

http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/worldpop/table_popul...

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:18 | 5171470 Herd Redirectio...
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Where did that population growth take place?  What race?

Maybe that is a partial success for their ilk.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:51 | 5171610 froze25
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In the countries they have thier claws in.  US, Europe the Russians kicked them out.  China did it on thier own.  Japan did it through econimic conditions.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:41 | 5171871 cougar_w
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Please don't.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:41 | 5171286 Sizzurp
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If more than 10% of Africa's current population are alive in 18 months it will be a miracle.  Even now we hear no calls to shut down flights from Nigeria

Wed, 09/03/2014 - 00:09 | 5174359 Matt
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I'm sure people will begin taking Cordon Sanitaire seriously once they get around say 10 percent mortality, soldiers with flamethrowers incinerating anyone approaching a quarantine checkpoint. Maybe some US Drones with thermobarics hitting up some populated areas filled with alleged terrorists. No way more than 20 percent mortality in 18 months average for all of Africa.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:42 | 5171289 p00k1e
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'World Leaders" will save us, relax “It’s a Wonderful Life”.  Just believe. 

 

Disney Intro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzYfRLMtP9c


Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:42 | 5171293 walküre
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There's always Ebola in the Congo. There's a fucking river named after it or the other way around.

If ZH is a barometer for the Ebola panic, the verdict would be that the hype is fading.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:21 | 5171483 Lux Fiat
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Have been keeping an eye on the confirmed counts.  They are not exploding in the original 3 countries as of the last report. However, no one seems to have a handle on how many are occurring off the grid, so to speak. WHO and MSF have a vested interest in making like Chicken Little. However, their warnings could be caused by seeing a situation whose possible vector scares them sh$tless.  Time will tell.  And besides, sustained focus on things that play out slowly (at least at first) does not seem to be a widespread abiliity.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:46 | 5171894 cougar_w
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The counts stop being meaningful once the healthcare system is overwhelmed and workers are either dead or running for their lives. At the same time, so many people are dead or dying nobody can spare the cycles to pull together a communication.

What, you thought there was a self-reporting web site for this? TrackMyEbola.com maybe?

Remember, "information" is fragile and the first thing to die.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:45 | 5171297 XitSam
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I'll be in my bunk(er).

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:46 | 5171302 asscannon101
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This is inexcusable and Obomba had better pull his thumb out get his TOP PEOPLE on this immediately. Given that Ben Bernanke has saved the world once already, he is obviously the best choice to send over there. Give that smarmy cocksucker a sponge, get him in a new pair of wellies and put him on a plane. Seat him in aisle 43, right between Greenspan and Jamie Dimon. Blankfein is already on the ground in Liberia and looks pretty ill, but since he has experience 'doing God's work' so I'm sure he'll pull through.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:50 | 5171330 lester1
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Helicopter Ben with thousands of ZMAPP viles.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:48 | 5171916 Cpl Hicks
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Viles it is when you're working with the USG.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:59 | 5171993 lakecity55
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"sorry, America, there is only one dose and I took it."

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:53 | 5171303 alexcojones
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How hard is it to make ZMAP and do African people

Recover using this drug?  (ZMap drug users to sign waiver )

Or is this another Constant Gardener scenario, with an even more evil twist?

The Constant Gardener
Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:48 | 5171907 cougar_w
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ZMAPP is hard to make and hasn't been proven effective. It's interesting but I think it might be nothing but a sideshow.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:58 | 5171983 lakecity55
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"Sorry, Reggie, there is only enough for one dose."

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:51 | 5171934 Cpl Hicks
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ZMAPP is made with genetic engineering and therefore is likely not to be approved for large-scale production.

Thanks Greenies.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:49 | 5171316 Argos
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Ebola, brought to you by the same people that gave us AIDS.  Thanks central Africa.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:10 | 5171427 herohedge
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No, it's brought to us by apes/monkeys who have figured out how to take down their greatest enemy--humans. We need to send John Kerry to the jungle to negotiate an end to these hostilities.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:22 | 5171490 Herd Redirectio...
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AIDS and Ebola both have history as bioweapons, developed in the West.  Your mileage may vary.

BTW, both are able to hide from the immune system in the same way, by hijacking some of your bodies own cells.

Wed, 09/03/2014 - 00:11 | 5174364 Matt
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If not intentional bioweapons, than the results of hubris and cutting corners for profit. There is some pretty compelling evidence that HIV came from a corporation making vaccines using the wrong species of primate.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:49 | 5171321 lester1
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How are all these doctors in hazmat suits getting ebola ?.. Are they not telling us something?

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:01 | 5171377 LFMayor
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I've read that they're re-using gloves and other equipment that's normally disposable.   They wash things, but many times it's in plain water, and the bucket is re-used and not emptied, no sanitizer, etc. For lack of a better term, it's Ebola Minestrone Soup that they dip them in.

You have to remember, this is Africa.   Doctor is a relative term most of the time. Hell, Idi Amin proclaimed himself the King of Scotland.  Not really, but his self awards included  Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.

YMMV

Wed, 09/03/2014 - 00:13 | 5174369 Matt
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A lot of those doctors and nurses were westerners. If this is due to a shortage of bleach, WTF happened to DOW's lobbyists, shouldn't they be getting some sweet government pork to ship industrial cleaners to Africa?

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:50 | 5171926 cougar_w
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They are not in hazmat suits, as a rule. Just gloves, smocks and masks. The usual hospital protections, and usually these are sufficient.

I suspect there is now an ebola strain can get around those. If so it clearly took them by surprize. I'm a little bit alarmed by that alone, and I think the WHO are alarmed as well.

This story is still being written. I am already not liking how it ends.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:48 | 5171323 earnulf
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The Chart is short on data, given it's parameters.    Cut the timeframe in half (12 weeks instead of 25) and increase the left side variable by 1K instead of 10K and it begins to look a lot worse.   Problem with "confirmed" cases is that it's too late by that point to contain the problem.

Hope that winter kills the virus, otherwise a lot of "flu" cases are going to be cover for Ebola.   Of course people HAVE been discussing the population growth and how to "contain it".    Culling half the population of the world and losing another quarter to collapsed health systems would just about do it.     Add a few wars and jihads and you could get pretty close to that 1 billion population figure if you try.

Of course "they" also haven't exactly come out and said if you survive it, you're immune.   What was that ZH phrase again, something about a long time line.....

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:52 | 5171940 cougar_w
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The charts is meaningless, actually. Well it might apply to a limited part of Africa, Perhaps a spreadsheet approach might work in that porous part of the world. But outside western Africa that chart is meaningless.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:52 | 5171345 skynet_21
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So does vitamin C work? I've read some doctors reporting that it does, while others say it has no effect.

Since I didn't make a golf funding campaign contribution, I doubt I'd be able to get ZMAP if I needed it. 

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:29 | 5171509 Herd Redirectio...
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As a  preventative measure, I am confident re: Vitamin C (provided other measures are also taken, like say, avoiding West Africa,  hospital wards, vomit, air travel...).

Is it a cure for late stage Ebola?  Less likely, but I would sooner pump my body full of Vit C than just be put in Palliative Care! 

 

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:20 | 5171655 froze25
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This is a very good presentation on how vitamin C works http://youtu.be/GH492eeTyjk?t=1h10m20s  Dr. Levy speaks on the nutrient/toxin relationship and the role electron depletion and donation have in regard to health, and illness.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 17:31 | 5173050 skynet_21
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Watching it now, thanks.  Even if its just a placebo, I figure I'll give it a try when I can't count on hospitals or governments to do anything.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:55 | 5171969 cougar_w
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There are no known general purpose anti-virals. Claims to the contrary are ill-informed.

That said, good overall health should improve one's survivability, as would be the case with any other illness. That's just common sense.

Wed, 09/03/2014 - 00:56 | 5174447 Ionic Equilibria
Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:54 | 5171354 ShrNfr
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Meanwhile, the local populace is stuck on stupid. They bury an ebola victim in your community and what do they do? Dig it up and expose themselves of course. http://www.liberianobserver.com/news/angry-youths-dig-suspected-ebola-co...

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:08 | 5171418 dearth vader
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Dig me up, Scotty...

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:22 | 5172117 IronShield
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...I want to go with you...

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:58 | 5171977 cougar_w
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Yeah, they don't get it.

Well after this they are going to get it.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:57 | 5171361 nakki
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We need $430 million, no make that $490 million, oh wtf let's just make it an even $1 billion and be done with it.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:57 | 5171982 cougar_w
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And your point was what?

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 15:59 | 5172620 Bangin7GramRocks
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"Let's tell congress we need $700 billion." "Why $700 billion?" "Because they would say no to a trillion." Same fucking thing. Every gubmint is filled with assholes!

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:00 | 5171379 Chuck Knoblauch
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Why is Ebola being allowed to spread?

To control Chinese expansion into Africa?

Poor Africans being sacrificed for the greater good?

The good of European nobility?

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:17 | 5171739 Titus
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Exact same thought I had. The chinese are challenging the petrodollar (with Russia, which has it's own problems now) and taking over africa. Set ebola loose in Africa, let it be carried back to china.

Kill 2 birds with one stone.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:01 | 5171998 cougar_w
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"Why is Ebola being allowed to spread?"

It isn't being allowed to do anything, it is just doing what it does best in accordance with its nature. And since that is the case your other "questions" are irrelevant.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:02 | 5171387 Chuck Knoblauch
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I'd like to buy Ebola victims plane tickets to Venice & Genoa, Italy.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:13 | 5171446 dearth vader
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Why? They're thronging to Lampedusa all by themselves.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:18 | 5171467 Chuck Knoblauch
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Storm the castles.

Spread the disease.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:55 | 5171965 Cpl Hicks
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"Dong, dong" ..... Bring out your dead!

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:09 | 5171419 buzzsaw99
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if an african doesn't have ebola when they go to the hospital they will have it before they leave guaranteed.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:02 | 5172012 cougar_w
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That applies to a lot of pathogens. Most US hospitals are over run with MRSA, which can kill you. The best way to avoid MRSA is to avoid hospitals.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:08 | 5171423 Rockfish
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Practice makes perfect. This virus is receiving the gift of apathy and with that it gets to what is does best. Adapt, replicate and spread. 

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:04 | 5172025 cougar_w
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Somewhat true. Though in all honesty I don't think there is much humanity can do about this one. It's got us where it wants us.

Wed, 09/03/2014 - 00:18 | 5174377 Matt
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How about "actual quarantines of infected areas"? That is a proven effective method that I am confident could work if applied. That includes wildlife, kill and incinerate any mammals trying to migrate out of the quarantine zones.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:15 | 5171455 p00k1e
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When I get Ebola I’m going to bite people like in “World War Z”.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:16 | 5171465 LFMayor
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Nice!  I think I'll go to all the waiting rooms in the metro area that I can find and pull a Rick James on the couches.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:52 | 5171948 lakecity55
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"That Ebola is a helluva drug!"

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:36 | 5171539 dearth vader
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Are you kin to Mario Suarez?

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:23 | 5171459 SocialismIsCancer
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Best way to solve many of Earth's biggest problems: merge ebola and influenza so that the resulting virus can spread through the air like influenza but have the quick high lethality of ebola. Then load the weaponized virus on drones and spread it around the Earth, starting with all the regions with high populations of islamic cult worshipers, socialist parasites (eg obama supporters), and aburdly excessive human populations (eg Asia, Latin America, Africa). Oh, yeah, make sure that all the politicians get injected with it directly by telling them that it is a vaccination that will preserve their health even as everyone around them is getting sick and dieing - they will leap on that opportunity.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:34 | 5171531 dearth vader
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Good old Dan Brown, laid it all out for us only last year. No bad timing.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:51 | 5171928 lakecity55
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"here is your antidote, Dr Kissinger."

"Thanks. Will millions die?"

"Billions, Sir."

"Excellent."

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:07 | 5172034 cougar_w
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"Best way to solve many of Earth's biggest problems"

Is that right.

So what do you think then are the Earth's biggest problems?

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:46 | 5172246 falconflight
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TaxEating swine and their pig herders.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 15:41 | 5172516 cougar_w
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Then I think you are wishing for swine flu.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 18:35 | 5173306 SocialismIsCancer
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humans, the Universal Destroyer Species that is incapable of governing itself & preserving the Earth, the only home they will ever have

Distinguished subgroups include

mythological cult worshipers, eg muslims, catholics, etc

parasites, eg obama & all of his supporters, quants & algo traders, central bankers, etc

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:19 | 5171472 skbull44
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Yes, isn't everything 'contained'.....at least until it isn't.

http://olduvai.ca

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:21 | 5171477 Frank N. Beans
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no link between Congo ebola and West African ebola?  Just a coincidence?

Some say there is no such thing as coincidences. In this case there has to be a connection. 

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:25 | 5171499 dearth vader
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Not if it's a different strain.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:46 | 5172240 Coopster
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Yes, I wonder about that too.  They say that bats may be the host animal for the virus.  See this interesting map overlaying outbreak with range of the bat.  I imagine that the disease in bats "ebbs and flows", much like human diseases.  Maybe some bats flew to DRC, others were around Liberia... who knows?  Maybe it mutates within the bats.

http://virologydownunder.blogspot.pt/2014/08/the-battel-of-ebola-gains-second.html

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:23 | 5171488 Winston Smith 2009
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Defintely NOT GOOD:

Ebola Is Rapidly Mutating As It Spreads Across West Africa

http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/08/28/343734184/ebola-is-rapi...

Excerpt:

For starters, the data show that the virus is rapidly accumulating new mutations as it spreads through people. "We've found over 250 mutations that are changing in real time as we're watching," Sabeti says.

While moving through the human population in West Africa, she says, the virus has been collecting mutations about twice as quickly as it did while circulating among animals in the past decade or so.

"The more time you give a virus to mutate and the more human-to-human transmission you see," she says, "the more opportunities you give it to fall upon some [mutation] that could make it more easily transmissible or more pathogenic."

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:49 | 5171918 lakecity55
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Dude, this Bitch is gonna make 1918 a cakewalk.

Sorry for those 90% of us about to die.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:12 | 5172058 cougar_w
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I've been telling people for weeks that ebola getting into large cities was a game changer, and this is the reason.

I want you all to know another thing: ebola is now no longer limited to the countryside of Africa. All the jokes about eating fruit bats will from this event forward simply be references to an interesting transition period. Ebola is in people, it has a reasonable long incubation period so it can travel, it appears to be able to spread easily now person-to-person. We still don't know all the bad news and won't for many years.

Watch this thing become something it was not. Watch it, and learn something about biology in motion.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 17:08 | 5172963 Jena
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... a lesson I really never thought I'd see, even though I believed a pandemic would be in the cards one day.

Biology can't be reasoned or bartered with and it doesn't discriminate.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 22:42 | 5174104 Spigot
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If you navigate to the link, a bit down you'll see a "technician" handling samples from Ebola Pts. He has on a smock and nitril gloves, and NO FACE or Repiratory protection. In the back ground you will see a centrifuge, which is used to concentrate the samples. The Cent. spins at very high speed and will break vials, etc, spewing the samples everywhere in the area.

This is one of the reasons this thing will kill millions there: stupidity. There are so few technical and medical people available, and so many infected people coming to them, there is no real chance that these healthcare workers will not all be in a grave sooner than later. After that ...

Wed, 09/03/2014 - 01:24 | 5174472 Ionic Equilibria
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We've found over 250 mutations that are changing in real time as we're watching," Sabeti says.

These are mostly going to be SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms).  How many of these SNPs change a codon or aren't redundant (no change in the amino acid)?   Of those that do make a significant change how many increase virulence (Hint: the minority in all probability)  How many cause a significant change in an epitope?  Etc...  A little knowledge....  Granted a chance increase in virulence is possible though I seem to remember that that sometimes means a faster burnout: i.e., if the bacteria or virus kills the host before transmission is possible then it's disadvantageous to the diisease vector.  Ebola is already so bad it may be unlikely to get worse.  Only time will tell.  However, a repeat of the Black Death scenario certainly looks like a strong possibility.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:32 | 5171517 silentboom
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Ok, now I'm giving up eating those corpse burgers, especially unless they're well done.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:48 | 5171906 lakecity55
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Damn. Got to cut back on the fruit bats.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:45 | 5171572 TomGa
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SkyNews: Ebola Patient Flees Clinic In Search For Food

Tuesday 02 September 2014

Chaotic scenes as an infected man wanders into a Monrovia market to look for food are captured on video.

http://news.sky.com/story/1328891/ebola-patient-flees-clinic-in-search-f...

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:52 | 5171603 Kirk2NCC1701
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Useful Life Principle:  Best to avoid people of questionable background, intelligence, lifestyle, habits or hygiene. -Kirk

Surround yourself with Quality People whenever possible.

p.s. If JC didn't save the world, neither will you* -- you* pompous, vain ass.  Charity begins at home, and is best kept in own country.

* Generic "you" (which includes me)

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:14 | 5172065 cougar_w
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Hah. Well I hate to burst your bubble but someone's background or intelligence is simply not going to count for much as regards ebola, and rather soon I'm afraid.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:10 | 5171699 p00k1e
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That Ebolaian wasn't a biter.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:46 | 5171599 Mi Naem
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"Leaders are failing to come to grips with this transnational threat."

Obama - "Don't gimme da shit.  I'm tryin' ta start da fuckin' WWIII here.  I ain't got time fo dat muffukkin' bowshit" 

Yessir.  Sorry, Sir. 

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:51 | 5171614 curbyourrisk
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It's in Africe.  World leaders don't care.

We have an ever spreading infection caleed "Itcan'thappenhere-itis"

World Leaders are fucking stupid.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:13 | 5171711 blu
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It's time to sack up gentlemen.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:34 | 5171828 prmths2
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Considering Boko Haram's propensity for kidnapping and killing, I assume that they would have no qualms about acquiring an Ebola victim and using captives for the production of bodily fluids with which to spread the disease. Under the circumstances, Boko Haram could be a real problem if they overcame their (assumed) fear of Ebola and acquired a modicum of technical expertise in prophylaxis. What quantity of a bodily fluid is required for reliable infection, and how many "doses" could be prepared from a single victim? Imagine ISIS getting access to such a weapon through the Al Qaeda network. It would be a modern version of corpses and catapults. 

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 15:03 | 5172315 atthelake
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Take any sick person from West Africa, willing or not, living or dead, put him in a plane, fly him over any large American city and drop him on the city. That would be the start of American Ebola.

www.rense.com/general96/eboseng.html  has an article connecting Ebola with oil. Not sure I believe it.

www.exopolitics.blogs.com has discussions of Ebola and oil called Ebolagate.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:45 | 5171888 lakecity55
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"After Africa is depopulated, we will have all the Resources."

---TPTB

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 18:11 | 5173215 SilverRhino
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And that is the real reason why ebola is out. 

USA having problems?  Let's just swipe a continent.   3 bonus armies per turn. 

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:31 | 5172157 IronShield
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China has treatment, no plans to export

Now THAT is how wars start.  (Of course I don't believe they have it but nonetheless).  Same for Russia.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 15:04 | 5172328 Cthonic
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Sounds like it was developed for the PLA; question is, if they aren't willing to share it, then why talk about it, unless there are nervous domestic elements.  Nevertheless, pretty bad PR if it actually works.

 

Liberian nurses strike for protective equipment

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/02/ebola-liberian-nurses-strik...

Liberian doctors strike as they have no staff

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/02/health-ebola-idUSL5N0R33OE2014...

Human trials of GSK vaccine begin this month with three Gambian volunteers

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2014/09/02/Human-testing-approved...

Guinean and 16 others being monitored in Thailand

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Guinean-woman-undergoing-Ebola-...

 

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 15:49 | 5172567 cougar_w
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Translation:

"we have a treatment": ebola will hit China and when it does we won't have 1.2 billion people in a state of panic because everyone will know ... we have a treatment.

"we have no plans to export our treatment": we don't really have a treatment but we had to lie about that to avert panic, see point above.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:14 | 5172064 Westcoastliberal
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Two words: Georgia Guidestones

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:28 | 5172142 IronShield
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Why are you all running away?  I've been told it's not contagious until I'm bleeding from all orifices.  Here, have some roasted fruit bat.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:32 | 5172161 sam site
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Ebola like ISIS is CIA created and controlled.  They brought it to the US so we can all get an Ebolla vaccine to better poison the public, reduce the population and chemically dumb down us down.  Follow the money and power folks.  Our Jesuit rulers and their Zionist agents know how to play us like a hooked fish. 

Just like ISIS scaring Americans with, "We will drown you in blood" and all the beheading videos to further cower the public into our deceptive and dangerous Big Government saviors.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:43 | 5172230 falconflight
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Certifiable freak of nature.  Anyway....who cares, I ain't fraid of no ghost.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:44 | 5172227 Fix It Again Timmy
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Without running water and a sewage or disposal system, a decent standard of health is impossible.  Years ago, I was in a jungle village in Cambodia.  There was a large communal "home" that was built with tropical hardwoods.  It was very well-constructed, very well architected and could have easily graced the front cover of Architectual Digest.  But the village had no running water, no SOAP or any disposal system - the kids were running around with skin ulcers on their arms and legs that you could have dropped a golf ball or two in.  Most people who have running water, soap and are connected to a sewage system haven't a clue as to how CRUCIAL these are to good health and physical well-being.  I just don't see how the Ebola pandemic can be contained in Africa, those folks have not even come up the starting line in regards to sanitation.  Sanitation will be the first priority of the survivors and the Western world had better realize that the costs of providing decent sanitation will go a long way to prevent similar outbreaks in the future.  Afterall, we spend trillions on defense, yet this virus .00004 inches long is defeating us and threatening our world as we know it....

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 16:38 | 5172835 willwork4food
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But I was always taught that we were the TOP of the food chain.

We're not #1 anymore?

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:58 | 5172291 roadhazard
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You'd think as much as China wants African resources they would be sending aid already but not a peep from them as far as I can tell. Where is Putin's humanitarian convoy?

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 16:03 | 5172637 atthelake
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China doesn't need the people, just the resources.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 17:33 | 5173057 Monty Burns
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The Chinese and Russians understand Africa.  They know that money pumped in there is money down the drain.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 15:02 | 5172307 Cheduba
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OMG 300 POSSIBLE CASES!  Please save me CDC!  Call in the peacekeepers!

Give me a break - that many people die every day in India from traffic accidents alone.  Wake me up when we are talking 1 million cases.  Until we see that, this is all just scare tactics to make us surrender more power to globalist facilities. 

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 16:19 | 5172704 MalteseFalcon
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If Ebola wipes out half of Africa, within 20 years Africa will be re-populated with new, Ebola-resistant, trigger-happy, slam-dunking negroes.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 16:20 | 5172735 willwork4food
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with an attitude.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 17:34 | 5173067 MalteseFalcon
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Long the NBA.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 17:57 | 5173177 Overflow-admin
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I wanted to do my own projection and I ended up with half of the figure you can see at the end of the article. Any Excel gurus want to play with a GROWTH function? P.S. Don't mess with the boolean parameter ;)

Current version forecasts 5'181'065 Cases and 1'912'259 Deaths by Sept. 2015, based on WHO "Probable and Confirmed Cases and Deaths" public statements. There may be errors in data input! Also, PEOPLE MAY MOVE THEIR ASSES before reality catches up with the model!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx7I-MzAy7p5VUlhVUxFcWlNQ0U/edit?usp=sh...

P.S. Michael Mann, I take you in a hockeystick duel whenever you want!!!

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 22:23 | 5174058 Spigot
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Problem is that once you get a certain percentage of people infected, the infection rate slows due to saturation within the population in that region. People will still be dying left and right, but it plateaus because its gotten into anyone and everyone is will infect already. You can't get more than 100% infection rates.

At this point it appears that the virus is mutating so rapidly there will end up being at least one kind of airborne variety coming along soon. Not talking fomites. We're talking air transmission like Reston. Reston proves the basic virus is capable of it.

This is probably the real threat to the world of having so many in Africa being infected.

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 17:59 | 5173185 enloe creek
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wonder why my nurse nieghbor isn't going to work anymore. probably got the sniffles

Tue, 09/02/2014 - 18:51 | 5173366 willwork4food
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6:48PM EST  ANOTHER MD has been diagnosed with Ebola in Monrovia. He WAS NOT caring for Ebola patients.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Another-US-health-worker-infected-with-Ebola/articleshow/41556190.cms

Wed, 09/03/2014 - 00:49 | 5174432 steelrules
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Could it be getting picked up by mosquitoes or fleas and being transmitted that way? Africa may become the empty continent.

Wed, 09/03/2014 - 01:00 | 5174454 steelrules
Wed, 09/03/2014 - 06:44 | 5174730 AnAnonymous
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Contained in where?
What world losing the battle?

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