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Top Doctors: Ebola May Become Airborne … And May ALREADY Be Transmissible Via Aerosols
Michael T. Osterholm – director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota – wrote in the New York Times last month:
Viruses like Ebola are notoriously sloppy in replicating, meaning the virus entering one person may be genetically different from the virus entering the next. The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years. Each new infection represents trillions of throws of the genetic dice.
If certain mutations occurred, it would mean that just breathing would put one at risk of contracting Ebola. Infections could spread quickly to every part of the globe, as the H1N1 influenza virus did in 2009, after its birth in Mexico.
Why are public officials afraid to discuss this? They don’t want to be accused of screaming “Fire!” in a crowded theater — as I’m sure some will accuse me of doing. But the risk is real, and until we consider it, the world will not be prepared to do what is necessary to end the epidemic.
In 2012, a team of Canadian researchers proved that Ebola Zaire, the same virus that is causing the West Africa outbreak, could be transmitted by the respiratory route from pigs to monkeys, both of whose lungs are very similar to those of humans. Richard Preston’s 1994 best seller “The Hot Zone” chronicled a 1989 outbreak of a different strain, Ebola Reston virus, among monkeys at a quarantine station near Washington. The virus was transmitted through breathing, and the outbreak ended only when all the monkeys were euthanized. We must consider that such transmissions could happen between humans, if the virus mutates.
The Guardian reports today:
There is a ‘nightmare’ chance that the Ebola virus could become airborne if the epidemic is not brought under control fast enough, the chief of the UN’s Ebola mission has warned.
Anthony Banbury, the Secretary General’s Special Representative, said that aid workers are racing against time to bring the epidemic under control, in case the Ebola virus mutates and becomes even harder to deal with.
Two Infectious Disease Experts Say Ebola In Its CURRENT Form Is ALREADY Spread By Aerosols
But perhaps most challenging to the mainstream assumption that Ebola can only be spread through physical contact with a person who is showing symptoms of infection is the following explanation by two national experts on infectious disease transmission, both professors in the School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, at the University of Illinois at Chicago (footnotes omitted):
We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks. [Aerosols are liquids or small particles suspended in air. An example is sea spray: seawater suspended in air bubbles, created by the force of the surf mixing water with air.]
The important points are that virus-laden bodily fluids may be aerosolized and inhaled while a person is in proximity to an infectious person and that a wide range of particle sizes can be inhaled and deposited throughout the respiratory tract.
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Being at first skeptical that Ebola virus could be an aerosol-transmissible disease, we are now persuaded by a review of experimental and epidemiologic data that this might be an important feature of disease transmission, particularly in healthcare settings.
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Many body fluids, such as vomit, diarrhea, blood, and saliva, are capable of creating inhalable aerosol particles in the immediate vicinity of an infected person. Cough was identified among some cases in a 1995 outbreak in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and coughs are known to emit viruses in respirable particles. The act of vomiting produces an aerosol and has been implicated in airborne transmission of gastrointestinal viruses. Regarding diarrhea, even when contained by toilets, toilet flushing emits a pathogen-laden aerosol that disperses in the air.
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There is also some experimental evidence that Ebola and other filoviruses can be transmitted by the aerosol route. Jaax et alreported the unexpected death of two rhesus monkeys housed approximately 3 meters from monkeys infected with Ebola virus, concluding that respiratory or eye exposure to aerosols was the only possible explanation.
Zaire Ebola viruses have also been transmitted in the absence of direct contact among pigsand from pigs to non-human primates, which experienced lung involvement in infection. Persons with no known direct contact with Ebola virus disease patients or their bodily fluids have become infected.
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Experimental studies have demonstrated that it is possible to infect non-human primates and other mammals with filovirus aerosols. [Ebola is a type of filovirus]
Altogether, these epidemiologic and experimental data offer enough evidence to suggest that Ebola and other filoviruses may be opportunistic with respect to aerosol transmission. That is, other routes of entry may be more important and probable, but, given the right conditions, it is possible that transmission could also occur via aerosols.
In other words, these two infectious disease experts believe that Ebola is already – in its current form – transmissible via aerosols. They therefore urge all doctors and nurses working with Ebola patients to wear respirators.
If they're right, the government's assumptions about and strategies towards Ebola are all wrong. At the very least - as the two experts quoted above urge - all frontline healthcare workers should wear respirators. And it may be necessary to consider travel restrictions until the epidemic is contained.
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...still wonderin' how ebolanomics is gonna affect the Ferguson protests.
Everyone here jumping crazy to conclusions about Ebola beind airborne, and now GW?
Gonna be tough to find another site like ZH, but this fearmongering lately is just getting too fucking stupid to read.
No one heeded "fear mongering" when warnings were sent out as early as the 1920's about AIDS epidemic in Leopoldville, Congo. Like Ebola also transmitted from monkeys unless you are conspiracist and believe it was invented in American lab and shipped to darkest Africa.
Elsewhere: Government's Ebola fiasco seems to have Rush Limbaugh, Anderson Cooper in rare agreement http://tinyurl.com/lmvvql2
Don't trust the government about anything
Trust the government about ebola
gw, YOUR FIRST FRONTIER FORT IS FREE OF CHIGGERS THIS YEAR, i AM SURE OF IT, THERE ON THE OLD-IS IT BULL PASTURE RIVER-JUSTUP THE RIVER FROM WHERE tJACKSON MADE HIS FIRST HEROIC STAND ON THE SHEANENDOAH, FUCK DAT AINT RITE, VALLEY, AT THE LITTLE OL MTN TOWN DUE WEST OF STAUNTON, VA. ANYHOW, FRENCH INDIAN WAR, GOOD TROUT FISHING, WASHINGTON WAS JUST A YOUNG STIFF DICK. Sacred ground on that old frontier fort, dug up the old wooden sharpened pole fortification remains. Hell of a Civil War battle there too. The big old houses and churches that were used to bring the bloody yanks still show that sacred blood as well. American BALLS. whereTF are they now.
Seek and ye shall find.
Whatever happened to that chicken jambalaya fever disease we were supposed to catch from the Caribbean Africans?
That one seemed good enough to fill the endless doom news cycle.
"The five biggest lies about Ebola being pushed by government and mass media"
http://www.naturalnews.com/047089_Ebola_pandemic_government_lies_disinfo...
"How was this not planned in advance? Ebola vaccine magically ready for human trials in weeks, not years"
http://www.naturalnews.com/047086_Ebola_vaccine_human_trials_hidden_agen...
http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2014/10/this-is-how-ebola-spreads-everyw...
At .00004", how many Ebola viruses can dance on the head of a pin? 10s of millions would not find the space especially cramped and it only takes one to take you to the woodshed, perhaps never to return...
Thought I had to fart but Ebola blew my ass apart....
IF Ebola became airborne and this became obvious and deaths in the US started rising, 5 then 50, then 500, the obvious move the health authorities would be recommending to those in power would be large scale quarantine of incoming flights and areas infected, nobody out of quarantined areas.
So what would really happen at this point?
At this point I would expect all the big banks would be arguing for much less invasive (and less effective) quarantine methods and the suppression of information to the public to prevent panic, in reality to prevent the public from asking awkward questions,, perhaps with some CNBC pgms that everything is just peachy, nothing to worry about, Why? well, it would impact on profits otherwise, the markets would collapse and we just can't have that. Since the banks control the politicians it would be a case of too little done too late.
We are presented with one Ebolian in Dallas.
We wait for the percolate.
But more are on their way. LOL
by Edgar Allan Poe
(1842)
THE "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal --the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/POE/masque.html
"Canada, which once (as recently as August 6) stated on its website that:
“In the laboratory, infection through small-particle aerosols has been demonstrated in primates, and airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected, although it has not yet been conclusively demonstrated (1, 6, 13). The importance of this route of transmission is not clear. Poor hygienic conditions can aid the spread of the virus.”
No more; the “airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected” language has been cleansed:
“In laboratory settings, non-human primates exposed to aerosolized ebolavirus from pigs have become infected, however, airborne transmission has not been demonstrated between non-human primates
Footnote1 Footnote10 Footnote15 Footnote44 Footnote45.
Viral shedding has been observed in nasopharyngeal secretions and rectal swabs of pigs following experimental inoculation.”
Are we to suppose that very recent and ground-breaking research was conducted that indicated there is no longer reason to “strongly suspect” that airborne Ebola contagion occurs? Surely, the research was done three weeks ago, and we only need to wait another couple of days until the study is released for public consumption. Feel better now?"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ebola-outbreak-the-latest-u-s-government-li...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/canadian-health-agency-deletes-info-on-airb...
You are right. I remember the earlier wording on the Health Canada site. WHO, CDC, TPTB or whoever has seemingly applied some pressure.
There's a killing to be made off this, and the truth can't get in the way. Long fascism.
You lunatics who think that TPTB want this, neglect to consider that this would kill indiscriminatly.
Rich and powerful will die as well. That's not what any rich, powerful person would want.
Your premise is that they want fewer humans, but THEY live to run the show.
Whether the virus is transmitted by air or not, the government would lie to escape blame for causing panic. The "top" doctors use the word "may" to provide a CYA statement to imply that what they say now is true, but may change. To expect the truth from scientists, doctors or the CDC, who depend upon government financing, is naive. The government depends upon the trust of the sheeple. The sheeple fear thinking, always seeking a shepherd, even a lying shepherd.
Trust is the salve of the unthinking, providing immediate temporary relief.
The nose.
If you smell something that means that your olfactory gland picks up minute aerosol particles and tells your brain to trigger a smell. It then can enter the ENT tract, get into the blood stream via various routes, and there you have aerosol transmission.
Right! So an enormous Ebola threat to the health, safety, and welfare of American citizens emerges in Liberia, and what does the NSA do? Camp out on the internet, downloading nude photos of Hollywood celebrities? The Secret Service goof offs are mice nuts compared to the NSA goof offs, who apparently not only do nothing BUT at the same time have the arrogance to spy on American citizens' phone calls, emails, tweets, and internet usage, in direct and ongoing violation of the Fourth Amendment.
You know, the original Constitution didn't include any of the Bill of Rights. James Madison was the member of the Constitutional Congress who wrote the biggest portion of the Constitution. And when he got back to Virginia, the citizens in his own Congressional District said they wouldn't vote for him and elect him to Congress unless he promised that the VERY FIRST THING HE WOULD DO was add a Bill of Rights. Because those people weren't stupid, and could see that the Constitution itself didn't do a whole lot to protect the Citizens from the new Central Government. THE FOURTH AMENDMENT!
The truly amazing thing was that Madison promised and then actually did it.
Ya I think this will be over once Bill Gates hauls out the vaccination M'Fers. Although, he was never able to stop Linux.
I don't mind shooting the mailman but I'll be sorry to see the UPS guy go.
Well this is a problem for Fox News. They don't believe in evolution .. but on the other hand this is a great fear factor storyline.
:-)
Report: “Disaster Teams Were Notified Months Ago They Would Be Activated in October: Disaster Assistance Response Teams were told to prepare to be activated in October"
by Mac Slavo | SHTFplan.com | October 2, 2014
"A public tweet from a large government supplier of emergency response products specializing in “high risk events” says that Disaster Assistance Response Teams were told to prepare to be activated in the month of October. The shocking revelation, made on the Goldenstate Fire/EMS Twitter page, suggests that not only did someone know that the Ebola virus would be reaching America, but that they knew exactly when it would happen.
“What we are now hearing is just the tip of the iceburg as we enter October,” noted the company’s Twitter spokesperson. “Ebola virus will cripple EMS and hospitals.”
When Future Money Trends, a follower of the page, asked what they meant by this statement, Goldenstate Fire/EMS responded with a shocking revelation.
“DART teams were notified months ago they would be activated in October. Timing seems weird. Source: current DART member.”
Twitter exchange:
What we are now hearing is just the tip of the iceburg as we enter October. #Ebola virus will cripple EMS and hospitals. The wait is over!"
http://www.infowars.com/report-disaster-teams-were-notified-months-ago-t...
More:
'Operational Details of Ebola Quarantine Zones & Martial Law Enforcement'http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/09/18/operational-details-of-ebol...
NOTICE
Executive Order 13295 was amended on July 31, 2014. Subsection (b) was replaced with the following:
"(b) Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled. This subsection does not apply to influenza."
As the Ebola outbreak continues to cause concern, President Barack Obama has signed an amendment to an executive order that would allow him to mandate the apprehension and detention of Americans who merely show signs of “respiratory illness.”
http://www.cdc.gov/sars/quarantine/exec-2004-04-03.html
And for the hardcore policy wonks:
The official report on why population reduction was necessary, in order to reduce opposition to local resource harvesting and extraction for US purposes:National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200) - April 1974
"The Public Health Agency of Canada has deleted information from its official website which indicated that the “airborne spread” of Ebola was strongly suspected by health authorities, amidst efforts by officials in Texas to calm concerns about the first outbreak of the virus in America."
http://www.globalresearch.ca/canadian-health-agency-deletes-info-on-airb...
OK, let's see. Ebola is supposed to be easy to spot, with blood flowing from almost every orifice of the body.
Seen any pictures of that? or even hear about any pictures or descriptions of that?
When someone dies of this "Ebola" have you heard of an autopsy in which it was stated that the cause of death was definitely real Ebola?
Have you heard almost every possible source of information (MSM), including our sacred leaders, trying to scare the shit out of everyone they possibly can?
Can you recall people who had real Ebola being "cured" in a short time? Doesn't happen.
Do you have the impression that maybe someone is trying to convince you that you should get the latest and greatest vaccine as soon as it is available, "before supplies run out", because you really don't know any better?
And why the heck is ZH taking part in all the scaremongering instead of the investigating journalism we follow them for?
How far body fluids can spread during a sneeze. 2 Second video
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2600044/The-slow-motion-v...
Too late, CDC says Ebola close contact is up to a 3 foot distance without physical contact. NWO weaponization complete.
Close contact is defined as
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/case-definition.html
New Zealand. With bonus points for existing and adaptable airport bio-security procedures.
We need to kill these patients instead of treating them along with everyone they have infected. We should eradicate the populations of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia as well. Any plane coming to the US with someone from an infected country should be shot down when it enters US air space. No more pussy footing around!
Since the US is now an infected country, will they shoot down their own too?
That's Israel's solution to the Palestinian problem. You plagiarizing bastard!
And, if the current incarnation of Ebola has an Rp over 1.5, the only effective one. Measles has an Rp in the late teens, early twenties - depending on environmental factors - but it doesn't kill 70%+ of it's victims and leave behind a sack of virions waiting to infect the poor bastard that has to move it.
Winter is coming and this little bugger won't like the cold. The influenza virus is a tricky little bastard with a magic trick called segment 7 RNA splicing and prefers a small range of temperatures. As long as this little bastard doesn't learn that trick, and if the idiots allowing the infection in are stopped, we might have a reasonable chance. But then again, some idiots...
It may not like the cold, but people tend to huddle when it is cold and the story is about airborne transmission as in winter flu. We will know in oct if we are screwed.
I take comfort in the fact that swine flu, bird flu, Corexit in the Gulf of Mexico, and Fukushima turned out not to be the humanity-wide catastrophes that many experts feared. I will try to not get too spun up over Ebola, until it indeed proves to be spreading in the first world.
I agree. But IF it is proven there might just be a little problem. We know the hype behind what you have mentioned and the added bullshit of global warming which causes everthing from Lumbage to Erectile Dysfunction...
Glad I live in the cold.
Fukushima not a humanity-wide catastrophe?
Hahahaha. Trillions of lethal doses of enriched uranium and plutonium spread around the planet, and more coming daily. I suppose you can see them and avoid breathing.
At least Ebola will kill over half the planet before the rad cancers and heart disease really get going. Certainly a way to save on cancer treatments.
They lie, you all buy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHWkRj5JfMc&list=UUdVJR0Frm3_6LRz9mZAOfm...
Define airborne, define hard to catch. These guys can talk all they want but after you or your love ones are dead it won't matter what they said. It seems Americans are trying to put Ebola into the dustbin as just another also ran or nuisance thing that when kept at a distance is of little interest. Unfortunately this may soon change as the virus is picking up "critical mass."
By critical mass I'm referring to the point where enough people are infected with the virus that it can sustain a chain reaction and expand out of control. The bad news is Ebola may have already reached critical mass and be impossible to contain. The implications of this are massive and it could change everything. More on why we should be very concerned in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/09/ebola-may-have-reached-critical-m...
How about defining airborne as still being able to go on Expedia and book a flight from Liberia to Dallas, with transfers in Sierra Leone (to catch ebola in case you didn't already have it), Morocco, Dubai and then a non-stop 16-hr flight directly to DFW? 16 hours on an Airbus 380 with 400-500 others -- how likely is that to spread the virus?
Well, it's been nice knowing you all...it was good while it lasted. Better go out to the backyard and start digging 3'x6' holes, about 6' deep. Gonna need them pretty soon, it looks like.
I just re-watched Vincent Price's "Last Man On Earth". No 3'x6' holes, just large funeral pyres a burning.
No holes. Just bring on the vultures. Or crows. Damn, there are a lot of crows around. I knew something was up . . .
Ebola so what? The curious thing is the Mzapp vaccine was produced in such small numbers and there is none left?
The name is like an indicator of a super drug as a general vaccine to deal with a whole range of viruses like a magic bullet. It would also explains why it was only available in very small numbers not produced like normal vaccines.
Got a funny feeling also that if more was available it would not be released again on the grounds of copyright and out in the wider global population you would have a hard time trying to charge an extortionate amount for a wonder drug if millions of lives were at stake.
... Trial done ... now it vanishes until it can be marketed at a later date.
Interesting that it can only be grown on tobacco plants, too. The plant that we've all been told is Eeeeeeeviiillll!
From CNN:
Despite the close contact, Louise "does not feel that she came into any contact with any (bodily) fluids" from Duncan, Cooper said.
"She says he didn't vomit on her. She wasn't cleaning up after him. She said he was very much sort of prideful, would take care of himself, go into the bathroom when he had diarrhea," Cooper said.
Louise and her family are in isolation with sheets and towels used by the Ebola-stricken Duncan, Cooper said. Louise did use bleach to clean her apartment, "but it's not clear to me how systematic the cleaning was," he said.
The sheets used by Duncan were still on the bed, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hadn't taken away those materials as of Thursday morning, Louise told Cooper.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta said the continuing presence of the sheets, on which Duncan may have transmitted the virus through sweating, are disturbing.
"With the sheets still being on the bed, that obviously is a concern," Gupta said. "We've talked about the fact that this virus can live outside the body, can live on surfaces. It's unlikely for it to be transmitted to someone else that way.
"But why take a chance?" Gupta added.
In the wake of Louise's revelations about Duncan's sheets and towels, a medical waste contractor was on its way to her apartment Thursday, a CDC official said Thursday.
He did not explain why the contractor is on its way only now, as Duncan left the house many days ago.
The average man or woman on the street could make better decisions than are being made in Texas. If this is how it's going to go, we are truely fucked.