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Thousands Sign Petition To Ban Flights From Ebola Countries; Two Removed From Newark Airplane By Hazmat Crew
Whether it is due to the sheer deferred Ebola panic (we warned in June it was only a matter of time before the "world's worst Ebola epidemic" made it to US shores, which promptly got us branded as fearmongers as usual), or the administration's bumbled attempt at damage control with a very confused and mostly pointless press conference on Friday afternoon, but three days ago, a petition was launched on the White House website demanding that the "FAA ban all incoming and outgoing flights to Ebola-stricken countries until the Ebola outbreak is contained." As of this moment, over 4,000 people have already signed it.
And while petitions are usually pointless exercise in public outcry, in this case the CDC already responded. As the Hill reports, a travel ban to the countries facing an Ebola outbreak could paradoxically make the problem worse, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden said during a Saturday press conference.
Paradoxically indeed? Let's listen to Mr. Frieden's arguments:
Frieden said the CDC would consider any and all precautions, but warned that a travel ban could make it harder to get medical care and aid workers to regions dealing with the outbreak.
He said that had already occurred when African Union aid workers tried to get to Liberia but were stuck in a neighboring country for days because of a travel ban.
"Their ability to get there was delayed by about a week because their flight was canceled and they were stuck in a neighboring country," he said.
But isn't it mostly US troops deployed in Africa now, sent on a mission to shoot the Ebola virus on sight, instead of "medical care and aid workers" who are now the primary respondents to the world's worst Ebola epidemic in history? Guess not.
Frieden also said the CDC has experienced a spike in reported potential cases of Ebola following the first diagnosis of a patient in the U.S. in Dallas earlier this week, saying the rise in concern was a good thing but that he remained the only patient who has been identified as suffering from the disease. Two patients who were initially identified as having potential Ebola symptoms in the Washington, D.C. area were ruled to not have the disease on Saturday.
"We have definitely seen an increase in the number since this patient was diagnosed… that is as it should be," Frieden said. "We have already gotten well over 100 inquiries for possible patients… this one patient has tested positive," he said. "We expect we will see more rumors, concerns, possibilities of cases. Until there is a positive test that's what they are, rumors and concerns."
So, after ignoring the problem for months, the CDC finally has precisely what it was hoping to achieve: panic? Great job guys.
Frieden also said there were lesons to be learned from the delayed response to the Ebola patient in Dallas. It took two days for those who had been in contact with him to be contacted by medical officials, and Frieden said that should alert medical professionals to pay especially close attention to patients' travel history if they're showing signs of fever.
"As we anticipated, the arrival of the first Ebola patient in the U.S. has really increased attention to what health workers in this country need to do to be alert and make sure a travel history is taking," he said.
And speaking of inbound cases of fever, moments ago ABC reported that CDC officials have removed passengers from a plane that landed in Newark Saturday afternoon following a possible Ebola scare.
United flight 998 from Brussels landed at Newark Airport and has been met by Centers for Disease Control officials based in Newark after passengers on board, believed to be from Liberia, exhibited possible signs of Ebola. The passenger was displaying flu-like symptoms.
The flight was scheduled to land around noon.
Officials with the CDC removed two passengers from the plane. A man had been traveling with his daughter and both were removed by a CDC crew in full HAZMAT gear.
The airline issued a statement confirming that crew needed to assist an ill customer. "Upon arrival at Newark Airport from Brussels, medical professionals instructed that customers and crew of United flight 988 remain on board until they could assist an ill customer. We are working with authorities and will accommodate our customers as quickly as we can," said a statement from the airline." Other passengers remained aboard but were eventually allowed to deplane around 2 p.m.
A scare which promptly concluded when within the hour, CDC officials determined that the people exhibiting flu-like symptoms were, in fact, not contagious.
Passengers being allowed off United flight 998 upon @CDCgov determined person in question not contagious. @ABC7NY #Ebola
— Darla Miles (@DarlaMiles7) October 4, 2014
Finally, as a reminder, Newark is about 20 miles form Manhattan, although those looking for a real dramatic impact should wait until the Ebola scare touches down at JFK. At the current pace of spread, of the Ebola panic if not Ebola itself, it should be a rather short wait.
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I'm long Haz Mat suits
apt. building in KC has been sealed off and one person has been sent to iso at a local hospitial. according to the local news an entire wing of the hospitial has been blocked off as well and ebola is strongly suspected.
this hasen't gone national yet but you can view the news reports at flutrackers.com
there hasen't been any updates since last night on this but hopefully we will see some kind of update soon, it would be good to know if ebola is breaking loose in more than one area at a time.
also has anybody read anything further on dallas suspect #2? that seems to have gone dark since the Texas DOH all but confirmed there would be a second positive. they should be able to confirm or deny this case by now.
also a man from WA has been sent to a hospitial in Amsterdam after presenting ebola like symptoms, so the possibility of it spreading to multipule countries seems to be ramping up again.
as always hedge accordingly.
Seems like living in an apartment is a death sentence.
No reports from people living in houses.
Years from now survivors will be finding the bio-hazzard slurry from dead Ebolains everywhere. In closets, car wash pits, storage rooms, basements…
yeah it's starting to look that way, but it makes sense that this is how the outbrake will start to spread. highly mobile, close contact populations will obviously be the first to get hit.
I would advise anybody living in a large urban center to start taking this very seriously, make friends with people who work in the labs and er's of thier local hospitials cause they will be the first to know if any suspected cases show up. lead time will be important in the case that you will have to bug out and knowing people who can tip you off would be very helpful...
People and their petitions.
Lets get something straight right now petitions do not work.
In this matter of life and death, after this petition falls on deaf ears and fails, please just stop the petitions going forward.
Politics and the “Rules of the Road” are one in the same, “Cash, Grass or Ass”
My wife, a microbiologist, spoke with a CDC employee yesterday who just came back from Africa. He is a doctor and epidemiologist. What he had to say should be more than a wake-up call. First, what he had to say will not be reported; he is under gag order by CDC not to disclose what he saw, learned and experienced.
WHO is grossly lying about epidemic status in Africa. All hospitals there are empty and closed. Healthcare workers have died or left. Liberia, population 4MM, already has had 1MM ebola deaths. The 3000 or so reported by MSM is an utter criminal joke. African Media blames deaths on "food poisoning" and "healthcare workers poisoning wells" to keep from causing panic. People are running away to wherever they can. Business has stopped. Food is running out or gone. Africa is a dead continent walking and our turn is just starting.
We are kidding ourselves if we think this isn't going to be a global disaster, especially with all the lying and coverups. Perhaps cold comfort, but this medical professional doesn't attach much significance to threat of aerosol transmission (at least yet)... it is simply very easy to spread by fluids (including very small bits from vomit, cough, etc) because it only takes a few ebola virions to infect someone.
Why isn’t Ebola attacking the Hong Kong protesters?
This unfolding genocide is painted with primary colors and set to "oops, we didn't mean to do it, NOT!" Between this intentionally spread contagious deadly virus, the 911 "This is War" that has gone unrecognized for 14 goddam years, and the politicians sucking bankers dicks in front of cameras whilst they ream the citizens of generations of assets, STUPID PILLS are surely being handed out to the money-drunken politicians and the zealots with ~dual citizenship~ actually ELECTED TO RUN A FUCKING COUNTRY whose interest in they have absoluletely zero other than rape and pillage.
This is just part of the war on the middle and lower class, out of chaos comes order and if there is no chaos, we'll create it so that we decide how the "order" is formed. Idiots are in charge, and that is the problem. Not brilliant minds, with vision, fanatics and sociopaths living on a meme they were brainwashed with from birth in an isolated setting called Judaism. And that is the problem AGAIN. We have been here before. WHEN WILL WE LEARN.
Modern man has not been trained to deal with the deception being presented to us today..insanity is required in order to even comprehend the mindset and plan put into motion because it is filled with disdain and repulsion on a fashion show cat walk where everyone is fucking applauding for even more of the same. So absurd yet so disturbing so watch unfold. Is there no one else who can see this is a movie set and we are being targeted? How foolish can 300 million people be?
Another happy thought is that the aircraft are not kept on the same international routes. A United 777 arriving from Europe might well be routed to San Francisco after it arrives in Dulles from Euroland.
When Ebola kills as many people in the US that are killed by car accidents then it would be a problem. As of now it hasn't killed anyone. All people that get treatment in the US are cured.
In simplest terms, you are correct.
However, can’t the same be said for those crashing in an airplane?
“Stop the panicking, the Pilot doesn’t know what she is talking about. We’ve been crashing now for 47,000 feet and nothing happened.”
exactly. people don't correctly grasp exponential growth. if ebola is contained then perfect. if its not contained and it has a doubling period then over whelm could happen quickly. just try not touching your face or pushing up your eye glasses for one day. all you need is one isolation ward provider to be over worked touch their face and then not tell anyone and you have another carrier.
there were 2900 motor vehicle deaths in 2012. im guessing that that many ebola cases could potentially over whelm the hospitals. the tipping point would be when people start to die at home because of the lack of hospital beds.
33,500 deaths
thanks. 2900 aprox is miles traveled in billons.
I had to do a mandatory driver safety class for work and I thought that number seemed low, so I looked it up.
CDC estimates that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, flu-associated deaths ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people.
how many people thought there would be no ebola cases in america?
how many people knew it would be political when it happened?
now that we got that over with, i'll bet there was more un time consumption, and funding used, in preparedness for americas 2014 election coverage, than ebola in africa.
of course contained in every article within the first paragraph, underfunding was more to blame than ebola itself, or the decietful carriers themselves.
The Poles (go figure) largely survived the Black Death, because early on they sealed their borders.
Somewhat true. Poland wasn't near the great trading routes on which the black death travelled. Futhermore, for whatever reason, Poles didn't have the animosity toward cats which characterized the coastal European population.
The upshot is this: Cats kill mice and Poland had more cats than the parts of Europe that were hardest hit. Furthermore, Poland was relatively isolated, geographically, which worked in their favor.
Interesting historical referent, no?
‘Interesting historical referent, no?’
“and now we know”. Thanks.
Perhaps this explains why all the Polish women I know are frick’in cat ladies. It’s in their genes…
And history repeats... Spanish influenza 1918...
American Samoa and the French colony of New Caledonia - no deaths by flu due to an effective quarantine. Also, the island of Marajo located in Brazil's Amazin river delta, due to its extreme isolation did not have an outbreak.
Go with what you know works and what history has proven repeatedly. Quarantining the sick works.
FYI: From blog, West Hunter regarding the airborne nature of the virus:
[1] Never say never, but for reasons to do with the architecture of the Ebola virus the prospect of an airborne version is extremely unlikely. The old Soviet bioweapons program, Biopreparat, poured an immense amount of resources and man-hours (from talented people, in some cases) into the project for over a decade or so and failed to weaponize Ebola satisfactorily.
And I know this because I spent time chatting with several former Biopreparat scientists — including its erstwhile director K. Alibek (a glorified pathologist) and Serguei Popov (highly talented; first person in the old USSR to manually synthesize DNA in the early 1970s; first person to lead successful development of a completely novel pathogen that I know of) — who were talking their book as former bioweaponeers trying to get biodefense funding. Even they eventually had to be up front about Ebola in its classical form being somewhat of a non-starter as a bioweapon.
[2] That said, there are are some complex strategies whereby you might conceivably weaponize Ebola as part of a non-classical agent and get a pretty apocalyptic result. I’m not giving any specifics here, but if you google the terms ‘binary inoculary’ and ‘Serguei Popov’ and ‘Venezuelan equine encephalitis’ you might get the general idea.
However, aside from such strategies — in which, essentially, Ebola becomes no longer a classical agent — because of the virus’s architecture and because when humans becomes its host population it burns through victims far too fast and spectacularly, the virus is a textbook example of how a spectacularly lethal pathogen can be fairly useless in terms of creating an epidemic in any developed nation
Bioweapons development has some unique features that don't apply to the current situation, such as the ability for the agent to be delivered with a given method or system. I'm not sure you can extrapolate.
We know that a close relative, Ebola Reston, travelled by air from one group of monkeys to another (down the hall, as I recall from The Hot Zone). We also know that pigs infected with Ebola Zaire can transmit to monkeys. Monkey to monkey aerosol transmission has not been publicly reported, but it's really not a big jump from pigs to man. And we are dealing here with a rapidly-mutating RNA virus.
As has been pointed out, the more passages through human beings this virus goes through, the more likely that a nasty mutation will emerge. It must be stopped, and soon, in Africa (and elsewhere). Some have suggested that we are just as likely to see a favorable as an unfavorable mutation. This is irrelevant, as selection will only favor the mutations that help the virus get better adapted to the human host. One of these could be greater involvement of the respiratory tract in infected individuals, with associated uncontrollable coughing. That mutation would be strongly selected.
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/10/police-county-sheriffs-deputi...
How to find someone if they won't release the name?
Co-Worker's sister-in-law in Dallus Hospital isolation...will not allow visitor/family...Daughter beating on the door after traveling from Michigan...patient is a contract nurse who returned from West africa 15 days ago...Medical Reserve Corp nurse's are being invited to Aniston Alabama for training at CDC on type 3 suits and containment...this is spinning up...and it is government policy to surpress the tempo of the news of this pandenic's spread....If you live in a area that gets international travel...be prepared
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/glaxosmithkline-s-push-for-an-ebola-vacci...
so they say vaccine for next year, mid 2015 - but only for phase two trials.
questionmark: in a trial you usually give a placebo to half of the group and expose them all to the virus. ...
I think in this instance they will be allowed to pass on placebo. A placebo effect is not really expected in immunology, and in any event the presence or absence of ebola is clear. You either have it or you don't. They may be required to track a number of people who were not selected for the trial itself to get an accurate baseline of infection rate.
Do the placebos still have mercury, formaldehyde and all the other poisons that cause tumors ? This would greatly simplify the depopulation agenda.
So ... how many Eboleans will stagger into ERs this Sunday ?
Any cough up blood yet in the bleachers at a football game ?
Like a petition is really going to work.
Minutes ago: http://news.yahoo.com/nebraska-hospital-prepares-arrival-ebola-patient-141536244.html
Here is a pic from Yahoo of a member of the hazmat cleanup crew emerging from the apartment in Dallas. Maybe it's just SOP, but it looks serious. Full face mask respirator, very carefully sealed with blue masking tape.
http://bit.ly/1vCdMXq
I am laying in supplies on the Darling River North of Mungo National Park. When we go in by bush plane you have to be careful when you go on foot to the getaway. We saw a crocodile eat a bull shark last time we were laying in Honda generators and haz mat suits. We have to watch the entrance to the underground home built there due to black mambas always seeking a way to enter. I don't know if they were attracted to the gold buillion we have stacked and laid in.
Just to add to the fun, Marburg has now emerged in Uganda. h/t Drudge
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2014-10/05/content_33686011.htm
Just saw that and was going to post the link myself. The proverbial sh!t has just hit the fan. I hate to be biblical at a time like this...but the four horsemen aren't the JV team.
Attention Passengers and crew: Please stayed confined in the cabin while we infect you real good. Then you will be allowed to leave.
That is all.
We will soon be bugging to our underground home on the Darling River north of Mungo National Park.
The last time we were there a croc attacked a bull shark who had made it's way up the river. You have to walk at a distance from the river when you go in by bush plane. We were bringing in the last load of haz mat suits and Honda generators.
We always take a precursory inspection of the to the underground home, black mambas tend to congregate there. Don't know if they sense the gold bullion stored and stacked there.
So what do you do about the black mambas? This is what lurks in the woods around my place as far as poisonous snakes: copperhead, cottonmouth, western pygmy rattlesnake, massasauga rattlesnake, and timber rattlesnake. A couple of times a year I walk the property with the 12 gauge and dispatch any I find.
Just joking a bit there. Here in Florida however we do have everything you named plus coral snakes, diamond back rattlers and now the African crocodile and burmese python that has been spotted all the way to Tennessee. Piranhas are also said to be now roaming the everglades and the St. Johns River. Out of all this however I probably fear the fire ant the most. So far no King Cobra reports however.
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A Dallas apartment where the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States had stayed is finally getting a thorough cleaning, days after the diagnosis left four people quarantined there with soiled towels and sweat-stained sheets from the Ebola patient.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/03/health/ebola-us/index.html
When an infection does occur in humans, the virus can be spread in several ways to others. Ebola is spread through direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes in, for example, the eyes, nose, or mouth) with:
- blood or body fluids (including but not limited to urine, saliva, sweat, feces, vomit, breast milk, and semen) of a person who is sick with Ebola
- objects (like needles and syringes) that have been contaminated with the virus
- infected animals
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/
Is the "days" old sweat on sheets direct contact? More ambiguity to breed mistrust.
Ebola is a good thing. It will clean out the useless chaff that inhabits the useless continent of africa. (Nothing good has came out of africa but by the hands of Europeans and Orientals). Just close to borders and let it run its course. The intelligent of other countries will be able to avoid it while the chaff of the next countries to be infected will be cleansed from the "useless eaters" list.
When you have "certain groups" that employ consecutive double negatives whilst being interviewed by the press... it is time to thin the herd of the leeches that hold the productive back.
Ebola, GUNG HO!
Embrace it as the great cleanser of human uselessness!
Don't fear the reaper, he's here to help!
...too bad the PTB did not tailor it to be "genetically specific"
In a land of spear chuckers and voodoo, the white man is kink.
You poor man!
I mean that in a literal way.
I hope you do make it out of your trailer......someday!
You probaly troll the iles of Walmart checking out skanks while your fat ass wife is not looking?
Yes?
How pathetic of you!
You write as one who has never been in an airplane????????
If you ever go anywhere, beyond your driving capability, your mind will concieve of the danger by us who do!
If you stay in your parents basement you will be ok!
Seems like it's not only Ebola doing the killing:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2014/10/05/ugandan-health-worker-...
Meet the Marburg virus...
80% die within 9 days...a higher kill rate than Ebola...
Funny how these seem to coincide...who's been fucking the monkeys?
It appears as if the U.S. Gov't is TRYING to bring EBOLA to the USA.
Why not prohibit every flights from Africa for starts?
Why is the Gov't, specifically The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), hiding a cure of Ebola that was developed by Biocryst?
Why is the Gov't using an alternative treatment, ZMAPP, which is difficult to make, has already run out of doses and will take another.year to make another batch?
I'll be buying long dated calls tomorrow because BioCyrst and the NIAID have been working, for years, to make enough doses to supply, the top 1%...Buffet, Gates, Blankfein, Dimon and the telepromter and cheif, 1/10 US military personnel so they can hide behind.
Just google (Biocryst Nature journal) and read the. peer reviewed, article.
The US Gov't is withholding vital information obtained with taxpayer's money.....as usual.
Text from the publication below:
In a March, 2014 paper published in the journal Nature, where Dr. Babu is a co-author, the majority of the other co-authors were from the Division of Molecular and Translational Sciences, Therapeutic Discovery Center, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). The team was led by the well-regarded virologist, Dr. Sina Bavari. Previous inquiries have been made to interview Dr. Bavari but are being denied by communications staff.
The Nature paper demonstrated that BCX-4430 given after a viral challenge could stop Ebola and related Marburg infections from taking hold in rodents. Most notably, BCX-4430 given 48 hours after Marburg virus infection confers complete protection to cynmologous monkeys.
So, unlike with a vaccine, BCX-4430 is being developed as a post-exposure measure for hose in environments where conditions are conducive to accidental viral exposure.
USARMIID personnel are essential to these drug development efforts because of thie tremendous institutional expertise, particularly in rodent and non-human primate studies with biosafety level-4 viruses.
In a March, 2014 paper published in the journal Nature, where Dr. Babu is a co-author, the majority of the other co-authors were from the Division of Molecular and Translational Sciences, Therapeutic Discovery Center, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). The team was led by the well-regarded virologist, Dr. Sina Bavari. Previous inquiries have been made to interview Dr. Bavari but are being denied by communications staff.
The “Dan Crozier Building,” USAMRIID, Fort Detrick, MD, USA (Photo credit: Public domain status granted by U.S. Army)
The Nature paper demonstrated that BCX-4430 given after a viral challenge could stop Ebola and related Marburg infections from taking hold in rodents. Most notably, BCX-4430 given 48 hours after Marburg virus infection confers complete protection to cynmologous monkeys.
So, unlike with a vaccine, BCX-4430 is being developed as a post-exposure measure for hose in environments where conditions are conducive to accidental viral exposure.
USARMIID personnel are essential to these drug development efforts because of this tremendous institutional expertise, particularly in rodent and non-human primate studies with biosafety level-4 viruses.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) had already committed $22 million over five years to the Biocryst project, when all operations are exercised. An recent infusion of an additional $2.4 million brings that commitment up to $24.4 million.
Much of the press regarding Ebola treatment has focused on passive immunotherapy agents, such as Mapp Biopharmaceutical’s ZMapp, vaccines from private and public entities, and small RNA drugs from companies such as Tekmira and Sarepta.
Biocryst’s BCX-4430 is a much smaller molecule intended for broad spectrum anti-viral use, described by the company as “an RNA dependent-RNA polymerase inhibitor that has demonstrated broad-spectrum activity against more than 20 RNA viruses in nine different families, including filoviruses, togaviruses, bunyaviruses, arenaviruses, paramyxoviruses, coronaviruses and flaviviruses.”
Their goal is to develop the drug under FDA’s Animal Rule that permits non-human primate efficacy and safety studies for conditional approval as phase I human trials proceed.
The only other company widely publicized as a player in the small-miolecule Ebola space is Toyama, a subsidiary of Fujifilm. Their drug, favipiravir, or T-705, has been approved in Japan to treat influenza, a virus that, like Ebola, has a genome made of RNA.
For those readers with medicinal chemistry interests, the supplementary material for the Nature paper contains the synthetic procedure and a more detailed description of the assays. A rudimentary description of BCX-4430 would be to say that it’s an adenosine analogue where ribose is replaced by a pyrrolidine.
Much of the press regarding Ebola treatment has focused on passive immunotherapy agents, such as Mapp Biopharmaceutical’s ZMapp, vaccines from private and public entities, and small RNA drugs from companies such as Tekmira and Sarepta.
Biocryst’s BCX-4430 is a much smaller molecule intended for broad spectrum anti-viral use, described by the company as “an RNA dependent-RNA polymerase inhibitor that has demonstrated broad-spectrum activity against more than 20 RNA viruses in nine different families, including filoviruses, togaviruses, bunyaviruses, arenaviruses, paramyxoviruses, coronaviruses and flaviviruses.”
Their goal is to develop the drug under FDA’s Animal Rule that permits non-human primate efficacy and safety studies for conditional approval as phase I human trials proceed.
The only other company widely publicized as a player in the small-miolecule Ebola space is Toyama, a subsidiary of Fujifilm. Their drug, favipiravir, or T-705, has been approved in Japan to treat influenza, a virus that, like Ebola, has a genome made of RNA.
For those readers with medicinal chemistry interests, the supplementary material for the Nature paper contains the synthetic procedure and a more detailed description of the assays. A rudimentary description of BCX-4430 would be to say that it’s an adenosine analogue where ribose is replaced by a pyrrolidine.
Petition @ 10,000+ as of 6:55 p.m. EST. Spread the word, make it viral.
As a libertarian, and also someone who cares about saving my life and my family's life, I've been reading the hysterics on ZH for the last week with some amusement. Listen, you jackasses who are new to the conept of Liberty -- it is inseparable from Responsibility. if you have a deadly virus you are obligated to quarantine yourself.
I actually do trust that most readers of this site would do that, if they thought they had been exposed. But that's the bottom line, and unfortunately, a live and ongoing "poll" or survey of most people's reactions to being potentially diagnosed with the most lethal virus on earth shows that, no surprise, they don't quarantine themselves.
So, trusting that you and I would do the right thing under the circumstances, let's just give the government the benefit of the doubt in this case and say that they are not quarantining these people as a first step towards declaring martial law and destroying your rights. What would you rather have them do, let people who might have Ebola wander around the aisles at K-Mart looking for an affordable set of plastic sheets? Can we, for a single moment, look at the fact that markets frequently act irrationally, and more so during times of crisis, and acknowledge that it might -- just might -- be a good thing that we have some kind of not-completely-anarcho-libertarian system in place to deal with certain eventualities, such as the outbreak of a 70% deadly hemmorhagic virus? That maybe it's okay to pay some taxes and accept a certain level of control over our freedom of movement when the goddamn zombie apocalypse is happening?
It is not the most lethal, rabies is.
Yes, left alone rabies is more lethal. But rabies is curable if you get it early. Ebola has no cure.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/05/us-health-ebola-usa-idUSKCN0HT...
"The man in Dallas, who is fighting for his life, is the only patient to develop Ebola in the United States," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said on CNN's "State of the Union."
In a media briefing with reporters on Sunday, Frieden said he was scheduled to brief President Barack Obama on Monday.
Frieden said doses of the experimental medicine ZMapp were "all gone" and that the drug, produced by San Diego-based Mapp Biopharmaceutical, is "not going to be available anytime soon."
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America Please for God's Sake Listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQhb1P3sMVs
The cure for Ebola, influenza and virtually every virus on earth is now in the hands of US Gov't defense contractors. It is a compound called DRACO. It was developed at MIT under a grant by the DoD and Air Force, and it has been pawned off to a private contracting company with a focus on bio-weapons defense, who intend to keep it out of the civilian market.
The drug was developed by Todd Ryder at MIT. It is a so-called chimaeric protein which latches onto single-stranded viral RNA. When two DRACO proteins latch onto the same strand of viral RNA, they form a structure which triggers apoptosis (cell death), destroying the virions in the cell before they have a chance to reproduce. This is almost 100% effective as a viral prophylaxis in vitro and vivo against a total spectrum of known viruses, and extremely effective as a treatment even once symptoms begin to emerge.
The reason this drug is not being made available is that it is so broadly effective that it would render our own biological warfare capability moot. I believe it is currently available to an upper echelon of the military and is considered a national security threat to release, considering that then any other country with access to this cure would be able to protect their own military against pathogens they already have in storage, that they dare not release because they'd cause a worldwide viral outbreak. Nonetheless, it exists, it is effective, it shows no side effects, and members of our military are already immune to Ebola (and Dengue, Yellow Fever, Marburg, smallpox, Hepatitis C, Influenza, HIV, and genetically engineered variants of the same).
Please, please please watch this scientific explanation by the creator of the drug, and decide for yourself why this is not being tried against Ebola:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQhb1P3sMVs
Right now, we are trying to grow ZMapp in Tobacco plants. It's an antiviral that attempts to attack the virus through a completely different pathway, and has not been proven effective even in trials. Why are we not producing DRACO??
Interesting.
https://www.ll.mit.edu/news/DRACO.html