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Ebola Pandemic Update: Probable Cases In Brazil And Paris, 7 More Isolated In Spain, WHO Warning
Despite claims of containment, Reuters reports seven more people turned themselves in late on Thursday to an Ebola isolation unit in Madrid; but following a visit by PM Rajoy, Spanish citizens can relax as the government is setting up a special Ebola committee. Following yesterday's scare in Paris, The Independent reports authorities are investigating a 'probable' case of a French national who may have contracted the disease in Africa. The World Health organization has warned that East Asia is at risk of becoming a "hot spot" for diseases - but is well prepared after SARS and avian flu but it is the appearance of a confirmed case in Brazil that is most concerning. A 47-year-old man, originally from Guinea, is LatAm's first case and suggests SOUTHCOM's "nightmare scenario" is closer than many would care to believe. Finally, the CDC has issued special guidance to 911 operators on dealing with suspected Ebola cases across America.
Spain continues to escalate (as Reuters reports)
Seven people turned themselves in late on Thursday to an Ebola isolation unit in Madrid where Teresa Romero, the nurse who became the first person to contract Ebola outside Africa, lay gravely ill.
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In Spain, recriminations mounted over Romero, who was infected in hospital as she treated two Spanish missionaries who had caught the hemorrhagic fever in West Africa -- where Ebola has already killed around 4,000 people -- and remained undiagnozed for days despite reporting her symptoms.
The seven new admissions included two hairdressers who had given Romero a beauty treatment before she was diagnosed with Ebola, and hospital staff who had treated the 44-year-old nurse. The Carlos III hospital said they had all turned themselves in voluntarily to be monitored for signs of the disease.
A hospital spokeswoman said there were now 14 people in the isolation unit on its sealed-off sixth floor, including Romero, her husband, and health workers who had cared for Romero since she was admitted on Monday.
But have no fear...
- *SPAIN IS PREPARED TO DEAL WITH EBOLA, SAENZ DE SANTAMARIA SAYS
- *SPAIN SETS UP SPECIAL EBOLA COMMITTEE, DEPUTY PM SAYS
- *DEPUTY PM SAENZ SAYS SHE WILL CHAIR SPAIN EBOLA COMMITTEE
- *SPAIN TO CREATE EBOLA CRISIS TEAM, PM RAJOY SAYS
- *POSSIBILITY OF WIDER EBOLA CONTAGION VERY LOW, RAJOY SAYS
Following yesterday's false alarm, The Independent reports that France appears to have its first case...
Authorities in Paris are investigating a “probable” case of Ebola in a hospital, according to local reports.
Doctors are expected to receive results from medical tests on a woman who may have contracted the virus and is currently being treated in hospital on Friday, Europe 1 has reported.
They fear the woman may have contracted the virus in Africa. She is understood not to be a French national.
Brazil becomes the first South American country with a confirmed Ebola infection (as The Independent reports)
Brazil is treating a 47-year-old man who has become the country’s first suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus.
The man, originally from Guinea in West Africa, has been placed into isolation at a hospital in the city of Cascavel, where Brazil’s ministry of health have sent specialists to provide additional help and care.
He arrived in Brazil on 19 September and is believed to have travelled from Guinea.
On Thursday afternoon the man went to the emergency department at the hospital with a fever. His case is being treated by medics as suspicious as his symptoms have developed within the maximum incubation period for Ebola, which is 21 days.
Brazil’s ministry of health has reminded people that Ebola is transmitted through the contact with the blood, tissues or bodily fluids of sick individuals, or through the contact of contaminated objects or surfaces.
Which is what SOUTHCOM commander General John Kelly said was his "nightmare scenario"
In the US, the CDC has issued guidance for 9-1-1 operators dealing with suspected Ebola infected patient calls...
Who this is for: Managers of 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs), EMS Agencies, EMS systems, law enforcement agencies and fire service agencies as well as individual emergency medical services providers (including emergency medical technicians (EMTs), paramedics, and medical first responders, such as law enforcement and fire service personnel).
What this is for: Guidance for handling inquiries and responding to patients with suspected Ebola symptoms, and for keeping workers safe.
How to use: Managers should use this information to understand and explain to staff how to respond and stay safe. Individual providers can use this information to respond to suspected Ebola patients and to stay safe.
Key Points:
- The likelihood of contracting Ebola is extremely low unless a person has direct unprotected contact with the blood or body fluids (like urine, saliva, feces, vomit, sweat, and semen) of a person who is sick with Ebola or direct handling of bats or nonhuman primates from areas with Ebola outbreaks.
- When risk of Ebola is elevated in their community, it is important for PSAPs to question callers about:
- Residence in, or travel to, a country where an Ebola outbreak is occurring;
- Signs and symptoms of Ebola (such as fever, vomiting, diarrhea); and
- Other risk factors, like having touched someone who is sick with Ebola.
- PSAPS should tell EMS personnel this information before they get to the location so they can put on the correct personal protective equipment (PPE).
- EMS staff should check for symptoms and risk factors for Ebola. Staff should notify the receiving healthcare facility in advance when they are bringing a patient with suspected Ebola, so that proper infection control precautions can be taken.
The guidance provided in this document is based on current knowledge of Ebola.
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And finally, the World Health Organization is warning about risk in East Asia... (China Daily)
East Asia, with its trade and transport hubs and armies of migrant workers, is at risk from Ebola but is improving its defenses and may be more ready than other areas to respond if cases are diagnosed, World Health Organization officials said Friday.
Shin Young-soo, the WHO regional director for the Western Pacific, said East Asia has been a "hotspot" for emerging diseases in the past and has dealt with SARS and avian flu, so it is more prepared than other regions to respond after learning the importance of public education, strong surveillance and transparency.
"All these travel, economic trade, and we have global hubs like Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Philippines is sending a lot of work forces all over the world," make it a possibility for the virus to reach East Asia, Shin said.
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It is not contained...
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It is clear which region is the most concerned...
Ebola Wire Story Count by Region: pic.twitter.com/w81JRM3X95
— Michael McDonough (@M_McDonough) October 9, 2014
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Off topic but maybe not far off:
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/americans-killed-cops-outnumber-americans-killed-iraq-war/
Kinda goes with this. http://rt.com/usa/194636-nypd-rob-mace-joye/ Cop filmed pepper spraying man then stealing 1300.00 bucks.
Obamaland: O'Hare passenger evaluated for Ebola in Kenosha is sent back to Liberia
Evidently he didnt have it, or they'd a sent him to the nearest Mall.
Holy shit enough of the fucking Ebola posts... what a garbage website, why do i come here...
You realize the choice to read an article is entirely up to you? Let me guess, socialist or communist? Fucking Burger King with "have it your way". Bastards, right?
He's a troll poster.
He must be short tbonds.
Gonna get worse.
I don't know why you come here - is there a paycheck attached, maybe?
...to read about the latest Ebola facts, fictions, mockeries and conjectures?
go away then
http://qz.com/278819/talking-to-the-doctor-who-helped-stop-ebola-in-nigeria/ How one African country beat Ebola
They beat back the first outbreak. They are not out of the woods yet, and won't be until the pandemic is somehow brought under control.
Once it got to Lagos it should have spread like wildfire. That place is a total shithole. Didn't happen.
This is a nasty outbreak and we are seeing how incompetent the authorities have been in response, for political reasons. Good lessons to learn when eventually something akin to ebola but transmitted like flu comes along. This, however, isn't it. Sadly, I doubt the lessons learned will be taken to heart.
I smell a hoax with this ebola business (9/11, school shootings, beheading, Boston bombing etc. The media went into high gear to scare the fuck out of everyone (they even rolled shows on all "science" channels). Say NO to their vaccine.
To all that will say "just wait till your ass bleeds to death" I'll just say: we'll cross that bridge when (or IF) we'll came to it (and if we come to it there's nothing to do about it, regardless of the amount of individual preparation, as nuke plants meltdowns will kill everyone anyways).
Cheers bitchez!
thx, one less person to fight for a N100 mask!
Easy to brush it off until you have seen the carnage from SARS!
Kindof off topic but I heard a medical professional on the radio last night say that this particular strain of Ebola isn't very hemorrhagic. Apparently the more hemmhoragic the strain the more lethal, thus the 50% survival rate. So probably not going to be a lot of butthole bleeding.
Well, not anymore than usual from the ass-raping by the taxman.
'7 more people turned themselves in'....gee they sound like criminals! ISIS terrorists even. They didn't 'show up with symptoms'?
I think the odds are higher that I will die in a car wreck within the next week than contracting Ebola anytime in my life.
Or...you could get in a cab driven by a 'fresh off the boat' Liberian and accomplish both in the same day!
This is just a classic example of one life form competing with another; ebola works tirelessly, is very efficient and can adapt and therefore survives, the question is if we can do the same...and the winner and still champion is......?
My guess is, around 500,000,000 will survive. A little tablet in Georgia told me so.
That's still too many.
If this makes it's way into a slum in India or China, the S will really hit the fan.
It made it into Lagos -- a sewer of 21 million people right there in Nigeria. Nothing.
That is very good news.
Still worried. If you can get out in front of it, and trace every contact and kill the thing before it outpaces our resources, you can contain it.
But, will China, India, S. America, Mexico all do that before it gets out of control there like it already has in W. Africa?
We could do contact tracing... stamp out cases coming in from planes as they are now. I don't doubt that.... but, what would that look like if this virus were runnning through Mexico like it is in W. Africa?
I was REALLY, REALLY worried a day or two ago but, I have a lot more hope now..... there are also two vaccines about to be tested.
While it didn't take off in Lagos, it did other places... and where it did take off..... right now, they're not even close to containing it.... in fact, it's just getting started in those places and the numbers are about to get real.
Paris -- tests negative. Oklahoma City -- tests negative.
However, hysteria and armageddon are deeply ingrained in the human psyche.
Past results are not necessarily indicative of future performance.
I take it you didn't watch Obola's progression through Africa...
If you're talking about President Obola's disastrous policies, yes.
If you're talking about Ebola, it has NOT spread through Africa. It is limited to 3 small west african countries and has not spread through the continent in any way.
...not to mention "predictive programmed" into the psyche. Wonder if people would be running around like decapitated chickens if they hadn't seen I Am Legend and Contagion one too many times.
http://www.spyculture.com/complete-list-of-dod-assisted-movies/
No word about Obola from China and India, eh? Wow, amazing.
Obola's going to go through China and India like shit through a goose, (once they let it be known that people there have it, anyway.)
I wonder what the overall population resistance is in Africa, you know, a latent resistance resulting from years of lower-level exposure to the virus or various similar mutations. Sort of like Europe was with smallpox. And now we in the west are like the natives were with smallpox - absolutely no immune level experience with this, so way more prone to catching it and probably dying from it. Might explain why the relatively slow transmission in the slums of west Africa, and yet the surprisingly high number of cases in western healthcare workings taking 'all available precautionary measures'. Hope this isn't the case, but it would be the ultimate irony...
Whitey finally gettin what he deserves
Yup, the fuckers shouldn't have invented planes.
I wonder about that as well.
BULLISH ON SKYPE, AMAZON FRESH, AND GOOGLE SHOPPING.
On the Daily Paul, Ron Paul says this hype is for vaccines.
When people who used to stand stalwart against government intrusion of Liberty at airports via the TSA goon squad are now calling for increased security and "health screening," you know the world has gone fucking insane. Playing right into "their" hands, much? Even the "awake and aware" are still subject to Herd Mentality when induced with a bit of fear, it seems. Pathetic.
The TSA goon squad is because they won't quarantine (profile).
"EBOLA PANDEMIC UPDATE..." Talk about who's trying to create a global panic! First of all, there is no "pandemic" yet as no other media source around the world (mainstream or alternative) is using this word, except for ZH.
I too am very disappointed with the way ZH has evolved over the past year, both in terms of stories presented and people's comments.
Gee Socialsit countries with loose borders in addition to causing economic suicide also proliferates disease, and we're supposed to believe people voted for this shit.
Panic is the last resort survival mechanism .
Yet it can be easily diverted from Selfish to Selfless by a whiff of H2S
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2011/06/volcanic-ash-fall.html
"I hesitate to release this , because it is an obvious subliminal pacifying agent .
But the future we are going into will require more than localized panic responses to survive .
Rather amusing :
The air-conditioning scrubbing out H2S is responsible for most of the panic financial crises .
Every hedge fund operator should have a little Stinky Spray (H2S at about 20 ppm) . Keeps the animals from devouring each other .
What can I say ?"
Also, 2 more possible cases in Macedonia
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ebola-british-national-dies-of-deadly-virus-in-macedonia-9785759.html?origin=internalSearch
Yesterday's news. Probably not ebola.
Got health insurance covering catastrophic events or outbreaks? How about a house?
"The 33-year-old freelance cameraman who contracted Ebola in Liberia is fighting for his life at the University of Nebraska Medical Center this week. He’s also racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills.
According to a GoFundMe campaign launched Monday by his friends, Ashoka Mukpo’s medical bills could run in excess of $500,000....
Doctors at the Texas hospital who treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national who became the first person to die of Ebola on U.S. soil, told Bloomberg that care can cost $1,000 per hour."
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2014/10/10/Ebola-Patient-Needs-500000-Cove...
The Black Plague took more than 5 years to spread through Europe. How much do you think Ebola will need?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx7I-MzAy7p5bkt4Qk9ER2lMOG8/view?usp=sh...
The bright side of an Ebola epidemic...
Nobody is worried about eating Japanese tuna anymore.
I just skip over the cans that feel warm
"America Must Prepare for Ebola Refugees....Duncan's success in reaching America and getting advanced health care may spur others to flee if economies and living conditions collapse further."
http://time.com/3486421/america-must-prepare-for-ebola-refugees/
An Airbus A380 carrying Harvard students and a C5A carrying hospital tents for said students hospitalized in Brownsville, Texas for sharing bodily fluids with the (UN-named person) Ebola virus streaming across the USA southern border collided on the busy Brownsville runway today, killing everyone on board both planes. "Not to worry", Hospital Tent Coordinator for Something-Or-Other Barbra Streisand said. "We need no more tents. Harvard students keep dying in droves, freeing up bed space in the tents we already have". Unrequited Obama lover Gwyneth Paltrow said. "It just shows the supreme courage of these Harvard students, willing to champion diversity and share bodily fluids with all those blessed to be infected with the Ebola virus". When asked how many Harvard students had died to date, Head Death Count Counter Rosie O'Donnell said, "What number comes after one?" Michelle Obama, stylishly attired in a darling Ralph Lauren HAZMAT suit, passed out waivers to her school lunch rules to the tens of thousands of incoming sick and dying immigrants. In a related development, Obama signed an Executive Order mandating all further immigants be transported to states not voting for Obama in 2012. "Those uncaring Obama-non-lovers need to be reminded of their lack of humanity", the President said. "In conjuction with my good friends, the ISIL patriots in the Middle East, I've decided that, to match their humanitarian genocide of the non-Islamic infidel -- Allahu Akbar!! -- we need our own genocide here. Yes", the President continued, "China may have surpassed us economically, but we can mass slaughter more people that the Chinese are in Hong Kong".
Patient : "Doctor I think I have Ebola!"
Doctor : "Don't worry, it looks like it's only cancer."
The one that really fries me is the Idjat Tom Frieden of the CDC comparing ebola to Aids; snort! Aids is almost all gay men who could prevent every single case if they'd just use condoms and not play "pig sex" in the bathhouses. there are 50,000 NEW Aids cases each year That Are Only Gay men; approximately 8,000 black women get Aids each year, mostly from balck men who are doing "double duty."
So how can Frieden bring the politics of ebola, which can be contracted with a touch, into it? And if he is going to compare ebola to Aids, then he ought to be making the numbers right...the (they say 75%) majority of people dying from ebola are women because they are caretakers; they aren't dying because they are having pig sex in the bathhouses. This country has become too stupid for words. When we were a great and strong nation, we didn't worry about the truth. Now, god forbid we protect our own from the third world's slums and what results from them.
CNN International had a clipped on video camera that went into an ebola ward (last night) with a doctor. One of the most horrendous things I've ever seen. We should be sending as much money(tracked and accounted for every penny) and "stuff" as necessary. But there are 12 million people in LIberia and they should be asked if they want to save themselves. It is not the "white man's burden" to die for them.