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CDC Holds 11am ET Press Conference Following Second Ebola Case In US: Live Webcast
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Tom Frieden will provide an update at 11 a.m. ET Sunday on the response to the second case of Ebola in Dallas, the first person-to-persion transmission on US soil. As reported earlier, a health care worker, who cared for Liberian Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, tested positive for the disease, hospital officials announced Sunday. Duncan died on Wednesday. The CDC will conduct confirmatory tests on Sunday and share the results after the patient, who has not been identified, is notified, according to a CDC statement.
Here are the punchlines from CDC's Tom Frieden:
- "We don't know what happened in the care of the index patient, but there was a breach in the protocol." i.e., the nurse's fault.
- "Unfortunately, it is possible that in the coming days we will see additional cases of Ebola." i.e., when more Ebola patients are revealed, it will all be contained.
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From NBC:
And from CBS:
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"I'm not afraid of Ebola, I'm afraid of a government that responds to it like this." - Iowahawk
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Dr. Tom Frieden. He's got a boss right? I mean someone interviewed him for his job, checked his background and qualifications, and said, "Welcome aboard, Tom!"
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." GWB.
Time to bring back the blowing smoke up ones ass treatment.
A Dutch doctor in the 1700s discovered that you can revive a drowning victim by blowing tobacco smoke (real tobacco, which was all there was in those days) up their ass.
Now, how he got this idea, and what prompted him to try it out, are not in the historical record. But that's the origin of the phrase.
Hey - maybe it'll work for Ebola. Any volunteers?
Inquiring minds want to know. I imagine the thought process, while pulling a drag off his pipe was something like, "Well, this fucker's dead. Lemme see if blowing this drag up his ass'll revive him." Then he puckered up.
And from our "allies". If an American did this, they'd be getting visits from SS. In this case, they probably got extra $$$ in their monthly welfare check from the US taxpayers. Fuck Israel and all who support it.
Israelis: Send Obama Ebola
A 5 August NBC story, titled “Send President Obama Ebola as Birthday Gift, Some Israelis Say,” reports that, according to a recent poll, 46% of Israelis “said they wanted to give Barack Obama an envelope containing the Ebola virus as a present for his 53rd birthday
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/09/israelis-send-obama-ebola/
The facts suggest Obama is inviting this in from West African countries by not curtailing or restricting altogether the travel and issuing a quarantine on everyone coming from those countries of at least 21 days. This is the minimum required from the Ebola outbreak by this weak an ineffective man. This looks more and more intentional evil as this goes on.
well, and if a muslim had done this in a Muslim newspaper, it would have been all over the US press:
http://www.jpost.com/International/Atlanta-Jewish-newspaper-calls-for-Ob...
Nothing new - just the way it goes.
This is the time for presidential leadership and Obama is absent or derelict in his duties. He will not close the border for all the reasons we are all well aware of even while an epidemic unfurls. He will not close the air travel from W. Africa and he will not take any responsibility whatsoever for the outcome. It's time for someone, anyone, to call for and begin the impeachment of this man. The case has been made by his actions loud and clear and that it is my contention that he is far and away unfit for the office of president.
...but he loves his job and is working harder than ever for the benefit of...
CDC....TSA.... we are here to protect you
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Can't listen to him. Obviously they aren't going to release any real information (other than victim is female, lives in apt., has a pet), i.e. we don't know if this is a doctor, nurse, med tech, janitorial staff. We don't know if the exposed individuals treated other patients. Be calm, in the dark, he says. Fuck them.
The major problem exists where someone is exposed and carries the virus unknowingly because they are immune to it. That's why Spain killed the dog.
If the infected Dallas worker has a pet, will America kill it?
Without any doubt.
But who was that pet in contact with. You can't trace pet contacts with other pets easily. See the problem?
They should, but they wont. 'Merikans care more about fucking dogs and cats than they do about humans.
Umm, poorly chosen location to place the f-word ...
HA! Not really. ;)
I know I do.....
But the dog's blood wasn't carrying the virus, it was carrying antibodies to the virus.
What they should have done was quarantine, observe and test the dog, they could have even quarantined the dog with its owners.
They killed the dog because they are stupid scared Euro-spics who don't know better, or see the larger picture and the limitations of their knowledge, versus their assumptions.
If you have immunity to something you don't develop the anti-bodies because it isn't affecting your system.
I believe it's because your body was able to create antibodies and fight off the disease in its incipient stage.
even a healthy uncompromised immune system is in a desparate race with the ebola virus. this is why the mortality rate is so high. ZMAPP is simply an antigen booster to help but time for the immune system to ramp up protection. the blood serum does the same thing.
Dogs, pigs, monkeys, all vectors. Look it up.
As well as mosquitoes, cockroaches, flies, mice, rats, bats, opossums, and damn near anything that walks or flies that comes into contact with it. Hard to catch indeed. Its going to be a long winter from the looks of it.
Please cite the study that contradicts what I actually wrote.
(and don't bother with Allela, Bourry, Pouillot, Délicat, Yaba, Kumulungui, et al.).
Thanks.
Here is a good example of Oxford doing some research on tranmission vectors. From what I can tell, due to Ebolas highly mysterious and unknown nature. They have taken damn near everything into consideration in the past.
http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/179/Supplement_1/S127.full
Thanks, but's that's exactly the problem. They found African rabies in African dogs (big surprise) and then they extrapolate, due to (literally) a couple documented instances of humans in Africa becoming becoming infected with this variety of rabies several decades ago, that because dogs can become infected MOKV/rabies from eating infected rodents, that MOKV/rabies fits their "hypothetical transmission cycle" so perhaps ebola is the same...
From a public health management standpoint (which is what the taxpayers are supposedly paying these clowns for), if they actually want to control or contain the spread of ebola on a timeline longer than 21 news cycles - it is very important to precisely understand whether dogs (or any other animal that has significant interactions with humans) is 1) a natural reservoir of ebola and 2) whether the animal is capable of infecting humans with the virus, and if so under what circumstances (two very distinct questions).
Monitoring a dog under controlled conditions in Africa, when they can't even monitor the humans with known infections just isn't going to happen. So, as usual, the kleptocrats ruling Spain have squandered an opportunity to actually improve things in order to maintain the (ignorant) status quo.
I would imagine it going down like this. Dogs eat vomit, they love it, they also love eating dead rotting flesh, because they're dogs and thats what they do. There are cases in Africa where dogs have been caught digging up and eating the remains of dead Ebola patients(?). I see your point, maybe it was a "better safe than sorry" scenario. But have faith! Im sure we will have many more opportunities to study this creepy shit as time move forward.
No one better call this incompetence.
Incompetence of the worst possible kind, and more.
They are inventing everything on the fly. They need a doctor who has worked in one of the infected countries to run this show.
I nominate Brantley. Or even one of their nationals.
Go ahead and swing on me if you like, it will be fun. This is not a conspiracy. It is so much worse. I think that since the crisis is here, there are folks who will exploit it, but they are not sitting like evil bad guys in a Maxwell Smart or James Bond episode, watching their big screen TVs going "Moo-hoo-hooo-hoo-hoo-haa-haa-ha!"
Okee Dokee.
How about criminal.
"sealing U.S. borders to keep out West African ebola victims would be counterproductive."
^@%!
About two more days of this, and this lying CDC sack of shit Frieden isn't going to have an ounce of reputation left.
Better to resign than to continue on with Barry's fist up his ass.
You know how they say "It's turtles all the way?"
What if the truth is "It's a daisy chain of sock puppets all the way, each with a hand up the others ass animating them?"
Where the fuck is Escher when you need him, Goddammit!
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You do the unholy obolies and you shake yourself apart
That's what dems all about.
Ever see a bubble about the size of a golf ball floating in the air? The ebola virus is .00004" long. Do you think it will have a problem floating in the air and being inhaled into your respiratory tract? The CDC is SO much bullshit!..... On the level of brutish efficiency and unrelenting tenacity, the ebola virus makes us look like new born babes. Will we have the intelligence to successfully combat this killer?....
The globalists will release something else if necessary. Look if it is not clear now that the financial system is coming down and that preparations have been made immediately after 2008 to militarize the police, purchse 10s of thousands of hermetically sealed coffins, purchase 1.6 billion hollow point bullets, create a domestic military called DHS, put up drones etc. so the globalists can kill anyone that doen't submit to them it ain't never going to be clear. If you want to stop this you have to stop Goldman Sachs i.e. Loyd Blankfein, JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon, The Rothschilds. Money is power. Those entities are some of the ones calling the shots. You have to stop the money problem in the world today.
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I wonder how much Goldman Sachs et al have invested in West Africa. The answer might shed some light on the CDC policy. Like Mario Puzo reminded us: follow the money.
Been any unusual stock / derivatives movements in pharma / bio / insurance lately?
The man made "one-two punch"!...
If the Ebola doesn't kill you effective immediately the spray of tritium coming out of a decaying husk of a commercial nuclear facility going on four years in Asia should weaken your immune systems sufficiently to finish the job!
Many thanks to people like Julius Oppenheimer and the folks at Fort Detrick MD for creating what would one day kill all or most of us as the weapons of choice to cull the herd when the market(s) can no longer be tamed!
I was wondering if Duncan's fiancee and other family member who had close contact with no protection were infected and the media was keeping quiet.
It seems odd that a nurse who had protection got infected and people close to the victim did not.
Why is ABC plugging NBC & CBS?
While I recognize that it is Sunday morning, and sensible people everywhere are off to a deli, I do not think that the issue I am raising can be left lying about. Given that:
We have approximately 160 passengers arriving via air travel from West Africa in the US each day (media reports, NPR and others). Presumably, these persons are coming via Frankfort, Bonn, London, Paris and Brazil, all of which have flights connecting directly to West Africa.
The current 'wisdom' is to screen incoming passengers for fever, and to interview those who have one with a quarantine officer, who then makes a determination as to their status. JFK airport began this procedure yesterday (11 October).
1. No airports are equipped with quarantine facilities for humans, certainly not where biological pathogens are involved.
2. Passengers with a fever are directed, presumably, to a room where they wait for their interview with the q-officer. Since the vast majority of travelers with a fever do NOT have ebola, the worst thing there is that they infect one another with the flu or whatever else they are carrying. HOWEVER, let's assume that the room, at some point, contains one passenger who is carrying ebola. They cough, sneeze, or otherwise expose everyone else in that room to ebola.
3. Because the rest of the people in the room did not originate their travel in West Africa, they are then released to continue their travels. Because they are now potential carriers themselves, they go about exposing everyone else they come into contact with to the disease.
4. 8-21 days later we begin to see cases 'mysteriously' pop up all over the place, and the gig is up.
It is quite clear to me, and to my friends at Homeland Security, that the current plans for dealing with this epidemic are worse than woefully inadequate. They are so ill-conceived as to be criminally negligent at best. The fact is that we have zero plan for dealing with this, and are clearly ignoring the advice of both history and what we have learned so far from experiences in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
In the wake of the bubonic plague in Europe, Asia and Indochina during the years from 1300-1600, there was no viable economy in many places (everyone in many cities was dead), and protocols were put in place which did in fact safeguard the cities and ports where commerce and travel were able to continue.
1. No ship was allowed to come to the quay until it had been searched and its crew examined for signs of 'the pox.'
2. There was, and is, in every port, a holding area used for ALL incoming traffic.
3. Any ship showing signs of the Plague had the choice of leaving or being burned at anchor in the harbor (a bit draconian for today's tender mercies, but you get the point.) NO crew were allowed to disembark. In this way, many ports were able to remain operational and plague-free.
At the end of the day, shutting commercial transportation from West Africa remains the simplest way to begin getting this pandemic under control. At the current rate of expansion, there will be in excess of 8 million cases in a year's time (8000 cases currently doubling every three weeks). Assuming that the rate of West African travelers arriving in the US remains constant at 160 a day (58,400 people per year), and a 1% infection rate, we absorb 584 cases in a year's time, at a variety of places, and from people with a variety of contacts. If 584 people are waiting in rooms at airports, each containing 25 people waiting for their interviews with the q-officer, we are then releasing 14,600 potentially infected people (40 people/day) annually into the interiors of our cities and nation. After that, you can just forget about containment. If the mortality rate stays at 50%, we're talking 185 million corpses in three years, just here. All because some pack of Wall St.-owned idiot politicians didn't want to upset the economy.
In short, the protocols our government has begun using at a handful of airports only do one thing - they absolutely guarantee that we will have a crisis of unprecedented proportions, for which we are not prepared. Don't you think maybe the press corps ought to be raising a bit of stink?
Great post, belongs at the head of the Que.
I took the liberty of posting it higher up and on the CDC thread. Hope you are not cross with me, I mean well and I do think you are DEAD right.
"Prince" Phillip (gag) wants to reincarnate as a deadly virus. He actually said this. He has probably volunteered to be the Obola 'Typhoid Mary' by now. Evil smells like poo.
To the medical community. The West Africans regularly eat bush meat including monkeys, rodents, and antelope. What is the probability that they have exposure to Ebola in small doses and that combined with a genetic resistance they have developed a higher level of immunity which is then transfered via breastmilk to successive generations? Evidence that they eat a lot of bushmeat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XasTcDsDfMg