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CDC Admits Its Researchers Were Exposed To Ebola Several Days Ago

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Somehow news about Ebola in the US managed to get past the Ron Klain media gauntlet.

Two months after stocks would tumble on the merest hint of an Ebola case in the US - a threat that has now largely been forgotten - the WaPo reports that researchers studying Ebola in a highly secure laboratory "mistakenly" allowed potentially lethal samples of the virus to be handled in a much less secure laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, agency officials said Wednesday.

As a result, one technician in the second laboratory may have been exposed to the virus and about a dozen other people have been assessed after entering the facility unaware that potentially hazardous samples of Ebola had been handled there.

The "discovery" did not take place half a year ago when nobody had any idea how extensive the Ebola epidemic would be: it took place three days ago, on Monday afternoon. It was discovered by laboratory scientists Tuesday and within an hour reported to agency leaders.

And now that the most sophisticated disaease fighting agency in the US was exposed, literally and metaphorically, the damage control is unleashed: "At this time, we know of only the one potential exposure,” CDC Director Tom Frieden said in a telephone interview.

"The error, which is under internal investigation, was reported to Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell and to a program that has oversight over pathogens such as Ebola and anthrax."

The technician has no symptoms of illness and is being monitored for 21 days. Agency officials said it is unlikely that any of the others who entered the lab face potential exposure. Some entered the lab after it had been decontaminated. Officials said there is no possible exposure outside the secure laboratory at CDC and no exposure or risk to the public.

In a statement, Frieden said he was troubled by the mistake in the CDC’s Ebola research lab. “Thousands of laboratory scientists in more than 150 labs throughout CDC have taken extraordinary steps in recent months to improve safety,” he said. “No risk to staff is acceptable, and our efforts to improve lab safety are essential — the safety of our employees is our highest priority.” 

Of course it is, the problem is that just like the "economic recovery", so the public's confidence that the CDC - which apparently can't contain Ebola in its own labs - is capable of preventing the deadly disease spread in the US, is based on one word: faith.

Several more mistakes like this, however, and not only will said faith be shaken, but Americans may start wondering if the only reason an Ebola Czar was appointed was to allow America's "most transparent administration ever" to do the only thing it is good at: hide facts from the US public.

More details from WaPo:

In the interview, Frieden said the agency’s goal to have systems in place to mitigate human error “was not met here.” The mistake was discovered Tuesday when workers looked in the freezer in the Ebola research lab — one of the highest-security biosafety labs, known as a Level 4 — and saw material that was supposed to have been sent to a different, less-secure lab in the same building.

 

They realized something was wrong. 

 

The researchers had been studying the effects of Ebola on guinea pigs in the high-security lab to find out whether the Ebola strain that has devastated West Africa this year is deadlier than previous strains.

 

But there was a mix-up this time: Less-hazardous material that should have gone to the second lab down the hall was placed in the first lab’s freezer. The hazardous material, which possibly contained live Ebola virus, was put in a spot to be transferred to the second lab, CDC officials said.

 

The technician in the second lab should have recognized, via the color coding on the test tubes, that this was hazardous material that should have stayed at the first lab, officials said. That technician is the person who could have been exposed.

 

The lab where Monday’s potential exposure occurred was decontaminated and the material destroyed as a routine procedure before the error was identified. The laboratory was decontaminated for a second time and is now closed. Transfers from the high-security lab have stopped while the review is taking place.

 

The high-security lab where the first mistakes were made also performs diagnostic tests for Ebola, and has conducted hundreds of those tests since July. Stuart Nichol, a top CDC official, said diagnostic testing for Ebola will be moved to a different lab.

One would think that all of the above would have been made be impossible after the summer’s developments when "the CDC temporarily banned transfer of all biological materials from its labs, conducted a wide-ranging safety review, appointed a new director of lab safety and created an outside lab safety advisory group." That, and of course the appointment of Ron Klain by Obama.

Furthermore, at congressional hearings, the CDC's Frieden had vowed to improve the agency’s overall safety culture as well as put in place stronger oversight measures.

Apparently he only promised on paper:

biosafety experts have criticized the lack of coordination and oversight at laboratories inside and outside the federal government that conduct research on microbes that could be used as bioterrorism agents.

 

“Such events like this are absolutely unacceptable even once. When they occur multiple times, you have to ask yourself what systems are in place to prevent this from happening,” Michael Osterholm, director of Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said in an interview Wednesday

The answer, apparently, is none, because at the end of the day it all comes down to the bolded word above: faith.

Meanwhile, there are now nearly a record 20,000 Ebola cases, and over 7,000 Ebola deaths around the globe.

But don't worry, and remember - just keep the faith: after all the government knows best what you should and shouldn't know and would never put anyone in harm's way just to avoid panic.

 

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Thu, 12/25/2014 - 09:57 | 5590697 junction
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The CDC's total name is Centers For Disease Control And Prevention - CDCP.  Now we know why they dropped the "P."

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 09:59 | 5590699 GetZeeGold
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Let's bring that stuff to America....what could possibly go wrong?

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:02 | 5590705 Cognitive Dissonance
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If you want your Ebola you can keep your Ebola....maybe.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:04 | 5590711 kliguy38
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Queue up the next "leg down" of the DOW 

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:17 | 5590727 svayambhu108
Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:32 | 5590737 Spine01
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Any times humans are part of the equation zero error rate is impossible. Shit just happens...

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:36 | 5590746 max2205
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$174 k for doing nothing....where do I sign up?

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:37 | 5590823 Looney
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We infected some folks...  ;-)

Looney

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:24 | 5590810 Miffed Microbio...
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What people don't realize is lab exposures happen all the time. Once I noticed pin prick black colonies on a culture from a brain biopsy. Too small to identify the causative agent so I held off examining it under the microscope. Later that day a pathogist called me and said he saw fungal structures in his pathology slides from the brain biopsy. He needed to know right away what that fungus was to see if treatment was possible be it surgery or meds. A quick diagnosis meant life or death. I took some scotch tape at touched the colonies, stained them and looked at the under the microscope. This is the most dangerous proceedure you can do to a fungus because you aerosolize the spores.

As I looked at it, I started to shake. Not only was I looking at this young mans death, I was looking at possibly mine as well. I had just done a tape prep on a Cladophialophora bantiana. A lethal fungus that has an affinity for the brain. It kills the the immunocompromised and immunocompetent equally with ease. I have never been so frightened but I decided to tell no one. I would not be infective if I got it and I didn't want my family to worry needlessly but I can't tell you how thankful I was every day that went by without symptoms. I certainly savored life fully for a month.

Everyone in the medical field experiences this at some point. We must come to grips our lives are at risk. However, it is balanced by knowing you are in the healing profession to help and save lives. Often thankless at times but personally rewarding.

And now I shall return to my fungus cultures. Merry Christmas

Miffed;-)

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 12:30 | 5590880 MEFOBILLS
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My father died from a fungus.  He got it by being pricked by a tree in front of his house in west texas.  The way they found it is from a Veterinarian.  His cat had also gotten sick from the same fungus.  Cat was pricked on nose.   The human medical community was flummoxed by the symptoms, but asked the right questions , like "anything at all that was unusual" and the answer was, "well my cat got sick and.."

So, there are lots of things in this world that can get us.  Faith, or Fiat, is important as it relates to our fellow man.  We humans actually work for each other in a faith agreement.

I keep hearing people denigrating "fiat."  I always ask, "what kind of fiat?"  If it is fiat designed to take rents - say through the usury mechanism as does debt spreading private banking, then that is not really fiat.  This type of money is a rent scheme designed to steal, thus reducing faith in our fellow man.

A real national fiat money system would be volume, path, and type controlled - using proper non usurious principles.  Then man can have faith again - and that is all we really have. 

There are people out there that don't want to harm others, that do want to do the right thing by way of their fellows.   Only a small fraction of the population are psychopaths (maybe 4%) who care not about faith.  

It is the pyschopaths that have invaded our most important civilzational institutions and are taking rents for self aggrandizement.  We of the faith, should be vigilant and start removing them from power. 

The medical community has invented brain scans that can reveal psychopathic brains.  We need to limit psychos from certain professions, and money power most certainly should be one of those excluded professions.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 12:57 | 5590933 Never One Roach
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The bestest place to go in Texas if you get any strange disease is UTMB in Galveston. It's a massive well-endowed medical center. They have one of the best infectious disease dept in the world because that’s where many foreign ships dock. I worked on the docks for a while and a buddy got some unusual symptoms no one could figure out in Houston and Dallas. He was my neighbor so we took him to UTMB and they discovered he had some parasite in his blood stream and muscles including his heart, liver and brain.

 

He recovered 99% but it took almost a year. I am not sure how good they are in other areas but for infectious disease consider their Dept of Infectious Disease.

 

BTW, never work on the docks if at all possible. Not only is it back-breaking but you’re exposed to all sorts of crap that is coming into and going out of this country – dusty grains, pesticides, tarantulas, brown recluse spiders, etc

Fri, 12/26/2014 - 00:45 | 5592353 12ToothAssassin
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Hey Miffed - remember when the Ebolas killed us all? That was terrible. Be afraid sheeple.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 13:46 | 5591024 malek
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 A real national fiat money system would be volume, path, and type controlled - using proper non usurious principles.

So let me get this straight:
We only need competent leaders using proper principles and then such a system would work fine - right!

Uhm remind me again why exactly are we in this mess today??

 

Note:
You seem to be a KD mindset follower.
Yes I KNOW a gold backed currency is not immune to manipulation either as by definition every system can be undermined by the system controllers, but folks are missing the point: It is relatively easy for a user to determine debasing of coins/bars. In contrast debasement a fiat currency is impossible to determine with any accuracy, as you would need to have correct knowledge of every unit currently in circulation.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 14:12 | 5591091 MEFOBILLS
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Gold and silver has been manipulated to take rents throughout history.  That's a fact that cannot be denied, and to do so does everybody a disservice.  the truth matters.

Money is a division of the law.  Period.  We use it as a transaction medium and it divides down at the moment of transaction.  It allows division of labor and hence more productivity.  We humans always confuse that it is a store of value.  It is latent demand when it is not in motion, but not a store of value.  A proper money system would have us exit the unit of account/transfer medium into a different store of value like stocks or beautiful paintinings or housing or land or whatever.  

People that shill for gold also shill for guns as if they are a lone unit in this world.  I'm ok with owning guns and gold, but only as a sense of insurance, because my weak human mind wants that...as does others.   But let's be real clear.  We all work to create goods and we sell our output to each other.  

Gold and Metal seems to sieze the mind of people, as if it is genetic.  Gold and Metal wants to be a store of value, so during bad times it retreats into savings.  When that happens, labor cannot sell their output...there is no transaction medium.  

This is not fantasy...this has happned repeatedly throughout history. Gold bugs cherry pick history and avoid this topic.

When money retreats, it forces a depression.  People lose their lives in suicide and usually those that hold the Gold buy up goods and service cheap, leading to Oligarchy.  If there is credit riding on top of the Gold, as there must be for flexibility, then the credit goes into a positive feedback loop as loans stop being made.  This then causes violent swings up and down in the economy.  Credit redeeming Gold has always been a lie.

Here is a good place to start your real education, and stop listening to Austrian nonsense.  They are part of the ancient dialectic of money powers that have been harvesting humanity for a very long time.

http://www.jrbooksonline.com/pdf_books/the_babylonian_woe.pdf

 

It discusses the origin of metal as money and the effects.  Rents are taken during swaps of unlike kinds, and metal vs intangible are unlikes.  To make these swaps is a form of magic, and that magic has been invested in a private priesthood.  

Fri, 12/26/2014 - 02:01 | 5592416 malek
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You are always only pointing out one side of the picture, in that way anybody can fake any conclusion wished for:

manipulated to take rents

Sounds like some communist propaganda, especially without any clarification what kind might be acceptable or benificial to society.

labor cannot sell their output...there is no transaction medium.

Oh, and there is no way to go back to barter?? Aren't you deliberately confusing no money with no demand (for the wanted price) here?

the credit goes into a positive feedback loop as loans stop being made

Where did you mention the (excessive) positive feedback loop when times were good, and any new production/demand increased more than that in new credit due to "increased" collateral etc.?
The Keynesian shills just like you always ignore the run-up, and if you let that happen further you will need to let the pendulum swing back further too!

 

Where do you talk about the history of gold being the most successful medium (in ways of system stability & durability) over all history known to us?

Or do you side with dumbshit Buiter who brushes all aquired wisdom under the rug by declaring it a 6000 year bubble.
Waiting for him to declare human intelligence in a 30,000 year bubble...

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 22:11 | 5592116 Acarus
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The medical community has invented brain scans that can reveal psychopathic brains.  We need to limit psychos from certain professions, and money power most certainly should be one of those excluded professions.

 

Exactly my thoughts too .

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 15:10 | 5591173 The Big Ching-aso
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Exposure to Ebola in a Level 4 lab setting due to incompetence is like inadvertently catching gonorrhea from your Grandmother. You don't dare try explaining the ins and outs of how it somehow happened and well Gamma was getting up in age anyway.

Fri, 12/26/2014 - 19:16 | 5594535 bIlluminati
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A local medical person declined to take two cases at the local pediatric hospital. He said he was told the two had Ebola - and that they couldn't get full coverage from staff at the hospital. Said person is not  a doctor - is another medical professional.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 15:24 | 5591252 RaceToTheBottom
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Wait, what does the clipboard say?

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 15:36 | 5591285 Miffed Microbio...
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Your fucked.

Miffed

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:34 | 5590741 Ahoy Polloi
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How come that guy in the blue suit isn't holding a clipboard? What, are they nuts?!

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:26 | 5590732 Tall Tom
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Released on a slow news day for a reason. Most Americans will be too distracted by the Holiday Festivities.

 

But I was wrong. There are not a million dead today from Ebola...or maybe it is just not reported.

 

Go Ebola Czar. Fire Frieden as he has a big mouth.

 

I understrand that ignorance, the state of ignoring in this instance, is the very best protection.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:20 | 5590804 dogfish
Thu, 12/25/2014 - 12:40 | 5590896 noben
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So, it seems that Ft. Detrick's USAMRIID has a satellite facility in West Africa.

Not surprising. Actually, one might expect that.

Is that 2-faced opportunist, Dr. Ken Alibek going to defect back home, or is he just slap-happy to be doing the same thing, but with more fame and fortune?

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 13:09 | 5590959 s2man
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We knew the news was sugar-coated during the holiday shopping season: no ebola, no wars/attacks, no financial crisis...

I had to laugh at this release.  I didn't expect ebola to resurface until January.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 13:51 | 5591049 Skateboarder
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Jan 2: "It's baaaaack!"

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 16:30 | 5591430 HowdyDoody
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short Ebola futures

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 12:22 | 5590870 TheReplacement
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In soviet America ebola keep you.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:03 | 5590778 Max Cynical
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ATTKISSON: CDC HIDING NUMBERS OF POSSIBLE EBOLA CASES IN US

"...investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson said the CDC is not putting out the current information on how many potential cases of Ebola they are currently tracking in the Untied States.

Attkisson said, “I called CDC not long ago and I said how many cases are being monitored in the United States and they said 1,400. I said, ‘Where are these updates on your website? ‘ They said they’re not putting it on the web." http://www.breitbart.com/video/2014/12/21/attkisson-cdc-hiding-numbers-o...
Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:35 | 5590822 Chupacabra-322
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Centers For Disease Creation

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 15:10 | 5591218 swmnguy
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Dr. Michael Osterhold is worth listening to.  He should be the US Surgeon General, though no political animal would ever appoint him, he'd never get confirmed by Congress, and he wouldn't take the job anyway.

Sharyl Attkisson used to have some credibility, but she cashed in her reputation for the lucrative field of partisan buffoonery a few years back.  I'm not defending the corporate mainstream propaganda machine she bailed out of, but to leave CBS to work for the likes of Breitbart and Pajamas Media tells pretty much everyone how cynically you've mapped out the end of your career in the adult world.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:00 | 5590774 Debt-Is-Not-Money
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@junction

The word "control" is greatly mis-used and mis-understood. In process control it means to regulate (or manipulate) something to achieve a particular value (result), called a "setpoint". For example, on a thermostat one "sets" the temperature to be maintained.

You are right, the removal of the word "prevention" is a significant clue.

In the case of the CDC it means they intend to regulate (manipulate) a particular disease to achieve a given number of infections. Concerning Ebola, what would their setpoint be: 1,000,000 or 100,000,000, what?

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 15:45 | 5591299 caustixoid
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Small point re: "CDC" - this has been it's acronym for decades.   About 15 years they decided to tack on "and Prevention" to their name.  The acronym should have changed to CDCP" but it has never caught on.   Thus the "P" was not dropped from the name.  If you say "CDCP" no one will know what you're talking about.

Dr.Osterholm and the CIDRAP group in Minnesota certainly has much more credibility than the CDC regarding flu shots at least, where the CDC is basically a marketing agency for drug companies.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:28 | 5590812 Pig Circus
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We Ebola'd some folks.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:02 | 5590703 Michiko
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Previously on AMC's The Walking Dead..

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:02 | 5590704 BiteMeBO
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We exposed some folks.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:39 | 5590753 IridiumRebel
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Nothing to see here. Flounder has it under control.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 12:26 | 5590874 noben
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Ebola clipboards for everyone.

Merry Christmas!

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:04 | 5590710 SandiaMan
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Put the ebola csar to work

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:12 | 5590718 GetZeeGold
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We've got our finest lawyers on it.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:27 | 5590733 Handful of Dust
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Be sure to sprinkle some Ebola on the Xmas tree ... light it up with the little critters ! Santa will love it !

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:13 | 5590720 NoVa
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Merry Christmas ZH'ers

Be sure to spend time with your family

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:31 | 5590736 Tall Tom
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I will spend it alone. It is just another day with no special meaning.

 

I do not hold ANY DAY in higher regard than another as it is against the teachings of the scripture.

 

Go ahead...Celebrate the LIE.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:03 | 5590776 trulz4lulz
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I usually spend these days with the old man, going for walks in the woods and drinking beers. Easter is the only "holiday" I really celebrate, but even then Im just sitting outside with a belly full of 'shrooms smiling at the beautiful illusion.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 12:36 | 5590886 IrritableBowels
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Tall Tom-

Yes it is. I think Jeremiah 10:1-10 is fairly damning, as well.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 23:31 | 5592235 argoz
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You are correct sort of.  The only day the Israelites were commanded to observe is Passover.  Nobody even knows when Christ was born and the RCC picked the date to coincide with the winter solstace.  Here is another one, how do you get 3 days and 3 nights from Good Friday to Easter Sunday?  3 days maybe but 3 nights no way.  Easter is derived from the Babalonian god of fertility Ishtar hence the bunnys and eggs.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:15 | 5590721 papaswamp
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Meh.... Over 1100 cases of EV-D68 and 12 deaths. Flu season is just ramping up.... Then there is measles...610 cases in the US this year...

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 13:18 | 5590988 buyingsterling
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Both of those diseases have the potential to shut down whole communities, just like Ebola, and both share Ebola's 50%+ fataility rate, so brilliant analysis.

 

On the other hand, President Pimp is solesly responsible for the retroviruses and for Ebola in the US, so maybe you are brilliant. But on the third hand, Ebola is a BSL4 pathogen, so you look like somewhat of a twat.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 15:16 | 5591231 swmnguy
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I'm not the least bit informed about Ebola or any other viral infection, beyond personal experience.  And what I know is that Influenza has already killed a handful of people right here in Minnesota, as it does every year.  The CDC and local health authorities are quite actively keeping an eye on the large local (Minneapolis) population of immigrants from Liberia and Sierra Leone, and many of them go back to "the old country" fairly frequently now that the decades-long brutal civil wars have died down there.  But no cases have popped up here.

Ebola isn't very communicable in a First World nation, and especially not where it gets cold.  Or so it seems.  But Influenza isn't nearly as spectacular a killer, so nobody pays any attention while lots of people die of it every year.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:16 | 5590722 JustObserving
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US Bioweapons expert explains the Ebola Epidemic:

US Bio-warfare Laboratories In West Africa Are The Origins Of The Ebola Epidemic.

Could Ebola Have Escaped From US Bio-warfare Labs? American law professor Francis A. Boyle, answers questions for tvxs.gr and reveals that USA have been using West Africa as an offshore to circumvent the Convention on Biological Weapons and do bio-warfare work.

Is Ebola just a result of health crisis in Africa - because of the large gaps in personnel, equipment and medicines - as some experts suggest?
 
That isn’t true at all. This is just propaganda being put out by everyone. It seems to me, that what we are dealing with here is a biological warfare work that was conducted at the bio-warfare laboratories set up by the USA on the west coast of Africa. And if you look at a map produced by the Center of  Disease Control you can see where these laboratories are located. And they are across the heart of  Ebola epidemic, at the west coast of Africa. So, I think these laboratories, one or more of them, are the origins of the Ebola epidemic.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40012.htm

“More than 200 incidents of loss or release of bioweapons agents from U.S. laboratories are reported each year. This works out to more than four per week,”

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/ebola-2.html

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:41 | 5590754 hardcleareye
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This is the one that caught my eye....  no tin foil hat needed...

 

In 2005 there was a outbreak of Marburg fever in Angola... Provinical Hospital of Uige of the deaths and infected people, 75% were children under the age of 5.

Marburg very rarely infects children...

 

Here is the title to a peer reviewed paper... one of many, ( I read another in the Oxford Journal of Medicine available on line)"

"Child Vaccination Program or Bats Offered as Possible Cause of Marburg Virus Outbreak in Angola"

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2569489/
Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:54 | 5590760 JustObserving
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Talking about infecting children, 98 million doses of polio vaccine in the US were infected with a monkey virus leading to increased cancer rates:

Cancer risk associated with simian virus 40 contaminated polio vaccine

RESULTS: Our analysis indicates increased rates of ependymomas (37%), osteogenic sarcomas (26%), other bone tumors (34%) and mesothelioma (90%) among those in the exposed as compared to the unexposed birth cohort.

CONCLUSIONS:

These data suggest that there may be an increased incidence of certain cancers among the 98 million persons exposed to contaminated polio vaccine in the U.S.; further investigations are clearly justified.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10472327

 Truth is stranger than fiction - this is a fascinating read:

Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey ... Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics

http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Marys-Monkey-Cancer-Causing-Assassination/dp/19...

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 13:42 | 5591027 Socratic Dog
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Seconded. Dr Mary's Monkey is a very interesting read.  The tie-in with the Kennedy assassination makes it even more interesting.

I knew a southern girl once who referred to her nether regions as her "monkey".  That's not why I picked up the book, honest.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:41 | 5590756 _SILENCER
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That isn’t true at all. This is just propaganda being put out by everyone. It seems to me, that what we are dealing with here is a biological warfare work that was conducted at the bio-warfare laboratories set up by the USA on the west coast of Africa. And if you look at a map produced by the Center of  Disease Control you can see where these laboratories are located.

 

I don't doubt that at all. This whole thing smells like a bag of assholes.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:14 | 5590723 hardcleareye
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Considering this, I wonder how easy it is for a few samples to grow legs and walk out the door......

Mark something as destroyed, when it went missing......

Home grown bio warfare...

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:20 | 5590728 TuPhat
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We need to print some moar Faith.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:11 | 5590787 trulz4lulz
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Merry Christams, Ebobla!!

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:25 | 5590730 Jack Offelday
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Keystone cops

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:28 | 5590735 Handful of Dust
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Freeden will say, "It’s Paradoxical !"

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:31 | 5590738 McCormick No. 9
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These highly competent technocrats must have been hired out of the SEC. THEY never allow cotagion  to spread! (Sarc-a-saurus!)

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 13:42 | 5591029 MsCreant
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Snark-a-saurus!

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:33 | 5590740 petaloka
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We bolaed some folks.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:38 | 5590748 max2205
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Transitory

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:38 | 5590750 TheFreeLance
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Anyone paying attention down here in the ATL has known the CDC to be a raging clusterfuck for some time. That is why we knew "treating" Ebola patients was just a PR stunt to get CDC into its comfort zone of endless, cryptic yet very expensive "lab work" which turns into lifetime employment for bureaucrats in lab coats -- and CDC has thousands of those, plus all kinds of tenacles (grants) worming their way across the country into universities. 

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:18 | 5590802 Clycntct
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A Nail and it's head shall meet on cmas and you just brought them together.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:39 | 5590752 _SILENCER
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Any news about the proliferation of Ebola in the US went immediately dark after the installation of the Ebola Czar

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:49 | 5590765 d edwards
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Or any where else, for that matter. Mum's the word!

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 13:46 | 5591037 Socratic Dog
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From saturation coverage to nothing, overnight.  My tin foil hat tells me there is an unhealthy reason for that.  The government has tighter control over the media than we ever dreamed.  I'd suggest <<absolute>> control.

It also went from daily to nothing on the Hedge.  Wonder if Tyler could let us know why that be?

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:40 | 5590755 Government need...
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Who needs terrorists wielding biologic weapons of mass destruction?  The CDC is doing just fine Ebola-ing some Americans . . .   Just another example of egregious .gov incompetence leading to the death of hard-working taxpayers.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:48 | 5590762 d edwards
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Two things you never want to hear at the CDC lab: "Oops" and "Uh-oh!"

 

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:17 | 5590797 Winston Churchill
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My eldest sons very first words were "Oh shit", in the middle of a very crowded hotel dining room

during breakfast, when a waiter dropped a tray of glasses.You could have heard a pin drop when

he said it.

Pretty embarrasing being glared at by several hundred German tourists.

Shame no one is paying as much attention today.

 

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:52 | 5590838 shovelhead
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It could have been worse...

He could have called the waiter a fucking stupid spazz.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 12:30 | 5590882 noben
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Basil! Basil Fawlty!

Did you mention the War?

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 19:29 | 5591815 Ginsengbull
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Daddy?

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 12:16 | 5590863 Yes We Can. But...
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Oops, uh-oh, is bad.

Shh is worse.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:49 | 5590766 lakecity55
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Nasty stuff.

All it takes is 1 fuck up.

They need a buddy system in the lab like you use in the army.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:05 | 5590780 Peter Pan
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There must be at least 1000 cases of ebola and suspected ebola in the USA  but they are keeping the figure under wraps to avoid panic. There is no way that Ebola has not entered the USA in substantial numbers.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:24 | 5590808 Winston Churchill
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Spanish ebola epidemic.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 13:14 | 5590969 stateside
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20 years ago you could have covered it up. With social media today word would spread if Tommy or Jennifer was in hospital containment rooms. Luckily the US has been spared. At least so far. 

 

Stateside 

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 13:12 | 5590970 stateside
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20 years ago you could have covered it up. With social media today word would spread if Tommy or Jennifer was in hospital containment rooms. Luckily the US has been spared. At least so far. 

 

Stateside 

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:06 | 5590784 T-NUTZ
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It's baaa-ack!

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 14:33 | 5591117 lesterbegood
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Crisis actors onstage in 3..2..1

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:12 | 5590790 Atomizer
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Building bridges to gap Ebola pandemic.

Butthole Surfers - Concubine

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:20 | 5590805 djsmps
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Trust us

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:32 | 5590815 Atomizer
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Gallopin' Gertie, true story.

Building destructive bridges on Hope and Change mantra.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:34 | 5590813 Everybodys All ...
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If Ebola is going to take hold in the US it's much better for Obama to be able to blame the CDC protocols rather than the infected traveling folks coming from the Ebola stricken countries which he refused to stop. Imo nothing under this Obama regime is happening by chance.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:36 | 5590820 db51
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Please folks.   Enough with the ebola hype.  If the shit was even remotely as deadly as they claim, there would already be bodies piled on the streets here in the USA.   I think it is all an orchestrated phony event for an end of which I know not.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:38 | 5590824 theyjustcantstop
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why do you think obama is in hawaii, he may not come back to the mainland, hes got his pen, and phone with him.

the fed.'s got the economy and congress under control.

 

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 12:12 | 5590857 winchester
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cycling over money ops to psy ops, was too long ebola wasn't tv smashed.

 

fuck CDC. i do not trust any god, anyone, just my ACP.

 

.45

 

amen.

 

 

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 12:45 | 5590901 Atomizer
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Ask your childern to etch a sketch ebola virus chemistry. Better yet, ask the CDC Czar to draft up. Turning those two knobs should be quite a feat.

http://www-als.lbl.gov/index.php/contact/163-structure-of-the-ebola-virus-glycoprotein-bound-to-an-antibody-from-a-human-survivor.html

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 12:47 | 5590907 Government need...
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Something tells me that if you keep paying all your taxes, you will be immune to this strain of Ebola.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 13:07 | 5590956 NoWayJose
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But if you don't drink the samples at the CDC Xmas Party, or rub them onto your exposed skin, then there shouldn't be any problem - right?

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 13:19 | 5590987 thegreygrater
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Do you remember?

            CDC mishandled live anthrax;

            CDC misplaced live smallpox;

            CDC mislabeled influenza virus that had been cross-contaminated 

                        with the highly deadly H5NI strain of bird flu.

 Do you remember obama telling us the CDC will protect the US from Ebola and we have nothing to worry about?

           CDC misplaced Ebola samples in lab exposing a dozen US lab workers. At least one now confirmed to have contracted Ebola.

           http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2886678/Up-dozen-U-S-scientists-...

Have you had enough? Have you really had enough of obama and his Democratic cack-handed cohorts?

Merry Christmas Everyone!

The Grey Grater

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 13:24 | 5590995 bugs_
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Last Christmas - NSA is coming to town

This Christmas - CDC is coming to town

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 13:25 | 5591002 q99x2
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Something crawled on my elbow area of my arm as soon as I clicked on ZH. I'm visiting Pennsylvania and am used it being a pretzel stuck in peanut butter when I'm in California. I crushed it. It was a stink bug. Something doesn't smell right. There's a lot of dreams running around loose here in Pennsylvania. I don't know where the stink bug went. 

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 19:24 | 5591806 Ginsengbull
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If you have a good imagination, you can pretend that it smells like fresh crisp celery.

 

The only food that takes more energy to consume than it provides.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 13:54 | 5591053 Shitgum Suicide
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Lest we never forget...clipboard guy!

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/ebola-clipboard3.jpg

Another successful hoax perpetrated on the gullible public.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 14:55 | 5591171 Youri Carma
Thu, 12/25/2014 - 15:25 | 5591258 Conax
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Too bad it wasn't the CFTC.  That's what I thought when I saw the CDC, then said, awww, well.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 17:03 | 5591524 Titus
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Tyler, how about one of those nice updated graphs showing the exponential growth of ebola?

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 18:00 | 5591625 juicy_bananas
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So what?  Human civilization is no different than a bacterial film grown in an agar plate.  It follows the exact same growth curve.  Besides, we're  long overdue for another culling of black plague proportions.  On a long enough timeline. . . 

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 18:45 | 5591730 kareninca
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We got to hear about this incident, because it does not affect the public.  It lets the plebes think that Ebola news is being reported.  Well, we got our Ebola (news)-free Christmas shopping season; I'd say that it would be interesting to see what the sales figures have been, but I imagine those have been adjusted as well.

Fri, 12/26/2014 - 07:21 | 5592581 MeelionDollerBogus
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We should just put Larry the Cable Guy in charge of ebola containment. Git 'er done!

Fri, 12/26/2014 - 07:39 | 5592591 g'kar
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