HEALTH MAIN EBOLA DISCUSSION THREAD - WEEK OF 8/1/14 - 8/15/14

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Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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Okay, Here's the place for Ebola overall discussion through 8/15, when either myself or someone else will start a new one. This is so it doesn't get too long and hard to follow.


Current Ebola threads:


Kris' tracking one: http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?453540-Ebola-Tracking

Natty's CDC one: http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...t-Limited-Airborne-Transmission-quot-of-Ebola

Hacker's "Anonymous doctor releases treatment" one: http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...Doctor-Releases-Treatment-for-the-Ebola-Virus

Sleeping Cobra's CDC "apocalyptic" one: http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...yptic!-Capitol-Hill-Hearing-on-Ebola-Outbreak

Sleeping Cobra's Atlanta hospital treating Ebola patient one: http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...LANTA-Emory-Healthcare-to-treat-Ebola-patient

Doc Fung's Ebola as a bioweapon one: http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...-Russians-Weaponized-This-Virus-in-the-1970-s

Rafter's Ebola spread to US inevitable one: http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...a-s-spread-to-US-is-inevitable-says-CDC-chief

Oreally's Ebola out of control in West Africa one: http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?450917-Ebola-out-of-control-in-West-Africa

Have I missed any?
 
The walls continue to close in. Another possible Ebola victim in Lagos, possibly secondary spread! Just posted at the PFI Forum by Pixie, (the moderator), with her comments.

PIXIE'S COMMENT:

Another symptomatic patient connected to the Sawyer/ First Consultant Medical Centre cluster:

Lagos, Nigeria:

NNPC shuts Lagos clinic over Ebola

AUGUST 8, 2014 BY OKECHUKWU NNODIM, ABUJA
http://www.punchng.com/news/nnpc-shuts-lagos-clinic-over-ebola/

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Friday announced the indefinite closure of its Victoria Island clinic in Lagos State following a suspected case of Ebola virus.

A statement issued by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ohi Alegbe, stated that the suspected Ebola virus case was on admission at the clinic.

He said, “The management of the NNPC has announced the indefinite shutdown of its clinic in the Muri Okunola area of Victoria Island, Lagos, following a suspected case of Ebola virus on admission at the clinic.

“It was discovered that the patient visited the First Consultant Medical Centre during the period the first Ebola case was reported at that clinic.”

The corporation, in the statement, explained that the pre-emptive step was taken after the case was duly reported to the Federal Ministry of Health as well as officials of the Lagos State Ministry of Health.

It said, “In the meantime, all contacts with this case are being traced and adequate precautionary measures instituted to contain the possible spread of the disease.

“The medical team has assured that the patient is in stable condition.”

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(PIXIE'S) Comment:

Lagos is infected.

There are secondary cases in the city. Was this individual quarantined? Is there a plan for where contacts of confirmed cases who become symptomatic are to report, so that every hospital and clinic in Lagos will not be shut down after admitting a single New Ebola case?

(Never mind. I'm just talking to myself now and I think I know the answers).
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As I was saying on another Ebola thread, we are now in the sights of ISIS with a readily available bioweapon in West Africa. New Ebola's ace-in-the-hole for pounding the rubble of our civilization has just been joined by another ace.


ISIS Demands American Blood:
Jihadists Call For Attacks On US Interests Worldwide


Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/08/2014 12:30 -0400
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-0...ests-worldwide


It was all fun and games with the West's ever escalating sanctions against Russia until
Putin finally retaliated, sending the German stock market into a correction and German
bunds to record highs. Now, following Obama's official latest military incursion into
Iraq, it is time for ISIS, that ultra-aggressive spin off of Al Qaeda to do the same, and
following last night's Obama announcement ISIS has called for attacks on US
interests worldwide.

SITE intelligence says ISIS members are calling for attacks on US interests
after start of airstrikes in Iraq
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 8, 2014

Jihadists React to U.S. Airstrikes, Warn of Sleeper Cell Attacks in West
http://t.co/zLYQsNNGWQ #Iraq #IslamicState
— SITE Intel Group (@siteintelgroup) August 8, 2014

At least the world will now know which Nobel peace prize winning president to point
the finger at if and when a massive terrorist attack takes place against US citizens in
the US or abroad.
 

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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FDA lifts hold on experimental Ebola drug

[Don't listen to what the government SAYS, watch what it DOES - Dennis]


FDA lifts hold on experimental Ebola drug
Published August 08, 2014
Associated Press
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WASHINGTON – U.S. health authorities have eased safety restrictions on an experimental drug to treat Ebola, a move that could clear the way for its use in patients infected with the deadly virus.

Canadian drugmaker Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp. said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration modified a hold recently placed on the company's drug after safety issues emerged in human testing.

The company has a $140 million contract with the U.S. government to develop its drug, TKM-Ebola, which targets the genetic material of Ebola. But last month the FDA halted a small study of the injection in adults to request additional safety information.

Tekmira said Thursday the agency "verbally confirmed" changes to the hold that may allow the company to make the drug available, although it has yet to be proven as safe and effective.

Two Americans diagnosed with Ebola recently received a different experimental drug called ZMapp, made by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. of San Diego. It is aimed at boosting the immune system's efforts to fight off Ebola and is made from antibodies produced by lab animals exposed to parts of the virus.

The U.S. aid workers were first treated in Liberia. And while the FDA must grant permission to use experimental treatments in the United States, it does not have authority over the use of such a drugs in other countries.

The FDA's move Thursday comes amid an Ebola outbreak in West Africa that health officials warn could sicken more people than all previous outbreaks of the disease combined. More than 1,700 people have been sickened in the current outbreak, which began in March. Nearly 1,000 have died, according to the World Health Organization.

Currently, there are no licensed drugs or vaccines for the deadly disease. Several are in various stages of development, but none have been rigorously tested in humans.

The FDA in March granted Tekmira "fast track" status for its Ebola drug, a designation designed to speed up approval of high-priority drugs by granting companies extra meetings with FDA scientists. Early studies of TKM-Ebola in monkeys suggested it could block high doses of the Ebola virus. But on July 21, the company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, announced the FDA had halted a small dosing study of the drug in 28 healthy adults. The company said regulators had questions about a type of drug reaction that can cause nausea, chills, low blood pressure and shortness of breath.

Tekmira's CEO Mark Murray praised the FDA for modifying the restriction on Thursday.

"We have been closely watching the Ebola virus outbreak and its consequences, and we are willing to assist with any responsible use of TKM-Ebola," Murray said. "The foresight shown by the FDA removes one potential roadblock to doing so."

FDA spokeswoman Stephanie Yao said she could not confirm the company's announcement since FDA regulations bar the agency from disclosing information about experimental drugs. She did note that the agency places clinical holds on studies based on the risks and benefits to patients. Patients in the Tekmira study were healthy volunteers.

Tekmira's U.S.-traded shares jumped 89 cents, or 6.7 percent, to close at $14.27 in regular trading. They climbed another $1.18 cents, or 8.3 percent, to $15.45 in afterhours trading.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/08/08/fda-lifts-hold-on-experimental-ebola-drug/
 

Seabird

Veteran Member
Thank you Dennis and Kris for condensing and limiting. This thing could blow any day and your ideas helps tremendously for everyone, even non-members. The current info TB2K members gather is incredible, and all of their efforts may just save some lives. Plowing through the big threads is slow-going! Especially for people like me who's 'puters sometimes need a walking cane! :lol:
 

fi103r

Veteran Member
Mexican gov claims no ebola. hmmm, I don't trust the CDC why would I trust the Mexican .gov propaganda? I'm going with Pixie's commentary and the PFI group. Pixie and Monotreme look like they have done good work keeping info flowing. various .gov folks, not so much.

http://hispanicnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2014/08/mexicos-health-secretariat-minimizes.html

fair use and all that

Reports that a UNAM 22-year-old Mexican national student returning from Africa had gotten sick from what appeared to be the Ebola deadly virus.

By H. Nelson Goodson
August 7, 2014

Mexico - On Thursday, the first Ebola case in Mexico was first reported by Novatimes. According to the Novatimes, José Antonio Gonzáles Figueroa, 22, is the first suspected case in Mexico of the Ebola outbreak. Figueroa apparently was quarantined since, August 2 after he went a local hospital with signs of vomiting, fever and diarrhea. Figueroa had arrived from a an African country and was sick.
 

Housecarl

On TB every waking moment
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/08/us-health-ebola-mining-idUSKBN0G81QS20140808

Miners battle to keep Ebola at bay in West Africa

By Karen Rebelo
Fri Aug 8, 2014 12:06pm EDT

(Reuters) - Mining companies are acting swiftly to keep the Ebola virus at bay, screening employees and restricting access to remote mining camps while production ticks over in the iron ore and gold fields of West Africa.

A prolonged outbreak, however, will threaten mineral production in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea if essential supplies are disrupted and employees stay away from work too long.

Or worse: should a miner or family member contract the deadly virus.

"I think everyone is mindful that it's something that has the potential to impact businesses," said Mark Bristow, chief executive of Randgold Resources Ltd, which mines gold in Mali, across the border from Guinea.

Though it has no mines in countries affected thus far, Randgold is among several miners in West Africa to have launched preventive measures against an outbreak that has killed more than 900 people in four countries.

The World Health Organization has called the epidemic an "extraordinary event" that constitutes an international health risk. There is no known cure for Ebola, which is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids.

The outbreak began in eastern Guinea in February, before spreading to Sierra Leone and Liberia. Cases have also been recorded in Nigeria.

Not a single case of Ebola has been recorded among the employees of those companies mining and exploring large reserves of oil, iron ore, bauxite and gold in the region. But some have sent workers home and scaled back or suspended exploration.

Australia-listed Tawana Resources NL, which is developing the Mofe Creek iron ore project 20 km (12 miles) from the Liberian coast, said on Friday it was halting non-essential field work. Its stock fell nearly 19 percent.

"What we have seen now, because of the movements of non-essential personnel, is that exploration activity is starting to be curtailed," said Paul Renken, analyst at VSA Capital, an investment bank focused on natural resources.

Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd, ExxonMobil Corp's partner in a venture to explore the Block LB-13 project off the coast of Liberia, has said that drilling will be delayed due to the "reduced presence of expatriates".

Some miners, including Sierra Rutile Ltd and African Minerals Ltd, are screening staff for early signs of the virus and running community education programs.

AngloGold Ashanti Ltd is also controlling the movement of workers to and from its Siguiri gold mine in Guinea, only 25 km from the town of the same name, where cases have been reported, said company spokesman Chris Nthite.

But it will be difficult, if not impossible, for mining companies throughout West Africa to restrict the movement of their employees indefinitely.

"If the situation goes on for another two or three months, then I think we should start to expect problems," said John Meyer, a mining analyst at brokerage SP Angel.

He said this would be particularly true in the event that Ebola were to afflict communities that serve the mines, "because the mines will want to cut themselves off, but the families will want to be with their breadwinners".

(Additional reporting by Abhiram Nandakumar in Bangalore; Writing by Robin Paxton; Editing by Savio D'Souza)
 

Housecarl

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http://www.palltimes.com/news/national/article_5539ea1c-5d7b-536b-811e-d591d6db639e.html

Lack of experience fuels West Africa Ebola crisis

Posted: Friday, August 8, 2014 12:36 pm
Associated Press | 0 comments

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — When Ebola hit Uganda two years ago — the third outbreak in a dozen years — the president quickly went on TV and urged Ugandans to avoid touching each other. Health officials speedily quarantined people. The quick reactions by authorities and ordinary people helped snuff out that outbreak with only 17 deaths.
 

Housecarl

On TB every waking moment
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...lated-to-american-to-who-brought-virus-there/

Four new Ebola cases in Nigeria all related to American to who brought virus there

By Lenny Bernstein and Caelainn Hogan August 8 at 1:12 PM

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A second American diagnosed with the virus arrives in Atlanta for treatment as death toll from the disease climbs to above 900.--

Aug. 8, 2014 | A South Korean quarantine officer, left, checks the body temperature of a passenger against possible infections of the Ebola virus at the Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea. South Korea has been stepping up monitoring of its citizens returning from trips to West Africa and other areas affected by the deadly Ebola virus. (Choe Jae-Koo/AP/Yonhap)

View Gallery — World struggles to contain Ebola epidemic.

The World Health Organization reported four new cases of Ebola in Nigeria Friday, all of them among health care workers and others who had contact with American consultant Patrick Sawyer, a spokesman said.

“They’re all contacts of Patrick Sawyer,” said Gregory Hartl, a spokesman for the WHO in Geneva. He said all are health care workers, cleaners or others at the hospital where Sawyer was taken after he collapsed in the airport following a flight from Liberia to Nigeria. “We know that he had contact with very few people at the airport,” Hartl said.

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The images and reports from Liberia, hard hit by a historic Ebola outbreak, are starting to recall scenes from post-apocalyptic films such as “Contagion” and “World War Z.”

Sawyer and two people involved in treating him have died.

The new cases bring the total number of probable or suspected cases in Nigeria to 13, according to the new WHO statistics released Friday. Any spread beyond the transmission chain started by Sawyer in Lagos, a city of 21 million, or Nigeria, a country of perhaps 175 million, would be cause for great concern, but officials are hopeful that has not occurred. Contacts of the people who have fallen ill also are being traced, Hartl said, but Ebola is not contagious until its victims begin to show symptoms, such as high fever.

The new Nigerian cases were reported on Aug. 5 and 6, according to the WHO, when a total of 68 new cases and 29 deaths occurred in the four affected West African countries.

The Nigerian ambassador to the United States, Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, said that there have been no Ebola cases outside Lagos. He said that committees of doctors and experts have been set up by the government to respond, and those suspected of having the virus will be quarantined.

“It’s natural to be worried, but we’re confident that the measures being taken by the government will contain it,” Adefuye said Friday, urging Nigerians not to be panicked by rumors.

According to the WHO, there are now 1,779 cases of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, including 961 deaths.

In other developments:

• The WHO declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa an international public health emergency Friday, recommending strict monitoring of travelers in the four stricken countries. It said emergency efforts should be put under the direct command of heads of state.

In nations that do not border the affected area, the WHO recommended no general travel ban, but said governments should be prepared to “detect, investigate, and manage Ebola cases,” including “the capacity to manage travelers originating from known Ebola-infected areas who arrive at international airports or major land crossing points with unexplained febrile illness.” It also urged countries to be prepared to evacuate their citizens, mainly health care workers, who have been exposed to the virus.

• Canadian drugmaker Tekmira Pharmaceuticals said Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had removed a “clinical hold” it had placed on the company’s experimental Ebola drug, potentially clearing the way for its use in patients battling the lethal virus.

The company has a $140 million contract with the U.S. government to develop its TKM-Ebola drug, which had shown promising results in treating non-human primates. The drug had been progressing through the FDA approval process until last month, when the agency halted a trial of the drug to seek more information about its safety.

Another experimental drug, ZMapp, manufactured by a San Diego company, was given to U.S. missionaries Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol who contracted the virus while aiding victims in Liberia. It is too early to determine whether the cocktail of antibodies, never tested on humans, may have helped the pair survive. Both have been brought back to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where they continue to improve slowly, according to reports.

The government and private companies have said they are ramping up efforts to produce more than the handful of doses currently available, but that effort could take months. The WHO is convening a panel of medical ethicists next week to discuss use of untested treatments in the outbreak, the worst ever.

Brady Dennis contributed to this report.

Lenny Bernstein writes the To Your Health blog. He started as an editor on the Post’s National Desk in 2000 and has worked in Metro and Sports.
 

Housecarl

On TB every waking moment
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-are-more-contagious-than-living-9658114.html

Ebola outbreak: Burial staff put at risk as dead are more contagious than living

Those who treat and bury the bodies of the dead, which are even more contagious than living Ebola patients, are especially at risk for infection

Abby Ohlheiser
Friday 08 August 2014

Twenty-one bodies were awaiting burials when the excavator digging their graves got stuck in the mud.

With armed soldiers standing guard, the highly infectious bodies – which had been transported from a morgue by truck amid the worst Ebola outbreak in history – were forced to wait in the open until a second digger could be hired and transported to the site.

Eventually, the bodies were buried. The episode was emblematic of the logistical problems facing officials trying to cope with the grim task of burying the dead and preventing them from infecting the living as the deadly Ebola virus continues to ravage West Africa. And those are just the bodies health officials have been able to properly prepare for burial in Liberia, where hundreds have died from the disease this year and widespread reports describe Ebola victims lying on the streets for days, increasing the risk of infection by others.

Those who treat and bury the bodies of the dead, which are even more contagious than living Ebola patients, are especially at risk for infection.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) provides specific guidelines for how to safely transport and bury Ebola victims. They include instructions to “be aware of the [victim’s] family’s cultural practices and religious beliefs” and to “help the family understand why some practices cannot be done because they place the family or others at risk for exposure”. Among the traditional practices the WHO says cannot be followed with Ebola victims: family-led body preparation and religious rituals that require direct contact with the corpse. Muslim tradition, for instance, requires that family members of the same gender should wash the body themselves before burial.

The problem is compounded because Ebola can force a victim’s body to release infectious fluids including blood, vomit and diarrhoea, especially in later stages of the disease.

Some Ebola victims are sent for burial straight from a treatment centre, which minimises improper handling and exposure to family members. In these cases, as the Red Cross explained, family members often opt to have the bodies of their loved ones buried outside of their communities, in a dedicated space for Ebola victims. But when a victim dies in a community and workers must retrieve the body, the situation is more complicated. In these cases, the Red Cross follows a procedure similar to the one recommended by the WHO: First, the body is repeatedly disinfected. Then, it’s placed in at least two body bags. When the burial happens, anything the body touched – pillows, bedsheets, the protective clothing worn by the workers who prepared it – are either burnt or buried with it.

The WHO says there are not enough trained people on the ground in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea who are capable of dealing with the daily deaths in a proper manner.

The Red Cross singled out Sierra Leone as a relative success case. Officials there have created “dead body management” teams, often staffed by paid members of the community, to bury the dead, and the system seems to be improving overall.

© THE WASHINGTON POST
 

Housecarl

On TB every waking moment
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/08/us-health-ebola-mining-idUSKBN0G81QS20140808

Miners battle to keep Ebola at bay in West Africa

By Karen Rebelo
Fri Aug 8, 2014 12:06pm EDT

(Reuters) - Mining companies are acting swiftly to keep the Ebola virus at bay, screening employees and restricting access to remote mining camps while production ticks over in the iron ore and gold fields of West Africa.

A prolonged outbreak, however, will threaten mineral production in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea if essential supplies are disrupted and employees stay away from work too long.

Or worse: should a miner or family member contract the deadly virus.

"I think everyone is mindful that it's something that has the potential to impact businesses," said Mark Bristow, chief executive of Randgold Resources Ltd, which mines gold in Mali, across the border from Guinea.

Though it has no mines in countries affected thus far, Randgold is among several miners in West Africa to have launched preventive measures against an outbreak that has killed more than 900 people in four countries.

The World Health Organization has called the epidemic an "extraordinary event" that constitutes an international health risk. There is no known cure for Ebola, which is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids.

The outbreak began in eastern Guinea in February, before spreading to Sierra Leone and Liberia. Cases have also been recorded in Nigeria.

Not a single case of Ebola has been recorded among the employees of those companies mining and exploring large reserves of oil, iron ore, bauxite and gold in the region. But some have sent workers home and scaled back or suspended exploration.

Australia-listed Tawana Resources NL, which is developing the Mofe Creek iron ore project 20 km (12 miles) from the Liberian coast, said on Friday it was halting non-essential field work. Its stock fell nearly 19 percent.

"What we have seen now, because of the movements of non-essential personnel, is that exploration activity is starting to be curtailed," said Paul Renken, analyst at VSA Capital, an investment bank focused on natural resources.

Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd, ExxonMobil Corp's partner in a venture to explore the Block LB-13 project off the coast of Liberia, has said that drilling will be delayed due to the "reduced presence of expatriates".

Some miners, including Sierra Rutile Ltd and African Minerals Ltd, are screening staff for early signs of the virus and running community education programs.

AngloGold Ashanti Ltd is also controlling the movement of workers to and from its Siguiri gold mine in Guinea, only 25 km from the town of the same name, where cases have been reported, said company spokesman Chris Nthite.

But it will be difficult, if not impossible, for mining companies throughout West Africa to restrict the movement of their employees indefinitely.

"If the situation goes on for another two or three months, then I think we should start to expect problems," said John Meyer, a mining analyst at brokerage SP Angel.

He said this would be particularly true in the event that Ebola were to afflict communities that serve the mines, "because the mines will want to cut themselves off, but the families will want to be with their breadwinners".

(Additional reporting by Abhiram Nandakumar in Bangalore; Writing by Robin Paxton; Editing by Savio D'Souza)

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REUTERS

Ebola triggers force majeure at ArcelorMittal mine in Liberia

August 8, 2014 - 12:33pm

(Reuters) — Steel and mining company ArcelorMittal S.A. on Friday announced force majeure on a project that is planned to triple its iron ore production in Liberia because of the Ebola epidemic sweeping West Africa.

The World Health Organization on Friday said the epidemic constituted an international health emergency.

ArcelorMittal, which mines and ships 5 million tonnes of iron ore a year in Liberia, has been working on an expansion project that would increase shipments to 15 million tonnes of iron ore.

First production from the new project is planned by the end of next year.

However, contractors working on the project have declared force majeure and were moving people out of the country, ArcelorMittal said.

Declarations of force majeure are used to prevent companies from being sued when extraordinary circumstances beyond their control prevent the fulfillment of contractual obligations.

The company is assessing the impact on the project schedule and hoped to restart work as soon as possible. It added the force majeure only affects the new project and that other operations in Yekepa and Buchanan are continuing as normal.

"While the recent developments are very concerning, at present we believe that the emergency procedures and other measures developed and currently in place at all ArcelorMittal sites in Liberia make it possible to continue our phase 1 operations," Bill Scotting, chief executive of ArcelorMittal Mining, said.

In common with other mining companies in the region, ArcelorMittal has enforced measures to try to prevent Ebola's spread.

ArcelorMittal, listed on stock exchanges including New York, Amsterdam, Paris and Luxembourg, is one of the world's five largest producers of iron ore and metallurgical coal.

In 2013, ArcelorMittal had revenue of $79.4 billion and crude steel production of 91.2 million tonnes, while own iron ore production reached 58.4 million tonnes.
 

Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
We are here, at timebomb2000, creating a historical record, just like we did for Y2K. Granted, Y2K fizzled in terms of the "end of the world scenario" we thought might happen. <G>

If you remember the Nigerian authorities said they were dealing with 15 people exposed to Mr. Sawyer. Of those 15, based on the story above, a total of two have DIED. There are now 13 cases of Ebola infection in Lagos alone. I assume that means out of 15 total potential cases 2 have died and 13 are infected. If this is correct, gang it MEANS A 100 PERCENT INFECTION RATE OF THE 15 PEOPLE MR. SAWYER EXPOSED TO EBOLA. Correct Doomer Doug if this is wrong, but this is what I am seeing.

The Ebola epidemic for Lagos is ON SCHEDULE, ON TIME AND STARTING TO TAKE ON STEAM. Mr. Sawyer got to Lagos roughly on July 25th, I think. It is now August 8th, 2014. It has been roughly TWO WEEKS since the first people were exposed. While there is some dispute about Ebola's "incubation period" from two days to twenty one days, two weeks is quite long enough to cause the current numbers.

What is still unclear is not whether there is a secondary infection wave from Mr. Sawyer and the people he infected. What is unclear is how many people that is, where they are, what they are doing and finally, HOW MANY PEOPLE THEY HAVE INFECTED TO START A THIRD, REPEAT THIRD, WAVE OF EBOLA INFECTIONS IN LAGOS. Doomer Doug things this third wave will be clear by Labor Day, some three weeks or so from now. By then the magnitude of the second wave will be clearer also.

Ebola is now spreading in Lagos, Nigeria, Since it has a population of 21 million people, as well as an International Airport, Ebola is not contained in Nigeria.

It is entirely possible, not certain, but possible there are now HUNDREDS OF INFECTED PEOPLE RUNNING AROUND LAGOS.
 

bw

Fringe Ranger
If you remember the Nigerian authorities said they were dealing with 15 people exposed to Mr. Sawyer. Of those 15, based on the story above, a total of two have DIED. There are now 13 cases of Ebola infection in Lagos alone. I assume that means out of 15 total potential cases 2 have died and 13 are infected. If this is correct, gang it MEANS A 100 PERCENT INFECTION RATE OF THE 15 PEOPLE MR. SAWYER EXPOSED TO EBOLA. Correct Doomer Doug if this is wrong, but this is what I am seeing.

They were able to account for 15 who seemed at risk, and those apparently were indeed infected. But there were innumerable others that Sawyer was near in varying degrees, whose names they did not get or who they considered at a safe distance. So those are not being monitored, and we don't know how many of those are infected. Mr Sawyer's body count might be considerably higher, we just don't have the data.

Come to think, if all 15 of the deemed at-risk were infected, this means the authorities were way underestimating the infectious throw-off from Sawyer. On a normal curve, if they managed to identify all those at risk, we should have found that in some cases their net was too big. But if ALL in the net were infected, the net was clearly too small. This is virtually proof that they missed some.

ETA: If the ability to infect at some distance is so much higher than the Liberian authorities credit it, the Spanish handling of the sick priest is looking prudent and moderate, instead of looking paranoid. It doesn't give a good feeling about how we handled the two who came to the US.
 
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They were able to account for 15 who seemed at risk, and those apparently were indeed infected. But there were innumerable others that Sawyer was near in varying degrees, whose names they did not get or who they considered at a safe distance. So those are not being monitored, and we don't know how many of those are infected. Mr Sawyer's body count might be considerably higher, we just don't have the data.

Come to think, if all 15 of the deemed at-risk were infected, this means the authorities were way underestimating the infectious throw-off from Sawyer. On a normal curve, if they managed to identify all those at risk, we should have found that in some cases their net was too big. But if ALL in the net were infected, the net was clearly too small. This is virtually proof that they missed some.


Excellent Comment!! Really gets to the heart of the matter. (But it spells doom for Nigeria et al). And the "et al" is what I am supremely worried about.
 

Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
I have believed from the moment I first heard about Mr. Sawyer's antics, as well as the pathetic response from Nigerian authorities the net was too small as you put it. This is why I have said from hour one Mr. Sawyer will be eventually designated as "Patient Zero." I also believe the numbers of people he exposed, at various times, and at various places were in the DOZENS at a minimum.

The addition of "Mr.Big" to the mix and him flying to London is another factor. I will say it again. There are now likely dozens of additional people infected in Lagos. My "gut feeling" is the true number is in the low hundreds. I also think there are THOUSANDS OF UNKNOWN CASES IN LIBERIA AND SIERRA LEONE.

We should know by Labor Day how bad the infection rate is in Lagos. Every sign I have seen up to today indicates the secondary infection zone is bigger, in terms of size, as well as bigger, in terms of the people infected.

We are going to see a third wave of infections. We will see more infected people from the second wave infected still more people, who will then infect even more people. The key thing I am looking for in Nigeria is reports of infections OUTSIDE OF LAGOS.

My understanding is TWO hospital/clinics have been closed due to people infected with Ebola going there. This means the ability to treat people is being degraded. For all intents and purposes there is now NO treatment available for sick people in Liberia. The video of the doctor describing conditions in the capital city of Liberia was chilling.
 
Just posted on the PFI Forum by Mariana. Her comment precedes the article.


Looks like we have a cluster forming in Saudi Arabia

From the Saudi Gazette
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20140808213981

First Saudi Ebola suspect buried

JEDDAH — The first Saudi who was suspected to have contracted the Ebola virus was buried at Briman graveyard in north Jeddah that is dedicated for the burial of victims of infectious diseases. The authorities prevented his family from washing him, attend his burial or be present at his burial ceremony.

The Saudi health authorities announced his death on Wednesday. They said another Saudi citizen who was in direct contact with him showed symptoms of the deadly virus and was quarantined at King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah.

Ibrahim Al-Zahrani is said to have gotten the infection from Sierra Leone, where he was on a business visit.

MY COMMENT: The reporter of this article seems to assume that it is a given that "patient zero" for Saudi Arabia had Ebola.

And that is awful quick for a secondary infection unless "patient zero" was roaming around for quite awhile before presenting to the hospital for care. Or maybe the secondary infection was an aide or traveling companion to "patient zero"?
 

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Again, we have no idea of how many secondary infections there are, much less how many third wave infections are going to happen.
 
Again, we have no idea of how many secondary infections there are, much less how many third wave infections are going to happen.

More on the likelihood of secondary infections from Saudi Arabia's "patient zero". Posted at the PFI Forum.


Saudi Arabia:

Deceased wife "Ebola": "health" gave us a thermometer only after his death!

Asaudihmund 22 minutes
Abeer Alrajabana- Sbak
http://www.newtoday.ae/saudi/60346.html

Jeddah: The wife of the deceased citizen to "Ebola", or Sarah Al-Zahrani, said her husband went to the mission work in Sierra Leone; since he was working in emergency medicine there, and when he returned were not showing any symptoms of the disease. Adding that "health has not given us after his death only a thermometer, and told us that the analysis will be after 12 days." Indicating that her husband remained with them after returning from his trip.

In response to a question "above": "Are you confused about the deceased mother of three Bbnath was isolated?", She said: "No, but life was normal with us .. eat and drink with us."

And the role of the Ministry of Health, has done tests and whether or analyzes them? She said: "No, but they gave us a measure of the temperature only after his death, and told us that he will be the analysis after 12 days."

It is noteworthy that a number of relatives of the victim, "Ebola" of Ibrahim Al-Zahrani participated in his funeral on Thursday Breiman cemetery in Jeddah, although the Ministry of Health to take a decision preventing them pursuant global preventive measures to be taken in such cases, but they insisted on participating in the funeral of the body.

For its part, the Ministry of Health by a team of public health, since reporting on the case, tracking the itinerary case since his departure, and he came to Saudi Arabia; to be limited to all parties who were in direct contact with the situation since the onset of the infection it; to put them under medical observation.
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MY COMMENT: Looks like Saudi Arabia got "Sawyered", but at least this "patient zero" landed without symptoms. He may have known that he might have contracted Ebola, but he had no indication. Again, how long was he mixing in society with symptoms? And I believe the Saudis like to do a lot of hugging and eat from common bowls with the designated hand.
 

fi103r

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MY COMMENT: Looks like Saudi Arabia got "Sawyered", but at least this "patient zero" landed without symptoms. He may have known that he might have contracted Ebola, but he had no indication. Again, how long was he mixing in society with symptoms? And I believe the Saudis like to do a lot of hugging and eat from common bowls with the designated hand.

!??! Even after they saw what was happening in Nigeria? This takes some special kind of stupid.

Any word on the location or status of Mr. Big who fled Nigeria for London? I have a feeling I don't want to know...

r
 
!??! Even after they saw what was happening in Nigeria? This takes some special kind of stupid.

Any word on the location or status of Mr. Big who fled Nigeria for London? I have a feeling I don't want to know...

r

Mr. Big has disappeared into the annals of History I imagine, a minor side note to Patient Zero. There is a chance he was one of the few not infected. And if he was infected, he probably has enough pull in London to have it hushed up. And the authorities in Great Britain would not want it revealed anyway. So there you go. I don't think we will hear of Mr. Big again.
 

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Ian Geldard @igeldard · 2h
Sierra Leone: #Ebola confirmed in Kono
http://bit.ly/1oMKUuF
pic.twitter.com/NFg34b99ct





Ian Geldard @igeldard · 16m
Latest numbers from the #Ebola outbreak in Africa:
pic.twitter.com/wzDLls6RED






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Ebola scare reaches Delhi, 3 under watch in Dwarka

Snehil Sinha, Hindustan Times Gurgaon, August 07, 2014
First Published: 20:10 IST(7/8/2014)
Last Updated: 09:01 IST(8/8/2014)

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india...out-to-be-a-false-alarm/article1-1249391.aspx
Health officials are keeping a close watch on a Delhi resident who arrived
from Ghana on a flight in which a passenger tested positive for the deadly
Ebola virus ravaging west Africa. The man’s two housemates are also
under surveillance.

The Dwarka resident — HT is withholding his name — is being monitored
since July 21, two days after he reached the Capital, but has not shown
any symptoms
of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever.


“We were alerted by the WHO about him being exposed to the disease. His
co-passenger on the flight had tested positive for Ebola. Our surveillance
units tracked him down and also examined people living with him,”
a
health ministry official said.

“Since none of them have shown any symptoms so far, we didn’t get them
tested.
We have asked them to watch out for any symptoms,” said the
official.

The symptoms include vomiting, diarrhoea, high fever, bleeding and
damage to central nervous system. The incubation period for the Ebola
virus is two to 21 days. There is no vaccine or cure for one of the deadliest
diseases known to humans that spreads through bodily fluids.

The man flew from the Ghanaian capital Accra to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia
and then to Delhi. No Ebola cases have been reported from Ghana or
Ethiopia, so far.

There was confusion on Wednesday when health officials went to an
alternate address — a DLF Phase-2 apartment in Gurgaon — provided by
the passenger and found it locked.

“The phone numbers mentioned in his travel documents were not
reachable and we couldn’t find him in Gurgaon either, so we asked Delhi to
inform us if he tests positive, “ said Dr VK Thapar, district surveillance
officer, Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, Gurgaon.

India has made it mandatory for all passengers coming from or transiting
through the affected countries to self-report their itinerary on arrival.

In-flight announcements are asking passengers to report symptoms at
airports, where designated rooms have been set up.

The world’s worst Ebola outbreak has killed 932 people in West Africa after
the first case was reported in March in Guinea. Humans contract the
disease from infected animals, including chimpanzees and fruit bats.

Apart from visitors to west Africa, India also gets nationals from the
affected countries.

“Since many visitors come to India for health treatment, private hospitals
in the city have been issued strict guidelines to identify cases and keep an
isolation ward ready,” Dr Thapar said.

“Since none of them have shown any symptoms so far,
we didn’t get them tested."
^^^ Short-sighted and STUPID! :screw:

.
 

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014...me=rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews&rpc=401

UPDATE 1 -Ebola triggers force majeure at ArcelorMittal mine in Liberia

Fri Aug 8, 2014 12:57pm EDT

* New project would increase output to 15 million tonnes

* Company hopes to resume work as soon as possible

* Force majeure on new project, other operations ongoing

BRUSSELS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Steel and mining company ArcelorMittal on Friday announced force majeure on a project that is planned to triple its iron ore production in Liberia because of the Ebola epidemic sweeping West Africa.

The World Health Organization on Friday said the epidemic constituted an international health emergency.

ArcelorMittal, which mines and ships 5 million tonnes of iron ore a year in Liberia, has been working on an expansion project that would increase shipments to 15 million tonnes of iron ore.

First production from the new project is planned by the end of next year.

However, contractors working on the project have declared force majeure and were moving people out of the country, ArcelorMittal said.

Declarations of force majeure are used to prevent companies from being sued when extraordinary circumstances beyond their control prevent the fulfilment of contractual obligations.

The company is assessing the impact on the project schedule and hoped to restart work as soon as possible. It added the force majeure only affects the new project and other operations in Yekepa and Buchanan are continuing as normal.

"While the recent developments are very concerning, at present we believe that the emergency procedures and other measures developed and currently in place at all ArcelorMittal sites in Liberia make it possible to continue our phase 1 operations," Bill Scotting, chief executive of ArcelorMittal Mining, said.

In common with other mining companies in the region, ArcelorMittal has enforced measures to try to prevent Ebola's spread.

ArcelorMittal, listed on stock exchanges including New York, Amsterdam, Paris and Luxembourg, is one of the world's five largest producers of iron ore and metallurgical coal.

In 2013, ArcelorMittal had revenue of $79.4 billion and crude steel production of 91.2 million tonnes, while own iron ore production reached 58.4 million tonnes. (Reporting by Barbara Lewis in Brussels and Abhiram Nandakumar in Bangalore and Karen Rebelo, editing by David Evans)
 

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Ebola is now an international health emergency

By Shane Ferro
August 8, 2014

http://blogs.reuters.com/data-dive/...national-health-emergency/?utm_source=twitter

The World Health Organization has officially declared the Ebola epidemic in West Africa
an international health emergency. The death toll has reached almost 1,000 in four
countries (932 at last count). Yesterday, the U.S. ordered the families of diplomats to
leave Liberia due to the danger of the virus.

Reuters reports that Margaret Chan, the head of the WHO, told reporters, “the
declaration … will galvanize the attention of leaders of all countries at the top level. It
cannot be done by the ministries of health alone.”

However, the organization is also stressing that the virus can be contained if the
proper steps are taken. While the fatality rate for those who contract the disease is
high (about 60% for this particular strain), it’s actually relatively hard to catch it. The
incubation period is long, up to 21 days, but people with the disease aren’t usually
contagious until they begin exhibiting symptoms. Even then, it takes contact with
infected body fluids to contract it.


Click through the rest of the interactive graphic here.

Here’s Reuters with more about experimental treatments:
After an experimental drug was administered to two U.S. charity workers
who were infected in Liberia, Ebola specialists urged the WHO to offer such
drugs to Africans. The U.N. agency has asked medical ethics experts to
explore this option next week.

David Heymann, a former WHO official and now director of the Chatham
House Centre on Global Health Security, who this week urged the WHO to
show greater leadership and to consider allowing the use of experimental
drugs for Africans affected by Ebola, said governments should step up their
response.

The major message, he said, was that the three known measures that stop
Ebola outbreaks – hospital infection control, community understanding of
risks of infection, and contact tracing – “appear not to have been robustly
enough applied”.




Shane Ferro is a writer at Counterparties and Reuters.com,
where she covers a variety of subjects related to economics
and finance. Previously, she was the art market editor at
Artinfo. Find her on twitter @shaneferro.
 

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cdcHeaderLogo.gif


Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations
for Hospitalized Patients with Known or Suspected
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in U.S. Hospitals

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/infection-prevention-and-control-recommendations.html
Standard, contact, and droplet precautions are recommended for
management of hospitalized patients with known or suspected Ebola
hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF), also referred to as Ebola Viral Disease
(EVD) (See Table below). Note that this guidance outlines only those
measures that are specific for Ebola HF; additional infection control
measures might be warranted
if an Ebola HF patient has other conditions
or illnesses for which other measures are indicated (e.g., tuberculosis,
multi-drug resistant organisms, etc.).


Though these recommendations focus on the hospital setting, the
recommendations for personal protective equipment (PPE) and
environmental infection control measures are applicable to any healthcare
setting. In this guidance healthcare personnel (HCP) refers all persons,
paid and unpaid, working in healthcare settings who have the potential for
exposure to patients and/or to infectious materials, including body
substances, contaminated medical supplies and equipment, contaminated
environmental surfaces, or aerosols generated during certain medical
procedures. HCP include, but are not limited to, physicians, nurses,
nursing assistants, therapists, technicians, emergency medical service
personnel, dental personnel, pharmacists, laboratory personnel, autopsy
personnel, students and trainees, contractual personnel, home healthcare
personnel, and persons not directly involved in patient care (e.g., clerical,
dietary, house-keeping, laundry, security, maintenance, billing, chaplains,
and volunteers) but potentially exposed to infectious agents that can be
transmitted to and from HCP and patients. This guidance is not
intended to apply to persons outside of healthcare settings
.

As information becomes available, these recommendations will be re-evaluated
and updated as needed. These recommendations are based upon available information
(as of July 30, 2014) and the following considerations:

  • High rate of morbidity and mortality among infected patients
  • Risk of human-to-human transmission
  • Lack of FDA-approved vaccine and therapeutics
For full details of standard, contact, and droplet precautions see 2007 Guideline for
Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Setting.

For information on symptoms of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever infection and modes of
transmission, see the CDC Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Website.


-Table format precludes easy copy and paste-
(View at link)

Key Components of Standard, Contact, and Droplet Precautions
Recommended for Prevention of EHF Transmission in U.S. Hospitals


Component Recommendation Comments
Patient Placement
  • Single patient room (containing a private bathroom) with the door closed
  • Facilities should maintain a log of all persons entering the patient's room

  • Consider posting personnel at the patient’s door to ensure appropriate and consistent use of PPE by all persons entering the patient room


Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • All persons entering the patient room should wear at least:
    • Gloves
    • Gown (fluid resistant or impermeable)
    • Eye protection (goggles or face shield)
    • Facemask
  • Additional PPE might be required in certain situations (e.g., copious amounts of blood, other body fluids, vomit, or feces present in the environment), including but not limited to:
    • Double gloving
    • Disposable shoe covers
    • Leg coverings

  • Recommended PPE should be worn by HCP upon entry into patient rooms or care areas. Upon exit from the patient room or care area, PPE should be carefully removed without contaminating one’s eyes, mucous membranes, or clothing with potentially infectious materials, and either
    • Discarded, or
    • For re-useable PPE, cleaned and disinfected according to the manufacturer's reprocessing instructions and hospital policies.
  • Instructions for donning and removing PPE have been published
  • Hand hygiene should be performed immediately after removal of PPE



^^^ From this list, they treat tuberculosis, multi-drug resistant organisms, etc.
as WORSE than Ebola! :sht:
Biosafety level 2, or 3 at most, is indicated by their procedures.

(This is a truncated portion of the CDC page table, please view it at site.)


 

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Liberia: Catholic Hospital Boss Tested Positive of Ebola - Report

By Emmanuel Weedee-Conway

The Heritage has reliably learnt that the Hospital Director of the Saint Joseph Catholic Hospital, a Catholic run hospital in Liberia, has been tested positive of the deadly Ebola virus.
The Ebola virus, which has no cure, has killed at least 129 people here, and claimed more than 670 lives across the region. A top Liberian doctor working at Liberia's largest hospital died recently, and two American aid workers have fallen ill, underscoring the dangers facing those charged with bringing the outbreak under control.

Also recently, an official of the Ministry of Finance identified as Patrick Sawyer died of the disease at a Lagos hospital.

As a means of containing further spread of the disease, President Johnson-Sirleaf set up a taskforce to help in the fight of the disease and ordered the closure of the country's three land borders.

The Liberian leader also ordered that public gatherings be restricted and communities heavily affected by the Ebola outbreak be quarantined.

Accordingly, the St. Joseph's Catholic Hospital was established in 1963 by the Hospitable Order of the Brothers of St. John of God, with the headquarters in Madrid, Spain.

The hospital has branches in 54 countries throughout the world. Of this number, it operates in 11 countries in Africa including Liberia.

Here in Liberia, the St. Joseph Hospital, which is one of the leading privately run hospitals in the country, is located in Congo Town, outside Monrovia.

According to cogent information gathered by this paper, Rev. Brother Patrick Nshamdze, was tested positive after he supposedly came in contact with a patient who died from the virus.

Our information divulged that on the 17th of this month, his specimen was taken and the result, which came on the next day (July 18), proved negative.

Not being satisfied, the report further divulged, the ailing Catholic hospital director decided to seek further treatment abroad, but his trip was subjected to Ebola test.

It was based on this that he did another test on Tuesday, July 29, 2014, which proved positive, contrary to the first test he underwent.


Rev. Bro. Nshamdze is currently being quarantined at the Catholic Hospital undergoing treatment.

The hospital authorities are contemplating on shutting down the hospital for two weeks for disinfection and chlorination of the entire building.

Contingent on this, several patients, who were undergoing treatment at the hospital, were discharged yesterday in order to continue treatment at other hospitals.

Meanwhile, authorities of the St. Joseph Catholic Hospital could not be reached for comments regarding the information obtained by this paper.

17 persons have survived the deadly Ebola virus disease so far in the country, authorities at the Ministry of Health and … see more

as always, poster for fair use only
http://allafrica.com/stories/201407310957.html
 

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BREAKING: A patient in Brampton Civic Hospital in Ontario has been reported to have Ebola-like symptoms, hospital is on high alert.
 

Mysty

Veteran Member
I was looking for some history on ebola and although I can't go over all of this vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPMVWVr1DVI

Two things stood out for me.
1. In 1989 we brought monkeys to the us that had ebola.(at around 13:50 minutes) They monkeys started to die, so they killed and removed them. The monkeys continued to die so they killed all the monkeys in the room. Then monkeys in another room started to die of ebola so back then they knew it was airborn because it went through the vents.

2. At the end of the outbreak in this vid, they began to transfuse whole blood from people that had survived the ebola into the last 12 or so patients. 11 of them survived.

The whole vid is sad but informative, but those two things really made me do a double take.
 

john99

Contributing Member
Have found an excellent article at a blog on home care for ebola, by a physician.

Will post it in full in Infectious Diseases and Alternative Medicine forums.

Here's the link:

http://www.doomandbloom.net/ebola-the-next-great-pandemic/

One of the comments on that article linked to a thread on another forum where I found these comments (my bold):

http://www.dansdepot.com/forum/threads/military-bio-threat-alert.3569/#post-56352


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As of 0645 EDT the CDC went to level one, after the Bethesda NMC ordered the US. military to upgrade its CBRN status and readiness. These measures include focused training in CBRN ops and response reconfiguration Of all CSH's not forward deployed. Issuance ad installation of new Mask filters and 2 spares, issue of ICE kits and training in Urban Rescue and crowd control. The National Guard State EOC's have been activated under limited conditions.

THIS COULD BE AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION. But I know as a fact there is more than two infected on US soil. Will comment further later"

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"Three DNA mutations have been confirmed since zero hour (4pm 25 March 2014) Hemorrhagic Fever is now considered rapidly adaptable prolonged exposure to homo sapiens will increase rate of mutation. Current mutations however do not currently alter affect, incubation, transmission nor lethality however This virus has the potential to be three times more lethal than a global outbreak of Small Pox. While we do not consider this probable it is possible. This disease must not make it into more urban and transient populations."

These are excepts from a non classified, non restricted document from the CDC to Forscom Medical and CBRN units and military leadership. Thats what can be said about this.

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ETA: Tried googling some of the the text in the second comment to see if it had popped up anywhere else, no luck so far which is suprising given the nature of the information. Anyone else know if it can be verified?
 
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Hmmm... no mention of the patient in Morocco on that map!
(the map in post #25... the thread is moving faster than I am today!)

Summerthyme
 

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Breaking911 ‏@Breaking911 2m

BREAKING: A patient in Brampton Civic Hospital in Ontario has been reported to have Ebola-like symptoms, hospital is on high alert.

Mike Carroccetto @wildfiremike · 58m
Brampton hospital taking precautionary measures

after patient from Nigeria
came down with a fever
and other #Ebola-like symptoms.
#Ontario
^^^ Seems Direct African Exposure, no Canadian chain established.
(No H to H in Canada itself, yet...)



Mike Carroccetto @wildfiremike · 57m
The patient arrived at the emergency department
at William Osler Health System's Brampton Civic Hospital
earlier today. #Ebola #Ontario
^^^But, if he sat around in the ER waiting room...


 

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Ontario Hospital Treating Nigerian Passenger
With Ebola-Like Symptoms



Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/08/2014 19:07 -0400
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-08/ontario-hospital-treating-nigerian-passenger-ebola-symptoms


It appears - just as CDC Director Frieden feared - that an escalation of the Ebola virus
in Nigeria would mean major risks. While it is too soon for results, City News is
reporting that Brampton Civic hospital is taking precautionary measures after a
patient who recently travelled to Canada from Nigeria came down with a fever
and other flu-like symptoms
. This comes on top of the fact, as Time reports, that
the CDC has received dozens of calls from all over the United States about
people that had gotten sick after traveling to Africa
.

As City News reports,


A Brampton hospital is taking precautionary measures after a
patient who recently travelled to Canada from Nigeria came down
with a fever and other flu-like symptoms.


The patient arrived at the emergency department at William Osler Health
System’s Brampton Civic Hospital earlier today.

“Osler sees and treats several patients a week with similar symptoms
because of its proximity to the airport and over the last week, has put in
heightened infection control protocols as a precautionary measure
due to the emerging situation in West Africa
,” the spokesperson said.

...

“Osler medical experts are working closely with Peel Public Health to
confirm a diagnosis,
” the hospital said.
* * *
Canadian Health authorities have issued this statement:

Canada is already implementing many of the measures being
advised by the WHO, including maintaining preparedness to detect,
investigate and manage people with Ebola in the unlikely event
that a case arrives in Canada.
Canada has the capacity to perform
diagnostic testing and to manage any ill travelers through the Quarantine
Act.

In addition, hospitals in Canada have infection control systems and
procedures in place that are designed to limit the spread of
infection,
protect health care workers, and provide the best care possible
for the patient.

There are no confirmed cases of Ebola in Canada and the risk to
Canadians remains very low.
In fact, there has never been a case of
Ebola in Canada, thanks in part to Canada’s close monitoring of the
situation and international involvement in rapid diagnostic testing and
health surveillance.

The Public Health Agency of Canada recommends that Canadians avoid
all non-essential travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone due to
the ongoing Ebola virus outbreak.

* * *
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told TIME on Tuesday that it’s
received several dozen calls from states and hospitals about people who are
ill after traveling in Africa
.


“We’ve triaged those calls and about half-dozen or so resulted in specimen
coming to CDC for testing and all have been negative for Ebola,” CDC
spokesman Tom Skinner said, adding that the agency is expecting still
more calls to come in.
* * *
The outbreak is "out of control" according to CDC...
click image for interactive version




:dot5: But rest assured - it poses no risk to the US...

 

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The CDC poster is nauseating. So a person dripping with Ebola can serve you food and drip on it, and you can eat it safely.

Or cough in your face and you're fine.

To think our tax money paid for this.
 
The CDC poster is nauseating. So a person dripping with Ebola can serve you food and drip on it, and you can eat it safely.

Or cough in your face and you're fine.

To think our tax money paid for this.

The agencies are obscene, belittling caricatures of reality that offend anybody with an ounce of sense and a modicum of morality.
 

bw

Fringe Ranger
The agencies are obscene, belittling caricatures of reality that offend anybody with an ounce of sense and a modicum of morality.

They are helpless, feckless, in the face of this. They are bureaucrats, not problem solvers. The only thing they can do at this point is say "don't you worry your pretty little head", so that's what they're saying.
 

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may all be well
They are helpless, feckless, in the face of this. They are bureaucrats, not problem solvers. The only thing they can do at this point is say "don't you worry your pretty little head", so that's what they're saying.

It's more than mere feeble self serving incompetence.
 

DHR43

Since 2001
Spent time in Africa and came home sick? No S^#@, Sherlock. Plus it's a large leap from 'flu-like symptoms' and a 'fever' to Ebola.

Could it be that the 'fever' was an immune system response and all will be well? Could it be, mayhaps, that this person will fight off the effects of time in squalid Africa?

Besides, the test is lousy.

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/ebola-the-us-diagnostic-test-is-utterly-ureliable/

" Ebola: The US diagnostic test is utterly unreliable

by Jon Rappoport

August 5, 2014

www.nomorefakenews.com

When researchers and doctors are talking about a germ-caused disease, everything depends on the accuracy of the diagnosis. That’s where it all starts.

So here is a blockbuster.

The US diagnostic test for Ebola is utterly unreliable.

Using the test to claim a patient has Ebola or doesn’t have Ebola is scientific fraud.

Therefore, any pronouncements made by the Centers for Disease Control, where all the US testing is done, are worthless.

ABC New York reports (in “Mount Sinai patient likely does not have Ebola, health official says”):

“Testing for Ebola is done at the CDC. According to a CDC spokesperson testing for Ebola takes 1-2 days after they receive the samples. The primary testing is PCR. This is performed on blood that has been treated to kill and live virus [sic]. So far CDC has tested samples from around 6 people who had symptoms consistent with Ebola and a travel history to the affected region.”

Update: The ABC New York report has since been updated to now say:

“Testing for Ebola is done at the CDC. According to a CDC spokesperson, testing for Ebola takes one to two days after they receive the samples.”

The CDC is testing all suspected Ebola patients in the US with the PCR method.

The PCR is completely unreliable for a disease diagnosis. Why? Two reasons. First, technicians start with a tiny, tiny sample of genetic material from the patient. This sample may or may not be part of a virus. Mistakes can be made. Obviously, the techs want the sample to be viral in nature; otherwise, the diagnostic test will be complete bust.

But more importantly, the whole rationale for PCR is wrongheaded. Doctors and researchers only find a miniscule bit of hopefully relevant material in the patient to begin with. The PCR amplifies that bit so it can be observed.

But to consider the possibility that a virus is causing a disease in a patient, there must be huge numbers of that virus working actively in his body.

The PCR never establishes that.

Finding a tiny trace of viral material in a patient says absolutely nothing about whether he is ill, has been ill, or will become ill.

If Kent Brantley and Nancy Writebol, the two Americans who are now back in the US, were merely tested with the PCR to establish a diagnosis of Ebola, no one has any idea whether they have Ebola.

People wrongly assume that, because patients spew blood and collapse, a tiny amount of Ebola virus inside those patients will kill them. Not so.

Another wrong assumption is: the human immune system is helpless in the face of such a vicious germ. Also untrue.

As I mentioned in a previous article, don’t be misled by pronouncements that “previously healthy people,” exposed to a virus, suddenly collapsed and died.

You have no idea whether those people (health workers, for example) were previously healthy. A very detailed investigation by competent and unbiased people is necessary to establish the truth.

Further, automatically assuming the “previously healthy” people were serious infected with a particular virus—without effectively testing them—is absurd.

One of the cornerstones of (fraudulent) AIDS mythology is that a group of previously healthy men, being treated at the UCLA hospital, had their immune systems wiped out by HIV and only HIV.

This was an enormous lie. I studied the published medical summaries on those men, and it was obvious, from the number and types of medical drugs they’d taken in the past, that they were anything but “previously healthy.” In other words, a number of factors contributed to their immune-system collapse.

There is a familiar medical term: “titer.” It is the measure of concentration or, roughly speaking, quantity of a particular germ in a patient’s body. There is a method of testing.

It’s a crucial test.

That’s how technicians can determine the likelihood that a patient’s immune system is not warding off a germ; the titer is very high.

Simply saying a tiny trace amount of a germ in a patient’s body is proof of disease is false.

During the fake Swine Flu “pandemic,” I corresponded with a highly respected British researcher. I asked him whether any reputed Swine Flu patients were being tested for titer.

Shockingly, he said he had no idea. It didn’t bother him that he had no idea. His attitude was neutral, as if I’d been asking whether patients were being fed oatmeal or corn flakes.

I see no evidence that any patient who has been diagnosed with Ebola has been given a rigorous and all-important titer test.

The “hot zone” areas of Ebola, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, have been decimated for a long time: war, extreme poverty, malnutrition, starvation, contaminated water supplies, exposure to toxic industrial chemicals, vast toxic overuse of antibiotics, pesticides (some of them banned in other countries), expired and unrefrigerated medicines, vaccines (which, when given to people whose immune systems are already hanging on by a thread, can be lethal).

But we only hear about Ebola. Who knows what the people (including health workers) in those areas have been exposed to? A toxic chemical, for example, could cause explosive bleeding.

Combine this information blackout with the fact that the prominent diagnostic test for Ebola is deceptive and worthless, and you have a horribly perfect storm.

And I would add, an opportunity to foist and promote yet another pandemic fear to the world.

As for mainstream reporting, I can tell you this. In the past, during “epidemics,” I approached several journalists with the basic information in this article. To a person, they backed off. They didn’t want to touch it.

These were people who’d responded favorably to other stories I’d given them. But this? Too hot. Too corrosive. Too dangerous to their reputations. Too destructive to the medical disease paradigm. Too revealing of medical crimes. "

So, hysteria aside, I'll go with squalid conditions, dirty water, no-sanitation and unhealthy everything in nearly all Africa as the major (if not only) cause of these sicknesses. And yes, some resulted in the unfortunate deaths of these people. But an Ebola breakout? That can't be accurately tested for? Really?
 

Countrymouse

Country exile in the city
Spent time in Africa and came home sick? No S^#@, Sherlock. Plus it's a large leap from 'flu-like symptoms' and a 'fever' to Ebola.

Could it be that the 'fever' was an immune system response and all will be well? Could it be, mayhaps, that this person will fight off the effects of time in squalid Africa?

Besides, the test is lousy.

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/ebola-the-us-diagnostic-test-is-utterly-ureliable/

" Ebola: The US diagnostic test is utterly unreliable

by Jon Rappoport

August 5, 2014

www.nomorefakenews.com

When researchers and doctors are talking about a germ-caused disease, everything depends on the accuracy of the diagnosis. That’s where it all starts.

So here is a blockbuster.

The US diagnostic test for Ebola is utterly unreliable.

Using the test to claim a patient has Ebola or doesn’t have Ebola is scientific fraud.

Therefore, any pronouncements made by the Centers for Disease Control, where all the US testing is done, are worthless.

ABC New York reports (in “Mount Sinai patient likely does not have Ebola, health official says”):

“Testing for Ebola is done at the CDC. According to a CDC spokesperson testing for Ebola takes 1-2 days after they receive the samples. The primary testing is PCR. This is performed on blood that has been treated to kill and live virus [sic]. So far CDC has tested samples from around 6 people who had symptoms consistent with Ebola and a travel history to the affected region.”

Update: The ABC New York report has since been updated to now say:

“Testing for Ebola is done at the CDC. According to a CDC spokesperson, testing for Ebola takes one to two days after they receive the samples.”

The CDC is testing all suspected Ebola patients in the US with the PCR method.

The PCR is completely unreliable for a disease diagnosis. Why? Two reasons. First, technicians start with a tiny, tiny sample of genetic material from the patient. This sample may or may not be part of a virus. Mistakes can be made. Obviously, the techs want the sample to be viral in nature; otherwise, the diagnostic test will be complete bust.

But more importantly, the whole rationale for PCR is wrongheaded. Doctors and researchers only find a miniscule bit of hopefully relevant material in the patient to begin with. The PCR amplifies that bit so it can be observed.

But to consider the possibility that a virus is causing a disease in a patient, there must be huge numbers of that virus working actively in his body.

The PCR never establishes that.

Finding a tiny trace of viral material in a patient says absolutely nothing about whether he is ill, has been ill, or will become ill.

If Kent Brantley and Nancy Writebol, the two Americans who are now back in the US, were merely tested with the PCR to establish a diagnosis of Ebola, no one has any idea whether they have Ebola.

People wrongly assume that, because patients spew blood and collapse, a tiny amount of Ebola virus inside those patients will kill them. Not so.

Another wrong assumption is: the human immune system is helpless in the face of such a vicious germ. Also untrue.

As I mentioned in a previous article, don’t be misled by pronouncements that “previously healthy people,” exposed to a virus, suddenly collapsed and died.

You have no idea whether those people (health workers, for example) were previously healthy. A very detailed investigation by competent and unbiased people is necessary to establish the truth.

Further, automatically assuming the “previously healthy” people were serious infected with a particular virus—without effectively testing them—is absurd.

One of the cornerstones of (fraudulent) AIDS mythology is that a group of previously healthy men, being treated at the UCLA hospital, had their immune systems wiped out by HIV and only HIV.

This was an enormous lie. I studied the published medical summaries on those men, and it was obvious, from the number and types of medical drugs they’d taken in the past, that they were anything but “previously healthy.” In other words, a number of factors contributed to their immune-system collapse.

There is a familiar medical term: “titer.” It is the measure of concentration or, roughly speaking, quantity of a particular germ in a patient’s body. There is a method of testing.

It’s a crucial test.

That’s how technicians can determine the likelihood that a patient’s immune system is not warding off a germ; the titer is very high.

Simply saying a tiny trace amount of a germ in a patient’s body is proof of disease is false.

During the fake Swine Flu “pandemic,” I corresponded with a highly respected British researcher. I asked him whether any reputed Swine Flu patients were being tested for titer.

Shockingly, he said he had no idea. It didn’t bother him that he had no idea. His attitude was neutral, as if I’d been asking whether patients were being fed oatmeal or corn flakes.

I see no evidence that any patient who has been diagnosed with Ebola has been given a rigorous and all-important titer test.

The “hot zone” areas of Ebola, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, have been decimated for a long time: war, extreme poverty, malnutrition, starvation, contaminated water supplies, exposure to toxic industrial chemicals, vast toxic overuse of antibiotics, pesticides (some of them banned in other countries), expired and unrefrigerated medicines, vaccines (which, when given to people whose immune systems are already hanging on by a thread, can be lethal).

But we only hear about Ebola. Who knows what the people (including health workers) in those areas have been exposed to? A toxic chemical, for example, could cause explosive bleeding.

Combine this information blackout with the fact that the prominent diagnostic test for Ebola is deceptive and worthless, and you have a horribly perfect storm.

And I would add, an opportunity to foist and promote yet another pandemic fear to the world.

As for mainstream reporting, I can tell you this. In the past, during “epidemics,” I approached several journalists with the basic information in this article. To a person, they backed off. They didn’t want to touch it.

These were people who’d responded favorably to other stories I’d given them. But this? Too hot. Too corrosive. Too dangerous to their reputations. Too destructive to the medical disease paradigm. Too revealing of medical crimes. "

So, hysteria aside, I'll go with squalid conditions, dirty water, no-sanitation and unhealthy everything in nearly all Africa as the major (if not only) cause of these sicknesses. And yes, some resulted in the unfortunate deaths of these people. But an Ebola breakout? That can't be accurately tested for? Really?

There are no words.

That the media would mindlessly repeat whatever they are told is bad enough.

That they would KNOW what they are reporting is a lie, and yet STILL report it as truth--when LIVES are at stake---


it boggles the mind.
 

Publius

TB Fanatic
Just posted on the PFI Forum by Mariana. Her comment precedes the article.


Looks like we have a cluster forming in Saudi Arabia

From the Saudi Gazette
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20140808213981

First Saudi Ebola suspect buried

JEDDAH — The first Saudi who was suspected to have contracted the Ebola virus was buried at Briman graveyard in north Jeddah that is dedicated for the burial of victims of infectious diseases. The authorities prevented his family from washing him, attend his burial or be present at his burial ceremony.

The Saudi health authorities announced his death on Wednesday. They said another Saudi citizen who was in direct contact with him showed symptoms of the deadly virus and was quarantined at King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah.

Ibrahim Al-Zahrani is said to have gotten the infection from Sierra Leone, where he was on a business visit.

MY COMMENT: The reporter of this article seems to assume that it is a given that "patient zero" for Saudi Arabia had Ebola.

And that is awful quick for a secondary infection unless "patient zero" was roaming around for quite awhile before presenting to the hospital for care. Or maybe the secondary infection was an aide or traveling companion to "patient zero"?



If this gets lose in one their open air markets its all over.
 
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