Ebola is a Threat to All of Humanity Warns US Official...(and vid)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2741765/Missionary-infected-Ebol...
"Ebola is a threat to all of humanity warns US official..."
Ebola is a Threat to All of Humanity Warns US Official...
Sat, 2014-09-06 19:20
#1
Ebola is a Threat to All of Humanity Warns US Official...
Sat, 2014-09-06 20:39
#2
BC Ebola Remedy Developer Tekmira's Share Value Spikes [Aug 2]
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-ebola-remedy-develope...
"Though human testing of Tekmira Pharmaceuticals' treatment - TKM-Ebola was put on hold last month due to safety concerns, investors scrambled to buy its stock Friday, sending shares up...
Tekmira had previously published proof of concept data that showed its treatment resulted in 100 percent protection from a lethal dose of Zaire Ebola virus in infected primates.
The company started an early-stage clinical trial for the treatment in January and was granted fast-track status from the US Food and Drug Administration on March 5, pushing shares to their highest ever a few days later.
But by the time the trial was put on hold on July 3, Tekmira's drug has only been tested in a few dozen healthy people. The FDA said it was putting the trial on hold because of safety concerns among people taking the highest doses of the drug who experienced problematic immune responses.
Some analysts are betting that the FDA, under pressure from global health campaigners, will choose to allow Tekmira's trials to proceed, possibly by year's end. On Friday, a North Carolina physician initiated a petition on Wednesday on the Change.org website, asking the FDA to release the hold on Tekmira's treatment.
Dr Thomas Giesbert of the University of Texas Medical Branch...also said given the widespread mistrust of doctors in West Africa, which has driven dozens of victims to evade treatment, such an event could jeopardize the drug's prospects.
'What if you start giving it to people who are almost dead and they die, but it's not the drug's fault? Then you blame the drug."
Sat, 2014-09-06 21:16
#3
US-DOD: Army Institute Responds to Growing Ebola Outbreak in West Africa [Aug 4]
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=122836
"A small group of military and civilian personnel assigned to the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, or USAMRIID, is in Liberia as part of a larger US interagency response to the world's worst outbreak of the Ebola virus which continues to spread in West Africa, a Defense Department speaker said today.
The small team is on the ground in Liberia along with a diagnostic lab in Sierra Leone.
USAMRIID's mission is to protect the warfighter from biological threats and to be prepared to investigate disease outbreaks or other public health threats.
It has been the Defense Department's lead laboratory since 1969 for medical biological defense research including against threats that can effect the warfighter such as anthrax, botulism, plague and other viral diseases..."
Sat, 2014-09-13 10:20
#4
Ebola Outbreak Growing
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/09/13/ebol-s13.html
"The Ebola virus is quickly overwhelming West African countries. The infection rate in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea reched almost 100 new cases a day over the last week..."
Tue, 2014-09-16 12:19
#5
AIDS is still killing over a million a year (like 10K a week) and there IS a remedy (retroviral). But the media and interventionist governments like an "epidemic" (Shock Capitalism?). AIDS is no news.
Thu, 2014-09-18 03:57
#6
Officials Warn Ebola Crisis 'Unprecedented in Modern Times'
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/16/officials-warn-ebola-crisis-...
"This health crisis we face is unparallelled in modern times..."
US To Send 3,000 Troops To Africa To Fight...Ebola Crisis
http://rt.com/news/188208-us-troops-liberia-ebola-crisis/
"In response to Liberia's appeal to the States made last week, Obama said the government now plans to establish a military command center in the Liberian capital of Monrovia..."
Fri, 2014-09-19 11:54
#7
Eight people killed in attack on health workers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/09/18/missing-...
Tragic, but not surprising given the obvious history of mistrust.
Sat, 2014-09-20 00:25
#8
Indeed...
The Spread of Ebola - by Cesar Chelala
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/19/the-spread-of-ebola/
"Six months into the worst Ebola epidemic in history, the world is losing the battle to contain it,' stated Doctors Without Borders International President Dr Joanne Liu
'The major objective here is not to drastically increase the person's chance of survival, it's to contain the spread,' said Dr Gabriel Fitzpatrick who is working at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Sierra Leone
Mon, 2014-09-22 03:39
#9
Doctors Without Borders Chief: World Losing Battle With Ebola Now (and vid)
http://rt.com/shows/sophieco/189516-west-africa-ebola-threat/
"Are we seeing another pandemic slowly growing up to strike at mankind? What should be done to stop it? What does it mean to be a doctor in a place where death reigns?
We try to find out with the head of Medecins Sans Frontieres - Doctors Without Borders, Dr Joanne Lieu is on Sophie & Co..."
Sat, 2014-09-27 22:31
#10
Militarizing the Ebola Crisis - by Joeva Rock
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26465-militarizing-the-ebola-crisis
"Few would oppose a robust US response to Ebola. But the Obama administration's deployment of 3,000 troops to Liberia comes amid a broader US-led militarization in West Africa..."
US Authorises Canadian Ebola Treatment Developed Under Military Contract
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/22/ebola-treatment-us-canada...
"The company [Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp] is developing TKM-Ebola under a contract with the US Department of Defense."
Ebola, Biological Warfare Against Africa? - by Abayomi Azikiwe
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/09/23/379687/ebola-biological-warfare...
"There is tremendous mistrust surrounding the spread of the Ebola virus disease in some West African states..."
Thu, 2014-10-02 18:39
#11
Ebola Is Here in America. Why Aren't We Angry?
It was clear from the tone of the coverage of Ebola's arrival in the United States that media gatekeepers expected people to be surprised by a Dallas hospital's decision to turn away U.S. Ebola Patient Zero from the emergency room. It was, by any standard, a colossal screw-up, one that might easily have been avoided. The man was Liberian. He'd informed ER staff that he'd recently traveled to Liberia, the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. His symptoms — he vomited en route to the hospital — were consistent with Ebola. Despite having all the information they needed to make a proper diagnosis and having received alerts from the Centers for Disease Control to be on alert for people arriving from West Africa with flu-like symptoms, the hospital turned him loose, where he is believed to have directly exposed at least 100 people to the deadly virus.
It's an outrageous lapse, yet Americans weren't outraged. Why would we be? Anyone who deals with the U.S. healthcare system has experienced its systematic incompetence.
In New York City, where I've lived most of my life, conventional wisdom is that a visit to the ER will make whatever is ailing you worse rather than better — unless you've been shot. Severe vomiting? Head pressure that makes you feel like your head is going to explode? Sky-high fever? Blunt head trauma caused by a car accident? Odds are, you'll sit on hard plastic seats in a stuffy waiting room for hour after hour, feeling nastier and nastier. The one time I got proper treatment at the ER was when the root of a mole on my chest separated from the artery into which had grown, causing it to burst into a glorious, gory explosion à la "Saw."
"Gunshot wound!" an intern shouted when my friends carried me in.
Instant attention. Multiple doctors.
https://plus.google.com/107810821718503026344/posts/Fz9nxYw1dvX
Thu, 2014-10-02 19:42
#12
US Ebola patient's waste not cleared from apartment two days after diagnosis
Health officials admit they were unable to find waste management company willing to accept soiled towels and sheets
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/02/ebola-patients-waste-remain...
Thu, 2014-10-02 20:49
#13
One Month to Stop Ebola Before It's 'Totally Out of Control' - Global Aid NGO
http://rt.com/news/192628-ebola-scare-london-conference/
"The International Rescue Committee (IRC) on behalf of 34 NGOs battling Ebola in West Africa, has warned that the number of cases is doubling roughly every three weeks and the globe has only four weeks to stop the crisis from spiraling out of control..."
Fri, 2014-10-03 12:16
#14
Fri, 2014-10-03 13:12
#15
Thanks bekayne for posting that link about how Nigeria has dealt with Ebola.
Fri, 2014-10-03 13:16
#16
D.C. hospital admits patient with possible Ebola symptoms
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/03/health/ebola-us/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Sat, 2014-10-04 18:25
#17
US Exploiting West African Ebola Outbreak to Establish Military Foothold - by Niles Williamson
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/04/ebol-o04.html
"Under the guise of a humanitarian mission aimed at containing the spread of the Ebola virus, the Obama administration is exploiting the outbreak to establish a solid military footing on the African continent.
Liberia is the only country in West Africa which has previously expressed interest in hosting AFRICOM headquarters. The Ebola epidemic provides a convenient excuse for the deployment of thousands of US troops and establishing a permanent presence..."
UPDATED| Dallas Ebola Case: Thomas Eric Duncan Now in Critical Condition
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dallas-ebola-case-thomas-eric-duncan-now-in...
"Health officials said Saturday that they are monitoring about 50 people for signs of the disease who may have had contact with Duncan, including nine who are believed to be at a higher risk.
LIVE BLOG/Ebola Crisis: Follow CBC News in Liberia..."
Sat, 2014-10-04 19:19
#18
i think the concern here is controlling the spread of the Ebola
Sun, 2014-10-05 18:52
#19
Out of Control
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/10/04/how-ebola-sped-out-...
"How the world's health organizations failed to stop the ebola disaster..."
The Ebola Breakout Coincided With UN Vaccine Campaign - by Yoichi Shimatsu
http://www.4thmedia.org/2014/09/the-ebola-breakout-coincided-with-un-vac...
"The ebola pandemic began in late February in the former French colony of Guinea while UN agencies were conducting nationwide campaigns for three other diseases in rural districts. The simultaneous eruptions of this filovirus in widely separated zones strongly suggests that the virulent Zaire ebola strain (Zebov) was deliberately introduced to test an antidote in secret trials on unsuspecting humans.
The cross border escape of ebola into neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia indicates something went terribly wrong during the illegal clinical trials by a major pharmaceutical company. Through the lens darkly, the release of ebola may well have been an act of biowarfare in the post-colonial struggle to control mineral-rich West Africa..."
Sun, 2014-10-05 21:13
#20
"The ebola pandemic began in late February in the former French colony of Guinea while UN agencies were conducting nationwide campaigns for three other diseases in rural districts. The simultaneous eruptions of this filovirus in widely separated zones strongly suggests that the virulent Zaire ebola strain (Zebov) was deliberately introduced to test an antidote in secret trials on unsuspecting humans.
The cross border escape of ebola into neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia indicates something went terribly wrong during the illegal clinical trials by a major pharmaceutical company. Through the lens darkly, the release of ebola may well have been an act of biowarfare in the post-colonial struggle to control mineral-rich West Africa..."
Please don't perpetuate the spread of such ridiculous misinformation. The truth (as it often is) is more mundane and depressing: the extreme poverty and lack of infrastructure in these countries has lead to the spread of this terrible virus that actually, compared with influenza, isn't so communicable, requiring direct contact to spread.
Misiniformation harms people by frightening them from seeking medical care. So they stay out in the community and spread the disease further.
Sun, 2014-10-05 21:14
#21
Furthermore, ebola most likely got its start in the bushmeat trade. Specifically, the consumption of infected bats.
Sun, 2014-10-05 23:12
#22
Nicely and clearly stated, Sineed.
But if anyone wants to check some of the other work by the esteemed conspiracy theorist Yoichi Shimatsu, cited by NDPP above, you might want to check out this article:
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:MKULTRA_Links_To_The_Sandy_Hook_Assault
Shimatsu assembles a "compelling" case on how a CIA-sponsored thought control project led to the school shootings at Sandy Hook a couple of years back. And connects the dots between a global pedophile conspiracy, JD Salinger and Holden Caulfied (I kid you not), Whitey Bulger of the Winter Hill Gang, Justice Scalia and the Penn State scandal, and Michael Jackson’s physician Dr. Conrad Murray. There's more, but you get the drift.
Read it and weep. Or laugh. Just don't cite it as evidence of anything but delusions on a global scale.
Sun, 2014-10-05 23:27
#23
For people on Twitter, the #Ebola twitter feed is an especially depressing litany of racism, ignorance of science and general all-purpose stupidity manifesting as various conspiracy theories.
Mon, 2014-10-06 00:03
#24
Although I don't have information to back this up I'm convinced had the sick man in Dallas been white he would have got better treatment
What percentage of doctors in the usa are black?
Or what percentage of doctors in Canada are 1st nation?
Mon, 2014-10-06 00:11
#25
AIDS is still killing over a million a year (like 10K a week) and there IS a remedy (retroviral). But the media and interventionist governments like an "epidemic" (Shock Capitalism?). AIDS is no news.
While I can understand the concern that new diseases can spread quite rapidly, and while it is tragic that people become infected with the disease, I have to point out that other infectious diseases claim far more lives in Africa than this current ebola outbreak. We have to remember that the disease isn't airborne (at least not yet anyways) so it doesn't spread as easily as the cold or the flu. The thing that really bothers me about this is that, as I mentioned, there are so many deaths from other infectious diseases, yet it was ignored until the possibilty of ebola showing up in this part of the world became very real.
Although I don't have information to back this up I'm convinced had the sick man in Dallas been white he would have got better treatment What percentage of doctors in the usa are black? Or what percentage of doctors in Canada are 1st nation?
You do wonder about these things.
Mon, 2014-10-06 03:50
#26
Texas Ebola Patient Fighting For Life, New US Drug 'All Gone'
http://rt.com/usa/193380-texas-ebola-drug-gone/
"Dr Thomas Frieden, director of the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Duncan is in critical condition, adding that the patient is not receiving ZMapp - an experimental medicine - because it is 'all gone' and is 'not going to be available anytime soon.'
Speaking on another experimental drug, produced by Canada's Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp, Frieden described the treatment as 'difficult for patients to take.'
Mon, 2014-10-06 07:28
#27
Although I don't have information to back this up I'm convinced had the sick man in Dallas been white he would have got better treatment What percentage of doctors in the usa are black? Or what percentage of doctors in Canada are 1st nation?
That's certainly possible, though what's more likely is the possibility that his level of health insurance was not sufficient. I don't know any details, but people with robust insurance tend to get the red carpet rolled out for them in the American health care system, while inadequately insured people are routinely denied basic care. An African man with a good insurance plan would get care because the hospital and doctors will get paid.
In the US, federal laws mandate emergency room physicians to treat everybody. The hospital in question will probably defend their decision to turn him away on the basis of inadequate evidence that the man suffered from anything serious; after all, Ebola at first looks like a more run of the mill viral infection.
I would very much like to know what role this man's level of health insurance played in the decision to turn him away.
Mon, 2014-10-06 12:13
#28
Although I don't have information to back this up I'm convinced had the sick man in Dallas been white he would have got better treatment What percentage of doctors in the usa are black? Or what percentage of doctors in Canada are 1st nation?That's certainly possible, though what's more likely is the possibility that his level of health insurance was not sufficient. I don't know any details, but people with robust insurance tend to get the red carpet rolled out for them in the American health care system, while inadequately insured people are routinely denied basic care. An African man with a good insurance plan would get care because the hospital and doctors will get paid.
In the US, federal laws mandate emergency room physicians to treat everybody. The hospital in question will probably defend their decision to turn him away on the basis of inadequate evidence that the man suffered from anything serious; after all, Ebola at first looks like a more run of the mill viral infection.
I would very much like to know what role this man's level of health insurance played in the decision to turn him away.
Would he have any insurance? Hw was not a US national. Technically speaking, he was dealt with the first time: he was given antibiotics.
Mon, 2014-10-06 18:08
#29
Dallas Ebola patient in critical condition being treated with experimental drug
Thomas Duncan, whose condition worsened over the weekend, is receiving brincidofovir after requests from doctors in Dallas
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/06/nbc-photojournalist-diagnos...
Mon, 2014-10-06 18:23
#30
Spain has outbreak's 1st known case of contracting Ebola outside of Africa
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/06/health/ebola-us/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Mon, 2014-10-06 18:53
#31
Would he have any insurance? Hw was not a US national. Technically speaking, he was dealt with the first time: he was given antibiotics.
Giving antibiotics to people with viral infections without doing a proper diagnostic work-up is very common and is a scourge in our health care system in general. A more elaborate work-up would cost more than giving him a script and sending him on his way.
Maybe they thought he was trying to scam more health care for himself by making the Ebola claim.
Mon, 2014-10-06 19:23
#32
Canada's contribution
Ebola outbreak: Canada sends 2nd mobile lab to Sierra LeoneTeam will work with Doctors Without Borders
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-outbreak-canada-sends-2nd-mobile-lab...
Mon, 2014-10-06 21:06
#33
'In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy'
Peter Piot was a researcher at a lab in Antwerp when a pilot brought him a blood sample from a Belgian nun who had fallen mysteriously ill in Zaire
There is actually a well-established procedure for curtailing Ebola outbreaks: isolating those infected and closely monitoring those who had contact with them. How could a catastrophe such as the one we are now seeing even happen?
I think it is what people call a perfect storm: when every individual circumstance is a bit worse than normal and they then combine to create a disaster. And with this epidemic there were many factors that were disadvantageous from the very beginning. Some of the countries involved were just emerging from terrible civil wars, many of their doctors had fled and their healthcare systems had collapsed. In all of Liberia, for example, there were only 51 doctors in 2010, and many of them have since died of Ebola.
The fact that the outbreak began in the densely populated border region between Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia ...
… also contributed to the catastrophe. Because the people there are extremely mobile, it was much more difficult than usual to track down those who had had contact with the infected people. Because the dead in this region are traditionally buried in the towns and villages they were born in, there were highly contagious Ebola corpses travelling back and forth across the borders in pickups and taxis. The result was that the epidemic kept flaring up in different places.
For the first time in its history, the virus also reached metropolises such as Monrovia and Freetown. Is that the worst thing that can happen?
In large cities – particularly in chaotic slums – it is virtually impossible to find those who had contact with patients, no matter how great the effort. That is why I am so worried about Nigeria as well. The country is home to mega-cities like Lagos and Port Harcourt, and if the Ebola virus lodges there and begins to spread, it would be an unimaginable catastrophe.
Have we completely lost control of the epidemic?
I have always been an optimist and I think that we now have no other choice than to try everything, really everything. It's good that the United States and some other countries are finally beginning to help. But Germany or even Belgium, for example, must do a lot more. And it should be clear to all of us: This isn't just an epidemic any more. This is a humanitarian catastrophe. We don't just need care personnel, but also logistics experts, trucks, jeeps and foodstuffs. Such an epidemic can destabilise entire regions. I can only hope that we will be able to get it under control. I really never thought that it could get this bad.
What can really be done in a situation when anyone can become infected on the streets and, like in Monrovia, even the taxis are contaminated?
We urgently need to come up with new strategies. Currently, helpers are no longer able to care for all the patients in treatment centres. So caregivers need to teach family members who are providing care to patients how to protect themselves from infection to the extent possible. This on-site educational work is currently the greatest challenge. Sierra Leone experimented with a three-day curfew in an attempt to at least flatten out the infection curve a bit. At first I thought: "That is totally crazy." But now I wonder, "why not?" At least, as long as these measures aren't imposed with military power.
A three-day curfew sounds a bit desperate.
Yes, it is rather medieval. But what can you do? Even in 2014, we hardly have any way to combat this virus.
Do you think we might be facing the beginnings of a pandemic?
There will certainly be Ebola patients from Africa who come to us in the hopes of receiving treatment. And they might even infect a few people here who may then die. But an outbreak in Europe or North America would quickly be brought under control. I am more worried about the many people from India who work in trade or industry in west Africa. It would only take one of them to become infected, travel to India to visit relatives during the virus's incubation period, and then, once he becomes sick, go to a public hospital there. Doctors and nurses in India, too, often don't wear protective gloves. They would immediately become infected and spread the virus.
The virus is continually changing its genetic makeup. The more people who become infected, the greater the chance becomes that it will mutate ...
... which might speed its spread. Yes, that really is the apocalyptic scenario. Humans are actually just an accidental host for the virus, and not a good one. From the perspective of a virus, it isn't desirable for its host, within which the pathogen hopes to multiply, to die so quickly. It would be much better for the virus to allow us to stay alive longer.
Could the virus suddenly change itself such that it could be spread through the air?
Like measles, you mean? Luckily that is extremely unlikely. But a mutation that would allow Ebola patients to live a couple of weeks longer is certainly possible and would be advantageous for the virus. But that would allow Ebola patients to infect many, many more people than is currently the case.
But that is just speculation, isn't it?
Certainly. But it is just one of many possible ways the virus could change to spread itself more easily. And it is clear that the virus is mutating.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/04/ebola-zaire-peter-piot-outb...
Tue, 2014-10-07 17:08
#34
Left Turn
[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/04/in-the-medi... the medical response to Ebola, Cuba is punching far above its weight[/url]
While the international community has been accused of dragging its feet on the Ebola crisis, Cuba, a country of just 11 million people that still enjoys a fraught relationship with the United States, has emerged as a crucial provider of medical expertise in the West African nations hit by Ebola.
On Thursday, 165 health professionals from the country arrived in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to join the fight against Ebola – the largest medical team of any single foreign nation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). And after being trained to deal with Ebola, a further 296 Cuban doctors and nurses will go to Liberia and Guinea, the other two countries worst hit by the crisis.
Wed, 2014-10-08 09:53
#35
Spanish nurse's assistant may have caught Ebola taking off suit, doctor says
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/08/world/europe/ebola-spain/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Wed, 2014-10-08 10:10
#36
The MSM are covering up the ugly truth here. I had to search overseas media for this story.
We should be considering a combat mission and air strikes, preceded of course by a debate and vote in the House.
Wed, 2014-10-08 11:23
#37
nice touch unionist
Texas Ebola patient has died
Wed, 2014-10-08 22:26
#38
Ebola's exponential growth
http://www.straight.com/news/747061/gwynne-dyer-ebolas-exponential-growth
Wed, 2014-10-08 22:44
#39
Anxiety grows in US after death of Texas Ebola patient
Hours after Thomas Eric Duncan became first Ebola fatality in the US, official who had visited contaminated apartment shows ‘some’ symptoms
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also said that this does not appear to be a case of Ebola. The deputy isn’t showing typical symptoms of the virus and never came in direct contact with Duncan.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/08/ebola-dallas-deputy-sheriff...
Thu, 2014-10-09 07:29
#40
Maysie
Huffington Post on media coverage of Ebola in the U.S.
The arrival of two white, Christian missionaries with Ebola in Atlanta in early August also triggered a fair amount of hysteria, but it wasn't nearly as intense as that which surrounded Duncan's. It's impossible to know exactly why this is, but there are some unsettling patterns that run through the Duncan coverage which only reinforce the divide between "the West and the rest."
The Dallas patient was a [dark skinned] foreigner, which made him far more suspect than missionaries Nancy Writebol and Kent Brantly, who were lily-white, born and bred Americans. There were suggestions that we should fear him and accusations that he knowingly got on the plane in order to seek treatment in America. For the Western media, Duncan is an outsider, a plague-bearer to be vilified rather than a victim of a deadly and horrifying disease. He's filthy and unclean, and he's brought contamination to the United States.
Bracketed bold added by me.
The article separates the "Us and Them" argument from the racist argument. The issues are conflated. That is, of course, part of how the "Us" is created in the West.
The image Unionist posted isn't that far off.
Oh the humanity.
Thu, 2014-10-09 12:42
#41
swallow
The media coverage seems to boil down to: Africa is a land of disease. That's OK, but don't let it infect good white Christian folk!
Thu, 2014-10-09 20:16
#42
And yeah, Maysie; I was also bothered by the difference in coverage between the white missionaries and the Liberian man. Especially, when you consider the damage American Christian missionaries have done in Africa, spreading the sort of hateful fundamentalism that is in part to blame for vicious homophobic laws being passed in Uganda, for instance.
Thu, 2014-10-09 20:17
#43
Spanish nurse's assistant may have caught Ebola taking off suit, doctor says
That was my first thought, NR. I don't generally have to wear personal protective clothing in my job, but I was trained in the use of said gear, and part of the training involves not only how to put things on properly, but how to take them off without contaminating yourself.
Thu, 2014-10-09 21:06
#44
Ebola: Are We Being Told the Truth?
http://www.accuracy.org/release/ebola-are-we-being-told-the-truth/
"...Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, [Francis] Boyle drafted the US Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 which is the domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention. His books include Biowarfare and Terrorism.
He said today: 'Different US government agencies have a long history of doing allegedly defensive biological warfare research at labs in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This includes the CDC, which is now the point agency for managing the Ebola spill-over to the United States.
Why is the Obama administration dispatching the elite 101st Airborne Division to Liberia when they have no medical training to provide medical treatment to dying Africans?
How did Zaire/Ebola get to West Africa from about 3,500 kilometers away from where it was first identified in 1976?
Why is the CDC not better prepared for this emergency after the US government spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $70 billion dollars after the October 2001, anthrax attacks to prepare for this exact contingency? It is clear that these anthrax attacks originated from US government sources..."
Thu, 2014-10-09 21:39
#45
The Ebola alarmists
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21623713-stoking-panic-will-...
Thu, 2014-10-09 22:52
#46
Texas Ebola cases expose troubling contrasts and spark fears of race divide
The faltering response to a Liberian’s Ebola diagnosis in Texas contrasted starkly to the mobilization after the mere suspicion of the disease in a local law enforcement officer. Some wonder whether it was no coincidence
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/09/ebola-scare-race-frisco-dal...
Sat, 2014-10-11 23:58
#47
Ebola, the African Union and Bioeconomic Warfare - by Horace G Campbell
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/10/ebola-the-african-union-and-bioec...
Bioeconomic warfare is the combination of economic warfare and biological warfare.
We have learnt from research carried out by UNESCO that 'military interest in harnessing genetic engineering and DNA recombitant technology for updating and devising effective, lethal bioweapons is spurred on by the easy availability of funding, even in times of economic regression, for contractual research leading to the development of bioweapons.'
The Cubans have exposed that the Dengue fever which broke out in Cuba in 1977 was linked to biological warfare by the US government..."
Sun, 2014-10-12 10:39
#48
Texas Healthcare Worker Identified as Second Ebola Case in US
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/10/12/381962/second-ebola-case-confir...
"The Texas Department of State Health Services says that a healthcare worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has tested positive for Ebola..."
Ebola Update - by Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/10/11/381895/ebola-update/
"A number of readers have read reports that the CIA was active in West Africa just prior to the Ebola outbreak, and some have read reports that the Ebola strain is a weaponized version engineered to spread by air and surface contacts.
Some readers ask me to confirm or refute these reports...Although I cannot answer the questions, I can draw important conclusions from the fact that so many are asking them.
It is clear that the US government has lost credibility among large segments of the American population as well as abroad..."
Ebola Outbreak: The Latest US Government Lies - by Jason Kissner
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ebola-outbreak-the-latest-u-s-government-li...
"We begin with the Public Health Agency of Canada..."
Sun, 2014-10-12 14:36
#49
A number of readers have read reports that the CIA was active in West Africa just prior to the Ebola outbreak, and some have read reports that the Ebola strain is a weaponized version engineered to spread by air and surface contacts.
Some readers ask me to confirm or refute these reports...Although I cannot answer the questions, I can draw important conclusions from the fact that so many are asking them.
Uh no; just because a lot of people believe something that has absolutely not a whiff of evidence or credibility doesn't somehow confer validity. People can't brute-force something into being true by virtue of sheer numbers.
Sun, 2014-10-12 16:03
#50
Sineed
How much longer will it be until health care workers begin to refuse to treat possible Ebola patients?
Sun, 2014-10-12 16:14
#51
Sineed
How much longer will it be until health care workers begin to refuse to treat possible Ebola patients?
Fair question. I think some will refuse to treat Ebola patients, if not directly, then by calling in sick or by evoking various workplace accommodations to avoid direct contact. I believe most health care workers will step up, though health care organizations need to get ahead of the curve by providing the appropriate protective gear and training in the use of this gear.
Ebola has an incubation period of up to three weeks. If I were treating Ebola patients, given the significant lethality of this infection even when the best healthcare is provided, I would live away from my family.