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..."
This Jason Kissner?
http://www.americanthinker.com/jason_kissner/
Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses as Biological Weapons - 2002 American Medical Association Consensus Statement
http://www.legitgov.org/Hemorrhagic-Fever-Viruses-Biological-Weapons-200...
"To develop consensus-based recommendations for measures to be taken by medical and public health professionals if hemorrhagic fever viruses (HFVs) are used as biological weapons against a civilian population..."
US Troops, World Bank and IMF Set the Stage for Liberian Resource Extraction
http://nsnbc.me/2014/10/12/us-troops-world-bank-imf-set-stage-liberian-r...
"The World Bank said that the Ebola outbreak 'could have disastrous effects on Liberia's economy.
Simultaneously, ExxonMobil (EM) has been complaining that their natural gas and petrol extraction efforts off the shores of Liberia are fluctuating between 'gains and losses' because of the Ebola outbreak in the area.
Rex Tillerson, chief executive officer for EM is adamant that in Liberia, 'there is enough energy in the ground right now to supply the needs of the US for the next 100 years, and we can get to it economically..."
And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen: Obama's 'War on Ebola' - by William Engdahl
http://journal-neo.org/2014/10/02/and-now-ladies-an-gentlemen-obama-s-wa...
"...Something smells very rotten around the entire Ebola scare."
These folks need to stop the blame game and just get on with ensuring that every health care worker has all the training and protection that exists to contain Ebola.
CDC head criticized for blaming 'protocol breach' as nurse gets Ebola
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/13/us-health-ebola-usa-nurse-idUS...
And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen: Obama's 'War on Ebola' - by William Engdahl
http://journal-neo.org/2014/10/02/and-now-ladies-an-gentlemen-obama-s-wa...
"...Something smells very rotten around the entire Ebola scare."
So now there is no ebola...
Who can blame them?
Ebola outbreak: Liberia health workers threaten to strike Monday
Workers complain they are still working without basic protective clothing
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-outbreak-liberia-health-workers-threa...
Suspected Ebola Carrier Wrapped in Plastic After Czech Police Seal Off Rail Station (and vid)
http://rt.com/news/195452-ebola-scare-prague-railway/
"Czech police and hazmat suit-wearing doctors have seized a traveler from Ghana at Prague's main railway station. The man, suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus, was wrapped in black plastic by the authorities and taken away.
The health ministry later reported that the subject only had a cold.
The threat of Ebola has sparked fear and paranoia among many people in countries outside of Africa, with calls to halt airline traffic with places affected by the epidemic."
Suspected Ebola Carrier Wrapped in Plastic After Czech Police Seal Off Rail Station (and vid)
http://rt.com/news/195452-ebola-scare-prague-railway/
"Czech police and hazmat suit-wearing doctors have seized a traveler from Ghana at Prague's main railway station. The man, suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus, was wrapped in black plastic by the authorities and taken away.
The health ministry later reported that the subject only had a cold.
The threat of Ebola has sparked fear and paranoia among many people in countries outside of Africa, with calls to halt airline traffic with places affected by the epidemic."
Ghana, Guinea-what's the difference? Don't forget Guyana.
Enough with the conspiracy theories.
Who calls it "the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times,"
Ebola outbreak: 1st human trials of Canadian vaccine start in U.S.
Health Minister Rona Ambrose says VSV-EBOV vaccine 'very promising and hopeful' in Ebola fight, risk here low
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-outbreak-1st-human-trials-of-canadian...
First human trials of Canadian Ebola vaccine begin in US
The vaccine, which was developed by scientists at the Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory, has proven safe in animals and will be tested on 20 healthy volunteers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Md.
The results from the Phase 1 human trials will be completed by December, Ambrose said, although no specific date was given.
She said the vaccine has been shown to be "100 per cent effective" in preventing the spread of the Ebola virus when tested on animals.
While this is encouraging news, Phase 1 trials are conducted only to determine safety. The effectiveness of a new intervention is evaluated in Phase II.
'Demonic Ebola Targeting Ghana Oct, Nov'
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=330024
"Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has said the 'demonic' Ebola Virus Disease has targeted Ghana as its next destination between now and November...
'The bottom line is that there are people who want to see the virus in this country and they want our name on CNN. Spiritually, I tell you that the plague, whether it's a conspiracy of White man, Black man, I don't care. I just know that this thing is demonic."
Suspected Case of Ebola in Brazil...'Guyana Should Fear the Worst': Granger
http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2014/10/11/suspected-case-of-ebola-in-...
"In light of the fact that Guyana's neighbouring country, Brazil, is dealing with a suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus, Opposition leader David Granger is warning Guyana to fear the worst..."
Political Issues in the Ebola Crisis - by Patrick Martin
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/13/pers-o13.html
"It is almost impossible to overstate the dimensions of the disaster. There are well founded fears that Ebola could become a global plague. The Ebola crisis has proven to be a test of the ability of capitalism, as a world system, to deal with an acute and deadly threat. But the profit system has been incapable of generating a serious effort to forestall an entirely predictable crisis.
What little research has been conducted on possible cures and vaccines was funded by the US Pentagon, for dubious reasons: at best to protect US soldiers who might be deployed to the jungles of central Africa as an imperialist invasion force; at worst to determine whether the virus could be weaponized for use against potential enemies..."
Contacting the hospital prior to arrival sounds like a good approach. It seems like it is just a matter of time before we will have Ebola patients in Canada.
Has Canada stopped airlines coming here from the stricken areas yet? Maybe it is the prudent thing to do.
Ebola-like symptoms seen in person isolated in Ottawa hospital
Patient arrived at hospital Sunday, test results not yet in
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ebola-like-symptoms-seen-in-person-...
Why not? Is this because of privitization?
National Nurses United says most hospitals are not prepared for Ebola
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/10/12/national-nu...
Ebola Health Care Workers Face Hard Choices
http://time.com/3502002/ebola-liberia-sierra-leone-doctors-nurses/
Suspected Case of Ebola in Brazil...'Guyana Should Fear the Worst': Granger
http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2014/10/11/suspected-case-of-ebola-in-...
"In light of the fact that Guyana's neighbouring country, Brazil, is dealing with a suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus, Opposition leader David Granger is warning Guyana to fear the worst..."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29576815
Brazil says a Guinean man who had been suspected of having Ebola has tested negative for the disease.
The right’s scary Ebola lesson: How anti-government mania is harming America
It's time to admit the truth: People who cut health funding and don't like government have not helped this crisis
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/13/the_rights_huge_ebola_lesson_how_anti_go...
North Report asked: Has Canada stopped airlines coming here from the stricken areas yet? Maybe it is the prudent thing to do.
Given that the only "stricken area" Canada has direct flights with is Texas, that works for me.
Ebola: Five ways the CDC got it wrong
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/13/health/ebola-cdc/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Did NBC reporter violate quarantine?
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/10/13/nr-stelter-nbc-cre...
Ebola virus ruled out in Ottawa patient, while man in Belleville still in isolation
Test results for patient in Belleville, Ont., expected Tuesday
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ebola-virus-ruled-out-in-ottawa-pat...
Maybe folks should stop gathering in large crowds such as attending the World Series playoffs in Kansas City.
Update: Isolation protocols lifted for Edmonton patient with ‘potential contagious illness’
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Update+Isolation+protocols+lifted+Ed...
But
University of Kansas Hospital has placed a possible Ebola patient in isolation, according to hospital staff.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/?hpt=sitenav
I was just reading the Public Health Agency of Canada's Ebola page, and it's excellent. Here is the information you actually need, free from rumour and speculation.
Good advice.
I was just reading the Public Health Agency of Canada's Ebola page, and it's excellent. Here is the information you actually need, free from rumour and speculation.
BAR: Obama's Cynical, Stilted Response to Ebola vs. Cuba's Magnificant Mobilization - by Glen Ford
http://blackagendareport.com/node/14470
"Socialist Cuba sets the international pace in the battle against Ebola, just as it has in Haiti. Embarrassed by Cuba's magnificant mobilization in the Ebola crisis - a response noted by most of the world - Obama now pledges to spend $400 million to have his military build a dozen 100-bed hospitals, deploying 4,000 troops..."
University of Kansas Hospital has placed a possible Ebola patient in isolation, according to hospital staff.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/?hpt=sitenav
Negative
http://fox4kc.com/2014/10/15/univ-of-kansas-hospital-says-cdc-test-confi...
The island nation has sent hundreds of health workers to help control the deadly infection while richer countries worry about their security – instead of heeding UN warnings that vastly increased resources are urgently needed.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/12/cuba-leads-fights-against-e...
The unmanaged Ebola outbreak does indeed represent the greatest single threat to the world in modern times: global inequity. It is very much about wealth disparity as this could have been contained had the resources been there.
We don't need to panic about the threat of Ebola to our health system or that of any other well off country. We need to protect our health workers and deal with the disease by supporting those countries whoa re dealing with ebola solidly. We also need to deal with the cause of the breakdown-- poverty, lack of health resources and lack of drinking water in particular. Many dying of ebola die of dehydration associated with it. The gap between rich and poor countries is the central issue here.
Stephen Harper Warns Canadians About Spread of Ebola
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-harper-warns-canadians-about-spr...
"Speaking at an award ceremony in Toronto on Saturday, Harper said the current situation with Ebola reminds us that in an age of globalization, global trade and travel, a problem that was once far away from Canada, 'could arrive at our shores very quickly.'
The World Health Organization announced this week the experimental Canadian Ebola vaccine that has been donated to the agency would be shipped to Geneva on Monday..."
Ebola Could Have Escaped From US Bio-warfare Labs
http://tvxs.gr/news/kosmos/ebola-could-have-escaped-us-bio-warfare-labs
"Is Ebola virus a GMO...?
Instead of Appointing a Medical Expert Obama Appoints a LOBBYIST as Ebola Czar
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/instead-appointing-medical-expert...
"Obama has appointed Ron Klain as the Ebola Czar.
Klain has no medical or healthcare background whatsoever. Instead, he's a high-powered lobbyist. He helped the corrupt Fannie Mae to overcome 'regulatory issues' in 2004. Klain also represented a company facing asbestos-exposure lawsuits.
He's not a doctor...just a spin doctor.
What's he going to do...lobby Congress that Ebola is not that big a risk?"
Top Ebola Experts: This Strain is Much Worse Than We've Ever Seen Before (and vid)
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/top-ebola-expert-strain-much-wors...
"The head of special pathogens at Canada's health agency, Gary Kobinger - has found that the current strain of Ebola appears to be much worse than any strain seen before...and that the current virus may be more likely to spread through aerosol than strains which scientists have previously encountered...
WEAPONIZED: The Case For Ebola Coming From a Bioweapons Lab - by Patrick Henningsen
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/10/18/weaponized-the-case-for-ebola-comi...
"Before we make up our mind on the question of a genetically weaponized Ebola, let's look at some facts, some cover-ups, as well as better understand historically how governments have always had a fatal attraction to a variety of deadly bioweapons.
In addition to a number of international theories and analysis pointing to Ebola as a bioweapon, most Americans are completely unaware that the US is set to open one of the world's largest bioweapons labs in 2015 - not in the US, but in the former Soviet satellite state of Kazakhstan..."
If there is any truth to that speculation, the Americans are a bit late to the party. There was a weaponized version of Marburg (a close relative of ebola) developed in 1990.
Marburg virus, sometimes referred to as 'the mother of Ebola', killed 7 and injured 31 in an outbreak in 3 vaccine production labs in Europe in 1967. This first Marburg outbreak of 'monkey fever' was traced to sick monkeys supplied by Lytton Bionetics, a medical subsidiary of the military weapons producer, Lytton Systems, and a bioweapons contractor for the US defence industry and the CIA.
Their main African research labs and simian facilities were centered in Northwest Uganda, near Angola's border, and close to 'ground zero' for the emergence of Ebola.
Analysis - Reporter Keith Harmon Snow Talks Ebola
http://www.rense.com/general96/analykeith.html
"The US military-intelligence-AID-medical-pharma-complex is all over the Ebola virus..."
But never mind all that because there's good news too!
White House Suspends Enhanced Pathogen Research
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/10/white-house-suspends-enhanced-patho...
"Under the moratorium, government agencies will not fund research that attempts to make natural pathogens more transmissible through the air or more deadly in the body..."
Unfortunately, it obviously isn't 'retroactive'..
Ooookay,
I'll stop chuckling long enough to ask you for the source on that one. I'm up for a good yarn.
Uganda Health Worker Dies of Marburg Virus, Ebola Relative
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2014/10/05/ugandan-health-worker-...
"...Kent State University infectious disease specialist, Tara C Smith, PhD, wrote an excellent history of Marburg virus in 2007. The 1967 discovery of the virus precedes that of Ebola (1976), but occurred outside of Africa, in Marburg, Germany. Dr Smith writes,
'The year was 1967. Several laboratory workers, all from the same lab in Marburg, Germany, were hospitalized with a severe and strange disease....This led to the identification of the source of the virus in Germany: a species of African green monkeys, imported from Uganda, which were being used by the scientists for polio vaccine research. The virus was isolated and found to exhibit a unique morphology..."
Thomas Eric Duncan's fiancee set to complete Ebola quarantine on Monday
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/19/health/us-ebola/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Yes, I know about the Marburg outbreak. I used to live in Marburg.
I'd just like to see the source for your theory tracing that outbreak to Litton.
Virologist John Ball at the University of Nottingham interviewed on "The Science Hour" on BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p028hnzv
at around the 7 minute mark
Q:"Could the virus change the way it transmits and become airborne?"
A:"You can certainly understand why people are worried about that. The reason that the virus isn't very contagious is because it has adopted this reasonably inefficient transmission route. We know that lots of people are becoming infected but in general they're in very, very close contact dealing and handling with body fluids. But, there is a great worry, could this virus suddenly change and start to become spread by the airborne route and the reality is that we don't see that with viruses. Generally they tend to stick to the transmission route that they've adopted in the host because they generally would have to start using new receptors and also start to overcome lots of other factors that are present in different cells and in different tissues and it would have to overcome it instantaneously and I don't think we're going to see that."
Thanks Adam.
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Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola may be clear of the disease
Initial tests on Teresa Romero return negative result for the virus following treatment in isolation unit in Madrid
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/19/ebola-spanish-nurse-cleared...
Q:"Could the virus change the way it transmits and become airborne?"A:"You can certainly understand why people are worried about that. The reason that the virus isn't very contagious is because it has adopted this reasonably inefficient transmission route. We know that lots of people are becoming infected but in general they're in very, very close contact dealing and handling with body fluids. But, there is a great worry, could this virus suddenly change and start to become spread by the airborne route and the reality is that we don't see that with viruses. Generally they tend to stick to the transmission route that they've adopted in the host because they generally would have to start using new receptors and also start to overcome lots of other factors that are present in different cells and in different tissues and it would have to overcome it instantaneously and I don't think we're going to see that."
I'll add that when viruses mutate, they generally become less lethal, becuase if the viruses kill their hosts off completely then that makes it difficult for them to spread or survive long-term.
The Reston strain, nonlethal to humans, is believed to be able to transmit by air. It was first suspected at the time of the Reston outbreak
http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2012/11/19/pig-to-monkey-ebola-is-ther...
Ebola outbreak in the West: Why some survive, some don't
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/20/health/ebola-how-do-some-survive/index.htm...
WHO declares Nigeria free of Ebola
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/who-declares-nigeria-free-of-ebola-1.2061406
Q:"Could the virus change the way it transmits and become airborne?"A:"You can certainly understand why people are worried about that. The reason that the virus isn't very contagious is because it has adopted this reasonably inefficient transmission route. We know that lots of people are becoming infected but in general they're in very, very close contact dealing and handling with body fluids. But, there is a great worry, could this virus suddenly change and start to become spread by the airborne route and the reality is that we don't see that with viruses. Generally they tend to stick to the transmission route that they've adopted in the host because they generally would have to start using new receptors and also start to overcome lots of other factors that are present in different cells and in different tissues and it would have to overcome it instantaneously and I don't think we're going to see that."
I'll add that when viruses mutate, they generally become less lethal, becuase if the viruses kill their hosts off completely then that makes it difficult for them to spread or survive long-term.
I believe Professor Ball later said that in the interview.
US Army Withheld Promise From Germany That Ebola Virus Wouldn't Be Weaponized
http://rt.com/news/197500-us-army-ebola-weapon/
"The United States has withheld assurances from Germany that the Ebola virus - among other related diseases - would not be weaponized in the event of Germany exporting it to the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases.
Germany MFA Deputy Head of Division for Export Control, Markus Klinger provided a paper to the US consulate's Economics Office (Econoff), 'seeking assurances related to a proposed export of extremely dangerous pathogens.'
Germany subsequently made two follow up requests and clarifications to the Army, according to the unclassified Wikileaks cable.
'This matter concerns the complete genome of viruses such as the Zaire Ebola virus, the Lake Victoria Marburg virus, the Machupo virus, and the Lassa virus, which are absolutely among the most dangerous pathogens in the world,' the request notes.
The Zaire Ebola virus was the same strain of Ebola virus which has been rampaging through West Africa in recent months.
'The delivery would place the recipient in the position of being able to create replicating recombinant infectious species of the viruses,' the cable notes.
There is no follow-up document available to confirm whether the US Army eventually provided Germany with the necessary guarantees."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/ottawa-auc...
Ottawa continued to auction off stockpiled medical supplies to the public, even after the World Health Organization requested the protective gear amid an Ebola outbreak raging in West Africa.
Sales of so-called Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), which includes surgical masks and isolation gowns, also apparently took place despite requests that are said to have been made this summer via both Sierra Leone’s ambassador to the U.S. and a Canadian aid organization for donations to equip front-line health-care workers. And some of the low-priced auctioned gear landed in the hands of entrepreneurs who then tried to hawk the items for a profit.
Ebola: Are US Bioweapons Labs the Solution or the Problem?
http://www.accuracy.org/release/ebola-are-u-s-bioweapons-labs-the-soluti...
"...If, as some in the Liberian press are claiming, this outbreak of Ebola is from one of the labs in west Africa run by the CDC and Tulane University, it could be an unprecedented human disaster.
That could mean it was GMOed into a 'Fluebola.'
Recall that the 2001 weaponized anthrax attacks were traced to a US government lab. It's incredible that this outbreak occurred 1,000 miles from past outbreaks and it is clearly more transmissible."
New York doctor, recently returned from Guinea, being tested for Ebola
