Haemorrhagic fever / Ebola outbreaks have been reported - accident, natural or bio-weapon?

[Bob]

Ohio jumps in with monitoring restrictions -

Travelers who have been to to Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone within the past three weeks but have had no contact with anyone with Ebola will be subject to direct monitoring, restriction of travel and will be banned from public spaces.

Any healthcare worker who has treated patients in those countries, regardless of whether they show signs of illness or not, will be subject to home or other quarantine, the guidelines say.

meanwhile,

Ohio health officials late Saturday released 42 people from monitoring for the Ebola virus as a 21 day period expired since former Ebola patient Amber Vinson flew to Northeast Ohio.

The Ohio Department of Health said Sunday morning that the state is continuing to monitor 122 people: 3 people remain in quarantine, 11 in active monitoring, 61 in verified self-monitoring and 47 in self-monitoring, according to numbers posted on the department's website.

There still are no active cases of Ebola in Ohio.

Those monitoring numbers are down from Saturday morning, when 164 people remained under monitoring restrictions.

Thirty-seven people in Cuyahoga County and 36 people in Summit County remain under some sort of supervision. Officials expect all monitoring in those counties to end by 11:59 p.m. Monday if no one shows symptoms of the virus.

[Roisin]

So much stuff about quarantine's in New Jersey, Texas and Maine but not much at all about Ohio, at least in the news. Just goes to show that Ohio is such a boring place, even if an atomic bomb was dropped down on Cleveland it would barely, if at all, make national news.
In fact, there has not been much about those quarantines even on the local news here but good that no one so far has shown any symptom's. They did the right thing, unlike that crazy nurse from Maine.

[Bob]

http://cc.amazingcounters.com/counter.php?i=3190880&c=9572953


http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/11/4/1415097634574/b7cf8dd0-194e-4885-a135-ba9cfe24d78b-620x372.jpeg

Sierra Leone continues in wildfire-like mode while Liberia possibly is "burning itself out"

An expat businessman, Momah Konte, had returned from Washington some months ago and worked with local officials and tribal chiefs to try to prevent the spread. What was established was education, training, disinfection, and QUARANTINE. That dreaded word in the US Fed's dialect.. but it is the only way to STOP any potential infection from spreading.

What went wrong

Quarantine of the community was broken. There were local reports that Ebola had been brought to the district by an infected man who had traveled to the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone for a funeral. It shows that one can travel and be apparently free of symptoms but can be capable of spreading this 'so called hard to catch disease'.

Ebola comes as fresh figures show that Ebola is spreading nine times faster in parts of Sierra Leone than it was two months ago.

A report by the Africa Governance Initiative, set up by Tony Blair, which is supporting the country’s Ebola 117 hotline says there were 12 new cases a day in late October in the rural areas surrounding the capital Freetown, compared with an average of 1.3 cases in early September.

The district, is home to more than 260,000 people, borders Guinea, in Eastern Sierra Leone - this area is very rich in diamonds and gold. It is populated by many remote villages with the movement of traders and farmers difficult to control.

This new, uncontrolled infection chain could send the death toll soaring.

A Red Cross ambulance team was sent to the remote district of Koinadugu, which had prided itself on being the only area to have kept Ebola at bay (using the INCOMING travel quarantine policy). The team this Tuesday had to safely collect 30 corpses for medical burial.

source - the Guardian


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/UNsierraleone.PNG

All districts in Sierra Leone are now affected

[Bob]

Update Countries with declared travel restrictions - re: Ebola quarantine measures, or monitoring in-place, tracking of individuals

The list grows:

Health screening has also been implemented at ports of entry and departure in various countries throughout West Africa and is being introduced in Europe and North America countries.

Specific details of restrictions such as those listed below are difficult to verify and subject to change, while the implementation of state-imposed entry conditions can vary.

Flight schedules can change at short or little notice.

Advisory:

Travelers departing from countries affected by an outbreak of Ebola should seek itinerary-specific guidance from the relevant authorities on screening procedures and documentation requirements. Travelers should also reconfirm the status of flights before setting out and allow additional time during arrival and departure to pass through enhanced medical screening.


Entry restrictions

Africa


Cameroon on 17 September reopened its borders to travellers from Senegal. An 18 August ban remains in place on travel from Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Cape Verde on 9 October announced that it would now deny entry to non-resident foreigners coming from countries with ‘intense Ebola transmission' – Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia - or who have been to those countries in the previous 30 days.
Chad on 21 August closed its land border with Nigeria at Lake Chad. The country previously reportedly banned the entry of any travellers originating or transiting through Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria or Sierra Leone, with airlines serving the country reportedly rerouting flights.
Côte d'Ivoire in early October reopened its borders with Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, having closed the borders of 23 August.
Equatorial Guinea is denying entry to travellers whose journeys originated in countries affected by Ebola.
Gabon stated on 22 August that it is restricting the issuance of entry visas to travellers from Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria on a case-by-case basis.
Gambia on 1 September suspended entry of persons who have visited Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone or Nigeria in the 21 days prior to travel. Those travelling indirectly from any of the aforementioned countries to Gambia via another country also come under this measure.
Kenya on 10 October announced that it had closed the Suam border crossing (Trans-Nzoia county) with Uganda due to reports of an Ebola-related death in Bukwo district (Uganda). Earlier, the Kenyan authorities on 19 August suspended entry of passengers travelling from and through Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, excluding health professionals supporting efforts to contain the outbreak and Kenyan citizens.
Mauritania on 25 October closed its border with neighbouring Mali after an Ebola-related death in the border town of Kayes (Mali).
Mauritius on 8 October banned entry to all travellers who have visited Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Senegal and Congo (DRC) in the last two months, rather than just citizens of those countries, as was the case previously. The authorities have announced that entry restrictions for travellers from Senegal and Nigeria will be lifted on 10 October and 17 October respectively, if no further cases of Ebola infection are reported.
Namibia's foreign ministry on 11 September announced that foreigners travelling from countries affected by Ebola would be prohibited from entering the country.
Rwanda, according to the US Department of State on 22 August, has banned entry to travellers who have visited Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone in the 22 days prior to travel.
Senegal on 21 August closed its land border with Guinea, while the country's sea and air borders will also be closed to vessels and aircraft from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Seychelles on 8 October suspended entry to travellers who have visited Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Nigeria or Congo (DRC) 28 days prior to their journey, with the exception of Seychellois citizens.
Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states – Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe – have stated that travellers coming from Ebola-affected countries (according to the World Health Organisation, WHO) would be monitored for 21 days and that travel to member countries for any gatherings would be discouraged. The SADC provided no details as to how member countries will carry out the associated screening and follow-up and it is likely that countries will have individual processes. There are also reports that some countries require health documentation for entry. Travellers are advised to contact the embassy or health ministry of their destination country to clarify their individual circumstances and prepare their trips accordingly.
South Africa on 21 August restricted entry for all non-citizens travelling from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The government subsequently clarified that this was not a blanket ban and could be waived for 'absolutely essential travel'.
South Sudan has placed a ban on travellers coming from Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia or Congo (DRC), or those who have travelled to those countries in the preceding 21 days. According to the health ministry, entry of travellers from Nigeria depends on their travel history in that country and whether they have visited Ebola-affected areas.

Americas


Antigua and Barbuda on 17 October imposed an entry ban on nationals of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The ban will also apply on anyone who travels to the country within 21 days of visiting any of the aforementioned nations.
Belize announced on 18 October that it will stop issuing visas for nationals of Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria. Sierra Leone nationals, who do not need visas to enter Belize, will also be banned. In addition, travellers who have visited any of the aforementioned countries in the past 30 days will be prohibited from entering the country.
Canada The authorities on 31 October suspended the issuance of visas to travellers who have recently visited West African countries affected by the Ebola virus. The action covers those who have travelled to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the past three months.
Colombia imposed an entry ban from 14 October on any traveller who has visited Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal or Sierra Leone in the past four weeks. The restriction would also reportedly apply to Colombian nationals.
The Dominican Republic has banned entry to travellers who have been in the following countries in the past 30 days: Sierra Leone, Senegal, Liberia, Guinea, and Nigeria, as well as any countries that the World Health Organization has deemed to be affected by the Ebola virus.
Guyana announced on 16 October that visas will not be issued to nationals from Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. Furthermore, health officials will screen travellers who have visited these countries in the six weeks prior to their arrival in Guyana.
Haiti has banned (PDF) entry to travellers who have been to Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone in the past 28 days. Travellers who have been to these countries more than 28 days before travel to Haiti must present a government-certified health certificate and the results of a blood test for the Ebola virus upon arrival. It is uncertain at this time how these measures will be carried out or enforced. International SOS is monitoring the situation.
Jamaica imposed an entry ban from 16 October for travellers arriving from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as those who have visited these countries within the four weeks prior to their arrival. In addition, any Jamaican national who travels to the aforementioned countries will be quarantined for 28 days on return.
Panama on 22 October banned the entry of travellers who have visited Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the past 21 days. The ban will remain in place until the three countries are declared Ebola-free.
St Kitts and Nevis have restricted the entry of nationals from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Similar measures will also be applied to travellers who have visited these countries in the 21 days prior to arrival.
St Lucia has banned visitors from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The government has also announced that, in addition to a visa, visitors from Nigeria will be required to present a recent medical certificate clearing them of the virus. No further details are available at this stage, though we are investigating further.
St Maarten has said that visitors who have travelled to, from or through Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the past 21 days will be denied to enter or transit the country. Individuals returning from the above countries who live in St Maarten will be allowed to enter on condition that they agree to be quarantined for at least 21 days upon arrival.
St Vincent and the Grenadines has banned visitors from Guinea, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
Suriname has banned entry to foreign travellers who have been to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the past 21 days, unless they can present an ‘internationally recognised health certificate’ clearing them of the virus. No further details are available at this time.
Trinidad and Tobago announced on 16 October that it would deny entry to nationals of Congo (DRC), Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. In addition, travellers who have visited any of the aforementioned countries in the past six weeks will be quarantined for 21 days upon arrival.
The United States announced that beginning 22 October, any passengers beginning their travels in Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea will only be able to enter the country through the following airports: JFK International Airport (JFK, New York state), Newark International Airport (EWR, New Jersey), Dulles International Airport (IAD, Washington, DC), Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL, Georgia) or Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD, Illinois).

Others


Australia has suspended the issuance of visas to travellers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Travellers from these countries who hold permanent visas can enter Australia if they have been quarantined for 21 days prior to arrival, while those who have received non-permanent visas and who have not departed for Australia will have their visas cancelled.
North Korea has banned foreign tourists since 24 October over fears of ebola; the ban applies to all entry points and border crossings. All other visitors will reportedly be required to spent 21 days in government-supervised quarantine, regardless of their country of origin or point of departure.
Singapore: The authorities have announced that 5 November onwards nationals of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone will require visas to enter the country. The government also said that nationals of the three countries, as well as citizens of Congo (DRC) and Mali, will be screened for fever at all entry points. Other travellers who have visited these countries recently will also be screened.

Flights and other transport

Countries that have implemented Ebola-related travel (flight) restrictions:


Cameroon has banned flights to and from Nigeria. Chad has suspended all flights from Nigeria.
Côte d'Ivoire has now lifted the ban on passenger flights from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Gabon has banned the entry of flights and ships from countries affected by Ebola.
Gambia has banned the entry of flights from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
Nigeria has suspended flights to the country operated by Gambian national carrier Gambia Bird.
Senegal has banned flights from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Details of airlines that have restricted flights to Ebola-affected countries:


Air France suspended flights to Sierra Leone from 28 August.
The Togo-based carrier Asky Airlines has suspended flights to and from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Arik Air (Nigeria), Gambia Bird and Kenya Airways have suspended services to Liberia and Sierra Leone.
British Airways has extended their suspension of flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone until 31 December.
Emirates Airlines has suspended flights to Guinea.
Korean Air suspended flights to and from Kenya from 20 August.
Senegal Airlines has suspended flights to and from Conakry (Guinea) until further notice.

Other airlines have modified their routes but are still operating regular scheduled services.
These include:


Royal Air Maroc
Brussels Airlines.


Medical screening

Entry and exit health screening is now in place in numerous countries throughout West Africa and is being introduced in Europe and North America countries as well; related measures can include the partial closure of land borders, ports and river crossings in an effort to restrict cross-border travel. Anyone attempting to travel with any ebola-like symptoms will most likely be detained in a designated facility and have their ability to travel removed for the length of the quarantine period. If falsification occurs on travel documents, denying exposure (if exposure occurred, or if in the case of a health care worker, if ebola patients were being treated where the health care worker was stationed and such misrepresented or not stated on the travel documents,) arrest/jail is possible and mandatory quarantine.

[Bob]

Dear Mr. Speaker:

Today, I ask the Congress to consider the enclosed emergency appropriations request for Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 that includes $6.18 billion to implement a comprehensive strategy to contain and end the Ebola outbreak at its source in Africa, enhance domestic preparedness, speed the procurement and testing of vaccines and therapeutics, and accelerate global capability to prevent the spread of future infectious diseases.

The request includes $4.64 billion for immediate needs and $1.54 billion in contingency funding to ensure that there are resources available to respond to the evolving epidemic both domestically and internationally.

Specifically, the request includes resources for:


domestic hospital and State and local preparedness;
resources to support training as well as the acquisition of appropriate protective equipment;
medical and non-medical management of Ebola treatment units and community care centers;
infection control;
contact tracing;
laboratory capacity;
disease surveillance;
emergency operation centers;
education and outreach;
burial teams;
addressing food insecurity and other adverse impacts of the outbreak in affected areas; and
testing and development of new vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.


--source (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/05/letter-president-emergency-appropriations-request-ebola-fiscal-year-2015) - WhiteHouse, President Obama

05 November, 2014

[Calz]

*IF TRUE* this would account for the lack of news lately at least in the USA. Some had speculated it was quieted down due to the elections but this alleges otherwise ...

________________________


Media Agrees “Not to Report” on Suspected Ebola Cases in U.S.

Pharmacologist reveals how press has bowed to government demand to keep Americans in the dark


An eyebrow-raising admission at the end of a Forbes article written by pharmacologist David Kroll reveals that the media has agreed not to report on suspected Ebola cases in the United States.

In a piece entitled Liberian Traveler At Duke Hospital Shows Preliminary Negative Result For Ebola, Kroll describes attending a press conference involving Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos.

After revealing that “an unnamed official abruptly called the press conference to a close” when Wos was asked a difficult question about the suspected Ebola victim, Kroll then drops a bombshell.

“The Associated Press and other press outlets have agreed not to report on suspected cases of Ebola in the United States until a positive viral RNA test is completed,” he writes.

Kroll then felt the need to justify why he was talking about the suspected Ebola case at Duke Hospital, which subsequently turned out to be negative, explaining that he was, “covering tonight’s announcement of a potential Ebola case because it has been reported in my area, and at Duke University Medical Center, an institution where I hold an unpaid adjunct associate professor appointment in their Department of Medicine.”

The agreement between major media outlets and health authorities – presumably the CDC – not to report on potential Ebola cases in the United States was apparently made behind the scenes with no public discussion whatsoever. This is sure to heighten criticism of the CDC’s handling of the Ebola outbreak in the U.S., which is already under close scrutiny.

While the CDC will almost certainly claim that such an arrangement is necessary to prevent hysteria, many will see this as another example of how the mainstream press is more interested in acquiescing to government demands than keeping the American people informed.

In an interview on the Alex Jones Show last month, Doctor James Lawrenzi revealed that health authorities are covering up potential Ebola cases in the United States and disappearing patients in an effort to avoid hysteria.

With flu season fast approaching, experts have warned that the reporting of Ebola-like symptoms which are in fact influenza could overwhelm health authorities. Medical professionals have predicted that the U.S. could see over one hundred Ebola cases by the end of the year.

Last week we reported on how the government had sent 250,000 Hazmat suits to Dallas, while the CDC is also set to purchase over 1.4 million surgical gowns and nearly 10,000 body bags in response to the outbreak.


http://www.infowars.com/media-agrees-not-to-report-on-suspected-ebola-cases-in-u-s/

[Roisin]

I have a niece who is a nurse/midwife who works in a Texas/Mexico border town. Because she's got young children, she has quit her job due to the Ebola situation. Actually, it was her husband who demanded that she quit her job and quite frankly, I don't blame him for asking her to do that. As Calz's article states, hospitals are not reporting to the public those suspected Ebola cases they have nor is the media reporting them either. Rest assured, as more time goes by, we will be seeing more and more cases of health personnel quitting their jobs; especially the ones with small children at home.

[Bob]

In Post #755 above in the itemized list for funds.. what is not clear is that list for domestic or overseas operations..

Specifically, the request includes resources for:

domestic hospital and State and local preparedness;
resources to support training as well as the acquisition of appropriate protective equipment;
medical and non-medical management of Ebola treatment units and community care centers;
infection control;
contact tracing;
laboratory capacity;
disease surveillance;
emergency operation centers;
education and outreach;
burial teams;
addressing food insecurity and other adverse impacts of the outbreak in affected areas; and
testing and development of new vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.

It starts with Domestic - breaks that down to State and Local preparedness and tosses in Hospital - what hospital? Local, State, or ?? There are "hospital ships", and there are "MASH" units, field hospitals - are those the "other" hospitals other than State and Local?

Are the rest of the items for Domestic and State? if so, seeing for instance "burial teams" for State and Local necessity? that is worrisome.. Obviously "burial teams" is a big issue for West Africa. there have been many reports of when the infection first simmered down in May of 2014, and then flared up.. then went wildfire.

What is "disease surveillance" ? What disease specifically? " to prevent the spread of future infectious diseases. " That is in the opening statement made by the US President. It starts with coming up with the "Ebola Solution" and ends with "spread of future infectious diseases.." Does disease surveillance consist of getting INTO top secret bioweapons labs, espionage, determining what new weapons Russia or China have developed?

Who is to get these funds? In post #746 above it was spelled out VERY clearly, this bioweapon situation has been being acted on years ago.. Post points out in 2012 various department of Defence groups created 4 major programs which had to be funded from somewhere. Early as 2009 this: "a memorandum released to the military department secretaries announcing that emerging infectious diseases would become part of the chemical and biological defense mission."

Another question - WHY are NEW vaccines (or monoclonal antibody treatment substances) needed if the existing 150Million $ given by the US military to Canadian Companies, and US companies for developing a "working vaccine" for the existing Ebola-Zaire strain was a complete workable solution?

A new requirement for new vaccines/mAB treatment(s) would mean that the virus MUTATED and the old treatments no longer worked.. AND that would be a very good reason why the "silence" order..

Reuters inquired within the last two days, from many groups working with developing treatments.. WHAT they found is quite eye opening.. These groups have been prevented from obtaining CURRENT SAMPLES of the virus - the researchers have said VIRUS HAS MUTATED we need to know HOW so we can come up with current solutions..

AND lastly - about those New Emerging Pathogens.. aren't they being seen such as the virus creating paralysis with the kids, which isn't polio, but something else?


The new division is part of a multiagency effort to implement the nation’s first U.S. National Strategy for Biosurveillance, released in 2012 by the White House to make sure federal agencies can quickly detect and respond to global health and security hazards.

It’s also part of a push to increase DOD diagnostics funding through the department’s biodefense program, Andrew C. Weber, assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs, told American Forces Press Service in an interview last year.

Some of the work is done by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Joint Science and Technology Office of the Chemical and Biological Defense Program, as well as by the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense.

In October 2009, Weber himself ushered the Chemical and Biological Defense Program into the biosurveillance business by signing a memorandum to the military department secretaries announcing that emerging infectious diseases would become part of the chemical and biological defense mission.

The budget line item for "education and outreach" - again where, Africa or Domestic? What has to NOT be told domestically for instance ? What HAS to be told overseas?

What is very clear is this has been a military operation from the get-go. Watching the dis-information and information REMOVAL campaign ramp up won't undo the bootprints well established.


*IF TRUE* this would account for the lack of news lately at least in the USA. Some had speculated it was quieted down due to the elections but this alleges otherwise ...

________________________


Media Agrees “Not to Report” on Suspected Ebola Cases in U.S.

Pharmacologist reveals how press has bowed to government demand to keep Americans in the dark

[..]
Last week we reported on how the government had sent 250,000 Hazmat suits to Dallas, while the CDC is also set to purchase over
1.4 million surgical gowns and
nearly 10,000 body bags in response to the outbreak.





I have a niece who is a nurse/midwife who works in a Texas/Mexico border town. Because she's got young children, she has quit her job due to the Ebola situation. Actually, it was her husband who demanded that she quit her job and quite frankly, I don't blame him for asking her to do that.

As Calz's article states, hospitals are not reporting to the public those suspected Ebola cases they have nor is the media reporting them either.

Rest assured, as more time goes by, we will be seeing more and more cases of health personnel quitting their jobs; especially the ones with small children at home.

[Bob]

More of a breakdown of the Ebola and Emerging Diseases Budget - 5 Nov 2014 USA - SOURCE official WhiteHouse Fact Sheet released 5 Nov 2014

(Note the underlined and color emphasised sections - emphasis/discussion noted also in parenthesis)

Since the first cases of Ebola were reported in West Africa in March 2014, the United States has mounted a whole-of-government response to contain and eliminate the epidemic at its source, while also taking prudent measures to protect the American people. (First case for current "incident event" appeared December 2013 and was not discussed at that time in Public; we started reporting on the "Anomaly" in March, the outset of this thread, and continued to provide data, background, history, education, solutions, despite numerous poo poo'ing all across the board including "those on the hill".. MILITARY response has been ONGOING since at least 2009, see post above..)

Today, the Administration announced it is seeking $6.18 billion through an emergency funding request to Congress to enhance our comprehensive efforts to address this urgent situation. To help meet both immediate and longer-term requirements, $4.64 billion is requested for immediate response and $1.54 billion is requested as a Contingency Fund to ensure that there are resources available to meet the evolving nature of the epidemic.

The $4.64 billion for the Administration’s immediate response, as outlined below, is designed to fortify domestic public health systems, contain and mitigate the epidemic in West Africa, speed the procurement and testing of vaccines and therapeutics, and strengthen global health security by reducing risks to Americans by enhancing capacity for vulnerable countries to prevent disease outbreaks, detect them early, and swiftly respond before they become epidemics that threaten our national security.

These are the same activities that are necessary to combat the spread of Ebola and reduce the potential for future outbreaks of infectious diseases that could follow a similarly devastating, costly, and destabilizing trajectory. (Combat: MILITARY ACTION - see posts #741, 742, 744, 746 above, the word COMBAT is accurate but does not specify the CONTEXT.. Those posts listed get into what CONTEXT..)

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - $2.43 billion:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - $1.83 billion.

The request includes funding to prevent, detect, and respond to the Ebola epidemic and other infectious diseases and public health emergencies both at home and abroad for the following activities: (HOW CAN CDC PREVENT - it has been shown that their released documentation is INADEQUATE to prevent infection to health care workers and first responders - this apparently is a sham that they can "prevent" anything..)

Fortify domestic public health systems and advance U.S. preparedness with support to more than 50 Ebola Treatment Centers through state and local public health departments. (this is a significant statement, if there is NO CONCERN, NO WORRIES why the heck would anyone need specifically 50 EBOLA TREATMENT CENTERS LOCALLY?)


Improve Ebola readiness within State and local public health departments and laboratories.

Procure personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Strategic National Stockpile.

Increase support for monitoring of travelers at U.S. airports. (this is a broad statement - monitoring complete, not just disease.. can be assumed)

Control the epidemic in the hardest hit countries in Africa by funding activities including: infection control, contact tracing and laboratory surveillance and training; emergency operation centers and preparedness; and education and outreach.

Conduct evaluations of clinical trials in affected countries to assess safety and efficacy of vaccine candidates. (This directly goes up against other Countries attempting to setup similar trials and vaccine "candidates" - Russia has said last month THEY WOULD go there and setup their own vaccine development centers, is this a mutual effort or a competition, or a strong-arm approach?)


Establish global health security capacity in vulnerable countries to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to outbreaks before they become epidemics by standing up emergency operations centers (http://www.dhs.gov/fusion-centers-and-emergency-operations-centers) (See Note "*" below); providing equipment and training needed to test patients and report data in real-time; providing safe and secure laboratory capacity; and developing a trained workforce to track and end outbreaks before they become epidemics. (What is meant by ENDING (or mitigating) an OUTBREAK before they become epidemics? There are only a couple known ways to do that, 1) kill the infected herd member, or herd 2) quarantine the infected herd member or herd until it burns itself out in the herd) 3) medically treat the infected member and/or herd )

These are the same activities (ABOVE) that are necessary to combat the spread of Ebola and reduce the potential for future outbreaks of infectious diseases that could follow a similarly devastating, costly, and destabilizing trajectory. (THIS "SAME ACTIVITIES" statement means such can apply domestically/locally or internationally).


Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund (PHSSEF) - $333 million.

The request includes $166 million for PHSSEF to immediately respond to patients with highly-infectious diseases such as Ebola, including for the purchase of and training on the use of PPE at hospitals across the United States and to support more than 50 Ebola Treatment Centers. (IF the disease doesn't exist (is a sham, disinformation), WHY are 50 treatment centers needed that have to be supported? Why are there patients needed to be supported if none exist? AND the drumbeat, over and over, news, social media, "it is hard to catch" - that drumbeat hard to catch nonsense is disinformation/misinformation especially since the BUDGET REQUEST line item explains it as "highly-infectious"..)


These Ebola Treatment Centers would be able to provide a higher level of definitive care in an isolated setting with point-of-care laboratory testing. (Is this the FEMA detention center - isolated setting with self contained point of care laboratory on-site)

In addition, the request includes $157 million for the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) for immediate response to manufacture vaccines and synthetic therapeutics for use in clinical trials. (Synthetic therapeutics instead of natural substances? what exactly are synthetics? Man made? Whence made it is not a synthetic..)

The request also includes $10 million to aid in modeling and genetic sequencing of the Ebola virus. (Who is getting the 10M$ to do computer modeling?)

National Institutes of Health - $238 million. The request includes funding for immediate response for advanced clinical trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of investigational vaccines and therapeutics.

Food and Drug Administration - $25 million. The request includes funding for immediate response for development, review, regulation, and post-market surveillance of an Ebola vaccine and therapeutics.

U.S. Agency for International Development - $1.98 billion:

The request includes funding for USAID to scale up the U.S. foreign assistance response to contain the Ebola crisis in West Africa and assist in the region’s recovery from the epidemic. USAID is the lead agency for the overall U.S. response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, partnering with CDC, which is the medical lead.

USAID's request expands emergency assistance to contain the epidemic, address humanitarian needs and support the recovery of affected countries in the region.

The request supports the medical and non-medical management of Ebola treatment units and community care facilities; provides them with PPE and supplies; helps establish the regional logistics network needed to support the international crisis response; increases the number of safe burial teams; addresses food insecurity and other second-order impacts in affected communities, such as adverse effects on maternal and child health; and bolsters community education efforts critical to prevent the spread of the disease.

The request also expands global health security activities to prevent Ebola from spreading, enhance local health care systems’ ability to report threats in real-time, and establish needed capability for expert personnel and equipment to stop health emergencies before they become epidemics.

This will help limit the spread of Ebola beyond Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea to other vulnerable nations and will increase preparedness and response capacity for future outbreaks.

Department of State - $127 million:

The request includes funding to expand the Department’s medical support and evacuation capacity to overseas posts in the affected region, provide additional repatriation assistance, and support other diplomatic operational needs including an Ebola Coordination Unit. (if there is nothing happening, nothing to see there, why do they need to evacuate ambassadors their families and support staff?)

The request also includes resources to fund estimated U.S. contributions to the new United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) and provide a voluntary contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO) to enable it to continue to provide essential technical support for overall coordination, surveillance, and data collection in each Ebola-affected country.

Lastly, the request includes funding for biosafety training efforts as well as training for civil aviation staff to implement sound screening procedures in West African countries.

Department of Defense - $112 million:

The request includes funding for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to support immediate efforts aimed at developing technologies that are relevant to the Ebola crisis, such as providing immediate temporary immunity, including through the use of antibodies from survivors of Ebola and other infectious diseases that will help provide a stop gap until an effective vaccine is available, and developing new technologies that could shorten the vaccine development timeline from years to months.

(The above is specifically revealing - temporary immunity means mutations are happening, and they know it.. this is worrisome and can explain why 50 Ebola treatment centers ARE needed in the US...)

Contingency Fund:

The Administration is requesting $1.54 billion for a Contingency Fund, with $751 million for HHS and $792 million for USAID and the Department of State.

Given the changing nature of the Ebola epidemic, (Note that they are calling this NOW an EPIDEMIC, not just an OUTBREAK)

the Contingency Fund is requested to ensure that there are resources available to respond to the evolving situation. (Meaning they do NOT KNOW where this is going)

If necessary, the Contingency Fund could support increased domestic efforts, such as expanded monitoring; a limited vaccination campaign that could target health care workers treating infected patients (if a vaccine is proven safe and effective); an expanded response in Guinea, Sierra Leone or other countries if the virus spreads; and, enhanced global health security efforts.

As the rapidly evolving and unpredictable outbreak progresses, it is necessary to have maximum flexibility to respond quickly.

Ongoing Activities:

The emergency funding requested today complements the ongoing efforts to combat the spread of Ebola, which includes deploying key medical and expert personnel to the affected countries, increasing the Department of Defense’s deployed presence of up to 4,000 service members, building a new hospital for infected health care workers, building Ebola Treatment Units, and reaching out to communities assisting with safe burials.

Domestically, this funding expands upon the existing system that screens entrants from West Africa for Ebola symptoms, monitors at-risk individuals, identifies and treats Ebola patients at selected hospitals.

Without these additional resources, agencies will be unable to help control the epidemic, mitigate economic, social and political impacts of the crisis, ensure adequate domestic preparedness, develop safe and effective treatments and vaccines or expedite global health security capacity to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to outbreaks before they become epidemics. (The US has said this outbreak has evolved to an EPIDEMIC already..see above)

For these reasons, this emergency funding is needed to enhance the Administration’s current whole-of-government response to help end the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and support increased domestic preparedness. (The lack of information in the WHOLE MILITARY RESPONSE is very revealing in what it doesn't talk about as described in the earlier posts such as #746 above)

NOTE: STANDING UP Emergency Operations Centers reference.. This gets into the HomeLand Security FUSION CENTER program.. (here (http://www.dhs.gov/fusion-centers-and-emergency-operations-centers)) -


Emergency Operations Centers Overview

Multi-agency coordination of information and resources to support incident management activities occurs at EOCs.

Unlike fusion centers, which primarily focus on crime and terrorism prevention, EOCs focus on the response to and the short-term recovery from an incident or natural disaster.

The core functions of an EOC include coordination, communication, resource allocation and tracking, and information collection, analysis and dissemination related to a specific incident.

EOCs help form a common operating picture during an incident, provide external coordination to on-scene command, and secure additional resources.

EOCs also facilitate the sharing of all-hazards operational information and other subject matter expertise in support of incident management and response activities.

While EOCs generally coordinate activities related to specific incidents, fusion centers support ongoing prevention activities and maintain situational awareness of the threat environment.

Most states maintain a state-level EOC configured to expand, as necessary, to manage events requiring state-level assistance when an incident occurs.

Additionally, most local jurisdictions, tribal governments, and territories have either a standing EOC facility or the ability to quickly establish an EOC in multi-purpose space.

EOCs may be organized by major functional disciplines (e.g., fire, law enforcement, medical services); by jurisdiction (e.g., federal, state, regional, tribal, city, county); or by some combination thereof.

While some EOCs maintain standing watch teams, most EOCs are activated to support an incident.

During “steady-state,” or the period between incidents, EOC activities and staffing decrease significantly, whereas fusion centers maintain consistent support and staffing levels.

Read more in "The Guide" - HERE (http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=5695) (produced by FEMA - This Guide outlines the roles of fusion centers and state and local EOCs within the fusion process and identifies the planning and coordination considerations each entity should take into account when working together to share information (i.e. via Fusion Liaison Officer programs). )

[Calz]

Move along ... nothing to see here folks ... keep on shopping ...

:doh:

_______________________


The Ebola outbreak in Texas has ended.

As of midnight Friday, it was 21 days since anyone got Ebola or was in contact with someone who got Ebola.


http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/its-over-texas-ebola-outbreak-has-ended-n242931

[tessie999]

Hey Bob, Your updated information is so very helpful . Peace and great health to you .

[Bob]

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/images/smilies/doh.gif

Dr. Kent Brantly received it while over in Africa, and rapidly the biophamaceutical firm said it was zMapp that did the deed..

But Dr. Brantly has provided blood numerous times now to be used in a serum of antibodies.. which apparently has helped patients rapidly recover (if their blood type is compatible)..

So scientists have said er, dohh.. how about we clone the products from Brantly's blood? same as how they were going to make more monoclonal antibody treatment in the zMapp mAB product..

Owie.. that got Mapp biophama upset, as they will loose their multi-billion $$ market making a very scarce product called zMapp..

As has been pointed out, the single monoclonal antibody works on a strain or a couple different variants of the Ebola-Zaire strain, now called Ebola-Guinea variant.. This virus though is highly mutagenic, and it is believed that the various agencies know this, and we have seen the simple monoclonal antibody (or vaccine) start to fail.. such is the supposition, we shall see how this transpires..

The proposal to create a massive antibody treatment (as opposed the the Mapp Pharma approach) was sent to officials at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Food and Drug Administration, to lawmakers and to biotech companies. They have not responded, said geneticist Michael Wigler of Cold Spring Harbor Lab, who wrote and gathered signatures for the position paper. The recipients did not respond for comment or said they had no comment. How interesting.. A promising solution being tossed to the wind by the Agencies who would be getting the billions from the Ebola-Bill being sent to Congress..

So, solutions NOT WANTED ?? WHY is that?


Nobel laureates David Baltimore, an expert in the molecular biology of the immune system, James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix that is DNA, and Jim Simons, who founded hedge-fund Renaissance Technologies and was a pioneer in the quant revolution on Wall Street, are among the advocates of the idea.

source - Reuters

[Bob]

Well that mutation ability certainly didn't stop profits oriented Tekmira..

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NASDAQ:TKMR) (TSE:TKM) has officially confirmed that it has begun the limited GMP production of a new variant of its TKM-Ebola. This new version targets specifically the Ebola-Guinea virus, the strain that has killed over 4,900 people in West Africa. The company said its therapeutic would be available by the end of this year.


Clarus Securities analyst David Novak said in a research note that the improved TKM-Ebola has a greater probability of “demonstrating highest efficacy” against the current Ebola strain that is responsible for the epidemic. The Ebola virus mutates frequently as it reproduces. So, treatments that have been developed against an older strain would be less effective against the current strain of the virus.

Tekmira’s genomic approach offers a key benefit. It can easily tweak its treatment to make it specific to the current genome of the virus.

It doesn’t require much development time lag. (Marketing promo)

Using the genetic map of Ebola-Guinea, Tekmira has modified its therapeutic payload, which it has started manufacturing in limited quantities for potential use in West Africa.

They have admitted that the old product doesn't work as it should and has required a CHANGE in the treatment due to the mutations

(Source (http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/10/tekmira-tkmr-improve-tkm-ebola/))

[Bob]

NY City has had a 300% in increase in monitoring

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), and the NYC Health and Hospital Corporation (HHC) announced that the number of individuals in New York City who are being “actively monitored” for the Ebola infection has jumped to 357 people from 117 people the prior week.

That represents almost a 300% increase.

This also does not represent people who have entered New York City from West Africa and potentially lied on their entry forms, regarding the risk that they carry the virus. Those people wouldn’t even currently show up in the NYC Ebola watch list count.

The press release reported that the “vast majority” of the increased number of possible Ebola patients now in New York City represents people who have recently come to the United States from the Ebola-stricken West African countries by airplane.

Under the “active monitoring” regimen New York City “health officials have to check in with affected individuals daily, rather than just allowing people to monitor their own symptoms.” As more people arrive from West Africa the number is likely to dramatically increase. After the 21-day maximum incubation period for Ebola, though, if the patient hasn’t shown any symptoms, he can be taken off the monitoring.

[avid]

I still check out Jane Burgermeister.
http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/


WHO LIED ABOUT EBOLA EMERGENCY DECLARATION: THERE WAS A BIG PHARMA CONFLICT OF INTEREST: PROOF
November 8, 2014
*WHO HAS MISLED THE PUBLIC, LIED AND CONCEALED THE FINANCIAL STAKE OF GSK IN AN EBOLA EMERGENCY DECLARATION

*WHO SPOKESPERSON GREGORY HARTL DENIED ANY EBOLA VACCINE WAS AVAILABLE IN AN EMAIL IN APRIL

*YET IN MARCH GSK APPROACHED WHO WITH ITS EBOLA VACCINE CANDIDATE

*AS SOON AS WHO DECLARED EBOLA AN INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY IN AUGUST, GSK WAS GIVEN THE GREEN LIGHT TO PRODUCE THE EBOLA VACCINE

*LUCRATIVE CONTRACT WHICH COULD INVOLVE 230,000 DOSES IN APRIL ALREADY

*RERUN OF SWINE FLU SCANDAL OF 2009 WHEN WHO CONCEALED CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS FROM PUBLIC IN SWINE FLU EMERGENCY DECLARATION

*SCIENTISTS WITH LINKS TO GSK AND BIG PHARMA ADVISED WHO TO DECLARE SWINE FLU AN EMERGENCY, GENERATING WINDFALL

In May 2013 GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) bought a Swiss vaccine-maker for $325m, called Okairos, which had a preclinical Ebola vaccine candidate.

In March 2014, GSK contacted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to let it know that it had an Ebola vaccine.

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21629399-drugmakers-bet-vaccines-will-help-fight-against-ebola-giving-it-shot

That means, as early as March, WHO knew that GSK had a financial stake in WHO declaring Ebola declaration of emergency of international concern because such a declaration would trigger lucrative vaccine contracts for GSK.

Yet in an email sent to me on April 3, WHO spokesperson Gregory Haertl denied any conflict of interest, writing:

“And I am not sure I understand your question about Conflicts of Interest: how can there be, when there is no vaccine and no antivirals available for Ebola, and the treatments that are being trialled are from already-existing drugs?”



In fact, as soon as WHO declared Ebola an international emergency in August, GSK was given the green light to produce its Ebola vaccine.

My original query about a conflict of interest was sent to Glenn Thomas, the WHO spokesperson who died in a mysterious MH17 plane crash in the Ukraine, which still has not been explained.

http://rt.com/news/186812-mh17-report-russia-churkin/



Why is this important? The only finding of a major swine flu vaccine inquiry in 2010 was that WHO had concealed the ties of its experts to Big Pharma.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/jun/04/swine-flu-experts-big-pharmaceutical

Many of the scientists on the WHO’s emergency panel had links with firms including GlaxoSmithKline, who made millions manufacturing swine flu vaccines as soon as WHO declared the swine flu an emergency.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1302505/WHO-swine-flu-advisers-ties-drug-firms-Experts-linked-vaccine-producers.html#ixzz3ITIixbbd
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In 2014, WHO has once more concealed conflicts of interests from the public. The email of Gregory Hartl is proof that WHO has deliberately misled the public about the financial stake which GSK had in inflating Ebola deaths and in WHO declaring Ebola an international emergency.

According to a Discussion Note, WHO URGENT Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) vaccine access meeting October 21, 2014. Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway, GSK could scale up production to 230,000 doses by April already.

“GSK estimates (see table below, and here) that it will have 24,000 doses of its vaccine

ready by January for the efficacy trials. If it cranks up production to full capacity before

the those trials are complete, the company could have 230,000 doses available in April.

http://news.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/Norway_submission_WHO_EVD_23Oct2014.pdf


also this about the Catholic problems of mass sterilization:

KENYAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS ACCUSE WHO AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS OF SECRET MASS STERILIZATION PROGRAMME
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Kenya’s Catholic bishops are charging two United Nations organizations with sterilizing millions of girls and women under cover of an anti-tetanus inoculation program sponsored by the Kenyan government, reports Infowars.

http://www.infowars.com/a-mass-sterilization-exercise-kenyan-doctors-find-anti-fertility-agent-in-un-tetanus-vaccine/

A statement signed by 27 Catholic Bishops alleges complicity in the Kenyan Ministry of Health.

The statement will be a wake up call to Africans to the extent of the corruption among their own Health Ministers and regulators as African health ministries and regulators move to approve potentially deadly Ebola phase II vaccine trials among thousands of health care workers.

It has emerged that the Kenyan Ministry of Health must have known the tetanus vaccines contained the Beta- HCG hormone which causes infertility and multiple miscarriages in women.

Prior knowledge can be the only explanation for why government officials kept such tight control over the vaccines, sending police as escorts, while refusing samples for independent laboratory tests.

Given the precedents, it is to be feared that the laxity of the Kenyan Health Ministry and regulators are due to a secret slush funds.

GlaxoSmithKline has a long record of bribery and fraud. GSK was fined 500 million dollars in China in September for bribing doctors and regulators.

GSK is a key player in unrolling a potentially dangerous Ebola vaccine in Africa – and African health ministries and regulators are complicit in preparing to allow these extremely risky vaccines to be given to thousands health workers in poorly designed trials, which will highly likely not capture adverse events reactions.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/19/us-gsk-china-idUSKBN0HE0TC20140919

The African health ministries and regulators are, of course, no more corrupt than the US FDA or the European regulators.

Merck’s own former Doctor predicts that Gardasil will become the greatest medical scandal of all time. I think the Ebola jab will become the greatest medical scandal of all time, dwarfing even the swine flu jab scandal.

http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/mercks-former-doctor-predicts-that-gardasil-will-become-the-greatest-medical-scandal-of-all-time/#sthash.1SrGTqxm.dpuf

http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/mercks-former-doctor-predicts-that-gardasil-will-become-the-greatest-medical-scandal-of-all-time/

Statement signed by the Catholic Bishops on November 26th.

http://www.dioceseofkitui.org/component/content/article/2-uncategorised/111-kutui-nairobi-dinner

2. The Tetanus Vaccine
Dear Kenyans, due to the direction the debate on the ongoing Tetanus Vaccine campaign in Kenya is taking, We, the Catholic Bishops, in fulfilling our prophetic role, wish to restate our position as follows:

The Catholic Church is NOT opposed to regular vaccines administered in Kenya, both in our own Church health facilities and in public health institutions.
However, during the second phase of the Tetanus vaccination campaign in March 2014, that is sponsored by WHO/UNICEF, the Catholic Church questioned the secrecy of the exercise. We raised questions on whether the tetanus vaccine was linked to a population control program that has been reported in some countries, where a similar vaccine was laced with Beta- HCG hormone which causes infertility and multiple miscarriages in women.
On March 26, 2014 and October 13, 2014, we met the Cabinet Secretary in-charge of health and the Director of Medical Services among others and rasied our concerns about the Vaccine and agreed to jointly test the vaccine. However the ministry did not cooperate and the joint tests were not done
The Catholic Church struggled and acquired several vials of the vaccine, which we sent to Four unrelated Government and private laboratories in Kenya and abroad.
We want to announce here, that all the tests showed that the vaccine used in Kenya in March and October 2014 was indeed laced with the Beta- HCG hormone.
On 13th of October 2014, the Catholic Church gave copies of the results to the cabinet secretary and the Director of Medical Services. The same was emailed to the Director of Medical Services on October 17, 2014.
Based on the above grounds, We, the Catholic Bishops in Kenya, wish to State the following:

That we are shocked at the level of dishonesty and casual manner in which such a serious issue is being handled by the Government.
That a report presented to the Parliamentary Committee on Health November 4, 2014 by the Ministry of Health, claiming that the Government had tested the Vaccine and found it clean of Beta- HCG hormone, is false and a deliberate attempt to distort the truth and mislead 42 million Kenyans.
That we are dismayed by attempts to intimidate and blackmail medical professionals who have corroborated information about the vaccine, with threats of disciplinary action. We commend and support all professionals who have stood by the truth.
That we shall not waver in calling upon all Kenyans to avoid the tetanus vaccination campaign laced with Beta-HCG, because we are convinced that it is indeed a disguised population control programme.

[Bob]

Creating a vaccine for a strain which would have mutated past any antibody production ability seems to me to show somebody makes a WHOLE LOT OF $$$ each time something "changes".

Apparently this strain was known about since December 2013 at the earliest that it was "different" but close enough to be a variant of Ebola-Zaire, but not like the other strains mentioned in the beginning of this thread..

Same with the monoclonal antibody therapies.. AND for that matter, those immune to the strain variant that they caught may NOT be immune to the current variant even a few months afterwards.

That is the folly of the vaccine theory, with a mutation it becomes useless.. With the adjunctives in the vaccines one may develop hyperimmune responses to even one's own cells, or possibly, a new vaccine for a new variant, would go after the body's cells previously treated with the old variant..

I think the issue should be more like how come the two main STARS in the treatment world making vaccines, or vaccine-like monoclonal antibody soups have pretty much gone dark, not wanting to talk..

In the earlier post in this thread, I mentioned a key researcher from the highly proprietary biomolecular laboratory facility, COLD SPRING HARBOR LABS (http://cshl.edu/About-Us/History.html) pointed out the obvious, and the vaccine makers froze, in silence..

The spin doctor CZAR has said shut the F** up to put it mildly.. Nobody says shut up if there is nothing to see..

What is not wanting to be discussed IN HOPES (or with threats to) that the "media", and thereby the PUBLIC "will forget" (short attention span) is:
1) It was documented to be air transferred by droplets which remain present in the air for hours at a time.
2) It was documented to be air transferred to pass existing masks given to hospital workers, nurses, first responders, and of course "The Ebola Team Doctors and Nurses" on the front line, who are dying despite following CDC steps, and gowns, masks, shields...
3) It has mutated sufficiently that original vaccines are no longer effective.
4) WHO is scared sh**tless trying to cover their asses
5) Media blackouts are present in Liberia and have been present for quite some time - earlier in this thread it was posted WHEN that blackout started, meaning reporting will show hardly "anything"
6) Sierra Leone is ebola infected across the country. A virtual dictatorship is now in place in attempts to "handle" MEDIA (media are being detained or arrested for reporting)
7) In the US hundreds are being monitored and tracked, NY City alone reported 357 being monitored for "symptoms", not trusting the people to honestly report
8) Military programs have been being built up since 2003, a larger buildup in 2012 (see earlier posts previous page for details)
9) More billions of dollars are being requested of Congress to create a massive structure for monitoring, and "vaccine" or treatment development for this disease

there's more but that should be adequate to wrap one's head around why the "change" in the media reporting..

[avid]

Er - how can one vaccinate against something that isn't in the human realms of viruses? (Check Niman) Is it just in the fake monkey-madness? If one were to 'develop' an ebola/marburg type of virus in humans, what better way than to 'vaccinate' against these 'bugs', is by actually introducing them globally via the "Catch 22", then one can happily trace what one has done, and 'control' it wherever one feels it needs to be controlled. Probably not in Africa. Too much to lose in the wealth of their countries, so much to plunder..... Sorry Africa - you are doomed by the Gates Foundation, and of course the WHO! You are expendable, non-profit-making useless eaters, thanks to Henry Kissinger and his globalistic neo-con ilk.

[Bob]

Let's keep a vaccine discussion in a vaccine thread :) - but to just simplify transposon gene "interjection" in to a healthy cell, being able to cleave open a key part in a cell and transfer in a desired set of instructions to make the cell manufacture a protein for instance, can then make that cell a target to an antibody which goes after the newly injected protein.. Somewhat like, if you don't have the disease (yet), you can be given it, not just by a vaccine, but by an "in the wild" transposon infector.. Monsanto does that all the time to splice in spider toxins in to plants.. Same thing can splice spider toxins into humans or any other target if the choice of engine where the cell genetic structure is split open and spliced/modified.

I saw this coming back in 1967 when Marburg (http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/8/800.full.pdf+html) appeared and I researched THAT plus the various spicing techniques being used at that time, mostly the bacteriophage was the engine of choice.. I mention Cold Spring Harbor, because they actually made GENE SPLICING KITS to be made available to researchers back then for doing their own table-top gene splicing. Spooky as all heck..

So it doesn't matter how Ebola got here, the "virus engine" works very well to inject a key protein into the human or primate cell. What they do with that injected protein is left for discussion..

ref (more): - The Origin and Evolution of Ebola and Marburg Viruses - (source (The Origin and Evolution of Ebola and Marburg Viruses))

[TargeT]

FYI


In other news:


Ebola outbreak: MSF confirms case decline in Liberia
Liberia has seen a significant reduction in the number of new Ebola cases, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has confirmed.

One of its treatment centers in Liberia has no cases at all at the moment
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29957338

[avid]

I understand what is going on - it's truly terrible. Vindictive. Immoral. Vile. Poisoning our natural food and modifying it beggars belief - yet it is being done. However, to stop this nonsense one needs to promote real health, non-toxic foods, liquids, and lifestyles. That is up to the receptors of these threads. Look to the past - before 1930 - to see what folk ate that wasn't processed. Don't be despondent, as it is all still there - to be awakened again. Speak to your olde folks. Live the old dream. Be healthy and happy. Join forces via your community, and grow your own food. (Famous last words - I'll do my best!). OMG! Compost! Doesn't need to be from an animal... ;)

[Bob]

Natural news confirms forced media blackout

(Source (http://www.naturalnews.com/047579_Ebola_pandemic_protective_gear_media_blackout.html))

(NaturalNews) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is ramping up its acquisition of protective gear for U.S. hospitals that may have to handle Ebola patients, following a "sudden increase" in demand on its current national stockpile.


Meanwhile, the mainstream media has agreed not to report new suspected cases of Ebola infection, ostensibly in response to a government request. But that should surprise no one; the media is complicit in just about everything Big Government asks of it (if the right party is in the White House, of course).

[Bob]

Back a few pages in post #728: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=894855&viewfull=1#post894855

Doctors without Borders has said they have seen both dropping and "spiking", and suggest it is premature to say Liberia is starting to contain the outbreak.

With the information blackout in-place by the Liberian government any data getting out goes through the government officials censoring that data. I would look at Doctors without Borders for more accurate data as they are on the front lines.

Sierra Leone has increased 900% infection rate - Source Natural News - http://www.naturalnews.com/047547_Ebola_transmission_rate_Sierra_Leone.html


(NaturalNews) Things have been relatively quiet on the Ebola front here in the U.S. this past week, with 11 days and counting (as of this writing) since the last confirmed case of the disease was announced. But the situation is hardly as rosy in Sierra Leone, where an Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) report says Ebola is now spreading at a 900 percent faster rate than two months ago.



MEANWHILE back in the past a few months, looking into some more data published on Health News - http://www.naturalnews.com/046259_Ebola_outbreak_drug_treatments_Monsanto.html

Monsanto just happens to be one of the investors in Tekmira - Monsanto's transposon injection technique is used to perform the needed gene splicing steps..

Also Mike Adams points out - way back then, in July...


Just one organism is sufficient to infect a new host

Just how much Ebola virus does it take to infect someone? Alarmingly, as the Public Health Agency of Canada explains, "1 - 10 aerosolized organisms are sufficient to cause infection in humans." (8)

Read that again: it takes just ONE aerosolized organism (a microscopic virus riding on a dust particle) to cause a full-blown infection in humans. This is why one man vomiting on an international flight can infect dozens or hundreds of other people all at once.

AND this below that Mike presented just "HAS TO BE BURIED" by the naysayers, and spinner's - "SQUASH IT FAST!!"


The perfect bioweapon against humanity?

I also need to make you urgently aware that Ebola is a "perfect" bioweapon. Because of its ability to survive storage and still function many days, weeks or years later, it could be very easily harvested from infected victims and then preserved using nothing more than a common food dehydrator.

As the Public Health Agency of Canada explains: (8)

The virus can survive in liquid or dried material for a number of days (23). Infectivity is found to be stable at room temperature or at 4 (C) for several days, and indefinitely stable at -70 C.

To translate this into laymen's terms, this means the Ebola virus can be:

• Stored in a liquid vial and easily smuggled across international borders.

• Dehydrated and stored in a dried state, then easily smuggled.

• Frozen at very low temperatures where it remains viable indefinitely.

Once dried, contained or frozen, Ebola pathogens can be smuggled into target countries with ridiculous ease.

In the United States, for example, people can literally walk right through our Southern open borders with zero security whatsoever.

Open borders is an open invitation for bioweapons terrorism

Once inside the target country, a bioweapons terrorist could then easily infect people in public transit hubs such as subway stations, airports, bus stations and so on. Unfortunately, spraying a few Ebola particles into people's faces is ridiculously easy, especially if the terrorist carrying out the activities decides he is on a suicide mission and doesn't care about self-exposure.

An outbreak of Ebola in a major U.S. city would quite literally threaten the public health of the entire nation. That's why an "open borders" policy in the middle of a global Ebola outbreak is unconscionable from the point of view of public health. CDC officials must be tearing their hair out over this issue.

Think about it: America is a country where public health officials freak out and go crazy when two children acquire whooping cough in a public school in Maryland. But when tens of thousands of people are streaming into the country, unbounded, with near-zero medical scrutiny in the middle of an international Ebola outbreak, federal officials do almost nothing at all. If there is an Ebola outbreak in the U.S., this is most likely how it will arrive.

I had pointed out similar information from evaluating the published warnings on handling Ebola from the Canadian government bio-information page a few pages back in this thread..

Other data sources have found the "nurse in Maine" who smudged the noses of officials trying to perform proper quarantine monitoring, besides being a CDC spook has CIA connections.. (https://www.google.com/search?q=maine+nurse+cia+connections&oq=maine+nurse+cia+connections)

Connecting the dots is pretty easy - I've followed this stuff as I said since 1967. It's real, it's spreading. I've pointed out there are solutions, not vaccine based. That can properly handle viruses of numerous types, the filovirus is one type, a nasty type.. One that is used in bioweapons to create terror..

Terror hits home obviously when people have been deluded with "nothing to see here, see its all gone away.." With the military spending what it spends currently on the hemorrhagic fever virus issues, such as detection, mitigation, finding out WHO are the terrorists, their networks.. The spinners will try to dissuade people - the "resulting chatter" shows the agency quite clearly who's who.

-- ref: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/msf-warns-liberia-ebola/1444040.html

"MSF warns Liberia Ebola 'progress' could be illusory" - real data:


[..] claims of a slowdown in infections in Ebola-hit Liberia, saying the apparent drop could be due to poor management of the sick.

The warning follows an announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO) that data from a range of sources including funeral directors and treatment centres indicated lower admission rates and burials.

But the medical charity, known by its French initials MSF, warned that "mandatory cremation of dead bodies and a poor ambulance and referral system could also be reasons for this decrease in admissions".

"It is too soon to draw conclusions on the reduction of Ebola cases in Monrovia," Fasil Tezera, MSF head of mission in Liberia, said in a statement. "While the number of admissions in MSF's 250-bed Monrovia Ebola centre have dropped to around 80, we do not have a full picture of the extent of the outbreak and estimates might not be reliable."

An MSF spokeswoman in Dakar told AFP many people in the capital were calling the Ebola hotline to report that they were sick but were not being picked up because of a lack of ambulances and were going missing from the statistics.

"The present epidemic is unpredictable: we have seen a lull in cases in one area only to see the numbers spike again later," Faisal added.

[Flash]

I still check out Jane Burgermeister.
http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/


WHO LIED ABOUT EBOLA EMERGENCY DECLARATION: THERE WAS A BIG PHARMA CONFLICT OF INTEREST: PROOF
November 8, 2014
*WHO HAS MISLED THE PUBLIC, LIED AND CONCEALED THE FINANCIAL STAKE OF GSK IN AN EBOLA EMERGENCY DECLARATION

*WHO SPOKESPERSON GREGORY HARTL DENIED ANY EBOLA VACCINE WAS AVAILABLE IN AN EMAIL IN APRIL

*YET IN MARCH GSK APPROACHED WHO WITH ITS EBOLA VACCINE CANDIDATE

*AS SOON AS WHO DECLARED EBOLA AN INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY IN AUGUST, GSK WAS GIVEN THE GREEN LIGHT TO PRODUCE THE EBOLA VACCINE

*LUCRATIVE CONTRACT WHICH COULD INVOLVE 230,000 DOSES IN APRIL ALREADY

*RERUN OF SWINE FLU SCANDAL OF 2009 WHEN WHO CONCEALED CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS FROM PUBLIC IN SWINE FLU EMERGENCY DECLARATION

*SCIENTISTS WITH LINKS TO GSK AND BIG PHARMA ADVISED WHO TO DECLARE SWINE FLU AN EMERGENCY, GENERATING WINDFALL

In May 2013 GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) bought a Swiss vaccine-maker for $325m, called Okairos, which had a preclinical Ebola vaccine candidate.

In March 2014, GSK contacted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to let it know that it had an Ebola vaccine.

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21629399-drugmakers-bet-vaccines-will-help-fight-against-ebola-giving-it-shot

That means, as early as March, WHO knew that GSK had a financial stake in WHO declaring Ebola declaration of emergency of international concern because such a declaration would trigger lucrative vaccine contracts for GSK.

Yet in an email sent to me on April 3, WHO spokesperson Gregory Haertl denied any conflict of interest, writing:

“And I am not sure I understand your question about Conflicts of Interest: how can there be, when there is no vaccine and no antivirals available for Ebola, and the treatments that are being trialled are from already-existing drugs?”



In fact, as soon as WHO declared Ebola an international emergency in August, GSK was given the green light to produce its Ebola vaccine.

My original query about a conflict of interest was sent to Glenn Thomas, the WHO spokesperson who died in a mysterious MH17 plane crash in the Ukraine, which still has not been explained.

http://rt.com/news/186812-mh17-report-russia-churkin/



Why is this important? The only finding of a major swine flu vaccine inquiry in 2010 was that WHO had concealed the ties of its experts to Big Pharma.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/jun/04/swine-flu-experts-big-pharmaceutical

Many of the scientists on the WHO’s emergency panel had links with firms including GlaxoSmithKline, who made millions manufacturing swine flu vaccines as soon as WHO declared the swine flu an emergency.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1302505/WHO-swine-flu-advisers-ties-drug-firms-Experts-linked-vaccine-producers.html#ixzz3ITIixbbd
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In 2014, WHO has once more concealed conflicts of interests from the public. The email of Gregory Hartl is proof that WHO has deliberately misled the public about the financial stake which GSK had in inflating Ebola deaths and in WHO declaring Ebola an international emergency.

According to a Discussion Note, WHO URGENT Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) vaccine access meeting October 21, 2014. Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway, GSK could scale up production to 230,000 doses by April already.

“GSK estimates (see table below, and here) that it will have 24,000 doses of its vaccine

ready by January for the efficacy trials. If it cranks up production to full capacity before

the those trials are complete, the company could have 230,000 doses available in April.

http://news.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/Norway_submission_WHO_EVD_23Oct2014.pdf


also this about the Catholic problems of mass sterilization:

KENYAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS ACCUSE WHO AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS OF SECRET MASS STERILIZATION PROGRAMME
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Kenya’s Catholic bishops are charging two United Nations organizations with sterilizing millions of girls and women under cover of an anti-tetanus inoculation program sponsored by the Kenyan government, reports Infowars.

http://www.infowars.com/a-mass-sterilization-exercise-kenyan-doctors-find-anti-fertility-agent-in-un-tetanus-vaccine/

A statement signed by 27 Catholic Bishops alleges complicity in the Kenyan Ministry of Health.

The statement will be a wake up call to Africans to the extent of the corruption among their own Health Ministers and regulators as African health ministries and regulators move to approve potentially deadly Ebola phase II vaccine trials among thousands of health care workers.

It has emerged that the Kenyan Ministry of Health must have known the tetanus vaccines contained the Beta- HCG hormone which causes infertility and multiple miscarriages in women.

Prior knowledge can be the only explanation for why government officials kept such tight control over the vaccines, sending police as escorts, while refusing samples for independent laboratory tests.

Given the precedents, it is to be feared that the laxity of the Kenyan Health Ministry and regulators are due to a secret slush funds.

GlaxoSmithKline has a long record of bribery and fraud. GSK was fined 500 million dollars in China in September for bribing doctors and regulators.

GSK is a key player in unrolling a potentially dangerous Ebola vaccine in Africa – and African health ministries and regulators are complicit in preparing to allow these extremely risky vaccines to be given to thousands health workers in poorly designed trials, which will highly likely not capture adverse events reactions.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/19/us-gsk-china-idUSKBN0HE0TC20140919

The African health ministries and regulators are, of course, no more corrupt than the US FDA or the European regulators.

Merck’s own former Doctor predicts that Gardasil will become the greatest medical scandal of all time. I think the Ebola jab will become the greatest medical scandal of all time, dwarfing even the swine flu jab scandal.

http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/mercks-former-doctor-predicts-that-gardasil-will-become-the-greatest-medical-scandal-of-all-time/#sthash.1SrGTqxm.dpuf

http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/mercks-former-doctor-predicts-that-gardasil-will-become-the-greatest-medical-scandal-of-all-time/

Statement signed by the Catholic Bishops on November 26th.

http://www.dioceseofkitui.org/component/content/article/2-uncategorised/111-kutui-nairobi-dinner

2. The Tetanus Vaccine
Dear Kenyans, due to the direction the debate on the ongoing Tetanus Vaccine campaign in Kenya is taking, We, the Catholic Bishops, in fulfilling our prophetic role, wish to restate our position as follows:

The Catholic Church is NOT opposed to regular vaccines administered in Kenya, both in our own Church health facilities and in public health institutions.
However, during the second phase of the Tetanus vaccination campaign in March 2014, that is sponsored by WHO/UNICEF, the Catholic Church questioned the secrecy of the exercise. We raised questions on whether the tetanus vaccine was linked to a population control program that has been reported in some countries, where a similar vaccine was laced with Beta- HCG hormone which causes infertility and multiple miscarriages in women.
On March 26, 2014 and October 13, 2014, we met the Cabinet Secretary in-charge of health and the Director of Medical Services among others and rasied our concerns about the Vaccine and agreed to jointly test the vaccine. However the ministry did not cooperate and the joint tests were not done
The Catholic Church struggled and acquired several vials of the vaccine, which we sent to Four unrelated Government and private laboratories in Kenya and abroad.
We want to announce here, that all the tests showed that the vaccine used in Kenya in March and October 2014 was indeed laced with the Beta- HCG hormone.
On 13th of October 2014, the Catholic Church gave copies of the results to the cabinet secretary and the Director of Medical Services. The same was emailed to the Director of Medical Services on October 17, 2014.
Based on the above grounds, We, the Catholic Bishops in Kenya, wish to State the following:

That we are shocked at the level of dishonesty and casual manner in which such a serious issue is being handled by the Government.
That a report presented to the Parliamentary Committee on Health November 4, 2014 by the Ministry of Health, claiming that the Government had tested the Vaccine and found it clean of Beta- HCG hormone, is false and a deliberate attempt to distort the truth and mislead 42 million Kenyans.
That we are dismayed by attempts to intimidate and blackmail medical professionals who have corroborated information about the vaccine, with threats of disciplinary action. We commend and support all professionals who have stood by the truth.
That we shall not waver in calling upon all Kenyans to avoid the tetanus vaccination campaign laced with Beta-HCG, because we are convinced that it is indeed a disguised population control programme.

I am surprised that the catholic church took such action as to test the vaccine and to take a stand against it by telling the truth. I wonder if they did it with or without Vatican' s approval, but really this deserve congratulation.

However, i also understand that population reduction goes against the direct financial interests of the catholic church. This might have had its weight in the overall truth dissemination. It surely did not happened easily when it was necessary to protect children against pedophile and pedophile rings.

Third point: therefore we have the proof vaccine are being used for nefarious purposes under the cover of population services and health.

[Bob]

As has been pointed out at least 3 times in the last couple pages, the spiking reaction in Ebola happens.

And this appears to be the case now, with a new epicenter for the wildfire in Liberia.. (the articles are all over the internet)

http://www.hickoryrecord.com/news/world/ap/liberia-village-becomes-a-new-ebola-epicenter/article_ccc5422b-1257-512a-ac02-7ab0c5dcf82e.html

Providing information is useful, it punctuates the need for effective solutions. I have mentioned NON-VACCINE, non monoclonal antibody substances which have been documented to work, these are not silver based, not chlorine dioxide based.. Some are traditional based.. the issue with vaccines with any virus which has a high mutation rate (and this strain does appear to have that), is very quickly the vaccine no longer works.. And a rushed vaccine can overlook the "side effects".

Liberia village becomes a new Ebola epicenter


JENE-WONDE, Liberia (AP) — A schoolteacher brought his sick daughter from Liberia's capital to this small town of 300 people. Soon he was dead along with his entire family, and they are now buried in the forest nearby along with an increasing number of residents.

The community of Jene-Wonde in Grand Cape Mount County near the border with Sierra Leone has become a new epicenter for the deadly Ebola outbreak in Liberia, which is also hitting Sierra Leone and Guinea.

Momo Sheriff, who lost his son to Ebola, said there is no health care in the community and leaders have no way to manage it. The tiny town already has lost 10 percent of its population to Ebola since late September. Amid all the deaths, markets and farms nearby have been abandoned.

"If the government does not take action, everybody will die in this town," he said.

It's been observed a few key items in Liberia -

1) transportation, people have not been able to get transportation to get into a clinic, therefore "clinic numbers decline"
2) bodies are piling up and families are dying, leading to less contact with official reporting agencies
3) in Monrovia, the education campaign about DO NOT TOUCH the dead body seems to be working (no kissing, no washing, no nothing.. let the burial team handle it)
4) government mandated PRESS SILENCE in place, has been in place for about a month, nobody releases ANY INFORMATION without government censorship.

From the doctors without borders website:

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news-stories/voice-field/struggling-contain-ebola-epidemic-west-africa

"MSF’s Dr. Hilde de Clerck and MSF epidemiologist Dr. Michel Van Herp both have extensive experience in containing hemorrhagic fever outbreaks. They have helped respond to six Ebola outbreaks, notably in Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and, most recently, Guinea. Here, they discuss the current outbreak and the challenges facing MSF teams as they fight to contain the spread of the disease.

"We are currently seeing a resurgence of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa [..] "

"Accurate information about the disease needs to be rapidly and widely spread across the affected countries. This is essential in order to combat the fear surrounding this disease, but also to increase awareness about several things: the need for people to come for treatment quickly; to not travel and put themselves in contact with other people if they suspect they might be infected; and the proper way to conduct the funerals of those who have died from the disease.

"Disseminating reliable information is only part of the battle to contain this outbreak. Patients and communities will also need to fully accept that information. Spreading knowledge and instilling trust among the population will be vital if we are to control the chain of virus transmission."

Is Liberia actually declining? Not really it is just MOVING to different spots, like any wildfire..

"November 10, 2014
MONROVIA, LIBERIA—While the number of new Ebola cases reported in Liberia has declined in recent weeks, the outbreak is far from over and new hotspots continue to emerge across the country, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today, warning that the international aid response must rapidly adapt to this new phase of the epidemic or risk undermining progress made against Ebola."

Why aren't they going to the hospitals ? Nobody will transport them..

"The Liberian health care system has virtually collapsed because of the epidemic. Many hospitals and clinics are closed, and those that are running turn away feverish or vomiting patients for fear they have Ebola. MSF is adapting its response in Monrovia by carrying out a mass distribution of malaria prophylaxis and treatment and opening an Ebola screening point next to the 200-bed government-run Redemption Hospital, helping it to reopen safely."

Are they being reported? No, they can't get there to be reported.

[Bob]

Boom - another Ebola cure in NY City

Have's and have-nots..

Get to the right hospital, get the right anti-viral treatment, stay high profile (preferably be a noted Doctor) play your banjo and walk out after you've tested CLEAR a few times..

(Source (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/nyregion/craig-spencer-new-york-doctor-with-ebola-will-leave-bellevue-hospital.html))


http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/11/11/nyregion/SPENCERweb/SPENCERweb-master180.jpg

"Craig Spencer, the New York City doctor who became the first person in the city to test positive for Ebola, is free of the virus and is set to be released from Bellevue Hospital Center on Tuesday, hospital officials said on Monday."



“After a rigorous course of treatment and testing,” Ana Marengo, a spokeswoman for Bellevue, said in a statement, “Dr. Spencer poses no public health risk and will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow.”

It was unclear on Monday whether Dr. Spencer would return to his Hamilton Heights apartment, where his fiancée, Morgan Dixon, is under quarantine. Two friends who had contact with him in the days before his diagnosis were initially held in quarantine, but were recently released.

Dr. Spencer was given a range of treatments, including an experimental drug and blood plasma donated by a recovered Ebola patient, Nancy Writebol, a 59-year-old missionary who contracted the virus in Liberia.

His condition was serious at first, but by last week, he had recovered enough that he asked for, and was given, his banjo and an exercise bicycle to pass the time while he was in isolation.

Dr. Brantly it seems isn't the only one capable of providing a healing blood serum - Nancy was the other person who was treated early on with Dr. Brantly - both recovered.

Meanwhile as Dr. Spencer leaves Bellevue hospital tomorrow hundreds of people are being monitored in NY City for symptoms.

and the have not's


http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/36ee830ad08f8a71fd95cc2176408651110d8015/c=5-0-3261-2448&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2014/11/06/635508802797639874-1-voices-FREETOWN.jpg

Where clinics continue to shut down, and aide from the world trickles in, to build "new clinics" those not fortunate to have the rigorous "US Treatment Methods.." take their chances.


The government, to be sure, has enacted rules to reinforce these new codes of behavior. I have to get a security pass to visit my relatives in the countryside, for example. The difficulty of getting such a pass reminds me of my first time applying for a visa to the U.K. Ordinary people who can't justify their trips are out of luck.

The social and psychological shift that's taken place under Ebola's regime worries me more than the government's temporary restrictions on our movements to deal with the public health crisis. When fear becomes a prime motivator for people, they lose touch with the better angels of their nature.

I've seen it firsthand.

Since Ebola struck, I have seen family members abandon their sick loved ones. I have seen people buried in body bags, their families unable to participate in the burial rites.

I have seen burial teams attacked by mourners angry over losing the opportunity to pay their last respects. I have seen women at markets increase food prices because everything imported is more expensive, and we import much of our food from Guinea.

I have seen people bathe with water and salt in the sincere but misguided belief it will protect them from the deadly virus.

When I started reporting on Ebola in the eastern part of the country six months ago, I never thought it would devastate the country like this.


Voices: Volunteer doctors protect us from Ebola

As if to make up for what I've seen, to replace bad energy with something positive, I'm playing my part as the dissident in Ebola's dictatorship. I stopped seeing my barber five months ago, and I have promised not to return until we contain Ebola. My rough hair is merely token resistance, but it's my resistance, my personal statement against the status quo that I'll abandon when the status quo changes.

Yet my rough hair hasn't inspired me to seek out social gatherings, welcome visitors to my house or turn away from the movies, books and television shows that occupy my time in isolation. I, too, am succumbing to Ebola's state of sadness.

I sometimes read religious books, but I hadn't read the Bible much since college until recently. I luckily came across this passage: "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified or discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."

Joshua 1:9 reminded me that although God can be everywhere, Ebola cannot. God can command. Ebola cannot. God creates the kingdom. Ebola does not. Ebola is a virus. We react to it. But we can control our reactions.

I'm thankful for OXFAM, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and Doctors Without Borders, whose workers are selflessly putting their lives on the line for my country and my people. My hope burns brighter when I think about the more than 600 people in Sierra Leone who have overcome the deadly virus despite its reign of terror.

Joshua 1:9, the health organizations' efforts and the medical victories against Ebola are what Sierra Leoneans need to combat the virus' regime. They remind us the virus is not omnipotent, the state of sadness not absolute. Both shall pass.

Kamara is a journalist based in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

[Bob]

Liberia - STATUS: WIDESPREAD AND INTENSE TRANSMISSION 11 Nov 2014

HOSPITAL RESPONSE AND ISOLATION/TREATMENT CENTRES

As at 10 November the country had 721 treatment beds. The World Health Organization estimates that at least 2,000 more beds are required by 1 December.


Grand Bassa County: A 100-bed treatment centre is under construction by the United States army in Buchanan and is projected to start operations by 18 November.
Foya, Lofa county: Borma Hospital Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) has a capacity of 100 beds. A "mid-level isolation unit" has been established in Telewowan Hospital, Voinjama, managed by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). The centre has 40 beds.
Monrovia: The 250-bed 'ELWA3' hospital ETU is being run by MSF. There are plans to expand to 300 beds. There is a Holding Unit at Redemption Hospital. A 150-bed unit has been opened in the western suburb of Duala. A 120-bed Ebola Treatment Centre run by the MoH and WHO opened on 22 September at the Old Island Clinic on the Bushrod Island, it has an operational US Navy mobile laboratory as at 6 October. A 200-bed ETU at the Ministry of Defense in Oldest Congo Town opened on 31 October. The Ebola treatment centre in the JKF Hospital closed at the end of October.
Montserrado: West Point holding unit has been established.
Nimba: Renovation of the holding facilties at G. W. Harley is underway as at 20 August. Ganta Hospital is functioning. It has 36 beds.
Bong: A 52-bed Ebola Treatment Unit, with a U.S. Navy mobile laboratory unit, is being run by International Medical Corps. A 7-bed Isolation Centre has been added to the Phebe Hospital in Suakoko.
Bomi: Bomi County Health Team (CHT) opened three, two-room quarantine units with a 27-bed capacity for Ebola patients. There is a holding centre in Tubmanburg. Construction of a 100-bed ETU began in Tubmanburg 3 October. The Tubmanburg ETU has begun operations as at 11 November.
Margibi: Monrovia Medical Unit, a 25-bed ETU dedicated for infected health care workers, is staffed by the US Public Health Service.


Liberia Total: 6,822 clinical cases as of 8 November
Confirmed: 2,582 | Probable: 1,687 | Suspected: 2,553
Liberia, Deaths: 2,836

UPDATES

11 November
In the latest Ministry of Health SitRep, an additional 14 deaths and 28 suspected and probable cases are reported for 8 November. There are marked increases in the number of cases reported in Gbarpolu and Margibi counties over the previous days. As of 8 November there are 47 people currently in holding centers and 205 people in treatment at Ebola Treatment Units countrywide, with the majority in units in Monrovia. There are over 6,200 contacts currently in follow-up.

8 November
The World Health Organization states in their latest SitRep (PDF) that intense transmission is continuing in Monrovia and Montserrado, Margibi and Nimba counties. There have been 6,619 clinical cases up to 4 November, including 318 health care workers.

In addition, the Monrovia Medical Unit, a 25-bed Ebola treatment centre built by the U.S. Military has opened in Margibi county. The unit will be staffed by members of the U.S. Public Health Service and is dedicated to treating national and international health care workers.

Closings, Restrictions

Singapore: The authorities have announced that 5 November onwards nationals of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone will require visas to enter the country.

The government also said that nationals of the three countries, as well as citizens of Congo (DRC) and Mali, will be screened for fever at all entry points. Other travellers who have visited these countries recently will also be screened.

Senegal has banned flights from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Current Statistics:

http://chanlo.com/images/ebo-1.jpg

[Bob]

Outbreak/infection starting in Mali

A midst hopes that people would not come down with Ebola, and that Mali 'escaped', such has not been the case.

BAMAKO, Nov 11 (Reuters) - The government of Mali confirmed the country's second case of Ebola late on Tuesday and police deployed outside a clinic in the capital, Bamako, that authorities said had been quarantined.

In a statement via Twitter, Mali's Information Minister Mahamadou Camara said "prevention measures" were being taken, but gave no details on the case. Local officials and diplomats said the new case was unrelated to the first one last month.

Mali became the sixth West African country to record a case of Ebola when a two-year-old girl from Guinea died in October.

There were no published and confirmed cases since then and 108 people linked to the girl were due to complete their 21-day quarantine period on Tuesday.

Mali shares an 800 km (500 mile) border with Guinea, which alongside Liberia and Sierra Leone, has been worst affected by an Ebola outbreak that has killed nearly 5,000 people this year.

Medical officials and diplomats said Mali's new Ebola case was a nurse who had been in contact with a man who arrived from Guinea and died in late October at the now locked down Pasteur Clinic.

One medical officer, who asked not to be identified, said the nurse who had Ebola died on Tuesday evening while another doctor was ill and had been quarantined.

What is the situation here? Error in reporting to the People that the earlier exposure from the man had contaminated people? or what?

Officials said the man believed to have brought the second case of Ebola to Mali was an imam from Guinea.

He was not tested for Ebola while he was ill in Mali and his body was returned to Guinea without necessary precautions for the disease being taken, raising the prospect of further infections that will now have to be traced.

From BBC

The latest case is unrelated to the first, when a two-year-old girl died from the disease in late October.

From Reuters

Police in the Malian capital Bamako locked down a clinic in an upscale neighborhood on Tuesday evening after authorities said earlier in the day that they were testing a new suspected case of Ebola.

[Bob]

Er, no worries in Dallas, all clear?

Now monitoring two healthcare workers

Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) is monitoring two healthcare workers for Ebola Virus Disease for 21 days, per guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of State Health Services.

Both healthcare workers, who are residents of Dallas County, recently traveled from Sierra Leone, West Africa.

They are currently asymptomatic and have been instructed to remain off public transportation or avoid large congregate settings activities.

Failure to comply can result in a control order. These healthcare workers are not allowed to care for any patients during the 21-day monitoring period, which ends Dec. 1.

And no, they won't tell you who it is due to "confidentiality" - Tue Nov 11, 2014. Local Dallas News - Star Local Media

[SilentFeathers]

Not to change the subject or derail this thread, but this topic could very well be directly related to this whole Ebola outbreak/fiasco.

Kenya Population Situation Analysis (http://countryoffice.unfpa.org/kenya/drive/FINALPSAREPORT.pdf)

Doctors: UN Vaccines in Kenya Used to Sterilize Women (http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/africa/item/19497-doctors-un-vaccines-in-kenya-used-to-sterilize-women)

CATHOLIC church WARNING: Neonatal tetanus Vaccine by WHO is DEADLY and bad for women reproductivity (https://www.kenya-today.com/news/catholic-warning-neonatal-tetanus-vaccine-wto-deadly-bad-women-reproductivity)

PRESS STATEMENT BY THE CATHOLIC HEALTH COMMISSION OF KENYA – KENYA CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS ON THE ONGOING NATIONAL TETANUS VACCINATION CAMPAIGN IN 60 DISTRICTS IN KENYA (http://www.kccb.or.ke/home/com/statements-com/press-statement-by-the-catholic-health-commission-of-kenya-kenya-conference-of-catholic-bishops-on-the-ongoing-national-tetanus-vaccination-campaign-in-60-districts-in-kenya/)

[Bob]

I suppose SilentFeathers, that the term "bioweapon" could apply.. the idea of having a filovirus protein inside one's cells so that there will be cellular memory that that protein should be targeted by the immune system is worrisome considering this virus strain is such a high mutation engine. The vaccine logic uses another animal virus gene spliced with a protein component of the ebola which the viral-engineers feel is able to transfer the viral signature of ebola to the body, to create immune system recognizing, but to not create an outbreak of the other animal viral infection..

If this virus vaccine combination then lodges in key reproductive regions of the body, and triggers an auto-immune response for the body's immune system to "attack there", indeed sterility could be an outcome depending on the damage.. It is noted that Ebola will remain present in the sperm (possibly ovum?) for at least 3 months, after the infection is declared "clear".. So exactly what DOES that mean?

from CDC's website:


If someone survives Ebola, can he or she still spread the virus?

Once someone recovers from Ebola, they can no longer spread the virus.

However, Ebola virus has been found in semen for up to 3 months.

Abstinence from sex (including oral sex) is recommended for at least 3 months.

If abstinence is not possible, condoms may help prevent the spread of disease.

Now is that doublespeak or what?

The "person" who caught the disease, declared CLEAR, free of Ebola if they are a MALE is still now a CARRIER able to spread the disease through SEX.

How about these MALES in the US now "successfully treated", who in some cases about 20 days on average, way less than a MONTH are now free to go and resume normal activity?

So maybe there are a multitude of issues here with any infection or cure, or vaccine-style treatment..


Not to change the subject or derail this thread, but this topic could very well be directly related to this whole Ebola outbreak/fiasco. [..]

(see Avid's post #765 earlier, above on that as well..)

[Bob]

Mali update - monitoring now in place - probably 4 deaths

(Reuters reporting) - More than 90 people including U.N. peacekeepers were quarantined across Mali's capital on Wednesday after a 25-year-old nurse died of Ebola having treated a Guinea man who succumbed with Ebola-like symptoms that were not recognized.

The man, a Muslim imam from the border town of Kouremale, was never tested for Ebola. In a series of rites that may have exposed many mourners to the deadly virus, his highly contagious body was washed in a Bamako mosque and returned to Guinea for burial without precautions against Ebola.

The World Health Organization said there were now four confirmed and probable Ebola deaths in Mali, adding that one was a friend who had visited the imam in hospital.

The group did not give immediate details of the fourth case.

So after the first group goes out of quarantine/monitoring from coming in contact with the small 2 year old girl who contracted the disease in Guinea, traveled to Mail, died, now this new monitoring and contact tracing is beginning..

A doctor at the Pasteur Clinic where the nurse worked - one of Bamako's top medical centers and the default clinic for expatriates - is also suspected to have contracted Ebola and is being monitored.

About 20 U.N. peacekeepers who were at the clinic for injuries sustained while serving in the turbulent north of Mali were quarantined as a precaution, the U.N. mission said, without specifying their nationalities.

[Bob]

Coincidence or Not ?

60 LOCATIONS across the State of Colorado have animal quarantines in effect for cows and horses..

Vesicular Stomatitis virus outbreak..

Why this is being mentioned here in this Hemorrhagic fever thread is for one small but strangely coincidental fact..

This virus was chosen as the CARRIER to make the EBOLA VACCINE.. hmmmmmm..

Fort Collins Colorado, the School of Medicine and Veterinary.. http://csu-cvmbs.colostate.edu/Pages/default.aspx is VSD being studied there? Have they obtained samples of the ebola-VSB gene splice (GMO) ? vaccine?

Why the outbreak of VSD ?

Doing a search on their website: http://csu-cvmbs.colostate.edu/_layouts/OSSSearchResults.aspx?k=stomatitis&cs=This%20Site&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcsu-cvmbs.colostate.edu
turns up 108 results..

Doing a search for VS virus PLUS Ebola turns up this:

Abstract
The filoviruses, Marburg virus and Ebola virus, cause severe hemorrhagic fever with a high mortality rate in humans and nonhuman primates.

Among the most-promising filovirus vaccines under development is a system based on recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (rVSV) that expresses a single filovirus glycoprotein (GP) in place of the VSV glycoprotein (G).

Importantly, a single injection of blended rVSV-based filovirus vaccines was shown to completely protect nonhuman primates against Marburg virus and 3 different species of Ebola virus.

These rVSV-based vaccines have also shown utility when administered as a post-exposure treatment against filovirus infections, and a rVSV-based Ebola virus vaccine was recently used to treat a potential laboratory exposure. Here, we review the history of rVSV-based vaccines and pivotal animal studies showing their utility in combating Ebola and Marburg virus infections.

(Source - National Institutes of Health "NIH" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21987744 )

Coincidence ? or something else?


The viral disease can cause blisters and sores in the mouth and on the tongue, muzzle, teats, or hooves of horses, cattle, swine, sheep, goats, llamas, and a number of other animals. Lesions usually will heal in two or three weeks. Because of the contagious nature of VS and its resemblance to other diseases such as foot and mouth disease, animal health officials urge livestock owners and caretakers to report these symptoms to their veterinarian immediately. Most animals recover well with supportive care by a veterinarian, but some lesions can be painful.


http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/DiseaseInfo/ImageDB/VS/VS_004.jpg
hemorrhagic erosion seen on cow distal teat

[Calz]

Bob ... seriously you are amazing in your contribution about this topic.

What is really going on???

Does anyone really know???


With so much nonsense it becomes ridiculous to try to follow any line of serious contemplation.


On the surface it appears that "they" are grouping many groups of illness and labeling it as "ebola" ... to whatever ends ... I have my strong opinions.


Follow the money is the easiest explantion???


... I expect it runs deeper?

[Bob]

Calz, it may seem odd, but I've followed the filovirus issues since 1967 when I first heard about it. This was the height of the cold war, and the bioweapons both chemical and viral/bacterial/fungal were being created at full bore.

At the same period of time, about 1969 ish stuff was happening out on Long Island, NY - a LOT of bio-development.. Out at Orient Point, off shore, a place called Plum Island was experimenting with ALL SORTS of animal infections. The worst of the worst.. All within a few miles of major farms, and population centers, and on the North Shore of Long Island, in Cold Spring Harbour was a place called, the Cold Spring Harbour Labs.. On the southern side of Long Island, is Montauk Point and we all know Preston's stories about Montauk..

Interesting place that part of NY State.. ALL sorts of government defence programs had existed from the 30's to about 1970 when something happened so that companies shut down and moved off the Island... Nixon/Johnson happened. This thread isn't the place to get into the cold war shenanigans happening back then, or following the money, but one can deduce what happened in China with Nixon - all the goings on..

Who has/had the best bioweapon that could bring down nations? Something so much more cost-effective than a nuclear arsenal which grows stale from nuclear deterioration.. A bug that could be immunized or treated with an oral pill verses a nuclear weapon's fallout and collateral damage.. Which would be the best way to sabre rattle the opponent? something small very "james bond-ish" or play with a big nasty nuke?

Historically that time period is where kids were being killed in a stupid "non-declared" war, and new weapons programs being pushed full speed.. Major weapons to do major control. Drugs were tested and pushed heavily on the culture and counter-culture as the psyops assaults.. on and on.. If one could probe Nixon and Johnson, one would get some great data as what all were "they" up to..

In this case the filovirus was really obvious that it would be used at some point, just it was unknown back in 1969, at least to me, just when would such be deployed, either deliberately, or would an accident happen? Or would a theft happen by a terrorist group, or a deal being made by a government to a terrorist group to go use the bioweapon in the stead of the government.. Questions to ponder..

Can solutions be made available to the People. Solutions that don't have to be "government controlled or divied out" or rationed.. Absolutely..

The issue world-wide has been strongly about viral treatment - and obviously has been a concern since normal treatments don't work (so we are told)..

And I had pointed out Russia's attempts to have simple chemical anti-virals pulled out of WORLD commerce.. (they succeeded in a campaign to have the US FDA pull a very important anti-viral, and the result of that was a whole HOST of new viruses sprung up in the population.. i.e. AIDS/HIV was one that appeared first as a result of the simple anti-viral being pulled by FDA basically strong-armed (infiltrated maybe?) by the Soviet block, who was still actively making viral bioweapons...) - that is where to look for the conspiracy, the who pulling the anti-viral substances...

So currently CDC and NIH are suppressing information on the anti-virals being used to successfully treat those people infected with the filovirus Ebola. Now why i wonder is that? So the push is to go into a deficient vaccine, one which will become useless as the virus mutates, and to divert attention away from antiviral biochemicals..

What did Nixon and China back then agree to? Some have thought it was about dividing up the world.. something to discuss in another thread.. Why use a bioweapon AS WELL as an economic weapon to take over and further enslave the People.. Why would they destroy opposition? What would they release, and when? and of course WHERE?

[Bob]

Another doctor to be flown to Nebraska with Ebola

A surgeon from Sierra Leone and a permanent resident of the United States who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa will be flown to the United States to receive treatment for the deadly virus, according to a government official.

Dr. Martin Salia is expected to arrive in the United States on Saturday and will receive treatment at Nebraska Medical Center.

MEANWHILE

More than 80 U.S. service members will arrive in Virginia on Thursday after deploying to Liberia as part of the U.S. effort to stop the spread of the Ebola virus and will remain in conditions resembling a quarantine for 21 days.

The troops will arrive around noon at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, about 70 miles southeast of Richmond, said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary. None of the troops are showing any signs of the virus, but they will be in “controlled monitoring” for the next three weeks. It marks the first time the military has monitored troops in that manner in the United States.

The group includes 51 members of the Air Force; 27 from the Navy; four in the Marine Corps and two in the Army, Kirby said. They will undergo medical screening twice a day and be housed in a secluded area of the base west of the flightline that includes a dining hall and a gym. They will not be able to see their families in person.

“Troops will be able to communicate with family members via telephone and electronic means,” Kirby said. “Access to controlled monitoring area will be limited to health care, support and facilities maintenance personnel.”

Langley-Eustis will be one of several locations in which troops are placed in controlled monitoring. Others are at the Army’s Smith Barracks in Baumholder, Germany; Fort Bliss and Fort Hood in Texas; Fort Bragg in North Carolina; Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington; and at the Army base in Vicenza, Italy, according to the Defense Department.

It is unclear how he contracted Ebola, but the official said he was in Sierra Leone at the time.

The US military is saying that it is going to reduce its troop count to not 4000 but maybe 2200-3000 in West Africa.

Post update - Dr. Martin Salia died today.

[Bob]

An artificial virus filtration system apparently was used successfully on the ebola infected patient in Germany.

Earlier in this thread Ron asked a question about UV treatment, and the potential of performing in-vivo UV sterilization of viruses (or deactivation).

In the reply post, http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=887546&viewfull=1#post887546 I suggested to please see this link:


A good article also to look at another "filtering method" to remove selected toxins, and viruses is here: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/artificial-spleen-removes-ebola-hiv-viruses-toxins-blood-using-magnets-1465585 (Artificial spleen)..

The US team said this:



"Biospleens could be used in the future to treat patients suffering from viral diseases such as HIV and Ebola, where a person's survival depends on how quickly the amount of virus in the blood can be lowered to a negligible level."

The Wyss Institute's spleen-like blood-cleansing device makes use of genetically modified blood proteins coated on magnetic nanoparticles and magnetic forces to pull a variety of pathogens from the blood(Harvard's Wyss Institute).

Blood can be infected by many different types of organ infections as well as contaminated medical instruments such as IV lines and catheters.

When antibiotics are used to kill them, dying viruses release toxins in the blood that begin to multiply quickly, causing sepsis, a life-threatening condition whereby the immune system overreacts, causing blood clotting, organ damage and inflammation.

It can take days to identify which pathogen is responsible for infecting the blood but most of the time, the cause is not identified, while the onset of sepsis can be hours to days. Broad-spectrum antibiotics with sometimes devastating side effects are used and currently over eight million people die from the condition worldwide annually.

"Even with the best current treatments, sepsis patients are dying in intensive care units at least 30% of the time," said Dr Mike Super, senior staff scientist at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, which led the research. "We need a new approach."

researchers have invented a "biospleen", a device similar to a dialysis machine that makes use of magnetic nanobeads measuring 128 nanometres in diameter (one-five hundredths the width of a single human hair) coated with mannose-binding lectin (MBL), a type of genetically engineered human blood protein.

The study, An Extracorporeal Blood-Cleansing Device For Sepsis Therapy, has been published in the journal Nature Medicine.

The MBL on the nanobeads binds itself to toxins and pathogens, which can then be pulled out of the blood by the device through two hollow channels connected by a series of slits, with one channel containing flowing blood, while the other contains a saline solution that collects and removes the pathogens that travel through the slits.

The scientists tested their device by cleaning human blood that had been spiked with different pathogens and when blood flowed through a single device at the rate of 500ml to 1 litre an hour, over 90% of key pathogens were removed.


It appears that the Germans decided to try their own version - http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/11/14/patient-cured-ebola-in-germany-treated-with-bio-filtration-device/


The Aethlon Medical team created a device called the Hemopurifier, which works on the established infrastructure of dialysis machines already located in hospitals and clinics.

“It works within a dialysis machine, but the mechanism selectively targets viral pathogens and immunosuppressive toxins that they release,” James Joyce, the CEO of Aethlon Medical.

The Hemopurifier is an extracorporeal biofiltration device that converges hollow-fiber filtration technology with immobilized affinity agents to allow for the rapid physical removal of virus and soluble viral glycoproteins from the blood. It mimics the natural immune system response for clearance of circulating virus and viral toxins before cells and organs can be infected, according to Joyce.

“Our goal is to eliminate the circulating viruses and do it on a rapid basis,” Joyce said. “The virus that we capture then remains in the [device’s] cartridge,” he said.

Doctors at University Hospital Frankfurt had been following the clinical trials and the device’s technology and reached out to Joyce’s team.

Looking at the two procedures and devices, both machines work on creating filtration. The Doctors in Frankfurt chose to get a rapid authorization to test the machine on the Ebola patient they had in their hospital.

[Bob]

Mali - 347 people now in the "circles" to be monitored as officials try to track down who had contact with the imam who entered Mali from neighboring Guinea and died late last month in Mali with Ebola.

The head of Mali's Ebola response, said on state television two more suspected cases were being tested.

Malian Health Ministry spokesman Marakatie Daou said a woman who had helped wash the imam's body died on Thursday at the Gabriel Toure Hospital in Mali's capital, Bamako.

Daou said an initial Ebola test result for the woman was positive, making her the fourth clinically confirmed Malian case (mentioned earlier in this thread).

Cases are being traced in a number of locations across Bamako and on the porous border with Guinea.

These included the Pasteur Clinic, which treated the imam but has since been quarantined. It is not connected to the Institut Pasteur, a French-based institute specialising in infectious diseases.

Mali is the sixth nation to have confirmed Ebola in West Africa, which is battling the world's worst epidemic of the hemorrhagic fever on record.

At least 5,177 people have been reported as of this date as to have been killed by the effects of this virus.

Source - Reuters News International service

[Bob]

Nearly 20,000 nurses went on strike in California on Tuesday over patient care issues - "It's real and we are unprepared"

The two-day California strike, by nurses whose union is in the midst of acrimonious contract talks, targeted 86 hospitals and clinics operated by Kaiser Permanente in the northern part of the state and two hospitals run by other healthcare providers.

Wednesday there would be a strike involving 100,000 nurses in 15 U.S. states and the District of Columbia over complaints that hospitals are poorly equipped to handle potential Ebola patients. The roughly 20,000 striking California nurses will be part of that campaign.

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- About 100,000 nurses walked off the job in D.C. and around the country Wednesday in a one day strike over concerns about staffing and Ebola.

"As of now, I haven't seen the equipment," responded nurse Fidelis Kweyila. "I haven't had any training. Zero training."

She speaks about the issue, which is the CDC provided protocols have been woefully inadequate to the point of negligent and not providing BSL-4 level containment.. It has been pointed out numerous times, and the nurses know it, that the virus is able to pass through the "recommended CDC safety masks", or safety equipment. The nurses also protested the lack of proper training in how to handle CLASS-A biopathogens requiring a BSL - 4 containment facility to not get infected, nor risk contaminating other patients or co-workers.

Over 100,000 professionals believe this is real. Those in the field, those in hospitals, those exposed to health related matters.. They are only asking for the best possible safety precautions be taken, and the best equipment, and the best training - they are asking for SUPPORT not poo poo dishonoring their skills, knowledge and expertise by those who are not having to deal with the issues at hand.

California says WE TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY, and as announced Friday by the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration, will now require the state’s 300 or so acute-care hospitals to provide hazardous material suits, respirators, isolation rooms and extensive training to those working with patients suspected of having the Ebola virus.

The new regulations clarify and expand upon general guidelines issued in October.

Nurses hailed the regulations as a model for the rest of the country.

(Source assorted news and wire services)

[Bob]

Surviving Ebola - best chances use these techniques

Bush Survival, or Survival in the Field Hospital or Clinic.

The best medical advice for surviving Ebola right now might fit in one word: drink.

With big pharma producing drugs and vaccines at least months away, doctors and public health experts are learning from Ebola survivors what simple steps helped them beat the infection.

It turns out drinking 4 liters (1 gallon) or more of rehydration solution a day -- a challenge for anyone and especially those wracked by relentless bouts of vomiting -- is crucial.

“When people are infected, they get dry as a crisp really quickly,” said Simon Mardel, an emergency room doctor advising the World Health Organization on Ebola in Sierra Leone. “Then the tragedy is that they don’t want to drink.”

Aggressive fluid replacement was deemed critical in saving two American health-care workers with Ebola at the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. Interviews Mardel and WHO colleagues conducted with six of the dozen patients who survived Ebola in Nigeria, where the fatality ratio was much lower, also point to the importance of drinking.

Ada Igonoh, a doctor who caught Ebola in late July while working at the First Consultants Hospital in Lagos, said she took oral rehydration salts, or ORS, mixed in water as soon her gastrointestinal symptoms started -- even before her Ebola diagnosis.

Patients in Liberia lost 5 liters of fluid a day from diarrhea alone, doctors treating cases there wrote in a Nov. 5 paper in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Severe fluid loss can cause a type of shock that prevents the heart from pumping enough blood to the body, eventually leading to multiple organ failure.

“As I took the ORS and treated dehydration, it provided me with energy, and my immune system was able to battle the virus,” 29-year-old Igonoh said.

Patients become “stunningly dehydrated” because they don’t feel like eating or drinking in the early stages of the illness, and then later they lose liters of fluid from profuse sweating, vomiting and diarrhea, according to Mardel.

“You don’t want to drink, then you’re too weak,” he said in a telephone interview from Freetown. “In the last stage, you’re in shock and your gut has shut down.”

Mortality could be reduced by delivering a simple message about the importance of taking fluids and picking the right painkillers, he said. Paracetamol, the active ingredient in Panadol, is the preferred medication for pain and fever; stay away from picking others such as aspirin or ibuprofen which can worsen bleeding, he said.

Don’t Gulp

drinking has its challenges. Patients must overcome recurring nausea, as well as debilitating joint pain that can make gripping and movement difficult.

Ebola survivor Fadipe Akinniyi Emmanuel, another doctor at the First Consultants Hospital where Igonoh works, said gulping down the rehydration solution made him sick.

“Each time I attempted to take the ORS, I vomited,” he told the WHO, according to the transcript. Eventually, Emmanuel found he could keep down 4 liters of fluids a day by taking frequent, small sips between bouts of nausea.

Flavoring the liquid also helps. The granules that Emmanuel’s colleague Igonoh took at home were orange-flavored and much more pleasant than the flavorless kind she was given in the hospital, she said.

“You should be able to tell yourself, no matter how many people die, you are going to survive. And you will survive.”

"You don’t want to drink anything,” Igonoh said. “You are too weak.” That’s when morale is key.

IV ROUTE
Most intravenous rehydration fluids also don’t have much potassium, calcium, or magnesium, doctors at Emory University Hospital wrote in their journal article last week.

They recommend supplementing oral rehydration with all three, especially in patients with large-volume diarrhea.

STAY HYDRATED and maintain the ELECTROLYTES.

Source - Bloomberg News

ORS - Oral Rehydration Solution

http://rehydrate.org/images/diy3.gif

BUSH FORMULA

Recipe for Making a 1 litre ORS solution using Sugar, Salt and Water

Clean Water - 1 litre - 5 cupfuls (each cup about 200 ml.)
Sugar - Six level teaspoons
Salt - Half level teaspoon
Stir the mixture till the sugar dissolves.

ONE GALLON per day of this solution will be needed to survive from the fluid loss from diarrhea and vomiting.

Potassium, Calcium, and Magnesium and Zinc and Bicarbonate addition

[Bob]

The latest Ebola patient flown the United States for treatment died today despite receiving two experimental treatments -- the drug ZMapp and a blood transfusion from an Ebola survivor, officials with Nebraska Medical Center said.

Where did they get zMapp from I wonder?

What does that say about late use of zMapp?

Source - multiple reporting, including a report from the Hospital in Nebraska


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US updates screening procedures for those coming from MALI - all travelers as of Monday 17th November arriving from Mali must go through the 5 selected airports for detailed screening.

[avid]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ebola-outbreak-drug-banned-in-us-given-to-british-soldiers-fighting-the-virus-9863484.html
Ebola outbreak: Drug banned in US given to British soldiers fighting the virus in West Africa

More 'guinea-pigs' utilised by the military.

The info on rehydration is wondrous - for all sorts of illnesses - never mind ebola, and the 'z-mapp' fiasco is now unproven, untested and has no viability. A 'wonder-drug' that perhaps was never actually 'wondrous'. Some of these cases may have NEVER been Ebola - just a wee bit of a scare tactic to panic the MSM, and therefore the community. It's all fear-hype. Very nasty, evil, and potentially horrific, but the fear-porn of it spreading is deliberately viral. See how it's now being ignored - are they waiting for something else to come along? Why the huge diversion? ECONOMICS - the BRICS trashing the pre-planned trash of the dollar. We are soooo gullible.

[Bob]

Hi Avid - http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?63979-Mefloquine-the-Common-Soldier-and-Prince-Harry&p=738723&viewfull=1#post738723 thread started by Tesla_WTC_Solution got really strongly into the use of the anti-malaria substance used on the military both in the US and UK.. That stuff is horrendous really.. When I traveled into malaria areas I use the alternative substance.. It's still a bit "trippy" as far as the way the substances work, messing with brain and body chemistry... The thread is a good read.

The Ebola hydration issue and the re-hydration solution is very key - apparently they are feeling oral re-hydration is better than IV's to keep the gastrointestinal tract functioning..

What I need to ask the members to take a look into is how to use natural substances found in the bush (in - the - field) how to get the trace minerals and salts back.. All without getting supplies from 'town'.. One suggestion was to look for the proper plants which could provide the right salts and minerals.. (excellent idea)..

Creating a list of what plants folks in Africa could find that have the needed substances, Potassium, Calcium, and Magnesium and Zinc and Bicarbonate for addition to the Re-Hydration solution would be needed.

[Bob]

Mali update - Government has expanded the watch circle now to include many more - towards 600 people, about double from a few days before.

Mali has an open border policy, just like America. Everyone can come in.

However...

Malian officials met on Monday to consider increasing security at its border following two confirmed cases of Ebola due to infection in neighbouring Guinea which has resulted in a massive monitoring effort trying to find the people who were exposed.

Teams of investigators have been tracking health workers and scouring Bamako and the imam's village of Kouremale, which straddles the Mali-Guinea border, for people who could have been exposed.

The United States said about 15-20 travellers depart Mali each day en route to the United States.

Those arriving will be checked for fever and subject to the 21-day monitoring and movement protocols already in effect for travellers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

Meanwhile, a cargo ship on its way from Guinea to Ukraine reported it had a crew member with possible symptoms of Ebola, and prepared to drop anchor off Athens so doctors could board to examine him.

If confirmed, it would be the first case in Greece of the hemorrhagic virus.

And in Guinea, the United Nations envoy charged with leading the Ebola response in that country, Rwandan national Marcel Rudasingwa, died on Monday.

(Source - Daily Mail, UK)

[Flash]

They truly doing everything in their power to spread ebola short of using aerosol or chemtrailing it. Now a cargo boat!!

[Violet]

Today was world toilet day, keeping in mind that many people don't have a toilet and just do their thing in the outside. Mostly Asian and African countries are affected by this void.

It struck me that the news focused on this problem as a catalyst for ebola.

[Bob]

Lufthansa, the German airline has decided it needs to convert an AirBus into an international Quarantine capable med-evac for highly infectious patients.


http://s1.ibtimes.com/sites/www.ibtimes.com/files/styles/v2_article_large/public/2014/11/18/lufthansa-a340-300.jpg

Lufthansa, the biggest airline in Europe by passengers carried, is converting one of its airplanes into an “Ebola jet,” whose mission will be ferrying health personnel to treatment facilities in the West.

An Airbus A340 long-range plane will become a medical evacuation transport, featuring three “isolation cells” that will ensure patients can be transported safely.

Doctors from the Robert Koch Institut -- the German equivalent of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- will oversee the conversion of the four-engine airliner, which was requested by the German federal government.

The A340-300 model, was chosen because of its long range, allowing it to reach most of the world without fuel stops. The plane would also be available for citizens of other nations

German government thereby confirms this is a real situation warranting a method to transport people out of the hotzone for treatment.

(Source - IB Times)

Meanwhile -

INDIA quarantines a previously infected Ebola patient, who was initially declared EBOLA-FREE with blood tests, but tests of semen have shown that the virus IS still present..


The body fluid of a 26-year-old Indian man, who landed in Delhi from Liberia, has tested positive for Ebola virus, even as another man in Rajasthan showed Ebola-like symptoms.

The man in Delhi was admitted to a health facility in the African nation in September and treated for Ebola. He was carrying a disease-free certificate from the Liberian health ministry, claiming he underwent treatment successfully and was cured of the disease.

The infected Indian who reached Delhi on November 10 underwent the mandatory screening at the Delhi airport. His blood tested negative for the virus.

But when his body fluids were checked, his semen tested positive for Ebola in two different government laboratories in the last two days.

The tests were conducted at the National Centre for Disease Control, Delhi, and National Institute of Virology, Pune.

The Health Ministry plans to keep him in isolation for at least three weeks, sources told Deccan Herald.

“Though this person does not have any symptoms of the disease, he would be kept in isolation in the special health facility of Delhi Airport Health Organisation, till such time his body fluids tested negative and he is found medically fit to be discharged,” said a health ministry spokesperson.

What this SHOWS is that asymptomatic people CAN still have the disease and be capable of transmitting it..

[Bob]

The Cuban doctor who became Ebola positive will be flown to Geneva instead of back to Cuba (or elsewhere) for treatment.

The interesting story of this Cuban Doctor -

identified by Cuban officials as Felix Baez, is one of 165 Cuban doctors and nurses treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. He is the first of the group, deployed since early October, known to be infected by the virus that has killed more than 5,400 people.

Baez is being evacuated from the West African country by a private American carrier, with the help of the World Health Organization, the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health said in a statement. The WHO said it had no comment on the case.

"The University Hospital of Geneva, where he will be brought, is ready to admit him in accordance with long-established procedures that will ensure the security of all staff and patients," the Swiss statement said.

A Geneva doctor specializing in infectious diseases is organizing his care in a special hospital room separate from other wards and outpatient clinics at the downtown hospital, it said. "The Swiss population is not at any risk."

Hospital staff have been trained and rehearsed procedures to put on and remove protective gear, the Swiss statement said.

Two Swiss hospitals are conducting trials of experimental vaccines against the virus. The NewLink vaccine, developed by Canada, is being tested in Geneva, while the GlaxoSmithKline vaccine is being tested in Lausanne.

Baez is a specialist in internal medicine who has worked at a Havana military hospital that also has a prison wing where some high-profile prisoners have been held.

Baez previously treated the late Cuban dissident Oscar Espinosa Chepe while he was imprisoned at the Carlos J. Finlay Military Hospital, according to the official website LaJiribilla.

U.S. foreign aid contractor Alan Gross is serving a 15-year sentence there on his conviction for smuggling banned internet technology into the communist-run country. (GPS on an iPhone or discrete is BANNED btw..)

(Source - Reuters international news)

[Bob]

NY Times reports exponential Ebola growth curve is flattening

Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the C.D.C. director, said that a previous worse-case projection by the agency that the Ebola epidemic could lead to 1.4 million cases by late January unless effective measures were taken to contain it was no longer applicable.

Asked why is that, the reply is:

The international response to West Africa’s Ebola epidemic, coupled with more effective action by local communities, has stopped the exponential spread of the disease in Liberia.

What does that mean?

Infection control, not touching people's bodies who have the infection, proper sanitary burial, quarantine steps, clinical rehydration steps.

What has not been confirmed or verified is if the disease has burnt out communities, families, whole villages, so there are no more people left in the affected areas able to spread the disease. What is not also talked about is if animals eating dead bodies will spread the disease, or if those animals are being addressed. Earlier Liberia put an information clampdown on reports coming out of the country, so we are left with data that comes from "official sources" for accurate data.

The US Military has said that it would cut it's troops back in Liberia, leading one to believe that the 'flames are diminishing' and not requiring US presence of the previously anticipated levels.

MEANWHILE, SIERRA LEONE is still in wildfire mode with no diminishing levels, but in-fact still increasing.

(Source NY Times news service)

[Bob]

Even though 'official reports' are saying Liberia is getting control of the wildfire ebola outbreak, NY times also reports this (which looks more like the real story)

(Source (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/world/africa/ebola-response-in-liberia-is-hampered-by-infighting-.html))

Everyone over there is fighting with themselves and outsiders coming in to help deal with the issues at hand.

Three months after donors began pouring resources into Liberia, many confirmed cases still go unreported, countries refuse to change plans to erect field hospitals in the wrong places, families cannot find out whether their relatives in treatment are alive or dead.

A report on the issue reads: “The current and planned work presented by the partners and government for survivors can be characterized as fragmented and lacking in scope, scale, comprehensiveness, evidence base and survivor-driven programming.”

American military helicopters ferrying doctors to remote areas were forbidden to fly back not only patients but even blood samples; recently samples from a village had to be walked to a road four hours away. At Monday’s meeting, according to the minutes, Dr. De Cock called this "unacceptable".

So as far as reporting, patients cannot get to the facilities once again. Nor can statistics be generated. Again a Liberian government ploy to cover up what is happening out in the bush.

Hospitals being built and REPORTING EMPTY BEDS because they are in the WRONG AREAS

Example: one Asian and two European donor countries are insisting on building new Ebola field hospitals in Monrovia, where hospitals have empty beds, rather than in remote counties where beds are desperately needed; they insisted because they announced those plans two months ago, he said.

The national case count was not reported for two days recently because the government employee compiling it went unpaid and stopped working.

This is the information clampdown's results in the flesh. This leads to social media, and poo-poo'ers getting a false sense of bravado, meanwhile people continue to die and are forced by the 'official authority' to suffer for saving 'public image' that they are not a backwater country who can't really fend for itself when it comes to dealing with tribal ritualistic taboos, lack of proper sanitation, and medical facilities.

[Bob]

United Nations and the World Health Organization expressed renewed alarm

There is a potential to ravage a fourth country, Mali, where UN and WHO have said hundreds of people had been exposed to an infected cleric who died last month.

Up to 500 people have been exposed, about 400 being monitored and about 10-20% are not able to be located.

Official stats: Ebola virus, has sickened at least 15,351 people and killed at least 5,459 - Known deaths in Mali from the virus is 6 currently.


http://chanlo.com/images/mali-ebola-1.jpg

W.H.O.’s director general, Dr. Margaret Chan is setting up a team to be led by her and was headed to Mali.

A new support center would be established there.

[Atlas]

Geographical distribution of probable and confirmed cases in the past 21 days and total cases in Guinea, Liberia, Mali and Sierra Leone
http://www.healthpromo.doh.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-11-20-at-9.18.01-AM.png
Data for cases reported during the past 21 days for Liberia do not include confirmed cases from 26 October onwards. Data are based on situation reports provided by countries. The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Dotted and dashed lines on maps represent approximate border lines for which there may not yet be full agreement.

Source: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/144117/1/roadmapsitrep_21Nov2014_eng.pdf

[Bob]

New Ebola Case in Mali Confirmed, Two More Suspected

BAMAKO, Mali — Mali on Saturday confirmed a new case of Ebola and said two more suspected patients are being tested, raising concern about a further spread of the disease, which has already killed five people in the country from the current outbreak, caught from the infected inmam who died last month, and 1 child who caught the virus in Guinea and traveled to Mali.

The patient who tested positive "was placed in an isolation center for intensive treatment," said a government statement distributed Saturday.

No details about the patient were provided.

Meanwhile, the Ebola outbreak is now considered "stable" in Guinea, where the latest crisis began, the World Health Organization says. Concerted efforts might be able to end it by the middle of next year, stated U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.

There were still some flare ups in the south-east, but things were improving in other prefectures, WHO co-ordinator Dr Guenael Rodier said.

International support is making a difference,” Kim added. “But there’s also evidence that is very worrisome, such as the increase in infections in Sierra Leone and the spreading of the outbreak to Mali.” “The new chain of transmission in Mali is of deep concern,”

“And our goal will be extraordinarily difficult: We must get to zero cases,” Kim said. “Ebola is not a disease where you can leave a few cases and say you’ve done enough; look what happened in the early days of this epidemic, when it fell in Guinea and then exploded into Liberia and Sierra Leone.”

It’s far too early to become complacent, WHO's Chan said, adding that she is also concerned about stopping the outbreak in Mali.

“We must smother this little fire … before it gets out of control,” she said. “I am confident that if we work together as one, we will be able to bring this outbreak under control.”

[Violet]

That means it's climbing Africa.

[Bob]

Italy now has a case of Ebola to deal with from a repatriated doctor brought in from Sierra Leone

(Source (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11250747/Italys-first-case-of-Ebola-confirmed.html))


The doctor had been working since October 18 at a small clinic about 10 miles west of capital of Freetown with the humanitarian group Emergency before developing a fever, testing positive for the virus and being isolated, according to Italian reports.

Italian Health Ministry officials said the doctor was in a stable condition, did not have a fever during the night and was eating and drinking autonomously.

Pay attention to the highlighted comment, although having confirmed EBOLA, NO SHOW OF FEVER presently.. meaning what? body turned OFF fever response in some cases, and still virus is present... DANGER here then in just looking for temperature as an indicator, right?

more..

http://www.iltempo.it/cronache/2014/11/24/ebola-contagiato-un-medico-italiano-in-arrivo-allo-spallanzani-di-roma-1.1348735

"He worked at the Center for Emergency for Ebola patients Lakka, Sierra Leone. An Italian doctor has tested positive to the virus. It 'the first case of infection by a compatriot.

"The doctor will be transferred this night at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani in Rome. The Minister of Health, Beatrice Lorenzin, gave immediate arrangements to organize the transfer and processing of medical transportation with high biocontainment. "

[Bob]

Pakistan possible case of Ebola - warning signs present, awaiting blood tests

(Source (http://tribune.com.pk/story/796395/first-suspected-ebola-case-emerges-in-pakistan/))


FAISALABAD: A man in Chiniot was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition and has been kept under isolation, with doctors fearing he may have contracted the deadly Ebola virus.
Zulfiqar Ahmad, 40, who resides in Chiniot, returned to Pakistan on November 16 after working for the Togolese Republic in West Africa.

Ahmad faced multiple health-related problems and was admitted to the DHQ Hospital in Chiniot and later shifted to the Allied Hospital by his relatives.

After conducting initial diagnostic tests, doctors said that he may have contracted the Ebola virus.

Comment from a reader in Pakistan:

"If it really is ebola then we are in big trouble. Our country is even worse then Africa when it comes to dealing with such contagious diseases.

"We simply don’t have resources and expertise and even if we had resources and expertise then too our system is too corrupt to handle such a dangerous disease."

[avid]

Yoichi Shimatsu - I am always interested in his reports....

http://www.rense.com/general96/patientzero.html
'Patient Zero' Is Concocted To Conceal Biowarfare Behind Ebola And HIV

By Yoichi Shimatsu
Exclusive to Rense
11-24-14
For medical science as in the Olympic games being first is what matters because nobody remembers who comes in second. The dueling claims over the discovery of the link between AIDS and HIV by Luc Montagnier and challenger Robert Gallo is legend, the microbiology equivalent of the OK Corral gunfight. In the contest for fame and glory, Gallo bit the dust while the Pasteur Institute’s Montagnier won the Nobel Prize and is walking tall into the history books.

The currrent West African outbreak thrust Peter Piot into the global spotlight as the microbiologist who discovered and named Ebola on a 1976 visit to the Belgian Congo (later Zaire and now the Democratic Republic of Congo). His co-discoverers are forgotten except for rare mention in a footnote.

Now zoologists at Oxford and Leuven universities led by research professor Nuno Faria are staking their claim to fame as the team that, after decades of controversy, identified the starting point for when HIV was transmitted from apes to the human population. Computer modeling enabled the researchers to trace the human immunodeficiency virus, which has spread as a worldwide AIDS contagion to more than 75 million patients, to its origin in the Congolese city of Kinshasa in the year 1920.

Discovery is a tricky notion, when considering these viruses existed in Africa long before the relatively new bioscience of virology. Paleovirology, the study of viruses in preserved tissue samples, from Egyptian mummies for instance, is still in its infancy and will someday overturn recent claims of virus origins. As much as humans dread viral outbreaks, many viruses have a long successful history because of their overall beneficial role in evolution of altering genes in organisms to produce mutated variants and new species. Without virus intrusions, higher species like our own, would not have arisen.

The Bio-engineers Strike Back
There are more sinister reasons than fame or pure science behind the current attempts by microbiologists to pin down the first cases of HIV and of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. In both of these medical mysteries, the date of origin is key to determining whether the cause of these deadly contagions was a natural event or laboratory-based genetic engineering.

Scientific opinion is heavily biased toward natural zoonosis, or transmission of animal diseases to humans. The professional reluctance to discuss artificial gene modification is due to the financial dependency of university and hospital researchers on grants from pharmaceuticals or under military contract. Enormous institutional pressure is exerted to deny and eliminate any mention of vaccine testing and biological warfare projects in the modification of increasingly toxic viruses. All-too many scientists are willing to present selective data for the perpetuation of an official cover-up.

By the same coin, science-related journalism is eager to “debunk” critics of the medical-science establishment as conspiracy theorists, for example, in a recent attack in the Telegraph newspaper against law professor and bioterrorism expert Francis Boyle for suggesting that the West African ebola outbreak was caused by Western military-funded research in the region’s hospitals.

Since biowarfare experiments remain top secret and pharmaceuticals disguise illegal drug tests under the cover of vaccine campaigns, it is an uphill battle for honest investigators to access any facts much less the “smoking gun” to prove medical-research malpractice. Whenever debunking fails to deter, threats can be real. This point was hammered home by the management purge at the BBC following the death of microbiologist David Kelly after he accused the Tony Blair government of falsifying data for its bogus claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

The notorious Dr. Mengele is not exceptional in the medical field when pharmaceuticals and military-linked labs routinely conduct in-vitro experiments on the African population without risk of a World Health Organization (WHO) inquiry or war-crimes charges under the UN Biological Weapons Convention. The epicenter of the current Ebola outbreak is the impoverished Republic of Guinea, which never signed the biowarfare treaty, resulting in its status as a free-fire zone for deliberate infection and consequent “humanitarian intervention.” When it comes to biowarfare research, regulatory oversight is nonexistent.

Human Guinea Pigs
The date of the first case of Zaire-type Ebola in Guinea is important because it can be correlated with the presence of specific foreign medical teams in country. Natural transmission via a fruit bat is out of the question because of the 2,000-km flying distance from the virus source in Gabon-Congo (Brazzaville) contagion of a decade earlier.

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), headed by former US national security adviser Anthony Lake, is promoting the outright fabrication that a 2-year-old Patient Zero contracted ebola in December 2013. That early starting date would have resulted in nearly triple the number of ebola-caused deaths that were reported by the WHO in March. The UNICEF claim, covered first by The New York Times, does not even come close to approaching known rates of transmission from infected persons to others.

The standard Markov method, used to calculate the rate of infectious transmission, indicates the first Ebola case occurred in late January or early February, coinciding with a UNICEF sponsored vaccine campaign involving the British adoption agency Plan International (PI) and Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), in the Forestiere Region of the Republic of Guinea.

Is it not irresponsible for this writer to suggest that UNICEF officials deliberately infected children with lethal Ebola, probably distributed in cartons of milk as a reward for vaccination? It should be remembered that Anthony Lake as Clinton’s security adviser ordered the murderous “humanitarian interventions” against Haiti and Somalia (Blackhawk Down). What is incredible is not the potential for biowarfare deployment but that the UN could permit a war criminal to run its program to save the world’s children and infants.

The case for a clandestine biowarfare attack to legitimize “humanitarian intervention” is further strengthened by non-medical political-economic factors:
- cooperator agency Plan International is headed by former BBC World chief Nigel Chapman, who was involved in the media cover-up of David Kelly’s mysterious death;
- the role of George Soros as economic adviser to the Guinean president during a “mineral war” for mining rights between the Rothschild group, a Chinese aluminum corporation and an Israeli venture immediately before the ebola outbreak; and
- Tony Blair’s Africa Governance Initiative in Guinea, the only French-speaking nation recruited into this British project for the recolonization of the resource-rich continent.

It is no wonder then that UNICEF and The New York Times are trying to throw investigators off the trail with a doctored claim about Patient Zero. A similar effort is being made, by the same British medical establishment (Blair’s closest foreign-policy advisers are based at his alma mater, Oxford), to deny that HIV-AIDS was gene-modified for purposes of biological warfare.

A web of lies about AIDS
The Oxford-Leuven research into HIV origins is the capstone of a decades-long effort by microbiologists, many of them linked with biowarfare funding sources, to deny and discredit the vaccine theory of HIV genetic alteration, which allegedly occurred during vaccine trials in the 1950s, according to field work done by investigative journalist Edward Hooper and other writers.

Faria’s team employed computer modeling to design a superficially plausible scenario for the spread of HIV infections in 1959 across the Belgian Congo. HIV is known to have been transmitted from apes to humans at least 13 times in Africa, but only one of these transmission events has led to a human pandemic, according to a media summary from Oxford University. The point of origin was wild chimpanzee habitat in Cameroon, from where HIV quickly moved into the Belgian Congo capital of Kinshasa.

One of the co-authors, zoologist Oliver Pybus, explained, “Our research suggests that following the original animal-to-human transmission of the virus (probably through the hunting or handling of bush meat) there was only a small 'window' during the Belgian colonial era for this particular strain of HIV to emerge and spread into a pandemic. By the 1960s transport systems, such as the railways, that enabled the virus to spread vast distances were less active, but by that time the seeds of the pandemic were already sown across Africa and beyond.”

Even in this summary, the Oxford-Leuven report is rife with faulty assumptions leading to erroneous conclusions.

In the immediate aftermath of World War I, the German colony of Cameroon was reassigned to French control. Wartime disrepair of dirt roads and a shortage of diesel fuel had led to serious barriers to overland between former German Cameroon through either the Central African Republic or Congo-Brazzaville and on to the Belgian Congo. It would have been a stretch, to say the least, for impoverished game hunters to transport heavy loads of bush meat across three colonial territories to Kinshasa, especially when the surrounding Congolese forests abounded with wildlife.

How then can the Oxford-Leuven team assert the rapid movement of HIV from Cameroon to Kinshasa, while it took nearly four decades for the virus to spread by railroad across the Congo. Did the trains not run on time? What took so long?

The bush-meat theory of HIV and ebola transmission is an urban myth. In the jungles of equatorial Africa, hunters are cautious about exposing any wounds to animal blood, not just due to the threat of infection but also for reasons of traditional taboos. The Western media, in contrast, can easily blame native hunters as carriers of infection because they are already stigmatized by the luxury safari industry for the ivory trade and wildlife loss.

When scientists depend on media stereotypes, it means more often than not, they are putting science at the service of publicity for a powerful sponsor. One of the powerhouses of microbiology is the medical establishment of former apartheid South Africa, where race-selective viral agents were developed in secret in cooperation with Israel. Due to the Reconciliation policy, hardly any details about the Project Coast biowar program were disclosed in the recent trial of chief suspect Dr. Wooten Besson. Until the apartheid-era research reports are excavated from their hiding place, no scientific hypotheses from European sources should be accepted as authoritative.

Bestiality of Empire
The earliest infections that resulted in AIDS as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) outside Africa occurred much earlier than the famous 1969 leap of from Africa to Haiti and on to the United States.

Immunity to HIV in Provence today is a legacy of the Roman Empire. The city of Avignon was a Roman administrative center with an arena for gladiatorial combat and marketplaces and theaters for more lurid entertainment. The Phoenicians and their colonial cousins, the Carthaginians, conducted a brisk trade in wildlife from West Africa to sell as pets and fighting animals.

Emperor Tiberias, notorious for his sexual explorations, kept a zoo on his pleasure island of Capri, where he engaged in practices that were too decadent for the pro-Christian historian Suetonius to describe. That some Roman men practiced zoophilia, also called bestiality, with male apes is verified by the anti-HIV immunity in much of the present-day population of Avignon. Transmitted via anal intercourse with primates, the simian virus became an STD in the human population.

The evidence for ape-to-human transmission during the Roman era is a gene sequence called CCR5-delta32, imprinted in the DNA of much of the local population. That the gene sequence is inherited rather than newly introduced is shown by its presence in premature babies. What this medical evidence suggests is that many of the “plagues” that broke out in the Roman Empire and during the Dark Ages were not only from bubonic bacteria but were often virus-caused pandemics.

The Oxford-Leuven computer simulation is off by two millenniums. HIV did not spread from apes to Africans and then across the Atlantic into the Caucasian population in the 20th century. The earliest known example of HIV transmission was directly from captive male apes to their human captors in Mediterranean Europe during the reign of the Caesars. And even Roman may not be the first reported case, when the Book of Job describes carcinoma-like sores covering the skin of that Jewish prophet, who lived near pharaoh-ruled Egypt where apes were worshiped.

Suetonius’s puritan-like avoidance of any graphic description is reflected in the Oxford-Leuven report in citing the expansion of the “sex trade” in 1950s Congo. It is medically more helpful to mention male brothels, especially those procuring teenage boys from the countryside for European clients of “rough-trade” pedophila, as hubs for AIDS propagation. The Congo region was a colony of Belgium, a European society quite tolerant of homosexual activity with minors, a practice of predatory sex that continues unabated in Central and West Africa by Western diplomats, businessmen, aid workers and other privileged foreign men, who are more to blame for spreading the virus than the sex workers.

To put the major onus on railroad travel is another colonial bias against economic development and technical advancement in “primitive” non-European societies. As exemplified in the decadent amusements of the Roman Empire, imperial power encourages not only oppressive sexual attitudes but also the cheapening of human life, which can eventually lead to biological warfare experiments on an unsuspecting colonized population.

Trustworthy answers about the origins of highly lethal HIV and Ebola are not forthcoming anytime soon from the medical establishment. The full truth about biowarfare and abusive vacccine testing is yet to be disclosed, and therefore the public has no choice but to reject so-called scientific reports from research institutes tainted by association with the defense bureaucracy and pharmaceutical corporations. As amply shown in this writer’s seven-article series on ebola, posted at rense.com, the overwhelming weight of available evidence shows that the Ebola outbreak is a deliberate act of biowarfare and a major crime against humanity. That, too, could well be the case of the lethal variant of HIV. The culprits must be brought to justice, even if they are clad in the white gowns of physicians and lab researchers.

Yoichi Shimatsu, a science writer based in Southeast Asia, led a consulting team in response to the SARS and avian influenza outbreaks by a team of microbiologist, some of whom contributed medical information for this report. His series of seven articles on Ebola and biowarfare are posted at rense.com.

[Bob]

An interesting "tale" by Yoichi Shimatsu, without references proving his data is accurate and not suggestions or rumors or stretched 'alleged facts'..



Bestiality of Empire
The earliest infections that resulted in AIDS as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) outside Africa occurred much earlier than the famous 1969 leap of from Africa to Haiti and on to the United States.

Immunity to HIV in Provence today is a legacy of the Roman Empire. The city of Avignon was a Roman administrative center with an arena for gladiatorial combat and marketplaces and theaters for more lurid entertainment. The Phoenicians and their colonial cousins, the Carthaginians, conducted a brisk trade in wildlife from West Africa to sell as pets and fighting animals.

Emperor Tiberias, notorious for his sexual explorations, kept a zoo on his pleasure island of Capri, where he engaged in practices that were too decadent for the pro-Christian historian Suetonius to describe. That some Roman men practiced zoophilia, also called bestiality, with male apes is verified by the anti-HIV immunity in much of the present-day population of Avignon. Transmitted via anal intercourse with primates, the simian virus became an STD in the human population.

And he got this information first hand?

[avid]

http://www.4thmedia.org/category/yoichi-shimatsu/
Interesting journo-history, but good point Bob - we need scientific links/refs.

[Roisin]

Pakistan possible case of Ebola - warning signs present, awaiting blood tests

(Source (http://tribune.com.pk/story/796395/first-suspected-ebola-case-emerges-in-pakistan/))


FAISALABAD: A man in Chiniot was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition and has been kept under isolation, with doctors fearing he may have contracted the deadly Ebola virus.
Zulfiqar Ahmad, 40, who resides in Chiniot, returned to Pakistan on November 16 after working for the Togolese Republic in West Africa.

Ahmad faced multiple health-related problems and was admitted to the DHQ Hospital in Chiniot and later shifted to the Allied Hospital by his relatives.

After conducting initial diagnostic tests, doctors said that he may have contracted the Ebola virus.

Comment from a reader in Pakistan:

"If it really is ebola then we are in big trouble. Our country is even worse then Africa when it comes to dealing with such contagious diseases.

"We simply don’t have resources and expertise and even if we had resources and expertise then too our system is too corrupt to handle such a dangerous disease."

Pakistan? Uh oh. Not good. It's the gateway to India too and once it hits there we're in big trouble. Same with Bangladesh.

Too bad there are so many Indian doctors practicing in the US instead of their own country as it needs them more than we do. But as usual, it's all about the money right?

[Bob]

Unrest with the Home Office -

"You'll be fine.. you won't catch it, it's not airborne, your suit is fine, stiff upper lip mate!" - out of sight out of mind, pip pip..

(and no.. if you catch it like many of your fellow doctors and nurses who took precautions, well sorry mates, you won't be repatriated and treated here in UK..)

"My feeling is that the politicians don't want to bring people back for treatment, but they don't want to actually say that."

British medics who have volunteered to fight the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone have accused the Government of failing to offer them proper emergency back-up if they get infected.

"The government is planning to dispatch up to 1,500 NHS volunteers to the west African nation over coming months, as part of a £125m aid programme that a force of 800 British troops began rolling out last month.

"But officials have refused to guarantee that any medic who catches the virus will be flown back to Britain for treatment, insisting that most cases can be dealt by a British army clinic that has been set up in the capital, Freetown.

"The ruling has caused disquiet among some medics, who point out that the British army facility is not equipped with either kidney dialysis machines or artificial lungs, both of which could be necessary for treatment of anyone with advanced Ebola symptoms.

"They say the government should instead offer automatic repatriation for any medical worker as soon as they test positive for Ebola.

"At present, the Government says it will repatriate only on a "case by case" basis, which the medics suspect is a get-out clause to avoid public panic about Ebola coming to the UK."


Ebola sufferers whose condition continues to worsen can require dialysis or ventilators. Some medics that believe that for that reason, it would be better simply to evacuate people immediately.

The specialist evacuation planes that are used to transport Ebola sufferers also have limited ability to do so if the patient is suffering particularly acute symptoms.

"The plans are rather vague, and I think volunteers are owed some clarity," said the medic.

"If they have tested positive for Ebola, they and their families have enough to worry about, without the additional factor of whether they are coming back to Britain or not."

Similar concerns are understood to have been shared by number of British consultants, and the matter is believed to have been raised with Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for England.

(Source (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11253561/Government-accused-of-failing-to-provide-emergency-care-for-British-ebola-volunteers.html))

[Bob]

Mali confirmed cases increasing - up to 8 confirmed, down to 271 being monitored.

(Source (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/24/us-health-ebola-mali-idUSKCN0J828420141124))

Of the six previously known cases of the disease in Mali, all have died, the World Health Organization said on Friday.


http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20141124&t=2&i=994364207&w=580&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=LYNXNPEAAN104

[Bob]

RT News reporting

http://rt.com/news/209471-ebola-death-toll-rises/

5.7k dead, 16k infected where the Ebola toll rises in W. Africa despite a 'stable' situation

Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia were the hardest hit by the virus outbreak, with 600 new cases recorded just last week.

Sierra Leone is in wildfire mode.

About that Vaccine

An Ebola experimental vaccine is proving to be safe in the first-stage of testing. :rolleyes:

It was successful in the first 20 volunteers, according to the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1410863?query=featured_home).

The vaccine triggers the immune system to produce anti-Ebola antibodies, which volunteers developed within four weeks of getting the shot.

The vaccine is being made by NIH and Glaxo-Smith-Kline. No serious side effects have been reported so far, except a fever following a higher-than-usual dosage.

Some have argued that the Ebola death toll has been greatly under-reported. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) believes that up to 20,000 people could have succumbed to the disease by November.

[avid]

I know of UK volunteers outgoing to treat Ebola victims, no touching allowed - only elbow greetings or positive signals. Will keep you posted on this nurse who is 'going' from UK. Hope she keeps well, never mentioned any pre-vaccines yet, but will ask.
Her last post before going abroad was "When we're working in affected countries, we work with a strict no touch policy. We reach out by greeting people with an elbow bump or a hand gesture to the heart."

[avid]

Just had a reply - she's been given yellow fever and cholera, but is expecting newer vaccines imminently. I've asked her to take details of what she is being given, for her own record and for that of her future safety. Batch nos, specifics et al. I've also been warned off asking specific questions about new vaccines, but have kicked that warning into touch, she is entitled to all info and to log all stuff being pumped into her, for future refs. If I get a reply, I'll be surprised, as the contact is now closing me down. I'll sort her out at a later date - how disappointing and narrow-minded!

[Bob]

We remember Dr. Kent Brantly the earliest US Ebola patient treated at Emory who has been providing up to a gallon of his own blood with Ebola fighting antibodies..

Well that idea has been really stimulating bioscientists to take a look at can they make another animal become a provider of antibodies...

Remember the zMapp product which was supposed to be produced in Tobacco plants, only taking two weeks to create massive amounts of mAB's (monoclonal antibodies), but for some reason has disappeared out of sight out of mind...

zMapp was used with Dr. Brantly at Emory, and he also received blood serum from a survivor, one whom he had treated in Africa..

Speculation is, did the zMapp do the deed or did the survivor blood serum work?

Quite possibly it was the blood serum, and Dr. Brantly's blood has been used on other survivors of Ebola in the US..

USING GMO COWS

A team at SAB Biotherapeutics worked with a team at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Maryland, to develop the process.

Because cattle are so large, they can produce large quantities of the serum. "Each animal can produce up to several hundred or even a thousand human doses of antibody per month," the researchers wrote.

Testing using HANTAVIRUS (as discussed earlier in this thread)

They started with genetically engineered cattle bred by SAB. The cattle carry human genes and make fully human antibodies. Then they made a vaccine against two types of hantaviruses and vaccinated the cattle. The cattle produced plenty of antibodies against the hantaviruses.

Then they purify the blood extracting the antibodies.

Genetically engineering the animals to produce fully human antibodies minimizes the risk, says Dr. Jay Hooper of USAMRIID, who led the study.

"Once they are purified they will look just like human antibodies," he said.


http://doowansnewsandevents.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/cow-21.jpg

[avid]

Sorry - this is a 'cow-pat' too far...!!! ;)

[Ammit]

It makes you wonder what the hell is going on in the world.
Ebola and Bubonic Plague on the loose.
Then this morning I read this:
HERE (http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/national/news/11632486.Two_children_being_tested_for_Ebola/)

Scarier when the risk comes closer to home...

[Bob]

So who is SAB BioTherapeutics?

SAB Biotherapeutics, Inc. Producing Human Antibodies to Combat Disease

(Follow the Money..)

While using animals to produce human antibodies may have sounded like a work of science fiction in the not-too-distant past, that’s exactly what one South Dakota company – SAB Biotherapeutics, Inc. – is currently doing.

“We are using a unique platform technology called diversitAb™ to produce fully human antibodies as biotherapeutics against targeted diseases,” said Eddie Sullivan, President and CEO at SAB Biotherapeutics.

“When a foreign organism or even part of a human cancer cell is injected into the cattle, they produce an antibody response to the injection and produce fully human antibodies that can be extracted and purified from the cattle and placed in a human patient.”

Antibody therapeutics have a worldwide market of more than $60 billion per year, but what makes SAB Biotherapeutics’ system unique is that the animals produce fully human antibodies from the entire human antibody germ line sequences, which makes them more diverse than any other transgenic animal system.

Additionally, the sheer size of cattle offers an advantage in the volume of antibodies that can be produced from a single animal.

Sullivan says that being in an area with large agricultural resources is an excellent advantage for a company like SAB Biotherapeutics.

“South Dakota is a great place to conduct biomedical research.

This area has a number of other organizations that are involved in applications of genetically engineered animals, and being a part of the broader research community is also an advantage,” Sullivan said.

“The State of South Dakota – including the Governor and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development – has helped ensure this technology continues to move forward, and the public is very supportive of research in all sectors.”

(Source (http://southdakota.cciconstellation.net/Build-Your-Business/Success-Stories/SAB-Biotherapeutics.aspx))

Originally, in 1998 – Hematech, LLC was founded

In 2013 – Hematech, Inc. becomes Sanford Applied Biosciences, a subsidiary of Sanford Health

Then in 2014 – Sanford Applied Biosciences and Biodak, LLC come together to form SAB Biotherapeutics, Inc.


Sorry - this is a 'cow-pat' too far...!!! ;)

(About the Technology (http://www.sabbiotherapeutics.com/technology/summary/), Summary @SAB)

[Bob]

Rapid up-tick bump in Ebola deaths reported

Nearly 7,000 people have now died from Ebola in west Africa, with the latest report from the World Health Organization counting over 1,200 more deaths than in a toll given on Wednesday.

Data published by the UN's health body late Friday showed that 16,169 people had been infected with Ebola and that 6,928 of them had died in the three countries at the centre of the outbreak -- Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

On Wednesday, WHO had put Ebola death toll in the three countries at 5,674, with 15 additional deaths in other countries.

(Source (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-2854241/Ebola-toll-nears-7-000-WHO.html))


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/11/29/article-b466a4a3-8c52-44b3-b3ac-44f1d446bde1-6US6rggf3-HSK1-858_634x495.jpg

meanwhile country official government 'leaders' are attempting to 'quiet' down all reports coming out that 'all clear' is the message..

[jerry]

I haven't been following the thread, but having it pop up on my screen today reminded me a clip I felt would go well here. Apologies in advance if its already posted somewhere in these 41 pages . XIDmK5qwarU

[Bob]

35 US Hospitals now officially designated as Ebola receiving and treatment centers

With the media suppression orders received from the Ebola Czar, getting information is more difficult, but on occasion one can get the data on what's happening, and Ebola is not in any way under control. It remains a wildfire springing up still in West African Countries, moving from spot to spot, having 'burnt' (read 'killed') the infected people, who still for the most part die, including many of the family and village members. When the communities have died, and are sufficiently "isolated" from the rest of the world, the disease diminishes there until something picks on the exposed bodies, (read eats them), or if they are non-safely buried.

So OUT-of-SIGHT and thereby out-of-mind is the policy being taken by Liberia, and by the news blackouts. Below though, the US has NOT stopped officially in dealing with the situation. Billions of $$ are earmarked for establishing treatment methods, treatment centers, disease prevention research and development, including many $$ designated for dealing with bioweapons potential use (and detection), by "terrorists". The same facilities would be able to be used for civilian casualties as well as treating "officials" (government and military) affected.

(Source (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-designates-35-hospitals-to-prepare-for-future-ebola-patients/2014/12/02/d3213c18-7a1a-11e4-b821-503cc7efed9e_story.html))

Partial list:

John F. Kennedy in New York; Newark Liberty; Washington Dulles; O’Hare in Chicago and Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta — that travelers from Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Mali are required to use when arriving in the United States.

They include Bellevue Hospital Center in New York; Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J.; Johns Hopkins in Baltimore; MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C.; Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago; and Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.


More:


Philadelphia, New Jersey, California and Minnesota. They include Kaiser Oakland Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

The 35 designated hospitals will have total treatment capacity of 53 beds.

In trying to establish a network of hospitals, U.S. officials have run into reluctance from facilities worried about steep costs, unwanted attention and the possibility of scaring away other patients.

Until October, only a few facilities in the United States with special biocontainment units, which are ideal for treating Ebola, were able to care for patients. And they could only handle two or three patients at a time. The case of Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who was initially misdiagnosed at a Dallas hospital and died Oct. 8, shows how easily a community hospital can stumble.

In addition to the 35 hospitals that have already been designated, officials want to establish at least another 20 facilities, the official said. When that can be done will depend on how quickly Congress approves the emergency request.

“A combination of confidence and a sense of civic duty and medical prestige led these 35 to come forward and put their hands up.”

[Bob]

What are we not hearing? Active Monitoring in the US is at record high levels

(Source (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/2/more-than-1400-people-being-actively-monit/))

Why aren't we being told there are more than 1400 people in the US currently being monitored for Ebola symptoms? As the Ebola Czar who said shut the (explicative) up... radio silence.

Monitoring now (shhh.....)

More than 1,400 people in 44 states are being actively monitored for Ebola after returning to the U.S. from West Africa, Sharyl Attkisson reports. (Sharyl is one of the only few journalists that has covered the Benghazi scandal from the start. She has acted like pit bull with her continuous updates to the dismay of her original news service, and official-dom.)

“They are being monitored because they came from one of the four countries with ongoing Ebola outbreaks,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, according to Ms. Attkisson, an independent investigative journalist who previously worked for CBS News. source: Jessica Chasmar - Jessica Chasmar is a continuous news writer for The Washington Times.

[Bob]

Boston General says they are considering a possible Ebola case

At a news conference Tuesday night, Dr. Paul Biddinger, the director of emergency preparedness at Mass. General Hospital, said initial test results could be expected overnight, but it could take days to know definitely whether or not the person has Ebola.

Biddinger said the person, who was not identified, recently traveled to an Ebola-affected area and is showing symptoms that are consistent with a wide range of viruses and diseases.

The patient was reported to be in stable condition and is in good spirits.

(Source Local News (http://www.wcvb.com/health/possible-case-of-ebola-reported-at-mass-general-hospital/30026870) Boston)

UPDATE - Wednesday -

No worries, it's 'just malaria', full statement:

"The initial test for Ebola on the patient admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital yesterday with suspected Ebola virus disease is negative.

The patient has, however, tested positive for malaria.

Further diagnostic testing is needed to definitively rule out Ebola virus disease and other diagnoses."

meaning the quickie test says nothing yet as far as Ebola, but.. and a big but... need to wait for more testing due to the incubation period needs 5-12 days typically for the prevalent strain to manifest or not...

Hearing "all clear" in a one day overnite test is dependent on when possible Ebola exposure happened. If it was and exposure a minimum of 5 days, then 7 more days are needed, if not a full 12 days are needed to check for potential.. 21 days is still the gold standard if one is from a hotzone..

[Bob]

Who's the mystery new patient at Emory

Is it Ebola, is it Marburg, is it Lassa? They WON'T SAY but the patient (an American health care worker) needs to be admitted to the Special isolation ward at Emory Hospital in Atlanta, where at least 4 Ebola patients were successfully treated and released.

"Emory cannot share more details out of respect for patient privacy and in accordance with the patient's wishes," it said, adding the patient will be monitored and tested to see if an infection has been acquired."

(Source (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2014-12/05/c_127278224.htm)) - news from CHINA due to the US Ebola Czar imposed blackout of coverage.

[Bob]

Petrol being poured on the fire..

(Source (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/sierra-leone-80-100-ebola-cases-daily-27394068))

Up to 100 new Ebola cases a day are appearing in Sierra Leone.

Over 1,000 beds are needed in clinics to treat victims, but the US is building facilities in Liberia - go figure ?

Sierra Leone has four functioning treatment centers.

"The Ebola outbreak is the largest, longest, most severe and most complex Ebola epidemic in the nearly 40-year history of this disease," Chan said. "What began as a health crisis has become a crisis with humanitarian, social, economic and security implications."

What is wrong with this picture?

[Bob]

Mali reports 2 more infected

One from the nurse who died, her boyfriend.

The other a 27-year-old man who had lost his mother and half-brother to Ebola. According to the World Health Organization, as of December 2, 219 of 227 current contacts linked with the outbreak in Bamako remained under observation.

A UN military team called MINUSMA was quarantined and now has been released.

Over 6100 dead, over 17,000 infected.

(Source (http://www.dw.de/mali-releases-un-peacekeepers-from-ebola-quarantine/a-18113572))

[Violet]

I believe the first Ebola patient, a Nigerian healthworker, entered the Netherlands yesterday (source (http://www.nu.nl/ebola/3946529/waarom-nigeriaanse-ebolapatient-utrecht-komt.html)), in Utrecht, as requested by the WHO.

[Bob]

Just think about it - every case of Ebola had generated a blood sample to the Country hosting the patient..

Interesting concept.. Cuba has samples now, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, etc..

And biowar is "off-the-table" ?

And 6 billion US $ being spent preparing for biowar?

hmm..

[avid]

Please no.... that would be truly beyond-the-pale Bob. Hopefully it will never come to this - even in 2016...!!!!
I watched a fascinating documentary today about 72 year old twins, Bill and Bob Stone, living off the grid in deep Utah wilderness. Survivalists. Incredible folk. Stocked up to the hilt in alternative remedies, and hate big Pharma. An amazing secure settlement, some of it in caves.
http://www.channel5.com/shows/ben-fogle-new-lives-in-the-wild/episodes/episode-3-620

[Bob]

After less than six months on the job, Ron Klain, the former White House adviser appointed by President Barack Obama to handle the nation's response to the threat of Ebola, will return to his private sector job in March.

"Ron agreed to serve the country as Ebola coordinator for 130 days, and will return to Revolution on March 1," his boss Revolution CEO Steve Case told CNBC by email. Fortune.com broke the news on Friday night. Klain is the president of Case Holdings and serves as the general counsel for Revolution, an venture capital firm.

Klain was named Ebola Czar in October to coordinate federal agencies' Ebola-fighting efforts. His appointment came after a Liberian doctor died of the disease in the U.S.

(Source - NBC and Forbes)

We can only speculate was the inside discussion between Klain and Case, "hell no man, you won't pin this on me - won't be the fall boy - go find someone else..."

[Bob]

Department of the Defence ramps up with the organization DTRA (Defence threat reduction agency) turning up its ability to deal with biological disasters.

If you read earlier in this thread or do a search for DTRA, you can see how early on DTRA has been funding development of biologicals, counter-measures, providing hundreds of millions of $$ to select vendors on the "smile list" (wink wink secret handshake).

Today, it was reported from the Pentagon, US Department of Defence:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2014 – The Defense Department agency whose mission is to reduce biological, chemical and other threats to troops worldwide began ramping up its response early in the Ebola outbreak and now, with many partners, is steadily building capabilities in Liberia as it extends capacity into Sierra Leone and Mali.

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, known as DTRA, protects the United States and its allies from chemical, biological, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction.

Dr. Ronald K. Hann Jr., director of research and development in the Chemical and Biological Technologies Department, described the process for DTRA’s work on Ebola diagnostic assays.

“Here at DTRA we work in the realm of basic research up through developing prototypes, but we aren't the ones who do the follow-on procurement, life-cycle management or distribution,” he explained.

“We try to anticipate threats in the future and make sure we have resources prepared to meet those threats,” Hann added.

As products progress, DTRA works directly with its DoD acquisition partner, the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense in Maryland, or with interagency partners such as the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, part of HHS, and the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID.

“We work in an early discovery role, up through prototypes,” Hann said. “Often we’re looking to answer the question, can I do a certain thing, not necessarily whether it’s the best or cheapest way to do it. Looking to make something more cost efficient or how to mass produce it, those are questions that go on to our interagency partners … who carry the product further.”

Threat Detection and Surveillance

Dr. Richard Schoske, chief of the diagnostic detection and threat surveillance division in the Chemical and Biological Technologies Department, described DTRA’s role in diagnostic development.

As far back as 2010, Schoske said, the agency and its advanced developers funded and developed more than seventy assays to detect 19 different pathogens such as hemorrhagic fever viruses like Ebola and Marburg that are both filoviruses.

The assays received pre-Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. Pre-EUA is a step toward EUA, which allows unapproved medical products to be used in an emergency to diagnose, treat or prevent serious diseases.

Generally, Schoske said, DTRA provides funding to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, or USAMRIID, and scientists there do further development and present packages of information about the assays to the advanced developer -- the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense.

Then the JPEO-CBD and DTRA’s Cooperative Biological Engagement Program, or CBEP, partners fund the manufacturing, procurement and distribution to analytic laboratories like the ones DTRA is putting in place in Liberia, Schoske said.

“Those are the assays currently being used by laboratories, in West Africa,” he added.

Labs in Sierra Leone, Assessment in Mali

Now, at Sierra Leone’s request and with CBEP funding and DTRA’s international partners, the agency is moving two contractor-staffed diagnostic labs into Sierra Leone and helping build capacity in that country to deal with Ebola and other infectious diseases.

CBEP division chief Dr. Lance Brooks said the labs will go out in stages. One is expected to be ready by the end of December and full operating capability is expected by early January.

Also in the region, DTRA, with CDC and the State Department’s Biosecurity Engagement Program, has sent an assessment team to Mali, the most recent West African country affected by the Ebola epidemic.

Major General Horner said one of DTRA’s most critical capabilities as a combat support agency is “our agility in terms of working with our lawmakers and colleagues at the Pentagon to get money programmed and on a contract in a hurry.”

He added, “As part of [President Barack Obama’s] Global Health Security Agenda we will sustain our efforts and the capabilities we are putting forward into the future as part of our medical countermeasures-biosurveillance effort.”

Dr. Ronald Meris, branch chief for DTRA Technical Reachback, where modeling is performed for Ebola and other infectious diseases, said, “If we could go out on a limb I would say our modeling is showing that the U.S. government response is making a difference in West Africa.”

He added, “I would say the rate of uptick is lower with each bit of interdiction we do to help combat this [outbreak] and build capacity in the countries. So I'm not going to say that it's a good news story yet but I'm saying the response is taking hold.”

(Source - DoD, US)

[Bob]

Wildfire picks up again

Ebola still rapidly spreading in western Sierra Leone, and in Guinea's forest region.

The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has risen to 6,331 in the three worst hit countries, with Sierra Leone overtaking Liberia as the country with the highest number of cases.

As before the denial saying 'ebola doesn't exist' is causing people to ignore, poo poo and thereby get infected and risk a terrible and death risking outcome. It is not pleasant, and numerous body organs are damaged, making the quality of life if one has not received the mAB or antiviral treatments to stop or sequester the infection, making the quality of life afterward very crippled and hindered.

The rise in the spread of Ebola in western Sierra Leone reflects the fact that tribal-led communities have yet to fully accept the outbreak and take action to avoid infection, he said.

"There are reports coming through of places where people who are sick, staying at home and perhaps infecting their families."

The second "particularly troublesome" area is the northern part of Guinea's interior, a region known as Guinea Forestiere where the epidemic began nearly a year ago, Nabarro said.

"We have been working very closely with Mali to try to make sure if cases perchance cross the border that they can be dealt with very quickly."

(Source - Reuters)

[Bob]

Piles of unreported Ebola killed bodies in Sierra Leone

WHO and Doctors without Borders has been saying all along, at least 2-3 times under-reported cases and deaths..

Well folks in Sierra Leone started to confirm that.


The World Health Organization says the health workers from several local and international agencies are racing to the latest Ebola hotspot, a diamond-mining area that Sierra Leone put on "lockdown" Wednesday.

"In 11 days, two teams buried 87 bodies, including a nurse, an ambulance driver, and a janitor who had been drafted into removing bodies piled up at the only area hospital," the WHO said in a statement Wednesday night.

"Our team met heroic doctors and nurses at their wits end, exhausted burial teams and lab techs, all doing the best they could, but they simply ran out of resources and were overrun with gravely ill people," said Dr. Olu Olushayo, an official in WHO's response Ebola team.

In the five days before its members arrived, 25 people had died in a makeshift, cordoned-off section of the hospital in Sierra Leone's eastern Kono district. The Ebola virus carries its heaviest load right after death, with bodies being a frightening source of contagion.

Sierra Leone authorities said they ordered a two-week "lockdown" there until Dec. 23, in hope of containing transmission of the virus

Health workers sent to Sierra Leone to investigate an alarming spike in deaths from Ebola have uncovered a grim scene: piles of bodies, overwhelmed medical personnel and exhausted burial teams.

It is grim. It is assumed by the authorities that the deaths are related to Ebola.

(Source (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/sierra-leone-area-hold-week-ebola-lockdown-27497818))

Solution? Education as was discussed earlier, proper training, proper care. Proper burial.. Stop poo pooing that "it" is not there.

In the last 21 days, Sierra Leone has reported 1,319 new cases of Ebola virus infections, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports. At best 1/2 of those will die statistically. At worst 1000 will die from the recent uptick.

[Violet]

They're handing out awards (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30424300) (yesterday or) today. I think you should get one too, for all the efforts you put in keeping us informed:

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Thanks, Bob.

[Bob]

That's sweet Violet :) but i would rather be developing and getting the universal anti-viral "pill" to deal with viruses, including the hemorrhagic fever class discussed in this thread. What looking into this has shown me, is that many successful anti-viral treatments have been developed and shelved in light of creating a vaccine concept.. Vaccine to splice in key molecules from viruses INTO our DNA, or to constantly have a live weakened virus circulating in our bodies.. so that the immune system can constantly FIGHT the virus...

Nasty concept that vaccine method, either get hooked on GMO (genetically engineered organism viruses) vaccines, or have a live weak virus circulating in one's body, like yellow fever.. Always fighting never any peace until one is dead (does it even happen then?)..

So if I ever get the opportunity, I will concentrate my efforts on the PROPER anti-viral pill, something consisting of natural substances and any key molecular triggers to boost the immune system, and turn the body back on to a path of health, not always fighting to keep away from being eaten by some other insidious organism..

--Bob

[Bob]

Oopps - vaccine trial PUT ON HOLD.

sure they tell ya it's safe, "just trust us we are doctors" :)

sad but true..


A clinical trial of an Ebola vaccine has been suspended in all 59 volunteers in Geneva a week early “as a measure of precaution” after four patients complained of joint pains in hands and feet, the University of Geneva hospital said.

“They are all fine and being monitored regularly by the medical team leading the study,” it said on Thursday.

The human safety trials of the vaccine being developed by the pharmaceutical firms Merck and NewLink are scheduled to resume on 5 January in up to 15 volunteers after checks to ensure that the joint pain symptoms were “benign and temporary”, the hospital added.

If you recall CANADA provided the vaccine material to NEWLINK who then partnered with MERCK for mass production efforts as their effort to solve the Ebola Crisis in Africa.

From an article:

Canada should cancel NewLink Ebola vaccine contract, critics say


CANADIAN PR SPIN:
Canada remains at the forefront of the international response to fight this outbreak. We are contributing over $65 million to the UN and other non-governmental organizations to help the global efforts. Canada's financial support helps to improve treatment and prevention to save lives as well as to support basics such as nutrition. We are also providing medical expertise on the ground and donated essential protective equipment including gloves, face shields, and respirators.

Earlier this month, we committed an additional $23.5 million to support further research and development of Ebola medical countermeasures - namely Canada's Ebola vaccine and monoclonal antibody treatments. This funding will be used to support clinical trials in Africa and to assist with producing monoclonal antibody treatments for Ebola to assist in the outbreak response.
Last week, we announced the beginning of clinical trials of the vaccine in Canada.

This is an important step toward the development of Canada's Ebola vaccine - the product of Canadian innovation and hard work. We're confident that, if proven to be safe and effective in humans, it can be used in the near future to prevent the spread of this devastating disease."

and


The Canadian Government owns the intellectual property associated with the VSV-EBOV vaccine and has licensed the rights to NewLink Genetics through its wholly owned subsidiary BioProtection Systems to further develop the product for use in humans.

BioProtection Systems Corporation (BPS), now a wholly owned subsidiary of NewLink Genetics Inc., has performed at or above expectations thus far.

'Thus far' they say...

Well thus far has changed after people in Geneva were given the vaccine.

The unexpected joint issues (remember arthritis is a body "immune attack" attack on one's own joints, an inflammation which can lead to pain and destruction and immobility).

It has been suspected that vaccines CAN contribute to the body attacking itself, "mistakenly". What happens when EBOLA molecules ARE incorporated into HUMAN DNA? This has been shown to happen.. DOES the body then start to attack itself when another person immune system triggers a reaction in another person by, kissing, sex? Handshaking?

This genetic stuff can lead to a LOT of situations, it is possible. It is documented the DNA incorporation of virus segments into the human genome.. nasty..

(Source: The Guardian)

[Violet]

That's sweet Violet :) but i would rather be developing and getting the universal anti-viral "pill" to deal with viruses, including the hemorrhagic fever class discussed in this thread. What looking into this has shown me, is that many successful anti-viral treatments have been developed and shelved in light of creating a vaccine concept.. Vaccine to splice in key molecules from viruses INTO our DNA, or to constantly have a live weakened virus circulating in our bodies.. so that the immune system can constantly FIGHT the virus...

Nasty concept that vaccine method, either get hooked on GMO (genetically engineered organism viruses) vaccines, or have a live weak virus circulating in one's body, like yellow fever.. Always fighting never any peace until one is dead (does it even happen then?)..

So if I ever get the opportunity, I will concentrate my efforts on the PROPER anti-viral pill, something consisting of natural substances and any key molecular triggers to boost the immune system, and turn the body back on to a path of health, not always fighting to keep away from being eaten by some other insidious organism..

--Bob

The fighting theories are based on the logic that a well-trained organism will be best-prepared.

What idea lies at the basis of a well-boosted immune system unfamiliar with (fighting) the latest "updates" (viruses evolve)?

Playing devil's advocate.

[Flash]

There was a program this morning on Radio-Canada(french CBC) where the animators were wondering how come there is now silence in the media about ebola while it was a media frenzie a few weeks ago and while it is still spreading in Africa

People are waking up to media cover up about ebola.

[Bob]

There was a program this morning on Radio-Canada(french CBC) where the animators were wondering how come there is now silence in the media about ebola while it was a media frenzie a few weeks ago and while it is still spreading in Africa

People are waking up to media cover up about ebola.

Apparently the 'policy' established by the US military DoD, with approval of the Ebola Czar, is to censor media. That spreading throughout North America's media is obvious.. The use of the poopoo'ers and the spin doctoring shows how media IS used to manipulate people.

Today WHO doctors reported a wildfire which was out of control in Kono, Sierra Leone, a place near the border up by Guinea.. 87 people in one day died, with feedback saying THEY DID NOT KNOW what the proper handling methods were for a person who died.. tribal customs being followed, and the 'witch doctor' saying it is something it is not.. evil spirits. So people continue to NOT know again by a policy of SUPPRESSION of INFORMATION and then SPIN to have some agenda.

What is continually being ignored by The People is every viral infection where they can get blood from, and obtained and transported to the US Military, it goes in a database, a gene bank to see what type of mutation is happening, AND if there was immunity AND if a more severe bioweapon potential exists.

EVERY country with advanced epidemic monitoring does this. THAT is the sobering data again that is suppressed.. BIOWEAPONS biological material is being collected. Purely innocently right?

[Bob]

More 'Policy' - Elections put on HOLD in Liberia and
Christmas festivities are cancelled all through out Sierra Leone (and News Years festivities)

So under 'control' in Liberia, elections have to be 'postponed' just for a week this time? BUT have been put on hold since OCTOBER - is there a pattern here being setup? Epidemic gives authority to CANCEL elections?


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Ebola has killed nearly 3,200 people this year in Liberia, and many question whether elections can be held at all under such circumstances.

The elections, first scheduled in October, were supposed to be held Monday, but have been moved back to Saturday. It was not immediately clear whether the extra days would be sufficient delay to address the logistical problems posed by Ebola.

The chairman of the official electoral body, Jerome Korkoyah, told The Associated Press after Sunday's meeting that rescheduling the elections at such a short notice "is going to cost a lot of money to get robust information out there."

While health authorities say the situation has stabilized somewhat in recent weeks, there are fears that mass gatherings at polling stations could spark a new surge in Ebola cases. The virus is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids.

Alaric Tokpa, from the opposition National Democratic Alliance, walked out of Sunday's meeting, telling the AP as he departed that the elections would not be credible.

"We think that it is important for us to be able to ensure that elections are held in ways that are credible so that the results are accepted by everybody in the country so that we avoid crisis in the post-war period," he said.

The most notable candidate include ex-footballer George Weah who is taking on Robert Sirleaf, the third son of the Liberian president, for the Monrovia area Senate seat.

Meanwhile in neighboring Sierra Leone, a top health official confirmed Sunday that one of the country's most prominent doctors has contracted Ebola. Dr. Victor Willoughby is the 12th Sierra Leonean physician to become infected; 10 have died.

Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brima Kargbo confirmed Sunday that Willoughby had tested positive for Ebola.

Junior doctors in Sierra Leone last week launched a strike to demand better medical treatment for health workers who contract the disease. Kargbo said Sunday that skeleton crews have returned to aid the senior doctors.

Sources - multiple, ABC

[Bob]

The death toll in the Ebola epidemic has risen to 6,915 out of 18,603 cases as of Dec. 14, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

327 new cases were confirmed there in the past week, including 125 in the capital Freetown, the WHO said in its latest update.

Sierra Leone said it would start house-to-house searches for Ebola patients on Wednesday and impose internal travel restrictions as part of a new push to combat the epidemic.

The measures are part of a month-long push in and around the capital Freetown by the government, a British taskforce and international groups that aims to make a breakthrough against the disease within four to six weeks.

Health workers will seek Ebola victims and anyone with whom they have had contact, transporting those infected to new British-built treatment centres, according to a government plan announced this week.

President Ernest Bai Koroma said that, under the new measures, worshippers on Christmas Day must return home after services and other festivities are banned. New Year's Eve services must stop by 5 p.m. local time (1700 GMT), while New Year's Day festivities are prohibited.

"This is the festive season where Sierra Leoneans often celebrate with families in a flamboyant and joyous manner, but all must be reminded that our country is at war with a vicious enemy," he said in a nationwide address.

The government was also imposing restrictions on travel between districts, a ban on Sunday trading and the end of Saturday shopping at noon, Koroma said.

Britain said on Tuesday it would not be seeking U.S. military assistance to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone where it expects to see "enormous change" by the end of January following a surge in response measures.

As a U.S. operation of 3,000 troops begins to turn the tide against the deadly virus in neighbouring Liberia, calls have grown for it to shift resources towards ally Britain, which is leading the response in Sierra Leone.

(Reuters - multiple articles, WHO statistical data)

[Calz]

Remarkable the degree of success on the "gag order" in the western MSM regarding this topic is it not???

From front page every day headlines to ... huh???

Great proof of just how controlled most societies are ... unfortunately.

[Cidersomerset]

Sierra Leone cancels Christmas as Ebola virus ravages country

new Thursday 18th December 2014 at 07:04 By David Icke


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Sierra Leone cancels Christmas as Ebola virus ravages country

Thursday, December 18, 2014 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer
Tags: Ebola crisis, Sierra Leone, Christmas


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‘The children of Sierra Leone have only a police state to look forward to
this holiday season, with Agence France-Presse (AFP) recently announcing
that Christmas is officially canceled in the Ebola-stricken West African nation.

According to the AFP, state officials are prohibiting any public displays or
celebrations of Christmas, citing escalating Ebola rates in what has been
declared to be the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Citizens of Sierra Leone
will be required to stay indoors and will be promptly ushered back into
their homes if caught in the streets.’

"Soldiers are to be deployed to the streets throughout the festive period,
forcing people venturing out into the streets back indoors," reads the report.

Sierra Leone is reportedly the hardest-hit country, claiming more than 8,000
confirmed cases of the disease and more than 2,000 deaths, according to the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).


Panic continues over threat of Ebola infection; UK institutes its own travel
restrictions.The risk is still too great, believe many, to allow folks to travel freely
throughout the embattled country. Even foreign reporters from places like the UK
are having trouble meshing back into their own societies after putting themselves
directly in the line of fire.

"Many of our local staff finish their long, grueling and potentially dangerous shifts in
the unit to return to homes where their families refuse to sit in the same room as
them," wrote Dr. Felicity Fitzgerald for The Telegraph.

According to Dr. Fitzgerald, Britain's own public health authority recently changed
its rules to categorize anyone who may have come into contact with an Ebola
patient while working abroad as high risk, prohibiting certain forms of travel.

"Anyone who has had any contact with Ebola patients, regardless of whether they
were wearing full protective equipment or not is now going to be 'Category 3' or
high risk," she added. "That means, for example, we are only allowed to
travel 'locally' for no more than an hour."


Five million children out of school due to Ebola, claims UNICEFMeanwhile, millions
of school-age children living in the three hardest-hit Ebola countries haven't been
able to return to classes. A report by the Global Business Coalition for Education
estimates that up to 5 million children in the region are currently out of school due
to Ebola.

Efforts are currently underway to transmit lessons to children over the radio
airways, but many of them aren't being reached. So what was already a troubled
education system has become further weakened by the mass hysteria and panic
caused by the alleged spread of this deadly virus.

"The Ebola crisis has been seen as predominantly health, but I think [it's] important
to realize the impact goes way beyond the health perspective," stated Sayo Aoki,
an education specialist at UNICEF, to The Daily Beast.

Many of the countries where these children live, including Sierra Leone, Guinea and
Liberia, already rank exceptionally low on the literacy scale. Data from 2011 reveals
that all three countries have a less than 50 percent literacy rate among their adult
populations, which will only decline further if students can't attend classes.

"With children out of school indefinitely, Ebola threatens to reverse years of
educational progress in West Africa where literacy rates are already low and school
systems are only now recovering from years of civil war," wrote Gordon Brown, UN
Special Envoy for Global Education.

"If we do not address our failure to deliver this basic human right in emergencies,
millions of young people, those far beyond the borders of the three affected
countries affected will continue to shoulder the burden of our inaction."

Those who wish to live through a global pandemic should learn how to get prepared
now by listening to the audio chapters atwww.BioDefense.com.
Sources:

http://hotair.com

http://www.telegraph.co.uk

https://uk.news.yahoo.com

http://www.cdc.gov

http://www.bbc.com

http://www.washingtonpost.com

http://blogs.unicef.org

http://www.thedailybeast.com

http://science.naturalnews.com

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Read more: Sierra Leone cancels Christmas as Ebola virus ravages country


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[avid]

http://www.rense.com/general96/obscuire.html
Secret airline? No - just covert...

The Obscure 'Airline' That Evacuated US Ebola Patients

By Patty Doyle
12-17-14

At a small, single runway airport in Cartersville, Georgia, a tiny airline got an urgent — and unprecedented — call last week: to fly the only two Americans known to have contracted the Ebola virus from West Africa to the U.S. for treatment. The first flight took off from Liberia on Friday, carrying Kent Brantley, a doctor from Texas. On Tuesday, Nancy Writebol, the second patient, arrived at the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

Phoenix Air Group may not be a household name. But the little-known airline specializes in "weird" government assignments, including serving as an air ambulance for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“We do a lot of very unique programs that involve aviation for various federal agencies, this is simply one of many contracts that we hold,” Dan Thompson, a Phoenix Air spokesman told Mashable.

“We do a lot of weird stuff.”

According to its website, Phoenix Air owns 85% of the land at the airport in Cartersville (population 19,731), taking up five hangars and two office buildings. Federal records show that the company employs about 150 people and owns 45 aircrafts. Its business with the federal government totaled $46 million in fiscal year 2011, the most recent year that figures were available at fedspending.org.

Other databases with more recent information show the company won contracts in 2013 from the Defense Department, Interior Department, and the Department of Health and Human Services, which operates the CDC. It has also performed aviation services on behalf of the Justice Department and NASA.

Phoenix Air says on its website that it has some of the only aircraft in the world uniquely designed for critical air ambulance tasks — two highly modified Gulfstream III jets. These aircraft have cargo doors, something other Gulfstream jets lack, and a "critical care package" to serve one or more patients. It does not advertise biohazard containment capabilities, but pressurized aircraft are essentially containment vessels on their own, and photos of the evacuation showed medical staff wearing Hazmat suits and the interior of the plane covered in protective plastic sheets.

The mission to pick up the two American patients — Brantly and Writebol — who had been caring for Ebola patients when they contracted the virus involved two round trips to West Africa including at least two fuel stops each, on the Azores on the way to Africa, and in Maine during the flight back to Atlanta, as well as extensive international coordination.

The company's also has a military contracting division, known as Phoenix Force, which is separate from its civilian operations. Among the public missions are training drills for U.S. Navy and NATO in which the company's fleet of Learjets simulate enemy aircrafts. The company also hauls targets to gunneries for live fire exercises, among other tasks. The company is licensed to transport explosives and "dangerous goods," according to its website.

Some of the company's contracts from 2013 include passenger airlift services for U.S. Africa Command, jet flight services for the Navy, and numerous listings for air ambulance services.

“We just quietly live in the background and provide aviation and aviation services,” Thompson said. “This was — believe it or not — not that unusual for us; it’s just gotten a lot of media attention.”

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Topics: air ambulance, atlanta, CDC, Ebola, Phoenix Air, U.S., US & World, World

YUP, Maybe you should find out WHY the N number purports that the plane used to transport EBOLA patients, is shown as owned by itself. IE the N number LLC and in DELAWARE. Specifically the 10th floor of the Brandywine Bldg. The N number is NOT shown as owned by Phoenix Air. SO who is the company on the 10th floor of the Brandywine Bldg. that owns this plane? WHY do journalists not follow through in their research? Inquiring minds want to know.

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=173PA
http://mashable.com/2014/08/05/shadowy-airline-flew-american-ebola-patients-home/

[Bob]

EBOLA and CIA ? a coincidental link or.. ?




[..]
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Topics: air ambulance, atlanta, CDC, Ebola, Phoenix Air, U.S., US & World, World

YUP, Maybe you should find out WHY the N number purports that the plane used to transport EBOLA patients, is shown as owned by itself. IE the N number LLC and in DELAWARE. Specifically the 10th floor of the Brandywine Bldg.

The N number is NOT shown as owned by Phoenix Air. SO who is the company on the 10th floor of the Brandywine Bldg. that owns this plane? WHY do journalists not follow through in their research? Inquiring minds want to know.


Almost as important as Snowden ----

CIA RENDITIONS - RUN by PHOENIX AIR - http://www.shannonwatch.org/sites/shannonwatch.org/files/docs/CIA_Shannon_Report_9_2_09.pdf

(see page 10 of the PDF)


http://www.shannonwatch.org/sites/shannonwatch.org/files/docs/CIA_Shannon_Report_9_2_09.pdf

extract:

Details of Other Known or Suspected CIA Planes

N54PA
Type: Learjet 35
Source: Terminal Air and inspection of flight logs
Owner: VPC Planes LLC, Wilmington Delaware. Operated by Phoenix Air.
Comment: This plane had landed at Shannon airport and Guatanamo Bay many times and
still regularly lands at both airports. Stops at Shannon have often been within
days of the plane being in Guantanamo Bay. This plane is listed as an air
ambulance on the Phoenix Air website.
N71PG
Type: Learjet 35
Source: Terminal Air and inspection of flight logs
Owner: Phoenix Air Group Inc, Cartersville, Georgia.
Comment: This plane still lands at Shannon. It is known to have landed at Guantanamo Bay
on a number of occasions. This aircraft is currently listed as an air ambulance on
the Phoenix Air website.

Companies Linked to Rendition Flights - PHOENIX AIR

Reason to have a special plane setup to carry HOTZONE patients? Something in the wind?

Apparently a lot of interesting stuff going on with Phoenix Air..

[Bob]

Haven't heard Ebola in the US since the NEWS BLACKOUT put in place by the US Government?

(Source (http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/cdc-tracking-1400-possible-ebola-cases-in-u-s/))

1400 people currently are being monitored AND tracked in the US due to possible Ebola exposure. THIS DATA is being censored due to the MEDIA clampdown.

(Source (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/20/ebola-death-toll-close-7400-world-health-organisation))

Deaths currently nearing 7400. Officially reported, just over 19,000 people infected across west Africa.

It is being observed that those who have poo poo'd said 'false flag', possibly have been spreading lies or 'hearsay', trying to spin falsehoods... It has been documented Ebola is in-fact real, is NOT from vaccinations (possibly could be a bioweapons release either accidental or deliberate). Those spreading the lies or mis-information possibly have some agenda, possibly have been brainwashed that disinformation is the campaign that they MUST present to people trying to understand the infection; possibly these people being military or in some way 'working for' (on the payroll or sufficiently programmed... by the organizational mindset trying to cover-up or clampdown on the news. (source (http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/issues-ideas/article4760295.html))

[Bob]

Oops.. CDC EBOLA accident

A technician at the CDC in Atlanta Georgia accidentally exposed themselves and 12 others (at least), Monday. It was not reported until today.. Everyone being monitored for symptoms..

(Source (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/health/cdc-ebola-error-in-lab-may-have-exposed-technician-to-virus.html?_r=0))


The error occurred on Monday, when a high-security lab at the C.D.C., working with Ebola virus from the epidemic in West Africa, sent samples that should have been killed to another C.D.C. laboratory, down the hall.

But the first lab sent the wrong samples — ones that may have contained the live virus. The second lab was not equipped to handle live Ebola.

The technician who worked with the samples wore gloves and a gown, but no face shield, and may have been exposed.

The mixup of the samples was discovered on Tuesday, Dr. Stuart Nichol, chief of the C.D.C.'s Viral Special Pathogens Branch, said in an interview.

He ascribed it to human error.

The accident is especially troubling because dangerous samples of anthrax and flu were similarly mishandled at the C.D.C. just months ago, eroding confidence in an agency that has long been one of the most highly respected scientific research centers in the world.

er... ooops..

[Bob]

Immunity to Vaccine makers

The United States has for many years offered similar protections to vaccine makers to encourage the development of childhood vaccines.

Now as part of the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act in a move aimed at encouraging the development and availability of experimental Ebola vaccines, immunity to prosecution, has been granted to the manufacturers. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has granted this action.

However, this immunity grant does not provide immunity protection against a claim brought in a court outside the United States.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell made the announcement as part of the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act (http://www.phe.gov/preparedness/legal/prepact/pages/default.aspx), which is providing broad sweeping legislation to give new powers and increase surveillance efforts against "disease".


The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to issue a declaration (PREP Act declaration) that provides immunity from liability (except for willful misconduct) for claims of loss caused, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from administration or use of countermeasures to diseases, threats and conditions determined by the Secretary to constitute a present, or credible risk of a future public health emergency to entities and individuals involved in the development, manufacture, testing, distribution, administration, and use of such countermeasures. A PREP Act declaration is specifically for the purpose of providing immunity from liability, and is different from, and not dependent on, other emergency declarations.

Secretary Sylvia Burwell urged other Nations around the world to adopt similar measures.

(Sources (http://www.phe.gov/preparedness/legal/prepact/pages/default.aspx) and Source (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/09/us-health-ebola-vaccine-idUSKBN0JN1S920141209) )

[Bob]

Ebola CZar weighs in on the State of Affairs

Klain called the CDC’s mishandling last week of an Ebola sample “unacceptable” but said the technician involved has so far shown no signs of infection.

He called the use of an Ebola blood test at the “point of care” a “very significant step” in the fight to stop the outbreak in West Africa.

Klain said the Ebola vaccine recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration is scheduled for release in three to four weeks and will help “tens of thousands of people.”

(Amazing that a vaccine test that takes years, has been accomplished in months).


Klain called the CDC’s mishandling last week of an Ebola sample “unacceptable” but said the technician involved has so far shown no signs of infection.

Among the roughly 19,340 cases recently confirmed by the World Health Organization, Sierra Leone has the most with 8,939, followed by Liberia at 7,830 and Guinea with 2,571.

Ebola has killed roughly 7,600 people this year.

The United States’ months-long effort to stop the deadly Ebola outbreak is reaching a “pivot point,” but Americans should expect more domestic cases, White House Ebola czar Ron Klain said Sunday.

“We will see (cases) from time to time,” Klain told CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “There’s still work to be done in Sierra Leone and Guinea. But we’re nearing a pivot point.”

(Source (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/28/us-ebola-czar-pivot-point-reached-in-stopping-deadly-disease-but-more-domestic/))

[Roisin]

(Amazing that a vaccine test that takes years, has been accomplished in months).

I agree and it raises red flags all over the place! That they are bringing this vaccine out now when it should have been brought out months and months ago whereby saving thousands and thousands of lives, is just too much for me to wrap my mind around. I'm going with the sentiment that many others out there have too which is that they've had this vaccine tucked away for many years now. That this implies something that's truly horrific really puts things into perspective on how those who are running the show operate. This is very, very scary indeed!

[Matisse]

(Amazing that a vaccine test that takes years, has been accomplished in months).

I agree and it raises red flags all over the place! That they are bringing this vaccine out now when it should have been brought out months and months ago whereby saving thousands and thousands of lives, is just too much for me to wrap my mind around. I'm going with the sentiment that many others out there have too which is that they've had this vaccine tucked away for many years now. That this implies something that's truly horrific really puts things into perspective on how those who are running the show operate. This is very, very scary indeed!

I myself wouldn,t really trust the vaccine, it may even be the true goal to push this vaccine... Plus from what I understand it isn,t that effective because the virus is
always mutating...

[Bob]

What worries me specifically with the two different types of vaccines is the carrier virus being used to transfer the ebola protein to the human.. One is a chimpanzee virus, the other is a cow virus.. What can happen is Ebola protein then gets spliced into the human DNA.. Possibly able to be passed on to one's offspring..

What's it going to mean to have Ebola as PART of the human genome? More 'junk' dna or another reason.. what about an auto-immune disease of the body attacking itself cause of those foreign proteins spliced into the DNA ? I've reiterated, develop and use the anti-viral medications which stop virus's in their tracks.. Up to about 60+ now demonstrated effective across a broad range of viruses.. the vaccines don't work on all strains/mutations..

(Source - chimpanzee virus (http://www.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2014/Pages/EbolaProtection.aspx) used as carrier)

and (Source - bovine virus used (http://www.plosntds.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0002600) as carrier)





(Amazing that a vaccine test that takes years, has been accomplished in months).

I agree and it raises red flags all over the place! That they are bringing this vaccine out now when it should have been brought out months and months ago whereby saving thousands and thousands of lives, is just too much for me to wrap my mind around. I'm going with the sentiment that many others out there have too which is that they've had this vaccine tucked away for many years now. That this implies something that's truly horrific really puts things into perspective on how those who are running the show operate. This is very, very scary indeed!

I myself wouldn,t really trust the vaccine, it may even be the true goal to push this vaccine... Plus from what I understand it isn,t that effective because the virus is
always mutating...

[Bob]

Scotland confirms first Ebola case in the country

(Source (http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-glasgow-ebola-case-scotland-uk-20141229-story.html))

The patient, a healthcare worker who had been helping in the fight against the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, is being treated at the Gartnavel Hospital in Glasgow, according to a statement by the Scottish government.

The healthcare worker traveled on a British Airways flight, arriving in Glasgow from Sierra Leone around 11:30 p.m. Sunday local time, officials said. The traveler had stopped in Casablanca and London before touching down in Glasgow, they said.

Early Monday morning, officials said, the person reported feeling sick, and was admitted to a hospital and isolated. The patient was diagnosed with Ebola in “the very early stages of the illness,” according to the government statement.

“All possible contacts” with the person are being investigated, and “anyone deemed to be at risk will be contacted and closely monitored,” the government release said.


Officials said they plan to transfer the patient to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London as soon as possible.


“Our first thoughts at this time must be with the patient diagnosed with Ebola and their friends and family,” said Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

“Scotland has been preparing for this possibility from the beginning of the outbreak in West Africa and I am confident that we are well prepared.”

[Selene]

What’s wrong with this picture? Either ebola is omigod-we’re-all-gonna-die, or just-another-flu, or The Setup.... Nothing here adds up. Again.

From the Daily Mail, UK:

Britain's latest ebola victim was allowed home despite telling airport officials seven times that she was ill.

Other volunteers returning from Sierra Leone were allowed to board crowded buses and trains instead of being taken into quarantine.

Last night, measures to protect the public from the deadly virus were branded a shambles.

Pauline Cafferkey, a 39-year-old NHS nurse, was named as the first victim to be diagnosed on British soil.

How did they miss ebola nurse was sick? She complained of fever at Heathrow and asked to be tested SEVEN TIMES as it is revealed she may have caught the disease through a hug at church ... [Selene asks: Reeeeally? A simple hug? No ‘bodily fluids’ involved... hmmm... so we can all catch it that easily and yet...Why do I feel confused?]

• Dr Martin Deahl sat next to her on service to Heathrow from Casablanca

• He said: 'The precautions and checks at Heathrow were shambolic.

• A second Health Worker from Scotland is also being tested for Ebola

• Patient also being tested for disease in Cornwall and is in isolation

• PM holds COBRA emergency meeting and says risk to public is 'very low'


• Officials have advised that there is no need to disinfect or decontaminate any environment Ms Cafferkey came into contact with en route home


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2891870/How-did-miss-ebola-nurse-sick-complained-fever-Heathrow-asked-tested-SEVEN-TIMES-revealed-caught-disease-hug-church.html#ixzz3NQqRivWD

Cheers,

Selene

[Bob]

Dr Martin Deahl sat next to her on service to Heathrow from Casablanca

• He said: 'The precautions and checks at Heathrow were shambolic.

• A second Health Worker from Scotland is also being tested for Ebola

• Patient also being tested for disease in Cornwall and is in isolation

• PM holds COBRA emergency meeting and says risk to public is 'very low'

When the Nurse from Dallas went to Ohio, Frontier Airlines did a LOT of decontamination..

Apparently they just don't seem to care if one gets Ebola Zaire as they will just go thru the regimen of hospitalization, isolation, maybe if lucky the person will get some anti-body serum.. In Germany they were using various types of anti-viral drugs and drugs which appeared to have dual use (treats some of the symptoms allowing the body to have TIME to make it's own antibodies..)..

Dr. Martin Deahl's sentiments appear to be pretty accurate.. A professional is concerned, but 'transportation officials', are ludicrous.. What's the plan? In the US the Ebola Czar says no worries, there will be cases (so what?), maybe in a few weeks we'll have that FDA approved vaccine and all well be roses (paraphrased a bit looking at the attitude and approach)...

Is that it, trust all will be fine, that the Czar's know better than the doc's.. Just to recall, 349 of them who have died of Ebola, have been health-care professionals, who took ALL the needed CDC recommended 'protection' precautions..

This is CDC's current recommendation for health care workers assigned to deal with Ebola and suspected Ebola cases in Africa.


http://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/12/17/Editorial-Opinion/Images/Google_Top_Searches_of_2014_List-085a5-3023.jpg



These images below are how CDC has their own people suit up.. Anybody able to spot the difference?


https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/images/ebola_biosafety_level_4_hazmat_suit.jpg

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6088/1529/F1.large.jpg

[Roisin]

It's interesting that we're still waiting to find out if that CDC technician who was exposed to the virus is going to get it or not as that tech is still in the incubation period. The assumption is that the tech was suited up like everybody else is at that facility when handling that virus regardless if the samples are active or inactive because as we see in this case, there was some active Ebola in that supposedly inactive sample that the tech was working with.

So this means that even though a tech is suited up like that are at the CDC, that still does not guarantee that they will not be exposed to that virus where the suit did not protect them from that exposure.

So if it's that way for CDC workers.... those who are not suited up like they are ... are much less protected from that virus. The number of healthcare workers who have been exposed to Ebola speaks for itself.

[Bob]

West Africa:

Ebola outbreaks continue to fluctuate in Guinea; in Liberia reports (whatever can be obtained by the government, through the censors) say outbreaks are diminishing, and in Sierra Leone in the Western part its rise is starting to slow down. The week marked 337 new cases in Sierra Leone since Christmas Eve.

Officially reported human deaths are over 7900. The capitol of Sierra Leone, Freetown had the highest reported increase.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) warned of growing complacency over the Ebola disease in the country.

Ebola epidemics in West Africa (Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia) is likely to last until the end of 2015, according to Peter Piot, the London-based scientist who helped to identify the virus in 1976 in the former Zaire, now called the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).

Liberia, who has been using the tactics of the US Ebola Czar, (clampdown on media reporting), is having difficulties meeting its prediction of no new Ebola Cases by New Years Day..

The officials had set a December 31 target for recording no new Ebola infections. The Grand Cape Mount outbreak in a western Liberia county makes that target a loss.

"This is a serious situation and we are going to Cape Mount today along with our international partners and UN agencies," Nyensuwah (Assistant Minister of Health Services) told a news conference late Sunday in Monrovia. "We are going there to open an Ebola Treatment Unit."

"Cultural practices are still being done in Grand Cape Mount -- for example, burial preparation and bathing of dead bodies before burial," Nyensuwah said. "We have observed ... complacency and a high level of disregard of preventive measures that are laid down by the Ministry of Health."


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In the US, CDC says it needs a new bureaucrat who will provide Safety Oversight.. Apparently it feels that due to the serious safety issues (a lab worker having mistaken a live virus sample instead of a killed one, is still being monitored for the 21 days for signs of infection).. Also mishandled earlier in the year were samples of anthrax and avian influenza virus.

"I am troubled by this incident in our Ebola research laboratory in Atlanta," the CDC director, Dr. Tom Frieden, said of the latest error. "Thousands of laboratory scientists in more than 150 labs throughout CDC have taken extraordinary steps in recent months to improve safety."

Put that statement from CDC's head stated in an emotional but revealing perspective defending his organization - THOUSANDS of people working in the US in more than 150 labs handling deadly diseases on a regular basis.. Reminiscent of the Soviet Union's biopreparat programs? (of COURSE for "defensive research ONLY!")..


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Canada still chooses safety over risky behaviour

Canada rejected 176 visitors from Ebola-affected countries - An estimated 176 people were turned away from Canada after the imposition of a partial travel ban involving Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.


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Speculation and or Psyops ?

Over the past few weeks, militants affiliated with ISIS have executed more than a dozen doctors in Mosul, according to Benjamin T. Decker, an intelligence analyst with the Levantine Group, a Middle East-based geopolitical risk and research consultancy.

"U.N. workers have thus far been prohibited from entering ISIS-controlled territory in both Iraq and Syria." ISIS historically refuses to acknowledge modern medicine.

Ebola has been "reported" to be present now at a hospital in Mosul, a city 250 miles north of Baghdad that's been under ISIS control since June 2014. IF Ebola is present there for real, that could be interesting game changer, and a big question, HOW it got there.. (CIA or Iraqi's government attempts of using biologicals against the opponents?)

With control methods for the virus being demonstrated across west Africa using modern medical techniques, a vaccine or two in the works and assorted anti-virals capable of dealing with the infection, IS may be forced to experience the specter of bio-war. Would such become a tactical program in Northern Iraq? in Syria? IS/ISIS and other 'organizations' shunning "western medicine and 'education' " may have shot itself in the foot by adhering to such practices.. Are they now being forced to adopt modern medicine (and thereby show its hypocrisy to the world)..

(http://news.statetimes.in/water-borne-disease-plagues-held-city-iraq/ - earlier in the year 2014, waterborne infections were being reported in Mosul)


https://whitewraithe.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/isis-mosul-parade-3-thumb-560x315-3328.jpg?w=533&h=300

[Bob]

NPR pointed out something - Where will Ebola strike Next. It caught my attention.

(http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/01/02/371994171/where-could-ebola-strike-next-scientists-virus-hunt-in-asia)

Ebola Zaire is the deadliest of the five Ebola species, and it has caused the most outbreaks. The antibodies in the bat's blood meant the animals had once been infected with Ebola Zaire or something related to it.

Ecologists found signs of Ebola in a Rousettus leschenaultii fruit bat. These bats are widespread across south Asia, from India to China.

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/01/01/29global-popup_wide-09dc8e233bbbbec0eec2b3dcf620ab5a0e0a08dd-s400-c85.jpg

Kevin Olival/EcoHealth Alliance

Hayman knew West Africa was at risk for an Ebola outbreak. He and his colleagues even published the findings in the free journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, "so that anyone in the world could go and read them," Hayman says.

He thought health officials would also be worried. "We were all prepared for some sort of response, for questions," Hayman says. "But I have to say, not many came. ... Nothing happened."

That was two years ago. Now, with more than 20,000 Ebola cases reported in West Africa, health officials are definitely listening to Hayman.

Scientists think bats likely triggered the entire Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Just as Hayman predicted. "It's not a good way to proven right," he says.

Article has been sourced by, disease ecologist David Hayman, who made the discovery of a lifetime, he was a graduate student at the University of Cambridge.

[Ammit]

We now have a case in Swindon, UK.
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/11700695.Suspected_Ebola_case_en_route_to_Swindon_hospital/?ref=fbshr

[sheme]

Pauline Cafferkey, a 39-year-old NHS nurse, has taken a turn for the worse. David Cameron has stated she is in his prayers. Doesn't sound good my thoughts and prayers are with her.

[Ammit]

I agree Sheme,
Best wishes to her. It would be such a shame for her to lose this fight after doing such good work for others.

[Bob]

It would be critical to understand WHAT drugs she was or was not given, and WHY was not the antibody serum from the other male Nurse from UK who had the zMapp product working..

I would ask also, if the antibodies in Pooley's blood were for one particular strain from months ago, and her strain now is a sufficiently MUTATED STRAIN.... oye.. (sigh), that means the mutation will possibly not work with the current vaccines claimed to be effective..

In the States, there is the latest 'flu shot' supposedly able to have mixed strain capability.. How EVER.. it appear that the virus used from back earlier in the year for one component of the 'flu' vaccine has sufficiently mutated in 9 months that it is useless...

M U T A T I O N is the buzzword, which was discussed back in AUGUST, then SEPTEMBER, and then rapidly, and I MEAN RAPIDLY hush hushed..

Here we may be seeing the results of mutation.. Pray for her.

[Ammit]

Bob, It is the mutation possibility that scares me.
I am not very well versed on the mutation factors for any virus but, am aware in my mind that as we are all different any virus caught would be modified within our own bodies to match our body. Once left or contracted by another then that `mutated` for our body would not match another person and would reduce the chances of any treatment being as effective.

With the Ebola virus, this scares me a great deal as again "in my mind" many would die before any generic treatment would be usable across the board as many mutations could arise around the world.

[Bob]

Bob, It is the mutation possibility that scares me.
I am not very well versed on the mutation factors for any virus but, am aware in my mind that as we are all different any virus caught would be modified within our own bodies to match our body. Once left or contracted by another then that `mutated` for our body would not match another person and would reduce the chances of any treatment being as effective.

With the Ebola virus, this scares me a great deal as again "in my mind" many would die before any generic treatment would be usable across the board as many mutations could arise around the world.

That's the feeling with me too. Which is why I have watched the filoviruses, Ebola AND Marburg (Marburg since the late 1960's). Some scientists depending on their, 'bent' would prefer to believe that a virus is "stable" doesn't mutate (much).. others have looked at a virus with a high "burn rate" (how fast it kills), and have seen, if the virus kills its hosts 'too fast' the virus won't have a chance to mutate (much) in those whom it has infected, thereby remaining stable (in the present extremely rapid kill rate)..

Strange logic, to assume that the 'virus' wants to spread and survive and affect the most hosts.. It would be a great study some time, to understand the complexity or simplicity of the viral mechanism.. is it a mere crystal growth phenomenon with a "virus", or is the some sort of evolving consciousness?

For the virus to achieve longevity then, a mutation must SLOW down the viral spread, or the amount of deaths should go DOWN, not up..

But, with a Faster Burn rate, less hosts (bodies), so any chance of mutation would be less, due to less hosts in which to mutate..

What are we seeing.. DEATH rate going DOWN, not up, therefore longer viral presence in the body is possible, with more hosts remaining alive longer.. Now is that because of a "self-cure" immunity actually defeating the virus, or has it changed its structure? This is where it is important to KEEP analyzing the viral structure, by taking samples and looking to see, is it being defeated, or is the virus changing so that the VIRUS can survive longer (mutation is sometimes looked at as a way for the infection to develop a method to survive)..

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378103/ National Centers and Libraries of Medicine references.. towards the middle of the page discusses mutation and stability..

Why don't humans for instance keep mutating? DNA has a proof reading mechanism that checks each reproduced DNA copy for accuracy and incorporates repair mechanisms if something goes wrong with the CODE..

Many viruses do NOT have the proof reading mechanisms, nor repair mechanisms, so when something happens, such as an attack by another virus, or bacteria enzyme or radiation blip, or toxic substance, there may be enough damage to the VIRUS that a mutation happens..

Think about this.. A partial KILL (destruction of the virus's ability to infect and thereby reproduce) could be achieved by imparting to the virus a weak killing substance, something that just injures it.. and off we go with a mutation now when the virus replicates.. What could be a weak substance.. lot's of things, especially free radical generators - plenty of research on what a free radical generator substance is.. Normally Nitric Oxides produced in the mitochondria of a mammal cell will produce the free radical which will continually attempt to destroy the viral protein.. If the mitochondria is healthy and strong and not defeated by the virus, the mammal cell may win, but be quite damaged, and having taken out the virus with it.. So playing around with ingesting "some" free radical substances in hopes that it will "reach all the viruses" and NOT kill the other mammalian cells is a kind of crap shoot..

The thing to know, is the human cell, has the repair mechanism, which if not damaged BY the free radical excesses, probably could be in better shape than a damaged virus.. BUT a damaged virus not completely killed would be a candidate MORE SO for mutation...

I doubt people will connect the dots in general as it requires visualization to understand how mutation happens in viruses (very easy without repair mechanisms).. and that taking any sort of substance which is NOT part of the normal mammalian cell protein and enzyme and natural free radical generation engines, can very well induce viral mutation, and thereby a risk exists, that the mutation in the virus would be created by incomplete "treatment" steps..

[Bob]

POSSIBLE, case of Ebola coming to the US, Nebraska center, for "observation"

An American medical worker who was exposed to Ebola while in Sierra Leone was set to arrive at Nebraska Medical Center Sunday for observation.

The patient “experienced a high-risk exposure” to the deadly virus but “is not ill and is not contagious,” hospital officials said in a statement.

“However, we will be taking all appropriate precautions,” Dr. Phil Smith, the medical director of the Omaha hospital’s Biocontainment Unit, said.

The health care worker was scheduled to arrive around 2 p.m. CST.

Officials said the patient will be monitored for signs of the infectious disease during the 21-day incubation period.

(Source (http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/american-medical-worker-exposed-ebola-heading-nebraska-article-1.2065487))


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[Bob]

Deaths of Ebola up to 8220

(Source (http://itar-tass.com/en/world/770424))

GENEVA, January 6. /TASS/. The death toll from the current Ebola outbreak has reached 8,220. As many as 20,712 are infected, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement on Tuesday.

These cases were reported from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

In line with statistics, the maximum number of Ebola-related deaths and cases has been registered in Liberia - 3,496 cumulative deaths and 8,157 cumulative cases.

Liberia is followed by Sierra Leone (2,943 deaths and 9,780 cases) and Guinea (1,781 deaths and 2,775 cases).

The number of Ebola deaths in these three countries rose by 56 and the number of cases rose by 67 since January 5.

[Bob]

Brincidofovir a potent broad spectrum ANTI-VIRAL described earlier in this thread is finally being tested en-masse in West Africa for an attempt to see how effective it will be against the Filovirus hemorrhagic fevers. Ebola is one of those filoviruses which has gained worldwide attention.

(Source (http://time.com/3658054/ebola-drug-clinical-trial/))

University of Oxford researchers are offering patients in Liberia a new drug for Ebola

University of Oxford researchers have launched a trial of the drug, brincidofovir, in Doctors Without Borders’ Ebola center in Monrovia.

The drug has previously been used to treat patients with Ebola in the United States, like Thomas Eric Duncan, NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, and Dr. Craig Spencer.


When patients at the unit are informed they have Ebola, they will be offered the opportunity to participate in the trial. Patients who volunteer will be given two weeks of brincidofovir. The researchers estimate there will be about 140 participants.

“Typically it takes over 18 months to start a trial.

"Here we have done it in less than four months,” Trudie Lang, an Oxford University professor, said in a statement.

“Everyone has pulled together to make it happen—a Herculean effort by all those involved.”

Brincidofovir is manufactured by the pharmaceutical company Chimerix in Durham, N.C. The trial is funded by the biomedical research foundation, the Wellcome Trust.

[Bob]

Another doctor back from the hot zone VOLUNTARILY says quarantine IS BEST..

(Source (http://www.wral.com/durham-doctor-treats-ebola-patients-then-self-quarantines/14337576/))

DURHAM, N.C. — Health officials consider Dr. George Peohlman a low-risk for Ebola, but the retired Durham doctor isn’t taking any chances.

Peohlman self-quarantined himself after returning from an eight week mission trip to Liberia at the end of December.



He’s avoiding groups of people and is reporting his temperature daily to the Durham County Health Department.

“If I were to develop a fever for whatever cause, I would end up in the hospital three days until they rule out Ebola,” he said via phone from his home. “So I kind of put myself in reverse isolation.”

Peohlman was in Liberia to treat Ebola patients and help the non-profit group Heart to Heart International set up an Ebola treatment unit.

He saw the trip as fulfilling his sense of duty.

Dr. Peohlman said he is not showing any signs of the virus. His self-quarantine expires Jan. 20.

There are smart and ethical people out there.

[Bob]

Denver Health, Denver Colorado

Has received a patient as ordered by the Health Department to check the patient for Ebola.


DENVER - Denver Health paramedics transported a patient to Denver Health who will be tested for the Ebola virus.

The patient had recently returned from affected areas in Africa and was being monitored per health department protocols.

Symptoms may appear anywhere between two to 21 days after exposure and include a fever, muscle pain, weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain and lack of appetite. The patient was transported early this morning in a specialized ambulance that has now been removed from service until testing is completed.

(Source, 9 News local Denver (http://www.9news.com/story/news/health/2015/01/12/denver-health-ebola-testing/21626825/))


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The testing is being undertaken at the request of officials at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the hospital said in a news release. Public health officials say the patient is "considered low-risk" but that they are still "exercising extreme caution."

"We are taking all the necessary precautions to protect both our patients and staff, even though the infection with the virus is not confirmed," Dr. Connie Price, the hospital's chief of infectious diseases, said in a statement. "We have staff trained specifically to assist with patients who may have contracted the Ebola virus."

[Bob]

The Arvada, Colorado man who is in Denver Health Medical being monitored for Ebola, has had a clear negative on the first Ebola test.

(Source (http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27304070/denver-health-testing-patient-ebola-request-colorado-health))

The hospital though and doctors they say they do not KNOW at this time what is causing his symptoms.. SO he will continue to be monitored for at least 3 days more (assuming that the incubation time is what they are expecting to watch for.. the 10 day typical symptom window as the measure, although they have said up to 21 days could be the window)..


Even if first tests are negative, he said, additional testing could be conducted over the next few days because it can take up to three days after symptoms begin for the virus to reach detectable levels.

"We are taking all the necessary precautions to protect both our patients and staff.."

And the person is having symptoms of something that "looks like" Ebola.. So they are in wait mode right now..

MEANWHILE some good news, Over in Britain, Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey 'no longer critical' and showing signs of improvement, Royal Free Hospital confirms. She had turned for the worse for a bit, then had started recovering. (Source (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ebola-nurse-pauline-cafferkey-no-longer-critical-and-showing-signs-of-improvement-royal-free-hospital-confirms-9973013.html)) She was treated with blood serum from nurse Pooley who survived (who was treated with zMapp monoclonal antibody treatment), and some non-stated anti-viral treatment drug.

[Bob]

All predictions wrong? Many predictions wrong, or No predictions wrong?

(Source (http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/01/15/377235139/prediction-all-predictions-about-ebola-are-unpredictable))

It wasn't just the CDC that got it wrong. Back in August, before the outbreak really began to pick up steam, the chief scientist at Britain's Department for International Development said the worst of the crisis appeared to have passed in Guinea. After his declaration, the incidence of Ebola in Guinea would increase nearly fivefold from roughly 30 cases a week in early August to more than 150 cases a week in early December.

Early on officials at the World Health Organization predicted that Ebola would be contained at only a few hundred cases. A few months later the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was predicting up to 1.4 million cases by January 20, 2015 in Sierra Leone and Liberia alone. That calculation turned out to be wildly inflated. As of this week, WHO has counted roughly 21,000 cases.


"The idea of predicting infectious disease is relatively new. It's not like weather predictions," says Jeffrey Shaman, who despite the novelty of the field has been posting forecasts of the number of Ebola cases in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia since September.

Shaman is an associate professor at Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York. He says that the main challenge in creating models to predict the direction of the Ebola outbreak has been a lack of reliable information. Case reporting was all over the map, from non-existent to sketchy to not bad.

"The information we have, our window into it, is very limited from where we sit," he says.

"We don't know how much of it is reliable, whether there are biases that are shifting, whether the [new] practices and controls are coming into effect and working as well as we hope they would. All that will change the dynamics of the disease."

Throughout the Ebola outbreak the two big questions have always been:

How bad is this going to get? And when is it going to end?

Current data show that the numbers of new cases are dropping in all three of the hardest-hit West African countries.

A new study predicts Ebola could be eliminated from Liberia by June. Earlier Liberia was predicting it would be over by now.

Roulette anyone?

[Bob]

Mail declares itself Ebola-Free, no cases being reported

The country has gone 42 days without reporting a new case

Mali is officially Ebola-free after going 42 days without reporting a new case, Source: according to the World Health Organization.


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(Source (http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/18/national/science-health/japanese-woman-sierra-leone-hospitalized-ebola-infection-fears/))

Japan reporting possible case


A Japanese woman in her 70s who returned from Sierra Leone last week has been taken to the National Center for Global Health and Medicine hospital after fears she might be infected with the deadly Ebola virus, government officials said Sunday.

After arriving in Japan on Tuesday from the West African nation for a temporary homecoming, she saw her body temperature rise beyond 38 degrees Celsius on Sunday afternoon, the officials said.


A sample of her blood will be sent to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases to check for Ebola.

Apparently, the woman did not come into direct contact with any Ebola patients during her stay in Sierra Leone, the officials said.

[Bob]

New Jersey, USA - airline passenger being treated for Ebola. ( is how the page/article reads - is it Ebola, or not? )

(Source (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/n-airline-passenger-treated-ebola-symptoms-report-article-1.2084343))

Airline passenger hospitalized for Ebola symptoms in New Jersey after arriving from West Africa: hospital

The unidentified United Airlines passenger was reportedly returning from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone when she began vomiting and exhibiting a fever upon arrival at Newark Liberty Airport Monday.

The sick passenger has been described as a health care practitioner who had been working with Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. She was removed and taken to Hackensack University Medical Center.


A United Airlines passenger showing symptoms of the Ebola virus has been hospitalized after landing at Newark Liberty International Airport from an Ebola affected country, local health officials have confirmed.

The unidentified female passenger has been described as a health care practitioner who had been working with Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, a source familiar with the response told NewJersey.com. (High risk category, allowed to fly back from hotzone area, but through a checkpoint airport...)

She’s described as vomiting and exhibiting a fever on the plane before taken to Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey for treatment Monday afternoon.

"Please rest assured that our dedicated team of healthcare providers is taking every precaution in treating this patient and they are led by our Infection Control team, working in accordance with protocols provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," Joseph Feldman, the hospital's Chairman of Emergency Services, said in a statement.

(oops..)

Medical personnel met the flight carrying 248 passengers upon its arrival from Brussels just before 2 p.m., a United Airlines spokesman told the Daily News.

“Passengers and crew stayed on the plane until the medical personnel cleared the aircraft," they stated.

The sick passenger is said to have transferred through Brussels.


A fellow passenger onboard the plane tweeted that five medical personnel wearing hazmat suits boarded the flight after its arrival.

Several individuals were escorted off the plane as the remaining passengers were asked to fill out health forms, Charlton-Trujillo tweeted.

Newark is one of five airports in the U.S. designated as a point of entry for passengers arriving from West African countries affected by the virus. Those countries are Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

No data yet on the "instant tests", or 24 hour tests, or 72 hour tests.. We shall see.


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Not to be ignored, or poo poo'd or shoved to the back of the line.. its not gone until there are NO MORE cases anywhere for at least 42 days..

[Baby Steps]

Hi,
Further info from Dr Shallenberger on what African Doctors are secretly using, when they can, to defeat this virus

How African doctors fight their
own Ebola - and why they can't
give it to their patients


The nightmare continues. It's hard to imagine the inhumanity that can go on in the name of ignorance, power, and money. But I don't have to imagine it. I witness it every day.
You may remember that after Drs. Rowen and Robbins went to Sierra Leone, The American Academy of Ozonotherapy sponsored another ozone specialist to go to Sierra Leone a few weeks ago. Because of the politics going on in Sierra Leone, I am not going to use his real name. I'll call him Mike.
The academy sent Mike in armed with ozone generators, vitamin C, and other supplies. The idea was simple. There is no effective treatment for the victims of Ebola infections. The combination of vitamin C and ozone therapy has been shown to be inexpensive, safe, and effective in every virus it has been used on to date. So we were expecting Mike to be getting back with all kinds of details of how lives were being saved in that impoverished country. Instead, this is what I am being told.
The UN in the form of the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling the shots in Sierra Leone. Here is their plan. If someone gets Ebola, everyone in their home is confined to the home with an armed guard out front. Families that are well off can have food and water brought in. Poor families cannot. They often end up dying from lack of sanitation, starvation, or dehydration. They might not be dying of Ebola, but they are pretty much dead anyway. But that's not all.
The home then gets declared a "Red Zone." This means that only personnel authorized by the ministry of health are allowed in or out. The doctors who have been trained to use vitamin C and ozone therapy are not allowed to go into the home. The net effect is that the people confined to the house are not able to get any therapy at all to strengthen them against a possible infection. All they can do is wait. So what happens in the event that they do get Ebola?
If they start to get sick with anything, they call 117. The next thing is that an ambulance comes by and takes them to another quarantine holding center where they are tested for Ebola. According to Mike, "If they didn't have Ebola before they went there, they will have it after they get there!" If the test comes back positive, the patient is then taken to the "treatment center." The official WHO "treatment" that they will get is Tylenol, a known liver toxin, and IV fluids.





If the patient has money, he might be able to get the only other WHO approved treatment, convalescent serum therapy. This has been used successfully in the U.S. But in Third World countries, it is risky. If the blood is not cross matched adequately, the patient will die from the treatment rather than the disease. If you get into a treatment center, the odds are 60-70% that they will carry you out in a body bag. Only those with the strongest immune systems will survive. So in view of these terrible numbers, surely the government has allowed at least a few victims to be treated with ozone and vitamin C?
So far no. But Mike told me about three doctors who were working with Ebola patients that did get the treatment. All three of them came down with symptoms characteristic of Ebola. They were not tested for Ebola because if they had tested positive they would have been condemned to the "treatment centers" and would never have been able to get the ozone and vitamin C. And here's the thing. All three of them were completely cured within 48 hours after receiving the treatment protocol. But it's a catch-22 situation. If you test positive for Ebola, you are not allowed to get the ozone and vitamin C therapy. So the only cures we have are in patients in whom we can't prove had Ebola. The ignorance continues to be astounding!
I wrote a letter to Mr. Theo Grace. Mr. Grace is a WHO technical officer working with the Ebola crisis. I explained to him that ozone therapy has been used for the past 60 years all over the world, and that it has been shown to be entirely safe. I listed various efficacy studies published in the international literature showing ozone to be effective for various viral infections. Here are some excerpts from his response:
"Dear Dr. Shallenberger, Thank you for this clarification. I would add that a thorough review by the FDA has found no effect from the use of ozone at sub-toxic levels. Study into the use of vitamin C has shown no effect at usage beyond providing the RDA."
This is out-and-out deception. First of all, the FDA, while not a proponent of ozone therapy, has never conducted any kind of review of it much less a "thorough review." Secondly, many published studies have shown that intravenous vitamin C therapy is an effective treatment for cancer at doses tens of thousands of times above the RDA. I make no apology to Mr. Grace that although he may be a technical advisor to the WHO, he apparently has no problem shooting off his mouth about things that he knows nothing of while people are dying of a potentially easily curable disease. But it gets worse. He goes on:
"I will add that I am surprised to hear about the synergy of anti-viral agents and ozone in bacterial diseases. To reiterate the standard of evidence necessary (assuming no data can be provided in filo virus models) is a systematic review in a reputable journal, with peer review (to clarify a journal on ozone therapy would not be considered reputable in this case, much in the manner that a journal on GSK products would not be a reputable journal for their vaccine, as there are issues of vested interest)."
This is mumbly-jumbly for "I don't care what the facts are, I would rather have people die than to try something that I don't know anything about." The ignorance cries out. But answers are coming. Each week it seems that the actual doctors and nurses who are on the front lines caring for the sick are using ozone and vitamin C on their own. In the next update on this dire situation, I will tell you about some cases that are starting to turn the tide.

[Bob]

It's not Ebola, but what is it?

(Source (http://www.nj.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2015/01/sick_passenger_at_risk_for_ebola_cleared.html))

in the above post, the passenger arriving in New Jersey has been cleared, with a statement, the person had been exposed (possibly) to something 21 days ago, and it's not presenting exactly AS Ebola..

Never-the-less, she will be monitored for 21 days "just like all travelers who are returning to the US from the affected countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea."

The unidentified health care worker was originally taken directly from the plane - while it was still on the tarmac - to Hackensack University Medical Center, one of three N.J. hospitals that stand ready to evaluate a suspected case of Ebola. She arrived at the hospital Monday afternoon, just hours after her flight from Brussels landed at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Her improved health - combined with her negative Ebola tests - meant she could be released Tuesday evening, according to the hospital. With 'something', but NOT Ebola..

[Bob]

Montreal Quebec Canada - Ebola patient? Unknown at this time..

(Source (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/patient-in-quebec-tested-for-ebola-but-deemed-low-risk-of-having-virus/article22546711/))

A patient at a hospital in Quebec’s Lanaudiere region is being tested for Ebola, but the region’s health authority says the individual is at a low risk of having the virus.

The patient started to have a fever and diarrhea 16 days after returning from an Ebola-stricken part of Africa, a time gap the region’s public health director says considerably reduces the chances of infection.


This is the sixth time since the Ebola outbreak in Africa that health authorities have isolated a patient in Quebec.

None of the five previous patients turned out to have the deadly virus.

“Usually, the incubation period for Ebola is between seven and 10 days,” Lafarge said. “But the surveillance plan for people who return from one of those countries is 21 days, in order to not take any chances.”

Lafarge said the patient called the public health authority as soon the symptoms showed on Tuesday.

UPdate - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/possible-case-of-ebola-in-quebec-tests-negative-1.2921296 Patient in the first test shows NEGATIVE..

Again, what IS IT that people are coming back with? If not Ebola, WHAT ??

[Violet]

Is there any confusing overlap between seasonal flu (now reaching highest point in my locale) symptoms and ebola's?

[Bob]

Is there any confusing overlap between seasonal flu (now reaching highest point in my locale) symptoms and ebola's?

There are overlaps in symptoms.. With folks coming over from West Africa, there is a hemorrhagic fever called LASSA FEVER.. the death statistics are like the reverse of Ebola.. fever seems to be a lower grade than Ebola and folks generally recover..

Thing is, if they are using these airports to just check for "fevers" and then the blood tests are checking for Ebola, but people are presenting sickness.. Was it flu? Was it Lassa? was it another virus?

The state of the diagnostics is not conclusive.. Ebola has garnered a lot of coverage, but other diseases escape the testing procedures.. What is needed is a better diagnostic to determine what IS coming in.. Flash had reminded all of the SARS that hit Canada, and that is viral in nature..

I just read another article about Ebola 'treatments', i.e., the monoclonal antibody treatment designed to go after one particular unique set of proteins (on a couple strains) of the virus may not be sufficient as the virus still continues to mutate.. Which is why they continue to create vaccines, with the logic that last year's strain is mutated sufficiently that the body won't have a 'vaccine' defence against it.. Same with Ebola vaccines.. May work for a little bit, then the virus makes a way to get around the vaccine..

An interesting anecdote about "why" the virus seems to be diminishing in certain parts of the 3 hotzone countries.. The current policy is quarantine in-home.. A guard is placed outside, armed.. nobody goes in or out.. If the infection exists inside, it is allowed to burn out (read kill the inhabitants).. Folks are afraid to report symptoms for that reason.. Those that manage to get transported to some clinic don't get adequate support... but they are starting to catch on to proper burial, and or cremation of the dead..

[Violet]

In-home is going to be difficult now with a new fever in town: the Africa cup (which Morocco refused, btw, and was penalised for).

[Bob]

Ebola Mutation Update

(Source (http://time.com/3687240/ebola-disease-health-vaccine-guinea/))

“We’ve now seen several cases that don’t have any symptoms at all, asymptomatic cases,” said human geneticist Dr. Anavaj Sakuntabhai.

“These people may be the people who can spread the virus better, but we still don’t know that yet. A virus can change itself to less deadly, but more contagious and that’s something we are afraid of.”


The outbreak has so far claimed 8,795 lives across the affected West African region

Scientists at a French research institute say the Ebola virus has mutated and they are studying whether it may have become more contagious.


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Ebola outbreak: Complacency now a concern

Complacency looms as a big risk in the fight against the Ebola virus, those leading the battle say.

Although West Africa has about 50 new cases (confirmed, probable and suspected) every day, mostly in Sierra Leone, the rate of new cases is on a downward trend. But that has happened before during this epidemic.

In May, for example, the World Health Organization projected that in a matter of days the Ebola outbreak in Liberia "could be declared over."

However, in July, the number of cases in Liberia began to rise rapidly, peaking in August and September, followed by an equally rapid decline."


"Three months ago, health workers were identifying about 240 new cases a day in West Africa. Now the WHO talks about new case numbers halving, because in Guinea new case numbers go down by half every 10 days, in Liberia every 14 days and in Sierra Leone every 19 days.

As it released those numbers, the WHO warned, "Complacency is the biggest risk to not getting to zero cases. Continued vigilance is essential."

[Bob]

Something is up in Sacramento California Hospital

"UC Davis Medical Center confirms they have a patient with a suspected case of Ebola."

The emergency room has been cordoned off with yellow tape, and ambulances are being re-routed to other hospitals.

According to UC Davis Medical Center, the rest of the hospital remains open and is operating as normal as their team treats the patient with Ebola symptoms.

The patient was FIRST at MERCY General hospital, then transferred.


It appears the patient originally went to Mercy General Hospital along J Street in East Sac. Dignity Health, who runs Mercy General released the following statement:

“In coordination with the public health department and CDC, Dignity Health Mercy General Hospital has transferred a patient to UC Davis Medical Center, which is specifically equipped to care for patients suspected of having or diagnosed with Ebola as part of the public health department’s preparedness plan.”

(Source (http://fox40.com/2015/01/29/uc-davis-treating-possible-ebola-patient/))

As mentioned in earlier posts, it is NOT over until no cases everywhere have for a minimum of 42 days not appeared. It is not just a matter of NOT reporting, but actually not experiencing ANY infection of Ebola for that time period..

[Bob]

Ebola FlareUP being reported


As mentioned in earlier posts, it is NOT over until no cases everywhere have for a minimum of 42 days not appeared.

It is not just a matter of NOT reporting, but actually not experiencing ANY infection of Ebola for that time period..

"Ebola likely to persist in 2015 as communities resist aid: Red Cross"

(Reuters) - West Africa will be lucky to wipe out Ebola this year, as the local population remains suspicious of aid workers, especially in Guinea, the Red Cross said on Friday.

The virus is "flaring up" in new areas in the region and not all infections are being reported, said Birte Hald, who leads the Ebola coordination and support unit of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

"We are also seeing that in places like Sierra Leone and especially in Guinea that it is flaring up in new districts all the time, with small new chains of transmission, which means that it's not under control and it could flare up big-time again," Hald told a news briefing in Geneva.


"I think that we should consider ourselves lucky and fortunate if we are able to stop it in 2015," she said.


World Health Organization said on Thursday, signaling the tide might have turned against the epidemic.. The outbreak has killed 8,810 people out of 22,092 known cases.

"If we don't get full access in Guinea, then we definitely risk that this will become something permanent. If it's permanent in Guinea, then we know also that it will be in the whole region, because there are porous borders," Hald said.

What that means, without a functional 'safe vaccine' or drug/pill counter-measure "treatment" it will be possible to catch Ebola in West Africa with it remaining at high levels of infection rates.

(Source (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/30/us-health-ebola-redcross-idUSKBN0L31L820150130))

There are still communities having to deal with the spread of MIS-INFORMATION, and are fearing aid workers with disinfection equipment.

[Bob]

Sacramento Hospital UC Davis Medical says all clear on the first patient that came in yesterday using the quickie test.

(Source (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/30/us-usa-ebola-california-idUSKBN0L323E20150130))

However a new patient is now being evaluated. One clear one to be tested and waiting for results..

The second patient was admitted to Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center on Wednesday, a day before the earlier patient came to light..

There is no data saying if the cases are linked in any way..

Something is causing a disease looking like Ebola which is setting off the alarms and watches.


At least 10 people are known to have been treated for Ebola in the United States, four of them diagnosed with the disease on U.S. soil, during a West African epidemic that has killed at least 8,800 people, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

Only two people are known to have contracted the virus in the United States - two nurses who treated an Ebola patient from Liberia who became sick while visiting Dallas. That man, Thomas Duncan, died in October.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta gave approval to Sacramento County in the past month to test blood samples of potential Ebola cases in its own public health laboratory rather than requiring samples to be sent to the CDC for analysis, said Laura McCasland, a spokeswoman for the Sacramento County Department of Public Health.

The new protocol reduces the turnaround time for such lab results from days to about 24 hours, she said.

[Bob]

Remember that trend last week that Ebola in West Africa was finally dropping?

Not so fast..

(Source (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-04/ebola-weekly-cases-rise-for-first-time-this-year-in-west-africa))

New cases of the Ebola virus rose for the first time this year on a weekly basis in the three West African countries that have been ravaged by the virus.

Sierra Leone had 80 new confirmed cases in the week that ended Feb. 1, compared with 65 a week earlier, according to the World Health Organization.

There were 39 in Guinea, up from 30, and five in Liberia, up from four.

The uptick underscores the concerns of public-health workers that the virus could make a comeback if the effort to contain the disease starts to flag. The wet season is approaching in the region, making aid workers’ jobs tougher as remote areas become more difficult to access, the WHO said.

Some communities in the region continue to resist help, and the virus is spreading in a wider area of Guinea, the WHO said. The western part of Sierra Leone, including the capital Freetown and the neighboring district of Port Loko, is still an area of intense transmission, the agency said.

[Bob]

Update on Guinea outbreak resurgence

As has been mentioned before in this thread, the various native tribes across west Africa continue to hinder efforts to eradicate Ebola.

Medical people have been blocked from many communities, and just now the doctors and health care workers are starting to gain access, only to find that many numerous infection cases are present.

(Source (http://www.voanews.com/content/guinea-ebola-infections-double-as-hidden-cases-discovered/2631698.html))


February 06, 2015 9:07 AM

CONAKRY —
The number of people sick with Ebola fever has doubled in Guinea in the past week following the discovery of cases previously unknown to health authorities, a Guinea health official said on Friday.

The new cases highlight difficulties authorities in the three worst-hit West African states -- Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia -- face in trying to curb the spread of the epidemic that has killed nearly 9,000 people.

Thought to be declining at the start of 2015, the number of new Ebola cases rose in all three countries for the first time this year in the past week, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.

Some 36 villages in the south and western forest region of Guinea, where the first case of Ebola was recorded, had previously been inaccessible to health officials because villagers sometimes used violence to stop health workers.

[Bob]

Another big outbreak of Ebola is predicted

(Source (http://www.newsweek.com/another-ebola-outbreak-inevitable-304801))

"Doctors and experts say another Ebola outbreak is “inevitable”, unless the international community unites around a long-term, common approach to combat the disease in the future and substantial investment is made into the health services of affected developing countries.


"Although reports of new cases of Ebola have been reduced to around 100 a week in the West African countries so ravaged by the disease that it was declared a health emergency last August, medical and aid organizations are clear that the Ebola crisis isn’t over yet."

Stateside, Fort Monmouth New Jersey former military base is being setup as a quarantine zone for people who have come into the US with an infection of Ebola or quite possibly an infection of unknown origin or etiology.. We have all heard of the famous FEMA camps.. Is the Ft. Monmouth "camp project" based on military mindset or FEMA mindset?

Wiki on Ft. Monmouth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Monmouth


Fort Monmouth is a former installation of the Department of the Army in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

The post is surrounded by the communities of Eatontown, Tinton Falls and Oceanport, New Jersey, and is located about 5 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

The post covers nearly 1,126 acres (4.56 km2) of land, from the Shrewsbury River on the east, to Route 35 on the west; this area is referred to as 'Main Post'.

A separate area (Camp Charles Wood) to the west includes post housing, a golf course, and additional office and laboratory facilities. A rail line, owned by Conrail, runs through Camp Charles Wood and out to Naval Weapons Station Earle.

The post is like a small town, including a Post Exchange (PX), health clinic, gas station and other amentities. Until the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the post was open to the public to drive through; since that time, the post is closed to all but authorized personnel.

The post was home to several units of the U.S. Army Materiel Command and offices of the Army Acquisition Executive (AAE) that research and manage Command and Control, Communications, Computing, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities and related technology, as well as an interservice organization designed to coordinate C4ISR, an academic preparatory school, an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) unit, a garrison services unit, an Army health clinic, and a Veterans Administration health clinic.

Other agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Security Agency, have presences on the post.

[Bob]

Apligen does work for survival in mouse models


http://www.hemispherx.net/PDF/USAMRIID_Feb2015.pdf

(Source (http://www.hemispherx.net/))

Hemispherx Biopharma, based in Philadelphia, is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the manufacture and clinical development of new drug entities for treatment of viral and immune-based disorders. Hemispherx’s flagship products include Alferon N Injection® and the experimental immunotherapeutics/antivirals Ampligen®.


Based upon numerous Hemispherx stockholder requests, Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. (NYSE: HEB) has posted the report and findings of the recent efficacy study of Ampligen® in a mouse model of Ebola virus infection performed by scientists at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID).

The posted USAMRIID report conclusively refutes false and defamatory blog and online statements by TheStreet.com's blogger Adam Feuerstein and invalidates Feuerstein's negative social media postings about the company's press release that was issued on February 2, 2015.

[Bob]

Health officials flagged a possible case of Ebola in Montreal on Tuesday 10 Feb 2015.

A brief statement indicated the potential victim had recently returned from one of the West African countries touched by Ebola and is showing symptoms of the disease.

Samples have been sent for analysis to the Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec and the results are expected in the coming hours.

This is the seventh suspected case of Ebola in Quebec since Sept. 2, 2014. Four of those cases were in Montreal, the three others in Abitibi, the Laurentides and in Lanaudière. All those suspected cases turned out to be false alarms.

The identity of the suspected victim is being kept confidential.

In past cases the public health authority has released information about where the person had been in West Africa, if they had been in areas with the disease and if they had been in contact with infected people. The symptoms experienced by the potential victims had also been divulged.

No other details have been released for this case, neither by the Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal nor its provincial counterpart.

(Source (http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/suspected-case-of-ebola-detected-in-montreal))

[Flash]

I just hope they are reading your thread - i would not be surprised if one nurse or md would decide to follow unorthodox ways if they are losing the fight against the Ebola virus - they are not American thinkers. But they have to be made aware of what exist that could help.

[Bob]

Ebola cases continue to rise once again.

* Unsafe burial practices are one of the challenges that still need to be overcome


Why Ebola is dangerous

The number of new cases of Ebola has risen in all of West Africa's worst-hit countries for the second week in a row, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

Treatment - possibly new drugs (2) have shown effectiveness. 2 Vaccines are being tested in West Africa.

Contagious - direct contact with viral particles.

This is the second weekly increase in confirmed cases in 2015, ending a series of encouraging declines.

Statistics (official)

Ebola deaths

Figures up to 9 February 2015
9,209 Deaths - probable, confirmed and suspected
(Includes one in the US and six in Mali)

Death distribution breakdown:
3,826 Liberia
3,350 Sierra Leone
2,018 Guinea
8 Nigeria

(Source: WHO)

[Bob]

Result testing reports - UK and Canada

Early Ebola tests negative for 2 London, Ontario, Canada patients.
Preliminary test results for Ebola have come back negative for two patients under investigation for the disease in London, Ont.

Two British military healthcare workers flown to the UK with suspected Ebola have been discharged from hospital in London. They were kept under supervision after needle-stick injuries while on the frontline of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

[Bob]

Airborne Ebola Study

(Source (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/02/19/limited-airborne-transmission-of-ebola-is-likely-new-study-says/))

Limited airborne transmission of Ebola is ‘very likely,’ new analysis says

A team of prominent researchers suggested Thursday that limited airborne transmission of the Ebola virus is "very likely," a hypothesis that could reignite the debate that started last fall after one of the scientists offered the same opinion.

"It is very likely that at least some degree of Ebola virus transmission currently occurs via infectious aerosols generated from the gastrointestinal tract, the respiratory tract, or medical procedures, although this has been difficult to definitively demonstrate or rule out, since those exposed to infectious aerosols also are most likely to be in close proximity to, and in direct contact with, an infected case," the scientists wrote. Their peer-reviewed analysis was published in mBio, a journal of the American Society of Microbiology.


Osterholm's September opinion piece focused on the possibility that the virus could mutate and eventually become airborne, a theory that other experts widely dismissed as extremely unlikely. In contrast, Thursday's review examines the idea that minuscule droplets of body fluid containing the virus could hang in the air and be inhaled by others, providing an unrecognized, if minor, pathway for the virus.

The airborne droplet particle concept was discussed earlier in this thread months ago.

Indeed, as health experts and aid workers have persuaded West Africans to adopt safe burial practices and isolate people infected by the virus, the disease has virtually disappeared in Liberia, though it is still more prevalent in Sierra Leone and Guinea.


As of Wednesday, Ebola had sickened 23,253 people, killing 9,380 of them, all but a handful in the three West African countries, according to the World Health Organization.

The paper notes that breathing, sneezing, coughing and talking can release droplets of fluid from the respiratory tract that travel short distances and most likely cause infection by settling on a mucous membrane. Those actions also release smaller airborne particles capable of suspension in mid-air that can be inhaled by others. Technically, both qualify as aerosols, the paper says.

[Bob]

Worries in Quebec once again..

Quebec man found dead at home may have had Ebola

SAINT-BRUNO-DE-MONTARVILLE, QUE. - A man who died in his Quebec home on Friday night had recently travelled to Africa and displayed symptoms associated with the Ebola virus.

Daniel Lamarre had returned on Friday to Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, a suburb on Montreal's south shore, from Burkina Faso, an West African country that has not been directly affected by the recent Ebola outbreak that's killed over 9.400 people.

Wife Aileen Rioux, who had not seen him since his return, found him in their apartment. During the trip, he had complained of having caught the flu, she told TVA, QMI Agency's sister TV station.

Unprotected police attempted to revive him on the scene. Several hours later, emergency personnel in protective clothing were on site. The body remained in the apartment until Saturday morning.


"It's improvisation," Rioux said. "Where is the emergency plan for Ebola after all this time talking about it?"

Rioux remains quarantined in the apartment, and police who may have been exposed to the virus are to remain in isolation at headquarters.

(Source (http://www.torontosun.com/2015/02/21/quebec-man-found-dead-at-home-may-have-had-ebola))

[Flash]

Can you believed!!! Once found dead , the man remained 14 hrs in his apartment. The police showed up and tried to revive him without protective clothes Then some ambulance workers showed up with tyvec like covers up, others without.

What i saw on TV is that they wore the protective coverall made be kimberly clark. These allws viruses through. They are made to protect against chemicals, not viruses.

The policemen are grounded int their headquarters , the wife remained in her apartment on her own, she has not been asked by anyone to do so.

Incredible incompetency all around.

[Flash]

St-Bruno is Montreal suburb. 3 millions people living around.

[Bob]

Quebec - Canada

Le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux confirme qu'un nouveau cas possible d'Ebola, qui concernait un homme revenant du Burkina Faso, un pays qui n'est pas touché par l'épidémie, ne s'est pas avéré.

Le ministère a émis samedi soir un avis négatif sur ce cas, détecté en Montérégie.

«Le risque que cette personne ait pu être exposée à l'Ebola est très faible. Par prudence, une demande d'analyse pour Ebola a été adressée au Laboratoire de santé publique pour éliminer ce diagnostic», a expliqué le ministère, qui a fait des vérifications «par mesure de précaution».


The Ministry of Health and Social Services confirmed that a new possible case of Ebola, which involved a man returning from Burkina Faso, a country that is not affected by the epidemic, has not proved.

The Ministry issued Saturday a negative opinion on this case, detected in Montérégie.

"The risk that this person has been exposed to Ebola is very low. As a precaution, an analysis request for Ebola was sent to the Public Health Laboratory to remove this diagnosis, "said the ministry, which has conducted audits" precautionary measure ".




The man died mysteriously joint Friday in St-Bruno-de-Montarville should know this morning if her husband died of Ebola or not.

Aileen Rioux, 53, still waiting anxiously last night, the results of tests performed by Urgences-Santé her husband, Daniel Lamarre.

The man of 61 years died of a disease meteoric Friday afternoon just after returning from a business trip to Burkina Faso, where he visited the diamond mines. The country is not directly affected by Ebola outbreaks, but the consultant had complained of a bad flu and fever just before returning. (Mines and caves have been noted in EAST Africa, to harbour the potential for Marburg Virus (the senior or possible parent to Ebola).

"We really hope this is not Ebola. But if this is the case, it raises serious questions about our crisis management, "she said, voice tired from all the emotions of the past 48 hours.
The resident of St-Bruno-de-Montarville strongly criticized the lack of preparedness of rescue teams deal with the situation on Saturday.

Unpreparedness (the real issue)
"It was improvisation. There was a lack of dialogue," she laments.

Aileen Rioux found her unconscious husband on the bed on his return from work. He arrived to the airport a few hours earlier.

The agents of the Longueuil Police Service were the first to respond. But none wore protective clothing she recalls. Paramedics arrived later in combination. But no one could give him accurate information about what was to come.

"It was necessary that I get angry for answers. They do not even know where they would put the body, "said one who preferred to keep her home, rather than see it go.

Investigators eventually returned yesterday morning to take away the remains. It had been nearly 16 hours.

"I have not been in my emotions, I had to keep a cool head to handle all that. It's like having robbed me some valuable time I had left, "said Ms. Rioux, knotted voice emotions.

Protocol followed (official statement)
For the cooperative EMTs Montérégie (CETAM) that came after the police, the protocol was followed "to the letter". (dohh... right..)

"We were told that there was a possibility of Ebola virus. So we put our protective equipment, "says Julien Sauriol, public relations at CETAM. (protective equipment, dohh.. not really)

As for the police, however, there are questions. "Why were not protected? Do they did not receive the message? Is what they had no equipment? We do not know it, "he said. Police declined to comment.

Public Health Department of the Montérégie recalls that all suspected cases in Quebec were negative for the time and flu symptoms differ materially from the virus that has claimed thousands of lives.

Meanwhile, Aileen Rioux preferred to remain confined to her home to prevent the spread of any disease, even though the Public Health Management believes that it is not necessary.

Burkina Faso

Hemorrhagic Lassa Fever is present in Burkina Faso. So is Meningitis, (Meningococcal disease).


Burkina Faso lies within the African meningitis belt. Until recently, serogroup A of Neisseria meningitidis was the most common cause of epidemic meningitis in Burkina Faso. However, during the epidemic that started in January 2002, W135 was the predominant serogroup of meningococcus. Vaccine against the W135 serogroup is expensive and in short supply. Strategies to react to a future African epidemic of W135 meningococcal meningitis with a sufficient and affordable supply of vaccine must be put into place now.

and


(Reuters) - Health officials in the west African country of Burkina Faso are worried about an increase in deaths from meningitis which has killed 246 people so far this year, up from 203 in the same period last year.

Meningitis, a disease that inflames the lining of the brain and can be transmitted by mosquitoes, tends to strike countries in the Sahel region during the dry season which typically runs from November to June.

"We are worried about the expansion of this epidemic," said Health Ministry official Sylvestre Tiendrebeogo on Friday without giving a possible reason for the rise.

Cases usually peak in Burkina Faso, Chad, northern Nigeria and Niger around April.

Tiendrebeogo said some 1,596 cases of the disease had been recorded in Burkina Faso so far this year, compared to 1,281 in the same period last year.

Locations


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[Bob]

Quebec update

(Source (http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/public-health-department-investigating-death-of-traveller-from-africa-as-precaution))

A traveller who arrived from Africa and died in the Montérégie area did not have Ebola, the public health department has determined.
The person, died of unknown causes.

That's all that they would say..

So what was it, Meningitis, Lassa Fever ? The People have a right to know about a traveler coming from a third world region who mysteriously dies in a community with millions of people.

What was it that he died from?

Earlier in the thread it was observed of travelers returning who died mysteriously upon arriving back to Western 1st world countries. And AGAIN, the agencies responsible for diagnostics have refused to tell the People WHAT WAS IT that they died from.. How come? This lack of information should be a concern. What infection? (if any) has been imported?

[Flash]

Well, it is all over talk shows this morning because his wife is a very vocal person. She is on talk shows even if mourning her husband. She says that the intervenion of authorities was astoudingly incompetent.

She mention the ambulance guys wearing white overall, then some government employees sent hours later wearing thicker white overalls (interesting, the ambulance personnel are at risk wouldn't you think so), how everybody in the whole building was quarantined for 12 hours or so, how she was pushed back to ther apartment with the dead husband by the police when she tried to get out, without explaination. She tried to get out because she was raging about the lack of care and information, etc.

She is vocal. She will want to know what he died of, and authorities now know she won't keep quiet.

We will see..

[Bob]

About Mutation of Ebola

With the news suppression of Ebola, getting data is an interesting quest.

An article last month in a series of trade journals (medical) discussed what appears to be a "goal" of the Ebola virus. To become more deadly..

Scientists investigated why Ebola virus is so deadly when it spreads from animals to humans and then from human-to-human contact. The research team looked at the Zaire Ebola strain in an animal system to understand how it gains strength. This virus is responsible for the current outbreak in West Africa.

They found that initially the animal systems were not affected by the virus, but subsequent transmission into other animals caused the virus to 'hot up' and become more severe. The team analyzed the viruses at different stages and were able to identify several changes in its genetic material that were associated with increased disease.

Professor Julian Hiscox, who led the study from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health, explains, "The work tells us that the evolutionary goal of Ebola virus is to become more lethal. We were able to show through genetic analysis which parts of the virus are involved in this process. The information we have gathered will now allow us to monitor for such changes in an outbreak as well as develop future treatment strategies."

Professor Roger Hewson, leading the study from Public Health England, Porton Down, says, "Ebola virus is such a devastating infection to the people affected by the disease and the economy of West Africa. Our understanding of Ebola virus biology is way behind that of other viruses and our collaboration shows how we can bring together our specialists skills to close this knowledge gap."

Professor Miles Carroll, a co-author of the work, says, "This study has allowed the team to be at the forefront of developing methodologies to analyse patient samples recently taken by the European Mobile Laboratory from West Africa to understand disease evolution during the current outbreak."

The research, published in the journal Genome Biology, is also in collaboration with the University of Bristol.

Source: University of Liverpool - January 21, 2015

[Bob]

Virginia, in a suburb outside of DC

Out of sight out of mind? Not really, still using caution when a person coming from one of the HotZone countries in West Africa exhibits 'symptoms'..

Arlington County fire officials have transported a patient to the hospital from a Clarendon apartment building (see image below) using their Ebola protocols, though a department spokesman said it is “unlikely” that they are dealing with a real case of the deadly disease.

Lt. Sarah-Maria Marchegiani said the patient had traveled recently to an Ebola affected country and exhibited symptoms consistent with the disease, so medics wearing protective clothing removed the person from the apartment at 1128 North Irving Street and notified Virginia Hospital Center to prepare for a possible Ebola patient. Marchegiani said, though, that the steps were taken out of an abundance of caution.

(Source (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/patient-transported-from-clarendon-apartment-using-ebola-protocols/2015/02/26/b404b236-bdce-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html))


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Clarendon is relatively close to Fort Myer and the Pentagon.

UPDATE - 6PM using the quicky testing method for Ebola, the County reported, NOPE, NO EBOLA HERE, (move along.. nothing to see..)


By Thursday evening, the patient had been discharged from the hospital, the county said in an e-mail.

Although the patient had a fever, his or her condition did not indicate Ebola, and he or she had not been in contact with any Ebola patients, the e-mail said.

The county will continue to monitor the person for the 21-day period in which he or she could display symptoms of Ebola, just as it monitors others who have traveled to Ebola-hit countries

Although this patient didn't die like the person in Canada recently, the question remains, WHAT DID THIS PERSON COME BACK WITH, and is now able to freely roam through the DC suburbs?

[Bob]

Sierra Leone Flare-Up - Ebola by Sea

(Source (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/world/africa/nearly-beaten-in-sierra-leone-ebola-makes-a-comeback-by-sea.html?_r=0))

Nearly Halted in Sierra Leone, Ebola Makes Comeback by Sea

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — It seemed as if the Ebola crisis was abating.

New cases were plummeting. The president lifted travel restrictions, and schools were to reopen. A local politician announced on the radio that two 21-day incubation cycles had passed with no new infections in his Freetown neighborhood. The country, many health officials said, was “on the road to zero.”

Then Ebola washed in from the sea.

Sick fishermen came ashore in early February to the packed wharf-side slums that surround the country’s fanciest hotels, which were filled with public health workers.

Volunteers fanned out to contain the outbreak, but the virus jumped quarantine lines and cascaded into the countryside, bringing dozens of new infections and deaths.


Two wooden boats carrying three sick fishermen arrived at a small wharf in Freetown in early February, cutting short a two-week trip. “The captain was vomiting,” said Mohamed Bangura, 23, a crew member of one boat.

The wharf, Tamba Kula, is an informal settlement where hundreds of people live in shanties made of reclaimed wood and corrugated metal roofs. At the slum’s entrance, a towering sign displays an image of the Statue of Liberty, an advertisement for daily British Airways flights with connections to the United States that were canceled when the Ebola outbreak was declared.

Now, commerce in Tamba Kula is also restricted. Those who contracted Ebola there and nearby — two dozen people since early February — include fishermen, boat cleaners and two women who sold fish.

When the cluster erupted at the wharf area — part of a large neighborhood known as Aberdeen, with about 9,000 residents — some Ebola prevention workers were taken by surprise because they had been continuing surveillance efforts. Officials imposed a quarantine, prompting many fishermen to take to the sea to avoid it. The authorities sent out word for them to return.

On a recent afternoon, James Bangura, an official leading the Ebola response in the capital, chastised the deputy harbor master of Tamba Kula for failing to keep arriving fisherman on their boats to be evaluated.

“Once they’re lost and nobody accounts for them, we can’t get to zero,” Mr. Bangura told the man.

“They scatter,” the deputy harbor master responded, but he checked the men from the next boat that arrived.


As cases mounted, Dr. Conteh, the district’s Ebola response coordinator, summoned about 125 traditional healers, tribal chiefs and other local leaders. He called for a suspension of traditional practices and warned that criminal summonses were being issued to anyone accused of hiding the sick. Experts fear that such threats will lead more people to go underground.

“The war is still on,” Dr. Conteh told colleagues the next day. “We’re at a critical stage. We can either make or break.”

[Bob]

Ebola Patient coming to the US for treatment

This came in on the Reuters wires today..

Ebola is still here, although it is out of sight and out of mind of many of the US public.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health will admit to its hospital on Friday a U.S. healthcare worker who tested positive for the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone.

The NIH said the patient will be transported in isolation by chartered aircraft to its high-security containment facility on its Maryland campus.

Ebola is in London also - Earlier on Thursday, a British military healthcare worker infected with the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone was flown to London for treatment, and health officials said four more workers were being assessed for possible infection.


The unidentified American will be admitted and treated at the NIH Clinical Center's Special Clinical Studies Unit. The patient will be the second confirmed Ebola patient to be treated at the facility, which also took care of Texas nurse Nina Pham, who became infected with Ebola while treating a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

In addition to the two confirmed patients, NIH has also cared for two individuals who experienced high-risk exposures to Ebola while working in West Africa, but who were subsequently found not to be infected.

The NIH said it is not releasing any more details about the patient at this time.

The death count now is close to 10,000 people.

Liberia last week says that it doesn't have any more living Ebola Patients.. and release its "last known" Ebola patient from hospital, but Sierra Leone still had 127 patients in Ebola treatment centers as of March 10. The area in the bush is just so large, so out-of-touch with the rest of the country infra-structure, to actually know how many un-reported are present, continues to stymie efforts for total guaranteed suppression of the infection..

[Bob]

Honduras - first suspected Ebola Case being analyzed

COMAYAGUA, Honduras — Spanish-language news agencies in Honduras are reporting the first suspected case of Ebola in Honduras, where an American (norteamericano) patient has reportedly been isolated in a hospital in Comayagua.



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The Honduran Minister of Health, Yolany Batres, confirmed Friday night that the protocol for treatment of suspected Ebola cases was being followed.

Health officials stressed that it was not a confirmed case. The patient is an American resident of Comayagua who recently traveled to Africa.

[Bob]

New Zealand - EBOLA scare with a nurse back from Sierra Leone..

Nurse in strict isolation

"Bronwyn is recognised for going above and beyond the call of duty, she is highly regarded by all who have contact with her and readily shares her skills and knowledge," a statement said at the time.


Health authorities yesterday moved to reassure people that if it is New Zealand's first Ebola case they are well-equipped to deal with it. "This eventuality has been foreseen and has been very carefully planned for," said Health Minister Jonathan Coleman in a statement.

Hospitals have introduced specialist equipment, safety checklists and staff have undergone infection control training.

Forty-four St John staff have been trained to respond to an Ebola scare and there are four isolation pods in the country to transport people.

Results of blood samples sent to Melbourne for testing should be known today.

The nurse had returned to her home in the small town 65km north of Invercargill after a posting to help those suffering from the contagious disease in Sierra Leone.

On Friday she told a public health officer she was unwell and it was decided to take her to an isolation unit at Christchurch Hospital.

The woman's partner - the only person in direct contact during the potentially infectious period - was last night self-monitoring at home.

[Bob]

Ebola - in the US?, 10 AID workers being flown back to the US due to possible exposure

At least 10 American aid workers who may have come into contact with the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone were preparing on Saturday to be evacuated to the United States, according to a United States Embassy spokeswoman in the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown. They will be the largest number of Americans returned home over fears of exposure to the virus since an outbreak in three West African countries was declared last year.

An American clinician with Ebola was flown from Sierra Leone to the National Institutes of Health’s clinical center in Bethesda, Md., on Friday.

He tested positive for the virus on Tuesday, and health workers feared that he had exposed others to it.

But so far, none of the other 10 aid workers have developed symptoms, said the embassy spokeswoman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to talk to the news media. (MEDIA BLACKOUT once again.. decree from the "ebola czar"..)

“The U.S. takes care of its U.S. citizens,” she said. “We’re doing everything we can to give them excellent support.” An investigation is continuing, and more workers will be evacuated if necessary.

Reference - New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/world/africa/possible-ebola-exposure-sends-10-aid-workers-back-to-us.html?_r=0

[Bob]

Update on the Americans - 1 confirmed, 4 high likelihood, 6 potentially of concern..

CDC and the State Department are facilitating the return of additional American citizens who had potential exposure to the index patient or exposures similar to those that resulted in the infection of the index patient," the CDC said in a written statement.

Subject/Patient Distribution

Positive test patient - NIH Maryland

Four people who had "more exposure than the others" to the patient with Ebola will isolate themselves in housing on the campus of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, said Nebraska Medicine spokesman Taylor Wilson. They arrived on the medical campus Saturday evening.

The other six are scheduled to fly into Washington on Sunday to go to the NIH, and into Atlanta on Monday to go to Emory, Skinner said.

Skinner said the Americans coming home will stay at hotels and other housing near the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health in Maryland or Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. (confusing where they will be, but not in hospitals, but in hotels..)

Status

The heath care worker with Ebola was in serious condition Friday, the NIH said. Details about the patient's identity weren't released.

The patient and all but one of the Americans being sent home work for Partners in Health, which provides health care "in settings of poverty," according to a news release from the group.


"Ten clinicians who came to the aid of their ailing colleague were subsequently identified as contacts of the evacuated clinician," the statement said.

"These clinicians are being transported to the United States via non-commercial aircraft.

They will remain in isolation near designated U.S. Ebola treatment facilities to ensure access to rapid testing and treatment in the unlikely instance that any become symptomatic."

[Cidersomerset]

Hi Bob like most of these 'news memes' Ebola has slipped out of the main news
slots but it is still going on, as you have been posting. This happens all the time ,
Israel are still surpressing the Palestinians, The Jimmy Saville and operation Yew
tree is still 'bumbling' along with its third chairperson still not universally accepted,
and other stories coming and going. I saw this article and realised its still
simmering in the background. The extra health workers and mil medical units seem
to be helping.

keep up with the posting , I am in the same boat on the Jimmy Saville thread. I
keep it going and stray off at tangents as it is a massive subject if you
take in all abuse in its many forms. I mainly set it up to find out savilles links
with the Royals and other elites and see if it leads any where near the David Icke
and other researchers work on the possible 'dark activities , child sacrifice etc'. We
are not there yet but there are sinister accounts. This is mixed in with the celeb and
criminal cases that are terrible, but unfortunate human behaviour which is also
cover for the elites to hide behind. Anyway........

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Ebola: British patient and five colleagues flown home Hospital
arrival The confirmed patient with Ebola was taken to the Royal
Free Hospital in London on Thursday


A sixth British healthcare worker has been flown home to the UK
after suspected contact with the Ebola virus. It happened after an
accidental "needle-stick injury" at a treatment centre in Sierra Leone.

Three other people have been discharged after coming into
"close contact" with a confirmed British Ebola case.

The female British patient with Ebola is being cared for at the Royal
Free Hospital in London. One other person is still being tested.

Meanwhile, the death-toll from the current Ebola outbreak has passed 10,000.

'Close contact'

Between 600 and 700 UK defence personnel are based in Sierra Leone
as part of efforts to tackle the largest ever outbreak of Ebola. One British
military healthcare worker was diagnosed in Sierra Leone and was flown
back to the UK on an RAF plane on Thursday.She was then taken to the
special isolation unit at the Royal Free, where two British nurses infected
with Ebola - William Pooley and Pauline Cafferkey - were successfully treated.

Also on board the RAF flight were two colleagues who had also come into
"recent close contact" with the diagnosed woman.

They have now been discharged as there was no sign of the virus in their bodies.

A further two close contacts were flown to Newcastle Royal Infirmary on
Friday. One has been discharged, while the other is still being tested.
In a separate incident, the sixth person - a healthcare worker - was pricked
with a needle while caring for a patient. It is one of the most dangerous ways
of being exposed to the virus because there is direct access to the bloodstream.

This individual has also been taken to the Royal Free Hospital.

Dr Jenny Harries, from Public Health England, said: "All appropriate support has,
and will continue to be offered, to these six individuals. Our thoughts are with all
the healthcare workers, and their families, affected at this time.

"The UK has robust, well-developed and well-tested systems for managing Ebola.
All appropriate infection control procedures continue to be followed to minimise
any risk of transmission. There remains no risk to the general public's health and
the overall risk to the UK continues to be very low."

'Robust'

Prof Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer, said: "The UK has robust,
well-developed and well-tested systems for managing Ebola virus disease.

"All appropriate infection control procedures have, and will continue to be,
strictly followed to minimise any risk of transmission."

Dr Ben Neuman, a virologist at the University of Reading, said flying the
patient back to the UK offered the best chance of recovery.

"The Royal Free Hospital has a 100% record in treating Ebola cases so far,
let's hope that doesn't change.

"While the new batch of ZMapp is not yet available, she could be treated with
favipiravir, which has shown some early promising results in West African Ebola clinics.

"She may also be given antibody-rich serum from Ebola survivors to knock down
the amount of virus in her blood while her immune system is learning to fight Ebola."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31845947

[Bob]

Thanks Steve, I didn't have the update on the UK situation.. Appreciate the help on that. B.

[Bob]

Honduras American gets the ALL-CLEAR and the New Zealand Nurse gets the ALL-CLEAR

The UK Patient who worked with Ebola sufferer remains under care of Newcastle hospital


A patient who came into contact with a diagnosed Ebola patient remains under assessment at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary.

The military health worker was one of two flow into the city from Sierra Leone for monitoring on Friday.

After 48 hours in the hospital’s infectious diseases’ unit, the worker remained under observation on Sunday.

A colleague was discharged before the weekend but will need to be monitored for the next 21 days to ensure they show no signs of the disease.

Public Health England said the situation remained as prior to the weekend and both cases were being treated in line with UK health policy on Ebola

Nurse in New Zealand


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The nurse who recently returned from Sierra Leone has tested negative for the Ebola virus.

Health Minister Jonathan Coleman said the initial negative result was "great news", but a second test was required to confirm the result.

"We should have the results of the second test within 48 hours. It is highly unlikely that it will come back with a positive result," Dr Coleman said.

"The patient continues to be in a stable condition, and will remain in one of Christchurch Hospital's dedicated specialist medical isolation rooms until the result of the second test is known."

The nurse is understood to be Bronwyn McBain. She has previously spoken about her desire to make a difference in the fight against Ebola.

Honduras American


(Reuters) - An American who was hospitalized in Honduras pending Ebola checks has been released from hospital, authorities said on Saturday, though he will be kept under watch for 21 days.

The 66-year-old American had spent time in Liberia before coming to Honduras on March 11, authorities said. He was hospitalized on Friday in Comayagua, about an hour north of Tegucigalpa, with a fever.

The vice minister of health, Francis Contreras, said the American did not have any symptoms of Ebola, but authorities are being extra careful because he came from a country that has been affected by the epidemic.

[Bob]

Ebola's back in Liberia

Was it really gone tho?

(Source (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/20/us-health-ebola-liberia-idUSKBN0MG2AR20150320))

(Reuters) - Liberia has reported its first Ebola case in weeks on Friday, health officials said, in a setback for its efforts to stamp out the worst recorded epidemic of the deadly virus.

A government official, who asked not to be named, said the patient came from Caldwell, a suburb of the capital not far from the last cluster of cases in the St Paul's Bridge neighborhood.

The outbreak has killed more than 10,200 people, mostly in Liberia, neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone, which are all still battling the disease.


"Today, a patient tested positive of Ebola at the transit center run by Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Liberia's Ministry of Health's Redemption Hospital," said Adolphus Mawolo, spokesman for MSF in Monrovia.

[avid]

That 'E' word has to be prompted in the media frequently, due to the media hype previously. It's a 'Cry-Wolf' MSM scenario, so just stoke that wee burner now and again to avoid losing face, or to avoid being totally negligent in the face of very sinister/ignored situation. The seed was planted - just let's follow it from time-to-time, thanks Bob.

[Bob]

Ebola spread continues to grow in a flareup in Liberia. 4 current new cases, search for whom they came in contact..

Liberia has stated that it was hoping to have no new ebola cases for 42 days in a row. On the 20th it was reported that a new case had appeared.

Now there are 3 more..

(Source (http://www.healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/three-new-ebola-cases-liberia-32715))

Liberia received yet another setback on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 when two additional Ebola cases were diagnosed.

Although it was initially believed that the Monrovian woman was an isolated case, an 18-year old woman who had taken care of her was taken to an Ebola treatment unit on Tuesday, March 24th, after developing a headache and weakness. On March 25th she tested positive for Ebola. This secondary case most likely became infected while bathing and caring for the initial case.

The third Ebola case is a young man from the New Kru Town area, which is located south of Monrovia. He was taken to an Ebola treatment unit after individuals witnessed him vomiting blood in Clara Town.

The exact source of infection is unknown for this third case.

However, his girlfriend is believed to be involved in cross-border trade, which may have resulted in exposure.

Health officials are in the process of obtaining information on individuals he came into contact with while infectious, so that they can be located and monitored for infection.

Update - medical sources in Liberia working on these cases say, at least 50 people were potentially exposed by coming in contact with bodily fluids from the active ebola cases. They are being monitored for signs of infection.

[Bob]

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At the beginning of this thread, we pointed out the 'mysterious illness' which was appearing.. and the thread progressed to follow the developments, potential solutions, and the statistics..

The first reported case in the Ebola outbreak ravaging west Africa dates back to December 2013, in Guéckédou, a forested area of Guinea near the border with Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Travellers took it across the border: by late March, Liberia had reported eight suspected cases and Sierra Leone six.

By the end of June 759 people had been infected and 467 people had died from the disease, making this the worst ever Ebola outbreak.

The numbers keep climbing. As of April 5th 2015, 25,550 cases and 10,587 deaths had been reported worldwide, the vast majority of them in these same three countries.

Currently the ebola patient in the US at NIH facilities is reported to be improving.

Currently there are various actions being taken in the 3 hotzone countries in West Africa to contain, and treat when a case appears. Statistically 42 days of zero incidence is required to declare the area 'ebola free'.. Due to the remoteness, and lack of reporting, to actually see ebola disappear is unlikely.. NON-REPORTING for 42 days is very likely..

Vaccine development has proceeded, and two vaccines are being tested in Africa, with good reported success. (and minimal side effects)..

Treatment substances have been developed at some extreme costs (and such ended up being developed by military sponsorships for eventual military use of the products).

[Bob]

Ebola treatment progress continues.

(Source (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/science/ebola-drug-works-against-west-african-strain-in-study-of-monkeys.html?_r=0))


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A study in monkeys offers the first evidence that a leading drug developed to fight Ebola works against the strain causing the current outbreak in West Africa.

Six animals were infected with a very high dose of the virus and then, three days later, half were given the drug, TKM-Ebola-Makona, which was designed specifically to fight the West African strain. The monkeys that received the drug survived, but all three untreated monkeys died, researchers reported on Wednesday in the journal Nature.

TKM-Ebola-Makona is already being tested in Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, but results are not yet available. An earlier version of the drug, created to treat a slightly different strain, was given to several Ebola patients in the United States, but it was impossible to tell whether it helped them because they also received other treatments at the same time.

­A grandfather, right,


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looking over the graves of his daughter and granddaughter outside an Ebola treatment center in Liberia, one of the West African nations ravaged by the virus during the current outbreak, in October.

The drugs are given intravenously and can cause flulike symptoms, including headaches, chills and fever.

They belong to a category called short interfering RNAs, or siRNAs, which work by blocking certain genes in the virus, impairing its ability to replicate.

The design of these drugs varies depending on the genetic sequence of the virus.

But viruses can mutate, and new strains can evolve. Researchers have wondered whether a drug made to treat one strain would also work against other strains of the same virus.

“There has been concern that small changes in sequence can impact treatments,” said Thomas W. Geisbert, an Ebola expert at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and the senior author of the report.

The original TKM-Ebola was created to fight the Kikwit strain, from an earlier outbreak. The new strain, Makona, is closely related but not identical.

Lab tests show that the drug for Kikwit works against Makona, and vice versa, but Dr. Geisbert said, “The best results would probably be to use siRNAs specific for each strain.”

The great advantage of the technology, Dr. Geisbert said, is that the drugs can quickly be retooled to keep up with changes in the virus.

Dr. Geisbert was one of the main inventors of the siRNAs for Ebola and holds a patent on them but receives no royalties, he said. Other authors of the report included employees of Tekmira, the Canadian company that makes the drugs.

An Ebola expert not involved in the study, Dr. Daniel Bausch, a senior consultant to the World Health Organization and an infectious-disease specialist at Tulane University, said, “They showed universal protection in a highly lethal model three days after infection, so that’s obviously good.”

Creating a treatment that is effective can have broad spectrum ability across different strains. A proper anti-viral drug would be well worth developing, not just for Ebola but many hemorrhagic viral diseases.

[Bob]

Has Ebola really left when folks have been cured? Maybe not.. scarey stuff..

(http://abc7.com/health/report-5-months-after-infection-man-spreads-ebola-via-sex/693124/, Source)

5 MONTHS AFTER INFECTION, MAN SPREADS EBOLA VIA SEX

Health officials now think Ebola survivors can spread the disease through unprotected sex nearly twice as long as previously believed.

Scientists thought the Ebola virus could remain in semen for about three months.

But a recent case in West Africa suggests infection through sex can happen more than five months later.

Based on the case, officials are now telling male Ebola survivors to avoid unprotected sex indefinitely. They had previously advised using condoms for at least three months.

A report released Friday detailed the case of a 44-year-old Liberian woman whose infection likely came from a 46-year-old man who had Ebola symptoms last September.

She fell ill in March, a week after sex with him, and died.

Another woman he had sex with around the same time tested negative.

The Ebola virus spreads through direct contact with an Ebola patient's blood or other bodily fluids like urine, saliva, semen and sweat. Once patients recover, health officials say they aren't contagious except there's a chance it could still be in semen.

Investigations of other recent Ebola cases in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have pointed to sexual transmission from survivors, but those have not been confirmed, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

There have been fewer than 10 such cases, said CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund. It's been difficult to pinpoint that sex was the only way they may have been infected, she added.

In Guinea, Dr. Sakoba Keita, the national coordinator for Ebola response, said a woman in the southeastern town of Macenta contracted Ebola after having unprotected sex with her husband.


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This raises a question - how many other viruses, such as those responsible for cancer, can be transmitted through semen?

[Bob]

Has ebola really left when the blood tests say so?

Apparently not in some cases..

Can countries declare themselves EBOLA-FREE if no patient has shown up with monitorable symptoms in 42 days?

There has been a concern where is Ebola lying around latent.. what reservoir is it residing within?

(Source (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-virus-lingers-patients-eyeball-recovery-study/story?id=30905023))

Recently even 3 months after being declared CLEARED Ebola can affect a person from the semen.

Another study is showing Ebola resides IN-THE-EYE.

For one Ebola doctor-turned-patient, being discharged with virus-free blood wasn't the end of his brush with the potentially deadly pathogen.

Three months later, the virus was still lingering in his left eyeball, according to a case study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The infection baffled doctors when it turned his blue eye green until the infection resolved itself, according to The New York Times. Emory Eye Center said it was not able to provide the photos to ABC News.

The patient was a previously healthy 43-year-old man who was working at an Ebola treatment ward in Sierra Leone when he was diagnosed with Ebola in early September, according to the study. He was flown to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for treatment, where he spent 12 days on a ventilator and 24 days on dialysis.


About nine weeks after the patient's blood and urine tested negative for Ebola, he complained of redness, blurred vision, sensitivity to light and pain in his left eye, according to the study.
He was diagnosed with inflammation of the eyeball and tests revealed active virus inside the eye. The virus wasn't present in his tears, however.

Mystery Doctor now Identified

Though he's not named as the patient in the case study, The New York Times identified the man as Dr. Ian Crozier, who had been Emory's unnamed Ebola patient until December when he revealed himself to the Times. Crozier is named as a study author in the New England Journal of Medicine study about his eye.

"He's a full partner in his own investigation and the other investigations going forward," said Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, who said he was one of Crozier's mentors. Crozier did his training at Vanderbilt and spoke on its campus about Ebola in April. "All of this is in the context of his sense of mission and being devoted to the medical care of people in underprivileged circumstances abroad."

Crozier is back in Africa to study the health effects on patients after Ebola, Schaffner said.

Schaffner said Ebola is known to cause eye problems and even blindness in patients in Africa. The eye is somewhat cut off from the rest of the immune system, which could have led the virus to linger there, he said.

Treatment and the body's immune response eventually allowed the patient's eye to begin to resolve, Schaffner said, but his remaining Ebola-related health problems also include lower back problems.

There were 26,312 Ebola cases as of April 26, including 10,899 deaths, according to the study, citing World Health Organization figures.

These HIDDEN reservoirs can mean an otherwise 'healthy' in appearance human after having been exposed to Ebola may be a silent carrier, with odd symptoms..

It also suggests that these viral diseases do have spots where they can hide and possibly become active at later times..

It also means, eating bushmeat (primates) who appear healthy, is risky.. They may NOT in-fact be healthy..

[Violet]

I don't know if you had this one already, just throwing it in:

Ebola hiding in eyes after recovery,...and changing the color:



ATLANTA — When Dr. Ian Crozier was released from Emory University Hospital in October after a long, brutal fight with Ebola that nearly ended his life, his medical team thought he was cured. But less than two months later, he was back at the hospital with fading sight, intense pain and soaring pressure in his left eye.

Test results were chilling: The inside of Dr. Crozier’s eye was teeming with Ebola.

(rest: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/health/weeks-after-his-recovery-ebola-lurked-in-a-doctors-eye.html)

[Bob]

That's the original article in NY times, where Dr. Ian Crozier, who had been Emory's unnamed Ebola patient until December when he revealed himself to the Times. Crozier is named as a study author in the New England Journal of Medicine study about his eye. (Post 916 above) :)

Seeing studies now, that 5 months later after an Ebola patient had no obvious signs of the disease, was able to infect his wife with Ebola, the virus demonstrates how it is able hide..

What other virus is able to hide that way too?

[Bob]

Ebola.. New Patient - second one in Italy

An Italian nurse who had recently been working in Sierra Leone with medical charity Emergency tested positive for Ebola on Tuesday in the country's second case of the virus.

The health ministry said in a statement that the male nurse was in an infectious diseases ward of a hospital at Sassari on the island of Sardinia, awaiting transfer by a specially-equipped airforce plane to a Rome clinic that cured Italy's first Ebola victim, a doctor who had also worked for Emergency in Sierra Leone.

The nurse began displaying possible symptoms of the virus on Sunday evening, two days after arriving home from Africa, the ministry said. Tests confirmed he had contracted the disease that has killed more than 4,700 people in its latest outbreak in West Africa.

The doctor who was successfully treated at the Lazzaro Spallanzani clinic in Rome was evacuated from Sierra Leone in mid-November. The 50-year-old left hospital in January following treatment with a combination of experimental drugs and the blood plasma of an Ebola survivor.

(Source (http://news.yahoo.com/nurse-becomes-italys-second-ebola-case-203858337.html))

Ebola is FAR from over, and as seen healthcare workers STILL can catch this.

[Bob]

Ebola's back.

Sierra Leone -

The government says 578 patients are in quarantine across the country, most in the Western Area which includes the capital.

The seven days ending Sunday "saw the highest weekly total of confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease for over a month", the WHO said in its latest update.

A full 35 new cases were reported during the week in Guinea and Sierra Leone, up from just nine a week earlier.

According to the latest figures, the outbreak has infected 26,933 people and killed 11,120, mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and neighbouring Liberia, which was declared Ebola-free on May 9.

Guinea, where the outbreak began in late 2013, was hardest hit last week, with 27 new cases reported, compared to just seven the week before.


Since the beginning of the outbreak, 869 health workers have been confirmed to be carrying Ebola, and 507 of them have died, according to the WHO.

And “because of the proximity to Guinea-Bissau of the recent cluster of cases in the Guinean prefecture of Boké, a response team from Guinea-Bissau has been deployed to the border to assess points of entry,” WHO reported. “An epidemiological investigation team has also mobilized to ensure any contacts who cross the border are traced.”


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Background Guinea Bissau - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13443186

[Bob]

As of May 31, 2015 - map of Ebola in Africa


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New Cases in the last 21 days, distribution


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Who does the World Health Organization consider as "PRIORITY COUNTRIES" ?

The initial focus of support by WHO and partners is on highest priority countries – Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Mali and Senegal – followed by high priority countries – Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Mauritania, Nigeria, South Sudan, Niger, and Togo.

The criteria used to prioritize countries include geographical proximity to affected countries, trade and migration patterns, and strength of health systems.

Source: W.H.O.

[Bob]

Ebola Update -

14 June
Sierra Leone: There are two new confirmed cases from Port Loko and Kambia districts. Read more (https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=397&language_id=ENG)...

12 June
USA: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that although travellers from Liberia will still undergo enhanced screening on arrival, from 17 June they "will no longer need to be actively monitored by or be in daily contact with their health departments."

Guinea: Following an assessment of Boke Prefecture by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United States CDC, health checkpoints will be set up around Kamsar to screen people for symptoms of Ebola. The first focus will be fishermen who travel between Kamsar and several nearby islands.

The French Embassy in Conakry advises there have been no new confirmed cases of Ebola since their last update.

Sierra Leone: After reports showed the nation has had a spike in Ebola cases, resulting in its highest case count in months, the president announced curfews in two districts. Read more (https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=397&language_id=ENG)...

11 June
Canada: According to a health ministry press release, ZMapp can now be manufactured in the country. This would help strengthen the Ebola preparedness of the nation. Made by Mapp Biopharmaceutical, this treatment is authorised to be used only in emergency cases.

Ghana: The trial of an ebola vaccine was halted before it began today when strong opposition to the vaccine was voiced. Ghana had been set to participate in a trial of the Ad26.ZEBOV/MVA-BN-Filo vaccine, jointly developed by Johnson & Johnson and Bavarian Nordic and recently approved by the Ghanaian Food and Drug Administration. However, in the face of opposition, the trial has been suspended until the Health Minister returns to the country.

10 June
In the latest situation report from the World Health Organization (WHO), the recent improvements in West Africa have stalled, with a second week of increased new cases and spread into more areas of transmission. In the week ending 7 June, 31 new cases were identified. Sixteen cases were from five prefectures of Guinea, with almost a third coming from unidentified sources and three confirmations after death in the community. Fifteen new cases in Sierra Leone came from clusters in two districts. There were no new cases confirmed in the densely populated Western Area Urban district for the first time in over 9 months. Unsafe burials continue in both countries. Globally, 27,273 cases and 11,173 deaths have been recorded.

Italy: The nurse who was infected in Sierra Leone has been discharged and all contacts have completed the monitoring period. Read more (https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=448&language_id=ENG)...

Sierra Leone: Two new cases have been identified. Read more (https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=397&language_id=ENG)...

Guinea: An additional two cases and one death have been reported. Read more (https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=395&language_id=ENG)...

9 June
Sierra Leone: Five new cases have been reported. Read more (https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=397&language_id=ENG)...

Guinea: Two additional cases have been identified. The nation-wide health emergency has been extended until 30 June. Read more (https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=395&language_id=ENG)...

8 June
Guinea: Nine new cases have been identified across the country. Read more (https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=395&language_id=ENG)...

Italy: The infected nurse continues to recover in hospital and is said to be in a "good" condition.

6 June
Sierra Leone: Two cases have been confirmed in Port Loko.

4 June
Sierra Leone: One case has been confirmed in Port Loko. A national vaccination campaign is planned for 5 to 10 June. Read more (https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=397&language_id=ENG)...

Guinea: Seven new cases have been reported since 1 June. Read more (https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=395&language_id=ENG)...


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Travel Restrictions

Travel restrictions remain in place despite improvement in the Ebola outbreak

Many Ebola-related travel bans remain in place and should be taken into account by members in the region, though some countries have relaxed their restrictions due to a reduction in the virus' transmission in affected countries. A number of regional and international airlines also continue to restrict flights or follow modified schedules, though Air France has announced plans to resume its thrice-a-week flights to Freetown (Sierra Leone) on 30 June. Travellers should reconfirm the status of flights before setting out, as this can change at short notice.

Specific details of restrictions are difficult to verify and subject to change while the implementation of state-imposed entry conditions can vary. However, the Japanese and South African authorities on 25 May lifted restrictions on travellers from Liberia after the World Health Organization declared the country Ebola-free on 9 May. Members in the region, particularly those travelling to or from the Ebola-affected countries of Guinea and Sierra Leone, should seek itinerary-specific guidance from the relevant authorities on screening procedures and entry requirements.

The following Ebola-related restrictions are in place:

Flights and other transport

Air France flights to Sierra Leone have been suspended since 28 August 2014. However, the airline has said it will resume its thrice-a-week flights to Freetown on 30 June.

Kenya Airways on 4 June is expected to resume services between Accra (Ghana) and Freetown (Sierra Leone). However, there will be no direct flights operating between Nairobi (Kenya) and Freetown. Earlier, the carrier on 15 May resumed flights to Monrovia (Liberia) following the lifting of Kenya's ban on passengers from Liberia.

Flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone on the Togo-based carrier Asky Airlines remain suspended.

Arik Air (Nigeria) flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone remain suspended.

British Airways has extended its suspension of flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone until further notice; the flights were previously scheduled to resume on 31 March.

Emirates Airlines services to Guinea remain suspended.

Gabon has banned the entry of flights and ships from countries affected by Ebola.

Other airlines have modified their routes but are still operating regularly scheduled services. These include:


Brussels Airlines
Royal Air Maroc


Entry restrictions
Botswana has banned entry for all non-citizens travelling from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since 18 August 2014. The country's health ministry on 9 April said that it was maintaining those entry restrictions.

Cape Verde since 9 October 2014 has denied entry to non-resident foreigners coming from countries with ‘intense Ebola transmission' (Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone), or those who have been to those countries in the previous 30 days.

Chad's land border with Nigeria at Lake Chad has been closed since 21 August 2014. Travellers originating from or transiting through Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone are banned from the country; airlines serving Chad are also reportedly rerouting flights.

Equatorial Guinea is denying entry to travellers whose journeys originated in countries affected by Ebola.

Gabon since 22 August 2014 has restricted the issuance of entry visas to travellers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone on a case-by-case basis.

Japan on 25 May lifted a ban on travellers from Liberia after the World Health Organization declared the country Ebola-free on 9 May.

Kenya on 12 May lifted the entry ban on passengers travelling from and through Liberia. However, the ban on travellers from Guinea and Sierra Leone, excluding health professionals supporting efforts to contain the outbreak and Kenyan citizens, remains in place.

Mauritania has banned entry to nationals of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone since 25 August 2014.

Mauritius has banned entry to all travellers who have visited Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the 21 days prior to travel to the country.

Namibia's foreign ministry has banned the entry of foreigners travelling from countries affected by Ebola since 11 September 2014.

Rwanda since 22 August 2014 has banned entry for travellers who have visited Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone in the 22 days prior to travel.

Seychelles retains a ban on entry for travellers who have visited Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone 21 days prior to their journey, with the exception of Seychellois citizens. Nationals of the aforementioned countries must apply for a visa in order to enter the Seychelles. An earlier ban in place for travellers arriving from Congo (DRC) has been revoked.

South Africa has lifted a ban on Liberians on 25 May. The entry restrictions for all non-citizens travelling from Guinea and Sierra Leone remain in place. However, the government has clarified that this is not a blanket ban and could be waived for 'absolutely essential travel'.

Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states – Angola, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe – have said travellers coming from Ebola-affected countries (according to the World Health Organisation, WHO) would be monitored for 21 days and that travel to member countries for any gatherings would be discouraged. The SADC provided no details as to how member countries would carry out the associated screening and follow-up, and it is likely that countries will have individual processes. There are also reports that some countries require health documentation for entry. Travellers should contact the embassy or health ministry of their destination country to clarify their individual circumstances and prepare their trips accordingly.

South Sudan has banned travellers coming from Congo (DRC), Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone, or those who have travelled to those countries in the preceding 21 days. According to the health ministry, the entry of travellers from Nigeria depends on their travel history in that country and whether they have visited Ebola-affected areas.

Medical screening

Entry and exit health screening is in place in numerous countries throughout West Africa, as well as in countries in Europe and North America; related measures can include the partial closure of land borders, ports and river crossings in an effort to restrict cross-border travel. Members should allow additional time to pass through medical screening and not travel if they are sick. Staff should continue to monitor local media and our Ebola website for developments.


Travel Advice



Defer non-essential travel to Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Travel to Liberia can proceed.

Travellers flying from countries affected by Ebola should enquire with the relevant embassies or health ministries about any requirements conditioning entry at their destination, and prepare accordingly.

Reconfirm bookings on all regional routes as increased demand is likely. We do not hold information on specific flights.

If one's flight is disrupted because of suspected Ebola cases, contact the Assistance Centre for additional advice and support with onward travel.

Allow additional time during arrival and departure to pass through enhanced medical screening. Do not travel if you are sick. Persons with fever or other Ebola-like symptoms may be taken to designated centres or have entry/exit denied.

[Bob]

Ebola - Is it still on the minds of US officials?

YES.. quietly though.. after the 'ebola czar' put the quash on the media, (similar to how Liberia put the heavy handed shut up or else decree to media..) Ebola is actively being monitored for IN the USA.

Richmond Virginia - USA

The Virginia Department of Health announced Thursday 18th June, that it is monitoring even more people for Ebola.

At the beginning of the month, the Department of Health says it was monitoring 103 people — that number has now gone up to 123.

The majority of those travelers under active monitoring are in Northern Virginia.

Seven cases are in central Virginia.

Federal rules require anyone coming to the U.S. from Guinea and Sierra Leone be monitored for Ebola-like symptoms.

It was also announced that the CDC and the Virginia Department of Health are no longer requiring active monitoring for people who have traveled to Liberia.

What about people coming FROM Liberia? (see the list of Countries monitoring in the post above (#992).

[Bob]

Ebola, back in "zero case" Liberia - young person dies from this.

Was it really gone or not being reported? (suppressed)

(Source (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/ebola-case-reported-liberia-150630100237311.html))

Al Jazeera news reporting in Margibi County the person (a 17 year old boy) has died and been buried. Positive tests showed it was an Ebola infection, a mere 6 weeks after the country was declared "clear" of the infection (having no new case appear in 42 consecutive days..) Strange logic with so much lack of communications to declare a country clear where this disease runs through so often.. The Nedowein area where he died is close to Liberia's international airport. That is the concern.


Meanwhile Sierra Leone, Guinea are still concerned about the spread continuing.

The location of the Liberian infection the coastal Margibi County, is much nearer the capital Monrovia than the borders. Liberia is using quarantine now where the infection occurred.

(Source (http://www.voanews.com/content/guinea-quarantines-coastal-towns-to-end-ebola/2839717.html))

Guinea is doing quarantines near the coastal communities. Three towns were quarantined in the Forecariah district, where the Ebola outbreak has persisted for more than a year.

This is the first time the Guinean government has quarantined a large area since the regional outbreak began in December 2013.

International partners say the coastal region is the only part of Guinea where the Ebola virus has not been contained.

However, several people who came in contact with Ebola are reported to have fled the region. Most are said to have gone to the capital, Conakry. The government has said that searches are under way to track them down.

[Bob]

Another case of Ebola now in Liberia - where did it come from after being "eradicated" (or suppressed)..

Liberia confirmed a second case of Ebola on Tuesday, just a day after the first case since the virus was declared eliminated in May.

It's bad news for Liberia, which had worked hard to eliminate the virus. It suggests that Ebola may still be circulating undetected. Liberia's neighbors, Sierra Leone and Guinea, are still recording several new cases every week.

Liberia was declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization on May 9 and aid workers had closed Ebola treatment units.

The West African epidemic has killed more than 11,200 people and infected more than 27,000 since it began in December 2013. "We have two confirmed cases today in Liberia," said Dr. Moses Massaquoi of Liberia's Ebola task force. He did not provide details of the new case.

Meanwhile over in Japan, a Japanese man in his 40s was preliminarily diagnosed with malaria on Tuesday but is undergoing additional tests for Ebola after complaining of a high fever following his return to Shizuoka from Guinea, health ministry and local government officials said Wednesday.

[Bob]

And another case of Ebola surfacing in Liberia..

The herbal doctor who treated the first reported casualty, the 17 year old, fled into the bush. Is that herbalist carrying and spreading the infection? Liberian authorities want to know.. Fear and superstition continue in the bush.

Cases in Sierra Leone and Guinea continue to rise.

Meanwhile, now in Congo again, 6 hunters are reported as having ebola-like symptoms.

Folks not paying attention and adequate treatment being put on the back burner once again, lead to complacency which allows the infection (and many others) to be able to spread.

Solve this, don't just forget it assuming it is going to go away by not "looking at it".

[Bob]

Saturday, the Health Ministry in Lagos Nigeria issued a statement, that people should be aware of travelers from the affected countries, Guinea, Sierra Leone and now Liberia, to be on the watch for Ebola like symptoms.

Dr. Modele Osunkiyesi, gave the warning yesterday at the Alausa Secretariat Ikeja, while outlining strategies put in place by the government to prevent the re-entry of the disease into Lagos.

Osunkiyesi explained that the state government in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health and other stakeholders were maintaining relevant surveillance through port health services and community surveillance activities in all local government areas of Lagos.

The government reiterated the need for the public to ensure and maintain adequate personal and environmental hygiene at all times as part of the precautionary measures.

The permanent secretary noted that though the prevention of Ebola remained a shared responsibility by all citizens, there was need for residents to take responsibility for their health. She reminded residents that there is no specific treatment for EVD, stressing that infected people would need to be admitted into the hospital for specialised care and treated in isolation.


Those at the highest risk include health-workers, families and friends of an infected person in the course of feeding, holding and caring for them.
Nigeria was certified free of Ebola by the World Health Organisation on October 20, 2014 after containing an outbreak of the disease that killed at least seven people.

(Source: the Daily trust, Nigeria)

[Bob]

The hunters in the Congo who have come down with some disease that resembles Ebola, have tested negative for Ebola according to the WHO. Four of the 6 sick hunters have died, so whatever they came down with IS serious.

The person who was working in West Africa who came to UK with Ebola like symptoms is still being monitored, but the government reports "highly unlikely" that it is Ebola that he has.

(Source - Daily Post UK, and WHO international)

[Bob]

UK - Liverpool

A man in Llandudno who was admitted to hospital in Liverpool amid fears he may have contracted the deadly Ebola virus, has tested negative for the disease.

The man, who has a history of travel to west Africa, was admitted to the Royal Liverpool Hospital for tests after he became unwell yesterday (Friday, July 3).

But today a Public Health England spokeswoman has confirmed the man, who is not thought to be from North Wales, has a negative test result for the Ebola virus.

Dr Deborah Turbitt, Public Health England’s Ebola national incident director, said: “Between August last year and early June, 240 individuals with relevant symptoms and a travel history were tested for Ebola in the UK.

It has not been published exactly what the man has though.

[Violet]

About the hunters in Congo, did they rule out malaria?

[Bob]

About the hunters in Congo, did they rule out malaria?

What is odd and continues to be odd, there is mention of testing for OTHER Hemorrhagic fevers, such as Marburg, or Lassa, but they don't talk about it.. If there is a concern about being able to spread any virus, it seems the public should be informed. With the hunters they talked about killing and then contacting an obviously sick animal.. Odd that hunters would go after a sick animal for harvesting (easy prey?)..

Malaria is being reported as increasing due to attention being paid to Ebola, possibly people not going in for treatment due to fear of contracting Ebola in the clinics..

That so many of the hunters died though rapidly is significant, but if not Ebola, what then would kill half of them so rapidly? It doesn't seem like Malaria would simultaneously take them out..


Eugene Kabambi, a WHO spokesman in Congo, said teams from his organisation had been dispatched to Masambio but emphasised that Ebola was only one possibility.

[Bob]

The new Liberian Outbreak of Ebola - initial study results

The World Health Organization says tests on samples from the 17-year-old boy who died last week from Ebola in Liberia show the virus is genetically similar to viruses that infected many people in the area more than six months ago.

The organization said Friday that genetic sequencing suggests it is unlikely the virus was caught from traveling to infected areas of Guinea or Sierra Leone, or from an animal.

Dr. Margaret Harris, WHO spokeswoman, said 149 people have been identified as having contact with the teen.

She said one possible mode of transmission could have been sexual, but it's too early to tell and tests will help track the possible cause.

The total number of new confirmed cases in Liberia is now five, including the teen who died June 28.

(Source (http://www.kswo.com/story/29520899/tests-show-ebola-in-liberia-linked-to-virus-found-months-ago))

[Bob]

Liberian update -

Since the 17 year old child died..

A Liberian woman has died of Ebola in a hospital in Monrovia shortly after being admitted, becoming the sixth confirmed case of the virus since it resurfaced last month after a seven-week lull, a senior medical official said on Tuesday.

The victim from Montserrado County, which contains Monrovia, is thought to be linked to the other five cases from neighboring Margibi County, where the disease reemerged.

Her detection raised fears that the infection may be spreading in a new area of the country.

"There is one new case. This time, the response area is Montserrado county. The person died in Monrovia," Liberia's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Francis Ketteh told Reuters.

A health report sent to officials in the anti-Ebola response said that the woman died a few hours after admission, indicating that surveillance of known contacts from the earlier cases had not been rigorous enough.

(Source Reuters and other reporting services)

[Flash]

It looks like three different strain of the virus have been tested, to see which one is the most controllable or which one is the most Deadly, or both.


The new Liberian Outbreak of Ebola - initial study results

The World Health Organization says tests on samples from the 17-year-old boy who died last week from Ebola in Liberia show the virus is genetically similar to viruses that infected many people in the area more than six months ago.

The organization said Friday that genetic sequencing suggests it is unlikely the virus was caught from traveling to infected areas of Guinea or Sierra Leone, or from an animal.

Dr. Margaret Harris, WHO spokeswoman, said 149 people have been identified as having contact with the teen.

She said one possible mode of transmission could have been sexual, but it's too early to tell and tests will help track the possible cause.

The total number of new confirmed cases in Liberia is now five, including the teen who died June 28.

(Source (http://www.kswo.com/story/29520899/tests-show-ebola-in-liberia-linked-to-virus-found-months-ago))

[Bob]

Liberian Update -

Liberia Confirms 2nd Ebola Death in Resurgent Outbreak
MONROVIA, Liberia — Jul 15, 2015, 9:07 AM ET

The woman in her early 20s who died on July 12 was linked to the 17-year-old boy who died last month, Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah told The Associated Press. Three other confirmed cases are being treated in Monrovia, he said.

Some of the more than 120 people under observation in Nedowein, southeast of Monrovia, could be discharged once they complete 21 days of quarantine and show no signs of infection, he said.

The sixth confirmed case since the virus re-emerged at the end of June was a healthcare worker in Monrovia, chief medical officer Francis Karteh said on state radio.

"Now we have four cases in (treatment). We have six confirmed cases in Liberia — two are already dead," he said.

The latest cluster of infections emerged in a village near the international airport in the coastal county of Margibi, when a 17-year-old boy tested positive for Ebola after his death.

"Ebola is no longer confined to Margibi County. A case has been reported in Monrovia, but has been reported expired," Karteh said.

"The case was carried in a critical condition to the (Ebola treatment unit) and later died."

The man was being monitored as a known contact of one of the previous cases, but hid his illness from the authorities by taking medication to bring down his temperature, Karteh said.

He warned that efforts to contain the outbreak were being hampered by people not admitting they'd had contact with Ebola patients.


"We need to be open. We need to be honest to ourselves. It is through honesty that we can stop this disease ... If you are to go to a general clinic with a fever you need to tell the healthcare worker that you are a contact," he said.

[Cidersomerset]

Hi Bob....

I'll post this for reference , and if you think its not appropriate , or off topic I will
edit it out. Also I did not want to start a new thread , you may have seen
Dr.Horowitz before and may or may not agree with him, but its a compelling
presentation imo , and is a possible origin of these lab manipulated virus's.

Its more about synchronicity and how many of these events or 'DOTS' as
David Icke and others would say are connected , and I'm seeing it everywhere.
Whether I'm seeing what I want to see/hear or not , is debatable ? But I'm
certainly not alone and more people are waking up. This is not knew as
there have always been 'whistle blower's' . But the mainstream has been
able to censor much out, with the web it can be exposed more , even if
stopping these programmes and agendas is still difficult to get out to the
general public....Cheers Steve.

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From Dr Bill Deagle's seminal Dec 2006 Granada Forum Lecture:
Here's the first of the set of videos of the lecture:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs2kCvDWhY4



Quote Posted by Cidersomerset (here)

Thanks Bill I can remember the Bill Deagle interviews and he spoke so fast with so
much info , I think a lot of it went over peoples head at the time and some
switched off.
That's true! I listened to his astonishing Granada Forum Lecture eight (8) times
through in all (that's a LOT of hours), and also had it transcribed by the Avalon
team at the time. It really needs that to absorb and digest the enormous quantity
of information in there. Kerry fell asleep! (Though, in fairness, she may have been tired. )


I don't blame her after a long day..LOL . Eight times that's pretty good going and
you made me think , I have watched/listened to many vids 2 or 3 times but due
to lack of time and so much new material. Which vid/ interview have I watched the
most ? Richard D Halls crop circle expose of team Satan , in Crop Circles: The
Hidden Truth is very good and I posted it just now so is fresh in my mind and I
have watched it several times...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfEuhmR5bzk
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?84022-Latest-Wiltshire-Crop-Circle

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The one I have watched most I can think of off hand, is The Anglo Saxon mission
and I'm going to watch now for the 5 or 6 time...LOL

UiscTOrvWzg

published 2010.....

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This is still a very good summery of possible events, Bird flu And Swine flu are
still in the back ground with Aids and Sars outbreaks in Africa. There is obviously
on going friction between Israel & Iran. But agendas are still fluid, North Africa and
the middle east is still a mess. The Ukraine has not caused the Russian / NATO
conflict yet. China has been flexing her muscles , but the economic slump has
slowed down the financial markets and military spending a bit. Though in
2010 it was Georgia not Ukraine that was being used to provoke Russia , and
China and Japan were squabbling over Islands.

The UK not voting for war in Syria may have delayed things for a while , though
Cameron is determined to get Britain back on track with their Anglo Saxon allies
and Israel. Hammond defence minister has admitted UK mil personal have been
working in combat roles with allies in the ISIL war theatre. The Tunisian shooting
probably orchestrated to get the UK public on board. The geopolitical situation has
not changed that much over the past 5/6 years. So although we hope it does not
happen , even with the new nuclear agreement with Iran , there are many Hawks in
Washington , London and Tel - Aviv.

On the positive side of the presentation , more people are waking up and hopefully
if we can keep the alternate press and forums going the mainstream may shake off
the shackles of their corporate masters , though that's unlikely in the short term.

The crop circle thread is a bit synchronized as one of theories is that some UFO's
as Col Corso said are us from the future .Also as Dan Burisch said with alternate
time lines and looking glass , two types of grays , us from the future etc a whole
another subject though related. Back to crop circles and it is us from the future
creating them for whatever reason ? warning or greetings ?

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iON Explains Crop Circles to James Martinez , Bob Dobbs and Dr. Carolyn Dean.

They are created by future humans.......

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Uploaded on 14 Nov 2011


iON: Crop circles are the nodes of the phytoplankton in the plants that respond a
certain way, which makes them have a certain vibrational frequency, which they lay
down, because they don't crush the field, they actually grow to the ground. It
changes the way they lay. www.howionic.com

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Although I have gone off topic , most of these subjects are connected.............


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This article on the headline page today ties in with the Anglo - Saxon agenda vid
and is another synchronistic post , with TPTB NWO agenda.

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University Professor Says Ebola is a Genetically Modified, Lab-Made Virus

By ickonic on 29th July 2015 Illuminati Criminals, Medical/Health

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University Professor Says Ebola is a Genetically Modified, Lab-Made Virus


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Christina Sarich
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July 28, 2015


‘In a recently released report titled “Estimating Ebola Treatment Needs,
United States,” the CDC is still playing down its latest round of fear-
mongering for the virus which was “meant to infect every man, woman,
and child in the US.” To date, and by their own admission there have
been only 10 cases in the entire U.S.

How disappointing for the makers of the Ebola vaccine. Especially when
publications like the Liberian Observer, in a piece by Dr. Cyril Broderick,
expose how its “likely manufactured by Big Pharma.”

Dr. Cyril Broderick is a former professor of plant pathology at the University
of Liberia’s College of Agriculture and Forestry, and is on tenure as an
associate at Delaware University.’

Broderick claims that the Ebola virus which recently ran rampant in Western
Africa was genetically modified, made in a lab by Western pharmaceutical
companies, and administered to unsuspecting civilians through United Nations
vaccination programs. The Washington Post called it a wild conspiracy theory,
but is there actually truth to these shocking allegations?

The truth is in this video. Dr. Broderick references Dr. Leonard Horowitz in the
Liberian Observer article. He presents substantial evidence which explains this tidbit:


“[Horowitz]. . .unearthed and reprinted stunning scientific documents and National
Institutes of Health contracts proving that chimpanzees, contaminated with
numerous viruses, were used to produce hundreds of hepatitis B vaccine doses
administered to central African Blacks along with homosexual men in New York City
at precisely the time Dr. Myers and colleagues claim the origin of HIV ‘punctuated
event’ occurred.”

Some are saying that not only was the HIV virus likely man-made, but so was
Ebola. Who knows which other pandemic diseases are created so the mainstream
medical system can profit from them.


6bPDBND2jL4

Published on 3 Sep 2012....though this presentation is from 1997 and it finishes
aprox 205 mins in .

A bold presentation of the truth regarding immunization as man-made tools
for neo-genocidal eugenics and profiteering. DON'T MISS THIS relentless
and scientifically sound exposition by a man from the inner-ring of medical science.

Read more: University Professor Says Ebola is a Genetically Modified, Lab-Made Virus

http://www.prisonplanet.com/university-professor-says-ebola-is-a-genetically-modified-lab-made-virus.html

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This is a later short interview with Kerry..............


Project Camelot interviews Dr Len Horowitz

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Uploaded on 31 Aug 2009


A short video interview recorded by Kerry Cassidy with Dr Leonard Horowitz - when
he spoke with Dr Masaru Emoto at the Live H2O event at Laguna Beach on 18 June
2009.

For a little over half an hour Len talks with Kerry fluently, and with passion, about
viruses, health, water, sovereignty, alternative healing, and his own Christian Faith.


http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?84012-Another-Conspiracy-Confirmed-Your-car-can-be-hacked-Crashes-of-inconvenience&p=983006#post983006

[Bob]

( lets leave the post there Steve, although it goes off on other topics, it does have one EBOLA mention :)

UPDATE - Post 924 and 926 - talked about resurgence of Ebola once again in West Africa. The people aren't getting a respite.

Sierra Leone Faces Ebola Setback; 500 Under Quarantine
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Jul 30, 2015, 1:33 PM ET

COMPLACENCY again strikes, people think it's over, and that it is not infectious (superstitions), and doing STUPID causes the outbreaks to spread, again like wildfire..

500 people in restricted quarantine after a man died from Ebola in an area where the deadly virus had been gone for months, in another setback for the fight against the disease.

Hassan Abdul Sesay, a member of parliament from the region, said that the victim had contracted Ebola in the capital, Freetown, and then traveled to his home village to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Northern Tonkolili District had not had a single case of Ebola in five months, and the World Health Organization said earlier this week that the lowest number of new cases in a year had been reported in West Africa.

The new case shows, however, how just one sick person can change that. The man was treated for fever at a local hospital but authorities did not call the Ebola emergency number.

(assorted news reporting sources)

[Cidersomerset]

it does have one EBOLA mention

As many as that ...LOL......The funny thing is I'm seeing synchronicity and
coincidence everywhere , it may just be because I'm connecting the dots in this
ever growing picture, and re listening to the Anglo Saxon mission set a few of
them off. Then the very next day on Davids Headline page an article about it
Coincidence ? or was he reading my post ? or is it synchronicity ? ..LOL

There no scientific answer imo , just intuition.

Ion would say its our non- physical bringing our thoughts and words into our
physical reality. Whatever it is I'm seeing a lot of it lately and its more than sheer
coincidence...LOL

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Catching the Bug of Synchronicity

By ickonic on 30th July 2015 The Awakening, What is Reality?


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‘Synchronicities are those moments of “meaningful coincidence” when the boundary
dissolves between the inner and the outer. At the synchronistic moment, just like a
dream, our internal, subjective state appears, as if materialized in, as and through
the outside world. Touching the heart of our being, synchronicities are moments in
time in which there is a fissure in the fabric of what we have taken for reality and
there is a bleed through from a higher dimension outside of time. Synchronicities
are expressions of the dreamlike nature of reality, as they are moments in time
when the timeless, dreamlike nature of the universe shines forth its radiance and
openly reveals itself to us, offering us an open doorway to lucidity.

Synchronicity was one of Jung’s most profound yet least understood discoveries, in
part because it cannot be appreciated until we personally step into and experience
the synchronistic realm for ourselves. Jung’s discovery of synchronicity was in a
sense the parallel in the realm of psychology to Einstein’s discovery of the law of
relativity in physics. Because it is so radically discontinuous with our conventional
notions of the nature of reality, the experience of synchronicity is so literally
mind-blowing that Jung contemplated this phenomenon for over twenty years
before he published his thinking about it.’ Jung’s synchronistic universe was a new
world view which embraced linear causality while simultaneously transcending it. A
synchronistic universe balances and complements the mechanistic world of linear
causality with a realm that is outside of space, time and causality. In a
synchronicity, two heterogeneous world-systems, the causal and acausal, interlock
and interpenetrate each other for a moment in time, which is both an expression of
while creating in the field an aspect of our wholeness to manifest. The synchronistic
universe is beginning-less in that we are participating in its creation right now,
which is why Jung calls it “an act of creation in time.”

Read more: Catching the Bug of Synchronicity

http://www.earth-heal.com/news/news/52-consciousness/2294-bug-of-synchronicity.html

[Bob]

Who knows Steve if the powers that Be are choosing to explore a limited test of genocide against the planet's inhabitants..


As is, Ebola doesn't appear to be going away in West Africa.. It remains a hair's breath away from countries in the West.


I could tell you many stories about how a predominant UAE businessman name of Fadi has had it out for western civilization.. And was willing to infect people to carry out his assault.. But that is another story..

Patient Possibly Exposed to Ebola Was Monitored in Virginia

As part of an Ebola-prevention program, the Virginia Department of Health is monitoring someone who recently traveled to West Africa and then fell ill.

The patient traveled in West Africa in the past three weeks and then "developed symptoms of illness," a health department spokesman said Friday in a statement.

"Out of an abundance of caution, the individual was transported to a hospital in Northern Virginia and is now being transported to an appropriate assessment center," the statement said.

(Source (http://belljarnews.com/ebola-cases-not-slowing-in-guinea-sierra-leone/858449/))

Ebola cases not slowing in Guinea, Sierra Leone

Liberia was declared Ebola-free in May, but new cases are still cropping up in Guinea and Sierra Leone. But the figure has increased again, with 14 cases recorded in Kambia and Port Loko in the week ending June 15, the WHO said.

Authorities are concerned that the case could lead to a mini-outbreak in the overcrowded fishing community, which has poor sanitation and is regularly hit by outbreaks of malaria and cholera.

“If people don’t change their attitude, there are bound to be more Ebola cases”, he said.

Over 3000 people had died in Sierra Leone during the Ebola epidemic, many of them health workers.

WHILE WE APPRECIATE Minister Nyenswah’s explanation that the government has a robust team deployed at the various borders with Guinea and Sierra Leone to track suspected Ebola cases coming and leaving Liberia, Liberia can’t afford to take a chance on the health and security of its citizens on the word of a ministry looking to score points and show that it has this Ebola thing under control.

A spokesperson for the center, Sidi Yahya Tunis, said, “This is worrisome because we had already closed all Ebola quarantine structures in Freetown since we had gone for weeks without a case,“.

New cases were continuing to “arise from unknown sources of infection, and to be detected only after postmortem testing of community deaths”, the WHO said, a key indication that the outbreak is not under control.

“One lineage is special to Guinea and closely related to the earliest sampled viruses of the epidemic”. The sequences confirm two separate Ebola introductions into Mali in October and November 2014.

Twenty-one days is the standard observation period for an individual believed to have come in contact with an Ebola-infected person.

People like FADI are "global businessmen" who profit off the backs of others. Being able to manipulate health scares allows these types to profit off scares, sickness, and threats to others to give them what they want, data where to find oil, gold and blood diamonds.. Are they about love - hardly.. And they do what they can to try to silence those who have uncovered their plots. Hear that Rachel Prince? It's not going to work.. your assault on whistleblowers who have caught you and exposed you for what you are is ludicrous and the FBI has been informed of your activity. Many very interesting people Rachel Prince are now looking at just WHO you are, especially on this FORUM and in your 'military' career, just what weapons you have allowed to be stolen.. Create a "disparaging Blog' or 5 Rachel Prince to try to assault those who have caught you? Funny Rachel Prince.. thanks for sharing who you are and what you tried to do recruiting others. Your network is now obvious.

[Bob]

reported: a test trial for an inoculation of Ebola surface protein stitched into Vesicular Stomatitis Virus has documentation now.

The study, published online today by The Lancet, shows 100% protection starting 10 days after they received a single shot of the product which is produced by Merck.

The inoculation was first developed by researchers at the Public Health Agency of Canada. (Note: We have information on this within this thread, the Canadian developments.)

The study was lead by Ana Maria Henao-Restrepo of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, working together with colleagues at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo, the Guinean Ministry of Health, and others.

(Source (http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2015/07/ebola-vaccine-works-offering-100-protection-african-trial))

Craig Spencer, an emergency room physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital, made headlines in 2014 when he contracted Ebola after treating patients for the disease in Guinea.

His diagnosis in New York City set off a wave of media coverage of the 33-year-old doctor who spent 20 days in isolation as he fought off the deadly disease. "This appears to be a positive development," Dr. Spencer appeared enthused when asked.

It appears essential to receive the inoculation before 10 days as those who received the inoculation 21 days after exposure to Ebola were very likely to develop Ebola (the intensity of the infection after the long delay was not reported, leading to questions for further research).

Sierra Leone reports that it is very eager to participate with studies in its Country with the inoculation.

[Bob]

Sierra Leone has quarantined 624 people in the past week

The death by an Ebola infection of a man in a town that had not experienced any cases of the deadly virus in months was the reason.

In addition to the 503 people in the village, 121 others who are believed to have come into contact with the patient outside of Tonkolili have been quarantined, according to Sierra Leone’s National Ebola Response Center.

Authorities were clear to describe this case as high-risk, particularly because the man’s father works as a taxi driver, and used his car to transport his son to two different hospitals. It is not known how many people came into contact with the father or took rides in his car in between his son’s diagnosis and transport.

The emergency Ebola program in the nation, the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), is shutting down, and "lack of resources" will be the next issue. Agencies "pulling out" with the diminishing of the "wildfires" could very well lead to flare-up's of outbreaks once again. It's not over until it is completely over.

(Source - associated news reports)

[Bob]

The trial began on March 23

The SBV Ebola inoculation was 100 per cent effective when it was tested on more than 4,000 people who were in close contact with Ebola patients in the African nation of Guinea, the World Health Organization said, citing a study published in the Lancet medical journal. The time after exposure had to be less than 10 days to achieve 100% protection.

(See earlier post HERE (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=984502&viewfull=1#post984502) for more data)

The rVSV-EBOV vaccine was developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada and licensed to NewLink Genetics Corp. In November, Merck & Co. entered in an agreement to research, develop and distribute the drug.

NewLink Genetics Corp

(Source (http://investors.linkp.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=925023))


The VSV-ZEBOV (Ebola) vaccine candidate was originally developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), and was subsequently licensed to a subsidiary of NewLink Genetics. In late 2014, Merck licensed the vaccine from NewLink Genetics to apply Merck's vaccine expertise to help accelerate the development of this promising candidate. Merck is now responsible for research, development and manufacturing of the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine.

"NewLink appreciates the tremendous support for these studies from our many collaboration partners, including Merck, the government of Canada and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority), and especially the U.S. Department of Defense, which provided funding for the development and manufacturing of the vaccine, the World Health Organization, and the many other organizations that stepped forward in the crisis to support the development of this vaccine and the clinical studies in Africa," said Dr. Charles Link, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Scientific Officer of NewLink Genetics. "We hope that the interim data published today contribute to the successful registration of our vaccine candidate, which we believe can play an important part in diminishing the threat of Ebola."

Because of the Ebola crisis, a large team was assembled which included scientists, physicians, epidemiologists and other experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), Norway, Canada, Guinea, Doctors without Borders, the Universities of Florida, Maryland and Bern, and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Funding for the trial came from the Wellcome Trust, Norway, Canada, WHO, and Doctors without Borders. NewLink Genetics and Merck (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada), one of the world's leading vaccine and pharmaceutical companies, provided the vaccine. Scientists from NewLink Genetics and Merck also gave detailed technical support on the vaccine and its administration to field trial staff.

The international partnership's statement can be found in a joint announcement of the Wellcome Trust, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Doctors Without Borders, Merck, the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Lancet, and Ministère de la Santé et de l'Hygiène Publique de Guinée.

[Bob]

Hopeful - Sierra Leone Has Just Had Its First Week of No New Ebola Cases

An entire village was put under quarantine when it was determined, Ebola, not Malaria was the reason the man died..


Sierra Leone has gone one full week without any new Ebola cases, a first since the start of the outbreak over a year ago.

On Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the Ebola response has moved into “phase 3,” which means responders are working to ensure that the last known cases of Ebola in the country have not spread.

The WHO traced the final cases to a man who worked in Freetown, the capital, and then returned to his home village of Massessehbeh in a northern region in the country, called Tonkolili. The man died in a hospital while receiving malaria treatment, and a postmortem test confirmed he had Ebola.

Responders put the entire village in quarantine for 21 days, bringing in water and food and providing information and support, while checking everyone daily for signs of Ebola.

Two family members of the man who died got Ebola and were treated.

On Aug. 14, nearly 600 people in the village came out of quarantine and there was a celebration, the WHO said.

The President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, cut the quarantine tape.

Ebola is not over, but people are slowly waking up to the necessity to handle those infected properly.

Over 27,920 cases of Ebola have been reported and over 11,280 people have died from the disease since the start of the outbreak.

Quote from Craig A. Spencer, a humanitarian aid worker with Doctors Without Borders and the director of global health in emergency medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Spencer caught Ebola and was involved with the controversy in NY City last year while he walked around in public while 'infected', :


It will be years before these West African countries are able to train nurses, develop and implement a sustainable medical education model, and supply an adequate number of homegrown health-care workers. Without sustained assistance from the international community, the nations of West Africa face a losing war of attrition with the epidemic.

Sagging global attention is putting at risk the rebuilding of a post-outbreak West Africa. All three countries are ranked among the lowest in the world in basic preventive and primary health care; the absence of disease surveillance systems allowed Ebola to go unrecognized despite being present in the region for years.

[Bob]

Lancet Infectious Diseases: Experimental post-exposure antiviral treatment may protect humans from Ebola virus

For the first time, UK physicians have demonstrated that antiviral-based therapies have the potential to protect humans from the deadly Ebola virus.

The report, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, describes a case-series of eight British health-care workers who were evacuated to the Royal Free Hospital in London, UK after possible accidental exposure to Ebola virus in Sierra Leone between January and March 2015.

Four of the health-care workers were considered to have been at significant risk of exposure to Ebola from needlestick injuries and were given post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) with the antiviral drug favipiravir (Toyama Chemical Company), with or without monoclonal antibodies (similar to ZMapp). (this Favipiravir drug was presented and discussed earlier in this thread)..

The other four workers had exposure that was not the result of a sharps injury, and were judged to be at lower risk. They were not given PEP, but were managed by watchful waiting.

None of the health-care workers went on to develop Ebola.

All eight healthcare workers remained healthy throughout the 42 day follow-up, with no signs of disease or detectable levels of virus in their blood.

The treatment regimen was well tolerated with no serious adverse events reported.


According to Dr Jacobs (from the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK), "We are excited to publish the first report of an antiviral-based postexposure treatment against Ebola-virus infection in humans. We believe this work justifies further study of this postexposure treatment to protect health-care workers accidentally exposed to Ebola virus in the field.

What is more, a similar approach to treat household contacts of Ebola cases may work to prevent a major route of spread during an epidemic."

Note: Favipiravir is approved in Japan for treating severe flu and has shown efficacy against the Ebola virus in vitro and in mice.

(more (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/tl-tli082415.php))

[Bob]

Although Sierra Leone had been hoping that it was 'over', it's not over until all cases in the bush have completed..

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Ebola experts are in Sierra Leone's Kambia district investigating a case that emerged less than a week after the country's last known patient was discharged from a hospital, a World Health Organization spokeswoman said Monday.

Once the source of transmission is found and contacts are traced, a vaccination trial will also begin in the northern Sierra Leone area, WHO spokeswoman Dr. Margaret Harris said.

"It's a step back and a disappointment, but it wasn't a surprise as it's near the border with Guinea," where cases remain, said Harris, adding that further transmission can be stopped.

Samples from a 67-year-old woman's corpse tested positive for Ebola, WHO technical coordinator Margarette Lamunu said. The woman, who died and was safely buried Aug. 29, was treated at home in Kafta village, so more Ebola cases are expected, Lamunu said.

Liberia had a similar situation. A sample from a corpse tested positive in late June after the country had been declared Ebola-free in May.

(Source (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/experts-hunt-origin-of-new-ebola-case-in-sierra-leone/))

[Bob]

With the er to the measure of safety in mind Sierra Leone has issued quarantine orders after the death and confirmation of Ebola in the person described in the post above.

(Source (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34151494))

Nearly 1,000 people in Sierra Leone have been put under quarantine following the death of a 67-year-old woman who tested positive for Ebola.

It comes five days into a six-week countdown for the country to be officially declared Ebola-free.

The quarantine will last for three weeks, provided no new cases are recorded.

More than 11,000 people have died since the start of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

The quarantine is stricter than previous ones. It includes a curfew in which people will not be allowed to move from one house to another.

Soldiers and police have been deployed to keep the quarantine in Sellakaffta, a village in Kambia on the northern border with Guinea.


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World Health Organization and Sierra Leone's health ministry are planning a vaccination programme for those who could have come into contact with the woman.

Guinea is still trying to contain its outbreak while the WHO announced that the Ebola virus had stopped spreading in Liberia for a second time on Thursday.

It had been declared free of Ebola transmission in May but then more cases were found the following month.


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WHO declares Liberia free of Ebola again

By David Icke on 4th September 2015 Medical/Health


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‘Liberia has been declared free of the deadly Ebola virus for the second
time this year by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The WHO said on Thursday it could now declare the West African country
free of Ebola, because 42 days have passed since the last infected person
tested clear of the disease.

Forty-two days, according to the WHO, represents twice the maximum
incubation period.

“WHO declares Liberia free of Ebola virus transmission in the human
population,” the UN health agency said in a statement.’

Read more: WHO declares Liberia free of Ebola again

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/09/04/427646/World-Health-Organization-Liberia-Ebola


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Hi Bob there are a couple other articles on the headline page that may or not be
of interest about other medical issues. I did not want to start another thread,
but they looked interesting , the documentary is quite old , I find the mainstream
reporters asked better questions back then in some of these old docks.

The documentary takes us back to the 1950's and the cure for Polio , which involved
Monkey's as test subjects and DNA use in the vaccines , which may have led to
contamination in the later African Polio immunisation programmes.....

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I don't think there any link between Aids and Ebola other than they are from the
same area and a lot medical research and experiments were conducted in the region .

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Shocking Documentary: Exposing The True Origins of HIV

By David Icke on 4th September 2015 Medical/Health, Mind Control

‘In the following documentary you will witness how scientists cutting corners, in an
attempt to be the first to create a vaccine for polio, let the HIV virus loose among
humanity.It is a truly shocking exposé of the world of science, which is all too often
thought of as being a squeaky clean institution.’

NT3B2NF9cDk

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The Polio VACCINE is Causing the New Polio

By David Icke on 4th September 2015 Medical/Health

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‘Yes, the vaccines are causing the problem. The authorities know it. It is admitted.
This is not conspiracy theory, but sad fact.The system is willing to break a few eggs
and ruin lives in order to achieve their global vaccination agenda – all while they
insist that vaccines are both safe and effective. To say otherwise – even in the face
of admitted facts – is pure heresy.A few years ago, I stumbled upon a big dirty
secret that is harming tens of thousands of children. It was being reported
overseas, but ignored by the mainstream media.

Doctors in India tracking problems inside the nation’s health system found a huge
spike in young children who were crippled after receiving the oral polio vaccine. I
wrote at the time:’

Read more: The Polio VACCINE is Causing the New Polio

http://truthstreammedia.com/2015/09/03/the-polio-vaccine-is-causing-the-new-polio/

[Bob]

I think Steve, the nature of this new "vaccine", or inoculation, one of two currently being looked at, (earlier posts talk about the technology behind the mindset which developed the current 'vaccine') one comes out of Canada, government labs, turned over to industry to manufacture and distribute... the formation is based on a virus which affects cows (bovines).. with a splice in of the needed ebola-like protein, so that the body recognizes and radically and rapidly creates antibodies to the foreign proteins thusly given to it.

I would really question what putting cow virus into humans by itself does, as far as auto-immune issues, arthritis, bone/joint diseases, or other organ or brain issues over time.. The 100% effectiveness claim for even exposed victims up to a certain time window is impressive numbers, but at what long term cost.. We just don't know (or do we?).

[Bob]

Ebola flare-up again in Sierra Leone

Hundreds of people are now quarantined as Ebola returns to a north Sierra Leone district.

Ebola by sex is suspected as the transmission method. This case is baffling to scientists and doctors alike. Transmission should NOT have happened.

The teenage girl, Kadiatu Thullah, died on Sunday at the International Medical Corps Ebola treatment unit, authorities said.

Emmanuel Conteh, head of the Ebola Response Centre for the district of Bombali in northern Sierra Leone, said that some 690 people in the village of Robuya where Kadiatu lived would be isolated for three weeks.

"Seven of her primary contacts have been taken to the Ebola treatment unit," he told Reuters. Three patients who came into contact with the girl at another health facility have also been taken to the treatment unit.

Conteh said health workers were investigating how the teenager got infected, since she had not traveled outside the village in years. Initial suspicions are that she had sex with an Ebola survivor.

"We are baffled by that possibility because the survivor in question was discharged in March, way beyond the 90-day period within which sexual transmission is said to be possible," Conteh said.

The head of Sierra Leone’s Ebola response, Pallo Conteh, has warned of a possible new surge of the virus after a woman died in the nearby Kambia district, on the border with Guinea. Nearly 1,000 people are into their second week of quarantine there, but a "high risk" contact remains on the loose, Conteh said.

(Source (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/14/us-health-ebola-leone-idUSKCN0RE1P620150914))

[Bob]

Rapid diagnostic system has been developed and applied to Ebola diagnosis in-the-field uses.

The system is based on "bio-chips", or methods that analyse samples directly on a semiconductor device, quickly and safely, not requiring (eventually) that the samples be sent to a lab for PCR testing.

(Source (http://www.nature.com/articles/srep14494))


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Opto-Fluidic-Analysis is the name coined for the process.. The older LAB technique requires "amplification" or creation in a machine many strands of the virus molecule to be analyzed. The cited problem is Ebola and similar diseases are based on RNA viruses.. The amplification technique works with DNA strands, not RNA, leading to difficulties.

The analysis method is called "single nucleic acid fluorescence detection". It works within liquid-core optical waveguides mounted on a silicon chip. The molecular analysis is completed in under ten minutes. This is an outstanding breakthrough.

The system shows promise in being able to in-the-field determine specifically what type of virus, and not just Ebola.

Contributors: H. Cai, J. W. Parks, T. A. Wall, M. A. Stott, A. Stambaugh, K. Alfson, A. Griffiths, R. A. Mathies, R. Carrion, J. L. Patterson, A. R. Hawkins & H. Schmidt

University of California, OptoElectronics department was instrumental in the development, Santa Cruz location of the University of California, School of Engineering, ECEn Department of Brigham Young University, Department of Virology and Immunology of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, Department of Chemistry of the University of California Berkeley.

Also more general information: http://www.cnet.com/news/new-technology-could-help-contain-spread-of-ebola/

[Cidersomerset]

NATURAL NEWS....

Ebola isn't over: Guinea closes border as Sierra Leone goes
into lockdown to combat spread of disease

Saturday, October 03, 2015 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
Tags: Ebola, Guinea border, Sierra Leone

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It's been over a year since the largest ever outbreak of Ebola was
officially declared in West Africa, and the hemorrhagic virus is still
ravaging the region, according to new reports. Though new cases
of Ebola have reportedly tapered off in Sierra Leone, and all but
disappeared in neighboring Liberia, Guinea is still being hit hard,
which has prompted a new phase of border closures.

According to The Washington Post, Guinea closed its border with
Sierra Leone recently after a three-day lockdown was announced
in Sierra Leone that prompted residents to try to flee to neighboring
Guinea. Already stricken with a continued stream of new Ebola cases,
Guinea decided to take a more drastic approach to help eliminate the
disease throughout the country, starting with its entry points from Sierra Leone.

Guinean President Alpha Conde announced that a new phase of
emergency measures would be "reinforced" for a period of 45 days
in five separate districts throughout the country, including some
along the border with Sierra Leone. These new measures coincide
with mandatory border closures aimed at stopping Sierra Leoneans
from trying to escape their own country to avoid mandatory lockdowns.

Earlier, Guinea had simply tried to monitor those crossing its borders
to look for apparent Ebola symptoms, turning away those deemed
high-risk. But this method hasn't worked, say authorities, who say
keeping the country insulated from outsiders is the best approach to
take at the current time. But for some Guineans like Djalima Balde,
who was visiting Freetown, Sierra Leone, at the time, the new rules
have left her with no option for returning home.

"We weren't given any information," Balde is quoted as saying, as
she stood at a border crossing trying to return home to Guinea. "I'm
here with my three children, who are hungry. But they say we can't pass."


Officials in Sierra Leone threaten jail time for anyone who leaves
home during Ebola lockdown.Over in Sierra Leone, the three-day
lockdown effort has forced 6 million residents to stay indoors or
face arrest, according to Reuters. During this time, health officials
went door to door looking for hidden Ebola patients and educating
local residents about the nature of the virus.

"Tests are being carried out on their blood samples, and the results
will be in by Wednesday," stated OB Sisay of the National Ebola
Response Center, who helped conduct the sweep that led to a 191%
increase in reports of ill patients throughout the western region of the country.

In Freetown, 173 identified patients met an initial case definition for
Ebola, according to Sisay. And throughout the rest of the country,
there was a 50% increase in the number of sick people reported as
a result of the lockdown effort.

The second official lockdown to take place in Sierra Leone, the effort
is being hailed as a solid way to ensure that the already-declining
infection rate reaches nil at some point in the near future. A source
who declined to be identified says that during the lockdown there
were 495 reports of illness, 235 of which were suspected to be Ebola,
and 961 death alerts.

"There's a lot of resistance," stated Raphael Delhalle, a field coordinator
for Doctors Without Borders in Conakry, to The Wall Street Journal about
the continued challenges in trying to eradicate Ebola. "The population is
still thinking Ebola doesn't exist, or that we are giving them Ebola."

Sources for this article include:

http://www.washingtonpost.com

http://abcnews.go.com

http://af.reuters.com

http://www.wsj.com

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/051413_Ebola_Guinea_border_Sierra_Leone.html#ixzz3njE6L5Ao

[Bob]

India - Haemorrhagic fever outbreaks - (the CCHV is discussed earlier in this thread)..

the CCHF or the Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus, is now believed to be prevalent across the country. A study by the National Institute of Virology (NIV) here has determined 17 outbreaks so far, affecting 50 people, most of whom succumbed to the virus.

The CCHF has a fatality rate of up to 80 per cent. First detected in January 2011 in Ahmedabad, the virus that spreads from animals to humans is now active across almost all states, with Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Gujarat reporting cases, a sero-survey shows.

NIV Director Dr Devendra Mourya, along with scientist Pragya Yadav and others, published these findings in the October issue of the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta.

The disease is usually transmitted to humans by bites of Hyalomma ticks, which are found on cattle, buffalo, goat and sheep. Humans can also acquire the virus through exposure to CCHF-infected blood and tissues or to body secretions of an affected animal, during slaughtering or allied procedures or at a hospital.

Detected in India for the first time only in 2011, the CCHF virus is widespread in several countries of Africa, Asia, South-East Europe and Eurasia. Hard ticks, especially Hyalomma ticks, are both a reservoir and a vector for the virus. Numerous wild and domestic animals, such as cattle, goats, sheep and hare, serve as amplifying hosts for the virus.


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“Animal husbandry and abattoir workers are at high risk, as they are always in close contact with live animals or carcasses that may be infested with CCHFV-infected ticks. Infected animals do not develop severe disease as viraemia (presence of virus in the body) in livestock is short-lived (up to two weeks), and of low intensity,” Mourya said.


Yadav stressed the need for more higher-level laboratories to check the samples.

The diagnosis of high-risk group pathogens is a major concern in India, where only few Biosafety Level-3 (BSL-3) laboratories and just one BSL-4 laboratory exist, Yadav said.

(Source (http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/asian-ebola-virus-active-in-almost-all-states-says-niv-study/))

[Bob]

Ebola countries record first week with no new cases - mark the date, October 7th 2015...

With Ebola though, it's a bit of a challenge to feel for sure that the outbreaks have subsided. Although, today, without new cases being reported, there is a bit of a sigh of relief.

The three West African countries at the heart of the Ebola epidemic recorded their first week with no new cases since the outbreak began in March 2014.

The outbreak has so far killed more than 11,000 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

New cases have fallen sharply in 2015, but the WHO has warned that the disease could break out again.

The epidemic is the worst known occurrence of Ebola in history.

More than 500 people believed to have had dangerous contact with an Ebola patient remain under follow-up in Guinea, the WHO said in a report.

It also said several "high-risk" people linked to recent patients in Guinea and Sierra Leone had been lost track of.

Liberia has already been declared free of the disease after 42 days without a new case. It is the second time the country received the declaration, following a flare-up in June.

Sierra Leone released its last known Ebola patients on 28 September and must now wait to be declared free of the disease.

Guinea's most recent cases were recorded on 27 September.

(Source (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34471234))

[Cidersomerset]

Ebola countries record first week with no new cases - mark the date, October 7th 2015...


Technically not a new case and only a precaution......

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Ebola detected again in Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey

9 minutes ago.....From the section Scotland

Pauline Cafferkey
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Pauline Cafferkey thanked medical staff, who she said saved her life

Ebola has been detected in a Scottish nurse who first contracted the
virus in December last year.Greater Glasgow health board has
confirmed that the virus is present in Pauline Cafferkey but said it was
left over from the original infection. It is not thought to be contagious.

The 39-year-old has been flown back to an isolation unit at the Royal
Free Hospital in London.

She contracted the virus while helping to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone.

Ms Cafferkey, who is from Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, spent
almost a month in an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital at the
beginning of the year after contracting the virus in December 2014.

There is not yet any information about her condition, but government
sources have described her transfer to the specialist unit as a "highly
precautionary process".

They have also said there are currently no significant risks to public health.

[Cidersomerset]

Another report...........


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Ebola scare as man dies in Nigerian city of Calabar

8 hours ago....From the section Africa

Ebola checks at Lagos airport, Nigeria. 4 Aug 2014
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Nigeria put checks in place last year after a patient died from Ebola

An Ebola scare has been reported in southern Nigeria, a year after the country was
declared free of the virus. Ten people have been quarantined after coming into
contact with a man showing Ebola-like symptoms,officials said.

The man reportedly died shortly after being admitted to hospital in Calabar.
On Wednesday, the three countries worst affected by Ebola - Guinea, Sierra Leone
and Liberia - recorded their first week with no new cases since the outbreak
began in March 2014.

More than 11,000 people died in the West African Ebola outbreak, the worst known
occurrence of the disease in history.

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New cases have fallen sharply in 2015, but the World Health Organization (WHO)
has warned that the disease could break out again.The latest scare happened when
a patient arrived at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital on Wednesday.

"We have sent blood samples for testing and quarantined identified contacts," said
Queeneth Kalu, the hospital's chief medical director.

Those quarantined included nurses who had attended to the patient, he added.

Ebola arrived in Nigeria in July 2014 when a Liberian businessman collapsed at
Lagos airport. In all, 19 people were infected of whom seven died.

WHO declared the country Ebola free in October last year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-34482989

[Cidersomerset]

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Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey 'in serious condition'

1 hour ago.....From the section Scotland


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Pauline Cafferkey previously spent a month in the specialist
isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London

A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone last year
is in a "serious condition" after being readmitted to an isolation
unit in London.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde confirmed that the virus is still
present in Pauline Cafferkey's body after being left over from the
original infection.

She is not thought to be contagious.

The 39-year-old has been flown back to the isolation unit at the Royal
Free Hospital in London.Bodily tissues can harbour the Ebola infection
months after the person appears to have fully recovered.


Ms Cafferkey, from Cambuslang in South Lanarkshire, spent almost a
month in the unit at the beginning of the year after contracting the
virus in December 2014

Read More....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34483584

[Bob]

GS-5734 - broad spectrum antiviral solution?

The compound, known as GS-5734, should be further developed as a potential treatment for Ebola.

In animal studies, treatment initiated on day three post-infection with Ebola virus resulted in 100 percent survival of the monkeys, the study noted.

They also exhibited a substantial reduction in viral load and a marked decrease in the physical signs of disease, including internal bleeding and tissue damage.

"The compound, which is a novel nucleotide analog prodrug, works by blocking the viral RNA replication process," explained Travis Warren, principal investigator at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).

"If the virus cannot make copies of itself, the body's immune system has time to take over and fight off the infection," Warren noted.

In cell culture studies, GS-5734 was active against a broad spectrum of viral pathogens.

These included Lassa virus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, Marburg virus, and multiple variants of Ebola virus, including the Makona strain causing the most recent outbreak in West Africa.

"This is the first example of a small molecule--which can be easily prepared and made on a large scale--that shows substantive post-exposure protection against Ebola virus in nonhuman primates," USAMRIID science director Sina Bavari said.

"In addition to 100 percent survival in treated animals, the profound suppression of viral replication greatly reduced the severe clinical signs of disease," Bavari noted.

Taken together, the robust therapeutic efficacy observed in primates and the potential for broad-spectrum antiviral activity suggest that further development of GS-5734 for the treatment of Ebola virus and other viral infections is warranted, Bavari said.

Gilead Sciences, a California-based company is currently conducting phase one clinical studies of the compound in healthy human volunteers to establish the safety and effectiveness of the compound.

(Source (http://www.abstractsonline.com/Plan/ViewAbstract.aspx?mID=3798&sKey=0ec1de30-96b4-4430-9d7f-b4cbbb2cb95c&cKey=f63371a8-9663-406a-a132-6c30ef51a824&mKey=7a574a80-eab1-4b50-b343-4695df14907e))


Abstract: Background: The ongoing Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak in West Africa has resulted in >27,000 infections with mortality exceeding 40%. There is no antiviral therapy with proven efficacy against EBOV. GS-5734 is a nucleotide prodrug with potent in vitro anti-EBOV activity in multiple relevant cell types. It is also active against the EBOV Makona/2014 variant and other filoviruses.

Methods: GS-5734 was tested in a randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled study in EBOV-infected rhesus monkeys, a model of lethal EVD in humans.

Six groups of monkeys infected with EBOV (N = 6/group) received once-daily intravenous (IV) dosing of placebo or GS-5734 at 3 to 10 mg/kg/day for 12 days initiated on Day 0 to 3 post viral challenge. Survival to Day 28, plasma viral RNA (vRNA), hematology and coagulation parameters, clinical chemistry, and behavioral signs were monitored.

Results: All placebo-treated animals died by Day 9. Treatment with 3 mg/kg GS-5734 initiated on Day 0 or 2 was associated with up to 67% survival. In contrast, treatment with10 mg/kg initiated on Day 3, a time at which 50% of animals had detectable systemic viremia, followed by 3 or 10 mg/kg for the rest of the dosing period resulted in 100% survival.

Treatment with 10 mg/kg/day was associated with a Day 7 mean plasma vRNA reduction of 5 log10 copies/mL relative to placebo (P < 0.001) and profound suppression of EVD signs including behavioral depression, thrombocytopenia, coagulopathy, as well as serum markers of organ failure and tissue damage.

There were no signs of drug-related toxicity detected in GS-5734-treated EBOV-infected animals.

IV dosing of 3 to 10 mg/kg GS-5734 to uninfected rhesus monkeys generated persistent inhibitory levels of active nucleoside triphosphate in PBMCs.

Conclusions: GS-5734 is the first small molecule antiviral demonstrating robust therapeutic effect in monkey model of EVD.

IV dosing initiated 3 days post infection was associated with 100% survival and marked suppression of EVD, supporting further development of the compound as a potential treatment of EBOV infection in humans.


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Ebola nurse's close contacts identified

1 hour ago......From the section Scotland

Ms Cafferkey is still being treated at a specialist isolation unit in London

A total of 58 people who had been in close contact with Scottish nurse
Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, have been identified.

Ms Cafferkey remains in a serious condition after being readmitted to the
Royal Free Hospital in London last week.

She underwent a month of treatment at the same hospital in January.

Health officials said 40 of the 58 people identified had been offered vaccinations.

They were thought to have potentially had contact with Ms Cafferkey's bodily fluids.

Of these, 25 have now been vaccinated, with the remaining 15 either declining
to be vaccinated or unable to receive it due to other medical conditions.

'Closely monitored'

The close contacts of Ms Cafferkey were said to be a mixture of healthcare workers,
her family, friends and community contacts. A statement released by the health board
said: "All 58 close contacts are being closely monitored. This includes a period of 21
days since their last exposure where they will have their temperature taken twice daily,
restrictions placed on travel and, in the case of healthcare workers they have been
asked not to have direct patient contact during this period.

"The 25 who were vaccinated will undergo additional monitoring because the vaccine
is still being evaluated.

"It is important to stress once again that there is no risk to the general public. Ebola is
not spread through ordinary social contact, such as shaking hands or sitting next to
someone. Nor is it spread through airborne particles."

The rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine offered to close contacts of Ms Cafferkey is currently being
trialled in collaboration with the World Health Organisation and has been tested in more
than 7,000 people during the recent outbreak of Ebola virus infection in Guinea.

It is an unlicensed vaccine, which is currently being trialled.

'Not infectious'

Ms Cafferkey was flown in a military aircraft to the specialist infectious diseases unit at
the Royal Free last week.She had earlier been admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University
Hospital in Glasgow after feeling unwell.Subsequent tests showed that the Ebola virus
was still present in her body. Ms Cafferkey had contracted Ebola while working as a
volunteer with Save the Children at a treatment centre in Kerry Town, in Sierra Leone.
She was diagnosed on 29 December last year, after returning to Glasgow via London,
and was treated at the Royal Free.At the time of her release from the hospital,
Dr Michael Jacobs, who had been helping to treat her, said Ms Cafferkey had completely
recovered and was "not infectious in any way".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34509572

[Bob]

To me, what is still very significant is that she IS testing positive for Ebola after having been cleared of it. How could it be possible unless it was residing in the Eye as reported in other's "cleared"? And why would the immune system not fully attack such? Another question, in my posts above I mention the mutation of the current strains (the post dealing with the drug treatment method)... Where else does Ebola lurk in the body? Another set of questions about "is it really over?" when new cases haven't been reported for 42 days?

[Bob]

Guinea back with Ebola -

WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told a U.N. briefing in Geneva that one case was in Forecariah, western Guinea, and appeared to be linked to a previously known chain of infection, while the other was in the capital Conakry.

"Guinea hadn't got to the stage where we were looking at 42 days with no infection."

Even after that period, Ebola may lurk in the population. This month a study showed the semen of male survivors can harbour the virus for nine months, while a British nurse has fallen critically ill again 10 months after recovering from Ebola.

The medical toolkit for tackling Ebola has been transformed in the past few months by the success of a trial vaccine, which is now used to treat each new case and their contacts who may also be at risk from the highly contagious virus.

But Harris said that the trial comes to an end in mid-November, potentially putting a question mark over the use of the vaccine beyond that date.

[Bob]

Fear of more relapses.. Sierra Leone group of "cured" Ebola cases reported - Reuters reports.

Doctors and health officials in Sierra Leone told Reuters that a handful of mystery deaths among discharged patients may also be types of Ebola relapses, stirring fear that the deadly virus may last far longer than previously thought in the body, causing other potentially lethal complications.

Diagnoses have not been made, partly because of a lack of relevant medical training and insufficient equipment for detecting a virus that can hide in inaccessible corners of the body - such as the spinal fluid or eyeball.

In Scottish nurse Cafferkey's case, the virus in her brain caused meningitis. (That is the complication that hospitalized her this time)

Dr. Dan Kelly, founder of non-profit organization Wellbody Alliance who has worked on Ebola in Sierra Leone, estimates that relapsing Ebola might affect 10 percent of all recovered patients.

He said this was based on two cases, including Cafferkey's, where the live virus was detected among the roughly 20 survivors treated in Europe and the United States.

Other experts have declined to give an estimate, saying it is too early to tell.

"One case reminds me of Pauline but we were unable to find a laboratory willing to test the patient before the patient died," he said. "In West Africa it (relapsing Ebola) is mostly undiagnosed, hardly treated and people are certainly dying of it."

Confirmation of such relapses would prolong for a third year the struggle to defeat a virus that has killed nearly 11,300 people and ravaged the economies of some of the world's poorest countries.

Guinea is the only nation in West Africa that still has new confirmed cases. Liberia has been declared Ebola-free while Sierra Leone has gone 25 days without a case.

But Ebola survivors continue to die under mysterious circumstances, health officials say.

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[avid]

Clutching at straws for media attention, possibly even sacrificing against reality/truth to 'save face'......? Or other diversionary tactics, Lockerbie is being re-dredged with an unrealistic vengeance in the 'western media'.

[Cidersomerset]

From article........


Dr Michael Jacobs, who is treating Ms Cafferkey at the Royal Free Hospital
in London, said: "Pauline has become unwell by meningitis caused by the Ebola virus.


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Ebola caused meningitis in nurse Pauline Cafferkey


5 hours ago
From the section Glasgow & West Scotland

A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa
is recovering well after the virus caused her to develop meningitis.

Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was readmitted to an isolation unit at the Royal
Free Hospital in London earlier this month after suffering an apparent relapse.

Health officials confirmed she had been diagnosed with meningitis caused
by Ebola and had a "long recovery ahead".

Ms Cafferkey, from South Lanarkshire, contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone.

Dr Michael Jacobs, who is treating Ms Cafferkey at the Royal Free Hospital
in London, said: "Pauline has become unwell by meningitis caused by the Ebola virus.


Read More

"But to be very clear about this, she hasn't been re-infected with the Ebola virus.





http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-34592132

[Bob]

Let's make this perfectly CLEAR... (Source (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/world/europe/new-clues-into-ebola-as-ill-nurse-improves.html?_r=0))

“She’s made significant progress in the past few days,” said Dr. Daniel Bausch, a technical consultant with the World Health Organization who has visited the Royal Free Hospital in London, which is treating the nurse, Pauline Cafferkey. Dr. Bausch added that Ms. Cafferkey had improved so much that she was even using an iPad.

Equally important, experts say, is what Ms. Cafferkey’s infection is telling them about virus, and the implications for other survivors in West Africa.

Dr. Bausch said that her blood and spinal fluid had tested positive for traces of the virus earlier this month.

Her blood is negative after it was recently retested. (that test has been the measure of "proving" treatment is successful... HOWEVER.. all recent data is saying the VIRUS REMAINS in hidden spots")

Pauline Cafferkey had seemed to recover from Ebola.

She has been treated with an experimental anti-viral compound that is thought to work by incorporating itself into the genetic material while the Ebola virus is being copied, stopping a new virus from forming. While it is unknown whether the compound helped Ms. Cafferkey recover, it was shown to protect 12 primates against a lethal Ebola virus infection, said Travis Warren, principal investigator at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease in Fort Dietrich, Md.

Ms. Cafferkey’s doctor had seen a presentation about the compound, GS5734, at a recent conference. “When he came back to the U.K., he immediately contacted us and said he was requesting compassionate use of the drug,” said Norbert Bischofberger, chief scientific officer at Gilead Sciences in California, which produced the compound and safety tested it in humans.

Scientists are compiling what they have observed in animals and are finding that perhaps they should not have been surprised by her illness. In one case, macaques infected with Ebola began to recover, but two to three weeks after infection, “they’d start to deteriorate,” said Thomas W. Geisbert a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

The monkeys showed signs of neurological disease.

Evidence of the virus was found in their brains and other organs not typically infected by Ebola, said Lisa Hensley, a scientist with the National Institutes of Health. Because the phenomenon was so rare, and the number of animals affected so small, other scientists who have seen similar results were not sure what to make of it.

One question is why the virus persisted so long in Ms. Cafferkey, who became infected in Sierra Leone, where she had gone as a volunteer, and what it was doing in that time. Clues may come from studies of Ebola in nature. Ebola is thought to persist in bats without causing disease.

It may be that in certain immunologically protected parts of the human body, including the central nervous system, it may be replicating at a very low level.

Scientists have found no evidence PREVIOUSLY that Ebola is capable of going dormant in human cells and then reactivating.

At a meeting on Wednesday at Fort Dietrich, experts discussed whether Ms. Cafferkey’s second illness could have been caused by the virus beginning to replicate more intensely again or by the immune system finally gaining access to the last pocket of virus.

In health surveys, survivors of Ebola and a similar virus, Marburg, have reported neurological symptoms and other complaints.

[Bob]

Numbers going UP in Guinea -

Guinea records three new cases of Ebola, brings total to nine..

Three more people in Guinea have been infected with the Ebola virus, a senior health official said on Wednesday, further dampening hopes of an imminent end to the world's worst recorded outbreak of the disease.

The three were infected in Forecariah in western Guinea from the family of a woman who died of Ebola and whose body was handled without appropriate protection, said Fode Tass Sylla, spokesman for the national center for the fight against Ebola.

"In all, nine sick people are being treated at our centres throughout the country and most are connected to the dead woman," he told Reuters, adding that authorities had known of the three fresh cases since Saturday.

(Source - Reuters)

[Bob]

From University of Pennsylvania - new understanding in how to stop virus' ability to multiply..

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS

Calcium channel blocker (CCBs) are drugs that can increase the supply of blood and oxygen to the heart.

CCBs are a class of drugs normally used to treat high blood pressure, angina, abnormal heart rhythms, migraines, pulmonary hypertension..

Earlier in this thread, it was discussed one doctor's breakthru in treating Ebola infection by using a heart drug..

That did not go un-noticed.

Here is what is happening:

A new study led by Bruce Freedman and Ronald Harty in the Department of Pathobiology of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine demonstrates a way to do that, by reducing the ability of the virus to exit a host cell and spread.

Their work showed that blocking a calcium-signaling pathway could inhibit not only the Ebola virus, but also Marburg, Lassa and Junin viruses, all sources of deadly infections.

The work paves the way toward designing a potential broad-spectrum drug that could serve as a therapy for a number of serious viral infections.

"Our work is aimed at handicapping the virus so that the immune system has time to respond," said Freedman.

"We could also imagine this type of drug would be part of a cocktail therapy, like those used for HIV, to cripple the virus at different stages of its life cycle," echoed Harty.

The research was published in the journal PLOS Pathogens. Freedman and Harty teamed with scientists from Fox Chase Chemical Diversity Center and the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease on the study.

Because viruses must hijack host cell proteins to complete their life cycle and reproduce, the Penn Vet scientists have focused on developing drugs that interfere with the host proteins and mechanisms that viruses depend on.

They conducted initial experiments using non-infectious viral-like particles, or VLPs, the production of which is orchestrated by the virus' matrix protein and which bud from cells in a similar manner to the infectious virus. This allows for the observation of host-virus interactions without using dangerous live viruses.

Calcium signaling is a key regulator of many cell processes, and earlier studies by these authors had suggested that calcium was needed by these and other viruses. The researchers followed up by examining how cellular calcium levels responded when VLPs were being produced in cells. They found that virus matrix proteins triggered significant upticks in calcium levels, which were prevented when the researchers introduced a mutated version of a gene that encodes a calcium channel called ORAI1 into the host cells.

Next they looked directly at VLP production in normal cultured cells or cells with a mutation in ORAI1. Production of Ebola, Marburg, Lassa and Junin VLPs were all significantly lowered, as much as 100-fold, in the ORAI1 mutant cells, an indication that hemorrhagic fever virus budding relies on the ORAI1-dependent calcium signaling.

Further studies implicated another protein upstream from ORAI1, called STIM1, as also required to form VLPs. Suppressing expression of STIM1 in cultured cells caused VLP production to decline.

To see whether they could pharmacologically block VLP production in normal cells, the Penn researchers used three different ORAI1 inhibitors. Each substantially inhibited production of Ebola and Marburg VLPs.

With a growing confidence in ORAI1's role in VLP budding, the research went to the next level, using live infectious virus in USAMRIID's BSL 4 laboratory, which requires the highest levels of biocontainment. There, researchers carried out experiments similar to what had been done with the VLP assays.

First they used a genetic test, infecting either normal or mutant ORAI1 cells with Ebola, Marburg, Junin or Lassa viruses. They found that the virus spread significantly less in the ORAI1 mutant cells compared with the normal cells.

They then used one of the ORAI1 inhibitors tested earlier to see if it could reduce virus spread in cultured cells, and found that it lowered infection rates in a dose-dependent manner.

Finally, they confirmed that ORAI1 inhibition was blocking the ability of viruses to exit the cell, instead leaving the virus tethered to its host cell and unable to spread.

"We saw this in each of the viruses, so there seems to be a common requirement for calcium in the late stages of viral budding from the cell," Freedman said.

"One of the exciting aspects of this approach," Hardy said, "is its ability to provide broad-spectrum inhibition of budding of hemorrhagic fever viruses that we're interested in, as well as other viruses that bud using similar mechanisms."

The authors also noted that because the host mechanisms required for virus escape are common to a number of related viruses, it is less likely that viruses will develop strategies to evade this block than they might for strategies that target only virus functions.

[Bob]

Drug GS5734 part of the solution?

Pauline Cafferkey, the nurse treated in London for life-threatening complications months after she was apparently cured of Ebola, has been released from isolation and has returned to hospital in Glasgow.

In a statement before flying back to Scotland, Cafferkey expressed her gratitude to the hospital for saving her life a second time. “I am forever thankful for the amazing care I have received at the Royal Free Hospital,” she said. “For a second time, staff across many departments of the hospital have worked incredibly hard to help me recover and I will always be grateful to them and the NHS. I am looking forward to returning to Scotland and to seeing my family and friends again.”

At the time of Cafferkey’s meningitis diagnosis, Jonathan Ball, a professor of molecular virology at the University of Nottingham, called it “frankly staggering”. He said: “I am not aware from the scientific literature of a case where Ebola has been associated with what we can only assume as life-threatening complications after someone has initially recovered, and certainly not so many months after.”

Dr Michael Jacobs, who treated Cafferkey at the Royal Free, described the situation as unprecedented. The World Health Organisation said she was the only known Ebola survivor to develop meningitis months later.

Cafferkey was treated with the experimental drug GS5734. Jacobs, infectious diseases consultant at the hospital, told a press conference in October: “This is the original Ebola virus she had many months ago which has been inside the brain, replicating at a very low level, and has now re-emerged to cause this clinical illness of meningitis. This is an unprecedented situation.”

Cafferkey’s relapse caused alarm and more than 40 of her contacts were offered vaccination against Ebola virus.

-- Source, the Guardian news service

[Bob]

Guinea in West Africa has just released the last 68 people who have been in quarantine since the last confirmed Ebola case had died. (see post 965 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=1014797&viewfull=1#post1014797) above)

CONAKRY (Reuters) - The final 68 people who had been in contact with an Ebola patient were released from quarantine on Saturday, said a senior health official, raising hopes of an end to the disease in the last West African country with confirmed cases.

Dr. Abdourahmane Bathily, head of the Ebola center in Forecariah in western Guinea, said the 68 contacts had emerged from quarantine at midnight on Saturday morning.

"There are no longer any people who had contact with a person infected by the Ebola virus," said Bathily.

He added that the last confirmed Ebola case was a baby in isolation, who should be released from a treatment center next week, allowing for the West African nation to begin its own countdown clock.

Ebola-affected areas must spend 42 days without a case to be declared free of the hemorrhagic fever, although after cases cropped up after Liberia's first Ebola-free declaration, the World Health Organisation has instituted an additional 90-day surveillance period.

Sources: "Ebola center in Forecariah in western Guinea", "Reuters"

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Saying 'Bye Bye' to Ebola in Sierra Leone with a happy song

17 November 2015 Last updated at 22:53 GMT


Sierra Leone is celebrating being free from Ebola.

On Saturday 7 November the World Health Organization gave the country
the all-clear after 42 days without a new case of the disease. To celebrate,
rapper Block Jones wrote a song called Bye Bye Ebola.

It has become a hit on YouTube and features twerking policemen and dancing
health workers. Neighbouring Guinea will also be officially declared Ebola free
if no new cases are reported in the next six weeks.

Video Journalist: Anne-Marie Tomchak

For more videos subscribe to BBC Trending's YouTube channel.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34849465

[Bob]

Ebola is Back ~

Liberia is now monitoring over 150 Ebola contacts as this hard-to-eradicate virus re-emerges

Liberia has placed 153 people under surveillance as it seeks to control a new Ebola outbreak in the capital more than two months after the country was declared free of the virus, health officials said.

Three Ebola cases emerged in Liberia on Friday. The first of the new patients was a 15-year-old boy called Nathan Gbotoe from Paynesville, a suburb east of the capital Monrovia. Two other family members have since been confirmed as positive and they are all hospitalized.

"We have three confirmed cases and have listed 153 contacts, and we have labeled them as high, medium and low in terms of the risk," Liberia's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Francis Kateh told Reuters late on Saturday.

The previous resurgence of Ebola in Liberia is thought to have been via sexual transmission since the virus can exist in the semen of male survivors for at least nine months after infection, much longer than its incubation period in blood.

It is also theoretically possible for an infected animal to trigger a fresh chain of transmission.

[Cidersomerset]

WHO ‘failed to alert’ global community about Ebola outbreak allowing virus to spread further – panel

By David Icke on 24th November 2015 Medical/Health


RT NEWS.....

WHO 'failed to alert' global community about Ebola outbreak allowing virus to spread further – panel

Published time: 23 Nov, 2015 14:43

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Medical workers in protective clothing arrive at Meixoeiro Hospital, transporting,
according to local authorities, a possible new Ebola patient, in Vigo, Spain, October
28, 2015. © Stringer / Reuters


‘Ebola has exposed the World Health Organization (WHO) as “unable to meet its
responsibility” to alert global communities about the outbreak of deadly diseases,
an independent panel of experts has stated in a new report.

Twenty experts from the Harvard Global Health Institute and the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine analyzed the response to the Ebola epidemic and
published their report in medical journal the Lancet.

The response to the Ebola outbreak saw a number of failures, the authors of the
report found.

One example was during the initial phase of the epidemic (from December 2013 to
March 2014) when the first infections occurred in a remote area of Guinea, where
no outbreaks of Ebola had previously been identified.’

“The lack of capacity in Guinea to detect the virus for several months was a key
failure, allowing Ebola eventually to spread to bordering Liberia and Sierra Leone,”
the report said. This phase, among other things, underscored “inadequate
arrangements between governments and the WHO to share, validate, and respond
robustly to information on outbreaks,” it added.

Read more: WHO ‘failed to alert’ global community about Ebola outbreak allowing
virus to spread further – panel

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[Bob]

The young patient reported in post 970 above had died, of the complications from the Ebola infection. The quarantine potential cases now are up to about 160.

A 15-year-old boy died of Ebola in Liberia on Monday night, the first person in the country to perish from the disease since July, health officials say.

Two of the boy's family members, his father and brother, reportedly also have tested positive for the disease.

The Associated Press reports: "Health officials have identified nearly 160 people who might be at risk of being infected with the disease, including eight health-care workers 'who are at high risk because they came in direct contact with the boy,' said Sorbor George, a spokesman for the country's health ministry."

Liberian officials announced a resurgence of the disease last week, for the first time since the country was declared Ebola-free on Sept. 3. Liberia also had been declared free of Ebola on May 9, but four cases subsequently were reported.

In announcing the resurgence, officials said only that a patient was admitted to a hospital in the capital of Monrovia on Nov. 17 with fever, weakness and bleeding, classic symptoms of Ebola. The patient tested positive for the disease on Thursday and was placed in isolation.

[Bob]

Progress in treating ebola, even preventing it -

Progress has been made on developing vaccines, but there is still a need for antiviral therapies to protect health care workers and local populations in the event of future outbreaks.

Now, a new study suggests that gamma interferon, an FDA-approved drug, may have potential as an antiviral therapy to prevent Ebola infection when given either before or after exposure to the virus.

The findings, published in the journal PLOS Pathogens, show that gamma interferon, given up to 24 hours after exposure, inhibits Ebola infection in mice and completely protects the animals from death.

[ARE STATINS THE SECRET WEAPON AGAINST EBOLA?]

Ebola infection appears to be a stepwise process. First, the virus targets and infects macrophages or dendritic cells, two types of immune system cells found in the liver, spleen, and lymph nodes. Ebola then replicates in those cells. Following this initial infection, which happens at day 3 or 4 in non-human primates, Ebola virus is released into the blood and infects a plethora of other different cell populations.

“It goes from an early stage with a very targeted infection of only these few cell types, to everything being infected,” says Wendy Maury, professor of microbiology at the University of Iowa.

“We think what’s happening with gamma interferon is that it’s targeting macrophages and blocking the infection of those initial cell targets so you don’t get the second round of infection.”

SHEEP IN WOLF’S CLOTHING

The University of Iowa does not have a specializing BioSafety Level 4 (BSL4) lab that is required for experiment using Ebola virus, so the researchers made their initial findings using a surrogate virus, which targets and infects the same cells as Ebola, but does not cause the disease.

This Ebola lookalike—a sheep in wolf’s clothing—consists of a less dangerous vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) that expresses Ebola glycoproteins on its surface.

All of the results found using the surrogate virus were then repeated using mouse-adapted Ebola virus in the BSL4 lab of Maury’s longtime collaborator Robert Davey at Texas Biomedical Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

Gamma interferon inhibits the virus’s ability to infect human and mouse macrophages, in part by blocking virus replication in the cells. Pre-treating mice with interferon gamma 24 hours before exposure protects the animals from infection and death. The researchers were surprised to find that treatment up to 24 hours after what would have been a lethal exposure also completely protected the animals from death, and they could no longer detect any Ebola virus in the mouse’s cells.

[SCIENTISTS ARE TESTING ZOLOFT TO TREAT EBOLA]

The findings suggest that interferon gamma may be useful both as a prophylaxis and post-exposure treatment against Ebola. The team still has to determine how late gamma interferon can be given to the mice and still prevent infection. However, the results suggest a window of time after exposure when gamma interferon may be an effective antiviral therapy.

“My guess is that if you delay the gamma interferon too much, you miss this window of opportunity to block the infection in macrophage cells and the gamma interferon can no longer provide protection,” Maury says.

Maury and colleagues investigated how gamma interferon might be helping the cells fight off the Ebola virus. They identified that the expression of more than 160 genes in human macrophages is stimulated by gamma interferon. Introduction of some of these genes into cells was sufficient to prevent Ebola infection.

“This mechanistic information might suggest more precise drug targets rather than the broad effects, including adverse side-effects, that are produced by gamma-interferon,” she says.

Gamma interferon is already approved by the FDA to treat chronic granulomatous disease (an immune disease) and severe malignant osteopetrosis.

In addition to moving the studies into larger animal models, Maury next plans to study the ability of gamma interferon to inhibit Ebola infection in conjunction with other developing antivirals.

“Right now, there are no FDA-approved antiviral therapies for Ebola, but there are some being developed that target virus entry,” she says. “We know that gamma interferon blocks replication but not entry into cells. So combining an entry inhibitor with gamma interferon may allow us to reduce amount of gamma interferon needed and target two different steps in the virus’s life cycle, which has been shown in HIV to be critically important for controlling the virus.”

Source - University of Iowa (Main Page (http://www.futurity.org/university/university-of-iowa/))

[Bob]

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy

No new Ebola cases were reported in West Africa's outbreak region last week, and if no cases are reported as of Jan 14, the whole area will be considered free of virus transmission, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in an update.

In another development, the WHO confirmed that Liberia's recent cluster was due to lingering virus in an individual who had an earlier infection.

Guinea has now gone 30 days without a new case, and its outbreak will be considered over on Dec 28 if no new infections are detected. Sierra Leone was declared free of the virus on Nov 7.

As mentioned in an above post, Liberia was the last country to report cases, a family cluster that included a 15-year-old boy who died of his infection.

210 people linked with the cluster received the experimental VSV-EBOV vaccine as part of an ongoing ring-vaccination trial under way in the outbreak region.

In its update today, the WHO had new details on the investigation into the source of the family cluster, which it had suspected to be linked to lingering virus in a survivor. It said the cluster was sparked by reemergence in a previously infected individual.

A new clinical trial will be started shortly, that will involve offering the VSV-EBOV vaccine to people at risk for Ebola transmission from "survivors". EBOV is now known to linger (survive) within the EYE, sexual gonads. Normal blood tests can show "ALL CLEAR" when in-fact that the Ebola patient may still be infected. A patient's viral load in the initial blood test seems to be a good survival indicator. Those tests aren't able to determine the patient's "infectability" if the virus is latent, hiding in the Eye or gonads.

[ArrowD.]

Several doctors went to Sierra Leone to administer ozone therapy. They had positive results. Read their report here:
http://medicalozone.info/wp-content/uploads/Ozone-Therapy-Cures-Ebola.htm

[Bob]

Nigeria - Lassa Fever Death Toll Rises

Another haemorrhagic fever (Lassa fever) is re-appearing in some parts of the country, including Taraba, Nassarawa and Rivers states; this may lead to another epidemic in Nigeria if treatment/focus drops. Do not become complacent is the message.

Lassa fever is endemic to the area. Viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) are a group of illnesses caused by four families of viruses. These are the Ebola and Marburg, Lassa fever, and yellow fever viruses. VHFs have common features: they affect many organs, damage the blood vessels, and affect the body's ability to regulate itself.

Nigeria had through November 6, 2015, reported 270 Lassa fever cases from 12 states, according to data from health officials. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), two Lassa fever deaths were reported in Kano State last month.

A nationwide outbreak of Lassa fever in 10 states, in March 2014, led to the loss of 20 lives, out of the 319 reported cases. The affected states were Anambra, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Edo, Gombe, Imo, Nasarawa, Ondo, Plateau and Taraba.

Former Health Minister, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, had in April 2014, before the first case of Ebola was reported in July 2014, warned of outbreaks of Lassa fever, saying "some of these viruses belong to a group that causes similar diseases like yellow fever, which for 18 years now, we have not had a single case, but 18 years ago it devastated Nigeria.

Lagos — Member of the Lagos state house of assembly, Segun Olulade, has called on residents in the state to be cautious and report to the nearest hospital any symptoms of Lassa fever.

Olulade, who is the chairman house committee on health service, while reacting to the news from Taraba State, where the outbreak of Lassa fever has been confirmed, with one person dead and two others quarantined, advised Lagosians to look out for every symptoms of the disease and immediately report if any is discovered within the community.

Some of the symptoms according to the lawmaker include nasal bleeding, bleeding through the anus and mouth, adding that people usually get infected with the Lassa Virus after being exposed to infected rodents, while person to person transmission occurs through direct contact with the sick person.

Lassa fever is described as an acute viral haemorrhagic illness of one to four weeks duration that occurs in West Africa.

Experts say it is transmitted to humans via contact with food or household items contaminated with rodent urine or fecal matter.

(Source (http://allafrica.com/stories/201601060104.html))

[Bob]

Within two days after the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa was declared 'over' by the WHO agency, a person died in Sierra Leone from the consequences of the disease.

It has been mentioned numerous times in this thread, until people fully appreciate and maintain proper biological barrier control of a person infected with a biohazard class IV hazard (maximum biosafety containment needed to prevent infection).. - - http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/10/this-is-what-happens-when-you-treat-ebola-like-a-jv-virus/

Article NY Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/world/africa/ebola-sierra-leone.html?_r=0


The victim was a 22-year-old student from the Port Loko district, said Tunis Yahya, an official with Sierra Leone’s Health Ministry. The woman died on Jan. 12 and was found to have Ebola during routine swab testing for the virus.

Officials said there was no information yet on how the woman became infected. An investigation is underway. The W.H.O. has repeatedly warned that small flare-ups of the disease are likely because the virus can persist in the bodily fluids of some survivors for a variable length of time and in rare cases be transmitted to close contacts.


Deadliest Ebola Outbreak on Record Is Over, W.H.O. Says JAN. 14, 2016

At least 10 flare-ups have been reported in the past nine months in the three countries that were hardest hit by the outbreak: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. “The new flares, they’re the embers basically of this crisis,” said Dr. Bruce Aylward, the health organization’s representative for the Ebola response.

[Bob]

Sierra Leone issues quarantine orders once again after the recent confirmed Ebola patient dies.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/15/ebola-victim-in-sierra-leone-feared-to-have-exposed-27-others-to-virus

More than 100 people in quarantine at this point..

A woman who died of Ebola this week in Sierra Leone may have exposed at least 27 others to the disease, an aid agency report claims, raising the risk of more cases just as the epidemic appeared to be ending.

Sierra Leone’s government on Saturday urged the public not to panic as it announced that more than 100 people had been quarantined, just as the country seemed to have overcome the epidemic.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) had declared that “all known chains of transmission have been stopped in west Africa”, meaning the area was officially free of the virus after a two-year epidemic that killed more than 11,300 people.

The WHO warned of potential flare-ups as survivors can carry the virus for months. The latest case is particularly worrying because authorities failed to follow basic health protocols, according to the report compiled by a humanitarian agency and released on Friday.

Health officials in Freetown said they had placed a total of 109 people who had been in contact with the student before her death in isolation.

Of those, 28 were considered “high risk” and three contacts had yet to be located, Ishmael Tarawally, the national coordinator of the Office of National Security, said at a press conference.

“We are worried and concerned.."

[Bob]

Sierra Leone - another Ebola case registered.

A second case of the deadly Ebola virus has been reported in the West African nation of Sierra Leone in as many weeks -- just seven days after health officials declared a major epidemic in the region had ended.

The two cases are connected. The latest patient -- a woman being treated in the capital, Freetown -- is an aunt of a 22-year-old woman who died of Ebola last week in Sierra Leone, World Health Organization spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said Thursday.

The aunt, who had cared for her sick niece, tested positive for the virus after developing symptoms while in quarantine Wednesday, Jasarevic said.

The latest cases have links to the neighboring country of Guinea, where the 22-year-old first became sick, the WHO has said.

(Source (http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/africa/sierra-leone-ebola/))

[Bob]

A positive treatment breakthrough..

Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München discover that extracts of the medicinal plant Cistus incanus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistus) (Ci) prevent human immunodeficiency viruses from infecting cells. Active antiviral ingredients in the extracts inhibit docking of viral proteins to cells.

Antiviral activity of Cistus extracts also targets Ebola and Marburg viruses.


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The results were published in Scientific Reports.

Virus infections are among the ten leading causes of death worldwide and represent a major global health challenge. Their control requires the continuous development of new and potent antiviral drugs/therapeutic options. Despite the availability of numerous drugs for chronic treatment of HIV/AIDS, new drugs are needed to prevent the emergence of drug resistant viral variants. Furthermore, new antiviral drugs are required for rapid treatment of acute infections by viruses like Marburg and Ebola viruses during acute viral outbreaks. A recent study by the team of Professor Ruth Brack-Werner and Dr. Stephanie Rebensburg from the Institute for Virology (VIRO) of the Helmholtz Zentrum München demonstrates that extracts of the medicinal plant attack HIV and Ebola virus particles and prevent them from multiplying in cultured cells.

HIV: broad activity, no resistance

The Brack-Werner team found potent activity of Ci extracts acted against a broad spectrum of clinical HIV-1 and HIV-2 isolates. This also included a virus isolate resistant against most available drugs. „Antiviral ingredients of Ci extracts target viral envelope proteins on infectious particles and prevent them from contacting host cells", Brack-Werner explains. No resistant viruses were detected during long-term treatment (24 weeks) with Ci extract, indicating that Ci extract attacks viruses without causing resistance.

The Brack-Werner study suggests that commercial herbal extracts from plants like Cistus incanus or other plants like Pelargonium sidoides are promising material for the development of scientifically validated antiviral phytotherapeutics.

Since antiviral activity of Ci extracts differs from all clinically approved drugs, Ci-derived products could be an important complementation to current established drug regimens", says Brack-Werner.

Ci extracts not only blocked different HIV isolates, but also virus particles carrying Marburg and Ebola viral envelope proteins.


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Analysis of the antiviral components of the extract revealed the presence of multiple antiviral ingredients that may act in combination.

These results firmly establish broad antiviral activity of Ci extracts against various major human viral pathogens, including previously reported activity against influenza viruses.

Potential applications of Ci extract for global control of lethal virus infections

Further development of these plant extracts may advance global treatment and control of virus infections in various ways. Thus these plant extracts may be useful starting material for the development of potent herbal agents against selected virus infections.

Another application could be their development into crèmes or gels (i.e. microbicides) that prevent transmission of viruses like HIV during sexual intercourse. Finally, these plant extracts represent promising collections of natural antiviral agents for the discovery of new antiviral molecules.

Future work in the Brack-Werner lab will focus on investigating the antiviral potential of these plant-derived products for applications in humans and detailed analysis of their active antiviral ingredients.

(Source (http://www.news-medical.net/news/20160203/Cistus-extracts-attack-HIV-and-Ebola-viruses.aspx))

[Bob]

Is it really over? When relapses are happening, where the virus seems to be able to hide in various shielded tissues, and then complications appear to surface...

From, the Guardian, UK http://cc.amazingcounters.com/counter.php?i=3190880&c=9572953

Pauline Cafferkey, the British nurse who contracted Ebola in west Africa in 2014 , is being transferred to the specialist unit at the Royal Free hospital in London for the third time since her return to the UK.

Cafferkey, 39, who is said to be in a stable condition, was initially admitted to Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University hospital and on Tuesday afternoon an RAF aircraft landed at Glasgow airport to transport her to London.

A spokesman for the Royal Free said: “We can confirm that Pauline Cafferkey is being transferred to the Royal Free hospital due to a late complication from her previous infection by the Ebola virus. She will now be treated by the hospital’s infectious diseases team under nationally agreed guidelines.

[Cidersomerset]

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Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey flown to London hospital


2 hours ago


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Scots nurse Pauline Cafferkey has been flown to London after being
admitted to hospital in Glasgow for a third time since contracting Ebola.

The 40-year-old from South Lanarkshire had been in a "stable" condition
at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth Hospital.She was put on an RAF Hercules
aircraft which took her to London where she will attend the Royal Free Hospital.

Ms Cafferkey was treated there twice in 2015 after contracting Ebola in
Sierra Leone the previous year.A spokesman for the Royal Free said:
"We can confirm that Pauline Cafferkey is being transferred to the Royal
Free Hospital due to a late complication from her previous infection by the Ebola virus.

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Read More....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35639748

[Cidersomerset]

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Ebola 'devastates long-term health'

By James Gallagher
Health editor, BBC News website

6 hours ago


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Most people who survive an Ebola infection will have long-lasting health
problems, say doctors from the US National Institutes of Health.
Their studies on survivors in Liberia showed large numbers had developed
weakness, memory loss and depressive symptoms in the six months after
being discharged from an Ebola unit.

Other patients were "actively suicidal" or still having hallucinations.

More than 17,000 people in West Africa have survived Ebola infection.

The evidence, being presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of
Neurology, is an early glimpse at a much wider study of long-term health
problems after Ebola.

The initial analysis, on 82 survivors, showed most had had severe
neurological problems at the height of the infection, including meningitis,
hallucinations or falling into a coma.

Six months later, new long-term problems had developed.

About two-thirds had body weakness, while regular headaches,
depressive symptoms and memory loss were found in half of patients.

Two of the patients had been actively suicidal at the time of the assessment.

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Dr Lauren Bowen, from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke, told the BBC: "It was pretty striking, this is a young
population of patients, and we wouldn't expect to have seen these
sorts of problems.

"When people had memory loss, it tended to affect their daily living,
with some feeling they couldn't return to school or normal jobs, some
had terrible sleeping problems.

"Ebola hasn't gone away for these people."

Infection with Ebola ravages the body. Some of the symptoms could
improve with time as the body heals, others may be down to social
trauma as many survivors are ostracised from their families and
communities. But other symptoms, including eye problems, indicate
damage to the brain, which may not heal.

Sexually active

Meanwhile, data presented earlier, at the Conference on Retroviruses
and Opportunistic Infections, raised concerns about sexual transmission
of the virus in survivors.It indicated 38% of men had tested positive for
Ebola in their semen on at least one occasion in the year after recovering.

And in the most extreme case, Ebola had been detected 18 months later.

Yet most survivors reported being sexually active, with only four in every
100 using a condom.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35652095

[Bob]

Cafferkey was admitted to Royal Free hospital on Tuesday for the third time since contracting Ebola, and has now been allowed to leave.


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She was cleared of any complication related to the virus.

The fact she was in the Royal Free for less than five days suggests the complication she had developed did not go on to become a serious condition.

[Bob]

In animal studies, treatment initiated on day 3 post-infection with Ebola virus resulted in 100 percent survival of the monkeys. The animals also exhibited a substantial reduction in viral load and a marked decrease in the physical signs of disease.

"GS-5734 is a novel nucleotide analog prodrug.

It inhibits Ebola virus by blocking the virus's ability to replicate its own genetic material," said Warren. "With this process inhibited, the virus can't make copies of itself. Additionally, we saw no evidence from genetic sequence analyses that the virus was able to generate resistance to GS-5734."

In cell culture studies, led at USAMRIID by Veronica Soloveva, Ph.D., GS-5734 was active against a broad spectrum of viral pathogens. These included Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, Marburg virus, and multiple variants of Ebola virus, including the Makona strain causing the most recent outbreak in Western Africa.

We talked about this earlier in the thread about different types of anti-virals.

(Source (http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-03-small-molecule-antiviral-compound-monkeys-deadly.html))


According to Tomas Cihlar, Ph.D., of Gilead Sciences, the company is currently conducting a series of phase I clinical studies in healthy human volunteers to establish the safety and pharmacokinetic profile of GS-5734.

The compound also has been provided for compassionate use to treat two patients with Ebola virus infection, both of whom were discharged from the hospital.

One of them was the Scottish nurse Cafferkey with recrudescent disease and the other was an acutely infected newborn, thus far the last identified case of Ebola virus infection in Guinea.

[fourty-two]

Wow! That is FANTASTICALLY WONDERFUL news! ! !

[Bob]

It's still there... (sigh)

Two people have tested positive for Ebola in Guinea, the government said on Thursday, hours after the World Health Organization declared neighboring Sierra Leone's latest outbreak was over.

Four people were tested and two of them were found to have Ebola, a government agency spokesman said.

They were all from Korokpara, a village where three people from the same family have died in the past few weeks..

The World Health Organization (WHO) did warn on Thursday that Ebola could resurface at any time, since it can linger in the eyes, central nervous system and bodily fluids of some survivors.

Residents and authorities remain on edge across West Africa, though in many areas procedures to combat Ebola remain lax, experts say.

"Strong surveillance and emergency response capacity need to be maintained, along with rigorous hygiene practices at home and in health facilities and active community participation," WHO said in a statement released earlier on Thursday.


The case of Mariatu Jalloh displayed how easily Ebola can return if precautions are not taken and patients do not seek quick medical attention.

Jalloh had traveled across the country and come into contact with dozens of people after contracting the illness. Family members had washed her corpse, considered dangerous since the virus remains contagious for days after death.

[Bob]

The two that were confirmed infected.. died.

(Source (http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/03/18/guinea-ebola-flare-up-kills-two-at-least-three-more-cases-suspected/))

Complacency, ignoring the safety protocols and warnings - it is NOT over.


The government of Guinea has confirmed four cases of Ebola and two deaths, the first in months following the official conclusion of the 2014 outbreak in that country that took the lives of over 11,000 people.

Officials in Guinea confirmed that a married couple had died of Ebola after exhibiting the telltale symptoms of the disease: excessive bleeding, vomiting, and diarrhea. The two living Ebola patients have been identified as “a mother and her 5-year-old son, relatives of the deceased” by World Health Organization (WHO) health workers. Before confirming the two new cases, Guinean officials noted that three suspected cases of Ebola were under surveillance.

The 2014 West African Ebola outbreak began in Guinea in February 2014 and officially ended in December 2015.

IT is NOT over. Ignoring safety, coming in contact with contamination... leads to infection, there is no apparent immunity to this without the vaccination, and unless one is using the PROPER anti-viral substance, no way to resist this.

[Bob]

Guinea - officials are now tracking over 800 people after multiple deaths.

(Source (http://www.newsweek.com/ebola-guinea-quarantine-816-people-latest-flare-439376)) - multiple reports.


Four people have died of Ebola in Guinea since a flare-up was announced on Thursday, just hours after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Sierra Leone's latest outbreak over.

Flare-up Example: Sierra Leone was in a 90-day period of heightened surveillance but Mariatu Jalloh, a 22-year-old student who died from Ebola on Jan. 12, was examined by an official without protective equipment.

Jalloh had lived in a house with 22 people while she was unwell, and five people were involved in washing her corpse.

Experts have warned that Ebola could resurface at any time, as it can linger in the eyes, nervous system and bodily fluids of survivors.

Communities must also help to keep Ebola at bay by avoiding old habits that can transmit the disease, such as eating bushmeat, caring for the ill and touching the dead, he said.

"It wasn't so long ago that Ebola was a real and present danger, yet many people have reverted to traditional practices.."

[Bob]

At least 5 dead are reported in the current Ebola flare-up.

Watch number increases: 961 people may have come into contact with the victims.

Liberia has now closed its border with Guinea after this current Ebola flare-up in attempts to prevent travel into the country to try to curb potential infection of its residents.


The latest case was detected in Macenta prefecture, about 200 kilometers from the village of Korokpara where the four other recent Ebola-related deaths occurred, said Fode Sylla Tass, spokesman for National Coordination of the Fight against Ebola in Guinea.

[Bob]

UNICEF reports 11 children infected with Ebola, with reports 3 have already died - All Africa Reports (Link (http://allafrica.com/stories/201603280588.html))


an emergency in southern Guinea following information that 11 suspected cases of children infected with Ebola virus have been reported, three of whom have already died.

In an effort to prevent the severe, often-fatal disease from spreading further, UNICEF has reportedly rushed in to deliver much needed health supplies to the most affected areas, a report posted on the organization's website stated. The latest information is being exacerbated by the death of the fifth Ebola patient last Tuesday in Southeast Guinea, which has triggered concerns of possible spread of the virus' recent flare-up.

The recent flare-up prompted the Liberian Government to shut its borders with Guinea following reports that the latest Ebola outbreak could made its way across the borders.

The newest death of the fifth Ebola patient was reported in the Macenta prefecture, which is approximately 200 kilometers (124 miles) from the community of Koropara, where the four earlier mortalities were detected. How the four people contracted the virus remains unclear, but it is worthy to note that Koropara refused the efforts of battling the onset of Ebola.

Last week, Fode Sylla Tass from the National Coordination of the Fight against Ebola in Guinea said the fifth man, whose identity is yet to be determined, had recently gone to Koropara, where he reportedly had direct contact with the four Ebola patients.

The man was said to have been buried in Makoidou village, without cleaning or performing sanitary interventions on the body. In the past, dead bodies, including those infected with Ebola, were washed thoroughly prior to burial. However, washing infected bodies has become a significant medium of virus transmission.

[Bob]

WHO had recently reported the "crisis" is over.. today they report that Liberia who had declared "all clear" has an active case -

A woman died yesterday afternoon while being transferred to a hospital in the capital Monrovia.

Liberia’s Ministry of Health, WHO and partner agencies immediately sent a team to the community outside Monrovia where the woman lived and the clinic where she was being treated to begin case investigation and identification of individuals who may have been in contact with her.

Liberian health authorities convened an emergency meeting early this morning with key partners to coordinate and plan a rapid response.

This latest case marks Liberia’s third flare-up of Ebola virus disease since its original outbreak was declared over on 9 May 2015.


WHO reiterated that additional flare-ups of the disease are expected in the months to come, largely due to virus persistence in some survivors, and that the three countries must remain on high alert and ready to respond. WHO has maintained close to 1,000 experienced staff in the region who are ready to contribute to emergency response operations if needed, while working to recover and strengthen health systems in the three countries, Liberia, Sierra Leonne, Guinea

[TargeT]

Is it really over?



WHO had recently reported the "crisis" is over.. today they report that Liberia who had declared "all clear" has an active case -



Since the common FLU is more dangerous (not to mention hospital accidents, vehicular deaths etc etc etc).. does it really matter if it's over or not? If this is what the OP title assumed it possibly was (bio weapon) it's got to be one of the worst effective ones we've seen, even anthrax (which is pretty low on the fatality rate side..) is stronger /faster than this & it's a joke!

[Bob]

Uganda, Africa news reports, possible outbreak, 4 deaths in a cluster.. reports

Masaka District alert - Kasaka parish in Buwunga Sub-county is where the first recent death occurred.

Four patients currently are under watch by health experts at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital as they await results from blood samples taken to Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe.

"It is not over.." the issues remain, rural settings, old dangerous burial practices, lack of education and fear in reporting the symptoms.

The Masaka hospital has now setup an isolation ward. Frst reported in Uganda in 2001, 425 people in Gulu District contracted the virus and more than half of them died. Since then, Uganda has suffered three Ebola epidemic and Marburg fever in 2012.


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The map below shows the districts. Masaka district borders on the west side of Lake Victoria.


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UK compiled a historical distribution map which spanned Africa, covering up to December 2014 (Since then there have been additional outbreaks)


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[Bob]

More ebola flare-up in Liberia -

Health officials in Liberia say a five-year-old boy has tested positive for Ebola just days after his mother died of the virus.

A 30-year-old woman died of Ebola in Monrovia last week, months after Liberia was declared free of the virus. Her death followed a recent flare-up that took the lives of at least four people in neighboring Guinea.

Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah, who is also head of Liberia's Ebola Incident Management System, said the latest flare-up has been traced to Guinea.

Notice this:


Nyenswah said the government has urged Liberians not to panic and to continue to take the preventive measures put in place at the height of the epidemic.

“Report sick people; report dead bodies; hand-washing. In as much we were Ebola free, we didn’t let our guard down.

We are still applying heightened surveillance, vigilance and testing every sick people and dead bodies,” Nyenswah said.

[Bob]

What is it then, Lassa Fever or something new? The Masaka District of Ugada.. the flare-up of what which lead to death?


Uganda media reports that six patients are currently admitted at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital with hemorrhagic fever-like symptoms and another four people from the parishes of Kasaka and Mazinga in Buwunga sub-county died in recent weeks of the still unknown ailment.

The patients suffer from advanced fever, accompanied by abnormal pain, immense vomiting, passing out bloody stool and yellow eyes.

Lab testing was performed at the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe.

District health officer, Dr Stuart Musisi said, “Despite the latest good news, the Ministry of Health together with the district and hospital teams, are working very hard to make sure that we control the spread of this strange disease and we find out what exactly

--from Outbreak News Today

reference, Lassa in Nigeria:

Lassa fever has killed more than 160 people in West Africa, most of them in Nigeria, since November 2015.. This has prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to call for early diagnostic tests for the viral disease. “Without early diagnosis and treatment, 1 in 5 infections result in severe disease, where the virus affects several organs such as the liver, spleen and kidneys,” explains Dr. Formenty, expert in hemorrhagic fevers at WHO.

Are medico's in Uganda then now seeing Lassa? The liver damage (yellow eyes) is consistent.. (Lassa symptoms expanded: The presenting complaints include persistent fever of about 38°C which is unresponsive to antimalarial treatment and conventional antibiotics, rigors, pharyngitis (sore throat), retro-sternal chest pain, vomiting, abdominal pain, back pain, muscle pain, weakness, cough, shortness of breath, yellowness of eyes, puffy face/neck/jaw, lymphadenopathy, constipation, gastro-intestinal bleeding, rib pain and tenderness, restlessness, dizziness, confusion and coma.)

Distribution map:


https://flutrackers.com/forum/filedata/fetch?id=668310&d=1391514881

[Bob]

Is it really over?

When relapses are happening, where the virus seems to be able to hide in various shielded tissues, and then complications appear to surface...

Asked that question back in February and today New Scientist (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2086498-ebola-virus-does-a-total-shutdown-to-hide-before-a-fresh-strike/) asks the question also.

See this:

"At least seven of these outbreaks were triggered by the virus lingering silently in people who have recovered from Ebola. By tracing its evolution, researchers have now discovered how the virus does this: it completely shuts down and doesn’t even replicate – something never seen before in this type of virus."

Earlier in this thread we talked about the MonoClonal antibody treatments FAILING after the virus mutated to bypass the immune system.


The West African epidemic has shown that the Ebola virus can hide in organs that are sheltered from the immune system, such as the eye and testes, and then re-emerge – as happened in case of Pauline Cafferkey, a British nurse who fell ill again nine months after recovering from Ebola.

Jason Ladner at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland, and his team examined a flare-up of Ebola in Liberia in June 2015.

At that time, Liberia had experienced no Ebola cases for three months, but then a 17-year-old in the town of Needowein died and tested positive for the virus.


To slow its mutation rate to a standstill, the virus must effectively have stopped replicating, the team say.

This has been seen before in a more complex DNA virus, but never in an RNA virus.

The researchers think the Needowein outbreak probably began with a woman who had cared for people with Ebola in a neighbouring village – 10 months earlier. She developed unusual symptoms but didn’t suspect Ebola, and later moved to Needowein.

The team have identified similar patterns in other Ebola outbreaks. In March 2015, a survivor infected his wife via semen, and the virus looked like those that were circulating months earlier when her husband was ill.

Analysing 294 more sequences, the team found 15 that were similarly out of sync with their times.

In March 2016, 10 people in Guinea got Ebola after a man who had recovered from it 15 months earlier infected his wife via semen.

The outbreak was contained, partly because 1600 people who came into contact with these 10 received an experimental Ebola vaccine.

The drug firm Merck says it will soon have 300,000 doses of this vaccine to help manage such flare-ups.

The worry now is that people with persistent infections – some of whom, like the woman in Needowein, may not even know they have had Ebola – could transmit the virus in places less prepared than Liberia.

Are we seeing a situation now with a type of Ebola that is a ticking time-bomb? Hiding and people not even knowing its there... A new type of typhoid Mary syndrome at the outset?

[Bob]

The New Scientist report worries me.

That a survivor could be harbouring a latent dormant form of the virus.

WHO/CDC statistics:

The Ebola epidemic this time killed five times more than all other known Ebola outbreaks combined.

More than 21 months on from the first confirmed case recorded on 23 March 2014, 11,315 people have been reported as having died from the disease in six countries; Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, the US and Mali.

The total number of reported cases is about 28,637.

That says, 17,322 people "survived", besides asking HOW, are we able to vaguely conclude that there are that many potential re-infectors walking around and freely traveling? Maybe some can travel world wide.

Can they spread a dormant virus?

I simply don't know if this virus has been militarized, and that is a big IF.. but a virus that could do that, to first:

Develop an active form which would present, and show infection rates, potential treatment rates (see treatments available)?

Test the world's response - how will the public, media, government act, how will the military act?

How will people react to mandatory isolation and quarantine? (we saw some violent aggression in health care workers with a bad attitude screaming that they were put in mandatory temporary isolation..

How will special "agencies act"? Will they supply funds and staff and research for equipment centers?

Can a "dormant" virus state be tested? What will the world do if/when that is revealed?


At the outset of this thread, I pointed out my trepidation, and even in the title of the thread I asked the 3 questions, which everyone tracking this should ask - is it something Natural, or was it an accidental release of a modified strain, or was/is this a test of a bio-weapon... In the thread we pointed out numerous outbreaks, and pointed out how and who, bio-weapons have been developed.

A bio-weapon with a latent genetic "time delay" mechanism built-in, and it seems that is about as horridly insidious as it could be, using a way to spread regionally, maybe even world-wide.

This scares the bejezus out of me that just maybe a bio-weapon was the original development, and the intention of someone, some military or some government, somewhere to launch such a "test" and or attack, regionally, and quite possibly, the world.

Such a weapon would be a WMD (Weapon of Mass Destruction).

[Gatita]

Chickenpox hibernates in the body, then can re-emerge as shingles. A person with shingles can infect a vulnerable person with chickenpox. It seems to me, that the Ebola virus could hibernate and still infect others via body fluids. In a different zoological arena, feline leukemia can be transmitted in a similar fashion. An infected cat can be asymptomatic, and unaffected by the virus, but can still transmit it to other cats.

Or, it could be something more sinister happening with Ebola. I prefer to think otherwise, but I'm not unaware of the possibility.

Cat

[Bill Ryan]

is it something Natural, or was it an accidental release of a modified strain, or was/is this a test of a bio-weapon?

I do suspect the third: a test of a bioweapon.

If this was a test (and the test could take various forms, for various purposes) — then there's an implication that there could be a further test soon, or even an operational phase if the test was judged useful or successful.