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

[Bob]

OP - Haemorrhagic fever outbreaks have been reported in both Guinea and Sierra Leone.

22 March 2014 - Current - as early as February 2, 2014, people have been coming down ill with a bleeding fever, viral in nature but uncertain as to the "strain". Western AFRICA.

As of September 28th, 2014 over 3020 people have died in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia - the strain of Haemorrhagic fever has been called Ebola-Zaire. This thread documents what has happened since then, what solutions have shown to be available, monoclonal antibodies, vaccines based on some genetic information for Ebola, various anti-virals shown to be effective, and a method which prevents a mechanism in the virus from being able to spread from cell to cell..


As of October 15th Ebola crisis: Outbreak death toll rises to 4,447 says WHO


This thread will go over other forms of Haemorrhagic fevers as well. This type of disease is not a gentle disease, leading to much suffering. But having solutions and deploying them fast may help to alleviate spread, and save many lives.


http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/ebola-6-months/guinea-chart-big.png?ua=1

ref: http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/03/22/leone-fever-idINL6N0MJ0GP20140322 - Reuters reporting outbreak(s)

Guinean health officials have registered 49 cases of infection in three southeastern towns and the capital Conakry since the outbreak was first reported on Feb. 9.

Earliest quote: "While the exact type of the fever, which is characterized by bleeding, has yet to be identified, a senior official in Guinea said on Friday preliminary tests had narrowed down the possibilities to Ebola or Marburg Haemorrhagic Fever."

WHO officials, however, suspect Lassa Fever may be behind the outbreak, cases of which have now also been reported in a border region in Sierra Leone.


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

(Note: As of 2015 August, world outcry was noted about WHO having mishandled the Ebola outbreak, lack of proper facilities on-sites, improper training, improper containment, improper procedures being used for biosafety).

(Note: as of October 2015, multiple variants of Ebola virus, including the Makona strain causing the most recent outbreak in West Africa are now present despite (as the reader will note the poo-poo'ing of the various nay-sayers, including learnered "experts" saying Ebola has not mutated, and is not a candidate for mutation - mutation is one of the reasons specific molecular anti-body treatments touted as "effective" have proved LESS-THAN effective)..

Humans contract Lassa Fever, which is endemic in West Africa, from contact with food or household items contaminated with rodent faeces. The disease can then be transmitted from person to person.


[..] (it is) highly contagious," Dr. Esther Sterk, MSF's Tropical Medicine Adviser, said in a statement.

Marburg - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg_virus - Marburg viru


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Marburg_virus.jpg

Weaponization - The Soviet Union had an extensive offensive and defensive biological weapons program that included MARV (Marburg Virus). After the breakup of the Soviet Union into separate independent states, weapons research continued and was not stopped.

In 2009, expanded clinical trials of an Ebola and Marburg vaccine began in Africa. No vaccine to date has been approved for use in the US.

Ebola - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus - Ebola Virus


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Ebola_virus_em.jpg/636px-Ebola_virus_em.jpg

EBOV is one of four ebolaviruses that causes Ebola virus disease (EVD) in humans (in the literature also often referred to as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, EHF).

From the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) - https://www.fas.org/programs/bio/factsheets/ebola.html

"The Soviet Union's biological weapons program favored Marburg over Ebola.."

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/intro/bio_ebola.htm - From Global Security dot Org

"Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever is one of the most virulent viral diseases known to humankind, causing death in 50-90% of all clinically-ill cases. Consequently, it has figured prominently in popular discussions of biological warfare.."

"Because of its rarity, the disease may not be diagnosed corrected at the onset of an outbreak. Reports suggested that the Ebola virus was researched and weaponized by the former Soviet Union's biological weapons program Biopreparat. Dr. Ken Alibek, former the First Deputy Director of Biopreparat, speculated that the Russians had aerosolized the Ebola virus for dissemination as a biological weapon."

Lassa - http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/intro/bio_viral.htm - introduction to biological weapons of mass destruction (WMD-BIO)

and

http://www.bioterrorism.cme.uab.edu/CategoryA/VHF/summary.asp - Bio-Terrorism FACTS

Description - Arenaviruses: Lassa Fever (Africa) and the New World Hemorrhagic Fevers - Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever (BHF, Machupo virus), Argentine Hemorrhagic Fever (AHF, Junin virus), Venezuelan Hemorrhagic Fever (Guanarito virus), and Brazilian Hemorrhagic Fever (Sabia virus)..

Clinical Features

Clinical manifestations of VHF's vary according to the specific etiologic virus and may overlap, making specific clinical diagnosis unlikely.

The incubation period varies from 2 to 21 days, and may be inoculum dependent. Prodromal symptoms are typical, with several days of fever, myalgias, headache, malaise, arthralgias, nausea, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.

With some VHF's (Viral Haemorrhagic Fever) , such as CCHF, abdominal pain may be pronounced, mimicking an acute abdomen. All VHF's are characterized by an abrupt onset of symptoms, with the exception of the arenaviruses, where onset is more insidious.

After the prodrome, patients may develop conjunctivitis and pharyngitis, and most VHF patients have a rash, with the dermal manifestations varying by etiology.

As these diseases progress, patients may exhibit a progressively worsening bleeding diathesis, with petechiae, conjunctival and mucosal hemorrhage, hematuria, hematemesis, and melena, followed by DIC and hypotension. As the patient worsens, CNS signs ensue, including delirium, seizures, and coma.

Shock and multiple organ system failure presage death.

Case fatality rates vary according to the viral etiology, ranging from less than 5 percent to approximately 70 to 90 percent with Ebola Zaire subtype.

Treatment: Intensive Supportive Care

Intravenous IND Ribavirin therapy (available from CDC or USAMRIID) - recommended for VHF of unknown etiology while diagnostic confirmation is pending VHF known to be due to Arenaviruses or Bunyaviruses (Ribavirin has efficacy against Lassa Fever, some new world Arenaviruses such as AHF, CCHF, RVF, and HFRS).

See guidelines for dosing in JAMA 2002 May 8; 287:2391-2405 or at web link: http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n18/ffull/jst20006.html

Lassa fever or Lassa hemorrhagic fever (LHF) is an acute viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the Lassa virus and first described in 1969 in the town of Lassa, in Borno State, Nigeria. Lassa fever has become a major problem in the African region.

The infection is endemic in West African countries, and causes 300,000–500,000 cases annually, with approximately 5,000 deaths.

This cute little mousey is the primary reservoir for the Lassa Virus disease.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Mastomys_natalensis.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Lassa_virus.JPG

More background: http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/Lassa-Fever-Marburg-and-Ebola-Virus.htm - the bioweapons, viral

From Arms Control dot org
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2004_07-08/Luongo

The exact number of ex-Soviet BW (Biological Warfare) scientists remains unknown, but nonproliferation experts generally agree that Soviet biological weapons facilities in total employed 60,000-65,000 people.

The ex-Soviet BW complex was separated into three distinct areas, which helped to conceal research activities; the complex contained some activities that were clearly prohibited by the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), although Western intelligence agencies never could determine to what extent this was so.

The complex included:

• multiple Ministry of Defense- controlled facilities, employing around 15,000 people. These facilities conducted research on some biological agents, such as Lassa fever, probably deemed too sensitive for Biopreparat institutes.

• the Biopreparat network of facilities that employed roughly 40,000 scientists and workers. This network included 50 nominally civilian/ commercial facilities that many believe used a “civilian” cover to engage in BW activities. The Defense Ministry was in fact the main customer for Biopreparat’s work.

• six agricultural laboratories, which employed about 10,000 people. Work at these facilities focused on developing pathogens related to plants and animals.

Stopping the proliferation of biological weapons expertise from the former Soviet states is complicated by the difficulty in pinpointing key experts, particularly those with the knowledge to make a key contribution to a biological weapons program.

Recent figures have suggested that there are anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 former Soviet biological weapons scientists with weapons-relevant skills.

Is this current outbreak "accidental", coincidental, a BW "demonstration" - what do you think?

UPDATE - I am going to put a NOTE in the beginning of this thread (see above). This THREAD IS NOT about treatment or "cure claims" using unproven remedies for the Hemorrhagic Fevers; and this thread is not for Silver discussion, or nano-particles.

It is to discuss specifically what it asks about in the thread title, accidental natural or deliberate bio-weapon, and if so, what proofs do we have that such could be natural or accidental or deliberate.

WHO would be making a BIO-WEAPON, historically, and why - that is a valid discussion. Understanding how the Hemorrhagic Fevers do their damage would be appropriate..

A brief mention of what one has used personally as an effective treatment for a Hemorrhagic Fever would be interesting and helpful, as it would apply directly to the thread TITLE, the subject..

An OUTBREAK of the FEVERS is important to know about, where, what happened and WHY. If such happens, or if a CASE appears for instance in Europe or the North American or South American Continent, Australia, Asia... it will be posted in this thread (if known about).

BIG QUESTIONS TO ASK: What types of FEVERS exist, and how are they transmitted, what is the reservoir? Where are they spreading and in what concentrations (presenting HOW?)

If it is from BATS or rodents, do people eat or are otherwise exposed to these vectors?

Understanding - that is the public service. Education hopefully to change behaviour for the better.

PLEASE let's keep this thread doing a good service. Posts which flaunt the FORUM's guidelines will be reported; rude, distraction, harassment, derailment is not in good spirit and certainly not in the best use of being helpful to the People. These diseases if they are caught, are not comfortable, not something one would wish on one's worst.. I am trying to help with education. Highest good.



--Bob

POST OP UPDATE

SOLUTIONS possible -

Going through this thread, there have been various Treatments/prevention regimine observed to be effective against filoviridae (possibly other viruses too as described in this thread -

Please refer to posts:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=882026&viewfull=1#post882026

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=870810&viewfull=1#post870810

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=871304&viewfull=1#post871304

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=871653&viewfull=1#post871653

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=868836&viewfull=1#post868836

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=862232&viewfull=1#post862232

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=862598&viewfull=1#post862598

Early monoclonal antibody work - http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=866626&viewfull=1#post866626

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=861238&viewfull=1#post861238

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=861247&viewfull=1#post861247

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=861343&viewfull=1#post861343

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Hello Bobd! Thank you for this great thread!
Before the Olympics in 2012 I could not stop thinking how the Arc Mittal loop looked a LOT like the "shepherd's crook" of Ebola.
And like magic, during the games, in Uganda there was an outbreak of "hemorrhagic fever".

But you see that the doctors are having trouble deciding what this is?

They might not be considering that this is a new strain of Dengue Fever -- the old secondary strain ALSO caused a hemorrhagic fever, but something tells me that this one is different; the INCUBATION period doesn't seem the same as any of the other fevers that cause a bleed out.

So they were scratching heads in 2012 wondering why the incubation period was not typical of Ebola, and on my blog I was saying, "watch out for antibody-dependent Denge Hemorrhagic Fever".


The only reason I knew about this other form of Dengue was because of the CIA fact page.
It mentioned like a 5% incidence of the hemo Dengue among persons who had been exposed to original Dengue.

That is a fairly large number as fatal diseases are concerned. Smaller than Ebola, but every bit as horrible when it happens.

I was looking up the Dengue stuff a few years ago because I had a MORAL ISSUE with what the company OXITEC did with illegal GMO mosquito releases in Africa and other continents. This is a UK based company backed by Bill Gates and all other types of blood sucking "people", iirc, releasing mosquitoes contaminated with Wolbachia into the wild, trying to "breed out" the "disease-carrying vector organisms"..... what they are really doing is just changing what evolution had already stabilized for people.

The investors and philanthropists are 100% UNABLE to "leave well enough alone" and "let nature take its course" :(


Bobd here's hoping that those poor, TARGETED people of Africa figure out what's going on and how to stop the Whiternization of Africa :(

[Lifebringer]

Told you guys when they went and cored out that virus up in Siberia in a pit away from city limits. They're gonna get real nasty and quickly and I just was worried about cellulitis in my upper arm today. Felt like when you get an injection and they jab it too far in the muscle of the arm. It suddenly appeared, after treating a really nasty deformed skin carcinoma that dropped off after a week, and the lump that was under it, moved up the arm.

Be careful out there peeps, and I would recommend not spending anytime in the regions, but that really doesn't help if all the jobs are in South Africa and people travel. Just be careful people, they are grasping at anything they can do, to lessen the numbers and continue the same status quo stripping the earth. They can't do what they want unless there is fewer oppositional voices that know how to take it grassroots before they hear of it in the media.

Buckle up and invest in a couple dozen face mask, just in case. If it becomes airborne and someone carries it within a plane between the incubational period, it would be weeks before you can track them, and within months, eradication of population. Just like in "The Event" on Netflix.

[Bob]

It may be time to bring up the Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic fever

Ya the same Crimea that Putin just "acquired"..

Biological labs in the Crimea creating and investigating the Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic fever... interesting thought there right?

Everyone is thinking about "just wants to be Russian again, join the motherland", when the thought in the motherland may be, time to get the bio-labs and the bugs..

Just a thought.. right?

ref: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/12/12-0710_article.htm
"Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a highly contagious viral tick-borne disease with case-fatality rates as high as 50%. "

[Selene]

Whew. Well, we can pretty well predict that the same folks who tried to wipe us all out with HIV and then H5N1 Bird Flu won’t give up trying, will they?

And it’s a given that, if the Russians had perfected a lethal virus, that the Americans would need to steal same from them. So who knows who’s actually pulling the strings now? Let someone else do the work, then steal their results is a fine old tactic.

But the simultaneous outbreak of Lassa Fever is an interesting “improvement” in the failed NWO worldwide pandemic scenario attempted in 2009.

This time, the simultaneous spread of another ‘similar’ illness could be designed as a stalking horse; something to create hesitation or confusion among healthcare workers while the real threat grows beneath it. That is, early cases show up at the doctor, doctor diagnoses ‘most likely’ illness: Lassa Fever.... It will be critical days or weeks before correct diagnoses are being made. Too late; critical outbreak mass has been reached.

Brilliant.

Thanks so much for this heads-up, Bobd. Forewarned is forearmed.

Cheers,

Selene

[Dawn]

This might be a good place to put info about the miniaturized Beck device I purchased a couple of months ago. Basically it kills all pathogens and creates 'immortal blood' within your body (because there is nothing in the blood which is bothering your cells). There are threads on Avalon about the Beck protocol, but a very small portable device is a new thing.

I wear mine around town or at home a couple of hours daily. Pretty much any nasty bug out there will be eliminated from my body immediately with this simple life style. It is just about as large as a big wristwatch and runs on a watch battery for just about a month before you need to refresh the battery. Here's the link: https://www.nulife.de/lshop,showdetail,1128,e,1395536019-1816,001,w-0108,13,Tshowrub--001,0.htm

This doesn't help the remainder of the humans on the planet... but it will protect you if you learn about it and apply the technology to your own body.

[Bob]

Doctors without Borders confirms "IT'S EBOLA"

ref:
http://www.voanews.com/content/deadly-ebola-virus-confirmed-in-guinea/1877059.html


http://gdb.voanews.com/9FE9E38D-7A27-44D9-867C-F86C6B796E55_w640_r1_s.jpg

"Guinean health ministry official Sakoba Keita told VOA (Voice of America news agency) Saturday that three of 12 virus samples sent to France have been confirmed as Ebola."

"A medic in Monrovia told AFP on condition of anonymity that Liberia was at considerable risk from the disease.

"We have a 90 per cent chance of having cases in Monrovia because about 80 per cent of goods on the Liberian market come from Guinea," he said."

ED NOTE: - what was in the samples of the other 9? If 3 showed up as EBOLA, it is assumed that one would not waste the testing agency's resources on submitting samples that would not be representative, of the "infective agent"

[Ellisa]

I heard that confirmation too. It's Ebola, which is endemic in the region. It's rare because it so thoroughly attacks and kills its host. Whilst I am aware that much research is currently done into biological weapons, it will be more remarkable when cases are seen to occur without cause or history, which is not so here.

[Bob]

Hello Bobd! Thank you for this great thread!

Before the Olympics in 2012 I could not stop thinking how the Arc Mittal loop looked a LOT like the "shepherd's crook" of Ebola.

And like magic, during the games, in Uganda there was an outbreak of "hemorrhagic fever".

But you see that the doctors are having trouble deciding what this is?

They might not be considering that this is a new strain of Dengue Fever -- the old secondary strain ALSO caused a hemorrhagic fever, but something tells me that this one is different; the INCUBATION period doesn't seem the same as any of the other fevers that cause a bleed out.

So they were scratching heads in 2012 wondering why the incubation period was not typical of Ebola, and on my blog I was saying, "watch out for antibody-dependent Denge Hemorrhagic Fever".


The only reason I knew about this other form of Dengue was because of the CIA fact page.
It mentioned like a 5% incidence of the hemo Dengue among persons who had been exposed to original Dengue.

That is a fairly large number as fatal diseases are concerned. Smaller than Ebola, but every bit as horrible when it happens.

I was looking up the Dengue stuff a few years ago because I had a MORAL ISSUE with what the company OXITEC did with illegal GMO mosquito releases in Africa and other continents. This is a UK based company backed by Bill Gates and all other types of blood sucking "people", iirc, releasing mosquitoes contaminated with Wolbachia into the wild, trying to "breed out" the "disease-carrying vector organisms"..... what they are really doing is just changing what evolution had already stabilized for people.

The investors and philanthropists are 100% UNABLE to "leave well enough alone" and "let nature take its course"


Bobd here's hoping that those poor, TARGETED people of Africa figure out what's going on and how to stop the Whiternization of Africa :(

On the note of the Haemorrhagic fever outbreaks as delineated herein, we should expand a bit on the different types of the Haemorrhagic fever mechanisms, symptoms, and where they are found, where historically did they first get "noticed", and what steps have been taken to create solutions or create more weapons uses for them..


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

Dengue Haemorrhagic fever - Classic “Dengue” was an attempt by the Spanish at pronouncing the Swahili phrase “ki denga pepo,” - translated as “cramp-like seizure caused by an evil spirit” during a Caribbean outbreak in 1827. Dengue is transmitted by arthropods (blood sucking insects, typically the Mosquito). It is the result of a virus which belongs in the same family as Yellow-Fever (Flaviviridae).

Dengue is world-wide, including the USA, large parts of South America, many parts of India, most of Indonesia, many parts of Honduras (see map below). Dengue is a virus so it has mutation potential. One particular strain causes hemorrhages, or bleeding from the blood vessels (dengue haemorrhagic fever).

Most of the viral hemorrhagic fever agents cause severe, life-threatening disease, and most of these viruses are handled in Biosafety Level 4 (BSL4) containment facilities. Viri which do not require an arthropod to transmit are readily adaptable to bio-weapons.

There is no accepted "medical-cure" or "established drug treatment" for many of the viral hemorrhagic fevers. The exceptions are "hyper-immune globulin" for Argentinian hemorrhagic fever and "Ribavirin" for Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and Argentinian hemorrhagic fever.

Dengue virus is a member of the family Flaviviridae, and is closely related to Yellow-fever virus. There are four serotypically distinct types of dengue virus (DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3 and DEN-4).


http://chanlo.com/images/dengue.jpg

Epidemics of Dengue fever have been recognized since at least 1779 (Rush, 1789), and have been recorded from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas since the early 19th century (Armstrong, 1923).

Although it is rarely fatal, up to 90% of the population of an infected area can be incapacitated during the course of an epidemic (Armstrong, 1923; Siler et al., 1926). This incapacitation potential is considered "ideal" for a bio-warfare weapon (create an infection which debilitates and requires uses of resources, support personnel).

Widespread movements of troops and refugees during and after World War II introduced vectors (the insects and rodents) and viruses into many new areas, and this trend has continued (Calisher, 2005) with the growth of global transport networks (Tatem et al., this volume, pp. 293–343).

By the end of the 20th century, annual epidemics of Dengue were occurring in many parts of Central and South America (Pinheiro, 1989; Rodriguez-Roche et al., 2005), throughout the Pacific Islands (Effler et al., 2005) and South East Asia and with occasional outbreaks in North Australia (Doherty et al., 1967) and Africa.

Symptoms - DENGUE infection
Infection with any of the four dengue serotypes after an incubation period of around five to six days (after having been bitten by an infected mosquito) includes joint pain, fever and headaches - one may feel that the pain is so bad in the joints and bones, that one may say it is like their BONES are breaking. Dengue fever has been mistaken for Yellow fever as well as other diseases including influenza, measles, typhoid and malaria.

Dengue Haemorrhagic fever (DHF), where additional symptoms develop, including haemorrhaging (bleeding) and shock. The mortality from DHF can exceed 30% if appropriate care is unavailable.

The most significant risk factor for DHF is when secondary infection with a different serotype of dengue (common) occurs in people who have already had, and recovered from, a primary dengue fever infection. The presence of the more common anti-dengue antibodies increases the uptake of the DHF virus resulting in a more complicated and severe infection.

The main vector (transmission mechanism) of Dengue is the anthropophilic Aedes aegypti mosquito, shown below:

Aedes aegypti is a mosquito that can spread Dengue fever, Chikungunya and Yellow fever viruses, and other diseases. This mosquito bites warm blooded animals (primates), mice, larger rodents, humans, and the reservoir travels from the human mosquito rodent mosquito human:


http://www.scielosp.org/img/revistas/csp/v25s1/15f1.gif

Here is one of the Aedes Aegypti shown on a finger (see nail size for reference) with it's blood tank on EMPTY (hasn't drawn blood yet):


http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/24/16/06/5300632/3/622x350.jpg

And as it "loads up" on blood:


http://mosquitosquadblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/mosquito.jpg

Where is this mosquito present?


http://rdontheroad.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/dengue-dist.jpg

Are you potentially offering Aedes Aegypti a home to breed in?

(Standing water, swamps, water in hollow logs, etc..)


http://www.chibodia.org/uploads/pics/wp_04b_stehendes_wasser_in_andong_v_01.jpg

OR creating breeding spots with something as simple as this:


http://file1.hpage.com/009443/44/bilder/are-you-breeding-mosquitoes-2.jpg

In other posts we will get more into the other Haemorrhagic fever virus infections and outbreaks. A bio-weapon could include the release of infected mosquitoes into an area which can let them breed successfully.

The most common historical approach to limiting Dengue was source control of Aedes aegypti mosquito.

As mentioned by Tesla, above post - Bill Gates had donated 55M$ US, see ref: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Gates-Foundation-gives-55-million-to-battle-1123833.php , in an attempt to create a Genetically Modified Organism and a Vaccine against the Dengue serotypes. The GM mosquito would be "sterile", released into the environment to naturally curb the spread of viable mosquitoes that spread dengue.

And as mentioned in this post above, when a specific anti-body is present against the dengue virus, getting an infection of DHF (dengue hemorrhagic fever virus) can exacerbate the up-take of the the more dangerous virus, potentially blocking the concept of "vaccine use" as a solution.

Another "solution" being looked at is to create a specific nano-anti-virus virus to go after the virus and the mosquito that spreads such. - ref: http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=16792.php

PREVENT getting bitten by the mosquito, take needed counter-measures for personal protection, protect your surrounding home by removing standing water breeding spots, use mosquito netting and don't go outside during times when the mosquito is known to appear in concentration.

references:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3164798/
http://www.medlink.com/medlinkcontent.asp - search string "Viral hemorrhagic fevers"

[Bob]

As of 24 March Mali, Liberia and Ivory Coast called for vigilance to prevent "the disease" from spreading across their borders.

This is what is "strange" or "suspicious" - The Geneva-based WHO (World Health Organization) hasn’t previously recorded any outbreaks of Ebola in Guinea, the world’s biggest exporter of Bauxite, the ore used to make Aluminum.

Almost 90 cases are reported, and 59 dead presently. 1976 in Congo and Sudan, two different strains of the virus killed 431 of the 602 people infected.

The three countries border Guinea along with Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Ecowas.png

Mali’s health ministry held a crisis meeting yesterday and called on citizens to be “vigilant” on its website.

Liberia’s New Democrat newspaper ran an editorial in which it said there was an immediate need for increased surveillance on all border posts with Guinea.

Many of the goods sold in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, come from Guinea.

NB: Sierra Leonne and Liberia are noted economically for Diamonds, recall the term "Blood Diamonds".

These countries had/have been developing projects in oil development, mineral development, hydro-electric power development with CHINA.

LukOIL, RUSSIAN oil giant oil company had decided last year to of all things get involved in creating a MINERAL consortium for the development of all things DIAMONDS, working on the largest single diamond pipe deposit in Russia.

Sierra Leonne and Liberia (working with China) would be considered a threat economically, releasing billions of dollars of illegal "blood diamonds" into the world's markets. LukOIL had been developing offshore OIL deposits off Sierra Leonne and exploring offshore Guinea. And Russia had just "acquired" Crimea, where the Crimean-Congo Viral Haemorrhagic fever virus was discovered in Ticks, (and most likely weaponized in Crimean bio-labs).

Is there a pattern of coincidence here? Is a message being stated to those west African countries, don't do business with China, let Russia have it all, or, "else"?

It should be pointed out once again, part of the "disease" has been identified as Ebola, the strain of which hasn't been discussed publicly at this time.

“The three cases, which were registered in Conakry, have no link with Ebola,” Camara said. (Camara is Guinea's government spokesman.

references: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-03-23/ebola-spreads-to-guinea-capital-conakry-with-at-least-59-deaths

diamonds and LukOil - http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/putin-invited-to-lukoils-diamond-mine-opening-next-month/487733.html

LukOil Sierra Leonne - OIL ownership: http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/lukoil-completes-savannah-well-drilling-sierra-leone/

Blood Diamonds - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_diamond

[Sérénité]

There is now a suspected case in Canada.

A person has flown into Canada from Liberia and has developed symptoms. They are saying he or she is in a critical condition and is in isolation, but "wouldn't have been contagious whilst on board the flight to Canada...":confused:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26726745

[TargeT]

Lots of people get DENGUE fever down here on the island, my wife, daughter and son have already been through it; it's like a sever flu that seems to worsen with age.. I don't know what the mortality rate is, but it must be fairly low; "a fatality rate of up to 30% when proper treatment isn't available" is kind of a bull**** statement, since there is NO treatment for Dengue.

makes me wonder if this is another fear campaign... the fatality rate for Anthrax (http://ideas.health.vic.gov.au/bluebook/anthrax.asp) (5-20%) is super low too, yet we had people freaking out all over the country a few years back..

color me skeptical.

[Bob]

Canadian outbreak - Not Ebola, not Lassa, is it Marburg? 24 March 2014
BBC article last updated at 20:45 ET

Thanks Sérénité for sharing the link to the article:

Significant quotes from the page -

"A virus resembling Ebola has struck in Guinea, with cases also reported in Liberia.

"As many as 61 people have died of the disease in the remote forests of southern Guinea.

"But health officials in the Guinean capital, Conakry, have said the virus is not Ebola."


[..] currently suffering a deadly outbreak of an unidentified haemorrhagic fever.

He is in isolation in critical condition in Saskatoon, the largest city in Saskatchewan province.




There is now a suspected case in Canada.

A person has flown into Canada from Liberia and has developed symptoms. They are saying he or she is in a critical condition and is in isolation, but "wouldn't have been contagious whilst on board the flight to Canada...":confused:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26726745

[Bob]

Lots of people get DENGUE fever down here on the island, my wife, daughter and son have already been through it; it's like a sever flu that seems to worsen with age.. I don't know what the mortality rate is, but it must be fairly low; "a fatality rate of up to 30% when proper treatment isn't available" is kind of a bull**** statement, since there is NO treatment for Dengue.

makes me wonder if this is another fear campaign... the fatality rate for Anthrax (http://ideas.health.vic.gov.au/bluebook/anthrax.asp) (5-20%) is super low too, yet we had people freaking out all over the country a few years back..

color me skeptical.

If you see this appearance on people,

http://270c81.medialib.glogster.com/media/07/07e9c0ee7736a8824cf46c1f713109a625fb91de4c3ec1c280b26fa207165916/ebola1-jpg.jpg



PLAIN REGULAR DENGUE isn't what we are talking about -

We are talking about the Haemorrhagic fever outbreaks - Haemorrhagic is a bleeding infliction, where the capillaries, blood vessels break, leak blood, organs fail, and one can drown when the lungs fill up with fluid.

Here are a few more pictures to get a good look at what it does to people -


http://www.leememorial.org/HealthInformation/graphics/images/en/17160.jpg

I wouldn't "color me skeptical" if one sees this first hand on someone, chances are, one would be one of the next victims of the hemorrhages.

But seriously, here is a volunteer page to help one go over to Sierra Leone for 2 weeks to 8 weeks so that you can do some good medically for folks, and report back to us first hand :

http://www.westafricanmedicalmissions.org/page/show/491265-get-involved-in-sierra-leone

If it is just smoke no-one should have any concerns.

Here is a current update on the regions affected: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/slpolicywatch/OJjbwXyep74/Htg2Xgb97qUJ

The strain in the samples tested, appears to be the Zaire-Ebola variant.


http://www.msf.org/sites/msf.org/files/old-cms/source/countries/africa/congobrazzaville/2003/ebola/death.jpg

(doctors/nurses taking out a person who died in the 2003 outbreak in Congo-Brazzaville ebola infection outbreak - ref: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/ebola100congo.html )

[TargeT]

All three had the Haemorrhagic rash, mostly in the legs and arms (all over for my son) and then came back.. I think your immune system has a lot to do with it; I had my wife on an IV of lactate ringers (two bags) and some mild pain relievers (the joint ache is pretty strong).. yes it can be fatal, but doesn't seem that it often is; I've talked to locals that have lived here their whole lives, the general thoughts of them are where my opinion comes from.

of course there are extreme cases, but those are not the common occurrence.

[Bob]

I seriously doubt Dengue Hemorrhagic fever is what the people in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Canada currently have.

As to Dengue Hemorrhagic fever, the issue is when anti-bodies from having regular Dengue are in the body, those areas in the cells which have been exposed to the anti-bodies develop 1) a hyper-immune system response to one of the 4 variants (serotypes), and 2) the virus makes a bee-line into those cells which have had been exposed. I can pull up the full scientific articles and it would go over everyone's head and waste time and space.

If you are determined to study the mechanism of "anti-body enhancement" - here is the link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2712199

Suffice to say, if you have had the "normal dengue", the risk for a poorer outcome dengue hemorrhagic virus infection goes up. They then call it a "severe illness", not a gentle flu. My mother died of a corona-virus "flu" last year, and it took me over a year to get over the symptoms of the corona-virus flu which I picked up from the mideast and gave it to her by sneezing.

I am acutely aware of what a virus can do, and I am not skeptical of any outbreak. And I will alert folks to take the needed precautions.

The issue is there appears to be an increase in Haemorrhagic fever, the severe kind, not just a little inconvenient "shingles" type rash. When the doctors say the results are not clear is it Lassa, Ebola, or Marburg, or something new, that gets my interest.



All three had the Haemorrhagic rash, mostly in the legs and arms (all over for my son) and then came back.. I think your immune system has a lot to do with it; I had my wife on an IV of lactate ringers (two bags) and some mild pain relievers (the joint ache is pretty strong).. yes it can be fatal, but doesn't seem that it often is; I've talked to locals that have lived here their whole lives, the general thoughts of them are where my opinion comes from.

of course there are extreme cases, but those are not the common occurrence.

Here is another link explaining - antibody dependent enhancement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement

Normally one would think having antibodies is a good thing, thereby letting the body know "go after this or that".. though, with this syndrome happening, having the antibodies increases the severity or damage. It's not just dengue that such enhancement happens with.. HIV it is noted with too.

ADE (antibody-dependent enhancement) is one of the main issues where trying to develop a vaccine fails.

Antibody and T-Cell mechanisms are needed for the immune system to go after the foreign proteins (the invaders).

Understanding this one can see how the inflammation induced with zappers, anti-body increasers (certain herbals) can lead to an increase in susceptibility to more severe infection.

It seems to me a certain level of balance is needed. That level of balance is a bit unknown, just how much is enough enhancement, or how much is too much.

What I HAVE seen effective is what the FDA has banned, certain azo-based dyes that interfere with the viral proteins, inducing mutation in their replication mechanism. When the FDA banned those dyes, there was an increase in incidence of strange virus infections.

I have seen research that as early as 1906 many bacterial infections, viral infections were controllable, and treatable, but this was suppressed by whomever.. Subsequent to the suppression we see a major outbreak of the Spanish flu happen (1918). Coincidence, methinks not.

ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth_(dye)) - 1976 FDA "forced to ban"
ref: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395567/ - Ebola Zaire is "discovered" 1976

In 1960 the FDA was "given" jurisdiction over food COLORS.

In 1953 the Soviets were strongly developing bio and chemical weapons, virus' that had no defence by the allies. (They apparently retained the antidotes for themselves. The Soviets obviously knew of the biological treatment mechanisms discovered in 1906 that used dyes).

In 1972 the Soviets published a STUDY (http://books.google.com/books?id=zqLLa-MI8k0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Toxicology+Omaye&hl=en&ei=bdsaTMehNtONnQf1ye20Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Amaranth&f=false) that declared that Red Dye number 2, was a carcinogen. Publishing that was a strategy which would clearly freak out the rest of the world when the "cancer" word is presented. That buzz-word, the key word is what was used to block the "dye" standing in their way, I believe, of effective weapons deployment.

This dye is one of the dyes that strongly interferes with the replication mechanisms of viruses such as the aid's viruses. By having it BANNED, they ensured that their "victims" would have no defences. Brilliant Soviet ploy.

The allies have said they do not have any clear understanding what the disposition of the WMD's from the ex-Soviet bloc states are. Meaning 60,000 scientists, meaning assorted bioweapons stockpiles are not fully accounted for.

ref: http://books.google.com/books?id=4ydd-hC1GlQC&pg=PT870&lpg=PT870&dq=soviet+bloc+bioweapons&source=bl&ots=9xseiImnOc&sig=Y6tus2brrgCitgjoR9yk9vOd3VI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vq4xU8S5OoWbygG34IH4Dw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=soviet%20bloc%20bioweapons&f=false

ref: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_virus08.htm - bioweapons ex-soviet - this is an important read - please read it.

[Bob]

Bats they say are not to be eaten..

Fruit bats are believed to be a major carrier of the Ebola virus but they themselves apparently do not show symptoms.

Guinea has banned the sale and consumption of bats to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, its health minister has said.

ref: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26735118 - BBC world news Africa division report


http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73804000/jpg/_73804190_fruitbat3.jpg

"Bats, a local delicacy, appeared to be the "main agents" for the Ebola outbreak in the south, Rene Lamah said."

"People who eat the animals often boil them into a sort of spicy pepper soup, our correspondent says. The soup is sold in village stores where people gather to drink alcohol."

"Other ways of preparing the bats to eat include drying them over a fire."

Apparently the handling of infected bats, or consuming them leads to exposure, and possible infection.. Ebola has been confounding researchers, who have since 1976 been trying to determine the source of the reservoir for the virus, and what transmits it to primates. Gorilla meat, monkey meat (bushmeat) has been suspected sources.. The "green monkey" (reston-ebola strain) was another source reservoir - but what gives it to them? Where does it come from researchers have wondered.

What created the infection in the bats in the first place? Why do the bats appear to have an immunity to the virus? Those questions being answered may lead to an effective understanding in how to treat such infections. That is why bio-researchers travel to such areas working in the rainforests, to collect and study these animals.

ref: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ayaffee/history.html


http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ayaffee/map.gif

Reston, Virginia: 1989

The first major outbreak of Ebola outside of Africa occurred in the United States, just minutes away from the capital.

"Monkeys in a quarantine facility in Reston, Virginia became ill with a mysterious virus in 1989.

"Researchers from the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) investigated the outbreak, and discovered that the symptoms present in the monkeys were very similar to those that monkeys infected with Ebola demonstrated.

"After running tests and looking at the samples under the electron microscope, scientists were given the jarring results that indeed the monkeys were infected with Ebola, making this the first major epidemic of Ebola in the United States."

[Bob]

Uganda - in Africa to the East of the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo), has particularly not fared well with nasty infections.

As of August 29, 2013, the Uganda Ministry of Health reported 5 laboratory-confirmed cases of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, including 3 cases (no deaths) from Agago District and 2 cases (1 death) from Wakiso District. CDC is assisting the Ministry of Health in the epidemiologic and diagnostic aspects of the outbreak. Testing of samples by CDC's Viral Special Pathogens Branch is taking place at the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe.

As of December 2, 2012, the Ugandan Ministry of Health reported 7 cumulative cases (probable and confirmed) of Ebola virus infection, including 4 deaths, in the Luwero District of central Uganda. CDC is assisting the Ministry of Health in the epidemiologic and diagnostic aspects of the outbreak. Testing of samples by CDC's Viral Special Pathogens Branch is taking place at the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe.

As of November 29, 2012, the Ugandan Ministry of Health reported 15 confirmed and 8 probable cases of Marburg virus infection, including 15 deaths, in the Kabale, Ibanda, Mbarara, and Kampala Districts of Uganda. Testing of samples by CDC's Viral Special Pathogens Branch is ongoing at the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe. Working with the Ministry's National Task Force, a CDC team is assisting in the diagnostic and epidemiologic aspects of the outbreak. Note that Kabale District, on the border with neighboring Rwanda, is distinct from Kibaale District, the site of the recently-ended Ebola outbreak; both districts are in Uganda's Western Region.

On July 28, 2012, the Uganda Ministry of Health reported an outbreak of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in the Kibaale District of Uganda. A total of 24 human cases (probable and confirmed only), 17 of which were fatal, have been reported since the beginning of July. Laboratory tests of blood samples, conducted by the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), confirmed Ebola virus in 11 patients, four of whom have died.
On October 4, 2012, the Uganda Ministry of Health declared the outbreak ended.

On May 14, 2011, the Ugandan Ministry of Health informed the public that a patient with suspected Ebola Hemorrhagic fever died on May 6, 2011 in the Luwero district, Uganda. CDC-Uganda confirmed a positive Ebola virus test result from a blood sample taken from the patient. The quick diagnosis of Ebola virus was provided by the new CDC Viral Hemorrhagic Fever laboratory installed at the Uganda Viral Research Institute (UVRI).

On November 26, 2007, CDC received blood samples from the Ugandan Ministry of Health, taken from 20 of the 49 patients involved in an outbreak of an unknown illness in Bundibugyo district in western Uganda. Patients reported fever, enteritis, and bleeding. Of the 49, 14 have died. Genetic sequencing of a small segment of viral RNA from samples indicated the presence of a previously unknown strain of Ebola virus. At the invitation of the Ugandan Ministry of Health, CDC, WHO, MSF and other collaborators deployed field investigators to the affected region; additionally, a laboratory was set up in Entebbe at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI). As the outbreak neared conclusion in January 2008, the total number of suspected cases was 149, with 37 deaths.

On July 27, 2007, CDC was notified of a suspect case of Marburg virus fever in Uganda by the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI). A blood specimen taken from the only fatal patient, a miner at a local lead and gold mine, was received by CDC on Friday, July 27, 2007. The specimen tested positive for Marburg virus. A 6-person CDC team consisting of three medical officers, a mammologist, and two microbiologists arrived in Uganda on August 10, traveling to the town of Ibanda in Kamwenge province, near the site of the mine where the exposures are believed to have occurred. WHO, the Ugandan Minsistry of Health, and other collaborators have also deployed personnel. The team has initiated an investigation by capturing bats and other animals at the site of the mine in an effort to further identify the animal host of the Marburg virus, and by tracing human contacts in communities near the mine.


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LARGE EVENT:
On February 27, 2001, Uganda was Declared officially to be free of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, following a 42-day period, twice the maximum incubation period, during which no new cases had been reported.

Between October 2000 and February 2001, CDC participated with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ugandan Ministry of Health, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF - Doctors without Borders), and other partners in an international response to the outbreak.

An outbreak of Ebola disease was reported from Gulu district, Uganda, on 8 October 2000.

The outbreak was characterized by fever and haemorrhagic manifestations, and affected health workers and the general population of Rwot-Obillo, a village 14 km north of Gulu town. Later, the outbreak spread to other parts of the country including Mbarara and Masindi districts. Response measures included surveillance, community mobilization, case and logistics management. Three coordination committees were formed: National Task Force (NTF), a District Task Force (DTF) and an Interministerial Task Force (IMTF). The NTF and DTF were responsible for coordination and follow-up of implementation of activities at the national and district levels, respectively, while the IMTF provided political direction and handled sensitive issues related to stigma, trade, tourism and international relations.

The international response was coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO) under the umbrella organization of the Global Outbreak and Alert Response Network. A WHO/CDC case definition for Ebola was adapted and used to capture four categories of cases, namely, the 'alert', 'suspected', 'probable' and 'confirmed cases'.

Guidelines for identification and management of cases were developed and disseminated to all persons responsible for surveillance, case management, contact tracing and Information Education Communication (IEC). For the duration of the epidemic that lasted up to 16 January 2001, a total of 425 cases with 224 deaths were reported countrywide. The case fatality rate was 53%.


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A recent history of Marburg cases and outbreaks in Uganda includes:
a fatal case in 2008 of a Dutch tourist who visited the Python Cave, a bat cave in Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP);
a non-fatal case in 2008 of an American tourist who visited the same cave in QENP; and,
a 2007 small outbreak of Marburg HF among miners working in the Kitaka lead and gold mine in Kamwenge District.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Languages_of_Uganda.png

ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda
ref: http://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dhcpp/vspb/outbreaks.html
ref: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs_marburg/en/ - Marburg Haemorrhagic fever background

Resources: Uganda has substantial natural resources, including fertile soils, regular rainfall, and sizeable mineral deposits of copper and cobalt. The country has largely untapped reserves of both crude oil and natural gas, which have been partially exploited with much contention (Lake Albert area).

[Bob]

Crimean-Congo viral Haemorrhagic fever

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is caused by infection with a tick-borne virus (Nairovirus) in the family Bunyaviridae.

The disease was first characterized in the Crimea in 1944 and given the name Crimean hemorrhagic fever. It was then later recognized in 1969 as the cause of illness in the Congo, thus resulting in the current name of the disease.

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is found in Eastern Europe, particularly in the former Soviet Union, throughout the Mediterranean, in northwestern China, central Asia, southern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent.


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Virus particles have unique geometries.

The Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic-fever virus is generally conveyed by the bite of this particular tick


http://www.ithappensinindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Crimean-Congo-hemorrhagic-fever.jpg

However, handling an animal, during slaughter, which has been infected withing a week of being bitten, can allow the disease to transfer to the human. Eating raw meat from an infected animal is potentially a method to acquire the infection.


http://www.bunyavirus.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Bunya-drawing-e1308066320219.jpg

The ex-Soviet union bio-warfare labs worked on "antidote" vaccines to the Bunyaviridae as well as weaponization (links in the posts above). The optimum bio-weapon would be easily deployable, have a vaccine or prophylactic method for the deployer, incapacitate and rapidly spread in the deployed area, but not necessarily kill, but require a large support structure, and medical care personnel.

The Ebola and Marburg viruses tended to be more intimidating, or used to threaten a potential enemy that such would be deployed if it's demands were not met. The ex-Soviet policy was to intimidate, and move into an area and take it over. (see Brinksmanship, the Cold war: ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship_(Cold_War) )

The use of Crimean-Congo virus was particularly useful to the Soviets for interfering with a country's meat sources (food resource sabotage).

Bio-Weapons have been termed, "the poor country's nuclear weapon".. Able to be created at a fraction of a cost of nuclear "hot" weapons, the amount of death and incapacitation able to be created by the right bio-weapon's release (or threat of release, or demonstration in a "useless target population") gives (gave) the intimidator a strong edge in its political economic goals.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Crimean-Congo_Hemorrhagic_Fever.jpg/450px-Crimean-Congo_Hemorrhagic_Fever.jpg

above is the image of an isolated patient with CCHF

ref: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/crimean-congo/

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

That photo of the Crimean-Congo virus looks similar to pictures of anthrax infection (skin type). Very horrible!

[Bob]

That photo of the Crimean-Congo virus looks similar to pictures of anthrax infection (skin type). Very horrible!


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


Anthrax - Cutaneous


http://www.drstandley.com/images/health%20topics/anthrax.jpg

Melanoma - Cutaneous


https://asset.ghc.org/ghc-resources/images/public/specialties/cancer/melanoma.jpg

Ebola


http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2000-05/958597731.Vi.2.gif

Tularemia Skin Lesion (also bio-weaponized by the Soviets)


http://www.bepast.org/docs/photos/Tularemia/Tularemia%20skin%20lesion.jpg

Meningococcal disease - also weaponized


http://dxline.info/img/new_ail/meningococcemia_1.jpg

Tuberculosis of the skin - also weaponized


http://pathol.med.stu.edu.cn/pathol/fileUpload/imageUpload/Diagrams/Ch9-2TBLeprosy/9224SkinTB.jpg

SmallPox - weaponized


http://www.riversideonline.com/source/images/image_popup/r7_cdcsmallpox2.jpg

Hemorrhagic Dengue cutaneous (rash and blood bleeding under the skin)




http://www.niaid.nih.gov/SiteCollectionImages/topics/denguefever/michaelRossmannStory.JPG

[Bob]

Let's review the Haemorrhagic fever viri to understand more of how they are categorized and, where they occur.

Note: When they show up in a different place, that should be suspect of a bioweapon (mass outbreak potential), or a traveler carrying the disease from one location to another.

Etiology:

Hemorrhagic fever viruses belong to four taxonomic families, only one of which, Filoviridae, has been assigned to an order (Mononegavirales):

Filoviridae
Arenaviridae
Bunyaviridae
Flaviviridae

Filoviridae - Origin of family and genus names from Latin "filo" for "thread" - branched, circular, "6" or "U"-shaped (the hook)
— Ebola virus
~Five species (Zaire, Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire, Reston, and Bundibugyo) with varying degrees of antigenic cross-reactivity
— Marburg virus
~Virus strains primarily fall into one major class, with less genetic diversity than Ebola virus

Arenaviridae — Viral particles contain host ribosomes, which appear as dense granules 20–25 nm in diameter and give viruses "sandy" appearance and have a distinct club-shaped or spike projections on viral envelope

— "Old World" arenaviruses:
~Lassa virus — Lassa fever viruses exhibit 4 genetic lineages (3 in Nigeria and 1 in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone)

— New World arenaviruses that cause disease in humans:
~Junin virus (Argentine hemorrhagic fever)
~Machupo virus (Bolivian hemorrhagic fever)
~Chapare virus (also found in Bolivia)
~Guanarito virus (Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever)
~Sabia virus (Brazilian hemorrhagic fever)
~Whitewater Arroyo virus (found in North America)

Bunyaviridae — Filamentous nucleocapsid, helical symmetry
— Phlebovirus (includes Rift Valley fever virus)
— Nairovirus (includes Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus)
— Hantavirus (includes Sin Nombre virus [SNV] and agents that cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome)

Flaviviridae — Virions covered with surface projections, Origin of family name from Latin "flavus" for "yellow" (yellow fever virus)
—Yellow fever virus
—Kyasanur Forest disease virus
~Alkhumra virus (identified in Saudi Arabia in 1995; considered a variant of Kyasanur Forest disease virus)
~Nanjianyin virus (identified in China; considered a variant of Kyasanur Forest disease virus)
— Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus
— Dengue virus (primary infection, the first exposure rarely causes hemorrhagic fever, secondary exposures with antibody induced enhancement can lead to serious conditions)

Note: The Sabia Virus has been noted as the virus which causes the Brazilian and Venezuela variants of Haemorrhagic fever outbreaks in those parts of South America.

ref: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/infectious-disease-topics/vhf

Bio-weapon potentials

In 2000, the CDC published a list of Category A agents (ie, those that are most likely to cause mass casualties if deliberately disseminated, can be released as small aerosols, and require broad-based public health preparedness).

The list included New World arenaviruses and Ebola, Marburg, and Lassa viruses (CDC 2000:Biological and chemical terrorism).

According to the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense (http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2001/tularemia.html) (Johns Hopkins university), Hemorrhagic fever viruses that pose serious threats as potential biological weapons include the following (Borio 2002):


Ebola virus
Marburg virus
Lassa virus
New World arenaviruses
Machupo (Bolivian hemorrhagic fever)
Junin (Argentine hemorrhagic fever)
Guanarito (Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever)
Sabia (Brazilian hemorrhagic fever)
Rift Valley fever virus
Yellow fever virus
Kyasanur forest disease virus
Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus


Several other hemorrhagic fever viruses have been identified as human pathogens:

Examples include -

Chapare virus (a New World arenavirus found in Bolivia),
Whitewater Arroyo virus (a New World arenavirus found in the western United States),
Alkhumra virus (a variant of Kyasanur forest disease virus found in Saudi Arabia), and
Nanjianyin virus (a variant of Kyasanur forest disease virus found in Yunnan province, China).

The role of these viruses as potential bioterrorism agents is unknown.

The working group determined that several important hemorrhagic fever viruses are less likely than those mentioned above to be used as biological weapons.

These agents are not discussed further in this overview; they include:


Dengue virus (is not transmissible by small-particle aerosol, requires mosquito-vector transmission, and primary dengue infection only rarely causes hemorrhagic fever)
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (does not replicate to high concentrations in currently available systems [a barrier to mass production])
Hantaviruses (do not replicate to high concentrations in currently available systems)


ref: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/infectious-disease-topics/vhf#overview&1-3

[Bob]

The Rift Valley Fever virus of East Africa - "RVF"

ref: http://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/in-action/rvf-vaccine.html

In late 1997, a disease outbreak began in East Africa. In three months, 90,000 people became sick and almost 500 people died.

Many animals in the region also died, causing economic difficulties for the people who relied on these animals for milk, meat, and as a trading commodity.

The loss of human lives and animals was devastating for the communities.

This virus was discovered in 1930, and the RVF virus has caused multiple outbreaks in Africa and the Middle East.

The virus can cause severe disease in both animals and humans. People can be infected from the bite of a mosquito or through direct contact with the blood and tissues of infected animals.

Observations:

Most people infected with the RVF virus do not have any signs of disease, but some people will become very sick.

When symptoms happen, they can develop blindness, encephalitis (brain swelling), and hemorrhagic fever (unusual bleeding), and some die from the disease.

RVF can also cause disease in many species of livestock, such as sheep, goats, cattle, and camels. Many infected animals, especially young animals, die from the disease. Almost all pregnant animals will miscarry if they are infected with the virus.

Rift Valley fever virus is an Arbovirus (any of a group of viruses that are transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks, or other arthropods) - classed within Bunyaviridae — appearance is of a Filamentous nucleocapsid, with a helical symmetry subclassed as a "Phlebovirus". The Phleboviri are not just found in Africa, but have been found in Missouri, USA. They are of a genus of viruses that can cause fever, encephalitis, or haemorrhagic fever. In the USA it is called the "Heartland virus". ref: http://www.ajtmh.org/content/early/2013/06/27/ajtmh.13-0209 - The "Heartland Virus" was primarily transferred by TICK BITES.

from ref: http://www.cbwinfo.com/Biological/Pathogens/RVFV.html - what is it, symptoms, use as a bio-weapon potential

"The disease has an incubation period of 3-12 (typically 2-6) days followed by a sudden onset of headaches, muscle and back aches. This lasts for 3-4 days and can be accompanied by a loss of sense of taste, appetite, and weight. For most patients, this is the end of the disease.

"Approximately 1-2 weeks after the fever has broken an encephalitis that can be lethal or that can leave significant residua may develop. Other complications can include hemorrhage and jaundice leading to a fulminant hepatitis that often kills and at 2-3 weeks an acute retinitis (inflammation of the retina of the eye) that can lead to blindness in 1-10% of victims can result.

"Approximately 1% of all victims die. The disease primarily affects livestock with much higher fatalities, including the abortion of fetuses."

The virus most likely would be used to create "economic terrorism" focusing on livestock used as food sources.

Agent Properties and Potential Bio-Weapon Uses

"The virus is unusual for a Bunyavirus in that it is known to be transmissible by aerosols. Lethality is low at about 1% of casualties, but there can be complications leading to blindness.

"Until the virus crossed the Sahara and entered Egypt in 1977 it was not considered lethal to man.

"The virus can be transferred to the eggs of its mosquito vectors and these can survive in dry soil for years to hatch when the soil becomes moist.

"The virus attacks livestock with higher death rates than in humans and so could be used as an economic weapon."

Is Missouri a home to any bio-labs? Yes.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-02-1453777693_x.htm

0/2/2007

WASHINGTON (AP) —

"The spread of a deadly livestock disease from a laboratory in Britain has not stopped U.S. officials from considering where to build a new animal disease research lab in this country.

"The Aug. 3 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain was tied to a government laboratory and a private vaccine manufacturer in Pirbright, England. Initial tests show a second outbreak, which is still under investigation, was the same strain as the lab-related outbreak.

"Still, the Homeland Security Department is moving ahead with plans to consider relocating a similar lab isolated on Plum Island, N.Y., to one of five sites in the U.S. The final site for the lab should be announced next year, with the lab operating by 2014.

"The possibilities include Athens, Ga.; Manhattan, Kan.; Madison County, Miss.; Granville County, N.C., and San Antonio.

"No matter where we put it it's going to be safe and secure," said James Johnson, Homeland Security's director of national labs and the program manager for the planned lab.

"Some cattlemen are skittish about building a lab near their livestock operations.

"The recent situation at Pirbright does give us some concerns," said Ross Wilson, chief executive of the Texas Cattle Feeders Association. His group represents 5,000 cattle feeders in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, an area the group says is the largest cattle feeding region in America.

"The Missouri Cattlemen's Association opposed efforts to persuade Homeland Security to pick a site in Columbia, Mo., as one of the finalists for the new lab.

"We thought it posed too many risks," said Jeff Windett, the group's vice president.

"The livestock association in neighboring Kansas supports its state's effort to bring the lab there but wants assurances it will be built and operated safely, spokesman Todd Domer said.

"The existing lab's former research facility director, Roger Breeze, said moving the lab to any state with a sizable livestock industry would be the worst place for it because of the risks to animals there."

ref biolab Missouri - http://www.campussafetymagazine.com/article/missouri-consortium-applies-for-bio-lab/Default

http://dailyfreepress.com/2012/01/25/biolab-scheduled-to-begin-operating-in-february/ - what goes on in a "bio-lab"


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Ref biocontainment lab: University of Missouri-Columbia Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO - http://www.fas.org/programs/bio/map/umcrbl.htm

Ref understanding bio-labs, safety, containment - http://www.fas.org/programs/bio/biosafetylevels.html


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[Bob]

Sabia virus is a member of the Arenavirus family, of the New World group.

It was isolated from a fatal case of hemorrhagic fever in 1990 in Sao Paulo Brazil.

Because of extensive liver necrosis (kills the liver cells), it was often mistaken for yellow fever. Brazil is one of the countries that require a Yellow Fever Vaccination card (yellow card) showing one has been inoculated within the last 10 years if one has traveled to countries where there are outbreaks of yellow-fever. ref: http://chicago.itamaraty.gov.br/en-us/yellow_fever_certificate.xml

Sabia is an arbovirus having an incubation period of normally about 12 days and causing fever, rashes, and other infection-like symptoms as well as hemorrhagic bleeding from internal organs, mouth, nose, and other mucous membranes.

The virus infected a virologist at Yale in 1994 when he broke a test tube with a sample of the virus over a centrifuge.

After only an 8-day incubation period, his symptoms included myalgias, a mild headache, a stiff neck, and fever.

Then he had a prolonged course with hemorrhagic (bleeding) symptoms.

It was transmitted to him by aerosolized droplets in the lab due to the high-speed centrifugation of a sample of the virus. (A virus which can travel and infect via an aerosol is a consideration of deployment methods with bio-weapons).

He was put on Ribavirin and recovered.

The natural reservoir remains unknown, although it is suspected that it to be a rodent found near the small community of Sabia outside of San Paulo Brazil. (Rodent feces, urine. etc.)

It is assumed that it has a high morbidity and mortality. Hepatocellular (liver cell) damage and hepatitis (symptoms of liver failure) have been described with Sabiá virus and other arenaviruses.

Why are these diseases (viral hemorrhagic fevers, or VHF's) considered possible weapons? http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/vhf/vhf.html

Some VHF viruses – including Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, yellow fever and some New World arenaviruses – can be prepared in liquid form (aerosolized).

Then they can be released into the air and used to infect people. Other VHFs – including Rift Valley fever – have caused infection when released into the air in the laboratory.

The former Soviet Union developed the Marburg virus for use as a weapon, and conducted research on Ebola, Lassa, Rift Valley fever, yellow fever and New World arenaviruses.

The U.S. has done research on all of these viruses, except Marburg and Ebola which were considered too horrible, too uncontrollable.

North Korea is believed to have developed the yellow fever virus as a weapon.

ref: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88979/ - VHF's as WMD's

People seem to think Ricin, Anthrax, Botulism, the "pox's, i.e smallpox" are candidates for bio-weaponization, and eventually the potential for bio-terrorism. VHF's though are more sinister and able to spread across the population and damage whole regions, or countries, or even the world if the disease rapidly mutates or spreads and the immune system has little or no ability to fight back.

"The most efficient method of delivering biological agents is thought to be the air-borne route, "spraying" with agents dispersed in aerosols.

"Wide dissemination of infectious agents and even toxins can be achieved with this method. Low-cost, easily obtainable equipment (as employed in the agricultural industry) can be used to produce aerosols with particle sizes of 1 to 10 μm." - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88979/

Soviet development of bioweapons - Lenin had recognized the strategic value of biological agents, and he insisted that experimental work had was carried out in the late 1920s. Each of the Soviet leaders considered bio-weapons strategically useful. The organization known as Biopreparat created 52 key locations scattered through-out the Soviet empire and continued to call it "civilian biotechnology research". As of 2001: "The organization was headed by a general and scientist, Yuri T. Kalinin. “General Kalinin has headed Biopreparat since its inception in 1973, and Western officials say he is the focal point of concern among American and British analysis about whether Moscow has fully given up research into germ warfare."

"The world center of knowledge for biological warfare agents was and probably still is the former Soviet Union."

Treatment - supportive for secondary infection and organ failure - use of Ribavirin for the Arenaviruses and Nairovirus (Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus) appears to be useful.
ref: Merck Manual - http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/infectious_diseases/viruses/types_of_viral_disorders.html


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[Bob]

Can Haemorrhagic fever outbreaks happen in a "developed" place like the USA ?

Apparently such happens. Why is yet to be determined.

(good to see all the other threads appearing about trying to come up with treatment solutions for the "untreatable (by conventional medicine) viruses" )

TEXAS
ref: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/11/18/16685/ - Dengue Fever Reemerges in Texas November 2013 Scientific American article


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"Late last week Texas public health officials confirmed a new wave of dengue fever has cropped up in the southernmost tip of Texas, marking the first outbreak the state has seen since 2005.

"The news came on the heels of reporting in Scientific American about how scientists are trying to uncover why the mosquito-borne infection is cropping up in Florida but not in other regions of the nation that host the same Aedes aegypti species of dengue-carrying mosquitoes."

So what we see is that in Missouri a TICK vectored (see post 23 above) the so called, "Heartland Virus" (Phleboviri) are not just found in Africa, but have been found in Missouri, USA. And in the SA article, there is mention that the Aedes Aegypti mosquito that carries the fevers had been showing up in Florida (such has also shown up in Colorado, and Kansas carrying West Nile Virus).

"Texas public health officials announced that the same area that saw an outbreak almost a decade ago now has 18 confirmed cases of the disease.

"Seven are believed to have been locally acquired ."

"Until recently only three dengue outbreaks had taken hold in the U.S. during the 21st century. Outbreaks occurred in Hawaii (2001); Brownsville, Texas, (2005); and southern Florida, beginning in 2009. In 2013 cases in southern Florida continue to rise, with a total of 23 reports of locally acquired dengue afflicting 21 Floridians and two out-of-state-residents living in Martin and Miami-Dade counties. "

So, the question is WHY ? Why are viral diseases on the rise? In a developed country like USA?

Statistically we could start a study, is this a trend world-wide, if so, what are the common denominators?

Should we keep in mind, bio-terrorism, "developing nations disturbing breeding grounds in the rain-forest", travelers carrying back vectors from endemic regions?

Awareness is the first step obviously. Determine why and come up with solutions to address a weak immune system, create a solution that the "virus" no longer has to create challenges..

[Bob]

ref - CDC - http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/omsk/ - Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever virus


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


http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/omsk/images/omsk-ecology-800px.jpg

The vector is the tick. The preferred host for this tick is the MuskRat.

Omsk hemorrhagic fever (OHF) is caused by Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus (OHF-V), a member of the virus family Flaviviridae.

OHF was described between 1945 and 1947 in Omsk, Russia from patients with hemorrhagic fever.

Rodents serve as the primary host for OHFV, which is transmitted to rodents from the bite of an infected tick.

Common tick vectors include Dermacentor reticulatus, Dermacentor marginatus, Ixodes persulcatus and common rodents infected with OHFV include the muskrat (Ondatra zibethica), water vole (Arvicola terrestris), and narrow-skulled voles (Microtus gregalis).

Muskrats are not native to the Omsk region but were introduced to the area and are now a common target for hunters and trappers.

When infected with the virus, muskrats can become ill and die.

OHF occurs in the western Siberia regions of Omsk, Novosibirsk, Kurgan and Tyumen.

Pointing out Novosibirsk Russia houses one of the most important WMD bio-labs that the ex-Soviet bloc countries ever had/has.

Some strange coincidences (accidents, or test releases?) around Novosibirsk, Russia:


Trichinellosis Outbreaks (2001-2005) Novosibirsk Russia.
H5N1 outbreaks Novosibirsk Russia.
Nun moth outbreaks in the Novosibirsk and Tyumen oblasts in 1980–1982 and 1987–1989
Measles Cases In Highly Vaccinated Population Of Novosibirsk, Russia, 2000-2005
Factory and current outbreak of Shigella.. reported that the number of cases increased to 24 from 8 Oct to 14 Oct 2009, Novosibirsk Russia.
Mumps vaccine failure investigation in Novosibirsk, Russia, 2002–2004.
1979 Sverdlovsk anthrax outbreak ..... virus research center at Novosibirsk


There are a number of symptoms of the OHF virus. In the first 1–8 days the first phase begins. The symptoms in this phase are:


chills
headache
pain in the lower and upper extremities and severe prostration
a rash on the soft palate
swollen glands in the neck
appearance of blood in the eyes (conjunctiva suffusion)
dehydration
hypotension
gastrointestinal symptoms (symptoms relating to the stomach and intestines)
patients may also experience effects on the central nervous system


In 1–2 weeks, some patients may recover, although others might not.

They might experience a focal hemorrhage in mucosa of gingival, uterus, and lungs, a papulovesicular rash on the soft palate, cervical lymph adenopathy (it occurs in the neck which that enlarges the lymph glandular tissue), and occasional neurological involvement.

If the patient still has OHF after 3 weeks, then a second wave of symptoms will occur.

It also includes signs of encephalitis (brain swelling).

If they recover from OHF they may experience hearing loss, hair loss, and behavioral or psychological difficulties associated with neurological conditions.

If the sickness does not fade away, the patient will die.

Hemorrhages occur with some patients.

MuskRat Love (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskrat_Love), methinks not.. (a 1976 remake by Captain & Tennille)

Note: The New York City Center for Disease Control http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/diseases/bt_fact_vhf.shtml has a webpage dealing with WMD attacks, Bio-logical weapons. OHF is on the list as a potential biological weapon that could be used. They consider it a serious threat that requires understanding, identification.

Preventing Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever consists of avoiding activity high in tick exposure. This puts persons engaged in camping, farming, forestry, and hunting (especially the Siberian muskrat) at great risk. Those spending time outdoors should wear protective clothing and use insect repellent for protection.

Humans can also become infected through contact with blood, feces or urine of a dead or sick muskrat (or any type of rat). The virus can also spread through milk from infected goats or sheep. The infection is highly contagious.


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[Dawn]

I think most of know that a horrible disease can break out at any time. For me personally, I don't think I really want to make an intensive study of all the hideous diseases that can occur. I just like knowing about simple things like the Beck blood cleaning device and Magnet Pulser, colloidal silver, and perhaps a bit about MMS.

But thanks for all the detailed descriptions and gory photos.

Sort of interesting I guess.

[Bob]

I think most of know that a horrible disease can break out at any time. For me personally, I don't think I really want to make an intensive study of all the hideous diseases that can occur. I just like knowing about simple things like the Beck blood cleaning device and Magnet Pulser, colloidal silver, and perhaps a bit about MMS.

But thanks for all the detailed descriptions and gory photos.

Sort of interesting I guess.

I've stated this elsewhere at appropriate times - to view it is to understand it is to discharge it.

To ignore it is to believe "the panther sitting in the tree" is invisible - the reality is the ex-Soviet bloc were one of the foremost developers of bio-weapons, followed secondly by the US, and other countries who can't get "the atomic bomb".

Terrorist States are what they are called (http://www.slideshare.net/JillS13/Terrorists-States-and-Biological-Weapons-Development) - to turn the head and think bio-weapons, or strange outbreaks are going to go away is not smart IMHO. If the outbreaks are from natural causes, what are causing them?

If the outbreaks are terrorist explorations or tests, how will people understand that could be a possibility?

Earlier in the thread, Lifebringer in post 3 mentions a HEADS UP PEOPLE, and Selene connects the dots and mentions how the powers using espionage steal data back and forth.

Maybe we could talk about the Bulgarian Secret Service's assassination tactics using chemical/biological weapons despite the Arms Treaties?

This thread is about the fevers that are appearing, the nasty ones - I am specifically interested in WHY. And WHY if they were deployed were certain countries and people's targeted.

Is there a who? I don't have the answer to that, and many people are interested in that question.

Or is it nature? Many people are interested in that question.

Is it infiltration of the Rain-Forests, humans exposing themselves to things in the Forest which have not been exposed before?

It was obvious something odd happened in an area where LASSA Fever is endemic (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12653127) (EBOLA appeared) as well as some other unknown viruses. see also http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/lassaf.htm

That should be suspicious enough to have one take a look and ask WHY and what could it be, these other unknowns. There is a list of unknowns.

If the people in the affected areas are interested in what the unknowns could be, they can ask the same questions, and find the research.

What has been presented shows good links to the research sites, and medical sites.

ED NOTE: I am going to do an essential reprint to cover the questions posed - IS IT BIOTERRORISM? in the next post, then get back to covering the other viral fevers on the list of "could-be's" that may have been deployed in the OP observation and questions.

[Bob]

Is it BioTerrorism - this is the report created by by JillS13 on Jan 01, 2009 (Doctors Jill Dekker-Bellamy at the Thales Symposium)

ref: http://www.slideshare.net/JillS13/Terrorists-States-and-Biological-Weapons-Development

This report was mentioned in the post above so that the reader will have the reference and significances.

From the report below: We are reaching nearly 80% naiveté in total global population herd naivety.

It has been asked, Accidental Outbreak, or deliberate, or coincidental.. ?


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1. Terrorists, States and Biological Weapons Development Emerging Trends Drs. Jill Dekker-Bellamy Thales Symposium

2. For the past few years I’ve written and run a number of bio-terrorism scenarios and war games. Generally the scenarios were based on mass casualty attacks, hitting multiple European cities, with the goal, of evaluating where our gaps and vulnerabilities lie, be it in aspects of prevention, preparedness, containment or response. I’ve evaluated programmes for national strategic stockpiling, quarantine and isolation law, rapid response from civilian and military sectors and aspects related to critical infrastructure protection.

3. Today I’ll be discussing what I view, as a serious emerging trend which will alter our concept of bio-terrorism. I’ll explain why there have been a number of recent fundamental shifts related to the scale and scope of an attack, as I believe this is important to our understanding of the future of biological weapons, used in a mass casualty attack and it should also change how we develop criteria for war games and scenarios.

4. Weapons of Mass Destruction are typically grouped together or referred too as CBRN: Chemical, Biological, Nuclear and Radiology weapons; I will focus today on the threat of biological weapons and terrorism within Europe.

5. Due to the severe consequences an attack with biological weapons would produce, its imperative nations ensure adequate preparation and increase their ability to identify and respond effectively; within both civilian and defence sectors. Bio-weapons have the capacity to silently infect thousands of people, impact the global economy and disrupt critical infrastructure.

6. There are several issues related to the deliberate release of a weaponized biological pathogen which help put an attack scenario into context. Today I’d like to focus on three of these areas, which I believe will change our perception, not only of threat but vulnerability and ultimately how we conceive of the scope and scale of an attack. The first issue is that of “ state” biological weapons programmes and bio-weapons being developed in military laboratories around the world today.

7. The second issue is that of “acquisition” of such weapons by terrorists and more specifically Al Qaeda; and finally, the Third issue is the biological weapons themselves—the types of pathogens which will be used and how we will prepare to meet a mass casualty attack in Europe. A few years ago bio-terrorism experts conceived of terrorist’s use of bio-weapon as a low probability event. Low meaning the chances of a terrorist, NOT supported by a state, being able to achieve high kill ratios or inflicting a truly mass casualty attack in an urban setting was exceptionally low. The reasons for this are numerous but I will touch on a few of them.

8. Up until about three years ago it was considered among most bio-warfare experts that the technical obstacles a lone terrorist or small group would face in developing a weapon, adequate for a mass casualty attack, would be extremely prohibitive. That’s not to suggest that they couldn’t create a very effective low level bio-attack, but there appeared to be a technical threshold which most sub-state terrorists would have extreme difficulty overcoming.

9. In 2002 and 2003 our concept of the threat of bio-terrorism changed. The Northern Alliance discovered an anthrax production facility at the Institute of Veterinary Vaccine Production in Kabul, Afghanistan headed up by Mullah Qari Abdullah and run by the Ministry of Agriculture. Abdullah was a high ranking member of the Taliban and he was put in charge of one of Afghanistan’s most modern Laboratories. The lab was discovered to hold a large container with concentrated anthrax spores-which the Taliban had researched extensively.

10. The 11th volume of al-Qa`ida's 5,000-page Encyclopedia of Jihad is devoted to how to construct CBW. The cover of Mu'Askar al-Battar, an online military magazine published the Saudi branch of al-Qaida. The magazine is based in parts on the "Encyclopedia of Jihad."

11. bacteriological production which was rather more advanced than current estimates had placed their capability at during this time, and we had better information on warfare labs in several states At the same time the discovery was made of an Al Qaeda manual on biological and who were developing dispersal technology for which there was no known military application. Meaning the labs were developing technologies for use by terrorists.

12. Documents found in Afghanistan ostensibly reveal that al-Qaeda was doing research on using botulinum toxin to kill 2,000 people. "Al Qaeda tested germ weapons," Reuters, 1 January 2002 Ahmad Rassam, arrested in a plot to bomb LAX, testifies that Bin Laden is personally interested in using low-flying aircraft to disperse BW agents. Al-Qaeda operative Ahmad Rassam, in US custody.

13. What we’ve witness over the last several years with the evolution of AQ, is their increasing interest in biological weapons and their association with state sponsors. Today we are looking at very sophisticated recruitment techniques employed by AQ across North Africa. In several states, notably Morocco, Algeria, Sudan and Mauritania it is known that AQ is training operatives in biological and chemical weapons and has successfully inserted terrorists into Europe through application processes for refugee status. The types of training received by terrorists are specific to state weapons programmes. It is highly probably that states such as Syria and Iran who sponsor terrorist with conventional weapons are now providing training in biological weapons.

14. I would argue that the convergence of these formerly distinct threats: terrorists, states and bio-weapons form an emerging threat nexus in which the sum is now greater than the parts. The potential involvement of state’s, poses a significantly greater threat in terms of a successful mass casualty bio-terrorist attack within Europe and elsewhere.

15. State supported terrorists would not need to steal, divert or buy bio-weapons as we had previously considered in other attack scenarios. Nor would they have to over-come technical obstacles related to weaponization. Bio-weapons are the ultimate deniable operation and there are states who would consider providing such weapons to terrorists-some of whom they have already trained along side their formal military establishment. Here I am talking about Hezbollah and more specifically Fatah al-Islam. There of course are a number of other-but these two top the list.

16. Two countries have now re-designated bio-weapons as armaments within their conventional inventory. This is a major shift in doctrine and we should be extremely concern about that redesignation. Let me address our concerns regarding state sponsored terrorists and the Al Qaeda network in Europe- Generally speaking the states who maintain an offensive biological weapons programme, work on the following pathogens with the possible exception being Variola Major.

17. Biological Agent (s) Disease Category A Variola major Smallpox Bacillus anthracis Anthrax Yesinia pestis Plague Clostridium botulinum (botulinum toxins) Botulism Francisella tularensis Tularemia Filoviruses/Arenaviruses Viral hemmorhagic Fevers Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA.

18. Biological weapons in the hands of a state sponsored terrorists-would be a mass casualty event. This alters our perception of risk from a bio-terrorist attack within Europe as well.

19. Several years ago I remember giving a talk about Al Qaeda’s Chemical and Biological Weapons Directorate—they had a programme with several scientists and we had looked into the background of those scientist –several were Ph.D’s. some were post-docs, they had several bench docs, Al Masri held a PhD in chemistry, he was considered Al Qaeda’s nuclear weapons expert; Ayman al-Zawahri was a doctor and surgeon; Abu Kabab was AQ biological and chemical weapons expert-the Camp in Jalalabad was named after him, Assadalah Abdul Rahman is also a biological weapons expert and leader of the AQ WMD directorate; Abu Bashir al-Yemeni another bio-chem expert.

20. French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin claimed that al-Qa'ida affiliates have produced chemical and biological weapons in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge. De Villepin told members of INTERPOL bio-terrorism conference in Lyon, France, that after the fall of the Taliban, al-Qa'ida cells moved to the Pankisi Gorge in order to continue efforts to produce anthrax bacteria, ricin, and botulinum toxin.

21. To further our concern, previous assessments of the AQ network revealed some disturbing events in the Pankisi and Korda Gorges in S. Ossetia. AQ had infiltrated Chechnya particularly Whabbists, it appeared a couple of AQ scientists were trying to develop some kind of weaponized pathogen or chemical armament in the Pankisi Gorge using small bio-safety containment boxes. By 2003, the AQ network was much farther along than it was estimated it to be.

22. "Al-Qaeda's biological program was further along, particularly with regard to Agent X, than prewar intelligence indicated. The program was extensive, well-organized, and operated for two years before Sept. 11, but intelligence insights into the program were limited."

23. I n mid 2004 the Pentagon sent a report to Congress wherein it disclosed for the first time that Al Qaeda had a sophisticated biological weapons research and development effort underway. These endeavors again were still inhibited by technological obstacles. Information we have on biological warfare labs today and the known relationships between AQ and members within the defence establishment of several countries-would obviate the need to steal, divert or buy any kind of biological pathogen or agent. So one of the primary inhibiting factors, that being acquisition of the biological pathogen and weaponization-milling or aerosolizing, is no longer an obstacle.

24. With the capture of Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, investigators uncovered detailed information about production plans for chemical and biological weapons. According to captured documents, certain members of al-Qa`ida had plans and the requisite material to manufacture cyanide and two biological toxins, and were close to producing anthrax bacteria. Barton Gellman, "al-Qaida Near Biological, Chemical Arms Production," Washington Post, 23 March 2003.

25. Today we are looking at a very real potential for a mass casualty event due to the stronger associations which have been forged for the last five or so years between states who sponsor terrorism and terrorists. And many of the terrorist organizations we are concerned about –are working right here across Europe—they aren’t off in Afghanistan or Uzbekistan or some remote place, they are here, in fact there are Al Qaeda cores in Brussels with ties to states running offensive BW programmes.

26. 242 jihadists, 31 attacks, 28 networks . The UK and the Netherlands were found to be at the greatest risk during the period studied, with 12 of the networks operating in Great Britain, seven in the Netherlands, four in France and three each in Spain and Belgium.

27. In terms of Europe, there are increasing challenges with regard to terrorists who may acquire bio-weapons to promote their goals. This past April two Dutch researcher conducted a study of Jihad networks across Europe, they found no fewer than 242 jihadists, 31 attacks and 28 networks . The UK and the Netherlands were found to be at the greatest risk, during the period studied, with 12 of the networks operating in Great Britain, seven in the Netherlands, four in France and three each in Spain and Belgium.

28. When you have AQ recruiters like Tarek Maaroufi and Nizar Trabelsi running major opperations in Europe you need to consider the potential for these networks to use bio-weapons in cities like Antwerpen and Brussels-and of course Trabelsi is known to have targeted NATO instillations- There are around 500 hundred NATO instillations across Europe--- and should their be a multi stage, muti target attack-the scale of such an event could be catastrophic.- given that many pathogens are not only highly infective and virulent but highly transmissible.

29. The point here being that these are very real networks, they aren’t isolated, some have state sponsors and some have been assessed as capable of acquiring and deploying sophisticated bio-weapons in multiple locations.—prior to Maaroufi and Trabelsi’s incarceration they were recruiting for AQ here in Europe and engaged in paramilitary training in Afghanistan and as I mentioned previously we know there were several biological weapons labs in Afghanistan producing both anthrax and botulinium and other agents as well.

30. Osama bin Laden had seven full bio-chem laboratories which he’d purchased state of the art equipment for through the UAE and Uzbekistan. This is just an example of two who were caught. AQ already has established links with researchers who can produce biological weapons-up to military grade.

31. What types of weapons are these networks likely to use? Vials: A total of 97 vials-including those with labels consistent with the al Hakam cover stories of single-cell protein and biopesticides, as well as strains that could be used to produce BW agents-were recovered from a scientist's residence.

32. The types of pathogens or biological agents terrorists are likely to use are variable. The problem with bio-weapons, unlike chemical or nuclear, is it’s the quality and weaponization for dispersal that count not the quantity. You don’t need a stockpile and you don’t need MIRV’d ICBM’s-in fact that’s not longer optimal. Bio- weapons are silent and determining that an attack has occurred can be challenging. Failing to identify an attack at the earliest moment will lead to increased civilian mortality.

33. To provide a couple examples: One gram of crystalline Botulinum toxin could theoretical kill a million people. It’s the most toxic substance known to man and it’s easy to transport and easy to conceal. As most people know In the 1990s, the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan attempted three times to use aerosolized botulinum toxins as a weapon of terror against US military personnel. They obtained the Clostridium botulinum bacteria from soil samples in northern Japan.

34. Despite skepticism that botulinum poison could be concentrated, stabilized, and aerosolized to make an effective military weapon against a specific enemy target, a botulinum attack against civilian targets may prove disturbingly effective. An aerosol release of botulinum toxins from a single point can kill or incapacitate 10% to 0.5 miles downwind of the release.

35. Because most warfare labs work on Category A pathogens most of these agents are likely candidates and pose a potential threat to Europe. This includes: anthrax, plague, Bot, tuleremia possibly smallpox and viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHF’s), most state warfare labs work defensively on these agents with the exception being smallpox –the US has identified about 21 nations who could and may be working on these agents offensively-meaning they are trying to weaponized. Pervious estimates were put at around 17 but several African states are now considered to be working offensively with support again from other nations.

36. There is a probability that a few warfare labs may have retained variola major when it was endemic and may be conducting work on it offensively as well.

37. I would caution here that advances in genomics, synthetic biology, molecular biology, combinatorial chemistry and our understanding of microbial structure and replication will affect the type of weapons developments from state laboratories. This may considerably alter these strains and our ability to either prevent or treat weapons grade agents might now be inhibited, making our reliance on detection an extremely vital tool.

38. “ Syndromic diagnosis [is] nothing but a big charade, by the time you start getting blips in emergency rooms, it’s too late.” – Dr. C.J. Peters, Former Head of the Centers for Disease Control top security lab.

39. To give an idea of the scale of what a biological attack would look like in Europe I will briefly go over data on the last outbreak of smallpox, although there are other agents, in my opinion, which carry a significantly higher risk of release over the next few years here in Europe. There are about 48 organisms that could be used offensively--25 viruses, 13 bacteria, and 10 toxins, of these smallpox is considered to be one of the most destructive. The Soviets weaponized it specifically when they knew in 1980 that the World Health Organization had declared it eradicated. As vaccination ceased-we now have the perfect conditions for a virgin soil epidemic, if it were ever released again. We are reaching nearly 80% naiveté in total global population herd naivety.

40. But to put the threat into context and provide some concept of what would happen if we fail to prepare for a major bio-terrorist attack, I will comment on the Yugoslav outbreak. This outbreak was well documented so it gives us tremendous insights into what we need to do now to prevent and prepare for something like this in the future. Unfortunately back in 1972 they didn’t have the capabilities we do today, which undoubtedly lead to increased spread of this disease and higher casualty rates. It’s also a very good way to understand what happens when there are no preparatory steps in place and no way to immediately respond.

41. Variola Major or smallpox virus is considered a very reliable and effective biological weapon. The last known European outbreak in 1972, was a natural outbreak, so one would anticipate a battle strain from a defence lab, released deliberately would markedly increase the scale and scope of a planned attack. In the Yugoslav case one index case infected nearly 13 other people and the subsequent ratio of secondary cases remained at 1:13 which is exceptionally high for a natural outbreak-moreover a high proportion went hemorrhagic.

42. At the time nearly 90 % of the population had been previously inoculated within the last 5 years- this is quite disturbing because within Europe, and it wouldn’t matter what the pathogen was we simply no longer have herd immunity in the case of smallpox but nor can we approach bio-defence as a one bug one drug endeavor there simply is no way to cover an entire population for every pathogen which might be released, so timing is everything in terms identification and containment.

43. The United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, at Fort Detrick, has accumulated "credible evidence" that a number of terrorist groups and nations have obtained, or are trying to obtain, clandestine stocks of smallpox” and are actively trying to produce weaponized armaments based upon the virus.

44. In the Yugoslav outbreak- the index case was initially misdiagnosed sent to two other clinics for treatment, when they realized what it was--- the entire medical staff fled the hospital-the military was called in and within three week had vaccinated the entire population; this was conducted under martial law which would not be possible in contemporary Europe. One index case took 19,000 doses of vaccine to control. So one can imagine the burden and scale of a well orchestrated attack.

45. I would remind you it’s also the pace not the space that adds mortality burden—the quicker we can identify a biological attack the quicker we can take evasive action-and prevent spread, be this through limiting community contact, isolation, quarantine or restricting transport and air travel. The more time that elapses between identification and response the greater the threat of mass casualty.

46. “ Our world must take bio-security much more seriously…. it would be comparatively easy for terrorists to cause mass death by using agents such as anthrax or weaponised smallpox. Let’s not wait until something has gone terribly wrong to act collectively to meet this threat .” Kofi Annan UN Secretary General (13 Feb 2005).

47. As I wrap up this presentation, the obvious question which remains is, given all the factors which seemingly point to an attack why hasn’t it occurred yet? My personal answer to this is that the groups who are related too or sponsored by states do not yet posses the level of sophistication to run a entirely silent covert operation- security and intelligence agencies across Europe have therefore successfully intervened in a number of potential operations-however I believe this will change and they will adapt and the threshold for intervention will be higher—and the potential for a successful catastrophic release will increase.

48. In terms of standard setting its important nations fully understand the threat of biological terrorism within the framework of catastrophic events. Its imperative nations with the resources to prepare and protect their populations against this threat do so specifically in areas related to communication, isolation and quarantine capability. If left unchecked, the silent use of disease in a major city or transportation hub will have severe consequences. The inherent threat of terrorism is that it will produce a far better orchestrated outbreak which could be of an entirely higher magnitude than a natural or spontaneous outbreak of disease.

[Bob]

Kyasanur Forest disease virus - another "outbreak" hits - this time INDIA.

An outbreak of Kyasanur Forest Disease, or ‘Monkey fever’ in the state of Karnataka, India has prompted health officials to take action, according to a report in The New Indian Express today.

Health authorities have recorded 74 cases of monkey fever and are stepping up preventive measures in the districts of central Karnataka.

ref: http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/india-reports-outbreak-of-kyasanur-forest-disease-or-monkey-fever-16574/ - " Kyasanur Forest Disease outbreak hits in India 22 March 2014 "

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD) is caused by Kyasanur Forest disease virus (KFDV), a member of the virus family Flaviviridae.

KFDV was identified in 1957 when it was isolated from a sick monkey from the Kyasanur Forest in Karnataka (formerly Mysore) State, India.

Since then, between 400-500 humans cases per year have been reported.

Transmission to humans may occur after a tick bite (Hard ticks (Hemaphysalis spinigera) are the reservoir of KFD virus ) or contact with an infected animal, most importantly a sick or recently dead monkey. No direct person-to-person transmission has been described.

The symptoms of KFD begin suddenly with chills, fever, and headache. Severe muscle pain with vomiting, gastrointestinal symptoms and bleeding problems may occur 3-4 days after initial symptom onset.

While most people recover without complications, the illness is biphasic for a subset of patients (10-20%) who experience a second wave of symptoms at the beginning of the third week. These symptoms include fever and signs of neurological manifestations, such as severe headache, mental disturbances, tremors, and vision deficits.

The estimated case-fatality rate is from 3 to 5% for KFD.

There is no specific treatment for KFD; however, supportive care for patients with bleeding disorders is important.

Along with the usual preventive measures against tick bites, a vaccine does exist for KFD and is used in endemic areas of India.

KFDV can cause epizootics with high fatality in primates.


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Earlier in the week, on the 16th March, this report came in -

Mangalore: Spotting of a dead monkey in the jurisdiction of the primary health centre in Venur on Saturday has increased the worries and caution about the spread of the Kyasanur Forest Disease, commonly known as 'Monkey Disease' or 'Mangana Kaayile' in local languages.

Dr Shivakumar, district health officer, said that the carcass was found in a decomposed state. For the analysis of organisms found thereon, it has been sent to a laboratory. The disease first hits the monkeys before spreading to humans.

Hence the health officials have taken this matter seriously.

Residents of the area around have been asked to wear clothes fully covering their bodies as a precautionary measure. A team of health department personnel are scouring the whole area for further signs and information.

The first case to be detected in DK was of a woman from Beluvai near Moodbidri. Currently undergoing treatment in the intensive care unit of the Wenlock hospital, she is still not out of danger. Signs of infection are still left in a part of the brain, said hospital sources.

The second is of one Suresh from Tirthahalli of Shimoga district. First he was admitted to Meggan hospital in Shimoga. The doctors there asked him to be taken to the Wenlock hospital in the city. ref: http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=broadcast&broadcastid=467250

A variant of KFDV, characterised serologically and genetically as Alkhurma haemorrhagic fever virus (AHFV), has been recently identified in Saudi Arabia. KFDV and AHFV share 89% sequence homology, suggesting common ancestral origin. ref: Alkhumra virus infection (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16038757&query_hl=4&itool=pubmed_docsum), a new viral hemorrhagic fever in Saudi Arabia. J Infect. 2005 Aug; 51(2):91-7. Epub 2005 Jan 11


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[Bob]

Alkhumra outbreaks reported in Saudi Arabia and southern Egypt.

ref: CDC - http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/alkhurma/Alkhurma-FactSheet.pdf - "FACTS", related link, "TICKS" - http://www.cdc.gov/ticks/


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Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever (AHF) is caused by Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus (AHFV), a tick-borne virus of the Flavivirus family. The virus was initially isolated in 1995 from a patient in Saudi Arabia. Subsequent cases of AHF have been documented in tourists in Egypt, extending the geographic range of the virus and suggesting that geographic distribution of the virus is wide and that infections due to AHFV are underreported.

The persistence of the virus within tick populations, and the role of livestock in the disease transmission process, are not well understood. The AHFV virus is a variant of Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), a tick-borne Flavivirus found in Karnataka State and environs in India.

Since the first description of AHFV, several hundred cases of AHF have been reported. Cases appear to peak in spring and summer. Further study of AHFV is needed to improve public health measures.

Transmission
Transmission of AHFV is not well understood. AHFV is a zoonotic virus, and its described tick hosts (the soft tick Ornithodoros savignyi and the hard tick Hyalomma dromedari) are widely distributed. People can become infected through a tick bite or when crushing infected ticks. Epidemiologic studies indicate that contact with domestic animals or livestock may increase the risk of human infection. No human-to-human transmission of AHF has been documented.

Although livestock animals may provide blood meals for ticks, it is thought that they play a minor role in transmitting AHFV to humans.

No transmission through non-pasteurized milk has been described, although other tick-borne flaviviruses have been transmitted to humans through this route.

Signs and Symptoms
Based on limited information, after an incubation period that could be as short as 2-4 days, the disease presents initially with non-specific flu-like symptoms, including fever, anorexia (loss of appetite), general malaise, diarrhea, and vomiting; a second phase has appeared in some patients, and includes neurologic and hemorrhagic symptoms in severe form. Multi-organ failure precedes fatal outcomes. No repeated or chronic symptoms have been reported following recovery. Evidence suggests that a milder form may exist,where hospitalization is not required.

Thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, and elevated liver enzymes are nearly always observed in patients who have been hospitalized.

Risk of Exposure
Contact with livestock with tick exposure are risk factors for humans, as is contact with infected ticks, whether through crushing the infected tick with unprotected fingers or by a bite from an infected tick. Slaughtering of animals which may acutely but asymptomatically infected may also be a risk factor, as it is possible that infected animals develop a viremia without obvious clinical
signs.

Diagnosis
Clinical diagnosis could be difficult due to similarities between AVHF, Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), and Rift Valley fever(RVF), which occur in similar geographic areas. Laboratory diagnosis of AHF can be made in the early stage of the illness by molecular detection by PCR or virus isolation from blood. Later, serologic testing using enzyme-linked immunosorbent serologic assay (ELISA) can be performed.

Treatment
There is no standard specific treatment for the disease. Patients receive supportive therapy, which consists of balancing the patient’s fluid and electrolytes, maintaining oxygen status and blood pressure, and treatment for any complications. Mortality in hospitalized patients ranges from 1-20%.

Prevention
Given that no treatment or specific prophylaxis is presently available, prevention and increased awareness of AHFV are the only recommended measures. Complete control of ticks and interruption of the virus life cycle is impractical; in endemic regions, it is important to avoid tick-infested areas and to limit contact with livestock and domestic animals.

Individuals should use tick repellants on skin and clothes and check skin for attached ticks, removing them as soon as possible. Tick collars are available for domestic animals, and dipping in acaricides is effective in killing ticks on livestock. People working with animals or animal products in farms or slaughterhouses should avoid unprotected contact with the blood, fluids, or tissues of any potentially infected or viremic animals.

GENERAL TICK INFORMATION -

Symptoms of Tickborne Illness
Many tickborne diseases can have similar signs and symptoms.

If you have been bitten by a tick and develop the symptoms below within a few weeks, a health care provider should evaluate the following before deciding on a course of treatment:

Your symptoms
The geographic region in which you were bitten helps to understand the infection source.

Diagnostic tests, if indicated by the symptoms and the region where you were bitten should be preformed to confirm the infection and determine if a type of treatment can be performed.

The most common symptoms of tick-related illnesses are:


Fever/chills: With all tickborne diseases, patients can experience fever at varying degrees and time of onset.

Aches and pains: Tickborne disease symptoms include headache, fatigue, and muscle aches. With Lyme disease you may also experience joint pain. The severity and time of onset of these symptoms can depend on the disease and the patient's personal tolerance level.

Rash: Lyme disease, southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI), Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), ehrlichiosis, and tularemia can result in distinctive rashes:


In Lyme disease, the rash may appear within 3-30 days, typically before the onset of fever.

The Lyme disease rash is the first sign of infection and is usually a circular rash called erythema migrans or EM. This rash occurs in approximately 70-80% of infected persons and begins at the site of a tick bite. It may be warm, but is not usually painful. Some patients develop additional EM lesions in other areas of the body several days later.

The rash of (STARI) is nearly identical to that of Lyme disease, with a red, expanding "bulls eye" lesion that develops around the site of a lone star tick bite. Unlike Lyme disease, STARI has not been linked to any arthritic or neurologic symptoms.

The rash seen with Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) varies greatly from person to person in appearance, location, and time of onset.

About 10% of people with RMSF never develop a rash.

Most often, the rash begins 2-5 days after the onset of fever as small, flat, pink, non-itchy spots (macules) on the wrists, forearms, and ankles and spreads to the trunk.

It sometimes involves the palms and soles. The red to purple, spotted (petechial) rash of RMSF is usually not seen until the sixth day or later after onset of symptoms and occurs in 35-60% of patients with the infection.

In the most common form of tularemia, a skin ulcer appears at the site where the organism entered the body. The ulcer is accompanied by swelling of regional lymph glands, usually in the armpit or groin.

In about 30% of patients (and up to 60% of children), ehrlichiosis can cause a rash. The appearance of the rash ranges from macular to maculopapular to petechial, and may appear after the onset of fever.

Tickborne diseases can result in mild symptoms treatable at home to severe infections requiring hospitalization.

Although non-viral tick infections generally are easily treated with antibiotics, these diseases can be difficult for physicians to diagnose.

However, early recognition and treatment of the infection decreases the risk of serious complications.

So see your doctor immediately if you have been bitten by a tick and experience any of the symptoms described here-in.


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ALKV BACKGROUND:

Alkhurma virus (ALKV) was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1995 in a butcher with suspected Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. His fever developed after he had slaughtered a sheep from the city of Alkhurma. Diagnostic testing identified a flavivirus as the etiologic agent (1,2).

Subsequently, ALKV was isolated from the blood of 6 male butchers in Jeddah, and another 4 cases were diagnosed serologically. This disease was named Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever (ALKHF) because the first case was reported from the Alkhurma governorate (1).

After initial virus identification, from 2001 through 2003, another 37 suspected ALKHF cases, of which 20 were laboratory confirmed, were reported in Alkhumra district, south of Jeddah (3).

Among the 20 patients with confirmed cases, 11 had hemorrhagic manifestations and 5 died.

Among the animals raised, sheep were significantly associated with the disease.

A similar seasonal pattern of disease (March–July) was found in western provinces (Jeddah and Makkah) among 11 case-patients who recovered during 1994–1999.

References
(1) Zaki AM. Isolation of a flavivirus related to the tick-borne encephalitis complex from human cases in Saudi Arabia. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 1997;91:179–81.


(2) Qattan I, Akbar N, Afif H, Azmah SA, Khateeb T, Zaki A, A novel flavivirus: Makkah region 1994–1996. Saudi Epidemiology Bulletin. 1996;1:2–3.

(3) Madani TA. Alkhumra virus infection, a new viral hemorrhagic fever in Saudi Arabia. J Infect. 2005;51:91–7.

also: http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/BMBR/article-abstract/446A6AA12568

"New, emerging, and re-emerging infectious disease incidences have increased rapidly and frequently with significant human and financial costs. Most of the viral infectious diseases are of zoonotic nature, and public awareness of the human health risks of infections have grown in recent years, since viral epidemics such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, West-Nile virus, and Ebola virus diseases have emerged over the past two decades.

"The Alkhumra virus, which belongs to the flaviviruses family, discovered in Saudi Arabia in the mid-1990s causes hemorrhagic fevers among cattle farmers and butchers.

"Flaviviruses are transmitted through arthropods, and most of them are of zoonotic nature. Epidemiological data indicates that Alkhumra virus (ALKV) is transmitted from livestock animals to humans by direct contact with animals or by mosquito bites, but not by ticks.

In the recent past the incidence of alkhumra virus infection has notably increased and to date, no specific treatment or containment strategies have been developed for Alkhumra virus infection, thus, there is a possibility of a major outbreak if appropriate prevention and control strategies are not adopted.

"This review presents current facts and future concerns of the disease around the Gulf region."

Key words: Alkhumra virus, hemorrhagic fever, Saudi Arabia, tick-borne infection.

[Bob]

USA WhiteWater Arroyo hemorrhagic virus


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

Distribution:


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There are studies being performed by CDC to determine if the virus found in the White-Throated Wood-Rat in California, Arizona, and Colorado is the same, or a slightly modified variant of the virus. ref: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/3/01-7306_article.htm

Background:
The Tacaribe (New World) viral complex includes Tamiami (TAM), Whitewater Arroyo (WWA), Pichindé (PIC), Amapari, Flexal, Guanarito, Junin, Latino, Machupo, Oliveros, Parana, Pirital, Sabiá, and Tacaribe viruses.

The assumed reservoir for WWA is the white-throated rat, Neotoma albigula.


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In Colorado the white-throated wood-rat is distributed as follows (but do not necessarily carry WWA virus)


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ref: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4931a1.htm - Fatal illness (California), similarity with Texas infection

"The California Department of Health Services (CDHS) and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) recently identified evidence of infection with an arenavirus in three patients hospitalized with similar fatal illnesses. This report summarizes the investigation of these cases."

Patients had onset of illness during June 1999--May 2000. They were aged 14, 30, and 52 years; all were female. Two resided in southern California and the third in the San Francisco Bay area. The patients did not have any activities in common, and none had a history of travel outside California during the 4 weeks preceding their illness.

Illnesses were associated with nonspecific febrile symptoms including fever, headache, and myalgias. Within the first week of hospitalization, lymphopenia (25--700 per mm3) was observed in all three patients, and thrombocytopenia (30,000--40,000 per mm3) was seen in two. All three patients had acute respiratory distress syndrome and two developed liver failure and hemorrhagic manifestations.

All patients died 1--8 weeks after illness onset.

Arenavirus-specific RNA was detected in one or more materials from each patient using a nested RT-PCR assay."

"The nucleotide sequence of the PCR products amplified from the patients essentially were identical and shared 87% identity with the Whitewater Arroyo (WWA) virus prototype strain (an arenavirus recovered from a Neotoma albigula [white-throated woodrat]) from New Mexico in the early 1990s). Serologic assays (indirect fluorescent antibody assay and IgG enzyme immunoassay) for arenavirus antibody were negative for all three patients.

Family members of the three patients were interviewed about activities and potential exposure sites during the month before illness onset. One patient reportedly cleaned rodent droppings in her home during the 2 weeks before illness onset; no history of rodent contact was solicited for the other two patients."

WWA is found in North America among woodrats (Neotoma spp.) (1,2) and has not previously been known to cause disease in humans. Of 20 Neotoma spp. with species status, nine occur in the United States (3). The geographic range of these species incorporates most of the United States. At least five of the nine U.S. species may harbor the virus; however, complete description of its distribution requires further study (1,2). The abundance and habits of woodrats suggest that potential contact between Neotoma spp. and humans is limited.

PREVENTION
Preventive measures for arenavirus infections include control and exclusion of rodents in and around human dwellings.

Direct contact with rodents, their excreta, and nesting materials should be avoided.

Areas and surfaces potentially contaminated by rodent excreta should be wet with a disinfectant before removal.

Rodent carcasses and materials should be double-bagged before disposal.

Although rare, person-to-person transmission has been documented for some New World viruses; nosocomial transmission can occur through direct contact with an infected patient's blood, urine, or pharyngeal secretions.

Standard precautions should be used during treatment of patients with suspected arenavirus infection and standard precautions plus contact/droplet/aerosol-specific precautions should be used for patients with severe clinical manifestations.

[Bob]

DTRA - (Defense Threat Reduction Agency - Washington DC) has been working with scientists to develop a treatment (cure?) for the Ebola, possibly Marburg hemorrhagic fever viri.

Some effective treatments are currently possible - see below and the reference(s)

ref: http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1460373/scientists-are-closing-drugs-may-stop-deadly-ebola-virus

"Much of the research has been funded by the US government. Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, for example, began its first human trial of a drug in January with backing from the Defence Department.

"There are already candidate cocktails that can be used in an emergency," said Erica Saphire, a professor at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who is leading a consortium of 15 public and private institutions to develop treatments to fight the virus. "

"Tekmira's product, known as TKM-Ebola (http://investor.tekmirapharm.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=819313), is being developed under a US$140 million contract with the Defence Department. Tekmira, based in Canada, this month won fast-track designation from the US Food and Drug Administration to develop the experimental treatment."

"Stephan Guenther, head of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, "If you count all the cases of Ebola since the discovery, it's below 10,000, so it's definitely not of commercial interest," he said.

"Guenther led a team of researchers that showed an experimental treatment called Favipiravir (http://www.medivector.com/favipiravir/favipiravir1), developed by Fujifilm's Toyama Chemical unit as a flu treatment, cleared Ebola virus and prevented mice from dying in a study published in February."

"Mapp Biopharmaceutical (http://www.mappbio.com/), a closely held company in San Diego, is developing another, along with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the NIH and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, (DTRA)."

"Mapp's product cocktail prevented 43 per cent of monkeys with symptoms of Ebola from dying in a study published last year in Science Translational Medicine. Previous studies showed the treatment, called MB-003 (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/uamr-eat101512.php), saved all of the monkeys when given an hour after exposure to the virus, and two-thirds of them when administered 48 hours after exposure."

Why haven't effective treatments been developed by industry one may ask?

Here is the answer:

"The 'relative rarity' of Ebola outbreaks, and the fact that they are largely limited to rural areas of poor African nations, makes the disease an unattractive target for big drugmakers (can you say greed for $$$).

"Instead, much of the research has been funded by the US government.

"Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, for example, began its first human trial of a drug in January with backing and funds from the US Defense Department."

[superconsciousness]

Russians are targeting specific ethnicities on the bioweapons front. Let's hope Cold War 2.0 doesn't go hot.

[Flash]

Americans and Chinese are doing the same, why don't you mention it as well?

[Bob]

Americans and Chinese are doing the same, why don't you mention it as well?

It was mentioned in a post above, that vaccine, antidotes and treatments (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=815845&viewfull=1#post815845) were developed by Canada in their bioweapons/L4 labs, as well as the US labs, as well as the Japanese labs, who are producing vaccines or solutions to the diseases.

The point is folks who have had an economic interest in profiting off disease, big Pharma, has NOT wanted to develop a solution lest it cost 8000$ a dose and maybe 100 doses required. Economics in other words..

In another post above, the antidotes or solutions being worked on has been listed, with LINKS to their website.

One can do a search for Bioweapons labs and get many links - for instance - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1490304/ - "After the First World War, France, the UK, the USA and the Soviet Union all suspected that the defeated Germany was secretly developing biological weapons to refine its wartime campaign of infecting pack animals with anthrax and glanders. "

For a reference to Chinese bioweapons and other programs, this link seems particularly interesting - http://online.sfsu.edu/rone/GEessays/Soviet%20and%20Chinese%20Germ%20Weapons.htm - from the page:

"The most senior defector from the Soviet germ-warfare program says in a new book that Soviet officials concluded that China had suffered a serious accident at one of its secret plants for developing biological weapons, causing two major epidemics.


The book also reports that Soviet researchers tried to turn HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, into a weapon and that even as the last Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, pursued peace openings with the West, he ordered a vast expansion of the deadly effort to turn germs and viruses into weapons of mass destruction.

The defector, Kanatjan Alibekov, now known as Ken Alibek, says in the book that as deputy director of a top branch of the Soviet program, he knew of the disaster in China because he saw secret Soviet intelligence reports twice a month.

Spy satellites peering down at China found what seemed to be a large biological-weapons laboratory and plant near a remote site for testing nuclear warheads, he wrote. Intelligence agents then found evidence that two epidemics of hemorrhagic fever swept the region in the late 1980s.

The area had never previously known such diseases, which cause profuse bleeding and death.

"Our analysts," Alibek said, "concluded that they were caused by an accident in a lab where Chinese scientists were weaponizing viral diseases." Viral scourges that cause intense bleeding include Marburg fever and the dreaded Ebola virus. Both are endemic to Africa.

China has signed a 1972 treaty banning biological weapons. During World War II it became one of the few modern countries to experience their horrors when Japanese attackers sowed epidemics there, killing thousands of Chinese.

U.S. intelligence agencies have long suspected that China harbors a biological-weapons program. Early in 1993, shortly after Alibek fled to the United States, the outgoing Bush administration accused Beijing of having an active germ-warfare effort, which it has denied.

The United States unilaterally ended its own germ-weapons program in 1969.

Last week, the Chinese Embassy in Washington did not return several telephone calls seeking comment, and an American expert who tracks germ intelligence said he did not know of any such epidemics in China.

The allegation is one of several in Alibek's new book, "Biohazard," which was written with a journalist, Stephen Handelman, and is being published by Random House this week. It was made available to The New York Times in advance.

U.S. intelligence officials who know what Alibek said in secret debriefings after his defection in 1992 give his new account considerable credence. They have called him highly believable about the subjects he knows firsthand, like the Soviet biological-weapons program from 1975 to 1992, when he served as one of Moscow's top germ warriors. (He is less reliable, they say, on political and military issues that he knows secondhand.)

ED NOTE: - I pointed out in an earlier post in this thread, that the Soviets caused the azo-dyes, known to kill/interfere with major viral infections such as the AID retroviri to be blocked, and sidetracked researchers from coming up with effective treatments and antidotes to the deadly viri.

The book asserts that Gorbachev, in his "characteristic scrawl," signed a five-year plan for 1985 to 1990 that ordered the most ambitious effort ever for the development of deadly germs and viruses, including smallpox, as weapons. In 1980, world health authorities declared the ancient scourge eradicated from all human populations.


"Gorbachev's Five-Year Plan -- and his generous funding, which would amount to over $1 billion by the end of the decade -- allowed us to catch up" with the American biological weapons program, which was making great strides, Alibek writes.

In 1988, as Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reform campaigns were in full swing and the Russians and Americans were negotiating new arms-control treaties, officials "at the highest levels," Alibek said, ordered the arming of giant SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missiles aimed at New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago with anthrax and other deadly germs.


The secret move came as Soviet leaders publicly waged a peace offensive.

In his book "Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World" (Harper & Row, 1987), Gorbachev argued that for decades Western experts had falsely accused Moscow of weapon horrors and that the real engine of the arms race was the United States.

When contacted through his office in Moscow, Gorbachev sidestepped Alibek's charges and questions about the germ program. His spokesman said that Gorbachev did not know Alibek, and that there was "no sense in getting involved in an endless process of commenting."

William C. Patrick III, a key figure in the United States' former germ-warfare program who helped debrief Alibek after his defection in 1992, said many of the book's assertions were consistent with what Alibek had told U.S. officials in secret sessions at the time. He called the information Alibek had provided "critical" to Washington's understanding of the Soviet program.

"He laid it all out for the first time," Patrick said.

Among the book's new disclosures are:

-- Moscow mastered the art of rearranging genes to make harmful microbes even more potent and harder to counteract. Anthrax, a top biological warfare agent that causes high fever and death, was genetically altered (GMOs), he says, to resist five kinds of antibiotics.

-- The top-secret program obtained a sample of HIV, the AIDS virus, from the United States in 1985 and tried unsuccessfully to turn the slow killer into a weapon.

-- A senior military official told him that the Soviet Union had waged germ warfare in Afghanistan from planes, spraying armed rebels with glanders in an unsuccessful bid to subdue them. Glanders is a chronic bacterial disease of horses that can be highly lethal in humans.

-- Under a top-secret project known as Bonfire, Soviet scientists in 1989 discovered "a new class of weapons" -- now called bioregulators -- that could "damage the nervous system, alter moods, trigger psychological changes and even kill." The KGB secret police agency was particularly interested in them because they "could not be traced by pathologists." A Soviet program called Flute worked on germs and other agents that could be used mainly for political assassinations. (I have emphasized this section as no doubt, absolutely NO DOUBT in my mind this was released into the environment - we can see continual reports (from people reporting said symptoms, acting out-of-character, etc.) - you can even search this FORUM and others for the bizarre sensations, psychological issues etc.)


-- While directing about half of the Soviet biological-warfare work force, he says, he discovered that an abandoned factory in Kazakhstan where he and his childhood friends had played after school had once made noxious germs meant to kill enemy crops and livestock.

In his book, Alibek, a Kazakh by birth, says the Soviet state devoted a considerable part of its treasury to readying deadly germs for war. At its peak in the late 1980s, he writes, the program had 60,000 employees working at scores of sites throughout the Soviet Union.

"The Americans had just two specialists in anthrax," he wrote of his observations during his first tour of U.S. sites as part of a Soviet-American inspection agreement in 1991. "We had two thousand."


About a dozen of the 40 institutes that were part of Biopreparat, the civilian cover group that Alibek helped run, were used "exclusively" for offensive agents and weapons for the military, he wrote.

After he fled Russia and took up residence in the United States, Alibek says, he was approached by intermediaries of emissaries of several countries that courted him for his deadly expertise, including South Korea, France and Israel. The work for which he was to be hired was defensive, the intermediaries said.

At least 25 people who used to work in the Soviet germ-warfare program now work in the United States in non-weapons work, he writes. It is impossible to know how many have been recruited overseas. But there is no doubt, he adds, "that their expertise has been attracting bidders," including countries unfriendly to the United States.

The germ warriors staying behind apparently can be dangerous as well. He said he had recently received a disconcerting flier from a Moscow-based company, Bioeffekt Ltd. "It offered, by mail order, three genetically engineered strains of tularemia," Alibek said.

The disease, spread by a highly infectious germ, causes chills, fever, muscle aches, fatigue and pneumonia-like symptoms, and can be fatal. The altered bacteria, he said, reportedly have new genes that increase the disease's virulence. The flier, Alibek said, boasted that the germs were produced by "technology unknown outside Russia."

Alibek has said he decided to speak out publicly to fight the spread of biological weapons and to seek absolution for having made them.

ED NOTE:
Above in this post - the keyword "Bioregulators ("it") " is probably one of THE hottest bioweapons issues today as it was when the Soviets were developing such. (That deserves a thread of its own. )

It would be important to have fast dedicated "bio-sensing chips" available to recognize "it",(Freescale, a unique state-of-the-art chip "company" was previously known as Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector, uses Malaysia as a low cost manufacturing site for "chips").

A bioregulator (of a certain type) coupled into a Genetically Engineered Organism (GMO) could allow the specific bioregulator protein to manifest through an innocuous vector (such as GMO corn, or a H5N1 flu-bug.. A specifically designed biosensor chip could monitor for such levels in the population, or environment, for instance, and would be a key item in any military program's sensory system, and considered "highly sensitive".

Biosensor chip reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10945455 (from National Institutes of Health website)

Experimentation on humans - laws (interesting post on Avalon about policy) - see this forum post
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?42898-Secret-Experimentations-on-Americans-was-legal&p=455249&viewfull=1#post455249 - discussing "laws" (?) allowing experimentation. I haven't checked the references there yet to see if such is still on the books.

Links for further research information:


http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/06/26/canada_played_key_role_in_us_uk_biological_weapons_programs_walkom.html

Pathogens for War (http://www.utppublishing.com/Pathogens-for-War-Biological-Weapons-Canadian-Life-Scientists-and-North-American-Biodefence.html), by University of Western Ontario historian Donald Avery

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/02/12/death-lab-how-a-revolution-destroyed-canadas-30m-plan-to-build-a-high-security-bio-lab-in-kyrgyzstan/

[Bob]

Guanarito virus has been listed as a Category A Bioweapon potential. (Venezuelan Haemorrhagic fever)

http://www.utmb.edu/gnl/ - The facility at Galveston Texas, National Biocontainment Laboratories has had a vial of Guanarito go "missing" (assumed destroyed)..

Vial goes missing - http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/potential-bioweapon-vanishes-texas-lab/

Global Security Newswire - New report March 26, 2013

"WASHINGTON -- A high-security biodefense laboratory in Texas has lost track of a lethal hemorrhagic fever virus sample in an incident said to underscore recent government warnings about how the United States oversees the deadly disease agents it holds for study.

"Experts and researchers at other institutions have generally chalked up the Guanarito virus sample's disappearance to an clerical slipup at the Galveston National Laboratory. Auditors last week failed to locate the material inside a freezer in the facility's Biosafety Level 4 section, which is designated for handling potentially fatal, aerially transmissible pathogens that have no known cure.

"The head of the University of Texas Medical Branch, which oversees the laboratory, on Saturday said the virus had probably been destroyed but authorities were still pushing to identify the cause of the misplacement."

How does one slip-up and "loose" a deadly weaponized Haemorrhagic fever sample culture?

In a high security bio-laboratory?

"Guanarito and related viruses typically spread to humans through contact with infected rodents or their excretions, but "infection can also occur by inhalation of tiny particles soiled with rodent urine or saliva," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." In other words, Aerosols, the prime distribution method for a bioweapon.. And this is a CLASS-A virus, high potential.

GNL justifies it harboring deadly viruses as follows: "GNL provides much needed research space and specialized research capabilities to develop therapies, vaccines, and diagnostic tests for naturally occurring emerging diseases such as SARS, West Nile encephalitis and avian influenza – as well as for microbes that might be employed by terrorists."

They explain the procedures needed to work in their facility: http://www.utmb.edu/gnl/safety/BSL4Stickman.shtml

ref: http://www.utmb.edu/gnl/safety/BSL4Stickman.pdf

"The advance preparation it takes for a scientist to conduct research within a BSL4 laboratory at UTMB is extensive. The approval process and training required for work within a maximum containment laboratory on this campus underscores both the importance of the research and our commitment to safety."

It is hard to believe such a lost vial could happen with all that in place. They emphasize, exiting the containment area requires showers and there is no way that anything could be hidden during such a shower (er...) and that there are extensive checks and rechecks.. http://www.utmb.edu/gnl/safety/

What are the signs and symptoms of a Guanarito infection?
from: http://ci.vbi.vt.edu/pathinfo/pathogens/Guanarito_virus.html (highly detailed page report)

Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever (VHF) is a severe disease characterized by fever, malaise, sore throat, followed by abdominal pain, diarrhea, and a variety of hemorrhagic manifestations and convulsions.

The arenavirus Guanarito is the causal agent and the virus natural reservoir is the rodent Zygodontomys brevicauda (cane mouse) and the cotton rat Sigmodon alstoni.

The disease affects agricultural male workers, between 14-54 years of age, mainly from Guanarito municipality of Portuguesa state and adjacent regions of Barinas State. (hence the name is based on the region it was discovered)


http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2011/obrien_nic2/map%20of%20south%20america.gif

Since the VHF emergency in 1989 up to 1997, 220 cases have been reported with a fatality rate of 33%.

Epidemiological information suggests that VHF has a cyclic behavior, with epidemic periods of high incidence every 4-5 years. During the interepidemic periods few VHF cases are reported (Salas et al., 1998).

Outbreak Locations:
The currently recognized area of VHF endemicity occupies approximately 9,000 square km in the southern and southwestern portions of Portuguesa State and adjacent regions in Barinas State in the central plains (llanos) of Venezuela (de Manzione et al., 1998).


http://www.udel.edu/LASP/imageVGL.JPG

B. Transmission Information:
From: Zygodontomys brevicauda To: Human , With Destination: Human (Fulhorst et al., 1999):
Mechanism: Chronic infections in specific rodents (usually 1 or 2 closely related species) appear to be crucial to the long-term persistence of arenaviruses in nature. To date, virtually all isolates of GTO virus from wild rodents have been recovered from Z. brevicauda, suggesting that this rodent species is the principal host of GTO virus.

The results of the present study indicate that GTO virus can establish a chronic (lifelong) viremic infection in Z. brevicauda and that chronically infected animals persistently shed infectious virus in their urine and OP secretions.

Based on these experimental results and the frequency that GTO virus has been recovered from captured wild cane mice, it is concluded that Z. brevicauda is the natural reservoir of GTO virus (Fulhorst et al., 1999). Presumably, human infection occurs outdoors.

Thus one might expect persons having frequent contact with rodent-infested grassland habitats to be at higher risk of contacting VHF (de Manzione et al., 1998).

From: Human To: Human , With Destination: Human (de Manzione et al., 1998):
Mechanism: From the 165 VHF patients included in this study, there was one person who might have been a secondary or contact case. This individual was a 30-year-old housewife who developed a fatal illness, compatible clinically and histopathologically with VHF, 19 days after her husband was hospitalized with a nonfatal confirmed Guanarito infection (de Manzione et al., 1998). (The infection is assumed then to be able to be spread with contact and transfer of fluids, coughing, sneezing, etc.)

Control prevention:

Rodent control (Vainrub and Salas, 1994):
Description: Prevention of arenavirus disease consists of interdicting transmission from rodents to humans, from humans to humans, and from infected specimens to laboratory personnel. Strategies for avoiding contact between rodents and humans have been effective in BHF. In VHF, the evidence suggests that the transmission occurs around houses and fields as in BHF (Vainrub and Salas, 1994).

Because of the missing vial (suspicious) it seems appropriate to publish this: (this is the procedure and warnings from CDC as to how to handle a suspected outbreak)

Intentional Release information :
Description:
Emergency contact: If clinicians feel that VHF is a likely diagnosis, they should take two immediate steps: 1) isolate the patient, and 2) notify local and state health departments and CDC (MMWR, 1988). Report incidents to state health departments and the CDC (telephone {404} 639-1511; from 4:30 p.m. to 8 a.m., telephone {404} 639-2888).

Information on investigating and managing patients with suspected viral hemorrhagic fever, collecting and shipping diagnostic specimens, and instituting control measures is available on request from the following persons at Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia;

for all telephone numbers, dial 404-639 + extension: Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer, Special Pathogens Branch, Division of Viral Diseases, Center for Infectious Diseases (ext. 1344);

Chief, Special Pathogens Branch, Division of Viral Diseases, Center for Infectious Diseases: Joseph B. McCormick, M.D. (ext. 3308);

Senior Medical Officer, Special Pathogens Branch, Division of Viral Diseases, Center for Infectious Diseases: Susan P. Fisher-Hoch, M.D. (ext. 3308);

Director, Division of Viral Diseases, Center for Infectious Diseases (ext. 3574). After regular office hours and on weekends, the persons named above may be contacted through the CDC duty officer (ext. 2888) (MMWR, 1988).

Delivery mechanism:

The VHF agents are all highly infectious via the aerosol route, and most are quite stable as respirable (breathable) aerosols.

This means that they satisfy at least one criterion for being weaponized, and some clearly have the potential to be biological warfare threats.

Most of these agents replicate in cell culture to concentrations sufficiently high to produce a small terrorist weapon, one suitable for introducing lethal doses of virus into the air intake of an airplane or office building.

Some replicate to even higher concentrations, with obvious potential ramifications. Since the VHF agents cause serious diseases with high morbidity and mortality, their existence as endemic disease threats and as potential biological warfare weapons suggests a formidable potential impact on unit readiness.

Further, returning troops may well be carrying exotic viral diseases to which the civilian population is not immune, a major public health concern.

Containment:
Patients with VHF syndrome generally have significant quantities of virus in their blood, and perhaps in other secretions as well (with the exceptions of dengue and classic hantaviral disease).

Well-documented secondary infections among contacts and medical personnel not parenterally exposed have occurred.
(Parenteral. taken into the body in a manner other than through the digestive canal. Taken into the body or administered in a manner other than through the digestive tract, as by intravenous or intramuscular injection.)

Thus, caution should be exercised in evaluating and treating patients with suspected VHF syndrome.

Over-reaction on the part of medical personnel is inappropriate and detrimental to both patient and staff, but it is prudent to provide isolation measures as rigorous as feasible.

At a minimum, these should include the following: stringent barrier nursing; mask, gown, glove, and needle precautions; hazard-labeling of specimens submitted to the clinical laboratory; restricted access to the patient; and autoclaving or liberal disinfection of contaminated materials, using hypochlorite (bleach) or phenolic disinfectants. - catalog of disinfectants: http://www.pyramidsupply.com/catalog/CatalogProduct.aspx?ci=JMTDSA

For more intensive care, however, increased precautions are advisable. Members of the patient care team should be limited to a small number of selected, trained individuals, and special care should be directed toward eliminating all parenteral exposures.

Use of endoscopy, respirators, arterial catheters, routine blood sampling, and extensive laboratory analysis increase opportunities for aerosol dissemination of infectious blood and body fluids.

For medical personnel, the wearing of flexible plastic hoods equipped with battery-powered blowers provides excellent protection of the mucous membranes and airways.


http://sian.inia.gob.ve/repositorio/revistas_tec/ceniaphoy/articulos/n8/arti/fuentes_l/imagen/fuente13.jpg


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

[Bob]

400 Possible Ebola Carriers - Terror spreads in West Africa - 2 April 2014 current

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/race-to-contain-400-ebola-carriers/story-fnb64oi6-1226873524486#

"DOCTORS and heath officials are racing to find almost 400 people who could be spreading one of the world's deadliest contagious diseases as the number of confirmed cases across three countries in West Africa rose to 127 yesterday.

"At least 83 people have died from Ebola in the latest outbreak.

"He said the Government had established a telephone hotline for members of the public to report anyone they thought was showing symptoms, which include sudden fever and muscle pain followed by vomiting and diarrhoea.

"At least 14 health workers are among the dead. They are thought to have contracted the disease, which can penetrate through skin, before they realised what they had been in contact with.

"Bart Janssens, director of operations at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the international aid agency, said that they had flown 52 international staff and more than 40 tonnes of equipment to Guinea, so that they could establish isolation wards in an attempt to halt the spread of the disease.

"Mariano Lugli, a nurse with MSF who had been treating patients, said that staff had to wear head-to-toe biohazard suits, despite the heat, to protect themselves from infection. In the worst cases, symptoms included "bleeding from the mouth, the anus and the ears, all the parts of the body where it is possible to bleed out of," Mr Lugli said.

"Although their first priority was to contain the disease and support the sick patients, he said that they also had two psychologists on hand to alleviate the panic it can cause. "People are terrified," Mr Lugli said. "

(There is a video on the referenced page if desired to view the report)

[Gerald Paris]

I think mayhap one needs to be a subscriber to view the video.

Thank you for remaining constant on this issue.

Much Love

G

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2594853/Medic-tells-horrific-scenes-fight-against-deadly-Ebola-outbreak-Guinea.html

[Flash]

i have a weird question. Since we are on a conspiracy forum, we may as well go all the way.

Could the Ebola crisis in Guinea be linked in any way to the unidentified cargo that was transported by the Malaysian jet which, in all possible déductions, was hijacked, in all probabilities, to Diego Garcia? Just a thought out of the blue moon.


from Bobd: Spy satellites peering down at China found what seemed to be a large biological-weapons laboratory and plant near a remote site for testing nuclear warheads, he wrote. Intelligence agents then found evidence that two epidemics of hemorrhagic fever swept the region in the late 1980s.

The area had never previously known such diseases, which cause profuse bleeding and death.

[Bob]

Just a hypothesis, a maybe what-if... All in this thread it's been pointed out the ex-Soviet bloc had been actively working under "leadership" from the Kremlin, and that the rest of the world apparently believes that the massive bio-weapons machine was never really taken apart and made "safe".

Going on that thought.. and nothing more, other than some anecdotal data about ex-SEALS being found dead in Seychelles in February, transporting a cargo that can't be verified other than some data that says the company that employed the ex-SEALS is noted for securing/transporting highly sensitive cargo, such as nuclear materials and biologicals... and some data that alluded to, the cargo was a special type of biological... and in light of Crimea, in light of the Kremlin moving on other countries who were part of the biological weapons "family" being taken over, and a move maybe on Moldova, (another Country with an ex-extensive bio-weapons asset).. and some data that said, the cargo from Seychelles was split-up, in UAE, some sent to Malaysia for eventual destination end up in Bejing, and maybe some was used as a "demonstration" by some terrorist group behind it all in West Africa.. as a "show of strength".. WHO KNOWS for SURE.. that's the bio-conspiracy skinny.. If it had to be sent to Diego Garcia to keep it out of "terror group hands" in Beijing, if really CDC and Chinese CDC (http://www.chinacdc.cn/en/) specialists for bio-weapons handling were flown to Diego Garcia BEFORE the missing plane was "diverted" there.. it could have been something tracked from when the stuff was first put on the "boat" that ended up in Seychelles... something watched, the network "analyzed" who's who, where are they going, who's the end group (China terrorist group, Martyr's Brigade for instance (http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/terror-group-chinese-martyrs-brigade-claims-missing-flight-was-payback-officials-label-it-hoax/story-fnizu68q-1226851032980)), or possibly ref: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15444081 radical Muslims in the far western region of Xinjiang. (see China and the Uighurs)..

The current reality is we have a spreading EBOLA (and some other infections) showing up in West African countries. And there are fears of at least 400 carriers in those countries. What is good is that there tends to be no international jet travel from the region where the 400 are believed to be located. But if those people come in contact with those who are traveling out of the countries, that could increase the spread (such as the suspected infected Canadian, mentioned on page 1 of the thread).

Ref: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14197482 - Chinese terror "situation"

"Beijing says Uighur militants have been waging a violent campaign for an independent state by plotting bombings, sabotage and civic unrest.

"Since the 9/11 attacks in the US, China has increasingly portrayed its Uighur separatists as auxiliaries of al-Qaeda.

"It has accused them of receiving training and indoctrination from Islamist militants in neighbouring Afghanistan, although little public evidence has been produced in support of these claims.

"More than 20 Uighurs were captured by the US military after its invasion of Afghanistan. Although they were imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for six years, they were not charged with any offence"

Note - please pay attention to Al-Qaeda bio-terror reference discussed on the previous page 2 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=815539&viewfull=1#post815539) of this thread for relevance..

[Bob]

Update on Rod Ogilvie the engineer who came back from Liberia and hospitalized in Saskatoon, Canada (Post on Page 1 of this thread)

http://www.leaderpost.com/health/info+being+released+about+Saskatoon+condition/9674468/story.html

"A week ago, Rod Ogilvie was isolated at St. Paul’s Hospital when he became seriously ill after recently returning from Liberia in West Africa, which is currently grappling with an Ebola virus outbreak.

"Late Monday night, lab tests at the national microbiology lab in Winnipeg ruled out the most serious viral hemorrhagic fevers caused by the Ebola, Lassa, Crimean-Congo and Marburg viruses.

"According to a statement released by the Ministry of Health on Friday: “Under the Public Health Act, the ministry and Regional Health Authority have no authority to release personal health information for a condition that does not pose a risk to the health of the public."

“The family has also expressed its wish that no personal health information be released.”

This apparently is why we the news is not receiving "updates" on Rod's condition.


http://www.leaderpost.com/cms/binary/9656900.jpg

However we have this new as of 1 April from the Vancouver Sun - http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Canadian+Press+NewsAlert+Ebola+ruled+case+sick+Saskatchewan/9658627/story.html

"George Sharpe, chief geologist at Global Geological Services Ltd. in Saskatoon, identified the sick man as his business partner, Rod Ogilvie.

"He got this assignment in Africa... He wanted his own project and it was just him that was required," Sharpe told Saskatoon radio station CKOM.

"It was pretty routine. He just went over to supervise an iron ore project. He has done it many times before, he has been in Africa before, so it is nothing new to him."

"Sharpe said Ogilvie went to the west African country of Liberia in February and came back in the middle of March.

"He was aware, as we all are, that anybody can catch these kinds of illnesses. There is no perfect way to prevent them... He was always advising me 'when you go to the tropics, Ghana or whatever, absolutely you have to take your malaria pills religiously, take your insect repellent, watch what you eat and he was always very careful about that," Shape said.

"What he got was just something by pure chance more than likely. Certainly he wasn't the type of person who would ever take a chance on catching anything like that."

"There is fear an outbreak of the Ebola virus has spread to Liberia, where the man was travelling.

"Dr. Denise Werker, the province's deputy chief medical health officer, said Tuesday that Ogilvie remains in critical condition and his organs are failing.

"Sharpe said his partner has had Dengue fever before.

"Dengue Hemorrhagic fever occurs when you get a second infection of Dengue virus caused by an autoimmune phenomena," Werker said."

Note:

We talked about how serious DENGUE Hemorrhagic fever (potentially a result of an re-infection of Dengue fever) on page 1 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=814035&viewfull=1#post814035), and possibly Mr. Ogilvie has this auto-immune enhanced reaction to the Dengue.

The doctors and the hospital should have been able to perform serological tests (and/or send out) on his blood to determine if it is DENGUE, but as mentioned earlier in this POST, the doctors and hospital are NOT talking.

And they are continuing to use extraordinary precautions for hospital staff to prevent any exposure.. just in case its not DHF.

Logically, Ribavirin could be tried as a treatment if it is not DHF.

Other Hemorrhagic fevers possible "naturally" in Liberia could be:

Rift Valley fever
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
Lassa fever

Other dangerous diseases of Liberia include:

Japanese Encephalitis
Malaria (both types)
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
Leptospirosis - high fever, severe headache, vomiting, jaundice, and diarrhea; untreated, the
disease can result in kidney damage, liver failure, meningitis, or respiratory distress; fatality rates are low but left untreated recovery can take months.

Meningococcal meningitis

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Oh my goodness, Bobd, that is not good news -- but it's one of the reasons I thought the Oxitec mosquito releases were crimes against nature.

Antibody dependent hemorrhagic dengue fever :(


Unfortunately, for some patients, Dengue Fever can be even more dangerous. In the more severe form, known as Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF), blood vessels start to leak and the blood fails to clot, causing bleeding from the nose, mouth, and gums. Without prompt treatment, the blood vessels can collapse, causing a critical condition called Dengue Shock Syndrome. Ultimately, this can lead to fatality: about 25,000 people die from Dengue Fever every year.

After Malaria, Dengue Fever is the second most widespread mosquito-borne disease in the world. The World Health Organisations has estimated that between 50 and 100 million people suffer from Dengue Fever each year: that’s more than the population of the UK – every year!

50-100 million potential human time bombs.

edit: what do you guys think of this:

http://www.genewatch.org/uploads/f03c6d66a9b354535738483c1c3d49e4/Oxitecbrief_fin.pdf


The UK biotech company Oxitec has recently released 3 million genetically-modified
(GM) male mosquitoes as part of an open release field experiment in the Cayman
Islands.

The GM mosquitoes produced by Oxitec mate with wild female mosquitoes but are
genetically engineered so that most of their offspring die before adulthood. This is
intended to reduce the population of the released mosquito species, which is a carrier of
the dengue virus, and hence to reduce the incidence of this tropical disease. However,
there are many unanswered questions about the impacts of this technology and
concerns about the process for approving these experiments.

Further open releases of Oxitec’s GM mosquitoes are planned for Malaysia in December
2010.

This briefing provides background information about the company, its technology, and its
recent and proposed experimental releases of GM mosquitoes.

Key findings are:
• Oxitec is losing approximately £1.7 million a year and owes £2.25 million to a
Boston multi-millionaire investor which it is due to repay by 2013;
• Oxitec’s business model assumes its developing country customers will be
locked in to ongoing payments for repeated releases of millions of GM
mosquitoes, allowing it to repay this loan and pay dividends to its investors,
including Oxford University;
• The company’s first open field trials of 3 million GM mosquitoes have been
undertaken in the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory) - funded by UK
charity the Wellcome Trust - without any consultation, public risk assessment,
ethical oversight, or the consent of local people;
• Former UK science minister Lord Drayson and former President of the Royal
Society Bob May have both acted as advisors to investors in the company
(Oxford University Challenge Seed Fund and East Hill Management LLC
respectively);
• The company has also received significant public subsidy, including more than
£2.5 million in grants from the UK government-funded Biotechnology and
Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), mostly for joint projects with
Oxford University;
• Oxitec has made misleading statements repeatedly in the media that its GM
mosquitoes are sterile;
Oxitec has played a key role in developing risk assessment processes for its own
products and has omitted or downplayed some serious potential adverse effects
of its technology in these risk assessment processes;
• Oxitec is developing a GM version of a second species of dengue-carrying
mosquito (the Asian Tiger mosquito) because it is aware that this mosquito could
occupy the ecological niche vacated by reductions in numbers of the first species
it is targeting. This second species is more invasive and can carry more
diseases;
• Decisions to invest in mass-production facilities for GM mosquitoes in
Oxfordshire, speed Oxitec’s products through regulatory processes, and begin
experimental releases in open field trials have been taken by Oxitec’s venture
capital investors and grant funders in London, Oxford and Boston, rather than by
the company’s potential customers or people living in dengue-infected areas.


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Oxitec’s technology

Oxitec’s patented technique for genetically modifying insects is known as RIDL (Release of Insects carrying a Dominant Lethal genetic system). These GM insects are intended to be used as a form of biological control to reduce natural populations of the target insect when released into the wild.






p.s. last but not least http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66127-What-s-Your-Craziest-Conspiracy&p=767402&viewfull=1#post767402


4th December 2013 11:32

...Oxitech is using dengue fever as an excuse to perform illegal human experimentation in Africa by exposing innocent people to their GMO mosquitoes.
these non-native mosquitoes are regulated by the bacteria Wolbachia. This allegedly prevents them from breeding in the wild.
Unfortunately, the antibiotics in cat food, which many people erringly keep outside, kill the Wolbachia very well and mosquitoes will land on cat food when they can get it.
Therefore, the mosquitoes are effectively infecting humans and animals with Wolbachia, then purging themselves of the infection and reproducing in the wild.

Kids end up getting bitten, and if they don't get that weird Dengue hemorrhagic fever (covered up and called Ebola during Olympics), they get River Blindness anyway (but the severe childhood form is being called "African Nodding Disease").


I hope you guys understand some of that and why I am concerned about these "multi-stage" human experiments.
The corporate Nazis think that if they do a human test in stages, we won't recognize the whole.

[Bob]

Antibody enhanced DHF (Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever) infection is nothing to trivialize.. If thats what Mr. Rod Ogilvie has.. Without the hospital or the doctor evaluating the "infection" Dr. Denise Werker, the province's deputy chief medical health officer, explaining exactly what he came back with, in the stewardship role of "Public Safety Interests", we just don't know..

What exactly does he have and came back with to Canada? If there is a hazard there, the public should be kept informed. They aren't wearing hot-papa suits for nothing..

(Example, from Ft. Dietrick's bio level 4 labs)


http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/cm/15/06/54cfc5a18cd70_-_bio-lab-470-0509.jpg

She had reported, "Tests for Ebola, Lassa, Crimean-Congo and Marburg viruses came up negative".

So that leaves Rift Valley Hemorrhagic Fever (RVF), Leptospirosis, or a form of Meningococcal meningitis.. Erythromycin would be the antibiotic of choice for a phase 2 bacterial infection of Leptospirosis for some of the symptoms indicated.

However they were reporting organ failure with the other "ebola-like symptoms" - that then suggests DHV or RVF..

[Bob]

Update on the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa - 8 April 2014

"The West African Ebola outbreak — which the World Health Organization (WHO) calls “one of the most challenging” it has ever faced — has now infected an estimated 178 people in Guinea and Liberia, and another 600 may have been exposed to the deadly virus and will require monitoring.

"But emergency responders find they are fighting more than just a virus, which has so far killed as many as 111 people."


http://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/news/world/2014/04/08/ebola_outbreak_very_challenging_says_who/nurse_and_patient.jpg.size.xxlarge.letterbox.jpg

ref: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/04/08/ebola_outbreak_very_challenging_says_who.html - "Challenging", says World Health Organization

and

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/04/03/ebola_patients_await_death_in_guinea_isolation_wards.html - deaths in Guinea


http://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/news/world/2014/04/03/ebola_patients_await_death_in_guinea_isolation_wards/ebola_gloves.jpg.size.xxlarge.letterbox.jpg

"Amid Ebola’s near-certain death sentence, fear and panic have spread.

"Passengers fled a bus after an elderly man vomited on board. In Liberia, one market emptied out when people falsely believed they could catch the disease simply from breathing the same air as victims. In Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, cashiers at one grocery store wore rubber gloves to protect themselves.

"In southern Guinea, church pews are now empty on Sundays. People are fearful of shaking hands and instead make the sign of the cross when they greet a friend or loved one.

“Here it’s like time has stopped. Every day is potentially dangerous for us. And it’s only God who can save us from this disease,” said Lalla Balde, who lives in Macenta.

“We don’t know what sin we have committed so that the Ebola fever has befallen us,” said another resident, Cece Lohalamou. “We already have enough problems here."

[Bob]

Chapare Virus, is a newly Discovered Arenavirus Isolated from a Fatal Hemorrhagic Fever Case in Bolivia.

ref: PLoS Pathog 4(4): e1000047, April 2008. Available at http://www.plospathogens.org), CDC believes the Chapare virus should be added to the list of potential bio-warfare "select agents" and toxins.

The select agents and toxins that were first listed in part 73 included ‘‘South American Haemorrhagic Fever viruses (Junin, Machupo, Sabia, Flexal, Guanarito).’’

South American Arenaviruses are rodent-borne viruses, some of which can be associated with large haemorrhagic fever outbreaks, and untreated case fatalities can be in excess of 30 percent. - ref: http://www.selectagents.gov/resources/Chapare%20FRN.pdf - "(US) Federal Register/ Vol. 74, No. 159 / Wednesday, August 19, 2009"

Background:

In December 2003 and January 2004, a small number of South American haemorrhagic fever cases were reported in rural Bolivia.

Specimens were available from one fatal case, which had a clinical course that included fever, headache, arthralgia, myalgia, and vomiting with subsequent deterioration and multiple haemorrhagic signs.

Isolated virus from two patient serum samples were tested for genetic similarity with other Clade B arenaviruses known to cause haemorrhagic fever.

The complete genome analysis showed that the virus identified was a distinct new virus, subsequently named Chapare. Chapare virus was found to be most closely related to Sabia virus (causative agent for Brazilian haemorrhagic fever).

The CDC contact information on this virus is: Robbin Weyant, Director, Division of Select Agents and Toxins, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Mailstop A46, Atlanta, GA 30333. Telephone: (404) 718–2000.

"Chapare virus has been phylogenetically identified as a Clade B arenavirus and is closely related to other currently regulated South American arenaviruses that cause haemorrhagic fever, particularly Sabia virus."

A good reference to keep aware of what happens and is needed to happen in Class IV biohazard labs: http://www.selectagents.gov/Biosafety%20in%20Microbiological%20and%20Biomedical%20Laboratories.html - this has links, one of which directs to: http://www.cdc.gov/biosafety/publications/bmbl5/

The full document on that page is retrieved at: http://www.cdc.gov/biosafety/publications/bmbl5/BMBL.pdf

Of particular interest to this Thread: http://www.cdc.gov/biosafety/publications/bmbl5/BMBL5_sect_VIII_e.pdf - that goes over the various issues with Viruses, exposures, vectors, handling.. This document goes over all the "fears" and issues about planetwide viral epidemic/pandemic possible "events" and those issues (not the subject of this thread, but would be good for another separate thread).

What was interesting in the pdf above, pointed out were the agency understood and used "anti-viral treatment" substances that are used for laboratory personnel during an emergency exposure or outbreak. Those are: Antiviral drugs (e.g., oseltamivir, amantadine, rimantadine, zanamivir, ribavarin). The first 4 were suggested to be used to deal with the 1918 pandemic strain of Flu (Spanish flu)

There is a list that they say are absolute NO-NO's : http://www.selectagents.gov/resources/List_of_Select_Agents_and_Toxins_2013-09-10.pdf - "HHS AND USDA SELECT AGENTS AND TOXINS"

LOCATION where found in BOLIVIA

http://boingboing.net/images/x_2008/machupo08.jpg

Method of transfer, rodents, feces, urine, direct contact, contaminated feed exposed to infected rodents


http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7423/9137912045_59825c0134_z.jpg

Regional distribution (General Hemorrhagic Fevers Bolivia)


http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/00000421.gif

[Rocky_Shorz]

Africa Outbreak Map (http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/fr/map/esov-suivi-epidemie-ebola_6356#6/9.113/-9.141)

I dropped by Flutrackers (http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2888) for an update after seeing this outbreak appeared starting after the ping from flight 370...

http://victoriastaffordapsychicinvestigation.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/flight-mh370-pings-maldives-indian-ocean-hong-kong-gulf-of-guinea-march-2014-flight-173-n13979-google-maps-1.png?w=600&h=289

you can see one of the pings were just offshore from the outbreak...


but, after a quick check, Ebola breakouts happen every other year in Africa and this outbreak started back in February so not related...

[Bob]

Rocky, this post link has some interesting dates (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=814159&viewfull=1#post814159) as to the outbreak cycles where it appears to be worst..

The west African variant I still haven't heard if it is from the Zaire strain, or the Ugandan strain..

The other significant which I still can't sort out, is if there was disinformation on the two ex-SEALS found dead on the cargo ship off Seychelles earlier in Feb, if that at all relates, or if this is simply an accident from a natural reservoir being exposed (i.e. eating infected "bats").. And the Canadian that came back from Liberia with something that they say ISN'T the normally expected Ebola or Marburg, or Crimean viri..(But they wont' say what it is). finding those dots to connect which really connect to the actual source of the outbreak would be useful for folks I believe.

ED UPDATE: see post below - http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=824090&viewfull=1#post824090 this outbreak as described in the OP #1 is in fact a new strain of the Ebola - this is significant.

[Atlas]

8 April 2014

"The West African Ebola outbreak [...] has now infected an estimated 178 people in Guinea and Liberia

I posted this on another thread:

Guinea's first Ebola survivors return to family (http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/04/08/guinea-ebola-survivors-idINDEEA3709M20140408)
Reuters - Apr 8, 2014

On Saturday, the 18-year-old mother of three Rose Komano became the first victim to have beaten the disease in the region of Gueckedou.

Eight people have now recovered from the Ebola virus, according to medical tests.

Lucky genes and intensive medical care helped Komano become one of the handful to escape death.

Other patients were cleared to go home from the Donko hospital in Conakry last week in what the World Health Organisation (WHO) dubbed "Lazarus" cases - after the Biblical figure restored to life by Jesus.

Komano's 12-year-old niece and her sister are also recovering as the levels of virus in their blood fall.

(Related thread: projectavalon.net/WHO-secrecy-over-Ebola-exposed-by-email-exchange (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?70255-WHO-secrecy-over-Ebola-exposed-by-email-exchange&p=819547&viewfull=1#post819547))

[Bob]

Lassa Fever in Minneapolis - http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/p0404-lassa-fever.html -
Updated April 7, 2014

Lassa Fever Reported in U.S. Traveler Returning from West Africa - For Immediate Release: Friday, April 4, 2014
Contact: CDC Media Relations - Centers for Disease Control
(404) 639-3286

The CDC and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) have confirmed a diagnosis of Lassa fever in a person returning to the United States from West Africa. The patient was admitted to a hospital in Minnesota on March 31 with symptoms of fever and confusion. Blood samples submitted to CDC tested positive for Lassa fever on April 3. The patient is recovering and is in stable condition.

“This imported case is a reminder that we are all connected by international travel. A disease anywhere can appear anywhere else in the world within hours,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H.

more on Lassa from CDC - http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/lassa/

[Bob]

The Ebola outbreak reported in the OP (post 1) has been classified as a NEW STRAIN of the virus - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/17/us-guinea-ebola-idUSBREA3G11W20140417

(Reuters) - An Ebola outbreak blamed for 135 deaths in West Africa in the past month was not imported from Central Africa but caused by a new strain of the disease, a study in a U.S. medical journal said, raising the specter of further regional epidemics.

"The spread of Ebola from a remote corner of Guinea to the capital and into neighboring Liberia, the first deadly outbreak reported in West Africa, has caused panic across a region struggling with weak healthcare systems and porous borders.

"Ebola is endemic to Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, South Sudan and Gabon, and scientists initially believed that Central Africa's Zaire strain of the virus was responsible for the outbreak.

"Using analysis of blood samples from infected patients, however, researchers determined that while the Guinean form of the Ebola virus (EBOV) showed a 97 percent similarity to the Zaire strain, the disease was not introduced from Central Africa. (this is significant)

"This study demonstrates the emergence of a new EBOV strain in Guinea," wrote the group of more than 30 doctors and scientists, who published their preliminary findings on the website of the New England Journal of Medicine."

Gambia earlier this month banned Banjul-bound aircraft from picking up passengers in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

More on the new strain of the Ebola - http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/GeneralInfectiousDisease/45296

"Günther and colleagues studied samples from 15 patients and concluded the virus affecting them is a novel version of ebolavirus, which has five species: Zaire ebolavirus (or EBOV), Sudan ebolavirus, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Reston ebolavirus, and Tai Forest ebolavirus.

"The first three have caused major outbreaks in Africa, while the Tai Forest species has been responsible for a single human case, and the Reston species, which circulates in the Philippines, affects nonhuman primates but not people.

"The version in the current outbreak is 97% identical to strains from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon, but is a separate grouping with the EBOV clade, Günther and colleagues found."

[Bob]

Tai Valley Ebola Virus - from Ivory Coast - Cote D'Ivoire Outbreaks


http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/filo/IvoryCoast.gif

A reserve located in southwest Cote d'Ivoire near the Liberian border, this area harbors another unique strain of the Ebola Virus. Within this reserve exists a troop of Chimpanze. The troop has been infected and dying from Ebola. As the Chimpanzee's hunt other monkeys for meat, it is assumed that they caught the virus by eating an infected smaller monkey who could have consumed bats, or fruit infected by bats that harbored the virus.

In 1994 a Swiss biologist performing a necropsy on one of the infected Chimps became ill with the Ebola. It took her about 6 weeks to recover with treatment in Switzerland. A tribal chief was infected in 1995. Tests showed Ebola after some mistaken early diagnosis of yellow fever or cholera.

ref:http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/filo/eboci.html and Le Guenno, Bernard, P. Formenty, and C. Boesch. "Ebola Virus Outbreaks in the Ivory Coast and Liberia, 1994-1995."


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Map above showing distribution

ref: Apes (Gorillas) passing ebola around in the troop - http://www.naturalsciences.be/science/projects/gorilla/aboutgorilla/ebola

"The first recorded outbreak of Ebola occurred in Sudan (due to the so called Ebola Sudan subtype), near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between June and November 1976. A second outbreak occurred in the same region 3 years later, between July and October 1979. "

Meanwhile (August and November 1976), an outbreak due to E. Zaire occurred in DRC, near the borders with Sudan and the Central African Republic. (see map above)

This previously unknown disease was named for the river Ebola, which flows past Yambuku (epicentre of the outbreak in "DRC" - Democratic Republic of the Congo).

E. Zaire strain made a second but restricted appearance (only one case recorded) in DRC in June 1977.

After a 15-year period in which no further cases were recorded, Ebola re-emerged in 1994 for a 3-year period.

This new phase was marked by the identification of a new subtype, E. Ivory Coast (Tai Valley Ebola), and by an escalation of outbreaks due to the E. Zaire strain.

Ebola outbreak was recorded in the chimpanzees of Tai National Park (Ivory Coast) in June 1994 (Formenty et al., 1999), and an ethnologist became ill after autopsying a chimpanzee found dead in the Tai forest. It was the first and only human case observed in West Africa, and the only case clearly attributed to E. Ivory Coast (Tai Valley Ebola).

25% of the 43 chimpanzees in the studied community were recorded to have died from the virus (Formenty et al., 1999).

Regarding the strain of E. Zaire Ebola, the first outbreak of this period occurred in the town of Kikwit, about 500 km from Kinshasa (DRC), while three further outbreaks occurred in northeast Gabon: in Mekouka between 1994 and 1995, Mayibout in early 1996, and Booué between 1996 and 1997.

Though there are no proofs; those outbreaks in humans are suspected to be linked to a drastic decline recorded in great ape abundance in the Minkebe forest (Huijbregts & al., 2003).

"Indeed, Lahm (2000) reported a decrease of 90% in gorilla and 98% in chimpanzee abundance compare to her previous observations in the same area - before the 1994 and 1996 Ebola epidemics."

[Bob]

7 years ago in Uganda, Africa, another new strain of Ebola Virus appeared - called Bundibugyo ebolavirus.

ref: http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1000212

"Over the past 30 years, Zaire and Sudan ebolaviruses have been responsible for large hemorrhagic fever (HF) outbreaks with case fatalities ranging from 53% to 90%, while a third species, Côte d'Ivoire ebolavirus, caused a single non-fatal HF case. (See post above).

"In November 2007, HF cases were reported in Bundibugyo District, Western Uganda.

"Laboratory investigation of the initial 29 suspect-case blood specimens by classic methods (antigen capture, IgM and IgG ELISA) and a recently developed random-primed pyrosequencing approach quickly identified this to be an Ebola HF (Hemorrhagic Fever) outbreak associated with a newly discovered ebolavirus species (Bundibugyo ebolavirus) distantly related to the Côte d'Ivoire ebolavirus found in western Africa."


http://www.plospathogens.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000212.g001&representation=PNG_L

Bundibugyo Ebola killed 42 people in Uganda.

From ref: http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2012/07/30/ebola-resurfaces-in-uganda-history-and-analyses-of-ugandan-ebola/ - Ebola resurfaces in Uganda in 2012. This time the strain was Ebola Sudan, from the country north of Uganda.

An experimental Vaccine, http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/05/21/127030160/ebola-vaccine-works-against-new-virus has been found that totally protected monkeys against Bundibugyo Ebola.

What is interesting, the vaccine specifically was designed to protect against the Zaire and Sudan species of Ebola. Both are very different from the new Bundibugyo virus – as much as 43 percent different, in terms of genetic sequences.

Here is how it was made:
The vaccine contains pieces of the protein-sugar coat (glycoprotein) from the Zaire and Sudan viruses, inserted into a type of common cold virus.

The cold virus carries the Ebola glycoprotein into cells of the vaccine recipients – in this case four macaques in a maximum-security lab at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, or USAMRIID, at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Once infected, the monkeys' immune cells chop the Ebola glycoprotein into small pieces and display them on their surface, where they stimulate a response from other immune cells.

The monkeys got four "priming" shots, followed a year later with a booster shot.

Four other macaques got no vaccine. All eight animals were inoculated with ordinarily lethal doses of the new Ebola virus. The vaccinated animals all survived, and the unvaccinated monkeys all died.

[Bob]

The Ministry of Health (MoH) of Guinea - 23 April 14 - CDC Reporting (Centers for Disease Control)

The Ministry of Health (MoH) of Guinea reported 208 suspect and confirmed cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), including 136 deaths, on April 20, 2014 according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Of these suspect cases, 112 have been laboratory confirmed positive cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF).

One additional health care worker has been reported among the suspect and confirmed cases bringing the total to 25, including 16 deaths. Other districts reporting suspect and confirmed cases remain Guekedou, Macenta, Kissidougou, Dabola, and Djingaraye.

WHO reports that the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) of Liberia announced the cumulative total of suspect and confirmed cases of EHF is 34, including 11 deaths, on April 21, 2014. Six (6) samples have tested positive for Ebola virus. Samples from Mali and Sierra Leone have, thus far, been negative for Ebola virus though investigations and monitoring of reports of suspect cases is ongoing.

Médecins sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors without Borders) is helping the Ministry of Health of Guinea in establishing treatment and isolation centers in the epicenter of the outbreak.

In Liberia, several international organizations including the International Red Cross (IRC), Pentecostal Mission Unlimited (PMU)-Liberia, and Samaritan’s Purse (SP) Liberia are aiding the MOHSW of Liberia by supporting awareness campaigns and providing personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers.

The Institute Pasteur in Lyon, France, the Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal, the European Consortium mobile laboratory, and the Metabiota supported laboratory in Kenema (Sierra Leone) and Monrovia (Liberia), and CDC Atlanta are some of the laboratories collaborating to test samples.

CDC is in regular communication with its international partners, WHO, and MSF regarding the outbreak. Currently CDC has a 7 person team in Guinea and a 3 person team in Liberia assisting the respective MOHs and the WHO-led international response to this Ebola outbreak.


http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/images/outbreaks/GuineaSLeone-map-041414.jpg

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/images/EBOLA_ecology_800px.jpg

Don't eat the bats, don't eat the fruit that the bats drop, don't eat the monkeys that eat the fruit that the bat's drop.

[Bob]

8 May Update WHO - EBOLA outbreak

Guinea

As of 18:00 on 5 May 2014, the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Guinea has reported a cumulative total of 235 clinical cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), including 157 deaths. There has been no change in the number of cases confirmed by ebolavirus PCR (127 cases) since the last update of 2 May 2014, but there have been two additional deaths: one among the confirmed cases and the other among the probable cases. This brings the number of deaths to 83. There have been no new probable or suspected cases. In addition, 55 cases (34 deaths) are classified as suspected cases. As of 7 May, one patient remains in isolation in Conakry and one in Guekedou. The date of isolation of the most recent confirmed cases is 26 April in Conakry and 1 May in Guekedou.

The geographical distribution of clinical cases of EVD since the beginning of the outbreak is as follows: Conakry (53 cases, including 24 deaths), Guekedou (149/107), Macenta (22/16), Kissidougou (6/5), Dabola (4/4), and Djingaraye (1/1). There have been no new cases of EVD in Kissidougou since 1 April, Macenta since 9 April, and Conakry since 22 April. In Djingaraye and Dabola, no new cases have been reported since the end of March 2014.

The cumulative total of laboratory confirmed cases and deaths since the beginning of the outbreak is: Conakry (40 cases, including 20 deaths); Guekedou (72/51); Macenta (13/10); Kissidougou (1/1); and Dabola (1/1). The analysis of the epidemiological data during the last three weeks shows that the number of new cases is decreasing in Guekedou.

EVD prevention and control activities continue in Guekedou. These include: a suite of innovative community sensitization and social mobilization activities with community leaders, mining companies, banks, schools and universities, and local nongovernmental organizations; the dissemination of awareness messages through rural community radio and posters; the screening of films on EVD; and providing education about EVD door-to-door in affected villages or neighborhoods.

The numbers of cases and contacts remain subject to change due to consolidation of case, contact and laboratory data, enhanced surveillance activities, and contact tracing activities. The recent introduction of ebolavirus serology to test PCR negative clinical cases is also likely to change the final number of laboratory confirmed cases.

As the incubation period for EVD can be up to three weeks, it is likely that the Guinean health authorities will report new cases in the coming weeks and additional suspected cases may also be identified in neighbouring countries.

Liberia

There has been no change in the epidemiological situation in Liberia. The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) of Liberia has reported that there are no current alerts of viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)-like illness in Liberia. Active surveillance activities continue. As of 5 May, 152 contacts have completed 21 days of follow-up and been discharged from medical surveillance.

Sierra Leone

As of 7 May, no cases of EVD have been confirmed in Sierra Leone. From 16 March to 7 May 2014, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS) of Sierra Leone has tested 106 patients presenting with a VHF-like illness for EVD and Lassa fever. No cases of EVD have been detected using ebolavirus PCR assays while 10 patients have been confirmed with a Lassa fever virus infection. Lassa fever is endemic in Sierra Leone. Thirty-five (35 contacts) have been traced; 15 have completed 21 days of follow-up and have been discharged from medical surveillance; and 20 are under follow up.

EVD preparedness and response training has been provided to 375 health-care workers, including senior district-level nursing staff, primary health-care staff, senior hospital-based nurses and clinicians, and hospital superintendents. Personal protective equipment has been prepositioned in all district hospitals, selected private and mission hospitals, and the Armed Forces hospital. Active surveillance activities continue, including the investigation of all rumours of VHF-like illness.

REF for more information: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_05_08_ebola/en/

WHO response

WHO continues to support the Ministries of Health of Guinea and Liberia in their EVD prevention and control activities. As of 7 May, 113 experts have been deployed to assist in the response. This includes 54 experts deployed through the global WHO surge mechanism, 33 international experts from among partner institutions of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), 10 externally recruited consultants, 16 WHO staff who were locally repurposed. Expertise has been mobilized in the areas of coordination, medical anthropology, clinical case management, data management and health informatics, surveillance and epidemiology, infection prevention and control, laboratory services, logistics, risk communications, social mobilization, finance and administration, and resource mobilization.

To date, 88 experts have been deployed to Guinea, 21 to Liberia, one to Sierra Leone, and three to the WHO Regional Office for Africa.

An additional, 12 deployments are in the pipeline in the disciplines of medical anthropology, clinical case management, surveillance and epidemiology, laboratory services, logistics, and risk and media communications.

[Bob]

Korean Haemorrhagic fever (KHF) outbreaks - further research on diseases of unknown etiology appearing worldwide


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

This clearly comes under the question BIOWEAPON, ACCIDENT or Natural Causes..

http://www.itg.be/internet/ebola/ebola-53.htm

Source of material: HO WANG LEE
The Institute for Viral Diseases, Korea University Medical College, Seoul, South Korea


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NOTE the SHADED areas of this MAP

KHF has not been described previously in Korea before 1951, but some workers consider that its epidemicity and pathogenesis suggest the possibility of endemic disease before 1950 and it may had been missed because of lack of knowledge and its rare occurrences in rural areas due to special ecology.

After the Korean War, the disease was designated as endemic in the area of DMZ and since then has gradually spread southwesterly.

A conspicuous increase in the number of the civilian cases was observed in 1970's. However, most cases are still reported near the area of the DMZ where Korean soldiers are stationed.

However, considering its epidemiological changing status of KHF for the past 25 years, the imported germ theory in which it originates possibly from North-Eastern part of Asia in the period of Korean War, could not be excluded.

The reservoir of KHF in the endemic areas in Korea is Apodemus agrarius coreae (mouse). There are about 7 species of field rodents in the endemic areas of KHF but only Apodemus species contained KHF agent.

In 1951 there were 827 US forces affected by this HKF infection.

In 1954 there were 307 US forces affected and 19 Korean civilians affected.

The numbers continued to increase and decrease throughout the period up to about 1975 where afterwards the statistics were not being reported for the article.

Summarizing the statistics, from 1951 - 1975, there were 2,906 US forces infected, 4,083 Korean military forces infected, 2,352 civilians infected.

WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT (and by whom)

ETIOLOGIC AGENT

In early 1940's Japanese and Russians successfully reproduced hemorrhagic fever by injection of urine and sera of the patients in the acute stage into monkeys and volunteers. Filtered sera of the patients were also produced clinical symptoms, so this disease has been suspected as being of viral origin.

Many attempts have been made to isolate the causative agent of KHF and clinically similar diseases.

A Russian report of cultivation of a virus in cell cultures from patients with hemorrhagic nephrosonephritis (kidney damage) has not been confirmed.

In 1976 Lee and Lee succeeded in demonstrating an antigen in the lungs and kidneys of the Apodemus agrarius collected in the endemic foci, which gave specific immunofluorescent reaction with convalescent sera from KHF patients and named it as the Korea antigen.

Very recently, Lee et al. have demonstrated that this antigen is the etiologic agent of KHF and is produced by a replicating microbe.

It passes 0.1 micro millipore filter and antibiotics are ineffective. (THIS IS VERY SMALL)

Under the electron microscope round virus-like particles of about 50 nanometers in diameter can be observed in crystalline array at the cytoplasm of infected pulmonary epithelia of Apodemus as shown in this image:


http://virology-online.com/viruses/hantavirus.gif

All attempts to establish the KHF agent in hosts other than Apodemus agrarius have been unsuccessful.

Various species of laboratory animals as well as more than 20 types of cell cultures all failed to show specific immunofluorescent antibody staining after inoculation of the agent.

(This could possibly suggest that the disease could be harbored undetected in other animals than the specific rodent).

Apodemus agrarius coreae infected either naturally or experimentally have never showed the clinical symptoms.

When KHF agent is inoculated the agent begins to appear at lungs 10 days later.

After then it can be identified at kidneys, liver and submaxillary glands.

The most amount of agent can be detected toward 20 days, and then start to decline gradually. However, it was still able to be detected after day-60.

The agent was serially propagated in Apodemus agrarius and a study on characteristics of the agent is in progress.

Immunofluorescent antibody responses to KHF agent after subcutaneous inoculation into rabbits were demonstrated and, the antibodies started to appear at 7 days, reached maximum at 14 days and declined slowly by 60 days.

SUMMARY

Hemorrhagic fevers with renal syndrome are being reported from many parts of the world. It has been reviewed and discussed on KHF and similar diseases which occur all over the Asian and European Continents.

The number of KHF patients in not only soldiers but also civilians tend to increase every year.

So it is urgent need to take some measures to prevent this disease.

Recently the etiological agent of KHF was isolated, the natural reservoir was demonstrated as Apodemus agrarius coreae and the serological diagnosis also comes to be available, by means of immunofluorescent antibody technique.

The etiological agent did not react with the antisera of arenaviruses but did with convalescent sera of Japanese epidemic hemorrhagic fever and Soviet hemorrhagic nephrosonephritis patients, showing close serological relationship.

The relationship between KHF and the similar diseases of unknown etiology occurring in Scandinavia and Eurasia remains to be answered.

[Bob]

Death toll from Ebola in Sierra Leone more than doubles

The outbreak had started over in Guinea, and was on the border of Sierra Leone, however reports now coming in say there is an increase in the spread.

The death toll from Ebola in Sierra Leone has doubled to at least 12 in a week, local health authorities said on Monday, deepening the spread of a disease that has killed over 200 people in Guinea and Liberia.

Amara Jambai, Sierra Leone's Director of Disease Prevention and Control, said all the confirmed deaths in Sierra Leone were in the east, mainly in the Kailahun district on the border with Guinea.

"It is very difficult for us to ascertain community deaths at this moment, but the 12 deaths are the ones the hospital can definitely confirm to have died of Ebola," Jambai said.

ref: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/06/09/death-toll-from-ebola-in-sierra-leone-more-than-doubles/


http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Health/876/493/Ebola_testing.jpg

[Bob]

More information on Sierra Leone Ebola outbreak

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/05/ebola-cases-sierra-leone-triple-50

From Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy report, cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Sierra Leone have more than tripled in just 3 days, from 16 reported on May 27 to 50 reported today by the World Health Organization (WHO). The agency also reported 10 new EVD cases in Guinea and 1 in Liberia.

The post above mentioned the DEATHS have jumped up (doubled), and the cases have tripled (those with confirmed virus infection).

Apparently the disease has not been burning itself out as previously hoped.

Guinea cases approach 300
Guinea's 10 new cases bring the country's total to 291, including 193 fatal cases. The WHO broke down the cases as 172 confirmed (including 108 deaths), 71 probable (62 fatal), and 48 suspected (23 fatal). Seven of the 10 new cases were fatal.

Areas with the most EVD cases are Gueckedou prefecture, with 179 cases; Conakry, the capital, with 53; and Macenta prefecture, with 40. Investigators are following up with 493 contacts, the WHO said.

The agency did not specify where the new cases were detected but said in the update, "The current evolving epidemiological situation could be partly explained by persistent community resistance in some communities in Gueckedou, Macenta, and Conakry."

[Roisin]

Now it's up to 600 since March and they're saying that the situation is "out of control". I know this virus is not as contagious as, for example, Sars, but all virus' mutate and one wonders if they know in which ways it could do that. I mean, supposing it mutates in such a way that the incubation period is stretched out more than it is at 21 days? Or if it becomes more contagious and the list goes on and on. The more this virus spreads, the potential for it mutating to the point where there's no chance for survivor's is, of course the most common concern whenever there's a potential for a world-wide pandemic. But I'm just speaking off the top of my head because, so far, there hasn't been anything in the news about it potentially mutating into a stronger strain but having said this, it's surprising that a virus like this one with a 21 day incubation period has not only been not contained yet but is spreading all over the place in that region!

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Just found this bit of information wrt to my questions about it mutating...


What is the probability of a dangerous strain of Ebola mutating and becoming airborne?


Ebola is made of RNA. RNA viruses are known to undergo rapid genetic changes. The three most common mechanisms are:

Nucleotide substitutions resulting from purportedly high error rates during RNA synthesis;
Reassortment of the RNA segments of multipartite genomic viruses
RNA-RNA recombination between non-segmented RNAs


The Ebola virus can use only the first and the third mechanisms as it has only one segment of RNA by capsid. To become "airborne", the Ebola genome (RNA) would, at least, have to mutate in such a way that its outer protective coating of proteins (capsid) could resist the forces to which they are subjected in air (e.g., dryness). It also would probably need to change structure to allow infection through the respiratory system. There are no exact measures of the rate of mutation in Ebola, but the probability of the required mutation(s) happening is not great.

http://www.brettrussell.com/personal/what_are_the_chances_.html

[Bob]

Viral mutation in the "wild", naturally does happen, but engineered viruses in bio-weapons labs, despite "prevention treaties" (gentlemans agreement not to develop a weapon of mass destruction, or "else" (or else what, a hand slap?)) these engineered viruses are custom tailored to be spreadable.. the trick is to find the antidote unless one is making a planetary wide - KILL switch, the doomsday device.. Russia had worked on doomsdays devices to hold for ransom the rest of the world. The idea is "nothing to loose", the reality is sufficiently hopeless, possibly the "other side" will give in to a threat push..

I have some very good friends who are virologists, experts in the field, and they have said, a bacteria or a virus can be designed to do just about anything..

'Drastic action is needed' now to stop Ebola epidemic' is the title of the article today.

"The World Health Organization says "drastic action is needed" to stop the deadly Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa. It has sent teams of experts to help locals deal with the epidemic and WHO plans to meet next week to discuss how to contain it.

Relief workers on the ground said the epidemic has hit unprecedented proportions."

"There have been at least 600 cases and 390 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, according to a WHO statement released Thursday. That's since the epidemic began in March, according to the latest World Health Organization figures."

Earlier in this thread we tracked other outbreaks and epidemics and have shown the time period to "burn out".

ref: http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/26/health/ebola-outbreak-west-africa/





Now it's up to 600 since March and they're saying that the situation is "out of control". I know this virus is not as contagious as, for example, Sars, but all virus' mutate and one wonders if they know in which ways it could do that. I mean, supposing it mutates in such a way that the incubation period is stretched out more than it is at 21 days? Or if it becomes more contagious and the list goes on and on. The more this virus spreads, the potential for it mutating to the point where there's no chance for survivor's is, of course the most common concern whenever there's a potential for a world-wide pandemic. But I'm just speaking off the top of my head because, so far, there hasn't been anything in the news about it potentially mutating into a stronger strain but having said this, it's surprising that a virus like this one with a 21 day incubation period has not only been not contained yet but is spreading all over the place in that region!

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Just found this bit of information wrt to my questions about it mutating...


What is the probability of a dangerous strain of Ebola mutating and becoming airborne?


Ebola is made of RNA. RNA viruses are known to undergo rapid genetic changes. The three most common mechanisms are:

Nucleotide substitutions resulting from purportedly high error rates during RNA synthesis;
Reassortment of the RNA segments of multipartite genomic viruses
RNA-RNA recombination between non-segmented RNAs


The Ebola virus can use only the first and the third mechanisms as it has only one segment of RNA by capsid. To become "airborne", the Ebola genome (RNA) would, at least, have to mutate in such a way that its outer protective coating of proteins (capsid) could resist the forces to which they are subjected in air (e.g., dryness). It also would probably need to change structure to allow infection through the respiratory system. There are no exact measures of the rate of mutation in Ebola, but the probability of the required mutation(s) happening is not great.

http://www.brettrussell.com/personal/what_are_the_chances_.html

[TODD & NORA]

..........

[Roisin]

I'm more concerned about North Korea and its crazy dictator releasing a virus to exterminate whole populations than someone like Putin, at this present time. It would seem like anyone with funds available to do so, would be able to purchase biological weapons... including North Korea.

I eyeballed the posts in this thread and will bookmark it to read over everything more carefully as time goes by... This is an excellent thread to use as a reference on these topics and thanks for starting it up because it's very comprehensive.... and terrifying too.

[Bob]

No Signs of Diminishing - July 2014 West Africa - from All Africa dot Com

The WHO says new cases of Ebola continue to be reported in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. It says the death toll from confirmed, probable and suspected cases of the virus stands at 467, the majority of them in Guinea.

The U.N. agency said the virus is being transmitted mainly in rural communities, cross-border areas and densely populated parts of the Guinean and Liberian capitals.

Authorities have warned people to avoid direct contact with those infected by the virus, whether alive or dead. The WHO said "traditional beliefs" and continued commercial and social activities are contributing to continued transmission of the virus.

ref: http://allafrica.com/stories/201407021508.html

MEANWHILE

Tribal beliefs, suspicion and ignorance have led to doctors being threatened in their attempts to help the sick, or prevent the healthy from becoming infected.

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Red Cross in Guinea said on Wednesday it had been forced to suspend operations tackling Ebola in the country's southeast after staff there were threatened by a group of men armed with knives.

The incident on Tuesday in Gueckedou, about 650 kms (403 miles) southeast of the capital Conakry, is the latest in a series against health workers, undermining efforts to help the region's weak health systems fight one of the world's deadliest diseases.

A Medicins Sans Frontieres center in nearby Macenta earlier was also attacked by youths two months ago after staff there were accused of bringing the disease to Guinea.

The outbreak of the disease in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is the largest and deadliest ever, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The organization has recorded 467 deaths from 759 known cases since February.

Local and foreign doctors are battling a deep-rooted fear and lack of understanding of the disease, which has driven dozens of victims to evade treatment and made it harder to track patients.

Health ministers from 11 West African states are meeting in Accra, Ghana, on Wednesday and Thursday to try to coordinate the regional response to the epidemic.

WHO has flagged three main factors driving the spread of Ebola - the burial of victims in accordance with cultural practices and traditional beliefs in rural communities, the dense population around the capital cities of Guinea and Liberia and the bustling cross-border trade across the region.

ref: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/02/us-health-ebola-westafrica-redcross-idUKKBN0F714220140702

[Bob]

http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_25/488516/140604-ebola-jms-2056_2ce3fae6a8176d1e798530f7aa5fe5bf.nbcnews-fp-1600-600.jpg

This iceberg is growing larger, and we are only seeing it's tip.

An "out of control" outbreak of Ebola in West Africa that’s being called the deadliest ever is far from over and it’s likely to get worse before it gets better, experts predict.

July 2014 update.

“This is the tip of the iceberg,” said Robert Garry, a microbiology professor at the Tulane University School of Medicine who’s been leading relief and investigation efforts in Sierra Leone for the Viral Hemorraghic Fever Consortium.

Dr. Mwayabo Kazadi, from the health unit for Catholic Relief Services, agreed that many cases could go uncounted and undiagnosed in the region, where Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia come together.

“When you don’t have a proper health system in place, it is pretty difficult,” Kazadi said.

So we see where the problems are showing up - no health system in place that is adequately funded with proper sanitation, and the issues behind Tribal traditional treatment of sick and the dead, increasing exposure and spread.

It appears that the LACK OF PROPER WESTERN EDUCATION in these areas is part of the reason people are continuing to die and spread this disease. Of course the Boko Haram would not hear about this and would say it is EVIL SPIRITS (as they have, see the Western Education is Sinful thread in the Current Events section of this Forum).

One has to wonder about how the Boku murderer's spreading ignorance while preaching no western teaching, no western law, instead opting for Stone Age treatments and proliferation of tooth and claw mentality - of the brute verses one who would care and have compassion.

ref: http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/ebola-outbreak-tip-iceberg-experts-say-n137081

A Doctors Without Borders official said Friday that the outbreak was out of control.

“This is the biggest outbreak we have ever actually seen of Ebola,” Kazadi said. “It’s the biggest both in numbers and in terms of geography,” Garry agreed.

At least a dozen women were infected by a healer, probably as they washed and kissed her body when she died of Ebola and they were preparing her for her funeral. The case illustrates just why this outbreak is so difficult to fight.

The healer, who used snakes as part of her practice, made some frightening and dire predictions from her death bed. “She said she was going to release the snakes and said anybody who saw the snakes would die the way she did,” Garry said.

This frightened some of the people in her village, and they attacked some volunteers from Garry’s team, throwing rocks at their vehicle.

--- ya, western education is sinful.. thank you boku

[Bob]

Latest casualty a surgical doctor assigned at the Redemption Hospital in New Kru Town. Health authorities confirming the doctor's death referred to him as Dr. Sam and stated that he died at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center Cholera Unit where he was being treated.

Health workers in Liberia are at risk for the deadly virus and many have expressed fear that they might come in direct contact with an Ebola patient without even realizing it.

The Ugandan doctor is the fourth death among health workers. A physician assistant from the Tandapolie clinic in Caldwell was recently confirmed dead from the disease.

Following the reported death of eight persons including a health worker at the Redemption Hospital in New Kru Town in Monrovia, almost three weeks ago, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare is reporting six (6) new cases as of June 30, 2014. The ministry states that out of the six are two suspected, one probable and three confirmed to have the deadly virus.

The Assistant Minister for Curative Services states that there are ninety-six (96) cumulative (suspected, probable and confirmed).

Prosecution for Hiding Ebola Patients

Liberia has made it a crime to shield people who are suspected of being sick from the deadly virus.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf during a nationwide address over the weekend pledged prosecution for anyone caught hiding suspected Ebola patients.

ref: http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00031107.html?aa_source=tf-rght-wd

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: "For those who do not believe that Ebola exists in Liberia, I want to inform all Liberians in this public manner that the disease is REAL and is in our country killing people. It is as I speak, taking the lives of our citizens in Lofa, Montserrado, and now Margibi County.

"Ebola spreads through physical contact with a victim of the disease. The virus also spreads through: sweat, saliva, blood, by touching the vomit or urine of somebody who is sick with Ebola.

"These deaths are mostly due to denial, touching dead bodies or participating in Burial Ceremonies.

"Avoid touching dead bodies or body fluids or materials of infected Ebola persons. Avoid direct physical contact, such as handshakes, kissing and direct contact with body fluids of infected or dead persons or animals."

"Major issues confronting the response teams include, but not limited to, keeping sick people in healing centers, prayer homes and other non medical centers," said President Sirleaf.

"These practices create public health hazards to families, neighborhoods and other innocent people. It is illegal under our public health law to expose the people to health hazard such as Ebola.

"Let this warning go out, anyone found or reported to be holding suspected Ebola cases in homes or prayer house will be prosecuted under the laws of Liberia." Doctors Without Borders last week declared that the Ebola outbreak that has affected Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea is "out of control."

It states that now there are more than 600 cases reported in the region, with the patients experiencing headache, fever and internal and external bleeding.

"The virus kills up to 90 percent of the people it infects, but it leaps from person to person only through contact with bodily fluids," states Doctors Without Borders. The death of another health worker from the deadly disease shows the risk healthcare givers are exposed to in combating the deadly virus.

Tribal practices are spreading this disease.

Solution? "We call it the barrier netting methods; that is, you must wear gloves during examination of a patient, even if they were not Ebola," he told FrontPageAfrica. "What we call infection control in health facilities should be adhered to. So we are calling on health workers across the country, including private and public facilities; clinics and everywhere, to ensure at the highest standard and level to protect themselves." Do not come in contact with bodily fluids, do not handle the bodies without protection. Do not kiss, do not hug the sick. Wear masks, gloves, eye shields.


http://allafrica.com/download/pic/main/main/csiid/00271820:bc7c70458e22a50c5d6326563705b71d:arc614x376:w614:us1.jpg

ref: http://allafrica.com/stories/201407020962.html

[Bob]

Bats - you must STOP eating them !


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

Ebola is being spread also by eating the fruit bats..

ref: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2014/07/21/fao-warns-people-can-get-infected-with-ebola-by-eating-fruit-bats/

People living in West African communities run the risk of contracting the Ebola virus if they consume species like the fruit bat, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, said Monday the 21st July 2014..

Curbing its transmission is now the chief goal for governments and international health organizatons, the FAO said.

"Fruit bats - usually eaten dried or in a spicy soup - are thought to be the most likely reservoir species for the virus, which they can carry without developing clinical signs of the disease," because of which the FAO recommends they "should be avoided altogether."


https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/67/d4/40/67d440bdc6c4a49e734a68805d39b3f3.jpg

http://images.catholic.org/ins_news/2014035709bat.jpg

http://images.inmagine.com/400nwm/iris/ivkuzmin-001/ptg00851920.jpg

[Bob]

EBOLA in Nigeria, Lagos (sigh)

Ebola Virus Suspected in Lagos, Nigeria according to a report from officials in Lagos. A Liberian man was being tested for the 99% fatal highly contagious disease after he collapsed at the city’s airport displaying symptoms of the disease.

I've been to that airport, the international arrivals terminal when the air conditioning has failed (which is most of the time), and it is HOT, and standing around waiting for luggage on busted broken carousels for many hours at a time is pretty situation "normal" ..

Government representatives also expressed concern because the man worked and lived in Liberia where the disease is prevalent. Blood samples have been sent to the World Health Organization to be tested.

Ebola is 99% fatal. It could be especially damaging if it hit Lagos, an urban center with a population of 21 million.

ref: http://time.com/3034014/ebola-nigeria-suspected/

Also, the key doctor leading the treatment efforts for Ebola in West Africa, himself now has come down with the disease..

ref: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28439941

The doctor leading the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone is now being treated for the deadly virus, a statement from the presidency has said.

Sheik Umar Khan tested positive and has been admitted to hospital in Kailahun, the epicentre of the outbreak.

Health Minister Miatta Kargbo called him a "national hero" and said she would "do anything and everything in my power to ensure he survives", Reuters news agency reports.

The Ebola cases in Sierra Leone are centred in the country's eastern districts of Kailahun and Kenema.

The BBC's Umaru Fofana in the capital, Freetown, says dozens of nurses at the government hospital in Kenema town - which treats all Ebola cases in the district - went on strike on Monday following the death of three of their colleagues of suspected Ebola.

But they have since suspended their sit-down strike as the government looks into their demands, which include the relocation of the Ebola ward from the hospital and the takeover of its operations by the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.


http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/76127000/jpg/_76127641_76127404.jpg

[Bob]

Ebola CONFIRMED in Lagos Nigeria - city of 21 million..

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/25/us-heath-ebola-nigeria-idUSKBN0FU1LE20140725

This is potentially devastating.

http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20140725&t=2&i=945304122&w=580&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=LYNXMPEA6O0RB

Yewande Adeshina, special adviser on public health to the Lagos state government, speaks with Reuters in her office after a news conference on suspected outbreak of Ebola virus in Lagos, July 24, 2014

Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for the Liberian finance ministry in his 40s, collapsed on Sunday after flying into Lagos, a city of 21 million people, and was taken from the airport and put in isolation in a local hospital. Nigeria confirmed earlier on Friday that he had died in quarantine.

The man would be the first case on record of one of the world's deadliest diseases in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy and with 170 million people, its most populous country.

The airport in Lagos is very very congested with numerous people brushing against each other frequently. Sweat flows profusely between the people, due to the lack of adequate air conditioning in the airport.

This is potentially very serious.

"His blood sample was taken to the advance laboratory at the Lagos university teaching hospital, which confirmed the diagnosis of the Ebola virus disease in the patient," Chukwu told a press conference on Friday."

"This result was corroborated by other laboratories outside Nigeria."

While he was quarantined he passed away. Everyone who has had contact with him has been quarantined," the official said.

Liberia's finance minister Amara Konneh named the victim as Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for Liberia's finance ministry.

[Bob]

Main Stream Media getting traction in paying attention to the deadly Ebola outbreaks in Africa

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/28/ebola-potential-to-spread/13267909/

"The growing Ebola outbreak in West Africa serves as a grim reminder that deadly viruses are only a plane ride away from the USA, health experts say.

The outbreak is the deadliest on record, with more than 670 deaths and nearly 1,100 infections in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organization. Fatality rates for Ebola have been as high as 90% in past outbreaks, according to the WHO."

They are saying it is only a plane ride away, but they are saying, if it gets out of Africa, it will not spread very far. They will quarantine rapidly, declaring a medical emergency.

The virus — which has an incubation period of a few days to three weeks — could easily travel to the USA through infected travelers, says Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

"A case very well could fly out of Africa, only to be detected in some distant country," says Osterholm, who served as an adviser to the George W. Bush administration on bioterrorism.

But Ebola "would not pose a major public health risk" in the USA, he says.

Ebola is unlikely to cause large outbreaks here, he says, because people need to be in intimate contact to spread the virus.

(nobody hugs or kisses in the US or Canada, nor do they shake hands, so no worries you see..)

Symptoms usually appear 8-10 days after infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. WHO says lab tests of contaminated individuals find low white blood cell and platelet counts.

People most at risk include health workers and family members or others who are in contact with the infected people, according to WHO.

[Bob]

Liberia is now CLOSED

from: http://online.wsj.com/articles/liberia-shuts-borders-amid-ebola-outbreak-1406568519

July 28, 2014 1:28 p.m. ET
The largest Ebola outbreak in history prompted Liberia to close its borders on Monday, as the government worked to educate its citizens about the disease.

Five months after Ebola took root in Guinea, quickly spreading to its West African neighbors, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf shut down Liberia's borders, banned large gatherings such as funerals, and dispatched health workers to check travelers at the airport, said Assistant Minister of Health Tolbert Nyenswah.

Soon, she may start quarantining neighborhoods in Liberian cities, he said.

The ban on funerals may meet resistance from Liberians who refuse to let doctors in protective suits deal with the bodies of their loved ones. Quarantining sections of the capital, Monrovia, a densely packed city of 1.2 million people, may prove difficult as neighborhoods blend together, demarcated from one another by hard-to-police back alleys cutting between shacks.

And even convincing Liberians that Ebola exists remains a challenge in a country where rumors fill the void left by the lack of formal education.

"Large numbers there believe Ebola is an evil spirit sweeping the country. "

"One Liberia senator recently called it a scam by his government. "


http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ebola.jpg

Yup, Western Education is Sinful - while uneducated superstitious people continue to die and spread the disease to their loved ones.

"Meanwhile, the government must contend with salesmen who say they can cure or vaccinate against the disease.

"We keep telling people there's no vaccine," Mr. Nyenswah said, but medicine men walking the streets keep insisting otherwise. "We had to get the police involved," he said."

[Bob]

UK and Hongkong taking it seriously..

Health officials in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, fearing that the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa could go global, have tested at least two airline passengers who have shown symptoms of the disease.

The Peace Corps announced Wednesday, 30th July, that it was temporarily withdrawing its 340 volunteers in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone because the disease has spread.

Former Secretary of Defence Minister, now the British Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, chaired an emergency meeting Wednesday on Ebola with health experts, scientists and other ministers, said "the issue is about the possibility of somebody who has contracted the disease in Africa getting sick here."

In Charlotte, N.C, the main corridor of the emergency room at Carolinas Medical Center was cordoned off as a precaution early Wednesday after a patient who had returned from an Africa arrived late Tuesday. The patient, who had returned from an unidentified country "known for high risk of infectious diseases," was found to not have Ebola and was discharged, the hospital said.

Two American medical missionaries working with Ebola patients in Liberia have been diagnosed with the virus.

ref: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/07/30/ebola-fears-global-outbreak/13350607/

[Bob]

State of Emergency Declared in Sierra Leone

(Reuters) - Sierra Leone declared a state of emergency and called in troops to quarantine Ebola victims on Thursday, joining neighbouring Liberia in imposing tough controls as the death toll from the worst-ever outbreak of the virus hit 729 in West Africa.

The World Health Organisation said it was in urgent talks with donors and international agencies to deploy more medical staff and resources to one of the world's poorest regions.

The WHO reported 57 new deaths between July 24 and July 27 in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.

Authorities in Nigeria, which recorded its first Ebola case last week when a U.S. citizen died after arriving on a flight from Liberia, said all passengers travelling from areas at risk would be temperature-screened for the virus.

Sierra Leone is famous for Blood Diamonds by the way. It may seem heartless to bring this up at this point, but there may be something behind this. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_diamond )

At one point in this thread we mentioned the Russian and Chinese involvement in these particular West African Countries. That Russia was pissed probably (LukOil is their international oil company), and was trying to get deals to explore by drilling offshore Sierra Leone. Russia has been making inroad attempts to get into former Soviet bloc countries as we know, allowing "rebels" to commit war crimes to get their footholds and trying to influence public opinion.

Diamonds AND OIL are used to finance wars, and rebel insurgencies.. These regions in West Africa are major supply zones for such rebel efforts.

A bit on Liberia and Diamonds:

From 1989 to 2003, Liberia was engaged in a civil war. In 2000, the UN accused Liberian president Charles G. Taylor of supporting the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) insurgency in neighboring Sierra Leone with weapons and training in exchange for diamonds.[12] In 2001, the United Nations applied sanctions on the Liberian diamond trade. In August 2003, Taylor stepped down as president and, after being exiled to Nigeria, faced trial in The Hague. On July 21, 2006 he pleaded not guilty to crimes against humanity and war crimes,[5] of which he was found guilty in April 2012. On May 30, 2012, he began a 50-year sentence in a high security prison in the United Kingdom.

In 1999-2000 Israel was notified that there were great hydrocarbon resources off shore. At that point no doubt it was determined for "security reasons" gaining oil/gas was to be a priority, and anyone standing in the way of that would need to be "convinced" to comply, or else. Currently we can see what "or else" actually means for them. Remember also Israel contains massive bio-weapons labs and nuclear weapons.

another source: http://www.globalwitness.org/campaigns/conflict/post-conflict/liberia/liberia-sierra-leone-and-charles-taylor

The human cost of Liberia’s two civil wars and the related conflict in Sierra Leone was staggering. 200,000 people were killed, 2 million displaced, and half of Sierra Leone’s female population subjected to sexual violence including rape, torture and sexual slavery.

“Blood diamonds” were driving these conflicts, and a UN investigation in 2000 confirmed that stones were being systematically smuggled out from eastern Sierra Leone through Liberia, and from there onto the international market.

And in the thread earlier, we mentioned LukOil (the oil company in Russia) had decided to create a division for exploiting DIAMONDS (http://www.lukoil.com/press_6_5div__id_21_1id_24024_.html)..

Coincidence? Russian neo-colonialism (or neo-capitalism exploitation mixed with colonialism), same with the Chinese.. Disease being used to coerce the locals to "give in", or else?

Meanwhile, Peace Corps has decided to pull out ALL of its staff and volunteers from the affected Countries.

Why hasn't some effective "vaccine" been created?

It is about money. There is no PROFIT in making a vaccine which would protect low income people, in a backwater third world country. (sigh)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/30/details-ebola-outbreak-africa-video_n_5630275.html

If a market develops such as spread of this disease/infection to lets say Germany, or UK, or Canada, or the US, there would be market of those who would pay for the drugs, and the drug companies would then gladly work towards a solution. Reminds me of computer virus companies, we often wonder, do they actually create the virus' to create the solution?

Did the vested interest "oil companies", driving motivations for energy conquest, of diamond spoils, help "wake up" a dormant virus in West Africa? Only a whistle blower will tell.

also reference: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/no-market-scientists-struggle-make-ebola-vaccines-treatments-n167871

references to Sierra Leone, and Russia (LukOil) - Sierra Leone congratulates Russia (LukOil) in its endeavors to develop diamonds and oil - http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/printer_200524054.shtml

[Maia Gabrial]

There are no cures for ebola.

I wonder how many of you know that that perverted and psychopath, George Soros owns an Ebola bioweapons lab?Time for this creep to be removed from our planet...

[Roisin]

As each day passes by, the more alarmed I become about this current Ebola epidemic. They keep saying that it's not easy to catch yet doctor's and healthcare workers who know all about those preventive measures that need to be taken when they treat Ebola patients are still, nevertheless, catching this disease and dying from it. So this causes me to wonder if maybe they really are not letting on about just how contagious it actually is.
Obviously, if they knew enough about this disease, they would have some kind of effective treatment for it at least to prevent people from dying from it. So common sense is telling me to err on the side of caution in anything the authorities say about this disease. Especially if it spreads beyond the borders of Africa and onward toward Europe, China and the U.S. The movie Contagion keeps coming to mind. Let's hope it never gets to that point but it almost seems like some African countries are experiencing a similar scenario like what happened in that film.

[Bill Ryan]

As each day passes by, the more alarmed I become about this current Ebola epidemic.

Yes, me too, I have to say. I have a great deal of attention on it.

It may not be relevant whether it's an 'accident, natural or bio-weapon', as Bob asks... it's here and real (although, as yet, currently pretty much only in West Africa), and the situation could EASILY be exploited as an 'opportunity'.

If it did start to spread widely in the US or Europe, heavy personal restrictions -- drastically curtailed travel, deliberately fueled fear, maybe even forced vaccinations (although those would not help based on what is currently known) and/or mandatory 'prophylactics' -- could easily be justified and widely accepted by a panicking public. Even if it's a natural event, it might be a globalist's wet dream.

And I'd say it's almost certain that high-level discussions are currently taking place about (a) whether to exploit this, and (b) if that's a 'Go', how to expedite the spread.

[Roisin]

As usual, you're pointing us to evaluate another aspect of any given situation that's occurring somewhere in the world that we need to pay attention to. Thanks for commenting on this. Much to chew on and I need to start thinking the way you do to get closer to what may very well be the real truth on the background music on what's really going on. I need to view things in a more in-depth manner. Will just have to keep working on that too. The Ebola epidemic is a case in point.

[Cidersomerset]

Ebola outbreak: Britain is ready for disease, says Jeremy Hunt

Thursday 31st July 2014 at 09:43 By david-icke


THE TELEGRAPH......


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‘Britain is ready for the Ebola outbreak if it arrives in the UK, Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary has vowed.

Mr Hunt said the expertise and experience of NHS medical staff meant that Britain could ‘deal with anything’
with might threaten public health in the coming weeks.

US health officials warned that Western countries were just ‘one plane ride away’ from infection while David
Cameron said the Ebola outbreak was a ‘very serious threat’ to the UK .’

Read more …


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11001403/Ebola-outbreak-Britain-is-ready-for-disease-says-Jeremy-Hunt.html




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Ebola outbreak: UK officials 'not prepared' to deal with virus arriving at border, union leader warns

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‘UK border officials feel they are unprepared to deal with the threat of the Ebola virus arriving in Britain,
a union leader has said.

It comes after the Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond concluded a meeting of the Government’s emergency
committee Cobra by trying to reassure the public that the disease was “not a significant risk to the UK”.

Public Health England has told The Independent that it has been briefing the UK Border Agency, airlines,
doctors and Government departments on what needs to happen if a person with Ebola arrives.’

Read more …


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-officials-not-prepared-to-deal-with-ebola-arriving-at-border-union-leader-warns-9639106.html

http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/


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31 July 2014 Last updated at 13:52

Ebola: UK border staff 'unprepared' says union leader

Border, immigration and customs staff feel unprepared to deal with people
coming to the UK with possible cases of the Ebola virus, a union leader says.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28578596

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31 July 2014 Last updated at 13:50

Sierra Leone declares Ebola public health emergency


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Ebola explained in 60 seconds

read more...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28579890


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The Telegraph

Ebola outbreak explained in 60 seconds

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Published on 29 Jul 2014


The deadly Ebola outbreak, which started in Guinea, has now spread to Sierra
Leone, Liberia and Nigeria claiming 670 lives so far.

Two American medical workers have been infected after treating patients with the
disease in Liberia.

Whilst countries affected have closed their land borders, international flights
continue to fly in and out of countries and so far the World Health Organisation has
not recommended any travel restrictions.

Said to be one of the most virulent viral diseases known to humankind, the virus
causes death in 50 to 90 per cent of all clinically ill cases.

Watch this 60 second video to find out the key facts.

[Cidersomerset]

Ebola victim widow: I fear an outbreak in the US

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Published on 30 Jul 2014

The Telegraph

The American widow of Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian government official who died
after contracting Ebola says she fears that there could be an outbreak of the virus
in the US

Patrick Sawyer, a 40-year-old consultant for Liberia's Finance Ministry collapsed
July 20 in Lagos, Nigeria after flying there from Liberia. He had been working in
Liberia since 2008.

Sawyer had been put in isolation in a hospital in Nigeria and died on Friday. His was
the first recorded case in Nigeria of the disease.

His wife Decontee Sawyer, speaking from her home in Coon Rapids, in the US state
of Minnesota, said her husband had planned to come home for two of his three
daughters' birthdays next month.

She had learned that her husband caught the disease from his sister, who fell ill
and died of Ebola. He did not know at the time that she had Ebola, Sawyer said, as
the virus shares symptoms with other diseases including malaria.

More than 670 people have died during the recent outbreak in West Africa.

Ms Sawyer said: "We ought to be concerned about that. If we're not, we're kidding
ourselves. If we think that it can't come to the US and that's another fear of mine.
Because we've already lost Patrick and we're losing tons of people there. And we
don't need that killer to come here as well."

No cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the US, and the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention said on Monday it posed little risk to the general US
population, but it is causing some to cancel travel plans and stirring fear in
Minnesota, which has the largest Liberian immigrant population in America.

Get the latest headlines http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

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We've seen It in the movies and Holly wood has prepared us for us to be rounded
up like sheep for our protection if something like this eventually does happen.....

Outbreak

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This Is What Is Going To Happen If Ebola Comes To America

Thursday 31st July 2014 at 09:36 By david-icke


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‘If the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history reaches the United States, federal
law permits “the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably
believed to be infected with a communicable disease”. These individuals can
be “detained for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary”.

In other words, the federal government already has the authority to round people
up against their will, take them to detention facilities and hold them there for as
long as they feel it is “reasonably necessary”. In addition, as you will read about
below, the federal government has the authority “to separate and restrict the
movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease
to see if they become ill”.

If you want to look at these laws in the broadest sense, they pretty much give the
federal government the power to do almost anything that they want with us in the
event of a major pandemic. Of course such a scenario probably would not be
called “marital law”, but it would probably feel a lot like it.’

Read more: This Is What Is Going To Happen If Ebola Comes To America

http://investmentwatchblog.com/this-is-what-is-going-to-happen-if-ebola-comes-to-america/

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If Ebola Hits U.S., Even Healthy Americans Will be Quarantined

Thursday 31st July 2014 at 09:35 By david-icke

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‘With concerns growing over the deadly Ebola virus, which has killed 670 people in
West Africa, preparations are already underway in the United States, where even
healthy Americans will be subjected to forced quarantine in the event of an Ebola pandemic.

Western governments are now issuing alerts to doctors to be on the lookout for
symptoms of the disease after an infected Liberian man was found to have traveled
through a major transport hub in Nigeria. The World Health Organization has called
the outbreak the worst on record, while Doctors Without Borders says the situation
is “out of control.”’

Read more: If Ebola Hits U.S., Even Healthy Americans Will be Quarantined


http://www.prisonplanet.com/if-ebola-hits-u-s-even-healthy-americans-will-be-quarantined.html


http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/

[Bob]

This is why I started this thread back in March 2014. Also the MERS_nCoV thread - two key diseases that could be used.. That MERS was NOT handled when it affected me and my family personally that doctors "ignored" and let the disease run its course, shows me that they knew and were trying to either 1) see if they could develop a mutation for a specific gene type (western european), and 2) they wanted to understand fully how dastardly and debilitating the disease would become (how easy to spread, how hard to control), and what loading would happen to the medical infrastructure.

In WAR, to injure is more useful than to kill, as to INJURE means a large amount of support staff is required. AND that overloads the system when there are mass casualties.

I opt that this is manipulated. For the reasons pointed out in this thread.. We have endeavored to locate the most likely WHO's who would benefit the most from said manipulation.

Please lets keep the thread consistent with the subject line - WHO, accident, bioweappon or naturally/accidentally created. There are some historical data from the 1976 outbreak that it was spread by sloppy hospital procedure, when it came in from the wild.. I would not put it past many bioweapons labs taking the opportunity (as pointed out when the ex-Soviets went to use MARBURG as well as EBOLA) to refine the distribution methods..

UPDATE - Posts 28 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=815526&viewfull=1#post815526), 29 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=815539&viewfull=1#post815539) and 36 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=816291&viewfull=1#post816291) might be useful to review to understand this issue clearer..

In Post 36 I discussed treatments, solutions for viri, substances pushed by the ex-Soviet Bloc to have REMOVED from commerce.. why would they do that? They said it caused cancer (no data actually proves that it causes cancer, but that was the "complaint" used by them to have the anti-virals pulled). After such antivirals were pulled AIDS made a big debut.. Think about that..

[Hervé]

I would think it's most probably bio-weapon since Africa has been and is, the "experimental ground" for the many ways of "how to implement Agenda 21" (See this post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?13393-Top-Model-says-sun-lotion-is-poison&p=270710&viewfull=1#post270710) (<---))

Now,however, there seem to be a lie about how this "Ebola" spreads around and which makes it even more dangerous:

Ebola - What You're Not Being Told (http://scgnews.com/ebola-what-youre-not-being-told)

31.Jul.2014 | http://d56amtpp2y9sx.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/user_thumb_submitted/pictures/picture-1.pngSCG (http://scgnews.com/who-is-scg)


There is something very, very important that the corporate media and public health officials are not telling you regarding the Ebola outbreak in west Africa.

The information I'm about to present here is frightening. There's really no way around that. However, I request that you do your very best to maintain a calm state of mind.

Right now in West Africa the worst Ebola outbreak in history (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/07/28/this-is-the-worst-ebola-outbreak-in-history-heres-why-you-should-be-worried/?tid=pm_world_pop) is in full swing and is jumping borders at an alarming rate. Already it has spread to four countries, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and now Nigeria. This latest jump into Nigeria is particularly serious since the infected individual carried the virus by plane to Lagos Nigeria, a city with a population of over 21 million. Doctors without borders has referred to the outbreak as "out of control". (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27953155)

To make matters worse, there is something very, very important that the corporate media and public health officials are not telling you regarding this crisis.

You'll notice if you read virtually any mainstream article on the topic that they make a point of insisting that Ebola is only transferred by physical contact with bodily fluids. This is not true, at all.

A study conducted in 2012 (http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html) showed that Ebola was able to travel between pigs and monkeys that were in separate cages and were never placed in direct contact.

Though the method of transmission in the study was not officially determined, one of the scientists involved, Dr. Gary Kobinger, from the National Microbiology Laboratory at the Public Health Agency of Canada, told BBC News (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20341423) that he believed that the infection was spread through large droplets that were suspended in the air.

"What we suspect is happening is large droplets; they can stay in the air, but not long; they don't go far," he explained. "But they can be absorbed in the airway, and this is how the infection starts, and this is what we think, because we saw a lot of evidence in the lungs of the non-human primates that the virus got in that way."

Translation: Ebola IS an airborne virus.

UPDATE: Someone pointed out that in medical terms, if the virus is transferred through tiny droplets in the air this would technically not be called an "airborne virus". Airborne, in medical terms would mean that the virus has the ability to stay alive without a liquid carrier. On one hand this is a question of semantics, and the point is well taken, but keep in mind that the study did not officially determine how the virus traveled through the air, it merely established that it does travel through the air. Doctor Kobinger's hypothesis regarding droplets of liquid is just that, a hypothesis. For the average person however what needs to be understood is very simple: if you are in a room with someone infected with Ebola, you are not safe, even if you never touch them or their bodily fluids, and this is not what you are being told by the mainstream media. Essentially I am using the word "airborne" as a layman term (which kind of makes sense, since I am a layman in this field).

Now I'm not going to speculate as to whether these so called "journalist" and public health agencies who keep repeating the official line regarding the means of transmission are lying, or are just participating in some massive display of synchronized incompetence, but what I will say, is that this shoddy reporting is most likely getting people killed right now, and may in fact put all of humanity in danger.

How so?

By convincing people that the virus cannot travel through air, important precautions that could reduce the spread of the virus are not being taken. For example the other passengers on the plane that traveled to Lagos, Nigeria were not quarantined.

To put this into context, Ebola kills between 50% and 90% of its victims, so the stakes are very, very high here.

NOTE: We have reported on the fact that Ebola can spread through the air in three separate articles since March of 2014, here (http://scgnews.com/the-ebola-zaire-outbreak-in-guinea-may-have-spread-to-liberia-but-dont-panic-just-yet), here (http://scgnews.com/man-with-ebola-symptoms-hospitalized-in-canada-after-returning-from-liberia) and here, (http://scgnews.com/ebola-outbreak-confirmed-in-sierra-leone-but-its-not-ebola-zaire) however the corporate media has continued to misrepresent the vectors of transmission.

This particular strain of Ebola is not Ebola Zaire. This is a new strain, (http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/article/2000110003/study-new-strain-responsible-for-west-africa-ebola-outbreak) and it may in fact be more dangerous than the Zaire variety. Not because of any difference in the symptoms (the symptoms are identical), but because this new virus seems to be harder to contain. Whether this is due to some characteristic of the virus itself or merely dumb luck is uncertain at this time, but the rate at which this outbreak has extended its range is unprecedented.

Right now the question on everyone's minds is whether this virus will spread outside of Africa. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/11000023/Expert-Ebola-will-reach-the-UK.html) Considering the fact that Ebola has a three week incubation period, can travel through the air, and has already hitchhiked onto an international flight, this is a very real possibility. There are some that are downplaying the probability of this outcome, and to be honest, I hope that they are right, but the simple fact of the matter is that these people are basing their assessment on the faulty premise that Ebola is not an airborne virus.

Now the first thing you might be feeling when looking at this situation is a sense of fear and helplessness, and while that's a perfectly normal reaction it's really not helpful. Instead we should be thinking in terms of practical steps we can take to influence the outcome.

One thing we can all do is to start confronting journalists and public officials who keep making false statements regarding the way Ebola spreads. Use the links to the original study, (http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html) the BBC report from 2012 (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20341423) and this video to put them in their place.

We also need to confront the fact that there isn't a full out, coordinated, international effort to contain this. This is being treated like a sideshow but it has the very real potential to become a main event.

The doctors on the ground in West Africa don't have enough staff or resources to deal with this situation. (http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-outbreak-more-than-doctors-needed-to-contain-west-africa-s-unprecedented-crisis-1.2720882) It is absolutely inexcusable for the U.S. and the E.U. to be investing billions of tax payer dollars into their little power games in Ukraine (http://scgnews.com/the-ukraine-crisis-what-youre-not-being-told) and Syria (http://scgnews.com/the-syrian-war-what-youre-not-being-told) (which are both in the process of escalating right now by the way) while Ebola is getting a foothold in Africa. Every available resource should be shifted to West Africa in order to contain and extinguish this epidemic right now.

This is serious. Call them, write them, heckle them in the streets if you have to, but don't allow them to ignore this issue. Make it impossible for them to pretend later that they didn't know.

Now whether or not official policy towards the Ebola crisis changes there are some precautions that you should take right now for yourself and your family.

1. Know where you would go if you needed to leave your home on short notice. If Ebola escapes Africa the last place you want to be is in a densely populated metropolitan area. It may be that the most practical destination for your family would be a rural area near your current home, but if you already have concerns about the government you are living under, and how they may handle a crisis like this, then you might want to start looking at alternatives. Finding an alternative location that suits your family's needs is something that requires a lot of time and research, so don't put this off. The primary characteristics you should be examining in an alternative destination are geography , political environment, climate, population density and visa terms and requirements. Ideally you would want to end up somewhere that is geographically isolated to some degree.

2. If you don't have passports for yourself and each of your dependents, get them now. This is not to say that you should leave your country, but you should have the means to do so. In countries where the Ebola outbreak is underway it is getting harder and harder to exit. Borders are being closed down. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/10996489/Ebola-worst-ever-outbreak-shuts-Liberia-borders.html) Flights are being cut off. This didn't happen right away, but you definitely don't want to be waiting for your passport to show up if Ebola arrives in your city.

3. Know what you would carry with you if you had to leave on short notice. Have those items ready, and have the luggage to carry them. It would be wise to consider buying a pack of surgical masks as part of this.

Now if you think about it, these preparations are wise steps to take regardless of whether the Ebola situation deteriorates or not. Knowing where you would go in an emergency, and having the means to get there on short notice is important for a wide variety of situations. The civilian population of Iraq, Syria, east Ukraine, and Gaza can attest to that.

Whatever you do don't let fear take control of your mind. Take the steps you can take now, monitor the situation calmly, and be prepared to adapt if necessary.


P.S. If you want to learn more about Ebola I highly recommend that you read "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385479565/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0385479565&linkCode=as2&tag=nindnetw-20)

[Bob]

Azo dyes, Red Dye #2, Yellow Azo dyes.. as early as 1876 the dyes were recognized as being highly effective in treatment, first from in-vitro accidental exposure to cultures.

President Reagan specifically comes to mind. I recall listening to a presentation to the Nation, one of his "fireside-style" of speeches. Right in the middle he appeared to stop reading from the teleprompter, and started to ad-lib some things about Jelly Beans.. (huh ? !)... what he had talked about was how important it was to have them, especially the RED ones, although it was reported that the black Licorice ones were his favorites. To talk about the red ones, so out of context, one would believe he was having early dementia.. Or was he..

Shortly after Ronald Reagan became Governor of California in 1967, he began eating pectin jelly beans to help him quit smoking. When a new brand of jelly beans, called Jelly Belly beans, appeared on the market in 1976, Reagan quickly switched to them and would often share them with his staff and visiting officials.

Reagan enjoyed these sweet little candies so much that he later sent a letter to the chief executive of the company that produced them, stating, "we can hardly start a meeting or make a decision without passing around the jar of jelly beans."

Even after he became president, Reagan's fondness for Jelly Bellies did not diminish, and large colorful jars of them were often prominently displayed on his desk in the Oval Office, in the Cabinet Room, and even on Air Force One.

When Jelly Bellies first appeared on the market, there were only eight flavors: Very Cherry, Lemon, Cream Soda, Tangerine, Green Apple, Root Beer, Grape, and Licorice..

Between 1972 and 1976 there were outbreaks of diseases which could have very well been bio-weapons "tests"..

The Ebola virus mysteriously appeared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 1976.. Soviet Bioweapons Programs take off: - 1976-1986 Vector, Siberia. The Soviets push for Red Dyes to be banned (the red dyes specifically damage viral replication ability)..

And Reagan tells us "be sure to eat the red ones".. during his Presidential term: January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989, and after telling us in that strange way, could it be, that apparently his "affliction" was given to him, and he was made to go downhill as an early "almost whistleblower"..

ref history of antimicrobials 1876 onward - http://www.microbiologytext.com/index.php?module=Book&func=displayarticle&art_id=652

ref history of Reagan's Jelly Beans - http://lincolnslunch.blogspot.com/2011/01/ronald-reagans-inaugural-jelly-beans.html

ref history - azo dyes inhibit AIDS viruses - http://www.google.com/patents/WO1992022610A1?cl=en

ref current - azo dyes inhibit viruses, have anti-tumor (anti-cancer) properties, http://www.docstoc.com/docs/161026923/synthesis_-characterization-and-biological-activity-of-heterocyclic-azo


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[Violet]

Is that the E120, Bob?

[Roisin]

Read over the past few posts in this thread including the links. Thanks Bob and Amzer for the info. V. disturbing stuff and need time to process it but as for it being airborne, I'm not surprised about that though it behooves me why the media and the talking heads are telling us the opposite. Airborne is airborne.... regardless that it's water droplets dispersed in the air.... in my book, that's means it's airborne. This explains why this disease has spread like wild fire throughout West Africa and it's going to also explain how it ended up all over the world too!

[Bob]

Is that the E120, Bob?

The confectioners' glaze or the coloring inside the "bean".. the carmin color (e120) doesn't seem to be an azo style dye..

Red Dye #2 I believe is the specific dye Reagan was referring to.. I am not sure these days, who is carrying such, I believe there are stores in UK carrying such.. I posted earlier in this thread some more details on the azo dyes too.. I also have some more info in the Forum, but the advanced search seems to not be accepting a search on AZO saying it's too small a word to search for.. (sigh)..

I'll add a bit more technical data on it here:

Amaranth's use is still legal in some countries, notably in the United Kingdom where it is most commonly used to give Glacé cherries their distinctive color.

In 1971 a Soviet study linked the dye to cancer. Such was NOT proved though. (remember the history of the Soviet Bloc bioweapons campaign, they required that there were NO in-the-field-solutions to viral weapons to have their campaign be effective)

FDA Commissioner Alexander Schmidt defended the dye, as he had earlier defended the FDA against collusion accusations in his 1975 book, stating that the FDA found "no evidence of a public health hazard". Testing by the FDA found no undeniable proof of a health hazard. HOWEVER various "studies" were then continually created to absolutely REMOVE AZO DYES from the consumer markets. AZO dyes, repeat, AZO DYES destroy the viral ability to replicate.. So if not taken in sufficient quantities, when a virus such as Human Papilloma virus is present, it could be possible that the virus which is creating the tumors starts to die-off, and an encapsulation around the tumor forms.. Add sufficient AZO dye to kill off the virus and one is fine.. That is the supposition.. To do such a balancing act though, doctors don't have the time when they are playing 5 minutes per patient, 100 patients per day (at 100$ per visit).. MONEY racket, not personal care..

Chemical name: trisodium (4E)-3-oxo-4-[(4-sulfonato-1-naphthyl)hydrazono]naphthalene-2,7-disulfonate

Remember, these deadly viruses while azo dyes were being used were not spreading...

[Violet]

Is that the E120, Bob?

The confectioners' glaze or the coloring inside the "bean".. the carmin color (e120) doesn't seem to be an azo style dye..

Red Dye #2 I believe is the specific dye Reagan was referring to.. I am not sure these days, who is carrying such, I believe there are stores in UK carrying such.. I posted earlier in this thread some more details on the azo dyes too.. I also have some more info in the Forum, but the advanced search seems to not be accepting a search on AZO saying it's too small a word to search for.. (sigh)..

Don't worry about it, Bob, later on, I might browse through your contributions to find it.

However, I've observed that most (if not all) of the common foods with a red colour to them appear to have that label on them: carmin color/E120. This goes for candy as well as strawberry yoghurt. So, I'm wondering, how can we see from the (European) labeling that were dealing with Red Dye #2 and might it be that gradually, since Reagan times, it was substituted by (cheaper?/easier to obtain?/...?) carminic acid?

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(few minutes later)

Okay, I did a random search for these two colorants and came up with an interesting article (http://www.asktheexterminator.com/garden_pests/Bug_Juice_printer.shtml):


When I was a kid I was fortunate to be allowed to spend my summers at camp in North Carolina. To this day I still think fondly of being in those beautiful mountains. I also remember building up an appetite and anticipating the mess hall bell. We would all scramble to the dining hall and hunker down to a meal, washed down with plenty of “bug� juice serviced in grey metal pitchers. Ice cold “bug� juice. We could get enough of the stuff.

Back then, the delicious red liquid got its color from Red Dye #2, which was banned in 1976 after a bunch of scientific types proved it was causing cancer in rats. What did we know? The stuff tasted great. Later, Red Dye #2 was replaced with Red Dye #40 or Red 40, and that stuff only caused hyperactivity in children, cured by mega-doses of Ritalin. But, I'm a pest control guy and I digress. The whole point of this article is that all those red dyes have been replaced with cochineal which comes from an insect native to South America and Mexico.

[Bob]

Is that the E120, Bob?

The confectioners' glaze or the coloring inside the "bean".. the carmin color (e120) doesn't seem to be an azo style dye..

Red Dye #2 I believe is the specific dye Reagan was referring to.. I am not sure these days, who is carrying such, I believe there are stores in UK carrying such.. I posted earlier in this thread some more details on the azo dyes too.. I also have some more info in the Forum, but the advanced search seems to not be accepting a search on AZO saying it's too small a word to search for.. (sigh)..

Don't worry about it, Bob, later on, I might browse through your contributions to find it.

However, I've observed that most (if not all) of the common foods with a red colour to them appear to have that label on them: carmin color/E120. This goes for candy as well as strawberry yoghurt. So, I'm wondering, how can we see from the (European) labeling that were dealing with Red Dye #2 and might it be that gradually, since Reagan times, it was substituted by (cheaper?/easier to obtain?/...?) carminic acid?

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(few minutes later)

Okay, I did a random search for these two colorants and came up with an interesting article (http://www.asktheexterminator.com/garden_pests/Bug_Juice_printer.shtml):


When I was a kid I was fortunate to be allowed to spend my summers at camp in North Carolina. To this day I still think fondly of being in those beautiful mountains. I also remember building up an appetite and anticipating the mess hall bell. We would all scramble to the dining hall and hunker down to a meal, washed down with plenty of “bug� juice serviced in grey metal pitchers. Ice cold “bug� juice. We could get enough of the stuff.

Back then, the delicious red liquid got its color from Red Dye #2, which was banned in 1976 after a bunch of scientific types proved it was causing cancer in rats. What did we know? The stuff tasted great. Later, Red Dye #2 was replaced with Red Dye #40 or Red 40, and that stuff only caused hyperactivity in children, cured by mega-doses of Ritalin. But, I'm a pest control guy and I digress. The whole point of this article is that all those red dyes have been replaced with cochineal which comes from an insect native to South America and Mexico.



My feeling is when there are "complaints" about dyes "causing" hyperactivity issues, it really is due to an allergic reaction of the dye killing off the bugs with a subsequent dump of toxins from the dead bug' foreign proteins into the body..

Such as with dealing with fungi, these dyes absolutely DESTROY fungi, and some of the allergic reactions to fungi toxin are definitely hyperactivity, hallucinations and all sorts of inflammation.. Insufficient doses and no detoxing from dead viral particles, and the body is going to try to get the toxins from the viral and fungal, and destroyed microbes out, and fast..

Lots of conventional drugs work slowly (are expensive), and the body generally has a lot of time to detox naturally, (that is a very generalized statement)... A massive nasty virus or fungi harming a LOT of cells and the body has to deal with a LOT of toxic overload... Using a very rapid killer agent of the viri (stopping replication), and the body is left with foreign proteins which are going to have to be dealt with. The more nasty the foreign protein, the more aggressively the cleaning cells will go after the invader's byproducts (or dead molecules).. We have a thread about hidden diseases, or sub-manifesting (no symptoms present), and in there there is a brief discussion with Tesla about cyctokines, and how the body recognizes "invaders"..

With deactivating the viri and fungi, the body has to deal with toxic overload, and the flushes are needed and support to get the body back to proper functioning (like if the kidneys have been destroyed, or liver how is the body going to cope with the toxins?) things like that have to be addressed.. Severe inflammation swelling edemas have to be addressed.. If we have the viral cure, the fungi cure, to follow up on such research at this time seems absolutely tantamount...

BUT these azo dyes only cost pennies :) nothing that big pharma can charge trillions of dollars for.. Reagan said "eat the red ones.." I think he was onto something.. (and 'they' knew it).

[Bob]

It's official, don't travel to the infected countries.

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices

Warning Level 3, Avoid Nonessential Travel

Updated Ebola in Sierra Leone
Updated July 31, 2014
CDC urges all US residents to avoid nonessential travel to Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia because of an unprecedented outbreak of Ebola.

In UK - Public health officials have issued an urgent warning to British doctors to watch for signs of the Ebola virus arriving in the UK, after an infected man was allowed to fly from the affected countries to a major international travel hub.


http://cdn2.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/incoming/article30468460.ece/85fe8/ALTERNATES/h342/AFRICA+Ebola++.jpg

[Bob]

Atlanta Hospital - The patient coming to the USA will be treated at Emory.

Emory University Hospital said Thursday it has been told there are plans to transfer a patient with Ebola to its special facility containment unit "within the next several days," though there was no confirmation of the patient's identity. Emory is located in Atlanta, where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is headquartered.

The hospital said it did not know when the patient will arrive, but said it was ready.

"Emory University Hospital has a specially built isolation unit set up in collaboration with the CDC to treat patients who are exposed to certain serious infectious diseases. It is physically separate from other patient areas and has unique equipment and infrastructure that provide an extraordinarily high level of clinical isolation," the hospital said in a statement.

A spokeswoman for Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed declined to answer questions about the matter. A spokeswoman for Emory University did not immediately respond to an email seeking additional comment.

CDC Director Tom Frieden said Thursday that the decision to evacuate sick aid workers was a “very complicated question,” but that it was up to the aid organizations.

“There is the potential that the actual movement of the patient could do more harm than the benefit from more advanced supportive care outside the country,” Frieden told reporters in a conference call. “We would certainly work with them to facilitate whatever option they pursue.”


http://www.trbimg.com/img-53dacf92/turbine/la-american-doctor-diagnosed-with-ebola-virus--003/750/16x9

Emory University home page: http://www.emory.edu/home/index.html

Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States.

Address: 201 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322

UPDATE:
Media contacts:

Vince Dollard, 404-727-3366, vdollar@emory.edu

Holly Korschun, 404-727-3990, hkorsch@emory.edu

* On Aug. 1, Emory University learned that a second patient with Ebola virus infection will be transferred to Emory University Hospital the week of Aug. 3.

ref: http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/07/euh_ebola_patient/campus.html

[Bob]

Foreign Sec Philip Hammond, UK, formerly our Defence minister chairs up an emergency meeting of the COBRA Task Force.


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/30/1406705310056_wps_1_British_Foreign_Secretary.jpg

The deadly Ebola virus poses a 'very serious threat' to Britain, it was warned today as the government convened a meeting of its Cobra emergency committee. (Cabinet Office Briefing Room A - "Cobra")

Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered ministers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_Office_Briefing_Room) to review measures needed to protect Britons at home and abroad.

It comes as a man has been tested for the Ebola virus in Birmingham while another also went to Charing Cross Hospital in London fearing that he was infected.

ref: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2710416/A-new-emerging-threat-Government-convenes-Cobra-emergency-committee-respond-Ebola-outbreak.html

The Department of Health confirmed protections have been put in place to deal with the deadly bug, should it spread to Britain.

A spokesman said: ‘We are well prepared to identity and deal with any potential cases of Ebola, although there has never been a case in this country.'

The Government’s chief scientific advisor also issued a frank warning about the disease, which he said could have a ‘major impact’ on the UK.

Sir Mark Walport said: ‘The UK is fortunate in its geographical position. We’re an island. But we are living in a completely interconnected world where disruptions in countries far away will have major impacts.

Further references - UK Emergency Response teams
https://www.gov.uk/emergency-response-and-recovery

and

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/emergency-response-and-recovery

[Bob]

Petition at Change (dot) Org to Fast Track treatment solutions for Ebola

http://www.change.org/petitions/food-and-drug-adminstration-fast-track-drug-and-vaccine-research-for-ebola-hemorrhagic-fever



http://d22r54gnmuhwmk.cloudfront.net/photos/5/tc/cq/pStcCqrlStOIDcv-556x313-noPad.jpg


Viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the Ebola virus currently does not have an approved cure or vaccine. However there are several vaccines and drugs in the developmental stage. One of the most promising is TKM-Ebola manufactured by Tekmira Pharmaceuticals.

This drug has been shown to be highly effective in killing the virus in primates and Phase 1 clinical trials to assess its safety in humans were started earlier this year.

In July this year the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States of America placed a hold on this trial despite the fact that 14 research participants had already safely tolerated the drug.

Given that at least one patient has transferred the disease from Liberia to Nigeria by air travel, the possibility of a global pandemic becomes increasingly likely.

In view of this it is imperative that the development of these drugs be fast tracked by the FDA and the first step should be releasing the hold on TKM-Ebola.

There is a precedent for fast tracking anti-Ebola drugs in emergency cases as happened last year when a researcher was exposed to the virus and received an experimental vaccine.

Please sign this petition to accelerate development of TKM-Ebola and other anti-Ebola drugs and vaccines by the FDA

[Bob]

Typical Isolation Unit layout - http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/3/09-1485-f1


http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/images/09-1485-F1.jpg

Floor plan of the Care and Isolation Unit, St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center, Missoula, MT, USA

"Preparing a Community Hospital to Manage Work-related Exposures to Infectious Agents in BioSafety Level 3 and 4 Laboratories"

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/3/09-1485_article -

Construction of new BioSafety Level (BSL) 3 and 4 laboratories has raised concerns regarding provision of care to exposed workers because of healthcare worker (HCW) unfamiliarity with precautions required. When the National Institutes of Health began construction of a new BSL-4 laboratory in Hamilton, Montana, USA, in 2005, they contracted with St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Montana, for care of those exposed. A care and isolation unit is described. We developed a training program for HCWs that emphasized the optimal use of barrier precautions and used pathogen-specific modules and simulations with mannequins and fluorescent liquids that represented infectious body fluids. The facility and training led to increased willingness among HCWs to care for patients with all types of communicable diseases. This model may be useful for other hospitals, whether they support a BSL-4 facility, are in the proximity of a BSL-3 facility, or are interested in upgrading their facilities to prepare for exotic and novel infectious diseases.

Because of the limited and unique settings in which BSL-4 research has historically taken place in the United States, hospitalization for occupational exposures to VHF agents has typically been a dedicated facility remote from a conventional hospital, e.g., the medical containment suite (the “slammer”) at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Frederick, Maryland, USA, or the biocontainment patient care unit at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

The benefits of a remote facility include reducing the risk for nosocomial transmission, use of personnel who are already trained in managing a patient in containment, and control of public access. However, this approach has several serious drawbacks, including limited access to medical specialties and nursing staff, limited availability of medications and blood products, and limited access to specialized equipment such as ventilators and hemodialysis machines. In addition, increased psychological stress is experienced by patients confined to such a facility. Finally, given that the need to activate these facilities is extremely rare, the expense of building and maintaining a stand-alone unit poses a substantial limitation to this approach.

In addition to physical separation of the facility, medical and support staff at the USAMRIID facility work in positive pressure suits similar to those used in the laboratories themselves. Although the use of such suits provides protection to the caregiver, positive pressure suits are cumbersome, physically demanding to work in, and require substantial time for donning and doffing (dressing and undressing). Furthermore, venipuncture and other interventions in this unaccustomed and inconvenient setting pose a clear exposure risk to healthcare workers (HCWs). These factors are serious drawbacks when a HCW needs to render care to an acutely ill patient.

To satisfy the NIH requirements for the CIU, the following elements were needed:
1) access control, i.e., the ability to restrict entrance into the CIU to authorized persons only;
2) three separate stand-alone rooms, each with a bathroom and shower, separate air handling, and an anteroom separating the patient room from the hallway;
3) directional air flow from the hallway into the anteroom and from the anteroom into the patient room;
4) a dedicated exhaust system providing >12 air exchanges per hour to the patient rooms (including >2 outside air changes per hour);
5) passage of exhaust through a HEPA filter to the building exterior >8 feet above the rooftop and well removed from air intake ducts;
6) room surfaces constructed of seamless materials amenable to topical disinfection;
7) the capability for the full range of intensive care unit (ICU) monitoring and support, including the ability to perform limited surgery, hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis, Swan-Ganz catheter placement, and hemodynamic monitoring; and
8) a separate autoclave within the CIU for sterilizing all items that come out of a patient room.

Contagion Fact Sheet - http://www.cdc.gov/24-7/pdf/lab-contagion-factsheet.pdf

USAMRID FACT SHEET - TRANSPORT of EBOLA patients
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a429519.pdf - Isolate in a negative pressure room..


http://www.cdc.gov/news/2007/06/images/building18_300px.jpg
CDC's Building 18

CDC Master Plan - http://www.cdc.gov/news/2007/06/campus_masterplan.html

"The MCS was constructed with the premise that certain rare situations might call for extraordinary precautions to isolate victims of severe contagious diseases.

These precautions reduce risk for a virus such as Ebola being introduced into the community by minimizing risk for nosocomial spread and optimizing known effective infection control practices.

Although these precautions are useful for filoviruses, they may be more useful for other viral hemorrhagic fevers that are transmitted more readily by the aerosol route or are potentially adaptable to local animal reservoirs. The facility may provide some reassurance to the community (and thus serve to lessen public anxiety related to a filovirus exposure) and to laboratory researchers that there is a place for their care if they become infected.

A patient with a filovirus infection in an unprepared medical facility would be handled as safely as possible, using CDC guidelines (if the disease were recognized). It is acknowledged that BSL-4–like infection control precautions may not be necessary for observation or illness. However, most clinical experience managing filovirus infections is from sub-Saharan Africa, where increased temperature and humidity may reduce stability of viruses in aerosol."

[Roisin]

Thanks for showing that Bob. It's a lot more sophisticated than what they had back in the 80's when the AIDS epidemic was just getting into full swing. Used to have to gear up into a "space suit" too to go into that section of the hospital, can't recall what they called it back then, to take x-rays with the portable unit of AIDS patients when I was in that certification program. At that time they were still unsure how contagious AIDS was. But it was nothing like what you are showing here.

PS... just remembered... they called it the "AIDS Unit".

[KiwiElf]

I posted this on the other ebola thread, but it would seem relevant to do so here also... KE

Simple cure for EBOLA monster virus

http://www.skyshipsovercashiers.com/articles#ebola

“We are all one plane ride away from a cataclysm.”- Dr. Rima Laibow, MD


Dr. Rima Laibow, Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation, adamantly says there is a simple cure for the flesh-eating Ebola virus. She then adds that governmental and political powers don’t want that cure known. Instead, they want to use Ebola to help reduce the world population. Below are Dr. Rima’s own words about the viral monster and those who created the monster.

July 31, 2014 - The international community says, with a single voice, that there is no cure for Ebola and no prevention, either. They tell us that because the Ebola Virus strain devastating West Africa is a novel one, no antibiotic can touch it and that the organism has an astonishing kill rate of 90%.

Leaving aside the World Health Agency and all associated laboratories and research institutions, I find it impossible to believe that the US Government’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DFRA, Defense Department) and United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), two agencies with large budgets publishing nearly 100 scientific papers on Ebola and its treatment since 2000, could not come up with a cure, prevention or treatment for it.

Oh! Wait! They DID come up with a cure, prevention and treatment for it: 10 PPM Nano Silver. That’s right! OOPS! US Government, WHO (World Health Organization) and their associated minions are lying! Again!

And the kill rate for this disease of convenience, genetically engineered to be more deadly than ever before, just happens, I am sure coincidentally, to be the exact number depopulationists like Bill Gates and George Soros have wet dreams about: 90%.

The US government study (declassified in 2009) which showed definitively that Nano Silver at 10 PPM is the definitive prevention and therapy for Ebola virus “somehow” got “overlooked.” We do not know how long before that the work actually took place, but the US civilian authorities knew not later than 2009 that there is a cure, treatment and prevention for Ebola virus. . . .

This past Monday (July 28, 2014) I wrote a letter to the Presidents of the four afflicted countries (including a copy to the President of what may well be the next country afflicted, the United States since an Ebola-stricken volunteer is being flown to Atlanta for treatment).

What about the staff of the airplane conveying that victim? The airport personnel and passengers who are in her vicinity? The hospital personnel? This is a perfect recipe for disaster, but do not feel bad about it. If you live in the US, you are not alone in having governments spread the contagion to you. An Ebola victim is being flown to Heidelberg for treatment, too, so Europe is about to go down.

Once that happens, the globalists get their wish: the population is reduced, the “need” for WHO to seize government powers is established, the “need” for the total authoritarian control of the populace by the Global Health Security Initiative is established and lots and lots and lots of us die because “THERE IS NO CURE, NO PREVENTION AND NO TREATMENT” for this disease apparently engineered at a Level II Biosecurity Laboratory inside Kenama Hospital in Sierra Leone. As a matter of public record, the Level II BioSecurity facility was funded by George Soros, Bill and Melinda Gates, the US, WHO, Tulane University and a bunch of other bad actors who apparently want to see most of us dead.

Think I’m exaggerating? Think again.

And, oh, by the way, Ebola virus should only be handled at a Level IV lab. A Level II lab is designed to be “suitable for work involving agents of moderate potential hazard to personnel and the environment. . . .

Why would Soros, Gates and all their friends put a BioSafety Lab in a Hospital when CDC says that the principle focus for the spread of Ebola virus is hospitals? And why would they make it a Level 2 lab instead of a level IV lab? And why would they genetically engineer the organism to have a stunningly high fatality level? Did they forget biosafety precautions just like they forgot that Nano Silver was known AT LEAST in 2009 as the definitive antiviral agent against Ebola virus?

Did they “forget” that organisms cannot develop resistance against Nano Silver so it will keep on working? Is that the real reason it is illegal in Europe and the FDA has been trying to take it away from us for years?

Perhaps these guardians of our lives and futures need some CBD, ginkgo biloba and piracitam to help them remember things like that.

Or perhaps they are unfit for power and exceedingly dangerous to our health and longevity.

To repeat: US Government research, declassified in 2009, shows, beyond a shadow of a doubt that NANO SILVER, at 10 PPM, effectively kills the Ebola virus. . . . .

[Bob]

Photos - Dr. Kent Brantly in the US, Atlanta

Ebola infected patient, Dr. Brantly apparently walked out of the Ambulance that brought him from the US Military base where he landed shortly ago.

Brantly is apparently in a protective suit, not a complete class 4 bioprotection suit, not using contained oxygen, but apparently breathing regular air.

On the other hand, the attendant present with him is on a protective air breathing system. (see pictures below). That he walked in apparently is a good sign.

Dr. Brantly is seen walking with assistance into the containment unit.

http://chanlo.com/images/photo (6).JPG

http://chanlo.com/images/photo (3).JPG

http://chanlo.com/images/photo (5).JPG

http://chanlo.com/images/photo (4).JPG

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Health/AP_ebola_ambulance_kent_brantly_jt_140802_16x9_992.jpg


http://chanlo.com/images/Dr_Kent_Brantly.jpg

[Daphne]

Hi Bob, If the above is meant to prove he exists I still don't know why he has no online presence with the exception of articles related to the current Ebola issue.

[Bob]

Hi Bob, If the above is meant to prove he exists I still don't know why he has no online presence with the exception of articles related to the current Ebola issue.

Good question.

Also in post #91 above, check out the TRANSPORT PROTOCOL by the USAMRIID - http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a429519.pdf "ISOLATE in NEGATIVE pressure room"

With no contained oxygen Dr. Brantly was not negatively pressurized, but exposing himself (and the environment) to the air he is breathing. Why did they chose to have him setup that way, against USAMRIID protocol for dealing with EBOLA ? The attendant is on some sort of breathing apparatus..

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a429519.pdf spells out, transport - "a battery powered HEPA filtration system should be used to filter out highly infectious micro-organisms".. Isn't the suit he is in similar to what he was using when he was infected?

[Bob]

BSL-4 Moon Suit Photos

Top, USAMRIID protective gear working in an isolation unit.

Bottom, BSL-4 LAB protection gear.

http://chanlo.com/images/moon-suit-1.jpg

http://images.sciencedaily.com/2013/08/130821152059-large.jpg

"Protective Gear worn in West Africa (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea)" - below (no HEPA FILTERS)


http://javananhelal.ir/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ebola.jpg

http://media.worldbulletin.net/news/2014/03/24/ebola-guinea.jpg

No Protective gear apparently handling "lab samples" - below


http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/359890/slide_359890_4018993_free.jpg

What is up with this lack of full protection?

[Bob]

Dr. Brantly over in Liberia prior to becoming infected with Ebola



http://chanlo.com/images/b1.jpg
Dr. Brantly was serving as medical director for the Samaritan’s Purse Ebola Consolidated Case Management Center in Monrovia when he tested positive for Ebola.

Dr. Brantly is currently in Emory's (Atlanta), Special Isolation and Containment Unit for treatment. He received a dose of special anti-bodies from a patient who survived (whom he had treated in Liberia). Possibly the former patient is now returning the gift to save his life.


http://chanlo.com/images/b2.jpg

http://chanlo.com/images/b3.jpg

(samaritanspurse.org appears to be being overloaded currently by viewers, these pictures on a different server now)

[Bob]

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/76703000/jpg/_76703484_023383784-1.jpg

Transport to the containment isolation unit this morning.. in an ambulance which was not taking precautions to prevent the inside/outside air from commingling.. as it was driving from the military base for about 15 miles to the hospital. On both the highway and in residential areas. "No worries they say, it is not airborne.."

this page: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28596416 has a flash player at the top with some video of the moment of transfer.

[SilentFeathers]

The video in this article, the guy claims it was a special ambulance, hmmm
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/family-american-doctor-ebola-optimistic-recovery/story?id=24818577

[Roisin]

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/76703000/jpg/_76703484_023383784-1.jpg

Transport to the containment isolation unit this morning.. in an ambulance which was not taking precautions to prevent the inside/outside air from commingling.. as it was driving from the military base for about 15 miles to the hospital. On both the highway and in residential areas. "No worries they say, it is not airborne.."

this page: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28596416 has a flash player at the top with some video of the moment of transfer.

Seriously, we'll never know how many staff at that hospital have asked or will be requesting a leave of absence until those 2 Ebola patients are gone.

That means a personnel of temps who don't know the ins and outs of the system at that hospital where consequently, mistakes are made and misunderstandings of various directions on this or that are made too which in this case could result in big trouble.

[Bob]

The video in this article, the guy claims it was a special ambulance, hmmm
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/family-american-doctor-ebola-optimistic-recovery/story?id=24818577

Ya know what's kinda funny with the spin the press is putting on it, when the ambulance door is opened to the environment, wide opened, there are no precautions, no tent, no seals.. Just a wide opened door, and no air protection on Dr. Brantly.

Press says Watch the TV screen very closely, now listen to my words, read my lips.. nothing airborne, repeat after me.. no-thing..

(Door opened no special air filtration equipment visible on the ambulance roof, and of course an open door.. gees.. what do they think we are sheeple? - dont answer that -- - baaaaaaaaaaa)

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Health/AP_ebola_ambulance_kent_brantly_jt_140802_16x9_992.jpg

(guy on left was the driver, no filtration, just biohazard protection, the attendant has a battery operated filtration system, the Dr. nothing but biohazard protection..) The cop and other people surrounding the ambulance have ZERO protective gear.. (earlier pictures in this thread)

Proper outdoor containment suit below:

http://www.hydro-klean.com/Userdocs/Photos/lg_400B_HAZWOPPER_students_trying_on_Class_A_suits.JPG

Standard nasty chemical containment (not a biological containment suit) below
http://www.cashmanequipment.com/UserFiles/Image/cashmanhazwopertraining_400.jpg

Biocontainment on a Jet (was it used on "the jet"?)

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--pRAGb4M4--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_320/iwzf7wnjf410nsvl0c4z.jpg

[Roisin]

That's pretty amazing,, isn't it? Thanks for pointing that out. They probably whipped off the patient's hood as soon as they got through the door. Yes... it's all just a show. Just hope no one catches it but we'll never know that either should that happen.

Like you said, this a new strain of the disease and presently there are too many unknowns about it.

[Bob]

These are Google Pictures of where Dr. Brantly was taken (matching them up with the Helicopter views).

Also the map below shows the relationships between where CDC is located, and where Dobbins AFB is where the overseas Jet landed (and will be landing this coming week with the next patient).

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

http://chanlo.com/images/cu-2.jpg

http://chanlo.com/images/cu-3.jpg

http://chanlo.com/images/cu-4.jpg

It appears that close to where they went in is where he is being kept.


That's pretty amazing,, isn't it? Thanks for pointing that out. They probably whipped off the patient's hood as soon as they got through the door. Yes... it's all just a show. Just hope no one catches it but we'll never know that either should that happen.

Like you said, this a new strain of the disease and presently there are too many unknowns about it.

[Bob]

A few more pictures of the arrival.

Please take a real close look at the ambulance driver (below) while on the motorway.

We don't see the full headgear that he was wearing when doing the photo-op at the hospital.

What we appear to see is he is wearing a face mask, and gloves. (interesting or of course, it could simply be the lighting from the day, and the distance from the helicopter to the ambulance, and he is wearing all his protective gear.. until someone shows that the ambulance was properly dis-infected including the air conditioning system, and that the venting to the atmosphere did not occur {like with the ambulance back door wide-opened} it's all a "what if" now, what could happen.. "if"..)


http://chanlo.com/images/af-2.jpg


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


http://chanlo.com/images/b5.jpg


http://chanlo.com/images/b6.jpg


http://chanlo.com/images/b4.jpg

This also shows how Dr. Brantly was protected while working in Liberia. Definitely NOT high bio-containment gear.

[Roisin]

That's interesting. I didn't know that those facilities were so close together and I wouldn't be surprised if they've treated other Ebola patients in the past there without anyone knowing about it. The airport though seems too far to have transport an Ebola patient via ambulance and I would have thought they would have flown from there by helicopter but it sounds like they don't have one that's equipped to do that. At any rate, it's hard to believe that the US is really prepared or equipped to handle an Ebola pandemic.... far from it. Under the circumstances, that's a little unsettling.

[superconsciousness]

By next year this outbreak will be contained. Bigger concern is what happens after next year when resources become cost-prohibitive to acquire or maintain...so 2017 and a couple years after that concern me. 2015 will just become more expensive to survive while dependent on key critical infrastructures - preppers got things right in that respect.

Negative breeze that blew through here has dissipated, but hang time was longer than expected...'hang times' seem to be increasing, but once people realize all they have to do is intend it away, hang times will drop off considerably. Question is how long will it be before people realize that they have that much control over the energetics surrounding them. Guess we'll find out soon enough...

[superconsciousness]

jXeVgEs4sOo
It is important to demand from within yourself the most positive timeline possible.

[Bob]

That's interesting. I didn't know that those facilities were so close together and I wouldn't be surprised if they've treated other Ebola patients in the past there without anyone knowing about it. The airport though seems too far to have transport an Ebola patient via ambulance and I would have thought they would have flown from there by helicopter but it sounds like they don't have one that's equipped to do that. At any rate, it's hard to believe that the US is really prepared or equipped to handle an Ebola pandemic.... far from it. Under the circumstances, that's a little unsettling.

Apparently there is a really small 50 foot wide helipad right next to the Containment Facility, however, nothing closer, and no doubt, Dr. Brantly would have needed to transported down the ramp, and back over into the containment unit..

Assuming that if there were a helicopter accident and it went down, there definitely would have been a spread. I'm not convinced that there wasn't an airborne release from the trip from Dobbins AFB, or that there is a contaminated ambulance "typhoid-Mary" situation in the offing if that vehicle is reused properly uncleaned. We just don't know what their procedures are.

I didn't see any other helipads this Google Earth view, but I've added a Google-earth klm link to download a coordinate file for directing the map viewer to the area.

If anyone wants to look around, get a "read" and/or do a "viewing", Google would be good for that.

Assuming that one can get a pretty good read on the containment unit and where the main hospital security location is (towards the center).. see if there is a lot of "charge" present there currently.

Containment Unit.kml (http://chanlo.com/images/Containment Unit.kml) - rightclick save - have google earth installed. Double click on the file to zoom to the containment unit.

http://chanlo.com/images/cu-5.jpg

http://chanlo.com/images/cu-6.jpg

[Roisin]

I'm using a new laptop I recently bought but still have to download Google Earth on it. Will do that this evening and will check out that file.

--- update---

Saved that file and downloaded G.E.... but the file was not in the folder I saved it in. Then saved it again and the same thing happened.

Anyway, considering that the CDC facility in Atlanta is the national center for the US, one would think that their medical center would be more modern than the one they are using for those Ebola patients. I find that surprising. The campus looks small too.

[Bob]

I'm using a new laptop I recently bought but still have to download Google Earth on it. Will do that this evening and will check out that file.

--- update---

Saved that file and downloaded G.E.... but the file was not in the folder I saved it in. Then saved it again and the same thing happened.

Anyway, considering that the CDC facility in Atlanta is the national center for the US, one would think that their medical center would be more modern than the one they are using for those Ebola patients. I find that surprising. The campus looks small too.

Try the link download one more time - i think there was an error in the URL, I resaved it.

An alternate, if you type in to google earth's search box (top left), Emory University Hospital, then click the magnifying glass (or hit enter) you would get an image that looks like this:

http://chanlo.com/images/cu-6.jpg

to the left is the containment unit..

[gripreaper]

Well, this whole idea of a virus being released on the world at a time when superconsciousness is being implemented puzzles me. I don't see how entrainment of superconsciousness is synonymous with the agenda of releasing a virus. They seem incompatible, and the timeline being moved to 2017 seems odd. I'm confused.

[SilentFeathers]

Hey Bob, don't worry about the good doctor not being in a full bio protective suit, nor a now infected ambulance roaming the streets of Atlanta, the FBI is adding an additional layer of protection so every one will be safe.


"The FBI, in working with officials at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Health and Human Services (HHS), provided security in conjunction with today's first arrival and transport of an Ebola patient scheduled for treatment at Atlanta. The FBI will provide similar security as an extra layer of protection to the public upon the arrival in the next few days of an additional Ebola patient. The FBI is coordinating with Emory University's Police Department with regard to any additional security concerns or needs," said the statement.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/second-american-ebola-patient-arrive-next-few-days/ngs9d/?ecmp=wsbtv_social_googleplus_sfp

[Bob]

I asked about DTRA - Defence threat Reduction Agency, of the US in another thread and didn't get any data.

I had pointed out earlier in this thread the DTRA and Pentagon sponsorship of bioweapons solutions development.

Locating what I had asked for, this was found:

http://dtirp.dtra.mil/CBW/news_archive/ammo.aspx - DTRA has a group called, Defence Treaty Inspection Program - they state they are "ending the program", inside sources say it is because of funding restrictions, and apparently information to the public is no longer useful, nor is seeding information in other departments useful.

From that page:

"In 1976, two large outbreaks of a mysterious disease occurred almost simultaneously in Sudan and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) (then known as Zaire). Over 500 total cases of disease were reported, with death rates of 53 percent in Sudan, and 88 percent in the DRC."

That easily would get the attention of any group responsible for looking for bioweapons of mass destruction.

Also, they identified the strains:

"There are five strains, or subtypes, of Ebola virus, all named for the locations in which they first occurred. Ebola Bundibugyo was most recently identified in Uganda in 2007. Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, and Ebola Bundibugyo subtypes cause severe disease in humans. Ebola Reston and Ebola Ivory Coast have not been known to cause disease in humans. Before last year, Ebola Reston and Ebola Ivory Coast had only been known to cause disease in nonhuman primates. However, in 2008, pigs in the Philippines were found to have died from Ebola Reston. As of January 2009, one farm worker has become infected with Ebola Reston through contact with infected pigs, but has not become ill. This constitutes the first known instance of pig-to-human transmission of the Ebola virus."

Within this thread we talked about these various types.

They talk about handling of this virus, and how to deal with patients:

"Once a person has become infected with Ebola, the virus can be transmitted from person to person through contact with infected body fluids or contaminated objects, such as needles. Because of the dangerous nature of the virus, research on Ebola virus must be conducted in a level-4 biocontainment facility. Healthcare workers should take strict precautions when treating Ebola patients.."

They talk about existing solutions:

"An Ebola vaccine has been developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and is currently being tested in clinical trials. The challenge in vaccine and treatment development for Ebola hemorrhagic fever is the rapid progress of the disease. Unless a vaccine or other form of supportive treatment is administered soon after the onset of symptoms, the virus causes too much physical damage to bodily organs to be repaired or overcome.

"As a potential biological weapons agent, Ebola could be effective due to its high mortality rate and level of contagiousness, as well as its availability in nature."

What is interesting is the National Institutes of Health HAS the vaccine NOW. It is not the Canadians, nor the Japanese, nor the other commercial companies who are going to make billions on a vaccine solution, but NIH. An organization who should be compassionate to fast-track and present the solution now, not later.

I had asked for this information to be presented in the other thread where the DTRA subject was broached.

Source (http://dtirp.dtra.mil/CBW/news_archive/ammo.aspx)

Ed Update - Contrary to the MSM talking heads saying the virus does not mutate has been stable since 1976, re-read the above statement by DTRA..

There are five strains, or subtypes, of Ebola virus, all named for the locations in which they first occurred. Ebola Bundibugyo was most recently identified in Uganda in 2007.

A "strain" appears when a mutation happens.. (dohh).. and PIG to human transmission happened, (dohh) in 2008, pigs in the Philippines were found to have died from Ebola Reston (strain observed in a lab in Reston Virginia). As of January 2009, one farm worker has become infected with Ebola Reston through contact with infected pigs, but has not become ill. This constitutes the first known instance of pig-to-human transmission.

Zoonosis (http://www.who.int/zoonoses/en/) is the mechanism for creating a modification of a virus which can freely transfer and infect across species.. (animal to human to animal with subsequent mutations, again, dohh..)

[Bob]

USAMRIID Research - PDF attached, Solution for protection of Primates developed.


http://www.usamriid.army.mil/press_releases/Pettitt%20Release%20Aug%202013.pdf

August 21, 2013 – 2:00 PM Eastern Time (301) 619-2285
Fort Detrick, Maryland Caree.VanderLinden@us.army.mil

Experimental Ebola Treatment Protects Some Primates Even After Disease Symptoms Appear

Scientists have successfully treated the deadly Ebola virus in infected animals following onset of disease symptoms, according to a report published online today in Science Translational Medicine.

We were able to use MB-003 as a true therapeutic countermeasure,” said senior author Gene Olinger, Ph.D., of USAMRIID.

MB-003 is a “cocktail” of monoclonal antibodies that help bind to and inactivate the virus. In addition, said Pettitt, the antibodies recognize infected cells and trigger the immune system to kill them off. No side effects of the antibodies were observed in the surviving animals.

This is in essence the technique which was used with Dr. Brantly, but from a serum developed from a patient he was treating who survived. (Indicating a successful formation of the proper antibodies happened in the patient.)

Be sure to take note of the DATE of this report, 2013.

[Bob]

DTRA - Defence Threat Reduction Agency - USA

A "Sole Source Contract" (read: exclusive) has been awarded to MAPP BioPharmaceuticals for an effective Counter-Measure to Ebola bioweapons.

The contract award was let 22 July 2014.

The contract would be for followup research to a current contract that is focusing on the development of a monoclonal antibody cocktail for ebola Zaire.

The new contract would require MAPP Biopharmaceutical to prepare and submit an Investigational New Drug application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its product ZMapp. The contract also calls for the company to produce enough ZMapp to begin a phase I clinical study.

The additional tasks under the new contract are expected to be complete within the current performance period of 12 months, and done on a cost plus fixed fee basis.

The DTRA said the decision not to open the contract to competition is solely at the discretion of the government.

MAPP Biopharmaceuticals has until Aug. 8 to respond to the solicitation from DTRA.

Source (http://bioprepwatch.com/countermeasures/medical/dtra-to-award-ebola-countermeasure-contract/338825/)

[Bob]

USAMRIID had mobilized to provide Laboratory support locally and worldwide to help deal with Ebola

It was known about since 2006 how vast the spread was.

Ebola virus has been circulating in the region since at least 2006—well before the current outbreak. Randal J. Schoepp, Ph.D., recently returned from Liberia and Sierra Leone, where he spent six weeks helping to set up an Ebola testing laboratory and training local personnel to run diagnostic tests on suspected Ebola hemorrhagic fever clinical samples. He is part of a team from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) that has been providing assistance to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa since March.

USAMRIID has been working in the region since 2006, when it began a collaborative project to develop and refine diagnostic tests for the Lassa fever virus endemic to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. As those assays have matured, the scientists have begun to optimize additional tests for a number of emerging diseases.

Because the team was working on disease identification and diagnostics, and had pre-positioned assays in the region, said Schoepp, “We had people on hand who were already evaluating samples and volunteered to start testing right away when the current Ebola outbreak started.”

According to the publication’s authors, between 500 and 700 samples are submitted each year to the KGH Lassa Diagnostic Laboratory in Sierra Leone. Generally, only 30 to 40 percent of the samples test positive for Lassa fever, so the aim of this study was to determine which other viruses had been causing serious illnesses in the region.

Using assays developed at USAMRIID that detect the presence of IgM, an early protein produced by the body to ward off infection, the research team found evidence of dengue fever, West Nile, yellow fever, Rift Valley fever, chikungunya, Ebola, and Marburg viruses in the samples collected between 2006 and 2008.

In addition, of the samples that tested positive for Ebola, the vast majority reacted to the Zaire strain, which was unexpected, according to the authors.

What one notes by this series of studies, is the vast quantities of infections present in Africa: Dengue fever, West Nile, yellow fever, Rift Valley fever, chikungunya, Ebola, and Marburg viruses. We have discussed each of these in this thread.

Source (http://globalbiodefense.com/2014/07/15/usamriid-providing-laboratory-support-ebola-outbreak/)

(Note: In addition to providing laboratory testing and training support for the current outbreak, USAMRIID has provided more than 10,000 Ebola assays to support laboratory capabilities in Sierra Leone and Liberia. The Institute also supplied personal protective equipment to Metabiota Inc., a non-government organization (NGO) involved in the testing.

Other contributors to the work include the Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office-Critical Reagents Program, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Cooperative Biological Engagement Program, and the DTRA Joint Science and Technology Office.

DTRA does not get involved unless a BIOWEAPON has been suspected as being used or developed or deployed.)

[Bob]

Bioweapon's potential inspired solutions

As early as 2006 it was confirmed, Ebola can be deployed as a bioweapon

Source (http://books.google.com/books?id=8pYT1leV9XQC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=dtra+ebola&source=bl&ots=VxwrOMPjB2&sig=rm9bKa2l8iBdjZUjAJufIjFIrz8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=k1neU5S-HOr28AGauIDQAg&ved=0CJ0BEOgBMA4#v=onepage&q=dtra%20ebola&f=false)

2001-2003 DTRA was instrumental in conducting biological weapons attack exercises in OSAN Korea. Specific pathogens tested were Bubonic Plague, E. Coli and Ebola. Each of these recently has been noted in "outbreaks" across the US and other parts of the world.

Why is that? testing or deployment as a bioweapon has been happening?

[Bob]

Embassy of the US, Monrovia-Liberia

Security Message for U.S. Citizens: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) - July 28, 2014

Monrovia | July 28, 2014

There continues to be active transmission of Ebola virus disease in Liberia, with the total number of cases of confirmed, probable, and suspected infection at over 300. The most affected counties are Lofa, Montserrado, Bong, and Bomi. However, cases have been found in other counties as well.

Representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), experts in viral diseases, continue to assist the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW).

CDC is supporting the MOHSW with coordination of the public health response, including public health messaging, surveillance, case identification, contact tracing and data management.

DTRA is providing support for laboratory testing and diagnosis.

Source (http://monrovia.usembassy.gov/sm_ebola_72814.html)

(Total deaths in the REGION of west Africa are over 800)

[Bob]

July-December 2014 Response Plan published


http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/evd-outbreak-response-plan-west-africa-2014.pdf

Relief Web International published the report compiled by WHO in conjunction with the governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in conjunction with various US agencies.

71 million $ (US) is the anticipated funding for the project.

Objective: control the spread, educate people what to do, what not to do to avoid contamination (superstition and tradition is a major blocking factor), improve containment facilities with proper adequate medical protection equipment and procedures, building up a WHOLE SOCIETAL response including involving all aspects of government and military and people to take this seriously.

In addition to provide PRO-ACTIVE support, preventative measures, again using clear succinct education sharing ACCURATE DATA (not fear hype spin), provide proper coordinated leadership and interaction between the hospitals, doctors, communities and agencies (locally and across the world taking interest in what is happening).

Mobilise everything needed to accomplish stopping the wildfire potential, the existing outbreaks. Bring in all needed equipment, medicine/treatment, technicians/doctors, and implement now.

If there are any gaps in achieving solutions, now, find those gaps and deal with them effectively, now, not later.

Establish the authority to work across border to achieve these goals to stop the outbreak and keep the outbreak from spreading.

Continue active real time, in the moment meetings with all stakeholders..

Solutions, not just "discussions".. therefore:


Investigate
Report
Contain
Coordinate
Case-Manage and
Support People and Governments - create LEADERSHIP and FOCUS

[spizella]

My astrologist said me, that this was planed. They are using NEPTUNE power to use viruses, bacteria and so on. Right now the power is concentrated in Africa.

[Bob]

Emirates Airlines cancels flights to Guinea

Due to the Ebola present in West Africa, Emirates (Dubai) has said it will no longer fly to Guinea in efforts to stop the potential spread of Ebola.

They are the first major international air carrier to suspend all flights to the virus affected region.

ref: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ebola-outbreak-emirates-becomes-first-major-international-airline-to-suspend-all-flights-to-virusaffected-region-9644770.html

“We apologise for any inconvenience caused to our customers, however the safety of our passengers and crew is of the highest priority and will not be compromised,” a statement read.

The airline, which does not operate services to Sierra Leone or Liberia, said it would continue to provide flights to Dakar in Senegal. It said further decisions on West Africa would be “guided by the advice and updates from the government and international health authorities”.

This was their page describing flights to Guinea:
http://www.emirates.com/us/english/destinations_offers/destinations/africa/guinea/conakry/index.aspx


http://cdn.ek.aero/us/english/images/Conakry_destination_565_tcm272-1292807.jpg - Conakry

[Bob]

Mapp is what MSM is saying is the company who produced the experimental antibody treatment Dr. Brantly received. Initial data was circulated (for some reason), across the internet that the treatment was from a serum created from a child that survived. It is strange that such data was circulated IF MAPP was developing a countermeasure for a bioweapon called EBOLA Zaire (strain)..

ref: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?73440-EBOLA-A-Manufactured-Crisis-in-2014-Dept-of-Defense-Bio-Weapon&p=861191&viewfull=1#post861191 - this is the post where I discuss a bit more of this issue.. SPIN or information.

DTRA has not said that Dr. Brantly was treated with the MAPP monoclonal antibody treatment.

DTRA PAGES on Bio-Weapons:

http://www.dtra.mil/missions/ChemicalbiologicalDefense/ChemicalBiologicalDefenseHome.aspx

"DTRA and SCC-WMD are actively engaged in efforts to defend against chemical and biological weapons. Our work in this arena has global reach, impacting everyone from our men and women serving on the frontlines to American citizens in the heartland."

"Defending the country against chemical and biological threats presents a wide variety of challenges. DTRA works to tackle these challenges by partnering with interagency organizations such as the Department of Health and Human Services, to prepare for biological and chemical events. In cooperation with DoD and HHS, DTRA is using state-of-the-art technology and executing our first agent-based, high performance computational analysis system, which has resulted in a revolutionary pandemic influenza modeling capability.

DTRA recently completed part of a significant study that looked at a nine region response effort with multiple interventions. The result of this study will help the U.S. prepare for a possible pandemic, and is a perfect example of DTRA’s Reachback capabilities, technical expertise and the value DTRA provides to other departments and agencies."

DTRA talks about in this PDF, how they feel there can be SPECIES transfers of numerous diseases (animals into humans)


http://chanlo.com/images/Viral_Species_Jumps.pdf


"Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a type of gene flow that occurs in bacteria and viruses, which can produce new strains with enhanced virulence and the ability to infect new hosts. Although HGT occurs more frequently in bacteria, several families of viruses (including Poxvirus and Herpesvirus species) are known to have acquired genes from hosts through HGT."

ED Update - CNN is currently reporting that the DRUG treatment used is TOP SECRET (thereby that is the reason for the disinformation, I suppose if the drug failed). Treating Ebola Zaire if it were a bioweapon's version of it would definitely have the drug security classed.

[Bob]

The Vaccine for two Strains of Ebola Virus

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/05/21/127030160/ebola-vaccine-works-against-new-virus

No virus is more feared than Ebola. So scientists were alarmed when a new species of Ebola emerged in Uganda in 2007.

They worried that the Bundibugyo ebolavirus, as it's called after the township in western Uganda where it was discovered, wouldn't be thwarted by the promising experimental vaccines already being developed against other lethal Ebola species.

Scientists can't just keep adding new viral species or strains to vaccines. "Generally the more strains you put into a vaccine, the less likely it will work," says vaccine researcher Nancy Sullivan of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

But Sullivan and her colleagues have good news. They found that a current experimental vaccine totally protected monkeys against the Bundibugyo bug — even though the new virus wasn't included in the vaccine recipe. Their results appear in the online journal PLoS/Pathogens.

Importantly, the vaccine did the trick without stimulating any antibodies against the Bundibugyo virus. Protection depended entirely on the other arm of the immune system, called cellular immunity.

"The dogma is that viruses require an antibody response to prevent the virus from entering the cell," Sullivan says. "This is truly the first time that cell-mediated immunity alone has been shown to be protective against virus infection."

The vaccine specifically protects against the Zaire and Sudan species of Ebola.

Both are very different from the new Bundibugyo virus – as much as 43 percent different, in terms of genetic sequences.

The vaccine contains pieces of the protein-sugar coat (glycoprotein) from the Zaire and Sudan viruses, inserted into a type of common cold virus.

The cold virus carries the Ebola glycoprotein into cells of the vaccine recipients – in this case four macaques in a maximum-security lab at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, or USAMRIID, at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Once infected, the monkeys' immune cells chop the Ebola glycoprotein into small pieces and display them on their surface, where they stimulate a response from other immune cells.

The monkeys got four "priming" shots, followed a year later with a booster shot.

Four other macaques got no vaccine. All eight animals were inoculated with ordinarily lethal doses of the new Ebola virus.

The vaccinated animals all survived, and the unvaccinated monkeys all died.

The researchers will use the new results to "optimize" a vaccine that might eventually be approved for human use. To do that, they'll have to show it works in larger animal studies.

There's no way to do trials of Ebola vaccines in humans. Unlike, say, a vaccine for HIV, there's no identifiable group of people at risk for Ebola, which tends to pop up unexpectedly when conditions are ripe for the virus to jump from its unknown reservoir – possibly in fruit bats – to nonhuman primates and then humans.

The Food and Drug Administration has already agreed to accept animal evidence of efficacy for an Ebola vaccine. But to get to that stage, the experimental vaccine needs more support. It could come from a commercial sponsor, the Defense Department or the NIH, but so far that hasn't happened.

And who would get an Ebola vaccine once it's approved?

"You would target health care workers and others at risk of being exposed," Sullivan says. "The military in the US and Africa would be another candidate. When there's an Ebola outbreak, everyone scatters. If the military were vaccinated and weren't afraid of infection, they might be better at protecting the borders."

And in the event of an Ebola outbreak – whether an indigenous epidemic in Africa or as the result of a bioterrorist plot – public health officials would probably use "ring vaccination." That is, everyone around the first victims – family members, health care workers, and possibly everyone in a circumscribed geographic area – would get access to the Ebola vaccine.

[Bob]

More from USAMRID - this is an amazing document detailing Marburg a much older virus which hit in Marburg Germany (something also which would be classed as a bio-weapon). Marburg Virus is also discussed within this thread.


http://www.usamriid.army.mil/press_releases/Travis_News_Rel_Mar_2014_FINAL.pdf

Discussed within the PDF something that caught my attention - MERS_nCov effective treatment in this particular serum/vaccine.. THAT for MERS/SARS/nCov to have a link to MARBURG virus really give me the heavie jeevies.. seriously..

MERS/SARS are respiratory viri spread by droplets, and secretions.. I coughed into the room, and my ma got it, and died from it in a week.. (hospital ignoring that mers was present !! see the MERS thread for details on that one..)

According to senior author Sina Bavari, the drug, known as BCX4430, protected cynomolgous macaques from Marburg virus infection when administered by injection as long as 48 hours post-infection.

Bavari and his team at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) also found that BCX4430 protected guinea pigs exposed to Marburg virus by the inhalation route.

Developed by BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc., BCX4430 also demonstrated activity against a broad range of other RNA viruses, including the emerging viral pathogen Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), when tested in cell culture.

“This study demonstrates the importance of government-industry collaboration,” said COL Erin P. Edgar, commander of USAMRIID. “Developing filovirus medical countermeasures is a top biodefense priority for the United States. When federal assets like USAMRIID team up with cutting-edge partners in private industry, we can make real progress toward achieving that goal.”

[Bob]

USAMRIID says the Ebola Treatment can be produced in Tobacco plants (Gene splicing) - report October 2012 (!!)

It can be reproduced easily, effectively and in mass quantities..


http://www.usamriid.army.mil/press_releases/Olinger_PNAS_Ebola_OCT2012.pdf

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: CONTACT: Caree Vander Linden
October 15, 2012 – 3:00 PM Eastern Time (301) 619-2285
Fort Detrick, Maryland Caree.VanderLinden@us.army.mil

Mass quantities can be produced in TWO WEEKS !!

“We were pleased to see how well the humanized mAbs of MB-003 performed,” said Larry Zeitlin, Ph.D., president of Mapp Biopharmaceutical and senior author on the study.

“We also were pleasantly surprised by the superiority of the plant-derived mAbs compared to the same mAbs produced in traditional mammalian cell culture.”

"Further improvement in antibody efficacy was developed at Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP).

"Using a fully automated production system that operates in accordance with good manufacturing practices (GMP), antibody is produced in a tobacco plant system.

"This new development process significantly decreases the amount of time required for production, increases the quantity of antibody produced, and slashes the cost of manufacturing, according to Barry Bratcher, chief operating officer of KBP and co-author on the PNAS study. “Our GMP facility can generate a new antibody lot in two weeks to rapidly address new threats and new outbreaks,” said Bratcher. "

[Bob]

ZMapp ebola treatment License Document information (who makes it who controls it)

http://www.defyrus.com/images/News-July152014-ZMAb-license.pdf


http://www.defyrus.com/images/News-July152014-ZMAb-license.pdf

Toronto, ON - Today Defyrus announced an exclusive, worldwide license to their Ebola
therapeutic monoclonal antibody (mAb) patent portfolio to Leaf Biopharmaceutical Inc. of San
Diego, CA. This license expands the commercial relationship between LeafBio and Defyrus who
have been actively collaborating to drive the commercialization of mAb-based Ebola therapies.

LeafBio, the commercialization partner of Mapp Biopharmaceutical, had been developing
proprietary Ebola-specific antibody drug MB-003 in collaboration with the National Institutes of
Health and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

The licensing of Defyrus’ ZMAb antibody portfolio, pioneered at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and licensed earlier
to Defyrus, consolidates the intellectual property of a superior combination mAb drug – termed
ZMapp™ - which is composed of the best mAbs of MB-003 and ZMAb.

Under the terms of the exclusive, worldwide license, LeafBio assumes the commercial responsibility for the ongoing development of ZMapp™. The two companies have agreed to an equitable revenue sharing model based on ZMapp™ product sales.

[Bob]

British Air suspends flights to West Africa due to Ebola.
5 August 2014

Update -

Airlines flying to West Africa are cancelling some flights and offering travel waivers on others due to confirmed reports of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in the area.

Earlier this week, British Airways said it had cancelled flights to Sierra Leone and Liberia, while Emirates Airline has suspended service to Guinea. Delta Air Lines issued a travel waiver for Abuja, Nigeria; Conakry, Guinea; Freetown, Sierra Leone; Lagos, Nigeria; Monrovia, Liberia; and Port Harcourt, Nigeria through August 15. Passengers can rebook for travel no later than August 31.

British Airways said the move was ““due to the deteriorating public health situation in both countries.”

In a message on its website, Delta said that passengers departing from Monrovia, Liberia “may encounter required health screenings by government officials prior to gaining entry to the airport,” adding that passengers may also encounter such screenings upon arrival at Lagos, Nigeria.

Last week, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued an Ebola travel warning, raising its travel health alert to Level 3, the highest level. The agency said that cases of the deadly Ebola virus have been confirmed in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, and warned against non-essential travel to these countries. Cases of Ebola have also been confirmed in Nigeria and a Level 2 warning is in effect for that nation.

Kenya Airways, Gambia Bird and other flights are still flying in and out of Monrovia from and in Ghana.

Lead African carriers Arik and ASKY recently halted flights to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

[Bob]

Over 900 dead currently - this would qualify for moving to pandemic level.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2014/ethical-review-ebola/en/

WHO to convene special meeting on the Ethical Use of zMapp and other experimental treatments for Ebola

WHO statement
6 August 2014

Early next week, WHO will convene a panel of medical ethicists to explore the use of experimental treatment in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Currently there is no registered medicine or vaccine against the virus, but there are several experimental options under development.

The recent treatment of two health workers from Samaritan’s Purse with experimental medicine has raised questions about whether medicine that has never been tested and shown to be safe in people should be used in the outbreak and, given the extremely limited amount of medicine available, if it is used, who should receive it.

Media contact:
Tarik Jasarevic
WHO Department of Communications
Telephone: +41 22 791 50 99
Mobile: +41 79 367 62 14
E-mail: jasarevict@who.int

[Bob]

Saudi suspects death due to Ebola

Spain said it will accept a patient from the West African outbreak, adding to concerns about the spread of the deadly virus.

Nigeria reported that a nurse died after treating someone believed to have contracted Ebola in Liberia, and Saudi Arabia reported that a man died, apparently of the virus, after a trip to Sierra Leone.

The World Health Organization did not immediately confirm the deaths.

A Spanish priest who contracted the disease in Liberia will be flown to Madrid and become the Europe's first patient from this outbreak, according to the Spanish government.

Traveling into the Ebola epicenter Sierra Leone 'not able to deal' with Ebola
WHO said Wednesday that 932 deaths had been reported or confirmed as a result of Ebola through Monday.

Source CNN

[Bob]

Spain to accept 75 year old Ebola Patient

Source (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/11017332/Ebola-outbreak-Spain-to-accept-Europes-first-confirmed-case-of-the-virus.html)

Ebola coming to Europe

Miguel Pajares, 75, a Spanish missionary priest working at a hospital in the West African country, will be taken to Spain by a military jet.

A medically-equipped military jet has been sent to Liberia to repatriate Miguel Pajares, 75, a Spanish missionary priest working at a hospital in the West African country.

Brother Pajares and his two fellow workers, Chantal Pascaline Mutwamene of Congo and Paciencia Melgar from Equatorial Guinea, belong to the Hospital Order of San Juan de Dios, a Catholic humanitarian group that runs hospitals around the world, and had been helping to treat patients infected with the virus.

They had been in quarantine since Saturday along with two others – who have since tested negative - following the death of the hospital’s director, Brother Patrick Nshamdze.

[Bob]

Lagos Nigeria is worried.

Source (http://allafrica.com/stories/201408040839.html)

Lagos Pushes for Closure of Borders

The hospital in Awka had been closed, where the patient who flew in from Liberia died.

Worried about the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the West African sub-region, the Lagos State Government has been making efforts to reach out to the federal government to close the nation's borders with neigbouring West African countries for a period until the deadly infection has been brought under control.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) over the weekend had declared that the EVD had spiralled out of control.

Sources close to Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State informed THISDAY over the weekend that there were frantic efforts by the governor to contact President Goodluck Jonathan before his departure to the United States on Saturday night to discuss the option of closing the borders with other West African countries.

The sources however said the president could not be reached before he flew out of the country to Washington DC for the African Leadership Summit due to commence today.

Although the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, had said the federal government was not contemplating the closure of borders, the Lagos State Government held the view that their closure might become imperative given the reports of the return of bodies of persons suspected to have died from the virus in some neigbouring West African countries.

"We have a growing number of cases where bodies of relations who may have died of the Ebola disease are being transported home through the borders for burial here in Nigeria, in accordance with the cultural demands of bringing corpses home.

"We fear that if this is unchecked, it could promote the spread of the infection, especially if the dead persons were victims of the EVD infection," one source close to the governor said.

Sources in the state further explained that it had become expedient for the federal government to take the effect of the spread of the disease seriously and regard it as a "national security" matter, which should override all other commercial and treaty obligations with Nigeria's West African neighbours. They expressed concern that "should Ebola virus spread in a densely populated city like Lagos, it would be difficult to control".

The sources added that the federal government would need to reach out to families of EVD victims in neighbouring countries and advise them to suspend bringing home the bodies of relations for burial.

"They should be educated that it is safer for bodies of EVD victims to be cremated in the countries where they died, and save others the risk of contracting the disease if the bodies are brought back to Nigeria," an aide of the governor said.

(Hmm. western education is sinful eh? boko haram uses that to keep people uneducated and dying, and now with ebola going pandemic, what is boko going to do, declare it evil spirits or finally face that people require proper education and compassion.. not terror..)

[Bob]

Global international alerts are now being issued in countries around the world.

CDC (Centers for Disease control) has set alert level to 3, the highest they have for Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

Countries (this is not a complete list) have evoked various levels of warning, doctors, hospitals airports to be on the look-out for symptoms.


Major entry points in Malaysia under Ebola alert - Kuala Lumpur International Airport
Feds are keeping a close eye on passengers arriving at JFK NY
Maldives: Health authorities have issued an alert on Ebola and have asked people to take preventive measures against it
Nigeria on high alert
South Korea's Incheon International airport on high alert
MANILA, Philippines – The country's airports are on full alert over all flights
East Africa is on high alert
India on high alert
New Zeland on High alert
Australia Immigration and Border control is on high alert
Ivory Coast on alert for Ebola
Rwanda has deployed medics and installed a temporary clinic at Kigali International Airport following red alerts
UK hospitals 'on alert'
Ghana MPs issue ebola alert
Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula International Airport on alert (Zambia)
S Africa remains on alert as Ebola spreads
Thailand Alert for Ebola
Zimbabwe on Ebola alert
The EU is readying itself for any spread of Ebola from West Africa to Europe
Ebola: Kenya issues Ebola alert
Uganda - The Ministry of Health yesterday set up a screening centre at Entebbe International Airport
Cape Verde in red alert against Ebola virus
Ebola outbreak: Mali on alert
Lebanon on full alert over Ebola
France 'on alert' amid Guinea Ebola outbreak
HMC: Qatar taking precautions to protect against deadly Ebola outbreak
Saudi Arabia has been on alert against the spread of the virus from west Africa
Iraq Gov't On High Alert As Threat Of Ebola increases


Update Country List:

Singapore on alert
China (Proper) says it will watch for it, but it "can handle" (it) and any infections disease without concern


Update - Liberia officially in State of Emergency country-wide from the outbreak
Source (http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/ebola-outbreak-liberia-declares-emergency/article6290185.ece)

"The country’s president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, said that the scale of the Ebola outbreak represents a threat to Liberia’s security.

"The government and people of Liberia require extraordinary measures for the very survival of our state and for the protection of the lives of our people," she said via statement. "I...hereby declare a State of Emergency throughout the Republic of Liberia effective as of Aug. 6, 2014 for a period of 90 days."

[Bob]

CFR - Council of Foreign Relations agrees Ebola is out of control


http://www.trbimg.com/img-53e11cac/turbine/la-ebola-nigeria-20140805/750/16x9
(that place above is generally wall to wall people in international arrivals Lagos, it's hot and sweaty.. nasty)

"John Campbell, CFR senior fellow for Africa policy studies and former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, said Ebola has already had an impact on the economies in the West African nations. "Sierra Leone’s growth rate has been cut by 1%, Campbell said, and more dramatic economic and political consequences are possible.

"The three countries affected are going through an extremely rapid period of urbanization, Campbell said. Liberia and Sierra Leone are emerging from lengthy civil wars, and rural villagers are packing into urban slums, making quarantine difficult.

"If the epidemic spreads into Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city and the second-fastest growing city in Africa, it will have “destabilizing consequences,” Campbell said."

Laurie Garrett, is a CFR's senior fellow for global health.

There is no strategic plan of how we're going to bring this under control says Laurie Garrett

Garrett spoke on a conference call with reporters as the second American infected with Ebola in Africa arrived in Atlanta for treatment under strict quarantine, and a day after a patient in New York City was tested for the disease. City health authorities concluded the patient is unlikely to have Ebola.

“There is no strategic plan of how we’re going to bring this under control,” Garrett said. “What will be the global strategy if this disease shows up elsewhere?”


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Naw, the airport is not crowded, easy to navigate through there and not be brushing on your traveling companion (or neighbor traveler)..


https://murrayglobal.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/murtala-muhammed-intl-airport-lagos.jpg

more



Enjoy your stay, (and limit the bushmeat btw)


https://workinginafrica.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/dsc_0005.jpg

[Bob]

Nigeria IS concerned - Nigeria confirmed another five cases of Ebola, the Health Ministry said.

The CDC says it's not likely the drug ZMapp will become available for patients in West Africa.
"The product is still in an experimental stage, and the manufacturer reports that there is a very limited supply, so it cannot be purchased and is not available for general use," the CDC said.

Will we see a WAR over this? Compassionate help being withheld because of bureaucratic HOOPS that have to be jumped through, or is there something deeper here going on?

Source (http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/07/health/africa-ebola-outbreak/index.html)

For these DRUG COMPANIES who ROUTINELY test in Africa and India, to with hold such a potential drug at this point for some "excuse" is extremely interesting. WHY.. They do it all the time with drugs, the studies in Africa and India.. WHY NOW with hold?

OPINION PAGE - THOUGHTS

Source (http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/06/opinion/washington-ebola-zmapp-drug-africa/index.html)

We don't know how quickly ZMapp could be made in large quantities. (see update below).

If it were to be made available, who should receive it? Some think Ebola doctors and caregivers should, because their survival is essential to treating and quelling the epidemic. This makes sense, but it's not that simple.

First, it violates the principle of distributive justice: The benefits of the drug are being inequitably distributed, with skilled, economically secure professionals more likely to benefit.

Also, by what reckoning do we decide that the doctors' role increases their value and dictates they should be given a preferential chance to survive? Distributing the drug through a clinical trial would allow us to know whether and how well the medication works and what caveats might apply.

Africans must participate in any clinical trial, which would benefit the pharmaceutical company as well as, it's hoped, Ebola victims. This would mean their lives have irreplaceable value, too, in the equation of who should get the drug.

So, will Africans receive this potentially lifesaving medication?

A U.N. official suggested that drugs cannot be tested in the middle of an epidemic -- but he is wrong. Such tests are conducted all the time.

Dr. David Ho tested AIDS drugs in Uganda in the midst of the pandemic, and the meningitis drug Trovan was tested in Kano, Nigeria, in the midst of an epidemic. One of every three industry trials is conducted in developing countries; scientists often point to high disease rates, including epidemics, as a rationale for conducting them there.

The problem is not testing the drug amid an epidemic. The question is how ethically such trials are conducted.

Waiting for committee decisions is NOT appropriate. Compassion is important, and the lives of many more people WORLD-WIDE are at stake here.. this pandemic IS out of control.

UPDATE - HOW LONG to make substantial quantities ? TWO WEEKS.

“We also were pleasantly surprised by the superiority of the plant-derived mAbs compared to the same mAbs produced in traditional mammalian cell culture.”

"Further improvement in antibody efficacy was developed at Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP).

"Using a fully automated production system that operates in accordance with good manufacturing practices (GMP), antibody is produced in a tobacco plant system.

There is NO technical hurdle in mass production of the products.

Reynolds Tobacco works in conjunction with Kentucky BioProcessing.

[Bob]

Ebola patient now in Europe

Miguel Pajares, 75, a Spanish missionary priest working at a hospital in the West African country, will be taken to Spain by a military jet has arrived by ambulance to a "special isolation ward".

Is that like the CDC/Emory containment Facility or something like over in Sierra Leone/Liberia?

What type of precautions, masks, air flow?

Source (http://online.wsj.com/articles/spanish-priest-with-ebola-in-stable-condition-1407415511)

Miguel Pajares is currently listed in STABLE condition.

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-EA020_0807eb_D_20140807084937.jpg

Father Pajares was escorted from the air force base to the hospital by a lengthy convoy medical and police vehicles.

On the flight from Liberia, Father Pajares was accompanied by a nun from Equatorial Guinea, who Spanish press reports said holds Spanish citizenship. She had tested negative for Ebola, but was also admitted to an isolation unit in the hospital, as a precautionary measure. Spanish health officials described her as being in "a generally good condition."

[Bob]

Auburn University Treatment in the offing

Researchers in Auburn University have said they have a new method which will work with at least 12 different but somewhat related virus types.


http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Health/876/493/Auburn-Drug.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

This is the KEY they say..

"The Ebola virus is able to turn off the body’s natural immune response. But researchers at Auburn University believe they’ve developed an “on-switch.” "

An ON-SWITCH which tells the body, GO AFTER THE INVADER, NOW.. wake up !

WY3161 is a relatively small molecule. The compound appears to reverse the immune-blocking effects of certain viruses, including Ebola, when tested on cells from green monkeys.

Auburn researchers plan to publish details of their findings later this month in the journal Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/bioorganic-and-medicinal-chemistry/).

[Bob]

Emory Isolation unit reveals how it is constructed and why

Source (http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/07/euh_ebola_patient/campus.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+emory%2Fcombined+%28News+Center+Top+News%29)


http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/07/euh_ebola_patient/thumbs/Emory-University-Hospital-Serious-Communicable-Disease-Unit.jpg


"Emory University Hospital has a special isolation unit, called a Serious Communicable Disease Unit, that was set up in collaboration with the CDC to house CDC scientists and others who have traveled abroad and become exposed to infectious diseases.

"This unit has unique equipment and infrastructure that provides an extraordinarily high level of clinical isolation with very different capabilities than are normally provided to isolate patients in other hospitals. It is one of only four such facilities in the country.

"This illustration above shows an anteroom for physicians and nurses, two patient rooms and attached patient support rooms and a staff dressing room. Glass windows in patient rooms allow the patient and family to see one another."

The above was published by Emory Wednesday, August 6, 2014 to "explain" the facility to the public.

Q: Could other Ebola patients come to Emory University Hospital also?

At this time there are no plans for additional patients (Emory planing policy statement.)

Emory has released a short 4m.45s minute video on Ebola to help educate the public:


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[mahalall]

Thankyou Bob,
A psycho-social aspect of Ebola infection prevention might prove to be public health authorities recommending differing approaches to greeting people.
Welcome to,
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[Bob]

Third Drug works for Ebola Zaire - but we never heard about it - Pentagon keeping things under military "need to know", NDA's (weapons projects, and countermeasures)..

We've heard that the licensing of ZMapp restrictions won't let it become available to Africa.. Financial greed more so than compassionate desires to help mankind..

BUT there is an Angel out there.. however that Angel may have a Devil to deal with - see below..

Sarepta’s drug remains available

Sarepta’s president and CEO, Chris Garabedian, told Barron’s earlier this week that the company had a drug that could be deployed and shipped if a request was made of the company and all permits and authorizations were cleared.


Garabedian told me on Tuesday that company does indeed have clinical trial-quality drug on hand. The Marburg program that has continued “uses the same backbone chemistry,” so the safety studies that are continuing with that drug at higher human doses could be applied to AVI-7537.

“We’re here to raise awareness that we do have a technology that might be helpful, and that we do have drug substance on hand if we received a request from a government agency,” said Garabedian. “We, of course, would have to get the appropriate waivers and approvals from the Department of Defense who supported the development of this compound as well as the FDA in terms of an emergency use authorization.”

The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) is a co-assignee on the two patents, not expiring until 2025, that cover Sarepta’s Ebolavirus drugs.

Beyond the fact that the U.S. government has already made a significant investment in Sarepta’s drug, the company already holds an open IND for human clinical trials.

“We’re just highlighting that we have drug substance available and we can go to convert that into finished product in vials. Assuming all approvals are there from the various agencies, we could have this ready in a week for compounding in a pharmacy for dosing into a patient,” said Garabedian.

Should any agency or institution wish to make such a request, this wouldn’t be the first time Sarepta had made a drug available on an emergency basis. In fact, the genesis of Sarepta’s Ebola program was the government’s acute need for a drug.

(Source) (http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2014/08/07/fda-moves-on-tekmiras-ebola-drug-while-sareptas-sits-unused/)

Phase 1 safety trials with the drug alone and together another Ebola-directed PMOplus molecule (AVI-7539, with the combination called AVI-6002).

The work, done with the support of the Department of Defense, was part of a project put on hold in 2012 during the fiscal cliff fiasco.

The Ebola drug proved to have an excellent safety profile in a single dose escalation study and a two-week, daily dosing regimen. So the discontinuation was more likely due to economics than medical concerns. In support of that speculation, the DoD continued to support Sarepta’s Marburg virus program.

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[Bob]

Marburg Virus bioweapon - WMD (Weapon of Mass Destruction)

This post builds on the earlier data on Marburg in this thread.

The causal agent of Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever is a virus of the Filoviridae family, which also includes the Ebola virus. It was identified in 1967.

Outbreaks of this particular Marburg hemorrhagic fever occurred simultaneously in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany and in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia).

Those are quite far apart, suggesting that there was a common denominator, an agent of some kind.

The common denominator was Monkeys.

The first people infected had been exposed to African green monkeys or their tissues. In Marburg, the monkeys had been imported for research and to prepare polio vaccine. 7 of the cases resulted in fatalities.

No other case was recorded until 1975, when a traveler most likely exposed in Zimbabwe became ill in Johannesburg, South Africa. Recall during the 60's thru 70's the intense highly developed ex-Soviet Bloc was actively involved in developing chemical and bioweapons of mass destruction. In 1976 Ebola-Zaire a type of Filoviridae appears and an outbreak happens.

Marburg virus, like Ebola, is a Category A bio-warfare agent under the Center for Disease Control's classification system.

What has been published about Soviet bioweapons experimentation using Marburg as the virulant:

In the 1980s, the Soviet Union experimented with the Marburg virus in aerosol form on monkeys and determined that infection required only a few virions.

That is TWO VIRAL PARTICLES is all that was needed to infect the target.. That is a danger class of ULTRA. It is FULLY AIRBORNE.

Ken Alibek (formerly Kanatjan Alikbekov) who secretly immigrated to the United States in 1992 revealed information about Soviet experimentation with the Marburg virus.

The former First Deputy Director of Biopreparat, the Soviet biological weapons program, Dr. Alibek reported that Soviet scientists were researching whether Marburg could be loaded into a warhead or a MIRV delivery system.

A colleague, Dr. Nikolai Ustinov, died from the virus after accidentally infecting himself while injecting guinea pigs with the Marburg virus for the Soviet biological weapons program.

As described by Dr. Alibek, the disease that followed was horrifying and induced hemorrhages throughout Dr. Ustinov's body including from his nose, mouth, and sweat glands.

After he died, Dr. Ustinov's journal was covered in his unclotted blood from star-shaped hemorrhages beneath his skin.

From Dr. Ustinov's corpse the Soviet scientists isolated a strain of Marburg that was especially deadly in airborne form; the strain was named Variant U in Dr. Ustinov's honor.

According to Dr. Alibek, as of 1991, the Soviets were ready to manufacture Marburg Variant U in large amounts to be place into MIRVs (Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles) with 10 separate targeted warheads. Once completed, such weapons were designed to be part of the Soviet strategic/operational arsenal.

And this is what PUTIN is threatening the world with, grinning like a demon from ear to ear.. "Go ahead, sanction me, make my day.."

And this is why the world is worried about how to deal with the "training wheels" test of mild weaponized Ebola-Zaire (of which counter-measures exist)..

So you tell me. False flag?

[Bob]

Spanish Priest, 75 to receive zMapp mAB treatment for the Ebola infection he has.

(Source (http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/8/10/ebola-spain-zmapp.html))

Roman Catholic priest, 75-year-old Miguel Pajares, was flown back to Spain from the Liberian capital of Monrovia on Thursday. He is reportedly in stable condition but at his request no additional health updates will be given, Spanish news website The Local reported.

THIS request to NOT let the world know about any recovery or worsening is a bit unusual considering how many people are affected. This seems more politically motivated than "personal wishes".

ZMapp resulted from collaboration between Mapp, San Diego-based LeafBio, and Toronto-based Defyrus Inc. – a biodefense company that collaborates with the U.S. military – according to Forbes. (We have posted the licensing agreement between the two firms earlier in this thread, page 7).


Meanwhile, Nigeria has asked about receiving zMapp and were told, sorry, no doses are available for you..

Nigerian Health Minister Onyenbuchi Chukwu said Wednesday at a news conference that he had asked the CDC about gaining access to ZMapp. The New York Times said that Liberia had also asked about getting the drug. A CDC spokesman said the same day that there were “virtually no doses available,” according to The Associated Press.

hmmm...

And

Repatriating Health care workers, and Missionaries

Any coming back to the US of A now will be required to spend about 3 weeks in quarantine. This is to diminish the risk of a wildfire outbreak in the US.

[Bob]

Quarantine in the US of A, North Carolina ruling

Source (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/10/ebola-quarantine-missionaries-returning-north-carolina)

Health officials in North Carolina said on Sunday they will require missionaries and others coming home after working with people infected with Ebola in Africa to be placed in quarantine.

The quarantine is set to last for three weeks from the last exposure to someone infected in the West African Ebola outbreak, which is centred in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the officials said.

Missionaries from the North Carolina-based Christian aid groups SIM USA and Samaritan’s Purse have been working to help combat the world’s worst outbreak of the disease. “This measure is being taken out of an abundance of caution, and it is important to remember that there are no confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola in North Carolina,” Dr Stephen Keener, medical director in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County, said in a statement.

“Quarantine is a public-health measure to protect the public that requires healthy people who were exposed to a disease to be prevented from contact with others until it is certain that they are not infected.”

The statement said the 21-day period is based on the longest duration of Ebola incubation – the delay between exposure and onset of illness. Officials said the average incubation period is eight to 10 days.

SIM USA said on Sunday some of its missionary staff based in Liberia will be returning to Charlotte, where the group is headquartered.

AND over in Hong Kong

A Nigerian has been quarantined and held in Hong Kong for tests - Source (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2014/08/nigerian-quarantined-hong-kong-over-ebola-201481014217875798.html)

The 32-year-old arrived in Hong Kong from Lagos, Nigeria's most populous city, via Dubai on Thursday and was hospitalised on Sunday after vomiting and suffering from diarrhoea. Instant testing said he did not have Ebola.

A densely populated city of some seven million people, Hong Kong is particularly alert to the spread of viruses after Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome killed almost 300 people eleven years ago.

On July 30, the Hong Kong government said it would quarantine as a precaution all people from Ebola-infected areas who showed any symptom of the disease such as fever, vomiting or diarrhoea.

Last week, a woman who showed Ebola-like symptoms after returning from a holiday in Kenya, also tested negative for the virus.

[sheme]

Sounds like a sensible idea - depending if now they are kept apart in isolation, with no infection introduction from other means!

[Roisin]

I read today that so far, there are 10 confirmed cases of Ebola currently in Nigeria all from contact with that Liberian American, Patrick Sawyer who flew into Nigeria with symptoms of that virus who ended up dying a few weeks ago.

Ebola continues to spread in Nigeria
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebola-continues-to-spread-in-nigeria/

[Bob]

Bruce Johnson, president of SIM USA, said Nancy Writebol's husband David and the other two missionaries “are healthy and in good spirits.” Nancy Writebol is one of two patients being treated at Emory University Hospital outside of Atlanta Georgia.

They were checked for symptoms before boarding the private charter plane in Liberia, and again after they landed at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. (They are now in the States).

The charity said the others were doctors who had been treating Ebola patients, and their names were being withheld to protect their privacy.

All three are continuing a 21-day quarantine that began in Liberia as a preventive measure. David Writebol will be able to visit his wife after that quarantine lifts.

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This lack of identification seems a bit odd.. Any normal illness a patient could say to the hospital, don't let media know, don't let anyone know personal health matters.

However, with a potential outbreak or potential epidemic, it just seems like people should be informed.

Source (http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/husband-ebola-patient-returns-u-s-n177771)

[Bob]

Glaxo-Smith Kline UK says by 2015 they will have the Ebola Vaccine ready for the open market..

They are optimistic.. They say they are starting their clinical trials next month, September 2014..

Source (http://www.gsk.com/explore-gsk/health-for-all/our-contribution-to-the-fight-against-ebola.html)

GSK's official statement: “We are working with the US National Institutes of Health’s Vaccine Research Center (VRC) to advance development of an early stage vaccine candidate for Ebola. GSK acquired the vaccine candidate when we purchased Okairos in May 2013.

“In collaboration with VRC, we have evaluated this vaccine candidate in pre-clinical studies and we are now discussing with regulators advancing it to a phase I clinical trial programme later this year.”

As far as TREATMENT for existing infections -

Three of Britain’s leading Ebola experts said some of the few experimental treatments currently under study should be made available to African governments.

They should be “allowed to make informed decisions about whether or not to use these products - for example to protect and treat healthcare workers who run especially high risks of infection,” Peter Piot, who discovered Ebola in 1976, David Heymann, the Director of the Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security and Jeremy Farrar from the Wellcome Trust, said in a joint statement.

WHO just did an update on cases (http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_08_08_ebola/en/), deaths:

Disease update

New cases and deaths attributable to EVD continue to be reported by the Ministries of Health in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Between 5 and 6 August 2014, 68 new cases (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) of EVD and 29 deaths were reported from the four countries as follows: Guinea, 0 new cases and 4 deaths; Liberia, 38 new cases and 12 deaths; Nigeria, 4 new cases and 1 death; and Sierra Leone, 26 new cases and 12 deaths.

As of 6 August 2014, the cumulative number of cases attributed to EVD in the four countries stands at 1 779, including 961 deaths. The distribution and classification of the cases are as follows: Guinea, 495 cases (355 confirmed, 133 probable, and 7 suspected), including 367 deaths; Liberia, 554 cases (148 confirmed, 274 probable, and 132 suspected), including 294 deaths; Nigeria, 13 cases (0 confirmed, 7 probable, and 6 suspected), including 2 deaths; and Sierra Leone, 717 cases (631 confirmed, 38 probable, and 48 suspected), including 298 deaths.

The numbers in Nigeria appear to be increasing.

[Bob]

Roman Catholic priest, 75-year-old Miguel Pajares, was flown back to Spain from the Liberian capital of Monrovia on Thursday.

When he arrived, it was said that he is reportedly in stable condition but at his request no additional health updates will be given, Spanish news website The Local reported.

He received a compassionate dose of zMapp (apparently).

Today he is dead. Per his request, no additional health updates will be given (sigh)..

(Source - Fox News network)

[observer]

Hi Bob,

Nano-silver therapies are systematically being vilified throughout this website, and on the internet in general. Added to this understanding, I must confess that I'm among the many members who are confused (perhaps purposefully confused) regarding the difference in meaning of the many names associated to these silver therapies, i.e. colloidal silver, nano-silver, ionic silver, etc.

Disregarding these confusions, which seem to me a focused agenda of deception, I offer a short video from Dr. Rema Laibow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7wNfRCuOZE

I have been listening to Dr. Rima for many years, and find her work to be spot-on target.

Disclaimer:

It is no secret that Dr. Rema Laibow is associated with (Retired) General Albert "Bert" N. Stubblebine III [of "Staring At Goats" fame] in the Natural Solutions Foundation. Both Dr. Rema, and General Stubblebine have been working tirelessly and without reward in their attempt to expose the 'soft kill' agenda of the global elite.

[sheme]

If you think it does you good - It does you good. Silver colloidal has stopped so many sore throats and cold symptom dead for me. So I am a believer.

[observer]

If you think it does you good - It does you good. Silver colloidal has stopped so many sore throats and cold symptom dead for me. So I am a believer.

Thanks for the moral support sheme regarding your use of colloidal silver. I too have been using a colloidal silver therapy for well over the past five years.

However, I must object to your proposal that the benefits of such therapies somehow have a placebo effect. This colloidal silver issue is far greater than some New Age expression of, "one's thoughts effect one's reality".

With the understanding that the Global Elite are running a Bio Weapons Agenda against the Mass of Humanity, and this Agenda stretches far back into the history of humanity, it is vital we not minimize the importance of Silver Therapies.

Resource References:

Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Confirms Ebola Nano Silver Study
http://drrimatruthreports.com/author/rima/

[Bob]

Hi Bob,

I know from other threads [..]

(above quote snipped down as the original quote was also edited)

There are plenty of threads on silver and it's use, adding redundancy here in a discussion about "Hemorrhagic fever and if it the outbreaks happening were deliberate, or accidental, or bioweapons tests" would go off in a different direction than what this thread is attempting to present. I would like the focus to stick with the thread subject.

Updated for further Clarification - Understanding nano-particles, nano-silver, or nano-carbon or nano-anything (of which viri are nano substances), is critical to know what to do with those nano-particles. Nano particles are able to penetrate cell walls. A cell does not normally have nanoparticles inside of it.. When something enters the cell the cell has to deal with it. A large particle colloid is very different than a nano-sized particle - very different in function and chemistry.

A VIRUS is a nano-particle. Very very very very very very small..

I have asked some questions in a post below (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=863960&viewfull=1#post863960). How adding more nano-particles to infected damaged cells is going to address the actual affects of Ebola and Marburg infections. (Colloidal silver induces an external electrochemical reaction, not designed to penetrate or denature the normal cell DNA - that is very different than nano-particles). SIZE is everything when it comes to what penetrates or what coats the surface, what gets through membranes.

Please take a close look at the Ebola symptoms and damage and ask oneself the question, will the treatment that one uses, actually deal with the issues?

Step by step look at the issues and look at the solutions that one believes one has..

Then one can start a separate thread to explain how those issues are now addressed by any "treatment".

Valid information, details, no citing "authority", but provide whatever one can from personal experience, what works, what doesn't what can be improved.. Educate, as best as possible - partial solutions based on authority, really is no different than any other authority explaining status-quo.. It's only fair to present as much useful data explaining what's what..

[Bob]

More on VECTOR - ex-Soviet bioweapons development group, allegedly turned "white hat"

The Soviet Union began a biological weapons program in the 1920s. During World War II, Joseph Stalin was forced to move his biological weapons (BW) operations out of the path of advancing German forces and may have used tularemia against German troops in 1942 near Stalingrad.

By 1960, numerous BW research facilities existed throughout the Soviet Union. Although the USSR also signed the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), the Soviets subsequently augmented their biowarfare programs. Over the course of its history, the Soviet program is known to have weaponized and stockpiled the following eleven bio-agents (and to have pursued basic research on many more):


Bacillus anthracis (anthrax)
Yersinia pestis (plague)
Francisella tularensis (tularemia)
Burkholderia mallei (glanders)
Brucella spp (brucellosis)
Coxiella burnetii (Q-fever)
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEE)
Botulinum toxin (botulism)
Staphylococcal enterotoxin B
Smallpox
Marburg virus and Ebola virus


These programs became immense and were conducted at 52 clandestine sites employing over 50,000 people.

Annualized production capacity for weaponized smallpox, for example, was 90 to 100 tons.

In the 1980s and 1990s, many of these agents were genetically altered to resist heat, cold, and antibiotics.

In the 1990s, Boris Yeltsin admitted to an offensive bio-weapons program as well as to the true nature of the Sverdlovsk biological weapons accident of 1979, which had resulted in the deaths of at least 64 people. Defecting Soviet bioweaponeers such as Colonel Kanatjan Alibekov confirmed that the program had been massive and still existed.

The Soviets were notorious for saying one thing, and doing just the opposite.

The Soviet BW program began in the 1920s at the Leningrad Military Academy under the control of the state security apparatus, known as the GPU. This occurred despite the fact that the USSR was a signatory to the 1925 Geneva Convention, which banned both chemical and biological weapons.

The Soviet Union continued the development and mass production of offensive biological weapons, despite having signed the 1972 BWC. The development and production were conducted by a main directorate ("Biopreparat") along with the Soviet Ministry of Defense, the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture, the Soviet Ministry of Health, the USSR Academy of Sciences, the KGB, and other state organizations.

In the 1980s, the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture successfully developed variants of foot-and-mouth disease and rinderpest against cows, African swine fever for pigs, and psittacosis to kill chicken. These agents were prepared to be sprayed down from tanks attached to airplanes over hundreds of miles. The secret program was code-named "Ecology". (recall the information on VECTOR, the "ecology program" touted..)

In September 1992, Russia signed an agreement with the United States and Great Britain promising to end its bio-weapons program and to convert its facilities for benevolent scientific and medical purposes. (again historically, for over 50 years in biowarfare development, the Soviets have continued to not honor any treaty or agreement not to build weapons of mass destruction).

In the 2000s : The academician, "A.S.", proposed a new biological warfare program, called the "Biological Shield of Russia" to president Vladimir Putin.

The program reportedly includes institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences from Pushchino.

reference - Canada - https://web.archive.org/web/20130820053232/http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/bioweapons/redlies.html - CBC reporting


https://web.archive.org/web/20130820053232im_/http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/bioweapons/gfx/redtop.jpg


It was a promise to end decades of germ warfare research by both sides in the Cold War. The Soviets had eagerly helped write the 1972 treaty. But in the process, they realized just how far their own research lagged behind the West.

So at the very moment they were publicly signing the treaty, they were secretly laying plans to break it.

Within one year of the signing, senior Soviet scientists, like Dr. Igor Domaradskizh, received marching orders from the Kremlin to begin covertly advancing the biological arms race.

The Kremlin established a biological warfare research program called Biopreparat.

[Bob]

Re-iterating from an early post in this thread, #22, what is the viral danger, weaponized. These are not sore throat viri, common colds... Bioweapons specifically have been amplified, to be resistant to ALL FORMS of treatment in vivo (inside a living organism). Plenty of "treatments" can kill viri, however, they can also kill the living organism.

Bioweapons specialists as have been discussed by the Soviet Defectors have illustrated specifically how making the infectious agents RESISTANT to treatment had occurred.

Etiology:

Hemorrhagic fever viruses belong to four taxonomic families, only one of which, Filoviridae, has been assigned to an order (Mononegavirales):


Filoviridae
Arenaviridae
Bunyaviridae
Flaviviridae


Filoviridae - Origin of family and genus names from Latin "filo" for "thread" - branched, circular, "6" or "U"-shaped (the hook)
These are the family in which Ebola-Zaire belongs, the current outbreak in Africa.
— Ebola virus
~Five species (Zaire, Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire, Reston, and Bundibugyo) with varying degrees of antigenic cross-reactivity
— Marburg virus
~Virus strains primarily fall into one major class, with less genetic diversity than Ebola virus - Marburg has been weaponized by the Soviets.

Arenaviridae — Viral particles contain host ribosomes, which appear as dense granules 20–25 nm in diameter and give viruses "sandy" appearance and have a distinct club-shaped or spike projections on viral envelope

— "Old World" arenaviruses:
~Lassa virus — Lassa fever viruses exhibit 4 genetic lineages (3 in Nigeria and 1 in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone)
To study LASSA fever virus in West Africa, USAMRIID and DTRA established a research organization to obtain samples, study the samples and try to determine the prevalence, attempt to isolate the reservoir for the virus, and look at if solutions to eradicate this virus was possible. (i.e mass vaccination or when infection occurs, if a molecular treatment were possible).

— New World arenaviruses that cause disease in humans:
~Junin virus (Argentine hemorrhagic fever)
~Machupo virus (Bolivian hemorrhagic fever)
~Chapare virus (also found in Bolivia)
~Guanarito virus (Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever)
~Sabia virus (Brazilian hemorrhagic fever)
~Whitewater Arroyo virus (found in North America)

Bunyaviridae — Filamentous nucleocapsid, helical symmetry
— Phlebovirus (includes Rift Valley fever virus)
— Nairovirus (includes Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus)
— Hantavirus (includes Sin Nombre virus [SNV] and agents that cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome) - there have been outbreaks occurring in the Western USA.

Flaviviridae — Virions covered with surface projections, Origin of family name from Latin "flavus" for "yellow" (yellow fever virus)
—Yellow fever virus
—Kyasanur Forest disease virus
~Alkhumra virus (identified in Saudi Arabia in 1995; considered a variant of Kyasanur Forest disease virus)
~Nanjianyin virus (identified in China; considered a variant of Kyasanur Forest disease virus)
— Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus - this virus is suspected to have been Weaponized by Biopreparat and Vector (Russia)
— Dengue virus (primary infection, the first exposure rarely causes hemorrhagic fever, secondary exposures with antibody induced enhancement can lead to serious conditions)

Note: The Sabia Virus has been noted as the virus which causes the Brazilian and Venezuela variants of Haemorrhagic fever outbreaks in those parts of South America.

ref: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/infectious-disease-topics/vhf

Bio-weapon potentials

In 2000, the CDC published a list of Category A agents (i.e., those that are most likely to cause mass casualties if deliberately disseminated, can be released as small aerosols, and require broad-based public health preparedness).

The list included New World arenaviruses and Ebola, Marburg, and Lassa viruses (CDC 2000:Biological and chemical terrorism).

According to the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense (Johns Hopkins university), Hemorrhagic fever viruses that pose serious threats as potential biological weapons include the following (Borio 2002):

Ebola virus
Marburg virus
Lassa virus
New World arenaviruses
Machupo (Bolivian hemorrhagic fever)
Junin (Argentine hemorrhagic fever)
Guanarito (Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever)
Sabia (Brazilian hemorrhagic fever)
Rift Valley fever virus
Yellow fever virus
Kyasanur forest disease virus
Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus

[Bob]

Back in 2004 Vector was hesitant telling the World that one of their scientists died of a weaponized Ebola..

What in the world was VECTOR doing with Ebola experiments back in 2004? (OH see below, dohhh...)

Source (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/25/world/russian-scientist-dies-in-ebola-accident-at-former-weapons-lab.html)

May 25, 2004
From the New York Times science reports

A Russian scientist at a former Soviet biological weapons laboratory in Siberia has died after accidentally sticking herself with a needle laced with ebola, the deadly virus for which there is no vaccine or treatment, the lab's parent Russian center announced over the weekend.

Although the accident occurred May 5 2004, Vector did not report it to the World Health Organization until last week.

Scientists said that although Vector had isolated the scientist to contain any potential spread of the disease and there was no requirement that accidents involving Ebola be reported, the delay meant that scientists at the health agency could not provide prompt advice on treatment that might have saved her life.

The first public mention of the accident was over the weekend on Pro-Med, the informal Internet reporting and discussion network of doctors and other health care professionals, which posted the Vector account of the laboratory accident on its Web site (www.promedmail.org).

Meanwhile simultaneously there is an outbreak in 2004 May (who would have thought that was coincidental...) in Sudan

Source (http://www.who.int/features/2004/ebola/en/)

The Ebola outbreak happened in Yambio, southern Sudan. First reported in May 2004, the end of the outbreak was announced by WHO on 7 August 2004. The rapid response involving partners in the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, and the rapid containment of the outbreak was a success for all involved, ensuring that as few people as possible were affected by the disease.

[Bob]

What is the mechanism of the Hemorrhagic Fever?

It is not a kind death. It will be described below as well as the issues which have to be dealt with.. Consider how long one's sore throat lasted, and consider the effects below and look at and test, is what one has as a solution able to deal with what is happening.

Why?

It's not like dying in one's sleep, or something like passing from old age, quiet in the company of one's loved ones.

The hemorrhagic fevers function somewhat similarly (those described in this thread and reiterated in post #154 above.)

Here are the difficulties encountered by practitioners trying to help a person infected:

(Consider what each step means and look to see if one has a treatment method which will work to solve that issue - those are the research issues plaguing folks working with these viri)

Ebola Zaire Mayinga (the full proper name for the Strain) attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone.

It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles. The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. (How is that consumption to be stopped?)

Small blood clots begin to appear in the bloodstream, and the blood thickens and slows, and clots begin to stick to the walls of blood vessels. This is known as pavementing, because the clots fit together in a mosaic. The mosaic thickens and throws more clots, and the clots drift through the blodstream into the small capillaries, where they get stuck. This shuts off the blood supply to various parts of the body, causing dead spots to appear in the brain, liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, testicles, breast tissue (of men as well as women), and all through the skin. The skin develops red spots, called petechiae, which are hemorrhages under the skin. Ebola attacks connective tissue with particular ferocity; it multiplies in collagen, the chief constituent protein of the tissue that holds the organs together. (HOW is one going to stop the clotting action, and not induce further hemorrhaging ? )


Note: The seven Ebola proteins somehow chew up the body's structural proteins. (in other words one's body cannot support itself, its organs, its form. How is the collagen mechanism going to be repaired?)

In this way, collagen in the body turns to mush, and the underlayers of the skin die and liquefy. The skin bubbles up into a sea of tiny white blisters mixed with red spots known as a maculopapular rash. This rash has been likened to tapioca pudding. Spontaneous rips appear in the skin, and hemorrhagic blood pours from the rips. The red spots on the skin grow and spread and merge to become huge, spontaneous bruises, and the skin goes soft and pulpy, and can tear off if it is touched with any kind of pressure. One's mouth bleeds, and one bleeds around the teeth, and one may have hemorrhages from the salivary glands -- literally every opening in the body bleeds, no matter how small. (How is one going to stop the collagen disintegration, where blood vessels, skin no longer is intact leading to secondary bacterial infections for instance)


The surface if the tongue turns brilliant red and the sloughs off, and is swallowed or spat out. It is said to be extraordinarily painful to lose the surface of one's tongue.

The tongue's skin may be torn off during rushes of the black vomit. The back of the throat and the lining of the wind pipe may also slough off, and the dead tissue slides down the windpipe into the lungs or is coughed up with sputum.

Then the heart bleeds into itself; the heart muscle softens and has hemorrhages into its chambers, and blood squeezes out of the heart muscle as the heart beats, and it floods the chest cavity. (What type of heart lung machine is going to keep a person going when that set of conditions happens? Who has those and is willing to run a person infected on one - what type of containment facility will have such set-up?)

The brain becomes clogged with dead blood cells, a conditions known as sludging of the brain. (What substances will pass the blood/brain barrier and stop the damage? Can anyone show a study that something has been made which can pass the blood-brain barrier safely and perform the needed repairs?)

Ebola attacks the lining of the eyeball, and the eyeballs may fill up with blood: one may go blind. Droplets of blood stand out on the eyelids: one may weep blood. The blood runs from the eyes then down the cheeks and refuses to coagulate.

As the clots and hemorrhaging alternate in the small blood vessels still remaining, one may have a hemispherical stroke, in which one whole side of the body is paralyzed, which is invariably fatal in a case of Ebola.

Even while the body's internal organs are becoming plugged with coagulated blood, the blood that streams out of the body cannot clot; it resembles whey being squeezed out of curds.

The blood has been stripped of its clotting factors. (How is one going to restore PROPER normal clotting?)

If one puts the runny Ebola blood in a test tube and look at it, one will see that the blood is destroyed. Its red cells are broken and dead. The blood looks as if it has been buzzed in an electric blender.

Ebola kills a great deal of tissue while the host is still alive.

It triggers a creeping, spotty necrosis that spreads through all the internal organs. The liver bulges up and turns yellow, begins to liquefy, and then it cracks apart. (How is that damaged liver going to be repaired?)

The cracks run across the liver and deep inside it, and the liver completely dies and goes putrid.

The kidneys becomes jammed with blood clots and dead cells, and cease functioning. As the kidneys fail, the blood becomes toxic with urine. (How are toxins going to be purified at this point with kidney dialysis? Who has those machines who can deal with a person infected with the Filoviridae (ebola or marburg)..)

The spleen turns into a single huge, hard blood clot the size of a baseball. (How is the spleen going to recover?)

The intestines may fill up completely with blood. The lining of the gut dies and sloughs off into the bowels and is defecated along with large amounts of blood. (No more ability to have food absorbed.. How is that going to be repaired, treated, healed?)

In men, the testicles bloat up and turns black-and-blue, the semen goes hot with Ebola, and the nipples may bleed. In women, the labia turn blue, livid, and protrusive, and there may be massive vaginal bleeding. The virus is a catastrophe for a pregnant woman: the child is aborted spontaneously and is usually infected with Ebola virus, born with red eyes and a bloody nose.

Ebola destroys the brain more thoroughly than does Marburg, and Ebola victims often go into epileptic convulsions during the final stage. The convulsions are generalized grand mal seizures -- the whole body twitches and shakes, the arms and legs thrash around, and the eyes, sometimes bloody, roll up into the head.

The tremors and convulsions of the patient may smear or splatter blood around. Possibly this epileptic splashing of blood is one of Ebola's strategies for success -- it makes the victim go into a flurry of seizures as he dies, spreading blood all over the place, thus giving the virus a chance to jump to a new host -- a kind of transmission through smearing.

Ebola (and Marburg) multiplies so rapidly and powerfully that the body's infected cells become crystal-like blocks of packed virus particles. (How are those crystals going to be safely disrupted?)

These crystal are broods of virus getting ready to hatch from the cell. They are known as bricks. The bricks, or crystals, first appear near the center of the cell and then migrate towards the surface. As a crystal reaches a cell wall, it disintegrates into hundreds of individual virus particles, and the broodlings push through the cell wall like hair and float away in the bloodstream of the host.

The hatched Ebola particles cling to cells everywhere in the body, and get inside them, and continue to multiply. It keeps on multiplying until areas of tissue all through the body are filled with crystalloids, which hatch, and more Ebola particles drift into the bloodstream, and the amplification continues inexorably until a droplet of the hosts blood can contain a hundred million individual particles.

After death, the cadaver suddenly deteriorates: the internal organs, having been dead or partially dead for days, have already begun to dissolve, and a sort of shock-related meltdown occurs. The corpse's connective tissue, skin, and organs, already peppered with dead spots, heated by fever, and damaged by shock, begin to liquefy, and the fluids that leak from the cadaver are saturated with Ebola-virus particles."

So it seems the diagnosticians, the doctors, the care giver's, everyone in the loop has their hands full, trying to not come down with it themselves..

EDUCATION is the key here, understanding what it is, why it is here, who stands to benefit from it (and thereby potentially distribute such viri in a bioweapons campaign...)

Source (http://cydathria.com/ebola.html)

[Bob]

Canada says WE HAVE VACCINE and will provide what we have to Africa

Canada to donate its own Ebola vaccine to WHO for use in Africa - Reuters posts an important story (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/12/us-health-ebola-vaccine-canada-idUSKBN0GC1YU20140812)

(Reuters) - Canada will donate a small quantity of an experimental Ebola vaccine developed in its government lab to the World Health Organization for use in Africa, the country's health minister said on Tuesday.

The decision to donate the vaccine came after the WHO said on Tuesday that it was ethical to offer untested drugs to people infected by the virus.

The Canadian government will donate between 800 to 1,000 doses of the vaccine, with the final number given dependent on how much Canada holds back for research and clinical trials. The government will also keep a small supply in case it is needed domestically.

Canada only has about 1,500 animal doses of the vaccine, which it invented a few years ago, and would need four to six months to make a large quantity.

So the sides line up - POLARIZATION in the ranks


USA zMapp manufacturer has treatment and vaccine says nobody is going to get it unless they pay thru the nose through the licensing arrangements (capitalism at its finest)

Canada says we have vaccines and we will make it available

A US company in Massachusetts says WE will give the treatment (and vaccines) if we can get USA approval.

Russia (Vector Bioweapons facility) says we can make any antiviral you want

UK Glaxo-Smith Kline says we can make it, just going to take time

China says we are not concerned and will send support equipment, to help contain.

[Snowflower]

Ok, so I watched the Dr. Riba video and now I want to know where one buys nano-silver?

[Bob]

Who was Mayinga N'Seka ?

The various strains of the viral diseases were named by the rivers in the area where the outbreak occurred. IN some cases, like with Marburg, the particular strain was named for the researcher who was killed by it.

Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayinga_N'Seka)

Mayinga N'Seka sadly died October 19, 1976, and was a nurse in Zaïre, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She died from Ebola during the 1976 epidemic in Zaïre. She has been incorrectly identified as the index case (Patient "Zero" ) by several sources, but a World Health Organization commission report on the outbreak lists an unnamed man from Yambuku as the index case.

Mayinga worked as a nurse at Ngaliema hospital in Kinshasa and contracted Ebola after caring for a nun who had flown in for treatment from the Yambuku Mission Hospital, where the outbreak began.

The name EBOLA came from the name of the river in the region where the outbreak first was noticed.

Nurse Mayinga had treated a nun named Sister Fermina, who worked at the Catholic mission in Yambuku, the center of the outbreak. Fermina died at the hospital in Kinshasa while trying to return to Belgium so a diagnosis on the disease could be performed. Had the Catholic missionary managed to return to Belgium, the disease would have spread it is assumed in Europe, leading to widespread suffering and death.

Mayinga's blood has also been used all over the world in procuring various strain frequencies and structures about Ebola Zaire.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/7042_lores-Ebola-Zaire-CDC_Photo.jpg/640px-7042_lores-Ebola-Zaire-CDC_Photo.jpg

Nurse Mayinga, patient #3 who was treated and later died in Ngaliema Hospital, in Kinshasa, Zaïre is shown on the bed in the hospital with two support nurses standing with minimal protective gear.

[Bob]

German Entrepreneurs selling viri - capitalism at work one more time

Did anyone ever think that one could buy Marburg or Ebola, or any of over 697 different types of viri, off-off-the-shelf?

Dr. Alibek (the former Russian defector and Whistle Blower) warned that engineered viruses were out there, and such would become part of the toolbox of the bio-warrior.

In the company's webpage, called the EVA PORTAL (http://www.european-virus-archive.com/Portal/index.php), one can see what this company in Europe is offering to "qualified researchers", or institutions.

One particular page on their website talks about a couple different strains of Marburg Virus - one called strain Leiden, the other called strain Popp, another called Musoke (wonder if they have the Russian "U" variety under special order?)

(http://www.european-virus-archive.com/Portal/taxSearch.php)

http://www.european-virus-archive.com/Portal/client/cache/rubrique/250_____vir_22.png

Seriously !!

Here is what they say about the Leiden strain:
NOTIFICATION: This virus is classified in the BSL 4 category.

This Marburgvirus[Leiden-BNI 2008] is preserved under Viral Storage Medium -80C.
Tests for the presence of mycoplasmae were negative. To confirm its identity the virus has been partly sequenced.

Availability: In stock
Virus Name: Marburgvirus
Strain: Leiden
Isolate: BNI 2008
Unit Definition: Not defined
Sequencing: partly sequenced
Infectivity: Infectious, but not yet quantified.
Storage Conditions: Viral Storage Medium -80C
Mycoplasmic Content: No
Production Cell Line: Vero FM
Shipping From: Germany (BNI)

Virus Family: Filoviridae
Virus Name: Marburgvirus
Strain: Leiden
Isolate: BNI 2008
Biosafety Level: 4 (that specifies the containment level required to "safely" handle the virus - BSL-4 is the highest level requiring contained air "MoonSuits", strict contamination control)

Their pricing is somewhat generic - to be able to have a virus which can decimate civilizations, all it will cost is:

2392€/vial for partially sequenced (molecularly analyzed)
2750€/vial for complete sequenced (molecularly analyzed)

Anyone freaked out by this?

What makes it even more, what is the word, obscene? is they have a CART feature on their website, which continues to pester the viewer, YOUR CART is STILL empty !

[heyokah]

What is the mechanism of the Hemorrhagic Fever?

It is not a kind death. It will be described below as well as the issues which have to be dealt with.. Consider how long one's sore throat lasted, and consider the effects below and look at and test, is what one has as a solution able to deal with what is happening.

Why?

It's not like dying in one's sleep, or something like passing from old age, quiet in the company of one's loved ones.

The hemorrhagic fevers function somewhat similarly (those described in this thread and reiterated in post #154 above.)

Here are the difficulties encountered by practitioners trying to help a person infected:

(Consider what each step means and look to see if one has a treatment method which will work to solve that issue - those are the research issues plaguing folks working with these viri)

Ebola Zaire Mayinga (the full proper name for the Strain) attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone.

It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles. The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. (How is that consumption to be stopped?)

Small blood clots begin to appear in the bloodstream, and the blood thickens and slows, and clots begin to stick to the walls of blood vessels. This is known as pavementing, because the clots fit together in a mosaic. The mosaic thickens and throws more clots, and the clots drift through the blodstream into the small capillaries, where they get stuck. This shuts off the blood supply to various parts of the body, causing dead spots to appear in the brain, liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, testicles, breast tissue (of men as well as women), and all through the skin. The skin develops red spots, called petechiae, which are hemorrhages under the skin. Ebola attacks connective tissue with particular ferocity; it multiplies in collagen, the chief constituent protein of the tissue that holds the organs together. (HOW is one going to stop the clotting action, and not induce further hemorrhaging ? )


Note: The seven Ebola proteins somehow chew up the body's structural proteins. (in other words one's body cannot support itself, its organs, its form. How is the collagen mechanism going to be repaired?)

In this way, collagen in the body turns to mush, and the underlayers of the skin die and liquefy. The skin bubbles up into a sea of tiny white blisters mixed with red spots known as a maculopapular rash. This rash has been likened to tapioca pudding. Spontaneous rips appear in the skin, and hemorrhagic blood pours from the rips. The red spots on the skin grow and spread and merge to become huge, spontaneous bruises, and the skin goes soft and pulpy, and can tear off if it is touched with any kind of pressure. One's mouth bleeds, and one bleeds around the teeth, and one may have hemorrhages from the salivary glands -- literally every opening in the body bleeds, no matter how small. (How is one going to stop the collagen disintegration, where blood vessels, skin no longer is intact leading to secondary bacterial infections for instance)


The surface if the tongue turns brilliant red and the sloughs off, and is swallowed or spat out. It is said to be extraordinarily painful to lose the surface of one's tongue.

The tongue's skin may be torn off during rushes of the black vomit. The back of the throat and the lining of the wind pipe may also slough off, and the dead tissue slides down the windpipe into the lungs or is coughed up with sputum.

Then the heart bleeds into itself; the heart muscle softens and has hemorrhages into its chambers, and blood squeezes out of the heart muscle as the heart beats, and it floods the chest cavity. (What type of heart lung machine is going to keep a person going when that set of conditions happens? Who has those and is willing to run a person infected on one - what type of containment facility will have such set-up?)

The brain becomes clogged with dead blood cells, a conditions known as sludging of the brain. (What substances will pass the blood/brain barrier and stop the damage? Can anyone show a study that something has been made which can pass the blood-brain barrier safely and perform the needed repairs?)

Ebola attacks the lining of the eyeball, and the eyeballs may fill up with blood: one may go blind. Droplets of blood stand out on the eyelids: one may weep blood. The blood runs from the eyes then down the cheeks and refuses to coagulate.

As the clots and hemorrhaging alternate in the small blood vessels still remaining, one may have a hemispherical stroke, in which one whole side of the body is paralyzed, which is invariably fatal in a case of Ebola.

Even while the body's internal organs are becoming plugged with coagulated blood, the blood that streams out of the body cannot clot; it resembles whey being squeezed out of curds.

The blood has been stripped of its clotting factors. (How is one going to restore PROPER normal clotting?)

If one puts the runny Ebola blood in a test tube and look at it, one will see that the blood is destroyed. Its red cells are broken and dead. The blood looks as if it has been buzzed in an electric blender.

Ebola kills a great deal of tissue while the host is still alive.

It triggers a creeping, spotty necrosis that spreads through all the internal organs. The liver bulges up and turns yellow, begins to liquefy, and then it cracks apart. (How is that damaged liver going to be repaired?)

The cracks run across the liver and deep inside it, and the liver completely dies and goes putrid.

The kidneys becomes jammed with blood clots and dead cells, and cease functioning. As the kidneys fail, the blood becomes toxic with urine. (How are toxins going to be purified at this point with kidney dialysis? Who has those machines who can deal with a person infected with the Filoviridae (ebola or marburg)..)

The spleen turns into a single huge, hard blood clot the size of a baseball. (How is the spleen going to recover?)

The intestines may fill up completely with blood. The lining of the gut dies and sloughs off into the bowels and is defecated along with large amounts of blood. (No more ability to have food absorbed.. How is that going to be repaired, treated, healed?)

In men, the testicles bloat up and turns black-and-blue, the semen goes hot with Ebola, and the nipples may bleed. In women, the labia turn blue, livid, and protrusive, and there may be massive vaginal bleeding. The virus is a catastrophe for a pregnant woman: the child is aborted spontaneously and is usually infected with Ebola virus, born with red eyes and a bloody nose.

Ebola destroys the brain more thoroughly than does Marburg, and Ebola victims often go into epileptic convulsions during the final stage. The convulsions are generalized grand mal seizures -- the whole body twitches and shakes, the arms and legs thrash around, and the eyes, sometimes bloody, roll up into the head.

The tremors and convulsions of the patient may smear or splatter blood around. Possibly this epileptic splashing of blood is one of Ebola's strategies for success -- it makes the victim go into a flurry of seizures as he dies, spreading blood all over the place, thus giving the virus a chance to jump to a new host -- a kind of transmission through smearing.

Ebola (and Marburg) multiplies so rapidly and powerfully that the body's infected cells become crystal-like blocks of packed virus particles. (How are those crystals going to be safely disrupted?)

These crystal are broods of virus getting ready to hatch from the cell. They are known as bricks. The bricks, or crystals, first appear near the center of the cell and then migrate towards the surface. As a crystal reaches a cell wall, it disintegrates into hundreds of individual virus particles, and the broodlings push through the cell wall like hair and float away in the bloodstream of the host.

The hatched Ebola particles cling to cells everywhere in the body, and get inside them, and continue to multiply. It keeps on multiplying until areas of tissue all through the body are filled with crystalloids, which hatch, and more Ebola particles drift into the bloodstream, and the amplification continues inexorably until a droplet of the hosts blood can contain a hundred million individual particles.

After death, the cadaver suddenly deteriorates: the internal organs, having been dead or partially dead for days, have already begun to dissolve, and a sort of shock-related meltdown occurs. The corpse's connective tissue, skin, and organs, already peppered with dead spots, heated by fever, and damaged by shock, begin to liquefy, and the fluids that leak from the cadaver are saturated with Ebola-virus particles."

So it seems the diagnosticians, the doctors, the care giver's, everyone in the loop has their hands full, trying to not come down with it themselves..

EDUCATION is the key here, understanding what it is, why it is here, who stands to benefit from it (and thereby potentially distribute such viri in a bioweapons campaign...)

Source (http://cydathria.com/ebola.html)

Hi Bob,

I went to your Source (http://cydathria.com/ebola.html), because I wanted to know if this was from a scientific article.

It comes from a site: "Ebola Zaire (In all her glory)" :confused:

UPDATE

I see it comes from this book:

"The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus "
– July 20, 1995 , by Richard Preston (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Hot-Zone-Terrifying-Origins/dp/0385479565

Here's an extract PDF

https://e4dd315c8b9b877eb2283220e132b77da27daca3.googledrive.com/host/0B8Yc3RkrOM6Hcm9QMjg2bG80eUk/Advanced%20Biology/Molecular%20Genetics/The%20Hot%20Zone%20excerpt.pdf

[Bob]

In August 2005 information was put out dealing with identification and understanding Hemorrhagic fevers and if they are setup to become bio-weapons.


http://www.sfcdcp.org/document.html?id=79

From the PDF above -

VHF viruses as Biological Weapons

Several countries, including the USA and Russia, have conducted research on weaponizing VHF viruses. Aerosolized VHF preparations are considered potentially suitable as biological weapons because they would have a low infectious dose, would cause high morbidity and mortality, would have the potential for person-to-person transmission, and because effective therapy and vaccines are not always available.

The two families of viruses of most concern based on mortality and feasibility of production are the filoviruses and the arenaviruses.

Several species of VHF viruses (dengue, hantavirus, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever) are not considered to represent a significant bioterror threat. (Each of those has been discussed in this thread.)

All of the VHF agents cause sporadic disease or epidemics in areas of endemicity.
The routes of transmission are variable, but most are zoonotic with spread via arthropod bites or contact with infected animals. Person-to-person spread is a major form of transmission for many of the viruses.

Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Central Africa) exhibits case-fatality rates of 50-90%. An outbreak among primates occurred in 1991 at a laboratory in Reston, Virginia. The natural reservoirs and exact patterns of transmission of Ebola virus are not known.

Marburg virus (sub-Saharan Africa) has caused outbreaks in Angola resulting in 451 cases (312 fatal) as of July 10, 2005. As with Ebola, the natural reservoirs and exact patterns of transmission of Marburg virus are not known.

Rodents are the primary reservoir for Lassa virus (West Africa). Case-fatality rates are lower for Lassa fever than for Ebola and Marburg, and ribavirin has been effective in treating some cases.

A number of uncommon viruses comprise New World hemorrhagic fever (South America), which appears to be transmitted via contact with rodents or rodent excreta. Three cases of imported Whitewater Arroyo virus were reported in California in 1999-2000; all were fatal.

Rift Valley fever (sub-Saharan and North Africa) is a mosquito-borne disease of mammals that primarily causes mild illnesses in humans, although meningoencephalitis and retinitis can occur.

Yellow fever (sub-Saharan Africa and tropical South America) is transmitted by a mosquito vector and causes an estimated 200,000 cases and 30,000 deaths each year in endemic areas. Urban outbreaks with vector-borne transmission have not occurred in the Americas since the 1940’s due to public health programs aimed at eliminating the mosquito vector. Illness ranges from mild to severe, with an overall case-fatality rate of 5% to 7%. A vaccine against yellow fever is available.

Most clinicians in the United States have little or no clinical experience with the syndromes that characterize VHF. The variable clinical presentation of VHF adds to the challenge.

With a VHF virus used as a biological weapon, patients are less likely to have risk factors for natural infection such as travel to Africa, Asia, or South America, handling of animal carcasses, contact with sick animals or people, or arthropod bites within 21 days of symptom onset. The observation of a severe illness with bleeding manifestations as its primary feature, which develops as a point-source epidemic with simultaneous presentation of many cases, should be highly suspicious for VHF.

The diagnosis of viral hemorrhagic fever should be considered for any patient who presents with:

• Acute onset of fever (<3 weeks duration)
• Severe prostrating or life-threatening illness
• Bleeding manifestations (at least two of the following: hemorrhagic or purpuric rash, epistaxis, hematemesis, hemoptysis, blood in stool, or other bleeding)
• No predisposing factors for a bleeding diathesis

The differential diagnosis includes:

• Bacterial and Rickettsial Infections
• Gram-negative bacterial septicemia
• Staphylococcal or streptococcal toxic shock syndrome
• Meningococcemia
• Secondary syphilis
• Septicemic plague
• Typhoid fever
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever
• Ehrlichiosis
• Leptospirosis

Viral and Parasitic Infections

• Malaria
• African trypanosomiasis
• Hemorrhagic smallpox
• Measles
• Hemorrhagic varicella
• Rubella
• Viral hepatitis

Other Conditions
• Thrombotic or Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
• Acute leukemia
• Hemolytic uremic syndrome

All of the above is looked at when trying to determine WHAT IS HAPPENING?

Many of those conditions would not benefit from taking some other substance that acts like a bacteriostatic for instance.. (Genetic condition involvement in organ difficulty for instance)

A number of test methods can be used to diagnose VHF. These include: antigen-capture testing by ELISA, IgM antibody testing, paired acute-convalescent serum serologies, PCR, immunohistochemistry methods, and electron microscopy. Viral identification in cell culture is the ‘gold standard’ of viral detection, however this technique is time consuming and extremely dangerous, and should only be attempted by labs with high-level biosafety facilities.

Diagnosis is via blood or serum testing. For serological testing, avoid collection tubes with citrate, oxalate, or EDTA. For PCR tests, use an EDTA tube. Collect acute-phase specimens within 7 days of illness onset. Collect convalescent-phase specimens 7-20 days later, and at least 14 days after illness onset.

Marburg and Ebola viruses may be recovered from soft tissue effusions, semen, and anterior eye fluid, especially during later stages of illness. Lassa virus often can be recovered from throat swabs, pleural effusions, placental tissue, and urine and has been demonstrated in CSF of patients with fever and neurologic signs.

If one is already shedding viral particles taking a substance isn't going to stop the shedding most likely due to the quantities of viral product which is generated per drop of blood. This is the issue with substance overload creating potential toxic damage.. How does one deal with clearing out cell debris from dead or dying cells when the liver and kidneys are failing?

Treatment
Supportive care is essential for patients with all types of VHF and includes maintenance of fluid and electrolyte balance, active hemodynamic monitoring, mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and appropriate therapy for secondary infections.

Treatment of other suspected causes of disease, such as bacterial sepsis, should not be withheld while awaiting confirmation or exclusion of the diagnosis of VHF.

Anticoagulant therapies, aspirin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications, and intramuscular injections are contraindicated.

Ribavirin has shown in vitro and in vivo activity against Arenaviruses (Lassa fever, New World hemorrhagic fevers) and Bunyaviruses (Rift Valley fever and others).

Ribavirin has shown no activity against, and is not recommended for Filoviruses (Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fever) or Flaviviruses (Yellow fever, Kyasanur Forest disease, Omsk hemorrhagic fever).

[Bob]

What is close contact or accidental contact, or dangerous contact with an Ebola or Marburg infected person?

According to the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense, exposure is defined as proximity to an initial release of VHF virus, or close or high-risk contact with a patient suspected of having VHF during the 21 days following onset of symptoms. (VHF - Viral Hemorrhagic Fever virus)

High risk is defined as having mucous membrane contact or having percutaneous injury involving contact with secretions, excretions, or blood from a patient with VHF.

Close contact is defined as those who live with, shake hands with, hug, process laboratory specimens from, or care for a patient with VHF.

Filoviruses and arenaviruses are highly infectious after direct contact with infected blood and bodily secretions, and person-to-person transmission has been documented. In Africa, transmission of VHF viruses in healthcare settings has been associated with provision of patient care without appropriate barrier precautions to prevent exposure to virus-containing blood and other body fluids.

The risk for person-to-person transmission of VHF virus is greatest during the latter stages of illness when virus loads are highest.

No infection has been reported in persons whose contact with an infected person occurred only during the incubation period (i.e., before onset of fever). (see the previous post describing the symptoms and progression of the disease).

A good technical article from a clinician's view point is here:

Google Books Link HERE (https://books.google.com/books?id=WzzOBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA263&ots=8KsdwE64tp&dq=%22Hemorrhagic%20Fever%20Viruses%20as%20Bioweapons%22&pg=PA263#v=onepage&q=%22Hemorrhagic%20Fever%20Viruses%20as%20Bioweapons%22&f=false)

NANO-Particle sizes of these viruses are as follows..

Filoviridae - 80 nanometers
Arenaviridae - 100-130 nanometers
Bunyaviridae - 80-120 nanometers
Flaviviridae - 40-50 nanometers

Weapons uses of these VHF's will show up in 2-21 days of the assault.. The rash shows up first along with different spotty bleeding and shock symptoms.


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

[onawah]

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By the way, unlike what you see in the movies, EVD is not able to be transmitted through the air. I can’t emphasize this enough – the mainstream media has clearly ignored the facts surrounding this disease. And, public health officials have failed miserably at properly informing the public about how to prevent infectious diseases.

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http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola
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[Bob]

US DoD establishes task force for Ebola watch (Source (http://globalbiodefense.com/2014/08/11/dod-establishes-ebola-task-force/?utm_source=feedly&utm_reader=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dod-establishes-ebola-task-force))

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has established an internal Ebola task force to evaluate how the department can most effectively support overarching U.S. government and international efforts to prevent further transmission of the virus, the Pentagon press secretary said today.

Michael D. Lumpkin, assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, has been appointed to lead the task force.

There has been no impact to U.S. Africa Command’s operations in Africa as a result of the Ebola virus, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby told reporters during a news briefing.

“But clearly, we’re watching this as closely as everybody else is and it’s an inter-agency effort here in the United States,” the admiral said. “It’s not just the Pentagon, it’s CDC, USAID, it’s State Department. I mean, we’re all talking about this and working on this.”


http://cdn.globalbiodefense.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/pentagon_john_kirby.jpg

"A small number of department personnel remain on the ground in West Africa, Kirby said, assigned to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Liberia.

"They have established diagnostic laboratory capabilities there and have provided personal protective equipment to those involved in testing for the disease, a defense official said. The personnel have also supplied thousands of Ebola test kits to laboratory personnel.

"No DOD personnel are currently in Sierra Leone, but USAMRIID has established diagnostic laboratory capability there as well."

[Bob]

Why VHF (Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, i.e. Ebola and Marburg) worries the Defence Department..

(Source (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/08/05/why-ebola-worries-defense-department/))

The word is BIO-WEAPON..

"While the public discourse on Ebola has so far been fixated on the public health hazard caused by the disease itself, it may also have awoken an older fear for anti-terror agencies: Could a lethal disease actually be used as a bio-weapon? That fear is made worse by the fact that the current outbreak is occurring near a volatile region that has seen the rise of a variety of terrorist groups nearby such as Boko Haram – the group that abducted more than 200 girls earlier this year.

"The potential terror risk posed by Ebola does not only add a new dimension to the African outbreak, but it may also speed up efforts to find an effective treatment. "

THERE IS NO CLINICALLY DOCUMENTED EFFECTIVE TREATMENT that can heal a person from the damage (earlier posts in this thread talk about the sequence of cell and organ damage that happens, and how fast it happens..) from an infection of filoviri, in-vivo (in-the-body). Anecdotal reports are amusing, but not conclusive, in clinical documents which would show effectiveness and SAFETY.. Something that is missing in the current experimental mAB (monoclonal antibody) products being compassionately tested on humans.. With ANY SUBSTANCE, will the substance cause toxic overload? Will the substance induce cancer (nano-particle sized substances can and do damage DNA as viruses do..) Without those studies one could easily create as has been done by VACCINES in the past, terrible side effects..

(Human guinea pigs apparently are the IN thing these days)

That is the problem, and the US Defence department has been trying to get all sorts of solutions that deal with an active viral infection of VHF.

"We have a long standing interest in highly fatal hemorrhagic fevers," Derrick-Frost explained. "Ebola is among a handful of emerging infectious diseases that have historically been explored as a potential biological weapon, and we are closely monitoring these types of infectious diseases."

The worry has been when the Soviet Bloc fell apart (visibly), is what happened behind the scenes, to the Viral Scientists who were underpaid in Russia - did they seek employment elsewhere, such as for Rogue groups, for Iran, for Boku Haram? That worries the defence departments world wide... The US tried to hire the unemployed scientists, similar to Operation Paperclip, to keep them gainfully employed and not going elsewhere.. but reports about bioweapons researchers being found dead (http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/deadbiologists.html) frequent the internet..

[Bob]

Medical system reported Overwhelmed - Africa, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea

"we can not tell, are we exposing doctors nurses to the ebola when any sick person comes in?"

Yesterday, 14th August 2014, Thursday, the World Health Organization said that official counts, which stand at 1,069 deaths and 1,975 cases, may still "vastly underestimate the magnitude of the outbreak."

Reports have been, that the numbers are at least 2X under-reported. Fear mostly, remoteness secondarily, taboo another reason.. Education would help immensely if people would trust their tribal leaders to change and be aware that the "evil spirits" can be dealt with, if certain things are done (and not done).

Seriously, that is what has been needed to reach the under or non-educated people who don't have any effective sanitation, medical care, proper food, sanitary clean water, safe shelter..

Joanne Liu, international president of Doctors Without Borders, spoke to reporters in Geneva after spending 10 days on the ground in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the three countries most affected by the outbreak.

Liu called the lack of infrastructure in the West African countries struggling to contain the epidemic an "emergency within the emergency" because people don't have access to basic health care, which creates distrust.

The flood of patients into every newly opened treatment centre is evidence that the official counts aren't keeping up, Gregory Hartl, a spokesman for the UN health agency, said from Geneva on Friday.

'My biggest concern is that we are exposing the medical staff over and over again,' says Liu.

Hartl said that an 80-bed treatment centre opened in Liberia's capital in recent days filled up immediately. The next day, dozens more people showed up to be treated.

"Over the next six months we should get the upper hand on the epidemic, this is my gut feeling," Liu said.

That would put this outbreak up to a duration of 11 months to stabilize the situation (meaning it will burn out, and/or no new cases detected, or adequate facilities and procedures to deal with it).. Another 4 months after that?

from: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-outbreak-compared-to-wartime-by-doctors-without-borders-1.2737367 CBC Canada reporting

[Bob]

Ignore the image of the person behind the curtain..

But that is the proper safety protocol, equipment required for a person working with a Class-4 infectious disease.. A BSL-4 biosafety lab needed to be established in the field, and used now with EVERY person coming in sick in western africa.. Or the physicians take the risk with simple gowns, gloves face masks and shields..


http://img.qz.com/2014/08/ebola-china-zombies1.jpg?w=880

All official organizations from WHO, CDC, ministers of health in assorted countries are downplaying the nature of the disease. "nothing to see here.."

China says,
"“Expert: There is no evidence that coffee and onions cure Ebola.”

"That’s the headline of a public service article on Xinhua (link in Chinese), China’s official news agency, that aims to dispel “internet rumors” about the virus that has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa.

"Having thusly dispatched the rumor that a coffee-onion blend can cure the disease, Xinhua took on rumor number two: “Ebola leads to the appearance of the ‘living dead.' "

(Source (http://qz.com/249592/chinese-official-media-assures-citizens-that-ebola-doesnt-create-zombies/))

Xinhua’s (Chinese) article finally comforts its readers by assuring them that Ebola is in fact extremely deadly. “The scariest thing about Ebola is the high death rate,” Xinhua concludes. “There have never been cases of Ebola sufferers becoming zombies and attacking people. That can only happen in movies.”

[Lone Bean]

I've been following this Ebola thing from nearly the beginning and it's just all over the board conspiracy-wise. Somehow I ran across this short podcast by CorbertReport that I feel makes better sense than most of what I've read/watched so far. I'm posting it here and I apologize if it's already been posted. I'm interested in what you all think about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szPA9wsakQo

[Bob]

I've been following this Ebola thing from nearly the beginning and it's just all over the board conspiracy-wise. Somehow I ran across this short podcast by CorbertReport that I feel makes better sense than most of what I've read/watched so far. I'm posting it here and I apologize if it's already been posted. I'm interested in what you all think about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szPA9wsakQo

Please summarize the points of the report - not everyone has the bandwidth to watch video's.. appreciate posting the references cited in the conclusions too.

--Update:
Looked at his ARTICLE (current) (http://www.corbettreport.com/ebola-panic-or-pandemic-an-open-source-investigation/) on his website ColbertReport - it doesn't look any different than any other websites going over all possibilities, nothing is there, hoax, something is there, it is downplayed, and so forth. Basically more information to try to sort thru it seems, and a forum afterwards for folks to weigh in on the "report"..

I happen to believe the statements coming from "Doctors without Borders (http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/our-work/medical-issues/ebola)", having met one of the key people behind the group a couple years back.. Post above (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=864898&viewfull=1#post864898) describes Liu's observations being on the ground. It is there, it is growing, and it is under-reported how severe it is, and what the challenges are to contain it. How it got there is said to be from a young child who was the index case, or otherwise known as "patient zero" for this particular outbreak.

How that child got it wasn't exactly explained. Such as was it a bioweapon deployment for patient zero, or if OTHER infections were deliberate or accidental, as the thread title asks.. It is possible that bioweapons can expediently be developed with ebola, as historically anthrax was used to decimate the enemy.. See the RENSE article here (http://www.rense.com/general16/thehistoryofgerm.htm) on that..

[Bob]

A bit mindblowing - Brantly says he expects to be released (well hopes) soon..

(Source (http://online.wsj.com/articles/american-ebola-patient-hopes-for-discharge-soon-1408126329))

Ebola patient cured in a few weeks?

Kent Brantly, a doctor who was infected while treating Ebola patients outside Monrovia, Liberia, said, in a statement Friday, he has made progress in his treatment in a special isolation unit Emory. "I am recovering in every way," he said.

"There are still a few hurdles to...

Also - Source (http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/215271-us-doc-with-ebola-says-hes-recovering-in-every-way)

Brantly thanked people for praying for his recovery but emphasized the humanitarian crisis in West Africa.

“Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa,” he wrote. “Their fight is far from over.”

Dr. Kent Brantly, the American doctor who contracted the Ebola virus in Liberia, could be released from Emory University Hospital “in the near future,” according to Franklin Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse, which sponsored Brantly’s work in West Africa.

In a Facebook post Thursday, Graham said, “Dr. Kent Brantly is doing very well and hopes to be released sometime in the near future. The staff at Emory Healthcare are taking extremely great care of him. Kent and his wife continue to express appreciation for everyone’s prayers.”

The Charlotte Observer reports at http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/08/15/5108588/ebola-stricken-doctor-improving.html

[Bill Ryan]

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I found this in my e-mail this morning:

http://projectavalon.net/Journal_of_Virology_Studies_of_Ebola_Virus_Jan_2005.pdf
http://projectavalon.net/Journal_of_Virology_Studies_of_Ebola_Virus_Jan_2005.pdf

I welcome any genuinely informed view, but I think this is stating that, dating from Jan 2005, a way was found to enhance Ebola's 'entry and fusion' into human cells for research purposes, using HIV-1.

The abstract (paper summary) reads: (the emphasis is mine)




The Ebola filoviruses are aggressive pathogens that cause severe and often lethal hemorrhagic fever syndromes in humans and nonhuman primates. To date, no effective therapies have been identified. To analyze the entry and fusion properties of Ebola virus, we adapted a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) virion-based fusion assay by substituting Ebola virus glycoprotein (GP) for the HIV-1 envelope. Fusion was detected by cleavage of the fluorogenic substrate CCF2 by β-lactamase–Vpr incorporated into virions and released as a result of virion fusion. Entry and fusion induced by the Ebola virus GP occurred with much slower kinetics than with vesicular stomatitis virus G protein (VSV-G) and were blocked by depletion of membrane cholesterol and by inhibition of vesicular acidification with bafilomycin A1. These properties confirmed earlier studies and validated the assay for exploring other properties of Ebola virus GP-mediated entry and fusion. Entry and fusion of Ebola virus GP pseudotypes, but not VSV-G or HIV-1 Env pseudotypes, were impaired in the presence of the microtubule-disrupting agent nocodazole but were enhanced in the presence of the microtubule-stabilizing agent paclitaxel (Taxol). Agents that impaired microfilament function, including cy- tochalasin B, cytochalasin D, latrunculin A, and jasplakinolide, also inhibited Ebola virus GP-mediated entry and fusion. Together, these findings suggest that both microtubules and microfilaments may play a role in the effective trafficking of vesicles containing Ebola virions from the cell surface to the appropriate acidified vesicular compartment where fusion occurs. In terms of Ebola virus GP-mediated entry and fusion to various target cells, primary macrophages proved highly sensitive, while monocytes from the same donors displayed greatly reduced levels of entry and fusion. We further observed that tumor necrosis factor alpha, which is released by Ebola virus-infected monocytes/macrophages, enhanced Ebola virus GP-mediated entry and fusion to human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Thus, Ebola virus infection of one target cell may induce biological changes that facilitate infection of secondary target cells that play a key role in filovirus pathogenesis. Finally, these studies indicate that pseudotyping in the HIV-1 virion-based fusion assay may be a valuable approach to the study of entry and fusion properties mediated through the envelopes of other viral pathogens.





** Edit to add: I'm seeing a strange error message in place of the embedded PDF above.
The link
http://projectavalon.net/Journal_of_Virology_Studies_of_Ebola_Virus_Jan_2005.pdf
DOES work... do download and take a look at this.

[Bob]

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I found this in my e-mail this morning:

http://projectavalon.net/Journal_of_Virology_Studies_of_Ebola_Virus_Jan_2005.pdf
[..]
I welcome any genuinely informed view, but I think this is stating that, dating from Jan 2005, a way was found to enhance Ebola's 'entry and fusion' into human cells for research purposes, using HIV-1.

Hi Bill - thank you !

Wonder who sent that doc, very revealing...

I saw a few more things in that doc, which is going to take a bit of time to sort through completely..

that
1) In the doc is the technique to make treatments, prophylaxis for numerous viruses
2) methods to enhance ALL viruses so that they steal the cell's manufacturing engines
3) how the viruses modify the cells for efficient replication
4) how a CUSTOM viral engine can be created to do a lot of genetic modification of cells (potentially not destroying them but making them infections agents to allow for gene programming or genetic engineering, potentially "in the wild".

and a bunch more that I have have not sorted through just yet.

For a bioweapons lab, that PDF is an amazing primer and brief on some state-of-the-art.

It shows us that the mindset of the author(s) are also very dedicated in understanding how people who survived had gene codes that blocked a particular aspect of MANY viri including the FiloViri.. (that shows specifically how to block the ebola-marburg group if that mechanism can be duplicated lets say with an herb infusion...)

I can see how the mono-clonal antibodies which create the attack sequence against the virus has also worked on the similar pathways that the virus uses..

Fascinating find..

--bob

[Adi]

Interesting that TNF- a, Tumor Necrosis Factor - alpha, is observed by the authors as creating an, "enhanced Ebola virus GP-mediated entry and fusion to human umbilical vein endothelial cells".

Now, TNF -a, has been widely studied in the area of Immunological science, for the understanding and therapeutic development of Auto-immune mediated inflammatory diseases. It has been demonstrated that TNF-A, has a primary role in creating the inflammatory cascade seen in common conditions such as Psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease, MS, inflammatory spinal disease and arthritis. My point is that there are new, whats called biological therapies that have been developed produced and are in use today, that specifically target TNF-a, called TNF inhibitors such as, Etancercept, Humira etc.

I believe that if there is such a great understanding of these molecules and proteins that are involved in ebola and other disease, and which therapeutic drugs have been developed, there is with out a doubt knowledge on how these viruses can be stopped and inhibited.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor_necrosis_factor_alpha



Adi, microbiology student.

[observer]

I've been following this Ebola thing from nearly the beginning and it's just all over the board conspiracy-wise. Somehow I ran across this short podcast by CorbertReport that I feel makes better sense than most of what I've read/watched so far. I'm posting it here and I apologize if it's already been posted. I'm interested in what you all think about it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szPA9wsakQo


Lone Bean,

This is huge!!!

Any member wishing to track the evidential trail of where this Ebola Bio-Weapon came from should go to the 45 minute; 30 second mark on the timer of this video you offered, and listen from there.

Tulane University has long been implicated in the Biological Weapons Business all the way back to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It was through a top secret Bio-Weapons program designed to create a fast acting cancer virus with the intended target, Fidel Castro, that most of the players indicted, or intended as witnesses, in the Jim Garrison investigation of the Kennedy Assassination where we will discover how Tulane University has been continuously involved in Bio-Weapons Research for elements of the Global Elite.

It is with the involvement of Tulane University at the earliest occurrence of this outbreak where we can clearly see the bio-weapons aspect of this pending epidemic.

Research Resources:
For the story of how Tulane University is connected to Bio-Weapons Research -


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5-liXcXLI

Conclusions:

Case closed on the question of whether or not this Ebola outbreak is the result of a bio-weapons attack.

Now.... let's move-on to how this psychopathic release of, yet another, biological weapons virus can be stopped.

[Bob]

Ebola Fear Insanity or something worse while looting an Ebola Clinic in Liberia

One's hair can stand on end hearing this one..

(Source (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-clinic-looted-by-liberian-slum-residents-1.2738868))

Did they know they were taking LIVE EBOLA samples with them when the broke in, took bloody blankets, wastes from the Clinic?

Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through the capital's largest slum after residents raided a quarantine centre for suspected patients and took items including bloody sheets and mattresses.

The violence in the West Point slum occurred late Saturday and was led by residents angry that patients were brought to the holding centre from other parts of Monrovia, Tolbert Nyenswah, assistant health minister, said Sunday.

West Point residents went on a "looting spree," stealing items from the clinic that were likely infected, said a senior police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the press. The residents took medical equipment and mattresses and sheets that had bloodstains, he said.

Ebola is spread through bodily fluids including blood, vomit, feces and sweat.​

"All between the houses you could see people fleeing with items looted from the patients," the official said, adding that he now feared "the whole of West Point will be infected."

Was it just LOOTING (by ignorant uneducated people) or something worse?

Some of the looted items were visibly stained with blood, vomit and excrement, said Richard Kieh, who lives in the area.

The incident raises fears of new infections in Liberia, which was already struggling to contain the outbreak.

Liberian police restored order to the West Point neighbourhood.

Sitting on land between the Montserrado River and the Atlantic Ocean, West Point is home to at least 50,000 people, according to a 2012 survey produced by groups including the Liberia Peacebuilding Office and the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission.

Distrust of government runs high, with rumours regularly circulating that officials plan to clear the slum out entirely.

Though there had been talk of putting West Point under quarantine should Ebola break out there, assistant health minister Nyenswah said Sunday no such step had been taken. "West Point is not yet quarantined as being reported," he said.

Should Ebola break out in WestPoint, potentially thousands and thousands of people would be affected, and that would be a tragedy of massive proportions..

MEANWHILE

Kenya has barred travelers from entering from Ebola infected countries.

and

in Cameroon - Officials in Cameroon, which borders Nigeria, announced Friday it would suspend all flights from all four Ebola-affected countries. Korean Air announced on Thursday it would temporarily halt its service to Kenya despite the fact there are no cases of Ebola in the country.


http://i.cbc.ca/1.2727082.1407172019!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/ebola-outbreak-nigeria.jpg

[ThePythonicCow]

I have split this thread into two, moving the posts relating to the use of silver to treat Ebola to a new thread: Potential of silver to treat Ebola (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?73942-Potential-of-silver-to-treat-Ebola).

[Bob]

Ebola Scare in New Mexico. US A

A woman has checked herself into a New Mexico Hospital today with Ebola Symptoms. Authorities are saying it is possible.

http://www.abqjournal.com/447619/abqnewsseeker/health-department-cdc-testing-new-mexico-woman-for-ebola.html

"The New Mexico Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are performing tests to determine if a 30-year-old New Mexico woman has Ebola.

"The woman returned earlier this month from Sierra Leone, which is one of several countries in West Africa with known cases of Ebola."

She had no known exposure to Ebola and health department officials said the tests are being done “out of an abundance of caution.”

“The Department of Health is working closely with UNM Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on this investigation,” Department of Health Cabinet Secretary Retta Ward, said in a news release. “UNM Hospital has isolated the patient, and is following the appropriate protocols to ensure other patients and health care workers are safe.”

[Bob]

UAE (United Arab Emirates) may have had its first Ebola Case

Woman dies in UAE having come from Nigeria.

"The national airline of the United Arab Emirates said Monday it has disinfected one of its planes after health authorities there announced that a Nigerian woman who died after flying in to the capital, Abu Dhabi, may have been infected with the Ebola virus." (Source (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/nigerian-woman-suspected-ebola-dies-uae-25017915))

"The health authority in Abu Dhabi said in a statement carried by state news agency WAM that the 35-year-old woman was traveling from Nigeria to India for treatment of advanced metastatic cancer.

"Her health deteriorated while in transit at Abu Dhabi International Airport. As medics were trying to resuscitate her, they found signs that suggested a possible Ebola virus infection. The health authority noted, however, that her preexisting medical condition also could have explained her death."

They don't know but there were "signs" which may mean somehow she got Ebola.

"Etihad Airways, the UAE's national carrier, said the plane was disinfected in line with guidelines laid out by the airline industry's main trade group. It said it continues to monitor the situation and is working with health authorities "to ensure the implementation of any and all measures necessary to ensure the safety and well-being of its passengers and staff."

Emirates Air (Dubai) had already suspended travel to a West African country.. Guinea.

Abu Dhabi is the capital and largest of seven sheikdoms that make up the United Arab Emirates. The country has grown into a major long-haul aviation hub. It is home to Abu Dhabi-based Etihad and Dubai-based Emirates, the Middle East's largest airline.

[Bob]

An yet another Ebola Scare - this time IN GEORGIA

(Source (http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/test-results-read-negative-suspected-ebola-case/ng46J/))

By Richard Elliot
"PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. — A Paulding County man tested negative for the Ebola virus after he became ill shortly after his return to the U.S. from a trip to Africa, according to officials.

"The Paulding County Sheriff's Office and Fire-Rescue confirm they got a 911 call from the man's son Saturday night stating his father recently returned from Nigeria and was showing, what he believed, were Ebola-like symptoms.

"Paulding County emergency medical technicians responded to the couple's senior living apartment in full Hazmat suits and rushed the elderly man and his wife to an isolation unit at Emory University Hospital, in DeKalb County -- the same hospital where two American Ebola patients are recovering.

"Officials said tests confirmed the man did not have Ebola and, late Monday, they said tests also showed the man did not have Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome or MERS. However, they said the man remains in isolation at Emory."

[Bob]

And now a British woman dies in Vomp Austria

(Source (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727826/British-woman-tested-Ebola-precaution-collapsing-dying-following-journey-Nigeria-Austria.html))

The 48-year-old British national died at home in Vomp, Austria, on Saturday

It is unclear if she lived there permanently or had a holiday home there. The Doctor who attended scene recorded cause of death as a viral infection. Blood and urine sent to Centre for Tropical Diseases in Hamburg, Germany. Officials say risk that woman actually died of Ebola is 'extremely low'. 'The 48-year-old recently entered Germany from Nigeria.

Her apartment has been sealed and officers who found the body have undergone medical counselling and inspection.

Countries with confirmed Ebola* (Cases/deaths):
Guinea - 519/380
Liberia - 786/413
Nigeria - 12/4
Sierra Leone - 810/348
Total - 2127/1145

Suspected cases elsewhere (suspected case2/deaths):
Austria - 1/1
United Arab Emirates - 1/1
America - 2/0
*Latest figures as of August 15 2014 (source: WHO)

'All possible precautions have been taken,' according to the Health Ministry.

'All persons who had been with the corpse in Tyrol would have worn protective clothing.

He confirmed that it was nevertheless vital to implement emergency measures even when there was just a suspicion, adding that even if the woman did turn out to have died from Ebola, it was unlikely to have passed on to anyone else as the infection is only transmitted through direct contact with blood or other bodily fluids of an infected person.

[Bob]

Dead are now over 1200 according to WHO

(do recall that the numbers could be under-reported, and dead may be closer to 2400.. due to fear of letting authorities know that the deaths have happened, taboos, etc.)

(Sources, assorted, WHO, ABC, CBC, BBC, etc.)

Nigeria reports at least 4 infected have managed to recover, out of the 15 affected so far. Nigeria has now seen 15 cases and four fatalities, according to the data.

Seventeen suspected Ebola patients are "missing" in Liberia after a health centre in the capital was attacked have been found, but looters still took contaminated objects, infected sheets and valuable equipment , potentially spreading the disease to many people.. Due to the incubation period needed when a person is infected, new cases won't appear for 2-21 days.. In that time Liberia could then know the increase in infections and see if the city has been massively infected. Armed men claiming that "there's no Ebola" in Liberia raided a quarantine centre for the deadly disease in Monrovia overnight, prompting at least 20 patients infected with the deadly virus to flee, a witness said on Sunday.

"They broke down the door and looted the place. The patients have all gone," said Rebecca Wesseh, who witnessed the attack and whose report was confirmed by residents and the head of the Health Workers Association of Liberia, George Williams.

Williams said the unit housed 29 patients who were receiving preliminary treatment before being taken to hospital. It was unclear how many are now at large. "They had all tested positive for Ebola," he said, adding that nine had died, without elaborating. Wesseh said she heard the assailants shouting that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf "is broke", adding: "She wants money. There's no Ebola" in Liberia. (dohh..)


http://static.guim.co.uk/ni/1408298227557/Ebola_Travel_Bans_WEBsvg180.svg

The three doctors in Liberia who received the zMapp mAB product are doing better. The two patients in Emory University Hospital Isolation unit who have received zMapp mAP product treatment are doing much better. Dr Brantly wants to go home, and Nancy Writebol is getting stronger.

One priest in Spain who received zMapp did die. It was not known if it was from too much damage from Ebola, or if the zMapp was able to do any good, or hastened his death.

[Bob]

Saudi Arabia - two men suspected WITH EBOLA have run away from a clinic and are roaming free somewhere..

The two men ran away from a rural health center in the Al Madinah province in Saudi Arabia, according to reports.

(Source (http://gulfbusiness.com/2014/08/two-suspected-ebola-patients-flee-hospital-saudi-arabia))

This is potentially very serious for Saudi Arabia.

Two men, displaying suspected symptoms of the Ebola virus, ran away from a rural health center located in the Madinah province of Saudi Arabia on Sunday, a Saudi daily reported.

“The two African nationals, who did not have residency permits or any other documentation, came to see the doctor at the health center, complaining of difficulty breathing and bleeding while passing urine,” an official who requested anonymity told Arab News.

Medical officials were unable to conduct a thorough examination and confirm that the patients were infected with the Ebola virus as they ran away after being asked to produce their residency permits.

The doctor present had instructed the center to take the patients to a hospital with better facilities before the duo took off.

The matter was reported to police instantly, the source said.

The police are still searching for the patients, the report added.

The Health Affairs Directorate in Madinah said the patients were from East Africa, a region not affected by Ebola, although their precise nationality had not been identified.

The deadly Ebola virus, declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organisation (WHO), has killed over 1,140 people in West Africa and is spreading rampantly.

Saudi Arabia has been taking several measures to prevent the entry of the virus into the country, and earlier this year declared that haj and umrah pilgrimage visas will not be granted to people from Ebola-hit countries.

Earlier this month, a Saudi businessman who returned from a business trip to Sierra Leone showed symptoms of the virus and later died in a hospital in Jeddah. However, test results later confirmed that he had not been infected with Ebola.

Meanwhile in other locations in Europe,
Two men in Austria who came back from Nigeria have tested negative.

[Bob]

Sacramento California - Patient being tested for Ebola

A patient at Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center is being tested for possible exposure to the Ebola virus, officials confirmed.

The person has been admitted to the hospital and is in isolation as a precaution, according to Kaiser spokesperson Edwin Garcia.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be testing blood samples to rule out the presence of the virus, Dr. Stephen M. Parodi, Kaiser infectious diseases specialist, stated in a news release.

We are working with the Sacramento County Division of Public Health regarding a patient admitted to the Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be testing blood samples to rule out the presence of the virus.

In order to protect our patients, staff and physicians, even though infection with the virus is unconfirmed, we are taking the actions recommended by the CDC as a precaution, just as we do for other patients with a suspected infectious disease. This includes isolation of the patient in a specially equipped negative pressure room and the use of personal protective equipment by trained staff, coordinated with infectious disease specialists. This enables the medical center to provide care in a setting that safeguards other patients and medical teams.

The safety of our members, patients and staff is our highest priority..

What about the community? Who the person came in contact with?

(Source (http://www.news10.net/story/news/local/2014/08/19/kaiser-ebola-patient/14316293/))

[Bob]

Two years ago Mapp Pharma and USAMRIID had the Ebola CURE and effective treatment.

CEO's said all it takes is TWO WEEKS and can be manufactured within a plant, the monoclonal antibodies simply duplicated over and over, by the thousands..

Recently Mapp Pharma has been saying the CURE won't be available to anybody, cause it simply will take months and months before it could possibly be ready..

Contradiction or somebody else receiving the product?

Here are the two documents... The original study, and the USAMRIID Notice of Development release


http://chanlo.com/images/USAMRIID-Pettitt Release Aug 2013.pdf

http://chanlo.com/images/Ebola-Treatment-PNAS-2012-Olinger-18030-5.pdf

[Bob]

LIberia - Corpses now litter the streets

West Point subdivision in Monrovia where a few days ago, residents broke into the Clinic, stole hospital supplies, as well as contaminated sheets with Ebola soiled with feces, blood, vomit..

The Authorities have cordoned off the area, firing into the sky to stop angry residents who are saying they can't get to their homes.. The attempts are to stop the movement of potentially infected people from moving freely and carrying the deadly Ebola and spreading it throughout the City of 1,413,000 million.

Liberia has the highest death toll, and its number of cases is rising the fastest. In response, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ordered West Point sealed off and imposed a nighttime curfew, saying authorities have not been able to curtail the spread of Ebola in the face of defiance of their recommendations.

Sirleaf also ordered gathering places like movie theaters and night clubs shut and put Dolo Town, 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of the capital, under quarantine as well.

"These measures are meant to save lives," she said in an address Tuesday night.

(Source (http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2024346296_apxebola.html))

On Wednesday, riot police and soldiers created roadblocks out of piles of scrap wood and barbed wire to prevent anyone from entering or leaving West Point, which occupies a peninsula where the Mesurado River meets the Atlantic Ocean.

Few roads go into the area, and a major road runs along the base of the isthmus, serving as a barrier between the neighborhood and the rest of Monrovia. Ferries to the area have been halted, and a coast guard boat was patrolling the waters around the peninsula.

At least 50,000 people live on the half-mile-long (kilometer-long) West Point, which is one of the poorest and most densely populated neighborhoods of the capital.

Sanitation is poor even in the best of times, and defecation in the streets and beaches is a major problem. Lovely, eh?

Is Monrovia a dump? Not by these figures:

$202 is the average cost for 3 meals, incidentals and overnight lodging in Monrovia.
Nearly half of the population of the Country lives in Monrovia.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Monrovia_Street.jpg

The city is surrounded by slums.

This is a picture a small portion of the West Point shanty town which has been cordoned off:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/assets/images/2009/11/25/091125165555_liberia_westpoint_shanty466.jpg

Another view heading towards the city of Monrovia:


http://media01.bigblackbag.net/15500/portfolio_media/lwsm_20120424-ppower0515_4360.jpg

Look at the EXTREME density of the "housing". Zero separation.

And as the article described sewage is everywhere:


http://www.atlanticrising.org/images/galleryphotos/AT%20THE%20SHORE.jpg


What will be the solution if Ebola spreads to this area of 50,000 people?

Why is there no sanitation, no infrastructure, no healthcare, no education, no power, no communications, why are the people not helped?

[Bob]

NEW MEXICO now has a young woman of 30 in Isolation in Albuquerque Hospital

A New Mexico woman is being tested for the Ebola virus in Albuquerque after recently returning from Africa, according to state health officials.

The 30-year-old woman is in isolation as a precaution at the University of New Mexico Hospital after experiencing symptoms similar to the virus that has killed more than 1,200 people overseas as of Tuesday, according to health officials.

The woman from Bernalillo County has had no known exposure to the disease but had been teaching in Sierra Leone, one of several African countries with known cases of Ebola, according to the state's health department.

They said blood work was sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta where it will be tested for the virus.

They expect to have the results back by the end of the week.

Do notice the length of the proper TESTING TIME for blood samples. Any QUICKIE testing is not guaranteed to show what's happening (or about to).

WHO did this woman come in contact with when she entered New Mexico? Did she fly in through Denver, or up from Houston?

Houston is the major international HUB.

(http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/n-m-woman-tested-ebola-returning-africa-health-officials-article-1.1909383)


http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1909382.1408483893!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/university-new-mexico-hospital.jpg

"The Department of Health is working closely with UNM Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on this investigation," said Department of Health Cabinet Secretary Retta Ward, MPH. "UNM Hospital has isolated the patient, and is following the appropriate protocols to ensure other patients and health care workers are safe."


AGAIN - THE QUESTION IS WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE SHE CAME IN CONTACT WITH FROM SIERRA LEONE TO NEW MEXICO??

[Bob]

Myanmar and Viet Nam concerned about Ebola


Ebola Scare In Southeast Asia As Vietnam And Myanmar Test Suspected Patients

Two Nigerians, who arrived in Vietnam late on Tuesday, and a 22-year-old Burmese national, who landed in Myanmar after a trip to Guinea and Liberia -- two of the worst-hit countries in the current Ebola outbreak -- are being tested for symptoms of the viral disease, Agence France-Presse, or AFP, reported Wednesday.

The Nigerians were sent to the Tropical Diseases Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, where they are being kept in isolation, the report said, citing Vietnamese health ministry officials. The Burmese national was taken to a hospital in Yangon in Myanmar.

“Samples were sent to a WHO (World Health Organization) recognized laboratory to check whether or not Ebola was present,” an official at the Myanmar Centre for Disease Control and Prevention reportedly said, adding that four people who accompanied the man to the hospital were also being kept under observation.

Airline passengers sitting next to the pair - who traveled to Vietnam on Monday from Nigeria via Qatar - have been advised to monitor their health conditions.

Vietnam has introduced mandatory temperature checks at its two major international airports in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in a bid to prevent passengers bringing the deadly virus into the country.

(Source (http://www.ibtimes.com/ebola-scare-southeast-asia-vietnam-myanmar-test-suspected-patients-1663612))

Meanwhile statistically speaking to date, Hospitals in 27 US states alerted the CDC of the possible Ebola cases out of an abundance of caution amid the growing outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. A total of 87 scares have happened.

[Bob]

Interesting breakthrough for treating MARBURG virus, same family that the Ebola is part of..

(Source (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/08/20/monkeys-successfully-treated-for-marburg-an-ebola-like-virus-researchers-say/))

A new type of drug, which uses “small interfering RNA,” or siRNA, a technology that interferes with how the virus grows once it gets into a cell was used.

Some of the monkeys were treated as soon as 30 minutes after being infected, while others received treatment beginning three days after exposure. All of them survived, while the monkeys that received no treatment died.

Canada's Tekmira (http://www.tekmira.com/) developed the product.

The study, was funded by the U.S. government and conducted in collaboration with the drug’s manufacturer, Canadian firm Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, involving giving 21 rhesus monkeys lethal doses of the MARV-Angola virus.

Prior to Wednesday’s findings, no long wait time post-exposure treatment had been shown to entirely protect non-human primates. This treatment IS successful.

The findings, published Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine, could prove significant in part because the type of Marburg involved — the most lethal form — is closely related to the Ebola virus responsible for the devastating outbreak in West Africa.

[Bob]

Breaking news - Brantly and Writebol released today

Dr. Kent Brantly who contracted a potentially fatal case of Ebola, given zMapp treatment not only survived, today is his day to see the sun and walk freely amongst the people again.

(Source (http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/ebola-patient-dr-kent-brantly-be-released-hospital-n185626))

Nancy Writebol who was a bit weaker, needing to be taken into Emory University Hospital Isolation unit on a stretcher, while Brantly was able to walk in with some assistance, will also be released today from the isolation unit. Dr. Brantly will speak at a press conferences shortly, and we will update this post if he reports anything substantial.

It is not clear if she will remain in the general hospital for a short period (for unknown reasons). Ebola destroys major body organs, and there could be an issue with organ damage have to be looked at. She may be clear of Ebola, but organ damage may not be over yet.

The body HAS to try to repair itself after this nasty virus damages so much of it.

Being able to successfully clear post infection Ebola with a molecular anti-body treatment is wonderful. Now, it it were later in the infection, and severe organ damage, such as kidneys, lungs, liver, heart, intestines, spleen, pancreas.. etc. has happened, one may not be out of the woods..

UPDATE from the Press Conference at the Emory facility -

21 August 2014 - historic breakthrough, patient with ebola, did not infect others, effectively contained, and treated, supportive therapy (he said the doctors there were the best and performed admirably), the treatment zMapp is still considered as one of the factors in the "cure".. the statistical average is insufficient to verify zMapp, exactly how instrumental it was in the case recovery.

Statistics are required to see effectiveness in any treatment. If 100 cases are infected, and the normal statistic is 50% die without the monoclonal antibody treatment (your body NORMALLY makes antibodies to go after an infection; being given a BOOST of needed antibodies specifically for the infection (at hand) makes perfect good sense as your body would be trying to do it otherwise if it were not overwhelmed by the infection for instance)... if after being given the antibody booster, 80% survive, that is a substantial statistical win. IF 100% survive, that is a win, that is a godsend.

Dr Bruce Ribner of the infectious disease unit at Emory explained that Dr. Brantly is being discharged, he has had a thorough treatment, CDC has certified him CLEAR of Ebola, no public health concerns, no threat. Nancy Writebol asked to NOT have any statements being made on her condition or health and the hospital will therefore make no more statements about her. We are never going to be taking any success for granted.

Dr. Brantly dressed in a blue shirt was grinning from ear to ear walking on his own, not shaking, not twitching, in apparent perfect health. Smiling strong, and happy.. his first words were, "Today is a miraculous day I am thrilled to be alive and well and to be reunited with my family"

His voice was strong and humble. He said his mission was God's call to go to Liberia to help people. He said that was his only desire. He was not a false flag, he was not a plant. He is a real person who was struck with a disease that he did not expect and was not fully prepared to handle.

He attempted to come up with the needed tools. He was 9 days sick in Liberia with an increasing infection, getting sicker by the moment. He said he didn't know millions were praying for him worldwide. He says he cannot thank us enough for our prayers and thoughts.

He says that he is grateful he was given the successful experimental drug, but it was God who was the ultimate who helped in this situation, to allow him to be a survivor. He thanked Samaritans Purse and SIM Liberia community for support, never ending hope that things would work out.

His humbleness was tender, sincere, and one could see he was a man on the brink of a most horrible death,and now being back into the light once again.

He made a statement on Nancy Writebol. She said "To God be the Glory". Nancy did walk out of the hospital and is with her husband..

Dr Brantly is going to spend some private time with his wife and family, in private. Later he will talk with people for personal thoughts and sharing.

Dr Brantly says he is glad he was used by God to help call attention to the plight in West Africa, and to please help to come up with solutions to bring this blight to an end.


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[Bob]

Being caring and responsible, something we don't see very often these days, with radical and excited people jumping on soapboxes screaming at the top of their lungs, "the system is corrupt, the system is monstrous, the system (health, food, vaccine, banking, political, corporate..) just fill in the blank.. If you feel that you get upset or riled, or disgusted, you have been programmed with that whatever button.. and you are then a "useful energy source" to them.. think about that for a moment. Accurate information enlightens, it doesn't put you into a spin.

HOWEVER we see a person, named Kwazi Lawrence who didn't buy into the "programming".

He was over in Liberia because of his job, and on his own, without fanfare, without drama, called up his doctor and said, "just came back", and although he was not exposed by his knowledge, he felt it was the best possible thing, for family, and for his community, to put himself in isolation (at home) for the required maximum time, 21 days to "just be sure".

He did not get into the Ebola Madness, the fear or sensationalism.. or the misinformation.

(Source (http://fox40.com/2014/08/20/sacramento-man-quarantines-himself-for-ebola-without-symptoms-of-virus/))

[Bob]

State Department orders family members to leave Sierra Leone

The US Embassy staff's families were told to leave Sierra Leone due to the Ebola concerns. The statement described the overwhelmed medical facilities as the reason.

(Source (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ebola-crisis-prompts-evacuation-order-of-us-embassy-family-members-in-freetown/2014/08/14/7e6aa49e-23d4-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html))

"The agency added that it is “reconfiguring” staff at the embassy in Freetown “to be more responsive to the current situation.” That includes focusing on helping U.S. citizens in the country, as well as working with Sierra Leone’s government and international health and non-government relief organizations.

“We remain deeply committed to supporting Sierra Leone and regional and international efforts to strengthen the capacity of the country’s health care infrastructure and system,” Harf said, “specifically, the capacity to contain and control the transmission of the Ebola virus, and deliver health care.”

"Asked about the number of family members leaving Sierra Leone, and the number of embassy and consular staff remaining, Harf said, “We don’t give exact numbers in any of our posts for security reasons.”

Earlier this month (August 2014), the U.S. government also ordered family members of the embassy in Liberia to leave that country’s capital, of Monrovia.

Embassies with consular services will remain open, and that the agency is “taking a look” at situation in Guinea to determine whether family members of U.S. personnel there also should be evacuated.

[Flash]

. If you feel that you get upset or riled, or disgusted, you have been programmed with that whatever button..

This is surely the most important sentence of the week. When we get information and we get a feeling of victim, we are responding to a program. Otherwise the information is simply used or noted. Action taking may result or just note taking mentally

Anger, upsets, fears, are all programs when they do not arise based on immediate needs around survival. Took me years to comprehend this. However we can use them to wake us up as THEY can use them for their energy or to program further or to direct OUR actions.

Thanks bob for all the intelligent info you provide us

[Bob]

Sigh, this breaks our hearts seeing this:


http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/828/cache/ebola-liberia-free-fall-1_82813_990x742.jpg

Medical 'treatment' in Monrovia, Liberia, where the sick who were alive 'escaped'

(Source (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140820-ebola-virus-liberia-monrovia-health-africa/))

The situation in Liberia has been described by an experienced member of one response team as being in "free fall," while Doctors Without Borders said the situation in Monrovia is "catastrophic." Liberia now has more cases and more deaths than any other country, with 576 patients dead, compared to 396 in Guinea and 374 in Sierra Leone. Dozens of health care workers in the country have been infected with the virus.

In the picture above, a corpse is laying face down, on the floor in the 'clinic' established to treat patients.. (sigh) and being sprayed with disinfectant which won't work to deal with the internal reservoir 'petri dish' overload of the virus.

Note - currently over 1350 reported dead from the Ebola outbreak (Source (http://news.uk.msn.com/world/ebola-death-toll-more-than-1300-1))

Persons that are sick are still being hidden, deaths under-reported, burials not being reported.. so the numbers reported are only what has been officially obtained. Sources are saying the number is at least 2 times higher, putting this into epidemic category.

[Roisin]

Interesting breakthrough for treating MARBURG virus, same family that the Ebola is part of..

(Source (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/08/20/monkeys-successfully-treated-for-marburg-an-ebola-like-virus-researchers-say/))

A new type of drug, which uses “small interfering RNA,” or siRNA, a technology that interferes with how the virus grows once it gets into a cell was used.

Some of the monkeys were treated as soon as 30 minutes after being infected, while others received treatment beginning three days after exposure. All of them survived, while the monkeys that received no treatment died.

Canada's Tekmira (http://www.tekmira.com/) developed the product.

The study, was funded by the U.S. government and conducted in collaboration with the drug’s manufacturer, Canadian firm Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, involving giving 21 rhesus monkeys lethal doses of the MARV-Angola virus.

Prior to Wednesday’s findings, no long wait time post-exposure treatment had been shown to entirely protect non-human primates. This treatment IS successful.

The findings, published Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine, could prove significant in part because the type of Marburg involved — the most lethal form — is closely related to the Ebola virus responsible for the devastating outbreak in West Africa.


They say that authorities are debating whether or not to provide Tekmira or Zmapp to Ebola patients in West Africa even though, in the case of Tekmira, it saved all of the lives of those monkey's injected with it 3 days after they had been intentionally infected with Marburg.

I don't see what they are debating about. They could simply inject everyone living in that slum in Liberia with that drug or Zmapp just to contain the spread of this disease... There are 50,000 people living in that slum and taking blood tests of all of them is too time consuming. Too much time has gone by already and it seems to me that drastic actions need to be implemented immediately, if not sooner to contain this epidemic in that slum.

[Bob]

I think what caught my attention is USAMRIID said the mAB (monoclonal antibody) treatment WAS available 2 years ago, that it worked effectively, that ALL IT TAKES is 2 weeks to make a highly cost effective (to produce) product.. BUT Mapp Pharmaceuticals says NOPE will take many months to produce..

THAT is a big contradiction saying something is up and SOMEBODY IS getting the actual treatment products. I suspect it is military stockpiling, just because who funded the development, and that the push is to "spin things away" from getting treatment to Africa, letting the "dialog discussion" committee meetings, and whatever can be used as an excuse..

This stuff worked 2 years ago.

There is no way with a system like that in place, that people will receive solutions. The US military paid for the work, the research, the studies, the tests, the salaries, the product, they OWN IT, it's theirs. WHY would the US military want AFRICA to have a treatment? From a military strategic viewpoint it makes no sense to tell the enemy (whomever they believe that to be), that they have effective treatment for weaponized Ebola Zaire strain.

Dr Bruce Ribner of the infectious disease unit at Emory explained that although Dr. Brantly and Nancy Whitebol are now effectively IMMUNE to Ebola Zaire strain, there are 4 other strains of ebola that they are NOT IMMUNE to, (nor are anyone else who survived that particular strain).. NOR are they immune to MARBURG virus, another virus in the same family as ebola..

AND the military controls the development of weaponized Marburg treatment solutions, again the same companies making the current Ebola treatments for the weaponized strains which apparently are what is hitting Africa..

That's the hurdle it seems.. WHY would the US military care (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War) to help a foreign country..

It seems it would have to be a POLITICAL POLICY directive coming from the White House, right? if treatment supplies destined for American Troops (and their allies?) would be released.. IMHO




[..]

They say that authorities are debating whether or not to provide
Tekmira or Zmapp to Ebola patients in West Africa even though,
in the case of Tekmira,
it saved all of the lives of those monkey's injected with it
3 days after they had been intentionally infected with Marburg.

I don't see what they are debating about. [..]

[Roisin]

That's clear proof and evidence that the depopulation agenda is operating at full strength. No intervention on our part to help contain this epidemic hence jeopardizing the people of our nation too. The depopulation agenda is the only one that fits. There's a reason behind this madness and that's it... nevertheless, I still can't wrap my mind around it because it's just too horrific to even contemplate that all of this is really happening now. Very, shocking.

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/08/21/world/21liberia-slide-6E3B/21liberia-slide-6E3B-jumbo-v2.jpg

[Bob]

It bothers me too; I have the medical experience, training, research skills to keep up with the technical reports and interpret them for the group, which I will try to do the best I can. It is emotional, and concerning the actions being carried out and not.. by those involved with allowing this atrocity and tragedy to go on.. those compassionate enough to put themselves at substantial risk are carrying an immense burden trying to be on the front lines where these diseases occur..

[Roisin]

I really appreciate what you're doing here Bob and I know it's not easy either. Definitely am glad you're a member of this forum to be able to do this. Only someone with your background can separate the wheat from the chaff to narrow down technical information like this and interpret it in a way that the layman can understand. You're doing a great job at that too!

[Bob]

BBC reporting Ebola Scare ? in County Donegal IRELAND

The post-mortem room at Letterkenny General Hospital will remain sealed-off for up to 18 hours, while tests are carried out on the body which was brought there.

The body arrived at Letterkenny General Hospital on Thursday.

He had recently returned from Sierra Leone.

The HSE said that test results are expected on Friday.

The man, originally from the Mountcharles area, near Donegal town, is said to have been in his 40s.

It is believed he had been living in Dublin and had visited Sierra Leone a number of weeks ago for work.

In a statement, the HSE said: "The public health department was made aware earlier (on Thursday) of the remains of an individual, discovered early this morning, who had recently traveled to one of the areas in Africa affected by the current Ebola virus disease outbreak.

"The appropriate national guidelines, in line with international best practice, are being followed by the public health team dealing with the situation."

(Source (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-28886663))


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Dessie Quinn, 43, from Mountcharles is who died.


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Mr Quinn had recently been working in Freetown, Sierra Leone for a telecommunications company.
It is understood that he returned home on holiday one week ago.

They are calling the case "suspected".

Donegal Mayor John Campbell said the county was shocked but urged people not to panic.

'It is unconfirmed that it is Ebola at this stage and even if it was confirmed the chances of it being passed on to anyone else are very small so people shouldn't panic,' he said.

'It's a big shock in the area. I know the family well and our thoughts are with them.'

additional Source (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2731113/Has-Ebola-reached-Ireland-Man-dies-County-Donegal-treated-suspected-malaria-following-return-outbreak-hit-Sierra-Leone.html)

FYI - couple pictures of FreeTown Sierra Leone.. Not what one expects to find Ebola in.

http://www.freetowncity.com/communities/0/004/008/283/870/images/4544415891.jpg

http://sherbrofoundation.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/img_2417.jpg

[Bob]

Dessie Quinn, 43, from Mountcharles who died and who's body arrived at Letterkenny General Hospital on Thursday has tested NEGATIVE with the quickie EBOLA test. Mr. Quinn was being treated for malaria before his death and it is unknown if he died from malaria or something he picked up different than Ebola. There are numerous deadly diseases in West Africa that one can pick up and get quite ill from, to the point of death.

[Bob]

Nigeria reporting 2 new Ebola cases, at least 2 not from the Liberian traveler who brought the infection into the country earlier.

"Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu says the country has confirmed two new Ebola cases, the first two that have spread beyond those who had direct contact with the ill traveler from Liberia who brought the disease to Nigeria.

"The two new cases bring the total number of confirmed infections in Nigeria, including the traveller, to 14.

"Chukwu says five patients have died, five have recovered and four are being treated in Lagos.

"Chukwu said Friday in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, that the two new cases are spouses of patients who had direct contact with Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, who flew into the country last month with the virus and infected 11 others before he died."

The Sacramento woman being tested at Kaiser has come back with NO EBOLA found in the blood samples. But again she was sick with "something" unknown coming back from Africa.

So what is this 'other' infection that is killing people? the woman in Austria, the man in Ireland? what are they coming back with from Africa? Is Ebola the obvious cover for something else?

[Bob]

30 US States are requesting help from the CDC

(Source (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/21/CDC-30-States-Plus-D-C-Have-Requested-Help-with-Possible-Ebola-Cases))


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30 states in the US plus District of Columbia have asked CDC for assistance to come up with ways for determining if Ebola is present.

"ABC News reported Wednesday that the CDC was contacted 68 times since the end of last month. In 58 of those cases Ebola was ruled out. In the ten remaining cases CDC ordered a blood test. Seven of those tests have already returned negative, and three are still outstanding." (the Sacramento case proved NEGATIVE, so that may only be two left pending).

[Bob]

Senegal, West Africa's humanitarian hub, said it had blocked a regional U.N. aid plane from landing and was banning all further flights to and from countries affected by Ebola, potentially hampering the emergency response to the epidemic.

(Source (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/22/us-health-ebola-who-idUSKBN0GM0RW20140822)) (From Reuters News)

The WHO said it had drawn up a draft strategy plan to combat Ebola in West Africa over the next six to nine months, implying that it does not expect to halt the epidemic before the end of the year.

It has been acknowledged that the Ebola epidemic is spreading out of control in the affected countries, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

Ebola will be declared over in a country if two incubation periods, or 42 days in total, have passed without any confirmed case. That will be the criteria of the infection being over..

What has stymied that ability to determine statistics, or to determine the depth of the infection reservoirs, is that there are locations in the Countries, where no-one can get to, is not allowed in, many of those areas are suspected of being hidden reservoirs for the infection. These are areas where the people believe the infection is from "evil spirits", where taboos prevent outsiders from touching the dead (performing a sanitary burial that doesn't spread the infection).

[Bob]

Air France is the last remaining major European airline

still flying directly to the Ebola-affected West African cities of Conakry, Guinea, and Freetown, Sierra Leone,
causing ample concern that the greatest chance for the epidemic to reach Europe would likely be through its hub in Paris,
where the flights land. (American carrier Delta is suspending flights to Monrovia on August 31.)

"When Air France flight attendant and head of the airline’s union Patrick Henry-Haye wrote a petition to his employers this week begging them to stop all airline travel to West African countries affected by the Ebola virus outbreak, he set off a new frenzy among air travelers.

"After all, if a flight attendant is scared, who’s going to calm the passengers? More than 700 Air France crew members, including pilots, have signed the petition.

“They say we are trained to spot Ebola,” he told Le Figaro.

“That’s false. We’re not trained to do anything other than put on rubber gloves and surgical masks and lock suspected patients in the lavatories. That’s not enough.”

"General Margaret Chan has not yet banned travel or trade in the affected areas, even though she cautioned recently that “every city with an international airport is at risk” because many people from the affected areas board connecting flights. "

Where it can be spread is in the lavatories, the 'loo' (gardez l'eau or maybe gardez le merde).


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(Source (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/20/ebola-fueled-racism-is-on-the-rise-in-europe.html))

[Roisin]

Nigeria reporting 2 new Ebola cases, at least 2 not from the Liberian traveler who brought the infection into the country earlier.

"Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu says the country has confirmed two new Ebola cases, the first two that have spread beyond those who had direct contact with the ill traveler from Liberia who brought the disease to Nigeria.

"The two new cases bring the total number of confirmed infections in Nigeria, including the traveller, to 14.

"Chukwu says five patients have died, five have recovered and four are being treated in Lagos.

"Chukwu said Friday in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, that the two new cases are spouses of patients who had direct contact with Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, who flew into the country last month with the virus and infected 11 others before he died."

The Sacramento woman being tested at Kaiser has come back with NO EBOLA found in the blood samples. But again she was sick with "something" unknown coming back from Africa.

So what is this 'other' infection that is killing people? the woman in Austria, the man in Ireland? what are they coming back with from Africa? Is Ebola the obvious cover for something else?


It must be something that's contagious or else they would have mentioned what it is that they died from.... right?

[Bob]

Nigeria reporting 2 new Ebola cases, at least 2 not from the Liberian traveler who brought the infection into the country earlier.

"Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu says the country has confirmed two new Ebola cases, the first two that have spread beyond those who had direct contact with the ill traveler from Liberia who brought the disease to Nigeria.

"The two new cases bring the total number of confirmed infections in Nigeria, including the traveller, to 14.

"Chukwu says five patients have died, five have recovered and four are being treated in Lagos.

"Chukwu said Friday in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, that the two new cases are spouses of patients who had direct contact with Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, who flew into the country last month with the virus and infected 11 others before he died."

The Sacramento woman being tested at Kaiser has come back with NO EBOLA found in the blood samples. But again she was sick with "something" unknown coming back from Africa.

So what is this 'other' infection that is killing people? the woman in Austria, the man in Ireland? what are they coming back with from Africa? Is Ebola the obvious cover for something else?


It must be something that's contagious or else they would have mentioned what it is that they died from.... right?

I would agree

Sierra Leone reports:
Infectious disease, degree of risk: very high
Present - food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: malaria, dengue fever, and yellow fever
water contact disease: schistosomiasis
animal contact disease: rabies
aerosolized dust or soil contact disease: Lassa fever (2013)

Lassa makes a lot of sense for an infection from Sierra Leone as well as malaria yellow fever or mengiococcus infection. I've had the vaccines for yellow fever and the mengiococcus and survived those ok (a bit of a bumpy ride with the yellow fever viri).. Whatever it is that those people got, they got real sick, exhibited the key symptoms some survived some did not make it.. If the people are requesting no data be published to outsiders on the case, the health department will only publish or log certain infection outbreaks..

Seems to me for public well being, folks need to know if what was caught that killed that group of people was not Ebola, just what was it.. Traveling into an area with such an infection likelihood seems like one should know what's happening.

[Roisin]

One would think that because we're in the middle of an Ebola epidemic, we would want to know what they died of even
if they ruled out Ebola. Yet, curiously enough, they completely leave out any information on what they had except that they had
had something. This is ridiculous and I share your sentiments on wanting to know more about that as it raises a lot of red flags.
Such omissions like this at this current time speak volumes as to the nature of what the culprit was (something contagious). Duh

[Bob]

A Brit in Sierra Leone tests POSITIVE for Ebola

(Source (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28914614))

A British national living in Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, the Department of Health has said.

It is the first reported case of a Briton contracting the deadly virus during the recent outbreak.

Reported cases in West Africa are at 2615 since the March 2014 outbreak started getting attention (although some have said it was as early as December 2013 when incidents started happening).

A decision will now have to be made over whether the patient should be flown back to the UK, said BBC Nigeria correspondent Will Ross.

Earlier this month, British Airways suspended flights to Sierra Leone and Liberia until at least the end of August.

The Foreign Office has said Britons should think carefully before travelling to Sierra Leone, Guinea or Liberia.

[Bob]

Montreal - Canada now testing second person for Ebola

(Source (http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/08/23/montreal_patient_being_tested_for_ebola_virus_after_returning_from_west_africa.html))

"Second Montreal patient tested for Ebola after returning from West Africa - New patient visited family in West Africa, where the deadly virus has claimed 1,400 lives."


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Two patients have been placed in isolation at a Montreal hospital in the last two weeks after showing symptoms consistent with the often deadly Ebola virus — including a young man currently awaiting his test results.

Dr. Karl Weiss, director of infectious diseases at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, said that since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a few months ago, all Quebec hospitals have put in place “some very stringent protocols.”

“We have no choice but to implement our protocol because if it’s a real case, imagine if you don’t put in place all the measures,” Weiss told the Star.

These protocols were put in place for the first time at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital two weeks ago, Weiss added, and the patient tested negative.

Now a second patient, described as “a relatively young man,” is in isolation at the same hospital. The patient lives in Quebec but recently went to Guinea to visit his family, said Weiss.

“Yesterday he started being sick with fever and general flu-like symptoms,” Weiss said. “He came to the emergency room, and as soon as he came the protocol was implemented . . . but the patient is not severely sick, far from that.”

"Earlier this month a patient at a hospital in Brampton, Ont. was also placed in isolation over fear the person had contracted the virus, but ended up testing negative."

[Roisin]

Can't they just stop all flights going in and out of West Africa and for that matter, the entire African continent? Once
again, the only thing I can think of is that there are forces out there that want this disease to spread on a global level.
I'm really curious to find out how many stewardesses/stewards and even pilots are taking their vacation leaves now or are even quitting their jobs
at those airlines that are servicing those countries due to this epidemic.... but we are not reading about that in the news anywhere, are we?

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According to this comment - supposedly written by someone who works in a hospital laboratory. Michael Snyder shares three quotes that we found particularly sobering...

#1 "Even in the United States, out of all the various hospitals I have worked at, there is no hope of containing anything like this. One of the largest hospitals I worked at only had two reverse flow isolation rooms. TWO, let that sink in for a minute."

#2 "Patients only show up to the hospital when they go symptomatic. So by the time they get there, they've already infected their entire family, their work group, and anyone they got within a few feet of on the way to the hospital. When they get there the ER nurses would treat it either like Flu, or Sepsis. But the whole time the patient is infecting all of them. And all of them, in turn, begin to infect everyone else in the exact same way. If this is as virulent as the WHO thinks it might be, by the time people realize what is going on, there will be more sick people than there would be beds available at every hospital in the US combined."

#3 "So don't expect miracles from front line hospital staff, we don't have the tools, and we certainly do not have the manpower. Ask anyone in the medical field how much overtime they could work if they felt like it, don't even get me started on how thinly stretched people in the industry are. Though I suppose if this does turn into something, that will become apparent very, very fast."

There is no way in the world that our medical professionals are going to be able to handle a full-blown Ebola pandemic.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-07/nigeria-declares-state-emergency-everyone-world-risk-ebola-cdc-issues-level-1-all-ha

[Bob]

Can't they just stop all flights going in and out of West Africa and for that matter,

the entire African continent?

Once
again, the only thing I can think of is that there are forces out there that want this disease to spread on a global level.
I'm really curious to find out how many stewardesses/stewards and even pilots are taking their vacation leaves now or are even quitting their jobs
at those airlines that are servicing those countries due to this epidemic.... but we are not reading about that in the news anywhere, are we?

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According to this comment - supposedly written by someone who works in a hospital laboratory. Michael Snyder shares three quotes that we found particularly sobering...

#1 "Even in the United States, out of all the various hospitals I have worked at, there is no hope of containing anything like this. One of the largest hospitals I worked at only had two reverse flow isolation rooms. TWO, let that sink in for a minute."

#2 "Patients only show up to the hospital when they go symptomatic. So by the time they get there, they've already infected their entire family, their work group, and anyone they got within a few feet of on the way to the hospital. When they get there the ER nurses would treat it either like Flu, or Sepsis. But the whole time the patient is infecting all of them. And all of them, in turn, begin to infect everyone else in the exact same way. If this is as virulent as the WHO thinks it might be, by the time people realize what is going on, there will be more sick people than there would be beds available at every hospital in the US combined."

#3 "So don't expect miracles from front line hospital staff, we don't have the tools, and we certainly do not have the manpower. Ask anyone in the medical field how much overtime they could work if they felt like it, don't even get me started on how thinly stretched people in the industry are. Though I suppose if this does turn into something, that will become apparent very, very fast."

There is no way in the world that our medical professionals are going to be able to handle a full-blown Ebola pandemic.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-07/nigeria-declares-state-emergency-everyone-world-risk-ebola-cdc-issues-level-1-all-ha

It's interesting, the reason for NOT stopping flights is ECONOMIC.

Sources : http://online.wsj.com/articles/nigeria-ivory-coast-restrict-flights-from-countries-hit-by-ebola-virus-1407767218

" [..] a pandemic on the world's poorest continent would be a devastating setback—potentially reversing gains that many nations here have made against poverty.

"That scenario has emerged as a threat to Africa's economic outlook this year, said Chris Derksen, head of frontier and emerging markets at Investec Asset Management.

"Health experts generally consider that scenario to be unlikely, and some are cautioning governments against overreacting."

"The World Health Organization on Friday said it saw no reason to cancel flight connections to the three West African countries overwhelmed by Ebola—even as it termed the epidemics there a global public-health emergency. The U.S. Embassy in Liberia echoed that view last week."

Seriously, they are not stopping flights because it might hinder FINANCIAL GAINS that they think have been created in Africa.. $$$ means ignore threats to death.. Is that wild or what?

Source : http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ebola-starting-to-take-an-economic-toll-in-west-africa/2014/08/09/49677014-1fe3-11e4-ab7b-696c295ddfd1_story.html

from the Washington Post -

"Ebola starting to take an economic toll in West Africa"

Caterpillar has evacuated a handful of employees from Liberia. Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd. has suspended a drilling project. British Airways has canceled flights to the region. Exxon Mobil and Chevron are waiting to see whether health officials can contain the danger.

The Ebola outbreak, which has claimed nearly 1,500 lives, is disrupting business and inflicting economic damage in the three African countries at the center of the crisis: Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. So far, analysts say the crisis doesn't threaten the broader African or global economies.


(UNBELIEVABLE !!)


“We must make sure it is controlled and contained as quickly as possible,” said Olusegun Aganga, trade minister in Nigeria, which has confirmed nine cases of Ebola. “Once that is done, I don’t think it will have a lasting impact on the economy.”

On Friday, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak an international public health emergency. The WHO didn’t recommend any travel or trade bans..

“People won’t go to work. Expatriates will leave. Economic activity will slow. Fields won’t get planted.”

The World Bank estimates that the outbreak will shrink economic growth in Guinea, where the crisis emerged in March, from 4.5 percent to 3.5 percent this year.

Ama Egyaba Baidu-Forson, an economist at IHS Global Insight who focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, is cutting her forecasts for growth this year in Liberia and Sierra Leone. She warned that prices would rise as food and other staples become scarce and that the region’s already fragile governments would run up big budget deficits in fighting Ebola.

Baidu-Forson says the countries hit by Ebola ultimately could require financial help from the International Monetary Fund.

Tawana Resources, an Australian iron-ore company, said it had suspended “all nonessential field activities within Liberia” and sent all nonessential African workers, expatriates and contractors home.

London-based mining company African Minerals has begun imposing health checks and travel restrictions on employees in the region.

Canadian Overseas Petroleum, based in Calgary, has stopped drilling in Liberia. And some of its expatriate employees have left the country.

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There's a lot more about the push back happening because the $$$$ income is being affected, so their toss-up that is being weighed is, keep trying to make $$ (ignore the epidemic) or try to stop this epidemic. Apparently making $$$ for now is winning.

Earlier in this thread I pointed out Russia and China have been attempting to cut deals with these three countries, for oil, diamonds and minerals. And a question was raised, just what would ensure contracts with those countries, a "cure for the disease?"

[Bob]

DR Congo confirms 2 Ebola cases have died - now spreading to a 5th country

(Source (http://www.vox.com/2014/8/24/6063027/ebola-virus-found-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo))

The Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa — appears to be battling the virus. -- This is critical,the strain is DIFFERENT than the West African Ebola (Zaire) strain.

The DRC health minister, Dr. Felix Kabange Numbi, says two people have died from Ebola in a deadly hemorrhagic fever outbreak in a remote, northwestern region of the country.

According to reports, there were 13 deaths in total (two having been confirmed as Ebola).

The World Health Organization previously thought they were unrelated to the Ebola virus, but since then two of the deaths have been confirmed by the DRC as being Ebola-related.

The link with the West African outbreak is not yet clear, as the WHO says it is waiting to find out which of the five strains of the Ebola virus afflicted the Congolese and whether they match the strain circulating in West Africa, known as Zaire ebolavirus. (Zaire strain has been known as the weaponized strain and two which zMapp and other antiviral treatments for that strain have been developed). A new strain, or one of the other strains would require a different mono-clonal antibody..

A new strain or one of the other strains appearing now would be suspicious.

A WHO spokesperson said confirmation about whether this is a separate outbreak will likely arrive on Monday and cautioned that the notice about the two DRC deaths has not come from the WHO.

Northern Equateur province of DR Congo is where the outbreak is originating.

[Bob]

Britain now has a new Ebola Patient

Just as the US and Spain have had Ebola patients repatriated from West Africa, a Brit (mentioned a couple posts before), has now arrived.

This Patient will treated in a special tent, which is part of a normal ward, BBC News correspondent Andy Moore said.

(Source (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28919831))

The healthcare worker landed at London's RAF Northolt in a specially-equipped C-17 aircraft and has been transported to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London.

The man is "not currently seriously unwell", a Department of Health spokesman said.

Health officials have stressed the risk to the UK remains "very low". :)

The DoH said the decision to return the patient to the UK was taken following "clinical advice".

Earlier, prior to the transfer, Prof John Watson, DoH deputy chief medical officer, said the Ebola Patient would be taken in a specially-adapted ambulance to a high level isolation unit - the only unit of its kind in the UK.

Notice however the "isolation unit" is a plastic tent.

'Best care possible'

It is the first confirmed case of a Briton contracting the virus during the current outbreak, in which 1,427 people have died.

The World Health Organization has estimated 2,615 people in West Africa have been infected with Ebola since March.


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The patient arrived at night with no fanfare transported by a Royal Air Force C-17 which landed at RAF Northolt in north-west London at 21:00 BST.

Dr Paul Cosford, director for health protection at Public Health England, said the man was being transferred with "all appropriate protocols promptly activated" by UK health agencies.

"Protective measures will be strictly maintained to minimise the risk of transmission to staff transporting the patient to the UK and healthcare workers treating the individual," he said.

He added: "UK hospitals have a proven record of dealing with imported infectious diseases and this patient will be isolated and will receive the best care possible."

The "isolation unit" (shown below) is at the London Royal Free Hospital.

It is not the same as Emory's BSL-4 isolation unit, using plastic tenting and air pressure for "protection" and it is apparently in a regular ward at the hospital..


http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77143000/jpg/_77143220_023481255-1.jpg

This tent system has its own ventilation unit, which cleans air before it is released into the atmosphere.

[SilentFeathers]

Have you notice the US msm wants us to "forget" about this? Seems war with ISIS and the US getting attacked by ISIS is more important than a global pandemic. Perhaps it is....if your not dieing of ebola the boogey man will getchya!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bob]

British Airways flight from London to Aberdeen passengers were quarantined for almost two hours last night amid fears a young girl had the deadly Ebola virus.

A 10-year-old girl, said to be of Nigerian descent, was “violently sick” onboard the BA1314 service from Heathrow.

Shocked passengers looked on as personnel in bio-hazard suits boarded the plane, which had left the capital shortly before 6pm.

The aircraft was held on the runway for about 90 minutes, while other flights from London’s Gatwick and City airports disembarked nearby.

The girl was examined by medical staff and found not to have the virus.

However, she was taken by ambulance to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for further checks.

George Eady, duty manager at Aberdeen International Airport, said: “A young girl was violently sick on a flight from Heathrow.

“In any situation like this we enact our port health procedures to protect anyone on board and anyone meeting the flight.

“These procedures are purely precautionary.

“The girl was checked over by a specialist crew from the Scottish Ambulance Service, and has been taken to hospital for further checks.”

Again a strange "disease" strikes, that the medicos are NOT SAYING what it is..

(I noticed a CDC/WHO report describing that there appears to be an outbreak of Hemorrhagic Gastroenteritis that has been killing people in the Province of Equtor (DR Congo). Hemorrhagic Enteritis attacks cattle, dogs and fowl. 592 people in DR Congo had contracted the disease, at least 70 died. This is a form a of gastroenteritis caused by the bacteria E. coli O157:H7, which has results in a bacterial infection. (We have other threads on the Forum dealing with E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks in the US.) ) Although out of those Hemorrhagic Gastroenteritis cases 2 cases were described as Ebola cases (in the Forum post above).

A total of 101 passengers were kept on the aircraft until around 8.30pm last night, when the incident was stood down and they were allowed to disembark.

One passenger on the flight described the situation by text message, saying someone was ill and being taken from the plane in bio-hazard suits.

The passenger went on to say the plane would be sealed once the passengers had been removed, and men in bio-hazard suits were already aboard.


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[Bob]

Pulmonologist in Tennessee is saying EBOLA is AIRBORNE

This Dr. says EBOLA transmission via the AIR is a serious issue, and does happen.

He reminds workers using the CDC recommended mask (this mask is NOT a full face shield respirator mask, but a nice surgical mask) that their chances of getting Ebola from the close contact with patients (being within 3 feet) is likely to happen, DESPITE the regular (non-air tight) eye shields being used (when available).

He also points out besides the swine testing which showed AEROSOL transmission was possible, he described a government study (weapons group) which show that primates (monkeys) will transfer via AIRBORNE route quite some distance away, with no idea exactly HOW the transmission happened.

(Source (http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/airborne_transmission_of_ebola.html))

Here is an extract from his Article

Currently the CDC advises healthcare workers to use goggles and simple face masks for respiratory and eye protection, and a fitted N-95 mask during aerosol-generating medical procedures. Since so many doctors and nurses are dying in West Africa, it is clear that this level of protection is inadequate. Full face respirators with P-100 (HEPA) replacement filters would provide greater airway and eye protection, and I believe this would save the lives of many doctors, nurses, and others who come into close contact with, or in proximity to, Ebola victims.

Dr. Ronald Cherry also points out:


The United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases conducted a monkey to monkey Ebola study in December 1995, published in The Lancet, Vol. 346.

Several Rhesus monkeys were infected with Zaire Ebola by intramuscular injection while three control Rhesus monkeys were kept in cages separated 10 feet from the infected monkeys. All of the injected monkeys died of Ebola by day 13 and 2 out of 3 control monkeys died of Ebola by 8 days after that.

The authors of this study concluded that:

"The exact mode of transmission to the control monkeys cannot be absolutely determined, although the pattern of pulmonary antigen staining in one of the control monkeys was virtually identical to that reported in experimental Ebola virus aerosol infection in rhesus monkeys, suggesting airborne transmission of the disease via infectious droplets... Fomite or contact droplet transmission of the virus between cages was considered unlikely.

Standard procedures in our BL4 containment laboratories have always been successful in the prevention of transmission of Ebola or Marburg virus to uninflected animals. Thus, pulmonary, nasopharyngeal, oral, or conjunctival exposure to airborne droplets of the virus had to be considered as the most likely mode of infection... Our present findings emphasize the advisability of at-risk personnel employing precautions to safeguard against ocular, oral, and nasopharyngeal exposure to the virus."

Facilities around the world where Ebola Patients are being treated are NOT STANDARD BSL-4 grade biocontainment facilities.. As evidenced by the health care workers infected AND DYING..

Dr. Cherry stated the Dr Kent Brantly TOOK PROPER CDC recommended protocols and procedures.. YET he still was infected.

We know that airborne transmission of Ebola occurs from pigs to monkeys in experimental settings.

We also know that healthcare workers like Dr. Kent Brantly are contracting Ebola in West Africa despite CDC-level barrier protection measures against physical contact with the bodies and body fluids of Ebola victims, so it only makes sense to conclude that some -- possibly many -- of these doctors, nurses, and ancillary healthcare workers are being infected via airborne transmission.

[Cidersomerset]

A couple of articles I just put on another thread.......


USA created Ebola virus as biological weapon?

Monday 25th August 2014 at 04:33 By david-icke


http://www.davidicke.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Ebola-story.jpeg.jpg


‘The epidemic of the deadly Ebola virus that was born in the depths of the
jungle, has been spreading around the world with an unprecedented speed
lately. The number of victims, according to official figures, has already
exceeded a thousand people. The number of infected individuals nears
almost two thousand. The WHO declared the disease a threat of global
significance. Are there ways to combat the fever?

It turns out that there is a vaccine against Ebola. Pentagon scientists were
developing it for 30 years, and all the rights for the drug belong to the
government of the United States. Two infected US medics received injections
of the vaccine and they started recovering from the disease immediately.

Why has this been made public only now? Why is it the USA that holds all
the rights for the use of the vaccine? There can be two most obvious answers
found to these questions.’




Read more: USA created Ebola virus as biological weapon?

http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/11-08-2014/128247-ebola_biological_weapon-0/


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Governments resort to medieval quarantine tactic to halt spread of Ebola

Monday 25th August 2014 at 04:54 By david-icke


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‘Without a sound medical solution to the worst outbreak of Ebola in the history of
the planet, governments and non-governmental organizations are turning to a
medieval technique that could affect as many as 1 million people, according to the
World Health Organization (WHO).

As reported by WorldNetDaily (WND), the tactic, which was popularized during the
era of the Black Death plague in the 14th century, is known as cordon sanitaire,
which is essentially drawing a line around a geographic area where the infections
are occurring, letting no one exit — a quarantine.

It hasn’t been used since the end of World War I.’

Read more: Governments resort to medieval quarantine tactic to halt spread of Ebola




http://www.naturalnews.com/046582_Ebola_quarantine_tactics_governments.html

[Bob]

Liberian Doctor in Liberia given one of the zMapp samples dies.

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — A Liberian doctor who was among three Africans to receive an experimental Ebola drug has died, the country's information minister said Monday, as a top U.N. delegation promised more help for countries battling the virulent disease during a visit to Sierra Leone.

Dr. Abraham Borbor, the deputy chief medical doctor at Liberia's largest hospital, had received the untested drug, ZMapp, after it was given to two Americans. After receiving medical care in the U.S. (Emory) they later survived the virus that has killed about half of its victims.

A Spanish missionary priest infected with Ebola also received the treatment but died. There was no update given on the two other Liberians who took the last known available doses of ZMapp.

Borbor "was showing signs of improvement but yesterday he took a turn for the worse," and died Sunday, Information Minister Lewis Brown told The Associated Press.

So that is 2 lived 2 died for the zMapp drug. (The two who lived were treated in a BSL-4 grade facility in Georgia, at Emory University Hospital.

The monoclonal antibody treatment studies in primates have shown a similar type of trend, given too late and it doesn't work, given just when symptoms start to appear, that the likelihood for complete survival is good. Apparently when there is excessive organ damage, the body cannot recover, and that happens with the progression of the disease. Adequate supportive therapy, such as heart lung machine, kidney dialysis, liver enzyme issues to be dealt with properly have to be looked at, in a hospital facility which can handle such.. It is unknown if the Hospital in Monrovia was able to provide such support services..

(Source (http://www.chron.com/news/medical/article/Liberia-Doctor-given-experimental-Ebola-drug-dies-5710246.php))

[Bob]

Japan has a possible drug to treat Ebola - and is willing to provide it

(Source (http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/8/25/japan-could-offerunapprovedeboladrugundercertaincriteria.html))

The US continues to horde its treatments, possibly building up Military Stockpiles for troops of Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fever viri.

JAPAN however says we have a FLU drug which looks like it can act like a major anti-viral.

Japan is ready to provide an unapproved, anti-influenza drug to help treat the deadly Ebola virus, the Japanese government announced on Monday, a day after the Democratic Republic of Congo declared an Ebola outbreak in its northern Equateur province on Sunday caused by a strain different from the West Africa one, according to the health ministry.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters that Japan could offer the drug any time at the request of the World Health Organization (WHO) and was willing to make an international contribution to help control the epidemic that has claimed at least 1,427 lives — mostly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and neighboring Guinea. There have been six outbreaks of Ebola in DRC since the disease was discovered there in 1976, with a total of more than 760 deaths.

Suga said Japan was watching for WHO's decision on further details over the use of untested drugs. In case of an emergency, Japan may respond to individual requests even before any decision by the WHO, he said.

"I am informed that medical professionals could make a request for T-705 in an emergency even before a decision by the WHO. In that case, we would like to respond under certain criteria," he said.

The WHO said earlier this month that it is ethical to use untested drugs on Ebola patients given the magnitude of the outbreak.

T-705 is the developmental code for the influenza drug favipiravir.

Japan's Fujifilm Holdings Corp and U.S. partner MediVector are in talks with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to submit an application to expand the use of favipiravir as a treatment for Ebola.

Fujifilm's spokesman Takao Aoki said his firm has favipiravir stock for more than 20,000 patients.

[Bob]

Another Possible Ebola case arrives from Dubai (UAE) in INDIA

A 32-year-old man, who returned from Nigeria, has been suspected to have contracted the deadly Ebola virus on Sunday at Terminal 2 of the Mumbai International airport. According to the airport officials, his eyes were red. He had mild fever and runny nose.

He was immediately sent to civic-run hospital designated Bal Thackeray Trauma Care Centre in Jogeshwari, where he has been quarantined.

The suspect had landed via Dubai and he is the first passenger to be kept under quarantine at a hospital.

Earlier, a resident from Vasai, who was suspected to have the disease, was quarantined at his home.

Although the suspect does not have any other classic symptoms of Ebola, he will be closely monitored until the doctors are sure that he does not carry the virus. His blood samples are sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune.

As USUAL - According to the doctors, until the results are confirmed, there is no need to panic. (nothing to see, ignore the epidemic in Africa)

(Source (http://www.thehealthsite.com/news/ebola-in-india-has-the-nigeria-returned-brought-ebola-virus-to-mumbai/))

5 reasons the ebola virus should never come to India

Here are five reasons why ebola in India is a very scary scenario:

* High rate of spread

The virus seems to spread very quickly from one human to another and it can spread through body fluids like blood, saliva, stool, urine, sweat, etc. This makes it extremely dangerous in a densely populated country like ours where it’s easy to catch the virus while travelling, in offices or in any other public area. The disease can also spread through soiled clothing, bed linen or used needles.

* High fatality rate

According to the WHO, EVD (Ebola Virus Disease) outbreaks have a fatality rate of 90%. Currently, there is no licensed treatment or vaccine for the disease, either for humans or animals. The only way to treat patients is to place them in ICUs and that too is very dangerous for healthcare workers or anyone coming in contact with the victims.

* No natural immunity

Unlike the African countries where ebola outbreaks have occurred before, the disease – if it arrives is completely new in India – which means that we have no natural immunity against the virus. Our internal body system has never experienced anything like the ebola virus and won’t know how to fight it.

* Lack of healthcare services

Healthcare services in our country are abysmal to say the least. The doctor-patient ratio is skewed beyond belief; most rural areas have no access to healthcare services, many can’t afford quality healthcare and around 2.1 million deaths per year are avoidable. So imagine the damage a completely unknown, non-indigenous virus could do to our lands. (Read: What ails India’s healthcare system)

* Huge, vulnerable population

India is the second-most populated country in the world, where many people don’t have basic access to healthcare services. People live together in huge masses, in cities; public transport is cramped beyond belief. Another potential epidemic, HIV/AIDS, which can spread through unprotected sex, intravenous drug use or blood transfusions never, became a huge problem in India because apparently as a nation, we don’t sleep around that much or use intravenous drugs. The ebola virus on the other hand can spread through saliva and sweat (HIV can’t) which makes it that much more worrying.

[Bob]

Relevant recent reference posts in this thread:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=868660&viewfull=1#post868660 - EBOLA really IS airborne.. Pulmonologist in Tennessee says here is the Government Study proving that it is..

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=867637&viewfull=1#post867637 - Nigeria data

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=867643&viewfull=1#post867643 - US States who have requested CDC help

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=867674&viewfull=1#post867674 - Air France employees worried about Ebola (should Ebola end up in Paris because AF brought such in)

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=868125&viewfull=1#post868125 - A Brit now is in UK with Ebola being treated in a plastic tent.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=868642&viewfull=1#post868642 - DR Congo has different Ebola strain than West Africa strain.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=868836&viewfull=1#post868836 - Japan says it is willing to make available up to 20,000 doses of an antiviral treatment which may work on Ebola.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=864395&viewfull=1#post864395 - what is Close Contact with someone with Ebola?

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=864385&viewfull=1#post864385 - how is Ebola tested for, what has to be done to determine if Ebola is present? (or another hemorrhagic fever)

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=862232&viewfull=1#post862232 - Auburn University says it may have a new treatment for Ebola (and other viruses)

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=862598&viewfull=1#post862598 - Sarepta - Massachusetts company saying it may have an effective Ebola treatment drug.

[Bob]

William Pooley, age 29 is the UK patient with Ebola

(Source (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/family-british-ebola-victim-william-4105104))


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The family of British Ebola victim William Pooley has thanked doctors fighting to save his life for the 'excellent care' he is being given.

In their first statement since the 29-year-old volunteer nurse was flown back to the UK last night for emergency treatment, his family paid tribute to those who orchestrated his speedy return.

And they also urged Britons to consider the thousands in West Africa afflicted by the virus, but dying in their droves because they lack adequate medical care.

They said: "We would like to express our thanks to all involved in bringing our son back to the UK.

"We have been astounded by the speed and way which the various international and UK government agencies have worked together to get Will home.

"Will is receiving excellent care at the Royal Free Hospital and we could not ask for him to be in a better place."

[Bob]

Ebola Mutation - DR Congo

preliminary data seems to be in.

In DR Congo which has reported numerous deaths from Hemorrhagic GastroEnteritis (based on an E. Coli bacteria toxin), has reported 2 confirmed cases of Ebola.

One case contained the Ebola-Zaire (the strain that has been bio-weaponized), and the other case contained a brand new HYBRID (MUTATED) strain of the Ebola virus, raising the amount of virus strains to 6 in this filoviri category.

The strain is a mutation hybrid of Sudanese and Zaire according to preliminary data. This if it is the case, means, there is no vaccine nor treatment available.

(Source (http://investmentwatchblog.com/congo-appears-to-include-a-new-hybrid-strain/))

and

(Source (http://af.reuters.com/article/drcNews/idAFL5N0QU14820140824))

ONLY the potentials are for the Serepta product, possibly the Japanese FLU treatment, or the Auburn treatment - the only hope at this time for dealing with this mutated hybrid.

REF Data:

Sudanese Strain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease) -


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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Filovirus_phylogenetic_tree.svg/450px-Filovirus_phylogenetic_tree.svg.png

Gehring G, Rohrmann K, Atenchong N, Mittler E, Becker S, Dahlmann F, Pöhlmann S, Vondran FW, David S, Manns MP, Ciesek S, von Hahn T (2014). "The clinically approved drugs amiodarone, dronedarone and verapamil inhibit filovirus cell entry". J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 69 (8): 2123–31. doi:10.1093/jac/dku091. PMID 24710028

Sudanese strain by itself appears to have a lesser mortality rate than Zaire strain.

The situation with a mutated hybrid - will it be more or less infectious, or capable of killing? Reston strain of Ebola (from Reston Virginia biolab), apparently does not affect humans, but it destroys other primates (monkeys).

[Bob]

Er, How did Will Pooley get the zMapp in London?

zMapp supply is supposed to be 'exhausted', not available for even experimental dosing of Ebola Patients, but UK patient William Pooley seems to have been given a dose.. (and more doses are scheduled for later in the week..)

(Source (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2734220/My-happiness-helping-save-ebola-patients-hero-nurse-Days-later-fighting-life-disease-struck.html))

Dr Michael Jacobs, consultant and clinical lead in infectious diseases at the Royal Free Hospital in London, said: 'We have had the opportunity to give him the ZMapp treatment that I am sure you are aware of.

'It is an experimental medicine, we made that absolutely clear in our discussions with him.

'What has become apparent to us is that he is clearly a rather resilient and remarkable young man.'

The hospital said Mr Pooley is 'sitting up and talking to the nurses and doctors who are looking after him'.

ZMapp has been dubbed by some as the 'cure' to the infection after two aid US workers were successfully treated for ebola after taking it.


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When asked now HOW did the hospital obtain a drug which was "exhausted", and NO supply left?

"Staff at the London hospital said Mr Pooley was given the first dose of ZMapp on Monday and further doses are expected to be given to him 'in due course'.

Dr Jacobs added: 'We are giving him the very best care possible. However, the next few days will be crucial. The disease has a variable course and we will know much more in a week's time.

'Will is in a stable position and we are very pleased with where he is, we couldn't hope for more.'
Dr Jacobs said they had acquired the drug through the hospital's 'clinical networks' and been supported by 'international colleagues'.

So it is not a matter of compassionate care or truth from Mapp BioPharmaceuticals statements 'its not available (for anyone but the select few), it is a matter of WHO YOU KNOW if you get the treatment or not. hmmmm

Outraged yet?

[Bob]

More travelers isolated in India - Ebola worry

(Source (http://www.ndtv.com/article/cheat-sheet/six-passengers-taken-for-ebola-tests-on-arrival-at-delhi-airport-latest-developments-581813))

'New Delhi: Six people who arrived at Delhi airport this morning from Ebola-hit Liberia, have been isolated and taken for further tests. 112 people are arriving at the Mumbai and Delhi airports on seven flights through the day.'

'It will only be confirmed at the hospital whether or not these passengers have Ebola. In Delhi, they are being taken to a centre that airport authorities have put up in Mahipalpur. In Mumbai, they are being taken to Balasaheb Thackeray Trauma Care Centre and other designated civic-run hospitals.'

[Bob]

WHO closes LAB in Sierra Leone - contamination

Ebola has apparently leaked somehow and infected one of the laboratory people working there.

It has been pointed out (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=868660&viewfull=1#post868660) by a Tennessee Pulmonologist who had obtained government study data showing that Ebola is airborne from live/infected animals (primates).

Samples from either the dead or live patients infected would have been all that was present. Therefore it is unknown HOW the lab worker got infected unless a microscopic droplet was transferred to their skin, eyes, or nose, or mouth, or an open wound.

WHO, the World Health Organization has shut down one of its two laboratories in Sierra Leone as one of its health workers contracted the disease. The closing is only temporary and the laboratory would be opened soon, WHO officials said. For the time being though, the grim situation in the Ebola affected Sierra Leone has gotten grimmer due to the defensive step from the organization.

(Source (http://www.anglechronicle.com/whos-ebola-virus-workers-pulled-in-sierra-leone-after-staff-member-infected/198962/))

and

(Source (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-outbreak-canadians-pulled-from-sierra-leone-lab-1.2746945)) - Canadians pulled from Ebola testing Lab

"3 staffers from Winnipeg among those moved as WHO lab shuts down.."

A total of 6 workers will be removed from the Lab after a Senegalese epidemiologist was infected.

The two teams of three workers will decide when or whether to return after WHO investigates whether it was a routine infection, or something to do with the lab's processes or equipment.

"The Canadians will make their own call but it will be based on this group up there doing an investigation now.."

BIG QUESTION
IF the protective equipment wasn't essentially 'defective' for the BSL-4 grade virus, why would so many of the health care workers now be DEAD or INFECTED?

Stats: To date, more than 240 health-care workers have developed the disease and more than 120 have died, according to WHO statistics.

The Senegalese worker is under treatment at a government hospital in the eastern town of Kenema and will be evacuated from Sierra Leone.

[Bob]

Good news for India - Indian nationals arriving from Liberia test negative

The 13 Indian nationals, who arrived in Delhi from Liberia on Tuesday, have been cleared after being screened for the Ebola virus, health ministry said.

According to a health ministry statement four out of the 13 passengers belonged to Delhi.

(original post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=869250&viewfull=1#post869250))

"All were screened for Ebola and found healthy," the health ministry said.

They are working with M/s Afcons in Liberia and were brought back by International SOS (ISOS) organization on the request of M/s Afcons.

These people have been screened at the time of exit from Liberia and none of the evacuees had any symptoms prior to travel, informed medical director, International SOS.

"Even though developed countries are not screening passengers arriving from Ebola affected countries, as a matter of abundant caution, screening for passengers from affected countries have been put into practice by government of India," the statement said.

(Source (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/WHO-alarmed-as-Ebola-affects-medics-13-Indians-from-Liberia-test-negative/articleshow/40928736.cms))

"Officials said Ebola is not an airborne infection. A person has to come in very close contact with the blood and body fluids of an Ebola Patient to acquire this infection.

"According to sources at the Delhi airport, passengers coming from infected countries are asked to fill up a form mentioning whether they have shown any symptoms related to Ebola.

"They are then made to pass through a thermal scanner and anybody who has temperatures above the normal temperature — showing signs of fever — are isolated and then taken to hospital for further tests. It is also being checked if a passenger has come in contact with someone who has had Ebola virus disease. "

(apparently these officials have not seen the Report on Airborne infection potentials)

[Cidersomerset]

I know this is controversial but many think this makes more sense....


Dr Len Horowitz Slams Medical Conspirators For High Treason

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Published on 28 Mar 2014


Original video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjvrU...
To gain a better understanding of the Hows and Whys of Psychological Warfare,
see "Psychological warfare, communication research, and the media" by Dr. Francisco
Gil-White at http://www.hirhome.com/political_gram...

Nearly half of Americans subscribe to medical conspiracy theories purposely discredited.

This shocking short film by world leading drug industry whistleblower, Dr. Leonard G.
Horowitz, "slam dunks" the propaganda issued by scientists and Western intelligence
agents committing treason against the United States and other nations, killing people
worldwide through the laboratory creation and vaccine transmission of HIV/AIDS.

"Who's making the money?" this Harvard-trained behavioral scientist and public health
expert in emerging diseases asks. The answer is made certain by his evidence exposing
the "yellow presses" of the American Medical Association and Wall Street.

Dr. Horowitz produced this outstanding and courageous opposition to his own smearing
by Wikipedia and other "agencies of deception" working with the CIA and National
Security Agency to misinform and control populations through their propaganda. Public
polling, in this case, provides a "pseudoscience protection racket for drug industry
profits" through the widely publicized study by University of Chicago political scientists,
J. Eric Oliver, PhD, and Thomas Wood, MA. Their propaganda defrauds people, diverts
from the covered-up facts, "smoking guns," and potential cures for the disease
generated by multi-national corporate-controlled governments for profit and population control.

Proving HIV/AIDS was man-made, Dr. Horowitz shows you evidence of the most taboo
subject of all in AIDS science--the use of contaminated CHIMPANZEES to produce the
earliest hepatitis B vaccine studies using gay men in New York City who became the
earliest, most heavily killed, victims of this treason.

Horowitz expresses his outrage over the propagandists' false claim that "medical
conspiracists" are mentally ill, or "cognitively blocking" "normal" thinking. Writing as a
world-leading "medical conspiracist," objecting to the JAMA article: "Medical Conspiracy
Theories and Health Behaviors in the United States," he exposes the United States
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Chicago-based Tribute Company, owner of the
Los Angeles Times, for committing "iatrogenocide"--mass murder with catastrophic
social and economic consequences.

The medical conspiracy theories article, headlined by Melissa Healy for the Times,
titled, "Nearly half of Americans subscribe to a medical conspiracy theory," is
outrageously misleading, scientifically erroneous, transparently commercial, and
treasonous as it aids-and-abets doctor-induced mortality and morbidity ongoing in the
AIDS genocide, and beyond, Dr. Horowitz reports.

"Every reasonably intelligent health behaviorist, or even veteran journalist, knows that
questions determine answers, and the way questions are phrased determines people's
responses," Dr. Horowitz explains with evidence proving consumer fraud by the political
scientists serving the CIA and NSA's public persuasion and population management
agendas.

As the author of the award-winning book, "Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola--
Nature, Accident or Intentional?," Dr. Horowitz explores the CIA—HIV/AIDS
conspiracy "theory" most thoroughly among all treatments of this taboo subject.
His findings corroborate Dr. Alan Cantwell's conclusions pursuant to the hepatitis b
vaccine transmissions of HIV/AIDS killing mostly initially gay men in New York City.

The major "cognitive shortcut" in the fraudulent conclusions drawn by Oliver and Wood,
Dr. Horowitz explains, is their polling question: "The CIA deliberately infected large
numbers of African Americans with HIV under the guise of a hepatitis inoculation program."

"No reasonably informed person would answer 'yes' to such a false and misleading
question," he says.

Alternatively, the more honest related question that received overwhelming public
agreement was, "The Food and Drug Administration is deliberately preventing the public
from getting natural cures for cancer and other diseases because of pressure from drug companies."

The U of C study design was purposely flawed to obfuscate this most controversial
matter, Dr. Horowitz reports, using the media's propaganda to evidence an organized
criminal conspiracy to sustain the drug-industry's genocidal monopoly over "healthcare."

"In conclusion, the aforementioned purveyors of propaganda should be more than
ashamed of themselves," Dr. Horowitz condemns. "They should be tried and convicted
for high treason and mass murder."

CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK to read more with links to the referenced articles:
http://www.waronwethepeople.com/medic...


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AIDS and Ebola Viruses Were ‘Man-Made:’ Expert Shocks National Radio Audience

By david-icke

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Tagged:
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‘AIDS and Ebola viruses did not originate from monkeys left alone in the wild – they
were bioengineered in American laboratories. So says an internationally known
public health authority with Harvard credentials, Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, based on
a review of more than 2,500 government documents and scientific reports, some
gained through the Freedom of Information Act and never before revealed to the
general public.’

Read more: AIDS and Ebola Viruses Were 'Man-Made:' Expert Shocks National Radio Audience

http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/ebola-accident-or-genocide/


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The Truth from the horse's mouth - AIDS and Ebola Viruses Man-Made

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Published on 6 Aug 2014


STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH

HIV/AIDS was created in a lab
AIDS and Ebola Viruses Were "Man-Made"


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UPDATE............


I must admit I forgot this interview......

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.

[Cidersomerset]

Er, How did Will Pooley get the zMapp in London?

I suspect that although the 'Great Satan ' US is getting the blame,
his son 'Little Nicky' the UK Bio warfare at Porton Down has links
to what has been going on....( Little Nicky is ref to a movie ..LOL)



British Ebola sufferer William Pooley speaks about treating survivors in Sierra Leone - video

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the guardian..........

British Ebola patient Will Pooley taking experimental drug ZMapp

Royal Free hospital in Hampstead says next few days are critical
for 29-year-old nurse who contracted virus in Sierra Leone

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/26/british-ebola-victim-will-pooley-drug-zmapp

[Cidersomerset]

They discuss the bring of Ebola patients home
instead at in 'theatre' at the end....

How to Opt-Out Of Forced Vaccinations


Published on 25 Aug 2014

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Well, get your book bags packed and your shoes tied tight. It’s about time to go back to school again.

Every fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention send out their reminders to parents to
vaccinate their children. Different states have various vaccination requirements, mostly targeting
mumps, measles, rubella, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and polio.

For many years, especially while many of these vaccinations were still being developed, the majority
of the population relied solely on the CDC for their information about vaccines. In recent years, large
groups of people have started to question the overall benefit of vaccinations. With so many people
objecting to the mandatory shots, we turn to Dr Mayer Eisenstein. He says that kids CAN go to
school WITHOUT vaccines.

Doctor Eisenstein is a graduate of the University of Illinois Medical School and the Medical College of
Wisconsin School of Public Health. He’s been practicing medicine for 42 years, caring for over 75 thousand people.

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[Bob]

A third top doctor has died from Ebola in Sierra Leone, a government official said Wednesday, as health workers tried to determine how a fourth scientist also contracted the disease before being evacuated to Europe.

The announcements raised worries about Sierra Leone's fight against Ebola, which already has killed more than 1,400 people across West Africa. The World Health Organization said it was sending a team to investigate how the epidemiologist now undergoing treatment in Germany may have contracted the disease that kills more than half its victims.

(AS has been pointed out in posts: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=868660&viewfull=1#post868660 above, Ebola is AIRBORNE and the methods of protecting DOCTORS and NURSES and AIDES is not adequate. All the US bioweapons labs say work in a BSL level 4, with moon suits, proper air chambers, filters, showers disinfection..)

SO the issue is EDUCATION AGAIN (lack of it) , and lack of proper equipment to deal with this.

Dr. Sahr Rogers had been working at a hospital in the eastern town of Kenema when he contracted Ebola, said Sierra Leonean presidential adviser Ibrahim Ben Kargbo on Wednesday. Two other top doctors already have succumbed to Ebola since the outbreak emerged there earlier this year, including Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, who also treated patients in Kenema.

Rogers' death marks yet another setback for Sierra Leone.

The Senegalese epidemiologist who was working at the now CLOSED down Ebola Lab for WHO, was evacuated to Germany for treatment.

Canada also announced late Tuesday it was evacuating a three-member mobile laboratory team from Sierra Leone after people in their hotel were diagnosed with Ebola.

The Public Agency of Canada said none of the team members was showing any signs of illness but that they would remain in voluntary isolation during the 21-day incubation period.

(Source (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ebola-upper-hand-us-official-25130896))

[Bob]

NIGERIA takes extraordinary measure to STOP Ebola in their Country by moving to MINIMIZE public gatherings, including SHUTTING down ALL schools until OCTOBER.

(Source (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28950347))

BBC - 27 August 2014 Last updated at 10:44 ET

All schools in Nigeria have been ordered to remain shut until 13 October as part of measures to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.

The new academic year was due to start on Monday.

Air France has FINALLY now announced it is suspending flights only to Sierra Leone afterThursday, following a request by the French government.

Pilots, staff and crew of Air France airlines have petitioned to STOP flights into all the affected Countries. Those countries are Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea..


http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77190000/jpg/_77190292_023637845-1.jpg

By the way, the Senegalese epidemiologist mentioned in the above post has been flown to Hamburg from Sierra Leone for treatment.

Meanwhile over in INDIA

Frantic testing of arriving passengers from Liberia is going on at the airport, with a person now and then with fever and sore throat causing concern. (Source (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Delhi/Flight-from-Ebola-Fingers-are-crossed/articleshow/40960259.cms))

INDIA is taking the thread of an EBOLA outbreak VERY seriously, not poo pooing anything.

"On Tuesday, IGI airport witnessed hectic activity with passengers being rushed out of the airport and an APHO ambulance making several rounds from their office at the airport and T-3's arrival terminal. The first flight from Liberia, routed via Doha, QR564, landed at IGI at 7.40 am. The next flight - Ethiopian Airlines - came almost an hour later. Three passengers from it were rushed to APHO in an ambulance.

"The Ebola suspects were wearing a suit and face mask. Officials at the airport said the aircraft carrying the passengers was being sequestered and fumigated. "The luggage of the Ebola suspects is also being isolated," an official said.

"The scare this disease has caused was palpable inside and outside the airport. All staff inside the airport wore face masks to prevent contamination since hundreds of foreign visitors were arriving at the international terminal by the hour. "

[Bob]

Those 3 LAST DOSES of zMapp sent to Liberia - the update

Wow - the two Africans who had the Ebola have been told they are going to be DISCHARGED this coming FRIDAY !

The Doctor though was not so lucky, he died (as mentioned earlier in this thread).

(Source (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2014/08/26/2-african-ebola-patients-to-be-discharged-from-hospital-after-getting-zmapp/))

Apparently, zMapp WORKS if it is given early enough and the patient has a strong enough body to deal with the multiple organ failures which happen as the disease progresses..

"Three African health workers — two African doctors and one physician’s assistant — received the drug after contracting the virus earlier this month, according to Dr. Moses Massaquoi, who heads Ebola case management at Liberia’s health ministry.

"Though they were all showing signs of improvement at first, one of the doctors died on Aug. 24. He also had diabetes and hypertension, Massaquoi said.

The remaining two patients improved soon after receiving the first of three doses of ZMapp — a cocktail of three antibodies meant to attack the virus. They are expected to be discharged on Friday."

[Bob]

Scammers selling "ebola cures/treatments" and conspiracy 'buffs' continue to try to block actual efforts to stop the Ebola outbreaks

New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/upshot/fighting-ebola-and-the-conspiracy-theories.html) reporting, and Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwasik/2014/08/27/ebola-schemes-a-viral-menace/) reporting -

Forbes is pointing out when a "company" claims to have a cure or treatment for a disease such as Ebola, ask at least these questions and watch carefully (there are 9 more questions on the source website):


Changes to a company’s business focus also may be an indication of a potential scam. Watch out for companies that change their names or tout new disease-prevention product lines following extensive media coverage about a potential viral disease outbreak.
Read the fine print. Pay attention to statements that accompany unsolicited information you read about a company. They may provide context so you can properly evaluate the information. Disclosure statements in promotional materials may reveal that the senders have been paid large sums of money to provide optimistic coverage of the stock.
Don’t fall for name dropping. Citing a relationship with a government agency, prominent company or academic institution may be a ploy to create legitimacy for a company that does not deserve it. Be skeptical about these claims and try to confirm their authenticity.
Also be wary if a company claims that it has received a “seal of approval” or similar distinction for its products. In some cases, companies pay an annual fee for these accolades or to remain on an organization’s “recommended products” list.


From the NY Times page -

"In the developed world, myths about the risks of vaccines have enabled the resurgence of communicable diseases like measles and pertussis. And in developing countries, false beliefs have hindered efforts to fight H.I.V./AIDS and eradicate polio in countries like Nigeria and Pakistan.

"The latest example of the dangers of health misinformation comes from Western Africa, where the response to an Ebola outbreak in four countries has been hampered by conspiracy theories about its causes and phony rumors about how to treat it. False beliefs may not be the biggest obstacle to containing the Ebola outbreak, but they make an awful situation worse."

"A resident of a heavily affected area in Liberia told The Wall Street Journal last week: “I’ve never seen anybody die of Ebola. I’ve only heard of it. So it’s a rumor.” These beliefs are often based on conspiracy theories that the disease was invented by national governments in search of international aid or political power." (see posts in this thread related to such statements for more information)

"This kind of misinformation, along with fear of contagion, has led to some health workers’ coming under attack, being blocked from entering affected areas or being spurned by their own communities. Workers have also encountered conspiracy theories that Ebola was brought to the region by Westerners.

"In addition, false claims are circulating about how to treat the disease (we all have heard about the push for nanosilver). The World Health Organization issued a statement warning people against unproven treatments or supposed preventive measures, such as drinking salt water, which has reportedly killed several people in Nigeria.

RECENT COMMENTS on the NY Times page cited above

"Fat Man 13 hours ago comments:
"Behold there is nothing new under the sun:"When cholera had first struck Europe at the beginning of the 1830s, there had been popular..."

"edmund dantes 13 hours ago omments:
"This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Assuming it does get better. Ebola has apparently evolved from earlier strains, so...

"Concerned Citizen 13 hours ago posts:
"Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? Because they seem like an equally valid explanation to the propaganda they are fed by..."

"As we’ve seen in the case of vaccines, circulating correct information about the causes and treatment of Ebola — as the W.H.O. and national governments are trying to do — has not been enough to erase these myths, particularly given the pace and scope of the outbreak and the lack of health facilities and workers in the region. A better approach (though harder to do quickly enough) is to work with trusted community leaders, as Dr. Marc Forget of Medecins Sans Frontieres."

Doctors Without Borders is ON the front line and having to deal with these rumors continually spread by people who are NOT doing any good trying to inform people:
1) what is happening - what is the nature of the disease
2) where is it happening
3) what measures can be taken to control the spread (how is it spread)
4) what is the source of the infection, how can it be caught?
5) what must CHANGE in behaviour to stop the spread, how to EDUCATE

Conspiracy buffs push for "this is the monster who created it, see, its a world conspiracy to rule you.." or some such rot. These people in the back woods aren't ruled by any government, they deal with day to day fears how to find food, water, and shelter. They are not educated in any western ways for the most part, and have intense spiritual taboos, and fears, literally from thousands of years ago.

Education tries to help people understand the 5 points above, compassionately.

Fear mongers push an AGENDA, using any opportunity, that can potentially gain traction due to people's ignorance, using bogus or partial information spun to push the agenda.

It could be a great revelation to actually SEE REPORTS from the conspiracy theorists going to the FRONT LINE and reporting actually what is happening from their OWN VIEW.. Instead we see rehashed spin pieced together to attempt to motivate people to believe in their agenda.. That will never happen though.

[Bob]

Germany now has its first Ebola Patient there for treatment

(Source (http://online.wsj.com/articles/ebola-patient-arrives-in-germany-for-treatment-1409134206))

"Updated Aug. 27, 2014 10:14 a.m. ET - BERLIN—A World Health Organization staff member infected with the Ebola virus arrived in Germany for treatment Wednesday after being evacuated from West Africa.

"The Senegalese health worker, the first Ebola patient to be treated in Germany, has been transferred from Sierra Leone to the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, or UKE, which specializes in the treatment of highly contagious diseases.

"The patient, who was transported in a special vehicle to the German clinic, is the first WHO staff member to be infected with the virus, a spokesman from the organization confirmed.

"Stefan Schmiedel, who is head of the infectious-diseases section at the UKE hospital, declined to comment on the patient's condition but said he is confident the planned pain treatment, extra fluids and fever-reduction measures will help improve the man's state.

"The patient is in a condition that gives reason for hope," said Mr. Schmiedel during the hospital's televised news conference in Hamburg.

"The hospital's head senior physician, Ansgar Lohse, reassured the public that "no extra risk was taken" while the patient was being transferred from Hamburg's airport to the hospital premises.

"It was a very safe situation," he said during the same news conference "There was no danger to the public or to any worker of the rescue team or of the hospital at any time."

The hospital can treat up to 5 more Ebola (or Ebola-like) infected patients. Other hospitals in GERMANY have up to 8 medical units that can attend to between 2-6 patients each (with some modifications). The unit in ENGLAND treating William Pooley for instance used a plastic TENT with air filtration systems, similar to systems onboard aircraft for transport.

This article has said now 130 doctors/healthcare workers have died from the disease and 225 have been stricken (WHO statistics).

[Bob]

Port Harcourt Nigeria - Ebola? Can't tell yet but...

"There are unconfirmed reports that a patient suspected to be infected with the dreaded Ebola virus has died in Rivers State.

"The patient, whose name is yet to be made public, was said to have returned from Lagos and tested positive to the virus while on admission at a Private hospital in D-line area of the state capital.

"Reports from the Rivers Government House indicated that Governor Amaechi has cancelled his proposed tour of Obio-Akpor Local government area."

Port Harcourt is in the delta area (Rivers State) and part of a large OIL production region of Nigeria. Expatriots and locals work in the oil fields and refinery in the region.


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RKSko0RiqsI/TO6eyYBYqDI/AAAAAAAAA-U/DDvDmzxNQg8/s400/nigeria_map.gif

Meanwhile Nigeria's health minister says it is all contained, no worries.. (while all the schools have been closed for 6 weeks)

(Source (http://saharareporters.com/2014/08/25/nigeria%E2%80%99s-health-minister-says-ebola-cases-now-13-%E2%80%94-not-14))

"Three days after announcing that a total of 14 people in Nigeria had contracted the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Minister of Health Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu has revealed that one of the cases was adjudged to be positive in error.

"The total number of confirmed cases, including the index case, is now 13 the 14th case, initially announced as positive, turned out to be a false positive,” Chukwu said on Monday."


http://saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/styles/normal_medium/public/onyebuchi-chukwu_0.jpg?itok=ndClpUN1

[B]AND also in NIGERIA

People realizing that animals could be a reservoir for the virus Ebola, are taking no chances..

"Amid Ebola Scare, Nigeria Shuns Dancing Monkeys, Bush Meat.."

(Bush meat is meat from monkeys, primates, either shot or taken, or dead from otherwise reasons)

ABUJA— (Capital of Nigeria)
"Nigeria is cracking down on hunting and discouraging the use of wild animals for entertainment to stave off the spread of Ebola. But as the busy hunting season approaches at the end of the summer rains, some hunters say regardless of the risk, they will go back to work.

"In Kaduna, northern Nigeria Monday, six men from a remote village came to town with small baboons looking for an audience.

"Usually when animal trainers come to the city, people flock to watch monkeys dance in trousers or baboons mimic farmers and herders.

"But no one wanted to be near the animals.

“I can never, for now, allow even my children to go to watch either monkey or anything animal," said Shola Adebayo, a father of five explaining his decision to stay far away.

"Since July, when Nigeria recorded its first Ebola case, the government has conducted a massive nationwide campaign, encouraging sanitation and discouraging interaction with animals and “bush meat”, which can spread the disease to people, who pass it to each other through bodily fluids.

[Bob]

BREAKING news - CANADA Ebola Product WORKS


http://www.thehealthsite.com/news/latest-ebola-news-canada-vaccine-effective-against-ebola-virus/ - Latest Ebola News: Canada vaccine effective against Ebola virus - 1:18 PM EST


http://st1.thehealthsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ebola-vaccine.jpg

This company is Canadian Immunovaccine Inc (http://www.imvaccine.com/).

This is a vaccine, not an after infection treatment.. The vaccine production work was a part of NIH tests on potential antigens, agents (substances) that trigger the immune system to produce antibodies against the Ebola virus. The antigen present in this vaccine does not use a same virus to attack the cells unlike antigens of other early-stage Ebola vaccines.

From the company's website page: http://www.imvaccine.com/releases.php?releases_id=334
"All vaccinated animals given a lethal dose of the Ebola virus survive"

"In this study four cynomolgus macaque subjects received two doses of the DepoVax-formulated vaccine, one at study initiation and a second on Day 56. They were then challenged on day 70 with a lethal dose of the wild type Zaire strain of the Ebola virus. The Zaire strain is believed to be the most lethal among Ebola viruses and is responsible for the current Ebola virus outbreak. More than two weeks following exposure to the virus, all vaccinated subjects were alive with no disease symptoms. The two control animals in this study succumbed to the infection within seven days.

"This study, conducted under NIAID’s preclinical services program (HHSN272201200003I/ HHSN27200008, HHSN272201000006I/HHSN27200007), was designed to identify favorable vaccine candidates for further study. Based on this high efficacy observed in cynomolgus macaques, Immunovaccine is exploring a potential development program for an Ebola virus vaccine with various organizations.

“While the DepoVax technology is actively being developed for various infectious disease applications, this is the first time we have tested the platform as an enabling technology for an Ebola vaccine,” stated Marc Mansour, chief executive officer of Immunovaccine. "

[Bob]

20,000 People potentially could become Ebola infected - reports WHO

(Source (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/28/us-health-ebola-idUSKBN0GS1SU20140828))


http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20140828&t=2&i=968365626&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=378&r=LYNXMPEA7R0Q9
World Health Organization (WHO) Assistant Director General Bruce Aylward

(Reuters News Reporting) - Thursday, 28 August, 2014 10:43am EDT

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa could infect more than 20,000 people, the U.N. health agency said on Thursday, warning that an international effort costing almost half a billion dollars is needed to overcome the outbreak.

As the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced its strategic plan for combating the virus, GlaxoSmithKline said an experimental Ebola vaccine is being fast-tracked into human studies and it plans to produce up to 10,000 doses for emergency deployment if the results are good.

The WHO estimates it will take six to nine months to halt the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, while Nigeria said on Thursday that a doctor involved in treating the Liberian-American who brought the disease to the country had died in Port Harcourt, Africa's largest energy hub, although the cause had yet to be confirmed.

So far 3,069 cases have been reported in the outbreak but the WHO said the actual number in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria could already be two to four times higher.

The fatality rate for this outbreak and treatment being performed, natural immunity (in some cases) is 52 percent, and the 'official' death toll is reported as 1,552 as of Aug. 26.

Cost Estimates to treat, using doctors, facilities, supplies:

Projected cost estimated at $490 million, involving thousands of local staff and 750 international experts.
"It is a big operation. We are talking (about) well over 12,000 people operating over multiple geographies and high-risk circumstances. It is an expensive operation," he said.

As to the infection/death numbers, again WHO says it could be two to four times higher.

This is not a West Africa issue. This is a global health security issue," Bruce Aylward, the WHO's Assistant Director-General for Polio, Emergencies and Country Collaboration, told reporters in Geneva.

NIGERIA - According to new figures released on Thursday, Nigeria has recorded 17 cases, including six deaths, from Ebola, since Sawyer collapsed upon arrival at Lagos airport in late July.

[Roisin]

The other day I was reading in the news about how scientists are saying that our planet being hit by a catastrophic solar flare is not science fiction and that our governments need to prepare for such an event too as that may happen sooner than we think.

So me being me, that afternoon during my meditation session, I asked my "contacts" if something like that is going to happen soon. But instead of them addressing my question about a catastrophic solar flare, I saw a vivid television-like inner vision pop in showing Dr. Brantly and then an apocalyptic scene showing thousands of people, many of them Caucasian, dying of Ebola.

So the message to me on that one was that if this current Ebola outbreak is not contained, there exists a parallel time-line where that apocalyptic scene that I saw in that inner vision is very much a reality.

[Bob]

Nigeria Confirms Port HarCourt Ebola Death

The victim, an unnamed doctor who died in the southeastern oil city of Port Harcourt, marks Nigeria’s sixth Ebola death in a recent outbreak of the disease primarily affecting West Africa. He is believed to have been infected by a man linked to Nigeria’s first Ebola case, Patrick Sawyer, who died in Lagos shortly after arriving there from Liberia.

The yet-unnamed doctor had died last Friday, but Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu waited until Thursday to confirm the case, the BBC reports. The doctor’s wife has been put under quarantine, while an additional 70 people suspected to have had contact with him are being monitored in Port Harcourt.

Port HarCourt is an international HUB and an OIL production region center. Expatriots work and travel through there for working in the Oil fields.

Mr. Chukwu, the Health Minister, noted that while “the problem is not over . . . Nigeria is doing well on containment, all the disease in Nigeria were all traced to Patrick Sawyer.”

West Africa’s health ministers will be meeting later Thursday to discuss measures to address what’s become the largest-ever Ebola epidemic.

(Source (http://time.com/3204303/nigeria-ebola-death/))


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[Bob]

DR Congo Ebola traced to it's source - bushmeat

(Source (http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-ebola-congo-20140827-story.html))

They have said so many times: "DON'T EAT THE BUSHMEAT" and yet it continues..

Possibly now the reservoir for Ebola in DR Congo (Central Africa) has been located.

Potentially endemic with the BATS (also STOP eating the BATS), the bats which become infected, harbour the Ebola disease, contaminating themselves, and the FRUIT.. Monkeys eat the sick bats, or the contaminated fruit. Hunters go after the monkeys (bushmeat source), kill them, eat a portion, and sell the rest.

And that is where the cycle starts. At least for DR Congo.

The West African "patient zero" is thought to be a young child which was bitten by a bat infected with the Ebola-Zaire strain, back in December 2013.

Patient Zero for the DR Congo outbreak (a total of 24 suspected Ebola cases were identified in Congo between July 28 and Aug. 18, including 13 people who died) were derived from a woman (pregnant) who butchered some bushmeat which was given to her husband.

She came from Ikanamongo village in DR Congo, and died Aug. 11 2014. A doctor and two nurses who were exposed to the woman during surgery also developed symptoms and died, along with a hygienist and another person identified as a "ward boy."

Other deaths were recorded among relatives of the woman, people who were in contact with clinic staff and those who handled the bodies of the victims during funeral ceremonies, the WHO said. So far, 80 people are being watched who have come in contact with the affected people.


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LOCATION:
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has confirmed Ebola virus disease in Equateur Province in the Jera area (close to Boende town), more than 1200 kilometres north-east of the Congolese Capital, Kinshasa. Ikanamongo village is said to be 100 km NW of Boende)


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[Bob]

God.. Dogs eating Ebola infected Corpses in streets

(Source (http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/08/27/report-dogs-eating-dead-bodies-of-ebola-victims-on-liberian-streets/))

In Liberia, the situation has been reported as in "free-fall", "serious", "out-of-control", "tragic", "overwhelming", "disaster", pick the descriptor and multiply by 1000X.

"Dogs in one community in Liberia are reportedly eating the remains of dead Ebola victims lying on the streets."

"Liberian government had even buried bodies of those suspected to have died from Ebola a few weeks ago in Johnsonville Township, outside of Monrovia.

"A number of dogs were reportedly seen pulling the bodies out of the graves and eating the remains."

Dr. Stephen Korsman of the University of Cape Town’s medical virology division tells News 24 that dogs can be infected with the Ebola virus but that “infections appear to be asymptomatic.” (or not showing symptoms, but harbouring the disease..)

“This means that dogs won’t get sick, but they still could carry a potential risk through licking or biting..”


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Now what? The potential spread has just upped exponentially..

[Roisin]

What about birds doing that too and then flying their seasonal migrations to other parts of the world?

They've also got chickens running loose all over that country.... what if the infected ones are butchered and eaten by humans? Will the disease pass on to humans even though chickens are asymptomatic -- like bats are too?

[Bob]

What about birds doing that too and then flying their seasonal migrations to other parts of the world?

They've also got chickens running loose all over that country.... what if the infected ones are butchered and eaten by humans? Will the disease pass on to humans even though chickens are asymptomatic -- like bats are too?

Up the potential spread exponentially by 10.. 20,000 is the current WHO estimate.. for the spread before they can "control" it..

WildFire scenarios happen when the vectors spread the disease that cannot be controlled by normal quarantine means.

From the blog page on CDC's website:


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Of course that was 'just' a joke, right, on the CDC blog site? Talking about zombies.. (walking dead)


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UPDATE - looking at additional 'known' "forest" (or wild) reservoirs for the infection Ebola..:
Gorillas, monkeys, bats, forest Antelopes, porcupines, chimpanzees.. any substances which these animals have partially eaten (and dropped, i.e. fruits, foraging leaves/plants, or animal droppings..), harvested animals of the species above, i.e. "bushmeat", or "bat delicacy (spicey bat soup)"..

Pigs can be affected (and spread virus airborne as well as when they are eaten or contacted), as the fruit bats (which can be infected) often frequent the farms keeping the pigs. Earlier it was mentioned that the West African patient zero was a young 2 year old child bitten by an infected bat back in December 2013.

Birds - (Source (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0219_030219_ebolaorigin_2.html))

"In December, a Purdue University science team presented new research that links Ebola with birds. According to the study, the outer protein shell of filoviruses, such as Ebola, have a biochemical structure similar to retroviruses carried by birds, making a common evolutionary origin more likely.

"There can be no doubt now that an ancestral virus had a shell that evolved to become the shells of the Ebola virus and bird retroviruses," said David Sanders, the professor who headed the research team.

"Sanders stresses that his discovery does not prove that birds are the natural reservoir for Ebola. But it makes them more plausible hosts. The prospect of migratory birds carrying Ebola has obvious health implications."

[Flash]

God.. Dogs eating Ebola infected Corpses in streets

(Source (http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/08/27/report-dogs-eating-dead-bodies-of-ebola-victims-on-liberian-streets/))

In Liberia, the situation has been reported as in "free-fall", "serious", "out-of-control", "tragic", "overwhelming", "disaster", pick the descriptor and multiply by 1000X.

"Dogs in one community in Liberia are reportedly eating the remains of dead Ebola victims lying on the streets."

"Liberian government had even buried bodies of those suspected to have died from Ebola a few weeks ago in Johnsonville Township, outside of Monrovia.

"A number of dogs were reportedly seen pulling the bodies out of the graves and eating the remains."

Dr. Stephen Korsman of the University of Cape Town’s medical virology division tells News 24 that dogs can be infected with the Ebola virus but that “infections appear to be asymptomatic.” (or not showing symptoms, but harbouring the disease..)

“This means that dogs won’t get sick, but they still could carry a potential risk through licking or biting..”


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Now what? The potential spread has just upped exponentially..

Corps have to be burned. I bet anything that India, aons ago, got the tradition to burn bodies because of a plague that had overtaken the country, I bet anything this is it.

[Bob]

Viral Mutation - what it means, why Ebola is mutating

(http://www.vox.com/2014/8/28/6071071/ebola-sequencing)

Life wants to survive, no matter what - no matter if the life is "crystalline-like", or highly complex like amoeba or bacteria, or higher organisms.

The more rapid the turnover of the life cycle, the more rapid different genetic combinations are tried in order to continue to proliferate it's species..

What works is what can continue to reproduce..

Ebola is no different.

From the Article:
One of the big mysteries in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is where the virus came from in the first place — and whether it's changed in any significant ways. These unanswered questions could be making it more difficult to diagnose the disease and find treatments.

Now scientists are starting to get some answers. In a new paper in Science, researchers reveal that they have sequenced the genomes of Ebola from 78 patients in Sierra Leone who contracted the disease in May and June.

Those sequences revealed some 300 mutations specific to this outbreak.

(Continually we have heard from the authorities, some outspoken medicos, saying that there is nothing to see here, ebola isn't mutated, it is stable, just something that needs to burn itself out.. and so forth.. BUT..they are either wrong 'accidentally' because of not being properly educated or they are 'not telling the truth'.)

Among their findings, the researchers discovered that the current viral strains come from a related strain that left Central Africa within the past ten years. And the research confirms that the virus likely spread into Sierra Leone when women became infected after attending the funeral of a traditional healer who had been treating Guinean Ebola patients.

The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the worst on record. It has hit four countries, including Sierra Leone, infected approximately 3,000, and killed (known about officially) over 1,550 people. And so far, there is no sign of it slowing down. (WHO is saying it is accelerating..)

The fact that the researchers were able to sequence the Ebola genomes in mere months is remarkable — a contrast to the typically slow pace of scientific research. "We’re trying to do this as fast as possible," says co-senior author Pardis Sabeti, a biologist at MIT and Harvard. This new data increases the number of public Ebola virus sequences fourfold.

Genotype modification (mutation major grouping)
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Although Ebola's mutation rate itself isn't anything unusual, the longer it's circulating in people, the more chances it will have to randomly come up with a mutation that it will find beneficial — possibly to the detriment of human health.

"You never want to give a virus that kind of opportunity," Sabeti says. "We hope that this work opens up new doors for more people to work together to stop this virus now."

further reading - How Viruses manage to stay a step ahead of treatment

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/27/5846900/how-viruses-stay-one-step-ahead-of-our-efforts-to-kill-them - this is a VERY good article to read to understand how organisms mutate in order to survive.

Viruses mutate very quickly

"The major reason that viruses evolve faster than say, mosquitoes or snakes or bed bugs, is because they multiply faster than other organisms. And that means every new individual is an opportunity for new mutations as they make a copy of their genetic material.

"Many of those mutations have no noticeable effect. But every once in a while, one might help the organism survive — for example, by letting viruses infect not just birds, but people, too."


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[Bob]

4 of the WestPoint (Liberia's quarantined district outside of Monrovia) looters who claimed "there is no Ebola", who broke into the clinic stealing supplies, contaminated bedding, have tested positive for the Ebola virus.

The protesters, who said there was no Ebola in Liberia, stormed and ransacked the Ebola Quarantine Center and made away with bloodstained mattresses and bed sheets after chasing away patients who were quarantined there.

Minister Brown, who did not give the identities of the protesters that he said got tested positive of Ebola, made the disclosure on Monday, 25 August when he spoke to UNMIL Radio.

Is it justified to keep WestPoint quarantined? Sure seems like it.. Even though, with the quarantine, there are reports of those breaking the quarantine by swimming (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/29/world/africa/in-liberias-capital-an-ebola-outbreak-like-no-other.html?_r=0). One such buster works at a western Embassy. (hmm)

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Monday, August 25paid a visit to quarantined West Point community to further explain to the people the intent of the measures placed on their community.

In West Point, the Liberian President informed the residents that the measures placed on them were temporary and is only meant to stop the spread of the Ebola virus disease.

The President told the West Pointers that the government and its partners have arranged food supply and challenged the residents to remain calm as food and water distribution has already started.

President Sirleaf, as part of several measures already taken to stop transmission, last Tuesday, August 19, quarantined West Point and Dolo Town communities in Monrovia and lower Margibi County due to an outbreak in those communities.

Unicef flew in 70 metric tons of emergency medical supplies. He said the shipment includes 27 metric tons of chlorine and 900,000 gloves, the lack of which had resulted in the deaths of dozens of health workers. He announced that a second flight, sponsored by the Liberian government and the World Bank, is on its way.

There is still no sign of the kind of international response that would allow Liberia and its neighbors, Guinea and Sierra Leone, to really get on top of things. But with more international assistance than before and with civic action giving local people a sense that they can do something to make a difference, the grip of fear may be loosening. With all hands on deck, Liberians are becoming more hopeful that the fight against Ebola will eventually become something of the past.


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Among Liberians, still grappling with the consequences of a 14-year civil war that ended in 2003, distrust of the government runs deepest in Monrovia’s poorest neighborhoods. Despite billboards and posters throughout the city declaring that “Ebola is Real,” many Liberians believe it is not.

[Bob]

Ebola spreads to Senegal

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2014/08/29/the-ebola-virus-has-spread-to-senegal-as-the-deadliest-outbreak-in-history-gets-worse/)

Senegal confirmed its first case of Ebola on Friday, according to a statement from Health Minister Awa Marie Coll Seck.

The patient, a Guinean national who traveled to Senegal, is in quarantine.

Guinea is one of the Western African Countries where the current Ebola outbreak started back in December 2013.

Why are we worrying about Ebola when so many people are dying from WARS, or Measles?

Ebola has no vaccine (Measles does), Ebola can be present for a few days and people won't know about it. That can lead to WILDFIRE epidemics. The enemy is not seen as in other wars, this virus is insidious.. Catching means coming in contact with the virus. Is the mutation going airborne? MSM has started to recognize now that reports have been coming out spelling out quite clearly, the VIRUS is mutating, into what?

In the late 1960's I read about Marburg, possibly the Parent to Ebola. Officially in '76 Ebola made its debut in Africa. It was also pointed out in the earliest posts in this THREAD that Ebola (and Marburg) were part of the Soviet Bio-Weapons arsenal.

This particular Ebola strain has the capacity to rapidly mutate (300 mutations between May and June 2014 in the subjects tested). Mutation is a perfect characteristic for a WEAPON of MASS DESTRUCTION - a weapon that when a treatment is made for it, the mutations rapidly countermeasure the treatment..

[Bob]

BCX-4430 was talked about a few pages back in this thread, being effective against Ebola, Marburg and many of the SARS related viruses, INCLUDING MERS_nCOV. (I wish this was available when I came back with Mers_nCov from Abu Dhabi a bit ago..)

This may be in the nick of time with the Hajj in Saudi Arabia scheduled for this October.. (we have a thread on MERS discussing the potential for world wide epidemic as millions come in close contact during the Hajj).. (thread post link (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69697-Haemorrhagic-fever-Ebola-outbreaks-have-been-reported-accident-natural-or-bio-weapon&p=861238&viewfull=1#post861238) with the USAMRIID PDF)

This drug treatment and the Japanese counterpart probably are the only TWO most promising drugs for a broad range of viruses..

THIS is exciting

The main Article (Source (http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2014/08/29/biocryst-to-launch-nhp-ebola-drug-safety-studies-within-weeks/))

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced this morning that their small-molecule, nucleoside analogue, BCX-4430, would be entering a dose ranging efficacy study in non-human primates within the next few weeks.

This study could potentially meet all of the criteria for FDA’s Animal Rule, a path by which drugs tested in animals could move to emergency treatment of humans while human safety trials proceed concomitantly.

The company, based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is developing agents first identified in the laboratory of Yarligadda S. Babu, Ph.D., previously with the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

In a March, 2014 paper published in the journal Nature, where Dr. Babu is a co-author, the majority of the other co-authors were from the Division of Molecular and Translational Sciences, Therapeutic Discovery Center, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).


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The team was led by the well-regarded virologist, Dr. Sina Bavari. Previous inquiries have been made to interview Dr. Bavari but are being denied by communications staff

The Nature paper demonstrated that BCX-4430 given after a viral challenge could stop Ebola and related Marburg infections from taking hold in rodents. Most notably, BCX-4430 given 48 hours after Marburg virus infection confers complete protection to cynmologous monkeys.

So, unlike with a vaccine, the BCX-4430 "TREATMENT" is being developed as a post-exposure measure for those in environments where conditions are conducive to accidental viral exposure.

Biocryst’s BCX-4430 is a much smaller molecule intended for broad spectrum anti-viral use, described by the company as “an RNA dependent-RNA polymerase inhibitor that has demonstrated broad-spectrum activity against more than 20 RNA viruses in nine different families, including filoviruses, togaviruses, bunyaviruses, arenaviruses, paramyxoviruses, coronaviruses and flaviviruses.”

Having read this thread one would highly appreciate the nature of BCX-4430 if it proves effective with eventual human clinicals.