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

[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)

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) (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).

(Source)

[Roisin]

Posted by Bob (here)
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]

Posted by Roisin (here)

Posted by Bob (here)
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)

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)

"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."

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/2014-0...level-1-all-ha

[Bob]

Posted by Roisin (here)
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/2014-0...level-1-all-ha

It's interesting, the reason for NOT stopping flights is ECONOMIC.

Sources : http://online.wsj.com/articles/niger...rus-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/nation...fd1_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)

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)

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.

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..

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.

[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)

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





‘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/ear...ical_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





‘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_Eb...vernments.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)

[Bob]

Japan has a possible drug to treat Ebola - and is willing to provide it

(Source)

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.