Ebola on US shores

[LANTIRN]

"The company said regulators had questions about a type of drug reaction that can cause nausea, chills, low blood pressure and shortness of breath."

Umm lets see, versus bleeding out every orifice, ill take chills and nausea!

Well you would be wrong, because the FDA is the expert and knows which one is really worse for you.

[SS Junk]

Really man? This disease is 90% lethal and takes three weeks to incubate.

Do you think the incubation period would soar if it were on a treadmill?

[line-em-up]

"The company said regulators had questions about a type of drug reaction that can cause nausea, chills, low blood pressure and shortness of breath."

Umm lets see, versus bleeding out every orifice, ill take chills and nausea!

Doesn't most every other prescription drug? It doesn't mention death as a side effect, so it is ok to use.

[GhostTX]

WHO's declaring it an international emergency.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/08/08/ebola-outbreak-declared-public-health-emergency-by-world-health-organization/

Now there's rumors that "that Hamas and ISIS has sent people, both men and women, to the Liberian capital of Monrovia with the specific instructions to have contact, and become infected, with the ebola virus. The intent is for these people to then make their way into the United States via our southern border and infect as many Americans as possible in major city centers around the country."

[DON SVO]

WHO's declaring it an international emergency.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/08/08/ebola-outbreak-declared-public-health-emergency-by-world-health-organization/

Now there's rumors that "that Hamas and ISIS has sent people, both men and women, to the Liberian capital of Monrovia with the specific instructions to have contact, and become infected, with the ebola virus. The intent is for these people to then make their way into the United States via our southern border and infect as many Americans as possible in major city centers around the country."

I don't know if they would make it before becoming sick and dying. It takes a while to organize a 'coyote' and find a way over the border. I'd assume the time table to get here and be infectious would be tough to get right.

If they do make it and try this idea out, it would be a death sentence for anyone middle eastern. Instantaneous civil war.

[GhostTX]

I don't know if they would make it before becoming sick and dying. It takes a while to organize a 'coyote' and find a way over the border. I'd assume the time table to get here and be infectious would be tough to get right.

If they do make it and try this idea out, it would be a death sentence for anyone middle eastern. Instantaneous civil war.

If true, they wouldn't have to organize a coyote, that network would be in place ready to go as soon as their infected selves were in Mexico.

[GhostTX]

Inability to contain Ebola sparks fears of virus going airborne

The World Health Organization's (WHO) recent prediction that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could afflict more than 20,000 people before it’s brought under control is sparking fear among some about what may happen if the virus goes airborne.

“The [estimate of 20,000] assumes full international backing for an intervention to control the deadly outbreak,” econometrics research assistant Francis Smart told WND.com.

“Failure to support the WHO’s plan presumably would cause the disease to spread in a similar manner as it already has,” Smart said.

The WHO projects six months will be the minimum amount of time needed to contain the epidemic.

However, Canadian researchers say the strain of Ebola afflicting West Africa can be transmitted between humans by breathing, opening up the possibility of the virus going airborne. Suspected cases of airborne infection have already been reported in monkeys in laboratories.

“The possibility of it becoming airborne could result in a global spread of the disease resulting in [an] unprecedented number of deaths world-wide -- it is more than prudent to heavily invest in controlling the number of new patients infected by this disease,” Smart told WND.com.

Smart’s predictions come on the heels of a warning from the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who said the outbreak was “spiraling out of control.”

“Guinea did show that with action, they brought it partially under control. But unfortunately it is back on the increase now,” CDC's Dr. Thomas Kenyon said. “It’s not under control anymore,” adding the window of opportunity for controlling it was closing.

Kenyon also warned that the longer the outbreak went uncontained, the greater the possibility the virus could mutate.

Ebola has killed about 2,300 people with no sign of slowing six months after the outbreak began.

The disease is taking a particularly heavy toll on health care workers, whose jobs put them at high risk because Ebola is only transmitted through contact with the bodily fluids of people showing symptoms or dead bodies. More than 135 health workers have died in the outbreak so far, exacerbating shortages of doctors and nurses in countries that already had too few medical workers to begin with.

Sierra Leone and Liberia have been especially hard hit, and officials have warned that both countries could see a surge in cases soon. Sierra Leone is expecting to uncover potentially hundreds of new cases when volunteers go house to house looking for the sick during a three-day lockdown later this month. The WHO has said Liberia could see many thousands of new cases in the coming weeks.

"We are at war with an enemy that we don't see," Liberian Finance Minister Amara Konneh told reporters. "And we have to win the war."

But he said Liberia would be dependent on international assistance to do so. The U.N. has said at least $600 million is needed to fight Ebola in West Africa, and already several pledges have come in. The United States has spent $100 million so far, with more promised, and Britain has given $40 million.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/09/12/inability-to-contain-ebola-sparks-fears-virus-going-airborne/

[Strychnine]

WHO said again that we are on the verge of losing the upper hand very soon.

[Denny]

Why don't we just call it a loss, barricade off the area(s), and clear it with napalm?

[Forever_frost]

Why don't we just call it a loss, barricade off the area(s), and clear it with napalm?

Because it's already here.

[Zfan]

Turn in loose on ISIS

[Strychnine]

Just read

More than 700 more Ebola cases have emerged in West Africa in the past week week, a statistic that showed the outbreak was rapidly accelerating, the World Health Organisation has said.

The UN health agency said on Thursday that more than 5,300 people have now contracted the virus, and that the latest statistics showed that just under half of these cases were recorded in the last three weeks.

[Broncojohnny]

All because some dumbasses couldn't stop eating bats and monkeys and other stupid shit. Go watch the Vice news piece on youtube about these cavemen.

[BoostedD1]

Ha.


Media scare.


And if its not, lets wait for the perfect moment to "scare" the public.

Gimme a break. In fact there is a show or "documentary" on it right now....

[46Tbird]

Now the stupid motherfuckers are murdering the people that are coming to help.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/19/at-least-8-ebola-aid-workers-reportedly-killed-in-cold-blood-by-villagers-in/

At least 8 Ebola aid workers reportedly killed 'in cold blood' by villagers in Guinea

Published September 19, 2014

At least eight Ebola aid workers and journalists were reportedly murdered and dumped in a latrine in a remote village in Guinea in a frightening example of the growing distrust locals have of foreigners coming to help stem the mushrooming health crisis.

These deaths are believed to be the first resulting from resistance to international efforts to curb the Ebola outbreak in the region, Reuters reported. Other aid teams have been forced to turn back by crowds in several locations, and a treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia was attacked and looted.

Villagers in an area near the city of Nzerekore used machetes and clubs to attack eight members of a team trying to raise awareness about the disease, officials told the BBC.

"The eight bodies were found in the village latrine," Albert Damantang Camara, a spokesman for Guinea's government, told Reuters on Thursday, adding that they had been "killed in cold blood by the villagers."

Prime Minister Fofana reported that the aid mission included "local administrators, two medical officers, a preacher and three accompanying journalists." They were reportedly attacked by a large crowd, throwing stones, from the village of Wome.

The delegation had arrived on Tuesday to do disinfection work and educate people about preventing Ebola, but residents pelted them with rocks and beat them, according to the Los Angeles Times, citing Guinean radio reports. The group fled into the bush. One journalist who escaped said she heard people looking for her while she hid, according to the BBC.

On Thursday, the bodies were found in the septic tank of a village school in the village, according to Camara. Six people have been arrested and the village is now reportedly deserted. Although a motive for the murders has not been confirmed, a BBC report says many villagers have accused the health workers of spreading the disease.

Ebola first surfaced in March in southeastern Guinea, where the attacks took place. Since then, it has spread through the lower continent despite international efforts to combat it.

More than 2,600 people in West Africa have died from the disease.

Complicating efforts is the lack of education in remote areas, where some residents don't believe the virus exists. Last month, in the same area where the aid workers were killed, people rioted out of fear that workers disinfecting a market were contaminating people, according to the BBC.

Security for aid workers, for clinics and hospitals, remains a concern in the region. All of the governments affected and the international agencies fighting the epidemic are trying to reach out to the rural communities where misinformation and fear have prevented effective measures to control the spread of Ebola. Until all of the areas with infections have been reached and controls implemented, a reservoir of Ebola will remain and continue to spread, say experts.

The United Nations Security Council declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a "threat to international peace and security" Thursday.

Since March, the virus has infected at least 5,357 people, according to World Health Organization (WHO), mostly in Guinea, neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia. It has also spread to Senegal and Nigeria.

It is the world's worst outbreak of Ebola, with officials warning that more than 20,000 people could ultimately be infected.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he will create a special mission to combat the disease and deployed staff in the worst-affected states.

Neighboring Sierra Leone has begun a controversial three-day curfew to try to stop the spread of the disease.