EBOLA Ebola Hits Urban City of 1 Million in Congo

Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
I don't think the vaccine will be effective. I also think they can't stop the spread of ebbola at this point. The city with the new cases is on the main river used for transport among several African countries. It is a fact the AIDS virus was originally spread from Central Africa to South Africa by infected Truck Drivers who had been with prostitutes at the truck stops.

Now that it is in that city, on the main river, and away from the very isolated area it started in, there will be no stopping it. Rivers are the equivalent of freeways in Africa. They have a lot of barge traffic and boats going all over the place.

It's out of the bag, gang. If WHO is desperate enough to use an untested, untried, vaccine, then the situation is more dire than the media reports are indicating. Of course, that is nothing new, given how both the CDC and WHO lied constantly during the 2014 epidemic in West Africa.

And yeah, the ongoing drivel about not shutting down borders or air transport tells me, Housecarl that the CDC and WHO haven't learned one F%%%% thing since 2014.

I doubt Ebola will turn into a global pandemic. It is possible we will end up with a regional African Ebola epidemic. My money is still on the Madagascar Plague, which will start in August or so, and has been quietly spreading since the end of the last plague season in November of 2017.

That one is airborne and easily spread. I wonder if we got a "Typhoid Mary" type of plague carrier out of all the Europeans who went down the Madagascar to party hardy last holiday season?
 

Housecarl

On TB every waking moment
Yeah, the big contagion issue in these Congonese mega cities is their lack of sanitation, which since ebola is leaps and bounds easier to contract than HIV, makes a huge outbreak pretty much a given at this point.

About the only "saving" point about the continued outbreaks of the plague in Madagascar is that they are a heck of a lot more isolated than West Africa is from its neighbors.
 

vestige

Deceased
And yeah, the ongoing drivel about not shutting down borders or air transport tells me, Housecarl that the CDC and WHO haven't learned one F%%%% thing since 2014.


^^^ THIS X 1,000 ^^^
 

Ractivist

Pride comes before the fall.....Pride month ended.
The CDC is as corrupt as any three letter organization. Their hands were dirty when they held the illegals in rooms with hundreds upon hundreds of sick people spreading infectious diseases and then bussed them around the country spreading third world diseases thru out our nation..... that swamp needs to be drained as well as the rest...
 
The CDC is as corrupt as any three letter organization. Their hands were dirty when they held the illegals in rooms with hundreds upon hundreds of sick people spreading infectious diseases and then bussed them around the country spreading third world diseases thru out our nation..... that swamp needs to be drained as well as the rest...

Taking a step sideways, wasn’t it the CDC that did a study of defensive use of firearms (over 2,000,000 per year) and then buried the numbers as not fitting the narrative?
 

Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
WELL, HERE WE GO, GANG. AND IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG NOW DID IT.

THE LINK IS HERE.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/wo...nts-quarantines-vaccine-mbandaka-virus-spread

Ebola patients ESCAPE quarantine in city of 350,000 people

EBOLA patients have escaped quarantine in a city of 350,000 people amid fears the outbreak could be on verge of getting worse.

Three patients escaped from quarantine in the city of Mbandaka in north western Democratic Republic of Congo.

Two of the three have been found dead, while a third patient has been found alive.


Medecins Sans Frontieres' (MSF) mission in the city confirmed the incident as they work to treat cases of Ebola.

The death toll of the outbreak has reached 27 as health chiefs crackdown on the virus.

World Health Organisation bosses have previously warned spread in the city could mean a repeat of the 2014 outbreak – which killed over 11,000.
 

Old Gray Mare

TB Fanatic
WELL, HERE WE GO, GANG. AND IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG NOW DID IT.

THE LINK IS HERE.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/wo...nts-quarantines-vaccine-mbandaka-virus-spread

[/B]

Medecins Sans Frontieres' (MSF) mission in the city confirmed the incident as they work to treat cases of Ebola. snip...

Three patients escaped from quarantine in the city of Mbandaka in north western Democratic Republic of Congo.
Three that they know of. Wonder how many those three infected before they died or were found?
 

Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
I always use a factor of 10. If you catch one illegal, that means another nine made it through. If you catch 3 quarantine evaders, and TWO OF THEM ARE NOW DEAD, that means up to 30 actually fled. Obviously, gang WE HAVE NO IDEA OF HOW MANY OTHER PEOPLE THESE THREE INFECTED, OR HOW MANY OTHER PEOPLE WERE INFECTED BY THE ONES THE FIRST THREE INFECTED.
My personal opinion is we really are going to get a regional pandemic outbreak of Ebola. I think it will mostly, not all of the cases, will be confined to the continent of Africa, and especially the DRC and the countries that border the river "freeway," they mentioned. The river is widely used for transport of people and freight. I don't see any credible reason for the disease not to spread up and down the river eventually. When you add in the fact the quarantine effort has now failed, I would say it is a 100 percent certainty Ebola will spread in Africa. Now, as to whether it will spread to Europe and the USA, I can't say. It is certainly possible, maybe even likely for an infected person to get on a plane, especially if they go to Nigeria first.

I have a feeling that if all we get out of this new Ebola outbreak is a regional spread in Africa, we will have dodged a bullet. I hope Trump will respond better than Obama did and take firmer, and faster action to seal our borders when the first case happens here in CONUS. At any rate, my Doomer Doug credentials are now fully intact as I am saying Ebola is now out of control in the DRC and likely to spread to other countries in the near future. Of course, both WHO and the CDC lied repeatedly in the 2014 Ebola epidemic, and I know they will undercount cases, fake the data, and spin the info more than the rinse cycle on a washing machine.
Here is a link that shows us what we are up against. Seriously, we are dealing with superstition here?

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/af...ping-ebola-victims-from-seeking-medical-care/


Superstition stopping Ebola victims from seeking medical care
22 May 2018 - 19:44 By afp



Health workers fighting Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo have run into an invisible but powerful hurdle — a belief system that deems the disease to be a curse or the result of evil spirits.

Some people are refusing medical care and turn instead to preachers and prayers to chase away the threat, they say.

The pastor of an evangelical church last Wednesday died several days after he “prayed” for an Ebola victim who went to him for help, a doctor said.

“Some sick people believe that the Ebola epidemic comes from sorcery — they refuse to be treated and prefer to pray,” said Julie Lobali, a nurse on the front line against the DRC’s ninth Ebola outbreak.

She is working in a hospital in Mbandaka, a port city on the Congo River in northwest DRC where the first urban case was reported last Thursday. Since the outbreak was declared in the remote area of Bikoro on May 8, 51 cases of Ebola have been reported with 27 deaths.

One superstition that has become prevalent in the city, she says, is believing that Ebola began in Bikoro as “a curse on those who ate stolen meat” — a wild animal hunted in the countryside.

Blandine Mboyo, who lives in Mbandaka’s district of Bongondjo,told AFP “a hunter put a curse on the village because his big game was stolen.”

“This curse is so powerful because it hits those who ate this meat, having heard about the theft or having seen the stolen animal,” added Nicole Batoa, a local vendor.

Another resident, Guy Ingila, observed that officials have said on the radio “this disease is incurable... It’s because it’s about witchcraft.”.

For doctors and health officials these beliefs raise serious concerns, complicating efforts to contain and roll back the deadly Ebola virus.
 

Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
You know, gang I realize I have a rep for looking at the dark side of things, but guess what, I'm usually, not always, but a fair amount of time correct. So, when I posted the story about the 3 quarantine escapees, I thought, well two of them are dead, and they got the final guy, SO HOW BAD COULD THINGS GET.

I don't know, but this is bad, bad, bad. They now have to skip trace the 50 people exposed at the prayer meeting, plus however other people those 50 exposed to Ebola. Oh yeah; THINGS JUST GOT WORSE, A LOT WORSE IN TERMS OF EBOLA SPREADING. THE TWO INFECTED PEOPLE WENT TO THE PRAYER SERVICE AND THEN DIED AFTERWORD, SO THEY MUST HAVE BEEN HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS AT THE TIME THEY WERE WITH THE 50 PEOPLE.

the link is here.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/wo...s-patients-escape-prayer-mbandaka-who-msf-dnc

Escaped ebola patients went to PRAYERS with 50 people – outbreak 'on knife edge'

EBOLA patients who fled from quarantine went to a prayer meeting with 50 other people as the outbreak sits on a knife edge.



Health bosses confirmed two of the three fugitives attended the prayer meeting before they died.

Fears now rage the highly infectious disease could spread further as victims fail to grasp the seriousness of the infection.

Ebola patients are reportedly relying on spiritual cures rather than trusting advice of doctors.

And this is despite thousands of vaccines being deployed the to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

At least 27 people have been killed in the latest outbreak to his Africa.
The death toll is SURGING from the Ebola crisis


"We are on the epidemiological knife edge," Dr. Peter Salama, the World Health Organization's emergency response chief.

"The next few weeks will really tell if this outbreak is going to expand to urban areas or if we are going to be able to keep it under control."

The Ebola virus spreads through direct contact with either bodily fluids or objects contaminated by someone ill with the disease.

Three health care workers are already believed to have become infected with the virus.



Aid agencies are battling to persuade sceptical residents about the severity of an outbreak that has killed 27 since April.

Some people are refusing medical care and turning to preachers and prayers to chase away the threat.

Pastors at churches have been encouraging people "pray away" the Ebola instead of receiving vaccines.

Ebola is also believed to be a "curse on those who ate stolen meat".
 

night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
REMEMBER that Plague (if diagnosed correctly before organ shutdown) is a fairly easy treatable disease. We diagnose and treat 2-4 dozen cases a year in the 4 corners region and 1-3 dozen elsewhere in the Western states. Prairie Dogs host it in their colonies.

I'll bring Aesop's recent post and include a link to his blog for the links in the post (he has TL;DR high points for the links in the post I'm bringing back)


Link: http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2018/05/ebola-2018-since-you-asked.html


Pics and links at that link. Warning he uses adult language.


FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018
Ebola 2018: Since You Asked




First one, and now another, commenters in comments on other posts asked an opinion on the latest Ebola outbreak:

(CNN) An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has entered a "new phase" after it spread to a large city, the country's health minister, Dr. Oly Ilunga Kalenga, aid Wednesday.
The new case of Ebola virus disease has been confirmed in Wangata, one of the three health zones of Mbandaka, a city of nearly 1.2 million people in Equateur Province in northwestern Congo, the World Health Organization confirmed Thursday.
The spread of the virus from rural areas into a city has raised fears it could quickly spread and become harder to control.
A total of 45 cases of hemorrhagic fever have now been reported, including 25 deaths, the health ministry said Thursday. Fourteen cases have been confirmed with laboratory tests.
Until now, the cases and deaths were reported from the rural Bikoro health zone, nearly 150 kilometers from Mbandaka, allowing authorities to attempt ring-fencing vaccinations in the the affected areas.

A newly confirmed case in a densely populated part of the country will complicate attempts to control the outbreak.



"The arrival of Ebola in an urban area is very concerning and WHO and partners are working together to rapidly scale up the search for all contacts of the confirmed case in the Mbandaka area," said Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO's regional director for Africa.
"With the new case confirmed in Mbandaka, the scenario has changed," said Henry Gray, an MSF emergency coordinator in Mbandaka. "It is paramount to trace the suspect case in order to have a clearer view on how it reached the city."
In Mbandaka and Bikoro, 514 people who may have been in contact with infected people have been notified by national health authorities and are being monitored, according to MSF.
My original response still applies:
One case is just one case. No big deal.

It's when it starts morphing to two, four, eight, 16, 32 in a few weeks (like it does)that it starts getting dicey. In a city of over 1M just improves the odds that it hops a plane to another continent before anyone's looking for it.

If Dallas had gone to four or eight cases in 2014, it would've gotten away from us in the U.S., and we would've been off to the races.

Jackasses with double-digit IQs forget that at the latter stage of the 2014 outbreak crisis, we had exactly one open BL-IV patient bed left, for the entire United States.

After that, hospitals become ghost towns pretty quickly.
I didn't like sportscasting the end of the world the last time, and I'll be dragged to it again only kicking and screaming.

One can only hope that both WHO, and TPTB in this administration are brighter than the unmitigated and incompetent @$$clowns showcased in the last one in 2014, who came within a whisker of getting everyone everywhere killed. No shit.

There are three posts from my Greatest Hits album you should probably refresh your memory upon.

Logarithmic Growth 101 : How Ebola doubles in the real world.
TL;DR: We are currently at between a 4 and a 5, on a 33-point scale of whether or not to panic. So we're still in the "small potatoes" phase.
So far.
(To recap, a 10 is 1000 cases. A 20 is just shy of 1M. A 30 is entire continents. 33 is functionally everybody.)

Do The Math : This is a breakdown of what the actual US resources are for dealing with Ebola.
TL;DR: 23 beds. It's actually worse than that: it turns out the hospitals in question are only staffed for 11 beds. For the entire U.S. At the height of things in 2014, we had 10 patients in those 11 beds. we were two actual patients away from everything turning to shite, just like Liberia/Sierra Leone/Guinea,because we were down to one open bed.

Surfing USA : how to deal with Ebola, if and when it comes here, and overwhelms our ability to treat it.
TL;DR: Forget masks. Stock up on food and water. And bullets.

You have a couple of things going for you this time around.

1) Obozo and his team of @$$clowns aren't running the show.
(That, dear friends, is yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge.)

2) There's a new Ebola vaccine that shows some promise, unlike last time around:
The World Health Organization, which earlier this week deployed 4,000 doses of experimental vaccine along with emergency teams and equipment to the Congo to control the outbreak, described the situation as "a concerning development."
The Ebola vaccine being provided -- called rVSV-ZEBOV -- has been shown to be safe in humans and highly effective against the Ebola virus, according to the WHO.
A 2016 study found it to be 100% effective in trials in Guinea in coordination with the country's Ministry of Health after the 2014-15 outbreak.

The other shoes dropping:
1) The virus may have mutated, rendering the vaccine ineffective already.
2) This outbreak has already blown past the vaccine-ring they tried to throw around it, either because of bacteriological factors (#1, above) or because of sloppy quarantine and human cupidity and stupidity in the region in question.

Either of these may render the vaccine approach useless, and then we're back to my Greatest Hits selection.

Since you asked.

Personally, as in the Spring of 2014, I'm hoping this is the only time I need to visit this topic this year.
But if you're a religious person, a prayer or two is in order.
Ebola, unbridled, is literally hell on earth.

Have A Nice Day.


Image © First (White) Horseman of the Apocalypse, AKA Pestilence

POSTED BY AESOP AT 12:18 PM

Comments are interesting as well (cr)
 

Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
The plague is a fairly easily treated disease if you catch it early enough. If you don't, it is fairly lethal. And yes, we get about 100 cases of plague in the USA in a normal year. It is carried by small rodents in the Southwest for one thing. Now that the Southwest is in extreme drought mode, we may see some more plague cases there. I understand the rodents carrying it go into houses in search of water and food and that means more cases.

Ebola is now out of control in the DRC. the 50 new exposures pretty much guaranted that.
 

Milk-maid

Girls with Guns Member
I don't want to scare anyone, but it might have already migrated to the US.

So far, info is that a person in the same local organization as my husband, recently succumbed to something and died in the hospital.

No one is saying what he died from...but he'd recently come back from some small, poor village in Africa where he worked with the poor.
There are rumors -- some say he had a heart attack...others are saying possibly ebola. No one knows anything for certain except maybe the wife, hospital and the funeral home.

He was cremated.
 

night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
I don't want to scare anyone, but it might have already migrated to the US.

So far, info is that a person in the same local organization as my husband, recently succumbed to something and died in the hospital.

No one is saying what he died from...but he'd recently come back from some small, poor village in Africa where he worked with the poor.
There are rumors -- some say he had a heart attack...others are saying possibly ebola. No one knows anything for certain except maybe the wife, hospital and the funeral home.

He was cremated.

SOMEONE knows.

The reportability level of ALL of the hemorrhagic viri is so high that NOT reporting it gets people prison time.
 

TxGal

Day by day
Well, this isn't good:


Catholic priest 'infected with Ebola' in DR Congo


Mbandaka (DR Congo) (AFP) - A Catholic priest has been quarantined after being infected with the Ebola virus in the town of Mbandaka in the Democratic Republic of Congo, medical sources said Thursday.

"We have quarantined a priest from the diocese of Mbandaka-Bikoro who tested positive" for the Ebola virus, a medical source told AFP on condition of anonymity. Religious authorities could not be immediately contacted.

DRC health officials launched a small, targeted vaccination campaign this week to help rein in the latest Ebola outbreak in the country, which so far has claimed 27 lives.

Kinshasa announced on May 8 that there had been cases of the notorious haemorrhagic fever in a remote northwestern district called Bikoro.

Last Thursday, the first case was reported in a city -- Mbandaka, a transport hub located on the Congo River.

According to a World Health Organization count, 58 cases have been identified since early April. It was not possible to establish on Thursday whether the priest was among them.

Meanwhile, UNICEF said Thursday it was committed to helping schools and children in the fight against the spread of the virus.

The charity's DRC representative Gianfranco Rotigliano told AFP if a student becomes infected, he or she would be promptly taken care of.

Following a visit to schools in Bikoro, Rotigliano said: "I spoke with the schoolchildren, and they know the basic rules including washing their hands regularly, and not shaking hands."

Ebola spreads through contact with bodily fluids and is both highly infectious and extremely lethal.

In Mbandaka, several families have installed buckets of water and soap at the entrance of the house for hand-washing, an AFP correspondent said.

"I asked my children to be careful not to shake hands with people and stop playing with their friends in games that would cause contact between them," Claude, a father of several children, told AFP.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/catholic-priest-infected-ebola-dr-congo-222524546.html
 

Old Gray Mare

TB Fanatic
Well, this isn't good:

snip....

Following a visit to schools in Bikoro, Rotigliano said: "I spoke with the schoolchildren, and they know the basic rules including washing their hands regularly, and not shaking hands."

Ebola spreads through contact with bodily fluids and is both highly infectious and extremely lethal.

In Mbandaka, several families have installed buckets of water and soap at the entrance of the house for hand-washing, an AFP correspondent said.

"I asked my children to be careful not to shake hands with people and stop playing with their friends in games that would cause contact between them," Claude, a father of several children, told AFP.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/catholic-priest-infected-ebola-dr-congo-222524546.html


I've helped out in preschools. There is no way to keep two young children in the same room with out them touching each other, common surfaces or toys. Not going to happen without the involvement of chains or duck tape.

I remember seeing a shallow trench filled with water and disinfectant forcing people to wade thru it and wash their feet and foot ware to enter a heath care facility. This was in Africa (forgot which country) during the last major out brake.
 

TxGal

Day by day
I don't want to scare anyone, but it might have already migrated to the US.

So far, info is that a person in the same local organization as my husband, recently succumbed to something and died in the hospital.

No one is saying what he died from...but he'd recently come back from some small, poor village in Africa where he worked with the poor.
There are rumors -- some say he had a heart attack...others are saying possibly ebola. No one knows anything for certain except maybe the wife, hospital and the funeral home.

He was cremated.

Milk-maid,

Do you have any idea of the state or region in the US where he died, if you are comfortable sharing that info?
 
Last edited:

vestige

Deceased
#53:

If Dallas had gone to four or eight cases in 2014, it would've gotten away from us in the U.S., and we would've been off to the races.

Jackasses with double-digit IQs forget that at the latter stage of the 2014 outbreak crisis, we had exactly one open BL-IV patient bed left, for the entire United States.

Ponder that a few minutes.
 

Old Gray Mare

TB Fanatic
Found this. Hat tip to Flutrackers.com. They may not be saying anything about potential cases here in the US to either prevent the possibility of panic or because the left cares more about immigrants than Americans. Can't be preventing plague carrying foreigners from seeking help and refuge in the US? That would be racist! Infected Americans can be buried on the high moral ground of political correctness. - OGM

Fair use.

Around the World NewsToday
Hungarian laboratory worker isolated after exposure to Ebola virus
TOPICS:ACCIDENTAfricaCentral / Eastern EuropeDiseasesEmerging Market CountriesEuropeHealth / MedicineHealthcare (TRBC)HungaryInfectious DiseasesLife SciencesUSVIRUSWestern Europe

April 21, 2018


BUDAPEST (Reuters) – A Hungarian laboratory worker has been isolated at a Budapest hospital after accidental exposure to the deadly Ebola virus but has shown no symptoms so far, health officials said on Friday.

The accident happened a week ago and the employee was under observation in a special unit in the hospital, the national health institute OKI said.

The World Health Organization said it had sent an experimental vaccine and other treatments which had been given to the scientist.

“WHO assesses the risk of Ebola spreading from this event negligible,” it said in a statement emailed to Reuters.

“The exposed scientist was immediately put under isolation according to standard operating procedures … The person is showing no symptoms.”

Neither organization gave any more information about the lab worker or the accident.

OKI said there was no threat to co-workers or the public.

More than 11,300 people died in total during the worst outbreak of the highly contagious disease, which mainly affected Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone from 2013 to 2016.

Reporting by Sandor Peto and Krisztina Than; Editing by Andrew Heavens

link to source:
http://newstoday.site/2018/04/21/hungarian-laboratory-worker-isolated-after-exposure-to-ebola-virus/
 

Old Gray Mare

TB Fanatic
Virginia, but that's all I'm disclosing.

If the patient "migrated" to the US via Dulles Airport I wonder if he/she/it spread the wealth, so to speak, so it ends on The Hill? All it would take is a deep pocket lobbyist touching a common surface getting off the plane and glad handing his way thru the Rayburn building. There would be a certain fine irony in that.
 
Last edited:

TxGal

Day by day
If that person was infected with Ebola, hopefully they brought him in on that 'special' plane and not on a commercial flight.

I'm so thankful our adult kids are here in Texas, but all our extended and large family is scattered through Northern Virginia with a handful in Maryland and Philly. No place is truly safe, though, if this gets a foothold.
 

Faroe

Un-spun
Until I see evidence it has mutated into something that is much easier to catch, I'm not worried about it. The reason it spread in Africa was that people were handling bodies that were dissolving in their own fluids. The fact that that Liberian guy who flew over to live with the GF and kids in an apt. didn't spread it to anyone but the nurse convinced me that it is containable under normal circumstances.
 

Old Gray Mare

TB Fanatic
Until I see evidence it has mutated into something that is much easier to catch, I'm not worried about it. The reason it spread in Africa was that people were handling bodies that were dissolving in their own fluids. The fact that that Liberian guy who flew over to live with the GF and kids in an apt. didn't spread it to anyone but the nurse convinced me that it is containable under normal circumstances.
You might want to read up on Flutrackers.com about the nurse in the US hospital who died from treating the Ebola patient in TX despite using PPEs. Granted, IMO, they should have had access to higher level PPEs and more training to deal with this deadly disease.
 

Mark D

Now running for Emperor.
The rest of the planet should build a wall around Africa; that place is beyond hope. There isn't a way to pull that herd out of the mud-huts-and-witch-doctors system.

Let Ebola do it's work, and the rest of us just ignore it and get on with our lives... But No! A legion of bleeding heart idiots in Europe and the U.S. insist of dicking around over there, to no lasting effect. All the while risking themselves and the rest of us. As a herd, the Africans are simply too stupid to know better, but the Westerners should be strung up for their voluntary idiocy. The mind reels.
 

2Trish

Veteran Member
I don't want to scare anyone, but it might have already migrated to the US.

So far, info is that a person in the same local organization as my husband, recently succumbed to something and died in the hospital.

No one is saying what he died from...but he'd recently come back from some small, poor village in Africa where he worked with the poor.
There are rumors -- some say he had a heart attack...others are saying possibly ebola. No one knows anything for certain except maybe the wife, hospital and the funeral home.

He was cremated.


In Michigan everyone has access to any ones death certificate, available at the city where the person died at the City Clerk's office. No for birth certificates, yes for death certificates. Don't know what other states laws are.
 

Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
Ebola may be starting to explode in the DRC. As we all recall, the case of the three crazies who were late stage, AND HIGHLY INFECTIOUS, fled the hospital, went to the prayer meeting, exposed everybody there, and then died.

This was on May 21st, 2018. The "incubation period," for Ebola is listed as 2 days, 7 days and 21 days. Ergo, if you don't get symptoms for 21 days it would mean you would show symptoms on June 11th. I have been keeping my eyes peeled to see if we see a wave of new Ebola infections. I think the seven new cases indicate that some of the reputed 600 people exposed from the 50 at the prayer meeting are getting ebola. I don't know if it is 7 out of the original 50, or out of the 600, or other people separate from either group.

Well, here is what I found. First, I HAVE FOUND NO RECENT WESTERN MEDIA REPORTING ON EBOLA. THEY SEEMED TO HAVE STOPPED AROUND MID MAY OR SO WITH A COUPLE OF EXCEPTIONS. HERE IS THE LINK TO ONE OF THEM.



http://www.msf.org/en/article/democratic-republic-congo-ebola-update-may-2018

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/suspected-ebola-cases-reported-drc-180603063454342.html

As far as I can tell, there have been "officially reported," 7 new cases of Ebola since May 21st. Well, if your baseline is around 50 cases, give or take, and you go from 50 to 57 in about 2 weeks, I don't think that is good. For starters, given the reality on the ground in the DRC, you could have had 500 new cases and the local authorities wouldn't know about it at all.

So, since May 8th, there have officially been 54 to 57 cases, depending who you read.

Well, the link below indicates 7 new cases since May 21st. The ones they know about.

Seven new suspected Ebola cases reported in DRC

So far, there have been 57 cases of infection reported since the outbreak was declared on May 8 in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
2 Jun 2018
Seven new suspected cases of Ebola have been detected in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

There have been 57 cases of Ebola since an outbreak was declared in Bikoro, nearly four weeks ago.

Twelve patients have died from the virus, while nine victims have been cured.

Al Jazeera's Charlotte Bellis reports.
 

night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
Doug:
Pic(s), map etc at the Monthly update from Aesop. You remember him, he was very on top of the 2014 outbreak.
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2018/06/ebola-2018-just-checking-in.html

The good news is that MSF and WHO have flooded the affected area with workers, treatment centers, and money, and have over 7500 doses of Merck's experimental but promising Ebola vaccine on hand, and the outbreak, like many before, is mainly in a section of one province that's remote rainforest jungle area (which helps check the spread, but also hinders efforts to combat the outbreak).

The bad news is that in the last month, it's gone from 21 cases, and 17 deaths, with 75 contacts being tracked, to currently 54 cases with 25 deaths, and now tracking over 900 contacts, so its r-naught is proceeding almost exactly apace with doubling every 21 days.

We're still only at a 6 out of 33 on the pandemic panic meter, and it hasn't escaped Congo.
Yet.
So it's still small potatoes. Let's hope it peters out, and stays that way.

You can view the details on the relevant Wikipedia page.

Hopefully they nip this thing early and small, before, in the phrase knowingly and memorably quoted by African expat sages like Kim DuToit, "Africa Wins Again".

Barring it showing up in someplace like Kinshasa, Cairo, or Capetown, (let alone and God forbid Paris, London, or Rio de Janeiro), I hope not to have to re-visit this next month.
POSTED BY AESOP AT 12:00 AM
LABELS: EBOLA
5 COMMENTS:
Anonymous said...
I REALLY appreciate these updates. Got people I care about on the continent at the moment - and will for some months to come.
Term used by one of them; "Africomplicated"
Boat Guy

JUNE 1, 2018 AT 6:38 AM
Aesop said...
If you haven't read it already, hit the link in the article to Kim DuToit in the post.
An extracted American by way of South Africa, it hot-links to a re-post of his 2002 essay "Let Africa Sink", on his current site.

You will learn more about Africa from AD1500-five minutes ago in that single essay that you would from reading all the area studies extant on the Dark Continent.

JUNE 1, 2018 AT 6:35 PM
Anonymous said...
As he noted his essay was "pre-AIDS". The man knows of what he writes.
My own recent reading has been "African Kaiser" about von Lettow Vorbeck and his successful campaign in WWI. Quite a story.
I "worked" Africa for some years as a staff officer but only managed to get to Botswana which my 3rd Group brothers assured me was/is "not Africa"
BG
 

changed

Preferred pronouns: dude/bro
When Obama was allowing ebola infected people to be flown from Africa here to the US, even the flaming liberals that I knew were like, WTF? What is he doing?
 

Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
Don't forget we are about a month away from the Black Death airborne vector bacteria season in Madagascar. Actually, it is only a matter of time before some disease starts in either Africa or China and then goes global.

Sorry, but after 2014 I just can't take either WHO or the CDC seriously. I'm thinking those two morons infected dozens of people, who are now lying low, since they are thinking about curses, and witchcraft, and yada yada yada.

If I am correct, we will start to see an uptick in new cases, likely spread over a wider geographical area, although whether the lying CDC and WHO will give accurate data remains to be seen. They won't hesitate to lie about the actual numbers. I am still saying tens of thousands of people died in 2014 from Ebola, even though the "official count," is what, 11,000?

I wonder what that "vaccine" is really doing to people? Sterilizing them, or just giving them a slow acting poison?
 

China Connection

TB Fanatic
Vaccinations and the Depopulation Agenda

Now we come to vaccines and depopulation experiments

by Jon Rappoport

September 15, 2014

NoMoreFakeNews.com

“When the State offers and even insists on giving everybody something, you know you’re in trouble. Well, that’s the whole point, isn’t it? Leaving the individual out of the equation. Treating the population like a single Blob.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

Before we get to vaccines, I want to give you a quote about fluorides, just to set the stage.

Stan Freni is a researcher who, in 1994, wrote a paper about fluorides, the substance in many toothpastes, also pumped intentionally into the drinking water of many communities and cities.

Funny thing is, Stan Freni wrote his paper as an employee for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The title of the paper is “Exposure to High Fluoride Concentrations in Drinking Water is Associated With Decreased Birth Rates.”

It was published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health (v.42, pp.109-121, 1994). Freni writes:

“A US database of drinking water systems was used to identify index counties with water systems reporting fluoride levels of at least 3ppm (parts per million)…the annual total fertility rate (TFR) for women in the age range 10-49 yr. was calculated for the period 1970-1988…Most regions showed an association of decreasing TFR with increasing fluoride levels.”

Increasing fluoride levels, lower fertility rates. Depopulation here in the US, right in your water.

So don’t imagine depopulation is an esoteric subject.

____________________

Let’s move on.

You have to understand that every promoted so-called “pandemic” is an extended sales pitch for vaccines.

And not just a vaccine against the “killer germ” of the moment. We’re talking about a psyop to condition the population to vaccines in general.

There is much available literature on vaccines used for depopulation experiments. The research is ongoing. Undoubtedly, we only know a fraction of what is happening behind closed laboratory doors.

Depopulation has several objectives. Along one vector, it is an elite strategy designed to get rid of large numbers of people, in key areas of the world, where local revolutions would interfere with outside corporations staging a complete takeover of fertile land and rich natural resources.

____________________

An astonishing journal paper. November, 1993. FASEB Journal, volume 7, pp.1381-1385. Authors—Stephan Dirnhofer et al. Dirnhofer was a member of the Institute for Biomedical Aging Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

A quote from the paper: “Our study provides insights into possible modes of action of the birth control vaccine promoted by the Task Force on Birth Control Vaccines of the WHO (World Health Organization).”

A birth control vaccine?

Yes.

A vaccine whose purpose is to achieve non-pregnancy where it ordinarily could occur. This particular vaccine was apparently just one of several anti-fertility vaccines the Task Force was promoting.

Yes. There is a Task Force on Birth Control Vaccines at WHO. This journal paper focuses on a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin B (hCG). There is a heading in the FASEB paper (p.1382) called “Ability of antibodies to neutralize the biological activity of hCG.” The authors are trying to discover whether a state of non-fertility can be achieved by blocking the normal activity of hCG.

__________________

Another journal paper. The British Medical Bulletin, volume 49, 1993. “Contraceptive Vaccines.” The authors—RJ Aitken et al. From the MRC Reproductive Biology Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

“Three major approaches to contraceptive vaccine development are being pursued at the present time. The most advanced approach, which has already reached the stage of phase 2 clinical trials, involves the induction of immunity against human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG). Vaccines are being engineered … incorporating tetanus or diptheria toxoid linked to a variety of hCG-based peptides … Clinical trials have revealed that such preparations are capable of stimulating the production of anti-hCG antibodies…”

The authors are talking about creating an immune response against a female hormone. Training a woman’s body to react against one of its own secreted hormones. The authors state, “The fundamental principle behind this approach to contraceptive vaccine development is to prevent the maternal recognition of pregnancy by inducing a state of immunity against hGC, the hormone that signals the presence of the embryo to the maternal endocrine system.”

Stop the female body from recognizing a state of pregnancy. Get the body to treat the natural hormone hCG as an intruder, a disease agent, and mobilize the forces of the immune system against it. Create a synthetic effect, an engineered effect, by which the mother’s “maternal endocrine system” does not swing into gear when pregnancy occurs. The result? The embryo in the mother is swept away by her next period—since hGC, which signals the existence of the pregnancy and halts menstruation cycles, is now treated as a disease entity.

The authors put it this way: “In principle, the induction of immunity against hGC should lead to a sequence of normal, or slightly extended, menstrual cycles during which any pregnancies would be terminated…”

Miscarriage would then be the “normal” state of affairs. These authors leave no doubt about who the target of this vaccine would be:

“During the next decade the world’s population is set to rise by around 500 million. Moreover, because the rates of population growth in the developing countries of Africa, South America, and Asia will be so much greater than the rest of the world, the distribution of this dramatic population growth will be uneven…”

Two other vaccine methods are described. They “aim to prevent conception by interfering with the intricate cascade of interactive events that characterize the union of male and female gametes at fertilization.”

___________________

The diptheria and tetanus vaccines would function as a social and political mask—to hide the sterilizing intent, as millions of women in the Third World would receive vaccines they’re told would protect them against infections and disease.

A letter to a medical journal, The Lancet, p.1222, Volume 339, May 16, 1992. “Cameroon: Vaccination and politics.” Peter Ndumbe and Emmanuel Yenshu, the authors of this letter, report on their efforts to analyze widespread popular resistance to a tetanus vaccine given in the northwest province of Cameroon.

Two of the reasons women rejected the vaccine: it was given only to “females of childbearing age,” and people heard that a “sterilizing agent” was present in the vaccine.

____________________

The late well-known journalist, Alexander Cockburn, on the op ed page of the LA Times on September 8, 1994, in his piece “Real U.S. Policy in Third World: Sterilization : Disregard the ’empowerment’ shoe polish–the goal is to keep the natives from breeding,” reviewed the infamous Kissinger-commissioned 1974 National Security Study Memorandum 200, “which addressed population issues.”

“… the true concern of Kissinger analysts [in Memorandum 200] was maintenance of US access to Third World resources. They worried that the ‘political consequences’ of population growth [in the Third World] could produce internal instability … With famine and food riots and the breakdown of social order in such countries, [the Kissinger memo warns that] ‘the smooth flow of needed materials will be jeopardized.’”

In other words, too many people equals disruption for the transnational corporations, who steal nations from those very people.

Does this remind you of what is happening in West Africa now, re “the Ebola crisis?” Lockdown. Borders sealed. Over the past five years, several vaccine campaigns—and who knows what other vectors for the transmission of toxic elements to the population.

Cockburn notes that the writers of the Kissinger memo “favored sterilization over food aid.” He goes on to say that “By 1977, Reimart Ravenholt, the director of AID’s [US Agency for International Development] population program, was saying that his agency’s goal was to sterilize one-quarter of the world’s women.”

____________________

There were unconfirmed reports from the Philippines and Mexico that their 1993 tetanus vaccination programs—which were supposedly administered only to women of childbearing age—involved multiple injections.

Tetanus vaccine protocols indicate that one injection is good for ten years. Therefore, multiple injections would indicate another motive for the vaccinations—such as the anti-fertility effect of hCG planted in the vaccine.

My inquiries to Philippine officials went unanswered.

The Population Research Institute, in the November/December 1996 issue of its Review, published a report by David Morrison.

Morrison stated, “Philippine women may have been unwittingly vaccinated against their own children, a recent study conducted by the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) has indicated.

“The study tested random samples of a tetanus vaccine for the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), a hormone essential to the establishment and maintenance of pregnancy … The PMA’s positive test results indicate that just such an abortifacient may have been administered to Philippine women without their consent.

“The PMA notified the Philippine Department of Health (PDOH) of these findings in a 16 September letter signed by the researchers and certified by its President. Using an immunological assay developed by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States, a three-doctor research panel tested forty-seven vials of tetanus vaccine collected at random from various health centers in Luzon and Mindanao. Nine were found to contain hCG in levels ranging from 0.191680 mIU/ml to 3.046061 mIU/ml. These vaccines, most of which were labeled as of Canadian origin, were supplied by the World Health Organization as part of a WHO-sponsored [sterilization] vaccination program.”

Morrison’s article would seem to indicate that the vials of vaccine tested came from a widespread immunization campaign rather than from a small pilot study of a few women.
____________________

The Task Force on Vaccines for Fertility Regulation was created at the World Health Organization in 1973. Ute Sprenger, writing in Biotechnology and Development Monitor (December 1995) describes the Task Force:

“…a global coordinating body for anti-fertility vaccine R&D…such as anti-sperm and anti-ovum vaccines and vaccines designed to neutralize the biological functions of hCG.”

Sprenger indicates that, as of 1995, there were several large groups researching these vaccines. Among them:

* WHO/HRP. HRP is the Special Progamme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, located in Switzerland. It is funded by “the governments of Sweden, United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, Germany and Canada, as well as the UNFPA and the World Bank.”

* The Population Council. It’s a US group funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Institutes of Health [a US federal agency], and the US Agency for International Development [notorious for its collaborations with the CIA].

* National Institute of Immunology. Located in India, “major funders are the Indian government, the Canadian International Development Research Center and the [ubiquitous] Rockefeller Foundation.”

* The Center for Population Research, located at the US National Institute of Child Health and Development [!], which is part of the US National Institutes of Health.
____________________

The Lancet, 4 June, 1998, p.1272: “During the recent National Immunisation Campaign (vaccination for childhood diseases and tetanus toxoid for pregnant women), in some villages [of Thailand] the women escaped and hid in the bushes thinking that they were going to be given injections to stop them having children.”
____________________

AP, Boston Globe, October 10, 1992, “Birth-control vaccine is reported in India”: “Scientists said yesterday they have created the first birth-control shot for women, effective for an entire year…[after which] a booster shot is needed.”

There are other citations from published medical literature — but you get the idea: vaccines as depopulation instruments.

And the hCG versions I refer to appear to be crude efforts. Who knows what levels of sophistication have been achieved in secret?

West Nile, SARS, bird flu, Swine Flu, Ebola—the real motive for promoting these “pandemics” is the follow-up: vaccines.

To a highly significant degree, the CDC and the World Health Organization are PR agencies, whose job is to convince the public that stepping up, rolling up their sleeves, and submitting to shots containing germs and toxic chemicals is the most natural and wise action possible.

Yes, and ignorance is strength.

The Matrix is designed inside out and upside down.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at NoMoreFakeNews.com.

To read original article click HERE
____________________

RELATED:

– Jon Rappoport interviews former vaccine researcher
https://www.vaccinationinformationnetwork.com/jon-rappoport-interviews-former-vaccine-researcher/


https://www.vaccinationinformationnetwork.com/vaccinations-and-the-depopulation-agenda/
 

tanstaafl

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I am still saying tens of thousands of people died in 2014 from Ebola, even though the "official count," is what, 11,000?

The CDC was widely quoted (that is, it wasn't some kind of conspiracy of official silence) as saying it would be closer to multiply the official death toll by four, which means somewhere in the neighborhood of 50,000 dead. What I don't get is that on 11/20/2015 an article said the death toll was "about 11,300 people," and then for the next four months not one single article that I saw ever raised the final tally any higher right up until I saw "[this epidemic] was declared no longer an emergency in March 2016." I think it's unlikely that the death toll in the intervening four months wasn't more than 100 to kick the tally up another notch, but that's what the news coverage (at least the stuff I saw) would have us believe.
 

Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa started out in the jungle boonies. It eventually made it to the major cities, and then into the other countries. The 11,000 figure only applies to deaths the WHO and CDC were aware of in the cities. They have no idea how many died out in the jungle villages, and were quietly buried. They have no idea of how many people were infected by washing the corpses out in the boonies. I came to the conclusion that multiplying everything: infected people and people who died by a factor of 4 gave you a more accurate figure. The WHO and CDC deliberately covered up the fact that 45,000 PLUS people died in 2014, and not the 11,000. And yeah, the death total stayed the same for over two years, when they KNEW people were continuing to get infected and die.

In the case of this new Ebola outbreak in the Congo it will be the same thing. The CDC and WHO are going to push the ludicrous idea that two late stage Ebola patients, fled a hospital, went to a prayer meeting, exposed dozens of people, died within hours, and then those people exposed hundreds of people, who then exposed thousands of people. And with all of the above, the CDC and WHO are saying we will not get new Ebola infected people out of that?

Sheesh, in another five days or so we will start to see new infections, although the CDC and WHO will cover that up to prevent hysteria. The other thing is it is likely Ebola is now spreading more widely using the river conduit.

It will be one month from now and the CDC and WHO will still be saying there are 100 deaths or so, when there will be hundreds, if not thousands. Still, until Ebola gets to Paris, or London or New York City, they will be able to keep lying.
 
Top