EBOLA Ebola in Veracruz per Spanish TV?
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Hummm.....I wonder if it was someone who was coming up through Mexico from Africa to get into CONUS at the Rio Grande? Considering the variety of non-Mexicans they've been finding of late that would make the most sense.
News report, as of yesterday, says no ebola in veracruz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG6tUYZTF4w
It's in spanish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG6tUYZTF4w
It's in spanish
There are hemorrhagic fevers from the Amazon Basin. I remember about ten to fifteen years ago a whole Brazilian SF patrol got laid out by such a disease.
For links see article source.....
Posted for fair use.....
http://www.tierramerica.org/2001/0422/iarticulo.shtml
The Jungle's Lethal Secrets
By Mario Osava*
An outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil serves as a reminder of the dangerous microorganisms hidden in the forests that can cause diseases human among humans as we increasingly come into contact with the wilds.
RIO DE JANEIRO - Forests are home to microorganisms that are potentially dangerous to human health, meaning ecological tourism, wild animal smuggling, and the advance of economic activities into unpopulated areas could be the source of lethal diseases.
Dener Giovanini, coordinator of the National Network to Fight Wild Animal Trafficking (RENCTAS), a Brazilian non-governmental organization, has sounded the alarm.
The Ebola virus, which was first documented in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Sudan, is one well-known example of this dynamic. Ebola is a deadly hemorrhagic fever, the latest outbreak of which occurred in Uganda in August 2000 and was not contained until January of this year.
There are also equally mysterious but lesser known diseases, such as the Marburg virus, identified in 1967 among laboratory workers in the German city of that name and in Belgrade who had been exposed to blood and tissue of monkeys imported from Uganda, Giovanini told Tierramérica.
He mentioned Legionnaire's disease (Legionella pneumophila) as well, which is caused by bacteria that can survive under a broad spectrum of physio-chemical conditions. Its name comes from the fact that it was first identified at a convention of the American Legion in 1976, in the US city of Philadelphia.
In Brazil there are frequent reports of deaths from ''hemorrhagic fevers'' with unknown causes, and the necessary monitoring is not performed to establish preventive measures and avoid possible tragedy, lamented Giovanini.
Among the diseases originating in the jungles, yellow fever stands out, and is now threatening to return to the cities of Brazil, after being eradicated from urban areas 60 years ago.
A rash of yellow fever cases occurred 100 km from Belo Horizonte, a city in south-central Brazil, killing 18 of the 40 people infected from late January to early April, according to the Health Department of Minas Gerais state.
All had contracted the disease through mosquito bites. The insects had previously bitten monkeys carrying the virus, thus transmitting it to humans. The symptoms include fever, hemorrhage and yellow-toned skin color.
The presence of dengue, which is transmitted by the ‘Aedes aegypti’ mosquito, in several Brazilian cities, also underscores the threat of urban epidemics.
The victims of the outbreaks recorded in several municipalities west of Belo Horizonte were local residents and tourists. Some 60,000 people visited the region during the Carnival holidays in late February, most to make fishing excursions in the rivers - where the disease-carrying mosquitoes abound.
At least two of the victims lived in the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area, home to around four million people. Health authorities launched a vaccination campaign there in February and are confident that they prevented the risk of new cases in the cities.
The yellow fever virus is endemic in the Amazon and is now going through a cycle of expansion toward the center of the country, stated Rogerio Valls, a specialist at the Evandro Chagas Hospital in Rio de Janeiro.
The disease was identified in the third victim and ''everyone then ran to get vaccinated,'' commented María do Rosario Bento, a nurse living in Leandro Ferreira, a small town in which there were four deaths from yellow fever.
Also found in Minas Gerais state is maculous fever, another rural plague. The transmission agent is the tick, and the disease causes hemorrhaging followed by death within a week, reported Mariana Gontijo de Brito, an expert at the state Health Department.
Five people died last year from maculous fever in a city surrounded by cattle ranches, said Gontijo de Brito, a veterinarian specializing in zoonosis, that is, animal diseases that can be transmitted to humans.
The Amazon jungles represent an enormous repository of microorganisms that are still unknown - and potentially lethal to human beings.
The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a Rio de Janeiro-based epidemiological research institute, has set up a ''virus hunting'' laboratory in the Amazon to identify the microorganisms and produce vaccines before diseases can spread, said Luciano Toledo, head of the scientific outpost.
An officer at a military compound near Manaos, capital of Amazonas state, died four years ago from an unidentified virus after eating monkey meat. The two soldiers who shared the meal with him became seriously ill, but survived.
Since then, the army has maintained a ban prohibiting troops from consuming monkey.
The indigenous peoples of the Amazon are naturally immune to yellow fever, and the urban populations in the region are mostly vaccinated, Toledo explained. Vaccination is essential for visitors, though there are cases in which foreign tourists have returned ill to their home countries and died because they were uninformed of the disease.
Viruses carried by eco-tourists or by animals smuggled abroad could later mutate into a more dangerous or untreatable disease, Giovanini pointed out. In that respect, he said, scientists have not ruled out the hypothesis that this was the trajectory of the human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV), the precursor to AIDS.
* Mario Osava is an IPS correspondent.
For links see article source.....
Posted for fair use.....
http://www.tierramerica.org/2001/0422/iarticulo.shtml
The Jungle's Lethal Secrets
By Mario Osava*
An outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil serves as a reminder of the dangerous microorganisms hidden in the forests that can cause diseases human among humans as we increasingly come into contact with the wilds.
RIO DE JANEIRO - Forests are home to microorganisms that are potentially dangerous to human health, meaning ecological tourism, wild animal smuggling, and the advance of economic activities into unpopulated areas could be the source of lethal diseases.
Dener Giovanini, coordinator of the National Network to Fight Wild Animal Trafficking (RENCTAS), a Brazilian non-governmental organization, has sounded the alarm.
The Ebola virus, which was first documented in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Sudan, is one well-known example of this dynamic. Ebola is a deadly hemorrhagic fever, the latest outbreak of which occurred in Uganda in August 2000 and was not contained until January of this year.
There are also equally mysterious but lesser known diseases, such as the Marburg virus, identified in 1967 among laboratory workers in the German city of that name and in Belgrade who had been exposed to blood and tissue of monkeys imported from Uganda, Giovanini told Tierramérica.
He mentioned Legionnaire's disease (Legionella pneumophila) as well, which is caused by bacteria that can survive under a broad spectrum of physio-chemical conditions. Its name comes from the fact that it was first identified at a convention of the American Legion in 1976, in the US city of Philadelphia.
In Brazil there are frequent reports of deaths from ''hemorrhagic fevers'' with unknown causes, and the necessary monitoring is not performed to establish preventive measures and avoid possible tragedy, lamented Giovanini.
Among the diseases originating in the jungles, yellow fever stands out, and is now threatening to return to the cities of Brazil, after being eradicated from urban areas 60 years ago.
A rash of yellow fever cases occurred 100 km from Belo Horizonte, a city in south-central Brazil, killing 18 of the 40 people infected from late January to early April, according to the Health Department of Minas Gerais state.
All had contracted the disease through mosquito bites. The insects had previously bitten monkeys carrying the virus, thus transmitting it to humans. The symptoms include fever, hemorrhage and yellow-toned skin color.
The presence of dengue, which is transmitted by the ‘Aedes aegypti’ mosquito, in several Brazilian cities, also underscores the threat of urban epidemics.
The victims of the outbreaks recorded in several municipalities west of Belo Horizonte were local residents and tourists. Some 60,000 people visited the region during the Carnival holidays in late February, most to make fishing excursions in the rivers - where the disease-carrying mosquitoes abound.
At least two of the victims lived in the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area, home to around four million people. Health authorities launched a vaccination campaign there in February and are confident that they prevented the risk of new cases in the cities.
The yellow fever virus is endemic in the Amazon and is now going through a cycle of expansion toward the center of the country, stated Rogerio Valls, a specialist at the Evandro Chagas Hospital in Rio de Janeiro.
The disease was identified in the third victim and ''everyone then ran to get vaccinated,'' commented María do Rosario Bento, a nurse living in Leandro Ferreira, a small town in which there were four deaths from yellow fever.
Also found in Minas Gerais state is maculous fever, another rural plague. The transmission agent is the tick, and the disease causes hemorrhaging followed by death within a week, reported Mariana Gontijo de Brito, an expert at the state Health Department.
Five people died last year from maculous fever in a city surrounded by cattle ranches, said Gontijo de Brito, a veterinarian specializing in zoonosis, that is, animal diseases that can be transmitted to humans.
The Amazon jungles represent an enormous repository of microorganisms that are still unknown - and potentially lethal to human beings.
The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a Rio de Janeiro-based epidemiological research institute, has set up a ''virus hunting'' laboratory in the Amazon to identify the microorganisms and produce vaccines before diseases can spread, said Luciano Toledo, head of the scientific outpost.
An officer at a military compound near Manaos, capital of Amazonas state, died four years ago from an unidentified virus after eating monkey meat. The two soldiers who shared the meal with him became seriously ill, but survived.
Since then, the army has maintained a ban prohibiting troops from consuming monkey.
The indigenous peoples of the Amazon are naturally immune to yellow fever, and the urban populations in the region are mostly vaccinated, Toledo explained. Vaccination is essential for visitors, though there are cases in which foreign tourists have returned ill to their home countries and died because they were uninformed of the disease.
Viruses carried by eco-tourists or by animals smuggled abroad could later mutate into a more dangerous or untreatable disease, Giovanini pointed out. In that respect, he said, scientists have not ruled out the hypothesis that this was the trajectory of the human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV), the precursor to AIDS.
* Mario Osava is an IPS correspondent.
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If Ebola ever gets started in Mexico City, it will be a Black Death level event. Mexico city has 30 million, yes 30 million, people living in it. Many of these people live in areas with minimal public services. It will be the West Point ghetto in Monrovia, Liberia all over again.
Actually, the ONE thing that will take Ebola critical mass into a true global pandemic will be when it gets established, and starts to flourish, in any third world cesspool city with 10 to 30 million people living there. Calcutta, Mexico City, Lagos, Nigeria come to mind.
Actually, the ONE thing that will take Ebola critical mass into a true global pandemic will be when it gets established, and starts to flourish, in any third world cesspool city with 10 to 30 million people living there. Calcutta, Mexico City, Lagos, Nigeria come to mind.