EBOLA Iraqi and Kurdish Media Reports: ISIS Fighters Have Contracted Ebola

[Intestinal Fortitude]

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Iraqi and Kurdish Media Reports: ISIS Fighters Have Contracted Ebola
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by Jordan Schachtel1 Jan 20151203

Multiple Iraqi and Kurdish media sources have claimed that some Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Mosul, Iraq, have contracted the deadly Ebola virus, Mashable reports.

The Iraqi outlets reportedly claimed that Ebola had started to spread in a Mosul hospital.
The city, known as ISIS’s most important strategic stronghold in Iraq, has been under the control of the Islamic State since June.

Christy Feig, the World Health Organization (WHO) director of communications, told Mashable, “We have no official notification from the Iraqi government that it is Ebola.” She said that WHO had reached out to authorities and asked if they needed help investigating the matter.

Kurdish media network Xendan reported that ISIS jihadists’ symptoms were similar to those shown by someone who has contracted Ebola.
However, it is highly uncertain whether Mosul health authorities have the means, tools, or skill-set necessary to test for Ebola, given the current hostile environment in the area.

In late December, the Islamic State reportedly executed doctors who refused to treat their militant jihadis. The Washington Post said of the ongoing situation in Mosul, “Services are collapsing, prices are soaring, and medicines are scarce in towns and cities across the ‘caliphate’ proclaimed in Iraq and Syria by ISIS.”

Iraq’s pro-government Al Sabaah (The Morning) daily newspaper reported that Ebola made its way into Mosul through Africa-based Islamist “terrorists” who then linked up with ISIS. Mashable notes, however, that the majority of ISIS recruits in Africa have come from countries that have not reported any Ebola cases, such as Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Libya, and others.

Meanwhile, Mosul’s liberation remains a strategic priority for Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led coalition. Mosul has been described as ISIS’s de facto capital in Iraq. While under ISIS control, many of the city’s one million residents have lived under fear of severe punishment or execution should they not comply with the jihadists’ mandates.

 

[Dredge]

Something to keep an eye on. Sounds Biblical

 

[Housecarl]

Fox News this morning interviewed a US multi-combat tour vet who'd joined the Kurds to fight ISIS. One point he made was that after the Kurds vetted him via online information interaction, it was 72 hours between the time he left CONUS and was in the field fighting ISIS coming in via Turkey.

Given that with ISIS/AQAM affiliated groups operating in and around Chad, Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Mauritania, Algeria and Mali, that could have "moved on" to Iraq, they very well could have gotten "in country" well within the accepted 21 day Ebola incubation period.

Yes definitely something to watch.

 

[Richard]

If ISIS fighters have contracted the virus it means that other Iraqis will catch it, the epidemic won't be confined to ISIS.

 

[Plain Jane]

I seem to remember a discussion of "medical jihad" some months ago. If this is true, it could be deliberate.

 

[PCViking]

ISIS executes more doctors in Mosul​

By RUDAW 28/12/2014

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Islamic State (ISIS) authorities executed two more doctors in the city of Mosul, the latest in a campaign against physicians who refuse to join field hospitals or treat wounded fighters, a top health official said.

"Elements of the organization (ISIS) executed physicians Tareq Jassim and Adil Ayham, working in the Department of Surgery of the Republican General Hospital in Mosul,” said Dr. Firas al-Hamdani, head of the hospital’s emergency section.

“The bodies of the doctors arrived at the hospital morgue this evening after being executed by ISIS firing squad," he added.

ISIS arrested doctors at the hospital in September, after capturing the city in June.

The jihadi group has issued threats recently to punish doctors and nurses who refuse to treat its wounded fighters.

According to staff members of the Mosul Health Department ISIS has ordered all doctors to work round the clock.

In recent fighting with Kurdish Peshmerga forces, ISIS has suffered heavy losses and scores of wounded militants are believed to have been taken by the group to Mosul hospitals.

http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/28122014

 

[Cardinal]

Probably executed for refusing to "work around the clock." How long can they be expected to go without sleep anyway.

 

[Adino]

thank God we have the most secure borders in the world

along w/ tight immigration and travel restrictions

otherwise the jihadis that have claimed they'd send ebola infected people in jihad could just waltz in here and start infecting people

 

[Satanta]

In late December, the Islamic State reportedly executed doctors who refused to treat their militant jihadis. The Washington Post said of the ongoing situation in Mosul, “Services are collapsing, prices are soaring, and medicines are scarce in towns and cities across the ‘caliphate’ proclaimed in Iraq and Syria by ISIS.”

I am sure we will begin delivering medicines and docors to them by the billions of $$. Cannot have Obamas brothers going without.

I am also sure some of it is deliberate and yes, the open borders will come into play.

 

[dero50]

Is that why the boat loads of Syrians are being sent to Italy, Greece, etc? What about those being sent to Germany? This could end in a world wide plague.

 

[Trouble]

That's a damned shame right there.

 

[Lilbitsnana]

I saw this a few days ago.

Iraq officials deny it.

So, who ran the tests and identified it? Where did they do it?

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http://www.mfs-theothernews.com/2014/12/unconfirmed-report-two-ebola-cases.html

Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Unconfirmed report: "Two Ebola cases in Mosul"

Unconfirmed report: "Two Ebola cases in Mosul"(IraqNews).

3.UPDATE ! Iraqi Health Ministry denies registration Ebola disease in Mosul.

On Wednesday, an official newspaper revealed, that two Ebola cases and 26 AIDS cases have been reported and registered in Mosul.

The Iraqi official newspaper ‘Al-Sabah’ said in its today’s issue, “Many diseases and epidemics have spread among residents of the city of Mosul,” and added, “Two Ebola and 26 HIV AIDS cases were registered.”

The newspaper quoted medical sources in the city,”These diseases moved to Nineveh by terrorists and expats from different countries, especially Africa.”

On November 23, 2014, the Parliamentary Committee of Health and Environment warned from the entry of the Ebola into Iraq by the Islamic State (IS), while confirming that the Commission had taken the necessary measures to prevent the entry and spread of this disease in the country.

On November 21, 2014, the United Nations Security Council expressed its grave concern about the Ebola outbreak on an unprecedented scale in Africa, which poses a threat to the international peace and security, at a time when the World Health Organization announced the rise of Ebola victims to more than 6000. Hmmmm......To be taken with a cup of salt until further notice. Probably two MERS cases instead of Ebola.

1. Update:

Reports that Islamic State militants in Mosul have contracted Ebola swirled though Iraqi media sources on Wednesday. World Health Organization officials said they haven't confirmed the cases, but the organization has reached out to offer assistance.

Three outlets reported that Ebola showed up at a hospital in Mosul, a city 250 miles north of Baghdad that's been under ISIS control since June 2014. The reports, however, have perpetuated mostly in pro-government and Kurdish media.

"We have no official notification from [the Iraqi government] that it is Ebola," Christy Feig, WHO's director of communications told Mashable.

Feig added that WHO is in the process of reaching out to government officials in Iraq to see if they need help investigating the cases, a task that could be a challenge, given the restrictions that would come with operating in ISIS-controlled territory.

It's unclear if any disease experts or doctors in Mosul are even able to test for the Ebola virus.
A Kurdish official, who was convinced the cases are Ebola, told the Kurdish media outlet Xendan that the militants' symptoms were similar to those of the Ebola virus.

However, Ebola symptoms -- nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding and bruising -- are also similar to those associated with a number of other diseases, including malaria, Lassa fever, yellow fever viruses and the Marburg virus. Also, most confirmed Ebola cases in this recent outbreak have originated in West Africa.

Citing an unnamed source in a Mosul hospital, Iraq's official pro-government newspaper, al Sabaah, said the disease arrived in Mosul from "terrorists" who came "from several countries" and Africa.

While ISIS has recruited foreign fighters, very few of them -- if any at all -- are believed to have traveled from West Africa.

 

[hammerhead]

That's a damned shame right there.

I understand this perspective, especially in an adversarial situation, but it's a dangerous one. Flip it around: our boys and girls in uniform come down with-- well, hell, ebola. And some Youtube "Ha-ha too ****ing bad" videos surface from the Middle East. Imagine your PURE ****ING RAGE. And then perhaps you get a suspicion that it was deliberately transmitted to them . . .

Ebola is a problem for all of humanity and threatens us all. It's horrible, and surely some level of compassion for its victims is accessible to each of us. Even fear that it could spread to you and yours. Ebola is an enemy, and I can't rejoice over its victory anywhere.

My $0.02.

 

[Dredge]

Any way ISIS fighters die is good. If it is ISIS recruits coming from Africa they are going to leave a trail of disease all the way through Turkey

 

[Housecarl]

Just from "idle curiosity", I wonder if there is a difference in inoculation histories between the "native" Iraqi population and the ISIS/Daesh membership? If you "really want to pull out the stops", that "could" be something to "exploit".

And before anyone starts getting too riled up for what I'm starting to suggest, considering what's happening on the ground in the ISIS/Daesh controlled territories, at this point they've lost any semblance to eligibility to any protection from the Law of Land Warfare.