EBOLA MAIN EBOLA DISCUSSION THREAD 11/01/14 to 11/15/14

[Doomer Doug]

Hey Cascadians, between the snow/ice here in downtown Portland and just having read the post at the link, well Doomer Doug is starting to get even more doomer. <G>

He is correct that as long as the cultural practices, like washing corpses etc continue unabated EBOLA WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD IN AFRICA.

By the way, Mali is a waypoint on the African refugee journey to Europe. They go into Spain from Morocco, through Tunisa, Algeria and Libya into either southern France or Italy.

Ebola will become endemic in Africa for decades into the future. It began in 1976 and is still around 40 years later, so why would this current epidemic be any different?

 

[Cascadians]

It is of course far worse. There are vast slums with questionable hygiene, crowded in dirt and dust like dessicated sardines, in Africa. They don't have iPhones with notifications and a system of contact tracing and supportive medical care. Heavily Islamic. Up north not as much witchcraft but still deep suspicion of government and new information. They are doomed. With the top Dr / Admins of WHO & CDC acting like gleeful zombie fools, who can blame anybody for being suspicious of .gov. Africa is toast.

Any country's healthcare system, if burdened by more than say 20 Ebola pts, is going to crash. Not set up for this BSL4 pathogen. Takes out the direct care workers and decimates the system. We don't have as much islamic witchcraft here but we have our own form of clueless arrogant idiocy which won't help. Plus the whole Nobola PC secretiveness. Ebola has so many devilish friends who enable it. Whole countries will fall squirting their disintegrating innards out every orifice.

 

[JohnGaltfla]

WOWT 6 News ‏@WOWT6News 7m7 minutes ago

#BREAKING: Sources tell WOWT 6 News that Nebraska Medicine is preparing for its third Ebola patient.

 

[Broccoli]

http://q13fox.com/2014/11/13/nebraska-hospital-prepares-for-new-ebola-patient/

CNN) — A surgeon who’s a Sierra Leone national and a legal permanent resident of the United States will be transported from Sierra Leone to the Nebraska Medical Center for treatment for Ebola, a government official familiar with the situation said.

The doctor is expected to arrive this weekend, most likely Saturday, the official said.

The official said it’s not known whether the doctor was working in an Ebola treatment unit or some other type of hospital. The surgeon is married to a U.S. citizen and has children, the official said.

The Omaha hospital has already treated two American Ebola patients. Dr. Rick Sacra was treated at the hospital and released in September. And Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance cameraman who worked for NBC, was treated there and released last month.

Both Sacra and Mukpo contracted the virus in Liberia and were later flown to the United States for treatment.

 

[BREWER]

Hey Doomer Doug, go read here: http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com

Too busy to copy at the mo, but yikes, words of reality.

I love how he says point blank, "Blame witchcraft and Islam." Yep this combination of beliefs ensures that Africa is toast.

Here you go...

Posted for fair use and discussion.
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-guinea-mali-connection.html

The Guinea-Mali Connection


As noted by commentor Ex-Dissident, WHO is doing a great job of detailing the Ebola outbreak proceeding unhindered in Guinea (shortly after the horses leave the barn and gallop down the road) now regularly being transmitted to Mali, helped by adherence to beliefs in both witchcraft, and Mohammed.

Mali: Case 1

Highlights: The child’s history begins with the death of her father, of unidentified causes, on 3 October.The father was a Red Cross worker who also provided care at a private medical clinic owned by his father (the paternal grandfather of the index case). The paternal grandfather was a retired health care worker.
While working at the private medical clinic, the child’s father had contact with a farmer from another village who died, of undiagnosed causes, on 12 September.
Ebola bodycount: 1

The farmer sought treatment accompanied by his two daughters. Both daughters died, of undiagnosed causes, in Beyla on 23 September, one at dawn and the other in the evening. Ebola bodycount: 3

The child’s father fell ill sometime during the third week of September. Fellow residents and neighbours in Beyla believed he was the victim of a bad-luck “curse” following an argument with the village chief. Witchcraft, and not Ebola, was suspected.
Shunned by the community, and on the advice of his own father (the paternal grandfather of the index case and the head of the family), the father returned to his native village of Sokodougou, in the sub-prefecture of Moussadou – a trip of more than 70 kilometres. He died there on 3 October.

Ebola bodycount: 4

This pattern of returning to a native village to grow old or die is commonly seen in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and many other countries around the world. Such frequent travels by symptomatic Ebola patients, often via public transportation and over long distances, unquestionably create multiple opportunities for high-risk exposures – en route and also when the patient reaches his home and is greeted by family and friends.
Meanwhile in Beyla, the paternal grandfather and family head lost his wife to an unknown disease on 8 October. He then allowed health officials to undertake contact tracing of 16 family members who had been in close contact with his deceased son (the father of the index case in Mali).

Ebola bodycount: 5

On the following day (9 October), two of his other sons were admitted to hospital. The hospital referred them to a MSF-run Ebola transit centre in Macenta.
The first son died the same day en route to Macenta. On 10 October, samples from both sons tested positive for Ebola, strongly suggesting that other family members had also died from Ebola virus disease.
On 16 October, the paternal grandfather travelled to Macenta, seeking treatment for what he told medical staff was “rheumatoid arthritis”. As part of a thorough medical examination, he was tested for Ebola. Positive results were received from the laboratory on 17 October. The paternal grandfather died at an Ebola treatment centre in Gueckedou on 20 October.

Ebola bodycount: 8; 3 diagnosed

Following news of the death of relatives in Guinea, the child’s grand aunt or “Grandma” (the second wife of the maternal grandfather) travelled to Beyla, Guinea, to offer her condolences to her relatives. The “Grandma” resides in Kayes, Mali.
She left Guinea to return to Mali on 19 October, taking the 2-year-old index case and her 5-year-old sister with her. A maternal uncle, the mother’s brother, also accompanied them. The index case was showing haemorrhagic symptoms in Guinea when the three began their extensive travels.
The mother is alive and is in regular telephone contact with the Mali team. She has to remain in the village where her husband was buried for 40 days for the official mourning, before she can leave. Her three-month-old baby is with her in Guinea. Both are under observation and, to date, neither has shown any symptoms.
The family group travelled via public transportation, taking at least one bus and 3 taxi rides as they journeyed more than 1200 kilometres through Mali. The buses made frequent stops for fuel or to let passengers on. The four spent 2 hours in the capital, Bamako, visiting relatives in a household with 25 people.
On 19–20 October, they travelled overnight in one bus from Bamako to Kayes. Between Bamako and Kayes, only two persons left the bus at Niamiga village. Persistent tracking eventually located both at their final destinations, in Dakar, Senegal and Paris, France.
Once in Kayes, the Grandma and index case consulted two traditional healers. The second healer took them to a retired nurse, who was alarmed by the child’s high temperature, which was above 40° C. When he learned they had recently travelled in Guinea, he suspected Ebola and advised them to seek treatment at a hospital.
The child was admitted to the hospital in Kayes on 21 October and diagnosed with Ebola following receipt of positive laboratory results on 23 October. She was hospitalized and treated in isolation, with infection prevention and control equipment and procedures in place. She died on 24 October.

Ebola bodycount 9: 4 actually diagnosed, only 1 in Mali.

Mali :Case 2

Highlights: Mali’s Ministry of Health has confirmed the country’s second fatal case of Ebola virus disease. The case occurred in a nurse who worked at a privately-run clinic in the capital city, Bamako. The nurse, who was showing Ebola-like symptoms, was isolated on the evening of 10 November following suspicions of Ebola infection in a patient from Guinea who was treated at the clinic in late October. These suspicions were raised by an alert from health authorities in Guinea. The nurse died during the night of 11 November.

Ebola bodycount: 1

According to the preliminary investigation, a 70-year-old male resident of Kourémalé village, in the Siguiri prefecture of Guinea, had onset of symptoms from an undiagnosed disease on 17 October. On 18 October, he was admitted to a private clinic in the mining town of Siguiri.
The town, which is located along Guinea’s 800 km border with Mali, was an intense focus of Ebola virus transmission from early July to mid-August.
As his condition did not improve, he was transferred to another clinic located just across the border in Mali. On 25 October, he travelled by car, together with 4 family members to seek treatment at the Pasteur Clinic in Bamako.
He was suffering from acute kidney failure, a complication often seen in late-stage Ebola virus disease. Multiple laboratory tests were performed, but not for Ebola.
He was treated at the Pasteur Clinic from 25 October until his death, from kidney failure, on 27 October. In addition, a friend who visited him at the clinic also died abruptly from an undiagnosed disease. Both are considered probable Ebola cases. For both, no samples are available for testing.
The nurse, whose fatal Ebola infection was confirmed on 11 November, worked at the Pasteur Clinic.

Ebola bodycount: 3; only 1 confirmed.

Because of his religious status as a Grand Imam, his body was transported to a mosque in Bamako for a ritual washing ceremony. The body was then returned to the native village of Kourémalé for formal funeral and burial ceremonies. Although these events are still under investigation, WHO staff assume that many mourners attended the ceremonies.

In that same village, the deceased patient’s first wife died of an undiagnosed disease on 6 November. His brother and his second wife are currently being managed at an Ebola treatment centre in Gueckedou, Guinea. All 3 accompanied the patient during the car trip to Bamako.

Ebola bodycount 6; 1 confirmed, 2 suspected.

On 10 November, his daughter died from an undiagnosed disease. The family declined offers of a safe burial.
On 11 November, the man’s son, who is currently at the Ebola treatment center in Gueckedou, tested positive for Ebola at the European Union’s mobile biosafety level 3 laboratory there. He was the fourth family member in the car trip to Bamako. Confirmation of his infection further increases the likelihood that deaths in other family members were caused by Ebola.

Ebola bodycount 8; 2 confirmed, 2 suspected, only 1 in Mali (So far.)

To date, 28 health care workers who had contact with the deceased patient at the Pasteur Clinic have been identified and are being placed under observation. A second team, deployed in the field, is tracing contacts in the community, including at the Bamako mosque.

Grand Total:
17 Ebola deaths
6 confirmed
2 suspected
2 in Mali

This is why this disease isn't "under control", likely never will be there, and why the "official numbers" from every country concerned are thoroughly and totally a dumptruck full of bullshit rose fertilizer.

And as long as people "decline" safe burial practices, refuse contact tracing, play with dead bodies, and take 700-mile bus trips all around the effing bush there, Ebola is going to keep cropping up until they get a raging outbreak in Bamako, rapidly overwhelming their primitive facilities, and Mali too is then gloriously aflame with the outbreak, if in fact this latest set of imports haven't accomplished that already.

And just for S and G:
Total number of countries with any flight restrictions on travelers from Mali: zero.
Total number of countries doing even kabuki BS temperature "screening" on travelers from Mali: zero.
Total number of persons arriving in France, the US, and everywhere else from Mali daily: ???

This is going to end well, for them and everyone else.
Blame Islam, and witchcraft.



Posted by Aesop at 4:14 PM
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[the watcher]

Wow Brewer, now that's a post, I read it twice thanks. One thing that struck me was how a third world country can determine ebola infection in 24-48 hours, and the CDC here, takes what, 5 days? Someone needs to send this to the snowflake.

I saw this recently, a video of Africans trying to flee to Spain. It's a must see vid imo.

VIDEO: Spanish border guards beat migrant
New video footage shows an African migrant being beaten by Spanish police as he is dragged from the border fence between Morocco and Spain's North African enclave of Melilla. There are now fears for his well-being, a human rights group told The Local.

'Violent' migrants storm Spain's African border (16 Oct 14)
Coastguard find two dead migrants off Spain (02 Oct 14)
Spanish police beat migrants: rights group (19 Aug 14)
'Fortress' Spain causing 'misery' for migrants (09 Jul 14)

Prodein, a pro-human rights group based in the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla, has posted a video online which shows Civil Guard officers beating a would-be immigrant who was attempting to scale the complex of security fences designed to prevent migrants from reaching Spanish soil. Then the man is shown being carried, apparently unconscious, to the Moroccan side of the border.

The video, apparently filmed during Wednesday’s mass attempt to cross the triple barrier by around 140 sub-Saharan migrants, shows how a man the NGO Prodein has named as Danny, a Cameroonian believed to be 23 years old, was beaten by security forces with truncheons after they had persuaded him to use a ladder to climb down off the fence.

José Palazón, the president of Prodein, told The Local on Friday that he is extremely concerned about the whereabouts and well-being of Danny after various stories began to circulate that he had died from his wounds or was being treated in a Moroccan hospital.

"Tomorrow a group from our association is going to cross the border to look for him," Palazón said, adding: "All we have heard so far are rumours."

The images show several migrants hanging onto the Spanish side of the fence while Civil Guard officers wait for them below or try to remove them.
..........During Wednesday’s assault on the Melilla fence, one Civil Guard agent was badly injured after falling from near the top of a fence during a struggle with a migrant. The authorities also reported that some of the would-be immigrants had directed saliva and urine at the border guards shouting “Ebola” as they did so.....
http://www.thelocal.es/20141017/vid...rds-beating-african-migrant-immigration-spain

 

[Oreally]

Um, Doomer Doug gets the United Nations isn't full of really smart people. The people in the UN are usually the ones the various governments want to get rid of by sending them out of the country. Still, even by the usual dismal UN standards, the man's comments are, well they approach a mixture of farce, satire and surrealism. They are the UN version of a Salvador Dali painting. LOL

Mali, well Mall proves two things in my opinion. The first is all of us "conspiracy kooks" were indeed correct when we said Ebola information would start flowing within hours of the November 4th USA election being done. This has happened, just like all of us fruitcakes said it would. <G>

The thing about Mali is this. We now have TWO SEPARATE EBOLA INFECTION VECTOR ZONES IN MALI. The first one was the two year old girl, and her famous, showing symptoms and infecting everybody, bus ride. The last Doomer Doug heard, "they" were saying she exposed 151 people, of whom they had begun "monitoring" 100 or so. 50 definitely exposed, likely Ebola infected people from that bus ride scattered to the wind.

Now we have a SECOND Ebola infection zone from the elderly gentleman who sought treatment. He has now infected/killed several other people. Since this was over a month ago, "they" have no idea of who he exposed, much less where they are.

Mali is now FULLY IN EBOLA EPIDEMIC MODE. There are now 100, 200 or more exposed people, possibly infected people, running around Mali, or have even left Mali to go whereever.

I said when the CDC was crowing about the "decline in Liberia" it was a lie. Sierra Leone is now exploding with Ebola cases, along with Mali.

500,000 cases by December 31st in West Africa for sure now. Multiple MILLIONS no later than Easter in my opinion. After that, the tidal wave really starts. Three to five years from now Africa is going to have a minimum of 100 MILLION INFECTED, ALONG WITH 50 MILLION DEAD. This is absolute best case in my opinion

Despite what that UN fool says, there will be NO tourism to West Africa for the next 20 years at a minimum.

Doug, how do you figure that in three to five years we will see 100 million dead there? You see the R0 number of this thing? The chart that i started in MAY , and which has not deviated one bit . . . says that in 15 MONTHS (or March 2016) we are gonna see 300 million WORLD WIDE.

You are such an optimist!

Tell us now what you think is going to slow this down?

 

[pinkelsteinsmom]

WHO mistakenly forwards email to BuzzFeed reporter saying 'BuzzFeed is banned' from Ebola distribution lists.

http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/buzzfeed/

 

[kelee877]

Doug, how do you figure that in three to five years we will see 100 million dead there? You see the R0 number of this thing? The chart that i started in MAY , and which has not deviated one bit . . . says that in 15 MONTHS (or March 2016) we are gonna see 300 million WORLD WIDE.

You are such an optimist!

Tell us now what you think is going to slow this down?

Nothing..will slow this down

back before the Sierra Leone spike and at the funeral,there is information of 2 lines of Ebola coming together..you know the unknown monster in the closest like H5N1 and H1N1 coming together..here is the link to the story..it gives a better idea then what I can type out and so far I have only found one study on Ebola since the 2014 outbreak and I add this side note 6 of the group wotking on this study died before it could be published, over 350 changes of the Ebola virus and no study has ever been done to know what will happen since these mutations(changes) have occured


http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/08/28/dna_sequences_reveal_ebolas_spread_and_mutations.html

 

[Tom McDowell]

Nothing..will slow this down

back before the Sierra Leone spike and at the funeral,there is information of 2 lines of Ebola coming together..you know the unknown monster in the closest like H5N1 and H1N1 coming together..here is the link to the story..it gives a better idea then what I can type out and so far I have only found one study on Ebola since the 2014 outbreak and I add this side note 6 of the group wotking on this study died before it could be published, over 350 changes of the Ebola virus and no study has ever been done to know what will happen since these mutations(changes) have occured


http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/08/28/dna_sequences_reveal_ebolas_spread_and_mutations.html

DNA sequences reveal Ebola's spread and mutations
Speedy collaboration among U.S., Scottish and Sierra Leone researchers — some of whom have died — brings virologists closer to understanding the deadly disease.


By: Jennifer Yang Global health reporter, Published on Thu Aug 28 2014


Mamie Lebbie may have been the first confirmed Ebola case in Sierra Leone. She survived to tell the tale.

First, Mamie Lebbie’s mother-in-law died. Then she began to feel feverish and sore. When Lebbie started throwing up, a local chief brought her to a nearby town, where an epidemiologist quickly arrived and drew some blood. The sample was sent to a city called Kenema about seven hours away, where a laboratory confirmed the terrifying diagnosis: Ebola.

Lebbie, who survived her illness, has no idea how this terrible new virus came into her village, from which it has now spread across Sierra Leone and caused at least 1,000 reported cases and 422 deaths. But an ambitious new genetic analysis of 99 Ebola DNA sequences taken from 78 patients — including Lebbie, one of Sierra Leone’s first confirmed cases — has shed light not only on how the virus entered the country, but also how it evolved and mutated during the first month of the outbreak.

The researchers hope their findings will help emergency responders — both those who diagnose new cases and those tracing the outbreak — as well as guide future drug development for Ebola, for which there is currently no approved vaccine or proven treatment.

The 99 sequences in the study, published Thursday by the journal Science, have also already been released online — a “very selfless” gesture that could have threatened the study authors’ chances of publication but allowed other scientists to quickly access the crucial data, said virologist and Ebola researcher Jens Kuhn, who was not involved with the paper.

“This is a great paper,” said Kuhn, who works at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. “This is the first example in filoviruses (like Ebola) of real molecular epidemiology, because you have so many individual genomes from so many individual patients.

“You can literally follow on a nucleotide basis how the virus changed from patient to patient over time.”

The paper is the result of a unique partnership between Sierra Leonean scientists and Scottish and American collaborators, some of whom had already been working in the West African country for several years on Lassa fever, another deadly virus that can cause symptoms similar to Ebola.

International research collaborations can be sensitive, unwieldy and time-consuming to set up, meaning research opportunities are often missed during the chaotic early days of an outbreak. But the group’s pre-existing relationships helped them quickly mobilize and obtain the necessary approvals from Sierra Leone’s government to begin the work.

The result is an unprecedented number of Ebola virus genomes (the 99 from this paper alone may even surpass the total number of Ebola genomes sequenced from past outbreaks, according to Kuhn).

But it was work that came at a heavy cost; of the nearly 60 authors listed on the paper, five have double crosses beside their names, indicating the person died before the study could be published. Among them is Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, Sierra Leone’s top virologist, who died from Ebola in late July.

“You always think, am I going to be the next person?” said Augustine Goba, director of the Lassa fever program in Kenema, who personally confirmed the first Ebola case in Sierra Leone. “People have died ... you have to be very careful.”

Goba said the early days of the outbreak were busy and chaotic, but his records show that the first confirmed blood sample came from Lebbie. He is in disagreement with another author on the paper, however; according to Dr. Robert Garry, of Tulane University in New Orleans, the first confirmed patient was a pregnant woman treated at Kenema government hospital and initially suspected for Lassa fever.

In any case, Goba’s lab collected samples from 78 patients between late May and mid-June, representing more than 70 per cent of total cases diagnosed in Sierra Leone during that time frame (some patients gave more than one sample to make the total 99). They were then shipped in dry ice to Harvard University, where the DNA was sequenced.

So what exactly do these 99 Ebola virus genomes reveal?

“The first thing we wanted to answer concretely was: Where did this (outbreak) come from?” said lead author Stephen Gire, a research scientist at Harvard University and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass. “We wanted to see how each of these viruses we sequenced were related to each other and how they were related to past outbreaks.”

He and his colleagues found that the Ebola “lineages” in Sierra Leone could be traced back to the first outbreak ever recorded, which occurred in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then called Zaire. About 10 years ago, however, the virus migrated from Central Africa to West Africa, perhaps through the animal “reservoir” for Ebola, believed to be the fruit bat.

The virus was not recognized in West Africa until March of this year, however, when the first case was confirmed in Guinea. Gire said the West African epidemic likely began after a single zoonotic event — in other words, transmission of the virus from an animal to a person. As with all Ebola outbreaks in the past, this one began with “a very strange introduction of a very strange virus into the human population,” Kuhn said. “Unfortunately, this time it led to a really big outbreak.”

In Sierra Leone, the virus appears to have entered the country through a traditional healer who died after treating patients in Guinea. At least 14 people attending her funeral contracted the virus, according to the paper.

What Gire found interesting, however, was that funeral attendees caught two different lineages of the Ebola virus. While the traditional healer may have been infected with both lineages, it is also possible that another person at the funeral was also infected and gave the virus to other attendees.

But one of those lineages quickly fizzled out, and soon after, the other one also faded into the background.

“About a week later or so, we see yet another lineage pop up,” Gire said. “Then that one rises to chief dominance within the population ... it’s really interesting to be able to map these out and use these mutations that the virus accumulates over time, to really sort of tease out transmission.”

Gire said his study shows that more than 300 mutations have occurred since Ebola began infecting people in Sierra Leone. Every time a virus passes from one person to another, it is likely some mutations will occur, though not all of them will be passed down.

What researchers worry about, however, are mutations that could help the virus become more infectious. The study’s authors pinpointed eight specific mutations on a section of the genome thought likely to be crucial to the virus’ survival. Gire said only future studies can draw conclusions on what these mutations mean — and speculating at this point would be irresponsible, Kuhn said — but it underscores the urgency of stopping this outbreak quickly.

“The biggest takeaway from this is that as time progresses from this outbreak, the virus is accumulating mutations,” Gire said. “You roll the dice more often, the more likely you’re going to hit something that matters.”

Gire said his paper’s findings could help determine whether current diagnostic tests being used in West Africa are working as well as they should. If the viruses circulating are mutating, then the current tests could be missing cases and generating false negatives. He also hopes these findings will be used by researchers trying to develop potential vaccines and therapies; according to Gire, San Diego researchers behind the Zmapp “serum” have already used their genetic sequences to re-evaluate their drug.

For both this outbreak and future ones, rapid genetic sequencing could potentially help disease detectives trying to trace the outbreak, Gire said. Because so many Ebola victims die, epidemiologists often struggle to determine how they might have caught the virus; DNA sequencing may help fill some of those gaps.

Kuhn said the new paper shows a lot of “goodwill” and he hopes the authors will continue collaborating in the future. For Gire, the loss of his five colleagues has driven him to ensure that this paper has a meaningful impact.

“These are really bright minds that the country has lost ... it really has hit us very, very hard during this process,” he said. “It’s really motivated us to work even harder to make sure that these sequences do have an impact during this outbreak.”

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[PyratePrincess]

That's all I saw from the link from the prior post by PyratePrincess ... could be a fake post from Twitter... not sure.

I was thinking that yesterday. But following Twitter...there's also a lot out there about a ship (correction) that had not met the 21 day quarantine rule, that recently docked in Florida. Why didn't we hear about that? (oh yeah...the election and the obolaczar). Still digging for other sources. This looks more like a blog than a news source...

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Here comes Ebola – ship from Sierra Leone arrives in Florida
Now that the election is over, Obama can do what he planned and bring Ebola infected people from west Africa into America for treatment. A ship from Sierra Leone arrived earlier today in Florida, and health officials are said to be ‘monitoring it’. Amazing coindnce that this ship makes it to America on the Friday after the election. The ship arrived in Port Canaveral while still in the Ebola incubation period. Cool huh?
@ColorMeRed RT BREAKING NEWS A SHIP JUST ARRIVED IN FLORIDA from Sierra Leone EBOLA COUNTRY! http://t.co/mtWWoqhoqv

— EbolaOutbreakMap.Com (@EbolaOutbreakUS) November 7, 2014

Here comes Ebola - ship from Sierra Leone arrives in Florida
http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2014/11/07/comes-ebola-ship-sierra-leone-arrives-florida/


EbolaOutbreakMap.Com ‏@EbolaOutbreakUS Nov 8
RT NOW Sierra Leone Ship Docked in Port Canveral Florida Breaking News! http://www.ebolaoutbreakmap.com/201...eral-florida-from-sierra-leone-ebola-country/ … #Ebola #EbolaOutbreak #EbolaInNYC #vote5sos

Ship Just Docked in Port Canaveral Florida from Sierra Leone EBOLA COUNTRY
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Breaking news a ship just docked in Florida from Sierra Leone EBOLA COUNTRY
We just got this story from a Florida News TV Station
http://www.wesh.com/health/health-o...=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=wesh



PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35 ORLANDO) –
The EOT Spar is a 300-foot-long cargo ship due in Port Canaveral just 17 days after leaving the port of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone in West Africa.
The country has documented 5,235 Ebola cases so far, according to the World Health Organization.
The U.S. Coast Guard says federal requirements already in place, as well as self-monitoring by the crew is enough to reduce risk to Central Floridians.
The Coast Guard says it is in close communication with the EOT Spar, an American-flagged cargo ship out of Annapolis, Maryland. It’s scheduled to arrive in Port Canaveral on Nov. 4, four days prior to the end of a 21-day incubation period, based on its last day in Freetown. The Coast Guard says it’s monitoring the ship’s transit time closely.
“They are required to report anybody with any symptoms,” said U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Gabe Somma. “And in this particular case, we have no indication, no reason to believe, there is anything wrong with this ship.”
The Coast Guard says existing federal regulations require all U.S. vessels to give 96 hours advance notice of arrival and report whether anyone has died in the past 15 days, or if they became sick.
As an additional precaution, the crew is self-monitoring by taking the temperature of its crew members twice a day, then reporting that to the Coast Guard. Coast Guard officials say crew members took additional steps to mitigate their exposure while in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.
“We are working in close cooperation with not only the Centers for Disease Control, but also with state health agencies and customs and border protection,” Somma said. “And if we ever deemed it necessary to issue a “Captain of the Port” order to restrict movement of the vessel, we could do that. But at this time, there’s no indication that there’s any concern.”
The Coast Guard says each month, 22 cargo ships arrive from West Africa to ports here in the southeastern United States, from South Carolina down to Miami. So far, the Coast Guard says there hasn’t been a single case of Ebola from a commercial vessel.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/2...tricken-sierra-leone-bound-for-port-canaveral

 

[Tom McDowell]

Sierra Leone – four hundred and twenty-one new Ebola cases
Posted on November 12, 2014 by editor

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2014

http://www.thesierraleonetelegraph.com/?p=8035

Tonight there are reports of a big rise in Ebola cases in Sierra Leone. Sky breaking news reports of 420 new cases.

If officially confirmed, this latest Ebola statistics proves what many, including the Sierra Leone Telegraph have been saying about the government’s persistent under-reporting and cover up of Ebola cases.

According to the WHO; “There were 145 new confirmed cases reported in Guinea in the week to 9 November. Liberia reported 97 confirmed and probable cases in the week to 8 November.

“EVD transmission remains high in Sierra Leone, with 421 new confirmed cases reported in the week to 9 November. Much of this was driven by intense transmission in the country’s west and north. Transmission remains intense in the capital Freetown, which reported 77 new confirmed cases in the past week. High levels of activity also persist in the nearby Bombali and the Western rural area, which each reported 69 confirmed cases. Port Loko and Tonkolili each reported 56 confirmed cases.”

Last week, Sierra Leone’s deputy minister of information – Theo Nicol, who is seen by many as perhaps the only honest minister in the Koroma government, told local media that 37,000 people were being quarantined across the country.

With the laboratory testing facility at the British run Kerry Town Treatment Centre conducting over 300 blood tests a day, it is now becoming obvious that the rate of infection and transmission was far greater than the government has been reporting.

But there are also disturbing reports from Koinadugu district in the north of Sierra Leone, where several hundreds of people are now believed to have contracted the Ebola virus.

When news broke over three weeks ago of mass deaths in the village of Nieni in Koinadugu, there were denials, accusations and counter accusations.

Last week the Red Cross collected the highly contaminated remains of at least 30 villagers. And that was just the tip of the iceberg.

These dead bodies are said to have been locked up in houses for several days awaiting removal, as villagers are now fully aware of the dangers of traditional burials.

Medical experts believe that hundreds of villagers are now infected with the virus in Koinadugu and in need of desperate care.

It is believed that Ebola has been in Koinadugu for several months, killing scores of people, whilst government officials lied about the non-existence of Ebola in the district.

Momoh-ContehLast week, as a local Ebola Task Force headed by Momoh Conteh (Photo), went on a house-burning orgy, aimed at getting rid of Ebola, analysts say that vital evidence that could give clues as to how long Ebola has been in the district were being destroyed.

‘Those who have died will be cremated and their homes will be burned down in order to protect others in the community,’ Momoh Conteh told The Washington Post.

Momoh Conteh – a close business associate of those occupying the seat of power at State House, is today being accused by some in Sierra Leone as responsible for the massive cover up of the full extent of Ebola in Koinadugu.

Questions are also being asked about the role of the Finance Minister – Kelfala Marah (Photo) – a son of Koinadugu, in this massive Ebola cover up, now dubbed Ebolagate, as people demand answers from the authorities.

Momoh Conteh is himself a son of Koinadugu and was unsuccessfully indicted for his involvement in the Timbergate affair, which was exposed by the Aljazeera television documentary, involving vice president Sam Sumana.

But the Timbergate case was thrown out of court in Freetown, due to insufficient evidence submitted by the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission.

Momoh is now once again, embroiled in the Ebolagate scandal that is fast evolving in Koinadugu, for his alleged involvement in the massive cover up of the true extent of Ebola in the district, where hundreds of people have already died and buried, since the outbreak of Ebola in Sierra Leone seven months ago.

Three weeks ago, the Sierra Leone Telegraph reported that any confirmation of large scale Ebola deaths and confirmed cases in Koinadugu, after months of denial about the existence of the virus in the district, will be a serious game changer in the nation’s fight against Ebola.

Tonight, as accusations of an alleged cover up in Koinadugu by a small group of highly influential people from the district – led by Momoh Conteh and possibly supported by the Finance Minister Marah, continue to grown, health workers in various treatment centres in the country have gone on strike.

They are withholding their much needed care and support services, because the government has failed to pay them the agreed risk allowance.

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[Oreally]

pretty much every single thing that every government, the WHO, except MSF, has done since this thing kicked off has has been wrong, stupid, dishonest, shortsighted, and dangerous . . . maybe excepting the draconian nigerian response . . .

this is just an example of how the event is totally novel, and being novel, none of the mediocre people that tend to run things can cogitate an effective course of action to it as it spreads.

so when the clusters spread, watch the progressive deterioration of society at all levels as the knock-on effects of the virus and our attempts to contain it manifest.

 

[aliens7]

pretty much every single thing that every governmental agency, anywhere, has done since this thing kicked off has has been wrong, stupid, shortsighted, and dangerous . . . maybe excepting the draconian nigerian response . . .

this is just an example of how the event is totally novel, and being novel, none of the mediocre people that tend to run things can cogitate an effective course of action to it as it spreads.

so when the clusters spread, watch the progressive deterioration of society at all levels as the knock-on effects of the virus and our attempts to contain it manifest.

First, I want to say you are probably correct in your assessment of the situation...

HOWEVER, we might also be seeing a glimmer of hope for the future in that this situation could be like the Russian response to German invasion in WWII. Incompetence, stupidity, arrogance gave way to brilliance, understanding and success after the initial dismal failures of the prior Russian generals as they were shot, killed, or otherwise disposed of.

Hopefully it will not take such extreme actions against the leaders to improve things, but as a species, we tend to rise to the occassion -- just hoping it is faster than the rise of EBOLA.

 

[Doomer Doug]

Ebola in West Africa, and Africa in general, has some significant advantages for fast spread compared to the West in general.

I said three to five years, amigo. The hundred million applies to the first three years in my opinion. Africa has a total population of around 800 million to 1 billion, depending on how you count them. The largest number are in three countries: Nigeria, with 170 million, Egypt, with around 150 million, I think; finally, South Africa, with around 50 million, I think. This means some 400 million are concentrated in just three countries. Ebola is likely to have a harder time in Nigeria, South Africa, and Egypt than it will have spreading in Liberia, Mali etc.

I think 100 million dead, out of the 400 million Africans not living in Nigeria, Egypt, or South Africa is a MINIMUM ESTIMATE. The other reason I used 100 million plus dead, is in West Africa the total percentage of the entire population killed is around 12 percent. Granted, the percentage of people infected who die is still around 50 to 80 percent. Not everybody in Africa is going to get infected with Ebola, much less die.

Again, I think by three years from now 100 million Africans will have died from Ebola, at a minimum. I also think up to another 100 million can/will die from year three to five. I am also assuming that neither Nigeria, Egypt, or South Africa have serious Ebola outbreaks. I don't know if that is what is going to happen.

I am telling you all that even if "only" one hundred million Africans die by 2020 it will redefine the human experience on planet Earth, just like the Black Death did for Europe.

Ebola is now spreading into what is called, in medical terms, a "virgin zone." This is also what happened to the Indians in North American when they came into contact with Europeans carrying the smallpox virus. Still, I think we have both the medical knowledge, aseptic techniques, knowledge of virus and bacteria, disease vectors etc, we will do a better job this time around. I don't think Africa "has to lose" 500 million dead. They may very well end up with that number, but it doesn't "have to happen" if even the most basic level of medical technology and knowledge is used. Of course, we are talking about people living in hovels, running around feces strewn streets, chased by feral dogs, and washing rotting corpses.

At this point, I think we are going to see 100 million dead Africans. The 3 years could very well be reduced to a mere 18 months. The 5 years could be reduced to 3 years. Yeah, it is entirely possible we will have 500 MILLION DEAD AFRICANS BY 2020. I just, and with a nickname like Doomer Doug I don't really know why, we have learned SOMETHING about medicine since 1348. <G>

I think, if nothing else, the Cascadians don't have to worry about being burnt at the stake for dispensing herbal medicine. LOL

 

[Doomer Doug]

I also should add to the above post that I was talking about 100 million "reported and confirmed Ebola deaths." The actual total could be up to four times higher. Further, even if everybody in Liberia died, it would be six million people total. Until Ebola gets loose in Lagos, or Cairo, we are just not going to see the numbers of deaths needed to get to 100 million. It will take Ebola time to get going in Africa in my opinion.

For the record, gang why would anybody, who was not insane, go to Mali in the first place? <G>



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The CDC has issued an Ebola travel warning for Mali as cases explode.

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The purpose of this alert is to notify travelers that a few Ebola cases have been reported in Bamako, Mali, and to inform them of actions they can take to reduce their risk of getting the disease.
CDC recommends that travelers to Mali protect themselves by avoiding contact with the blood and body fluids of people who are sick, because of the possibility they may be sick with Ebola. Although a cluster of cases has been reported only in Bamako, travelers to all parts of Mali should be alert for reports of possible further spread within the country.

At a Glance
Total Cases: 4
Laboratory-Confirmed Cases: 2
Total Deaths: 4
More
What is the current situation?
As of November 12, 2014, the World Health Organization reported a cluster of Ebola cases in Bamako, Mali (see box for case counts). (An unrelated death from Ebola occurred in Kayes, Mali on October 24, 2014 and no additional cases related to that person have been reported.) The cluster in Bamako is linked to a man who had been in a clinic in Bamako after becoming sick in Guinea. Since that time, a small number of Ebola cases linked to this patient have been reported in Bamako. The Malian government has taken actions to contain further spread. CDC recommends that travelers to Mali protect themselves by avoiding contact with the blood and body fluids of people who are sick and following the other recommendations listed below.
The cases of Ebola in Bamako, Mali, are related to an ongoing Ebola outbreak that has been occurring since March 2014 in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and is the largest outbreak of Ebola in history.
For more information about the ongoing outbreak in West Africa, visit 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa on the CDC Ebola website.
What is Ebola?
Ebola is a rare and deadly disease. The disease is caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus species (Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo, or Tai Forest virus). It is spread by direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes in, for example, the eyes, nose, or mouth) with
blood or body fluids (such as urine, saliva, sweat, feces, vomit, breast milk, and semen) of a person who is sick with Ebola,
objects (like needles and syringes) that have been contaminated with the virus, and
infected fruit bats or primates (apes and monkeys).
Signs of Ebola include fever and symptoms such as severe headache, fatigue, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, or unexplained bleeding or bruising.
Who is at risk?
Travelers could be infected if they come into contact with blood or body fluids from someone who is sick or has died from Ebola. Healthcare workers and the family and friends in close contact with Ebola patients are at risk of getting sick because they may come in contact with infected blood or body fluids.
People also can become sick with Ebola if they come into contact with infected wildlife or raw or undercooked bushmeat (wild animals hunted for food) from an infected animal.
What can travelers do to prevent Ebola?
There is no approved vaccine or specific treatment for Ebola, and many people who get the disease die. Therefore, it is important to take steps to prevent Ebola.
How can I be exposed to Ebola?
You can be exposed to the Ebola virus if you have contact with blood or body fluids (such as urine, saliva, sweat, feces, vomit, breast milk, and semen) of a person sick with Ebola without wearing the right protective clothing and equipment. For healthcare workers, this includes wearing a face shield or goggles, a medical mask, double gloves, a waterproof gown or coveralls, an apron, and waterproof boots.
This kind of exposure can happen if you —
Are stuck with a needle or splashed in the eye, nose, or mouth with blood or body fluids of someone sick with Ebola.
Handle blood or body fluids of a sick Ebola patient.
Touch a person who is sick with Ebola.
Touch the body of someone who died from Ebola.
Care for or live with a person who is sick with Ebola.
Spend a long amount of time within 3 feet (1 meter) of a person who is sick with Ebola.
If you are traveling to Mali, please make sure to do the following:
Before your trip, review your health insurance plan to determine what medical services it would cover during your trip. Consider purchasing travel health and medical evacuation insurance.
Practice careful hygiene. For example, wash your hands frequently with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
Avoid contact with blood and body fluids (such as urine, saliva, sweat, feces, vomit, breast milk and semen).
Do not handle items that may have come in contact with an infected person’s blood or body fluids.
Avoid direct contact with dead bodies, including participating in funeral or burial rituals.
Avoid contact with animals (such as bats or monkeys) or with raw or undercooked meat.
Do not eat or handle bushmeat (wild animals hunted for food).
Avoid hospitals in West Africa where Ebola patients are being treated. The US Embassy or consulate is often able to provide advice on facilities that are suitable for your medical needs. The US Embassy in Bamako can be reached at (+223) 20 70 25 05. The after-hours emergency number is (+223) 20 70 23 01 or 20 70 23 02.
Seek medical care immediately if you develop fever (100.4°F / 38°C or above) or other symptoms such as severe headache, fatigue, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, or unexplained bleeding or bruising.
Special Recommendation for Healthcare Workers
If you will be working in a healthcare setting while in Mali, you should be prepared to care for patients in a region where resources are limited and the healthcare system is strained.
Healthcare workers who may be exposed to people with Ebola should be sure to follow these steps:
Wear the recommended personal protective equipment (PPE).
Use proper infection control and decontamination measures.
Isolate patients with suspected, probable, or confirmed Ebola from other patients.
Avoid direct contact with dead bodies without wearing recommended PPE.
Immediately notify your organization, health officials, and the US embassy or consulate in Mali if you think you have been exposed to someone with Ebola but were not wearing recommended PPE.
See CDC’s resources on the Ebola: Non-US Healthcare Settings webpage and the CDC Safety Training Course for Healthcare Workers Going to West Africa in Response to the 2014 Ebola Outbreak. The World Health Organization also has advice in their Infection prevention and control guidance for care of patients in health-care settings, with focus on EbolaExternal Web Site Icon document.
After Your Return to the United States
If you were exposed to Ebola during your trip, call your state health department even if you do not have symptoms. A public health worker should evaluate your exposure level and symptoms, if you have them, to determine whether actions, such as medical evaluation and testing for Ebola, symptom monitoring, or travel restrictions are needed.
Pay attention to your health after you return, even if you were not exposed to Ebola during your trip.
Monitor your health for 21 days if you were in an area in Mali with an Ebola outbreak.
Take your temperature every morning and night.
Watch for other Ebola symptoms: severe headache, fatigue, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, or unexplained bleeding or bruising.
If your temperature is 100.4°F / 38°C or above or you have any other Ebola symptoms, seek medical care right away.
Tell the doctor about your recent travel and your symptoms before you go to the doctor’s office or hospital. Advance notice will help the doctor care for you and protect other people who may be in the doctor’s office or hospital.
Limit your contact with other people when you travel to the doctor; avoid public transportation.
Do not travel anywhere except to the doctor’s office or hospital.
During the time that you are monitoring your health, you can continue your normal activities, including work. If you get symptoms of Ebola, it is important to stay apart from other people and to call your doctor right away.
Traveler Information
2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
CDC Ebola website
Health Information for Travelers to Mali
Infographics
Infographic: Going to West Africa?
Infographic: Recently in West Africa?
Additional Ebola Outbreak Infographics
Clinician Information
Ebola Information for Healthcare Workers and Settings
CDC Health Advisory: Guidelines for Evaluation of US Patients Suspected of Having Ebola Virus Disease
Health Information for Travelers to Mali
Information for Airline Personnel
Ebola Guidance for Airlines

 

[Housecarl]

For links see article source.....
Posted for fair use.....
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20141114/-ebola-drugs-9701919ec2.html

WHO sees few promising Ebola drugs in pipeline

Nov 14, 6:48 AM (ET)

(AP) This 2011 file photo provided by Wilmot Chayee shows Thomas Eric Duncan, the...
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GENEVA (AP) — A top official with the U.N. health agency says few experimental therapies are currently under development that could effectively treat Ebola.

Dr. Martin Friede, who is in charge of the World Health Organization's work toward finding an Ebola drug, says scientists have proposed lots of experimental interventions but none has been thoroughly evaluated yet.

"We don't have a lot of drugs in our pipeline that look promising," said Friede, program leader for WHO's technology transfer initiative. His comments follow a WHO-sponsored meeting of medical experts this week on how to test potential Ebola drugs in Africa.

Friede told reporters Friday in Geneva that "people are using all kinds of therapies" for the deadly virus without evidence they're effective or safe.

 

[the watcher]

Tom, thanks for posting the post #210. That confirms what many of us assumed, this thing is mutating faster, than they can control it. The term OMG!, is rolling over and over in my head. To the laymen out there. if and when it mutates to true airborn, it's game over...Wave after wave is a differant mutation, as it seeks to perfect itself. Like mentioned above, over 350 mutations so far and few are counting. Thanks to all who are staying on this, this thread is frankly the best to date, out there.

 

[SusieSunshine]

Tom, thanks for posting the post #210. That confirms what many of us assumed, this thing is mutating faster, than they can control it. The term OMG!, is rolling over and over in my head. To the laymen out there. if and when it mutates to true airborn, it's game over...Wave after wave is a differant mutation, as it seeks to perfect itself. Like mentioned about, over 350 mutations so far and few are counting. Thanks to all who are staying on this, this thread is frankly the best to date, out there.

Yes! Thank You.

BTW, This report (#210) was dated August 2014. I can only imagine what November brings.

 

[summerthyme]

Friede told reporters Friday in Geneva that "people are using all kinds of therapies" for the deadly virus without evidence they're effective or safe.

Well, DUH!! When the alternative is essentially certain death, you're going to do whatever you can, try anything that makes sense (and a bunch of stuff that probably doesn't). But this is why I've been saying almost since the beginning that the only REAL response as a prepper to this is self-isolation; at least, if you want your family to survive. Of course, if we had a government that was worth a damn, they'd do what was necessary to isolate *the country*, and PC be damned.

Summerthyme

 

[the watcher]

My turn to give back to the forum.

It Appears Obama Has Flown an Illegal Immigrant African Ebola Victim To USA From Gran Canaria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEEG7pNlVuk

EbolaAir Aircraft N173PA appears to have picked up an Ebola Infected Illegal African Immigrant from the island of Gran Canaria and flown him/her to the USA for treatment.

A few days prior a boat load of illegals from Ebola stricken Sierra Leone and Guinea washed ashore on a nudist beach in the Gran Canaria beach of Maspalomas; several of these castaways were reported to have fever and were whisked away literally by the dump truck load.

Based on the evacuation flight path / schedule and the number of times it disappeared and partially reappeared on the tracking software today, our presumption is that this flight is carrying one of the 1st foreign Ebola patients in support of Obama's policy to import foreign Ebola victims into the USA. Given the importance of Gran Canaria to US operations, such an evacuation would make geo-political sense especially since Spain's Catalan region is seeking independence.
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2014/11/it-appears-obama-has-flown-illegal.html

 

[Doomer Doug]

If they had landed on an isolated beach in France, Spain or Italy they would have vanished into the night. This is how Ebola will eventually come to Europe, one boatload of infected, desperate Africans at a time.

 

[kittyluvr]

Obama Indemnifies Gov’t Contractors From Damages Arising from Importing Ebola to US

(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama issued a memorandum Thursday protects federal contractors hired to address the Ebola outbreak in West Africa against lawsuits for importing Ebola into the United States.

The president’s directive gives the administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) the authority to indemnify companies from lawsuits related to “contracts performed in Africa in support of USAID's response to the Ebola outbreak in Africa where the contractor, its employees, or subcontractors will have significant exposure to Ebola.”

“This authority may be exercised solely for the purpose of holding harmless and indemnifying contractors with respect to claims, losses, or damage arising out of or resulting from exposure, in the course of performance of the contracts, to Ebola,” the memorandum explained.

CNSNews.com emailed USAID to ask if the president’s directive also protects these companies from claims made by a U.S. citizen who contracts Ebola from an employee who brings the disease back from West Africa after working under a government contract.

An unnamed spokesperson for the agency responded: “Yes. The indemnification applies only to the extent that the claim, loss, or damage arises out of or results from exposure to Ebola in the course of performance of a contract and exceeds applicable insurance coverage.”

In other words, if a Company A employee contracts Ebola while working in West Africa, brings the disease back to the United States, is not quarantined and ends up infecting members of the general public, Company A is protected from any damages arising from lawsuits by these secondary victims.

According to the USAID spokesperson, employees of these contracted companies "provide essential services, including medical and non-medical management of Ebola patients."

In his memorandum, Obama justified his actions by citing Public Law 85-804, which allows the president to give any federal agency or department connected to national security the authority to enter into, amend or modify contracts with private companies in order to “facilitate the national defense.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...t-contractors-damages-arising-importing-ebola

 

[Tom McDowell]

Mali tries to trace 343 contacts in second Ebola wave

Fri, Nov 14 2014

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/14/us-health-ebola-mali-idUSKCN0IY19A20141114

BAMAKO/GENEVA (Reuters) - Mali is trying to trace as many as 343 people linked to confirmed and probable Ebola victims in an effort to control its second Ebola outbreak, health officials said on Friday.

An initial batch of contacts linked to a 2-year-old from Guinea who died of Ebola last month were close to the end of their 21-day quarantine period when Mali confirmed a second, separate batch of cases this week.

There have been at least four more confirmed Ebola cases in this second episode, all linked to an imam who entered Mali from neighboring Guinea and died late last month with Ebola-like symptoms that were not recognized. Three of these have died so far.

Samba Sow, the head of Mali's Ebola response, said on state television two more suspected cases were being tested.

Malian Health Ministry spokesman Marakatie Daou said a woman who had helped wash the imam's body died on Thursday at the Gabriel Toure Hospital in Mali's capital, Bamako.

Daou said an initial Ebola test result for the woman was positive, making her the fourth clinically confirmed Malian case, although further analysis would be carried out abroad.

Mali's government said on Friday afternoon 256 contacts had been identified and would be monitored.

A spokeswoman for the World Health Organization said the number of contacts that needed monitoring had risen to 343 by Friday evening, underscoring the scale of the task health workers have in containing the second wave of cases.

Reuters journalists outside the Nenecarre mosque in Bamako's Djikoroni Para neighborhood, where the imam's body was washed, said four health workers in protective gear entered the mosque to disinfect it but no effort was made to stop people from entering for Friday prayers.

Cases are being traced in a number of locations across Bamako and on the porous border with Guinea.

These included the Pasteur Clinic, which treated the imam but has since been quarantined. It is not connected to the Institut Pasteur, a French-based institute specialising in infectious diseases.

Mali is the sixth nation to have confirmed Ebola in West Africa, which is battling the world's worst epidemic of the hemorrhagic fever on record. At least 5,177 people have been killed since it erupted in March.

The former French colony shares an 800-km (500-mile) border with Guinea, where the first case of Ebola in the region was reported.

In a sign of growing concern over the new wave of cases, the French government on Friday updated its website to advise against all but essential travel to Bamako and Kayes, the western region where the girl died.

(Reporting by Tiemoko Diallo in Bamako and Joe Penney in Bamako and Tom Miles in Geneva; Writing by David Lewis and Emma Farge; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)

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One man - 342 Primary, Secondary and Tertiary, Contacts (so far).

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[Tom McDowell]

Migrations in West Africa seen as challenge to stopping Ebola
Robert Roos | News Editor | CIDRAP News | Nov 14, 2014

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-pers...ons-west-africa-seen-challenge-stopping-ebola

In much of West Africa, the annual harvest ends around October, and in the following months, countless young men hit the road to look for work elsewhere, such as on cocoa and coffee plantations in Ivory Coast or in fishing ports on the coast, according to people who know the region.

That post-harvest migration is a prime example of the high mobility of the region's population. National borders are porous and don't mean a whole lot, and people cross them freely, by all accounts. And that fact worries some observers who are pondering the challenge of stopping the Ebola epidemic simmering in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

With a high level of travel between the three hard-hit countries and their neighbors, these observers reason, there's a very good chance that travelers or migrants will bring more Ebola cases into other countries, such as Senegal, Mali, and Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), potentially triggering expansion of the epidemic.

"I think it's a real problem, and I don't think it's been factored into the paradigm of how this is likely to spread," said Peter Strzok of Pinehurst, N.C., who has spent much of his life in West Africa and founded his own nonprofit organization, the Agency to Facilitate the Growth of Rural Organizations.

So far, Senegal has had one Ebola case, and Mali has had at least four (two confirmed and two probable); all of these had links to Guinea. The Senegal case, which surfaced in August, didn't spark any further transmission, but the Mali cases are very recent, and contacts are being monitored.

Rainfall patterns dictate timing

Strzok said most people in West Africa are farmers, and their schedule is governed by the rainy season, from May to October. Once the rains are sufficient, everyone plants crops, such as rice, sorghum, millet, peas, and peanuts. Once the crops are in, many men leave home to find temporary work, and they return to harvest the crops in August and September, he explained.

After the harvest, many young men again take to the roads seeking work, Strzok said. "They've been doing this for 1,000 or 2,000 years," he said. "We have literally tens of thousands of young men, 16 and up, leaving wherever they are and their home villages and going elsewhere to find employment."

Borders pose little obstacle to the travelers, he said. They may take back roads or trails and avoid border checkpoints, he said. Even where there are border stations, "The people at the borders are pretty much indifferent to these kids."

Another factor is that residents of countries in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) don't need visas to cross borders within that zone, said Victoria Coifman, PhD, a University of Minnesota historian in the African American/African Studies Department who specializes in West Africa.

Strzok said the young men who go abroad seeking work often travel in groups. "They sleep and eat together; it's a very communal, tight relationship." If one of them contracted Ebola, it could easily spread to the others, he suggested.

"These activities are a reality, and I've seen nothing in the discussion [of the epidemic] about the informal traditional migration patterns," he said.

North-to-south movements start in November

Another West Africa expert who is concerned about the situation is Richard Swanson, PhD, an economic anthropologist who spent years monitoring aid programs in the region as a consultant to the US Agency for International Development. He agreed with the general picture painted by Stzrok but filled in more details.

Swanson, who lives in New Brighton, Minn., said the pattern of post-harvest migration late in the year in West Africa applies most strongly to the Sahel, the transitional zone between the Sahara Desert to the north and the savannas and forests to the south.

He explained that in the coastal regions, including much of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, farming is more of a year-round activity, whereas farming in the Sahel to the north is more dependent on the rainy season. "I think most of the migration in terms of [people] looking for work is people coming from those Sahelian countries and moving south" after the harvest. "Then they come back again in April."

Many of the migrants typically head for the three Ebola-affected countries, Swanson said. "It's just a major migration coming into those countries. It would be good for those countries to be warning people over the radio not to come down to Liberia this year. And people do have radios—its' amazing how much communication there is."

The heaviest travel time will begin soon, Swanson said. "Most migration starts around the end of November, and really picks up in December and January."

He also observed that kinship ties in the region commonly extend across borders, which also contributes to the volume of travel: "People in Guinea and Sierra Leone have kinship ties into Mali, for example, and Ivory Coast. There's intermarriage going on. If someone's fearful of what's going on in their country, some of them are going to start moving and walking away from it."

Cote d'Ivoire as major magnet

Mike McGovern, PhD, a political anthropologist at the University of Michigan who has worked extensively in West Africa, offered a more complicated view of the migration patterns.

In the southern portion of West Africa, he said, Cote d'Ivoire—bordered on the west by Liberia and Guinea—is a major magnet for itinerant workers, especially for those from the Sahel. "Those people are going into the big cities where they can find wage labor or they are going to cash-crop plantations," he said. "Many roads lead to Cote d'Voire, because of massive cocoa and coffee plantation agriculture and also because Abidjan is a major place for getting wage labor."

Liberia and Sierra Leone are less of a magnet for workers from places like Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Mali, he said. The two countries offer jobs in artisanal diamond and gold mining, logging, rubber plantations, and palm oil plantations, but all those jobs are filled by their own nationals and perhaps some from Guinea, he explained.

"It's accurate to say they [migrant workers] move from the Sahel to the coastal areas, but it's not quite accurate to say they're going to be moving into places where the epidemic is," McGovern said.

However, he added, during the dry season Cote d'Ivoire draws workers from Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, just as it does from the Sahel countries like Mali and Burkina Faso. Thus, itinerants from the Ebola-affected countries could bring the virus into Cote d'Ivoire, where it could pass to locals and to other visiting workers, "who could quite plausibly bring Ebola back to their countries—to Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Togo," he said.

"If that were to happen, it has a potential for a real multiplier effect regionally," he added.

McGovern said the pattern of rainy and dry seasons in the coastal countries, including the Ebola-stricken ones, is similar to that in the inland countries to the north, but is not as pronounced. "The real rainy season is May to October. On the coast most of it is concentrated from late June to mid-September."

In the coastal countries, migrations are not as essential for survival as they are in the Sahel, he added. Young men may leave home seeking work to raise money for marriage or to gain their independence, in steps related more to their stage of life than to the time of year.

A Liberian's perspective

John J. Bartee, a Liberian immigrant who came to the United States in 1998 and lives in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, described a migration pattern similar to that sketched by people like Swanson and McGovern.

He observed that many inhabitants of the Sahara and Sahel belong to the Mandingo tribe. During the dry season, from about Oct 15 to April 15, he said, many men "leave and come to the forests and do hunting, buying of food, and to work. During the rainy season they return home to their wives and children."

Bartee said the heaviest travel time is from October to January, when the weather is favorable for moving.

He agreed that national boundaries don't mean much. "The borders were drawn by Europeans. People have relatives across the borders . . . They don't need a road to get where they need to go. They don't need a passport or anything."

He also commented that large volumes of trade goods flow between countries in the region. For example, 18-wheeler trucks from Mali regularly roll into a major market in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, bringing cows and other goods and picking up seafood to take back north.

"It's a huge, huge trade," he said. "In terms of finance, I'd say a 4-to-5-billion-US dollar trade goes on. They don't pay taxes, they just go and do what they want."

A long history of mobility

Coifman, the University of Minnesota historian, said migrations have been an important part of life in West Africa for many centuries.

In Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and their neighbors, she said, "Migrations have been taking place for thousands of years, in part because of the spread of the Sahara Desert. Migration routes and people's varied networks go in every direction; I think of them as spider webs. Long or short distance, they transcend modern boundaries."

People move around for a wide range of reasons, such as engaging in trade, seeking work, attending weddings and funerals, and visiting religious shrines, she said, commenting, "In this part of Africa, many are moving as a normal course of life."

Since the 1960s, when West African countries achieved independence, there has been a tension between the modern borders and old migration paths, Coifman observed. The tension has been exacerbated by weak central governments, poor governance, corruption, and, in Liberia and Sierra Leone, war, she said.

She commented that people's mistrust of governments contributes to the permeability of borders. "People in places fear, dislike, avoid—often with good reason—governments, national and local," she said. "They are tired to death, and now they are being afflicted by an epidemic, and then people coming in in strange clothes. If I were living in those conditions, I'd feel like I was living in an insane world."

A matter of luck?

Given the high volume of travel in West Africa, it seems surprising that Ebola has made so few inroads thus far in countries other than Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

The reasons are not clear, but Bartee offered a possible explanation for the lack of cases in Cote d'Ivoire. The reason, he suggested, is not because the border was closed, but because very few cases have surfaced in areas of Liberia that lie near Cote d'Ivoire.

"The virus is not as close to the borders as people think," he said.

McGovern, of the University of Michigan, predicted that the epidemic will expand farther in West Africa: "It's not a question of if, but when and to what extent. It's gone to Mali, it's gone to Senegal. It's quite extraordinary that there's not been a case yet in Cote d'Ivoire."

Why the country hasn't had any cases yet is unclear. But McGovern said there has been much talk about traditional hunters and government officials in Cote d'Voire "essentially patrolling not only the official crossings but also the canoe crossings and bush paths and informal crossing points. That may be a big part of the explanation for why we haven't seen it in Cote d'Ivoire."

While Ebola will probably reach more countries, that doesn't necessarily mean it will run rampant, McGovern said. He noted that Senegal and Nigeria managed to keep imported cases from sparking widespread outbreaks.

"Do I expect that it [Ebola] will extend to other countries? Yes," he said. "Am I worried about it? Not necessarily, in the sense that international public health and the health community in the countries concerned are convinced it requires immediate attention and resources."

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[Tom McDowell]

84 service-members return from West Africa Ebola mission; to be isolated on Virginia base

Stars and Stripes
Published: November 13, 2014 WASHINGTON —

http://www.stripes.com/84-serviceme...sion-to-be-isolated-on-virginia-base-1.314048

More than 80 troops were scheduled to enter three weeks of quarantine in Virginia on Thursday after their return from a mission fighting an Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

The 51 airmen, 27 sailors, four Marines and two soldiers were to arrive by military aircraft at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., in the early afternoon, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said in written statement Thursday.

The group, none of whom are showing symptoms Ebola, will be medically screened on arrival. They’ll then enter a 21-day period of what the Pentagon calls “controlled monitoring” in secluded buildings near the flightline, Kirby said. During their isolation, troops will be screened twice daily for symptoms at a medical facility dedicated to the servicemembers back from Liberia.

Defense Department officials say the monitoring period, in which all troops who spend more than a short time in the Ebola zone must participate, is intended to be comfortable. Two of the larger buildings will be used as a dining hall and a gym, Kirby said.

“The facilities will include all appropriate amenities,” he said. “Troops will be able to communicate with family members via telephone and electronic means.”

Kirby said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel “joins all Americans in welcoming the troops home” and promised to provide all the care and support they’ve earned.

“Secretary Hagel is both proud and grateful for the service rendered by these men and women in the critically important mission of trying to stop the spread of Ebola at its source,” he said.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has infected some 14,000 people and has killed more than 5,000. About 2,200 U.S. troops are deployed to Liberia to help build treatment facilities, train healthcare workers and provide testing services to identify those who are infected.

news@stripes.com


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[the watcher]

and provide testing services to identify those who are infected.

They lied, originally said no, one on one contact....

 

[Tom McDowell]

Pentagon to mobilize reserve soldiers for Ebola duty

VIA PFI

Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY 7:46 p.m. EST November 14, 2014

http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/mi...ize-reserve-soldiers-for-ebola-duty/19050867/

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered the involuntary mobilization of 2,100 Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers for duty in Ebola-ravaged West Africa, the Pentagon announced Friday.

The Army is notifying soldiers and their families about the compulsory call-up, Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement. The units and their specialties are not being identified until the troops have been informed. Last month, the Pentagon announced its intent to mobilize eight reservists who had the engineering skills needed for building medical facilities.

The forces will replace troops on duty in Liberia and Senegal. Currently, more than 2,200 troops are serving in the region as part of United Assistance, the operation led by the U.S. Agency for International Development but manned mostly by troops.

The virus has killed more than 5,100 people in West Africa, most of them in Liberia. U.S. troops have constructed a mobile hospital there to treat infected aid workers, and are setting up treatment units around the country. They are also training local health care workers on how to safely treat victims.

The mobilized reservists and guardsmen will receive training on Ebola and malaria prevention before deploying.

Troops returning from duty there are essentially quarantined for 21 days to ensure they have not contracted Ebola. This week, a group of more than 80 airmen, sailors, soldiers and marines was confined to a portion of Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia.

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[Tom McDowell]

They lied, originally said no, one on one contact....

Testing may not require one on one contact - laboratory testing?

Then again, I remember reading about another branch of the military that may be in one on one contact - perhaps this:

The Army Medicine Civilian Corps maintains the day-to-day healthcare of active and retired military personnel and their families through a global network of treatment facilities.

The Civilian Corps of the United States Army Medical Command (MEDCOM), as part of the United States Army Medical Department, is comprised of civilian federal employees, who work alongside our military counterparts. Army Medicine Civilian Corps employees are not subject to military requirements such as "boot camp", military uniforms, or deployments.

The Army Medicine Civilian Corps falls under the Department of the Army, which was listed as one of the best places to work in Federal Government for 2013.​

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[the watcher]

Testing may not require one on one contact - laboratory testing?

Then again, I remember reading about another branch of the military that may be in one on one contact - perhaps this:

The Army Medicine Civilian Corps maintains the day-to-day healthcare of active and retired military personnel and their families through a global network of treatment facilities.

The Civilian Corps of the United States Army Medical Command (MEDCOM), as part of the United States Army Medical Department, is comprised of civilian federal employees, who work alongside our military counterparts. Army Medicine Civilian Corps employees are not subject to military requirements such as "boot camp", military uniforms, or deployments.

The Army Medicine Civilian Corps falls under the Department of the Army, which was listed as one of the best places to work in Federal Government for 2013.​

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Good point Tom. I'm watching every word that comes out carefully. It's hard to believe anyone (gov mouthpieces) when all they do is lie over and over. I did read several days ago, where the NG was pulling blood samples, directly from people. I'm sure that will resurface again.

 

[Tom McDowell]

Ebola-Stricken Surgeon Dr. Martin Salia Is on His Way to Nebraska



A critically ill surgeon diagnosed with Ebola is due to arrive in the U.S. on Saturday, officials said. Dr. Martin Salia will be the third patient treated at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha — and the 10th Ebola patient to be treated on American soil. A plane transporting Salia left his native Sierra Leone around 11:30 p.m ET on Friday after a medical officials determined his condition was stable enough for the flight.

"Our staff has had a break since treating our last patient, so I know we’re ready to go," said Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the biocontainment unit at Nebraska Medical Center. Salia is due to arrive around 2 p.m. Central time (3 p.m. ET) on Saturday. A statement released by the hospital noted that information relayed by the team caring for him in Sierra Leone suggested Salia is "possibly sicker than the first patients successfully treated in the United States."

Salia's wife and two children live in the D.C. suburb of New Carrollton, Maryland, and Salia is a legal U.S. resident.

On Friday, Salia's son told NBC News that his dad knew the risks of working in West Africa but was committed to doing his part.

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Related:


Getting Acquainted with Dr. Martin Salia
Jeff Bleijerveld | Director of Global Ministries
April 11th, 2013 |

http://ubcentral.org/2013/04/11/getting-acquainted-with-dr-martin-salia/

In February, I visited Sierra Leone to participate in strategic planning regarding Mattru Hospital. Also participating in those meetings was Dr. Martin Salia, a very skilled surgeon who works at a hospital in Freetown.

Martin comes from a United Brethren background. In the 1990s, Sierra Leone Conference sent Martin to Burkina Faso to participate in extensive training designed for producing medical missionaries. Every student was set up with a mentor. Martin was mentored by a missionary doctor with years of experience. The idea was not just developing Martin into a good surgeon, but into a follower of Christ.

The Sierra Leone Conference helped support Martin with this training, with the understanding that he would return to work at Mattru Hospital. But then the civil war occurred, and the hospital fell into chaos and disrepair. While decisions were being processed about whether or not to take him on at Mattru Hospital, Martin landed a job at the Kissie Hospital in Freetown.

Working at the same hospital is Dr. Dennis Marke, who previously worked at Mattru Hospital. Both Dr. Marke and Dr. Salia made tremendous contributions to the strategic planning, since they understand what makes an effective missions hospital.


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Currently reported as "critically ill."

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[Tom McDowell]

Good point Tom. I'm watching every word that comes out carefully. It's hard to believe anyone (gov mouthpieces) when all they do is lie over and over. I did read several days ago, where the NG was pulling blood samples, directly from people. I'm sure that will resurface again.

Found it:

Operation United Assistance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_United_Assistance


snip

On 7 November 2014, a new air-conditioned 25-bed hospital was opened for West African health care workers.[7] Hundreds of health workers from Liberia and West Africa have died from the disease, and it is hoped the hospital will be an encouragement to volunteers.[8]

By October 2014 construction of the buildings for one 25-bed hospital was finished, called the Monrovia Medical Unit.[9] The plan is for public health service personnel to take care of Ebola-infected health care workers at the 25-bed facility.[10] It will be staffed by 70 members of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.[11] By October 19, it was reported that 223 health care workers had cases of Ebola in Liberia, and 103 of them had died.

The United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC),[6] also referred to as the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service, is the federal uniformed service of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) and is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

Along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps, the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is one of two uniformed services that only consist of commissioned officers and has no enlisted or warrant officer ranks, although warrant officers have been authorized for use within the service.[7] Officers of the PHS are classified as noncombatants, unless directed to serve as part of the armed forces by the President or detailed to a service branch of the armed forces.[8] Members of the PHSCC wear the same uniforms as the United States Navy and the United States Coast Guard (when assigned to the Coast Guard) with special corps insignia, and hold ranks equivalent to those of naval officers. Officers of the PHSCC receive their commissions through the PHSCC's direct commissioning program.

As with its parent division, the PHS, the PHSCC is under the direction of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The PHSCC is led by the Surgeon General who holds grade of vice admiral.[9] The Surgeon General reports directly to the Assistant Secretary for Health who may hold the rank of admiral if he or she is a serving member of the PHSCC.[9]

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Our current Surgeon General:

Acting Surgeon General
Rear Admiral (RADM) Boris D. Lushniak, M.D., M.P.H.

http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/about/biographies/biosg.html

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[Tom McDowell]

Reported as critically ill.

Surgeon With Ebola On Flight To U.S. For Care
Associated Press 9:17 a.m. EST November 15, 2014
surgeon

http://www.wfmynews2.com/story/news...with-ebola-on-flight-to-us-for-care/19082559/

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — At first, Dr. Martin Salia thought he had malaria or typhoid. A surgeon working in Sierra Leone, he told his wife back in Maryland that he had a headache and fever. He had two negative tests for Ebola, his wife said. Then the third came back positive.

Salia left Freetown Saturday on a flight to the United States for treatment, Sierra Leone's chief medical officer, Dr. Brima Kargbo, told The Associated Press on Saturday.

His wife, Isatu Salia, said in a telephone interview that when she spoke to her husband early Friday his voice sounded weak and shaky. But he told her "I love you" in a steady voice, she said.

The two have prayed together, and their children, ages 12 and 20, are coping, Isatu Salia said, calling her husband "my everything." She said her husband travels frequently between the United States and his native Sierra Leone but never stays in the U.S. long because he believes people back in Africa need him.

Salia will be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, said Kargbo. He will be the third Ebola patient at the Omaha hospital and the 10th person with Ebola to be treated in the U.S. The last, Dr. Craig Spencer, was released from a New York hospital on Tuesday.

Salia had been working as a general surgeon at Kissy United Methodist Hospital in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown. Kissy is not an Ebola treatment unit, but Salia worked in at least three other medical facilities, United Methodist News said, citing health ministry sources. Patients, including mothers who hours earlier had given birth, fled from the 60-bed hospital after news of the Ebola case emerged, United Methodist News reported.

The hospital was closed on Tuesday after Salia tested positive and he was taken to the Hastings Ebola Treatment Center near Freetown, the church news service said. Kissy hospital staffers will be quarantined for 21 days.

Salia received his surgical training from a group called the Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons, which seeks to train African doctors on a level comparable to training they would receive in the U.S., said Richard Toupin, of Auburn, Indiana, a fellow medical missionary.

"He is one of the best-trained surgeons in his country," Toupin said. "He is a very competent surgeon."

Bruce Steffes, executive director of PAACS, said Salia graduated from the surgical training program in 2008. The training includes a requirement to practice in Africa for four years after completion. As a result, Steffes said, Salia was free to practice anywhere he wanted, but elected to stay in Sierra Leone, where the need for surgeons is immense.

"People like Martin are just absolutely dedicated, highly trained ... and doing their best in absolutely horrifying conditions," Steffes said.

Jeff Bleijerveld, director of global ministries for the United Brethren in Christ church, said he last talked to Salia in February 2013, when they met to discuss planning for a hospital in the southern part of Sierra Leone. He recalled watching Salia perform a hernia surgery on a young boy, assisted by a handyman who was not actually a doctor. He recalled Salia leading the surgical team in prayer before the operation.

Salia came down with symptoms of Ebola on Nov. 6 but test results were negative for the deadly virus. He was tested again on Monday, and he tested positive. It wasn't clear whether he had been involved in the care of Ebola patients.

Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year. Five other doctors in Sierra Leone have contracted Ebola, and all have died.

The disease has killed more than 5,000 people in West Africa, mostly in Sierra Leona, Guinea and Liberia.

The U.S. State Department said it was helping facilitate the transfer of Salia; the U.S. Embassy in Freetown said he was paying for the expensive evacuation. The travel costs and care of other Ebola patients flown to the U.S. were covered by the groups they worked for in West Africa.

The hospital in Omaha is one of four U.S. hospitals with specialized treatment units for people with highly dangerous infectious diseases. It was chosen to care for Salia because workers at units at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital and the National Institutes of Health near Washington are still in a 21-day monitoring period.

Those two hospitals treated two Dallas nurses who were infected while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who fell ill with Ebola shortly after arriving in the U.S. and later died.

The other eight Ebola patients in the U.S. recovered, including the nurses. Five were American aid workers who became infected in West Africa while helping care for patients there; one was a video journalist.


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[Tom McDowell]

Doctors Successfully Give Kidney Dialysis to Ebola Patient

Written by Kristen Fischer | Published on November 15, 2014

http://www.healthline.com/health-ne...ive-kidney-dialysis-to-ebola-patient-111514#2


For the first time, an Ebola patient has successfully received dialysis.

It’s typical for patients with Ebola to experience acute kidney injury and kidney failure. It was thought too risky to try dialysis because the large needles and catheters required for the procedure might spread a patient’s highly infectious blood.

The successful procedure will be detailed along with recommended clinical practice guidelines in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Though the researchers wouldn’t say where the patient was from, the patient was described as a healthcare worker from a governmental organization who contracted the virus in Sierra Leone. The patient was transported to Emory University Hospital’s Severe Communicable Disease Isolation Unit in Atlanta for treatment, which included experimental antiviral drugs and intravenous fluids.

According to the report, a diuretic did not work to keep the patient’s kidneys healthy, so doctors began dialysis on the patient’s 11th day sick with Ebola. As the patient’s condition improved, the patient was switched to intermittent dialysis for six to 12 hours a day. Dialysis ended after 24 days total. Doctors found no evidence of Ebola in the patient’s dialysis waste fluids.


Dr. Michael Connor, Jr., and Dr. Harold Franch from the Emory University School of Medicine wrote about the procedure in detail for the journal, discussing the equipment and clinical protocols that resulted in effective dialysis while protecting hospital staff.

"In our opinion, this report confirms that with adequate training, preparation, and adherence to safety protocols, renal replacement therapies can be provided safely and should be considered a viable option to provide advanced supportive care in patients with Ebola," Connor said in a press statement.

Dialysis a Solution, but Perhaps Not for All

"More than anything else, in our report, we found that extra training of our volunteer ICU nurses made success possible," Franch said. "Our case also shows that dialysis is not a death sentence for patients suffering from

Since the patient in the study started dialysis treatment, three others have also had it. Two died and one is still undergoing the procedure, to the best of Franch’s knowledge.

“I think the key is to create a safe environment in the first place and then it becomes like an operating room [as far as rules and procedures go],” Franch said. “Then you just have to adapt your procedures to work in the isolation environment.”

Creating a safe setting to support dialysis may not always be possible in Ebola’s epicenter of West Africa, however, so patients there may not have access to the treatment.

“They’re having trouble just getting basic laboratory tests and IV fluids,” Franch said. Administering IV fluids as well as monitoring salt and electrolyte levels could greatly improve outcomes for patients in West Africa, he added.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported Friday that the death toll from Ebola in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone was 5,177 out of 14,413 cases diagnosed through Nov. 11.

The president of Liberia said that she would not extend the country’s state of emergency, though a night curfew will stay in effect. In Liberia, the virus has killed more than 2,800 people.

New cases of Ebola are declining Guinea and Liberia, but cases in Sierra Leone are still going up, the WHO reported earlier this month.

On Wednesday, Mali quarantined about 90 people after a nurse at a private clinic in Bamako died from the virus. The nurse was one of three recent deaths linked to Ebola in Mali.

Clinical trials conducted by three different research partners will begin in West Africa in order to find a treatment for Ebola, Doctors Without Borders announced Thursday. The group will test experimental drugs that have not undergone extensive human and animal trials.

Meanwhile, the Ebola panic in the United States seems to have subsided. The outrage, however, isn’t quite over. An estimated 100,000 nurses with National Nurses United protested on Wednesday for better protection for health workers dealing with patients possibly stricken with the deadly Ebola virus.

On Thursday, more than 80 U.S. military members sent to assist with the outbreak in Liberia were set to return home. None are showing signs of infection, but they will be monitored for 21 days at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in southeastern Virginia.

Dr. Martin Salia, an infected surgeon who recently got the virus while treating victims in Sierra Leone, was said to be headed to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, for treatment on Saturday.


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[Housecarl]

One thing about Cal OSHA, they can be a pain in the ass but they really don't fool around either.....

For links see article source.....
Posted for fair use.....
http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/California-adopts-tough-Ebola-protection-rules-5894274.php

California adopts tough Ebola-protection rules for health workers

By Carolyn Jones
Updated 9:15 pm, Friday, November 14, 2014

California has adopted some of the nation’s strongest regulations to protect doctors, nurses and other health workers treating patients with Ebola.

The regulations, announced Friday by the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration, require the state’s 300 or so acute-care hospitals to provide hazardous material suits, respirators, isolation rooms and extensive training to those working with patients suspected of having the Ebola virus.

The new regulations clarify and expand upon general guidelines issued in October.

Nurses hailed the regulations as a model for the rest of the country.

“The governor and OSHA have really inspired nurses with their dedication to this,” said Chuck Idelson, a spokesman for National Nurses United. “They’ve shown an absolute commitment to protecting patients and nurses.”

The regulations are more comprehensive than those put forth by the Centers for Disease Control, which the state’s hospitals have been following until now.

“Hospitals will continue to work closely with Cal/OSHA officials as hands-on training sessions continue for those employees who are most likely to provide care to patients with Ebola,” said Jan Emerson-Shea, spokeswoman for the California Hospital Association.

No Ebola cases have been reported in California, although the virus continues to ravage West Africa, where more than 5,100 people have died. In the U.S., one person has died.

The new regulations follow a worldwide nurses’ protest Thursday demanding stronger protections for those treating Ebola patients.

Carolyn Jones is a Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: carolynjones@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @carolynajones

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Ebola Virus Information
http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/EbolaVirusInformation.htm

•Cal/OSHA Interim Guidance on Ebola Virus in Inpatient Hospital Settings — November 14, 2014
http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/documents/Cal-OSHA-Guidance-on-Ebola-Virus-for-Hospitals.pdf

 

[Milk-maid]

A Cure For EBOLA?

This was posted on Zerohedge-- FWIW.

Silver Versus Ebola: A Medical Revolution?

Submitted by Sprott Money on 11/13/2014 10:56 -0500

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-13/silver-versus-ebola-medical-revolution


Jeff Nielson for Sprott Money

For centuries, humanity has utilized “colloidal silver” to treat disease and infection, and to prevent disease and infection. Colloidal silver is (primarily) an internal medical treatment, created by immersing particles of silver in a colloidal solution.

Before the invention of antibacterial soap, colloidal silver was used as a disinfectant. It is still commonly used to kill bacteria…In ancient times silver was used in wound dressings and it was frequently used for the same purposes in America following the Civil War. It is also why churches use silver chalices in Communion to stop disease spreading through the congregation…

Even thousands of years ago, Ancient Greeks realized that the rich families who ate, drank, and stored food in silverware were much less likely to be ill than the commoners who ate from ceramics and used iron utensils. The rich people developed a slight blue tinge to their skin from years of silver ingestion, hence the term Blue Bloods was born…

With its popularity once again rising in our own societies (along with other herbal and natural tonics and remedies), not surprisingly we see “push-back” from the non-natural, chemical-pushing, pharmaceutical industry. While anti-microbial silver coatings and silver fabrics are spreading through our societies in a multitude of commercial applications – because of silver’s proven, superior anti-microbial properties – this is what we hear from the charlatans of mainstream medicine, in this case the Mayo Clinic:

Colloidal silver isn’t considered safe or effective for any of the health claims manufacturers make. Silver has no known purpose in the body. [emphasis mine]

Note the devious nature of this smear. The Mayo Clinic itself undoubtedly uses silver-coated/silver-laced materials and/or equipment in its own facilities to utilize silver’s known properties to externally fight infection in general, and the “super-bugs” which are becoming an increasing health-care menace (in particular).

…at the 40th annual Association of Professionals for Infection Control conference in Florida earlier this month. NMI Health exhibited its suite of SilverCare Plus performance fabrics including scrub and lab coat material, patient gowns, linens, blankets, and cubicle curtains. Collectively these products account for over 90 percent of soft surfaces found in the patient environment.

However, if the Mayo Clinic charlatans (and the rest of the mainstream medicine frauds) truly wish to insist that colloidal silver “isn’t considered safe” and “has no known purpose in the body”; then why are catheters (a piece of medical equipment inserted into the body) now being coated with silver?

Furthermore, medical science fully understands exactly how and why silver is so effective in killing a wide range of microbial organisms, thus combating disease and infection:

Scientific studies have shown that pure silver quickly kills bacteria. It even kills the super-bacteria that evolve after conventional disinfecting agents kill the weak strains of bacteria. Silver acts as a catalyst and disables an enzyme that facilitates actions inside cells. It is not consumed in this process so it is available to keep working again and again. The enzyme silver destroys is required by anaerobic bacteria, viruses yeast, and molds. (Unfriendly bacteria tend to be anaerobic and friendly bacteria aerobic.) This is the action that destroys pathogens. It stops them from using the body’s own cells as vehicles for replication. Colloidal silver creates an environment that makes it impossible for pathogens to survive and multiply.

Since it is not designed to combat a specific pathogen but rather works against the very nature of their life cycles, it is an effective preventative agent against all illnesses caused by all pathogens including future mutations. There is no known disease-causing organism that can live in the presence of even minute traces of colloidal silver. [emphasis mine]

Here we see the essence of the pharmaceutical industry’s hatred of silver-based medical applications, in general, and colloidal silver in particular. The antibiotics with which the pharmaceutical industry has saturated our societies are only effective against certain types of bacteria.

Worse, because they cause resistance to develop within these bacteria, it is commonly known that antibiotics are the creators of the new/dreaded “super-bugs” – requiring yet more new drugs to battle them. Meanwhile, not only is it impossible for silver to produce any “resistance” to its own properties in bacteria or other micro-organisms (and thus create more deadly mutations), it kills the Super Bugs against which the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly ineffective.

These ultra-greedy, drug-pushers want to design (and sell) a different chemical for each/every pathogen in existence – and preferably several. But silver is effective against all of them, permanently. Furthermore, because it is a relatively natural/organic treatment, these drug-manufacturers can be bypassed completely.


They can’t make any money from colloidal silver themselves. Worse still, it eats into their ill-gotten gains by replacing the use of their own (often toxic) chemicals. And so, yet again, Big Pharma condemns what it cannot (mis)appropriate for itself.


It is with this context in mind that we can consider the recent news (hushed-up by the mainstream media) that “nano silver” (i.e. colloidal silver) is now the officially recognized treatment for the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, one of the African nations hit hardest by this killer-disease. This is despite efforts by the WHO to prevent Sierra Leone’s victims from getting access to colloidal silver.

AlphaKanu

The Hon. Alpha Kanu, Minister of Information, Republic of Sierra Leone (October 11th, 2014), in touting the impressive results of colloidal silver against Ebola:

“There is no illness that doesn’t have a cure. If you say that this illness does not get better then that’s a lie because 500 people have gotten better.”


Much has been written (in the Alternative Media) speculating on whether the African “Ebola epidemic” is truly as bad as depicted, or whether this has been exaggerated (by the mainstream media) in order to spread fear in our own populations. This skepticism has been further reinforced by the suspicious manner (to the point of absurdity) in which Ebola has ‘leaked’ (been allowed to leak?) into the United States.

ebola_vaccine

However, irrespective of whether the “Ebola epidemic” is (even partially) a hoax, or whether this outbreak is every bit as serious and menacing as it has been depicted by the mainstream media; if colloidal silver is now proven/demonstrated as the cure/treatment for the Ebola virus, its use and popularity will spread – like the virus itself.


Beyond the present; if colloidal silver becomes known (by the people) as a safe/reliable means to combat the most-dreaded killer-disease in the world today, it will automatically become the first remedy people reach for in any future epidemic (or hoax).


As we become increasingly aware of the perils of the pharmaceutical industry’s “vaccines” – medical treatments which our laws do not require the pharmaceutical industry to thoroughly/properly test – the expression of “the cure being worse than the disease” is evolving from a mere colloquialism to a real, medical danger. For those amongst the world’s population of 7+ billion who refuse to be “lab rats” for the pharmaceutical industry’s semi-tested vaccines; colloidal silver represents nothing short of a potential “medical revolution”.


While Big Pharma trots-out new vaccines on a nearly monthly basis, each time insisting that this isn’t a treatment which we should use, but a treatment which we must use; now people will realize they do have a choice.

We can continue to be pin-cushions for the pharmaceutical industry, allowing them to inject us with vaccine after vaccine – until one of their semi-tested “cures” kills us. Or, we can rely upon a single (relatively inexpensive) remedy/treatment which (unlike their vaccines) has been used by humanity for centuries.


Even before the current Ebola outbreak; previous commentaries have strongly suggested that silver-based anti-microbial products would continue to sweep through our societies (and consumer shelves). Now, as humanity is warned of a potential “new plague” which menaces us; the motivation for this silver-based Medical Revolution just got much, much greater.

 

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I wish everyone would at least read the post I put up above.


The minister of Information in Sierra Leone says 500 people have now been cured by this.


This is BIG news and it's being suppressed.


MM

 

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Posted for fair use and discussion.
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/11/another-boom-week-in-ebolaville.html

Saturday, November 15, 2014
Another Boom Week In Ebolaville
1000 New Cases; Liberian Deaths March Backwards

No Signs Of Life In Villages Near Capitol Of Sierra Leone

FREETOWN (BBC) --- I briefly visited Sierra Leone, one of the three most affected countries along with Liberia and Guinea, this week.
I flew by helicopter over one of the worst affected areas, the district of Port Loko just north of the coastal capital Freetown.
Other journalists who have been in this district, but on the ground, have reported finding abandoned villages with dead or dying Ebola patients in them, the healthy having fled in fear or in search of food.
So I looked carefully out of the helicopter window.
Even from this height it is usually possible to see signs of normal life.
Typical ones are smoke from cooking fires and colorful daily laundry draped over bushes to dry.
But in a large number of villages there were no signs of life.

I've just received a message from the headmaster of a school in the Liberian capital Monrovia.
The immediate area around his school hasn't been hit by Ebola, but with businesses and government offices closed to try to contain the spread, many people haven't been able to work.
As the headmaster put it "no job no money" and parents in his area have found it impossible to feed their children properly.
"Our teachers are all healthy", he said, in that understated way of Liberians who have had more than their share of war and disasters over the years.
"Except they are in dying need of food."


As Ebola continues to rampage throughout Sierra Leone, Liberia is undergoing a notional drop in cases, except they still seem to be unable to get their information to the UN on time.

(Reuters) MONROVIA - Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said on Thursday she would not seek an extension to a state of emergency imposed in August over Ebola, which has hit the country harder than any other this year. The decision effectively ends the state of emergency that officially expired earlier this month, though Sirleaf said a night curfew remains in force. The emergency had allowed authorities to restrict movement in areas hard hit by the virus.

So with "only" 300 new cases in the last week (more than they had in the entire country in late July) Liberia figures they may as well just let people go anywhere they want. You figure out whether this is because Ebola is going away, or whether it's because they recognize that Ebola is everywhere, and their "state of emergency" did nothing to prevent that.

Miraculously, as their Ebola cases increase, Liberia's Ebola deaths decrease day after day.
Presumably, at the rate their going, they can erase their way to being Ebola-free by New Year's, except for all those troublesome bodies.

Given the imminent famine and starvation complications, it seems pretty evident that both nations are willing to lie about the epidemic in order to try and secure food shipments and trade.

I would therefore have to call the ongoing numbers reported by the UN increasingly fanciful week after week, and suggest they pull the other leg, as it has bells on it.

And in less than a few days, Mali went from "almost" Ebola-free, to being amidst a blossoming outbreak, as an infected grand imam was taken to Mali's capitol of Bamako, died there of Ebola, and infected a doctor and nurse, as well as most of his own family, and now potentially nearly 300 mourners, including those who (yet again) washed his Ebola-ridden corpse in obedience to funeral ritual.

People Determined To Commit Suicide Are Going To Succeed: Example # 5001 and counting.

Posted by Aesop at 2:01 AM
Labels: Ebola

 

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Posted for fair use and discussion. H/t Monotreme
http://www.economist.com/news/middl...nd-outbreak-ebola-more-worrying-double-whammy

Mali's double whammy. A second outbreak of Ebola is more worrying

Nov 14th 2014 |

MALI thought it had got off lightly. As the Ebola epidemic claimed thousands of lives across the border to the south in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, Mali recorded just a single case of the virus. It was carried by an infected two-year-old girl, who had been brought by her grandmother from Guinea, travelling 1,200km (745 miles) by bus and taxi with the feverish child. She died in hospital in the city of Kayes on October 24th. (See WHO situation report here)

About one hundred people who had come into contact with the girl were traced and isolated. Three weeks later, on November 10th, the Malian authorities held a ceremony to mark the release from observation of a first batch of contacts – a group of 29 people in a family compound in the capital, Bamako, that had briefly hosted the sick child during her journey. None had developed symptoms.

Ministers and officials told television reporters that vigilance was still needed, but at least the family in Bamako was free of Ebola; it seemed likely that others who had been in contact with the girl in Kayes would soon be declared Ebola-free.

Whether because they did not know, or because they did not want to say, the dignitaries said nothing about a new outbreak that was developing nearby at the country’s top private hospital, the Polyclinique Pasteur. A nurse had fallen ill with Ebola-like symptoms and had been isolated the same evening as the ceremony. He died the following night.

This second outbreak is more serious. It has so far claimed several lives, involves many more contacts and raises questions about the preparedness of the Malian authorities even as foreign medical agencies rushed in to help Mali.

The nurse probably contracted the disease from an elderly imam, who had fallen ill with an undiagnosed disease in Guinea on October 17th and was brought by car to the Polyclinique Pasteur on October 25th, travelling with four other family members. A battery of tests was conducted, but not for Ebola. He died of kidney failure, a known complication of late-stage Ebola, on October 27th. (see WHO situation report, here) A friend who visited him in hospital died from an undiagnosed disease. The assumption is that both died of Ebola.

Many hands then touched the body of the imam as it was released from hospital, carried to a mosque in Bamako and washed - all within walking distance of the national laboratory and the nerve centre of the Ebola response efforts – before being taken for burial in his native village of Kourémalé on the border with Guinea. Two relatives have died so far and several others are ill; a woman who washed his body also passed away, as has a member of her family.

The question for health officials is how far the disease has taken hold in Bamako, a city of 3m people, where it has incubated in recent weeks. What is the risk that Bamako might become the next Freetown or Monrovia?

Weaknesses are being exposed daily in a country only recently torn by civil war. Many still don't believe that Ebola is Mali's problem. Malians still shake hands and share tea from the same cup. There is little public information available, and what there is focuses on near-certainty of death (not true, good treatment can bring down mortality rates from 90% to 40% or less) and warnings against eating bush meat (the biggest danger is contact with infected people).

At a new Ebola treatment center, one doctor spoke about the anti-malarial and antibiotics drugs that would be available (they are no use against Ebola itself but may deal with other problems) but was vague on simple but life-saving treatment, such as intravenous fluids and oral rehydration salts.

At the mosque where the imam’s body had been washed, a team of workers in full biohazard garb was cleaning the site with chlorine bleach disinfectant on November 14th; it was the first time it had been cleaned, said a local man. People walked in and out, and children ran about. A teenager who commanded a huge group of onlookers asked what was going on. Told they were cleaning the site because a woman died of Ebola,” the lad replied: “You think there is Ebola here?” As your correspondent drove away, a large group of little children chased after the car chanting “Ebola! Ebola!”

 

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I think, if nothing else, the Cascadians don't have to worry about being burnt at the stake for dispensing herbal medicine.

Wait and see if that's still true after fear takes hold.