EBOLA MAIN EBOLA DISCUSSION THREAD March 2015

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MAIN EBOLA DISCUSSION THREAD March 2015

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Greetings, Everyone: Due to the intermittent reports on Ebola which are surfacing
on a delayed basis Dennis recommended this should be a monthly thread.

If you post a stand alone thread on Main please double post it here so there is an archive that we can all research to find specific articles. Thank you. BREWER
 

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-insomnia-files-lawsuit-against-hospital.html

Ebola cost me my career, my boyfriend and my HAIR: Obama-honored nurse Nina Pham reveals her ongoing battle to recover... and why she's suing the hospital that saved her

Nina Pham contracted illness while treating Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas
The 26-year-old was given the all-clear, but is now suing the hospital
Claims she became a symbol of 'corporate neglect' and was a 'PR pawn'
She said her Ebola training was a single sheet of paper found online
Added that treatment for the illness has impacted health and social life
Has split from her boyfriend and suffers constant aches and pains

By Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com

Published: 10:56 EST, 1 March 2015 | Updated: 14:43 EST, 1 March 2015


An intensive care unit nurse who survived her fight against Ebola has claimed the treatment has made her hair fall out, causes insomnia and has damaged her social life.

Nina Pham was diagnosed with the deadly disease along with co-worker Amber Vinson after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient to die from the illness in October.

The 26-year-old was given the all-clear, but has revealed this week she is suing Texas Presbyterian Hospital, claiming she became the 'symbol of corporate neglect', as senior officials failed to adequately prepare for the crisis.

She said her training in treating those with the virus was on a single piece of paper found by her supervisor online.

Concerns: Nina Pham, who was diagnosed with the deadly disease in October, says the experimental drugs used in her treatment is causing her hair to fall out and makes her suffer aches, pains and fatigue
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Miss Pham also fears that her health will be constantly effected by the experimental drugs she was given and is already suffering aches, pains and fatigue.

If she has a glass of wine at dinner, she will always feel sick, and she constantly has nightmares about her ordeal.

Doctors have also warned her to check for signs of vision loss as well as sensory and organ failure.

She split up with her boyfriend, who was quarantined as a precaution, after she was released from hospital and struggles to interact with friends because 'Ebola always comes up'.

A representative for her attorney

'I wanted to believe that they would have my back and take care of me, but they just haven't risen to the occasion,' she told The Dallas Morning News.

'I was the last person besides Mr. Duncan to find out he was positive' she said. 'You'd think the primary nurse would be the first to know.I broke down and cried, not because I thought I had it but just because it was a big 'whoa, this is really happening' moment.

Pham said she considered not going back to care for Duncan after his diagnosis, with her colleagues insisting they would back up her decision. But she felt she had to.

Criticizing how the hospital prepared for the crisis, she said the extent of her training was a single piece of paper one of her superiors found online.
Privacy issues: A doctor wearing a video camera came into her room, claiming he was making an educational video. She did not give permission for the video, which was subsuqently released to the media
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Privacy issues: A doctor wearing a video camera came into her room, claiming he was making an educational video. She did not give permission for the video, which was subsuqently released to the media
Smiling: After Miss Pham was given the all-clear, she was invited to the Oval Office where she met President Obama. The intensive care nurse is now suing Texas Presbyterian Hospital, claiming she became a symbol of 'corporate neglect'
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Sufferer: Miss Pham was diagnosed with the deadly disease along with co-worker Amber Vinson after treating Thomas Eric Duncan (pictured) the first patient to die from the illness in October

The day after Duncan died, Pham met with someone from the CDC and the hospital's employee health manager to review Duncan's care. They also deemed her 'no risk' in terms of contracting the Ebola virus.

When tests confirmed she had the virus, she broke down crying, and asked medical staff that her name be released as 'Jane Doe' to protect her privacy. The request was refused and from then on Miss Pham became the face of the fight against Ebola in the United States.

She said: 'Just knowing the whole world's watching but you're so isolated and the people that are coming [in to care for me] are risking their lives.'Touching me is life-threatening. It's very lonely.'

Before she was transferred to Maryland, a doctor wearing a video camera came into her room, claiming he was making an educational video. Miss Pham said she did not give permission for the video, which was subsuqently released to the media.

She told the Morning News: 'They had just a PR nightmare with what happened with Mr. Duncan … and then us being infected with Ebola. Not just one nurse, but two. People lost faith in them, especially after we got sick.

Texas Health Resources gave the paper a statement saying: 'Nina Pham bravely served Texas Health Dallas during a most difficult time. We continue to support and wish the best for her, and we remain optimistic that constructive dialogue can resolve this matter.'

However her attorney Charla Aldous said she was simply used as a 'PR pawn'.
Ebola free: Nina Pham speaks in October after being discharged
Protective: Her dog Bentley was placed in quarantine for 21 days but she says many people commented that he should have been put down just in case
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During an interview in December, just six weeks after she was declared Ebola-free, the modest nurse insists she is not a hero and was 'just doing [her] job'.

She was among the Ebola fighters recognized by Time magazine as their 'Person of the Year'.

Miss Pham recalled a CDC doctor and her chief nursing officer approaching her in hazmat suits - and she knew from their faces the news was bad.

Her dog Bentley was placed in quarantine for 21 days but she says many people commented that he should have been put down just in case.

She adds people have been afraid of her, including not wanting to shake her hand in church, even after health officials declared her free of the virus.

President Barack Obama tried to calm hysteria in the United States over how Ebola is contracted by welcoming survivors to the White House.

After surviving her ordeal, Ms Pham was welcomed to the Oval Office in October and hugged by the President.

The worst ever Ebola outbreak has left more than 6,300 people dead worldwide, nearly all in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

Modest: During an interview in December, just six weeks after she was declared Ebola-free, the modest nurse insists she is not a hero and was 'just doing [her] job'

Read more:

Exclusive: Nurse Nina Pham after Ebola: Terrible side effects, lawsuit against employer

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-lawsuit-against-hospital.html#ixzz3TAasPvRb
 

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Too bad about Nurse Pham, I've read articles about so many survivors in east Africa having horrible deblities after they are over the ebola infection.

I'm just starting to read the UK Daily Mail article:

An intensive care unit nurse who survived her fight against Ebola has claimed the treatment has made her hair fall out, causes insomnia and has damaged her social life.

Nina Pham was diagnosed with the deadly disease along with co-worker Amber Vinson after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient to die from the illness in October.

The 26-year-old was given the all-clear, but has revealed this week she is suing Texas Presbyterian Hospital, claiming she became the 'symbol of corporate neglect', as senior officials failed to adequately prepare for the crisis.

She said her training in treating those with the virus was on a single piece of paper found by her supervisor online.
 

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Vice President of Sierra Leone put himself in quarantine following the death of one of his security guards.

Sorry, can't post article from my tablet.


http://www.vagazette.com/news/chi-sierra-leone-vice-president-ebola-20150301,0,5037168.story

Thanks, bev...

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http://www.vagazette.com/news/chi-sierra-leone-vice-president-ebola-20150301,0,5037168.story

Ebola fear puts Sierra Leone vice president in quarantine

A picture taken Nov. 7 shows people walking past a billboard with a message about ebola in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Ebola fear puts Sierra Leone vice president in quarantine
Tribune wire reports

2:40 p.m. EST, March 1, 2015
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone—

Sierra Leone's vice president has put himself in quarantine following the death from Ebola of one of his security guards.

Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana is set to become acting president later Sunday when President Ernest Bai Koroma leaves Sierra Leone to attend a European Union conference on Ebola in Belgium. Sam-Sumana will carry out his presidential duties from his home.

He is the highest ranking African official to be in quarantine in this Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which is fast approaching a death toll of 10,000. The news highlights the rise of new cases in Sierra Leone, which has experienced a setback in curbing the spread of Ebola.

Sam-Sumana voluntarily decided to quarantine himself for 21 days following the death from Ebola last Tuesday of one of his security personnel.

"This virus has affected thousands of our people and has nearly brought our country to its knees," said Sam-Sumana in a statement on Sunday. "We all have a collective responsibility to break the chains of transmission by isolating the sick and reporting all known contacts, by not touching the dead ... We cannot be complacent. We must work together as a nation to end Ebola now."

Sam-Sumana's dramatic quarantine comes as President Ernest Bai Koroma reinstated restrictions on public movement on Saturday, in response the rise in new cases.

Sierra Leone recorded 18 new cases of Ebola in the week ending Saturday, up from 16 new cases last week. This breaks the trend of declining cases in the country.

Many of the new clusters are related to the capital's fishing industry. In one case a fisherman died at sea in early February and the boat returned his body to shore in Freetown, the capital. Some of the fishermen on the boat then returned to their homes in the shantytown surrounding the fishing wharf, causing new infections.

President Koroma had recently lifted travel restrictions in order to stimulate economic activity, a relaxation criticized as too early by some officials. In response to the rise in new cases, Koroma on Saturday re-imposed restrictions including a nighttime ban on all boats launching from shore and on commercial vehicles off-loading goods in western market areas. Naval vessels will enforce the measures by patrolling the wharves and coastline.

In addition there will be restrictions on ferries and health checkpoints by the police will be strengthened. Public transportation restrictions will be reinstated which limit the numbers of passengers in taxis to two in cars and four at the back of large taxi vans to reduce physical contact between passengers.

The death toll for the current Ebola outbreak has risen to more than 9,600 from more than 23,800 infections mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to World Health Organization figures released Friday.

Liberia, which has had the highest number of deaths, has succeeded in bringing its number of confirmed cases to just a handful and has reopened schools.

Ebola is currently spreading fastest in Sierra Leone. In addition to battling Ebola, Sierra Leone's government last week launched an investigation after an audit showed that nearly one-third of the money it received to fight Ebola, about $5.7 million, was used without necessary receipts.

Associated Press
 

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http://www.naturalnews.com/048845_Ebola_nurse_experimental_medication_Texas_Health_Presbyterian.html

Ebola nurse Nina Pham used as PR pawn, damaged by experimental medications

Tuesday, March 03, 2015 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

(NaturalNews) She became the face of the Ebola crisis during its publicity peak last fall. But nurse Nina Pham, the first known case of an individual contracting Ebola within the U.S., is now suing the parent corporation of her former employer, which she says violated her personal privacy and left her chronically ill by exploiting and neglecting her during the outbreak.

Pham reportedly filed a lawsuit on March 2 in Dallas County against Texas Health Resources, the overseer of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital where she contracted Ebola while treating "patient zero" Thomas Eric Duncan. The 26-year-old nurse says she now suffers from constant nightmares, body aches and insomnia due to the experimental medications that were forced upon her while in isolation.

She also says the hospital was negligent in properly training both her and the other nurses in how to safely care for Ebola patients, resulting in her contracting the disease. According to Pham's lawyer, the nurse is seeking damages for physical pain, mental anguish, medical expenses and loss of future earnings.

During an exclusive interview with The Dallas Morning News, Pham explained that her goal is to "make hospitals and big corporations realize that nurses and health care workers, especially frontline people, are important. And we don't want nurses to start turning into patients."

"I wanted to believe that they would have my back and take care of me, but they just haven't risen to the occasion," stated Pham to the paper about how she was treated at Texas Health.


Pham says Texas Health made her "a symbol of corporate neglect"

As images of Pham and her story were being plastered all across the media, the nurse says she was still given inadequate safety wear that left her exposed to the hemorrhagic virus. Pham and other nurses were also made to become custodians, she says, in the cleanup of Ebola-infected waste that was piling up inside the hospital due to nobody wanting to touch it.

Pham describes her fate as being made "a symbol of corporate neglect -- a casualty of a hospital system's failure to prepare for a known and impending medical crisis."

Despite being Duncan's primary nurse, Pham says she was among the last to be informed that he had tested positive for Ebola. The entire hospital became stricken with panic as a result, leading to chaos and failed protocols that exposed Pham and her close nurse friends to a disease that could have killed them.

"You'd think the primary nurse would be the first to know," she stated to The Dallas Morning News, adding that she and her colleagues "fought in the trenches together," despite neglect from the hospital.

"I broke down and cried, not because I thought I had it but just because it was a big 'woah, this is really happening' moment."


Experimental Ebola "medicine" has left Pham chronically ill

Concerned about being paraded around in the media and exploited, Pham says that after she tested positive she asked that "no information" about her be released to the media. Instead of honoring her wishes, the hospital allowed Pham to be filmed while speaking to a doctor in a hospital room, with video footage later released to the public without her permission.

Pham was also given experimental medicine that she says left her with chronic fatigue and pain, as well as high liver enzymes that cause her to become ill on a regular basis.

"I don't know if having children could be affected by this, but that's something I worry about," she explained.
 

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http://sputniknews.com/art_living/20150310/1019281802.html

US to Deploy Chemical Brigade to Liberia to Combat Ebola - Pentagon
© REUTERS/ James Giahyue
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04:17 10.03.2015

According to the US Defense Department, the US would deploy its Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear brigade’s headquarters to Liberia to further combat the Ebola epidemic.

Good news is coming from Liberia, as the country may soon be declared Ebola-free. To mark this, the government in Monrovia decided to dismantle a crematorium and remove drums containing the ashes of over 3,000 Ebola victims.
© AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh
Liberia is Close to Be Declared Ebola-Free

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The United States will deploy its Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear brigade’s headquarters to Liberia to further combat the Ebola epidemic, the US Defense Department announced in a press release.

“The 48th Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Brigade’s (CBRN) headquarters will deploy to Liberia to command the remaining American forces supporting the US effort to help contain the worst Ebola outbreak in history,” the release, issued on Monday, said.

CBRN will replace the US 101st Airborne Division that ended Operation United Assistance at the end of February. The division provided support to ongoing efforts to prevent the Ebola epidemic from spreading in Liberia.

The final stage trials of a vaccine against Ebola will kick off on March 7 in Guinea
© AP Photo/ Cliff Owen

WHO to Begin New Ebola Vaccine Tests in Guinea on March 7

“The brigade will support the US Agency for International Development and provide oversight of any required follow-on capabilities. Other response functions are being transitioned to civilian personnel,” the Defense Department said.

Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf requested assistance from the United States during her visit to Washington two weeks ago in order to restore the country’s economy and bring the number of Ebola cases to nil.

The Ebola outbreak claimed 4,162 lives in Liberia, according to a March 9 update by the World Health Organization.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/art_living/20150310/1019281802.html#ixzz3Tyz2bjyT
 

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http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2015/03/as-tag-says-whatever-doesnt-kill-me.html

Monday, March 9, 2015
As the Tag Says, "Whatever Doesn't Kill Me..."


Greetings, visitors and any faithful readers.

Endless apologies for the continued delay in adding fresh content. Your patience will be repaid shortly. (Anyone betting you I'd shut up on the 'net very long, take the longest odds you can get, and retire early on your winnings.)

Work is work. To be more specific, it's five nights in a row/60-hour weeks, vs. my former 3 nights/36-hour weeks. And now at a new higher pay rate. It's amazing how hard you can work when the other choice is literal poverty. The paychecks are commensurately effing awesome. The only drawback is that my enforced unemployment came rather unexpectedly, and with my cash reserves on fumes, so I have a bit more catching up to do, but that's happening at 200% of the former speed it would have otherwise.

Cool things:
I now have direct experience with another dozen medium to large ERs locally.
I have met a lot of great folks, and am constructing a short list of places I'd consider making a full-time employment home.
Several of them started pitching me to sign on FT after seeing me for about two shifts.

While trying to keep my head from swelling about that, it's nice to:
a) prove that you still have the chops to do the job, esp. serially in front of strangers, and
b) a little ego-stroking after the crotch-kick of getting shoved out the door at an employer isn't a bad thing.
If this is anything like what it's like to be a pretty girl from age 16-45 or so, I can at least understand some of the attitude that goes with it. Without the PMS complications.

That doesn't mean getting pushed into a pool of career ice water wasn't an effing PITA, but the end result will be that I'll probably make enough money this year to move into a higher tax bracket, and suffer the agony of being able to reach some lifelong financial goals in short order. Poor poor me.

A few other observations:
Keep a career back-up plan: a part-time job, small-potatoes self-employment, or whatever, but have a second gig. Something. Anything. Even if it's barely paying for itself, a small cash flow beats none at all, and your car doesn't run on a tankful of canned food or ammo reserves. Ask me how I know that.

While I likes me my firearms, I've always been a more well-rounded preparer than a gun nut, but if you've never visited the local collateral loan merchant (AKA pawn shop) you should be aware that any of Gaston Glock's tactical Tupperware is readily convertible to $250 cash money in most populated precincts, and that's without things nationwide being dire. So, for instance, three or four of them "extra" that you can part with for a few months equal your monthly readies. Again, ask me how I know.

Then imagine what their barter value might be under more dire circumstances. Esp. if you had a few spare magazines and a couple boxes of ammo apiece.

The same is most definitely not true of just about anything else you might think of.

Again, go visit the local hock shop, and chat them up, to get a no-BS idea of the actual value of things you might wish to convert to cash should the need arise. As someone who would formerly never have ventured into the pseudo Arab bazaar marketplace they represent until necessity forced my hand, you'll learn a few things, not only haggling, but you'll also get an idea of what's hot and what's not (e.g., any functional pistol is cash in the bank, whereas a brand new iPhone or high-end camera is nigh on worthless. Surprise.)

Free internet when money is tight is a gift from heaven (and Starbucks/Mickie D's/the local public library). With a laptop and the time, you can do for $0 what would otherwise be a couple of hundred $$ in cell/wifi bills. And if you haven't done a job search in awhile, the entire world is now online. Walking into an office with a resume these days is tantamount to telling an employer that you can take Morse code at 30 words a minute, or type at 80 words/minute, as if that should mean something to them.
(For those of you to whom Neil Armstrong and 8-track tapes are history as remote from you as the Thirty Years' War, Google "telegraph" and "typewriter". Those of us with underwear older than you are will quietly tolerate your confusion until you bone up on such arcana.)

OTOH, showing up on time (by which I mean early) with a good attitude, being flexible, and showing up, putting your head down, and getting the job done without any drama queenery once you get the job is timeless, in every career field since Thag and Og were making stylish saber-tooth cat skin leisure attire and chiseling wheels out of stone.

I save my sarcasm for here online, by and large. Believe me when I tell you it never wins you points at work, unless you own the joint.

Lest anyone think I'm going all Pollyanna, or selling out from financial necessity, let me assure you I've already collected a few choice bucketfuls of carefully distilled snark, soon to be shared here, and even more so over at Shepherd Of The Gurneys in upcoming installments. And then some. Suffice it to say that as much fun and pleasantness as I've discovered in my expanded work universe, the depths of Stupid out there are unplumbably bottomless, and probably incapable of measurement with existing instrumentation.

As an example I'll be explaining shortly, the level of emergency preparedness even after the recent Ebola outbreak have proven inarguably that things are now not only far worse here than I predicted 6-8 months ago, they are worse than I could have imagined then or even now without the direct experience of seeing them again and again.

Which is a short tease of explaining that, No, Ebola Hasn't Gone Away, And It's Not Going To. Better effing believe there'll be more to come on that front in short order, just for one example. In fact, 2014 wasn't the problem, or even the wake-up call, it was more likely the last whistle stop before the missing bridge ahead. Stew on that, boys and girls.

So whatever you were doing to prepare for the vagaries of life before my hiatus, keep on knocking it out. Life is not going to get more predictable or happy for anyone any time soon, by any reasonable examination of the facts. Plan accordingly, and I'll be throwing out more details in coming days.

Promise.


Posted by Aesop at 2:13 PM
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I definitely look forward to Aesop's reports. Thank You Brewer for keeping this important topic going!

Greetings, Plain Jane: Yes, me, too...and you're welcome.
One of these days this cat will get all the way out of the bag and then it will be all bad news all the time.
Take care. BREWER
 
And if you haven't done a job search in awhile, the entire world is now online. Walking into an office with a resume these days is tantamount to telling an employer that you can take Morse code at 30 words a minute, or type at 80 words/minute, as if that should mean something to them.

Had to laugh at this one. Spot on...
 

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As an example I'll be explaining shortly, the level of emergency preparedness even after the recent Ebola outbreak have proven inarguably that things are now not only far worse here than I predicted 6-8 months ago, they are worse than I could have imagined then or even now without the direct experience of seeing them again and again.

Which is a short tease of explaining that, No, Ebola Hasn't Gone Away, And It's Not Going To. Better effing believe there'll be more to come on that front in short order, just for one example. In fact, 2014 wasn't the problem, or even the wake-up call, it was more likely the last whistle stop before the missing bridge ahead. Stew on that, boys and girls.

Okay, I'm awake now!
 

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Experimental Ebola "medicine" has left Pham chronically ill

Concerned about being paraded around in the media and exploited, Pham says that after she tested positive she asked that "no information" about her be released to the media. Instead of honoring her wishes, the hospital allowed Pham to be filmed while speaking to a doctor in a hospital room, with video footage later released to the public without her permission.

Pham was also given experimental medicine that she says left her with chronic fatigue and pain, as well as high liver enzymes that cause her to become ill on a regular basis.

"I don't know if having children could be affected by this, but that's something I worry about," she explained.

It's not that I'm unsympathetic to Ms Pham... and I DO believe she has grounds for one hell of a suit against her employer, and the CDC (if you could sue a government agency for malpractice). But her whining about the "unknown and potential side effects" of the "experimental" drugs bugs me... She's ALIVE, and that's a heck of a lot better than a whole bunch of folks in Africa who didn't have access to any of those meds.

And, most of her symptoms are easily attributable to the after effects of having survived a serious viral illness. She has ZERO proof that the meds did any of it... and I can guarantee that she had to sign multiple permissions which included EVERY possible side effect and adverse effect of those meds- real, potential and imaginary. And, at least in my limited experience, you also have to sign a waiver of liability in order to be allowed to get some of these experimental meds.

I guess it just sounds like sour grapes... "you guys saved me, and dammit, I'm not sure my life is going to be perfect from now on... I want to sue".

Summerthyme
 

Lilbitsnana

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twitter report of several brit service people coming down with ebola and being flown home.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jamesmatthewsky/status/575715613865279488

from your link:

James Matthews @jamesmatthewsky · 3h 3 hours ago

SKY SOURCES: several suspected cases of #ebola as well as the one confirmed case in S Leone. All British & being flown home for treatment



Sky News Newsdesk @SkyNewsBreak · 4h 4 hours ago

Sky Sources: A member of military personnel has tested positive for #Ebola

Sky News Newsdesk @SkyNewsBreak · 4h 4 hours ago

Sky Sources: A second member of the British military is being tested for #Ebola

Sky News Newsdesk @SkyNewsBreak · 3h 3 hours ago

Update - British female military healthcare worker in Sierra Leone has tested positive for #Ebola while working at Kerry Town Crisis Centre

Sky News Newsdesk @SkyNewsBreak · 1h 1 hour ago

Sky Sources: plane travelling to pick up UK healthcare worker who has contracted #Ebola virus will arrive in #SierraLeone in next few hours
 

Lilbitsnana

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Sky News Newsdesk @SkyNewsBreak · 4h 4 hours ago

U.S. NIH says healthcare worker who tested positive for #Ebola after working in #SierraLeone to be admitted to a U.S. hospital for treatment
 

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Sky News Newsdesk @SkyNewsBreak · 4h 4 hours ago

U.S. NIH says healthcare worker who tested positive for #Ebola after working in #SierraLeone to be admitted to a U.S. hospital for treatment

I keep forgetting about ebola what with Putin being dead/not dead, Ukraine, Isis and all the other jihadis, etc.... and of course our own rogue gov.

Gotta read up the new ebola news tomorrow.
 

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http://wtop.com/health/2015/03/american-who-contracted-ebola-arrives-at-maryland-hospital/

American who contracted Ebola arrives at Maryland hospital
By The Associated Press March 13, 2015 9:27 am
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BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — An American healthcare worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in a Sierra Leone treatment unit arrived safely at the National Institutes of Health’s hospital in Maryland, officials announced early Friday.

The patient’s condition was still being evaluated after being flown in isolation from Sierra Leone on a chartered plane and admitted at 4:44 a.m., NIH officials said in a statement. The patient’s name, age and gender were not released.

The patient is the 11th person with Ebola to be treated in the U.S. and the second admitted to the NIH Clinical Center. It has one of the few specialized isolation units nationwide set up to treat Ebola patients.

The center’s Special Clinical Studies Unit is staffed by specialists in infectious disease and critical care and is designed to prevent the spread of highly contagious viruses, including Ebola. Previously, an American nurse was treated there after she contracted Ebola while caring for a patient in a Dallas hospital. The nurse, Nina Pham, survived and is Ebola-free.

The World Health Organization estimated Thursday that the virus has killed more than 10,000 people, mostly in the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The current outbreak is the largest ever for the disease. While deaths have slowed dramatically in recent months, the virus appears stubbornly entrenched in parts of Guinea and Sierra Leone.
 

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-health-ebola-toll-idUSKBN0M82CM20150312

Death toll from West Africa's Ebola outbreak passes 10,000: WHO

DAKAR Thu Mar 12, 2015 2:30pm EDT

A man pushes a wheelbarrow past the entrance to Hastings Ebola treatment centre in a neighbourhood in Freetown December 21, 2014.

Credit: Reuters/Baz Ratner

(Reuters) - The death toll from West Africa's Ebola outbreak has passed 10,000, according to the latest tally released by the World Health Organization on Thursday.

Liberia has recorded the most deaths with 4,162. Sierra Leone is the second worst-hit nation with 3,655, and Guinea has recorded 2,187 dead, according to the data.

The deadly hemorrhagic fever reached Senegal, Nigeria and Mali but was contained there. A handful of cases have also been recorded in the United States, Spain and Britain.

(Writing by David Lewis; Editing by Daniel Flynn)
 

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http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/nan...bc-news-in-wake-of-ebola-incident-1201451711/

NBC News In Wake of Ebola Incident

Nancy Snyderman Will Leave NBC News
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March 12, 2015 | 02:19PM PT
Brian Steinberg

Dr. Nancy Snyderman, the veteran TV-news medical correspondent who was caught violating the terms of a self-imposed quarantine after being potentially exposed to the Ebola virus last year, said she would step down from her job at NBC News.

“Covering the Ebola epidemic last fall in Liberia, and then becoming part of the story upon my return to the U.S., contributed to my decision that now is the time to return to academic medicine,” Snyderman said in a statement provided by NBC News.

Snyderman, NBC News’ chief medical correspondent, has been back on the air since December. She took a break from NBC News after she was spotted in New Jersey in October violating the terms of a self-imposed quarantine, a precaution she and other staffers took after an NBC News freelance cameraman contracting the disease while Snyderman and a team were covering its outbreak in Liberia.

Her departure comes as the result of a mutual decision between the journalist and NBC News executives, according to a person familiar with the matter. This person characterized the relationship between Snyderman and NBC News as having grown strained since her return to the network.

Snyderman indicated she would be moving to “a faculty position at a major U.S. medical school” and would work “to communicate medicine and science to our viewers and citizens, especially in times of crisis.”

Snyderman, a trained pediatrician and a practicing surgeon, has had an impressive career as both a physician and a medical correspondent. For 15 years, she reported on health for ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Both her father and grandfather practiced medicine, according to a biography of Snyderman posted by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. She received her M.D. in 1977, and grew interested in broadcasting while pursuing her residency.

Upon returning to “Today” after her break following the Ebola incident, Snyderman told Matt Lauer on “Today” that “good people can make mistakes,” adding, “I stepped outside the boundaries of what I promised to do and what the public expected of me, and for that I’m sorry.”

She leaves as NBC News is in the midst of transition. Andrew Lack, a former senior NBC News executive, has been hired to guide the unit forward after the recent disclosure that “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams falsified an account about a reporting excursion to Iraq in 2003. He is in the midst of a six-month suspension.
 

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More Americans may have been exposed to Ebola in Sierra Leone
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Washington (AFP) - Several American healthcare workers who may have come in contact with a US volunteer who tested positive for Ebola in Sierra Leone are being monitored for signs of illness, officials said Friday.

The patient, whose identity has not been revealed, was in serious condition after arriving by private charter plane at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center near the US capital early Friday.

No others have tested positive so far, but at least one other American is being flown from Sierra Leone to Atlanta, Georgia as a precautionary measure, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Out of an abundance of caution, authorities are tracking down people who came in contact with the patient in Sierra Leone, "including several other American citizens, who may have had potential exposure to this index patient," the CDC said in a statement.

"At this time, none of these individuals have tested positive for Ebola. These individuals are volunteers in the Ebola response and are currently being monitored in Sierra Leone."

The CDC and the US State Department "are developing contingency plans for returning those Americans with potential exposure to the US by non-commercial air transport," it added.

Upon return, they will "voluntarily self-isolate and be under direct active monitoring for the 21-day incubation period."

Already, one of the Americans with possible exposure is "currently being transported via charter to the Atlanta area to be close to Emory University Hospital," which has treated US patients with Ebola in the past.

"The individual has not shown symptoms of Ebola and has not been diagnosed with Ebola. Upon arrival in Atlanta, the individual will voluntarily self-isolate and be under direct active monitoring for the 21-day incubation period," the CDC said.

Ebola is spread through close contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person. The virus can cause lethal bleeding, muscle aches, severe vomiting and diarrhea.

The illness usually takes hold two to 10 days after exposure, but the full inoculation period is considered to last 21 days.

The index patient -- whose identity has not been revealed -- is at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, which has a high-level isolation unit and a staff of infectious disease specialists.

The same facility treated US nurse Nina Pham, who was infected while caring for a Liberian man at a Texas hospital.

The man, Thomas Eric Duncan, died. Pham and another nurse who was also infected have since recovered.

On Thursday, the World Health Organization announced that the death toll from the world's largest Ebola outbreak had topped 10,000.

Most of the deaths in the outbreak, which began in late 2013, have been in the West African nations of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

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U.S. healthcare worker with Ebola in 'serious' condition, NIH says
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By Susan Heavey 20 minutes ago

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NIH To Admit, Treat Another Ebola Patient Friday

By Susan Heavey

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. healthcare worker who tested positive for Ebola while in Sierra Leone was in serious condition at a Maryland hospital, and a second American who may have been exposed to that patient was being flown back to the United States, U.S. health officials said on Friday.

The National Institutes of Health said the U.S. Ebola patient was flown into the United States earlier on Friday and admitted to the NIH's high-security containment facility in Maryland. The patient is the 11th person with the deadly virus treated in the United States.

The NIH said the patient was in serious condition. The NIH did not release any more details.

The aid group Partners In Health said in a statement that the clinician was working for them in Sierra Leone, and noted their colleague "remains in good spirits."

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said another American volunteering in Sierra Leone had "potential exposure" to that patient and was being transported to the Atlanta area to be near Emory University Hospital, which has treated other Ebola patients.
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The developments followed a relatively quiet period for Ebola in the United States, a reminder that while the spread of the virus has eased somewhat in West Africa, it still remains dangerous.

The CDC said that as a result of the latest case it is working to trace the contacts of volunteers combating Ebola in Sierra Leone, including several other Americans, who may have been exposed to the healthcare worker now at the NIH.

The CDC said none of these other people, including the one headed to Atlanta, has tested positive.

However, the CDC said it was working with the State Department to develop plans to return those Americans with potential exposure to the United State, where they will isolate themselves and be under direct CDC monitoring 21 days.

A British healthcare worker who tested positive for Ebola while in Sierra Leone was flown back this week to Britain, along with four others who are being monitored for possible infection.

CDC spokesman Benjamin Haynes said the agency's team in Sierra Leone is still gathering information but said there is no evidence so far that the U.S. and British cases are related.

While the virus has killed about 10,000 people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, only a handful of cases have been seen in the United States, Spain and Britain.

(Additional reporting by Julie Steenhuysen, Will Dunham and Emily Stephenson; Editing by Doina Chiacu, Bernadette Baum and Jonathan Oatis)

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At least 10 Americans being flown to U.S. after possible Ebola exposure

Sat Mar 14, 2015 6:09pm EDT

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(Reuters) - At least 10 Americans possibly exposed to the deadly Ebola virus were being flown to the United States from Sierra Leone for observation, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday.

They will be transported by non-commercial air transport and will be housed near the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, or Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, the CDC said.

All of the individuals who are being flown back to the United States are free of symptoms, the CDC said.

A U.S. healthcare worker who tested positive for Ebola while in Sierra Leone arrived at the NIH on Friday and was in serious condition, the NIH said.

It is not clear how the person became infected with Ebola, CDC said.

While the virus has killed about 10,000 people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, only a handful of cases have been seen in the United States, Spain and Britain.

CDC spokesman Thomas Skinner said 10 people who may have been exposed to the unidentified Ebola patient or who had a similar exposure to the virus as the patient were being flown to the United States. But he said the investigation was continuing and there may be more Americans evacuated from Africa.

A CDC statement said the 10 individuals will follow the center's recommended monitoring and movement guidelines during the 21-day incubation period.

If someone shows symptoms, they will be transported to an Ebola treatment center for evaluation and care, the CDC said.

On Friday, CDC sent a team to Sierra Leone to investigate how the healthcare worker became exposed, and determine who might have been in contact with the infected person.

CDC spokesman Benjamin Haynes did not know where all of the patients would be sent, but he said the CDC is working out a plan with the U.S. State Department to determine who is coming back and where they will be sent.

The CDC said one patient was being sent to Emory University Hospital's special isolation unit, where several Ebola patients have already been treated.

Four others are being sent to Nebraska Medical Center to be near their special isolation unit in case they develop Ebola symptoms.

(Reporting by Eric Beech in Washington and Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago; Editing by Marguerita Choy and Paul Simao)
 

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Sierra Leone vice president fears for his life, seeks asylum in #US - @SputnikInt http://bit.ly/1x4wbSW
 

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CDC spokesman Thomas Skinner said 10 people who may have been exposed to the unidentified Ebola patient or who had a similar exposure to the virus as the patient were being flown to the United States. But he said the investigation was continuing and there may be more Americans evacuated from Africa.

Did the Ebola czar resign already?
 

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Guinea sees spike in new Ebola cases, including 3 infected doctors
Ebola has killed more than 10,000 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia

Thomson Reuters Posted: Mar 17, 2015 7:58 PM ET
Last Updated: Mar 17, 2015 9:07 PM ET


Guinea has suffered a setback in its fight against Ebola with a rash of new cases, including three doctors infected by the virus, with officials blaming weak surveillance and a failure to follow safety procedures.

The outbreak, which began in eastern Guinea more than a year ago and has killed over 10,000 people in the three West African countries worst hit, had appeared to be on the wane, but Guinea has seen cases rise for three consecutive weeks, according to World Health Organization data.

A government health report from the weekend showed there were 21 new cases in a single day, a spike from the recent daily average of eight.

Ebola-sapped West African countries now face serious measles risk
ANALYSIS: Ebola outbreak: Complacency now a concern

President Alpha Conde said on Tuesday that everything must be done to end the outbreak by mid-April, ahead of a meeting with donors scheduled around that date.

Ending Ebola could reboot Guinea's mining-dependent economy that has been hammered by the outbreak which has scared investors, he said.

"With Ebola, it is easier to go from 100 cases to 10 cases than from 10 cases of to zero. To end it, we need 10 times more effort than when the outbreak was at its height," he said.

New infections

A big source of concern is a chain of new infections that can be linked back to a woman who died of Ebola and was not buried safely, according to Fatoumata Lejeune-Kaba, spokeswoman for the UN's Ebola emergency response mission UNMEER.

"It's a major setback .... It's due to individual behaviours. That is having a devastating effect on the community. People are simply not practising the safety rules that we have been talking about for a year," she told Reuters.
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Guinean President Alpha Conde says the final push to get cases down to zero is a major challenge that requires even more effort than when the Ebola outbreak was at its peak. (Cellou Binani/AFP/Getty Images)

Of the other two countries worst hit, Sierra Leone has also seen a spate of new cases while Liberia has no known cases at present and is waiting to be declared free of the disease.

The new cases in Guinea are in the capital and the southwestern town of Forecariah but if the situation is not brought under control they could spread across borders, said Lejeune-Kaba.

Guinea officials said the new cases came from high risk Ebola contacts who had left Forecariah and developed symptoms elsewhere, pointing to poor surveillance.

Sakoba Keïta, Guinea's anti-Ebola task force coordinator, said on Tuesday that the government was putting in place new measures including strict rules regulating the movement of corpses and contact tracing.

"There are numerous gaps in the Ebola response in Guinea, notably in surveillance of contacts, and that explains the difficulty in making any lasting progress towards ending the epidemic," said a spokesman for medical charity MSF.

The three doctors were infected at the Ignace Deen hospital in Conakry, which is not an Ebola centre. More than 50 doctors in Guinea have caught the virus during the outbreak.
 

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City of Amarillo Reporting 2 Patients Being Monitored for Ebola
Karl Wehmhoener

03/17/2015 12:33 PM
03/17/2015 09:51 PM
AMARILLO -- The City of Amarillo Public Health Department is reporting two patients are being monitored for Ebola.

The patients, a mother and child, recently traveled from Liberia to Amarillo.

Officials report that a change in the child's temperature prompted the monitoring.

The patients currently has no symptoms except the child's change in temperature.

The patients have had no other contact with anyone.

We will update this story when more information is available.
City of Amarillo: Patient Monitored for Potential Ebola Exposure
The City of Amarillo’s Public Health department is actively monitoring a small number of travelers from West Africa for possible Ebola exposure. While they were not symptomatic at their point of entry into the United States, possible symptoms have since presented. As a result, at least one individual has been transported to a local hospital for evaluation. In addition to the evaluation, Public Health officials will monitor these individuals twice a day for 21 days and follow local protocols in addressing health concerns of this nature.

“We have been planning for such an event since September. Community partners such as fire, AMS, police, emergency management, environmental health, airport, animal control and county agencies have been instrumental in proper planning and response,” says Public Health Director Casie Stoughton. “By following these protocols we’re greatly reducing the likelihood of exposing others.”

Deputy Health Authority Dr. Ako Bradford adds that these individuals do not pose a risk to the general population. As a precaution, these individuals will be evaluated for possible Ebola.

“Remember, the likelihood of contracting Ebola is extremely low unless a person has direct unprotected contact with the blood or body fluids (like urine, saliva, feces, vomit, sweat, and semen) of a person who is sick with Ebola,” Dr. Bradford says. “Ebola cannot be spread simply by being near someone who is infected.”

For more questions and answers regarding Ebola concerns, visit http://www.texasebola.org/information.htm.
 

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Sierra Leone plans another shutdown to stop Ebola's spread

Mar 18, 1:43 PM (ET)
By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone is planning another three-day, countrywide shutdown later this month to ferret out Ebola cases, remind people how to protect themselves from the disease and control its transmission.

The West Africa Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 10,000 people is declining but the disease has remained stubbornly entrenched in parts of Guinea and Sierra Leone. Liberia, the third country severely affected, currently has no Ebola cases.

In the drive to zero cases in Sierra Leone, the government will again ask residents to stay in their homes for three days, Alfred Palo Conteh, head of the country's National Ebola Response Center, said Wednesday. The shutdown is expected to take place March 27 through 29, according to Patrick Fatoma, another official with the Ebola response center.

The government has done this before, and some experts said it was unexpectedly effective in providing information about to control the disease.

Sierra Leone is "hoping it will be the last push to end Ebola outbreak. We want it to be community-owned and for people to do the proper things," said Fatoma.

There are currently about 30 cases in treatment centers across the country, Fatoma said, a far cry from the height of the epidemic when hundreds of people were falling sick each week in Sierra Leone. But experts say eradicating the last cases in a country can be the most difficult work.
 

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11 People with “Potential Exposure” to Ebola Being Brought to American…ummm…Hotels???
It looks like we’re gearing up for Round 2 of Ebola Roulette.

A couple of days ago an American healthcare worker who had been definitively diagnosed with Ebola was brought back to the US for treatment at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Eleven more patients have been isolated and are on their way to the United States as well, after having had “potential exposure” to the disease.

Now, about those people who were “potentially exposed”?

They aren’t being hospitalized. Oh no. They are being brought back to stay at hotels “near” three different hospitals in different regions of the country. I couldn’t make this up if I tried. Read this excerpt from a report by CNN and weep.

“(The) CDC and the State Department are facilitating the return of additional American citizens who had potential exposure to the index patient or exposures similar to those that resulted in the infection of the index patient,” the CDC said in a written statement.

The CDC said none of these individuals returning from Africa has been diagnosed as having Ebola, including one who had “potential exposure to the individual being treated at NIH” and was “transported via charter to the Atlanta area to be close to Emory University Hospital” on Friday. That person is voluntarily self-isolating and will be monitored over the 21-day incubation period, the CDC said.

Four people who had “more exposure than the others” to the patient with Ebola will isolate themselves in housing on the campus of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, said Nebraska Medicine spokesman Taylor Wilson. They arrived on the medical campus Saturday evening, Wilson said.

The other six are scheduled to fly into Washington on Sunday to go to the NIH, and into Atlanta on Monday to go to Emory, Skinner said.

Skinner said the Americans coming home will stay at hotels and other housing near the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health in Maryland or Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

Let me repeat that one very important sentence:

…the Americans coming home will stay at hotels and other housing near the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health in Maryland or Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

So what about…

Hotel personnel?
Housekeeping?
Room service or other food delivery people?
Other hotel guests who you can guess won’t be warned about the possible status of their fellow lodgers
Whoever gets these rooms later?
People who use the vending machine if someone decides to just pop out and grab a Coke?

I realize the points above sound facetious, but why in the name of all things cute and fluffy aren’t these people being isolated in a health care facility? ELEVEN people in THREE different parts of the country. It’s like those in charge are trying to give the disease the best possible chance to spread across the country.

Edited to add:

I should have taken a screen shot of the article on CNN, because they’ve changed it to remove the part about the victims staying in hotels and switched the word to housing. However, I found mention of the hotel stays on two other outlets and DID take screenshots of this. Click to enlarge them.

This one is reposted from CNN on Channel 13 news in Iowa.

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And this one is from Fox 17:

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A refresher on the 2014 Ebola scare…

Who can forget the events of last October and November, when only dumb luck kept the hemorrhagic illness from being unleashed on our country?

Last fall, experts from the CDC (Center for Disease Control) and the WHO (World Health Organization) received a great deal of criticism for how they handled the potential Ebola crisis. First, a man visited a Texas hospital twice before being admitted with the disease. Then protocols (actually, what protocols? read this horrifying timeline!) were questioned after two of the nurses caring for the man before he died also contracted Ebola. The hospital was so overwhelmed that one case of Ebola shut down an entire emergency room. One of the nurses flew across the country twice before she became ill, expanding potential exposure exponentially. Hundreds of people showed up to hospitals convinced they had the disease after the government deliberately brought health-care professionals who had contracted the illness in disease-stricken Sierra Leone back to the US for treatment. Yet another health care professional wandered around New York City, taking public transit and going bowling the day before he was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with Ebola. Several stories about Ebola were literally scrubbed from the internet as officials tried to cover up their mishandling of the situation.

Let’s hope that medical personnel are better trained this time around, and that the proper protective equipment is available to caregivers.
How to prep if you’re concerned…

When it looked like the disease was going to be unleashed on our country last time around, I wrote up some lists to help folks get prepared for the possibility of a pandemic.

The first thing I want to stress is…please, DON’T PANIC. At this point, there is no reason to be exceptionally worried. The second thing I want to stress is…DON’T BE LULLED INTO A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY. Last time, the crisis was averted. Don’t let that convince you that there’s no way the disease will spread across the country this time.

You should calmly and rationally take some steps to be prepared in the event that an outbreak begins here in the United States. I wrote about this in great detail last year and you can find that information right here, in an article called “Prepping for an Ebola Lockdown.” Last time around, supplies went quickly, so it’s better to get ahead of the curve. Check your supplies against this list, and order the things you need now. If these other people are diagnosed after spending time in public places, ordering supplies then will be much like running to the grocery store right before a storm hits. Everyone else will have the same idea and the shelves will be emptied in a panic.

Here’s a quick checklist along with some links to resources. Base amounts on the number of family members you’ll be sheltering.

Drinking water (1 gallon per person per day)
Food (including items that don’t require fuel for preparation)
Heavy duty garbage bags
Sanitation supplies such as toilet paper, paper towels, baby wipes, and feminine hygiene supplies)
Entertainment – you’ll want to be able to keep children and restless family members busy so get craft supplies, books, games, and puzzles
Basic medical supplies (here’s a list)
Pandemic kits that contain protective clothing
Extra N95 masks(I recommend the kind with a valve)
N100 masks
Nitrile gloves
Safety goggles with an elastic band to ensure a snug fit
Protective clothing: (Tyvek is your best bet, as it is impermeable to fluids)
Antibacterial cleaners such as disposable wipes, bleach, and spray cleaners
Antibacterial hand sanitizer

Note – we do not commonly use anti-bacterial products but in a situation like this, it’s important to have this type of thing on hand, particularly in the event that there are issues with sanitation

Here are some useful links if you are new to prepping:

Ebola Survival Handbook: A Collection of Tips, Strategies, and Supply Lists From Some of the World’s Best Preparedness Professionals
Social Distancing as a Means to Avoid Contagion
How to Build a 30 Day Emergency Food Supply Fast
The Well-Stocked Sick Room
The Prepper’s Blueprint: The Step-By-Step Guide To Help You Through Any Disaster

Don’t panic…prepare.

Again, please don’t read this and panic. At this point, there is NO pandemic in the US. It seems that some careless actions are taking place and that preparation well before the storm, is, as always, the best course of action for a wise prepper.
 

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Ebola-hit U.S. man's condition deteriorates

An American health care worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in a Sierra Leone treatment unit has been downgraded to critical condition at the National Institutes of Health, doctors said Monday.

The agency said in a statement that the patient’s status was changed from serious condition. He is being treated at the National Institutes of Health’s hospital near Washington.

“We are intensively treating the patient,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH. “He’s in our special clinical studies unit and, hopefully, that will be able to turn this around and the patient will recover, but it’s too early to say.”

The patient was flown in isolation from Sierra Leone on a chartered plane last week and arrived early Friday morning. His name and age have not been released.

The man is a clinician working with Partners in Health, a Boston-based nonprofit organization. The group has been treating patients in Liberia and Sierra Leone since November.
 

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Ebola: British patient and five colleagues flown home
By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website
12 March 2015 Last updated at 10:42 ET

A British military healthcare worker infected with Ebola has been admitted to the Royal Free Hospital in London.

She was flown back to the UK by the RAF after contracting the virus in Sierra Leone.

Two of her colleagues were also onboard the flight in case the infection has been passed on through close contact.

A further two colleagues have been assessed in Sierra Leone and will be flown to Newcastle, UK, on Friday. None has been diagnosed with Ebola.

Meanwhile the death-toll from the outbreak has passed 10,000.

'Courage'

Between 600 and 700 UK defence personnel are based in Sierra Leone as part of efforts to tackle the largest ever outbreak of Ebola.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said there were stringent procedures in place, but there was "always a level of risk".

Mark Francois, the minister for the Armed Forces, praised the "courage and dedication" of those working in Sierra Leone.

He added: "The wellbeing of our service personnel remains our overriding priority.

"This includes the individual directly affected and their four colleagues, for whom precautionary measures are now being taken.

"We are very proud of what our servicemen and women are doing and our thoughts are with their five colleagues and their families at this time."

'Close contact'

Contact tracing identified the four cases of "recent close contact" with the diagnosed woman, Public Health England said.

The three flown to the UK have been taken to Royal Free Hospital in London. The infected patient will stay on the hospital's special isolation unit. The suspected pair will be monitored for signs of the infection.

It is where two British nurses infected with Ebola - William Pooley and Pauline Cafferkey - were successfully treated.

Two other healthcare workers will arrive back in the UK in Friday. They will be taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle where they will be assessed.

Prof Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer, said: "The UK has robust, well-developed and well-tested systems for managing Ebola virus disease.

"All appropriate infection control procedures have, and will continue to be, strictly followed to minimise any risk of transmission."

Dr Jenny Harries, from Public Health England, added: "There is no risk to the general public's health and the overall risk to the UK continues to be very low."

There have been more than 24,000 cases of Ebola since the outbreak started more than a year ago. More than 10,000 people have died.

Dr Ben Neuman, a virologist at the University of Reading, said flying the patient back to the UK offered the best chance of recovery.

"The Royal Free Hospital has a 100% record in treating Ebola cases so far, let's hope that doesn't change.

"While the new batch of ZMapp is not yet available, she could be treated with favipiravir, which has shown some early promising results in West African Ebola clinics.

"She may also be given antibody-rich serum from Ebola survivors to knock down the amount of virus in her blood while her immune system is learning to fight Ebola."
 

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They aren’t being hospitalized. Oh no. They are being brought back to stay at hotels “near” three different hospitals in different regions of the country. I couldn’t make this up if I tried. Read this excerpt from a report by CNN and weep.

“(The) CDC and the State Department are facilitating the return of additional American citizens who had potential exposure to the index patient or exposures similar to those that resulted in the infection of the index patient,” the CDC said in a written statement.

The CDC said none of these individuals returning from Africa has been diagnosed as having Ebola, including one who had “potential exposure to the individual being treated at NIH” and was “transported via charter to the Atlanta area to be close to Emory University Hospital” on Friday. That person is voluntarily self-isolating and will be monitored over the 21-day incubation period, the CDC said.

Four people who had “more exposure than the others” to the patient with Ebola will isolate themselves in housing on the campus of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, said Nebraska Medicine spokesman Taylor Wilson. They arrived on the medical campus Saturday evening, Wilson said.

The other six are scheduled to fly into Washington on Sunday to go to the NIH, and into Atlanta on Monday to go to Emory, Skinner said.

Skinner said the Americans coming home will stay at hotels and other housing near the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health in Maryland or Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

I guess since the US got lucky so far, they think there isn't any real danger of it spreading. After the LIberian's family didn't get it (supposedly...), they probably think Ebola isn't really that easy to catch or something.
 

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I guess since the US got lucky so far, they think there isn't any real danger of it spreading. After the LIberian's family didn't get it (supposedly...), they probably think Ebola isn't really that easy to catch or something.

Greetings, Be Well: Maybe they are rollin' the dice hoping to come up snake-eyes.Take care. BREWER
 

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Two more U.S. healthcare workers repatriated for Ebola monitoring

Thu Mar 19, 2015 12:29am EDT

Health workers put on protective gear before entering a quarantine zone at a Red Cross facility in the town of Koidu, Kono district in Eastern Sierra Leone December 19, 2014. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

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(Reuters) - The last two members of a group of U.S. healthcare workers whose colleague is being treated for the Ebola virus returned on Wednesday from Sierra Leone to the United States, where they are being monitored for possible exposure to the deadly virus.

Their repatriation brought the total number of Americans brought back from the West African nation to 18 since last Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday night.

"They were part of the same group that have been coming back slowly, said CDC spokeswoman Jennifer McQuiston.

Neither of the two healthcare workers brought back Wednesday has tested positive for Ebola, but they are being monitored because they might have been exposed to a colleague who has contracted it.

The infected healthworker is being treated at a biocontainment unit run by the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, McQuiston said. The CDC has not yet said how the initial patient was exposed to the disease.

The others are being observed at several different locations in the United States, including Atlanta, Maryland and Nebraska.

Most of the healthworkers were employed by the aid group Partners in Health, though CDC has not divulged their names.

McQuiston did not say where the two who arrived on Wednesday entered the country, or where they were being sent for monitoring.

(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein in Sacramento, California; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
 

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Greetings, Be Well: Maybe they are rollin' the dice hoping to come up snake-eyes.Take care. BREWER

Thank you for your diligent reporting, Brewer. Your comment reminds me of the old sayings "Hope is not a plan" and "Failing to plan means planning to fail". Although in the BS some months ago there was info that "they" were indeed making some plans, but Ebola came up snake eyes....so far.
 

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Thank you for your diligent reporting, Brewer. Your comment reminds me of the old sayings "Hope is not a plan" and "Failing to plan means planning to fail". Although in the BS some months ago there was info that "they" were indeed making some plans, but Ebola came up snake eyes....so far.

Greetings, Be Well: Yes, you are welcome. Here's more although the number I believe is 18 rather than 16 as this article states....

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It's Now 16 Americans Coming Back From the Ebola Zone

At least 15 Americans were exposed to Ebola from a single, infected U.S. healthcare worker and have been brought back to the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

They all work for Partners in Health, a nonprofit group that's been helping fight the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

Late last week, one person who was potentially exposed was brought to Atlanta to be near Emory University Hospital for observation.

Over the weekend, Partners in Health said 10 more of its staffers also might have been exposed to the often deadly virus when they were trying to help their sick colleague — who hasn't been identified and who's in critical condition at the National Institutes of Health outside Washington, D.C.

Now, another four have been identified and are being brought back for observation. So far, only one person, the first patient, has tested positive for Ebola symptoms.

It's not clear how so many people got exposed to the virus.

"We're still investigating and hopefully we'll have an answer to that question," said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner. "The circumstances around all these exposures is what we are looking at right now. "

Ebola's infected more than 24,000 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and killed more than 10,000 of them. The patient at NIH is the 11th to be treated in the United States.
 

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Bill Gates Warns Of Virus Worse Than Ebola: “We Are Simply Not Prepared To Deal With A Global Epidemic”
Mac Slavo
March 20th, 2015
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates has spent a lot of time in the field of vaccines and medicine, so much so that many consider him to be one of the world’s foremost experts on vaccination and disease trends. He has spent millions of dollars of his own money investing in vaccine-related technologies and is a strong proponent of widespread vaccination programs.

Whatever your views on vaccinations, the fact is that Bill Gates is revered for his activities by the global community. Moreover, he has the money and connections to facilitate the implementation of widespread programs, whether voluntary or forced.

In his latest Op-Ed Gates sends a stark message to political leaders and the general public, claiming that a virus even deadlier than Ebola may be on the horizon. According to Gates, should such a virus start spreading the world is ill-prepared to handle it.

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has killed more than 10,000 people. If anything good can come from this continuing tragedy, it is that Ebola can awaken the world to a sobering fact: We are simply not prepared to deal with a global epidemic.



Of all the things that could kill more than 10 million people around the world in the coming years, by far the most likely is an epidemic. But it almost certainly won’t be Ebola.



Other diseases — flu, for example — spread through the air, and people can be infectious before they feel sick, which means that one person can infect many strangers just by going to a public place. We’ve seen it happen before, with horrific results: In 1918, the Spanish flu killed more than 30 million people. Imagine what it could do in today’s highly mobile world.

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Indeed, the reemergence of a deadly virus such as the Spanish Flu would be disastrous.

But should we be worried? According to Dave Hodges we should be.

Bill Gates lust for vaccines knows no bounds. At his and other “philanthropists” (i.e. psychopaths) encouraging, global researchers have begun to reconstitute old viruses, presumably for the purpose of developing vaccines for the deadly pandemics of the past.

In the near future, we may wish we would have followed the old axiom, “Let sleeping dogs lie”, because in an act of extreme insanity, the virus has been reconstituted, by the Center for Disease Control researchers. The reconstituted virus was obtained from frozen tissue samples from a female who died from the virus in the 1918 outbreak.

Unfortunately, the Spanish Flu is not the only pandemic which is being reconstituted and this means even more vaccines for Bill Gates. Howe many will die in order that Gates and his partners will realize a hefty return on investment?



The jury is not out on Bill Gates. He is a man who speaks his mind. In his New York Times editorial, Gates warns us about the return of Ebola as well the re-emergence of other deadly viruses. It would be a grave mistake to not take Bill Gates seriously. What does Bill Gates know that we do not?

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We know that scientists are bringing back the plagues of old, justifying this by claiming they are using these old viruses to create new vaccines. Further, the military has been working on biological weapons for decades, so one can only imagine the kinds of viruses they have in their back pocket.

But one can’t help but think that maybe the public is being set up for future programs that will require forced vaccines.

In recent months we have seen the reemergence of measles in the United States. Though no one has officially pinpointed the cause, it is suspected that the government’s open border policy may be to blame. But the debate over measles centered not so much about how this supposedly extinct outbreak got here, but that everyone needs to be vaccinated.

We’ve heard similar arguments about a coming Ebola vaccine. Though not yet tested, we are already hearing calls for forced vaccinations should one be developed. Amusingly, there’s even talk of a combined Ebola/Measles vaccine.

The end-game is not yet clear, but given that the highly respected Bill Gates is warning of uncontrollable epidemics, there are a couple of scenarios that immediately come to mind. First, the Executive Branch of the United States has no qualms about using Executive Actions and Orders to implement policy, so forced vaccinations could well be on the way should the right crisis strike, and they’ll come complete with widespread martial law declarations. Second, and perhaps even more frightening, is that Bill Gates has inside knowledge of a deadly disease that may soon be unleashed.

Since there would be no cure, your only option would then be to get vaccinated, or, to implement measures to avoid contracting it to begin with.

Tess Pennington, author of The Prepper’s Blueprint, says that we should remain vigilant and look for signs that indicate a viral outbreak is imminent:

The time to make preparations for a worst-case scenario is now. The following are six key warning signs you should be looking for. When these events come to pass or you see these signals, you should strongly consider implementing a self quarantine lockdown:

Emergency officials say they have the situation under control, but more cases continue to pop up.
Local and state governments officially declare an emergency.
Cases have been identified at your local hospital or at schools in your general vicinity.
The general public begins to panic and store shelves start running out of key supplies like food and bottled water.
Looting and lawlessness occurs within the local community.
The virus breaches a 50-mile radius surrounding your home or town.

If any of these signs begin to appear around you, it’s time to seriously consider distancing yourself from society, and especially highly dense venues like retail stores, sporting events or schools.

Source: When Should I Go Into a Full Pandemic Lockdown Mode And Self Quarantine?

As we saw with the recent Ebola scare last year, Bill Gates has good reason to be warning that the world is unprepared. In October of 2014 a single Ebola patient overwhelmed the medical system in Dallas.

That’s right. The hospital literally closed its doors to new patients.

Consider for a moment what something like this might look like if several cases popped up throughout a major metro area simultaneously. Would all of the hospitals to which those infected with Ebola were taken then shut their doors to new patients?

What this means for you is very simple and it’s something that members of the preparedness community have been warning about since before Ebola was even on the CDC’s domestic radar.

If this virus (or any other contagion) spreads like it did in Africa, our entire health care system will be paralyzed.

One patient.

Now imagine a highly contagious virus like the Spanish flu and “paralyzed” is essentially how we could describe emergency response.

As Pennginton suggests, now is the time to prepare for the possibility of a widespread pandemic. This might include, but is not limited to, protective gear like N100 respirator masks, body suits, and gloves.

And, of course, since there will be no emergency response it is likely that commerce will come to a standstill, which means you should have food, water and other common preparedness supplies at the ready.



Also read:

Are You Ready: Pandemic Preparedness

The Well Stocked Sick Room

Quarantine and Martial Law Operational Details: “Those Afflicted… Will Be Incarcerated And Isolated Against Their Will”
SHTF Plan Newsletter

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After 28 days without a case, new Ebola patient confirmed in Liberia
Posted on March 22, 2015 by The Extinction Protocol

March 2015 – MONROVIA – Liberian officials were investigating Saturday how the country’s latest Ebola patient became infected, after weeks with no cases of the disease in the country. Liberia has seen the most deaths in the Ebola outbreak, with more than 4,200 of the more than 10,000 dead across West Africa. Since Liberia discharged its last case on March 5, it was counting down the 42 days that a country must wait in order to be declared Ebola-free. But on Friday, officials said a new patient tested positive. In a worrying sign, she doesn’t seem to be linked to any of the people on an Ebola contacts list and says she has not traveled recently to the neighboring infected countries of Sierra Leone and Guinea, said Dr. Francis Kateh, acting head of the Liberia Ebola Case Management Team.

He said authorities were considering the possibility that she had a visitor from outside Liberia who infected her or that she had sex with a survivor. The Ebola virus can be found in the semen of survivors for up to three months, and health authorities recommend that survivors abstain from sex during that period. “The key thing is, if there is any transmission out there, how can we break this transmission?” he said. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is calling the investigation team every half-hour or so to check in, he said. Authorities are still compiling a list of people who came into contact with the patient, said Elizabeth Hamann of the International Rescue Committee, which is helping to manage the hospital where the woman first sought care. Contacts of people who are sick with Ebola must be monitored for symptoms. Although hopes were high that Liberia had beaten Ebola, officials know that until neighboring Sierra Leone and Guinea also stamp out the disease, Liberia will remain at risk. –ABC News
 
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