NIGERIA: Airport contacts already down with EBOLA symptoms... NOT Good... V

[Ponce]

So I was looking for the name of the airline that Sawyer was on and this news item popped up…

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/1-out-of-15-airport-contacts-down-with-ebola-virus-disease/

“INDICATIONS emerged, yesterday, that one of the 15 airport contacts that assisted the late Liberian, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, that died of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, may have contracted the deadly virus.
Unconfirmed reports revealed that already the contact has begun to manifest symptoms of Ebola Virus.”

Also, do you all realize that other than banning flights, the airline itself ASKY Airlines, has NOT made ANY statements about the disinfection of the plane, or WHEN it was done?

I looked through the website and there is nothing about it at all…why hasn’t any of the reporters over there thought to ask this most important question?

Not trying to fearmonger, but this is quite the oversight…

http://www.flyasky.com/asky/en/promos/ASKY-suspends-flights-to-From-Monrovia-and-Freetown-12.aspx#.U9w6xmOmUo4


Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/nigeria-airport-contacts-already-down-with-ebola-symptoms-not-good/#JPHKzEPRO1XHxpgh.99

[Ponce]

A plane carrying Dr. Kent Brantly, the American doctor who contracted Ebola while treating patients in West Africa, landed at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, at around 11am this morning - the first ever case of Ebola on US soil. He is being escorted to Emory Hospital under police escort. His colleague Nancy Writebol will arrive later on a separate flight as the planes are equipped to deal with one quarantined patient at a time. As ABC reports, both are listed in "serious but stable condition." The CDC's director explained the infected patients pose little risk to others, adding "these are American citizens. American citizens have a right of return. I certainly hope people’s fear doesn’t trump their compassion." What is perhaps raising that fear among Americans (and frankly the world after yesterday's WHO warning of "high risks of spread to other countries") is the fact that, as Reuters reports, more than 100 health workers fighting Ebola have contracted it themselves.

[mick silver]

thanks CDC . why not just put your worker on a plane and go there CDC

[mick silver]

Exploiting The Ebola Tragedy? By Staff Report - July 28, 2014 Chief Ebola doctor in Sierra Leone has contracted the deadly disease ... The "national hero" chief doctor leading the fight against the deadly Ebola virus outbreak in Sierra Leone has himself been infected with the disease, the president's office has announced ...The virus has mortality rates of up to 90 per cent. – UK Independent Dominant Social Theme: Ebola is spreading and you will drown in your own blood. Only medical experts, preferably Western ones, can help us now. Free-Market Analysis: We are very sad for the chief Ebola doctor, Umar Khan, who is only 39 years old and a valiant fighter against this terrible disease. Wikipedia describes it as follows: Manifestation of Ebola begins abruptly with a sudden onset of an influenza-like stage characterized by general malaise, fever with chills, sore throat, severe headache, weakness, joint pain, muscle pain, and chest pain. Respiratory tract involvement is characterized by pharyngitis with sore throat, cough, dyspnea, and hiccups. The central nervous system is affected as judged by the development of severe headaches, agitation, confusion, fatigue, depression, seizures, and sometimes coma. It certainly seems gruesome and who could not help but root for the heroic doctor? Here's more: Sheik Umar Khan, a 39-year-old virologist who is personally credited with treating more than 100 Ebola victims, has now been admitted to a treatment ward at the heart of the outbreak in Kailahun. According to the latest data from the World Health Organisation, the virus has killed more than 600 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone – including 19 new deaths in just the four days prior to Saturday's report. There is no vaccination, specific treatment or cure for Ebola, which has in the past killed up to 90 per cent of those infected. The mortality rate of the present outbreak currently stands at around 60 per cent. In the statement from the president's office, the Health Minister Miatta Kargbo said she was in tears when she heard the news about Dr Khan. She described him as a "national hero" and pledged to do "anything and everything in my power to ensure he survives". Dr Khan was taken to an Ebola ward run by the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, which has in recent weeks described the disease's West African outbreak as "out of control". He does seem a national hero, as described. But what is almost as sad are the questions being raised regarding this latest manifestation of the disease. Global Research wrote about Ebola in April of this year in an article entitled "The Troubling Truth Behind the Ebola Outbreak." Failure to Prepare ... In 2012, when Doctors Without Borders concluded its response to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, it claimed in its post, "MSF Concludes Emergency Ebola Response in Uganda," that: The Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency response to an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda has come to an end. The MSF team handed over the Ebola treatment center it set up in Uganda's western Kibaale district to the Ugandan Ministry of Health (MoH). The statement also claimed: As part of a preparation plan for future outbreaks, MSF also restored a treatment unit in Mulago hospital, located in Kampala, Uganda's capital. "Uganda has developed the capacity to respond to Ebola emergencies," said MSF emergency coordinator Olimpia de la Rosa. "We can rely on the capability of Ministry of Health staff to take over and manage Ebola cases with all safety guarantees." One must wonder then, if MSF and other global health agencies can train Ugandan medical staff and hand over responsibilities to prevent a future outbreak to the government of Uganda, why haven't similar provisions been undertaken in nations like Guinea, Liberia, Mali, and Sierra Leone. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Ebola outbreaks occur "primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests." Why then have nations in Central and West Africa not been prepared for such outbreaks – particularly when the many of the nations that back MSF are already heavily involved in the internal affairs of many of these nations? France alone has expended hundreds of millions of euros during its ongoing military operations in Mali, reported by France 24 in 2013 to be costing the European nation approximately 2.7 million euros a day. Money spent on costly military operations designed to project Western hegemony across Northern and Western Africa, an extension of the West's intervention in Libya, would lead one to believe that funds should also be available to prevent "unprecedented epidemics" of deadly diseases like Ebola, but apparently the same preparations made in Uganda have been neglected in French-occupied Mali, as well as other Ebola-prone nations. While the West poses as chief arbiter of humanity and through its international organizations, intervening when crises strike, its failure to prepare other nations prone to Ebola outbreaks with a management formula already perfected in Uganda at the very least shakes public confidence and trust. When it intervenes in these very nations for geopolitical ambitions under the pretenses of "democracy," "development," and "human rights" but utterly fails to address the dire needs of the very people it claims to be rushing to the aid of, such confidence and trust is only further shaken. The article also touches on "conspiracy theories" regarding Ebola that first circulated in the 1990s and were advanced by such researchers as the controversial Dr. Leonard Horowitz. Here's an excerpt from a 1998 article entitled, "Dr. Horowitz Continues To Expose True Origins Of HIV And Ebola." Shocking government documents, reprinted in a new book by a leading public health authority, reveal that the AIDS and Ebola viruses did not likely originate from African monkeys left alone in the wild. Instead, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a Harvard graduate, and independent investigator, concludes that the viruses, that now threaten humanity's survival, most likely evolved from early cancer virus experiments in which top military-pharmaceutical scientists infected monkeys with viral genes from other animals. Such contaminated monkeys were then used to develop viral vaccines tested on humans simultaneously in New York City and Central Africa. The first researcher to meticulously document this "man-made theory" on AIDS's origin, Dr. Horowitz stunned a large audience at the XI International Conference on AIDS in July, when he presented a scientific summary report of his investigation. As documented in Dr. Horowitz's book, "Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola -- Nature, Accident or Intentional?", during the 1960s, National Cancer Institute (NCI) researchers, working in collaboration with military scientists, investigated and developed viruses as potential cancer triggers. Using monkeys and other animals, the investigators induced an array of illnesses now commonly linked to AIDS including leukemia, lymphoma, sarcoma, immune system suppression, and general wasting. Documented records show the leukemia/sarcoma /lymphoma cancer complex, never seen in humans prior to 1978, had been the primary focus of a highly funded, yet largely secret, "Special Virus Cancer Program." By analyzing formerly classified documents, and NCI/government contracts showing how, when, where, and why such viruses were made, Dr. Horowitz's 563 page treatise concludes that the AIDS virus likely broke out as a result of contaminated polio and hepatitis B vaccine experiments. Those implicated include top AIDS researchers, biological weapons contractors, and institutions who, the published documents show, developed and tested such immune-system-ravaging agents for the NCI and Department of Defense (DOD) during the late 1960s. All this is ancient history now, but Ebola is still with us – and even if one fully discounts Horowitz's research as the conspiratorial products of an unstable though prolific mind, the points made in the Global Research article seem well founded. If there are generally available protocols that can mitigate Ebola outbreaks, why haven't they been put in place in African countries prone to the disease? From our standpoint – and leaving aside any specific criticisms – the signatures of predictable elite dominant social themes are quite apparent in this latest Ebola tragedy. Always, the Western medical model is touted as the single bulwark against a world full of zombified, disease-ridden carriers. Always a "new vaccine" is being desperately sought. Always, the cry arises for "experts" – of the Western variety. Conclusion It is not preordained that Western medicine provides all the answers or even the best ones, but that is the expectation we are instructed to hold. What seemingly IS preordained is that these tragic episodes will be utilized to energetically tout purely Western medical and pharmaceutical models. - See more at: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35513/Exploiting-The-Ebola-Tragedy/#sthash.94P6qYUY.dpuf

[Serpo]

Ebola Zombies & The Hot Zone by Richard Preston – Recommended Reading & Review


Saturday, August 2, 2014 11:34



Sure R. Preston is getting lot of attention now, just like to spotlight some more
“The Hot Zone by Richard Preston”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone

Here are some excerpts and few reviews:
In his blurb (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blurb), horror writer Stephen King (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King) called the first chapter, “one of the most horrifying things I’ve read in my whole life.”[4] (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone#cite_note-4) When asked whether any book “scared the pants off you” television writer Suzanne Collins (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Collins) answered, “The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston. I just read it a few weeks ago. Still recovering.”


Richard Preston: “Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles. The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body the body as the virus makes copies of itself. Small blood clots begin to appear in the bloodstream, and the blood thickens and slows, and the clots begin to stick to the walls of blood vessels.
This is known as pavementing, because the clots fit together in a mosaic. The mosaic thickens and throws more clot, and the clots drift through the bloodstream into the small capillaries, where they get stuck. This shuts off the blood supply to various parts of the body, causing dead spots to appear in the brain, liver, kidneys, lungs, intestine, testicles, breast tissue (of men as well as women), and all through the skin. The skin develops red spots, called petechiae, which are hemorraghes under the skin. Ebola attacks connective tissue with particular ferocity; it multiplies in collagen, the chief constituent protein of the tissue that holds the organs together. (The seven Ebola proteins somehow chew up the body’s structural proteins.) In this way, collagen in the body turns to mush, and the underlayers of the skin die and liquefy. The skin bubbles up into a sea of tiny white blisters mixed with red spots known as maculopapular rash. This rash has been likened to tapioca pudding. Spontaneous rips appear in the skin, and hemorrhagic blood pours from the rips. The red spots on the skin grow and spread and merge to become huge, spontaneous bruises, and the skin goes soft and pulpy, and can tear off if it is touched with any kind of pressure. Your mouth bleeds, and you bleed around your teeth, and you may have hemorrhages from the salivary glands-literally every opening in the body bleeds, no matter how small. The surface of the tongue turns brilliant red and then sloughs off, and is swallowed or spat out. It is said to be extraordinarily painful to lose the surface of one’s tongue. The tongue’s skin may be torn off during rushes of the black vomit. The back of the throat and the lining of the windpipe may also slough off, and the dead tissue slides down the windpipe into the lungs or is coughed up with sputum. Your heart bleeds into itself; the heart muscle softens and has hemorrhages into its chambers, and the blood squeezes out of the heart muscle as the heart beats, and it floods the chest cavity. The brain becomes clogged with dead blood cells, a condition known as sludging the brain. Ebola attacks the lining of the eyeball, and the eyeballs may fill up with blood: you may go blind. Droplets of blood stand out on the eyelids: you may weep blood. The blood runs from your eyes down our cheeks and refuses to coagulate. You may have a hemispherical stroke, in which one whole side of the body is paralyzed, which is invariably fatal in a case of Ebola. Even while the body’s internal organs are becoming plugged with coagulated blood, the blood that streams out of the body cannot clot; it resembles whey being squeezed out of curds. The blood has been stripped of its clotting factors. If you put the runny Ebola blood in a test tube and look at it, you see that the blood is destroyed. Its red cells are broken and dead. The blood looks as if it has been buzzed in an electric blender.
“Ebola kills a great deal of tissue while the host is still alive. It triggers a creeping, spotty necrosis that spreads through all the internal organs. The liver bulges up and turns yellow, begins to liquefy, and then it cracks apart. The cracks run across the liver and deep inside it, and the liver completely dies and goes putrid. The kidneys become jammed with blood clots and dead cells, and cease functioning. As the kidneys fail, the blood becomes toxic with urine. The spleen turns into a huge, hard blood clot the size of a baseball. The intestines may fill up completely with blood. The lining of the gut dies and sloughs off into the bowels and is defecated along with large amounts of blood. In men, the testicles bloat up and turn black-and-blue, the semen goes hot with Ebola, and the nipples may bleed. In women, the labia turn blue, livid, and protrusive, and there may be massive vaginal bleeding. The virus is catastrophic for a pregnant woman: the child is aborted spontaneously and is usually infected with Ebola virus, born with red eyes, and a bloody nose.
“Ebola destroys the brain more thoroughly than does Marburg, and Ebola victims often go into epileptic convulsions during the final stage. The convulsions are generalized grand mal seizures-the whole body twitches and shakes, the arms and legs thrash around, and the eyes, sometimes bloody, roll up into the head. The tremors and convulsions of the patient may smear or splatter blood around. Possibly this epileptic splashing of Ebola is one of Ebola’s strategies for success-it makes the victim go into a flurry of seizures as he dies, spreading blood all over the place, thus giving the virus a chance to jump to a new host-a kind of transmission through smearing.
“Ebola (and Marburg) multiplies so rapidly and powerfully that the body’s infected cells become crystal-like blocks of packed virus particles. These crystals are broods of virus getting ready to hatch from the cells. They are known as bricks. The bricks, or crystals, first appear near the center of the cell and then migrate toward the surface. As a crystal reaches into a cell wall, it disintegrates into hundreds of individual virus particles, and the broodlings punch through the cell wall like hair and float away in the bloodstream of the host. The hatched Ebola particles cling to cells everywhere in the body, and get inside them, and continue to multiply. It keeps on multiplying until areas of tissue all through the body are filled with crystalloids, which hatch, more Ebola particles drift into the bloodstream, and the amplification continues inexorably until a droplet of the host’s blood can contain a hundred million individual virus particles.

“After death, the cadaver suddenly deteriorates: the internal organs, having been dead or partially dead for days, have already begun to dissolve, and a sort of shock-related meltdown occurs. The corpses connective tissue, skin, and organs, already peppered with dead spots, heated by fever, and damaged by shock, begin to liquefy, and the fluids that leak from the cadaver are saturated with Ebola-virus particles.”

http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2014/08/ebola-zombies-the-hot-zone-by-richard-preston-recommended-reading-review-2544816.html

[Serpo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IShAdplFAck#t=84