'Real risk' Ebola virus will mutate to become an AIRBORNE disease, expert warns... V

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'Real risk' Ebola virus will mutate to become an AIRBORNE disease, expert warns
Dr Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota said virologists are privately concerned the deadly virus could mutate
Currently Ebola can only be transmitted through close contact with a victim's bodily fluids, including blood, vomit and sweat
Dr Osterholm warns if the virus develops it could be transmissible via air
But chair of the Health Protection Agency in the UK Professor David Heymann said it is 'impossible' for scientists to predict any mutation
He said not enough is known about genetics to know if the virus will be able to develop to attach to the receptors in the respiratory system
So far more than 2,000 people have died in the current outbreak
Oxford University scientists today revealed a map showing 15 countries and 22 million people are at risk

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2753421/Real-risk-Ebola-virus-mutate-AIRBORNE-disease-expert-warns.html

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Virologist: ‘It’s Too Late, Ebola Will Kill 5 Million’


Posted September 12, 2014 4:28 am by PatriotRising with 0 comments

Expert says virus will infect entire population of African countries



Virologist: 'It's Too Late, Ebola Will Kill 5 Million'

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A top German virologist has caused shockwaves by asserting that it’s too late to halt the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia and that five million people will die, noting that efforts should now be focused on stopping the transmission of the virus to other countries.



Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg told Germany’s Deutsche Welle that hope is all but lost for the inhabitants of Sierra Leone and Liberia and that the virus will only “burn itself out” when it has infected the entire population and killed five million people.



“The right time to get this epidemic under control in these countries has been missed,” said Schmidt-Chanasit. “That time was May and June. “Now it is too late.”



The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed over 2200 people, with Liberia and Sierra Leone accounting for over 1700 of those fatalities.

While calling for “massive help” from the international community to prevent Ebola appearing in other countries like Nigeria and Senegal, Schmidt-Chanasit warns that getting a grip on the epidemic in Liberia and Sierra Leone is a departure from reality.



German aid organization Welthungerhilfe blasted Schmidt-Chanasit for his comments, with Sierra Leone based coordinator Jochen Moninger labeling his statements, “dangerous and moreover, not correct.” However, Moninger acknowledged that Schmidt-Chanasit’s assessment may be accurate in the case of Liberia.

The World Health Organization refused to comment on Schmidt-Chanasit’s remarks.



Although Ebola continues to rage in five African countries, media coverage of the epidemic has waned, despite evidence that the virus has mutated.



As we reported last month, former FDA official Scott Gottlieb, M.D. warned that if the virus was to hit the United States, the CDC would enact emergency procedures which could lead to healthy Americans who show no symptoms of the diseased being forcibly detained for an indefinite period of time.



Scientists in Canada and Canada’s Public Health Agency have both acknowledged that the virus has likely gone airborne at least to a limited degree, while the CDC has urged airline staff to take steps to prevent the airborne spread of the virus, including giving suspected Ebola victims surgical masks as well as directing staff to “not use compressed air, which might spread infectious material through the air.”

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Virologist: ‘It’s Too Late, Ebola Will Kill 5 Million’


I thought it was 6 million?

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Thank you Cebu, I forgot that the Ebola goes back to 1945.........and 1921........and 1875.........and 1145.........wowwwwwwwww, how come we still have so many of "those" people around?

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