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Ebola Surveillance Thread
Free Republic Threads ^ | August 10, 2014 | Legion

Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe

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To: Smokin' Joe
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U.S. Troops Battling Ebola Get Off to Slow Start in Africa

2,541 posted on 09/28/2014 5:59:20 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
U.S. says diseases like Ebola should be viewed as security threats
2,542 posted on 09/28/2014 6:07:08 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
U.S. Troops Battling Ebola Get Off to Slow Start in Africa

Once more, with a hot link...

2,543 posted on 09/28/2014 6:08:17 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
US doctor exposed to Ebola virus admitted to NIH (a 5th one)
2,544 posted on 09/28/2014 6:10:00 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Keys To Ebola Containment
2,545 posted on 09/28/2014 6:19:51 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
United States of America BSL-4 hospital facilities as of 2009 The U.S. maintains at least eight Biosafety Level 4 facilities, and is currently planning at least seven more: Operational Facilities: USAMRIID in Fort Detrick, MD ("old building") CDC in Atlanta, GA (two buildings operational) NIH's BSL-4 lab on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD (sometimes operates at BSL-3), never operated as a "hot" BSL4 NIH's BSL-4 lab at the Twinbrook III building, Rockville, MD (sometimes operates at BSL-3) Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, TX UTMB's Shope Laboratory in Galveston, TX Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA (smaller "glovebox" facility) The Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services lab (part of the Department of General Services of the Commonwealth of Virginia) in Richmond, VA (so-called "surge" BSL-4 capacity) Facilities Under Construction and Planned (as of 2009): USAMRIID in Fort Detrick, MD ("new building", in design) Boston University's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL) in Boston, MA (under construction) UTMB's National Biocontainment Facility in Galveston, TX (under construction) DHS's National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) in Fort Detrick, MD (under construction) DHS's National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), shortlisted July 2007; final site selection mid to late 2008 NIAID's Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, MD (in construction- earliest operational date 2009) NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, MT (in construction - earliest operational date 2009) I am not sure how many of these facilities are operational now, the list is (obviously) old. source
2,546 posted on 09/28/2014 6:52:41 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
More info on BSL-4 facilities
2,547 posted on 09/28/2014 6:54:27 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Previous post without link so formatting works:

United States of America BSL-4 hospital facilities as of 2009

The U.S. maintains at least eight Biosafety Level 4 facilities, and is currently planning at least seven more:

Operational Facilities:

USAMRIID in Fort Detrick, MD (”old building”)

CDC in Atlanta, GA (two buildings operational)

NIH’s BSL-4 lab on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD (sometimes operates at BSL-3), never operated as a “hot” BSL4

NIH’s BSL-4 lab at the Twinbrook III building, Rockville, MD (sometimes operates at BSL-3)

Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, TX

UTMB’s Shope Laboratory in Galveston, TX Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA (smaller “glovebox” facility)

The Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services lab (part of the Department of General Services of the Commonwealth of Virginia) in Richmond, VA (so-called “surge” BSL-4 capacity)

Facilities Under Construction and Planned (as of 2009):

USAMRIID in Fort Detrick, MD (”new building”, in design)

Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL) in Boston, MA (under construction)

UTMB’s National Biocontainment Facility in Galveston, TX (under construction)

DHS’s National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) in Fort Detrick, MD (under construction)

DHS’s National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), shortlisted July 2007; final site selection mid to late 2008

NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, MD (in construction- earliest operational date 2009)

NIAID’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, MT (in construction - earliest operational date 2009)

I am not sure how many of these facilities are operational now, the list is (obviously) old.


2,548 posted on 09/28/2014 6:57:03 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Biosafety Level 4 Labs Up Close and Personal
2,549 posted on 09/28/2014 7:01:01 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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The US Government Is Warning You To Stay Away From These Countries
2,550 posted on 09/28/2014 7:41:47 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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Liberia: Top Doctor Goes Under Ebola Quarantine
2,551 posted on 09/28/2014 7:43:46 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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Obama: ‘Everyone has to do more’ to stop Ebola
2,552 posted on 09/28/2014 7:53:16 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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Ebola Epidemic Worsening, Sierra Leone Expands Quarantine Restrictions
2,553 posted on 09/28/2014 7:54:19 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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Sierra Leone quarantines one million ahead of UN Ebola talks
2,554 posted on 09/28/2014 7:55:56 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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Liberia’s Ebola Victims Dying at Home Amid Shortage of Clinics
2,555 posted on 09/28/2014 7:59:04 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Black Agnes
wanna lay odds they cut off the supply of this drug somehow? (plant fire, accidental contamination, etc

You will most likely be proved correct. There will be something. If they truly wanted to get this drug going, they'd take precautions with at least three separate labs coordinating with each other.

2,556 posted on 09/28/2014 8:07:24 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Smokin' Joe
Liberia now requires an estimated 1.3 million protective suits

Since they're expecting 1.4 million infected by the end of the year, that 1.3 suits is already way to short. We can't even keep a decent supply of saline for US patients so how can we possibly meet the PPE need. The time was yesterday to start several new manufacturing companies. There's obola's new jobs if his admin were serious about it.

2,557 posted on 09/28/2014 8:11:25 PM PDT by bgill
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To: EternalHope
EternalHope,

I partly agree. I disagree that anything we can do now will make a difference in the outcome. IMO this outcome became inevitable weeks ago, perhaps several months ago. Liberia's culture and ensuing lack of transportation infrastructure made the place impervious to any major outside intervention.

The current Ebola outbreak might have been snuffed early, i.e., before the middle of July. That didn't happen and a worst case outcome, for Liberia, was set in a frighteningly small time period afterwards.

"A. What’s left of the medical infrastructure, already ineffective, will collapse. The pandemic will accelerate even more.

B. As the pandemic accelerates, the people needed to keep basic infrastructure going will die. Water, sewer, and electricity will begin to fail. Food distribution will cease.

C. When this begins to happen the population will panic. As many as possible will flee. The process of overall collapse will accelerate.

D. Most of those who are unable to flee will eventually die. Some of those who are able to flee will carry the disease with them."


2,558 posted on 09/28/2014 8:22:19 PM PDT by Thud
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To: Smokin' Joe

UTMB is on Galveston Island which could be quarantined if need be and the natives didn’t raise much of a ruckus. San Antonio, no way. What’s the skinny on the others?


2,559 posted on 09/28/2014 8:43:32 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Thud
I partly agree. I disagree that anything we can do now will make a difference in the outcome. IMO this outcome became inevitable weeks ago, perhaps several months ago.

Actually we're probably 99% in agreement.

We're watching a train wreck in slow motion. The train has already left the tracks but most of the people on board are still alive.

We're standing, frozen in disbelief, right in front of the train. Thus far we have not even started to get out of the way.

2,560 posted on 09/28/2014 9:35:25 PM PDT by EternalHope (Something wicked this way comes. Be ready.)
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