Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
I have spent a little time compiling links to threads about the Ebola outbreak in the interest of having all the links in one thread for future reference.
Please add links to new threads and articles of interest as the situation develops.
Thank You all for you participation.
A little emphasis in order ....
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Spanish Intel — Jihidist Plot to Weaponise Ebola
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221557/posts
Breitbart London:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK) Spanish intelligence has intercepted messages passed between jihadists online discussing the weaponisation of the deadly Ebola virus for use against the West, while a blackmailer in Prague has threatened to unleash the virus unless the Czech Republic pay him one million bitcoin, a volume of online currency worth over £200 million. The national secretary of state for security in giving evidence to the Spanish Senate revealed online jihad propagandists had issued an edict to followers to kill Westerners by any means possible. Some of the methods suggested included “deadly chemical products from laboratories”, “poisonous injections” and “Ebola as a poisonous... [snip]
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Odds are that this man was one of the Frontier Airlines flight passengers that Nurse Vinson exposed.
If he in fact does have Ebola, we will have a confirmed Ebola fomite spread on an airline from an active Ebola case.
The timing is such that it if it is a Ebola case, the news will break just before/on election day.
That will certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons for Pres Obama and the CDC.
Maine judge orders Ebola nurse to stay away from public gatherings, maintain 3-foot distance from people
African Funeral Rites are ‘Superspreaders’ of Ebola
http://m.news24.com/news24/Africa/News/African-funeral-rites-are-superspreaders-of-Ebola-20141031
2014-10-31 05:00
Washington - Traditional funeral rites in West Africa that include kissing and touching a dead body are “superspreaders” of Ebola and must be halted, researchers said on Thursday.
If not, Liberia can expect 224 new cases per day by the beginning of December, and 348 new Ebola infections per day by the end of December, according to the study in the journal Science.
“To stem Ebola transmission in Liberia, it is imperative to simultaneously restrict traditional burials, which are effectively serving as superspreader events,” it said.
Funeral practices often include washing, touching and kissing bodies that are still capable of transmitting Ebola, and may have particularly high levels of the live virus in excretions.
The findings were based on mathematical modelling done by scientists at Yale University, Oregon State University and the ministry of health in Liberia, the country hardest hit by the current Ebola epidemic.
“It is imperative that funeral transmission be stopped,” said Jan Medlock, an assistant professor in the OSU Department of Biomedical Sciences and an expert in mathematical epidemiology and the evolution of infectious disease.
“The cultural body preparation and funeral practices that are common in West Africa have driven the initial spread of this disease.”
The virus has already infected more than 13 000 people in West Africa since the beginning of the year and killed almost 5 000 according to the World Health Organisation.
Ebola is spread through close contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or a person who has recently died of the virus.
While it is important to isolate patients, trace their contacts and provide better protection for health care workers, these measures alone are insufficient, the researchers said.
Every two Ebola cases currently result in the infections of three more people in Liberia, the study found.
A better way to safely bury the dead would be to disinfect “the cadaver before placing it in a plastic body bag and doing further disinfecting,” said the study.
The authors also called for substantial international aid to help end the outbreak.
Ebola: Three Million HazMat Suits on the Way [Move on, folks, nothing to see here... ]
THIS JUST IN: Kaci Hickox’s roommate tested positive for Ebola without knowing how she came into contact with virus
Read more at http://threepercenternation.com/2014/10/this-just-in-kaci-hickoxs-roommate-tested-positive-for-ebola-without-knowing-how-she-came-into-contact-with-virus/
Thanks for the info. I was just questioning whether she had any Intelligence-I should have included the sarcasm tag.
Hmmm. .
http://news.yahoo.com/leone-ebola-outbreak-catastrophic-aid-group-msf-223833151.html
MSF saying it’s much worse than being reported. ..”catastrophic”..
I would post this as separate thread but on phone. .
Doctors said the woman had recently been in West Africa and she was staying in Portland. They did not release many more details about her due to patient privacy laws.
She was taken to Providence Milwaukie Hospital for assessment after she developed a sustained fever of more than 102 degrees.
The Ebola treatment centers in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, are no longer full. Some in the media and the shills at WHO have seized on this as a ray of hope. PROGRESS AT LAST!
Those who have been following this thread know better. The government of Liberia has decreed that all Ebola victims must be cremated.
Cremation is directly counter to strong local customs. The predictable result has happened: Many people are no longer taking people suffering from Ebola to the centers for care. Instead they are kept at home, and buried in secret.
A few people in the media know this also. But most are unable (or unwilling) to think ahead to the obvious and completely predictable result.
The sicker the person, the more contagious they become. When these people are the sickest they will not be in a treatment center. They will still be exposing those around them instead. When they die their bodies will still be highly contagious, and they will be buried unsafely.
The end result will be catastrophic. Look for an explosion of Ebola cases in Liberia.
Sirleaf-Johnson is contributing to this with her press crackdown. I'm not seeing nearly as many news stories out of Liberia. I even read in the NYT (quote and link below) that she is more concerned about the effect of Ebola on the economy than the death and destruction of Ebola. My guess is that the government of Liberia is intentionally pushing it under the rug as far as it will go in order to attempt to salvage Liberia's economic situation. I think that has been the case since the outset. How often have we seen WHO reports come out with outdated or missing data on Liberia?
Here's her quote:
Liberia’s Ebola Crisis Puts President in Harsh Light“Right now, all the international attention is on Ebola,” she said of critics, including at the United Nations, who say she has been more worried about the economy than a health catastrophe. “If we don’t focus on our economy, we will not be able to sustain it when they are gone.”
The problem with that idea is that the truth can be hidden for only so long. Once it gets out, the effect on Liberia's economy will be much worse than if the government had been truthful from the outset and maintained honesty throughout.
A nurse at the facility says that when their ambulance brings in a patient the ambulance personnel say there are 20 more where that one patient came from who need to be transported to the ETU. It's at the 1:15 mark.
That indicates to me that the claims of reduced transmission are inaccurate, assuming the video was actually recorded in the past week.
CDC pulls poster saying Ebola can spread through a sneeze
Gonzalez: Quarantined nurse Kaci Hickox is bravely fighting policy not based in science
The Ebola age divide: Fatality rate in over 45s is 94% with under 25s having the best chance of
CDC Now Says Ebola Droplets Can Spread Six Feet, Not Three
Satire: Ebola Czar Said to Be "Leading by Example"
Cargo ship from Ebola-stricken Sierra Leone bound for Port Canaveral (Self-monitoring)
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