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Report: Ebola Suspected In Europe: “Broken Through All Containment Efforts”
SHTF Plan ^ | 4/20/14

Posted on 04/20/2014 1:38:13 PM PDT by Kartographer

Though officials at the World Health Organization are feverishly working to stop the spread of the Ebola virus in what is now seven African nations, their efforts may be for naught. In Guinea, a hot spot for the deadly contagion, government health officials have said that the outbreak is nearly under control. Yet, Reuters reports that the government “planned to stop publicly releasing the death toll to avoid causing unnecessary panic.”

But panic may be in order.

Despite the best efforts of emergency health workers it appears that virus may have crossed out of Africa into Europe.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: africa; african; contagion; deadly; death; disease; ebola; emergency; epidemic; europe; government; guinea; health; italy; milan; nations; officials; outbreak; pandemic; panic; reuters; rome; virus; who; workers
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To: Lazamataz

Yer always so screwed. So, what else is new?


121 posted on 04/22/2014 4:25:38 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The PASSING LANE is for PASSING, not DAWDLING)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

But this time I mean it.


122 posted on 04/22/2014 4:34:07 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: steve86

Are you sure you’re at the right place?


123 posted on 04/22/2014 4:35:10 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The PASSING LANE is for PASSING, not DAWDLING)
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To: Marcella
It said it travels by "touch", not just blood products although that would certainly do it, too, as well as any other bodily fluid.

There is not a lot of evidence that ebola virus transmits easily (e.g. by touch) because certain primate populations would all be dead (while others carry but are immune). However, is possible that it spreads through insect bites. You may be correct about other bodily fluids, but from the little bit I have read, that transmission path appears to be difficult, the virus dies easily.

124 posted on 04/22/2014 5:03:26 AM PDT by palmer (There's someone in my lead but it's not me)
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To: HamiltonJay
"Other than in samples grossly contaminated with blood, EBOV was not found by any method on environmental surfaces and by RT-PCR on the skin of only 1 patient".

See http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/196/Supplement_2/S142.full

125 posted on 04/22/2014 5:06:32 AM PDT by palmer (There's someone in my lead but it's not me)
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To: Smokin' Joe
I do not know how long the virus remains viable on surfaces.

See link in my previous post.

126 posted on 04/22/2014 5:07:58 AM PDT by palmer (There's someone in my lead but it's not me)
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To: palmer

Thanks for posting that.


127 posted on 04/22/2014 5:20:15 AM 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: palmer

http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/ebola-fever-virus-infection

“People often get sick with Ebola when they care for or bury a person who has the disease. Someone also can catch the virus by touching contaminated needles or surfaces.”


128 posted on 04/22/2014 5:53:28 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: palmer

“You may be correct about other bodily fluids, but from the little bit I have read, that transmission path appears to be difficult, the virus dies easily.”

As you will see below, there are five various types of Ebola. The latest information on this outbreak is what I posted earlier, that touch appears to be a way to get it. If someone with it, touches “x”, and you touch “x”, you may get the transfer of the virus. Sure, there is a time limit of the virus being active, but you wouldn’t know how long ago an infected person touched “x”.

Say you’re in an airport and go to the bathroom which most every person who gets off a plane, does as soon as they see a bathroom. You go in that bathroom after they leave, and you touch what they touched, and you get it. The movie, “Contagion”, shows how easy it is to get a deadly disease from travel.

I read the update today from WHO, and it’s sad that some health care workers get/got it and most of them who got it, died. Somewhere in their care of these people, they missed some precaution they should have taken, and got it. Those caretakers are braver than I am - I couldn’t do it.

This is from WHO:
Genus Ebolavirus is one of three members of the Filoviridae family (filovirus), along with genus Marburgvirus and genus Cuevavirus. Genus Ebolavirus comprises five distinct species: Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV); Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV); Reston ebolavirus (RESTV); Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV); and Taï Forest ebolavirus (TAFV). BDBV, EBOV, and SUDV have been associated with large EVD outbreaks in Africa, whereas RESTV and TAFV have not. Samples taken from patients in this outbreak have tested positive for EBOV.


129 posted on 04/22/2014 8:34:00 AM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: HamiltonJay

As Marcella points out there are five types of the virus. EBOV does not appear to spread through contaminated surfaces.


130 posted on 04/22/2014 11:38:02 AM PDT by palmer (There's someone in my lead but it's not me)
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To: Marcella
Samples taken from patients in this outbreak have tested positive for EBOV.

In my link in 125, the EBOV variety does not appear to spread by contaminated surfaces. Obviously one study is not the end-all, but if you have another study that says otherwise, please post it.

131 posted on 04/22/2014 11:40:02 AM PDT by palmer (There's someone in my lead but it's not me)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Are you sure you’re at the right place?”

See the middle paragraph in #120.

Also ran an emergency supply business for 2 1/2 years.

But not gullible or impressed by sensationalism or half truths.

Or the intellectual cop-out of conspiracy theory (often correctly characterized as “schizotypal personality disorder”).


132 posted on 04/22/2014 11:50:32 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture)
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To: palmer
"Study: Growing Guinea outbreak caused by new Ebola strain"

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/04/study-growing-guinea-outbreak-caused-new-ebola-strain

PLUS

http://www.decodedscience.com/new-ebola-virus-outbreak-west-africa-whos-danger/44820

"Ebola Outbreak in Africa:

There is no vaccine for the Ebola virus and no specific treatment for those who have the disease. Among humans, the Ebola virus is highly contagious, and spreads via various routes, including:

◾Direct contact with blood, mucus, organs, or other bodily fluids of an infected person.

Indirect contact with environments contaminated with fluids.

◾Men who recover can transmit the virus via their semen for up to seven weeks.

◾Direct contact with the body of someone who has died of Ebola.

The Ebola virus is a dangerous virus that continues to kill many people during each outbreak. The epidemiological investigation continues to figure out the animal source of this outbreak in Guinea."

133 posted on 04/22/2014 12:08:49 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: steve86; Marcella

Practice makes perfect.


134 posted on 04/22/2014 5:38:00 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: steve86

Think I got off on the wrong foot with you, or maybe responded to the wrong post, hell it’s been a week.

All I meant, and I’ll try to be specific, was that in this day and age you don’t necessarily throw the baby out with the bath water.

There are alot of things happening in this old world that isn’t being reported as it should be.

Guy might be a total nutjob, but it pays to take things with a grain of salt.

Suppose they’re right? Hell, you can’t get the main stream media to report the truth on Bundy in Nevada.

Hope I’m clearer than I was, this is what happens when an old timer has to many darned Windows open at one time.

Apologies if I made a mistake.


135 posted on 04/22/2014 8:11:38 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: hoagy62

what if the locals object to being nuked? I guess they don’t have a choice in your world...


136 posted on 07/01/2014 1:34:15 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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