Posted on 07/29/2014 5:46:41 AM PDT by EBH
Latest victim traveled all across Africa by plane. Those who traveled with him were informed but allowed to go on their way. It has a 21 day infection timeline. I need to go watch 12 Monkeys.
Our local paper is advertising for guinea pigs to test a new vaccine for ebola.
What do they know that we don’t know?...
Or “The Stand”.
Algore and Bill Gates will have their dreams come true!
CDC Downplays Ebola’s Threat to the United States
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2014/07/28/cdc-downplays-ebolas-threat-to-the-united-states
Concern was raised over the weekend when it was reported that an Ebola-infected man from Liberia flew to Lagos, the capital of Nigeria, only to die soon after his arrival. Health officials are trying to track down any contacts the man might have had during his journey.
For your entertainment: http://vimeo.com/26450446
Wife and kids of one of the American doctors working the outbreak just returned to the States a few days ago from visiting and working with him. Once home in Fort Worth, they found out the doctor has ebola now. It may already be in the US.
Twelve Monkeys is a movie that you have to watch....rewind....and watch a second time. Too many things involved in the plot...red herrings I’d call them....and by the end you really start to ask yourself about the premise of a disease beyond control.
I would strongly encourage you to go and read Daniel DeFoe’s 1722 novel A Journal of the Plague Year (downloadable on Amazon with their e-reader and free). It will walk you through the 1665/66 period of London and the effects of the plague. I should say...it is a fictional account but DeFoe really leads you through the various issues that confronted society, and how people just laid up boundaries and refuse people passage through their community by the mid-point.
They need to put the affected victims on a colloidal silver drip. Viruses and bacteria don’t like it one bit.
You rang???
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
I am guessing no chance Gaza is in his travel plans?
Two other books about infectious disease - Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror about the 14th century. She’s something of a lib but very well written. And The Ghost Map about the 1850 cholera epidemic in London. Written by Steven Johnson. My SIL’s brother is the pathologist for the biggest hospital system in my metro area and this is one of his favorite books. He’s a bit odd but so am I.
OUTBREAK!
Could experimental vaccines morph Ebola into something more highly contagious and deadly?
Most of the ones I’ve read about no. The scary part is that vaccine or not, Ebola is likely to do that all on its own.
What? Are you kidding? With his compromised immune system he won’t even visit the Tex-Mex border!
No, it’s time to lock down the borders and quarantine anyone traveling into the country from a part of the world that’s infected.
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