Ebola Zaire Virus

scary

Only when an Ebola Zaire outbreak occurs in a remote, small village in the forests of Africa, and cannot be spread to other communities due to lack of any appreciable degree of transportation, is it able to be contained and controlled. Death of the infected will bring the outbreak to a halt. This is Nature.

When 'man' and his greed rob the rain forests of its' precious possessions for the purpose of development and the dollar bill, then THIS happens; This is Nature.

She is upset.
Swan

From the idiot that our senate has twice invited to speak to the public on STX.

The White Man Created Ebola To Kill Black People, Says Noted Scientist Louis Farrakhan.

Well, you can relax, as long as your skin is white. That’s according to the 100 percent sane and rational Rev. Louis Farrakhan
http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/02/the-white-man-created-ebola-to-kill-black-people-says-noted-scientist-louis-farrakhan/

good one rotor

Here's an interesting article I came across:

http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/10/01/heres-why-america-doesnt-need-panic-about-ebola-yet?cmpid=tpnews-eml-2014-10-04-ebola

The Liberian National - Ebola positive individual - who flew from Monrovia to Brussels, Belgium and then on to the U.S. has died after being hospitalized in Dallas for the past week.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/305795#.VDGx0lvD_VJ

The Liberian National - Ebola positive individual - who flew from Monrovia to Brussels, Belgium and then on to the U.S. has died after being hospitalized in Dallas for the past week.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/305795#.VDGx0lvD_VJ

Nope. Still alive as of this mornings news.

The Liberian National - Ebola positive individual - who flew from Monrovia to Brussels, Belgium and then on to the U.S. has died after being hospitalized in Dallas for the past week.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/305795#.VDGx0lvD_VJ

Nope. Still alive as of this mornings news.

My apologies for posting a report, which evidently was reported in error. All news media continues to state that the patient is struggling for his life. Many apologies.
Swan

The Liberian National - Ebola positive individual - who flew from Monrovia to Brussels, Belgium and then on to the U.S. has died after being hospitalized in Dallas for the past week.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/305795#.VDGx0lvD_VJ

Nope. Still alive as of this mornings news.

My apologies for posting a report, which evidently was reported in error. All news media continues to state that the patient is struggling for his life. Many apologies.
Swan

The Israeli News corrected their erroneous report: Thank you.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/305795#.VDK3-lvD9jo

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/texas-ebola-patient-thomas-eric-duncan-has-died-hospital-says-n221141

Good afternoon everyone:

I received this article from another board member on the Forum and thought it needed to be shared. Many thanks.
Swan

While there are currently no confirmed cases of Ebola in the territory, the Virgin Islands Department of Health (DOH) has issued an alert warning residents of the deadly virus and have outlined steps the Department has taken to be prepared in the event an Ebola case is identified locally....""...

VI Health Department Warns Of Ebola, Residents Asked To Be Vigilant
Health / News / Virgin Islands / October 8, 2014

While there are currently no confirmed cases of Ebola in the territory, the Virgin Islands Department of Health (DOH) has issued an alert warning residents of the deadly virus and have outlined steps the Department has taken to be prepared in the event an Ebola case is identified locally.

“We want to reassure residents that we are implementing the precautionary measures to quickly identify and stop the spread of the virus in the territory,” Health Commissioner Darice Plaskett said in a press release, alluding to the recent Ebola case in Texas that has received extensive media coverage.

The release stated: “The Department of Health has taken proactive measures to ensure readiness by conducting clinical education on Ebola and issuing guidance to the district hospitals, healthcare partners and emergency medical personnel on early detection, safe clinical management, and infection control measures.

The Department of Health met last week with officials from the hospitals, federally qualified health centers, and Customs and Border Protection to discuss steps that can be taken to prevent the spread of the disease. These representatives were also provided with CDC’s resources, including a hospital and healthcare provider preparedness checklist for Ebola and Ebola screening criteria template for hospitals.”

Ebola is an infectious and generally fatal disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding. It is spread through contact with infected bodily fluids. Its host species is unknown.

Ebola symptoms include:
•Fever (greater than 38.6°C or 101.5°F)
•Severe headache
•Muscle pain
•Weakness
•Diarrhea
•Vomiting
•Abdominal (stomach) pain
•Unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising)

Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to the virus, but the average is 8 to 10 days.

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), recovery from Ebola depends on good supportive clinical care and the patient’s immune response. People who recover from Ebola infection develop antibodies that last for at least 10 years.

“The Department of Health is directing the hospitals and healthcare Providers to follow protocols established by CDC to effectively detect a potentially infected patient, protect others from exposure and respond with appropriate patient care. The district hospitals’ emergency room triage procedures now include screening assessment for Ebola, such as travel history to an Ebola-affected area in the last 21 days,” the release added.

Prevention
•Wash hands frequently or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer
•Avoid contact with blood and bodily fluids of any person, particularly someone who is sick
•Do not handle items that may have come in contact with an infected person’s blood or bodily fluids
•Do not touch the body of someone who has died from Ebola
•Do not touch or eat bats and nonhuman primates or their blood
•Avoid hospitals where Ebola patients are being treated

The Centers for Disease Control has issued a travel warning for countries in West Africa that are currently affected by the Ebola outbreak, including Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. US residents are strongly advised to avoid nonessential travel to these destinations. If you must travel (for example, to do humanitarian aid work in response to the outbreak) protect yourself by following CDC’s advice for avoiding contact with the blood and bodily fluids of Ebola patients or those who have died from the virus.

http://viconsortium.com/health/vi-health-department-warns-ebola-residents-asked-vigilant/

Flashback to 2010:

The Obama administration has quietly scrapped plans to enact sweeping new federal quarantine regulations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention touted four years ago as critical to protecting Americans from dangerous diseases spread by travelers.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-04-01-quarantine_N.htm

World Health Organization (WHO) is predicting 10,000 new Ebola cases per week in Africa by the end of December. Should suspension of air travel to and from countries in Africa seriously be considered and, if so, WHEN?

LONDON — West Africa could see up to 10,000 new Ebola cases a week within two months, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, also confirming the death rate in the current outbreak has risen to 70%.

WHO assistant director-general Dr. Bruce Aylward gave the figures during a news conference in Geneva. Previously, WHO had estimated the Ebola mortality rate was at around 50%.

Aylward said the new rate confirmed it was “a high mortality disease,” and that the U.N. health agency was still focused on trying to get sick people isolated and provide treatment as early as possible.

He told reporters that if the world’s response to the Ebola crisis isn’t stepped up within 60 days, “a lot more people will die” and that health workers will be stretched even further dealing with the spiraling numbers of cases.

Health care workers have also been hit hard by the virus. International aid organization Doctors Without Borders said that 16 of its staff members have been infected with Ebola and nine of them have died.

Ebola has killed more than 4,000 people in an outbreak the World Health Organization has called “the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times.” Federal health officials say they are ramping up training for medical workers who deal with the infected.

A United Nations medical worker who was infected with Ebola in Liberia has died despite “intensive medical procedures,” a German hospital said Tuesday.

Speaking at a news conference in Johannesburg Tuesday, the head of Doctors Without Borders in South Africa, Sharon Ekambaram, said medical workers have received inadequate assistance from the international community.

“Where is WHO Africa? Where is the African Union?” said Ekambaram who worked in Sierra Leone from August to September. “We’ve all heard their promises in the media, but have seen very little on the ground.”

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/10/14/within-two-months-ebola-could-be-increasing-by-10000-cases-every-week-in-west-africa-who-reports/

Quote Chris Brown: "I don't know ... But I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control. S--t is getting crazy bruh."

I've heard rumblings from locals of African descent that Ebola is being used against the black population, as evidenced by the death of the first case identified in the US (black) where the doctor who contracted the disease overseas and was evacuated to ATL survived (white). I wondered what was fostering these opinions and then read about Chris Browns tweet quoted above.

I'm all for free speech, but for f***'s sake, use some freaking intelligence.

There is a large segment of the population who believe that Ebola, like Aids, was engineered specifically to reduce the population of a certain segment of humans.

I don't know if I completely believe it, but it is certainly not out of the realm of possibilities. Anything is possible in this world...

"....A group of Caribbean countries have announced bans on entry to foreigners who have travelled through the three West African countries most affected by Ebola...."

Jamaica said it would not accept travellers from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone for the time being.

Guyana, the island of St Lucia, Haiti and Colombia also introduced a ban.

In the United States, President Barack Obama has resisted pressure to put similar bans in place.

Jamaica's travel ban extends to "persons ordinarily resident in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as well as persons who have travelled to or transited through Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, within 28 days of having departed from these countries".

The government said Jamaican citizens and residents would be quarantined for 28 days and that it was a temporary measure.

St Lucia's Prime Minister Kenny Anthony said his country was a poor small national that did not have the capacity "to manage any crisis that lands on our doorstep, any crisis of that kind".

He said an outbreak of the virus would be devastating for a country of only 200,000 people, where tourism is more than 60% of GDP.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29655344

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/16/guyana-halts-visas-from-countries-hit-by-ebola/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

Could Ebola enter the Cruise Ship industry and compromise the Caribbean Islands?

There's Ebola trouble in the Caribbean.

A Texas health worker who may have handled an Ebola patient's lab samples is quarantined on a Carnival cruise ship — and Belize won't let the boat dock.

The unidentified Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital lab worker — who did not have direct contact with patient Thomas Eric Duncan, but worked in the hospital lab that processed his specimens — set sail from Galveston Sunday.

The staffer got on the Carnival Magic ship before two of the hospital's nurses were diagnosed with the deadly disease and before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued stringent, active monitoring requirements for the staff.

The sailing staffer does not show any symptoms, the U.S. State Department said Friday.

Still, the worker and a travel mate decided to isolate themselves in their cabin.

“She is deemed by CDC to be very low risk,” Carnival’s Senior Cruise Director John Heald wrote on Facebook. “It is important to reiterate that the individual has no symptoms and has been isolated in an extreme abundance of caution.”

Belize is being extra cautious, too: When the U.S. asked the country to help evacuate the worker, the government refused, and the Coast Guard blocked the ship from entering the port, the Washington Post reported.

The government maintained that the lab worker would "never set foot in Belize."

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/texas-lab-worker-handled-ebola-samples-cruise-article-1.1977707

A Carnival spokeswoman, however, said the ship made its scheduled visit to Belize Thursday. “Passengers were free to disembark there for the day other than the guest and her traveling companion who are in voluntary isolation.”

Cruise industry update:

"With Ebola scare, cruise industry is in rough waters again..."
...
With a series of embarrassing accidents in its wake, the $37.1-billion cruise industry was looking forward to a strong booking season this winter. Instead, cruise operators are facing the same crisis that has shaken the airline industry: Ebola..

Mexican authorities Friday blocked a Carnival cruise ship from docking in Cozumel after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alerted Carnival Corp. that a passenger may have handled Ebola-contaminated lab specimens at the Texas hospital where a Liberian man died.

The escalating Ebola scare has the travel industry scrambling to figure out how to reassure anxious Americans that it's still safe to take a vacation.

Travel companies have already begun to take steps that crisis management experts say are needed to prevent the outbreak from quelling travel demand and spending.

"The best thing they need to do is to go on social media and on their websites to announce they are taking measures," said Drew Kerr, a crisis management expert with Four Corners Communications. "The whole thing is about the future and making people feel good about what is ahead."

Big money is at stake.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cruise-ebola-20141018-story.html

how about they come out and say " Hey guess what, theres only been 5 cases of ebola in the last year in the US with just one fatality..

THERE IS NO EPIDEMIC in the US

And in Africa?

HA!

If you put any energy into ebola, if you POST ANYTHING ABOUT EBOLA from the MSM you are supporting the ridiculous fear / propaganda campaign and honestly, are a part of the problem.

thank you for posting that. after my initial scare i started to get curious about death of other diseases . now if ebola is not contained here it could cause some deaths. there is not "cure" yet but neither is there a cure for other diseases that kill. the two doses of "treatment" that canada had were the only two they had. the blood transfusion could not happen for duncan. as they were different blood types. and anyone who listeds to farrakhan and chris brown as their source of the truth really need to get a grip and maybe fine different sources. those two are idiots and for anyone to believe that this disease was created by whites to wipe out blacks would have to wonder why it wasnt set free in the united states. and they might also want to get their head examined. such total nonsense.

Let's hope (pray) we do not get any cases in the Virgin Islands.
Let's face it, our hospitals are ill equipped to handle regular patients.
Can you imagine a case of Ebola at jfl?

Let's hope (pray) we do not get any cases in the Virgin Islands.
Let's face it, our hospitals are ill equipped to handle regular patients.
Can you imagine a case of Ebola at jfl?

since it's hardly contagious at all; yes I could imagine it, it would be much like a case of Dengue... and we have those all the time here...

which, by the way, is also worse (in reality) than Ebola:

there is a very concentrated fear campaign happening on this "ebola" topic right now; and that's about it.

Well, I've had dengue twice. I'd rather not get Ebola, once.
My encounters with dengue did not hospitalize me in quarantine, threaten anyone that came in contact with me or cared for me, threaten my life nor encourage major hospital bills for my recovery.
Comparing dengue to Ebola is like comparing apples to oranges

My point was that our hospitals and their staff are ill equipped to handle this virus, especially J. F. L, given their current and past issues.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) ELWA 3 Ebola Treatment Center in Monrovia, Liberia:
An Insight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCF4tLrFtsA
Swan