#1 Ebola Thread: Ebola Strikes Down 14 Ugandan Congoloidals in New Outbreak in Afreaka

[Dawn Cannon]

A hospital worker in Texas who treated a patient who died of ebola has tested positive for the disease.

The unnamed healthcare worker from the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital was isolated after reportedly they had a "low grade fever" on Friday, a statement from the Texas Department Of State health Services said.

http://news.sky.com/story/1351627/eb...tests-positive

[Tintin]

The heartbreaking reality of Ebola: Photos show brutal effects of virus on Liberia victims and their loved ones as death toll rises to 4,033


Just look at how niggers live, and die, when there is not White tax base to keep them above the animal level existence. But really, what animal would live like these nigger do? But wait, do some animals, like dogs, live in such filth when they become dependent on Humans?

Why do nigger live is such filth? Maybe it is because Humans they are trying to affect Human living styles? Or maybe Humans are trying to hard to force Humans living styles on the niggers.

Wouldn't it be better to just set the niggers free so the can live naturally?

• Pictures, taken by photographers John Moore and Mohammed Elshamy, capture grim reality of Ebola in Liberia
• One features a woman crawling desperately toward the body of her sister as burial team removes it for cremation
• Others show locals weeping as they come to terms with loved ones' deaths and crews removing children's bodies
• On Friday, WHO said Ebola death toll is 4,033, bringing total number of confirmed and suspected cases to 8,399
• Most cases were recorded in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, with symptoms including high fever and vomiting

[Robbie Key]

What Pisses Me Off About Ebola - YouTube

What Pisses Me Off About Ebola - YouTube

Molyneux pissed off.

[The Bobster]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/...278932951.html

Dallas Health Care Worker Tests Positive for Ebola: Hospital
Sunday, Oct 12, 2014 • Updated at 10:26 AM EDT

A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas who provided care for Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who died there earlier this week, is in isolation after testing positive for Ebola in a preliminary test at the state public health laboratory in Austin.

"While this is bad news, this is not news that should bring about panic ," Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said Sunday.

Another test to confirm the diagnosis will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. The worker is in stable condition.

Jenkins said the unidentified health care worker is a "heroic" person who "was proud to provide care to Mr. Duncan." He said the health care worker's family has requested privacy because they are "going through a great ordeal."

The state health department said the worker reported a low grade fever Friday night and was isolated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and the preliminary test result was received late Saturday.

"The entire process from patient's self-monitoring to the admission into isolation took less than 90 minutes," Dr. Daniel Varga with Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas said at a news conference Sunday morning.

Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas said a close contact of the health care worker has already proactively been put into isolation at the hospital. The 24-bed Intensive Care Unit at the hospital is being used as an isolation unit.

Mayor Mike Rawlings said the health care worker lives in an apartment complex in the 3700 block of Marquita Avenue in Dallas.

Rawlings said Dallas-Fire Rescue crews have cleaned and decontaminated open areas of the complex.

A reverse 911 call went out at 7:15 a.m. Sunday to alert neighbors. Rawlings also said materials about the virus were placed on peoples' doors in the area.

Rawlings said there is a pet inside the apartment and that they "have a plan to take care of the pet."

The car the health care worker drove the hospital has been decontaminated and secured. Rawlings said everything the new patient touched has been decontaminated to ensure everyone's safety.

Texas Department of State Health Services said "contact tracing" has begun. Health officials interviewed the health care worker and are identifying any other contacts or potential exposures.

Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas said the health care worker was involved in Duncan's care on his second visit to the hospital. Duncan, from Liberia, was the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. He died from the virus on Oct. 8.

The hospital said the worker followed all Centers for Disease Control protocols in caring for Duncan, including wearing gloves, gown, mask and shield.

Health care workers, among the 48 already being monitored, will be monitored twice daily, Jenkins said. Nineteen people are in charge of the monitoring, Jenkins said he asked for additional CDC help at midnight and workers had arrived in Dallas. None of the rest of the monitored people have shown symptoms of Ebola.

Ebola is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids of a sick person or exposure to contaminated objects such as needles. People are not contagious before symptoms such as fever develop.

"We knew a second case could be a reality, and we've been preparing for this possibility," said Texas health commissioner Dr. David Lakey. "We are broadening our team in Dallas and working with extreme diligence to prevent further spread."

Varga said the emergency department at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas is on diversion, meaning ambulances will not bring new patients to the ER, but the hospital will continue to care for the patients at the hospital.

The second case of Ebola being diagnosed in the U.S. comes after officials stepped-up screening effort at New York's Kennedy International Airport meant to prevent the spread of the virus. Customs and health officials began taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at the airport from three West African countries on Saturday.

The screening will be expanded over the next week to four other airports: New Jersey's Newark Liberty, Washington Dulles, Chicago O'Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta.

[Dawn Cannon]

There was a “breach in protocol” that led to the second case of Ebola virus disease diagnosed in the U.S., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Thomas Frieden said on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” Sunday.

“I think the fact that we don’t know of a breach in protocol is concerning because clearly there was a breach in protocol. We have the ability to prevent the spread of Ebola by caring safely for patients," Frieden said. During a press conference, Dan Varga, chief clinical officer and senior executive vice president of Texas Health Presbyterian, said the health-care worker wore protective equipment while treating Duncan. The worker detected a fever as part of a self-monitoring process recommended by the CDC and was identified as a female nurse by CNN.


Thomas R. Frieden

http://www.ibtimes.com/ebola-outbrea...s-case-1703538

Surely the "breach of protocol" lies with the ones who let (bring) the niggers in.

[Olaf Menes]

Something tells me Ebola is far more contagious than the douchebags at the CDC or the Media will admit.

[Pamela Ross]

Riding the waves in Liberia
San Diegans forced to shutter retreat as Ebola spreads

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/...?#article-copy

[Tintin]

CDC Ebola response in disarray: Agency blasted for 'scapegoating' infected Texas nurse for 'breach in protocol' while treating Dallas patient - as experts say US medics are unprepared for outbreak

• CDC Director Dr Thomas Frieden confirmed Texas Health Presbyterian nurse is second person to be diagnosed with Ebola on U.S. soil
• At a Sunday press conference, Dr Frieden said a 'breach in protocol' led the nurse to become infected - despite wearing protective clothing
• A hazmat team was dispatched to the nurse's Dallas apartment on Sunday to sanitize the building where many other tenants live
• A second person who had 'close contact' with the nurse has 'proactively' been placed in isolation
• The CDC is closely monitoring 48 healthcare workers known to have potentially been exposed and searching for additional contacts
• Dr Frieden says there's a possibility more Ebola cases will emerge in the coming days

[Tintin]

FIRST PICTURE: Devoted Texas nurse fighting for her life after catching Ebola while treating man who brought dreaded virus to America - with her beloved dog who's also now in quarantine


First infected Kwan is a viet gooktress.

Lets see how the jew scribes are able leverage against the White race.

• Nina Pham, 26, caught the Ebola virus while treating Thomas Eric Duncan at Dallas Presbyterian Hospital before his death
• Miss Pham was raised in Vietnamese family in Fort Worth and graduated from Texas Christian University in 2010 with Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Friends described her as compassionate and devoted to her vocation
• HazChem teams spent the weekend fumigating her Dallas apartment
• Dallas Mayor said her beloved King Charles Spaniel will not be destroyed
• Authorities have blamed a 'breach of protocol' - but nursing leaders have criticized the CDC for making her a scapegoat

[Tintin]

How Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan's organs slowly failed and he begged to be put in a diaper as he lay dying

• Duncan, a Liberian, flew to the U.S. carrying Ebola and died on October 8
• Newly-released medical records chart harrowing effects of the disease
• Duncan was beset by diarrhea and projectile vomiting in Texas hospital
• Begged to be given a diaper as he was too exhausted to walk to the toilet
• At one point showed signs of hope - asking for food and an action movie (friend chicken and porn?)
• But soon declined again as organs failed and infection ravaged his body
• Family visiting him in hospital said that he looked dead already

[Alex Linder]

[Alex Linder]

A top scientist worries that Ebola has mutated to become more contagious

Julia Belluz on October 13, 2014,
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Peter Jahrling, one of the country's top scientists, has dedicated his life to studying some of the most dangerous viruses on the planet. Twenty-five years ago, he cut his teeth on Lassa hemorrhagic fever, hunting for Ebola's viral cousin in Liberia. In 1989, he helped discover Reston, a new Ebola strain, in his Virginia lab.

Jahrling now serves as a chief scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he runs the emerging viral pathogens section. He has been watching this Ebola epidemic with a mixture of horror, concern and scientific curiosity. And there's one thing he's found particularly worrisome: the mutations of the virus that are circulating now look to be more contagious than the ones that have turned up in the past.

When his team has run tests on patients in Liberia, they seem to carry a much higher "viral load." In other words, Ebola victims today have more of the virus in their blood — and that could make them more contagious.

We spoke last week about his work studying the disease, how this Ebola virus may be more dangerous than others, and what that means for the epidemic. What follows is a transcript of our conversation, lightly edited for clarity and length.

If you want to learn more about Ebola and this epidemic, read our cardstack.

Julia Belluz: What concerns you most about the virus circulating now?

Peter Jahrling: I want to know if this virus is intrinsically different from the one we have seen before, if it is a more virulent strain. We are using tests now that weren't using in the past, but there seems to be a belief that the virus load is higher in these patients [today] than what we have seen before. If true, that's a very different bug.

One of the studies we're going to do here is to test the virulence of this new strain in experimentally infected primates and compare it with the reference strain, and look at whether it is hotter, extrapolating from monkeys to people. It may be that the virus burns hotter and quicker [meaning it's more contagious and easily spread].

JB: Yet everyone is worried about Ebola going airborne...

PJ: You're seeing all these patients getting infected, so people think there must be aerosol spread. Certainly, it's very clear that people who are in close contact with patients are getting a very high incidence of disease and not all of that can be explained by preparation of bodies for burial and all the standard stuff. But if you are to assume that the differences in virus load detected in the blood are reflected by differences in virus load spread by body secretions, then maybe it's a simple quantitative difference. There's just more virus.

"VIRAL LOADS ARE COMING UP VERY QUICKLY AND REALLY HIGH, HIGHER THAN THEY ARE USED TO SEEING."

JB: A higher viral load means this Ebola virus can spread faster and further?

PJ: Yes. I have a field team in Monrovia. They are running [tests]. They are telling me that viral loads are coming up very quickly and really high, higher than they are used to seeing. It turns out that in limited studies with the evacuated patients, they continued to express virus in blood and semen. What does that mean? Right now, we just don't know.

JB: Can you entertain the air-borne hypothesis. Do you think it's plausible?

PJ: You can argue that any time the virus replicates it's going to mutate. So there is a potential for the thing to acquire an aerogenic property but that would have to be a dramatic change. When scientists have done studies, playing with influenza strains to make them more virulent, when they increase the aerosol potential of a flu strain, they also reduce its virulence. So when you start messing with viruses, you usually make them less virulent.

JB: There have been worries that Ebola can become a pandemic like HIV and spread around the world. Even Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was recently saying as much. Your thoughts?

PJ: The mode of transmission is different between the two viruses. Ebola causes an acute infection which you either die from or you're immune, you don't carry the virus for long periods of time. Whereas with AIDS, a lot of people transmitting AIDS didn't know they have it. Before we had a triple cocktail therapy, AIDS was lethal with the exception of a few people who were not susceptible. Long term AIDS was hotter than Ebola. My gut feeling is that Ebola is going to burn out in human populations.

JB: Why are you optimistic about this epidemic burning out?

PJ: In this epidemic, it would appear that there have been multiple introductions [of the virus from animals to humans]. It's not all person to person transmission. It's coming from animals again and again. [This means people need to be near potential animal hosts — believed to be fruit bats endemic to Africa — to get the virus.] Now there are all these different strains. That could also mean the virus is more mutable. We can't yet say. I think it's unlikely that this thing is going to perpetuate in humans.

What is the Ebola virus?
Most people's views of Ebola are probably informed by Hollywood — they think of it as a deadly and contagious virus that swirls around the world, striking everyone in its path and causing them to hemorrhage from their eyeballs, ears and mouth until there is no more blood to spill.

outbreak

Remember this 1995 film?

In reality, Ebola is something quite different. About half of the people who contract Ebola die. The others return to a normal life after a months-long recovery that can include periods of hair loss, sensory changes, weakness, fatigue, headaches, eye and liver inflammation.

As for the blood: While Ebola can cause people to hemorrhage, about half of Ebola sufferers ever experience that Biblical bleeding that's become synonymous with the virus.

More often than not, Ebola strikes like the worst and most humiliating flu you could imagine. People get the sweats, along with body aches and pains. Then they start vomiting and having uncontrollable diarrhea. These symptoms can appear anywhere between two and 21 days after exposure to the virus. Sometimes, they go into shock. Sometimes, they bleed. Again, about half of those infected with the virus die, and this usually happens fairly quickly — within a few days or a couple of weeks of getting sick.

There are five strains of Ebola, four of which have caused the disease in humans: Zaire, Sudan, Taï Forest, and Bundibugyo. The fifth, Reston, has infected nonhuman primates only. Though scientists haven't been able to confirm this, the animal host of Ebola is widely believed to be the fruit bat, and the virus only seldomly makes the leap into humans.

The Ebola virus is extremely rare. Among the leading causes of death in Africa, it only accounts for a tiny fraction. People are much more likely to die from AIDS, respiratory infections, or diarrhea, as you can see.

ebola
The current outbreak involves the Zaire strain, which was discovered in 1976 — the year Ebola was first identified in what was then Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). That same year, the virus was also discovered in South Sudan.

Since 1976, there have only been about 20 known Ebola outbreaks. Until last year, the total impact of these outbreaks included 2,357 cases and 1,548 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They all occurred in isolated or remote areas of Africa, and Ebola never had a chance to go very far.

And that's what makes the 2014 outbreak so remarkable: the virus has spread to five countries in Africa plus America, and has already infected more than 8,000 people. It has killed more than 4,000 people. That is more than triple the sum total of all previous outbreaks combined.

http://www.vox.com/2014/10/13/695908...tated-airborne

[Alex Linder]

nurse in texas got ebola from african nigger duncan (now dead), Pham is #2

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...uarantine.html



Kind-hearted: Raised in Vietnamese family in Fort Worth, Miss Pham graduated from Texas Christian University in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing

[Tintin]

Ebola fears grip New York as mixed reports claim two patients have been isolated in a Manhattan hospital just hours after Dallas passenger is removed from plane at Nashville airport after vomiting on board


Ebola is getting closer and closer to the homo-pedo-feco community. Once it arrives, the shit will hit the fan.

• The pair are reportedly in isolation at New York City's Bellevue Hospital
• They are both believed to be adults who fell ill at New York City address
• Sources say they have recently returned from a trip to Africa
• The hospital has denied it is treating any patients with Ebola
• Bellevue Hospital has been established as NYC's Ebola intake center

[Tintin]

Who exactly is in charge of the Ebola crisis? McCain leads calls for a 'Czar' in the White House to lead response


Drug Czar, Border Czar, AIDS Czar, ...

Now an Ebola Czar!?

The end is near!

• White House has had a rotating cavalcade of experts from seven different agencies briefing Congress and the press on Ebola
• Sen. John McCain said on Sunday that he would 'like to know who's in charge' of the White House's plan
• But during Obama's first year in office, he mocked the president for having 'more czars than the Romanovs'
• Rep. Jack Kingston demanded 'one person in charge' on Saturday to lead 'one central office that's a clearinghouse'
• In 2009 he pushed legislation to defund White House 'czars' as unaccountable apparatchiks

[grail]

Inside source told me there are 4 confirmed Ebola cases in Dallas and 8 more probable ; with single patients in other cities..

Professionals who are watching the CDCs handling of this , who have more accurate information , are quietly quitting their jobs due to the LV2 protocols

and the real stats' ,,etc......

PS; Nina Pham's boyfriend has been put in a Ft Worth hospital with ebola symptoms....

[Samuel Toothgold]

Originally Posted by Alex Linder

...One of the studies we're going to do here is to test the virulence of this new strain in experimentally infected primates and compare it with the reference strain, and look at whether it is hotter...

Here, a NHS talking head blames budget cuts for the failure to contain a virus strain they could not have predicted to evolve from mutation ten years ago:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_5974148.html

...one of the country's top health officials says a vaccine likely would have already been discovered were it not for budget cuts...

[Tintin]

United Nations worker infected with Ebola in Africa dies in German hospital despite 'intensive' treatment

• The 56-year-old man arrived in the country five days ago from Liberia
• He was being treated in isolation unit at St Georg hospital in Leipzig
• The aid worker was one of three people being treated for Ebola in Germany
• Local health officials said last week the patient was a Sudanese doctor

[Crowe]

They're dropping like flies even with the best modern medical care they can get. Viruses like this make me glad I live out in the middle of nowhere. I can think of a dozen better ways to die than bleed to death out every orifice in my body.

[Dawn Cannon]

The number of Ebola cases in three West African nations may jump to between 5,000 and 10,000 a week by Dec. 1 as the deadly viral infection spreads, the World Health Organization said.

The outbreak is still expanding geographically in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and accelerating in capital cities, Bruce Aylward (Bruce Aylward is a Canadian physician and epidemiologist who heads the polio eradication programme at WHO, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative), the WHO’s assistant director-general in charge of the Ebola response, said in a briefing with reporters in Geneva. There have been about 1,000 new cases a week for the past three to four weeks, he said.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...a-cases-a-week


Bruce Aylward, "doogooder"