EBOLA NEWS 10-17-2014 ----- UPATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY

Super-Genius Barack Obama: We’ll Keep Ebola Out Of America By Letting West Africans In

“I don’t have a philosophical objection necessarily to a travel ban, if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe,” President Obama said on Thursday. 

Obama said the experts have advised him that it’s more effective to let West Africans into the U.S. than it would be to keep them out. 

“The problem is that in all the discussions I’ve had thus far with experts in the field, experts in infectious disease, is that a travel ban is less effective than the measures that we are currently instituting, that involve screening passengers who are coming from West Africa.” 

Obama said it’s important to continue screening West Africans before they get on planes and then after they arrive in the U.S. to see if they’re showing signs of disease. Sick people should get medical evaluations, he said. And people who are not sick should list their contact information.

And yet, remember, this from yesterday:

NPR, July, 2014: The Only Solution To Ebola Is Total Containment

Just to be clear, I'm not saying NPR are more expert than the head of the CDC. What I'm saying is the healthcare workers depicted in the NPR article show, by their actions, that absolute containment is the only thing that works. They even contain people SUSPECTED of having Ebola. They don't allow them to travel. They quarantine them absolutely. 

And yet, now that it Ebola is a problem in the US, suddenly absolute containment is not the answer?!?

It's almost as if the Obama Administration is more concerned with the political fallout of Ebola than they are with the health of the American people.

Belgium: Baggage Handlers at Belgium National Airport Refuse To Unload Bags From Ebola-stricken Countries of West Africa

Let's not forget this additional 'coincidental' coordinating effort making it possible for these new visa holders to simply blend into society without any regard for the pestilence they may bring with them...

WashingtonTImes: Ebola in the U.S.: Stricter travel quarantine practices dropped by Obama admin. in 2010 

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TheConservativeTreehouse

Texas-Based Carnival Magic Cruise Ship Stuck At Sea With 4,633 Passengers and Dallas Healthcare Worker With Ebola Symptoms – Belize Refuses Port Entry – Belizeans Saying “Sink Ship” – Armed Belize Coast Guard Keeping Ship At Sea…

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BusinessInsider:
Health Worker Who May Have Had Contact With Ebola Patient Is On A Cruise Ship Right Now

Belizean: Belize confirms patient with Ebola symptoms on cruise ship off it’s coast

Quote: "The GoB reassures the public that the passenger never set foot in Belize and while we remain in close contact with U.S. officials we have maintained the position that when even the smallest doubt remains, we will ensure the health and safety of the Belizean people."

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This is something the current CDC would never say. It is absolutely criminal!
We're all familiar with these ships experience with norovirus sweeping rapidly through to the passengers. Imagine how anxious all the people on that ship are now.

WorldMaritimeNews: Cruise Passenger with Ebola Symptoms Denied Entry to Belize

The Belize government assured their citizens that the passenger never set foot in Belize, but failed to address the situation with other 4,631 passengers and crew reported on the ship.

The Belize Coast Guard is currently preventing anyone from leaving the ship, including the Belizean pilot on board.

Citing Ebola, Cornell Mandates Travel Restrictions To West African Countries

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$39,643,352 Worth of NIH Funding That Could Have Gone to the Ebola Vaccine

Agency spends millions on Origami condoms, fat lesbians, texting drunks...

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image of tender carrying (2) possible Ebola 'sick' cruise passengers between coast of Belize and Carnival Magic Cruise ship

Fox&Friends is currently discussing a story out of JFK airport in NY regarding a flight from Africa upon which a passenger DIED...of course, the reporter states Ebola already ruled out.

NYPost: Ebola ruled out as passenger dies on Nigeria flight to JFK 

A passenger died on a Nigeria to JFK flight after a vomiting fit on Thursday - and top lawmaker said officials gave the corpse only a "cursory" exam before declaring that the victim did not have Ebola.

Dr. Manny to CDC: Don't blame nurse or hospital or Dallas...blame yourselves

InvestorsBusinessDaily: Islamic Burial Rituals blamed for Spread of Ebola Virus in Africa

Texas hospital workers who treated Ebola patient placed on no-fly list 

The 75 Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital staffers are banned from traveling by plane, train, bus or ship for 21 days after their last contact with Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, the order said. The mandate comes after two of Duncan's nurses contracted the deadly disease — one of whom flew a day before she was diagnosed

UKDailyTelegraph: Ebola is the 'biggest health threat to our world in a generation' - David Cameron 

Ebola threat sees new restrictions on box shipping as ports ramp up their security

When surviving Ebola becomes a nightmare 
When Jerald Dennis left the Ebola treatment center after surviving the deadly virus that has claimed the lives of more than 2,000 of his fellow Liberians, he thought the worst was over.

He was wrong.

Dennis, a 30-year-old non-medical worker at John F. Kennedy Medical Hospital (JFK), Liberia's largest referral hospital, fell prey to the Ebola virus in early September.

"I probably contracted the virus through indirect contact, because you can get it through direct or indirect contact," he told Anadolu Agency in an interview in his home in Monrovia's Matadi district.

Dennis recalled how he began feeling burns on his hands before things became worse, as he experienced severe pain in his head and other parts of his body, later suffering from diarrhea and vomiting as well.


Why Phillipines WONT'T send medics to Ebola-hit areas 

MANILA - The Philippines has rebuffed a US request to dispatch medical workers to Ebola-hit regions, with the health ministry saying boosting the country's defenses against any local outbreaks was the priority. The United Nations has launched a global ...

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Guardian: Ebola vaccine would be available had bioterrorism research been completed


US soldiers get 4 hours of Ebola training before shipping out to West Africa


What would an Ebola Travel Ban actually look like?


Three More Countries Impose Ebola Ban, Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago


RedEye: Texas HCW isolated on cruise ship, deemed low risk for Ebola

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AtlantaJournalConstitution: DeKalb Schools block two from school amid Ebola concerns
were blocked from enrolling in DeKalb schools this week as a precaution against the spread of Ebola.

DeKalb school officials said the father worked for CARE, a humanitarian organization, as a finance controller in the Liberia/Sierra Leone office. He returned to the United States on Sept. 14 with his family and tried to enroll the children Wednesday at Dunwoody Elementary and Dunwoody High.
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PDF of Screening Questionaire for Ebola

Mediaite: WH/Earnest: 'Maybe Likely' More Dallas Hospital Workers will get Ebola

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Uptown: After Ebola Quarantine on Carnival Cruise, Travel Ban Issued 

Although the unidentified woman is being monitored and has not shown symptoms, she has been quarantined on the ship. US officials wanted her to deboard in Belize and fly her home but Belizian officials refused to allow her to travel through Phillip Goldson International Airport. Mexico banned the ship from docking off the coast of Cozumel, preventing any passengers from stepping foot in the country as part of its scheduled port visit.
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TYPHOON AMBER
UKDailyMail: Frontier Air notifies 800 passengers they were on the plane that carried Amber Vinson as OHio health official monitor 16 people who had contact with her 

The CDC revealed on Thursday that she may have been contagious for her entire trip to Ohio - as early as last Friday
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MSN: People Are Now Apparently Faking Ebola To Get Faster Medical Treatment 
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UTSanDiego
On Thursday reports of a student with flu-like symptoms caused Southwestern College in Chula Vista to cordon off a classroom building.

It was later revealed that the student made up the story that she and her sister had shared a plane with a Dallas nurse who was later diagnosed with Ebola. Later in the day, Southwestern College issued a statement saying the issue was now a student conduct matter, “and will be treated in accordance with the district’s policy and procedures.

WH: We weren't looking for an Ebola expert to be our new Ebola Czar

Obama send WH aide to Dallas to ccordinate Ebola response

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WH: New Ebola Czar will report to Susan Rice

CSPAN clip: HEATED: Rep. Steve Scalise Grills CDC Director Frieden at Ebola House Hearing 10/16/2014
Dr. Frieden refuses to answer yes/no question whether WH discussed banning flights out of hot zone.
*****comment left at YouTube: 
“I am left to conclude that America’s leadership is either guilty of gross misconduct, dereliction of duty, criminal negligence or worse – treason,” writes Davis, warning that the “crisis will undoubtedly spiral out of control” if the advice of incompetent public health authorities, the government and the media continues to be followed unquestionably. Richard C. Davis, M.D., 

EBOLA NEWS 10-15-14 - To Be Updated Throughout the Day

Second Nurse Who Contracted Ebola Traveled By Air Two Days Ago

Appears CDC's definition of 'quarantine' needs review as well: 

The second healthcare worker who tested positive for Ebola last night flew by air Oct. 13th, the day before she reported symptoms, reported the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in a release. 

She flew on Frontier Airlines flight 1143 Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth. The CDC is asking all 132 passengers on the flight to call 1 800-CDC INFO (1 800-232-4636). Passengers will be monitored for symptoms and interviewed about the flight.

Related?

ABC5: Plane that may have carried Ebola patient being cleaned at Clevleand Hopkins International Airport 11:19AM October 15, 2014

BreakingNews: Local reporter @DavidSchechter says family have told him that the newest Dallas Ebola patient is 26-year old Amber Joy Vinson, a registered nurse. We will update when we have further confirmation. - Grace

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Crews from @protect_environ outside #Ebola patients home in #Dallas - 3rd case diagnosed in #US #WFAA #DSLR

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WaPo: Ebola Stricken Nurse Flew On a Passenger Plane a Day Before Being Diagnosed 

The health care worker had flown from Dallas to Cleveland on Friday, Oct. 10. The flight she took back to Dallas on Monday arrived at 8:16 p.m. and remained overnight, because it was done with flights for the day.
After that, the plane “received a thorough cleaning per our normal procedures” before resuming service on Tuesday, Frontier said in a statement. It was also cleaned on Tuesday night in Cleveland, the airline said.

Nurses outraged: 'There was no protocol, there was no system'

ABC5 updated 3 minutes ago The patient flew into Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Oct. 10 and out Oct. 13. She came to Akron to visit family, the Ohio Department of Health reports.

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CIDRAP Confirms Ebola Transmittable by Air

"The highly respected Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the Universityof Minnesota just advised the U.S. Centers for Disease Control(CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) that “there is scientificand epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles,” including exhaled breath."

MEANWHILE:

Current page on Ebola at OSHA, Quick Facts:
Ebola virus and EHF do not pose a threat to most U.S. workers.At this time, there is not an EBola outbreak in the U.S. The ongoing outbreak is limited to countries in West Africa . . .

This is your progressive government in action.

Twitter from Jon Gabriel
"The people screwing up the Ebola response? Soon they'll run our entire healthcare system.

Ebola Strain appears to be different

Ebola Outbreak: Liberia Needs 79,940 More Body Bags

Texas College Rejects Nigerian Applicants, Cites Ebola Cases 

Note also, family members have suggested Duncan’s 19-year-old son, Karsiah, has been indefinitely barred from Angelo State University, where he attends college - . University officials denied that, saying he could return whenever he likes.

Texas Ebola patient will move to Atlanta

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A female passenger dressed in a hazmat suit — complete with a full body gown, mask and gloves — was spotted Wednesday waiting for a flight at the airport. Another traveler snapped a photo of the woman and provided it to The Daily Caller.

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Flashback: CDC Identifies Ten Individuals as Being At "High Risk" of Infection from Thomas Eric Duncan; Those Individual Were Told Not to Travel Outside of Dallas

From Ace:

Despite this nurse obviously being a "High Risk" case -- I assume she was, anyway; if she was not on the High Risk list, that opens up a huge Pandora's box of questions -- she was not, apparently, restrained from flying (despite being within the 21 days when ebola is present but not symptomatic), nor were any special precautions before boarding (taking her temperature), nor did the CDC tell Frontier Air to decontaminate its planes.
But hey man -- she was being "closely monitored" out of "an abundance of caution."
Silly me, I thought the High Risk Cases would be confined to their apartments during their 21 days of possible asymptomatic infection.

The Washington Post's Hacktastic Plum Line: America's Fears About Ebola Are Just Due to Media Scare-Mongering

—Ace

The Democrat-Media Complex is blaming the Democratic-Media Complex for the allegedly undue panic about ebola.

Reliable Democrat spinner Paul Waldman at the Plum Line says "Congratulations, media," about the public's fear of ebola, then makes the case that heck, only two people have gotten Ebola in the US so far, and twenty four people have been struck by lightning so far this year alone.

Yeah here's the problem with that: Lightning strikes are not prone to exponential increase the way that an epidemic is. Lightning strikes are a stable phenomenon.

Lightning strikes are not doubling every three weeks as they are in West Africa.

The Secretary General of the UN stated:

The Ebola crisis has evolved into a complex emergency, with significant political, social, economic, humanitarian and security dimensions. The suffering and spillover effects in the region and beyond demand the attention of the entire world. Ebola matters to us all. The outbreak is the largest the world has ever seen. The number of cases is doubling every three weeks. There will soon be more cases in Liberia alone than in the four-decade history of the disease. In the three most affected countries -- Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- the disease is destroying health systems. More people are now dying in Liberia from treatable ailments and common medical conditions than from Ebola....

The gravity and scale of the situation now require a level of international action unprecedented for a health emergency.

And, actually, we've had the first doubling in America these past two weeks too. Yes, it is a minor doubling, from one to two, but you cannot proceed to four, nor eight, nor 16, nor 32, without that first doubling.
One could expect the "doubling rate" in America to be slower than in Liberia. Liberians apparently have cultural practices that make the spread of the disease easier, such as the touching of the dead. Then again, I'm pretty sure the word has gotten out in Liberia -- do not touch the dead -- and yet the doubling continues.
Liberia doesn't have the health care system we do, sure. So again, we could expect the doubling rate to be slower.
But it is the nature of epidemics to double, even if slowly. And it doesn't take many doublings at all to get to truly staggering numbers -- by the twentieth doubling, two becomes just over one million.
WHO, by the way, says to expect 10,000 new ebola cases a week in West Africa.
I don't think the American people are wrong to take a serious health risk seriously. I also don't think they're panicking -- I think they're alarmed, as they should be.
Paul Waldman seems to take the fact that 67% of the public wants a travel ban from West Africa as a sign of panic, and then notes "experts say" such a ban could make things worse.
It seems to me that Paul Waldman concludes the public is in an unnecessary and irrational panic based on having a different position on a Travel Ban than Obama.
This is the same position that Obama Zealots always take: If you disagree with Obama, you are guilty of some sort of defect in thinking, whether it is "racism," "hating women," or, now, being irrationally afraid of the outbreak of a disease well into its exponential doubling phase and which kills 50% of people infected with it.

Ebola News 10-14-14 - Constantly Updated at bottom of post

WHO Says There Could Be Up To 10,000 New Ebola Cases Per Week In 2 Months

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One Week of Observation Left; Original 48 Contacts OK
So far, Duncan's family members remain symptom free.

However, it appears officials are preparing the msm because officials may already be aware of quarantined individuals who may be symptomatic and preparing their ‘narrative’…
BostonHerald: Experts warn Ebola scares will spike Tuesday, October 14, 2014

FoxNews: CDC head says more health care workers could have Ebola, despite claiming ‘any hospital’ can handle virus 10/13/2014

About 70 Hospital Staffers Cared for Ebola Patient

If one got sick, 70 could be sick.
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Worker Infected with Ebola dies in German Hospital

The 56-year-old man arrived in the country five days ago from LiberiaHe was being treated in isolation unit at St Georg hospital in LeipzigThe aid worker was the third person with Ebola to be treated in Germany Local health officials said last week that the patient was a Sudanese doctor

LATimes: Fever Not Surefire Sign of Ebola Infection
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S.Africa DailyNews: Being defensive about Ebola is unproductive 
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AllAfrica: Liberia, Health Minister warns Stop rejecting Ebola survivors 
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AP/Fox: UN Agency: Up to 40% of farms abandoned in worst Ebola-affected areas of Sierra Leone 
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Cote d'Ivoire Quarantines Six Returnees from Liberia, Guinea 
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Nurses Union angry at CDC: "We will picket every hospital in this country if we have to" 
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CNN iReport: Ebola Protective Suit Accidents Vaseline Cream 

An Australian experimental photographer and inventor named Vincenzo Giovanni Ruello has identified the accident breaches occuring with the ebola protective suits being worn by nurses doctors and carers.   The simple application of vaseline cream to the face arms legs and body before entering the suit will stop microbes entering the skin once the suit is taken off.   The simple inexpensive vaseline cream can also be used by carers at home who have basically no real protection.   Ruello has contacted various organisations including WHO. '' It only takes an extra 5 minutes to apply the vaseline gel but it will save lives. The general population can use it also as a protective barrier '' Ruello said.

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OK News9: Former NASA Physicist Talks about Ebola 
There are a lot of strategies for how the Ebola virus can be controlled.
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China Military-linked firm eyes quick approval of drug to cure Ebola
Chinese drugmaker with close military ties is seeking fast-track approval for a drug that it says can cure Ebola

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UPDATES ---

Overwhelming Majority Want Flight Restrictions From Ebola Countries

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WHO: 70% of Ebola Victims Are Dying – 20,000 Cases Expected By November

Ebola News --- 10-8-2014 - UPDATED AT BOTTOM OF POST

Coast Guard sector issues new steps on Ebola virus 2:55 pm, Tuesday, October 7, 2014 
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard sector says it will contact ships that have recently been to Ebola-affected countries to ask whether passengers have symptoms of the virus before they are allowed into port.

The sector, which includes parts of New York and Connecticut, issued to the maritime community in Long Island Sound on Monday a bulletin that describes protocols being put into place due to the Ebola outbreak.

NBCNews: Save Excalibur! Pet Lovers Unite to Protect Ebola Patient's Dog

First published October 8 2014, 4:26 AM

Canadian Ebola vaccine license holder moving ahead with safety trials
October 8, 2014 8:43 a.m.
TORONTO - With talk turning to the idea that Ebola vaccines and drugs may be needed to quell the West African outbreak, the tiny U.S. company that holds the licence for a Canadian-made vaccine says it is working as fast as it can to get that option tested and ready for use.

NewLink Genetics says at least five clinical trials involving the vaccine, known as VSV-EBOV, will soon be under way in the United States, Germany, Switzerland and in an unnamed African country which is not battling Ebola. As well, the Canadian government has said it wants to conduct a trial in this country.

AP: Doc: Spanish woman touched face with ebola glove
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Spanish health officials say they are investigating whether a nursing assistant infected with Ebola got the disease after she touched her face with protective gloves after leaving the quarantine room where an Ebola victim was being treated.

Dr. German Ramirez says nursing assistant Teresa Romero says she remembers she once touched her face with the gloves.

Health officials have said Romero twice entered the room of Spanish missionary Manuel Garcia Viejo, who died of Ebola on Sept. 25 in Madrid. She went in once to change his diaper and also entered after he died to retrieve unspecified items.

Ramirez said Wednesday that Romero believes she touched her face with the glove after her first entry into the priest's room.

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Note: This nurse ['s aid] is reported to have entered the priest's room only twice. Once to change his diaper, the second time to collect and dispose of his things.

Third Health Worker Hospitalized Over Ebola in Spain 


A spokesman for Spain's regional health department said the hospital worker, whose name wasn't disclosed, had a slight fever, one possible early symptom of Ebola. The aide was part of the medical team that treated Manuel García Viejo, a 69-year-old Spanish missionary who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and was evacuated to Madrid. He died in late September

Flight attendants call for tougher Ebola screens at airports
Wednesday - 10/8/2014, 8:17am ET

The Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) says new, stronger measures must be implemented in Ebola virus hotspots to keep anyone with likely symptoms grounded. 

The union representing nearly 60,000 Flight Attendants at 19 airlines believes airlines and health officials are relying too heavily on voluntary questionnaires. 

AFA says in a news release that options are limited once someone infected with the Ebola virus is on a plane - flight crews don't have the medical training or personal protective equipment required for handling an Ebola patient. 

Ebola training focuses on astronaut-like gear

The serious-faced physicians practice pulling on bulky white suits and helmets that make them look more like astronauts than doctors preparing to fight a deadly enemy. These training sessions at U.S. hospitals on Ebola alert and for health workers heading to Africa can make the reality sink in: Learning how to safely put on and take off the medical armor is crucial.

KSL.com Ebola crisis leaves Dallas a city on edge
October 8, 2014

Leaders are urging calm, but Dallas is a city on edge as it approaches the first Ebola incubation deadline this week.

USAToday: Sierra Leone: Strike leaves Ebola dead in streets

Associated Press 6:28 a.m. EDT October 8, 2014

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation reported Wednesday that bodies of Ebola victims have been left in the country's streets because of a strike by burial teams, who complain they have not been paid.

Health Ministry spokesman Sidie Yahya Tunis said the situation is "very embarrassing," insisting money was available to pay the teams. He promised to provide more information later Wednesday.

DallasNews: 2 ISD custodial managers placed on leave over slow cleaning at schools affected by Ebola case 

Updated: 07 October 2014 04:17 PM 

Two Dallas ISD custodial supervisors said they were placed on administrative leave Monday because it took too long to clean five schools affected by the city’s Ebola case and because they supplied hazmat suits to the custodians who cleaned the schools.

The two supervisors -- Marion Castro and Jose Guererro -- said they couldn’t complete the cleanup in one day because the district didn’t provide help to work through the night.

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Re: the headline: "USAToday: Sierra Leone: Strike leaves Ebola dead in streets"

We've all read the alarm about the initial attempts to have Mr. Duncan's ebola laced vomit power-washed off the property by a typical custodian sans protective gear in Dallas.

Consider all those dead bodies, at the peak of infection when the greatest amount of live ebola virus is present, remain in the streets of Sierra Leone. Compound that with the rainy season. Albeit, the end of the rainy season but consider it has had an impact as reported here:
Rains complicate delivery of Ebola supplies in West Africa dated 9/30/2014

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The rainy season in West Africa generally falls from the end of April - July on the coastal areas with a second shorter rainy season in September/October.
Closer to the coast it is always a little more humid even in the dry months, but there are less mosquitoes around and unpaved roads are passable.

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In Spain, they just ordered the euthansia of an Ebola-infected nurse's pet dog ...due to potential exposure to Ebola.
Imagine these dead festering bodies in Sierra Leone in the open, and the natural animals, insects, vermin which can carry/consume the virus spilling into puddles, onto vegetation,etc. 

JOHN KERRY'S NON-SEQUITOR: WE NEED TO CONTAIN EBOLA, WE NEED BORDERS TO REMAIN OPEN, AND WE NEED TO EXPAND THE MEDEVAC CAPACITY

Muddled thinking like that assures us we're in the worst hands since Caligula.

Ebola --- October 7, 2014 - UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY

About that Spanish nurse:

USAToday: Spain investigates Ebola nurse

Spanish nurse’s Ebola infection blamed on substandard equipment
Staff at Madrid’s Carlos III hospital say protective suits do not meet WHO standards as second nurse undergoes tests for virus

Spain Seeks People in Contact With Ebola-Infected Nurse 
no mention yet about location of vacation...her husband is also in isolation..she was in the Valecia region (from video)
" The nurse went on vacation after treating the priest, with whom she was in contact twice, once before and once after his death, Vinuesa Sebastian said. "

ABCNews: Spain Quarantines 3 More After Nurse Gets Ebola


LATimes: Some Ebola experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed


More about Ashoka Muckpo, photographer treated in Nebraska

CTV: Experimental Ebola treatments at a glance

Devastating news from the Ebola clinic

The day ends with the burial teams throwing their protective clothing - gloves, masks and body suits - into the last grave. It's starting to rain again. We remove our protective suits and put them in a yellow biohazard bag, which the burial team disposes of.

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10/6/2014 Haaretz:
Amid spread of Ebola, Israel to tighten border control and issue travel advisory

Israel steps up fight against Ebola in Africa Three teams of medical professionals, along with mobile emergency clinics, will be sent to West Africa. 

08/04/2014 JPost: Israeli Ebola researcher unique in learning how some victims survive 
“There is general hysteria in the West about Ebola fever, but it is overblown,” the American- born Lobel said in an interview on Monday with The Jerusalem Post.

“The risks to Israel are very minimal. The only way for it to spread is through an infected traveler on plane. But if that ever happened, Israel has a security and medical system that is second to none. Infected individuals, before they appear sick, could possibly board a plane and come here. However, sick individuals would be effectively quarantined in Israel and the infection would be rapidly controlled,” Lobel said.

Norwegian woman infected with Ebola

Doctors Without Borders confirms that one of our organization’s Norwegian field workers in Sierra Leone has tested positive and has been diagnosed with bleeding fever ebola, confirms Anne Cecilie Kalteborn in MSF’s Norway branch to Norwegian media VG. The Norwegian health worker is tonight being flown with an ambulance flight from the capital Sierra Leone. She will probably land in Norway Monday night or Tuesday night.- We are working to transport our colleague home as soon as possible, says Kaltebotn.

The woman, who has been working for MSF in Sierra Leone’s second city Bo, has according to VG’s sources been feeling increasingly ill during the weekend.

When the symptoms of Ebola, fever and sickness, were felt, she was put in isolation and lab-tests proved she was infected.

- This is a situation we take very seriously, says the Norwegian Foreign Department.

The woman will be flown to Oslo’s main hospital, Ullevål, were a full team of doctor’s are ready to receive her.

Bo is a district in Sierra Leone that is badly hit by the epidemic: 227 suspected cases are reported in the area were the Norwegian woman was infected.

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Husband of Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola is among FOUR in hospital as it is revealed she complained of symptoms a week ago but was ignored

.............."It's also since emerged that a week before she tested positive for Ebola she had contacted health workers to complain of a fever and fatigue, telling them she had helped treat two priests who contracted Ebola in Africa and were repatriated to Spain.

But it wasn't until she went to her local hospital on Monday that she was finally admitted and tested for the virus. "......."But last night staff at the Carlos III hospital where she worked claimed the protective suits they were given were not good enough.
Unnamed sources told Spanish daily El Pais the suits did not meet World Health Organisation standards.
They said the suits they were issued with were permeable and lacked breathing apparatus."...."Dr Ben Neuman, Lecturer in Virology, University of Reading, said: 'Nurses face a problem in that a person who is sick with Ebola can make quite a lot of highly infectious waste, as the patient loses fluid through diarrhoea and vomiting. Those bodily fluids can contain millions of Ebola viruses, and it only takes one to transfer the infection.

'The protective suits that Ebola workers wear provide excellent protection, but there is a danger when it is time to take the suit off. It is also possible that a tiny amount of Ebola-containing liquid splashed on the protective garments, and then was transferred to her skin while removing the protective clothing.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Estimating the Future Number of Cases in the Ebola Epidemic — Liberia and Sierra Leone, 2014–2015

(charts illustrate the numbers soar through the roof)

**for a disease that is characterized as 'difficult to catch', and 'not likely to spread'

Prof Jonathan Ball, Professor of Molecular Virology at the University of Nottingham, said: 'If appropriate containment measures were adopted this really should not have happened.

'It will be crucial to find out what went wrong in this case so necessary measures can be taken to ensure it doesn't happen again.

'As the African outbreak perfectly illustrates, healthcare workers put their life on the line, so everything should be done to ensure that risks are minimised as much as possible.

'As for the suggestion of screening people as they arrive at airports, this would only work if people were already showing symptoms.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2783332/Husband-Spanish-nurse-contracted-Ebola-quarantine-health-authorities-admit-DON-T-KNOW-contracted-virus.html#ixzz3FT31Tbry

Professor Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern University in Boston, who led the research, said:"...'Air traffic is the driver."..."

Read more: UKDailyMail, 10/7/2014

Do Healthcare Workers treating Ebola patients demand Level 4 protection? 

From what I understand this was adapted from WHO/UN recommendations, so that could be why the nurse in Spain was not fully protected.

CDC Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations

Question...How many hospitals are equipped with level 4 suits?

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From a commenter who listens to Spanish radio, and has information to offer on the Spanish nurse:

Livius

I listen to Spanish radio, and this morning they said that person in question was a nurse’s aide, actually, and not a nurse. She only entered the room of the missionary twice, once just to check on him - and once after he had died, when she had to help clean out the room (remove the sheets, etc.). So probably during that process, she came into contact with soiled bedding or some other article.

She seems to have been suited up appropriately, and right now, although she says she followed all the procedures, didn’t have a torn glove or anything like that, they believe that she must have slipped up somewhere along the line and touched something contaminated.

The other people in the hospital now are her husband, one of her coworkers, and someone who arrived from Africa; none of them have been diagnosed with ebola yet, although I think the coworker has a fever. The other two are in isolation because of close contact with her or, in the case of the African, with somebody else who had ebola.

I don’t think it’s airborne, but it does seem as if it might be easier to get than people think. I wonder also if there are different strains of it, some more aggressive than others?


Livius

Oh, by the way, when the nurse’s aide felt sick, she went and sat in the urgent care clinic of her local general hospital (not the bigger hospital that she worked at) for 4 hours - surrounded by other patients, having her temperature taken, etc. - until finally she mentioned to the medical staff that she had been in contact with an ebola patient.

She was immediately put in isolation and then sent back to the other hospital, but nobody understands why she didn’t go there right off, as soon as she felt even slightly sick. Instead, she went out and exposed large numbers of people and health care professionals to the disease.

I heard an interview with the nurses, and they’re pretty nervous, understandably.

Ah, human stupidity. The most effective vector...

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US Political responses thus far:

Oct. 2, 2014: Ted Cruz Asks FAA About Ebola Flight Ban

10/3/2014 Bobby Jindal: Ban travel from Ebola nations

October 6, 2014: Leading Republicans press for limits on travel to prevent spread of Ebola

10/3/2014: US faces flight ban calls over Ebola

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Senator Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, has said a flight ban should be considered, and Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, slammed the White House’s “unclear approach” and called for airports to take every precaution.

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Senate Dem Draws a Blank When Asked about Obama’s Ebola Policy

Anxiety amongst airline employees is evident too:

Fear of Ebola sky-high among Air France workers


Airline investors spooked by Ebola: International Air Transport Association report


Ebola is on the move, and that doesn't bode well for transportation companies such as airlines.


United States experts unsure about viability of plans for Ebola screening for airline passengers

"While United and Delta airlines are the only US-based operators serving Africa, heightened Ebola vigilance would require a broad net, covering travellers on other non-stop flights from the continent and those who connect via European carriers in hubs such as London and Paris. Fliers at risk would then need to be scrutinised for any history of exposure to the disease."

Bloomberg 10/06/2014: Why Politicians Should Stop Pushing for an Ebola Travel Ban 

DallasNews 10/06/2014: White House sees low risk of US Ebola outbreak, no need for travel ban

Sydney Morning Herald, 10/07/2014: How the world let Ebola spread

FirstPost.com 10/07/2014: Fight against Ebola a top national security priority, says Barack Obama

Cache of Bloomberg article, high lighted at Drudge in red ink:

Several Dozen U.S. Troops to Have Contact Testing Ebola 
By David Lerman Oct 7, 2014 12:31 PM ET
A few dozen U.S. troops will have direct exposure to potential Ebola patients by running testing labs in Liberia, the head of U.S. Africa Command said for the first time today.

While most of the 4,000 troops authorized to deploy to the west African country won’t have direct contact with victims of the virus -- as Pentagon officials have previously emphasized -- three or four specially trained personnel will run each of as many as seven testing labs, Army General David Rodriguez said at a Pentagon news conference.

“They are specifically trained to do that,” Rodriguez said of the lab personnel, which he called a “specialty element” of the larger force. .

Lab personnel will wear full protective gear, he said.

Three labs already have been set up in the country to respond to the epidemic and the military has received a request for four more, Rodriguez said.

Most of the troops in Liberia will focus on logistics, training and engineering support and won’t have direct contact with potential Ebola victims, he said. Troops are helping to build treatment centers.

The U.S. mission in Liberia, which may last for about a year, is likely to cost about $750 million for the next six months, he said. "

US Dept. of Defense:

Obama: Countries Must Step Up Aggressively to Ebola Fight

Politico 10/07/2014: DOD Ebola fight could last a year or more

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/ebola-us-troops-111668.html#ixzz3FTzDX25G

Rick Perry: No Ebola flight bans

Nebraska Medical Center Ebola patient to receive different experimental drug

Madrid to kill dog of nursing aide who got Ebola

From AOW....Take note of this, which appeared at the WaPo a few hours ago:

The nurse became infected at Madrid's Carlos III hospital while treating Manuel Garcia Viejo, a priest who contracted the virus in West Africa. The woman, a "sanitary technician," entered Garcia Viejo's room only twice, according to Spanish officials.

In one case, she entered the room to change his diaper; another time, after he had died, she entered to collect his belongings, according to Mercedes Vinuesa Sebastian, Spain's public health director. Both times, the nurse wore personal protective equipment.