Ebola News 10-9-2014

Ebola Panic Inches Closer to HOllywood: Possible Patient Rushed to LA Hospital

The asymptomatic patient was brought to the Centinela
Hospital Medical Center Emergency Department on Tuesday night by ambulance from
Los Angeles International Airport as a precaution due to travel history.


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New Jersey Customs Agent: We're Not Prepared for Ebola


A federal customs official at New Jersey's Newark International Airport says that they are not trained or equipped to face passengers who might be infected with Ebola.

President Barack Obama finally announced that five of the nations largest international airports will begin Ebola screenings in an effort to identify possible Ebola carriers and prevent an outbreak here at home.

Federal officials plan to implement the new screening regime at New York's Kennedy International, Washington D.C.'s Dulles, Chicago's O'Hare, Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta, and Newark's Liberty International.

But a new report by a Customs agent at Newark's Liberty Airport says they are not ready at all if Ebola happens to show up in New Jersey.

"They are assuring the public everything is being done, but it is not," the agent told New York's NBC 4. 


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CDC’s Ebola Advice to Airline Crews: Watch for
Passengers 'Using Restroom Many Times’*****



Plane cleaners strike at New York airport terminal over
Ebola fears

***Note: what is interesting about this link to Fox is the video IS NOT the same video report provided in this morning's Fox segment which showed the valid concerns of these unionized workers dealing with human waste and aircraft sanitation.



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CDC: 150 People Enter U.S. Per Day from Ebola-Stricken Countries--or 4,500 Per Month
(CNSNews.com) - Both Homeland Security Secretary Secretary Jeh Johnson and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden said on Wednesday that 150 people a day arrive in the United States from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea, the three West African countries that have been hit by the Ebola virus.

"When somebody travels from one of those three West African countries, even through a transit point (in Europe), we know where they're coming from. So we're able to track this. And we know that on average it's about 150 passengers a day," Johnson told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

Ebola crisis: British man suspected of contracting virus 'dies in Macedonia' 

The unnamed man 's death was announced by a senior Macedonian Government official.

A second Briton had shown symptoms of the virus, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity is reported to have said.




***Note: Two UNIDENTIFIED MALES categorized as "BRITISH" should raise ??'s

CIA WorldFactbook on Macedonia 

NBCNews Exclusive: First Ebola Vaccine Trial Starts in Africa

The first trial of an Ebola vaccine in Africa has started, researchers said Thursday, with the vaccination of three health care workers in Mali.

AoW, 
Union Tribune San Diego: Haunting truth: Hazmat suits better for Halloween than Ebola in U.S. but interest is up

Ebola an Issue for the Switzerland ETF

reported under the category of 'finance'

I've seen other reports on the ebola crisis filed under finance...this link illustrates the forces keeping a soft touch on travel.

Ebola summit: Leaders of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone discuss crisis with UN, IMF, World Bank

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Ebola victim’s remains to be cremated, sick deputy awaits test results

Posted: Oct 09, 2014 2:02 PM EST Updated: Oct 09, 2014 2:08 PM EST
By: myfoxdfw.com Staff


Ebola victim’s remains to be cremated, sick deputy awaits test results

The remains of Thomas Eric Duncan, the man who died from Ebola Wednesday morning in Dallas, have been sent for cremation.

Duncan died at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital after ten days of treatment in isolation.

State health officials said his body was transported away from the hospital, but didn't give specifics about where it was taken.

The Centers for Disease Control recommended the body be wrapped in a triple layer of plastic and leak-proof bags. Those bags were to be sprayed with disinfectant.

Duncan's ashes will reportedly be returned to his family.

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.