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Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Ebola News 11-4-2014 --- UPDATED





dnaIndia: WHO says big pharma did not develop Ebola vaccine because it affected 'poor' African nations only Nov. 4, 2014 4:49PM IST
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Telegraph: Inside a high-security Ebola isolation chamber November 4, 2014 Professor Christophe Rapp, chief of infectious diseases at Hospital Begin in eastern Paris, explains how the Ebola isolation chamber works
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BBC: West Africans in NY 'stigmatised' over Ebola fears November 4, 2014
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PTInews: World Bank Chief urges Asian health help in Africa
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Bloomberg: Ebola Travel Bans buy only time, not safety November 4, 2014
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AsiaOneNews: Asia must do more to help global Ebola fight November 4, 2014
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BrisbaneTimes: Ebola: Abbott government relents, will send Australian volunteers to treat victims November 4, 2014 5:23PM
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NBCNews: Nose Spray Ebola Vaccine Protects Monkeys November 4, 2014
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NewKerala: Inhaled Ebola vaccine could offer long-term protection November 4, 2014
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Amid fear of Ebola, travel restricted November 4, 2014 Temple U admin announced it does not support travel to guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone
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Army.mil: Operation United Assistance Soldiers train first class of Ebola treatment unit workers November 4, 2014
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Reuters: Ebolacrisis highlights China's philanthropic shortfall November 4, 2014
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WSJ: A role for Japan in the fight against Ebola November 3, 2014 Japan's military is uniquely equipped to deal with disaster and humanitarian relief.
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St.AugustineRecordNews: After botching Ebola, WHO to pick new Africa bossNovember 4, 2014 12:03AM
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YahooNews: Ebola Outbreak may hold lessons for handling samples from MarsNovember 3, 2014
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IBT: Singapore imposes VISA requirements on Ebola-stricken West African nations
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ABS/CBN: Why aren't Chinese billionaires donating to help fight Ebola? 11/04/2014 2:50PM
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NPR: It turns out that fighting polio is good training to fight Ebola (in Nigeria)November 3, 2014 3:20PM ET
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TimesofIndia: Americans want quarantine for Ebola medics November 4, 2014 2:50PM IST
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Chron: Ebola kills Sierra Leone doctor, UN doubles staff November 3, 2014
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LATimes: Fifth doctor dies of Ebola in Sierra Leone November 3, 2014
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Daijiworld: UNICEF to increase staff in Africa to combat Ebola November 4, 2014
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NewsObserver: Duke Patient's first Ebola test negative November 3, 2014
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WaPo: You're more likely to catch Ebola than to receive marijuana-laced Halloween candy November 3,2 014 1:52PM
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CBCNews: Ebola outbreak prompts Canada to deploy more quarantine officers at airports November 3, 2014 2:43PM ET
Canada announces an additional $30.5million to fight Ebola
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SeekingAlpha: Ebola risk threatens Randgold Resources (gold mining) in MaliNovember 3, 2014
WHO treating Ebola situation in Mali as emergency
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KoreaTimes: World Bank chief asks Korea to help fight Ebola Novembr 4, 2014 17:57
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Reuters: UN's Ban warns against quarantining Ebola health workers Nov. 3, 2014
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Bloomberg: UN charters food ship for Africa as Ebola disrupts supply
November 3, 2014
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PennLive: Ebola: PA monitoring caseload rises 11/03/2014
Pennsylvania health officials as of Monday afternoon were monitoring 135 people for possible Ebola symptoms, an increase of 30 from last week.
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Cleveland.com: Ohioians under ebola monitoring dwindles to 52, officials expect to clear all late Monday
November 3, 2014
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ABC6: A dozen travelers being monitored for Ebola in Trenton, (NJ)November 3, 2014
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NewsOK: Ebola travel protocol created for Oklahoma County November 3, 2014
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KansasCityStar: Franken: Ebola victim's widow to get benefits
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UPDATE ---

Guardian: Fresh Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone raises fears of new infection chain 11/4/2014 7:11AM EST
Koinaugu had prided itself on being the only area to have kept Ebola at bay by operating self-imposed quarantine system 
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Ebola News 10-30-2014 - UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY





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WSJ: Man Hospitalized in Finland on Suspicion of Ebola Patient Developed Fever Three Weeks After Leaving Liberia October 30, 2014 5:59PM ET
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IBT: Chilling: Ebola Spreads through sneeze and cough droplets and toilet seats10/31/2014 7:38AM EST
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Reuters: Why quarantining Ebola patients is a states' rights issue October 30, 2014
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DailyWorld: Fauci says Ebola risk in US "essentially zero" October 30, 2014
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NPR: Ebola Researchers banned from medical meeting in New Orleans October 30, 2014 5:06PM ET
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News7: Experts urge caution over Ebola hopes AFP October 31, 2014 8:57AM
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Reuters: US quarantines 'chilling' Ebola fight in West Africa: MSF October 30, 2014 8 minutes ago
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Guampdn.com: Ebola fears spark claims of racism in Europe
October 30, 2014
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AP: Obama campaigns in Maine, avoids spat over Ebola October 30, 2014 10 minutes ago
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ABC7: Man faked Ebola in 911 Call to get ambulance faster, police say october 30, 2014
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NavyTimes: US military to train more Ebola response teams October 30, 2014 6:01PM
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Mashable: North Korea to quarantine foreigners over Ebola fears
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Fox: Ebola survivor says quarantine has negative consequences October 30, 2014
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IFPress: Montreal woman sues boss over false Ebola accusation
October 30, 2014 5:23:24 EDT PM
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ABC7: Mukpo: Ebola 'more intense than anything' October 30, 2014 7:39AM CDT
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ABCNews: Chuck Hagel and Martin Dempsey Explain Support for 21-Day Quarantine for Troops October 30, 2014 5:40PM
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GenomeWeb: Mouse Study Shows Host Genetics May Influence Response to Ebola Infection October 30, 2014
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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Ebola News 10-23-2014 - America is Beating Ebola - UPDATES


Forbes: America Is Beating Ebola: Every Patient Taken To An Elite US Hospital Has Survived 

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 NYPost: Doctor who treated Ebola patients rushed to NYC hospital 
The Big Apple may have its first case of Ebola...103 fever & nausea...returned to New York City from Africa 10 days ago

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DelawareOnline: Woman Charged With Falsely Reporting Ebola Risk 

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DetroitNews: Liberians threaten to break Ebola isolation over food 
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ABCNews: North Korea Steps up Ebola Measures 
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USAToday: Nurse on front lines of Ebola paints devastating picture 
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WGNTv: Ebola-infected nurse (Vinson) to leave isolation

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NBCFW: Ebola Patient's fiance (Louise Troh) unable to find new home  
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DallasBusinessJournal: Revenue plummets 25% at Texas Health Presbyterian after Ebola cases 
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CrawleyNewsUK: Two Patients tested (negative) for Ebola at East Surrey Hospital
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HSToday.US: New Ebola Rapid Testing Technologies Will Detect Surface and Airborne Infectious Viruses in Minutes 
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WaPo: US plans 21-day monitoring of people who arrive from Ebola-stricken nations
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AP-GfK Poll: Many doubt hospitals can handle Ebola
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SowetanLive: Ebola riot in Sierra leone kills two as WHO to launch vaccine trials 
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Examiner: CDC admitted disease imported as states data reveals illegal immigrant links 
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NPR: Ebola Evacuees: Who are they, Where'd they go, How'd they fare?

(you will notice the USStateDept. is listed as the flight provider, that is the Phoenix Air jet mentioned in this link:
CDC Ebola Plane N163PA Scheduled to Go to Africa Tonight? (Atlanta-Bermuda-Dakar) yesterday
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NYT: 9 in Connecticut Being Watched for Symptoms of Ebola as of 10/22/2014

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NYDailyNews: Doctor who treated Ebola patients in Guinea rushed to Bellevue Hospital with fever 10/23/2014 2;49 PM

The drama unfolded shortly before noon on W. 147th St., where FDNY hazardous materials specialists sealed off the apartment as EMS rushed the doctor, clad in an exposure suit, to Bellevue. He told authorities that he recently got back from Guinea, where he had been treating patients.

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TIME: #thebrief: What are the rights of people quarantined for Ebola?

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StreetInsider: Ebola Stocks on Watch on Possible New York Case

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33-year-old, Dr. Craig Spencer quarantined himself inside his Harlem apartment AFTER his fever spiked

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Pray it's a false alarm, and this is just a touch of flu or some less alarming malady easily treated and cured. If positive, he's been in NYC for 10 days...God only knows how many contacts he's made.
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Thursday, October 16, 2014

EBOLA News 10-16-2014 - The Definition of Insanity ---- UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY





The definition of INSANITY: Repeating the same action over and over again, and expectin different results. - Albert Einstein. . .

Who does this administration think they are fooling? Duncan managed to enter the US with Ebola despite the fever checks...the (insert string of obscene profanity here)CDC gave the second Ebola nurse to travel WITH A FEVER! And yet, today's headlines read:

US Steps up domestic response to Ebola crisis
"Customs and health officials at airports in Chicago, Atlanta, the Washington suburbs and Newark, New Jersey, were scheduled to start taking the temperatures of passengers from the three hardest-hit West African countries Thursday. The screenings, using no-touch thermometers, started Saturday at New York's Kennedy International Airport."
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HOW THE HELL IS THAT STEPPING UP?!

Then there is this little tidbit in the same article:

Quote: "Frontier has taken the aircraft out of service. The plane was flown Wednesday without passengers from Cleveland to Denver, where the airline said it will undergo a fourth cleaning, including replacement of seat covers, carpeting and air filters."

Yet this administration insists on allowing passengers from the Ebola hot zones of Western Africa - Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea to - 
not only board planes, 
but change planes during connections,
enter mass transit hubs,
and travel freely within unsuspecting populations regardless of whether they were directly exposed to Ebola, as was Duncan, or not.
If and when these modes of transportation carry an infected passenger, the new standard set by Frontier suggests removal of contaminated vehicle from fleet for complete refab at corp. own expense? How sustainable is that, and for how long?
INSANITY!

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Ebola and the Crisis of Managerial Liberalism
ITV: MSF:'We have reached our ceiling in Ebola response October 16, 2014 1:45PM The leading organisation fighting the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has said it has reached the limit of its capacity to help, and called on governments and other groups to step up their efforts.


WPTZ 5: Ebola WHO Cases 
Data shows that the number of Ebola cases in West Africa is doubling every four weeks, said Dr. Isabelle Nuttall, director of the World Health Organization's director of global capacity, alert and response. Nuttall was addressing reporters Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland. Earlier this week, the WHO said there could be 5,000 to 10,000 new cases of Ebola per week by December.

ABCNews: Ebola Comes to Last Safe District in Sierra Leone 


NY1: DOH Updates Ebola Guidelines for City Schools, Daycares 

USAToday: Doctors say Ebola fears are affecting surgery

 Suspected Ebola patient hospitalised in Denmark 
A person with suspected Ebola infection has been hospitalised at Hvidovre Hospital in Denmark's capital Copenhagen for observation

NBC: Yale-New Haven Hospital Admits Person with Ebola-Like Symptoms

ActionNewsJax: Memorial Hospital monitoring patient with Ebola-like Symptoms 
Data shows that the number of Ebola cases in West Africa is doubling every four weeks

Given the current outbreak, unprecedented in terms of number of people killed and rapid geographic spread, Science and Science Translational Medicine have made this collection of research and news articles on the viral disease freely available to researchers and the general public.
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Reliapundit notes, Postmodern leftists like Obama would rather have Marshall Law here than a quarantine over there.
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Ebola Travel Bans Enacted by Nearly 30 Countries, but Not US
NewsMax

Here is the complete list of nations with bans or significant travel restrictions:
Gambia,
Nigeria,
Togo,
Gabon,
Ivory Coast,
Senegal,
Rwanda,
Chad,
South Sudan,
Namibia,
Angola,
Botswana,
South Africa,
Congo,
Kenya,
Madagascar,
Malawi,
Mauritius,
Mozambique,
Swaziland,
Tanzania,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe,
Cameroon,
Gabon,
Morocco.

Tom Frieden: Too many layers of protection could have upped nurses' Ebola risk


The male doctor speaking at Yale Ebola press conference did not exude confidence given his posture kept falling back to this pose, his hand up at face repeatedly.


You just can't make this stuff up . . .

NBCNews headline: 'Conscientious' Ebola Nurse Amber Vinson Stayed Close to Home in Ohio

The fact that she opted to travel out of state, after knowingly exposed to Ebola (whether she knew she was infected or not) from Texas to Ohio blows apart any characterization of 'conscientious' decisions this nurse made.
Pathetic.

Spain Tests 3 With Fever for Ebola, Isolates Jet

Comedy hour: TheHill: Poll: Most Americans confident in CDC to handle Ebola

USNews: Ebola Travel Ban sought by wave of Congressmen 
The trickle becomes a torrent as Boehner and senators join Rep. Grayson's once-lonely request.Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Ted Cruz, R-Texas, John Thune, R-S.D., and Bill Nelson, D-Fla., asked Wednesday for travel bans. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., did so Tuesday. A significant number of House members also have called for travel restrictions.


Frieden said that the 48 people whom officials started monitoring two weeks ago had passed a critical period and were now unlikely to contract the disease. They were more than 14 days into the 21-day maximum incubation period. One of them is Duncan’s fiancée, Louise Troh, 54, who has been under state-ordered quarantine with her 13-year-old son and two other young men. “Right now, we’re OK,” she said in a phone interview from the house where she and the others have been staying, in an undisclosed location. “I’m healthy. Everybody’s fine. God is in control.”

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Chief Clinical Officer and Senior Executive Vice President for Texas Health Resources Dr. Daniel Varga was prepared to formally apologize for mistakes made with Duncan’s treatment at Thursday’s U.S. Energy and Commerce Committee’s Congressional hearing in Washington D.C.
In prepared statements released Wednesday night, Dr. Varga is prepared to say, “Unfortunately, in our initial treatment of Mr. Duncan, despite our best intentions and a highly skilled medical team, we made mistakes. We did not correctly diagnose his symptoms as those of Ebola. We are deeply sorry. 
Also, in our effort to communicate to the public quickly and transparently, we inadvertently provided some information that was inaccurate and had to be corrected. No doubt that was unsettling to a community that was already concerned and confused, and we have learned from that experience as well.”
(she responds . .. read the rest at the link)

Dallas Releases 911 CAll for First Ebola Patient 

Audio: Duncan 911call - 9/28/2014 (Audio .wav file)
The voice you hear is that of Youngor Jallah, nurses aid, 35 year old daughter of Louise Troh who cared for Duncan @ Louise's address.

Vinson's stepfather, whose name was not released, self-quarantined himself after Vinson tested positive for the Ebola virus Tuesday.[snip]Vinson, 29, flew to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on Oct. 10 and flew home to Dallas on Oct. 13, the day before she was diagnosed. Williams said she spent three days at the home in Tallmadge.
Begs the question: where did she stay the rest of the time?

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Canton nurses on same plane as Amber Vinson treated 13 patients at Aultman Hospital
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Akron bridal store closed after Ebola patient amber Joy Vinson visited
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An Akron elementary school was evacuated after public health officials told the district Vinson had come into contact with the parent of a student this weekend.





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Thursday, July 31, 2014

US Shuts Down Tourist Visas For Israelis - No Travel Restrictions From Nations Affected By The Worst Ebola Outbreak in History

Never Again, Apparently Means, "Never Again Will I Care"
Tourist visa process cancelled until further notice, embassy announces.
From the Obama state Dept:
“Due to the current security situation in Tel Aviv, U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv remains open but is operating at reduced staffing until further notice, and has canceled routine visa application processing and American Citizen services,” the statement says. “Emergencies involving an American citizen and visa applications will be considered on a case by case basis.”
NOTE THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS SHUT DOWN TOURISM FROM ISRAEL, BUT 

 THEY HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH TOURISM FROM NIGERIA, GUINEA, SIERRA LEONE, OR LIBERIA - THE NATIONS AFFECTED BY THE WORST EBOLA OUTBREAK IN HISTORY.
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