HEALTH Ebola- out of control in West Africa

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Oreally

Right from the start
nothing about this anywhere over here, yet these people sound absolutely frantic. and the numbers are totally out of sync with the official WHO reports.

also note the observation that this strain of ebola is completely novel.

http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200525571.shtml

Sierra Leone Ebola: Kailahun Descendants want Nationwide State of Emergency
By Augustine Samba
Jun 13, 2014, 17:20

As the deadly Ebola infection and death toll surged up in villages and towns of Kailahun District, prominent sons and daughters of Kailahun have become very worried leading to them gathering yesterday Thursday 12th June 2014, at the Saint Edward Primary School at Fort Street in Freetown to plan a way forward. As dozens of them crammed into the compound, it was like a Who’s Who list of distinguished personalities from Kailahun...

In the emergency meeting which started in the afternoon but only concluded in very late hours of last night, Kailahun indigenes representing all 14 chiefdoms and irrespective of their tribes, political affiliations, differences and ideologies unanimously reached special resolutions aim at proffering certain mitigation.



The Kailahun descendants did not mince their words as they expressed grave disappointment with what was unfolding in their district. The indigenes now have demanded of President Ernest Bai Koroma to “immediately” institute a “nation-wide” State of Emergency for the entire country that will address restriction of movement and justify the immediate provision of food and medical aid especially for the residents including health workers, victims and as well as women and children of the district.



In his opening statement, civil society activist Mr. Charles Mambu who chaired the meeting said it was timely for the people of Kailahun to put hands on deck and quickly join other stakeholders including government to fight the Ebola epidemic hemorrhagic fever. He said the rate at which people were dying in Kailahun was now “unbelievable”.



Mr. Victor Lahai, another civil activist, said whilst the government was “so far, not at all serious” to really stop the epidemic, it was a fact that if the epidemic were to hit any of the cities, “it cannot be easily overcome”. In that light, Mr. Lahai said it was timely for President Koroma to proclaim a nation-wide state of emergency as the deadly disease has been shown to now be “far above the abilities of the Ministry of Health”. He called for “all hands on deck, all available resources and all possible attention to be focussed on combating the spread of the killer disease”.


Speaker after speaker repeated for President Koroma to pay direct attention as his Health Minister has proven to be incapable so far. Speaker after speaker reiterated the call of Lahai for President Koroma to proclaim a State of Emergency for all of Sierra Leone.



For his part, Mr. John Benjamin bitterly blamed the government for downplaying the outbreak of the epidemic in the initial days. According to him they, the sons and daughters of Kailahun, were eventually going to take government to task for the deaths of their relatives by the deadly disease. He said they would look into the circumstances under which every single death has occurred. He said every death should be investigated.



John Benjamin reiterated that the government should have been able to better contain the disease when it first emerged because signals and symptoms were well known having been first reported in neighboring Guinea and Liberia and so giving the government more than enough time to have “known what to do when the first set of patients started to die of the symptoms in the remote village”.



The Government Deputy Minister of Labour Minister Augustine Kortu who hails from Kissi Kama, said “at least 18 people have died in Foidu Village” in just the last few days only. He disclosed of many residents having abandoned that village. Having just returned from the Kissi Kingdom, the Deputy Minister said whilst he was there, “too many people have been giving up their ghosts to the deadly Ebola”.



Hon. Moiwa of Constituency 06 said as of yesterday, “34 people have lost their lives in just one week” inside Daru and around Jawei Chiefdom.




Professor Gevao who is also a medical doctor working for the Ministry of Health said it was like the gene of the Ebola in our country was completely difference from the one which appeared in Congo. He disclosed scientist discovery revealed that the Ebola that has broken out in the subregion has different genetic make-up. He said this made the outbreak even more worrying.



Speaking at the meeting, a university student who asked not to be named, said to show the incompetence of the Health Ministry’s efforts at surveillance, despite a female herbalist and her family members dying in sequence in Kissi Teng, [otherwise known as a "bush doctor" ]this went on for several weeks without raising red flags that indeed Ebola had hit Sierra Leone. According to him, this showed that “no surveillance was being done”. He said as soon as rumours started spreading about the herbalist dying from an “offended mystery snake” which then killed her husband and then killed her sister and her grandchildren living with her, the government should have picked up that such deaths in sequence were due to a contagious condition and not a mystery snake adding, “The Health Ministry has totally failed my people in this respect”.
 

summerthyme

Administrator
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Wow! That's NOT good... I can't remember Ebola being so efficiently transferred person-to-person like this! All we need is for one person to hop on a plane to Europe or the US and this could get very, very ugly...

Summerthyme
 

AzProtector

Veteran Member
I'd rather these people get US assisted medical care and help fighting this crap than 1 damn Mexican or ME country.
 

Publius

TB Fanatic
The government dictators of most of the African countries are not going to do anything until they see half its people dead.
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Wow! That's NOT good... I can't remember Ebola being so efficiently transferred person-to-person like this! All we need is for one person to hop on a plane to Europe or the US and this could get very, very ugly...

Summerthyme


Your wish may come true sooner than you think, right now Int'l students are visiting universities by the thousands around the US and Europe for those coveted TA/RA positions for this fall, many of them will start arriving for the school year here around the middle of July.

K-
 

2Trish

Veteran Member
Pasting an article from Pro-Med from a few days ago.

Date: Wed 11 Jun 2014
Source: Office of Government spokesman Press release
Ministry of Information and Communications
8th Floor, Youyi Building, Brookfields, Freetown
Freetown


As government and its health development partners continue to fight the outbreak of Ebola virus disease that has so far claimed the lives of 16 people:
The government through the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and other participating ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) is therefore putting the following measures in place with immediate effect as part of an overall national strategy in addressing the outbreak of Ebola virus disease:
1. All vehicles and their passengers entering and leaving Kailahun district must subject themselves to screening by authorities at various checkpoints.
2. All schools in Kailahun district are closed with immediate effect, and that the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology is making arrangements with the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) for those students slated to sit to the National Basic Education Examinations (BECE) to take the exams at a later date.
3. To minimise the risk of transmission from person to person, government hereby orders the prohibition of all public gatherings, including but not limited to, cinemas, cultural activities, and night clubs in Kailahun district.
4. That local and cross-border trade fairs (locally known as the "Lumors") are temporarily closed until such a time when the Ebola virus would have been contained.
5. That the general public is mandated to report to health authorities any person (s) or stranger (s) with symptoms of the Ebola disease in their respective communities for appropriate professional health interventions.
6. All deaths across the country must be reported and certified by an authorised health professional before burial.
7. All Ebola or related deaths must be buried at place of occurrence under the supervision of health personnel.

We wish the public to know that government and particularly all participating MDAs are on top of the situation, and therefore call on the general public to cooperate with the above measures as part of the national collective drive to further raise awareness to stop further spread of the disease.

--
communicated by
Fiona McLysaght
Country Director - Concern Sierra Leone
http://www.concern.net
 

BREWER

Veteran Member
Posted for fair use and discussion.Oreally: I hope you won't mind me putting this here in you Ebola thread.BREWER
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_06_13_mers/en/

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update

Disease Outbreak News
13 June 2014

The National IHR Focal Points of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Islamic Republic of Iran recently reported additional laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) to WHO.
Details of the cases reported by Saudi Arabia are as follows:

Between 11 April and 9 June 2014, 515 cases of infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) have been reported from Saudi Arabia to WHO. This includes 402 laboratory-confirmed cases reported on various dates, and 113 cases that have been identified through retrospective review of hospital records, and which was reported by Saudi Arabia on 3 June. Further information on these cases will be provided as information becomes available as part of the collaboration between the Saudi authorities and WHO on the MERS-CoV response.

This update covers 402 laboratory-confirmed cases, including 114 deaths.

Thirty-five cases were reported from Madina, 132 from Riyadh, 208 from Mecca Province (including 154 from Jeddah, 39 from Mecca, 8 from Qunfudhah and 7 from Al Taif), 10 from Tabuk, 6 from Al Jawf, 3 from Najran, and 3 from Ash Sharqiyah. The location from where 5 cases were reported was not specified.

The median age of the 402 cases is 46 years old (ranging from 9 months to 94 years old) and 58.3% of those with information on sex (n=388) are men. Almost half (44.5%) of the cases with reported information (n=398) experienced severe disease including 114 cases who died; and 114 cases (28.6%) were reported to be asymptomatic or have mild disease. Underlying medical conditions were only reported for 149 of the 402 cases, of which 140 cases were reported to have at least one underlying medical condition.

More than 25% (109)of the 402 reported cases are health care workers. Among the 109 health care workers, 63 were reported as asymptomatic or developing mild symptoms, 35 were reported with moderate symptoms (requiring hospitalization but not admission to an intensive care unit), 7 were reported as having severe disease and 4 died.
Details of the case reported by the UAE on 4 June 2014 are as follows:

The patient is a 36 year-old butcher residing in Abu Dhabi. He works in a local slaughter house for camels and sheep. He was asymptomatic. His sputum was tested positive for MERS-CoV on 20 May 2014 as part of a general screening in slaughter houses. The patient had no contact with a previously laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV case. He had no history of travel. The patient is currently isolated and is in a stable condition.

Investigations and follow up of contacts of the patient have been carried out and no other case was detected.
Details of the case reported by the Islamic Republic of Iran on 4 June 2014 are as follows:

The patient is a 35 year-old nurse assistant. She developed a mild illness on 26 May 2014 followed by a productive cough on 28 May 2014. Her throat swab taken on 26 May 2014 was tested positive for MERS-CoV.

She has been advised to stay home and follow infection control precautions. The patient is a close contact to the first laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV case in the country reported to WHO on 26 May 2014. The patient did not have an underlying medical condition. She had no history of contact with animals and no history of consumption of raw camel products in the 14 days prior to becoming ill. She became asymptomatic on 3 June 2014 and her condition is currently stable.

Investigations into her contacts among health care workers and family members is on-going.

Globally, 697 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV including at least 210 related deaths have officially been reported to WHO. This global total includes all the cases in this update; of the abovementioned 402 cases reported by Saudi Arabia, 390 cases have been included in previous Disease Outbreak News (DON) updates published since 14 April 2014.
WHO advice

Based on the current situation and available information, WHO encourages all Member States to continue their surveillance for acute respiratory infections and to carefully review any unusual patterns.

Infection prevention and control measures are critical to prevent the possible spread of MERS-CoV in health care facilities. It is not always possible to identify patients with MERS-CoV early because like other respiratory infections, the early symptoms of MERS-CoV are non-specific. Therefore, health-care workers should always apply standard precautions consistently with all patients, regardless of their diagnosis. Droplet precautions should be added to the standard precautions when providing care to patients with symptoms of acute respiratory infection; contact precautions and eye protection should be added when caring for probable or confirmed cases of MERS-CoV infection; airborne precautions should be applied when performing aerosol generating procedures.

Until more is understood about MERS-CoV, people with diabetes, renal failure, chronic lung disease, and immunocompromised persons are considered to be at high risk of severe disease from MERS‐CoV infection. Therefore, these people should avoid close contact with animals, particularly camels, when visiting farms, markets, or barn areas where the virus is known to be potentially circulating. General hygiene measures such as regular hand washing before and after touching animals and avoiding contact with sick animals, should be adhered to.

Food hygiene practices should be observed. People should avoid drinking raw camel milk or camel urine, or eating meat that has not been properly cooked.

WHO does not advise special screening at points of entry with regard to this event nor does it currently recommend the application of any travel or trade restrictions.
 

Slydersan

Veteran Member
Well don't start worrying until you see this spread in larger numbers in multiple countries.

You mean like hundreds of cases in multiple countries maybe ?

Highlights

-As of June 10, 2014, the Guinea Ministry of Health announced a total of 376 suspect and confirmed cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), including 241 fatal cases, in the districts of Conakry, Guéckédou, Macenta, Kissidougou, Dabola, Djingaraye, Télimélé, Boffa, and Kouroussa.
-233 cases across Guinea have been confirmed by laboratory testing to be positive for Ebola virus infection.
- In Conakry, 75 suspect cases are reported to meet the clinical definition for EHF, including 32 fatal cases.
- June 9, 2014, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation of Sierra Leone reported 43 laboratory confirmed cases of EHF from 3 districts: Kailahun, Kambia, and Port Loko.
- An additional 117 suspect cases and 19 fatal cases were also reported in Sierra Leone on June 9.
- The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Liberia reported 1 new laboratory confirmed case and one death on June 7, 2014. This is the first case reported since early April.
- Genetic analysis of the virus indicates that it is closely related (97% identical) to variants of Ebola virus (species Zaire ebolavirus) identified earlier in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon (Baize et al. 2014).
- The Guinean Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation of Sierra Leone, and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Liberia are working with national and international partners to investigate and respond to the outbreak.

That is per the CDC's own website. http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/guinea/
So I'm guessing that it is probably worse than they're admiting to.
 

Kook

A 'maker', not a 'taker'!
What's wrong with this picture? A new and easily transmitted form of Ebola is loose, so let's all squeeze together here and talk about it.

Dollars to donuts half of them believe that evil spirits cause Ebola and it can be cured by engaging in sex with a virgin. The rest of them have probably not heard of the germ theory of disease.
 

Housecarl

On TB every waking moment
For links see article source.....
Posted for fair use.....
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/30/us-health-ebola-leone-idUSKBN0F520F20140630

Fear, suspicion undermine West Africa's battle against Ebola

By Umaru Fofana
KENEMA Sierra Leone Mon Jun 30, 2014 1:28pm EDT
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(Reuters) - When Mohamed Swarray contracted the deadly Ebola disease in June, he was confined to a tented isolation ward at Kenema in eastern Sierra Leone. But he didn't stay there long.

Suspicious of the doctors in their masks and body-length protective suits, he slipped out and fled to the capital Freetown 300 km (185 miles) away. There, he was nursed in a private home for a week before being traced by officials and hurriedly returned, weak and frightened, to the Kenema unit.

With West Africa facing the deadliest Ebola outbreak ever, with 400 dead so far, this kind of fear and mistrust is driving dozens of victims to evade treatment, frustrating foreign and local doctors trying to contain the epidemic.

The outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia has left some of the world's poorest states, with porous borders and weak health systems undermined by war and misrule, grappling with one of the most lethal and contagious diseases on the planet.

Dr. Amara Jambai, Sierra Leone's director of disease prevention and control, said at least 57 suspected and confirmed Ebola cases were "missing", the victims having fled or gone into hiding.

"When you lose cases that way, you will not know where the next case will appear," he told Reuters.

Ebola causes fever, vomiting, bleeding and diarrhoea, and can kill up to 90 percent of those it infects. Highly contagious, it is transmitted through contact with the blood or other fluids of infected people or animals.

"My biggest problem, as it stands, is getting people to accept the disease," said Sheik Umar Khan, the doctor tasked with leading the fight against Ebola in Kenema's hospital.

"These escapes, emanating from fear and misunderstanding, make our work even more difficult," he added.

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says Ebola is "out of control", located in at least 60 places across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. [ID:nL6N0P44YA]

Guinea has rejected this warning, saying it has its epidemic under control. But governments' reluctance to fully admit and report the scale of outbreaks can also hamper containment.

The World Health Organization has called on other West African States to prepare to tackle the disease and is co-hosting a meeting of West African health ministers in Ghana this week to try to strengthen the region's response. [ID:nL6N0P82C6]

Swarray was tracked down in Freetown after messages about his escape were broadcast on local radio. The nurse friend treating him believed he had typhoid and is now being monitored for Ebola. His mother, who traveled with him, is still missing.

The outbreak has spread since it first started killing victims in Guinea's remote southeast in February. It reached the capital Conakry and moved into neighboring Liberia.

For months, Sierra Leone said its own suspected cases tested negative. Then, late last month, it confirmed Ebola in its remote northeast. Since then, there have been 191 laboratory confirmed cases, including 63 deaths, with many more suspected.

<For a map of the region affected by Ebola, please click - here>

HERBAL BRACELETS

Kenema, now on the frontline of Sierra Leone's fight against Ebola, is located in the diamond-rich east. Attacked by rebels during the 1991-2002 civil war, it has since become a bustling regional hub, the West African nation's third largest city.

Sierra Leone's first Ebola case was a so-called 'sowei', a traditional women's leader and healer who treated the sick crossing over from Guinea, according to Dr Mohamed Vandi, the chief medical officer for Kenema district.

By tradition, only women were allowed to touch or wash her dead body, so the majority of the next cases were also women.

Sierra Leone officials have since banned traditional funerals and the bodies of Ebola victims must now be buried by health workers clad in green protective suits and face masks.

Schools in the Kenema area are closed and travel restricted.

At the Moala checkpoint on the road to Liberia, masked health workers take the temperature of all travelers to monitor for anyone who might be carrying a fever.

But many still put faith in traditional methods.

At the same Moala checkpoint, police and soldiers tied herbal rope bracelets around travellers' wrists, telling them a local traditional healer had been told in a dream that doing so could ward off Ebola.

TERRIFYING RUMORS

Posters on walls warn of Ebola symptoms, urging sufferers to go to hospital. But Sierra Leone's health system is weak - the country has the highest rate of maternal and infant deaths in the world, according to U.N. figures.

The Kenema isolation unit consists of two tents erected just meters away from the main hospital, where two doctors and two ambulances are based to cover a district of 800,000 people.

Donors and international health organizations have rushed specialized equipment to the zone but staff complain about shortages, even of basic items like gloves.

A local population with little knowledge of the disease can be easily spooked by rumors.

Vandi said stories were circulating that doctors were removing limbs of Ebola victims before burying them. Police have been deployed and last week fired tear gas at the hospital to prevent relatives from trying to retrieve bodies.

Terrified by such reports, Isata Momoh, who came down with symptoms of the disease, initially fled the ambulance sent to take her to the hospital. "When I thought I had the sickness I ran away into the bushes and hid," she told Reuters.

Momoh only emerged from hiding when the diarrhoea and vomiting became too bad to bear. She was treated and recovered.

Khan rejected MSF's statement that the disease was out of control in the region. He said more cases were coming to light because of improved official surveillance. "People are coming to terms with the fact Ebola is a reality," he said.

Vandi, the Kenema medical officer, said if the diamond town could beat the disease, the rest of Sierra Leone could do so.

Local people were wary of government reassurances, recalling similar statements during the civil war years when rebel raids, rather than disease, had traumatized the town.

"One day the government would say the rebels had advanced to within touching distance. The next it would say they had been repelled, and you'd see them entering the town," said Karmoh Kajue, an unemployed man nursing a beer at the Kenema Plaza bar.

(Writing by David Lewis; Editing by Pascal Fletcher and Peter Graff)
 

Publius

TB Fanatic
From the above report they just as well give up and quarantine themselves or leave the country until this runs its corse and burns out.
 

Oreally

Right from the start
i second that. let's keep this in one place. truly historic stuff.

cases of confirmed, and variant unconfirmed (but still dead) are doubling cases every 35-40 days. start at 15 cases , say march 20, and series that out in your spreadsheet.

could the world handle 8-12 MILLION cases sometime late nextsummer/early fall, and rising?

WTF would this mean? i have trouble visualizing this.
 

Lilbitsnana

On TB every waking moment
Reuters Health @Reuters_Health · 6m

#BREAKING: Death toll from Ebola virus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone rises to 467, out of 759 cases: World Health Organization
 

Oreally

Right from the start
of course nobody'd give a rat's ass if those 8 million were only in africa . . . but that'd never happen
 

BREWER

Veteran Member
Is it possible, mods, to merge these two ebola threads?

This is historic stuff, and having it all in one place for future reference might be helpful.

Thanks.

link to the other thread

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...Ebola-is-out-of-control&p=5270084#post5270084

i second that. let's keep this in one place. truly historic stuff.

cases of confirmed, and variant unconfirmed (but still dead) are doubling cases every 35-40 days. start at 15 cases , say march 20, and series that out in your spreadsheet.

could the world handle 8-12 MILLION cases sometime late nextsummer/early fall, and rising?

WTF would this mean? i have trouble visualizing this.

BREWER: Mods, please merge the threads at your convenience.
 

geoffs

Veteran Member
Ebola Deaths Surge In Africa: WHO Calls Urgent Meeting

The deadly Ebola virus is surging in West Africa, with 759 cases and 467 deaths, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, making it by far the biggest outbreak yet. The virus is spreading across the borders of three countries — Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia — and much more effort is needed to fight it, WHO said. The international health agency is hosting an urgent meeting on the virus starting Wednesday in Accra, Ghana to include top health officials from 11 African countries as well as Ebola survivors, representatives of airlines and mining companies, and groups providing money, equipment and other help. Ivory Coast, Mali and Guinea Bissau have already been cautioned to be ready for spread.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/ebola-deaths-surge-africa-who-calls-urgent-meeting-n145676
 

BREWER

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Posted for fair use and discussion.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2...resistant-tb-dengue-fever-are-now-in-the-u-s/

EBOLA, DRUG-RESISTANT TB, DENGUE FEVER ARE NOW IN THE U.S.
01 Jul, 2014 by Dave Hodges


On June 30, 2014, I interviewed Dr. Jane Orient, an internal medicine specialist and the Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). Dr. Orient stated that by admitting these huge groups of children who come from countries where medical screenings are minimal and hygiene is poor, the United States is at risk for epidemics of serious diseases and viruses that the nation has not seen in years and for which we have no immunity.

The following paragraphs contain the contents and supporting documentation of my phone interview with Dr. Orient.

A New Type of Immigration

Our former image of how people come to the United States is outdated. The old image of illegal immigrants scaling a fence and making their way through the Arizona desert is antiquated.

The majority of our new illegal immigrants are no longer from Mexico. Central American countries comprise 75% of these points of origin including Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Presently comprise 3 out of 4 illegal aliens captured by the Border Patrol.

A Manufactured Crisis

This past week, I presented the fact that FedBizzOpps.gov posted an ad seeking “escort services for unaccompanied alien children” from ages from infancy to 17, to transport them to Office of Refugee Resettlement Shelters throughout the U.S. This was a completely manufactured crisis and it was well planned. Even the Wall Street Journal, on June 20, 2014, stated that someone is spreading the belief in Central America that if Children can get to America, they will be allowed to stay along with their parents. The culprit for this disinformation would most likely be the CIA.



I have previously covered how the federal government has manufactured the health crisis and one of the standards of proof is in the degree of preparation demonstrated by the federal government. The government knew this was going to happen and they planned for it.

The net result for what I am labeling as treason against the American people, is that we are at risk for contracting the planet’s most virulent diseases and viruses for which we have not treatment and no immunity. In my discussion with Dr. Orient, she used the term “biological attack” in order to describe the threat being posed in the present crisis. Dr. Orient used the term “possible collusion” to describe the federal government’s complete inaction in addressing the growing health concerns as the CDC is completely absent on the border.


Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

This is everyone’s nightmare. If you are unfamiliar with Ebola, good luck trying to sleep tonight after reading the following;

Ebola hemorrhagic fever broke out in West Africa in March, and is totally out of control as one of the most deadly illnesses has crossed into seven African countries. The illness causes fever, headache, and internal and external bleeding. It is transmitted person to person through body fluids, and has up to a 90% mortality rate. This was reported in the Washington Post on June 29, 2014. Adding fuel to this fire is a statement that comes from the chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO), Zack Taylor, who states that West African illegal immigrants are presently coming into the U.S. through Mexico. These West Africans have been apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley sector in the last few years. Some of these groups speak Spanish in order to infiltrate into the United States posing as Central American immigrants. This speaks to planning and collusion that some of these groups were taught to speak Spanish so they will “blend in” with other illegal immigrant groups. This is another piece of evidence that the coming series of pandemics has some governmental agency fingerprints on this invasion. Smart money would say that the CIA is involved.

Drug Resistant TB, Dengue Fever and Chikungunya

In the interview, Dr. Orient spoke of a mosquito-transmitted disease known as Dengue fever. Dengue fever comes from Mexico, Central America, Caribbean and northern South America. According to my Border Patrol contact, many more illegal immigrants from these regions are making their way into the United States. This illness is taking a fatal hemorrhagic form. There is no vaccine and no drug therapy for this viral disease that is almost always fatal.

Dr. Orient speaks and writes about Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus from both Africa and Asia, which surfaced in the Caribbean in December 2013. As of June 3, more than 100,000 confirmed and suspected cases have been reported from 17 countries in the Caribbean and South America. Dr. Orient stated that the CDC predicts the disease will continue to spread in the Americas. If people from these regions are coming to America, Chikungunya is spreading to the United States. Chikungunya and Dengue are carried by the same mosquitoes and can be difficult to distinguish between the two. Chikungunya is almost always fatal and certainly, Americans will have no immunity for Dengue Fever and Chikungunya.

Drug-resistant TB has already made its way into the United States as a result of the presence of the illegal immigrants. The Border Patrol is privately stating that they are impacted and at least one confirmed case of TB has shown up among the Border Patrol as has scabies and other select illnesses. Dr. Orient is aware of this as am I. However, the government is covering this up by threatening criminal prosecution of any whistle blowing Border Patrol agents. Dr. Orient said that the Border Patrol are already laundering their work clothes on site so as to lessen the chance of spreading disease to their family members at home.

Dr. Orient Publicly and Officially Expresses Her Concerns
Dr. Jane Orient

In a report to the Pima County (Tucson) Public Health Committee and the Arizona Department of Health, Dr. Orient made the following observations:

“Charter flights from Brownsville, Texas, are landing regularly at Tucson International Airport, bringing illegals immigrants detained in Texas to Tucson. See: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/CXP112/history/20140616/0215Z/KBRO/KTUS and http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N918AV/history/20140617/0400Z/KBRO/KTUS
The Border Patrol union is providing agents with information on infectious disease and infestation control, including precautions to avoid carrying diseases and infestations home. Here is one account that includes a scabies outbreak: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news...atrol-uses-flight-ease-backlog-texas/8837529/
Migrants from West Africa and the Middle East, as well and Central and South America are entering through Mexico also—from areas that have outbreaks of Ebola, Chikungunya, and Dengue fever.
Swine flu, chickenpox, tuberculosis, and scabies have been reported in Border Patrol agents.
Tucson Unified School District has offered closed schools as housing for children here illegally”.



Subsequently, Dr. Orient challenged these two health organizations to seek answers to the following questions:

“Before being released into the community, what screening have entrants undergone for tuberculosis, hepatitis, lice, scabies, or incubating viral diseases such as dengue?
What diseases are being reported in Border Patrol agents?
What is the vaccination status of entrants, and what is being done about it?
What potential disease spikes, or unfamiliar diseases, should physicians be aware of?
What surveillance is being done by the CDC? (No mention of the problem is immediately apparent on its website as of June 30).
What is being done to secure the border and to return migrants, especially children, home?
What is being done to prepare for additional demands on public health departments and medical facilities, as to isolate and treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis or highly contagious, lethal viral diseases, and who will be paying?
Why are Border Patrol agents threatened with criminal prosecution for speaking out”?

Nobody from the federal government is addressing Dr. Orient’s questions.


Creating Mobile Carriers

Presently, we are shipping potentially disease ridden populations to every major metropolitan area in the United States. The illegal immigrants normally spend about 24-72 hours in detention and are released through the use of tax-supported public and private transportation and are subsequently delivered all over the country. Local officials, attempting to find housing for these illegal immigrants, are making used of closed schools and abandoned buildings. This places our local communities in direct contact with the immigrant population which will increase the rate of the transmissibility of these diseases and viruses. Further, as these illegal immigrants are landed in our international airports, they are having transmissible disease type contact with regular travelers who will become potential carriers to their points of destination. If you are old enough to remember the move, Outbreak (1995), then you already know where this is headed. To get a good idea of what could lie in our future, you may wish to watch the movie trailer from the 1995 movie. The movie rings as true today as it did a generation ago.


Conclusion

I spoke with a nurse, afraid of losing her job for revealing secretive health information, and she told me on Sunday that select personnel in a Phoenix area hospital received a confidential memo detailing the symptoms of Ebola. A reader told me upon being treated in a Washington DC emergency room, that she saw a sign on the wall listing the symptoms of Ebola. Even if the CDC and state and county health organizations have not yet publicly expressed concern and issued alerts, there are some officials who taking this seriously enough to spread the word to some of our hospitals.

Please allow me to make the following blunt assessments:

1. We have no medical assessment procedures taking place on the border. Sorry CDC, in your absence, Coast Guard medics cannot make pandemic assessment and containment decisions. (see previous article addressing these points). This was a planned event given the Fedbizopp.gov document.

2. The healthy illegal immigrants are not meaningfully separated from the healthy by more than a yellow tape.

3. The Border Patrol is already presenting with drug resistant TB, scabies and the rest is yet to come.

4. Not one blood test has been performed on illegal immigrants which is the only way to properly diagnose Ebola, Dengue Fever, etc.

5. We are shipping illegal immigrants all across the country within 24-72 following arrival through our public transportation venues where it is only a matter of time until many American travelers will become unwitting carriers.

6. Intentionally, or unintentionally, this is a depopulation event and Dr. Orient’s use of the terms “collusion” and “biological weapons attack” should be in the forefront of everyone’s mind and spoken word on this topic.

7. We know the UN has military vehicles inside of the US. As I have stated in past articles, this will be the pretext in which we allow the UN to engage in policing activities on American soil.

Related articles:

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/06/26/the-un-is-positioning-to-lock-down-the-us/

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2...lowers-story-tlb-recorded-interview-included/

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2...l-be-in-charge-of-the-un-takeover-of-america/

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/06/28/the-trigger-event-for-the-un-takeover-of-the-us/

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2...-entering-the-us-through-the-southern-border/

Hope and change has indeed arrived.
 

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Posted for fair use and discussion. O.K., folks, this is a little out-there, but you make up your own mind...BREWER
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi/read=56018

SCALAR ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION OF DISEASE

Posted By: billym [Send E-Mail]
Date: Tuesday, 21-Sep-2004 20:46:07

In Response To: HALLELUJAH: MICROBES RECOGNIZED IN CHRONIC ILLNESS (Daystar)


New Cause of Diseases?
The Dreaded Quantum Potential Weapon

We have written before of the information provided by scalar scientist Tom Bearden on his website, Cheniere.org about the new scalar weapons called "longitudinal wave intereferometers" or "Tesla howitzers." But Bearden speaks about a new weapon that is even beyond that called the "Quantum Potential Weapon" which is capable of actually "broadcasting" diseases electromagnetically using scalar waves. The information to follow here is from Bearden's website.

http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/021401.htm

The proof of principle was done by experiments by a Russian scientist named Kaznacheyev. ( See Slide Here ). The idea was to use longitudinal waves passing through a dish with sick organisms and on through a quartz window to a second dish of sterile and sealed healthy organisms. In the experiment the healthy organisms became sick even though they were rigorously kept apart from the sick ones. The only possibly reason they got ill was from the transfer of the disease somehow by the longitudinal (scalar) waves. Thus it was shown that disease can be transfered to a healthy cell without an actual infecting microorganism being present.

As Bearden points out below Western scientists did not understand these experiments because they assumed that ordinary ("transverse") electomagnetism was being used. More about these experiments is located HERE . A Google search on his name will bring more information.

The Russians, who had been working on scalar waves since before 1960, began a test of this principle by beaming such "disease waves" at the American Embassy in Moscow from another building. This was a famous incident. People were falling ill, and it was suspected that electromagnetism was involved, but the Americans did not understand scalar waves at the time. Attempts were made to shield the embassy but since scalar waves can go through such shielding, people continued to get sick. One can look this up on the Internet. I believe at least two ambassadors died, probably from the bombardment.

"Shortly after the last Sandia meeting, the Soviets began covertly directing RADAR like microwave beams at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, not only gathering intelligence but using embassy workers as guinea pigs for low-level EMR experiments and a means to prove their claims. Washington, D.C. was initially oddly quiescent, regarding the Moscow embassy bombardment.

"The U.S. government woke up to the reality of psychotronics when from 1960 to 1965, the directed electromagnetic and microwave emissions at the U.S embassy caused a wide range of physical and mental illness among many U.S. personnel serving there. Casualties include the eventual death of the U.S. Ambassador himself. Dr Stephen Possony a one time Science Advisor to the Department of Defense, now retired, said:
"'After the death of our ambassador in Moscow, due to contracting leukemia, and a couple of other employees, it suddenly dawned on us to have a real careful look at what was happening there.' "

http://www.geocities.com/adrian9999999999/pandora.htm

A Google search for "american embassy moscow radiation" will reveal other reports. The mind boggling principle involved here is what Bearden calls a "disease engine," or a "spacetime curvature engine." This is an interference pattern which creates a comlex spacetime curvature at the target point. It is like the Kaznacheyev experiments, but I the patterns can be computerized now so it is not necessary to pass the waves through the actual infectious organisms. Thus the Russians used the embassy workers as guinea pigs to test the (scalar) transmission of disease by electromagnetic means alone. No infectious organisms needed. Later, enter the quantum potential weapon which allows the placing of the disease patterns (and thus inducing the disease) over an entire population. Bearden also talks about using these devices in a "shadow state," meaning at a threshhold of power that is below that required to cause the disease, but just enough to trigger the immune response in the body. If this is done with 10 or 12 disease patterns at once, in this shadow state, the result is the complete exhaustion of the immune system, a process Bearden calls "spreading" the immune system. It is trying to fight 12 diseases and once and it breaks down. The whole point of that would be to weaken a population's immune system prior to an actual bioattack. Possibly a five fold increase in effectiveness of the bioattack could be achieved.

Bearden believes that these techniques were used in the Gulf War, again as an experiment and test, and that they are partly (but not entirely) responsible for Gulf War Syndrome. With these thoughts as backgound, here in a letter called "Novel Electromagnetic Disease Induction and Its Weaponization" Bearden talks about this. It's a bit complex but very fascinating.


Novel Electromagnetic Disease Induction
and Its Weaponization

Yes, the Kaznacheyev experiments were quite real ; 15,000 or so in military research institutes in Siberia. As with so many other novel areas investigated and developed by the Soviets, most U.S. investigators just assumed normal EM, which is not what the Kaznacheyev experiments involved, and not what was carrying disease induction patterns from one cell culture to another in rigorous lab tests. With the Evans-Vigier O(3) electrodynamics as a very important subset of Sachs' unified field theory, rather than the conventional U(1), what Kaznacheyev used and how it worked can be rigorously modeled, shown, and proven. Unfortunately no one seems to be trying to do that. The favorite phrase lo these decades is "we have no evidence that..." Almost everybody is using U(1), which erroneously assumes a flat spacetime in which the EM energy moves. In GR it is well-known that any change of spatial energy density is a priori a curvature of spacetime, and that an EM wave is an oscillating change of spatial energy density, hence an oscillating curvature of spacetime. So the EM wave does propagate in curved spacetime; in fact it identically is "curvature of spacetime" dynamics that is propagating. The old Maxwell-Heaviside theory is a material fluid flow theory done before SR and GR even existed, still assuming a material ether, using the effect wave after interaction with charge, as the causal field in spacetime before that interaction, and the scientific community simply has not corrected several dozen major errors in the old theory. So our analysts who use it, are using 136 year old obsolescent models, while facing an enemy who exerted the greatest effort in history to update and correct that science shortly after WW II. It is not difficult to find evidence of that effort in the open literature.

Kaznacheyev's work -- and its real unified field theory investigation and modeling, using the "infolded" longitudinal EM wave electrodynamics which carry the specific spacetime curvature engines for the given disease engines -- formed the basis for the decades-long microwave radiation of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow . Many health changes in personnel were induced at the Embassy, and the radiation also caused the deaths of three U.S. ambassadors. By our actions at the Embassy (or lack of appropriate actions) over several decades, we showed the Russians we had not the slightest notion of what they were really doing. E.g., putting up aluminum screens on the windows got 90% of the fields, and reduced the field-free potentials not one whit. By targeting a high level U.S. target -- the U.S. ambassador -- all the "alphabet soup" such as CIA, DIA, NSA, etc. got involved, as did high officials. The resulting U.S. study of that "microwave radiation" and the health changes at the Embassy thus revealed -- with 100% certainty -- whether or not we knew about engines, disease induction via the infolded electrodynamics inside fields, waves, and potentials, etc. We showed that our scientific community and intelligence community were still entranced with the 136-year old flawed Maxwell-Heaviside electrodynamics. In short, in terms of our knowledge of advanced electrodynamics we showed them we had "bows and arrows", so to speak, instead of nuclear weapons. It was a beautiful intelligence collection and analysis tool, and it worked beautifully. We remind the reader that the first detection of such "radiation" of high U.S. officials occurred in the radiation of Nixon when he visited the Soviet Union. That radiation was detected on an ionizing detector, which the security party carried because Nixon was visiting some nuclear power facilities. We also point out that such detectors do not necessarily detect nuclear radiation, but detect anything that will ionize their internal mechanisms (in the case of the Geiger tube, their internal gas). Longitudinal EM waves will do that, as will a longitudinal EM wave interferometer. No one in the U.S. recognized the peculiar nature of that radiation.

The Kaznacheyev "disease induction by novel electrodynamics" work is also the basis for the spacetime curvature engines (not EM signals!) carried by quantum potential EM biological weapons for distant induction of diseases etc. into the population of an entire nation or area, such as the U.S. This quantum potential disease induction weapon -- capable of attacking an entire population of a nation or area -- has been tested several times in the U.S. at very low levels, in the shadow state only (we explain shortly) and it has a most peculiar signature. E.g., one test used necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-rotting disease) engines. The disease "engine" was deliberately kept down in the "shadow state" (virtual state, just below the observable state) so that only a tiny bit of the populace with depressed thresholds would "breach the observable threshold" due to the population forming a bell-shaped curve as to the threshold level. The major signature of the test was that the cases of the disease broke out totally statistically and randomly, spread all over, without any "disease vector" in between. In short, it was not spread in any manner required by normal deterministic disease vectoring, but was a totally random set of occurrences. Several other diseases were also tested this way in the American populace, with precisely the same signature.

The major use of this QP disease-induction weapon will be to slyly "augment" the effectiveness of biological warfare strikes against the United States by terrorists either wittingly or unwittingly acting as protégées. Such attacks eventually will be made in and against the populace of the United States, causing mass casualties. By impressing the same disease vector engine -- for the specific BW pathogens used by the terrorists in their attacks -- in the populace residing in the struck population center, and bringing that "resident engine state" in the affected body potentials to the "shadow state" just shy of the populace significantly breaking out with the disease, then the real biological pathogens for that disease -- when unleashed by the terrorists -- will have greatly augmented effectiveness. It is one "asymmetrical way" to guarantee the sudden and rather complete destruction of a nation, without that nation even being aware of what was done to it. It is a vast amplification of the "conventional" biological warfare techniques and strikes. The targeted nation's analysts will think it was just the terrorists' BW attacks that did the nation in. In short, the KGB is grimly smiling all the way to the strategic warfare bank on this one. We're sitting ducks for it, have proven to them for 50 years that we are sitting ducks for it, and by using obsolescent electrodynamics and analyses our scientists and intel community continue to assure that we shall remain sitting ducks. They do not intend to do so, one understands, but that is the actual effect, unintended or not. In warfare it is the bottom line that counts, not misguided intentions.

As an example, in the standard Congressional OTA study, a professional anthrax attack on Washington, D.C. -- 100 Kg. sprayed from a light aircraft on a calm night -- would yield 1 to 3 million casualties. If augmented by QP shadow state preparation for anthrax, the effectiveness will be multiplied about fivefold. In short, the attack would then produce some 5 to 15 million casualties. Also, the symptoms and the disease progress faster than in the standard scenario because the body's defenses are overwhelmed at a much more rapid pace when the pathogenic disease induction starts with the disease already present in the infected persons in the shadow state.

These figures assume "spreading" of the targeted immune systems by the QP weapon. In short, the way one really does in the immune systems of the targeted populace, is to use the QP weapon to induce at the shadow state level a cocktail mix of disease engines. Say, for about 10 different diseases. The cellular control system, immune system, and cellular regenerative systems do use the "infolded" electrodynamics, and so they do react to the "shadow state" disease almost as if it were a real disease, and initiate preparations for fighting that disease. In short, the immune system vigorously prepares to fight its perceived invaders, e.g. But the immune system is also a finite system; it only has so many resources. Usually in the ordinary world it can focus most of its resources on just one major invader at a time, for usually it only gets one really massive "infection" invasion at a time. But if it has to prepare for 10 or more invaders simultaneously, it is forced to very thinly spread its resources across all of them. This means that its ability to fight off any one real pathogen invader from the cocktail group, is dramatically lessened. Effectively, the immune system has been greatly "suppressed" in its ability to do its job, but in a most peculiar way that is not in the medical textbooks.

Such quantum potential pre-preparation and "spreading of the targeted immune systems" gives about a five-fold increase in biological strike effectiveness. Indeed, if the number of diseases in the cocktail mix is increased, the effectiveness can be increased by a factor of 10 rather than 5. And this is precisely what is planned to be used against our major population centers. We may be facing mass casualties on an unheard of scale. Our very poor counter BW defenses will be immediately and massively overwhelmed, and our major response will be triage, not treatment. Effectively, we will just have to drag most of the stricken and suffering casualties aside, to die very agonizingly.

Apparently one planned use of such an augmented clandestine BW weapon will be smallpox, e.g. As you know, the Russians did develop smallpox for biological warfare, and even developed a new strain against which previous vaccination is ineffective. With the collapse of the Russian economy, most of the scientists from those BW labs all quietly went to work elsewhere in the world, at lucrative jobs, developing such BW weapons. Check several of Laurie Garrett's books and papers (cited) for the truth about what was developed in those laboratories. Many of those BW scientists went to work for nations which are quite hostile to the U.S. As an example, any prudent analyst would have to give Saddam Hussein the capability to have not only anthrax but smallpox BW agent already in this country, along with the necessary terrorist teams. We know there are many nuclear weapons already hidden in our population centers; simply read Lunev's book and he tells you how the Russians used to bring them in, and quite easily. The clandestine nuclear weapons are already on site, as are the Spetznaz, and waiting for the word to move and blow up our population centers.

For the BW aspects of a smallpox attack, check Laurie Garrett, "The Nightmare of Bioterrorism," Foreign Affairs, 80(1), Jan./Feb. 2001, p. 77. Quoting: "Were a terrorist to disperse the smallpox virus, for example, populations that were once universally vaccinated would now be horribly vulnerable. Today the U.S. government stows only about 15.4 million doses of the smallpox vaccine-enough for less than seven percent of the American population. The World Health Organization (WHO) keeps another 500,000 doses in the Netherlands, and other national stockpiles total about 60 million more doses of varying quality and potency. If the smallpox virus were released today, the majority of the world's population would be defenseless, and given the virus' 30 percent kill rate, nearly two billion people would die."

Garrett also goes on to reveal that most of the American vaccine stocks are contaminated and the vial seals failed, so they are unfit to even use in humans. Further, once the strike is made, vaccines are useless because by the time they could develop immunity (assuming the old strain is used in the attack), you are already dead, particularly with the enhancement of immune system spreading and thinning.

The vast numbers of expected casualties, coupled with immune system spreading, are absolutely irresistible to the Russian mind. You can count on it that they have seen that the smallpox is already on site here, in the U.S. and in the hands of professional terrorist teams. Of course, the Russians/KGB will protest they have nothing to do with that! Yet likely the KGB will have flatly arranged it or at least assisted it. The capability for mass destruction of the nation is so lucrative and easy to achieve in advance, that they would never be able to resist doing it.

With QP "cocktail mix" augmentation, in the targeted populace the 30 percent kill rate for smallpox will increase to perhaps 90 percent. Also, the progress of the disease in infected persons is likely to be much faster than would be otherwise experienced. In short, a determined enemy with professionally trained and pre-inserted BW pathogens and terrorist agents can simply wipe out a targeted nation with the combined technology. The struck nation is also wiped out very rapidly, since the smallpox development in a populace with "spread" immune systems is unprecedented.

It appears that this is one of the planned attacks the KGB will use -- and has already put in place and readied -- to destroy the United States by "asymmetrical means" (a favorite oblique phrase of high Russian officials), and in this case taking full advantage of terrorist strikes by enthusiastic protégées who will do the dirty work and take the blame as well as any U.S. retaliation. Indeed, it would appear that this is one of the major planned strategic attacks to be launched on the U.S. in the not too distant future. We note the coalescing and meeting of significant world terrorist groups and organizations as we write this response.

Notice how such an attack takes advantage of known testing by the KGB/Russians, and how it appeals to the "chess-player" mentality of the KGB and the Russian national psychology (in formal strategic analysis, how it corresponds to the Russian "National Style".). It's devious, deadly, deeply hidden, rises up suddenly and snaps its prey and the game is rather suddenly all over. The targeted adversary never even sees what is coming, has no inkling of "spreading", does not have QP weapons or QP weapon experience, never recognizes who really hit him, etc. Any desperate retaliation will be taken against the protégées, who will be gleefully claiming credit for these strikes on the "Great Satan" or other such phrase. That's exactly the situation we are now in. Essentially little or none of our present counter BW preparation is going to do very much at all for us. It was already largely defeated, even as it was being conceived on the drawing board, much less after being deployed.

The first test of a Russian QP weapon against the U.S. was apparently against the U.S. air attack on Libya in April 1986, using a laboratory prototype device. That was a simple test just to jam electronics in the aircraft control systems and in the missiles, and for deception planning it was using the fact -- at the time -- that we had indeed been lax on ECM hardening of our electronics systems, to save money. The attack worked well and demonstrated we did not even recognize the type of weaponry used against us, and to this day our fellows have never figured out what really hit us. They used ordinary U(1) electrodynamics in all their analyses, so simply contributed it to ordinary ECM jamming, etc. In short, the Russian deception plan was also highly successful.

The operational deployment of full-scale strategic QP weapons on site in Russia occurred at the end of 1989, which is when the formal weapons first went operational. These weapons are not in the inventory of the regular Russian armed forces, but all research and development, manufacturing, deployment, and manning and employment is under the ruthless control of the KGB. Shortly thereafter (within weeks), the KGB leased many of their earlier longitudinal EM wave interferometer (LWI) weapons to a rogue Japanese group comprised of the Aum Shinrikyo and Yakuza. Senator Nunn's investigation of mass destruction weapons confirms that the Aum Shinrikyo went to Russia and set up a university, but they missed the involvement of the Yakuza. The Aum Shinrikyo set up the university in Moscow where the Russians/KGB taught the rogue Japanese crews the necessary technical longitudinal EM and the technical operations of those interferometer weapons. Those are the LWI weapons which were operationally deployed first in 1963 and used to kill the U.S.S. Thresher off the U.S. East Coast with ridiculous ease in April 1963. They are also apparently the weapons which former Secretary of Defense Cohen alluded to in April 1997. Quoting:

"Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts." [Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn. Quoted from DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Q&A at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, University of Georgia, Athens, Apr. 28, 1997.].

Note that the SecDef did not speak the words placed in square brackets. These were apparently inserted later to "tone down" the Secretary's remarks. Our news media, entranced at the Clinton scandals, did not even react to the confirmation by Secretary Cohen that parties were using novel EM weapons to engineer the climate and weather, initiate earthquakes, and stimulate sleeping volcanoes into violent eruption!

These kinds of weapons are the real strategic threats shaping up against us. Meanwhile, our strategic analysts have largely not yet even gotten out of the decrepit 136-year old U(1) electrodynamics. We don't even have biological masks for the populace, or even for all our emergency personnel. There are no biologically safe mass shelters. We have no effective methods of treatment in most cases; normal vaccines, medicines, etc. essentially fail. Yes, we have harsh chemical sprays that will kill the anthrax, e.g., and perhaps some of the smallpox. But that is a spit in the ocean to a population whose immune systems have been spread, and millions of them are already sickened and dying.

We tried very hard in 1998 to call attention to the extreme national need for the most urgent possible development of a portable computer-controlled treatment device based on the experimentally proven Prioré methodology, but extended to a much simpler and far more rapid method of treatment. Quick development of this technology could lead to a suitcase size device, capable of treating a patient in less than one minute, and stopping the symptoms and disease progress cold, then reversing it. Three "less than a minute" treatments one week apart would be required for complete cure. As an added advantage, partial reversal of aging in older patients would also be accomplished as a bonus, in addition to time-reversing the damaged and diseased cells.

The basis is a method for "time-charging" the body with a specific set of spacetime curvatures that precisely reverse the previous cellular changes in the infection and course of the disease. The time-polarized photon, and hence the time-polarized EM wave, already exist in quantum field theory, our most modern theory. But none of our fellows even know how to make a time-polarized wave. I published how to make one, and used that as the basis for solving the most pressing problem in electrodynamics: the problem of the source charge and its associated vast fields and potentials and their vast energy. U(1) fellows have not the slightest notion of using time-polarized EM waves to pump the cells of the body in the time domain. They have no notion that -- since time is multiply connected --pumping the body in the time domain simultaneously pumps everything in the body, down to even the quarks and gluons inside the nucleons. Everything in that body exists at each and every point in time; there is no "outside to inside" propagation through 3-space necessary when time-wave pumping is used. One "starts at and in the entire inside". Also see some of the AIAS published papers on time-like EM longitudinal waves and energy currents..

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The method proposed to the DoD in 1998 used normal EM in a peculiar way to force the body itself to make its own time-polarized EM waves, and pump every part of its cells -- including the genetics -- in the time domain. According to general relativity (and O(3) EM, which is an important subset of Sachs' unified field theory and thus capable of operating in both the time and space domains), the exact condition and dynamics of every cell and every part of every cell are resident in that cell and in every smallest part of it, as a set of spacetime curvatures. Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler, Gravitation, assure us that any set of spacetime curvatures will act upon any mass therein, at every part of that mass, and "from inside out" since it arises from everywhere inside the exposed mass. The time-domain pumping creates an amplified "antiengine" that is precise for each cell (i.e., for its "resident time-forward engine" and every part of it). This amplified anti-engine overpowers the "forward time" resident engine at any and all levels, and therefore reverses the entire cell -- and all the cells of the body --back to a previous healthy state.

Becker already proved that weak EM potentials -- which are sets of both time-domain EM longitudinal waves and 3-space EM longitudinal waves -- placed across a bone fracture site will cause rather dramatic time-reversal and time-forwarding (elimination of forward-time deltas!!!), including changing the entering red blood cells into earlier form (dedifferentiation), then into the form that makes cartilage (redifferentiation), then into the form that makes bone (redifferentiation again), depositing these latter into the fracture site to form new bone and heal the fracture.

Becker was nominated for a Nobel Prize several times for his epochal work. The mechanism for those changes had not been previously explained, until I succeeded in breaking that mechanism after 14 years hard work. The point is, it's experimentally proven. It is not conjecture. It is real. One can indeed time-reverse cells in vivo. That is in fact how the human cellular regenerative system heals damaged cells, within its capability to pump weakly in the time domain.

But our scientific community is far from considering anything like that, even though Becker's work was done in the 60s. Our EM science is still archaic, compared to the technology really loose in the world and to be employed against us. It is common for radar engineers and ordinary electrical engineers, e.g., to perform some of the most critical electrodynamics analyses in our intel institutes. These fellows may be good at radar and electrical engineering, but they know absolutely nothing at all about Russian energetics, time-polarized EM waves, extension of nonlinear phase conjugate optics to pumping in the time domain, the "portholes concept" by which the body itself can be forced to generate its own specific time-domain EM pumping to generate those highly specific amplified antiengines, etc. The minimum base knowledge required is a good working knowledge of O(3) electrodynamics, phase conjugate optics, and general relativity, and then one must be aware of the specific extensions. I doubt that we have ever had a single major analyst so qualified, in any intelligence agency in the U.S. If we have had, it has been exceedingly few, say not more than two or three. We have not even incorporated (until perhaps a few years ago) Whittaker's 1903 and 1904 papers showing the internal, hidden electrodynamics. And much of our physics, believe it or not, actually uses the effect as the cause, thus completely getting the cart before the horse. It's rather like the proverbial Oozlefinch (check out with Fort Bliss, Texas what an Oozlefinch is), which flies backward so it can see where it's been. The use of the effect as the cause is a complex subject; see my website discussion of it in my "Engines and Templates" paper,

Most Americans think we won the cold war, and that it's all over. To the contrary, we are in the most deadly danger in our entire history. And we are way behind, and losing. Here we are speaking of just one "asymmetrical" means arrayed against us. Unfortunately there are many others also, equally or even more grisly and bizarre.

In today's world, a nation wins or loses the next major war precisely by its scientific insight and its preparations beforehand. Our insight and preparations beforehand are not even in the right domain.

Quite simply, we are going to be struck this way (QP spreading the immune systems of the populace plus professional smallpox, anthrax, etc. BW attacks on our population centers) and by other means we've spoken of in other papers and briefings.

But let us just stick to this one major threat, and the strike that will occur. As it stands right now, we're going to lose it. Fast. In less than two hours. We won't even know the Russians are involved, as the protégées will be doing the striking and probably openly boasting about it and "taking credit". Let us say that Saddam Hussein does this strike, and uses anthrax and smallpox. And we then nuke Iraq off the face of the earth, while millions are dying. Big deal. We still die, and we lose. If there are no defenses developed against this, then we really do have an "assured destruction" situation -- ours. We do not have a "mutual assured destruction" capability, because we will not even know who the clandestine "mutual" adversary really is.

We mostly still have the same scientific analysts, still thinking the same old ways, who couldn't draw a correct statistical conclusion in the decades-long "microwave radiation" of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Or who could not understand the induction of the Gulf War Disease by QP weapon means, as a preliminary test and also as a stimulus of our government and intel agencies to see if they knew what was going on. We clearly showed them we had not the foggiest notion of what they were really doing and how they were doing it.

In the Moscow Embassy radiation, the Johns Hopkins signals distribution study showed clearly that the health changes occurred only in personnel located in field-free areas. In short, in areas where the potentials had no gradients, and so where the potentials and their hidden internal "engines" were therefore perfectly stable. But because of U.S. scientific adherence to the 136-year old Maxwell-Heaviside U(1) theory, and the archaic belief that only the force fields cause anything, our scientists ignored the 100% correlation against the fields and 100% correlation to the field-free potentials. They incorrectly stated that the microwave radiation could not be the radiation because "no EM fields were present where the effects occurred." That's like saying that a bullet-riddled body -- slain in old Mafia fashion -- could not have been caused by those machineguns over yonder, because there were no machineguns in the direct vicinity of the body.

That conclusion was and is wrong, and it violates simple statistical inference techniques. They did not even consider the potentials, much less the field-free potentials and their adjusted Whittaker internal structures. The illogical "conclusion" of the study of the U.S. Embassy radiation is a serious indication of just how noninformed our scientific community and our intelligence community have been with respect to (1) higher symmetry electrodynamics, particularly as a component of a unified field theory, and (2) the infolded "hidden variable" electrodynamics -- and thus "engines" -- inside of and comprising all "normal" EM potentials, waves, and fields. We desperately need them to do better than that.

So yes, EM induction of disease did develop dramatically from the Kaznacheyev work.

And we're quite likely to find out before long now, just how far it really did develop.

Sincerely,

Tom Bearden

Source article is here:
http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/021401.htm

One interesting thing that Bearden points out about disease induction using the Quatum Potential Weapon is that any outbreaks of the actual (whose spacetime curvature engine is put on a wide populous) is that the outbreaks will be completely random. That is there will be no "vector" or apparent starting point for the outbreaks. Remember that some years back there were just such random outbreaks of the so-called "flesh eating disease," or necrotizing fasciatis? Bearden believes those outbreaks were a test of the Quantum Potential Weapon.

We are entering fearsome times as the development of scalar technology progresses, albeit in secret places. The human race is probably not mature enough as a species to handle this kind of power without destroying itself, and perhaps, all life on the planet. We are approaching a point where a handful of people with this technology could radically depopulate the planet. And a clever devil's advocate could well argue that course may be the only hope for the survival of the human race!! Such a one could indeed say: "Depopulate or die!"

As new diseases appear it is going to be increasingly difficult to tell which are "natural" and which are appearing due to scalar electromagnetic technology.

God save us!

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BREWER

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http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/illegal-immigration-bio-warfare.html

Tuesday, July 01, 2014
Illegal Immigration Bio-Warfare
By Douglas V. Gibbs

Over the weekend I spent time at two protest rallies over the illegal immigration issue, but my reasoning as an opponent against the influx of illegal aliens into our country is not just because I believe that it is dangerous to our sovereignty as a nation to allow our border to be wide open. I am also concerned because of the health of our communities, and the safety of those that believe they are coming to the promised land (or to the United States as an invader).

A month ago my granddaughter was diagnosed with hand and foot disease. There is no specific treatment for the disease, so the little three year old just had to suffer through the four day viral infection that is normally not a problem in our American Society. The doctor, when my son took his daughter into a local urgent care, said that he was surprised, not only of the appearance of the disease in Murrieta, California, but that the increase of cases had been sizable over the last few months. He did not know what the cause was.

I knew exactly what the cause was when my son relayed his conversation with the doctor to me.

In Murrieta, over the last few months, over 500 illegal aliens a week are being released into the general population, many of these people are children, without a medical screening. Last weekend that number changed to 200 every 72 hours. They are being shipped in from other areas around the country to our holding facility, where they do not have the room to house these people, much less give them a proper processing above checking to see if these invaders are known criminals.

Murrieta Border Patrol agents are testing positive for Tuberculosis. Hand and Foot Disease, and Chagos, both previously eradicated from the area, are on the rise. We are being hit by sickness, and we are told that as we are exposed to these infectious diseases, if we reject allowing these diseased people into our population, we are nothing more than a bunch of racists.

Other diseases to emerge, especially among Border Patrol agents, is H1N1 (“swine”) flu, and chicken pox. It is anticipated that also coming are diseases like dengue and Ebola virus, when one considers these incoming illegal aliens are from Central and South America, the Middle East and West Africa.

Rather than ensure the illegal immigrants are properly cared for, and the receiving population is protected from these diseases, the Obama administration is shipping these people in like cattle, leaving them on the side of the road, for a political agenda. It is considered inhumane to drop a dog off on the side of the street, and take off, but the federal government has no problem doing that to human beings. The safety and welfare of the illegal immigrants, or the receiving population, is not the Obama administration's concern. Only using these people as political pawns is important to them.

According to a conversation I had with a local agent, the local facility is not capable of handling the numbers they are receiving. They have no beds for these people, nor the ability to allow them to bath, or be fed. It takes 72 hours to process them, and then they are released into the population, alone, diseased, and homeless.

Federally, among the illegal aliens coming into this country, is about 65,000 unaccompanied minors. While I believe the flood of incoming illegal immigrants is orchestrated, I also see it as child abuse by the federal government against these poor children that are sick, alone, and frightened.

These people are being specifically shipped into conservative areas in California, Texas, Arizona, and Oklahoma, a strategy I believe that is designed to change the complexion of the electorate, as well as influencing the ratio between republicans and democrats in the House of Representatives.

The illegals are being shipped in by bus and plane, and in Murrieta are literally being dropped off every few blocks. Meanwhile, the U.S. Government is refusing to protect Americans from the dangerous diseases we are being exposed to. They refuse to repatriate these people back to their home countries. As far as we have been told, there is no system in place identifying, tracking, and overseeing issues around infectious disease outbreaks connected to illegal immigrants.

Biological agents like viruses and bacteria may also be something that Muslim terrorist groups may use to wage war against the American Population. ISIS, which is currently ripping through the Iraqi landscape, has already stated it is their goal to come into direct confrontation with the United States. The use of disease agents is not outside the realm of possibility, making securing the border more than just an illegal immigration issue. Securing the border, as required by Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution, is also a national security issue.

Either, the government does not care, or they are lying to themselves, and us, about the threat. I think it is a third possibility. . . that this has all been designed to create a crisis, which the democrats will then use as an opportunity to do as they please against us. Congresswoman Pelosi has already said as much.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Pelosi Calls surge of illegal immigrant children an opportunity - Fox News

Obama-Appointed Judge Rules that U.S. Border Fence is Racist - Right Wing News

Illegal Immigrant flood bringing disease outbreaks - American Thinker

Murrieta Illegal Alien Protest Channel 6 San Diego News - Political Pistachio
 

BREWER

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http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-toll-ju...4BHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA01PVVMxNzJfMQ--

Ebola toll jumps to 467 as ministers mull response
Reuters
By By Tom Miles 6 hours ago

GENEVA (Reuters) - The number of deaths attributed to an epidemic of Ebola virus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone stood at 467 by Monday, out of 759 known cases in total, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

The outbreak of the deadly disease is already the largest and deadliest ever, according to the WHO, which previously put the death toll at 399 as of June 23, out of 635 cases.

The 17 percent rise in deaths and 20 percent jump in cases in the space of a week will add urgency to an emergency meeting of 11 West African health ministers in Accra, Ghana on Wednesday and Thursday, which aims to coordinate a regional response. (Full Story)

In response to the outbreak, Liberian authorities have on Tuesday warned that anyone caught hiding suspected Ebola patients will be prosecuted Some families, faith healers and traditional doctors were reported to be removing patients from hospital for special prayers and traditional medicine.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said in a statement that the crisis has become a national public health emergency, urging people to heed health guidelines.

"It is illegal under our public health law to expose the people to health hazard such as Ebola," Sirleaf said in a statement seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

"Let this warning go out, anyone found or reported to be holding suspected Ebola cases in homes or prayer houses will be prosecuted under the laws of Liberia," she said.

The outbreak in West Africa has left some of the world's poorest states, with porous borders and weak health systems undermined by war and misrule, grappling with one of the most lethal and contagious diseases on the planet. (Full Story)

The WHO said three key factors were contributing to the spread of the disease. One was the burial of victims in accordance with cultural practices and traditional beliefs in rural communities. Another was the dense population around the capital cities of Guinea and Liberia. The third was commercial and social activity along the borders of the three countries.

"Containment of this outbreak requires a strong response in the countries and especially along their shared border areas," the statement said.

The WHO figures include confirmed, probable and suspected cases.

(Additional reporting by Alphonso Toweh in Monrovia,; Editing by Stephanie Nebehay, Larry King)
 

Housecarl

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/02/us-health-ebola-westafrica-redcross-idUSKBN0F714220140702

Red Cross suspends Ebola operations in southeast Guinea after threats

By Misha Hussain
Wed Jul 2, 2014 8:58am EDT
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Red Cross in Guinea said on Wednesday it had been forced to suspend operations tackling Ebola in the country's southeast after staff there were threatened by a group of men armed with knives.

The incident on Tuesday in Gueckedou, about 650 kms (403 miles) southeast of the capital Conakry, is the latest in a series against health workers, undermining efforts to help the region's weak health systems fight one of the world's deadliest diseases.

A Medicins Sans Frontieres center in nearby Macenta was attacked by youths two months ago after staff there were accused of bringing the disease to Guinea.

"Locals wielding knives surrounded a marked Red Cross vehicle. We've suspended operations for safety reasons," a Red Cross official in West Africa said, asking not to be named.

"I imagine this won't be the last time this happens," he added.

The outbreak of the disease in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is the largest and deadliest ever, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The organization has recorded 467 deaths from 759 known cases since February.

Local and foreign doctors are battling a deep-rooted fear and lack of understanding of the disease, which has driven dozens of victims to evade treatment and made it harder to track patients.

Health ministers from 11 West African states are meeting in Accra, Ghana, on Wednesday and Thursday to try to coordinate the regional response to the epidemic.

WHO has flagged three main factors driving the spread of Ebola - the burial of victims in accordance with cultural practices and traditional beliefs in rural communities, the dense population around the capital cities of Guinea and Liberia and the bustling cross-border trade across the region.

<For a map of the region affected by Ebola, please click - link.reuters.com/fyj32w>

Ebola causes fever, vomiting, bleeding and diarrhoea and can kill up to 90 percent of those it infects. Highly contagious, it is transmitted through contact with the blood or other fluids of infected people or animals.

Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called the crisis a national public health emergency.

Addressing his nation for the first time about the issue late on Tuesday, Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma called for leaders on all sides of the political divide to work together to tackle the crisis.

"This is a national fight. And all must be involved," he said. Koroma said that the government and the U.N. World Food Program had started providing food aid to 30,000 people in the two districts affected by Ebola.

(Additional reporting by Umaru Fofana; Editing by Bate Felix, David Lewis and Sonya Hepinstall)
 

Oreally

Right from the start
the next big milestone here will be cases in ivory coast, mali,senegal (which has already had a few non-ebola confirmed case in april). or paris.


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Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
Yep, it won't be long now. Drudge has TWO HEADLINES on it being totally out of control at this point. The WHO, that gutless group of PC fools is even starting to act scared. Ebola will make it to Europe and the USA. Thank Obama for hordes of diseased illegals for that one. Ebola is a global pandemic waiting to happen.
 

Housecarl

On TB every waking moment
For links see article source.....
Posted for fair use.....
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/03/health/ebola-outbreak-west-africa/

Ebola virus: Can nations stop deadliest ever outbreak from spreading?

By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
updated 8:50 AM EDT, Thu July 3, 2014

(CNN) -- African ministers and health experts are meeting in Ghana with one thing on their minds: how to stop the biggest ever outbreak of the Ebola virus from extending its deadly reach still further.

The World Health Organization has warned that "drastic action" is needed to halt the killer in its tracks.

It reports there have been 759 cases, including 467 deaths, in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia as of June 30. The outbreak began in March.

This makes it the "largest in terms of the number of cases and deaths as well as geographical spread," said WHO.

Not only is it uncontained, but this strain of the Ebola virus can kill up to 90% of those infected.





Map: Ebola spreads in West Africa



Map: Ebola spreads in West AfricaMap: Ebola spreads in West Africa


READ MORE: What you need to know about Ebola

The scientist who first discovered the Ebola virus in the 1970s, Dr. Peter Piot, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that the situation is "unprecedented."

"One, [this is] the first time in West Africa that we have such an outbreak," he said. "Secondly, it is the first time that three countries are involved. And thirdly it's the first time that we have outbreaks in capitals, in capital cities."

The looming threat has brought together the health ministers of 11 African nations -- the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Uganda -- as well as health experts, Ebola survivors, and WHO representatives.

Also present at the two-day summit in Accra, Ghana, are the representatives of airlines and mining companies, as well as donor nations helping to fund efforts to combat the virus.

New cases of the virus continue to be reported.

Between June 25 and 30, 22 new cases of the virus were reported in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, WHO said. Of those, 14 died.








Exposure to body fluids

Ebola is a violent killer. The symptoms, at first, mimic the flu: headache, fever, fatigue. What comes next sounds like something out of a horror movie: significant diarrhea and vomiting, while the virus shuts off the blood's ability to clot.

As a result, patients often suffer internal and external hemorrhaging. Many die in an average of 10 days.

People are traveling without realizing they're carrying the deadly virus. It can take between two and 21 days after exposure for someone to feel sick.






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Dr. Gupta dispels Ebola myths

The good news is that Ebola isn't as easily spread as one may think. A patient isn't contagious -- meaning they can't spread the virus to other people -- until they are already showing symptoms.

Then, the disease is transmitted by direct contact with the blood and body fluids of infected animals or people, according to WHO.

In April, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta traveled to Conakry, Guinea, to report on what was being done to treat patients and contain the outbreak.

"It took only moments to feel the impact of what was happening here," Gupta wrote after landing in Conakry. "There is a lot we know about Ebola, and it scares us almost as much as what we don't know."

Fighting an epidemic

Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, has been working to fight the epidemic since March.

But it warned in a news release last week that a "massive deployment of resources" is needed by West African nations and other organizations, saying it has reached the limit of what its teams can do.

Ebola outbreaks usually are confined to remote areas, making the disease easier to contain. But this outbreak is different; patients have been identified in 60 locations in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

"The epidemic is out of control," says Dr. Bart Janssens, MSF director of operations. "With the appearance of new sites in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, there is a real risk of it spreading to other areas."

Officials believe the wide footprint of this outbreak is partly because of the proximity between the jungle where the virus was first identified and cities such as Conakry. The capital of Guinea has a population of 2 million and an international airport.

Complicating matters, the countries hit hardest by the epidemic have major medical infrastructure challenges.

There is also a real sense of mistrust toward health workers from communities. In Sierra Leone and Guinea, WHO has said that community members have thrown stones at health care workers trying to investigate the outbreak.

MSF, which is currently the only aid organization treating those infected with Ebola, has treated 470 people, it said last week, of which 215 were confirmed cases.

However, it is now "having difficulty responding to the large number of new cases and locations," it said.

While public anxiety is high, the statement said, governments and civil society groups are doing too little to acknowledge the scale of the epidemic or educate people about how to stop the spread of the disease.

Virus 'should be easy to stop'

There is no cure for Ebola, but in theory the disease should be easy to fight, Piot told CNN.

"You need really close contact to become infected. So just being on the bus with someone with Ebola, that's not a problem."

Simple hygienic measures like washing with soap and water, not re-using syringes, and avoiding contact with infected corpses are sufficient to stop spread of the disease, Piot said.

"This is an epidemic of dysfunctional health systems," he added. "Fear of the virus, and the lack of trust in government, in the health system, is as bad as the actual virus."

READ: Get the fast facts on Ebola

READ: We're aliens in Ebola's world

READ: What is Ebola and why does it kill?

CNN's Mick Krever, Danielle Dellorto, Miriam Falco and Jen Christensen contributed to this report.
 

Be Well

may all be well
Then, the disease is transmitted by direct contact with the blood and body fluids of infected animals or people, according to WHO.

In April, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta traveled to Conakry, Guinea, to report on what was being done to treat patients and contain the outbreak.

"It took only moments to feel the impact of what was happening here," Gupta wrote after landing in Conakry. "There is a lot we know about Ebola, and it scares us almost as much as what we don't know."

Hmm. All other types of ebola (besides the Reston variety which did not cause disease in humans, only monkeys,[poor things) are also spread just by direct contact with bodily fluids.

So WHY is this spreading much more and more rapidly than any other ebola outbreak? What is different? I think they aren't saying all they know.
 

Housecarl

On TB every waking moment
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/...02/your-guide-the-west-african-ebola-outbreak

Tristan McConnell
July 3, 2014 01:03

Your guide to the West African Ebola outbreak

Where the virus comes from, what it does to its victims and why this outbreak is so bad.

Members of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) put on protective gear at the isolation ward of the Donka Hospital in Conakry. (Cellou Binani/AFP/Getty Images)

NAIROBI, Kenya — Regional health officials from 11 West African countries held an emergency meeting in Accra, Ghana, on Wednesday to discuss how to respond more effectively to the deadliest-ever outbreak of Ebola virus.

So far, it's already claimed at least 467 lives and infected 763 people. Poor health facilities and lack of knowledge mean it's expected to spread further. Late last month Bart Janssens, director of operations at medical charity Doctors Without Borders, warned that the disease was “out of control.”

The situation has since worsened with deaths and cases increasing by 20 percent in just a week, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) figures.

Liberia has made it a crime to hide suspected Ebola sufferers in an effort to halt its spread. Fearful victims have fled hospitals to seek the help of traditional healers, increasing the likelihood the disease will spread.

What is Ebola?

Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever that originates in bats and monkeys. Human-to-human transmission is by direct contact between people, including the dead, and by the exchange of body fluids.

Transmission can be prevented by simple precautions such as washing hands, avoiding contact with the sick and not touching corpses. This last point is more important than you may think: In West Africa, exuberant and close-contact mourning is the norm in burial ceremonies.

Medical workers are often infected through contact with patients and family members by the infected relatives they nurse at home.

What does it do?

Ebola has an incubation period of up to three weeks but once the disease takes hold deterioration is rapid and horrific.

The first symptoms are flu-like but within days muscle pains and headaches turn to vomiting and diarrhea, then kidney and liver failure that can lead to the uncontrollable internal and external bleeding that makes Ebola such a fearful sickness.

There is no vaccine. Ebola is fatal in up to 90 percent of cases, according to the WHO.

Why is this outbreak so worrying?

Ebola is usually a localized, rural disease, but this outbreak has a broad geographic spread and is reaching cities too.

Ebola takes its name from a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo near to a small village that was among the first places the disease was identified in 1976. There have been subsequent regular — but relatively small — outbreaks of Ebola in often isolated parts of tropical sub-Saharan Africa. (Different strains found in China and the Philippines are harmless to humans.)

The current West African outbreak was first identified in rural southern Guinea in February. By April it had reached the capital Conakry, a city of 2 million people.

It has since spread across the region’s unmarked and unguarded borders to neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia, and moved from the countryside into more densely-populated urban areas, raising fears that it could spread still faster infecting many more people.

Will it spread out of the region, or across the Atlantic?

In the past, Ebola outbreaks have fizzled out close to where they began as victims died before they could travel far and spread the disease. Although the kind of nightmare scenarios imagined in the Hollywood films "Outbreak" and "Contagion" are unlikely to be realized, the fear is real: Cases have now been identified in capital cities with international airports rather than isolated villages deep in the forest as in the past.

The solution to the current outbreak in West Africa is to get countries working together to identify then isolate individuals and quarantine areas where the disease is found, especially border areas, and to quickly spread information to communities about what Ebola is and how it's transmitted.

But for most of those already infected, whatever action is agreed upon at the emergency summit in Accra will be too little and too late.
 

Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
The only vector scenario that would lead to the kind of increases in numbers is Ebola has now mutated into a virus that can be spread by coughing. All cases up to this most recent outbreak required physical contact with either bodily fluids or the actual body. Most of the previous cases were either family members in close contact or health care workers giving medical aid.

It is unclear exactly who the "new" people getting sick are. It is clear that "something" happened to go from a few dozen cases to hundreds in a tight time period. I will also note that the MERS numbers skyrocketed for some unknown reason in the last few weeks. We now have TWO separate virus diseases that have significantly increased in infected people during the last six weeks. I am thinking the only logical reason for that is at least some of the virus have mutated into an aerial vector dispersal mode. If this is true, then it is game over once ONE infected person reaches either Europe or the USA etc via an airplane flight.

It is revealed dogma that no disease can be contained on the continent it first appeared on. Global transport systems mean there is NO effective way to prevent a virus or other disease from eventually spreading planet wide.

I am thinking the new hysteria from the WHO etc means they have now seen cases of aerial dispersal, otherwise they would have maintained their previous no panic causing statement agenda. Yep, one global pandemic coming right up!!!!
 

Housecarl

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http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/06/briti...dly-symptoms-as-killer-virus-hits-uk-4789186/

British Ebola outbreak: Doctors ordered to look out for deadly symptoms as killer virus hits UK
Sunday 6 Jul 2014 11:16 pm

Every GP in the country has been ordered to look out for symptoms of the killer ebola virus in a scramble to stop the world’s deadliest outbreak taking hold in Britain.

Doctors have been sent new guidelines on how to deal with suspected cases of the virus, which kills nine out ten people it infects and is now sweeping through west Africa.

British health officials have been dispatched to the affected areas in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, while Britain’s port authorities have also been put on alert.

Although health officials say the risk is slight, they are concerned about people returning here after visiting their families in west Africa and Sierra Leone in particular. They are also worried about an influx of visitors from the region this month for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Prof David Haymann, head of global health security at the think-tank Chatham House, said: ‘The virus appears to be stable but there’s a huge family of fever viruses and there’s always a chance of a mutation.’

The virus was first detected in 1976 when it killed 280 people in the Congo. It causes death through multiple organ failure and internal bleeding and there is still no cure or vaccine.

It is spread through contact with bodily fluids but there is some evidence it can be transmitted through water droplets in the air.

The death toll from the latest outbreak is said to be 467 although experts fear this is a gross underestimate.

Prof Dilys Morgan, from Public Health England, said: ‘Because the incubation period is up to 21 days there’s a slight risk that cases may turn up in the UK but that risk is very low.’
 

Housecarl

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Posted for fair use.....
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28192398

7 July 2014 Last updated at 05:08 ET
Ebola outbreak: Ghana reports first suspected case

Ghana is treating its first suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus, the health ministry said.

The virus has so far killed more than 460 people since it broke out in Guinea in February and spread to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone.

It is the world's deadliest outbreak to date and there is no vaccine or cure for Ebola.

The ministry said that it had put in place "precautionary measures" and that people should stay calm.
'Under control'

The case was recorded at the Nyaho Clinic in the capital, Accra, the health ministry said in a statement.

The patient and staff at the clinic have been quarantined and provided with protective clothing, it said.
Ebola virus disease (EVD)

Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage
Fatality rate can reach 90%
Incubation period is two to 21 days
There is no vaccine or cure
Supportive care such as rehydrating patients who have diarrhoea and vomiting can help recovery
Fruit bats are considered to be the natural host of the virus

In pictures: Battling Ebola in West Africa

Why Ebola is so dangerous

The clinic was awaiting the results of blood tests to see whether the patient really had Ebola, the statement said.

"We will like to assure the general public that we have everything under control," Tony Goodman, the health ministry's public relations officer, said.

Ebola spreads through contact with an infected person's bodily fluids and kills up to 90% of those infected.

The health ministers of 11 West African states met in Accra last week promising to work more closely together to combat the outbreak.

So far, 759 people have been infected with the virus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Most of the 467 deaths have been centred in the southern Guekedou region of Guinea, where the outbreak was first reported.

But health officials say the region's porous borders have allowed infected people to carry the disease into other countries.
 

Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
The scenario for a full global pandemic is right on schedule. There was a story where most of the southwestern area of one of the African countries affected was now completely off limits to western medical people. The reason is they will be killed by the locals who think they are responsible for the Ebola outbreak. This means the truly dismal public health systems will be even more dismal, if that is possible, than they are now. The bottom line is Ebola is now completely out of control, the health systems are in chaos, and western medical aid is no longer possible.
The spread to Ghana is as predictable as it is dangerous. The fact Britain is now openly warning about Ebola puts the lie to all the government sponsored propaganda and feel good drivel. The fact the Ghana case was in the capital means it will now spread all over. In fact, it is now almost certain Ebola is everywhere in the entire area surrounding Ghana, Guinea etc. It is also likely in Nigeria, which is a game changer in my opinion.

Yep, day by day, week by week Ebola continues to spread unchecked. MERS is also spreading widely in the Middle East. What impact the wide ranging wars in Syria and Iraq remains to be seen. Wars always spread disease.
 

Oreally

Right from the start
the person in ghana was an american and he has died.

interesting that the person tested negative for ebola right up until expiration.

this means that no one knows right now exactly what the properties of this ebola stain are. not looking good.

i wonder where the first media reported case in europe is going to be, paris, london, or italy?

Nyaho Clinic suspected Ebola virus patient dies

Source: Ghana|Myjoyonline.com|Nathaniel Yankson
Date: 08-07-2014 Time: 12:07:38:pm
An Ebola virus patient being carried on a stretcher



The American who was suspected to be carrying the Ebola virus at the Nyaho Clinic in Accra is reported dead after blood testing on him revealed signs of the disease were glaring.
The said American, name withheld, died yesterday afternoon while under surveillance at the infirmary.
He arrived from Guinea on Sunday and reported at the clinic for medical attention.
As a result, Ghana’s Health Ministry is currently having a crunch meeting with stakeholders on the matter.
The said meeting is supposed to strategize on how to contain the deadly Ebola virus, should it break out in the country.
There have been some 467 deaths of 759 cases reported in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia by the close of June 30, this year.
The initial tests run on the American, now deceased, according to the source, was inconclusive because the officials used the wrong reagent.
The sources, who are medical practitioners, told Joy News “the test should have taken Noguchi not more than five hours.”
But Myjoyonline.com learnt from the Public Relations Officer of the Health Ministry, Tony Goodman that his outfit had requested for some reagents from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to further help with the investigations.
Signals are that the blood samples could also be flown to Atlanta in the United States for further testing.
Early on, Head of Disease Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Badu Sarkodie told Joy News more work would be done later today on the sample before a substantive conclusion could be determined.
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http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2014...tient-dies.php
 

Be Well

may all be well
Hmmmm - whole article on the TB thread. I don't think Judicial Watch has a habit of making stuff up.

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...-off-on-deportation-of-illegal-immigrant-kids

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/20...gue-swine-flu/

Illegal Alien Minors Spreading TB, Ebola, Dengue, Swine Flu

JULY 08, 2014

The hordes of illegal immigrant minors entering the U.S. are bringing serious diseases—including swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis—that present a danger to the American public as well as the Border Patrol agents forced to care for the kids, according to a U.S. Congressman who is also medical doctor.

This has created a “severe and dangerous” crisis, says the Georgia lawmaker, Phil Gingrey. Most of the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) are coming from Central America and they’re importing infectious diseases considered to be largely eradicated in this country. Additionally, many of the migrants lack basic vaccinations such as those to prevent chicken pox or measles, leaving America’s young children and the elderly particularly susceptible, Gingrey reveals.

In a hard-hitting letter to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Congressman Gingrey demands that the agency keep Americans informed about its plan to handle the growing public health crisis posed by the influx of minors. “As the unaccompanied children continue to be transported to shelters around the country on commercial airlines and other forms of transportation, I have serious concerns that the diseases carried by these children may begin to spread too rapidly to control,” the congressman writes. “In fact, as you undoubtedly know, some of these diseases have no known cure.”
 

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the person in ghana was an american and he has died.

interesting that the person tested negative for ebola right up until expiration.

this means that no one knows right now exactly what the properties of this ebola stain are. not looking good.

i wonder where the first media reported case in europe is going to be, paris, london, or italy?

Nyaho Clinic suspected Ebola virus patient dies

Source: Ghana|Myjoyonline.com|Nathaniel Yankson
Date: 08-07-2014 Time: 12:07:38:pm
An Ebola virus patient being carried on a stretcher



The American who was suspected to be carrying the Ebola virus at the Nyaho Clinic in Accra is reported dead after blood testing on him revealed signs of the disease were glaring.
The said American, name withheld, died yesterday afternoon while under surveillance at the infirmary.
He arrived from Guinea on Sunday and reported at the clinic for medical attention.
As a result, Ghana’s Health Ministry is currently having a crunch meeting with stakeholders on the matter.
The said meeting is supposed to strategize on how to contain the deadly Ebola virus, should it break out in the country.
There have been some 467 deaths of 759 cases reported in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia by the close of June 30, this year.
The initial tests run on the American, now deceased, according to the source, was inconclusive because the officials used the wrong reagent.
The sources, who are medical practitioners, told Joy News “the test should have taken Noguchi not more than five hours.”
But Myjoyonline.com learnt from the Public Relations Officer of the Health Ministry, Tony Goodman that his outfit had requested for some reagents from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to further help with the investigations.
Signals are that the blood samples could also be flown to Atlanta in the United States for further testing.
Early on, Head of Disease Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Badu Sarkodie told Joy News more work would be done later today on the sample before a substantive conclusion could be determined.
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http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2014...tient-dies.php

Do you suppose quality control might be an issue -- just try finding someone who wants to do one, and someone else to supervise. Then there is the slight issue of gloves, masks, goggles, etc.

Sad, it seems not even half the tests were accurate in the early months. Probably worse now that so many medical staff have hit the road.
 

Oreally

Right from the start
it looks like it may have spread to Nigeria's capital, Lagos (20 million people)

http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN0FT1Z120140724



LAGOS (Reuters) - A Liberian man in his 40s is being tested for the deadly Ebola virus in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, a megacity of 21 million people, the Lagos State Health Ministry said on Thursday.

Ebola has killed 632 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since an outbreak began in February, straining a string of weak health systems despite international help.

This would be the first recorded case of one of the world's deadliest diseases in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy and most populous nation, with 170 million people and some of Africa's least adequate health infrastructure.


also, another possible case on a plane out of Conakry, Guinea

Translation Google

Thursday, July 24, 2014 by African Press Agency (APA ©)

Senegal: A false alarm to the Ebola virus spreads panic at the airport in Dakar

The international airport Leopold Sedar Senghor was shaken by a false alarm to the Ebola virus after an Air Emirates flight was detained for several hours on the runway because one of its passengers from Guinea Conakry was experiencing vomiting.

The incident occurred shortly after 17 hours, and immediately the alert and the rumor amplifying the Airport Authority mobilized; Thus, a doctor was sent to the aircraft to diagnose the suspected case.

The diagnosis was hesitant at first, but eventually there was more fear than harm. According to the director of prevention at the Ministry of Health and Social Action, it is not a case of Ebola.

[there is no protocol for establishing ebola on an airplane on the tarmac this fast.]

The suspected case was sent back to Conakry by a special flight from Transair, while the plane that was to fly to Dubai was diverted to Bahrain

[they sent the patient back to Conakry, but the plane went on its way !]

In the early onset of the disease in Guinea, Senegal had closed its land borders with the neighboring country, before reopening after a lull that had been noted.

But since the resurgence of the virus, no administrative action has been taken so far.

http://www.afriscoop.net/journal/spip.php?article12708
 

bw

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The international airport Leopold Sedar Senghor was shaken by a false alarm to the Ebola virus after an Air Emirates flight was detained for several hours on the runway because one of its passengers from Guinea Conakry was experiencing vomiting.

The incident occurred shortly after 17 hours, and immediately the alert and the rumor amplifying the Airport Authority mobilized; Thus, a doctor was sent to the aircraft to diagnose the suspected case.

The diagnosis was hesitant at first, but eventually there was more fear than harm. According to the director of prevention at the Ministry of Health and Social Action, it is not a case of Ebola.

The suspected case was sent back to Conakry by a special flight from Transair, while the plane that was to fly to Dubai was diverted to Bahrain

Not saying this person had Ebola, but this scenario would be the ideal way to spread the disease. A half-hearted response, a false seal of approval, and a planeload of infected people scatters to the wind without a clue what they're carrying.
 

Doomer Doug

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There are very serious systemic problems with third world public health care systems in general and in Africa in particular. The training of the people doing the test was likely not very good. They likely had supply issues ranging from a lack of disposable gloves, hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, equipment etc. Their sterile technique wasn't very good and they paid the price for it with the dead health care workers.

The fact that Ebola "may" now be in Lagos, Nigeria is a game changer. Nigeria has all the issues of defective public health systems, mostly due to corruption, since they have the money from oil sales. Lagos is the fourth largest city in the world. It has a population of 21 million. Assuming Ebola gets lose in Lagos, well you start at horrible and continue downward from there. Lagos also has DIRECT FLIGHTS TO BOTH THE USA AND EUROPE. You can see the potential for a global pandemic right there.

Ebola is now completely out of control. The lead doctor is now infected and several nurses died last week. We are going to see a further collapse in the ability to deal with Ebola in West Africa. The villagers are threatening to kill any western health care worker they see. The villagers are sealing themselves off in their villages. The health care workers are likely thinking, many have no doubt done so, of abandoning their positions in fear. Ebola is now confirmed in several capital cities with millions of potential victims. Ebola "may" now be in Lagos, Nigeria.

Global pandemic is on track. MERS is now reported to have gone to an airborne dispersal vector. If so, this means you can get MERS from somebody coughing on you. I think it was reported to be in the air of a camel barn in Saudi Arabia. Again, this is bad, very, very bad.
 
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