ALERT Ebola Suspected In Spain

2Trish

2Trish

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Hope this doesn't turn out to be Ebola. (Mods, if this is a dup, please delete.)

http://www.thespainreport.com/9248/ebola-valencia/

Spanish Health Authorities Activate Health Alert Over Possible West African Ebola Case In Valencia
By Matthew Bennett | on Google+ | June 25th, 2014
Ebola in Spain News Spanish Healthcare & Medicine

NEWS: A man from Guinea Conakry is in isolation in the La Fe hostpital in Valencia, eastern Spain, with a suspected case of Ebola. There are contradictory stories about how it was discovered.

Regional health authorities in Valencia activated their infectious disease protocols on Monday night after the man, who is “resident in Europe” according to a Spanish Health Ministry spokeswoman, was admitted to hospital with Ebola-like symptoms.

Data from the Center for Disease Control in the United States shows this spring’s Ebola outbreak in West Africa to have so far infected 599 people, 362 of whom have died, a 60% fatality rate.

On Monday June 23, a Civil Guard agent at passport control at Valencia airport noticed the man did not look well and called the airport’s first aid team, who then warned the Health Ministry’s Foreign Healthcare section, a spokeswoman for Spanish airport authorities AENA in Valencia told The Spain Report.

In contradiction to the version offered by airport authorities, the Spanish Health Ministry in Madrid and regional health authorities in Valencia insist the man’s symptoms were noticed on board the airplane by the crew and that he was first isolated on board the aircraft.

The Health Ministry spokesman first told The Spain Report that the patient had arrived not on a flight from Morocco but on a boat, later confirming that the man had: “a high fever, dizziness, shakes and a cough”.

36 hours after the man was admitted to hospital, Spanish health officials are still waiting for the results of the tests.

Doctors Without Borders in Spain told The Spain Report that the Ebola test the organisation uses in field conditions in Guinea normally takes six hours to process, or up to 24 hours if there are transport problems from remote locations.

Spanish health authorities in Madrid and Valencia denied the tests in Spain were taking longer than necessary, and that Spanish doctors were following their own protocols. “We are not hiding anything”, said a spokeswoman for La Fe Hospital, “but I don’t know why it is taking so long”.

Valencian regional health minister, Manuel Llobart said today that: “We really hope that the results of the test are negative, but if it is positive, the protection of the population is guaranteed”, according to Spanish news agency EFE.

EFE also reports Mr. Llobart as saying the man was bleeding from his nose.

The ministry would not confirm the flight number, airline, time of arrival, number of flight crew or the total number of passengers on board, but the Valencia airport webpage shows just one company, Royal Air Maroc, operating a flight between Casablanca and Valencia.

Regional health authorities in Valencia issued a statement yesterday saying the man’s symptoms: “could correspond to said disease, which has NOT yet been confirmed or denied. We are waiting for the test results”, and asking for: “prudence and to not cause social alarm over the suspicion of a possible disease”.

The patient is currently in a “clinically stable” condition “in isolation”.

A spokeswoman for the World Health Organisation told The Spain Report that the WHO was in touch with the Spanish authorities and that they were following updates in the Spanish press, but that they do not have any further information at this point.

There are five species of the Ebola virus and the World Health Organisation says case outbreaks have a fatality rate of up to 90%. The virus spreads through human-to-human transmission and physical contact with infected surfaces or mucous substances.
 
mzkitty

mzkitty

I give up.
Every country in the world should be on the alert for this. It's a horrible way to die, and spreads rapidly.

:dot5:
 
Hacker

Hacker

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There are five species of the Ebola virus and the World Health Organisation says case outbreaks have a fatality rate of up to 90%. The virus spreads through human-to-human transmission and physical contact with infected surfaces or mucous substances.

Said another way . . . if you catch it, you die.
 
mzkitty

mzkitty

I give up.
Hacker said:
There are five species of the Ebola virus and the World Health Organisation says case outbreaks have a fatality rate of up to 90%. The virus spreads through human-to-human transmission and physical contact with infected surfaces or mucous substances.

Said another way . . . if you catch it, you die.
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Pretty much. I vaguely remember years ago there was a large Ebola outbreak somewhere in Africa. I believe the survival rate was around 5%.

:eek:
 
bbbuddy

bbbuddy

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Because Ebola kills so well, it usually burns itself out...this strain has been different. It mimics flu in the beginning, so people go about their lives "sick with the flu" and infecting others. That makes it much more dangerous, and if it becomes airborne, Katy bar the door.

Global pandemic, just another of the biblical dots lining up - the dots are starting to point in a straight line toward the end times of the Bible.
Maranatha
 
O

Oreally

Right from the start
not good. this version of ebola seems to have a 21 day incubation period. and its been circularing in Conakry (an unbelievably crowded and unsanitary place) for almost 4 months. people are certainly going to be trying to flee to safety in europe, like this guy, in droves very soon. many of them are going to be already infected, but not yet sick.

i mentioned the other day that if we see around 1,000 confirmed cases by early august, which would be the fifth doubling since march, then it is totally out of control and we'll be facing disaster by mid 2015 all over the world.

trying to wrap my mind around this.

the only positive here, is that, if it goes this way, at least we here at 2b2k have a had good warning.

God help us all
 
Hacker

Hacker

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Oreally said:
i mentioned the other day that if we see around 1,000 confirmed cases by early august, which would be the fifth doubling since march, then it is totally out of control and we'll be facing disaster by mid 2015 all over the world.

trying to wrap my mind around this.

the only positive here, is that, if it goes this way, at least we here at 2b2k have a had good warning.

God help us all
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Sheesh! Can you say, hunker down for a long period of time in place?
 
almost ready

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This strain of Ebola has only about a 65% CFR (case fatality rate). It is different than the others. Those cases which don't progress to full-blown hemorrhagic fever/bleeding from orifices tend to survive. What kind of shape they're in, I have no clue.

A group has been following the flutrackers and other news - up to p. 247 with virtually no trolls, as they were removed daily and gave up. While not an expert, have followed this very closely - and MERS news...both have the same new variant feature (this Spring's Jeddah variant of MERS only and this first-ever West African Ebola only) of a longer incubation period and mild start which fools the patient into thinking he caught a cold or flu. Curious coincidence, no?
 
kittyluvr

kittyluvr

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Oreally said:
this is good news? "only" 65%?

and agreed, the long incubation period and mild start are quite suspicious.
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Long incubation period = good bio-warfare agent.

The antiviral BCX4430 being developed (from article above) is also effective against MERS Cov, but it is just advancing to stage 1 trials and the article did not state any of the side effects.
 
almost ready

almost ready

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Bad news. The horse is being fitted with blinders. Obviously this is to prevent "panic".

The story, as you would expect, omits the most important point. The previously counted ebola cases which didn't have positive test results were counted from family clusters. If a patient died and 3 family members got ebola who were caretakers, the dead guy, or perhaps one of the caretakers, who didn't pass the test, which is very easy to get false negs on, would be counted.

Now they are reducing the number of cases with a magic wand by eliminated ALL cases that didn't test positive, although the original determination probably missed many cases in the first place.

Blinders in place. Nobody panic now, see? Soon no news will be available at all -- it will be deemed a national security issue if there is ebola in your neighborhood much like incoming asteroids cannot be reported BY LAW, cause they might spook the horses.

http://news.yahoo.com/reduces-ebola...feed&utm_medium=twitter&bcmt=comments-postbox


WHO reduces Ebola death toll in Sierra Leone
Associated Press
By PAUL SCHEMM 22 hours ago

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The World Health Organization on Wednesday announced it was changing the way it reports fatalities from the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone at the request of the government.
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Previously, probable and suspected deaths from Ebola were included in the count but from now on, only laboratory confirmed cases will be reported, reducing the death toll in Sierra Leone from 58 to 34 as of Tuesday.

The way the deaths are reported in Guinea and Liberia, the other two countries hit by the outbreak, will remain unchanged, said WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib.

"They haven't asked to change their methodology, the only country that decided to change their methodology was Sierra Leone for now," said Chaib.

Sierra Leone's press had criticized the government for reporting lower death rates than the WHO had initially been reporting.

The change in approach by WHO now brings their figures into line with those of Sierra Leone government.

International organizations have dubbed this the worst Ebola epidemic ever with 599 cases and 338 fatalities in dozens of different sites across the three countries, not only in remote areas, but near major cities.

On Tuesday, the European Commission announced it was committing an additional 500,000 euros in funding to combat the outbreak, bringing its total contribution to 1.9 million euros.

Doctors Without Borders has described the outbreak as "out of control" and said with cases in more than 60 sites, its resources are stretched to the limit.

Ebola has no cure and causes internal bleeding and organ failure, spreading through direct contact with infected people, including during funeral preparations of the victims. More than half of all cases result in death.

Medical facilities in these countries, some of the poorest in the world, are struggling to deal with the outbreak as well as educate populations unfamiliar with how to prevent the disease from spreading.

The current outbreak, which began in Guinea either late last year or early this year, had appeared to slow before picking up pace again in recent weeks, spreading to the capital of neighboring Liberia for the first time.
 
Hacker

Hacker

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I must admit that from the moment there's any hint or confirmation of ebola in the U.S., I will thereafter be staying close to home.
 
O

Oreally

Right from the start
almost ready said:
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Previously, probable and suspected deaths from Ebola were included in the count but from now on, only laboratory confirmed cases will be reported, reducing the death toll in Sierra Leone from 58 to 34 as of Tuesday.
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well, considering that the number of all outbreak deaths over there, including "confirmed" and "suspected" are probably being undereported in any case . . . people dying in the bush, hidden away by family, by maybe 20-30% . . .

i think we should just go forward mentally adjusting the WHO numbers by the 45-50% that they just reduced them by. obviously the unconfirmed cases are a variant that as not been pcr'd and identified yet. like the canadian guy who caught something in conakry, flew home, got sick with something that presented as ebola, but was not confirmed by testing. then he died. . . of something.

today it's roughly 600 and counting. 1000 by early august and its on world-wide.

sure hope that anti-viral works.

if it is effective, and the CDC gets on the case, MAYBE they can whip up a few hundred million treatments for us here in the U.S.. before it explodes over here.

no way in hell they can make 7.5 billion treatments in time though.
 
Doomer Doug

Doomer Doug

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There have been several threads and posts on the "out of control" ebola outbreak in West Africa. It is interesting that this story follows them by only a few days.

Doomer Doug assumes the government is LYING about everything. If you make this assumption, you will NEVER be wrong. Ergo, there are more cases in Spain, these cases are worse, and the disease is now quietly spreading.

Way back on one the first threads, Doomer Doug said ebola would make it into Europe. It has now done so. It doesn't matter which "strain" is in Spain. It is very likely the West African one and the Spanish government, WHO etc are LYING ABOUT IT.

We are cruising right along towards a global pandemic. The types of things needed are happening. The speed of them happening is about right. The geographical distribution is about right. Things are on time and on target.
 
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Housecarl

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Doomer Doug said:
There have been several threads and posts on the "out of control" ebola outbreak in West Africa. It is interesting that this story follows them by only a few days.

Doomer Doug assumes the government is LYING about everything. If you make this assumption, you will NEVER be wrong. Ergo, there are more cases in Spain, these cases are worse, and the disease is now quietly spreading.

Way back on one the first threads, Doomer Doug said ebola would make it into Europe. It has now done so. It doesn't matter which "strain" is in Spain. It is very likely the West African one and the Spanish government, WHO etc are LYING ABOUT IT.

We are cruising right along towards a global pandemic. The types of things needed are happening. The speed of them happening is about right. The geographical distribution is about right. Things are on time and on target.
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If anyplace is going to take the brunt of this it will be Africa. A 65% to 80% population reduction just about destroys a society. There is no functioning government short of warlords, utilities or the logistical wherewithal to conduct any trade, let alone normal agricultural activities. Between the TB strains, HIV and now this along with the lack of basic sanitation in most of the "mega cities" in Africa, they're very likely to resemble NYC in "Omega Man" before it is over.
 
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