Here is the latest from zerohege.com with a few comments. Nigeria has blown it utterly. It will take some time, but it is clear Ebola is now entrenched in Nigeria and spreading.
"World Is Losing Battle To Contain Ebola Epidemic," MSF Warns Response "Lethally Inadequate
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/02/2014 11:20 -0400
The CDC's worst nightmare is coming true. Despite reassurances from the government that it was 'contained', the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria is accelerating fast. Health Minister Chukwu said that 17 had now been infected and 271 were under surveillance (including most horrifyingly, 72 in Lagos). In addition, Congo is seeing cases increase rapidly, with WHO reporting 53 cases of Ebola (31 dead) and warning, perhaps ominously, that there is no link with the West Africa strain. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said the situation in her country "remains grave," adding "People now don't see this as a Liberia or West Africa crisis. It could easily become a global crisis." Furthermore, Doctors-without-Borders warns, "the world is losing the battle to contain the Ebola epidemic."
*WORLD LEADERS ARE FAILING TO ADDRESS EBOLA EPIDEMIC, MSF SAYS
*INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TO EBOLA 'LETHALLY INADEQUATE', MSF SAYS
*MSF: WORLD IS LOSING BATTLE TO CONTAIN EBOLA EPIDEMIC
*MSF: NATIONS WITH DISASTER RESPONSE CAPACITY MUST ASSIST
Via Doctors Without Borders,
Six months into the worst Ebola epidemic in history, the world is losing the battle to contain it. Leaders are failing to come to grips with this transnational threat.
In West Africa, cases and deaths continue to surge. Riots are breaking out. Isolation centers are overwhelmed. Health workers on the front lines are becoming infected and are dying in shocking numbers. Others have fled in fear, leaving people without care for even the most common illnesses. Entire health systems have crumbled.
Ebola treatment centers are reduced to places where people go to die alone, where little more than palliative care is offered. It is impossible to keep up with the sheer number of infected people pouring into facilities. In Sierra Leone, infectious bodies are rotting in the streets.
Rather than building new Ebola care centers in Liberia, we are forced to build crematoria.
Last week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) projected as many as 20,000 people infected over three months in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.
We are in uncharted waters. Transmission rates are at unprecedented levels, and the virus is spreading quickly through Liberia’s capital, Monrovia.
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We have been losing for the past six months. We must win over the next three.
Nigeria is bad and getting worse fast.. (via Reuters)
Nigeria has a third confirmed case of Ebola in the oil hub of Port Harcourt, bringing the country's total confirmed infections to 17, with 271 people under surveillance, the health minister said on Monday.
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Patrick Sawyer, the first case, came from Liberia, and then collapsed at Lagos airport on July 20.
The shift to Port Harcourt shows how easily containment efforts can be undermined. Nigeria's government acted quickly at the end of July, setting up an isolation ward and monitoring contacts closely. But one of Sawyer's contacts in Lagos avoided quarantine and traveled east to Port Harcourt.
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Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said in a press conference that 72 people in Lagos, a city of 21 million people, were still under surveillance. Another 199 people were under surveillance in Port Harcourt.
Congo is accelerating... (via WHO)
*WHO SAYS IDENTIFIED 53 CASES CONSISTENT W/EBOLA IN DRC, 31 DEAD
*NO LINK BETWEEN WEST AFRICA, CONGO EBOLA OUTBREAKS, WHO SAYS
"There are now 31 deaths," Eugene Kambambi, the WHO's head of communication in DR Congo, told AFP, citing Congolese authorities and stressing that the epidemic "remains contained" in an area around 800 kilometres north of the capital Kinshasa.
Kabamba added that there were "53 confirmed, suspected or likely cases" of Ebola, while 185 people were under medical watch because they had admitted to contact with patients or were believed to have had dealings with people stricken by the highly contagious disease.
The government announced on August 25 that the DRC was facing its seventh Ebola outbreak since the disease was first identified in the former Zaire in 1976.
The health minister has ruled out any link with a serious Ebola epidemic sweeping parts of west Africa, at a cost of more than 1,500 lives, on the grounds that there had been no contact between those distant nations and Boende. The WHO has taken the same position.
And Liberia is a disaster... (via CNN)
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said Monday that the situation over the massive Ebola outbreak in her country "remains grave."
"Our health delivery system is under stress. The international community couldn't respond quickly," Johnson Sirleaf told CNN's Nima Elbagir in an interview.
She warned a bigger response is needed to prevent that.
"People now don't see this as a Liberia or West Africa crisis. It could easily become a global crisis."
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:23 | 5171181 NoDebt
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When your neighbor has Ebola, it's an unlucky break.
When YOU have Ebola, it's an epidemic.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:30 | 5171223 Tall Tom
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When you have Ebola it is not an epidemic. It is YOUR FUNERAL. You are dead.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:38 | 5171258 SMG
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Is that chart above saying there have been 30000 deaths so far? If so wow.
Edit: ok never mind that's a projected trend.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:40 | 5171283 NoDebt
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That's projected. 25 weeks from June 24th. Sometime around Christmas this year.
Ho, ho, ho.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:43 | 5171295 Publicus
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Ebola will put an end to scarcity.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:44 | 5171296 Decolat
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Curse these hockey stick charts. And curse the multitudes that ignore them!
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:51 | 5171341 Herd Redirectio...
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"Its spreading rapidly in Monrovia"
Oh, the same place that has shit in the streets, has Ebola spreading quickly? Huh. Note to self: Avoid Monrovia, esp. slums.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:00 | 5171382 knukles
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And so what else is in the news?
Solution, only one and now pitifully late:
New and Improved, Same Method, New Name, Different Package, Same Great Procedure:
Cordon Sanitaire.
Now coming to a whole continent!
Hopefully not near you!
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:18 | 5171466 jbvtme
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what is the connection to the mysterious deaths of a hundred microbiologists in the past few years and the recent death of a rockefeller, big wheel at drs. w/o borders, with the ebola outbreak?
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:26 | 5171504 Bindar Dundat
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Feb 2016 is when we hit 6B infected. Yikes
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:56 | 5171972 TerminalDebt
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we will never truly have 6B infected at the same time, due to the fact 2B will already be dead
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:22 | 5172108 MalteseFalcon
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Will somebody, anybody, please cut that check to WHO.
EEEEEbolaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:28 | 5171507 General Decline
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"what is the connection to the mysterious deaths of a hundred microbiologists in the past few years and the recent death of a rockefeller, big wheel at drs. w/o borders, with the ebola outbreak?"
I give up. What's your theory?
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:31 | 5171520 Herd Redirectio...
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That it was 'mutated w/ assistance', shall we say.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:08 | 5171692 General Decline
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understood
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:35 | 5171808 Fish Gone Bad
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I guess they are cancelling the plans to build a Disneyland in Lagos.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 15:45 | 5172547 gatorboat
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Wow, this ebola scamidemic even has the ZH crowd trembling in fear.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:31 | 5171523 g speed
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good catch---+1 for you---now we need an investigation?????
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:52 | 5171617 Kprime
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keep in mind they eliminated the top 4 or 5 Aids reseachers, plus some lesser Aids researchers. Had to shoot down a whole plane but they got them.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:17 | 5171737 cougar_w
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"what is the connection"
None.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:19 | 5171475 El Vaquero
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Part of the problem is that the more persons infected, the more chances it has to mutate into something even more nasty. Frankly, with over 7 billion people on the planet and rapid transportation, I'm surprised that we haven't experienced a major pandemic of something already. That being said, I'm not going to worry until there are secondary and tertiary infections in developed countries.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:52 | 5171946 Things that go bump
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There was a small outbreak of what is thought to have been Spanish flu at a military base in 1917, but it died out. In 1918, that monster broke out in several different countries simultaneously.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:08 | 5172042 El Vaquero
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There are so many potential bugs out there that could turn into something nasty that it's not worth altering your life for any given one until it actually does something that proves that it is a danger. WTF are we going to do if there is a real global pandemic anyway? Once one hits, the only thing you'll be able to do is to hope that you weren't exposed once you realize what's going on and do what you can to isolate yourself from sources of infection.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:54 | 5171352 PacOps
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In the long run ... however for the near future ...
The Ebola outbreak is putting food harvests in West Africa "at serious risk", the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns.
It has raised a special alert for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the three countries worst affected.
Rice and maize production will be particularly affected during the coming harvest season, says the FAO.
The food shortages are expected to worsen in the coming months.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29028768
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:59 | 5171366 Publicus
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At current growth rate, Ebola will infect everyone within only 1-2 years. After that abudance for every survivor.
Oh who am I kidding, the remaining elite will just hoard everything all over again.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:21 | 5171758 cougar_w
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"At current growth rate"
It's silly (bordering on irresponsible) to even try and speculate. You can't do this work in a spreadsheet, it takes complex computer models that are tuned to the time of year, global travel patterns and the nature of the pathogen. Those models are probably being run now (somewhere) but I seriously doubt you will ever see the output. They are used by national centers for disease control, and WHO, and otherwise will be absolutely top-secret.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:07 | 5172037 Things that go bump
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I've seen simulations of such models in pandemic disaster movies, and maybe it was for effect, but they were quite grim. I've seen estimates for the spread of the black death overlying maps of Europe too, and this was at a time when travel was quite difficult and dangerous.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 15:22 | 5172435 Svener
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I have seen a few. They are being covered at flutrackers. They are no where near as dystopain as they appear on this site. They are being done by MIT and some other solid organizations that are able to factor enormouse amounts of data. Gotta love algos. For multiple reasons the risks of spreading very far outside of Africa are pretty small. If it does the developed world can make quick work of it. My God, this is nothing like small pox, that was a slippery little devil, and we were able to wipe that out. This would not spread like wild fire here. We don't have the same practices or culture that make so diabolical there. They will likely have a vaccine early 2015, not enough time for it to get very far.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:15 | 5171448 Kprime
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i understand there are a lot of mexicans who like to cross borders to harvest food that no one else will harvest (yah right). We have an extra 70,000 workers we could donate.
Send your contributions to "Donate a Mexican Harvester". If you can afford just one illegal mexican per week, we can put an end to the wasted harvest. Call today.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:24 | 5171495 froze25
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Food will keep going up, the california drought is a story under reported on.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:00 | 5171646 e2thex
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"...the california drought is a story under reported...."
I get all my water from the faucet and I see no impending shortage of faucets near term.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:35 | 5171836 Cpl Hicks
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Just you wait until you go shopping for fresh arugula. Then the true horror of the situation will become clear to you.
Can you imagine having to eat iceberg lettuce? Oh, the humanity!
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 15:23 | 5172438 willwork4food
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Or only being able to afford Bud Light? Give me ebola!
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:43 | 5171882 j0nx
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Draught my ass. The only reason food is going up is dollar debasement. Stop swallowing the MSM BS.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:10 | 5171701 BraveSirRobin
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"Ebola will put an end to scarcity.'
Except for people, who may become scarce.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:33 | 5171527 Antifaschistische
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Holy Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...
I'm still thinking this is a Big Pharma induced exageration of a terrible illness. Just give Big Pharma a few Billion (via Pharma funded CDC, WHO) and they'll be happy.
One more little thing. Ebola rears it's ugly head in Senegal (one case) and the government there is pleading for WHO assistance for protective gear!!! WTF!! No where in that entire country is someone able to come up with protective clothing and a freakin respirator!! They didn't think to do it in advance!!! Is Obama running that place too!!!
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:27 | 5171784 cougar_w
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One case reported is 100 unreported. 10 infected in hospitals is 1,000 that never made the trip. 1,000 becomes 10,000 very quickly, in a matter of weeks, far faster than any nation can hope to mobilize a large and coordinated response. Yeah nobody was ready, this thing is new and they were taken in the night.
The African nations with any cases at all are probably already nuked. Just wiped out. Dead walking. Give it a fews months, but like someone shot in the gut, they are already dead.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:31 | 5171812 Cpl Hicks
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Ebola Shmebola.
This is just another grab for your money, along with global warming, killer hurricanes, killer cops and the looming threat of the Tea Party. Please, please stand very still while we spend every extorted tax dollar and then raise your rates yet again.
Barry shakes down the 1%ers between endless rounds of golf while stockpiling KY for his next European jaunt. Any good courses in Estonia or Wales?
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 14:09 | 5172023 BraveSirRobin
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I hope so. I hope it has been contained in Nigeria. I hope it is not airborne, as the CDC now seems to indicate it is. It is ugly enough to be concerned about though. And if you do try and do something about it, doctors, PhD's and labs are real expensive.
So the problem for people vested with political power is that if they do nothing and it gets bad, they get blamed. If they do a lot and it turns out to be no big deal, they get blamed. They tend to err on the side of "doing something" if for no other reason that it's not their money and to cover their ass.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:34 | 5171533 TheReplacement
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That would seem to be a lowball. Assuming that 30k die then you can count on a whole lotta services and industries breaking down. Healthcare, food, and sanitation shutdowns could lead to a whole lot more deaths. If they try to quarantine entire areas like West Point then violence and other diseases like cholera could become problems.
$430M or $85B... priorities people.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:03 | 5171668 dontgoforit
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Plague outbreaks in past centuries killed off roughly 70% of all affected. If that percentage held true today, that's about 5 billion people. And yes, it does take a few years to get it done.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:03 | 5171664 Silky Johnson
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Projected 30,000 deaths by Christams?!! Holy shit I know what I'm asking from Santy, a new biohazard suit like Dustin Hoffman's.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:39 | 5171268 Kirk2NCC1701
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When you have Ebola, you suffer and may die.
When you have Obola, millions suffer and many more will die.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:15 | 5171457 PacOps
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Meanwhile, Obola chimes in with instructions ... an a reminder that he be their partner.
Obama Tells Africans How Not to Get Ebola
President Barack Obama has made a video address to the people of West Africa, aimed at communicating how Ebola is spread. He also said, especially to the people of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, that they will "continue to have a partner in me and in the United States of America".
http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00032368.html
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:25 | 5171500 froze25
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I always thought it was spread by bodily fluids. But the healthcare workers keep getting infected. Is it air born?
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:41 | 5171568 TheReplacement
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No, it is absolutely not airborne in any way, shape, or form. Those medicos ran out of TP and were wiping using barehands. It is not their custom to wash after that soo...
Yeah it is freaking airborne ffs.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:39 | 5171542 Kirk2NCC1701
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Well, you tell me... the CDC uses Positive Pressure Suits when working with any virus of this type
See "A researcher working with the Ebola virus while wearing a BSL-4 positive pressure suit to avoid infection." in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease
As always... PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY DO, NOT WHAT THEY SAY. Plan, hedge and act accordingly.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:56 | 5171626 TheReplacement
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No different that trying to guage the market by Buffet.
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Tue, 09/02/2014 - 13:03 | 5171660 overmedicatedun...
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that nerdish head of cdc has gone to the black continent, and come back saying " it's going to get worse it's out of control" but then says, "too many countries have cut off contact with the african ebola states" I bet he feels real good about his altruisim, after all he knows quarantine of african countries with ebola would make the cdc look bad. we can't have that.