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REPUBLIC OF CONGO, AFRICA -- On March 15, 2002, The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed 91 cases of the Ebola virus in the Republic of Congo (RoC) and the neighbouring country of Gabon in its weekly "Situation Report."
Only one week earlier, on March 9, WHO reported only 31 confirmed cases, including 18 deaths, in the central Cuvette region of RoC, which borders the Ogooue-Invindo province of Gabon, the agency stated. In less than a week, the rate of confirmed infection tripled!
Reports were received of deaths between mid-January and 8 March in three remote villages, approximately 65 km north-west of Kelle in western RoC, with the majority of the cases ccurring in Ambomi, WHO reported. A further 58 contacts were being followed up, it said.
WORSE IN GABAN
As of March 12, the Gabonese Ministry of Health reported 60 confirmed cases in Gabon, including 50 deaths. The Ministry says most recent cases were confined to the Ogooue-Invindo province, northern Gabon, with the last two confirmed deaths occurring in Makokou and Mekambo on 23 February and 10 March respectively. A further 62 contacts were being followed up.
HELP ARRIVING - BUT "STRANGERS" CAME FIRST
The WHO says a 50-km road has just been reopened in the affected area of RoC and a team from the international health organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), also known as "Doctors Without Borders" is presently in Kelle and would travel to the villages as soon as possible.
The team - comprising staff from WHO, the Congolese Ministry of Health and Epicentre-Paris, a partner in the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network - would be collecting samples and referring them for laboratory analysis, WHO reported. It would also be prepared to implement barrier nursing practices, surveillance and health education analysis if requested, the report added.
ACTIVE EBOLA TAKEN IN BIO-FREEZERS?
Intelligence sources deemed to be reliable and who spoke on condition of anonymity, tell The Hal Turner Show that people in the infected villages reported the arrival of "strangers" at least two weeks ago. They say the strangers were Arab, arrived by helicopter and wore "strange garments with masks that made heavy breathing sounds." From the descriptions, our Intelligence sources say they believe this was some type of self-contained breathing apparatus, perhaps similar to what rescue workers wear in fires or toxic environments.
Villagers say the "strangers" offered "gifts" of cash, gold or jewels to collect blood-stained clothing. The strangers also used "clear round trays with covers and long clear tubes" to collect blood-laden spit, vomit and blood which was oozing from dying victims. The families took the "gifts" and allowed the strangers to take whatever they wanted. The villagers say these containers were quickly placed into square boxes that were "cold, but gave off white smoke when openned." The Intelligence sources concluded these were portable, dry ice freezers designed to preserve biological specimens. The strangers then left quickly by helicopter.
WORSE THAN FULL NUCLEAR STRIKE
"This is a worse nightmare than a nuclear bomb" said our source. "If these people are Al-Qaida -- and we believe they would be the only ones able to pay for a helicopter and get the equipment to do this -- then terrorists have obtained the most dangerous hemmorhagic virus known to man" he continued.
The intelligence source says if Ebola was unleashed in a single US airport, hundreds would breathe the virus without knowing it, and take it with them around the country or world, in days. Tens of thousands more would be infected in the few days the virus incubates before symptoms appear. "We have no way of detecting this before it is released" he said. "They could hide it inside small spray bottles that look like cologne and go around discretely spraying as they walk the aisle of planes, inside airports, restaurants. . . .anywhere. We have no way to stop it once it is out" he continued.
ALMOST CERTAIN DEATH
Ebola is incurable. Although some victims somehow survive, the virus has a mortality rate over ninety percent (90%).
Within two or three days of exposure, persons infected develop flu-like symptoms including high fever and severe cough. Within a day or two, they begin to bleed from the eyes and every body orifice. In another day or two, victims begin bleeding through their own skin and die either from blood loss (hypovolemic shock) or from drowning on their own blood. Total elapsed time from exposure to death is usually a week to 10 days.
AFGHAN OUTBREAK MAY NOT HAVE BEEN NATURAL
An outbreak of Congo Hemmorhagic virus did occur on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border at the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom. While initially thought to be a fluke, intelligence now thinks AL-Qaida may have had this virus in its possession, and spilled it as they ran to Pakistan to flee US military strikes.
Doctors who have seen Afghan victims of hemmorhagic virus described victims as "literally melting right in front of you" as the virus destroys them from the inside.
REPUBLIC OF CONGO, AFRICA -- On March 15, 2002, The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed 91 cases of the Ebola virus in the Republic of Congo (RoC) and the neighbouring country of Gabon in its weekly "Situation Report."
Only one week earlier, on March 9, WHO reported only 31 confirmed cases, including 18 deaths, in the central Cuvette region of RoC, which borders the Ogooue-Invindo province of Gabon, the agency stated. In less than a week, the rate of confirmed infection tripled!
Reports were received of deaths between mid-January and 8 March in three remote villages, approximately 65 km north-west of Kelle in western RoC, with the majority of the cases ccurring in Ambomi, WHO reported. A further 58 contacts were being followed up, it said.
WORSE IN GABAN
As of March 12, the Gabonese Ministry of Health reported 60 confirmed cases in Gabon, including 50 deaths. The Ministry says most recent cases were confined to the Ogooue-Invindo province, northern Gabon, with the last two confirmed deaths occurring in Makokou and Mekambo on 23 February and 10 March respectively. A further 62 contacts were being followed up.
HELP ARRIVING - BUT "STRANGERS" CAME FIRST
The WHO says a 50-km road has just been reopened in the affected area of RoC and a team from the international health organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), also known as "Doctors Without Borders" is presently in Kelle and would travel to the villages as soon as possible.
The team - comprising staff from WHO, the Congolese Ministry of Health and Epicentre-Paris, a partner in the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network - would be collecting samples and referring them for laboratory analysis, WHO reported. It would also be prepared to implement barrier nursing practices, surveillance and health education analysis if requested, the report added.
ACTIVE EBOLA TAKEN IN BIO-FREEZERS?
Intelligence sources deemed to be reliable and who spoke on condition of anonymity, tell The Hal Turner Show that people in the infected villages reported the arrival of "strangers" at least two weeks ago. They say the strangers were Arab, arrived by helicopter and wore "strange garments with masks that made heavy breathing sounds." From the descriptions, our Intelligence sources say they believe this was some type of self-contained breathing apparatus, perhaps similar to what rescue workers wear in fires or toxic environments.
Villagers say the "strangers" offered "gifts" of cash, gold or jewels to collect blood-stained clothing. The strangers also used "clear round trays with covers and long clear tubes" to collect blood-laden spit, vomit and blood which was oozing from dying victims. The families took the "gifts" and allowed the strangers to take whatever they wanted. The villagers say these containers were quickly placed into square boxes that were "cold, but gave off white smoke when openned." The Intelligence sources concluded these were portable, dry ice freezers designed to preserve biological specimens. The strangers then left quickly by helicopter.
WORSE THAN FULL NUCLEAR STRIKE
"This is a worse nightmare than a nuclear bomb" said our source. "If these people are Al-Qaida -- and we believe they would be the only ones able to pay for a helicopter and get the equipment to do this -- then terrorists have obtained the most dangerous hemmorhagic virus known to man" he continued.
The intelligence source says if Ebola was unleashed in a single US airport, hundreds would breathe the virus without knowing it, and take it with them around the country or world, in days. Tens of thousands more would be infected in the few days the virus incubates before symptoms appear. "We have no way of detecting this before it is released" he said. "They could hide it inside small spray bottles that look like cologne and go around discretely spraying as they walk the aisle of planes, inside airports, restaurants. . . .anywhere. We have no way to stop it once it is out" he continued.
ALMOST CERTAIN DEATH
Ebola is incurable. Although some victims somehow survive, the virus has a mortality rate over ninety percent (90%).
Within two or three days of exposure, persons infected develop flu-like symptoms including high fever and severe cough. Within a day or two, they begin to bleed from the eyes and every body orifice. In another day or two, victims begin bleeding through their own skin and die either from blood loss (hypovolemic shock) or from drowning on their own blood. Total elapsed time from exposure to death is usually a week to 10 days.
AFGHAN OUTBREAK MAY NOT HAVE BEEN NATURAL
An outbreak of Congo Hemmorhagic virus did occur on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border at the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom. While initially thought to be a fluke, intelligence now thinks AL-Qaida may have had this virus in its possession, and spilled it as they ran to Pakistan to flee US military strikes.
Doctors who have seen Afghan victims of hemmorhagic virus described victims as "literally melting right in front of you" as the virus destroys them from the inside.
