First read;
Ebola as a US neo-imperialistic weapon:
Portray Africans as poor helpless zombies: Come in as a solution to the Ebola
virus you have created : Use this pretext to steal their mineral resources :
Obama: Ebola crisis 'spiraling out of control' : US military to help Ebola
effort
Dear Global research.ca , The US invented the Ebola Virus from Bundibugyo, Uganda
that is why they have a patent for their invention. The US’s invention
of that virus is not a claim, it is the truth.
Wickedness in high places : When Ebola creators
pretend to be messianic solvers on their own biological weapon : WHO meets on
experimental Ebola drug use
THE DRUG EPIDEMIC, VIRUSES,
EBOLA, AND AIDS[IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK
http://www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000081.htm
The Ebola Outbreak: U.S. Sponsored Bioterror? Why Was
Ebola-Infected Patrick Sawyer Cleared for Travel?
Hypocrisy of Babylon
USA:
US waives child soldier sanctions on six nations
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Ebola Outbreak: The Latest U.S. Government Lies. The Risk of Airborne Contagion?
We begin with the Public Health Agency of Canada, which once (as recently as August 6) stated on its website that:
“In the laboratory, infection through small-particle aerosols has been demonstrated in primates, and airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected, although it has not yet been conclusively demonstrated (1, 6, 13). The importance of this route of transmission is not clear. Poor hygienic conditions can aid the spread of the virus.”
No more; the “airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected” language has been cleansed:
“In laboratory settings, non-human primates exposed to aerosolized ebolavirus from pigs have become infected, however, airborne transmission has not been demonstrated between non-human primates
Viral shedding has been observed in nasopharyngeal secretions and rectal swabs of pigs following experimental inoculation.”
Are we to suppose that very recent and ground-breaking
research was conducted that indicated there is no longer reason to
“strongly suspect” that airborne Ebola contagion occurs? Surely, the
research was done three weeks ago, and we only need to wait another
couple of days until the study is released for public consumption. Feel
better now?
If not, perhaps the 9/30 words of the Centers for Disease
Control accompanying the Dallas Ebola case will provide some solace. Or,
perhaps those words just contain another pack of U.S. Government lies.
Let’s investigate.
Before addressing the CDC’s Statement,
we should articulate some pivotal Ebola Outbreak facts we’re apparently
not supposed to mention or even think about, since they’ve been buried
by the Government/MSM complex. So, consider this from an earlier Global Research contribution by this author, drawn from a 2014 New England Journal of Medicine article:
“Phylogenetic analysis of the full-length sequences established a separate clade for the Guinean EBOV strain in sister relationship with other known EBOV strains. This suggests that the EBOV strain from Guinea has evolved in parallel with the strains from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon from a recent ancestor and has not been introduced from the latter countries into Guinea. Potential reservoirs of EBOV, fruit bats of the species Hypsignathusmonstrosus, Epomopsfranqueti, & Myonycteristorquata, are present in large parts of West Africa.18 It is possible that EBOV has circulated undetected in this region for some time. The emergence of the virus in Guinea highlights the risk of EBOV outbreaks in the whole West African subregion…
The high degree of similarity among the 15 partial L gene sequences, along with the three full-length sequences and the epidemiologic links between the cases, suggest a single introduction of the virus into the human population. This introduction seems to have happened in early December 2013 or even before.”
The take-home message is that we now confront a brand
spanking new genetic variant of Ebola. Furthermore, we still have no
idea at all how the “single introduction of the virus in the human
population” of West Africa occurred. And, the current Ebola outbreak
appears to be orders of magnitude more contagious than previous
outbreaks. It also presents with a fatality count
that far exceeds all previous outbreaks combined. But it’s certainly
not airborne, so who cares about nit-picking details such as these!
In spite of the above facts, we are supposed to believe
that all questions regarding the current Ebola outbreak can be answered
with exclusive reference to what has occurred in connection with
previously encountered—in terms of genetic composition—and known—in
terms of initial outbreak source—Ebola episodes.
Here are a couple of questions. When was the last time an
Ebola outbreak coincided with instructions to U.S. funeral homes on how
to “handle the remains of Ebola patients”?
Not to worry, since Alysia English, Executive Director of the Georgia
Funeral Homes Association, is quoted (click preceding link) as saying
“If you were in the middle of a flood or gas leak, that’s not the time
to figure out how to turn it off. You want to know all of that in
advance. This is no different.” So it’s just about being prepared, you
see. Of course, nothing resembling this sort of preparation has ever
transpired alongside any other Ebola outbreak in world history, so what
gives now?
“Oh, it’s because we now have that Ebola case in Dallas.”
True, but this response suffers from two fatal defects. First, we’re not
supposed to worry about one tiny case as long as it’s in America,
right, since according to the CDC on 9/30:
…there’s all the difference in the world between the U.S. and parts of Africa where Ebola is spreading. The United States has a strong health care system and public health professionals who will make sure this case does not threaten our communities,” said CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. “While it is not impossible that there could be additional cases associated with this patient in the coming weeks, I have no doubt that we will contain this.”
If the U.S.’ strong health
care system (which is apparently far superior to hazmat suits) is so
effective at containment, what explains the funeral home preparations
again? If U.S. containment procedures are so superb and the virus is no
more contagious than before, what difference does it make whether the
case is in Dallas, Texas or Sierra Leone? To be sure, maybe the answers
to these questions are simple, and it’s just about corrupt money and the
like.
However, the corrupted money explanation isn’t very
plausible (at least on its own) either, for the very simple, and
extremely disturbing, reason that the “funeral home preparations”
article was first published on 9/29 at 3:36 PM PST—a
day before the Dallas case was confirmed positive. Of course, this
makes the following language at the very head of the article all the
more eerie:
“CBS46 News has confirmed the Centers for Disease Control has issued guidelines to U.S. funeral homes on how to handle the remains of Ebola patients. If the outbreak of the potentially deadly virus is in West Africa, why are funeral homes in America being given guidelines?”
If the rejoinder is that “well, people thought the Dallas
case might turn out positive”, the reply must be that there were several
other cases, in places like Sacramento and New York, that might have
turned out positive, but resulted in neither funeral home preparations
nor a rash of CDC “Ebola Prevention” tips (wash those hands, since they’re running low on hazmat suits!)
Hopefully, you are in the mood for two more big CDC lies,
because they really are quite important. From the 9/30 CDC statement:
“People are not contagious after exposure unless they develop symptoms.”
This is a lie for three basic reasons. First, the studies that inform
the CDC’s professed certainty on this issue relied upon analyses of
previous outbreaks of then-known known Ebola variants. The current
strain, as stated here early on, is novel—genetically as well as
geographically. Second, the distinction between “incubation” and
“visible symptoms” is a continuum, not discrete in nature; a few
droplets might not be rain, but they’re not indicative of fully clear
skies either—so the boundary drawn by the CDC is, like nearly everything
else the U.S. government does, arbitrary. Third, as even rank amateurs
at statistics know, previous outbreaks have consisted of too few cases
to confidently rule out small but consequential probabilities of
asymptomatic transmission—completely leaving aside the fact that we have
a new genetic variant of Ebola to deal with.
The last major CDC lie mentioned in this article is the
claim, repeated ad nauseam, that “infrastructure shortcomings” and the
like is wholly sufficient to explain the exponential increase in the
number of cases presented by the current outbreak. We should believe
that only when presented with well-designed multivariate contagion
models that properly incorporate information about Ebola outbreaks and
generate findings that socioeconomic differences as between West Africa
and other regions of Africa (such as Zaire) alone can fully explain
observed differences associated with the current outbreak. It seems to
this author that we should strongly doubt that the current contagion can
be fully explained without at some point invoking features of the novel
genetic strain.
Dr. Jason Kissner is Associate
Professor of Criminology at California State University. Dr. Kissner’s
research on gangs and self-control has appeared in academic journals.
His current empirical research interests include active shootings. You
can reach him at crimprof2010[at]hotmail.com
Top Doctors: Ebola May Become Airborne … And May Already Be Transmissible Via Aerosols
We Can’t Stop the Ebola Epidemic Unless We Understand How It’s Spread
Michael T. Osterholm – director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota – wrote in the New York Times last month:
Viruses like Ebola are notoriously sloppy in replicating, meaning the virus entering one person may be genetically different from the virus entering the next. The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years. Each new infection represents trillions of throws of the genetic dice.
If certain mutations occurred, it would mean that just breathing would put one at risk of contracting Ebola. Infections could spread quickly to every part of the globe, as the H1N1 influenza virus did in 2009, after its birth in Mexico.
Why are public officials afraid to discuss this? They don’t want to be accused of screaming “Fire!” in a crowded theater — as I’m sure some will accuse me of doing. But the risk is real, and until we consider it, the world will not be prepared to do what is necessary to end the epidemic.
In 2012, a team of Canadian researchers proved that Ebola Zaire, the same virus that is causing the West Africa outbreak, could be transmitted by the respiratory route from pigs to monkeys, both of whose lungs are very similar to those of humans. Richard Preston’s 1994 best seller “The Hot Zone” chronicled a 1989 outbreak of a different strain, Ebola Reston virus, among monkeys at a quarantine station near Washington. The virus was transmitted through breathing, and the outbreak ended only when all the monkeys were euthanized. We must consider that such transmissions could happen between humans, if the virus mutates.
The Guardian reports today:
There is a ‘nightmare’ chance that the Ebola virus could become airborne if the epidemic is not brought under control fast enough, the chief of the UN’s Ebola mission has warned.Anthony Banbury, the Secretary General’s Special Representative, said that aid workers are racing against time to bring the epidemic under control, in case the Ebola virus mutates and becomes even harder to deal with.
But perhaps most challenging to the mainstream assumption that Ebola can only be spread through physical contact with a person who is showing symptoms of infection is the following explanation
by two national experts on infectious disease transmission, both
professors in the School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and
Occupational Health Sciences, at the University of Illinois at Chicago
(footnotes omitted):
We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks. [Aerosols are liquids or small particles suspended in air. An example is sea spray: seawater suspended in air bubbles, created by the force of the surf mixing water with air.]
The important points are that virus-laden bodily fluids may be aerosolized and inhaled while a person is in proximity to an infectious person and that a wide range of particle sizes can be inhaled and deposited throughout the respiratory tract.
***
Being at first skeptical that Ebola virus could be an aerosol-transmissible disease, we are now persuaded by a review of experimental and epidemiologic data that this might be an important feature of disease transmission, particularly in healthcare settings.
***
Many body fluids, such as vomit, diarrhea, blood, and saliva, are capable of creating inhalable aerosol particles in the immediate vicinity of an infected person. Cough was identified among some cases in a 1995 outbreak in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and coughs are known to emit viruses in respirable particles. The act of vomiting produces an aerosol and has been implicated in airborne transmission of gastrointestinal viruses. Regarding diarrhea, even when contained by toilets, toilet flushing emits a pathogen-laden aerosol that disperses in the air.
***
There is also some experimental evidence that Ebola and other filoviruses can be transmitted by the aerosol route. Jaax et alreported the unexpected death of two rhesus monkeys housed approximately 3 meters from monkeys infected with Ebola virus, concluding that respiratory or eye exposure to aerosols was the only possible explanation.
Zaire Ebola viruses have also been transmitted in the absence of direct contact among pigsand from pigs to non-human primates, which experienced lung involvement in infection. Persons with no known direct contact with Ebola virus disease patients or their bodily fluids have become infected.
***
Experimental studies have demonstrated that it is possible to infect non-human primates and other mammals with filovirus aerosols. [Ebola is a type of filovirus]
Altogether, these epidemiologic and experimental data offer enough evidence to suggest that Ebola and other filoviruses may be opportunistic with respect to aerosol transmission. That is, other routes of entry may be more important and probable, but, given the right conditions, it is possible that transmission could also occur via aerosols.
In other words, these two infectious disease experts believe that Ebola is already – in its current form – transmissible via aerosols. They therefore urge all doctors and nurses working with Ebola patients to wear respirators.
If they’re right, the government’s current approach towards Ebola is all wrong.
Ebola Cases Could Reach 1.4 Million Within Four Months, C.D.C. Estimates
Yet
another set of ominous projections about the Ebola epidemic in West
Africa was released Tuesday, in a report from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention that gave worst- and best-case estimates for
Liberia and Sierra Leone based on computer modeling.
In
the worst-case scenario, the two countries could have a total of 21,000
cases of Ebola by Sept. 30 and 1.4 million cases by Jan. 20 if the
disease keeps spreading without effective methods to contain it. These
figures take into account the fact that many cases go undetected, and
estimate that there are actually 2.5 times as many as reported.
In
the best-case model, the epidemic in both countries would be “almost
ended” by Jan. 20, the report said. Success would require conducting
safe funerals at which no one touches the bodies, and treating 70
percent of patients in settings that reduce the risk of transmission.
The report said the proportion of patients now in such settings was
about 18 percent in Liberia and 40 percent in Sierra Leone.
The
caseload projections are based on data from August, but Dr. Thomas R.
Frieden, the C.D.C. director, said the situation appeared to have
improved since then because more aid had begun to reach the region.
“My
gut feeling is, the actions we’re taking now are going to make that
worst-case scenario not come to pass,” Dr. Frieden said in a telephone
interview. “But it’s important to understand that it could happen.”
Outside experts said the modeling figures were in line with estimates by others in the field.
“It’s
a nice job,” said Ira Longini, a professor of biostatistics at the
University of Florida who has also done computer modeling of the
epidemic. “It summarizes the extent of the problem and what has to
happen to deal with it.”
Bryan
Lewis, an epidemiologist at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at
Virginia Tech, agreed that the estimates were reasonable, perhaps even a
bit low compared with those generated by other models. He said that if
some of the latest data from the World Health Organization is plugged
into the C.D.C. model, “the very large numbers of estimated cases are,
unfortunately, even larger.”
The current official case count is 5,843, including 2,803 deaths, according to the W.H.O.
The C.D.C. estimates omit Guinea, which has been hit hard, because the epidemic struck in waves that could not be modeled.
The
W.H.O. published its own revised estimates of the outbreak on Monday,
predicting more than 20,000 cases by Nov. 2 if control does not improve.
That figure is more conservative than the one from the C.D.C., but the
W.H.O. report also noted that many cases were unreported and said that
without effective help, the three most affected countries would soon be
reporting thousands of cases and deaths per week. It said its
projections were similar to those from the C.D.C.
The
W.H.O. report also raised, for the first time, the possibility that the
disease would not be stopped but could become endemic in West Africa,
meaning that it could become a constant presence there.
President Obama’s promise
last week to send 3,000 military personnel to Liberia and to build 17
hospitals there, each with 100 beds, was part of the solution, Dr.
Frieden said. But it was not clear when those hospitals would be ready,
or who would staff them.
Dr.
Frieden said the Defense Department had already delivered parts of a
25-bed unit that would soon be set up to treat health workers who become
infected, a safety measure he said was important to help encourage
health professionals to volunteer. He said that more aid groups were
also arriving in the region to set up treatment centers, and that a
“surge” of help would “break the back of the epidemic.”
Dying of Ebola at the Hospital Door
Monrovia, the Liberian capital, is facing
a widespread Ebola epidemic, and as the number of infected grows faster
than hospital capacity, some patients wait outside near death.
Video by Ben C. Solomon on
Publish Date September 11, 2014.
Dr.
Jack Chow, a professor of global health at Carnegie Mellon University
and a former W.H.O. official, said, “The surge only becomes realized
when those beds are up and operating and the workers are delivering
care.”
He
added, “If even the medium case comes to pass, with, say, 700,000 cases
by January, the epidemic will quickly overwhelm the capabilities that
the U.S. plans to send.”
The
W.H.O. reported that a new center had just opened in Monrovia, the
Liberian capital, with 120 beds for treatment and 30 for triage.
Patients were already lined up at the door..
The
report from the C.D.C. acknowledged that case counts were rising faster
than hospital beds could be provided. It said that in the meantime,
different types of treatment would be used, based in homes or community
centers, with relatives and others being given protective gear to help
prevent the disease from spreading.
The
United States government is also sending 400,000 kits containing gloves
and disinfectant to Liberia to help families take care of patients at
home.
At
least one aid group in Liberia is already shifting its focus to
teaching people about home care and providing materials to help because
there are not enough hospital beds for the sick. Ken Isaacs, a vice
president of the group, Samaritan’s Purse, said, “I believe inevitably
this is going to move into people’s houses, and the notion of home-based
care has to play a more prominent role.”
“Where are they going to go?” he said.
Though
providing home-care kits may seem like a pragmatic approach, some
public health authorities said they were no substitute for beds in
isolation or containment wards.
But
Dr. Frieden said that home care had been used to help stamp out
smallpox in Africa in the 1960s. The caregivers were often people who
had survived smallpox themselves and were immune to it. Some experts
have suggested that Ebola survivors might also be employed to care for
the sick.
Dr.
D. A. Henderson, who led the W.H.O.’s smallpox eradication program,
said that local people had been paid to help in the campaign.
“We
recruited a lot of people to stand guard at huts with smallpox,” said
Dr. Henderson, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health and the University of Pittsburgh. “The important thing was
to know they got paid.”
He
added: “We gave money and food to families who had smallpox so they
didn’t have to go out and beg, and they didn’t have to go to the market
and potentially infect people. What can you do? If you don’t have food,
you’ve got to leave the house and go out. Money can play a useful role.”
