Mass meeting today, or was it a mass beating??? at the Jacob Javits Center on mobilizing hospital workers to deal with the Ebola virus, and Ebola infected patients in NYC -- if it comes to that. There were at least 5000 workers there and they had lots of questions.
Fortunately there were some www.larouchepac.com people there to tell them about the budget-cutting lies of Obama and company. This sht could get us all killed. Already 22 million in West Africa in the 3 nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are on the line. Will you act????
Showing posts with label ebola. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ebola. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Airborne Ebola from Harlem to LA
Hey Harlem, the LA Times says don't accept the lies, the airborne Ebola may already be hear.... panic now. Part of the hospital business and the business of staying alive.
In an article entitled Some Ebola Experts Worry Virus May Spread More Easily Than Assumed, the Los Angeles Times exposes the fact that several experts have questioned the lies being spread by official agencies on Ebola’s transmission.
Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Reston, Virginia and who later led the CDC’s most far-reaching study of Ebola’s transmissibility in humans, said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the air in tight quarters. “We just don’t have the data to exclude it,” said Peters, who continues to research viral diseases at the University of Texas in Galveston.
Dr. Philip K. Russell, a virologist who oversaw Ebola research while heading the U.S. Army’s Medical Research and Development Command, and who later led the government’s massive stockpiling of smallpox vaccine after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, also said much was still to be learned. “Being dogmatic is, I think, ill-advised, because there are too many unknowns here.”
The Los Angeles Times article says that the researchers it reached in recent days for this article cited grounds to question U.S. officials’ assumptions in three categories.
One issue is whether airport screenings of prospective travelers to the U.S. from West Africa can reliably detect those who might have Ebola. Individuals who have flown recently from one or more of the affected countries suggested that travelers could easily subvert the screening procedures and might have incentive to do so: Compared with the depleted medical resources in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the prospect of hospital care in the U.S. may offer an Ebola-exposed person the only chance to survive.
A person could pass body temperature checks performed at the airports by taking ibuprofen or any similar common anti-pyretic analgesic. And prospective passengers have much to fear from identifying themselves as sick, said Kim Beer, a resident of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, who is working to get medical supplies into the country to cope with Ebola.
“It is highly unlikely that someone would acknowledge having a fever, or simply feeling unwell,” Beer said via email. “Not only will they probably not get on the flight -- they may even be taken to/required to go to a ‘holding facility’ where they would have to stay for days until it is confirmed that it is not caused by Ebola. That is just about the last place one would want to go.”
Moreover, said some public health specialists, there is no proof that a person infected, but who lacks symptoms, could not spread the virus to others. “It’s really unclear,” said Michael Osterholm, a public health scientist at the University of Minnesota who recently served on the U.S. government’s National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. “None of us knows.”
Russell, who oversaw the Army’s research on Ebola, said he found the epidemiological data unconvincing. “The definition of ‘symptomatic’ is a little difficult to deal with,” he said. “It may be generally true that patients aren’t excreting very much virus until they become ill, but to say that we know the course of [the virus’ entry into the bloodstream] and the course of when a virus appears in the various secretions, I think, is premature.”
In an article entitled Some Ebola Experts Worry Virus May Spread More Easily Than Assumed, the Los Angeles Times exposes the fact that several experts have questioned the lies being spread by official agencies on Ebola’s transmission.
Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Reston, Virginia and who later led the CDC’s most far-reaching study of Ebola’s transmissibility in humans, said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the air in tight quarters. “We just don’t have the data to exclude it,” said Peters, who continues to research viral diseases at the University of Texas in Galveston.
Dr. Philip K. Russell, a virologist who oversaw Ebola research while heading the U.S. Army’s Medical Research and Development Command, and who later led the government’s massive stockpiling of smallpox vaccine after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, also said much was still to be learned. “Being dogmatic is, I think, ill-advised, because there are too many unknowns here.”
The Los Angeles Times article says that the researchers it reached in recent days for this article cited grounds to question U.S. officials’ assumptions in three categories.
One issue is whether airport screenings of prospective travelers to the U.S. from West Africa can reliably detect those who might have Ebola. Individuals who have flown recently from one or more of the affected countries suggested that travelers could easily subvert the screening procedures and might have incentive to do so: Compared with the depleted medical resources in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the prospect of hospital care in the U.S. may offer an Ebola-exposed person the only chance to survive.
A person could pass body temperature checks performed at the airports by taking ibuprofen or any similar common anti-pyretic analgesic. And prospective passengers have much to fear from identifying themselves as sick, said Kim Beer, a resident of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, who is working to get medical supplies into the country to cope with Ebola.
“It is highly unlikely that someone would acknowledge having a fever, or simply feeling unwell,” Beer said via email. “Not only will they probably not get on the flight -- they may even be taken to/required to go to a ‘holding facility’ where they would have to stay for days until it is confirmed that it is not caused by Ebola. That is just about the last place one would want to go.”
Moreover, said some public health specialists, there is no proof that a person infected, but who lacks symptoms, could not spread the virus to others. “It’s really unclear,” said Michael Osterholm, a public health scientist at the University of Minnesota who recently served on the U.S. government’s National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. “None of us knows.”
Russell, who oversaw the Army’s research on Ebola, said he found the epidemiological data unconvincing. “The definition of ‘symptomatic’ is a little difficult to deal with,” he said. “It may be generally true that patients aren’t excreting very much virus until they become ill, but to say that we know the course of [the virus’ entry into the bloodstream] and the course of when a virus appears in the various secretions, I think, is premature.”
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Harlem Asks Will Ebola Hit the Caribbean?
Caribbean could be Achilles Heel for Ebola virus spread in the Western Hemisphere. They could even acquire a natural reservoir like bats.
In statements to Associated Press Oct. 13, during the XI Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas, in Arequipa, Peru, Kelly reported that Ebola was a topic of intense discussion during the conference, as military leaders feel that the armed forces' ability to mobilize is a key component of any defense.
In statements to Associated Press Oct. 13, during the XI Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas, in Arequipa, Peru, Kelly reported that Ebola was a topic of intense discussion during the conference, as military leaders feel that the armed forces' ability to mobilize is a key component of any defense.
Several defense ministers addressed the issue directly in their speeches.
Gen. Kelly underscored the sense of alarm among Caribbean and Central American leaders, in particular, since many of these smaller nations, whose populations are highly vulnerable, have little ability to deal with an Ebola outbreak. Haiti, whose devastating cholera epidemic is still considered an "emergency" by the United Nations, has little defense capability, he noted. As the tourist season begins in the Caribbean, leaders fear that vacationers coming in and out of the region—some on cruise ships—and not subject to any screening procedures, pose a threat of transmission.
Gen. Kelly reported that he has sent a military planner and medical expert to Germany to work with Africa Command officials, to better prepare the Southern Command should an Ebola threat emerge. SouthCom is also conducting simulations on the issue, to make sure the military is prepared if a country begins to see Ebola cases. He has asked for modeling data on how the virus might spread. "There is no fear-mongering here," Gen. Kelly emphasized.
"It's part of my job to anticipate that kind of thing. A lot of countries don't have really capable preventive medicine... it's not that they don't have any medical capabilities; it's that they don't have a lot."
Reflecting the level of alarm, in their speeches at the recent UN General Assembly meeting in New York, several Caribbean leaders warned that their nations do not have the ability to withstand an Ebola outbreak, and demanded urgent action to confront what they perceive as a global—not regional—threat. Ebola is "a public health emergency of international concern and a threat to global security," warned Barbados's Foreign Minister Sen. Maxine McLean. Belize's Foreign Minister Wilfred P. Erlington asked why international health agencies "did not respond more vigorously to the Ebola outbreak many months ago."
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