Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
I have spent a little time compiling links to threads about the Ebola outbreak in the interest of having all the links in one thread for future reference.
Please add links to new threads and articles of interest as the situation develops.
Thank You all for you participation.
FLASH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why AP isn’t moving stories for every suspected Ebola case
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3217770/posts
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 5:37:50 AM · by justlittleoleme · 2 replies
Poynter ^ | Oct. 17, 2014 | Kristen Hare
On Friday, the Associated Press posted an advisory to editors about suspected cases of Ebola, which they’re hearing of more and more. “The AP has exercised caution in reporting these cases and will continue to do so,” the advisory reads. Here’s the rest: Most of these suspected cases turn out to be negative. Our bureaus monitor them, but we have not been moving stories or imagery simply because a doctor suspects Ebola and routine precautions are taken while the patient is tested. To report such a case, we look for a solid source saying Ebola is suspected and some sense... [SNIP]
Even the dailymail seems to have gotten the ‘no ebola stories’ from the new Czar. Yesterday morning the top of the page was full of bullets from ebola stories. Today there are none at all.
Amazing what hiring a propaganda/spin doctor will do for you...
UH OH: New Ebola Czar believes ‘overpopulation’ the biggest leadership issue for the world
CDC ADMITS TX PRESBY FOLLOWED PROTOCOL
Officials too PC to ban travel
Ebola crisis: Nigeria declared free of virus
Ebola cases rise sharply in western Sierra Leone
“It appears Harvard epidemiologists and former Deans of Schools of Public Health are looking at the potential fodder for papers and studies for years to come, provided enough Americans get sick. What relevance! Just think of the grants! “
I’d say you are right.
Imagine every corporate medical company wonk just salivating on the money they get to fight a disease that was mishandled. Even midlevel executives are loving the money coming from corporate coffers right now.
My wife is a corporate Director at a national hospital system and the activity from Ebola is significant and growing fast. You can just imagine the other Directors and higher just loving that their departments are getting loads of money for everything from Ebola training to physical preparations to handle Ebola patients.
Medical people on whole really do care about their patients and won’t do anything to harm them or allow Ebola to spread, but that money is really appreciated and enjoyed.
Huge new development!!
The French have developed a 15-min ebola test.
Published: 21 Oct 2014 14:16 GMT+02:00
Updated: 21 Oct 2014 14:16 GMT+02:00
http://www.thelocal.fr/20141021/french-docs-develop-fast-ebola-test?
As fears over Ebola continue to grow, French researchers announced on Tuesday they have developed a simple test that could detect the deadly disease in 15 minutes.
A new device similar to a simple pregnancy home-test could allow doctors to diagnose a patient with suspected Ebola in under 15 minutes, its French developers said Tuesday.
Trials at a high-security lab have validated the technique and prototype kits should be available in Ebola-hit countries by the end of October for a clinical trial, France’s Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) said in a statement.
The diagnostic tool, not yet approved by regulators, works by monoclonal antibodies reacting to the presence of virus in a tiny sample, which can be a drop of blood, plasma or urine, it said.
A European pharma company Vedalab is turning it into a user-friendly kit called Ebola eZYSCREEN.
Similar to a DIY pregnancy test, a positive result sees a small stripe showing up in a results window on the hand-held device.
The kit is simple to use in the field without any additional equipment, said the CEA, which also does non-nuclear research with a possible military or security application.
“It can give a result in less than 15 minutes for anyone showing symptoms of the disease,” it said.
“Current tests, which are based on genetic detection of the virus, are highly sensitive but need special equipment, take between two and a quarter and two and a half hours and can only be carried out in a lab,” the CEA explained.
Scientists at the agency began working on the diagnostic tool in mid-August, when the epidemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone worsened.
The test is for the so-called Zaire ebolavirus, the strain now circulating in West Africa.
The achievement builds on previous Ebola research funded in part by the French defence ministry as part of its anti-bioterrorism programme.
This research had “saved more than a year” in development time of the diagnostic test, the CEA said.
More than 4,500 people have been killed by Ebola since the start of the year, almost all of them in west Africa.
The epidemic has thrown the spotlight on poor infrastructure in the three hardest-hit nations but also the lack of weapons to tackle a disease that until now had been extremely rare and claimed relatively few lives.
Other pharmaceutical teams are also working on fast diagnostic tools for Ebola. They include Primerdesign, a spinoff company of Britain’s University of Southampton, and Corgenix Medical Corp of the United States.
At 2:45 he says there was one new ebola patient testing positive in addition to the 2 nurses.
3:45 Minutes
CDC Releases Revised Ebola Guidelines For Medical Workers - America’s Newsroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4jY0i0TG_E
>>At 2:45 he says there was one new ebola patient
>>testing positive in addition to the 2 nurses.
>Blink<
When was the video posted?
Today (10-21-2014)?
If so, the Associated Press Ebola reporting blockade has turned into outright government censorship.
Ebola vaccine trials in January...too late for the three West Afican nations now afflicked.
Ebola vaccine trials expected in West Africa in January, WHO says
2 leading candidates for a vaccine in clinical trials
The Associated Press Posted: Oct 21, 2014 9:51 AM ET Last Updated: Oct 21, 2014 9:51 AM ET
The hunt for an Ebola vaccine will produce data soon about whether two experimental vaccines are safe and could lead to larger medical trials in West Africa by January, a top World Health Organization official said Tuesday.
Dr. Marie Paule Kieny, an assistant director general for WHO, said clinical trials either planned or underway in Europe, Africa and the U.S. are expected to produce preliminary safety data by December. In the meantime, she said, governments are pushing for immediate “real-world use” of an approved Ebola vaccine.
She told reporters Tuesday in Geneva there are two leading candidates for a vaccine. If the vaccines are deemed safe, tens of thousands of doses will be used in trials in West Africa beginning in January to test their effectiveness, she said.
One of those vaccines, developed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and GlaxoSmithKline from a modified chimpanzee cold virus and an Ebola protein, is in clinical trials in the U.K. and in Mali. It will be used in clinical trials in Lausanne, Switzerland, by the start of February.
The second front-runner, developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada and known as VSV-EBOV, has been sent to the U.S. Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Maryland for testing on healthy volunteers, with results expected by December. The next stage would be to test it more broadly, including among those directly handling Ebola cases in West Africa.
Canada has donated 800 vials of the experimental vaccine to WHO but the shipment was delayed by a Lufthansa pilots strike. It is now expected to arrive in Switzerland on Wednesday for testing coordinated by the U.N. health agency among volunteers at the University Hospital of Geneva, and volunteers in Hamburg, Germany, and in Gabon and Kenya, Kieny said.
“These data are absolutely crucial to allow decision-making on what dose level should go in the efficacy testing in Africa,” she said, referring to plans for the broader testing starting in 2015.
At a separate news conference, WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib promised a thorough public audit of the agency’s early missteps in responding to the Ebola outbreak that has already killed over 4,500 people.
“There is certainly a wish and a will to have this review,” she said. “We know many elements need to be explained in the future. ... WHO will do that, but in the future; now our focus is on the response.”
Okay, I saw the video, the video context says Thomas Duncan, not anyone new.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-vaccine-trials-expected-in-west-africa-in-january-who-says-1.2807233
"The Associated Press Posted: Oct 21, 2014 9:51 AM ET Last Updated: Oct 21, 2014 9:51 AM ETEbola vaccine trials expected in West Africa in January, WHO says"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3191066/posts?page=4256#4256
" The timing of the camp building and projected availability of the Canadian vaccine, plus the known production lead-time for the vaccine based on the Novartis article I posted above, all look like field trials starting in Liberia in January.4,256 posted on 10/17/2014, 2:43:03 PM by Thud"
The video was posted this morning 10-21.
Perhaps there will be a confirming report and please post if you have info.
“Canada has donated 800 vials of the experimental vaccine to WHO but the shipment was delayed by a Lufthansa pilots strike.”
Because NO OTHER CARRIERS fly into Switzerland.
None.
Zero.
Try:
Because NO OTHER CARRIERS under long term WHO contract fly from Canada to Switzerland and none of the paper...er...electron hanging bureaucrats at WHO want this dammed vaccine to work because it undercuts >insert interest name here< who are paying them bribes to delay it
Yup.
If they actually USED the vaccine early on the outbreak wouldn’t be as large or may in fact already have been over.
Gotta let it get enormous to drive up the potential profits when the vaccine finally gets to the ‘correct’ markets.
Just found this video of a presentation from the Johns Hopkins webcast.
22:18 Minutes
Michael Osterholm of CIDRAP discusses Ebola 10-14-14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkMKUa0sxBQ
Live Ebola Forum Webcast from Johns Hopkins
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3214961/posts
Yep. They have their marching orders.
You are welcome! Thank you for providing insight with your expertise.
For your review: Dated Oct 16
Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa — The First 9 Months of the Epidemic and Forward Projections
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1411100
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