Posted on 09/09/2014 4:29:59 PM PDT by Kartographer
According to CDC director Tom Frieden, the ‘window of opportunity’ for stopping the spread of Ebola is closing rapidly. In July, as the virus surged across west African borders, Frieden downplayed its potential to reach U.S. shores. “It is not a potential of Ebola spreading widely in the U.S.,” claimed Frieden in a preemptive effort to prevent panic. “That is not in the cards.”
The cards, apparently, have been reshuffled, as Frieden now joins a growing chorus of concerned officials around the world. “This is not just a problem for West Africa, it’s not just a problem for Africa,” Frieden said last week. “It’s a problem for the world, and the world needs to respond.”
In the United States, hospitals are quietly preparing Ebola infection wards and procedures for what many believe is the inevitable arrival of the virus on U.S. shores.
Mathematical models performed by numerous researchers suggest that anywhere from 20,000 to 100,000 people globally could contract the virus by December of this year.
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Ping!
Nature's way of culling the population.
By the way, that estimate is way off the charts for predictability...and 80,000 differential?? That tells me that the CDC director Tom Frieden and staff haven't a clue about the infection rate.
What do you think?
“Daisycutter” the area.
I think that they haven’t a clue the spread and duration of this outbreak is not following previous models. Something is different this time, but what exactly I believe no one knows for sure. One reason this outbreak seems to be one step ahead of everyone even the FR experts.
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- Every case of Ebola will spread to two (2) more Africans
- Cramped taxi cabs are big way Ebola is spread by contact/touch
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Shear and blatant insanity bringing anyone with the virus into the US. Stupidity run amuck. Our nations’ Eight Year Nightmare continues thanks to the America haters at the helm.
I think it all depends on whatever mutations the virus can come up with to ‘outsmart’ our procedures and vaccines.
It already figured out that killing most of it’s hosts led to no more hosts. So now, the death rate is %50.
Plus, it learned that if it could survive longer when expelled from the host, it could reach more hosts.
OR, it was engineered that way by USAMRIID.
Well, it's a VIRUS and they can't be killed so easily.
The body just has to be strong enough to allow the nasty virus to LIVE OUT its short life.
I doubt that even the USAMRIID could engineer something that virulent. But, what do I know?
So the Army is doing this?
Travel to and from the affected nations should already have been greatly curtailed, but in the age of political correctness that is unlikely to happen, particularly since the virus is in African nations.
20k to 100k this year. That will mean it doubles every month. What about next year? If it doubles every month, then it’ll be 500 million.
They know exactly why it has become more difficult to stop any disease right now. And it will only get worse over time.
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They have degenerated to the same status as the GloBull Warming "scientists" - try to cover all bases by using a huge set of possibilities and keep up the meme that they actually know what they are doing. They don't want to be proven wrong, so they flail about with opinions vs. actual reality.
Why? What would stop them?
So the Army is doing this?
Well.... let's see.
The US Military and the Ebola Outbreak
Analysis of clinical samples from suspected Lassa fever cases in Sierra Leone showed that about two-thirds of the patients had been exposed to other emerging diseases, and nearly nine percent tested positive for Ebola virus. The findings, published in this month’s edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases, demonstrates that Ebola virus has been circulating in the region since at least 2006—well before the current outbreak,reports Global BioDefense.
According to GBD, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases has been operating in the area since 2006, supposedly working on "diagnostic tests."
The laboratory testing site in Kenema is supported by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System. Other contributors to the work include the Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office-Critical Reagents Program, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Cooperative Biological Engagement Program, and the DTRA Joint Science and Technology Office.
Filoviruses like Ebola have been of interest to the Pentagon since the late 1970s, mainly because Ebola and its fellow viruses have high mortality rates — in the current outbreak, roughly 60 percent to 72 percent of those who have contracted the disease have died — and its stable nature in aerosol make it attractive as a potential biological weapon.
Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have sought to develop a vaccine or treatment for the disease.
Last year, USAMRIID scientists used a treatment, MB-003, on primates infected with Ebola after they became symptomatic; the treatment fully protected the animals when given one hour after exposure.
As I reported earlier, MB-003 appears to be part of the "secret serum" treatment being administered to the two Americans that are now in the U.S. and who contracted Ebola.
It's really not a big jump to suspect that the military has also been doing research on Ebola as a bioweapon. As the Army Times notes about Ebola, "its stable nature in aerosol make it attractive as a potential biological weapon." What better place, via the eyes of the U.S. military, to be messing around with such research than Africa? The thinking might go: If there is a misstep with the virus, research blowbacks don't happen around US civilian populations.
Another dot to connect is that the US Gunverment holds a patent on Ebola: http://www.google.com/patents/US20120251502
Actually, they can't be 'killed' at all because they aren't alive to begin with.
Here's the worst part. Even if a particular virus strain goes 'extinct', it can be re-created in the lab.
Some more FYI.
“Many viruses can be synthesized de novo (”from scratch”) and the first synthetic virus was created in 2002.”
(from Wiki)
Seriously, you and that blog thinks that the U.S. Army is doing all this with Ebola?
As far as the Army and DOD doing research with it as a bio agent, that is no secret, that is what they do, Ebola has been being research by the U.S. for many decades, the military has to keep up with all such threats and possible weapons.
The Army helps during the Ebola breakouts, it isn’t there to infect and kill people.
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