Posted on 10/02/2014 2:23:50 AM PDT by markomalley
It is unclear whether the cause of the syndrome is viral or bacterial – a distinction with implications for treatment – although autopsies have indicated that those who died were suffering from other complications, such as Chikungunya.
Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever (VHF) is endemic in the two states of Portuguesa and Barinas, but transmission from person-to-person is uncommon.
While samples have been sent to the Venezuelan National Institute of Health, the results have not yet been released publically and there is no suggestion from health officials that VHF is behind this particular outbreak.
One doctor, who wishes to remain anonymous, attended a meeting last week at the headquarters of the Medical Association of Aragua state to discuss what action should be taken. “This is an emergency,” he said, “we do not know what we are facing and we need to know the causes in order to provide appropriate treatment, to prevent the collapse of the patient’s organs, and also to set up epidemiological surveillance.”
Similar to Ebola, this syndrome causes patients to experience high fever, skin rashes and bleeding. It has been described as an aggressive disease that leads to a fatal deterioration of health within 72 hours.
Doctors have urged government authorities to declare a state of emergency in Aragua state; however they have received resistance from a surprising source.
The state Governor, Tareck El Aissami, has not only denied medical reports of the disease, but has accused the president of the Aragua state Medical Association, Angel Sarmiento, of “creating anxiety.”
He went on to tweet to his 778,000 followers that he was not surprised that Sarmiento, a member of opposing political party Accion Democratica, was “heading this campaign of rumors and terrorism.”
Sarmiento was immediately defended by his colleague and President of the Venezuelan Medical Federation, Douglas Leon Natera, who urged the government to stop government policy from meddling with the health policy.
Anticipated laboratory results may hold the key to discovering the pathogen to blame for this latest public health emergency, but they will not be responsible for the quality and strength of the response. Instead, this will be dictated by the speed at which the outbreak is acknowledged by politicians and health officials, and the informed multi-agency response that follows.
If the ten people who have lost their lives to this mysterious illness are isolated cases, there may be accusations of an overreaction. If they are not, then a swift and unified action plan may save many lives – a lesson being learnt all too keenly in three West African countries across the ocean. (The Antillean Media Group).-
Oh boy.
Is it just not so very odd that a whole slew of these things are showing up all over suddenly?
It is downright scary. Some might say Biblical (the scary parts) to boot. Too early IMHO to make that call though. Again, IMHO.
It may just be that these things are the popular news of the day. But I have no idea if the fever kills 10 to 100 people every year somewhere.
Or, Mother Earth is trying to tell us something, like stop global warming, fix the ozone hole, stop oil trains - something like that perhaps.
Actually, I DO wonder sometimes if God wouldn’t use a string of plagues like this like He did in the old days to get people’s attention.
I pray that He isn’t.
Ping...
Next I expect resident dumbass to sent an airborne division down there to fix things. Geez, enough already with this jerk.
If ebola meets VHF and they mutate, it might nicely explain why the western hemisphere isn’t directly observed in Biblical eschatology.
The widespread importation of all these exotic and previously unknown diseases (unknown in the territory once known as “the United States of America”, that is) is happening on too large a scale and too many different ways to be pure happenstance. There have been suggestions that this is actually an undeclared biological warfare engagement, done with the sanction of the Current Regime and in answer to a larger agenda of the New World Order, which has a number of members that believe the current population of the planet is just too much for “available resources”.
There was a philosopher, Thomas Robert Malthus, who was a British economist and a demographer. His famous Theory of Population highlighted the potential dangers of overpopulation. Population growth in any area or on the planet, if unchecked, would lead to starvation. Preventative checks are those that affect the birth rate and include marrying at a later age (moral restraint), abstaining from procreation, birth control, and homosexuality.
A much more draconian solution, either by genocide of large parts of the population, or introduction of various plagues or disasters like widespread warfare, that dragged millions of unwilling participants into the “reduction” program, appeared to have been widely practiced during much of the 20th Century, with no long-term benefits, except to make more room for re-expansion when the opportunity arose.
Not really.
Until maybe a decade ago, infectious disease was the biggest killer in the world. Now that we've made some headway against it, it has been overtaken by heart disease and cancer--the diseases that one gets if one does not die first of infectious disease.
Infectious diseases thrive where there is poor health care, which usually is a consequence of restrictive/corrupt government. What has been happening in Venezuela for the last few years?
Not at all.
Quiet solar cycles lead to disease. Last winter was the first bad one and this winter will also be cold. There are people in the Solar Studies community who’ve been warning that there’s a correlation between a quiet sun and disease for years and the global warming crowd told them to sit in the corner and color.
I was referring to Sudan (h pylori), Taiwan (dengue fever) and Congo (another hemorrhagic virus).
The comment below is one I wrote for the CDC article posted yesterday...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3209546/posts
Since the case in Venzi resemble that cases in Africa - and it is known there are unmarked flight to and from those two regions all the time!
I think some of the info below would be helpful - ( http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/ )
I think we have “patient zero” in our hands...and with one case there has to be at least dozens more that have not been identified...
I wrote a “Red Cell” plan back in 2005 for a multi-prong attack on the US infrastructure for case analysis on how AQ would be able to overwhelm the public sector by introducing a deadly disease in Mexico, knowing that those illegal aliens would cross the border and once the infection come full force, would seek out US medical facilities for treatment. It took into account the timeline of “pre-exposure” to the public and the freedom of movement the US.
I’m sure you remember reading a few weeks back that those doctors that were treating Ebola did not wear breathing devices to stop the “airborne” contamination of Ebola, since CDC published that it had to be “fluid contact” for this particular virus to be spread.
Therefore, it is highly probable that the “patient zero” has already coughed, sneezed, and let loose other types of “fluid” into his environment.
There is a game one can download for free for a Droid, it’s called Plague, Inc from Miniclips - very graphic and very educational on designing and deploying a virus through a simulation...it’s a good time waster when flying on long flights - since it takes hrs to play correctly...
I think at this moment we are seeing the foundations of a govt that will allow certain rouge illegals into the US in order to cause social disorder for the end game of seizing rights and taking away freedom. Everything I have seen so far using the Enterprise Theory of Investigation leads me to this conclusion.
Understand that my background started off as a state trooper assigned to counter-drug & state militia activity - then over to the USAR MP Anti-Terrorism Officer/NBC - got out as a Captain, did 4 tours in Iraq, worked for several 3 letter agencies, and now involved in cyber warfare and hacking...Yes, I’ve ping-ponged all over the place - but my masters is in unconventional warfare, my thesis covered germ warfare, and I’ve seen the threat posed by outside entities and most recently, the internal ones.
I hope you find this interesting...I suggest these books to read as well:
Biohazard: Ken Alibek
The Demon in the Freezer: Richard Preston
Germs: Judith Miller
Emerging Viruses: Horowitz
The Strecker Memorandum (Video)
Per terrorism in the M/E - I also have written one - mostly circulates in the Intel and SF community called: Babylon’s Covert War...talks about exactly what is occurring now in Iraq and how it could have been stopped - and what can be done to stop it!
Have a great day!
Joe
And I thought we were having a very active solar cycle.
Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever
Per Wiki
Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever (VHF) is a zoonotic human illness first identified in 1989. The disease is most prevalent in several rural areas of central Venezuela and is caused by the Guanarito virus (GTOV) which belongs to the Arenaviridae family. The short-tailed cane mouse (Zygodontomys brevicauda) is the main host for GTOV which is spread mostly by inhalation of aerosolized droplets of saliva, respiratory secretions, urine, or blood from infected rodents.
From September 1989 through December 2006, the State of Portuguesa recorded 618 cases of VHF. Nearly all of the cases were individuals who worked or lived in Guanarito during the time they became infected. The case fatality rate was 23.1%.
Because the virus is contracted by aerosol dissemination, concern arose shortly after the first cases emerged in 1989 due to fear of biological warfare. Potential biological terrorism agents were identified and categorized in 1999 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of the Congressional initiative to further response capabilities to biological weapons.
Arenaviruses causing hemorrhagic fevers, along with a genus of virus called filoviruses, were categorized in Category A; these are pathogens with the highest potential impact on public health safety.
A notable event in the timeline of this virus’ scientific knowledge was the unexplained disappearance of a vial of the virus at the University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston National Laboratory, announced 2013 March 24.
I am thinking that these strange and sudden diseases are being released. But I also thought the sudden surge of forest fires were acts of terror as well. I could be overly suspicious, but I doubt it.
It has more to do with Liberal Agenda comming out of the White Hut to not close airline routes to keep an International Economy robust.
Utter Balderdash !
Take Note:
http://www.insightcrime.org/images/west_africa_map.jpg
he UNODC goes on to observe that much of the larger cocaine shipments that move through West Africa originated in Venezuela. The east Venezuelan states of Bolivar and Anzoategui were once considered the primary departure points for cocaine flights going across the Atlantic, along with the western city of Maracaibo and Margarita Island, less than 50 kilometers off the Caribbean coast.
http://www.insightcrime.org/news-analysis/latam-drug-traffickers-losing-ground-in-west-africa-un
...and now you know how it showed up in South America...
Maduro will blame it on capitalism.
Will Obama send in troops?
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