You can never get far enough away.
Posted on 08/08/2014 11:12:09 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Following the WHO's warnings, (the ironically named) Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a "state of emergency" over the Ebola outbreak that is rapidly escalating in his nation. This comes on the heels of a US medical journal study that finds, as Reuters reports, the Ebola virus that is ravagaing West Africa was not imported from Central Africa but caused by a "new strain" of the disease - raising the specter of further regional epidemics.
Ebola is endemic to Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, South Sudan and Gabon, and scientists initially believed that Central Africa's Zaire strain of the virus was responsible for the outbreak.
However, as Reuters reports:
Using analysis of blood samples from infected patients, however, researchers determined that while the Guinean form of the Ebola virus (EBOV) showed a 97 percent similarity to the Zaire strain, the disease was not introduced from Central Africa.
"This study demonstrates the emergence of a new EBOV strain in Guinea," wrote the group of more than 30 doctors and scientists, who published their preliminary findings on the website of the New England Journal of Medicine.
"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 report continued.
"What is clear to us from the study is that the virus wasn't brought in from the outside, that it is indigenous," said Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesman for the WHO, which was not involved in authoring the study.
The awful conclusion: "It means there were possibly outbreaks in the past that were just not detected," he said.
He lists several things, basic things, that humans are not capable of doing.
Meticulous contact tracing. Isolation. etc.
We're doomed.
Yep, a mutation could occur that would make your carefully crafted vaccine irrelevant.
And then, where are you?
“For a bioweapon to work, you have to have a vaccine that guarantees that you don’t kill your own army and your own citizens in the process.”
Unless you don’t care if you’re own citizens die from it.
Some people worship death.
Not to worry. Our fearless leader will find a way to bring the virus to the USA. After all, it’s unfair for it to not infect those evil White Christians and Jews.
You do, however, care about your army, the training you’ve invested, the equipment, the ability to take and hold land, to project power, the ability to garrison, and the ability to prevent attacks.
Even if you don’t give a toss about the populace, you do care about your investment.
A sane person does.
Iran, North Korea, and a few others don’t meet that qualification.
Even Hitler almost got blown up by his own people.
Everything, everything comes down to logistics. All of it.
Only Satan can short circuit that, and God of course.
You can never get far enough away.
the hot peppers I grow love bat guano.
They are lying.
The new strain was one being tested by the UN, WHO, and US.
It has a lower fatal curve and can be controlled by the new serum developed in the US.
THEY have been illegally testing new strains of the virus on Africans because the laws against human testing are not really enforced over ‘there’.
The problem occurred when the doctors and nurses conducting the tests got infected. They were protected, it wasn’t supposed to happen.
Maybe a small mistake. This stuff is persistent and can live long enough outside the host to get to another host.
Regardless to ‘how’, the doctors were flown back to the US because the serum they were testing performed poorly, and even a blood transfusion only helped a little. The ‘hope’ was that the newest modification to the serum would keep them alive. That remains to be seen.
The CDC,WHO,UN, USAMIRIID ,and the Pharma Industry are all involved in this plan to exploit the ebola virus so they can profit from the sales WORLDWIDE of the serum.
Unfortunately for them, the VIRUS had a mind of it’s own and managed to get around their best safety procedures. The serum wasn’t fully developed or tested. It wasn’t supposed to get out yet. The best laid plans of mice and government, or something like that.
What you are seeing now is damage control.
I can just hear the 0bama regime now: It’s AIRBORNE...!
5.56mm
The elephant in the living room that very few seemed to notice. I noticed it when this incident started.
There is only one answer, but you (we, me) will be called conspiracy theorists (it's not a theory, it's true) and tin-foil hatters for mentioning it.
I'd rather be wrong, but I don't believe I am.
It’s always been airborne. It’s just that the range and the survival rate of the virus outside the host has been limited.
Mine too. I thought about that this morning.
Wonder what other viruses use bats as a vector.
Ick.
Worse all over over there:
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20140808213981
The US respects the lifes of all Africans and we will put all our effort into mass producing as much of this serum as we possibly can. I am signing executive orders that allow the US governments vast infrastructure to assist in serum production.
He did not say that, because he could not. It was all setup on the tee for him to swing away and hit a 100 yarder right down the middle of the duck pond, as he usually does.
http://www.punchng.com/news/nnpc-shuts-lagos-clinic-over-ebola/
Patient had visited the hospital Patrick Sawyer was in prior to it being closed.
Early encounter with Ebola still resonates with K-State expert
Victoria Island is a well to do section of Lagos. Europeans, Americans and Nigerian elites live there.
The kind of people who think ‘I feel feverish, I need to fly to the US, they have a cure!’.
And do.
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