Posted on 10/07/2014 7:11:37 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
.....some scientists who have long studied Ebola say [federal government] assurances are premature — and they are concerned about what is not known about the strain now on the loose. It is an Ebola outbreak like none seen before, jumping from the bush to urban areas, giving the virus more opportunities to evolve as it passes through multiple human hosts.
Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Virginia and who later led the CDC's most far-reaching study.....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Color me not shocked.
Viruses mutate. Seems the “watchdog media” decided not to ask about that fact.
The virus “jumped”.
Ping.
and Obola wants Ebola to spread to as many white communities as possible
If you look around the world, Ebola has spread quickly. People usually get it before the 21 days. Dallas is unusual to say the least.
D.C. is beautiful in the Fall. We should encourage our West African tourist friends to take advantage of all the wonderful tours in our nations capital while they are here!
“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. .... “
My guess is that Thomas Duncan didn’t have a fever when he flew to the USA so just checking for fever at the airport is not enough.
Ebola Reston is/was airborne.
We’ve never been told, to my knowledge, what this strain is that has left Africa. I’m assuming it’s Ebola Zaire, which is the most lethal.
http://cryptome.info/0001/bioweap.htm
Say it ain’t so
This insane allegation coming out of the CDC that shutting down travel to and from West Africa would make it harder to get resources in boggles my mind. Has he never heard of military jets or charters?
Blood samples from the Dallas patient were sent to both the CDC and to the Texas public health lab in Austin, which has a team specially trained to handle high-risk specimens, said Dr. David Lakey, director of the Texas Department of State Health Services.
He said the lab received the blood sample at 9 a.m. and at 1:22 p.m. got the result back showing the sample was positive for Ebola Zaire, the strain that has killed more than 3,000 people in West Africa.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/09/30/6162320/cdc-team-mobilizing-to-come-to.html
This is shocking! Shocking I tell you!
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Notice they got the girlfriend and her family away from the media before the incubation period was up. They could all have a full blown case.
There was ‘discussion’ when the outbreak began as to which clade the new ‘ebola from guinea’ belonged. The first paper on the subject placed it in its own distinctive grouping, having on 97% sequence similarity to zebola. Subsequent discussion quashed that idea and placed it with zebola as a strain of that.
But 3% could mean any number of different things including transmisibility vectors.
The strain in West Africa was identified as the Zaire strain. See the current Vanity Fair magazine with Robert Downey Jr on the cover—really! Small article re the first tracking of the outbreak before Ebola was identified as the problem.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2014/10/ebola-virus-epidemic-containment
Just look at the posters here who seem to be asking for a full out break in the US in order to “prove” we have a robust terrorism response
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Has Ebola spread much in Middle East?
I keep wonderin' if this is germ warfare by ISIS and such.
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