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.
June 29, 2014
'Drastic action is needed' now to stop Ebola epidemic
June 30, 2014
Is Obama Trying To Get Us Killed?
June 30, 2014
No threads.
July 1, 2014
No threads.
July 2, 2014
Ebola: WHO calls emergency talks on outbreak
Fear, cash shortages hinder fight against Ebola outbreak
July 3, 2014
Ebola 'out of control' in West Africa as health workers rush to trace 1,500 possible victims
July 4, 2014
No threads
July 5, 2014
No threads
July 6, 2014
Obama Intentionally Exposing YOU to Deadly Diseases
July 7, 2014
No threads
July 8, 2014
No threads
July 9, 2014
July 10, 2014
No threads
July 11, 2014
No threads
July 12, 2014
July 13, 2014
No threads
July 14, 2014
No threads
July 15, 2014
July 16, 2014
(note, ten days is the middle of the incubation period range for Ebola from 2 to 21 days).
Ebola Virus Death Toll Up to 603; Ivory Coast Closes Border to Refugees
July 17, 2014
July 18, 2014
July 19, 2014
July 20, 2014
July 21, 2014
July 22, 2014
July 23, 2014
A Leading Ebola Doctor Just Contracted The Virus
July 24, 2014
July 25, 2014
Ebola Victim On The Run In West Africa Capital
July 26, 2014
Nigeria 'on red alert' over Ebola death in Lagos
Nigeria death shows Ebola can spread by air travel
U.S. doctor contracts Ebola in Liberia
July 27, 2014
Sierra Leone hunts Ebola Patient Kidnapped in Freetown
Ebola kills senior doctor at Liberia’s largest hospital, health official says
ALERT: Delivered By Airplane: Ebola Now Threatens 21 Million People In Major Metro Area
Runaway Sierra Leone Ebola patient dies in ambulance
THE COMING WAVE (An Interview With Mother Abigail)
Second American infected with Ebola
July 28, 2014
Two Americans Have Now Been Diagnosed With Ebola in Record Outbreak (more details)
Ebola Outbreak Spins Out Of Control On Eve Of Obama’s African Summit In Washington
Nigeria Ambassador, 58 Others Had Contact with Ebola Victim (plane passengers not included)
July 29, 2014
Liberia closes borders as Ebola hits major west African cities
Ebola outbreak: Is it time to test experimental vaccines?
Ebola outbreak: Victim who sparked fears of global epidemic was on way home to US
Ebola can spread like 'forest fire,' US warns
Ebola Outbreak: NC Missionaries Evacuating 60 People
July 30, 2014
Ebola: White House Raises Specter of Gov’t Closure During D.C. Africa Summit
Congressional Report: Ebola Bio Kits Deployed to National Guard Units In All 50 States
Open Borders Invite Threat Of Ebola Terrorism
Ebola has spread across the globe: ...officials try to trace 30,000 linked to death of US victim
Helper of late Liberian shows Ebola symptoms —Official
Airports on high alert for fliers with Ebola symptoms
July 31, 2014
Ebola: UK border staff 'unprepared' says union leader
Ebola virus kills 729 people in West African countries
Sierra Leone declares Ebola public health emergency
Emory Healthcare to treat Ebola patient
Ebola outbreak: Royal Air Force 'on standby' to bring back infected Brits
First Ebola Patient Coming to USA for Treatment
CDC Designates El Paso an Ebola Quarantine Site
August 1, 2014
Patrick Sawyer's Final Hours in Lagos (Ebola)
WHO: Ebola Spread Outpaces Control Effort
Ebola Outbreak Is Moving Faster Than Efforts To Control It, Could Become 'Catastrophic'
Massive emergency drill in New York City
Map Of Ebola Quarantine Stations: (shortened)
German hospitals ready for Ebola patients
WHO Warns Ebola Outbreak Out Of Control, "High Risk Of Spread To Other Countries"
Africa: How Ebola Could Head Out of Africa – a Tale of Two Travellers
August 2, 2014
Exposure of health workers weakens Africa's Ebola fight
Could Medical Robotics Be Used to Handle Ebola Patients?
Why Isn't There a Treatment or Vaccine for Ebola?
A doctor is quarantined in East TN, waiting to see if he shows signs of #Ebola.
U.S. CDC Lab Inspectors May Have Risked Public Safety: Documents
Ebola vaccine tests planned soon, NIH says
Ebola Patient Dr. Kent Brantly on Flight From Liberia to Atlanta
America, Ebola, and Fear: Overblown Panic in America
Donald Trump Says Ebola Patients Should Be Barred from U.S.
US Ebola victim arrives at Emory University hospital in Atlanta
10 Questions You Never Thought You'd Ask About Ebola
August 3, 2014
Ebola Spiraling Out of Control: WHO
Ebola Conspiracy Theories Spreading Fast as Outbreak Travels Round Globe - Created in Lab
U.S. doctor quarantines himself at home after treating Ebola patients in Liberia
US Doctor With Ebola Walks Into Atlanta Hospital for Treatment
Secret Trade in Monkey Meat That Could Unleash Ebola in UK: How an Appetite for African Delicacies
Ebola is outstripping control efforts, top WHO official warns
Ebola Already in the USA, Across Mexican Border, Doctor and Border Patrol Agent Allege
Ebola fears swirl around US-Africa summit
Outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone [CDC Update]
Map:Here’s Where They’ll Send Those Suspected of Ebola or “Respiratory Illnesses”
Ebola scare at Namibian airport
Politics, Ebola, and Our National Health Safety
From Pigs to Monkeys, Ebola Goes Airborne (Nov 2012!)
Ebola outbreak: US experts to head to West Africa (VIDEO)
CDC Chief: US Won't 'Seal Borders' Against Ebola
Ebola terror at Gatwick as passenger collapses and dies getting off Sierra Leone flight
Ebola Comes to the United States: Deadly Virus Crosses U.S. Border
This Is What Is Going To Happen If Ebola Comes To America
Ebola virus: American doctor with deadly disease 'is improving' after arriving back on U.S. soil
August 4, 2014
False-Negative Results of Plasma of Patients with Severe Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (Ebola)
Ebola outbreak: US experts to head to West Africa (VIDEO)
Illegal Immigrants Bring Risk of Ebola and Global Array of Viral Illnesses
Liberia: What You're Not Hearing About Ebola - Campaign to 'Kick It Out'
Top secret serum likely saved Ebola patients
Nigerian Doctor Who Treated American for Ebola Tests Positive
Death Toll From Ebola in W. Africa Hits 887: WHO (Now Spreading in Nigeria)
Media Mocks Concerns Over Ebola, As Evil Americans Keep Miracle Cure to Themselves
'Odds are it's not Ebola': Man being tested for Ebola virus at New York City hospital (shortened)
Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates (Airborn)
Mount Sinai patient tested for Ebola virus
Man Being Tested At Mount Sinai Hospital For Possible Ebola Virus
Airlines Begin Cutting Flights To West Africa Due To Ebola Threat
World Bank pledges $200 million to fight Ebola
Ebola Already in the USA, Across Mexican Border, Doctors Fear: UPDATED Aug. 4
Sierra Leone, Liberia deploy troops as Ebola toll hits 887
August 5, 2014
Lax Quarantine Undercuts Ebola Fight in Africa
Local researchers at center of Ebola fight
Experimental drug likely saved Ebola patients
Troops deploy in Sierra Leone, Liberia to try to stop Ebola spread
New York patient ‘unlikely to have Ebola,’ Health Department says
We Know How to Stop Ebola says CDC Chief
US government, military research program helped identify experimental Ebola treatment
Illegal Immigrants Bring Risk of Ebola and Global Array of Viral Illnesses
Report: 6 Tested in NYC Tested for Ebola; News Withheld from Public
DoD Stands Up Ebola Task Force
Foreign Relations Council says Ebola outbreak is 'out of control' (CFR)
August 6, 2014
One Person Tested For The Deadly Ebola Virus In Columbus
The Current Ebola Strain: It’s Airborne Folks
Ebola: 'All African Migrants Should Be Quarantined ' Says Italian Councillor
Saudi suspected of Ebola in Jeddah has died.
The True Story of Ebola in Reston, Virginia
Now Ebola victims are left to rot in the streets
FRAMING INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND U.S. PUBLIC OPINION
National Intelligence Estimate NIE 99-17D, The Global Infectious Disease Threat...
An Ebola Vaccine Is Not the Answer
Ebola Outbreak: 45 Deaths In Three Days
CDC Issues Highest Emergency Alert Amid Ebola Outbreak
August 7, 2014
Ebola sparks states of emergency across west Africa
Ebola crisis: Liberia and Sierra Leone blockades go up
Ebola's spread to US is 'inevitable' says CDC chief
FDA Modifies Tekmira's TKM-Ebola Clinical Hold to Partial Hold (DOD Funding)
Will Liberia’s “Iron Lady” Contain Ebola Outbreak, Get Her Country Back On Track?
Dr. Kent Brantly Improving; Ebola Expert Says There's No Need for Americans to Panic Over Infection
Dr. Ben Carson Says He Wouldn't Have Brought Ebola Infected Missionaries to US
Ebola and Immigration, a Deadly Combination
Nigerian, suspected with Ebola infection, in Cotonou hospital (Benin Republic)
August 8, 2014
Ebola patients in west Africa to be denied experimental drugs used in US
Obama: Ebola "Can Be Controlled And Contained"
What You Need to Do to Survive Ebola BEFORE the Panic Starts
Nebraska biocontainment unit prepared for the worst
August 9, 2014
Canada quarantines patient with Ebola-like symptoms
KENYA: Suspected Ebola Patient Isolated in an Ambulance
Ebola Suspected in Hamburg Germany
‘Don’t Touch the Walls’: Ebola Fears Infect an African Hospital
Nurse who contacted Ebola from Patrick Sawyer tells her story
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Thanks Joe. I recall some internet thing that can “predict” the future (yeah - I know) based on internet queries, trends, etc.
Oh - here it is, called “Web Bot”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Bot
Your summary of threads shows an obvious trend, but I wonder if the “Web Bot” thingy has all sorts of other, overlapping trends as well (purchases of rubber gloves, duct tape, etc.)
Anyway - thanks for all the work you are doing on this to keep us informed.
Google Trends has been shown to have spikes preceding some world events that give the appearance of being somehow predictive. We’re not talking the typical dumb pop culture garbage at the top, this would be further down into the reaches of search terms, keywords and public posts.
that would get pretty interesting if the ‘human condition’ as a whole ‘knew’ something was going to happen before it did
what would that mean? how could we, as a species, know of an event before it happens? I don’t mean this Ebola outbreak... that’s understandable. but something like a tsunami, major earth quake, volcano or meteor strike.
imagine if ‘we’ knew...
that would be very fascinating
So...is anybody else really, really worried?
I hope we look back at this and think ‘Sheesh we over reacted’. I hope we’re here in 5 years looking back.
If we don’t treat this as a threat we won’t be.
Before this outbreak did you ever hear someone say ebola isn’t that bad or its not a threat?
Seems to me it’s always been used as the worst case example. That if it ever got into population centers we were screwed.
It does seem like it's more contagious than the official "not contagious until symptoms appear" story.
Joe: Thanks for compiling!
Nully: lookie here!
“Before this outbreak did you ever hear someone say ebola isn’t that bad or its not a threat?”
No.
Yet despite nearly 1000 deaths and infection in major population centers people on FR and from the govt say it’s no big deal.
I think we should worry.
> Yet despite nearly 1000 deaths and infection in major population centers people on FR and from the govt say it’s no big deal.
> I think we should worry.
If some new Mallard Duck Flu comes out of China and there are 5 cases with a low lethality, then we hear about it like it is the heralding of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; but if it comes out of Africa with a thousand cases and it has a lethality of 60 or 70% then it is not politically correct, so they hide the information and try to not say anything.
Yes!
I have worked in hospitals for the past 30 years. I try the best I can to practice good hygiene. Hand washing, disinfectant gel, pressing elevator buttons with my knuckle. I lost a hip to MRSA. I almost lost my life. Three, three- month courses of IV antibiotics to finally get clear.
Hospitals test staff for Hep B, Hep C, TB. They still do NOT test for MRSA. I asked a Hospital Infection Control person why not test for MRSA.? They shrugged their shoulders and said “Why?”. It is so pervasive they assume most of the workers carry it in their nose and swabs would test positive. Even if they treated their noses to clear it, in a few months it would be back.
For anyone not worried, I suggest you visit a major hospital ER on a Friday night. Spend just one hour in the ER waiting room and just imagine one of the patients coming through the door positive for Ebola. Watch what they touch, from the registration desk, bathroom, vending machine knobs, etc. Then watch the kids roaming the room. Look at the floor and the puddles of “liquids” you stepped in and will bring back to your car, and home, unless you stop at Wal-Mart on the way home.
Yes, I am really, really worried.
There’s that but some people dismiss anything from africa because it’s such a mess.
I am not sure of the source, but I think is was a Dr. from Tulane that had returned from Africa that said he had talked with many of the healthcare workers that came down with Ebola. He said that they could not identify an incident (torn glove, needle stick, etc.) when they were exposed.
I suspect it is not “airborn”, but the high pressure spray cleaning causes micro droplets that get inhaled during clean up.
Good grief, I’m gonna have to live in a bubble after reading that. I work with hospitals and go through them all the time.
Hopefully we can look back on this as another bullet dodged by our species.
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