Ebola Surveillance Thread

Free Republic Threads ^ | August 10, 2014 | Legion

[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.

[Smokin' Joe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3208854/posts?page=1

U.S. Troops Battling Ebola Get Off to Slow Start in Africa

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U.S. says diseases like Ebola should be viewed as security threats

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U.S. Troops Battling Ebola Get Off to Slow Start in Africa

Once more, with a hot link...

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US doctor exposed to Ebola virus admitted to NIH (a 5th one)

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Keys To Ebola Containment

[Smokin' Joe]

United States of America BSL-4 hospital facilities as of 2009 The U.S. maintains at least eight Biosafety Level 4 facilities, and is currently planning at least seven more: Operational Facilities: USAMRIID in Fort Detrick, MD ("old building") CDC in Atlanta, GA (two buildings operational) NIH's BSL-4 lab on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD (sometimes operates at BSL-3), never operated as a "hot" BSL4 NIH's BSL-4 lab at the Twinbrook III building, Rockville, MD (sometimes operates at BSL-3) Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, TX UTMB's Shope Laboratory in Galveston, TX Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA (smaller "glovebox" facility) The Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services lab (part of the Department of General Services of the Commonwealth of Virginia) in Richmond, VA (so-called "surge" BSL-4 capacity) Facilities Under Construction and Planned (as of 2009): USAMRIID in Fort Detrick, MD ("new building", in design) Boston University's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL) in Boston, MA (under construction) UTMB's National Biocontainment Facility in Galveston, TX (under construction) DHS's National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) in Fort Detrick, MD (under construction) DHS's National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), shortlisted July 2007; final site selection mid to late 2008 NIAID's Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, MD (in construction- earliest operational date 2009) NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, MT (in construction - earliest operational date 2009) I am not sure how many of these facilities are operational now, the list is (obviously) old. source

[Smokin' Joe]

More info on BSL-4 facilities

[Smokin' Joe]

Previous post without link so formatting works:

United States of America BSL-4 hospital facilities as of 2009

The U.S. maintains at least eight Biosafety Level 4 facilities, and is currently planning at least seven more:

Operational Facilities:

USAMRIID in Fort Detrick, MD (”old building”)

CDC in Atlanta, GA (two buildings operational)

NIH’s BSL-4 lab on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD (sometimes operates at BSL-3), never operated as a “hot” BSL4

NIH’s BSL-4 lab at the Twinbrook III building, Rockville, MD (sometimes operates at BSL-3)

Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, TX

UTMB’s Shope Laboratory in Galveston, TX Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA (smaller “glovebox” facility)

The Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services lab (part of the Department of General Services of the Commonwealth of Virginia) in Richmond, VA (so-called “surge” BSL-4 capacity)

Facilities Under Construction and Planned (as of 2009):

USAMRIID in Fort Detrick, MD (”new building”, in design)

Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL) in Boston, MA (under construction)

UTMB’s National Biocontainment Facility in Galveston, TX (under construction)

DHS’s National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) in Fort Detrick, MD (under construction)

DHS’s National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), shortlisted July 2007; final site selection mid to late 2008

NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, MD (in construction- earliest operational date 2009)

NIAID’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, MT (in construction - earliest operational date 2009)

I am not sure how many of these facilities are operational now, the list is (obviously) old.

[Smokin' Joe]

Biosafety Level 4 Labs Up Close and Personal

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The US Government Is Warning You To Stay Away From These Countries

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Liberia: Top Doctor Goes Under Ebola Quarantine

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Obama: ‘Everyone has to do more’ to stop Ebola

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Ebola Epidemic Worsening, Sierra Leone Expands Quarantine Restrictions

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Sierra Leone quarantines one million ahead of UN Ebola talks

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Liberia’s Ebola Victims Dying at Home Amid Shortage of Clinics

[bgill]

wanna lay odds they cut off the supply of this drug somehow? (plant fire, accidental contamination, etc

You will most likely be proved correct. There will be something. If they truly wanted to get this drug going, they'd take precautions with at least three separate labs coordinating with each other.

[bgill]

Liberia now requires an estimated 1.3 million protective suits

Since they're expecting 1.4 million infected by the end of the year, that 1.3 suits is already way to short. We can't even keep a decent supply of saline for US patients so how can we possibly meet the PPE need. The time was yesterday to start several new manufacturing companies. There's obola's new jobs if his admin were serious about it.

[Thud]

EternalHope,

I partly agree. I disagree that anything we can do now will make a difference in the outcome. IMO this outcome became inevitable weeks ago, perhaps several months ago. Liberia's culture and ensuing lack of transportation infrastructure made the place impervious to any major outside intervention.

The current Ebola outbreak might have been snuffed early, i.e., before the middle of July. That didn't happen and a worst case outcome, for Liberia, was set in a frighteningly small time period afterwards.

"A. What’s left of the medical infrastructure, already ineffective, will collapse. The pandemic will accelerate even more.

B. As the pandemic accelerates, the people needed to keep basic infrastructure going will die. Water, sewer, and electricity will begin to fail. Food distribution will cease.

C. When this begins to happen the population will panic. As many as possible will flee. The process of overall collapse will accelerate.

D. Most of those who are unable to flee will eventually die. Some of those who are able to flee will carry the disease with them."

[bgill]

UTMB is on Galveston Island which could be quarantined if need be and the natives didn’t raise much of a ruckus. San Antonio, no way. What’s the skinny on the others?

[EternalHope]

I partly agree. I disagree that anything we can do now will make a difference in the outcome. IMO this outcome became inevitable weeks ago, perhaps several months ago.

Actually we're probably 99% in agreement.

We're watching a train wreck in slow motion. The train has already left the tracks but most of the people on board are still alive.

We're standing, frozen in disbelief, right in front of the train. Thus far we have not even started to get out of the way.