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Ebola virus 'could become airborne' in 'nightmare' scenario, warns UN
The South Wales Evening Post ^ | October 2, 2014

Posted on 10/02/2014 1:57:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

THE nightmare scenario that the ebola virus could become airborne has been raised by the UN.

Authorities in Wales are already on alert for the symptoms of Ebola.

But with the disease spread only through bodily fluids like blood, currently, and it being almost entirely contained within Africa, the chances of an outbreak here have been low.

But that could change if the virus mutated to be able to be carried through the air, like the flu and the common cold.

It could also have devastating consequences in Africa where the outbreak is on a large scale already.

The United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative Anthony Banbury has warned the virus could become airborne....

(Excerpt) Read more at southwales-eveningpost.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: ebola
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To: Dr. Thorne
One can only hope that if there is an Ebola pandemic, he will be the first to succumb.

I might add a couple of other names to the list, but I will hold off for now.

21 posted on 10/02/2014 2:14:03 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Pearls Before Swine
"Thanks. Is N-95 all the info I need to start looking, or can you tell me a bit more? Is the 95 a particle size designation?"

Read here.

22 posted on 10/02/2014 2:18:15 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: jwalsh07

I wonder if it is airborne from the spray of bullet impact? SHTF and I can see lots of preemptory thinning of the herd as people start to roam around.


23 posted on 10/02/2014 2:23:43 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Dr. Thorne
The Centers for Disease Control Changed Its Ebola Prevention Page on September 19, 2014. Why?

PJ Media ^ | 10/1/14 | Bryan Preston

PREVENTION

PARAPHRASING SOCRATES, THE CDC ADMITES THAT ALL THEY KNOW IS THAT THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT EBOLA.

CDC edited out the following text on Sept 19:

Because we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola, few primary prevention measures have been established and no vaccine exists. When cases of the disease do appear, risk of transmission is increased within healthcare settings. Therefore, healthcare workers must be able to recognize a case of Ebola and be ready to use practical viral hemorrhagic fever isolation precautions or barrier nursing techniques. They should also have the capability to request diagnostic tests or prepare samples for shipping and testing elsewhere.

Why did the CDC edit all of that information out? Did the science change, or did the government make the edit for some other reason(s)?

There is no FDA-approved vaccine available for Ebola.

If you travel to or are in an area affected by an Ebola outbreak, make sure to do the following: •

Practice careful hygiene. Avoid contact with blood and body fluids. •

Do not handle items that may have come in contact with an infected person’s blood or body fluids. •

Avoid funeral or burial rituals that require handling the body of someone who has died from Ebola. •

Avoid contact with bats and nonhuman primates or blood, fluids, and raw meat prepared from these animals. •

Avoid hospitals where Ebola patients are being treated. The U.S. embassy or consulate is often able to provide advice on facilities. •

After you return, monitor your health for 21 days and seek medical care immediately if you develop symptoms of Ebola(http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/symptoms/index.html).

Healthcare workers who may be exposed to people with Ebola should follow these steps: •

Wear protective clothing, including masks, gloves, gowns, and eye protection. •

Practice proper infection control and sterilization measures. For more information, see “Infection Control for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers in the African Health Care Setting”. •

Isolate patients with Ebola from other patients. •

direct contact with the bodies of people who have died from Ebola. •

Notify health officials if you have had direct contact with the blood or body fluids, such as but not limited to, feces, saliva, urine, vomit, and semen of a person who is sick with Ebola. The virus can enter the body through broken skin or unprotected mucous membranes in, for example, the eyes, nose, or mouth.

OBAMA OPEN US BORDERS TO A DOUBLE WHAMMY - TERRORISM AND EBOLA

Doomsday warning: UN Ebola chief raises 'nightmare' prospect that virus could mutate and become airborne - making it much more infectious

United Nations warns Ebola virus currently plaguing West Africa could become airborne

The longer it moves between human hosts the greater possibility of mutation.

The risk grows the longer virus is living within the human 'melting pot' NGOs have said the Ebola virus is currently infecting five people every hour.

More than 3,300 people have died from Ebola since the outbreak first began.

Officials call for 1,000 new Sierra Leone isolation centres to contain virus British survivor says 'horror' of children dying from disease must be avoided.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2778022/UN-Ebola-chief-raises-nightmare-prospect-virus-mutate-airborne.html#ixzz3F0lfsMRP Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

From Pigs to Monkeys, Ebola Goes Airborne

Nov 21, 2012 | Jane Huston | Research & Policy –

http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/pigs-monkeys-ebola-goes-airborne-112112#sthash.srRHtwa1.dpuf

Ebola has a 21 days incubation period before the infested person show symptoms. The CDC maintains that a person infested with Ebola cannot transmit it until they show symptoms of the disease. How can they assure that the person cannot infest another person after 10, 15, or 19 days of being infested by the virus while still not showing symptoms of the virus? The CDC falsely assure the American people that it cannot be transmitted by air although studies in Canada seems to prove otherwise.

When news broke that the Ebola virus had resurfaced in Uganda, investigators in Canada were making headlines of their own with research indicating the deadly virus may spread between species, through the air. The team, comprised of researchers from the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, the University of Manitoba, and the Public Health Agency of Canada, observed transmission of Ebola from pigs to monkeys.

They first inoculated a number of piglets with the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus. Ebola-Zaire is the deadliest strain, with mortality rates up to 90 percent. The piglets were then placed in a room with four cynomolgus macaques, a species of monkey commonly used in laboratories. The animals were separated by wire cages to prevent direct contact between the species. Within a few days, the inoculated piglets showed clinical signs of infection indicative of Ebola infection.

In pigs, Ebola generally causes respiratory illness and increased temperature. Nine days after infection, all piglets appeared to have recovered from the disease. Within eight days of exposure, two of the four monkeys showed signs of Ebola infection. Four days later, the remaining two monkeys were sick too. It is possible that the first two monkeys infected the other two, but transmission between non-human primates has never before been observed in a lab setting.

While the study provided evidence that transmission of Ebola between species is possible, researchers still cannot say for certain how that transmission actually occurred. There are three likely candidates for the route of transmission: airborne, droplet, or fomites.

Airborne and droplet transmission both technically travel through the air to infect others; the difference lies in the size of the infective particles. Smaller droplets persist in the air longer and are able to travel farther- these droplets are truly “airborne.” Larger droplets can neither travel as far nor persist for very long.

What do these findings mean? First and foremost, Ebola is not suddenly an airborne disease.

Doctor Boards Atlanta Flight In HazMat Suit To Protest "Lying CDC"

Zero Hedge ^ | 10/2/14 | Tyler Durden

"If they're not lying, they are grossly incompetent," said Dr. Gil Mobley, a microbiologist and emergency trauma physician from Springfield, Mo. as he checked in and cleared Atlanta airport security wearing a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a hooded white jumpsuit emblazoned on the back with the words, "CDC is lying!" As The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, Mobley says the CDC is "sugar-coating" the risk of the virus spreading in the United States.

24 posted on 10/02/2014 2:34:20 PM PDT by Dqban22
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any virus could become airborne. This isn’t news it’s just baseless fear mongering.


25 posted on 10/02/2014 2:37:28 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Could we not speculate the same about HIV?


26 posted on 10/02/2014 2:38:33 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I don’t think any mask is going to stop a virus. Even if the mask is impervious, there is still a very large (to a virus) gap between the edge of the mask and your face.


27 posted on 10/02/2014 2:50:28 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: thackney

Yep, but why stop there. Cancer could become airborne! Commence freaking out!


28 posted on 10/02/2014 2:51:01 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As long as its someone else in some other town there is no reason to worry about it.


29 posted on 10/02/2014 2:57:33 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

I rode the train through Dallas yesterday to go to the V.A. hospital where a fat, stupid female clerk never told the doctor I was there, so I never got seen.


30 posted on 10/02/2014 3:00:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Boogieman

So you’ll be calling Secretary Ban Ki-moon tomorrow to tell him that?


31 posted on 10/02/2014 3:01:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If they are talking about it, be assured it already has.
These mutts are marvels at doublespeak .
The CDC website has been scrubbed/changed a couple of times so for.


32 posted on 10/02/2014 4:01:59 PM PDT by BigpapaBo (If it don't kill you it'll make you _________!)
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To: Boogieman

Pure HEPA filtration, that would be NBC quality full face masks. P-100 style dust masks will not stop a virus. It takes 5 of these tiny virus “cells” to infect a person. Eyes, breathing it in, open cut scrape, ingesting it.


33 posted on 10/02/2014 4:09:54 PM PDT by BigpapaBo (If it don't kill you it'll make you _________!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What’s the point? You don’t think these people know they are fear mongering?


34 posted on 10/02/2014 6:18:10 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: BigpapaBo

Yeah, you won’t see any CDC people wearing anything held on their face with a little rubber band, for very good reason.


35 posted on 10/02/2014 6:20:08 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

36 posted on 10/02/2014 7:06:41 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The VA system is a travesty. Vets deserve better.


37 posted on 10/02/2014 7:07:01 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

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...

38 posted on 10/02/2014 7:42:42 PM PDT by null and void (If the wage gap were real, American companies would be hiring millions of women to save a buck)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


39 posted on 10/02/2014 9:44:44 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!


40 posted on 10/03/2014 12:18:53 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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