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
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July 1, 2014
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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
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July 5, 2014
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July 6, 2014
Obama Intentionally Exposing YOU to Deadly Diseases
July 7, 2014
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July 8, 2014
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(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
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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
Thanks ping
Interesting I heard on the radio this AM that the CDC is expecting at least 20K US cases.
Thanks for compiling this list. It’s very helpful.
Does anyone know how long Ebola is contagious once a person is infected?
An excellent blog written by virologists detailing the difference between airborne, aerosol, droplet and “mini-droplet” transmission of Ebola.
http://virologydownunder.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/ebola-virus-may-be-spread-by-droplets.html
I couldn’t help imagining mass transit. . ..
There are MANY, MANY stories about Ebola patients being turned away from Ebola care centers because the centers are simply too full to take any more people. When these people are turned away they remain in the community and continue to infect people.
To point out what should be obvious:
The medical system has already been overwhelmed. Whatever impact medical care may have previously had in slowing down the spread of Ebola is now becoming increasingly irrelevant. We will soon see how fast it can spread without medical care to slow it down.
In other words, the exponential increase we are already seeing is likely to accelerate even further.
Any response with any hope of stopping this monster will need to consider how long the response will take to implement, and how big the problem will have become during that time (huge).
I don’t see any indication that a response large enough to make any difference in what is now certain to be a huge outbreak will happen.
Obama’s recent comments, in particular, are too little too late even if he actually does something (which is doubtful).
If this is not stopped in west Africa it will spread. It will be in the slums of Lagos within months at the latest. Eventually it will be in the slums of Cairo, Mumbai, and Mexico City. You can bet it will not stop there.
So...
I was channel surfing earlier this afternoon and landed on The Doctors, a medical talkshow. I missed part of it, but they were talking about the Ebola outbreaks, US troops, and the potentiality for Ebola to transform and become airborn.
They didn’t offer any solutions, but they seemed scared that a potential pandemic outbreak could occur in the US, due to the openness of travel in and out of the country.
Video:
http://www.thedoctorstv.com/videos/containing-the-ebola-outbreak
The American CDC is now predicting up to 550,000 Ebola victims by the end of this year.
You can argue over the numbers, but once the numbers get “big” it really does not matter. LONG BEFORE numbers that high are reached the general populations in the worst hit countries will panic. Infrastructure, such as it is, will surely break down. So will law and order. It will be panic fueled chaos.
Desperate people will do desperate things. MANY will flee, and enough of them will be infected for this thing to spread.
This should be obvious, but it bears repeating anyway.
Ebola warning: CDC tells airlines to ‘treat all body fluids as infectious’
By Paul Bedard | September 21, 2014 | 11:15 am
The World Health Organization is now saying we may have as many as 10,000 doses of a vaccine by January. The WHO has lost all credibility in this crisis, but the possibility of a vaccine deserves some thought.
So... Enough vaccine may be ready by January(?) to inoculate 10,000 people.
FIRST, this needs to be put in context:
A. We could be looking at more than a million victims by January, with the number of victims more than doubling every month. (The steps necessary to prevent this have not been taken, and it may already be too late.)
B. It is probable that a situation like this would cause a complete breakdown of all infrastructure and generate intense pressure for everyone in the affected area to flee.
C. If this happens, people will begin to flee in large numbers long before a million people were infected. Those financially able will attempt to flee by plane, boat, and car. The majority will attempt to flee on foot.
SECOND, we don’t even know if the vaccine will work, or be safe enough to use. To put this in context:
A. Most experimental vaccines do NOT work.
B. There won’t have been enough time to find out if it is safe.
THIRD, by January it will be too late to save the worst hit countries. To put this in context:
A. It takes time after getting a vaccination for the body to create meaningful immunity. It can easily take a couple of weeks, and sometimes more than one shot is needed.
How long until a meaningful number of doses can be manufactured? (Most likely, quite a while.)
B. How will a meaningful vaccination program be implemented, and how long will it take to do so? (It will take a long time, even if a way can be found to do so.)
C. In other words, a vaccine, even IF it works, will be too little, too late, to help in the areas that are already hit.
D. So... If we find a workable vaccine, the best we can hope for is that it will be useful in protecting the rest of the world. Let’s hope and pray it works.
FINAL COMMENT:
In my opinion, it is nearly certain that Ebola will infect enough people in the worst hit countries to cause a breakdown in their basic infrastructure.
People will be forced to attempt to flee. Some of them will be infected. Ebola will spread far and wide unless the rest of the world takes horrific steps to isolate the infected areas.
None of us want to even contemplate such a horrible situation. The media and our leaders are afraid to even broach the subject in public. The incompetence of our leaders has led to this.
Anyone following Ebola should check out the links I put in post 2513.
This is the first good news I’ve seen on Ebola. We might already have at least one effective drug.
Bump, I was hoping for such a thread to track the news/history.
September 5th there was a “prediction” that a wild case would manifest inside the US by the end of the month. They were right.
bkm
United Airlines on Dallas Ebola patient: CDC ‘has informed us that the patient said he flew part of his trip on United’; ‘While the CDC states it is unnecessary for it or the airline to contact others who were on the patient’s flights, United is providing information about the flights United believes the patient took, based on information provided by the CDC’ - statement
http://www.breakingnews.com/item/2014/10/01/united-airlines-on-dallas-ebola-patient-cdc-has/
Bookmark.
The aircraft that flew Dallas ebola victim from Dulles has tail number N482UA. Here are the flights that aircraft has made since:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N482UA/history
It’s next flight was to Denver. Then to Jackson Hole.
BM
Here is a question....
So did the hospital disinfect the ambulance that transported the Ebola patient?
I mean before they continued to transport other patients in a possibly infected ambulance?
Just food for thought...