Congressional Report: Ebola Bio Kits Deployed to National Guard Units In All 50 States

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Mac Slavo
July 29th, 2014

The Department of Defense informed Congress that it has deployed biological diagnostics systems to National Guard support teams in all 50 states, according to a report published by the Committee on Armed Services. The report, published in April amid growing fears that the Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus might spread outside of West Africa, says that the portable systems are designed for “low probability, high consequence” scenarios.

Some 340 Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System (JBAIDS) units have thus far been given to emergency response personnel. The systems are “rapid, reliable, and [provide] simultaneous identification of specific biological agents and pathogens,” says executive officer for the DOD’s Chemical and Biological Defense group Carmen J. Spencer.

The Chemical and Biological Defense Program has sharpened the DoD diagnostics portfolio by increasing the capability of our fielded system, some 340 of which have been provided to the Military Services.

The Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System is a portable system capable of rapid, reliable, and simultaneous identification of specific biological agents and pathogens. By partnering with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and the Food and Drug Administration, we have made accessible additional diagnostic assays for high consequence, low probability biological threat agents for use during declared public health emergencies.

This collaboration has facilitated the availability of viral hemorrhagic fever diagnostic assays for use during a declared emergency and adds previously unavailable preparedness capabilities to this fielded system.

Full Congressional Report via POTR

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[blam]

"It dawns on me that all the abuses and usurpations of this administration have been insufficient to provoke the citizenry to react in such a way as to justify Martial Law."

I'm a bit surprised and may be even a little embarrassed that it hasn't. This administration has committed crimes against this country and should be held accountable...we should be in the streets!!

[SgtHooper]

Or he simply and selfishly knew he had it and wanted to get home or to a better facility before collapsing.

[SgtHooper]

Is that another one of those “sea choral” type potions?

[Lady Heron]

Thank you for the explanation. That is how I read your post but wanted to be sure.

Talked to someone in on of the hospitals here and was told we are not being told so much about this outbreak including the death rate percentage. They are also questioning how this is spreading questioning, if the vector has changed.

[Smokin' Joe]

HIV/AIDS is primarily an intimate contact, lifestyle related disease. Since exposure is primarily the result of certain behaviours, exposure can be limited or eliminated by not engaging in those behaviours and avoiding people (as much as is possible) who do.

Piece of cake, especially for those in a rural setting.

However, (and especially in situations where there are large numbers of people transiting choke points) in urban areas limiting exposure to the virus may become problematical.

While all the basic hygenic safeguards one would use against the flu or to prevent catching a cold work to some extent, the virus is present in virtually any secretion, including sweat, from an infected person. Those secretions will be transferred to surfaces, and if you think about someone ill, the surfaces they are most likely to touch are those virtually everyone touches--especially handrails, counters, doorknobs, restroom fixtures, even elevator buttons. This is far more easily spread from human to human--no sexual contact or blood transfer required--although those would guarantee infection.

HIV/AIDSdoes not worry me. I don't hang with the people in the risk groups. For me, they are easily avoided.

However, avoiding the residues left by someone infected with Ebola may not be so simple.

Touch nothing you do not need to touch, wash your hands before touching your face, eyes, mouth, or any mucous membrane. Be especially careful to keep any wound, no matter how minor, from making direct contact with any surface, and for that matter, avoid becoming abraded, cut, or scratched.

[Smokin' Joe]

I, too, am chagrined. Unfortunately, I can understand why people have not--the ones who are paying attention are wrapped up in keeping their households going, jobs, kids, etc. The ones who are stupefied by TV/booze/recreational drugs really can't be bothered, and the ones who get it for free are only going to complain when the gravy train reaches the end of the line.

To top it off, the kids have been programmed to avoid conflict, to avoid unpleasantness, and the sort of things that should be happening in the streets will involve both sooner or later. For now, the 'go along and get along' crowd is winning, and I'm not sure how rough things will have to get before people wake up.

That said, there is that 'outlaw' contingent of conservative leaning kids who haven't been co-opted by it all, but who unfortunately avoid the organizations out there because they (rightly, imho) see them as part of the problem. They are disgruntled, but the whole anarchy set has them rudderless, without leaders going anywhere, and they see the system as monolithic and impenetrable.

Give them someone to rally around and a unifying event, and I think they will be a force to be reckoned with.

[GOPJ]

Scary.

[editor-surveyor]

Lactobacilus Bulgarus, liced, in capsules.

It’s what saved the lives of the people of Kiev when the reactor melted.

Stops all viral infections cold if caught early.