Ebola 'could become airborne': United Nations warns of 'nightmare scenario'

telegraph ^ | 10/2/14 | Katherine Rushton

[knak]

Exclusive: Anthony Banbury, chief of the UN's Ebola mission, says there is a chance the deadly virus could mutate to become infectious through the air. There is a ‘nightmare’ chance that the Ebola virus could become airborne if the epidemic is not brought under control fast enough, the chief of the UN’s Ebola mission has warned. Anthony Banbury, the Secretary General’s Special Representative, said that aid workers are racing against time to bring the epidemic under control, in case the Ebola virus mutates and becomes even harder to deal with. “The longer it moves around in human hosts in the virulent melting pot that is West Africa, the more chances increase that it could mutate,” he told the Telegraph. “It is a nightmare scenario [that it could become airborne], and unlikely, but it can’t be ruled out.” He admitted that the international community had been “a bit late” to respond to the epidemic, but that it was “not too late” and that aid workers needed to “hit [Ebola] hard” to rein in the deadly disease.

[allendale]

Well it is airborne since Obama has refused to discontinue commercial air service to West Africa. Political correctness is delusional and dangerous.

[MarMema]

Good one! Airborne indeed.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Alex Jones was on this first several weeks ago.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Airborne indeed. Every flight from Liberia is in fact an incubation tube.

[Mouton]

Those “bodily fluids” being mentioned include the mist from coughing. It is and has been “air born” for quite awhile.

Mentioned to Obola that it could become airborn, he immediately decided to counter its affects by sending the 101st “Airborne” to West Africa. What a guy. In answer to a question he said his briefing said airborn so he sent in the proper group to combat it. (SARCASM)

[odawg]

Becoming airborne—may be the reason Obama wants it inside the U. S. quickly. You talk about fundamental transformation!

[PghBaldy]

He and everyone he knows would then be at risk. I doubt that is the case. More likely, his idiot minions tell him they can stop it fairly quickly.

[null and void]

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...

[PghBaldy]

Everything I have read says this is very unlikely, if not impossible, that viruses don’t change transmission routes like that. It is bad enough the way it is.

[House Atreides]

Oh noes!!! Quick, we need to give the UN bureaucrats another billion dollars. There’s no time for delay or discussion.

[redgolum]

Yet the CDC and the administration insist on magical thinking.

Ebola is harder to catch than the flu, but much easier than say AIDS. Yet to the public they are saying “Treat it like HIV”.

I hope and pray we don’t see secondary and tertiary cases in a few days in Dallas. But if we do, at some point the game of “Lets Pretend” has to stop. Liberia seems to be unable to do it, Nigeria did. I fear we are more like Liberia.

[Mase]

You are correct. If Ebola becomes airborne, it will be the first time in history a virus has successfully changed how it is transmitted. Not impossible, but highly unlikely.

[Travis McGee]

[DonaldC]

Given how docs dress up in space suites to escort the infected around, I think it already is airborne to some degree.

[justa-hairyape]

Evidence out their suggests an airborne transmission, if possible, is more likely in colder climates. Just in time for the Christmas shopping season.

[BigpapaBo]

If the gov flunkies are talking about it or suggesting it, I’d have to believe they already know this is airborne. Last I looked at the CDC website, there have been quite a few changes on their “Ebola” page.
These are the same flunkies that said the virus wouldnt make it to our shores.

[Mariner]

"I hope and pray we don’t see secondary and tertiary cases in a few days in Dallas. But if we do, at some point the game of “Lets Pretend” has to stop. Liberia seems to be unable to do it, Nigeria did. I fear we are more like Liberia."

IF a couple of active clusters emerge in Dallas and Hawaii...maybe somewhere else...the politics of 7x24 News will kick in.

It'll be DO SOMETHING NOW as a survival imperative for every politician, especially a few weeks out from a national election.

I have no doubt even Obama will be forced to quarantine all travelers from West Africa for 21 days...and eventually all international travelers.

But it's too late.

Ebola is in the wild in Dallas and I have no doubt there are 10's of scavenger animals infected...and in another 2-3 weeks probably hundreds.

[redgolum]

It will only change if the powers that be feel themselves to be threatened. Texas is not real to them, they look down on it. Hawaii is, but it more of a vacation spot.

See one case in a nice area of New York or DC, and they will act quickly.

Still, I do not know of their worldview permits them to act swiftly. Viruses are not PC, yet their worldview is so entrenched they have few tools to handle it.

[Dqban22]

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

The 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.