Posted on 10/29/2014 11:46:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
U.S. government officials joined health experts from throughout the Americas at an Ebola conference in Cuba on Wednesday, the latest show of cooperation between the historic adversaries on fighting the disease.
The meeting organized by ALBA, a bloc of leftist-governed countries, aims to coordinate a regional strategy on the prevention and control of Ebola, which has killed about 5,000 people in West Africa but in the Americas has only reached the United States.
U.S. military personnel and Cuban medical specialists are already posted in West Africa and prepared to work side by side if needed, officials have said, and Washington has expressed appreciation to Cuba for committing hundreds of doctors and nurses to the region to treat Ebola patients....
(Excerpt) Read more at in.reuters.com ...
hmmm, Cuba quarantined AIDS patients...
They are, however, sending Cuban doctors to Africa to fight the disease. I wonder what their procedures are for having them return.
Our regime and their regime are no longer adversaries.
Haven't been since '09.
Who says they’re allowed to return?
Hey, I don’t see where Obola’s Ebola czar went? What gives?
Oh yeah, CUBA! Last I heard, Cuban swine were infected with the AFRICAN SWINE SICKNESS and the USA asked Mexico not to import Cuban swine as the disease might make it’s way across the southern border to destroy the US pork industry.
Now, Does Cuba really think it can hold off Ebola after it’s many military excursions into Africa?
True! Most will doctors will work there, find some US officials, defect to the USA and then be allowed into the USA without quarantine.
ALBA...
Soheil Assad & the ALBA ambassadors, in Qom
Forum.Internet-Haganah.com ^ | 18 April 2013, 15:53 | A. Aaron Weisburd
Posted on 4/18/2013, 7:45:59 PM by Cindy
SNIPPET: “ALBA is the Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América, an alliance of Latin American countries started by Cuba and Venezuela, who share a combination of hostility towards the United States and willingness to do business with Iran.”
SNIPPET: “Soheil Assad is not with the IRI Foreign Ministry - he’s an IRGC operative. And there he is, accompanying ALBA ambassadors & their staff on a visit to Qom.”
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Were any of these US government officials named Fauci, I wonder?
Fauci warned of ‘unintended consequences’ of ‘draconian’ quarantines during 2014 Ebola outbreak
2/19/2021, 7:30:44 PM · by conservative98 · 24 replies
| Fox News ^ | 45 minutes ago 2/19/21 | By Michael Ruiz
Resurfaced interviews show Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease since 1984, was opposed to “draconian” quarantines that could have “unintended consequences” – back in 2014 during an Ebola outbreak in Africa. He warned in late October of that year that enforcing mandatory quarantines would discourage medical professionals from volunteering aid in stricken areas. Governors from both major parties had imposed mandatory 21-day quarantines on people returning from affected countries in an effort to prevent the virus from spreading into the U.S. “The best way to protect us is to...
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2014... isn t this the year that there was a big kerfluffle over gain of function research?
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmp1502918
The Next Epidemic — Lessons from Ebola
List of authors.
Bill Gates
April 9, 2015
N Engl J Med 2015; 372:1381-1384
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1502918
Perhaps the only good news from the tragic Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia is that it may serve as a wake-up call: we must prepare for future epidemics of diseases that may spread more effectively than Ebola. There is a significant chance that an epidemic of a substantially more infectious disease will occur sometime in the next 20 years; after all, we saw major epidemics during the 20th century, including the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918–1919 and the ongoing pandemic of human immunodeficiency virus. In fact, of all the things that could kill more than 10 million people around the world, the most likely is an epidemic stemming from either natural causes or bioterrorism. . .
The problem is not the fault of any single institution — it reflects a global failure. The world needs a global warning and response system for outbreaks. (Though the World Health Organization [WHO] has a Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, it is severely understaffed and underfunded.) Such a system could enable us to manage not only a naturally occurring epidemic, but also one ignited by a bioterror attack.2 Although I have not seen a rigorous estimate of the cost of building such a system, World Bank projections give a sense of the cost of inaction: a worldwide influenza epidemic, for example, would reduce global wealth by an estimated $3 trillion.3
I hope the following sketch of what such a warning and response system might look like will spark action to prepare for an epidemic that could have global consequences (see Recommendations for Preparing for Future Epidemics). . .
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Opinion
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
How to Fight the Next Epidemic
By Bill Gates
March 18, 2015
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmp1502918
The Next Epidemic — Lessons from Ebola
List of authors.
Bill Gates
April 9, 2015
N Engl J Med 2015; 372:1381-1384
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1502918
Perhaps the only good news from the tragic Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia is that it may serve as a wake-up call: we must prepare for future epidemics of diseases that may spread more effectively than Ebola. There is a significant chance that an epidemic of a substantially more infectious disease will occur sometime in the next 20 years; after all, we saw major epidemics during the 20th century, including the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918–1919 and the ongoing pandemic of human immunodeficiency virus. In fact, of all the things that could kill more than 10 million people around the world, the most likely is an epidemic stemming from either natural causes or bioterrorism. . .
The problem is not the fault of any single institution — it reflects a global failure. The world needs a global warning and response system for outbreaks. (Though the World Health Organization [WHO] has a Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, it is severely understaffed and underfunded.) Such a system could enable us to manage not only a naturally occurring epidemic, but also one ignited by a bioterror attack.2 Although I have not seen a rigorous estimate of the cost of building such a system, World Bank projections give a sense of the cost of inaction: a worldwide influenza epidemic, for example, would reduce global wealth by an estimated $3 trillion.3
I hope the following sketch of what such a warning and response system might look like will spark action to prepare for an epidemic that could have global consequences (see Recommendations for Preparing for Future Epidemics). . .
* * *
Opinion
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
How to Fight the Next Epidemic
By Bill Gates
March 18, 2015
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/10/24/ebola-update-desk-dr-anthony-fauci
Ebola Update from the Desk of Dr. Anthony Fauci
OCTOBER 24, 2014 AT 6:06 PM ET BY KORI SCHULMAN
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Summary: Dr. Anthony Fauci, infectious disease chief at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), sat down to share an update on Ebola.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, infectious disease chief at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), sat down to share an update on Ebola. Speaking from his office at NIH headquarters in Bethesda, MD, Dr. Fauci explains how Ebola spreads and what we’re doing to address it in the U.S. and in West Africa.
Take four minutes to get the facts from Dr. Fauci, then pass this video on.
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Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021.
Recalling the Ebola outbreak of 2014, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, lamented the attention lavished on the four patients who were diagnosed with the virus in the United States.
“The panic that that generated in this country diverted our effort and our attention from worrying about where the problem was,” which was in West Africa, Fauci said Friday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, which is co-hosted by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic.
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https://www.science.org/content/article/why-nihs-anthony-fauci-treating-ebola-patients-himself
Why NIH’s Anthony Fauci is treating Ebola patients himself
Spending 2 hours daily with patients has given NIAID chief “much more profound respect” for the disease
27 MAR 2015BYKAI KUPFERSCHMIDT
Bear in mind that one of the biggest antivaxxers is Dr. Meryl Nass, a. doc who went to Cuba for training... she is a nutty US doctor out of Maine associated with the leftwing nut Rosenberg who accused Steven Hatfill of being a racist anthrax murderer during the Robert Mueller Amerithrax investigation.
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