Posted on 08/01/2014 11:16:22 AM PDT by blam
August 1, 2014
Saliou Samb
West Africa's Ebola outbreak is out of control but it can be stopped, World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan said on Friday.
"This outbreak is moving faster than our efforts to control it," Chan told the presidents of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast at a meeting in Guinea's capital Conakry.
"If the situation continues to deteriorate, the consequences can be catastrophic in terms of lost lives but also severe socioeconomic disruption and a high risk of spread to other countries," she said, according to a WHO transcript.
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I feel sure they have helicopters in Georgia.
Seriously, there is much more to fear from hordes of Africans coming to D.C. for an international summit, unrestricted air travel from all parts of Africa, and unrestrained border crossings, than there is from the controlled and quarantined transfer of these Americans to Emory.
SAR is like a common cold compared to ebola. Mortality rates for it are 60-90 percent.
Ebola outbreak—no public gatherings—elections in November postponed until the outbreak is over??
I guess it still can but the bigger worry now is MERS:
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
It's Always Something. (IAS)
I oppose the bringing of the infected here to our shores. That is insanity. What are they going to do with the plane? This is madness. Very bad for Franklin and the Baptists if it gets away.
Cantor may have resigned too soon...he might have been congressman for life!
I know. I just polished it up some.
What a way for the CDC to get better samples of a more vicious strain of Ebola.
Just imagine it loose among the ‘ferals’ in a place like Chicago. I suspect dealing with them wouldn’t be the easiest thing to do either.
BTW, check out the first ‘bullet’ point & the last caution (as it applies to your observation of certain members of the community):
Ebola virus is transmitted person-to-person by direct contact with infected blood, secretions,organs, or semen
§ An infected person can transmit the disease to others as long as virus particles are left in the blood, which may occur weeks after the person is feeling better. There is potential for an infected person to transmit Ebola to others after fully recovering from the illness.
§ If an Ebola virus-infected patient dies, the body remains infectious and must be handled with extreme caution.
§ Close contact with persons who are infected but who do not yet show signs of active disease is very unlikely to result in infection.
§ There is no evidence of airborne transmission of Ebola virus from human to human.
Avoid Ebola infection by avoiding contact with body fluids (blood, feces, urine, vomitus, etc.) of infected people. Men infected with Ebola virus should not have sex for 3 months or until tests show that semen is free of the virus.
[Link: http://phpa.dhmh.maryland.gov/IDEHASharedDocuments/EBOLA.pdf ]
Reminds me of my visit to Taiwan during the SARS epidemic. All deplaning passengers had to walk between a couple of infrared detectors that measured body temperature. Anyone with a fever was stopped.
Thanks :)
That’s an interesting point. Supposedly one of the ‘busiest’ sectors with any conference are the sex workers.
Wonder how many in these delegations will partake of the ‘local activities’ in such a way.
rumor has it that it has but the most transparent administration in the world is very mum about it.
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...
One of the stock interpretations is that the following refers to a nuclear event, but...
Revelation 16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
Revelation 16:11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
Darkness, tongues in pain, sores... from a vial/bowl no less.
And this Africa conference is taking place in the seat of beast.gov, DC.
Not an interpretation, just an observation that these words and many others may very well have meanings that are plain as day, not requiring the deciphering services of self-anointed experts (for $19.98, times as many teasers they can write to keep stringing people along).
Let’s just say that the High Command of the DEMOCRAT BROTHERHOOD GOVERNMENT has sealed its transparency with on-going investigations, which cannot be commented on by outsiders who do not have all the facts.
They’ll need to screen the blood supply for Ebola if it ever got loose in this country.
I have a feeling about this outbreak that we haven’t begun seen the worst of it...like watching Superstorm Sandy slowly coming together. You could watch the line up of fronts and tell that the storm was going to be funneled right into the US and one could do nothing except watch the train wreck!
The political and moral situation in the west is just about ripe for a major plague and the immorality of certain “communities” has them all set up for a major correction! Perhaps we might dodge this bullet but others are coming. God has supplied nature with quite a variety of armaments thru which we might be judged, not counting out the possibility of His direct judgment on all our sins as well!
I saw a modern photo showing two workers dressed in protective garb carrying a dead body out on a strecher (in a body bag). While not as much “fun” as your image from years gone by, it would help to bring the threat (and the thread) into a more realistic, and perhaps more urgent mood. (Perhaps “fun” isn’t the best word, and no offense meant - and please add me to your ping list!)
Ping...
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