Ebola, what you're not being told

[Earthnut]

BEER---> I'll tell you about a worse one. Let's hope the 'Spanish Flu' never resurfaces. It killed upwards ot 100 million in 2 years.

BELCH

Amen, I agree.

[Libby]

You’re right, Beer. Air-borne diseases like Flu have the capacity to infect huge numbers of people. And the Flu virus mutates fast.

There’s a worrying case of Ebola in the UK at the moment. A nurse was deployed on behalf of the UK government to a Save the Children Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone, along with thirty others. They came to the end of their assignment and flew back to London Heathrow airport, via Casablanca. They were checked on their arrival at Heathrow and none showed any signs. However, while the nurse was waiting for her connecting flight to Glasgow, she raised concerns about her temperature. She was checked several times, but her temperature was assessed as being within acceptable limits, so she was allowed to travel. By the time she eventually got home, she had developed a fever. She made the appropriate report and was taken to hospital in Glasgow where she was quarantined; testing revealed she has the disease. She was then flown back to London on a specially equipped Royal Air Force plane, and is being treated at the only specialist hospital in the UK designated for treating Ebola patients.

The questions being raised is whether the testing procedure at London Heathrow was sufficiently adequate, and whether people returning from being actively involved with Ebola patients should spend some time in a quarantine facility before travelling home.

In the meantime, the rest of her team have been given self-assessment kits, and the authorities are desperately trying to trace all the other passengers on her flights from Sierra Leone to Glasgow.

That nurse (and the rest of the team) did a wonderful thing in volunteering to go into a high-risk area to help the victims of this dreadful disease. I can’t imagine how she must feel, thinking she might have infected others. But she did her very best in reporting her initial symptoms.

Although Ebola isn’t air-borne (except for Ebola-Reston), so the risk of transmission is low, nevertheless the thought that the disease isn’t being contained at our borders, despite the very obvious risk factor, is deeply troubling.

[Libby]

It's reported that the nurse's condition has deteriorated, and she's now in a critical condition.

[Earthnut]

Mali government, UN declare country Ebola-free

https://news.yahoo.com/mali-government-un-declare-country-ebola-free-221318115.html

Bamako (AFP) - The Malian government and the United Nations on Sunday declared the country free of Ebola after 42 days without any new cases of the deadly virus.

Health Minister Ousmane Kone said no confirmed cases had been registered since December 6 when the last Ebola patient had tested negative.

"I declare this day... the end of the epidemic of the Ebola virus in Mali," he said in a statement broadcast on state television ORTM.

The west African country "had come out" of the epidemic, Ibrahima Soce Fall, the head of the Malian office of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), confirmed.

In accordance with World Health Organization recommendations, the spread of the Ebola virus could be declared over after 42 days without any new cases being recorded, he said in a separate statement.

Kone saluted the Malian authorities and the different players in the anti-Ebola fight for "weeks of intense work" that led to the result.

He also praised Mali's health workers and the country's partners for their efforts while urging that basic hygiene and protective behaviour measures be kept up.

Seven people died of Ebola in Mali. The first fatality in October was a two-year-old girl brought from neighbouring Guinea to stay with relatives.

Shortly afterwards, a Muslim cleric, also from Guinea, died in the capital Bamako. He transmitted the virus, directly or indirectly, to seven other people, five of whom died.

The last patient to be treated for Ebola in Mali made a full recovery and was discharged from hospital in early December.

Countries must report no new cases for 42 days -- or two incubation periods of 21 days -- to be declared Ebola-free.

A total 21,296 people have so far been infected with Ebola since the world's worst-ever outbreak began just over a year ago, and 8,429 of them have died, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization.

The vast majority of the deaths occurred in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

[Libby]

Good news about the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30967337

Extract:

UK nurse Pauline Cafferkey has said she is "very happy to be alive", having been discharged from hospital after making a full recovery from Ebola.

Speaking to the BBC in her first broadcast interview, Ms Cafferkey, 39, admitted she had felt like "giving up" as her condition became critical.

She said she was now looking forward to returning to "normal life" and had no current plans to return to West Africa.

She is the second Briton to recover from Ebola during the current outbreak.

Speaking after being discharged from the Royal Free Hospital, in London, Ms Cafferkey, from Cambuslang, in South Lanarkshire, thanked staff who she said had saved her life.

"I am just happy to be alive. I still don't feel 100%, I feel quite weak, but I'm looking forward to going home," she added.

[Earthnut]

https://www.naturalnews.com/047143_Ebola_population_control_university_scientist.html#

University scientist openly advocated Ebola release to kill off 90 percent of world population

(NaturalNews) Why anyone, even an uber-liberal academic, would ever want to see most of the world's people killed, is a mystery, but sure enough, the FBI has developed an interest in just such an academic, especially now that the Ebola virus has landed in the United States.

As reported by LifeSiteNews, the virus causes a form of hemorrhagic fever in which internal organs eventually deteriorate and liquefy. There is no known cure or vaccine for the disease, and it has an extremely high mortality rate of between 80 and 90 percent in most parts of the world where it strikes.

In addition, as LifeSiteNews further reports:

It is also high on the list of possible bio-terror weapons of concern to international law enforcement and military security agencies. Tom Clancy's thriller novel, Rainbow Six describes a group of radical environmentalists that wants to rid the world of people using a modified version of Ebola.

Every one will have to bury nine

And that's why the FBI is interested in speaking with Dr. Eric R. Pianka, a Texas ecologist and herpetologist who suggested during a meeting at the Texas Academy of Sciences that, were Ebola to become airborne, it would likely kill 90 percent of the human population and instantly solve what he called the "overpopulation problem."

Now that Ebola has come to the U.S. in, of all places, Texas, Dr. Pianka has been walking back his comments, telling the Austin American-Statesman that he has never advocated bio-terrorism and that he met with local FBI officials in response to suggestions that bio-terrorism was precisely what he had in mind.

"Someone has reported me as a terrorist," Dr. Pianka told the paper, according to LifeSiteNews. "They think I'm forming a cadre of people to release the airborne Ebola virus into the air. That I'm the leader and my students are the followers."

When Dr. Pianka was named by the academy as a Distinguished Texas Scientist in 2006, he stated that the AIDS virus was not killing off the surplus human population quickly enough. What he said was needed was to have Ebola eliminate 5.8 billion of the world's then-6 billion people. Even more bizarre -- and scary -- is that his speech received a standing ovation at the academy's annual meeting, at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.

Indeed, as LifeSiteNews reported, quoting the Seguin Gazette, Dr. Pianka also stated, "Every one of you who gets to survive has to bury nine." There is more discussion of that quote and Pianka's statements here and here.

Continuing in his speech, Pianka said, "[Disease] will control the scourge of humanity. We're looking forward to a huge collapse. We've grown fat, apathetic and miserable," he continued, describing the world as a "fat, human biomass."

Ebola manufactured? Curable?

LifeSiteNews continued:

The syllabus for one of Pianka's courses reads, "Although [Ebola Zaire] Kills 9 out of 10 people, outbreaks have so far been unable to become epidemics because they are currently spread only by direct physical contact with infected blood...Ebola Reston, is airborne, and it is only a matter of time until Ebola Zaire evolves the capacity to be airborne."

As far as Dr. Pianka's wish that someone might actually go with the idea of using Ebola as a bio-weapon, LifesiteNews quoted him as saying, "Good terrorists would be taking [Ebola Reston and Ebola Zaire] so that they had microbes they could let loose on the Earth that would kill 90 percent of people."

Is it possible to make a bio-weapon out of Ebola? Radio talk show host Dave Hodges thinks so. He says evidence which he has uncovered convinced him that a) Ebola is a 100 percent manufactured virus; and b) the U.S. had had a vaccine cure for it for nearly a decade. Read his report here.

Learn all these details and more at the FREE online Pandemic Preparedness course at www.BioDefense.com

Learn more: https://www.naturalnews.com/047143_Ebola_population_control_university_scientist.html##ixzz3PrXrTL6b

[Libby]

The Scottish nurse I mentioned above has had a relapse and is now critically ill:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34529575

I hadn't realised that Ebola can hide in some body tissues.

[seesthru]

Someone caught ebola from having sex with a recovered patient.  It can  be secreted through semen  up to 9 months after a patient recovers.

 

Ebola is not a STD

[Libby]

There clearly is much more to be made known about Ebola, and a lot of other diseases as well. Unfortunately, that won't happen until significant numbers of people in the West are affected. There are scientists working on so-called "exotic" diseases, but they don't get much funding. But, given the increase in global tourism, and those who travel to assist in disease outbreaks, there are likely to be even more cases back in the West in the future. Apparently, there are only two Tropical Medicine special facilities in the UK: one in Bristol and one in London. Which is why the Scottish nurse had to be transported to London for isolation and specialist treatment.

More needs to be known about why the virus came out of hiding and re-infected that nurse. There will be doctors and scientists working very hard to answer that question; but that's not much comfort for the nurse and her family and friends.

[seesthru]

 Ebola has been  an issue for a long time, but since it only affected  poor African countries, not much was done except by a dedicated few.  

 

The nurse relapsing was an anomaly,  I hope it doesn't become common.  The virus stays in the eyes, the semen, the nervous system for months...  Can one reinfect themselves by simply crying?   Can one infect others that way?    They really need to do some research.   I hope it hasn't mutated into a virus like Herpes where it  flares up in folks from time to time!