Ebola & Updates
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l apprenti de forgeron
The Living Force
Re: Ebola Update
Thanks for sharing.
Will have to see how the religious factor acts in all this. Perhaps priests will sell these tragedies as a purge for sins or some other big story of the divine will, so believers will be able of die in a calmer way; and for many people will be the confirmation of the death of "God" (another more. Seems that the death of God is also cyclic in society simultaneous with catastrophes).
Thanks for sharing.
Really seems a predecessor of the worst viral plague.Saieden said:
Will have to see how the religious factor acts in all this. Perhaps priests will sell these tragedies as a purge for sins or some other big story of the divine will, so believers will be able of die in a calmer way; and for many people will be the confirmation of the death of "God" (another more. Seems that the death of God is also cyclic in society simultaneous with catastrophes).
angelburst29
The Living Force
Re: Ebola Update
Health Ministry Failing to Pick up Abandoned Dead Bodies
_http://frontpageafricaonline.com/index.php/news/2495-dead-bodies-health-ministry-failing-to-pick-up-abandoned
As the deadly Ebola virus continues to spread, Liberians are panicking as dead bodies of people who have died from unknown causes continue to dawdle around the city of Monrovia and its environs without the Ministry of Health collecting them. The situation is creating Health hazard as communities worry that Liberia’s Health ministry is incapacitated to cater to the Ebola crisis.
Monrovia - Following the government of Liberia’s declaration of a national health emergency in the face of the deadly Ebola outbreak that has killed close to 130 Liberians and an entire government ministry at risk because of an employee that died of the deadly disease in Nigeria, there have been reports of dead bodies lying around with no effort by the ministry of health to remove them.
Over the lake that divides the police academy road from the rest of the SKD Boulevard community two objects in the shape of body bags white in color were afloat. Residents and motorists were concerned about the floating object, but all efforts made to contact the health ministry to confirm what the object actually is proved futile as no health response team showed up to remove the object that looked like the body bag in which Ebola victims are buried.
In Harbel, Margibi County it was reported that three persons had died in a house, but the corpses were still in the house three days after. The Gardnersville community was a scene of chaos and confusion as youth blocked the main highway because a corpse had been abandoned for five days and had started to decay.
The government had reported that burial teams were facing challenges in burying people who die from the deadly virus as many communities are concerned about people who die from the virus being buried in their areas. Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyeswah told FPA weeks ago that the ministry was concerned that some Liberians were still in denial of the disease.
It seems at the high level the government is losing its wits on how to deal with the deadly virus that has claimed 129 lives including that of a government official. Sources say it is obvious that the Government is playing catch-up with measures to curb the deadly virus in a meeting held recently.
At the second meeting of the national task force set up by President Sirleaf in which she was present, the government did not seem to have a set plan and there was a lot of talking about decisions.
At the meeting attended by many dignitaries including the US ambassador Deborah Malac, the head of the United Nations in Liberia Karen Langren, ministers and other prominent members of society, it was clear that the only reason the president is acting now is because foreigners are dying from the deadly virus.
(Long article with more information.)
Peace Corps leaves West Africa as Ebola outbreak expands
_http://rt.com/usa/176856-peace-corps-ebola-outbreak-africa/
The US Peace Corps announced on Wednesday that it was removing its 340 volunteers from West Africa due to recent Ebola outbreak, while the federal government is being urged to fast-track a new a drug that could possibly stave off a global pandemic.
According to Reuters, 130 volunteers will leave Sierra Leone, while another 108 and 102 will depart Liberia and Guinea, respectively. The Peace Corps blamed the virus’ continued spread for the decision.
“The Peace Corps today announced that it is temporarily removing its volunteers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea due to the increasing spread of the Ebola virus,” the organization said in a statement to the news service.
Since February, 672 people have been killed in all three countries, making the recent outbreak the most devastating on record, per the World Health Organization.
Meanwhile, the US State Department confirmed one American citizen has died from the virus – which triggers diarrhea and vomiting before causing internal and external bleeding. Two other aid workers have been infected and are in serious condition.
As RT reported on Tuesday, Sierra Leone’s only specialist on Ebola has also died, not even one week after being diagnosed with the virus. The current fatality rate stands at 60 percent, which is lower than the 90 percent rate typically associated with the disease.
As the highly contagious virus continues to raise concern across the world, activists have started apetition on Change.org pushing the US Food and Drug Administration to speed up the authorization of new medication that could potentially stop the virus in its tracks. There’s currently no cure for Ebola, but several drugs and vaccines are currently being tested.
“One of the most promising is TKM-Ebola manufactured by Tekmira Pharmaceuticals,” the petition states. “This drug has been shown to be highly effective in killing the virus in primates and Phase 1 clinical trials to assess its safety in humans were started earlier this year.”
The petition points to the fact that there’s been one confirmed case of the disease being transferred via air travel – from Liberia to Nigeria – and suggests the impending shadow of a pandemic makes fast-tracking the drug’s approval necessary.
“In view of this it’s imperative that the development of these drugs be fast-tracked by the FDA and the first step should be releasing the hold on TKM-Ebola. There is a precedent for fast tracking anti-Ebola drugs in emergency cases as happened last year when a researcher was exposed to the virus and received an experimental vaccine.”
Speaking with the Daily Mail, Professor Jeremy Farrar of the Welcome Trust global charity said drugs that have already been tested on humans should be deployed to the areas where they could be the most beneficial.
“It’s ridiculous that we haven’t got these (experimental) products out of labs and animal trials and into human testing, and at least offered to people,” he said.
“If you had a 60 per cent chance of dying tomorrow, and there was something that had been tested in healthy volunteers (but not yet tried in patients or approved), would you take it?”
Health Ministry Failing to Pick up Abandoned Dead Bodies
_http://frontpageafricaonline.com/index.php/news/2495-dead-bodies-health-ministry-failing-to-pick-up-abandoned
As the deadly Ebola virus continues to spread, Liberians are panicking as dead bodies of people who have died from unknown causes continue to dawdle around the city of Monrovia and its environs without the Ministry of Health collecting them. The situation is creating Health hazard as communities worry that Liberia’s Health ministry is incapacitated to cater to the Ebola crisis.
Monrovia - Following the government of Liberia’s declaration of a national health emergency in the face of the deadly Ebola outbreak that has killed close to 130 Liberians and an entire government ministry at risk because of an employee that died of the deadly disease in Nigeria, there have been reports of dead bodies lying around with no effort by the ministry of health to remove them.
Over the lake that divides the police academy road from the rest of the SKD Boulevard community two objects in the shape of body bags white in color were afloat. Residents and motorists were concerned about the floating object, but all efforts made to contact the health ministry to confirm what the object actually is proved futile as no health response team showed up to remove the object that looked like the body bag in which Ebola victims are buried.
In Harbel, Margibi County it was reported that three persons had died in a house, but the corpses were still in the house three days after. The Gardnersville community was a scene of chaos and confusion as youth blocked the main highway because a corpse had been abandoned for five days and had started to decay.
The government had reported that burial teams were facing challenges in burying people who die from the deadly virus as many communities are concerned about people who die from the virus being buried in their areas. Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyeswah told FPA weeks ago that the ministry was concerned that some Liberians were still in denial of the disease.
It seems at the high level the government is losing its wits on how to deal with the deadly virus that has claimed 129 lives including that of a government official. Sources say it is obvious that the Government is playing catch-up with measures to curb the deadly virus in a meeting held recently.
At the second meeting of the national task force set up by President Sirleaf in which she was present, the government did not seem to have a set plan and there was a lot of talking about decisions.
At the meeting attended by many dignitaries including the US ambassador Deborah Malac, the head of the United Nations in Liberia Karen Langren, ministers and other prominent members of society, it was clear that the only reason the president is acting now is because foreigners are dying from the deadly virus.
(Long article with more information.)
Peace Corps leaves West Africa as Ebola outbreak expands
_http://rt.com/usa/176856-peace-corps-ebola-outbreak-africa/
The US Peace Corps announced on Wednesday that it was removing its 340 volunteers from West Africa due to recent Ebola outbreak, while the federal government is being urged to fast-track a new a drug that could possibly stave off a global pandemic.
According to Reuters, 130 volunteers will leave Sierra Leone, while another 108 and 102 will depart Liberia and Guinea, respectively. The Peace Corps blamed the virus’ continued spread for the decision.
“The Peace Corps today announced that it is temporarily removing its volunteers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea due to the increasing spread of the Ebola virus,” the organization said in a statement to the news service.
Since February, 672 people have been killed in all three countries, making the recent outbreak the most devastating on record, per the World Health Organization.
Meanwhile, the US State Department confirmed one American citizen has died from the virus – which triggers diarrhea and vomiting before causing internal and external bleeding. Two other aid workers have been infected and are in serious condition.
As RT reported on Tuesday, Sierra Leone’s only specialist on Ebola has also died, not even one week after being diagnosed with the virus. The current fatality rate stands at 60 percent, which is lower than the 90 percent rate typically associated with the disease.
As the highly contagious virus continues to raise concern across the world, activists have started apetition on Change.org pushing the US Food and Drug Administration to speed up the authorization of new medication that could potentially stop the virus in its tracks. There’s currently no cure for Ebola, but several drugs and vaccines are currently being tested.
“One of the most promising is TKM-Ebola manufactured by Tekmira Pharmaceuticals,” the petition states. “This drug has been shown to be highly effective in killing the virus in primates and Phase 1 clinical trials to assess its safety in humans were started earlier this year.”
The petition points to the fact that there’s been one confirmed case of the disease being transferred via air travel – from Liberia to Nigeria – and suggests the impending shadow of a pandemic makes fast-tracking the drug’s approval necessary.
“In view of this it’s imperative that the development of these drugs be fast-tracked by the FDA and the first step should be releasing the hold on TKM-Ebola. There is a precedent for fast tracking anti-Ebola drugs in emergency cases as happened last year when a researcher was exposed to the virus and received an experimental vaccine.”
Speaking with the Daily Mail, Professor Jeremy Farrar of the Welcome Trust global charity said drugs that have already been tested on humans should be deployed to the areas where they could be the most beneficial.
“It’s ridiculous that we haven’t got these (experimental) products out of labs and animal trials and into human testing, and at least offered to people,” he said.
“If you had a 60 per cent chance of dying tomorrow, and there was something that had been tested in healthy volunteers (but not yet tried in patients or approved), would you take it?”
Psalehesost
The Living Force
Re: Ebola Update
"Liberians are panicking as dead bodies of people who have died from unknown causes continue to dawdle around the city of Monrovia and its environs without the Ministry of Health collecting them."
It sounds like the Ministry of Health is dawdling while the bodies continue to gather around the city - but to say that the bodies themselves dawdle conjures up images of zombies slowly wandering around aimlessly.
"Liberians are panicking as dead bodies of people who have died from unknown causes continue to dawdle around the city of Monrovia and its environs without the Ministry of Health collecting them."
tfd.com said:
It sounds like the Ministry of Health is dawdling while the bodies continue to gather around the city - but to say that the bodies themselves dawdle conjures up images of zombies slowly wandering around aimlessly.
Cyre2067
The Living Force
Re: Ebola Update
_http://www.sott.net/article/282930-Ebola-What-you-re-not-being-told
Everyone catch that? The virus is seemingly transmissible by large aerosol droplets. That fact is being omitted from major media outlets.
_http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/07/31/expert-reasonable-chance-person-infected-with-ebola-could-come-to-us/
The incubation period is anywhere from a few days to a few weeks, as many as 3 weeks before onset of symptoms. Onset includes headache, sore throat and fever. I'm officially creeped out.
_http://www.sott.net/article/282930-Ebola-What-you-re-not-being-told
Everyone catch that? The virus is seemingly transmissible by large aerosol droplets. That fact is being omitted from major media outlets.
_http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/07/31/expert-reasonable-chance-person-infected-with-ebola-could-come-to-us/
The incubation period is anywhere from a few days to a few weeks, as many as 3 weeks before onset of symptoms. Onset includes headache, sore throat and fever. I'm officially creeped out.
Psalehesost
The Living Force
Re: Ebola Update
I guess what we can do - apart from speading information - is sticking with the ketogenic diet, the importance of which (in times of possible plague) is discussed here. (As mentioned in that thread, those not on the ketogenic diet should consider getting on it ASAP: Forget about the old detox and paleo diets - they have become completely obsolete with what we're learned more recently.) This virus sounds bad enough, but if it spreads widely, it may well mutate and become more "efficient" - i.e. more deadly - over time. If that happens, we'd have a repeat of the plague, which was an Ebola-like virus.
Apart from diet (where carbs impact the immune system while eating meat and animal fat helps), there's smoking tobacco (which historically has helped against pandemics), getting good sleep (since sleep disturbances impact the immune system), and generally making sure to avoid anything else we know impacts the immune system. Given the mind-body connection (psychoneuroimmunology), as described by Gabor Mate in When the Body Says No, being in good emotional shape is also crucial.
As far as I know, that's about it for short-term individual preparation - to be maintained consistently over time. Apart from other, longer-term preparation for a time of worldwide crisis, we can then only wait and see how it all turns out - for us, individually and in groups, and for others. Either we survive or we don't - there is no certainty.
Puck said:_http://www.sott.net/article/282930-Ebola-What-you-re-not-being-told
Everyone catch that? The virus is seemingly transmissible by large aerosol droplets. That fact is being omitted from major media outlets.
_http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/07/31/expert-reasonable-chance-person-infected-with-ebola-could-come-to-us/
The incubation period is anywhere from a few days to a few weeks, as many as 3 weeks before onset of symptoms. Onset includes headache, sore throat and fever. I'm officially creeped out.
I guess what we can do - apart from speading information - is sticking with the ketogenic diet, the importance of which (in times of possible plague) is discussed here. (As mentioned in that thread, those not on the ketogenic diet should consider getting on it ASAP: Forget about the old detox and paleo diets - they have become completely obsolete with what we're learned more recently.) This virus sounds bad enough, but if it spreads widely, it may well mutate and become more "efficient" - i.e. more deadly - over time. If that happens, we'd have a repeat of the plague, which was an Ebola-like virus.
Apart from diet (where carbs impact the immune system while eating meat and animal fat helps), there's smoking tobacco (which historically has helped against pandemics), getting good sleep (since sleep disturbances impact the immune system), and generally making sure to avoid anything else we know impacts the immune system. Given the mind-body connection (psychoneuroimmunology), as described by Gabor Mate in When the Body Says No, being in good emotional shape is also crucial.
As far as I know, that's about it for short-term individual preparation - to be maintained consistently over time. Apart from other, longer-term preparation for a time of worldwide crisis, we can then only wait and see how it all turns out - for us, individually and in groups, and for others. Either we survive or we don't - there is no certainty.
angelburst29
The Living Force
Re: Ebola Update
One of Bill and Melinda Gates humanitarian gifts to Africa was the introduction of the Common Core Educational Curriculum in early 2009.
Odyssey said:
One of Bill and Melinda Gates humanitarian gifts to Africa was the introduction of the Common Core Educational Curriculum in early 2009.
angelburst29
The Living Force
Re: Ebola Update
Reuters only produced two short paragraph's on this serious subject?
U.S. government seeking to test Ebola vaccine on humans: reports
_http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-usa-ebola-vaccine-idUSKBN0G02T320140731
Thursday July 30. 2014
(Reuters) - The U.S. government will begin testing on people an experimental Ebola vaccine as early as September, after seeing positive results from tests on primates, according to media reports on Thursday.
The National Institutes of Health's infectious disease unit is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to put the vaccine into trial as quickly as possible, according to CNN and USA Today. The director of that unit could not be reached for comment.
Reuters only produced two short paragraph's on this serious subject?
U.S. government seeking to test Ebola vaccine on humans: reports
_http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-usa-ebola-vaccine-idUSKBN0G02T320140731
Thursday July 30. 2014
(Reuters) - The U.S. government will begin testing on people an experimental Ebola vaccine as early as September, after seeing positive results from tests on primates, according to media reports on Thursday.
The National Institutes of Health's infectious disease unit is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to put the vaccine into trial as quickly as possible, according to CNN and USA Today. The director of that unit could not be reached for comment.
