Ebola & Updates

[whitecoast]

Funny story Alkhemist. It's interesting that, when you tried to get away from the "crappy news" about Ebola, the plague still manged to find you in your attempt to block it out and dissociate. It could be a message from the universe. :)

 

[theos]

Guys, I am so PISSED off I can hardly see straight!

I wanted to get away from all the crappy news I've been reading, so I decided to log on to my Star Wars game (SWTOR). (For those who don't know, this is a massively multiplayer online game, so when you log on, you see other peoples' characters and you can interact together in the same environment.)

So, I logged on to the main "fleet" area, and the first thing that happens is my character turns green and starts hacking uncontrollably. I have no idea what's going on, but I finally figure out that a PLAGUE is spreading among the characters in this game. Now, this plague has been a part of the game in the past, but it never caused more than a temporary penalty in fighting ability.

Not this time.

As my character started getting progressively worse, and began slowly changing into a zombie of some sort. I asked about how to get rid of it so I could continue playing. What I found out was that the ONLY way to move forward was to buy the VACCINE in the game!

Kids of all ages, and of course adults, as well, play this game. This is social engineering (brainwashing) at it's worst. This is all about conditioning people to look to vaccines as the only way forward.

I just thought you'd like to know.

Funny story Alkhemist. It's interesting that, when you tried to get away from the "crappy news" about Ebola, the plague still manged to find you in your attempt to block it out and dissociate. It could be a message from the universe. :)

It quite possibly is a message from the universe shoving reality into your face. Alkhemist, you may want to take a look at this thread on the effects of gaming.

http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,129.0.html

 

[theos]

An article on prepping for an Ebola lockdown: _http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/prepping-for-an-ebola-lockdown-no-one-goes-out-no-one-comes-in-08052014

Are you prepared to go into lockdown mode if the Ebola virus begins to spread across the country?

Hopefully, fears of a possible Ebola pandemic are exaggerated and being fanned by a government with an agenda and greedy pharmaceutical companies.

However…

Six people fell ill in New York City and are being tested for the virus. Paul Joseph Watson of Prison Planet wrote:

“In an apparent attempt to avoid hysteria, U.S. health authorities are withholding details about a number of suspected Ebola victims from the public.” (source)

With something that displays itself as gruesomely as Ebola, with seizures and uncontrollable bleeding from every orifice, it’s unrealistic to think that a cover-up can last long. If this continues to spread, there’s no way that the government can keep it under wraps. In a place as populated as NYC, there’s no telling how many people the possible victims have come into contact with. This is NOT going to be easy to contain. The virus is spreading far more rapidly than it has in the past in West Africa, giving some people reason to believe it has mutated into something more easily transmissible.

This reminds me of that scene in the movie Contagion, where the CDC experts have their quiet, closed-door meetings and discuss preventing a panic. (If you haven’t seen that movie lately, I suggest you watch it, perhaps with your older children, to open the discussion of how pandemics can spread rapidly.) In the movie, the officials seem almost more intent on keeping it quiet than they do on stopping the spread of the illness.

There are a lot of facts that are being kept quiet. The government seems really excited about producing an untested vaccine and jabbing us all with it. Because of this insistence on secrecy and the fact that you just can’t trust the government, you may not have a lot of warning before things get really bad. Consider this your warning. You need to be prepared to go into family lockdown mode for at least six weeks. Incidentally, this begs the question of why our government has not gone into a similar lockdown mode, instead of opening the floodgates for illegal immigrants and tourists from other countries during a global health crisis. (Here’s why I won’t be lining up to get an Ebola vaccine.)
How do you know when it’s time to go into lockdown?

Avoiding contact with people who have the illness is the only way to prevent getting it. Isolating yourselves is the best way to stay safe and healthy.

This is the tricky part: How do you know that the time has come to get the family inside and lock the doors behind you? Lizzie Bennett, a retired medical professional, wrote an incredibly helpful article over on her website Underground Medic. Definitely take the time to read the entire thing HERE, because this is one of the most blunt, honest things you will read from a person who worked in this field. Bennett recommends social distancing as the only effective way to protect yourself and your family from an outbreak of disease.

How long you should remain isolated depends primarily on where you live. For those in towns and cities it will be for much longer than those living in rural retreats where human contact is minimal. Though those fortunate enough to live in such surroundings should remember that if the situation is dire enough, people will leave the cities looking for safety in less populated areas. In large centres of population there will be more people moving around, legally or otherwise, each of these individuals represents a possible uptick in the disease rates, allowing the spread to continue longer than it would have they stayed indoors and/or out of circulation. Even when the initial phase is on the wane, or has passed through an area, people travelling into that area can bring it back with them triggering a second wave of disease as people are now emerging from their isolation…

…

One hundred miles is my buffer zone for disease, of course it could already be in my city, but practicalities dictate that I will not stay away from people because hundreds in Europe are dropping like flies. Maps of disease spread look like a locust swarm moving across the country and this allows disease spread to be tracked on an hour by hour basis. One of the few instances where mainstream media will be useful. (source)

Once you’ve gone into lockdown, how long you must stay there is dependent on the spread of the illness. Times will vary. Bennett suggests these guidelines:

Once the doors were locked we would stay there for at least two weeks after the last case within 100 miles is reported. A government all clear would be weighed against how long it had been since the last case was reported in the area I have designated as my buffer zone. There is of course still the chance that someone from outside the area will bring the disease in with them causing a second wave of illness. You cannot seal off cities to prevent this. Going out after self-imposed isolation should be kept to a minimum for as long as possible, and if you don’t have to, then don’t do it. Far better to let those that are comfortable being out and about get on with it and see if any new cases emerge before exposing yourself and your family to that possibility. (source)

What does it mean to go into lockdown?

This Ebola thing could go bad in a hurry. And by bad I mean that it has killed well over half of the people who’ve contracted it in West Africa. Not only do we have the possibility of Ebola to contend with, but several varieties of plague are also on the uptick over the past couple of months, something that has been put on the back burner due to the fear of Ebola. A city in China was locked down last week due to the Bubonic Plague and the Black Plague caused one man to die and 3 more people to become ill in Colorado last month.

If the situation hits close enough to home that you decide to go it’s time to isolate yourselves, the rules to this are intractable.
No one goes out. No one comes in.

I know this sounds harsh, but there are to be no exceptions. If you make exceptions, you might as well go wrestle with runny-nosed strangers at the local Wal-Mart and then come home and hug your children, because it’s the same thing.

Once you have gone into lockdown mode, that means that the supplies you have on hand are the supplies you have to see you through. You can’t run out to the store and get something you’ve forgotten.

That means if a family member shows up, they have to go into quarantine for at least 4 weeks, during which time they are not allowed access to the home or family, nor are they allowed to go out in public. Set up an area on your property that is far from your home for them to hang out for their month of quarantine. If at the end of the month they are presenting no symptoms, then they can come in.

It sadly means that you may be forced to turn someone away if they are ill, because to help them means to risk your family.

Now is the time to plan with your preparedness group how you intend to handle the situation. Will you shelter together, in the same location, and reserve a secondary location to retreat to if the situation worsens further or if someone becomes ill? Will you shelter separately because of the nature of the emergency? Decide together on what event and proximity will trigger you to go into lockdown mode. Make your plan and stick to it, regardless of pressure from those who think you are over-reacting, the school that your children have stopped attending, and any other external influences. If you’ve decided that there is a great enough risk that you need to go into lockdown, you must adhere to your plan.
Prepare an isolation area.

In the event that a member of your group becomes ill, they need to immediately be quarantined from the rest of the group. By the time they’re showing symptoms, it could be too late to prevent the spread of illness but effort should still be taken to isolate them.

Here are some tips on isolating a patient.

The sick room should be sealed off from the rest of the house. Use a heavy tarp over the doorway to the room on the inside and the outside. This will make a small breezeway for the caretaker to go in and out.
The caretaker should cover up with disposable clothing, gloves, shoe covers, and hair covers.
The caretaker should wear an N95 mask.
The sick person should use disposable dishes and cutlery. All garbage from the sick room should be placed in a heavy garbage bag and burned outdoors immediately.
The sick person should not leave the room. If there is not a bedroom with a connected bathroom, a bathroom setup should be created within the room. Great care must be taken with the disposal of this waste.

You can learn more about preparing a sick room HERE.
Do you have the supplies you need to weather a pandemic?

It’s time to do a last minute check of your preps because by the time a general quarantine is announced in your area or you hear the mainstream suggesting that people should stay home, it will be too late to get the rest of your supplies. As well, at that point, the path of the pandemic will have progressed so much it will be unsafe to do so.

You need to be prepared to go into family lockdown mode for a minimum of 6 weeks should things get bad in your area, and preferably longer than that in the event that this takes a long time to contain. It’s most likely that services such as public water and electricity will remain intact, but you should prepare as though they won’t be, just in case.

Here’s a quick checklist along with some links to resources. Base amounts on the number of family members you’ll be sheltering.

Drinking water (1 gallon per person per day)
Food (including items that don’t require fuel for preparation)
Heavy duty garbage bags
Sanitation supplies such as toilet paper, paper towels, baby wipes, and feminine hygiene supplies)
Entertainment – you’ll want to be able to keep children and restless family members busy so get craft supplies, books, games, and puzzles
Basic medical supplies (here’s a list)
Pandemic kits that contain protective clothing (we have a QuakeKare Deluxe Pandemic Flu Kit for each family member)
Extra N95 masks (3M 1860 Health Care N95 Particulate Respirator and Surgical Mask, Small Adult, 20/Bx)
Nitrile gloves (Dynarex Black Nitrile Exam Gloves, Heavy-Duty, Powder Free, Large, Box/100)
Safety goggles with an elastic band to ensure a snug fit (Pyramex V2G Safety Eyewear, Clear Anti-Fog Lens With Black Strap/Temples)
Antibacterial cleaners such as disposable wipes, bleach, and spray cleaners
Antibacterial hand sanitizer (Purell Pump Bottle, Original, 8 Ounce (Pack of 12))

Note – we do not commonly use anti-bacterial products but in a situation like this, it’s important to have this type of thing on hand in the event that there are issues with sanitation

 

[theos]

Here's another on social distancing: _http://undergroundmedic.com/?p=74

Ebola is in most peoples minds at the moment, more so since the United states and Germany took the decision to fly Ebola patients from West Africa to hospitals in Atlanta and Hamburg.

Ebola Zaire is one of five strains of Ebola that are currently known, only one, Ebola Reston is not fatal in humans. Ebola Zaire, the strain currently in circulation has a death rate approaching 90%.

During pandemics or epidemics, which are localised disease outbreaks, our not so esteemed leaders will most likely start by issuing advisories to avoid large gatherings of people, baseball games, football matches that sort of thing. The next step is closures of such venues, games will be cancelled to limit the spread of the disease. One up from this is the closure of large institutions, such as college campuses. This is followed by the temporary closure of schools, and other public buildings such as council offices, job centres and libraries, and finally, cinemas and even churches may be closed. Airlines may cancel flights or flights into and out of affected areas may be banned by government order to contain an outbreak.

The final imposed restriction is curfew. Individuals will not be allowed to move around freely in order to limit the spread of the disease. This decision will not be taken lightly by governments…unless they are thinking Agenda 21 and seize the chance to reduce the population by a few million. Enforced curfew means that many of those who have not prepared are gong to die, either of dehydration and starvation, or by bullet when they break the curfew in their hunt for supplies. In view of the estimated amounts of unprepared people out there, security forces would in my opinion, be so overwhelmed by the numbers of those breaking the curfew they would not have the option of rounding them up, many will die.

As an individual, you may have already decided not to send your child to school, you may have already driven across the state or even the country to get an older child home from college. You are, if you are reading this, probably well stocked and good to go if you decide to stay away from everyone until the situation improves. How long do you need to stay holed up for? When will it be safe to leave your home? What precautions do you take on returning if you really have to go out?

There can be no rule of thumb for how long you need to stay isolated for, but if any of you think a month will do it you need to think again. Although diseases spread at different rates, have different incubation times and are infectious at different times during their course they all rely on one thing. A supply of suitable hosts.

The supply of hosts, in this case us, is known as the herd, and providing the herd is big enough the disease will keep spreading. If the herd is too small, the disease will die out, this is the basis of shutting down sporting fixtures and campuses, reducing the size of the herd.

Microbiologists, as a baseline figure will make an assumption based on how a disease has spread in the past. For example, that one infected person will go on to infect 20 others. Some diseases such as Hansen’s disease (leprosy) although contagious, has a much lower infection rate than this, other diseases such as pandemic influenza, are much higher. 20 is considered a mean average with a virulent flu strain. So one teacher can infect 20 kids. Each of those 20 kids can infect 20 more people, that makes 400 each of those 400 can infect 20 people, that makes 8000. Disease spreads very quickly, and if you have something with a short incubation period, you have thousands of infected people around at the same time. The problem is, so many of the worst diseases start off resembling the common cold, fever, aches, sore throat, headache. If presenting during the winter ‘flu season’ it can go un-noticed for even longer. By the time it is realised it is more that just a regular bug doing the rounds the situation is well on its way to being out of control, it will keep spreading as long as there is people for it to spread to.

How long you should remain isolated depends primarily on where you live. For those in towns and cities it will be for much longer than those living in rural retreats where human contact is minimal. Though those fortunate enough to live in such surroundings should remember that if the situation is dire enough, people will leave the cities looking for safety in less populated areas. In large centres of population there will be more people moving around, legally or otherwise, each of these individuals represents a possible uptick in the disease rates, allowing the spread to continue longer than it would have they stayed indoors and/or out of circulation. Even when the initial phase is on the wane, or has passed through an area, people travelling into that area can bring it back with them triggering a second wave of disease as people are now emerging from their isolation.

On finding out there may be a major event in the offing, that people were becoming sickened I would dissect the information I had and find out as much as I could about the condition. This would not take more than an hour or two.

On finding it is a definite threat I would go shopping….make sure that any holes in my preps are, as far as I am able, filled. I would be looking for the usual, easy cook long life foods and bottled water, lots of bottled water. If systems break down due to staff sickness or death other diseases may spring up and so many are waterborne I would store as much as I could. Waste collections may be affected, thick rubbish bags, and several more gallons of bleach to keep the outside areas of the home free from pathogens delivered by rats etc who will be attracted by mountains of garbage would be a priority.

Lots of pairs of disposable decorators coveralls, disposable gloves and a filtered face masks would be next. If I had to go out these would be discarded before re-entering my home.

Fly spray or fly papers should be on every preppers list, but most of us severely underestimate the amount we will need. Any crisis that causes rubbish to build will see a massive increase in their numbers, they are also effective germ carriers and spreaders and should be viewed as a threat to your general good health. Although they may not be capable of carrying the disease that is causing the crisis secondary illnesses often occur in such situations.

The idea of shopping at this point is to preserve my stored preps for the maximum amount of time. Pandemics and diseases go in waves, often returning several times before the crisis is finally over. After the first wave has passed, there is no guarantee that life will operate as it did before. Depending on the mortality rate of the disease the population may have thinned considerably, the food chain could well be affected and municipal services may well have stopped or be severly reduced. The last minute shopping trip could well be the last time you are able to supply yourself with what you need.

I would continue these trips, gathering as many extra supplies as I could until I heard of the first case within one hundred miles of my home. At that point self-imposed isolation comes into effect. One hundred miles is my buffer zone for disease, of course it could already be in my city, but practicalities dictate that I will not stay away from people because hundreds in Europe are dropping like flies. Maps of disease spread look like a locust swarm moving across the country and this allows disease spread to be tracked on an hour by hour basis. One of the few instances where mainstream media will be useful.

Once the doors were locked we would stay there for at least two weeks after the last case within 100 miles is reported. A government all clear would be weighed against how long it had been since the last case was reported in the area I have designated as my buffer zone. There is of course still the chance that someone from outside the area will bring the disease in with them causing a second wave of illness. You cannot seal off cities to prevent this. Going out after self-imposed isolation should be kept to a minimum for as long as possible, and if you don’t have to, then don’t do it. Far better to let those that are comfortable being out and about get on with it and see if any new cases emerge before exposing yourself and your family to that possibility.

As with most things we prepare for there is and will continue to be massive uncertainty during times of crisis. Diseases can be unpredictable and are capable of mutating at an alarming rate. New emerging diseases, and re-emerging diseases are often zoonoses, that is diseases that jump the species barrier fom animal to human and these unfortunately can be the most unpredictable of all.

The continental United States has seen unprecedented heat in many areas of late, drought conditions prevail in many areas. Animals will migrate in search of water, as humans have done for millennia. Bubonic plague is present in many animals in the Sierra Nevada area, hantavirus greatly favours dry conditions. West Nile virus and other mosquito spread disease is on the increase. Last winter the UK saw numerous floods, rodents are on the march, looking for drier, higher ground. They bring with them a massively increased risk of leptospirosis. Cholera is now not only a problem in Haiti, but in Cuba, having reached Havanna earlier this week. Cuba to the closest point of Key West is 90.5 miles…inside my buffer zone limit though admittedly the ocean makes spread less likely than if they were joined by land and the cholera is not yet epidemic let alone pandemic.

Pandemics have occurred before and they will happen again. Localised epidemics are quite common. A little thought as to how you would deal with not only the contagion but the other issues that could arise from it may well save you a great deal of grief in the long term. No crisis remains isolated, each and every one of them will have a knock on effect, you may survive the pandemic, but what about the three months worth of rubbish in the streets, the plague of rats and the thousands of unburied bodies left in its wake?

Think ahead and have a plan, and as I have learned from so many preppers, have a back up plan.

Take care

Liz

 

[angelburst29]

Found this a little strange? Is it a set up to blame the illegal immigrants for a possible (fake) Ebola out break?

Quarantine Station map and Immigrant map - must see to believe
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKTgFPbkZZg

Published on Aug 7, 2014


Take a look at these 2 maps and see ....... if overlapping ....... they a line almost perfectly.

 

[theos]

Found this a little strange? Is it a set up to blame the illegal immigrants for a possible (fake) Ebola out break?

Quarantine Station map and Immigrant map - must see to believe
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKTgFPbkZZg

Published on Aug 7, 2014


Take a look at these 2 maps and see ....... if overlapping ....... they a line almost perfectly.

Very interesting. I was wondering the other day if this whole "immigrant crisis" and Ebola madness could be linked in some way. I guess we'll see.

 

[Keyhole]

It quite possibly is a message from the universe shoving reality into your face. Alkhemist, you may want to take a look at this thread on the effects of gaming.

I would agree with Odyssey, running away from the reality of things may only worsen things for yourself in the long run Alkhemist (which may be what the universe is trying to show you) - and in effect will also increase the level of entropy.

An article on prepping for an Ebola lockdown: _http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/prepping-for-an-ebola-lockdown-no-one-goes-out-no-one-comes-in-08052014

Thank you also for this extremely helpful article, the only thing that I am not in agreement with is the food section. The full body suits look like something to definitely store in bulk, as well as gloves etc so if COMPLETELY necessary to leave the house - they can be burned

 

[RflctnOfU]

Found this a little strange? Is it a set up to blame the illegal immigrants for a possible (fake) Ebola out break?

Quarantine Station map and Immigrant map - must see to believe
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKTgFPbkZZg

Published on Aug 7, 2014


Take a look at these 2 maps and see ....... if overlapping ....... they a line almost perfectly.

Very interesting. I was wondering the other day if this whole "immigrant crisis" and Ebola madness could be linked in some way. I guess we'll see.

A thought that has been forming for the last couple of days just clarified. Perhaps the Ebola patients weren't actually flown to the US (nor Germany and Spain). The media coverage of this being a staged event to start the fear going. Plus the quarantine centers/immigrant map lining up. Then the information about the fast tracked vaccine to begin testing on humans as early as September ('seventh' month - I thought about Christine LaGarde's speech with a section dealing with '7'/numerology). Perhaps the immigrants will end up being 'tested' with this new vaccine to eventually become an actual vector for spreading something more serious. The C's said in the last session that this outbreak of Ebola was a 'precurser'.

Also related to this '7'/numerology business, it seems to me, are the plans NATO has regarding Ukraine by September re 'drills' or 'exercises'.

My two cents.

Kris

 

[Laura]

It quite possibly is a message from the universe shoving reality into your face. Alkhemist, you may want to take a look at this thread on the effects of gaming.

I would agree with Odyssey, running away from the reality of things may only worsen things for yourself in the long run Alkhemist (which may be what the universe is trying to show you) - and in effect will also increase the level of entropy.

An article on prepping for an Ebola lockdown: _http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/prepping-for-an-ebola-lockdown-no-one-goes-out-no-one-comes-in-08052014

Thank you also for this extremely helpful article, the only thing that I am not in agreement with is the food section. The full body suits look like something to definitely store in bulk, as well as gloves etc so if COMPLETELY necessary to leave the house - they can be burned

You might also want to read the recent sessions about dissociation vs awakening of conscience and the role it plays in "receivership capability."

 

[loreta]

A friend of mine post this video this morning about the guy who is the genius about the new possible vaccine against Ebola. I don't know what to think about it. And sorry if this video has been seen here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9r7UB29YRo

I am lost with this Ebola stuff. I really don't know what to think about it. Is it real? I really don't know what to think about it and the more I read about the more I don't know what to think.

 

[loreta]

I read this morning that the Russians are doing a new vaccine against Ebola. A put the link even if it is in Spanish but the only information valable is that they are doing a vaccine, that the are doing pre-clinic tests and that very soon it will be the first Ebola Vaccine. Is it true or not? Who knows! The other information in the article is information about Ebola that we all know about it.

http://actualidad.rt.com/ciencias/view/136077-vacuna-epidemia-ebola-rusia-pruebas

 

[Gaby]

There are several reasons why vaccinations might help Ebola become much worse, specially the nasal ones:

1) If the vaccine fails - and vaccines have a solid track record of failure - those who were used as guinea pigs would be predisposed to infection.

2) A vaccine may exert selective pressure on the virus to produce "mutants" capable of being more pathogenic. See a perfect example here: Fail: Infant Hep B vaccines perform shamefully; time to end them? See also:

-Vaccine not virus responsible for Spanish flu
-Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three Times Risk Of Hospitalization For Flu, Study Suggests.

3) Mother nature doesn't need our help to create a deadly mutated virus: New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection.

4) Right now Ebola might be airborne and/or transmitted by droplets. A nasal vaccine sounds like the kind of thing which might worsen the infectivity of an airborne transmission.

 

[loreta]

There are several reasons why vaccinations might help Ebola become much worse, specially the nasal ones:

1) If the vaccine fails - and vaccines have a solid track record of failure - those who were used as guinea pigs would be predisposed to infection.

2) A vaccine may exert selective pressure on the virus to produce "mutants" capable of being more pathogenic. See a perfect example here: Fail: Infant Hep B vaccines perform shamefully; time to end them? See also:

-Vaccine not virus responsible for Spanish flu
-Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three Times Risk Of Hospitalization For Flu, Study Suggests.

3) Mother nature doesn't need our help to create a deadly mutated virus: New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection.

4) Right now Ebola might be airborne and/or transmitted by droplets. A nasal vaccine sounds like the kind of thing which might worsen the infectivity of an airborne transmission.

Thanks Gaby. I agree with you entirely. No vaccine at home, never, ever. My husband has MS and we suspect that it is because he received an Hepatitis B vaccine.

Thanks for the information!

 

[Kamino]

Thanks for your linked documentary, Parallel.
I wondered about Congo.. and why "always" Africa... the more answers, the more questions.

Africa has natural resources, there's a little map on this page, kind of overview:
_http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-secretary-of-state-john-kerry-says-africa-has-natural-resources-therefore-the-us-is-a-natural-partner/5380395

In our german topselling msm newspaper BILD (something like the british SUN) they offered some graphs/statistics about Ebola, certain straines and where/when the disease broke out. I'm actually a little embarassed to quote this kind of newspaper, but I thought it to be interesting. You can find the graphics at the bottom of the page. The first tab shows what's happening now, second shows outbreaks since 1976, third different straines (yellow infected, red deaths), fourth incubation time and symptoms.

I wondered about Zaire and Congo again, read some here
_http://www.csmonitor.com/1984/1106/110642.html

Do they deliberately try to depopulate and exploit these countries, without conscience, for their own sake of profits again, and again, and again.. I hope I'm only paranoid regarding the ramifications there and here.

 

[lilies]

What do you think of this?

Ebola: The US diagnostic test is utterly unreliable
by Jon Rappoport
_http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/ebola-the-us-diagnostic-test-is-utterly-ureliable/

ABC New York reports (in “Mount Sinai patient likely does not have Ebola, health official says”):

“Testing for Ebola is done at the CDC. According to a CDC spokesperson testing for Ebola takes 1-2 days after they receive the samples. The primary testing is PCR. This is performed on blood that has been treated to kill and live virus [sic]. So far CDC has tested samples from around 6 people who had symptoms consistent with Ebola and a travel history to the affected region.”

Comment section of above link is interesting:
There is actually four tests used by the CDC, ..

“Antigen capture enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) testing, IgM ELISA, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and virus isolation can be used to diagnose a case of Ebola HF within a few days of the onset of symptoms.

..but their real accuracy remains undisclosed:

Each and every lab test has a sensitivity and a specificity, all lab tests... Sensitivity is out of all of the positive tests how often does it pick up the specific disease it is looking for. Thus if it picks up the disease 80 % of the time, the sensitivity is 80%. If it picks up the disease every time it is 100%. Even if it picks up other diseases, if it always gets the desired disease all the time it is 100%. It is rare to have a test that is 100% sensitive.

Specificity is out of all of the positives, what percent is the disease one is looking for. If it picks up the disease and only the disease then it is a 100% specific. If it picks up other diseases, such as 20% of the time, then it is only 80%. Thus, even if it picks up all of the disease that one is looking for, yet it also picks up another disease or two and it makes a positive test 20% of the time with these other diseases, then the Specificity is 80%.

This may be worth to consider:

People wrongly assume that, because patients spew blood and collapse, a tiny amount of Ebola virus inside those patients will kill them. Not so.

Obviously as symptoms worsen the virus in the host body multiplies so an infected persons capability to actively spread the virus with a high infection rate must increase with time, no?

Another wrong assumption is: the human immune system is helpless in the face of such a vicious germ. Also untrue.

How much ebola infection can a healthy human immune system fight off?
Like, being exposed to an infected environment for 1 hours, is there a measurement unit used in healthcare on the virus-barrage the immune system can endure before it collapses? (e.g. critical mass of infection vs. immune system strength)

Exposure to Ebola must be as minimal as possible or zero, all sources emphasize that, but the virus is also airborne via water vapor, so how does ebola compare to true airborne viruses where the term Parts Per Billion is applicable? Or just breathing in a cluster of viruses housed in one water droplet enough to catch it? (WHO guidelines about protective equipment and washing hands with soap is surprisingly similar that of that doctor's accounts during the spanish-flu and the doctor never got it, if I remember correctly)

Is this really, why Ebola health workers are collapsing?
Aug5 by Jon Rappoport
_http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/is-this-really-why-ebola-health-workers-are-collapsing/

I was wondering about the same: how are health-workers even capable to work in the African heat in these sweltering suits practically being "cooked in them alive"?

_http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02962/Ebola-victims_2962495b.jpg
_http://www.trbimg.com/img-53b5cc89/turbine/la-fg-africa-ebola-20140703
_http://media.emergencymgmt.com/images/770*1000/Ebola+West+Africa+2014.jpg