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» Doctors: Potential Ebola Cases Still ‘Covered Up By CDC’ Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind!
Ebola continues to spread wildly in Sierra Leone as experts project that virtually all major cities in the United States will face imported cases of Ebola amid the failed response of the CDC. The nightly news says the story on the disease is ‘closed,’ but medical doctors around the country happen to disagree — and overwhelmingly so. In fact, medical professionals are now speaking out privately and publicly about the ‘cover up’ of potential Ebola cases that they say may end up with their careers on the line.
It was back in October when I shared a story regarding some extremely powerful information that one of my medical doctors contacts stationed in Dallas had shared with me. The CDC, this individual said, was coming into hospitals and visiting patients who were reported to have ‘signs of malaria’. What’s much more disturbing, however, is that the CDC was reportedly ‘disappearing’ these patients — even going as far as to remove their actual records from the hospital database.
Surely a serious claim, and one that I had shared with the audience hoping that we could simply find an alternative answer to these disappearances. At least one that did not revolve around the cover up of a serious Ebola outbreak within our borders. It was hard to ignore, though, with even former Border Patrol agents speaking out over sightings of the CDC coming in and ‘snatching up’ individuals with flu-like symptoms.
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Ebola in Brooklyn? FDNY arrives in Hazmat suits as woman drops dead | Daily Mail Online
Ebola in Brooklyn? FDNY arrives in Hazmat suits as woman drops dead | Daily Mail Online.
- The FDNY activated their Special Operations and Hazmat units in response to a death in Brooklyn on Tuesday afternoon
- A woman who dropped dead at Amy Professional Hair Braidig had blood ‘coming from her face, nose and mouth’ said an eyewitness
- The woman had recently traveled from Guinea three weeks ago, and was being monitored for Ebola said a worker at the salon
- She was at the salon visiting the owner and was said to have died of a heart attack said the same worker
- An Ebola test will be run on her remains ‘out of an abundance of caution,’ and results will be available by Wednesday morning
- The woman, who was being checked daily, had not shown any symptoms of the deadly virus according to the New York City Health Department
Ebola Clinical Illness in Well-Described Patients: The US healthcare system can only successfully handle a little Ebola Washington’s Blog
Let me start this piece with the bottom line: I want to be clear that patients with Ebola virus disease are sicker, in general, than patients with any other medical condition, in the US or anywhere else. They are subject to many more serious complications than other patients. They require more care, more lab tests, more procedures, more medical staff than patients with any other disease. (That is, if you are serious about trying to keep them alive.) The US healthcare system will not collapse like Africa’s, but it will be sorely tested by an Ebola outbreak: cracks in an already-overstretched system will become readily apparent, and future patients will not receive the million-dollar care that a carefully controlled handful of patients have gotten, so far.
This was part of what I tried to indicate in my September 30 post, in which I pointed out that US community hospitals could not care for Ebola patients. They will never be able to. They lack the containment to do it safely. Only large hospitals can assign enough staff away from other duties. They have no ability to get most labs and X-rays for Ebola patients. Finally, who will pay for such high-end care in our profit-driven system? Will your insurance cover Ebola, when insurers have great latitude to reject claims?
I have now read detailed accounts of the clinical course of the first two US Ebola patients (Dr. Brantly and Nancy Writebol) and two African patients treated in Frankfurt and Hamburg (one a physician and one an epidemiologist). At first, the patient in Frankfurt had eight doctors working on his case.
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Mali Reports Five Ebola Cases With Sixth Possible – Bloomberg
Mali Reports Five Ebola Cases With Sixth Possible – Bloomberg.
Mali reported the death of a girl suspected of having Ebola, as the nation races to contain the virus that has ravaged three of its West African neighbors.
Results from tests to confirm whether the girl had the virus will be known today, Alassane Souleymane, a spokesman for Mali’s communication ministry, said by e-mail today.
Five people have been confirmed as having Ebola and a sixth case is suspected, Hubert Balique, a French public-health expert consulting with the French embassy in Mali, told reporters yesterday. It’s unclear whether the girl whose death was reported today was one of those cases. Officials have identified more than 200 people who had contact with those individuals, and new cases will probably be confirmed in coming days, he said.
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Liberia to end Ebola state of emergency – Africa – Al Jazeera English
Liberia to end Ebola state of emergency – Africa – Al Jazeera English.
President Sirleaf says while country has made progress against virus, more still needs to be done to end the epidemic.
Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said that she would not seek an extension to a state of emergency imposed in August over Ebola.
Her announcement on Thursday is a sign of progress in the fight against the disease, which has killed more than 2,800 people in Liberia since breaking out in West Africa in March.
“Thus, having consulted relevant stakeholders, the national health team and partners, I have informed the leadership of the National Legislature that I will not seek an extension to the State of Emergency,” Sirleaf told a news briefing in the capital Monrovia.
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Ebola health workers go on strike in Sierra Leone — RT News
Ebola health workers go on strike in Sierra Leone — RT News.
More than 400 health workers in only Ebola treatment clinic in southern Sierra Leone have gone on strike over unpaid risk allowances promised by the government.
More than 400 health workers in only Ebola treatment clinic in southern Sierra Leone have gone on strike over unpaid risk allowances promised by the government.
Nurses, cleaners, and porters at the clinic – which is located in Bandjuma, Bo district – walked out after the government failed to make risk allowances payments of an extra $100 a week since September. The government agreed to make the payments when the treatment center was established.
The clinic is run by Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF), which pays the staff’s basic salaries. There are also a number of international staff at the center, but they are unable to keep it open on their own.
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Ebola: Putting On and Removing Personal protective Equipment | Underground Medic
Ebola: Putting On and Removing Personal protective Equipment | Underground Medic.
Not everyone is able to afford a full hazmat suit in order to protect themselves from Ebola. For those that will be relying on protective equipment that is widely available on sites such as Amazon, the following guide may be helpful. Take note particularly the removal section of the video which shows the inside out approach to removal of possibly contaminated gear.
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Asia ‘not doing enough’ to fight Ebola – Asia-Pacific – Al Jazeera English
Asia ‘not doing enough’ to fight Ebola – Asia-Pacific – Al Jazeera English.
Asian countries are not contributing enough to the global effort to fight Ebola, despite having a wealth of trained medical personnel who could help stop the spread of the deadly virus, World Bank Group president, Jim Yong Kim, said.
Addressing a news conference in South Korea’s capital Seoul on Tuesday, Kim called on leaders across Asia to send trained health professionals to the three West African countries hardest hit by the epidemic.
“Many countries in Asia who could help simply are not [helping], especially when it comes to sending health workers,” Kim told the news conference.
Thousands of healthcare workers are needed to help combat the deadliest outbreak of Ebola since records began in 1976.
The virus has killed nearly 5,000 people, mainly in the West African countries of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.
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We Prep for Ebola Because of Irresponsible People Like Kacie Hickox |
We Prep for Ebola Because of Irresponsible People Like Kacie Hickox |.
That nurse in Maine sure does love the spotlight.
After Kacie Hickox returned from Sierra Leone, where she was treating Ebola patients, she was outraged when she was put in isolation by the state of New Jersey. After railing about her civil rights, she was then transferred to her home in Maine, where she was asked to remain home for the remainder of the 21 day incubation period.
Well, you can’t tell Kacie Hickox what to do. No sir. She knows her rights.
Although she tried to portray herself as a saintly caregiver who was being victimized, today she showed herself to be anything but selfless.
She defied the quarantine and went out for a bike ride with her boyfriend, which was the equivalent of giving a great big middle finger salute to those who asked her to remain home.
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Canada bars visas from Ebola-hit countries – Americas – Al Jazeera English
Canada bars visas from Ebola-hit countries – Americas – Al Jazeera English.
Canada has suspended visa applications for residents and nationals of countries with “widespread transmission” of the Ebola virus, becoming the second nation after Australia to introduce such a measure.
The countries most severely hit by the worst Ebola outbreak ever are Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Canada has not yet had a case of the disease.
The similar move by Australia was slammed on Wednesday by Dr Margaret Chan, the World Health Organisation’s director general, who said closing borders won’t stop spread of the Ebola virus.
Canadians, including healthcare workers, in West Africa will be permitted to travel back to Canada, the government said.
Kevin Menard, a spokesman for Canada’s immigration ministry, said the government has “instituted a pause” in issuing visas for foreigners from risky countries, but noted “there was room for discretion if we can be assured that someone is not infected with the virus,” according to the Associated Press news agency.
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Not All Infected Ebola Patients Show Symptoms | Underground Medic
Not All Infected Ebola Patients Show Symptoms | Underground Medic.
On June 26th 2000 The New York Times carried an article by Lawrence Altman regarding asymptomatic Ebola patients carrying, and possibly spreading the disease.
The piece was based on research by African and European scientists regarding a study published in The Lancet. The team was headed by Dr. E. M. Leroy of Franceville, Gabon.
The study followed 24 ( Altman says 25 people, but the original piece states 24) people who had lived with Ebola patients. They had cared for them, and often buried them, all without the use of gloves and the protective clothing we have come to associate with the disease.
Blood tests at the time, this was 1996, didn’t detect the virus in the blood of the carers, but Leroy suspected it was there. He used polymerase chain reaction to isolate the virus and found it was, as he suspected, present in these people, albeit in small amounts.
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» Former FDA Official: Larger Ebola Outbreaks Coming to American Cities Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind!
Former FDA official Scott Gottlieb M.D. warns that larger and more frequent Ebola outbreaks will inevitably hit American cities in the near future and that hundreds of people could be forcibly quarantined by health authorities.
In an op-ed for Forbes, Gottlieb, who previously served as Director of Medical Policy Development for the Food and Drug Administration, writes that the imminent onset of the flu season will make it harder to keep tabs on potential Ebola victims in the United States.
Sometime in January or February – as the Ebola epidemic explodes out of West Africa – we’ll start experiencing larger, more frequent outbreaks in American cities. With the flu as a background to confound suspected cases of Ebola, public health departments will be hard pressed to “track and trace” all of the potential “contacts” when perhaps dozens of Ebola cases pop up in their cities.
Unable to pinpoint who might have come in close contact with Ebola, and be at risk of contracting the virus, they will reach for their most absolute tool – forced quarantine – as a way to mitigate threat amidst uncertainty. The number of people who will be placed into forced quarantines could easily number in the hundreds.
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Explained: Australia’s plan to tackle Ebola – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Explained: Australia’s plan to tackle Ebola – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
The risk of Ebola spreading to Australia is considered low but everywhere from airports to hospitals a wide range of measures are in place to further minimise the risk and plan for a potential outbreak.
The Australian Medical Association has raised questions about the official response, saying it has been chaotic and secretive.
States and territories have their own plans to deal with potential cases but an Ebola tsar has been appointed to oversee Australia’s response and the federal Health Department released national guidelines for public health units to combat the virus.
What’s happening at our airports and borders?
Ebola outbreak will hit China, virus pioneer Peter Piot warns | South China Morning Post
Ebola outbreak will hit China, virus pioneer Peter Piot warns | South China Morning Post.
One of the scientists who discovered Ebola has warned that China is under threat from the deadly virus because of the huge number of Chinese workers in Africa.
Professor Peter Piot also made the grim prediction that Ebola would claim thousands more lives in the months ahead.
“It will get worse for a while, and then hopefully it will get better when people are isolated,” said Piot, who is in Hong Kong for a two-day symposium. “What we see now is every 30 days there is a doubling of new infections.”
He estimated the epidemic would last another six to 12 months.
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CDC says returning Ebola medical workers should not be quarantined | Reuters
CDC says returning Ebola medical workers should not be quarantined | Reuters.
(Reuters) – Federal health officials on Monday revamped guidelines for doctors and nurses returning home to the United States from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, stopping well short of controversial mandatory quarantines being imposed by some U.S. states.
Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), called for isolation of people at the highest risk for Ebola infection but said most medical workers returning from the three countries at the center of the epidemic would require daily monitoring without isolation.
New York and New Jersey are among a handful of states to impose mandatory quarantines on returning doctors and nurses amid fears of the virus spreading outside of West Africa, where it has killed nearly 5,000 people in the worst outbreak on record.
The Obama administration’s new guidelines are not mandatory, and states will have the right to put in place policies that are more strict. Some state officials, grappling with an unfamiliar public health threat, had called federal restrictions placed on people traveling from Ebola-affected countries insufficient to protect Americans and have imposed tougher measures.
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