EBOLA 2019: TOTALLY UNSTOPPABLE EVENT NOW GOING GLOBAL

[ArMaP]

    Well its been part of this thread from the start, so whether you believe in it or not is irrelevant!!!!!!! LOL   

It's irrelevant to other people, not to me, obviously, seeing that's my opinion.

[Irene]

The Reston virus is not an Ebola strain, it's a different virus, that's why it acts in a slightly different way.

But it's true that we cannot know how things will be if there are any mutations.

See, now you've done something stupid. You've stumbled into my minefield.

Reston, Marburg, Zaire, yadda, yadda, yadda, are all derivatives of the filovirus Ebola. Mutations of it.

WHICH is why we don't know what it will do or how it will do it.

[ArMaP]

Reston, Marburg, Zaire, yadda, yadda, yadda, are all derivatives of the filovirus Ebola. Mutations of it.

Could you point to a source for that?

Thanks in advance.

[Irene]

Could you point to a source for that?

Thanks in advance.

Never thought I would have to tell anyone at this forum this, but my resource is the local public library. They have these things called books. They're jam-packed with facts.

I've already listed one good book. Use the card catalog in your quest.

Good luck, Knight.

[ArMaP]

Never thought I would have to tell anyone at this forum this, but my resource is the local public library. They have these things called books. They're jam-packed with facts.

I know, my home is full of books and I never go a day without reading from a book, either an old fashioned paper book or an electronic version.

Besides that, the local library is just 100 metres from my home.

Thanks for the tip, I'll see if they have that book on the library.

[Irene]

I know, my home is full of books and I never go a day without reading from a book, either an old fashioned paper book or an electronic version.

Besides that, the local library is just 100 metres from my home.

Thanks for the tip, I'll see if they have that book on the library.

I'm sick. All I do is read and watch videos. Not up for much else.

I've read something like 300 books per year since I was a kid. I may not remember the names, but I usually remember what's in them.

I highly recommend the following website. It's geared for people who love books. When you search, it buries you in good stuff on that subject.

GoodReads

Peace, ArMaP. 🖖🏻

[ArMaP]

I'm sick. All I do is read and watch videos. Not up for much else.

I hope you get well soon. Don't forget that wanting to get better is the best way of getting better.

I've read something like 300 books per year since I was a kid. I may not remember the names, but I usually remember what's in them.

I don't read that much, but I read almost everything. When I finished high school and was unemployed I even read an encyclopedic dictionary.

I highly recommend the following website. It's geared for people who love books. When you search, it buries you in good stuff on that subject.

GoodReads

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Peace, ArMaP. 🖖🏻

To you too.

[thorfourwinds]

Do Congolese Illegals Crossing Border Carry Ebola? WHO Tracking Outbreak In Africa, Nearly 1,500 Dead...

Wednesday, 12 June 2019
Written by  R. Cort Kirkwood

As bad as the illegal-alien tsunami at the border is now, it might just get worse — much worse.

While almost all of the 676,315 illegals who crossed the border between October 1 and May 31 are Central Americans, border agents now face trouble with a new alien host: Africans who somehow scraped together the money to get to Mexico.

WTF?
Check this out...

AND THIS:

Africans coming across southern border have 'rolls of $100 bills'

The Africans began arriving at the end of May, and not only are they crossing the border to declare squatter's rights in the United States, they also pose a major health threat. The Democratic Republic of Congo, where some of the illegals are from, is suffering a major outbreak of Ebola virus disease. Nearly 1,500 are dead.

Now, that virus might be here.

Africa Is Coming
On June 8, Breitbart.com reported that border authorities had dropped the possible virus bomb into San Antonio, Texas, which has already received a massive dose of illegal Central Americans:

San Antonio officials scrambled this week to find French-speaking volunteers to help with hundreds of Congolese migrants arriving in the Alamo City.

"We didn't get a heads up," Interim Assistant City Manager Dr. Collen Bridger told KEN 5 after a group of 350 Congolese migrants arrived in the city unexpectedly. "When we called Border Patrol to confirm, they said, 'yea another 200 to 300 from the Congo and Angola will be coming to San Antonio.'"

NIMBY

Frighteningly, city officials planned to ship the Congolese to Portland, Maine, which was already overloaded with Africans.

"When we reached out to Portland, Maine they said, 'Please don't send us any more. We're already stretched way beyond our capacity," Bridger told Breitbart. So now, the plan is to inoculate another city.

Angolans, Camaroonians, and Congolese began arriving in the Lone Star State at the end of May.

Border agents caught 15 Congolese at Eagle Pass on May 28. One bunch of possible virus carriers, apprehended on May 30, was 116-strong, Customs and Border Protection reported. CBP video-recorded that crossing. Hundreds more showed up at the Laredo crossing on May 13.

By June 5, Breitbart reported, more than 500 had showed up.

Deadly Virus
But the overwhelming numbers of illegal immigrants, might well be the least of this nation's worries.

As The New American has reported before, thousands of the illegals are likely sick. Border officials in Mexico and the United States have been dealing with illegal Central Americans who carry AIDS, tuberculosis, measles, strep, the flu, and other possibily deadly diseases.

Now, dealing with the Congolese, they might face the deadly Ebola virus, a germ so frightening it is the subject of cinematic thrillers. In the Amazon Prime series Jack Ryan, based on novelist Tom Clancy's hero, an Islamic terrorist used the virus in his plan to kill the president.

Since last year about this time, officials with the World Health Organization have been tracking a major outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu Province, which borders Uganda and Rwanda.

As of June 10, WHO had confirmed 1,302 deaths and another "probable" 94. The organization has also confirmed 1,997 total cases, and another probable 94. So more than 67 percent of those with the virus have died.

The organization has published 44 situation reports on the outbreak.

WHO officials also confirm the outbreak jumped the border into Uganda in a five-year-old Congolese boy.

Symptoms
The seven varieties of the virus, which spreads in bodily fluids, cause a hemorrhagic fever that is often if not mostly fatal. The symptoms include fever, fatigue, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness, muscle pain, severe headache, stomach pain, and unexplained hemorrhaging, the Centers for Disease Control explains at its website.

Symptoms don't show right away, and might take as long as three weeks to surface.

Scientists discovered the virus, CDC explains, in 1976 on the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where two outbreaks occurred.

The disease showed up in the United States after an outbreak in West Africa in 2014:

11 people were treated for EVD in the U.S., two of whom died. The majority were infected with the Ebola virus outside of the U.S. and either medically evacuated into the U.S. for treatment or entered the country as a regular airline passenger. In addition, two nurses who cared for a sick Ebola patient contracted EVD, marking the first known transmission of EVD in the United States.

HOT ZONE UPDATE(!) VIRUS IS MOVING LIKE A WHIRLPOOL?

Florida Maquis
20 June 2019

[thorfourwinds]

Now We Now Know Why *THIS City was The Event Destination...

Florida Maquis
Published on Jun 20, 2019

[thorfourwinds]

China's deadly African swine fever epidemic is spreading across Asia

South China Morning Post
Published on May 23, 2019

Millions of pigs have been slaughtered across Asia as African swine fever spreads since the first outbreak of the disease was reported in August 2018 in northeastern China – the world's largest pork producer and consumer.

Now the contagious disease – which is deadly to pigs but not a risk to human health – is causing huge economic losses across the continent, as farmers in Hong Kong, Vietnam and Cambodia are forced to culls their herds.

AND THIS:


https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/jharkhand/swine-flu-detected-in-ranchi/cid/1693730

A woman has tested positive for the contagious H1N1 (swine flu) virus at Bhagwan Mahavir Medica Superspecialty Hospital in Bariatu, civil surgeon Dr Vijay Bihari Prasad told The Telegraph on Wednesday.

Sources at the hospital said the woman is undergoing treatment since Monday under Dr Vijay Mishra in the isolation ward, and recovering well.

"The woman was referred from Guru Nanak Hospital, where she underwent treatment for five days," a source at Medica said. "The lady had not gone outside the state but met several relatives from other states during a wedding. It is quite possible that some of her relatives might be carrying the swine flu virus."

[thorfourwinds]

IMPORTANT(!) *HOT ZONE* 0UTBREAK(!) HOSPITAL IN ISOLATION
POLICE STATION & LAX TERMINAL EVACUATED

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Premiered Jun 10, 2019

08 July 2019
FIJIAN AUTHORITIES ARE TERRIFIED! EBOLA RIDDEN CORPSES LIQUEFYING

Florida Maquis
Published on Jul 8, 2019

[ArMaP]

I saw this today on Euronews, but the article on this post is from The Guardian, the Euronews article was too short.


First Ebola patient in eastern DRC's largest city dies
Priest's death in Goma raises fears virus could spread more widely across Congo

The first Ebola patient in the largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has died, authorities have said.

The spread of the virus to Goma, a city of roughly 1 million people and a regional transport hub, has raised fears the outbreak, already the second deadliest ever Ebola epidemic, could spread more widely.

The patient was a priest who became infected during a visit to the town of Butembo, one of the epicentres of the outbreak, before taking a bus to Goma, Congolese officials have said.

He was being driven from Goma to a clinic in Butembo on Monday to receive treatment when he died, North Kivu province's governor, Carly Nzanzu, said.

The World Health Organization said on Monday health officials had identified 60 people who had come into contact with the pastor since he was taken ill and half of them had been vaccinated.

Goma, more than 220 miles south of where the Ebola outbreak was first detected a year ago, is the largest city to be affected by the outbreak. Many of the region's usable roads pass through Goma and it is a focus of air and water transport.

Source

[space otter]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/congos-ebola-virus-epidemic-is-declared-a-global-health-emergency/ar-AAEthvY?li=BBnbfcL

The New York Times
Congo's Ebola Virus Epidemic Is Declared a Global Health Emergency
Denise Grady  3 hrs ago

The year-old Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now considered a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, in a formal declaration that many public health experts called long overdue.

Emergency declarations are issued sparingly, reserved for outbreaks that pose a serious threat to public health and could spread to other countries. They are meant to increase international attention and aid to help stop epidemics.

As of Monday, the Congo outbreak had infected 2,512 people and killed 1,676 of them. The disease has defied efforts to control its spread in the northeastern part of the country, a conflict zone under constant threat from warring militias. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, the director-general of the WHO, has described the outbreak as one of the world's most dangerous viruses in one of the world's most dangerous areas.

It is the second largest outbreak in history after the one in West Africa in 2014-15, which infected 28,616 people and caused 11,310 deaths. That epidemic was declared a global emergency.

The decision on Wednesday was based on a vote by 11 members of an expert panel convened by Dr. Tedros to reassess the current outbreak after an infected man carried the virus to the city of Goma, a densely populated transportation hub close to Rwanda that has an international airport. That patient has died.

Wednesday was the fourth time that Dr. Tedros convened the expert panel to consider whether the outbreak met the criteria for a "public health emergency of international concern." The first three times, the panel said no, drawing sharp criticism from many specialists in public health.

Global health groups had been calling for the declaration for months. Josie Golding of the Wellcome Trust, a research charity based in London, said the response in Congo was "overstretched and underfunded." Giving the outbreak emergency status, she added, would "help raise international support and release more resources — including finance, health care workers, enhanced logistics, security and infrastructure."

The WHO said it had received $49 million from international donors from February to July, only half the money it needs. Officials who have visited the region say supplies are running short, including the protective gear that health workers need to avoid becoming infected. At a United Nations meeting about the outbreak on Monday, one official said he had seen syringes and gloves being reused because equipment was becoming scarce.

The man who brought the disease to Goma was a pastor who had preached in seven churches in the epidemic zone, laying hands on the sick. He became ill and was treated by a nurse, but got on a bus to Goma anyway. The bus stopped at three checkpoints meant to halt the spread of the disease by screening passengers for symptoms, but his illness was not detected. He gave a different name at each checkpoint, apparently hoping to avoid being detained, local health authorities said. Sick and feverish by the time he arrived in Goma, he went to a clinic there, where the disease was diagnosed.

He was the only patient in the Goma clinic, which was disinfected after his visit. Health authorities have been tracking the 18 other bus passengers and the driver, as well as others who might have been exposed to the disease by the pastor, and providing vaccinations.

Related video: WHO holds vaccination campaign in Goma after Ebola patient death (AFP)

[space otter]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/ebola-now-curable-after-trials-of-drugs-in-drc-say-scientists/ar-AAFHCM9

The Guardian
Ebola now curable after trials of drugs in DRC, say scientists
Sarah Boseley Health editor  1 day ago

Ebola can no longer be called an incurable disease, scientists have said, after two of four drugs being trialled in the major outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were found to have significantly reduced the death rate.

ZMapp, used during the massive Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, has been dropped along with Remdesivir after two monoclonal antibodies, which block the virus, had substantially more effect, said the World Health Organization and the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which were co-sponsors of the trial.

The trial in the DRC, which started in November, has now been stopped. All Ebola treatment units will now use the two monoclonal antibody drugs.

"From now on, we will no longer say that Ebola is incurable," said Prof Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the director general of the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale in DRC, which has overseen the trial. "These advances will help save thousands of lives."

One of the biggest obstacles in fighting the year-long DRC outbreak, the second biggest ever and now with 2,800 cases, has been the reluctance of those who fall sick to seek treatment.

It has not helped that the chances of survival have been low – up to 70% of those infected in the DRC have died. Muyembe said many people saw family members go into an Ebola treatment centre and come out dead.

"Now that 90% of their patients can go into the treatment centre and come out completely cured, they will start believing it and building trust in the population and community," he said.

Anthony Fauci, the director of the US NIAID, said the overall mortality of those given ZMapp in the trial in four centres was 49% while that of Remdesivir was 53%. A monoclonal antibody drug made by Regeneron had the lowest overall death rate, at 29%, while the monoclonal antibody 114 made by Ridgeback Biotherapeutics had a mortality rate of 34%.

But the results in people who arrived at a treatment centre soon after they became sick, rather than staying at home, were even more impressive – with death rates of 24% on ZMapp, 33% with Remdesivir, 11% with 114 and just 6% with Regeneron's drug.

On average, people who fall ill are not turning up at a treatment centre for four days, said Dr Michael Ryan from the World Health Organization. This reduces their chances of survival and makes it likely that the virus, spread through bodily fluids, will be transmitted to their families.

"The numbers might change," said Fauci. "Not all the data has been accumulated." The two monoclonal antibodies will both now be used in every treatment centre in DRC.

Fauci paid tribute to all of those involved in the trial in four towns: Beni, Katwa, Butembo and Mangina. NGOs including International Medical Corps and Médecins Sans Frontières "put their lives on the line every day to care for patients in extremely difficult conditions in the area where the outbreak is occurring," he said.

Clinical trials in epidemic conditions are hard – even more so in Ebola outbreaks, where medical staff have to wear protective suits and all patients must be isolated.

"This trial – the first-ever multi-drug randomised trial for Ebola – has happened despite such highly complex and challenging circumstance," said Dr Jeremy Farrar, the director of Wellcome and the co-chair of the WHO Ebola therapeutics group. "A long-running outbreak like this takes a terrible toll on the communities affected and it is a sign of just how difficult this epidemic has been to control that there have already been enough patients treated to tell us more about the efficacy of these four drugs."

The trial will have saved lives, he said. The next phase should reveal more about which of the two works best in certain settings. "The more we learn about these two treatments, and how they can complement the public health response, including contact tracing and vaccination, the closer we can get to turning Ebola from a terrifying disease to one that is preventable and treatable. We won't ever get rid of Ebola but we should be able to stop these outbreaks from turning into major national and regional epidemics," he said.

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Why Ebola vaccine on trial in the DRC is raising hopes

theconversation.com/why-ebola-vaccine-on-trial-in-the-drc-is-raising-hope...
Feb 10, 2019 - Without the current experimental vaccine the Ebola outbreak in the DRC ... six months after the first case was diagnosed, the outbreak is still not ...

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Debate over whether to test second Ebola vaccine turns acrimonious

https://www.statnews.com/2019/07/.../debate-testing-second-ebola-vaccine/
Jul 17, 2019 - An aggressive push to use a second experimental Ebola vaccine to try to help ... a clinical trial of J&J's Ebola vaccine in the country, although not in the .... which was designed to be used to prevent outbreaks, not stop them.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49326505

Ebola drugs show '90% survival rate' in breakthrough trial
40 minutes ago

Ebola may soon be a "preventable and treatable" disease after a trial of two drugs showed significantly improved survival rates, scientists have said.

Four drugs were trialled on patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is a major outbreak of the virus.

More than 90% of infected people can survive if treated early with the most effective drugs, the research showed.

The drugs will now be used to treat all patients with the disease in DR Congo, according to health officials.

On Tuesday, two people cured of Ebola using the experimental drugs were released from a treatment centre in Goma, eastern DR Congo, and reunited with their families.

The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which co-sponsored the trial, said the results are "very good news" for the fight against Ebola.

Why is a new Ebola vaccine so controversial?
Ebola disbelief widespread in Congo hotspots
Half of Ebola cases in DR Congo 'unidentified'
Ebola outbreak in five graphics
The drugs, named REGN-EB3 and mAb114, work by attacking the Ebola virus with antibodies, neutralising its impact on human cells.

They are the "first drugs that, in a scientifically sound study, have clearly shown a significant diminution in mortality" for Ebola patients, said Dr Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID.

The drug mAb114 was developed using antibodies harvested from survivors of Ebola while REGN-EB3 comes from antibodies generated within mice infected with the disease.

Ebola has killed more than 1,800 people in DR Congo in the past year.

Two other treatments, called ZMapp and Remdesivir, have been dropped from trials as they were found to be less effective.

What were the results of the trial?
The trial, conducted by an international research group co-ordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), began in November last year.

Since then, four experimental drugs have been tested on around 700 patients, with the preliminary results from the first 499 now known.

Of the patients given the two more effective drugs, 29% on REGN-EB3 and 34% on mAb114 died, NIAID said.

In contrast, 49% on ZMapp and 53% on Remdesivir died in the study, the agency said.

The survival rate among patients with low levels of the virus in their blood was as high as 94% when they were given REGN-EB3, and 89% when on mAb114, the agency said.

The findings mean health authorities can "stress to people that more than 90% of people survive" if they are treated early, said Sabue Mulangu, an infectious-disease researcher who worked on the trial.

What impact could the drugs have?
Hailing the success of the study, Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust global health charity, said the treatments would "undoubtedly save lives".

The findings, Mr Farrar said, indicate scientists are getting closer to turning Ebola into a "preventable and treatable" disease.

"We won't ever get rid of Ebola but we should be able to stop these outbreaks from turning into major national and regional epidemics," he added.

A sense that Ebola is incurable, paired with widespread mistrust of medical workers in the DR Congo, has hampered efforts to stop the spread of the disease.

It is hoped that the effectiveness of the drugs, made by US-based pharmaceutical firms, will make patients feel "more comfortable about seeking care early", said Dr Fauci.

But the best way to end the outbreak, he added, is "with a good vaccine". A vaccine is a type of medicine that improves immunity to a particular disease, as a preventative measure.

The World Health Organization (WHO) say vaccines developed to protect against Ebola, which are allowed for "compassionate use" before official licensing, have proven highly effective.

How serious is the DR Congo outbreak?
The current outbreak in eastern DR Congo began in August last year and is the biggest of the 10 to hit the country since 1976, when the virus was first discovered.

In July, the WHO declared the Ebola crisis in the country a "public health emergency of international concern".

But it is dwarfed by the West African epidemic of 2014-16, which affected 28,616 people, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. About 11,310 people died in what was the largest outbreak of the virus ever recorded.

However, attempts to contain the latest outbreak are proving difficult. In particular, militia group violence and suspicion towards foreign medical assistance have hindered efforts.

Earlier this month, three Congolese doctors were arrested in DR Congo over the killing of a WHO medic.

About 200 health facilities have been attacked in the country this year, causing disruption to vaccinations and treatments. In one incident, family members assaulted health workers who were overseeing the burial of their relative.

A 2018 study published in the Lancet medical journal says "belief in misinformation was widespread" concerning the Ebola outbreak.

What is Ebola?
Ebola is a virus that initially causes sudden fever, intense weakness, muscle pain and a sore throat
It progresses to vomiting, diarrhoea and both internal and external bleeding
People are infected when they have direct contact through broken skin, or the mouth and nose, with the blood, vomit, faeces or bodily fluids of someone with Ebola
Patients tend to die from dehydration and multiple organ failure

[The Seeker]

Very good, Otter, it is very good news that there is a cure for Ebola, and with a 90% sucess rate, that is very encouraging, for it does eliminate or at least greatly reduce the chance of it becoming a world wide pandemic 

Seeker