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The CDC lies: Ebola is likely becoming aerosolized

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Sneeze AerosolizedAn admission up front:

I am still of the opinion there is much about Ebola that isn’t being transmitted to the public, with the thought of “panic” in mind. The problem with that philosophy is that it tends to lend itself to governmental and agency UNDERreaction and, conversely, it lends itself to the public filling in the vacuum with their own theories.

Frankly, I can tell you that I have masks and gloves for my own family, as well as two MSA  closed respirators with appropriate filters. It is my duty as head of my family to be so prepared.

I also believe that Ebola is mutating because of the larger number of human targets found.

I do not trust that Ebola has not mutated and cannot be passed in some airborne fashion.

That is because the US government, the CDC and involved hospitals have already lied to the American public. It’s in their DNA, it’s in their job descriptions as bureaucracies: they can’t NOT lie.

The Washington Post already refers to Mr Obola’s “Blizzard of Lies.”  In my opinion, I cannot hear Mr Obola’s voice any more and not find it akin to nails on a chalkboard or the increased and jagged volume of Fran Drescher’s voice.  Quote:

“Think about that: 81 percent of Americans believe that Obama lies to them at least ‘now and then’ on ‘important matters.’ “

When it comes to my family and my friends and those who read me, it is not my job to trust any government given their histories, with my life and their lives.  It’s not a matter of “I may possibly become inconvenienced” — it’s now a matter of “I may and they may die.”

That said, a new article appears on the topic today, from ZeroHedge.com:

CIDRAP: “We Believe There Is Scientific Evidence Ebola Has The Potential To Be Airborne”

by Tyler Durden

When CDC Director Tim Frieden first announced, just a week ago and very erroneously, that he was “confident we will stop Ebola in its tracks here in the United States“, he hardly anticipated facing the double humiliation of not only having the first person-to-person transmission of Ebola on US soil taking place within a week, but that said transmission would impact a supposedly protected healthcare worker. He certainly did not anticipate the violent public reaction that would result when, instead of taking blame for another epic CDC blunder, one which made many wonder if last night’s Walking Dead season premier was in fact non-fiction, he blamed health workers for “not following protocol.”

And yet, while once again casting scapegoating and blame, the CDC sternly refuses to acknowledge something others, and not just tinfoil blog sites, are increasingly contemplating as a distinct possibility: namely that Ebola is, contrary to CDC “protocol”, in fact airborne. Or as, an article posted by CIDRAP defines it, “aerosolized.”

Who is CIDRAP?  “The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP; “SID-wrap”) is a global leader in addressing public health preparedness and emerging infectious disease response. Founded in 2001, CIDRAP is part of the Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota.”

The full punchline from the CIDRAP report:

We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks.

In other words, airborne. And now the search for the next LAKE, i.e., a public company maker of powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR), begins.

Allow me to access the Department of Redundancy Department for the cruxist quote: “which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks.”

Please read the article in its entirety.

Further, from the LATimes.com:

Some Ebola experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed

by David Willman

Yet some scientists who have long studied Ebola say such assurances are premature — and they are concerned about what is not known about the strain now on the loose. It is an Ebola outbreak like none seen before, jumping from the bush to urban areas, giving the virus more opportunities to evolve as it passes through multiple human hosts.

Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Virginia and who later led the CDC’s most far-reaching study of Ebola’s transmissibility in humans, said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the air in tight quarters.

“We just don’t have the data to exclude it,” said Peters, who continues to research viral diseases at the University of Texas in Galveston.

Yes.  To exclude data indicating Ebola is not airborne.

“I see the reasons to dampen down public fears,” (virologist Dr Phillip K) Russell said. “But scientifically, we’re in the middle of the first experiment of multiple, serial passages of Ebola virus in man…. God knows what this virus is going to look like. I don’t.”

Note in the story:

Peters, Russell and Bailey, who in 1989 was deputy commander for research of the Army’s Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, in Frederick, Md., said the primates in Reston had appeared to spread Ebola to other monkeys through their breath.

“Those monkeys were dying in a pattern that was certainly suggestive of coughing and sneezing — some sort of aerosol movement,” Bailey said. “They were dying and spreading it so quickly from cage to cage. We finally came to the conclusion that the best action was to euthanize them all.”

Today:

BZ HH Ebola TweetMr Obola cannot acknowledge the Ebola problem.  It would be bad for him.  As Hugh Hewitt Tweeted, “It is increasingly apparent that we don’t have wider screening or an outright travel ban because it will embarrass POTUS before an election.”

I certainly could not have said it better myself.

If you wish to trust the Obola government, go ahead.  Blessings be upon you.  Salaam alaikum.

Me?

I’m a non-trusting sonofabitch.

Look, people, let me be blunt.  I read Preston’s The Hot Zone back in 1994 when it was first published.  The book documented the origins of both Ebola and Marburg viruses, and Preston.  I’m not stupid.  I recognized the hazards back then and, of course, now.  I am nothing if not well-read.

This isn’t some 1918 influenza virus — which between 1918 and 1920 ended up killing 3% to 5% of the then-world’s population, or between 50 and 100 million persons.

It had a 10% to 20% mortality rate.

Ebola has, at minimum, a 90% mortality rate and, as yet, there is no cure. Period.

In 1918, the world didn’t have to deal with transit between continents in five hours via air flights.

It’s Ebola, people.  It is a Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) pathogen, the highest possible rating for a virus.

Having read The Hot Zone, that’s all I needed to know.

I repeat at risk of being repetitive: I’m not stupid.

BZ

 

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Dallas Ebola patient dead

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Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas TXFrom the Associated Press:

1st Ebola patient diagnosed in the US has died

by Nomaan Merchant

DALLAS (AP) — The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States died in a Dallas hospital Wednesday, a little more than a week after his diagnosis exposed gaps in the nation’s defenses against the disease and set off a scramble to track down anyone exposed to him.

Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, was pronounced dead at 7:51 a.m. at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where he was admitted Sept. 28 and had been kept in isolation, according to spokesman Wendell Watson.

Equally important:

The hospital has changed its explanation several times about when Duncan arrived and what he said about his travel history. It has acknowledged that Duncan told them on his first visit that he came from West Africa.

Let me make this quite clear: I do not trust the hospitals involved, I do not trust the CDC, and I do not trust this federal government.  All of these entities have provided abundant reasons for mistrust.

And I do not trust that Ebola has not mutated and cannot be passed in some airborne fashion.

From the LATimes.com:

Some Ebola experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed

by David Willman

Yet some scientists who have long studied Ebola say such assurances are premature — and they are concerned about what is not known about the strain now on the loose. It is an Ebola outbreak like none seen before, jumping from the bush to urban areas, giving the virus more opportunities to evolve as it passes through multiple human hosts.

Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Virginia and who later led the CDC’s most far-reaching study of Ebola’s transmissibility in humans, said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the air in tight quarters.

“We just don’t have the data to exclude it,” said Peters, who continues to research viral diseases at the University of Texas in Galveston.

Yes.  To exclude data indicating Ebola is not airborne.

“I see the reasons to dampen down public fears,” (virologist Dr Phillip K) Russell said. “But scientifically, we’re in the middle of the first experiment of multiple, serial passages of Ebola virus in man…. God knows what this virus is going to look like. I don’t.”

Note in the story:

Peters, Russell and Bailey, who in 1989 was deputy commander for research of the Army’s Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, in Frederick, Md., said the primates in Reston had appeared to spread Ebola to other monkeys through their breath.

“Those monkeys were dying in a pattern that was certainly suggestive of coughing and sneezing — some sort of aerosol movement,” Bailey said. “They were dying and spreading it so quickly from cage to cage. We finally came to the conclusion that the best action was to euthanize them all.”

As Abigail wrote in the comments section, isn’t it odd how there seems to be a curious lack of urgency in US response and preparation?  I submit that a large component of that is this: victims are black Africans and we mustn’t “stigmatize” or “draw conclusions” about them.  In other words, fear of race is involved.

BZ

 

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Again: HOW did the Spanish nurse contract Ebola?

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Check here.  She says she followed all normal protocols, masks, gloves, gowning, etc.  She does not know how she contracted Ebola.  It’s a mystery.

Dare I mention the word: airborne?

BZ

 

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How did the Spanish nurse contract Ebola?

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Obama EbolaFrom ABCNews.com:

New Concern Worldwide as Nurse in Spain Gets Ebola

By CONNIE CASS and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press

Raising fresh concern around the world, a nurse in Spain on Monday became the first person known to catch Ebola outside the outbreak zone in West Africa. In the U.S., President Barack Obama said the government was considering ordering more careful screening of airline passengers arriving from the region.

In Spain, the stricken nurse had been part of a team that treated two missionaries flown home to Spain after becoming infected with Ebola in West Africa. The nurse’s only symptom was a fever, but the infection was confirmed by two tests, Spanish health officials said. She was being treated in isolation, while authorities drew up a list of people she had had contact with.

I have just two questions: 1) if officials are unsure how the nurse, a trained and experienced medical professional, managed to contract Ebola — what does that say about the cadre of roughly 3,000 American troops that Mr Obama plans to place in harm’s way in West Africa, when they are not so trained?

I’d care to have someone answer that question.  To me, it would appear those are nothing more than potential victims.  It is an extremely ill-advised move.

Question 2: if Ebola can only be contracted through bodily fluids, then any given individual should be able to safely stand in a room with an Ebola patient, in street clothes.  If that is true, then why is everyone coming in contact with Ebola victims gowned and gloved and masked to the Nth degree?

Correct.  No one trusts Ebola.

And no one should.

BZ

 

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Dallas Ebola patient vomited “all over the place” outside his apartment, prior to going to the hospital

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Ebola In AmericaSomething tells me that might fall under the category of transmittal via bodily fluids.  Anyone disagree?  Bueller?

From Reuters.com:

Dallas Ebola patient vomited outside apartment on way to hospital

by Lisa Maria Garza

(Reuters) – Two days after he was sent home from a Dallas hospital, the man who is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States was seen vomiting on the ground outside an apartment complex as he was bundled into an ambulance.

That’s correct.  One little tidbit you didn’t know: the man with Ebola went to the hospital originally and was sent home by hospital staff.  Now there’s some competence, eh wot, despite CDC warnings?

“His whole family was screaming. He got outside and he was throwing up all over the place,” resident Mesud Osmanovic, 21, said on Wednesday, describing the chaotic scene before the man was admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Sunday where he is in serious condition.

In my world, that’s called a clue.  And simultaneously, a serious Hazmat condition for anyone in that apartment complex.

What do you do with vomit?  Do you just kick it into the grass?  Do you move it around with your foot?  Will dogs come by?  Cats?  Children?  Do you wash it down the sidewalk with a garden hose?  Do you hose it into the nearest drain?  Do you splash it onto other persons or animals?  Wait a bit; it gets worse.

Start with this, from the NYTimes.com:

Texas Contacts 100, Citing Possible Links to Ebola Patient

by Kevin Sack and Marc Santora

DALLAS — Health officials in Texas said Thursday that they had reached out to as many as 100 people who may have had contact — either directly or indirectly — with a Liberian man sick with the Ebola virus while he was contagious.

Of those people, only a handful have been isolated, including family members and the medical technicians who rushed the patient, Thomas E. Duncan, to the hospital on Sunday. Most on the list are there simply because they had contact with people who had had contact with Mr. Duncan.

Initially, federal authorities announced at a news conference on Tuesday that Mr. Duncan first sought treatment at the hospital last Friday, Sept. 26, but that account has since been changed. The hospital issued a statement saying that the patient went there after 10 p.m. Sept. 25, when he was examined and sent home.

Where, as he was symptomatic, he was likewise infectious.

Neither the hospital nor the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explained how officials had gotten the date wrong and what effect it may have had on the investigation.

Despite the fact that the CDC already told hopitals to “be prepared for Ebola.”

Read the next two paragraphs very closely:

The woman who was hosting Mr. Duncan in Dallas told CNN on Thursday that she had brought him to the hospital the first time and twice told hospital workers he had been in Liberia. Still they sent him back with only some antibiotics to the apartment, where the woman was staying with one of her children and two nephews.

Over the next two days, Mr. Duncan began sweating profusely and had diarrhea. The sweaty sheets were still on her bed, she said. She put the towels he used in a bag but did not know what to do with them.

That apartment complex is now a Biosafety Level 4 area.

However, it appears to get even worse.  I found this on UK media, from the UKDailyMail.com:

Up to 100 exposed already in Dallas Ebola shambles: Family try to break out of isolation at virus victim’s apartment — where contaminated sheets still lie on the bed — as visitors come and go

by Louise Boyle and Dan Bates

– A woman called Louise, who identified herself as Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan’s ‘wife,’ spoke out from her isolation
– Family members initially violated orders and left their Dallas aparement, prompting a quarantine order, Dallas judge said today
– No visitors allowed in, but MailOnline reported three people coming and going to the home on Wednesday
– Four relatives quarantined — Louise, child, 13, and two adult nephews
– Louise said CDC have not told her what to do with Duncan’s sweaty sheets, pillows and the towels he used while contagious
– Following the shocking revelation, CDC sent medical team to Louise’s home on Thursday afternoon — days after Duncan confirmed as Ebola case
– Hospital sent sick Mr Duncan home on Thursday at 10pm — THREE DAYS before he was rushed in and not the two days initially reported by hospital
– 100 people being sought who had possible contact with Duncan — 12 have confirmed contact including five children
– Panic-stricken parents removing students from four affected Dallas schools despite authorities’ notes claiming ‘everything is fine’
– Ebola isn’t contagious until symptoms appear, and then it can spread only by close contact with a patient’s bodily fluids

TIMELINE OF EBOLA DIAGNOSIS

  • September 19 – Thomas Eric Duncan boards flight in Liberia
  • September 20 – He lands in Dallas
  • September 24 – Mr Duncan starts to develop symptoms
  • September 26 – He goes to hospital but is sent home with antibiotics
  • September 28 – Placed in isolation in Dallas hospital
  • September 30 – Man’s blood tests positive for Ebola

With one new possible exception, again from foreign media, the UKDailyMail.com:

Doomsday warning: UN Ebola chief raises ‘nightmare’ prospect that virus could mutate and become airborne — making it much more infectious

Plus: contractors in Dallas don’t want to be tasked with cleaning the apartment of the man infected with Ebola.  That will only get worse.  Who will do it?

Plus: Thomas Duncan lied about having contact with Ebola before boarding a plane.  That will only get worse.  No one will admit it.  You can count on that.

Here is the story of how Ebola is making its way out of Dallas and into the streets of America.

And here is the most logical view of handling Ebola:

Ebola virus: Pandemic should be treated ‘the same way’ as threat posed by nuclear weapons, security officials say.

Mr Obama’s response has been miserable.  It has been non-reactive.  Again, as I’ve written before countless times, Obama was “concerned” and “monitoring.”  He still refuses to protect this country, first from illegals and now from deadly — not just “uncomfortable” but deadly — disease.

Here’s what you do, Mr Obama.  Convince the UN to stop all commercial flights from any stricken African country.  You let the disease run its course in Africa.  You help as you can but you quarantine the entire nation.  You make sure it burns out in Africa.

You seal the border.  With the military.  Carrying loaded M-4s and ROEs that include the use of deadly force for those who fail to heed commands.  Now, for two reasons: ISIS and  Ebola.  Because ISIS WILL send infected martyrs into the US in order to see how far they can spread Ebola.

You stop all commercial flights to and from Africa.  Period.

You quarantine people you even remotely suspect of Ebola.

You put every hospital on a national alert.

You kick the production of ZMapp into overdrive.

And you do these things now, sir.  NOW.

The situation is a parody of itself, albeit a deadly one.  We eat popcorn watching the films “World War Z” and “Outbreak” and “Contagion.”  They all illustrate the failures of inaction and casual handling of deadly situations.

The world is now asking: what is going on?  Why are our governments so indifferent?

I can tell you one salient reason: the wish to not offend or be seen as judgmental to black persons.  The underlying compulsion to be politically correct.

This isn’t just a matter of saving a community or saving Dallas or even saving one nation.  It’s a matter of saving the entire planet and not having Western civilization destroyed in the meantime.

This government can’t even protect its own president — what makes you think it can or will be motivated to protect you?

Mr Obama: for once, get off your ass.

BZ

 

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