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"Outbreak models typically assume that there are four groups of people: those who are susceptible, those who have been infected but are not contagious yet, those who are sick and can transmit the virus, and those who have recovered. A model, in essence, describes the rates at which people move from one group to the next. From those, Re can be calculated.

If the disease keeps spreading as it has, most of the modelers Science talked to say WHO’s estimate will turn out to be conservative. “If the epidemic in Liberia were to continue in this way until the 1st of December, the cumulative number of cases would exceed 100,000,” Althaus predicts. Such long-term forecasts are error-prone, he acknowledges. But other modelers aren’t much more encouraging. Caitlin Rivers of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg expects roughly 1000 new cases in Liberia in the next 2 weeks and a similar number in Sierra Leone."


Continued: news.sciencemag.org/health/2014/08/disease-modelers-project-rapidly-rising-toll-ebola

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Genomes reveal start of Ebola outbreak

news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/08/genomes-reveal-start-ebola-outbreak

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When MERS and Ebola meet...
CDC Director: Ebola Outbreak 'Spiraling Out Of Control,' 'Window Of Opportunity Is Closing'

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Well, the outbreak is closing countries now

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Yikes!

Virologist: Fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia is lost

Schmidt-Chanasit expects the virus will "burn out itself" in this part of the world.
With other words: It will more or less infect everybody and half of the population - in total about five million people - could die.

Stop the virus from spilling over to other countries

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THANK YOU AHAM FOR POSTING THE "EBOLA" ARTICLES! 


SCARY...VERY SCARY...

What We’re Afraid to Say About Ebola
By MICHAEL T. OSTERHOLMSEPT. 11, 2014

MINNEAPOLIS — THE Ebola epidemic in West Africa has the potential to alter history as much as any plague has ever done.

There have been more than 4,300 cases and 2,300 deaths over the past six months. Last week, the World Health Organization warned that, by early October, there may be thousands of new cases per week inLiberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria. What is not getting said publicly, despite briefings and discussions in the inner circles of the world’s public health agencies, is that we are in totally uncharted waters and that Mother Nature is the only force in charge of the crisis at this time.

There are two possible future chapters to this story that should keep us up at night.
The first possibility is that the Ebola virus spreads from West Africa to megacities in other regions of the developing world. This outbreak is very different from the 19 that have occurred in Africa over the past 40 years. It is much easier to control Ebola infections in isolated villages. But there has been a 300 percent increase in Africa’s population over the last four decades, much of it in large city slums. What happens when an infected person yet to become ill travels by plane to Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa or Mogadishu — or even Karachi, Jakarta, Mexico City or Dhaka?

The second possibility is one that virologists are loath to discuss openly but are definitely considering in private: that an Ebola virus could mutate to become transmissible through the air. You can now get Ebola only through direct contact with bodily fluids. But viruses like Ebola are notoriously sloppy in replicating, meaning the virus entering one person may be genetically different from the virus entering the next. The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years. Each new infection represents trillions of throws of the genetic dice.

If certain mutations occurred, it would mean that just breathing would put one at risk of contracting Ebola. Infections could spread quickly to every part of the globe, as the H1N1 influenza virus did in 2009, after its birth in Mexico.

Why are public officials afraid to discuss this? They don’t want to be accused of screaming “Fire!” in a crowded theater — as I’m sure some will accuse me of doing. But the risk is real, and until we consider it, the world will not be prepared to do what is necessary to end the epidemic.

In 2012, a team of Canadian researchers proved that Ebola Zaire, the same virus that is causing the West Africa outbreak, could be transmitted by the respiratory route from pigs to monkeys, both of whose lungs are very similar to those of humans. Richard Preston’s 1994 best seller “The Hot Zone” chronicled a 1989 outbreak of a different strain, Ebola Reston virus, among monkeys at a quarantine station near Washington. The virus was transmitted through breathing, and the outbreak ended only when all the monkeys were euthanized. We must consider that such transmissions could happen between humans, if the virus mutates.

So what must we do that we are not doing?

First, we need someone to take over the position of “command and control.” The United Nations is the only international organization that can direct the immense amount of medical, public health and humanitarian aid that must come from many different countries and nongovernmental groups to smother this epidemic. Thus far it has played at best a collaborating role, and with everyone in charge, no one is in charge.

A Security Council resolution could give the United Nations total responsibility for controlling the outbreak, while respecting West African nations’ sovereignty as much as possible. The United Nations could, for instance, secure aircraft and landing rights. Many private airlines are refusing to fly into the affected countries, making it very difficult to deploy critical supplies and personnel. The Group of 7 countries’ military air and ground support must be brought in to ensure supply chains for medical and infection-control products, as well as food and water for quarantined areas.

The United Nations should provide whatever number of beds are needed; the World Health Organization has recommended 1,500, but we may need thousands more. It should also coordinate the recruitment and training around the world of medical and nursing staff, in particular by bringing in local residents who have survived Ebola, and are no longer at risk of infection. Many countries are pledging medical resources, but donations will not result in an effective treatment system if no single group is responsible for coordinating them.
Finally, we have to remember that Ebola isn’t West Africa’s only problem. Tens of thousands die there each year from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea have among the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Because people are now too afraid of contracting Ebola to go to the hospital, very few are getting basic medical care. In addition, many health care workers have been infected with Ebola, and more than 120 have died. Liberia has only 250 doctors left, for a population of four million.

This is about humanitarianism and self-interest. If we wait for vaccines and new drugs to arrive to end the Ebola epidemic, instead of taking major action now, we risk the disease’s reaching from West Africa to our own backyards.

Michael T. Osterholm is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:  I know the last INFO/message was long, but IT NEEDED TO BE "REPORTED" without being transported BY A LINKED! I knew Dr. Osterholm when I lived in Minnesota and I take his articles and input into current medical affairs very seriously.
 

I've done the DD....



Good Night 'DANGEROUS' World!

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National Security
Obama: U.S. military to provide equipment, resources to battle Ebola epidemic in Africa

President Obama said Sunday that the U.S. military will begin aiding what has been a chaotic and ineffective response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, arguing that it represents a serious national security concern.

The move significantly ramps up the U.S. response and comes as the already strained military is likely to be called upon further to address militant threats in the Middle East. The decision to involve the military in providing equipment and other assistance for international health workers in Africa comes after mounting calls from some unlikely groups — most prominently the international medical organization Doctors Without Borders — demonstrating to the White House the urgency of the issue.
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Sep 11, 11:13 PM EDT

American gets blood from fellow Ebola survivor

By JOSH FUNK
Associated Press


OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- An American aid worker infected with Ebola has been given blood from a fellow doctor who battled the disease, and Nebraska doctors say the man has responded well to aggressive treatment in the past week.

Dr. Rick Sacra received two blood transfusions from Dr. Kent Brantly last weekend after arriving at the Nebraska Medical Center, Dr. Phil Smith said Thursday. Sacra also has been given an experimental drug that doctors refuse to identify, and he has received supportive care including IV fluids.

Sacra is close friends with Brantly, one of the first two Americans treated for Ebola in Atlanta last month, from their missionary work.

"It really meant a lot to us that he was willing to give that donation so quickly after his own recovery," Sacra's wife, Debbie, said.

Sacra, 51, and Brantly, 33, both arrived at the hospital in Omaha last Friday. Brantly tried to visit with Sacra over a video conference after he donated his blood to the hospital's blood bank for testing, but Debbie Sacra said Thursday her husband doesn't remember that encounter. The blood was reduced to plasma before the first transfusion.
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EBOLA VIRUS OUTBREAK 
248 - STORIES
STORYLINE

Continuing coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa
www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/ebola-spreading-exponentially-patients-seek-beds-liberia-n198516

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Black Market in Blood Serum Emerging Amid Ebola Outbreak
By Michelle Fay Cortez and Makiko Kitamura

Sep 12, 2014 8:17 AM ET
A black market for an Ebola treatment derived from the blood of survivors is emerging in the West African countries experiencing the worst outbreak of the virus on record, the World Health Organization said.
www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-11/blood-serum-from-recovered-ebola-doctor-used-in-new-case.html

Ebola Outpaces Global Response, W.H.O. Says

By NICK CUMMING-BRUCESEPT. 12, 2014
GENEVA — A month after declaring the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a global health emergency, the World Health Organization warned on Friday that the disease is still outpacing the international response to contain it.
www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/world/africa/ebola-who-africa.html?_r=1


Millions more at risk in Ebola outbreak, British study finds
Research by the University of Oxford reveals how 15 more countries across Africa could be hit by the Ebola virus

Friday 12 September 2014
The deadliest Ebola outbreak in history could spread to a further 15 countries in West and Central Africa, putting up to 70 million people at risk of infection, a ground-breaking study has found.
Research by the University of Oxford compared historic outbreaks to the virus’ possible transmission in bats and chimpanzees to predict how the disease could spread through its vast animal reservoir.
It is the first time scientists have attempted to explain how the virus, which is contracted through contact with infected bodily fluids, has travelled westward across Africa.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11086598/Millions-more-at-risk-in-Ebola-outbreak-British-study-finds.html

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U.S. Scientists See Long Fight Against Ebola
SEPT. 12, 2014

The deadly Ebola outbreak sweeping across three countries in West Africa is likely to last 12 to 18 months more, much longer than anticipated, and could infect hundreds of thousands of people before it is brought under control, say scientists mapping its spread for the federal government.

“We hope we’re wrong,” said Bryan Lewis, an epidemiologist at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech.

Both the time the model says it will take to control the epidemic and the number of cases it forecasts far exceed estimates by the World Health Organization, which said last month that it hoped to control the outbreak within nine months and predicted 20,000 total cases by that time. The organization is sticking by its estimates, a W.H.O. spokesman said Friday.
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Video: President Obama: Speech on Ebola at the CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 16. 2014
by Shallow Nation on September 16, 2014

See live video and replay of President Barack Obama’s speech on the Ebola epidemic at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 the President delivers an address after his briefing by officials at the CDC and Emory University. See it in real time via the live stream video below starting at 4:05 p.m. ET. Thereafter check back for the full transcript text and replay which will be added as soon as available.

- See more at: www.shallownation.com/2014/09/16/video-president-obama-speech-ebola-epidemic-sept-16-2014-cdc-atlanta-georgia/#sthash.LbNhnCZt.dpuf

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U.N. says at least $1 billion needed to contain Ebola outbreak

By Jennifer Booton-Market Watch
Published: Sept 16, 2014 11:59 a.m. ET

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will launch a global response coalition in New York this week asking the international community for as much as $1 billion to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the secretary general's office confirmed to MarketWatch on Tuesday. So far the disease has killed 2,461 people and infected 4,985, according to data from the World Health Organization. This is up from a request of just $100 million a month ago. "Because of the way the outbreak is advancing, the level of surge we need to do is unprecedented, it is massive," U.N. coordinator for Ebola, David Nabarro, reportedly told reporters at a WHO conference in Geneva. The United States also announced that it would send 3,000 troops to the region to help tackle the outbreak.

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1st UK Volunteer Gets Experimental Ebola Vaccine
LONDON — Sep 17, 2014, 12:51 PM ET

Dr Felicity Hartnell, who is a clinical research fellow at Oxford University, injects former nurse Ruth Atkins the first of 60 healthy volunteers in the U.K. who will receive an experimental vaccine against Ebola in Oxford, England Wednesday Sept. 17, 2014. The vaccine was developed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and GlaxoSmithKline and targets the Zaire strain of Ebola, the cause of the ongoing outbreak in West Africa. A trial of the same vaccine has already begun in the U.S. (AP Photo/Steve Parsons/Pool)

British scientists say a former nurse has become the first person in the country to receive an experimental Ebola vaccine in an early trial to test its safety.

Ruth Atkins, 48, got the injection on Wednesday in Oxford, the first of 60 healthy volunteers in the U.K. who will receive the vaccine. It was developed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and GlaxoSmithKline and targets the Zaire strain of Ebola, the cause of the ongoing outbreak in West Africa. A trial of the same vaccine has already begun in the U.S.

The vaccine is meant to spark the immune system's production of Ebola antibodies. It does not contain any infectious material and shouldn't trigger an Ebola infection, researchers said.

"Witnessing the events in Africa makes it clear that developing new drugs and vaccines against Ebola should now be an urgent priority," said trial leader Adrian Hill of Oxford University, in a statement.

Hill and colleagues hope the trial will finish by the end of 2014. If the vaccine is proven safe, it could then be used to vaccinate health workers in West Africa in a bigger trial to test its effectiveness.

Experts say the current outbreak, which is being blamed for at least 2,400 deaths, is out of control and will likely take months to contain. Even if hundreds of health workers in West Africa can be vaccinated, it's unlikely the vaccine would make a significant dent on the outbreak.

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Ebola and MERS mixing...

Muslim pilgrims checked for Ebola virus on their way to Mecca as health chiefs announce more than 700 cases emerged in one week as disease sweeps West Africa

And then..Health team 'found dead' in Guinea

By the numbers..A Frightening Curve: How Fast Is The Ebola Outbreak Growing?

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The Associated Press Posted: Sep 27, 2014 11:26 AM  -  Bernice Dahn, Liberia's chief medical officer, begins Ebola quarantine...

People who may have been exposed to virus asked to isolate themselves for 21 days

Bernice Dahn, Liberia's chief medical officer, is placing herself under quarantine for 21 days after her office assistant died of Ebola.

Dahn, a deputy health minister who has represented Liberia at regional conferences intended to combat the ongoing epidemic, told The Associated Press on Saturday that she did not have any Ebola symptoms but wanted to ensure she was not infected.

The World Health Organization says 21 days is the maximum incubation period for Ebola, which has killed more than 3,000 people across West Africa and is hitting Liberia especially hard. WHO figures released Friday said 150 people died in the country in just two days.

Liberia's government has asked people to keep themselves isolated for 21 days if they think they have been exposed. The unprecedented scale of the outbreak, however, has made it difficult to trace the contacts of victims and quarantine those who might be at risk.

"Of course we made the rule, so I am home for 21 days... CONTINUED:  www.cbc.ca/news/health/bernice-dahn-liberia-s-chief-medical-officer-begins-ebola-quarantine-1.2779940

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Sept 18, 2014 15:08:03 GMT -5 @patstab said:

I worry about my husband, he is heading back to Luanda, Angola next week.

They travel on a private, chartered airliner so that makes it a bit safer, only oil and gas workers from that area. Let me

know if you hear if it has spread into Angola, I keep watching but nothing so far.  It likely will sooner or later.

Hubby said if you saw the lack of sanitation at the hospitals he visited you would likely not go to them either.  They are warned not to and most sites have a doc on staff, if they get very ill they are airlifted out to France if extremely ill.

Pat, I've been keeping watch and just did another search and didn't find anything about Ebola in Luanda, Angola.  

Let us know if you hear anything....

Barbara

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Thank you for your reply .... keep us up to date when you have news and time. 

Thanks, 

b

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Dallas hospital isolates possible Ebola patient 

Walt Zwirko, WFAA 9:44 p.m. CDT September 29, 2014

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said the patient was admitted based on symptoms and "recent travel history"

DALLAS — A Dallas hospital is holding a patient in "strict isolation" as that person is evaluated for possible exposure to the deadly Ebola virus.

In a statement issued Tuesday night, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said the patient was admitted based on symptoms and "recent travel history."

The hospital, located at Greenville Avenue and Walnut Hill Lane in Northeast Dallas, said it is complying with all recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and the Texas Department of Health to ensure the safety of other patients and medical staff.

Preliminary results of tests on the patient are expected from the CDC on Tuesday.

The World Health Organization says it has confirmed more than 3,000 Ebola-related deaths in West Africa during the current outbreak, which has spread to five countries: Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

There have been no Ebola cases reported outside that region, although some patients have been transferred to other countries for treatment. Fort Worth physician Dr. Kent Brantly, who became infected while working in Liberia, recovered after being moved to a hospital in Atlanta.

Earlier this month, President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. would offer military and medical help to combat the disease in West Africa which has now reached epidemic proportions.

Several U.S. hospitals have previously raised alerts in connection with patients who presented Ebola-like symptoms, but all those cases tested negative for the virus.

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Ebola Epidemic Outpacing Vaccine Production 

Topic: Ebola Outbreak in West Africa

20:57 19/09/2014

MOSCOW, September 19 (RIA Novosti), Ekaterina Blinova - As the Ebola infection spirals out of control, epidemiologists admit that the speed at which the contagious virus is spreading has outstripped the rate at which drugs and vaccines can be produced to combat it.

"As Ebola outbreak in West Africa accelerates, the containment measures that worked in the past, such as isolating those who are infected and tracing their contacts, clearly have failed. This has spurred hopes that biomedical countermeasures, such as monoclonal anti-bodies and vaccines, can help save lives and slow spread. But as President Barack Obama calls for an aggressive ramp up of the US government's response, resolve is colliding with a grim reality: The epidemic is outpacing the speed with which drugs and vaccines can be produced," writes Jon Cohen in his article "Ebola vaccine: Little and late," which was published in the latest issue of Science magazine.

en.ria.ru/analysis/20140919/193103190/Ebola-Epidemic-Outpacing-Vaccine-Production-.html

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Ebola Mutations May Result In Highly Contagious Airborne Form 

Topic: Ebola Outbreak in West Africa

MOSCOW, September 19 (RIA Novosti), Ekaterina Blinova - The Ebola virus could mutate into an airborne form and spread quickly throughout the globe, say scientists, regarding the threat the deadly disease may pose to humankind in the nearest future.

"In 2012, a team of Canadian researchers proved that Ebola Zaire, the same virus that is causing the West Africa outbreak, could be transmitted by the respiratory route from pigs to monkeys, both of whose lungs are very similar to those of humans. We must consider that such transmissions could happen between humans, if the virus mutates," writes Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, in his Op-Ed "What We’re Afraid to Say About Ebola", published by the New York Times.

The scientist points out that the deadly virus is mutating constantly while being transmitted from one human to another. Since we are facing a “hyper-evolution" of the virus he sees as unprecedented, it has already obtained "trillions of throws of the genetic dice," Osterholm emphasizes.
en.ria.ru/analysis/20140919/193086397/Ebola-Mutations-May-Result-In-Highly-Contageous-Airborne-Form.html

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Ebola-Mutations-May-Result-In-Highly-Contageous-Airborne

en.ria.ru/analysis/20140919/193086397/Ebola-Mutations-May-Result-In-Highly-Contageous-Airborne-Form.html

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CDC: Ebola confirmed in Dallas patient 

 5:18 p.m. CDT September 30, 2014

A patient in a Dallas hospital has been confirmed to have the Ebola virus, News 8 has learned.

DALLAS — A patient in a Dallas hospital has been confirmed to have the deadly Ebola virus, the Centers for Disease Control said Tuesday.

That person has been held in "strict isolation" at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas as he was evaluated for possible exposure to the virus.

This is the first-ever case of this strain of Ebola confirmed in the United States. Officials would not confirm or deny if he was a U.S. citizen, only saying he was "visiting family in the U.S."

"There is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it," said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at a Tuesday afternoon news conference in Atlanta.

According to the CDC, the patient acquired the virus in West Africa, though they are not sure how he was infected. He was not involved in stopping the Ebola outbreak in Africa.

The patient then flew to visit family in the U.S., but Frieden said they will not release the flight number unless the CDC receives additional information that would mean those on the flight were at risk of infection. Frieden said based on the information they have, the patient would not have been at the stage of the virus in which he could transmit it to others at the time of the flight.

Frieden also gave a brief timeline of the patient's infection in his comments Tuesday afternoon. The patient, an adult male, took a flight from Liberia that departed on Sept. 19 and arrived in the U.S. on the 20th. He first showed symptoms of Ebola on Sept. 24, then first sought care on Sept. 26, before he was admitted to the hospital on Sept. 28.

Dr. Frieden said he believes "a handful" of people had contact with the patient between the 24th and 28th, including family members and "a couple" community members. Those people are to be monitored by the CDC starting Tuesday.

Early symptoms of Ebola include sudden fever, fatigue, and headache. Symptoms may appear anywhere from two to 21 days after exposure.

The CDC will decide whether it is necessary to move the patient to another facility. There are five medical facilities in the U.S. that have high level isolation facilities. The CDC will also investigate how many people the patient has had contact with.

Frieden said the next steps are to care for the patient and keep to a minimum the chance the virus may spread while identifying all people the patient was in contact with while he could transmit the virus. Those people will be monitored for 21 days and isolated if they develop a fever during that time.

"Contact tracing is something we do day-in and day-out, and something we do well," Frieden said.

Frieden said that others may have been infected in the United States, but said there was "no doubt" in his mind that the infection will be contained to the current patient and anyone they may have had contact with.

State health officials said no other cases are suspected in Texas.

Specimens from the patient were tested by a state lab and confirmed by a separate test by the Centers for Disease Control, said Carrie Williams, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services.
CONTINUED: www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/09/29/dallas-presbyterian-hospital-ebola-patient-isolation/16460629/

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PAT,

I continue to watch the news regarding Luanda, Angola ...as I am sure you are.  So far so good!

HAPPY DAY!

b

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What we know about the Texas Ebola patient

13 Hours Ago

The first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola outside of Africa during the ongoing epidemic is being treated at a Dallas hospital. Federal and state health officials say the patient traveled from Liberia on Sept. 19. Here's what we know about him and the risk to Americans:

Where did he come from?

The patient came from Liberia. He left Monrovia Sept. 19 and arrived in the United States Sept 20. Health officials won't give many details about the patient, but Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Thomas Frieden says he was visiting relatives who live in the United States.

That might imply he's not a U.S. citizen himself. Health officials also say he does not appear to have been a health worker, although they are double checking. The four Ebola patients evacuated to the U.S. for treatment have all been American doctors or medical missionaries.


Can he have infected anybody else?


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www.cnbc.com/id/102047686

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US hunts contacts of Ebola patient, including kids
AFP
October 1, 2014


Washington (AFP) - Health officials in Texas on Wednesday scoured the Dallas area for people, including schoolchildren, who came in contact with a Liberian man who was diagnosed with Ebola in the United States.

Related Stories

Texas patient confirmed as first Ebola case diagnosed in U.S. Yahoo News
Ebola is in the US. Here's how health officials will try to contain it. Vox.com

Questions and answers about the US Ebola case Associated Press
First US Ebola case in Dallas: why public health threat remains small Christian Science Monitor

Ebola patient told hospital he was from Liberia Associated Press
Hospital officials admitted that more people may have been exposed to the contagious man after he first sought treatment on September 25, because an apparent miscommunication among staff resulted in his release back into the open community.

EXCELLENT VIDEOS...

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Just a quick thought. Why are people believing the authorities in Africa on the severity of the situation? People have been taking off and into the jungle instead of seeking help. It's like some see the borders drawn on the map, and act like a virus is going to obey them or something...

Ebola infecting five new people every hour in Sierra Leone, figures show

The UN said the spread of the disease in neighbouring Liberia was just as alarming

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Greetings Aham!

You said, "Just a quick thought. Why are people believing the authorities in Africa on the severity of the situation?"

Seeing is believing if I understood your question.  I know I would get the message if I saw people being abandoned and dying in the streets ... 

U.S. Troops Arrive to Combat Deadly Ebola Outbreak - U.S. troops are arriving in Monrovia, Liberia as part of a plan to build tent hospitals and train local nurses to treat an Ebola epidemic that is showing signs of gaining speed. Video by WSJ's Drew Hinshaw.

Why is the US allowing anyone from those areas into the USA?  
finance.yahoo.com/news/liberia-prosecute-man-brought-ebola-us-170917507.html

There is a continuous video on the link above. 

It's US quarantine time! 

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Why Ebola Vaccine Makers' Stocks Soared 

By Motley Fool,  October 01, 2014, 02:00:27 PM EDT 

Read more: www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/10/01/why-ebola-vaccine-makers-stocks-soared.aspx#ixzz3F173qiV2