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Post by Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger on Oct 16, 2014 0:19:49 GMT -5
Hey b! I hear ya. The fact that MERS and the H/N strain are also RNA based isn't a good factor either. I see that some are finally pointing out that 2 Ebola Outbreaks in Africa Have Different Sources. Without a doubt if these two strains came into contact with each other they would mutate... From the link you posted, looks like they have known for a while about the airborne issue.... Thank God for NA!  |
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Post by Peace77 on Oct 16, 2014 6:56:57 GMT -5
What is NA?
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A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS support banning all flights to the United States from countries experiencing an Ebola outbreak, an exclusive NBC News online survey reveals.
The survey, which was conducted by SurveyMonkey and then weighted for age, race, sex, education and region to match U.S. Census data, found that 58 percent of Americans want a ban on incoming flights from West African countries hardest hit by the virus, such as Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. Twenty percent of respondents opposed a travel ban, and the rest said they didn’t know. The survey was conducted a day before the first person diagnosed with Ebola inside the U.S. died Wednesday.
www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/majority-americans-want-flights-banned-ebola-countries-survey-n221751
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Post by Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger on Oct 16, 2014 12:14:42 GMT -5
While NVAX is working on some life saving products - especially in the line of RNA vaccines - I was talking about North America. Our system has allowed for the expansion of life saving technology and I thank God for that. |
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Post by Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger on Oct 16, 2014 12:15:54 GMT -5
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EBOLA NIGHTMARE: 'The Entire City Is Covered With Bodies' The New York Times | By BEN C. SOLOMON 10/16/2014 12:37 pm EDT
MONROVIA, Liberia — Racing along cracked and bumpy roads here, Gordon Kamara shouted into his cellphone over the shrieking sirens of his ambulance. The phone had been ringing nonstop since 5 a.m.
“Not today! Not today!” Mr. Kamara, an ambulance nurse, yelled later in the day. “We are on the opposite side of town!”
The calls have all been the same in recent weeks: from friends, friends of friends, extended family, complete strangers. All of them have loved ones sick with Ebola and beg him to come quickly. Seven days a week, Mr. Kamara and his crew span Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, in a donated, old American ambulance — with California license plates still attached.
“It never stops,” said Mr. Kamara, getting another call the moment he hangs up.
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The 15 or so ambulance teams bolting around the city have had many days of hard choices like this. Hundreds of new Ebola cases are reported each week in Monrovia, with many more never accounted for. And over the course of the epidemic, only a small percentage of them have ever made it to a hospital.
To confront the spread of Ebola, some community groups have stepped in, motivated by altruism, desperation and, in some cases, political opportunism.
In some neighborhoods, teams of volunteers fan out to track victims and educate households on staving off the virus, though their pockets are so shallow that they often do not have enough supplies, like chlorine, to thwart the epidemic’s advance.
Mr. Kamara does not work for the government. He does not even have a dispatcher to tell him where to go, or which patients to pick up. Instead, his team is financed by an opposition member of Parliament, Saah H. Joseph, who imported two used American ambulances to Monrovia this year.
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Post by Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger on Oct 16, 2014 22:54:09 GMT -5
EBOLA NIGHTMARE: 'The Entire City Is Covered With Bodies' The New York Times | By BEN C. SOLOMON 10/16/2014 12:37 pm EDT
This is insane b! The numbers are so far off it's not even funny..  |
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Post by dothedd on Oct 17, 2014 9:02:22 GMT -5
Health Worker Who May Have Had Contact With Ebola Is on Cruise Ship OCT. 17, 2014
DALLAS — Adding a new and troubling dimension to the search for Americans possibly exposed to the Ebola virus, the State Department said Friday that an employee of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who might have had contact with specimens of the disease had left the United States aboard a cruise ship. The employee and a traveling partner, who were not identified by name, agreed to remain isolated in a cabin aboard the vessel, the State Department said, and “out of an abundance of caution” efforts were underway to repatriate them. A physician aboard the cruise ship told the authorities that the employee was in good health. CONTINUED: www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/ebola-cruise-ship-dallas.html |
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Post by dothedd on Oct 17, 2014 9:09:36 GMT -5
How Bad Will Ebola Get? Experts Are Still Guessing
Nearly 9,000 people have been infected with Ebola, and half have died. But the World Health Organization says that's an underestimate. Experts have been trying to project just how bad the epidemic could get. But it’s a moving target.
WHO says about 1,000 people a week are being infected with Ebola and WHO’s Dr. Bruce Aylward says this could rise to between 5,000 and 10,000 a week. "The disease continues to expand geographically" in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, Aylward said this week.
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Post by dothedd on Oct 17, 2014 9:22:13 GMT -5
'Extra Precaution': Worried About Ebola, Airline Travelers Don Masks
Corbin Fawley knew he stood out on his Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Dallas.
But that was fine with him.
Fawley wore a surgical mask and rubber gloves to give himself what he considered an extra level of protection against the Ebola virus, even though it's not airborne. Instead, it's spread through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person who is showing symptoms of the virus.
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Post by dothedd on Oct 17, 2014 9:47:52 GMT -5
Obama to Tap Ron Klain as Ebola 'Czar'
President Barack Obama will appoint Ron Klain to head up efforts to address the Ebola threat, a senior administration official tells NBC News.
Klain is a former chief of staff to both Vice President Joe Biden and former Vice President Al Gore.
Obama signaled his openness to appointing an Ebola "czar" Thursday night, telling reporters that it "may be appropriate" to elevate an additional person to coordinate the U.S. response.
First published October 17th 2014, 10:28 am
www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/obama-tap-ron-klain-ebola-czar-n228151
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... the almighty and God's wishes as laid out by the true profit, JC, the more problems we cause ourselves. ...  Yeah, we didn't get the message with HIV so now looks like God is sending us his next "message". Wonder what terror He will deliver onto us next if we don't honor his demand for worship this time? |
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Post by dothedd on Oct 17, 2014 15:28:47 GMT -5
Tina Reed
Staff Reporter-Washington Business Journal
As I chatted with leaders at the Gaithersburg biotech Novavax recently, they mentioned rather nonchalantly that they are scrambling to create a vaccine for Ebola.
Of course I wanted to know more. Unfortunately, the company said they couldn’t release any more information yet. ( What a tease, I know.) But with so much interest in Ebola recently, it was fascinating to talk with the leader of this fast-growing vaccine company.
“Have you seen ‘Contagion’? That’s what we do. We make a vaccine fast,” said Stanley Erck, president and CEO.
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Post by Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger on Oct 18, 2014 2:13:56 GMT -5
Hey B, hope you had/are having a good day. That's just insane! For them to say that the infection is under control in any west African countries is completely irresponsible at this point. Bills, what comes next is exactly what I have been trying to tell some of you for months. You keep brushing it all off, but at some point it's going to stick. The Eastern Hemisphere is FUBAR and regardless of how many times people like Ben Affleck get up there and try and say the majority just want to eat sandwiches, the reality is that there is a big problem here. Islamic War Erupts in Hamburg, Germany The previous global conflicts happened regardless of how many regular people just wanted to eat sandwiches, just something to think about anyway. |
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Post by dothedd on Oct 18, 2014 14:04:31 GMT -5
What if Lots of People Have Ebola-Proof Blood? As Ebola spreads out of control in West Africa, the World Health Organization reports a black market in blood from Ebola survivors. The epidemic is killing up to 70 percent of those who get sick, but the thousands who have survived have blood teeming with antibodies that protect them against infection again.
Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly has donated serum to three other patients — fellow medical missionary Dr. Rick Sacra, NBC camera operator Ashoka Mukpo and Dallas nurse Nina Pham. No one knows if it’s helped, but in theory Brantly’s antibodies should have kick-started their immune responses.
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Post by dothedd on Oct 19, 2014 15:00:47 GMT -5
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.
Does your husband travel near the gold mine anywhere near the one mentioned in the link below?www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-18/guinea-says-ebola-spreads-to-new-regions-near-anglogold-mine.html |
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Post by dothedd on Oct 21, 2014 12:01:07 GMT -5
I looked it up and it says its 2200 miles from Conakry to Luanda where he is, that's by plane.
I told him the other day, why doesn't he just quit and come home. Some of the guys working there have heard rumors its in Angola. They have tons of guys from the Phillipines and I'm sure they are getting scared.
They are building a refinery, my husband doesn't worry about any of this stuff. I said we don't need the money, retire now. He says oh everybody dies from something. I said don't you want to enjoy retirement, he doesn't think he will anyway. He enjoys working, if he retires the end of next year I will be surprised. He has said for a long time he wanted to worked till 70, he will be 69 next August, but I want him to quit. I did agree with him to work through the end of next year.
I don't know what to say to him, he isn't going to listen. I don't want him getting sick. He already said its possible they may not let them fly in to Houston and laughingly said that with ebola in Texas they may not let them back in to Angola and I bet they are checked when they get off the plane there and should be on both ends. That country is scared to death it will get in there. I don't see how it won't.
I just hope he is ok.
So this is here we are right now
Please keep me informed, and if you would rather use email -- please do.
You both are in my every prayer.
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Considering that NVAX is worknig on RNA delivery, they will also be able to help with the HIV problem.. Thank God for North America! 
