EBOLA Out-of-Control Outbreak in Africa. Fed Halts Vaccine R&D. Agenda 21?

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The "FEMA Coffins" Are For Ebola/The Black Plague.

Ebola in Uganda – update

17 August 2012 -The Ministry of Health of Uganda (MoH) continues to work with partners to control the outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Kibaale district. The national and district task forces also meet daily to coordinate the response to the outbreak.

To date, 24 probable and confirmed cases including 16 deaths have been reported. Eleven cases have been laboratory confirmed by the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) in Entebbe. The last confirmed case was admitted to the Kagadi isolation facility on 4 August 2012.

Suspected cases which tested negative during the laboratory investigations have been discarded as Ebola patients, treated symptomatically for their ailments and discharged following recovery. A total of forty nine (49) people have been discharged from the isolation facility, including one confirmed case.
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The people knew before the f'n lab knew. That's why they all got out of Dodge. Ebola is well on its way not only to border-hopping but continent-hopping. GET YOUR N-95 MASKS, DISPOSABLE GLOVES AND SKI GOGGLES WHILE YOU CAN! They're not perfect protection, but they're better than nothing.

The patient-zero story, like the virus, appears to have mutated.

This is interesting. After confirming that it is indeed Ebola that is sickening and killing people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokesperson for a medical aid organization then states that the Ebola strain that is killing people in the DRC is NOT THE SAME STRAIN AS THE ONE THAT IS KILLING PEOPLE IN UGANDA.

Unreal. She calls it a 'co-incidence' that the two Ebola strains are circulating at the same time.

Co-incidence. Uh-huh. Sure.

So I guess that means it's just a 'local' outbreak and there's nothing to worry about because, you see, it's just 'local' and 'isolated' and 'contained'. No border-hopping going on here, no-siree.




"The outbreak is in Isiro, a busy town in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Oriental province, which shares a border with Uganda, but the strain of the deadly disease is different to the one that killed 16 there last month, MSF said.

"Anja de Weggheleire, the medical coordinator for MSF in the area, said blood samples from one victim had confirmed Ebola in Isiro and there were at least three other suspected cases being treated in an MSF-supported local hospital.

“'We cannot speak of a direct link between the two epidemics, I think unfortunately it’s just pure coincidence,'” said de Weggheleire.

"MSF was helping track and isolate people who may have come in contact with the disease, she added.

"Authorities in Uganda said this week that the outbreak there was under control after they imposed strict measures to prevent Ebola from spreading in the west of the country."



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#Ebola virus found in #Uganda is Sudan strain, in Democratic Republic of Congo is Bundibugyo strain.

Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in DRC

17 August 2012 -On 17 August 2012, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Democratic Republic of Congo notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of an outbreak of Ebola Haemorrhagic fever in the Isiro and Dungu Health Zones of Province Orientale in Eastern DRC. A total of 10 suspected cases (9 in Isiro and 1 in Dungu) and 6 deaths (5 deaths in Isiro and 1 in Dungu) have been reported.

Laboratory investigations conducted at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Entebbe, Uganda, confirmed Ebola virus (Bundibugyo species). Three samples taken from two patients turned out positive for Ebola. A National Task Force convened by the Congolese Ministry of Health, is working with several partners including WHO, MSF and CDC. A joint MoH, WHO and MSF emergency response team are..
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WHO does not recommend that any travel or trade restrictions be applied to Democratic Republic of Congo

What are the chances, huh? And all we've got is their word that it's two different strains, keeping in mind that the Uganda strain was atypical for Sudan.

DRC: Ebola kills 7 people in Eastern Province

August 17, 2012
The epidemic of Ebola virus was declared the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Minister of Public Health, Felix Kabange Numbi said that this Friday, August 17 twelve cases including seven deaths were recorded in Eastern Province. It invites the public to observe measures of individual and collective hygiene, indicating that to date there is no drug or vaccine to fight against this epidemic that has resurfaced in Uganda at the beginning of July.

Felix Kabange request all Congolese to avoid touching any animal found dead in the forest or eating meat.

"We must also avoid touching unprotected blood, vomit or urine of a patient who died or who suffers from a viral hemorrhagic fever," he adds.

The Minister assured that "soon these preventive measures will be applied, the faster the spread of disease will be stopped."..
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What's stopping us, then, Treyfish??!! Fancy a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo? We could try us some monkey meat!

Nobody! I am ready fer some chimp huntin'! And I'll bring an extra mask for ya.

Okeedokee -- I'll just pick up my HAZMAT suit at the drycleaners and meet you at the airport!!

I was just thinking, while we're down there, we'll have to stop off at the CENTURY bottling company in Uganda and pick up some COLA for all our good buddies at GLP!!!


Yeehaw! Nothing says PAR-TAY like a nice mess of monkey meat and a bottle of Ebola Cola!

so ..2 different strains..right across the border somewhat

Ebola Sudan.. light ..fluffy.. slightly mutated.. not that high a kill rate

Bundibugyo strain.. kills real quick and real good

I guess we are about to hear how they could never combine... being that they are so close together and all.. practically impossible.. nope.. can't happen here..

Ebola Cola and some jerked monkey meat treats..chimp jerky! Now that is tasty snacks for non election day. The airports are close by to the hunting grounds too..


Oh yeah, I have been tracking Eblola a long time and never saw 2 different strain outbreaks at the same time, or within 200 miles of each other, or a new mutated strain.. or ..

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Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in DRC (as at 17 August 2012)

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On 17 August 2012, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Democratic Republic of Congo, notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of an outbreak of Ebola Haemorrhagic fever in the Isiro and Dungu Health Zones of Province Orientale in Eastern DRC. A total of 10 suspected cases (9 in Isiro and 1 in Dungu) and 6 deaths (5 deaths in Isiro and 1 in Dungu) have been reported.

Laboratory investigations conducted at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Entebbe, Uganda, confirmed Ebola virus (Bundibugyo species). Three samples taken from two patients turned out positive for Ebola. A National Task Force convened by the Congolese Ministry of Health, is working with several partners including WHO, MSF,CDC etc… A joint MoH, WHO and MSF emergency response team are in the field to conduct a detailed epidemiological investigation and case management.
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Mbale Ebola Suspects Test Negative
The samples from two suspected Ebola victims from Mblae have both tested negative, easing the tension that had gripped health workers at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital where they have been admitted.

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This seems a very high kill rate for Bundibugyo. It was recorded at around 25% at the last outbreak in 2007/2008. If there are only 12 recorded cases of Ebola Bundibugyo in the DRC now and already 7 deaths, that means the kill rate is nearing 60% (and may rise further, depending on how many more of those 12 cases don't make it).

Ebola Sudan (the strain in Uganda's current outbreak) has a 55% to 65% kill rate. Just sayin'.

Ebola kills one and three other contaminates in the Congo

The cases occurred in Isiro, bustling market town near the border with Uganda, and involve a different strain of which killed 16 people there last month

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"We can not speak of a direct link between the two epidemics, I think unfortunately it's just pure coincidence," said De Weggheleire.

MSF warned that because of the precariousness of the Congolese health system, it will be difficult to prevent the disease from spreading outside the city.[/b]
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Will the Candidates Tell Us about Their Policies on Pandemics and Biosecurity?
August 17, 2012

A new strain of H3N2 influenza virus transmitted from pigs to humans has caused U.S. patient cases to spike in the past two weeks. During the same time period, an Ebola virus outbreak in Uganda killed at least 14 people. Both these outbreaks are demanding cooperation among scientists and political leaders.

Back in 2009, the world faced a pandemic H1N1 flu virus outbreak that prompted an additional U.S. vaccination campaign that year and eventually spurred the President to declare swine flu as a national emergency. Now, with U.S. elections around the corner, voters should know how key candidates plan to address future pandemics and biosecurity threats, and whether elected politicians will fund research on these topics and take scientific findings and recommendations into account when making decisions.

To learn where politicians stand on this issue and 13 others, Scientific American has partnered with ScienceDebate.org and asked the presidential candidates—President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney—to address science and technology policy during the campaign. We are also asking key Congressional leaders eight of the 14 questions. For the past few weeks, I have been contacting media contacts at Congress to coax responses. (I can now hum stanzas of all hold music played on these politicians’ phone lines.) I gave the Congressional leaders an August 24 deadline, and as yet only Rep. Henry Waxman’s staff has responded with a promise to answer.

SA health and medicine editor Christine Gorman posted the full set of 14 questions here and examined the first three in detail on a weekly basis. Thus far..
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