The drug is ‘all gone,’ they say.. and nothing coming any time soon.
So as a result of the lack of medicine, our now famous American Ebola patient is fighting for his life tonight..
This is the big fear of mine, and has been so.
Lets take a trip…back in time.
The year was 2012. There was research in Canada on Ebola.. the story goes like this,according to a HEALTHMAP.COM article posted at the time:
When news broke that the Ebola virus had resurfaced in Uganda, investigators in Canada were making headlines of their own with research indicating the deadly virus may spread between species, through the air.
The team, comprised of researchers from the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, the University of Manitoba, and the Public Health Agency of Canada, observed transmission of Ebola from pigs to monkeys. They first inoculated a number of piglets with the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus. Ebola-Zaire is the deadliest strain, with mortality rates up to 90 percent. The piglets were then placed in a room with four cynomolgus macaques, a species of monkey commonly used in laboratories. The animals were separated by wire cages to prevent direct contact between the species.
Within a few days, the inoculated piglets showed clinical signs of infection indicative of Ebola infection. In pigs, Ebola generally causes respiratory illness and increased temperature. Nine days after infection, all piglets appeared to have recovered from the disease.
Within eight days of exposure, two of the four monkeys showed signs of Ebola infection. Four days later, the remaining two monkeys were sick too. It is possible that the first two monkeys infected the other two, but transmission between non-human primates has never before been observed in a lab setting.
The candidate to blame for the airborne transmission: They concluded that, maybe, it was one of these three: airborne, droplet, or fomites..
What worries me the most though is this: Mutation. Ebola mutates quickly.. It was one of the meanest, cruelest, and worst nightmares for humanity. It liquefies the body, including the bones. In the past, the only way to contain the disease was to let it burn itself out in villages. Even back August of 2014, NPR and others reported on the problem containing the current outbreak being the quick mutation. Another issue is how much faster Ebola mutates in humans rather than animals..
And all that coupled together: Airborne is scary. Very scary.
If things don’t pan out in a positive way for mankind, the STAND may turn out to be true, even though my readers are most likely tired of my endless comparisons.
The question will be is this: Is anyone having dreams of Mother Abigail yet? Because the rats indeed are in the cornfield..
This is obviously a developing story.. And with it comes more fear..
In the nation’s capitol: We anxiously wait to see if the patient being tested for Ebola actually has it..
DEVELOPING..
This poll was offered up before.. I am re-opening the poll again to see if your opinion has changed a bit since the first time I posted it two months ago. Since that time, Ebola has jumped the ocean and now patient zero vomited all over the grounds of the United States. His family is quarantined, and at least 100 or so people are being monitored closely for any sign of Ebola.. So .. tell me now, are you worried about this?
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BEYOND BIZARRE..
This is indeed getting wild lately.. news of two others coming back to life happened last week.. now this new video showing a man, who everyone thought was dead, suddenly moving again..
Is this why we have been prepped with ‘zombies’ for a decade?
How seemingly apropos for Ebola to strike, deep in the heart of Texas, just as the season of the witch begins.. Halloween is a time for fear, costumes, and wild assertions that the veil between the here and there is thinning. In Texas, at a hospital, the veil is quite thin right now.. Undoubtedly protective Halloween costumes of a real sort are being used in connection with the unnamed man who returned home from Liberia. We don’t know what he was doing there, and we don’t know why he went, but we certainly know he was in a hotspot of death and the cruel nature of humanity.. Ebola has ripping parts of Liberia to shreds..
In America, we pride ourselves we rarity when it comes to disease outbreak.. we vaccine our children from the moment they are seconds old.. Some also do their finest to ostracize parents who don’t go down the same adventurous vaccine highway. That’s why when diseases pop up, like the latest respiratory virus and polio-like paralysis hitting kids, we get freaked.
I will be interested to see how we deal with Ebola.
Unless this goes airborne—we should all pray it does not mutate into a monster of that nature—we can control Ebola in the United States. Even Nigeria is able to
end their outbreak, so we can too.. It will take common sense.
Now instead of immigration being front and center on Texas news stations, Ebola has taken over.. Today, a Houston radio station is giving listeners and readers online some safety tips.. everything from washing your hands to ending your practice of eating bush meat. Also avoid traveling to places that have an Ebola outbreak. Also steer clear of the bodily fluids of people who are suffering from the later stages of Ebola.
Let’s be clear: The doctors who returned to the United States with Ebola have now been immersed back into civilization without it. Healing is possible.. The death rate is often higher in countries that have less development.
Last night I heard about a village in Liberia that slaughtered aid workers because, when the workers showed up to inform people how to properly wash hands, the villagers assumed they were from satanic origins and coming with the disease to kill them.
That will not happen in the United States, or developed places in Africa.
It will take some faith in humanity—and luck, luck in the sense that, to repeat an earlier statement, this does not go airborne. If that should happen, the game changes again.
I will be fascinated to see how the public devours the latest news. There is no more talk of “when it happens here.” It did. Even Chris Matthews took an indirect shot at the man who once gave him shivers down his legs by saying ‘Obama Said It Was Unlikely. It Has Happened. It’s Here’. There are things that even the Presidents cannot control. Disease outbreak is one of them.
Will the populace panic?
With the citizens weep?
Will we wash our hands?
What company will we keep?
Will the news cause fear?
Will the events displace?
What else will we hear?
Hope no medical disgrace.
Ebola is on our shores,
It’s been over there before,
The world has gone on,
America’s an open door.
So now we join the world,
In disease and natural scars,
So don’t run and hide,
And least this isn’t SARS.
Happy hand washing, America.
Things are truly getting bizarre. A few days ago I implored zombie hunters to get their twinkies ready as news broke that two Ebola patients in Africa reportedly rose from the dead..
The steady stream of people coming back to life has not abated. The latest is from Greece.. We’re being told by some of the lamestream media across the pond in the UK that a cancer patient—dead, mind you—began shouting from her casket in her grave.. This is what the LONDON TELEGRAPH reported:
Police said a cemetery worker and two people visitors heard a woman’s voice from inside the 49-year-old cancer patient’s grave on Thursday.
The sounds were reportedly heard by the passers-by shortly after the last relatives of the deceased had left her funeral in the northern town of Peraia.
They are believed to have dug up the grave to try to save her, but by the time they got her out of the ground she had suffocated inside the coffin, according to Greek media.
A doctor summoned to the cemetery pronounced her dead, but dismissed claims that she had revived and had called for help.
Of course a doctor would poo poo the claim that someone rose from the dead .. After all, real zombies don’t exist.
Except this week.
Three.. two with Ebola, one with cancer..
In this case, the ending was sad, times two.. After the family left the gravesite, the woman actually died again.. If she was dead to begin with, of course.
But at this point, there will be no proof to offer anyone that someone rose from the dead.. The story is complicated. Perhaps the first trauma didn’t kill, and a funeral home didn’t notice.. Maybe embalming did not happen. I don’t know. But I do know that the news has been freaky lately..
As to whether or not she rose from the dead? She’s dead now.. So…….
Alright.. here comes some potential hardcore science fiction. Or amazingly scary science fact..
The “New Dawn Liberia” is reporting that two Ebola patients have risen from the dead!Their report can be read in its entirety here..
Quote from the report:
Two Ebola patients, who died of the virus in separate communities in Nimba County have reportedly resurrected in the county. The victims, both females, believed to be in their 60s and 40s respectively, died of the Ebola virus recently in Hope Village Community and the Catholic Community in Ganta, Nimba.
But to the amazement of residents and onlookers on Monday, the deceased reportedly regained life in total disbelief. The NewDawn Nimba County correspondent said the late Dorris Quoi of Hope Village Community and the second victim only identified as Ma Kebeh, said to be in her late 60s, were about to be taken for burial when they resurrected.
Other sources are also reporting on this interesting development in the Ebola virus world..All Africa is one of them.
A few points to keep in mind:
I say the story is either a hoax or an urban legend gone wrong.. BUT..
News today is too close to fiction..
But… what if this conspiracy theory holds true: That government knew for a decade that a disease would mutate and become the real life zombie apocalypse.. ? If these weird stories from Africa have any grain of salt of truth, then all of those warnings and training seminars involving zombies may finally pay off..
And… just today, Kansas started prepping for the zombie invasion.
Get your Twinkies ready. The game may be about to change.
Good luck world.
A German Ebola expert is proclaiming that hope may be lost to save certain locations in Africa as the Ebola nightmare continues to unravel.. You can read the words of Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit for yourself in the publication DEUTSCHE WELLE. The money quote from the article by as chosen by the HORROR REPORT as follows:
“The right time to get this epidemic under control in these countries has been missed,” he said. That time was May and June. “Now it will be much more difficult.”
Schmidt-Chanasit expects the virus will “become endemic” in this part of the world, if no massive assistence arrives.
With other words: It could more or less infect everybody and many people could die.
That is troubling.. How could it now be troubling.
Meanwhile, on the Ebola front, more headlines are garnering attention from the masses, and us:
Ebola cases are rising rapidly in Congo..
West African health centers are unable to keep up with the demand of Ebola patients..
The WHO is pleading for more health workers..
The American doctor, the latest at least, who was brought back to the United States with Ebola: Dr. Rick Sacra continues to improve.. Something seems to be working. We need to find out why recovery is happening for him and others .. Perhaps the miracle is this simple: Sacra got a blood transfusion from the previous doctor who was brought back to Atlanta to recover..
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.
We are all at the mercy of nature…disease.. But sadly it would seem that so many chances to proclaim victory over this latest outbreak were lost to mismanagement and fear..
SCIENCE has the full story of the study.. Kai Kupferschmidt writes this to summarize the troubling potential visitor of death at the planet’s door step:
Alessandro Vespignani hopes that his latest work will turn out to be wrong. In July, the physicist from Northeastern University in Boston started modeling how the deadly Ebola virus may spread in West Africa. Extrapolating existing trends, the number of the sick and dying mounts rapidly from the current toll—more than 3000 cases and 1500 deaths—to about 10,000 cases by 24 September, and hundreds of thousands in the months after that. “The numbers are really scary,” he says—although he stresses that the model assumes control efforts aren’t stepped up. “We all hope to see this NOT happening,” Vespigani writes in an e-mail.
This would be dramatic..
What troubles me, as well, is how little we may know of Ebola is some locales. Consider this news today, for instance: Sudan is banning truth reporting about Ebola in the nation..
The director of the CDC confirms what we all sort of know: Ebola is spiraling further out of control.. The world is about to lose the containment battle, and NEW cases of Ebola appear to be unrelated to the current strain, according to a FORBES report today written by David Kroll..
That is important.. and that is bad. New strain.
If any strain goes airborne? well.. all bets are off.
And the betting so far has been off anyway..