Ebola Epidemic

[evanovitch]

i think it is a reasonable assessment

the likelihood is very very small.

Trinidad seh smaddy at dem airport might have it…i tink is Trinidad…is an island…mi read it last night….returning from Africa….u know how many we have coming from dere

[franksterr]

Never confuse authority with truth or official pronouncements with facts.....

Anyone following the news stories on this? Any thoughts?

I read yrs ago in a book that AIDS and Ebola were man made diseases commissioned by the Rich elite to decimate Africa's Native population thereby making the continent ready for repopulation. The methods of delivery was to be by vaccination. By the yr 2000 it was realized that AIDS failed miserably and all that the creators of AIDS could do was to relabel already existing diseases as AIDS, and then treat those diagnose with AIDS with toxic drugs that would in fact eventually kill them.The book I think was "emerging viruses by Len Horowitz.

Ebola is the next step my bet is that it will be reveal that a Vaccination campaign was recently carried out in the regions were the outbreak originated.

The above is my impressions from the book mention and other sources

Fichte laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished. But in his day this was an unattainable ideal: … In future such failures are not likely to occur where there is dictatorship. Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.
Children will, as in Plato’s Republic, be taken from their mothers and reared by professional nurses. Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
Bertram Russell


The following is mostly about AIDS but it is still relevant to the topic

Now for the "smoking gun" ......



What are US bio-war researchers doing in the Ebola zone?
This is a call for an immediate, thorough, and independent investigation of Tulane University researchers (see here and here) and their Fort Detrick associates in the US biowarfare research community, who have been operating in West Africa during the past several years.
Have Tulane researchers and their associates attempted any experimental treatments (e.g., injecting monoclonal antibodies) using citizens of the region? If so, what adverse events have occurred?
The research program, occurring in Sierra Leone, the Republic of Guinea, and Liberia—said to be the epicenter of the 2014 Ebola outbreak—has the announced purpose, among others, of detecting the future use of fever-viruses as bioweapons.
Is this purely defensive research? Or as we have seen in the past, is this research being covertly used to develop offensive bioweapons?
For the last several years, researchers from Tulane University have been active in the African areas where Ebola is said to have broken out in 2014.
These researchers are working with other institutions, one of which is USAMRIID, the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, a well-known center for bio-war research, located at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

http://watchmen-news.com/2014/08/03/us-holds-patent-on-ebola-us-bio-war-researchers-

in-ebola-zone/




SIERRA LEONE CLOSES US BIOWEAPONS LAB AT CENTRE OF EBOLA OUTBREAK, STOPS TULANE UNIVERSITY FROM EBOLA TESTING

In a sign that the Sierra Leone goverment has begun to fight back against the orchestrated ebola outbreak, The Ministry of Health and Sanitation announced yesterday it had ordered Tulane University to stop ebola testing and the US bioweapons laboratory at Kenema to be relocated in response to growing anger from locals.

The sensational announcement — posted on the health ministry’s facebook page — strongly suggests the notion that the diagnosis of Ebola using Tulane University kits at Kenema have been found to be false or faked.
The Kenema bioweapons lab is the only testing centre for ebola in Sierra Leona and holds the highest number of victims. Tulane University conducts bioweapons research on behalf of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ministry-of-Health-and-Sanitation-Sierra-Leone/281064805403702

The move comes after nurses at Kenema hospital went on an indefinite strike on Monday following the death of three of their colleagues on Sunday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/21/us-health-ebola-africa-idUSKBN0FQ0XO20140721

The ministry also denied that leading doctor Dr. Shiekh Umar Khan has died from Ebola as reported by mainstream media. The collapse of medical services is part of the power grab agenda promoted by WHO in order to justify calling on UN soldiers and other military forces to carry out a mass vaccination and quarantine campaign.
The Sierra Leone government said the US bioweapons lab in Kenema hospital is to be moved another location “as requested by health workers and the people of Kenema.” In addition, all new confirmed cases are be admitted to Kailahun hospital, which means that the US bioweapons lab at Kenema has been effectively closed down.
http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2014...ebola-testing/




(Reuters) - The U.S. government will begin testing on people an experimental Ebola vaccine as early as September, after seeing positive results from tests on primates, according to media reports on Thursday.

The National Institutes of Health's infectious disease unit is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to put the vaccine into trial as quickly as possible, according to CNN and USA Today. The director of that unit could not be reached for comment.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-usa-ebola-vaccine-idUSKBN0G02T320140731

January 14, 2014

Tekmira Doses First Subject in Human Clinical Trial of TKM-Ebola


VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 14, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Nasdaq:TKMR) (TSX:TKM), a leading developer of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, today announced that it has dosed the first subject in a Phase I human clinical trial of TKM-Ebola, an anti-Ebola viral therapeutic that is being developed under a US$140 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense.
"We are pleased to announce the first subject has been dosed in a Phase I clinical trial evaluating the safety of a new LNP formulation for our TKM-Ebola therapeutic. Building upon our compelling preclinical results, the Phase I data generated will guide our determination of the appropriate dose of this drug for the potential use as a medical countermeasure against this lethal hemorrhagic fever virus. We remain on track to have data from this trial available in the second half of this year," said Dr. Mark J. Murray, Tekmira's President and CEO.
"Tekmira's leadership in the area of anti-viral therapy for hemorrhagic fever viruses - and the innovations generated by our TKM-Ebola program - have formed a strong foundation for future RNAi-based anti-viral therapeutics, such as our earlier stage TKM-Marburg candidate," added Dr. Murray
http://investor.tekmirapharm.com/rel...leaseid=819313

[RichD]

Trinidad seh smaddy at dem airport might have it…i tink is Trinidad…is an island…mi read it last night….returning from Africa….u know how many we have coming from dere

Yes he was a Nigerian but had not been in Africa in 5 years.

somebody cause a panic.

[evanovitch]

Yes he was a Nigerian but had not been in Africa in 5 years.

somebody cause a panic.

yeah….guess all who a come back from summer visits a go ketch hell at the airport

[Blackstar*]

I haven't checked this one out yet.

[Blackstar*]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/08/11/spain-ebola-drug-priest/13890773/

Spain gets rare Ebola drug to treat stricken priest


A Spanish priest has received one of the world's few doses of an experimental Ebola drug, raising ethical questions about how to allocate scarce medicines for a fatal disease at at time when the virus has infected at least 1,848 people in West Africa.

The drug, ZMapp, is a mixture of three antibodies engineered to recognize Ebola and bind to infected cells so the immune system can kill them. It hasn't yet been tested in humans.
ZMapp's maker, Mapp Biopharmaceutical of San Diego, has said "very little of the drug is currently available" and that it is cooperating with government agencies to increase production as quickly as possible. The drug — made available on a compassionate use basis — also takes several months to produce, meaning that it will be months before any would be available in large amounts. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has publicly said that he knows of only three or four doses.

Two American aid workers, who were infected with Ebola and flown from Africa to a special unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, also have received doses.

Contrary to what many people believe, the "ultimate decision" for who gets an experimental drug is made by the manufacturer, not the government, says Arthur Caplan, head of the division of medical ethics at New York University's Langone Medical Center. Companies have drastically different policies for making unapproved drugs available, he says.

The World Health Organization scheduled a special meeting Monday to discuss how to ration scarce doses of the drug, and is expected to release a statement Tuesday. There are currently no proven medications or vaccines to treat Ebola, which has killed at least 1,013 people in West Africa, according to WHO officials, although several therapies are in development.

The fact that three Westerners have received ZMapp has led some to criticize the manufacturer of being biased toward Americans or whites, when so many black Africans are dying. Nigerian officials say they had asked U.S. health authorities about getting the Ebola drug but were apparently not helped.

"There's no reason to try this medicine on sick white people and to ignore blacks," said Marcel Guilavogui, a pharmacist in Conakry, Guinea. "We understand that it's a drug that's being tested for the first time and that could have negative side effects. But we have to try it in blacks too."
Last week, Anthony Kamara, a 27-year-old man riding a bicycle in Freetown, Sierra Leone, said "Americans are very selfish. They only care about the lives of themselves and no one else."
He referred to ZMapp as "the miracle serum" that the U.S. has "refused to share with us to save African lives."

Caplan says he didn't question the decision to give the drugs to physician Kent Brantly and missionary Nancy Writebol. That's because the humanitarian agencies who sent them to Africa were apparently the first to ask for the drug, Caplan says.

Brantly and Writebol also were essential first-responders, who traditionally are treated first in outbreaks, says G. Kevin Donovan, director of the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.. Both Brantly and Writebol put their lives on the line to help others, and first-responders need to stay healthy to treat the sick, Donovan says.

Few doctors, nurses or even orderlies and funeral directors will volunteer to treat infected people if they think they will be last in line for treatment, Caplan says. He notes that 80 health workers have died from Ebola since the outbreak began in March. Caplan says it's also critical to choose patients who can be followed not just for few days, but for months or years, to learn whether the treatments damage the liver or produce other side effects that can take time to appear. With drugs that are so new and experimental, doctors have an obligation to learn from every patient, he says. "If it damages your liver and causes it to shut down three months from now, that is not a cure," Caplan says.

But Caplan says it's "morally troubling" to give the drug to someone like the Spanish priest, who is not a health care professional and who is 75 years old. Older people have notoriously weak immune systems, Caplan says, so the drug may not work as well on him as in a younger person. He also may be in weaker health so it could be unclear whether any health problems that he experiences stem from the drug, or his advanced age.

Donovan argues that the Spanish priest, Miguel Pajares, was putting his life on the line, as well, even if he wasn't providing medical treatment, simply by trying to help Ebola victims. Donovan says he's troubled by the fact that Ebola and other diseases that primarily afflict developing countries have been ignored for so long.

"Given that we've known about Ebola since the 1970s, why has it taken so long to develop an appropriate response?" Donovan asks. "There just really wasn't enough interest from those who could be supporting drug development."

[Peasie]

So the US refuses to send an experimental drug that has not been tested on humans and is not FDA approved? Nigeria should have done what Spain did: circumvent the US govt and go directly to the manufacturer ... if it cared about its own people.

[My Looh]

The drug did not help the Spanish priest. He's dead!

[Gen]

US government officials said their role had been to put Liberian officials in contact with Zmapp maker Mapp Biopharmaceutical.

as of yesterday US authorized Zmapp to send it to Liberia to treat 2 local doctors, (usually priority goes to health professionals)

the company has stated that they have exhausted the limited supply that they had initially produced, it will take mths to get some more ???

WHO is currently meeting to decide the ethics of it all

So the US refuses to send an experimental drug that has not been tested on humans and is not FDA approved? Nigeria should have done what Spain did: circumvent the US govt and go directly to the manufacturer ... if it cared about its own people.

[Gen]

that spanish priest was old so he probably needed more than 1 dose, similar to the elderly missionary american lady, she ended up needing 2.

[franksterr]

a chink in the propaganda machine

So the US refuses to send an experimental drug that has not been tested on humans and is not FDA approved? Nigeria should have done what Spain did: circumvent the US govt and go directly to the manufacturer ... if it cared about its own people.

Stay away from the Manufacturer....Big Pharma/WHO/NIH

it is generally women that prepare dead bodies for funeral and look after ailing members of their communities......
Mbalya is one of those women. In her village in Guinea she was a healer, treating the sick with traditional remedies. “I got the virus through a patient,” she says. “At that time, nobody knew about Ebola.” She received treatment at a Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) facility in Guinea’s capital city, Conakry. Despite her old age and frail state, she recovered.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10998058/Ebola-virus-Meet-the-women-who-have-survived-the-deadly-disease.html

27 SEPTEMBER 1999
”Scientists may have found a cure for the deadly Ebola virus in a plant extract used in traditional African medicine, writes Clare Sansom.
The rare Ebola fever is one of the most dangerous of viral infections for which there is still no effective treatment. But results just presented at the 16th International Botanic Congress in St Louis, Missouri, suggest that a plant widely used in traditional African medicine may contain a compound that is effective against its causative agent, the Ebola virus.

John Huggins, of the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infective Diseases, who conducted the in vitro tests, emphasised the preliminary nature of the work so far. “This compound has passed the first stage with flying colours, but there is still a long way to go. It may be impossible to develop it into an effective drug.”The main barrier to the further development of this compound may be financial. Pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to invest resources in the development of drugs against extremely rare tropical diseases.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.u...148114.article





SHOCK DOCTRINE - DISASTER CAPITALISM = SAP + DOUBLE SPEAK

While the virus has killed almost a thousand people, most West Africans will never contract the disease or know anyone who does. But Ebola's economic impact will affect millions. When this crisis ends, Liberia and her neighbors will need international assistance to rebuild their battered economies—help that America is uniquely placed to provide.........We are now starting to receive international support. The World Bank and World Health Organization have established a special Ebola Fund to provide the three affected West African states, Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, with $200 million in support. Initially these monies will be used to pay medics and essential security personnel and to redouble public-information efforts aimed at making citizens aware of how they can help prevent the spread of the disease. In the medium term these funds will support basic economic-recovery measures.......
http://online.wsj.com/articles/amara-konneh-the-economics-of-ebola-1407709918

[franksterr]

does this qualify as a Freudian slip

I haven't checked this one out yet.

Charles Arntzen with Whaley and Zeitlin of MAPP biopharma are the inventors of the Vaccine use on the American EBOLA Patients

One should no longer wonder why the Africans no longer trust Western doctors and their scientists.

Whaley and Zeitlin had worked together as research scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for a decade, starting in 1990, studying ways to manufacture human antibodies in plants. Their original research focused on antibody-based contraceptives and microbicides,........ They worked for three years for Epicyte Pharmaceutical in San Diego.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/...p-ebola-serum/