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Title: If Ebola only spreads via direct contact, how did the nurse in Spain get infected while wearing protective gear?
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Published: Oct 8, 2014
Author: Mike Adams
Post Date: 2014-10-08 11:06:17 by James Deffenbach
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Views: 254
Comments: 16
(NaturalNews) Health authorities in Spain have confirmed that a member of a medical team working in a modern hospital somehow managed to contract Ebola from a patient she was treating. As Associated Press reports: [1] Spanish authorities said they were investigating how the nurse became infected at a hospital with modern health care facilities and special equipment for handling cases of deadly viruses. "...Staff at the Carlos III hospital where she worked claimed the protective suits they were given were not good enough," reports the Daily Mail. [2] "Unnamed sources told Spanish daily El Pais the suits did not meet World Health Organisation standards. They said the suits they were issued with were permeable and lacked breathing apparatus." Modern health care facilities didn't protect this nurse from Ebola It is apparent from the reporting of this incident that: • The nurse was wearing medical isolation gear, and she knew she was treating an Ebola patient. • She had access to all the advantages of "modern health care facilities." • She was fully versed in infectious disease safety protocols and practices. And yet, despite all these advantages, this nurse still got infected by a virus that the CDC insists can only be transmitted via "direct contact." Medical staff infected when removing protective gear? As the Daily Mail reports, Dr. Ben Neuman, Lecturer in Virology at the University of Reading, has theorized that the nurse in Spain may have been infected by coming into contact while removing her protective gear: Nurses face a problem in that a person who is sick with Ebola can make quite a lot of highly infectious waste, as the patient loses fluid through diarrhoea and vomiting. Those bodily fluids can contain millions of Ebola viruses, and it only takes one to transfer the infection. The protective suits that Ebola workers wear provide excellent protection, but there is a danger when it is time to take the suit off. It is also possible that a tiny amount of Ebola-containing liquid splashed on the protective garments, and then was transferred to her skin while removing the protective clothing. What Dr. Neuman is describing, of course, is infection via INDIRECT contact -- a scenario that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control continues to claim is impossible. CDC director Tom Frieden continues to publicly claim that Ebola can only be contracted from "direct contact." This false claim is one of the five biggest lies about Ebola that the U.S. government continues to spread. The danger in this lie is that it encourages Ebola to spread more rapidly because citizens and front line health care workers are failing to take appropriate steps to protect themselves from acquiring the virus. If the CDC really wanted to halt Ebola in America, it would be demanding that all health care workers wear full face respirators when coming anywhere near an Ebola patient. But instead, we get the mantra of denial: "Ebola can only spread through direct contact." Tell that to the nurse in Spain. Learn pandemic preparedness today with the free, downloadable MP3 files from www.BioDefense.com Sources for this article include: [1] hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SP...
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#6. To: James Deffenbach, Lod, Jethro Tull, randge, X-15, christine, Horse, abraxas, All (#0)
Didn't know where to put this - lots of graphics which I can't do - and we've already been fooled once over the weekend. I think this time this is the real deal. I hope the ventilator and dialysis machine Thomas Duncan used are destroyed.
From another forum, it's scary: "Serum from him could potentially be useful, but since Ebola has such a high mutation rate, it wouldn't form the basis of a decent treatment. Duncan was given Brincidofovir, a treatment for other viruses, but it didn't apparently do much good. The drug is rated to treat adenovirus infections and it works because it's a nucleotide analog (the basic units of DNA and RNA) which the viral replication machinery picks up and incorporates into the viral genome. The drug is different on a chemical side chain, so once it's incorporated, it stops further extension (copying) of the genome and that copy is useless. So, over time the viral load will decrease as the virus can't make copies of itself effectively. The toxicity is limited because the Brincidofovir drug isn't picked up and used as efficiently by human DNA replication machinery, so it interferes less in human DNA replication than viral and adenoviruses are dsDNA viruses. Here's the problem: Ebola virus uses RNA as a genome and it's unknown how well Ebola incorporates the drug in place of actual nucleotides (it had never been tested for Ebola outside a test tube, so I guess they figured why not try a human case that was likely to croak anyway) . The standard model of gene expression is DNA--->RNA--->protein. DNA contains the info, RNA is like the software that executes the program and protein is the building block product. Some viruses like Ebola skip the DNA step and just have RNA for information storage. DNA and RNA use chemically different nucleotides (DNA=deoxyribonucleic acid; RNA=ribonucleic acid) and machinery that uses one tends to not pick up another, though maybe the Brincidofovir is different. More complex life uses DNA for info storage because it's more stable. Anyway, the treatment of Dallas Ebola Man with the drug just smacked of throwing shit at a wall to see what sticks as well as being a preemptive PR move so they couldn't be accused of letting a darky die without treatment while the white folks got the good stuff, although you know now that Jesse Jackson has shown up, that will be the chimpout fuel in the coming days. There's about a 50-75% chance that one (or more) of Duncan's relatives will spike a fever in the next week, given their close proximity to him when he was shedding virus. However, now that they have been moved to an "undisclosed location" where they can eat fried chicken in peace, we may never know as they don't want to panic the herd." From Rimjobistan: "My recollection is that he was reported dead by Israeli news media not long after being reportedly on dialysis due to kidney failure, unconscious and on life support, then a course of ZMapp somehow materialized and he was being treated with it. I’m starting to suspect (along with several other FReepers) that he was gone when that first death was announced but the body was kept alive via artificial means in order to test treatment(s)." "I cannot imagine the Israeli news service reporting the ebola death unless it were true. Ebola Tommy was most likely dead two days ago as reported by the Israeli news, kept alive on life support until the FedGov could figure out how to spin this - and remind us that “there is NOTHING to worry about.” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3212745/replies?c=89
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#9. To: scrapper2, All (#6)
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#12. To: X-15 (#9)
However, now that they have been moved to an "undisclosed location" where they can eat fried chicken in peace...
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