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Health See other Health Articles Title: Boston hospital monitoring patient for possible Ebola case (Reuters) - A man in Massachusetts who recently returned from Liberia is being evaluated at a Boston hospital for a potential case of Ebola after complaining of a headache and muscle aches, health officials said on Sunday. The patient is at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center but there is no confirmation of Ebola, said Dr. Kenneth Sands, chief quality officer at Beth Israel. The response in Massachusetts demonstrates the high state of alert medical facilities are under since a Texas health worker became the first person on Sunday to contract the disease in the United States. She had treated a Liberian man who died of the deadly virus last week. "We are taking all necessary precautions in collaboration with the city of Boston and the department of public health for the potential that this is suspected Ebola,” Sands said at a news conference. "We are only at the stage where we are doing an assessment." Sands said if Ebola is suspected, doctors will test him for the disease, possibly with the help of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Testing would take 24 to 48 hours, he said. There have been several Ebola scares in the United States in the past week. A plane was briefly quarantined at a Las Vegas Airport on Friday after a passenger reported feeling unwell. Health officials around the country have fielded scores of possible cases that were false alarms. The Massachusetts patient first reported to the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates hospital in Braintree, Massachusetts, and was then transferred to Beth Israel, said Ben Kruskal, a physician and chief of infectious disease at Vanguard, in a statement. Kruskal said the Braintree building was closed briefly but reopened The current Ebola outbreak, the worst on record of the disease, has killed more than 4,000 people, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in West Africa. (Reporting by Kevin Murphy in Kansas City, Peter Cooney in Washington and Frank McGurty in New York; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Eric Walsh) Poster Comment: [ALFAOMEGA] The following could become reality in other nations that have a major outbreak as it is happening now in Liberia.You will have Governments taking advantage of the situation for their own gains. The African nation of Liberia was founded, in part, by freed American slaves, but now, nearly 200 years later, the country is in danger of becoming overrun by Ebola, and its president is seeking dictatorial powers. According to Voice of America (VOA), President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has petitioned the national legislature to extend to her additional emergency powers in the name of preventing the further spread of the deadly virus. Currently, the country is already under a state of emergency, as well as a curfew, VOA reported, adding: In a letter to the Plenary of the House of Representatives and the Senate, Sirleaf asked for powers to amend seven different articles under the constitution, including freedom of movement, speech, religion, confiscation of private property, and elections. 'I will vote against it' Acarous Gray, a member of the House of Representatives from Congress for Democratic Change, an opposition party, has announced he will vote "no" on Sirleaf's request for new authoritarian powers. He said he will do so because he does not want to see a return to a military-style dictatorship for Liberia, outbreak or not. "In my view, this is dangerous, and it reminds us of the days when the dictators govern Liberia," he said, as reported by VOA. "While it is true that we have a state of emergency, the Liberian Constitution under Article 87 is very clear that during the state of emergency no provision of the constitution can be suspended. So, we cannot provide an absolute authority of such to the President that will be draconian. I will publicly advocate against it, and I will vote against it." Disaster teams were notified months ago they would be activated in October across the U.S. A public tweet from a large U.S. government supplier of emergency response products specializing in "high risk events" says that(DART) Disaster Assistance Response Teams were told to prepare to be activated in the month of October.Not only did someone know that the Ebola virus would reach America , but they knew exactly when it would happen. Ebola will cripple EMS and hospitals everywhere the virus spreads. In the last three weeks Ebola virus has mutated over 300 times and each time it mutates it makes at least one to two changes to its structure. It's just a matter of time before it becomes an airborne contagion and spread like the flu .Right now it can be transmitted by air through moisture molecules if your around an infected person that coughs or sneezes. From 1976 (when it was first identified) through 2013, the World Health Organization reported a total of 1,716 cases. The largest outbreak to date is the ongoing 2014 West African Ebola outbreak, which is currently affecting Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria. As of 10 October 2014, 8,376 suspected cases resulting in the deaths of 4,024 have been reported. Bush meat is a possible candidate for its spread in Africa. There are over a dozen ebola strains with different structures and the U.S. government has had a patent on them since day one along with a few U.S. laboratory companies.It will be allowed to spread before the cure is released to the world. Scientist calculate "High Risk Ebola " reaching the UK and France by the end of October based on disease spread and airline traffic data. Theres a 75% chance it will reach France by October 24th,2014 and a 50% chance it will reach the UK by October 24,2014." 0ver the next several days, the public is going to see several journalists revealing both classified and non classified material related to the Ebola outbreak, and the subsequent deliberate spreading of Ebola through governmental inaction. The American people are also going to hear about operational details about how the government plans to deal with the Ebola outbreak.Mandatory Ebola vaccines are coming to America SOON! A group of German medical doctors in a peer-reviewed medical journal article published by Oxford University Press have challenged a key assumption regarding the Ebola virus repeatedly asserted by Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The researchers found that a patient showing no symptoms of the disease can still transmit a virus like Ebola by air if droplets containing the virus are transmitted to another person by a sneeze or cough.2 Walt Viruses spread in many ways; viruses in plants are often transmitted from plant to plant by insects that feed on plant sap, such as aphids; viruses in animals can be carried by blood-sucking insects. These disease-bearing organisms are known as vectors. Influenza viruses are spread by coughing and sneezing. Norovirus and rotavirus, common causes of viral gastroenteritis, are transmitted by the faecal–oral route and are passed from person to person by contact, entering the body in food or water. HIV is one of several viruses transmitted through sexual contact and by exposure to infected blood. The range of host cells that a virus can infect is called its "host range". This can be narrow or, as when a virus is capable of infecting many species! Here's another fact that the CDC is hiding from the public, it can spread by air droplets, an experiment was done in Virginia monkeys caught it from each other without close contact to anything other then breathing in tight quarters, and those that have Ebola can mask the symptoms with aspirin ! So, this fact of taking temps at airports is just to hold down panic! KathyR Yes, and Ebola's was the fruit bat! 8 Nathan Smith 8 hours ago 3 153 Our voices are loud and clear in comments everywhere--stop incoming travel from affected countries. Yet it's pointless--we only get carefully crafted statements from spokespeople on why this won't help. "Makes getting supplies and healthcare workers to hard-hit areas harder." Drop supplies in and transport healthcare workers by secured Military transport, don't allow unchecked, unnecessary travel. "It won't stop people who get here from complex flight patterns, such as stopping in other unaffected countries before continuing to the US." Yes but it will dramatically slow it down--isn't that the goal, at least iterative risk reduction? "We have to stop it at the source." Why not stop it from spreading elsewhere at the same time? We see the dam cracking, we hear the platitudes about hard this is to catch, yet the truth is obvious and our opinions--that affect our own future well-being--go unheard. It's infuriating. 153-3 Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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ALFAOMEGA WARNING FOR BRITAIN .......... Heads Up! 20,000 Students Returning to Britain from Ebola-Hit Countries for Start of Term! University cleaners have been warned to look out for blood and vomit as an estimated 20,000 students return from West Africa for the start of term. Universities the length and breadth of the country have drawn up emergency measures to monitor the highest-risk students for up to three weeks - the incubation period of the Ebola virus. Special attention is being paid to those who may be sharing bathrooms and kitchens, but officials stressed they were sensitive to any backlash against West African students. Scientist calculate "High Risk Ebola " reaching the UK and France by the end of October based on disease spread and airline traffic data. Theres a 75% chance it will reach France by October 24th,2014 and a 50% chance it will reach the UK by October 24,2014." 7 buzz Hello they sad several weeks ago we had 10,000 coming to our colleges. It isn't just Britain. They were going to interview and give them a quick medical check over and then send them to their dorms with a thermometer to monitor their own temperatures and on their honor report if they get a fever. Great idea right? No, no, and no. They are probably already here and in school. 32 If Britain allows ANY of these students to leave the port of departure without mandatory quarantine, they will surely be the first country to strike more fear in the free world than Liberia. They may find themselves on the end of the "stay over there" stick than they care to be. They need to be proactive, NOW! Other countries may be the targeted recipients of returning students. However, to stop and nail this thing, all countries will have to go along with temporarily detaining those wanting to return from infected areas with port-of-departure mandatory quarantine. No other way seems to be more effective! The students and families will just have to wait 21 days or so longer to reunite, if at all! Again, its the price to be paid for being in an infected area. Quarantine applies to the exposed and infected. ALL EYES ON BRITAIN AND WHO! Watch, read, listen, take care.Maybe its time to inundate congress, the CDC, the White House, the media, WHO, and airlines...they seem to have a REAL problem listening to the people they are supposed to best interests in. Be safe and informed people. 6
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