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Erring on the side of idiocy: CDC contradictions and the US Ebola situation

Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
Thruthstream Media
Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC
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CDC officials have told us the outbreak of Ebola on American soil - the first ever Ebola patient diagnosed outside of Africa is here - but don't worry, they have everything under control.

They have continually reassured the public that they have complete confidence in their protocols and the American medical infrastructure which will follow those protocols to a 'T'.

Except with Ebola Patient Zero, the hospital in Dallas that sent a man home who showed up with flu-like symptoms after just having returned six days prior from the Ebola-ravaged African nation of Liberia, the protocols and that infrastructure the CDC is so confident in has "regrettably" failed.


Comment: Exactly!

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Multi-systems approach to Alzheimer's disease may reverse symptoms with improvement sustained

Jeremy Dean
PsyBlog
Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC
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Nine out of ten patients with memory problems showed improvements with Bredesen's novel multi-systems approach.
Memory loss in patients with Alzheimer's disease may be reversed - and the improvement sustained - using a novel treatment approach, a small exploratory study has found.

The study, which included 10 patients, used a combination of therapies which were personalised to help them reverse memory loss (Bredesen, 2014).

Some patients were getting disoriented while driving, others mixing up names and some had been forced to quit their jobs.

Within three to six months of the treatment all but one of the patients was seeing either objective or subjective improvements in their memory.

Those who had been forced to quit work were able to return.

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Anti-anxiety and sleeping drugs found to double the risk of death

Jeremy Dean
PsyBlog
Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC
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Massive study of 100,000 people finds evidence for long-suspected danger of anxiety and sleeping drugs.
Like many drugs, those prescribed for anxiety disorders, like diazepam and temazepam, have a number of known side-effects like daytime sleepiness, falls, an increased risk of dementia - and they are also addictive.

Now, though, a new study has found evidence for a long-suspected danger of these drugs as well as common sleeping pills: an increased risk of death.

The large study, published in the British Medical Journal, looked at data from over 100,000 patients who had been to their family doctors across seven years (Weich et al., 2014).

It found that taking anti-anxiety drugs (like diazepam) or sleeping pills (like zolpidem/Ambien) doubled the risk of death.

Comment: There are numerous studies showing that natural methods such as supplements, exercise and meditation are far better at combating anxiety and sleeplessness. The problem is that BigPharma has been too successful in pushing drugs as the cure-all for everything, because there is no money to be made from natural cures.

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Attention

NBC cameraman tested positive for Ebola, entire crew to return to U.S., and quarantined

Fred Barbash
The Washington Post
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:58 UTC
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NBC News says a freelance cameraman working for the network has tested positive for Ebola and will be flown back to the United States for treatment.

The network reported the freelancer, identified as Ashoka Mukpo, was just hired Tuesday to be a second cameraman for its medical editor, Nancy Snyderman, a physician. It said the freelancer, who has been working in Liberia for some time, showed symptoms Wednesday, and was feeling "tired and achy" before being tested.

The network said the 33-year old cameraman, who is also a writer, was taken to a Doctors Without Borders treatment center and that the positive result came back 12 hours later.

He is the fourth American known to have contracted Ebola in Liberia, according to NBC. Another physician, reportedly American and working for the World Health Organization, was flown back to the United States after testing positive in Sierra Leone.
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Faux News host to CDC director: Obama misled Americans about 'a lot of things' how can we trust him on Ebola?

David Edwards
Rawstory
Wed, 01 Oct 2014 03:58 UTC
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© Fox News/screen grabFox News host Steve Doocy
News host Steve Doocy on Wednesday asked CDC Director Dr. Tim Frieden how he could be trusted to tell the country the truth about Ebola when President Barack Obama had misled Americans about "a lot of things." Following the news that a case of Ebola had been diagnosed in Texas, Doocy told Frieden that his own daughter thought she might be at risk to contract the disease.

"I know you say the public does not need to worry about it," Doocy said. "But I've got to tell you something, my daughter works in the building directly across the street from the hospital, and I talked to her last night. She's a little freaked out."

Frieden assured Doocy that his daughter was safe because she had not come in contact with the patient.

"Let's go back and look at the plain truth of how Ebola spreads, it only spreads through someone who's sick," the CDC director explained. "And only spreads from direct contact with the person or their body fluids."

Doocy said that Fox News viewers had written in expressing doubts about Frieden and the CDC because they were "part of the administration."

"They feel that the administration has misled a lot of people on a lot of things," Doocy remarked. "Why should we believe you when you're telling us this stuff?"

Comment: While Faux News is known for being a tool of the neo-conservatives, they have a point. When the government lies, consistently, about pretty much everything, how can we believe anything they say.

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American mother threatened with child endangerment for using medicinal cannabis oil on child who has severe brain disorder

Scott Kaufman
Rawstory
Wed, 01 Oct 2014 02:57 UTC
A Minnesota prosecutor will proceed with a child endangerment case against a mother who provided medical marijuana to her son to treat symptoms of a traumatic brain injury - despite the fact that Minnesota recently passed a law allowing cannabis oil to be used for medical purposes - ThinkProgress reports. That law, however, will not go into effect until 2015. Angela Brown's son, Trey, suffered the injury at a baseball game three years ago.

"It just hurts in my brain everywhere," Trey said. "I really can't explain the pain." Along with the pain, he suffers from uncontrollable muscle spasms and seizures so severe that he had to stop attending school and caused him to be suicidal.

"I was afraid to go to the bathroom," his mother Angela Brown said, because "he'd be harming himself."

Last winter, she took Trey to Colorado, where they found a doctor who prescribed a particular strain of cannabis oil to treat him. "Within an hour of him taking it, we could tell a difference," Angela Brown said. When he returned to school, teachers and administrators wondered about his seemingly miraculous recovery. When Trey informed them, however, they were less than pleased.

Comment: It's a shame that people can't get the medicine they require, that works, because bureaucracy comes first.

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Vitamin D significantly improves symptoms of winter-related atopic dermatitis in children


EurekAlert!
Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC
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A study conducted in more than 100 Mongolian schoolchildren found that daily treatment with a vitamin D supplement significantly reduced the symptoms of winter-related atopic dermatitis, a type of eczema. Led by a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physician, the report in the October issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology supports the results of a preliminary study that showed similar results in a small group of children in Boston.

"While we don't know the exact proportion of patients with atopic dermatitis whose symptoms worsen in the winter, the problem is common," says Carlos Camargo, MD, DrPH, MGH Department of Emergency Medicine. "In this large group of patients, who probably had low levels of vitamin D, taking daily vitamin D supplements - which are inexpensive, safe and widely available - proved to be quite helpful." Camargo led both the earlier Boston pilot study and the current investigation, which was performed in collaboration with investigators from the Health Sciences University of Mongolia.

A chronic inflammatory disorder of the skin, atopic dermatitis is uncomfortable and makes patients more vulnerable to bacterial infection. Symptoms of the disorder - most commonly seen in children - often worsen during wintertime. While controlled administration of ultraviolet light, which can stimulate the production of vitamin D in the skin, is a common treatment for severe atopic dermatitis, the possibility that vitamin D deficiency contributes to the seasonal worsening of symptoms had received little consideration prior to the Boston study. That investigation involved only 11 children but provided preliminary support for the hypothesis.
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Loss of smell may be predictor of death in older adults

Bill Berkrot
ABC Science, Australia
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 21:16 UTC
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© melpomenem/iStockphotoResearchers tested the study participants' ability to identify five different odours (in order of difficulty): peppermint, fish, orange, rose or leather.
Being unable to smell the roses may be far more dire than simply missing out on one of life's pleasures.

In older adults, it could be a predictor of increased risk of death within five years.

In a study of more than 3,000 people aged 57 to 85, 39 per cent of subjects who failed a simple smelling test died within five years, according to results published in the journal PLOS One.

That compared with a 19 per cent death rate within five years for those with moderate smell loss, and 10 per cent for those deemed to have a healthy sense of smell.

"Compared to a person with a normal sense of smell, a person with an absent sense of smell has three times greater risk of dying within a five-year span," says the study's lead author Dr Jayant Pinto of the University of Chicago .

"What this tells us is your sense of smell is a great indicator of your overall health," says Pinto, who specialises in genetics and treatment of olfactory and sinus disease.

He likens the loss of smell to a canary in a coal mine.
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Health fiasco: Ebola patient vomited in ambulance, five children exposed, took at least three flights


The Extinction Protocol
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC
Eric Duncan
© www.telegraph.co.ukEric Duncan, Liberian national, under quarantine in Dallas hospital for Ebola.
Five students, who attended four different Dallas schools, are being monitored this week after possibly being in close contact with the Ebola patient over the weekend. At a news conference at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, the state's governor Rick Perry said parents were concerned but he allayed fears of contagion.

Officials said they are monitoring up to another dozen people who may have come into contact with the man. Thomas Eric Duncan is thought to have contracted the virus in Liberia. The Liberian national came to the U.S. nearly two weeks ago to visit relatives and he is the first man to be diagnosed with Ebola while in the US. Mr. Duncan is now in a serious condition, a spokeswoman for the hospital said.

A nurse had asked him on his first visit to the hospital when he felt ill if he had been in an area affected by the Ebola outbreak. He told them he had been to Liberia but the "information was not fully communicated throughout the whole team," according to hospital officials. Mr. Duncan was then sent home with antibiotics - a decision hospital bosses have described as a matter of "regret" - but he was admitted when he returned two days later. Mr. Duncan's family are among up to 18 people being monitored after exposure to the man along with the ambulance crew who transported him to hospital.

According to The New York Times, Mr. Duncan worked moving cargo for Fedex in the Liberian capital Monrovia but had recently quit his job and gotten a visa to come to the U.S. where his son reportedly lives.

The Times also revealed that Mr. Duncan may have contracted Ebola while helping carry his landlord's seriously ill, pregnant daughter to hospital. The woman, named by The Times as 19-year-old Marthalene Williams was taken to a hospital on September 15, but turned away because there was no room to treat her. She died the following day.

Comment: It is widely suspected that the number of Ebola cases and the death statistics from Africa are grossly understated. Mr. Duncan may well have infected passengers on his three flights if his symptoms were far enough along to be contagious. It is widely publicized that Ebola is only transmitted through bodily fluids, however there is a good chance it has already gone airborne. If so, the United States has a big problem on its hands. Despite the bravado of Rick Perry to the contrary, the medical infrastructure--both internationally and in Texas--was negligent and unprepared. Ambulance personnel, flight passengers including children, neighborhood residents, and who knows whom else, may have been unwittingly exposed because the emphasis of this threat has not been taken seriously. It is spokesmen, like Perry, who do not understand the complexity and potential of this disease, think optimism outranks protocol, twist the facts to match the message and try to camouflage its severity that are the catalysts for insufficient preparation while cautionary measures are ignored. We need more from our medical experts and half-ass politicians than crossed fingers on this one.

And United Airlines THINKS he was on those two particular flights...what is wrong here?

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Ebola nightmare in Sierra Leone: 'Five infected every hour' in a terrifying new rate of acceleration


The Extinction Protocol
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC
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A leading charity has warned that a rate of five new Ebola cases an hour in Sierra Leone means healthcare demands are far outstripping supply. Save the Children said there were 765 new cases of Ebola reported in the West African state last week, while there are only 327 beds in the country.

Experts and politicians are set to meet in London to debate a global response to the crisis. It is the world's worst outbreak of the virus, killing 3,338 people so far. There have been 7,178 confirmed cases, with Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea suffering the most. The number of people infected and dying from the disease is being vastly underreported.

Save the Children says Ebola is spreading across Sierra Leone at a "terrifying rate," with the number of new cases being recorded doubling every few weeks. It said that even as health authorities got on top of the outbreak in one area, it spread to another.

The scale of the disease is also "massively unreported" according to the charity, because "untold numbers of children are dying anonymously at home or in the streets." Earlier this month, Britain said it would build facilities for 700 new beds in Sierra Leone but the first of these will not be ready for weeks, and the rest may take months.

Comment: According to other sources, the outbreak's unprecedented scale and geographic spread have pushed governments to impose severe measures, cordoning off of entire towns or regions. Last week, Sierra Leone imposed a three-day nationwide lockdown, confining its six million people to their homes while health teams took on the task to look for the sick and educate people about the disease. The exercise revealed the outbreak is worse than thought with 160 Ebola cases found during the shutdown. The risk of infection among health workers is also much higher than previously thought. A recount in Sierra Leone revealed a 72 per cent death rate, instead of a 40 per cent rate previously reported. The WHO said its latest data did not yet include the cases and deaths found during a three-day lockdown in Sierra Leone.

Alert: Potential Ebola patient currently in isolation and undergoing testing and evaluation in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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