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Unidentified respiratory virus hit more than 1000 children across 10 US states, likely to spread across country

Gillian Mohney and Dean Schabner
ABC News
Sun, 07 Sep 2014 22:08 UTC
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A respiratory illness that has already sickened more than a thousand children in 10 states is likely to become a nationwide problem, doctors say.

The disease hasn't been officially identified but officials suspect a rare respiratory virus called human enterovirus 68. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the virus is related to the rhinovirus, which causes the common cold.

The disease hasn't been officially identified in every state, but in some states a rare respiratory virus called human enterovirus 68 has been found. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the virus is related to the rhinovirus, which causes the common cold.

According to Mark Pallansch, director of the Division of Viral Diseases at the CDC, similar cases to the ones in Colorado have been cropping up across the U.S. At least 10 states -- Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Iowa, Colorado, Ohio, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Georgia -- have reported suspected outbreaks of human enterovirus 68 and requested CDC support.
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Another toxic trail: Forgotten vials of ricin and plague discovered at US govt lab


RT
Sat, 06 Sep 2014 13:29 UTC
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Infectious, deadly diseases and toxins like plague, botulism and ricin have been uncovered at government laboratories in the United States. The discovery also revealed some of the vials had been stored for over 60 years.

The revelations come after officials from the National Institute of Health (NIH) made a sweep of government owned laboratories in July after they found smallpox. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also admitted it had found vials at a lab at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

Worryingly, inspectors also uncovered toxins and viruses, which had been lying around since 1954, with staff ignorant of the fact. The NIH said the discoveries were made between July 29 and August 27. The information was only made public on Friday.

"These things were stored in locations where they should not have been stored," said Alfred Johnson, director of the NIH's office of research services, which is coordinating the searches at government labs, the Washington Post reported.

Johnson also added that the NIH conducts research "on the most dangerous materials out there. All of these were found in containers that were intact, and there have been no exposures. It reminds us, just like my garage at home that from time to time, we need to check."

Comment: As if the threat of Ebola wasn't enough! Alas, these highly dangerous, bungling storage practices are quite common! See here, here and here for just a few recent examples.

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Respiratory ailment: Hundreds of Midwest kids hospitalized

David Ferguson
rawstory.com
Sat, 06 Sep 2014 09:07 UTC
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Doctors in Illinois are attempting to establish a connection between a respiratory ailment that has sickened hundred of school-age children in the state and a virus called Enterovirus 68 that has sent more than 300 children to the hospital in Missouri.

According to Reuters, hospitals in Illinois have placed age restrictions on visitors in an attempt to keep the highly infectious virus from passing from child to child.

In late August, hospitals in St. Louis and Kansas City reported a sharp increase in children with the kind of wheezing and coughing normally associated with asthma, high fevers, mouth blisters, skin rashes and body aches.
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Grains are killing us!

Ivanhoe Web
Youtube
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 07:09 UTC
Eating carbohydrates is harmful to your health. Find out what one neurologist says about changing our diets.

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Comment: Are you prepping your diet? This will give you some motivation:

Ebola virus rapidly mutating, making it harder to diagnose and treat

For more information, see:

'Carbohydrates rot the brain': Neurologist slams grains as 'silent brain killers' - and says we should be eating a high-fat diet

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Fluoroquinolones (created with fluoride) are worrisome for people with thyroid problems

Ronald Grisanti D.C., D.A.B.C.O., D.A.C.B.N., M.S
Yourmedicaldetective.com
Sat, 06 Sep 2014 15:09 UTC
When it comes to life-threatening infections, antibiotics have been a GodSend, however for minor infections the following antibiotics are troublesome and are known to cause some nasty side effects.
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The antibiotic family I am referring to are fluoroquinolones. You may also see it referred to as quinolones. The following make up the quinolones: Ciprofloxacin, Cipro, Ciloxan eye drops, Levofloxacin, Levaquin, Quixin, Moxifloxacin, Avelox, Vigamox eye drops, Norfloxacin, Noroxin, Ofloxacin, Ocuflox, Floxin, Floxin Otic, Floxacin, Trovafloxacin, Trovan and alatrofloxacin.

Side effects include sudden severe insomnia, hypnic jerks, tendon and cartilage tears, brain fog, weird sensations like bugs crawling on you, headaches, buzzing, pain, tinnitus (ear ringing), face-down fatigue, moving abdominal pain and every thyroid symptom possible.

For people with thyroid disease, these antibiotics are especially worrisome because the quinolone antibiotics are built with a fluoride backbone. It is important to note that fluoride is extremely toxic to your thyroid. Combining quinolone antibiotics with Levothyroxine (a T4 drug) may lead to reduced absorption of thyroid medicine and cause changes in TSH. From a functional medicine perspective, fluoride competes with iodine which is necessary to make T4.
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Hundreds of children affected, severe respiratory virus reaches Colorado

Will C. Holden, Heather Mills
Fox31 Denver
Fri, 05 Sep 2014 03:30 UTC
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© Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver PostWill Cornejo is recovering at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center.
A potentially severe virus that has plagued hundreds of children across a 900-mile stretch in the Midwest in recent weeks has made its way to Colorado.

The severe respiratory illness, which in some cases is believed to have been brought on by human enterovirus-68, an uncommon respiratory viral pathogen, is impacting mostly children, including several in Colorado.

Angie Anania, a spokesperson for Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children in Denver, said five different children have been checked into their hospital because of this virus this week alone.

One 13-year-old was discovered unconscious and barely breathing on Wednesday. He was placed on a ventilator and has slowly improved, Anania said, but he was still in the hospital's intensive care unit as of Friday.

Comment: See also: Mysterious respiratory illness is spreading in Ohio, causing unusually high number of cases

Learn more about the nature of viruses and the important role diet plays in fighting viruses.
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Tsunami of anger about to explode in CDC autism scandal


Health Impact News Daily
Sat, 06 Sep 2014 05:38 UTC
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As we have previously reported, CNN so far is the only mainstream media (MSM) outlet to report on the CDC whistleblower story regarding CDC senior vaccine scientist Dr. William Thompson, who has come forward to confess that the CDC has withheld key information linking vaccines to autism. This is the one story the MSM does not want to cover, because they have repeated the CDC's mantra for years now that there is no evidence that vaccines cause autism.

The CNN story that was published on their website reporting about Dr. Thompson marginalized the significance of his public statement, and did not report on the contents of his taped conversations with Dr. Brian Hooker, where he expressed deep sorrow for remaining silent all these years. (See: MSM Marginalizes CDC Whistleblower Story on Vaccine-Autism Coverup) So far, other MSM outlets have not said much about this news, as it seems the story is still too "hot" for them to touch, as events continue to unfold.

Comment: See also:

Senior government scientist breaks 13 years of silence on CDC's vaccine-autism fraud

Relationship between MMR Vaccine and Autism: CDC whistleblower goes public

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Sierra Leone to enter 4-day nationwide 'lockdown' as Ebola death toll tops 2,000


RT
Sat, 06 Sep 2014 03:34 UTC
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Sierra Leone announced it will implement a four-day "lockdown" across the country in an attempt to contain the spread of Ebola. The Friday move came as the World Health Organization stated that the virus has so far claimed over 2,000 lives in Africa.

Beginning September 18, the nation will prohibit residents from leaving their homes for four days, with the hopes that health officials will be able to detect early-stage cases, Ibrahim Ben Kargbo, a presidential advisor in Sierra Leone, told Reuters.

"The aggressive approach is necessary to deal with the spread of Ebola once and for all," he said.

Unfortunately, the news was accompanied by worsening statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO), which announced on Friday that out of the roughly 4,000 people that have been confirmed to have the virus, 2,105 people have died in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria.
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Sierra Leone considering nationwide quarantine over Ebola outbreak

Kemo Cham
Africa Review
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:47 UTC
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© AFP PHOTO | ISSOUF SANOGO A man walks past a poster raising awareness on the Ebola virus reading "the risk Ebola is still there. Let us apply the protective measures together", on September 2, 2014 in Abidjian, Cote d'Ivoire.
An aide to Sierra Leone's President has said the president was "seriously" contemplating a nationwide shutdown to contain spread of Ebola.

For weeks now there has been speculation about a planned 21-day nationwide quarantine to prevent sick people from moving around, a situation that has seen the virus spread uncontrollably.

The government had denied that it intended to take such drastic measures to contain the virus but the aide Ben Kargbo, a insider in the government, said Wednesday that President Ernest Bai Koroma was now considering it.

"The decision has not been taken yet, but to stop people from running around, this is very important," he said in an interview.

"If we move to that direction let no one blame the President because he is trying to save lives," he added.

Comment: It's looking more and more likely that Western leaders are underestimating the danger of the Ebola outbreak in Africa. If they do nothing until the outbreak reaches American shores, it will be too late.

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Ebola outbreak 'unstoppable' says doctor recently returned from West Africa

Rachael Rettner
Live Science
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:37 UTC
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A doctor who just returned from treating Ebola patients in West Africa predicts the current Ebola outbreak will go on for more than a year, and will continue to spread unless a vaccine or other drugs that prevent or treat the disease are developed.

Dr. Daniel Lucey, an expert on viral outbreaks and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Medical Center, recently spent three weeks in Sierra Leone, one of the countries affected by the Ebola outbreak. While there, Lucey evaluated and treated Ebola patients, and trained other doctors and nurses on how to use protective equipment.

The current Ebola outbreak, which is mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, has so far killed at least 1,552 of the more than 3,000 people infected, making it the largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak in history. It is also the first outbreak to spread from rural areas to cities. Strategies that have worked in the past to stop Ebola outbreaks in rural areas may not, by themselves, be enough to halt this outbreak, Lucey said.

"I don't believe that our traditional methods of being able to control and stop outbreaks in rural areas ... is going to be effective in most of the cities," Lucey said yesterday (Sept. 3) in a discussion held at Georgetown University Law Center that was streamed online. While the World Health Organization has released a plan to stop Ebola transmission within six to nine months, "I think that this outbreak is going to go on even longer than a year," Lucey said.
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