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Group of Ebola Exposed Missionaries coming to Charlotte North Carolina

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Wonderful news. Great news. Absolutely great!

An UNDISCLOSED NUMBER of people who had contact with the Ebola virus are coming to Charlotte, North Carolina.

It was dumb to bring the infected to Atlanta, now it's become really REALLY dumb, bringing people over here to wait 21 days to find out , why not a quarantine boat, or overseas?!


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The question about Ebola that no one can answer

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How in the world is it possible that more than 170 health workers have been infected by the Ebola virus? That is the one question about Ebola that nobody can seem to answer. The World Health Organization is reporting this as a fact, but no explanation is given as to why this is happening. We are just assured that Ebola "is not airborne" and that getting infected "requires close contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person". If this is true, then how have more than 170 health workers caught the disease? These workers are dressed head to toe in suits that are specifically designed to prevent the spread of the virus. So how is this happening? I could understand a handful of "mistakes" by health workers, but this is unlike anything that we have ever seen in the history of infectious diseases. These health workers take extraordinary precautions to keep from getting the virus. If it is spreading so easily to them, what chance is the general population going to have?

Comment: Are you prepping your diet?


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HealthMap algorithm predicted Ebola outbreak nine days before it was announced

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The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is focusing a spotlight on a unique online tool run by experts in Boston that flagged a "mystery hemorrhagic fever" in forested areas of southeastern Guinea nine days before the World Health Organization formally announced the epidemic.

HealthMap is an innovative tool that uses algorithms to scour tens of thousands of social media sites, local news, government websites, infectious-disease physicians' social networks, and other sources to detect and track disease outbreaks. Sophisticated software filters irrelevant data, classifies the relevant information, identifies diseases and maps their locations with the help of experts.

The site is run by a group of 45 researchers, epidemiologists, and software developers at BCH (Boston Children's Hospital). HealthMap was first introduced in 2006 with a core audience of public health specialists, but that changed as the system evolved and the public became increasingly hungry for information during the swine flu pandemic.

While public health workers still make up a large proportion of users, HealthMap has been adapted to be more user-friendly for the general public. It locates the outbreaks on a world map and creates a color-coding system that indicates the severity of an outbreak on the basis of news reportage about it. Users of the site can then analyze and visualize the data, gaining unprecedented views of disease outbreaks. Here's what the output looks like:

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Four new Ebola cases in Nigeria connected to consultant with Liberian Ministry of Finance

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Well, this isn't good:

The World Health Organization reported four new cases of Ebola in Nigeria Friday, all of them among health care workers and others who had contact with American consultant Patrick Sawyer, a spokesman said.

"They're all contacts of Patrick Sawyer," said Gregory Hartl, a spokesman for the WHO in Geneva. He said all are health care workers, cleaners or others at the hospital where Sawyer was taken after he collapsed in the airport following a flight from Liberia to Nigeria. "We know that he had contact with very few people at the airport," Hartl said.

Sawyer died in Lagos, Nigeria, on July 25. The Liberian-born American citizen collapsed in the Lagos airport after displaying symptoms of Ebola on his flight there. He had been planning to visit the U.S. weeks later to be at the birthday parties for his daughters.

The fact that four people who had contact with Sawyer have Ebola is worrisome because it raises the specter of transmitting the disease beyond Lagos, Hartl said. But the Nigerian ambassador to the U.S. said there have been no Ebola cases outside of the city.

Sawyer is one of three Americans known to be infected with Ebola. The other two - Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol - were flown back to the U.S. for treatment at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. And the outbreak has created some concern in the U.S.; earlier this week, Mount Sinai Hospital in New York was testing a patient for Ebola, sparking fears, only for it to turn out that the patient didn't have it.

Comment: "A man whose death is believed to be Nigeria's first in a still-widening Ebola virus outbreak was planning a trip to Minnesota to visit his family next month, his wife said. Patrick Sawyer, a 40-year-old consultant with the Liberian Ministry of Finance, was en route to a conference when he collapsed upon arrival in Lagos, Nigeria, the Associated Press reported."

Suspected U.S. Ebola victim in Nigeria had planned a visit to Minnesota

See also: Liberia declares state of emergency as Ebola death toll reaches 932


Footprints

Ebola outbreak: Real threat or false flag?

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The mainstream media is hyping the "biggest ever" Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

We are told that the dread disease, which produces symptoms like something out of a horror movie, is spreading to the USA. Some Americans are canceling their vacations and refusing to fly, believing that they might catch Ebola on an airplane.

People are being terrorized by horrific images, fear of a quick and awful death, and fear of airplanes. The fears are out of all proportion to the reality of the threat. Where have we seen this before?
On September 11th, 2001, the American public was subjected to trauma-based mind control - an intensive form of the brainwashing technique known as coercion, described in a book by Douglas Rushkoff of the same name. Trauma-based mind control uses extreme fear or horror to shape the subconscious minds of its victims. It is a highly effective technique for making people submit to authority without realizing what they are doing or why.
In the autumn of 2001, we were brainwashed into believing that radical Muslims, using airplanes, anthrax, and who knows what else, were willing and able to kill large numbers of Americans. As a result, the US went to war against Muslim nations, persecuted Muslims worldwide, shredded the Constitution, threw away trillions of dollars, and risked moral as well as fiscal bankruptcy.

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Restrictions eased by FDA on experimental Ebola drug as CDC warns of inevitable spread to U.S.

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© www.ibtimes.comEbola drug option receives preliminary go-ahead.
While Ebola, the deadly disease spreading through parts of West Africa, has no cure, specific treatment or vaccine, there are several experimental drugs being tested in US labs. Now the FDA has lifted its hold on one of those drugs.

The US Food and Drug Administration gave Tekmira Pharmaceuticals verbal confirmation that they modified the full clinical hold the regulatory agency had placed on the company's experimental TKM-Ebola drug, enabling the potential use on Ebola patients, Tekmira said in a statement.

"We are pleased that the FDA has considered the risk-reward of TKM-Ebola for infected patients. We have been closely watching the Ebola virus outbreak and its consequences, and we are willing to assist with any responsible use of TKM-Ebola. The foresight shown by the FDA removes one potential roadblock to doing so," said Dr. Mark Murray, CEO and president of Tekmira.

"This current outbreak underscores the critical need for effective therapeutic agents to treat the Ebola virus. We recognize the heightened urgency of this situation, and are carefully evaluating options for use of our investigational drug within accepted clinical and regulatory protocols."

The company, in collaboration with infectious disease researchers from Boston University and the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, showed the drug's ability to protect non-human primates from Ebola in preclinical trials in May 2010, Tekmira said.
A Phase I clinical trial ‒ the first step towards FDA approval ‒ began on humans in January. The agency then approved a fast-track designation for the drug in March, around the same time the Ebola outbreak began in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. It has since spread to Nigeria. According to World Health Organization figures published on Wednesday, there are over 1,700 suspected and confirmed cases of Ebola in the four countries, and 932 of those patients have died from the disease.
A different drug, ZMapp by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., was used to treat two American aid workers who had contracted Ebola in Liberia. ZMapp, previously only known as "a secret serum," has not been given the go-ahead to begin human trials yet, Forbes reported. It works by boosting the immune system to battle against Ebola. The treatment consists of antibodies from lab animals exposed to the virus.


Comment: Timing? Phase1 clinical trials of TKM-Ebola began simultaneously with the outbreak of the virus in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea in March. Depending on the "specific population" a FDA assessment is created for an acceptable "risk-benefit balance" in order to "fast-track the development and expedite the review of drugs to fill an unmet medical need." Purportedly, TKM-Ebola is considered the best-positioned drug that could be stockpiled by the U.S. Department of Defense. Securing this stockpiling contract, Tekmira could receive annual cash flows of $75M for both TKM-Ebola and TKM-HBV. Tekmira Pharmaceuticals increased their stock shares worth over 75% since July 22...well before the fast-track announcement on August 3, 2014, supposedly spurred on by the serum given to Brantley and Writebol. The experimental serum given to U.S. healthcare workers was ZMapp, not TKM-Ebola. Hmmm...

Looking more closely..."Tekmira has long been a partner for the biotech companies receiving royalties for products relying on its delivery technology. However, that changed with the announcement Monsanto (MON) would be licensing Tekmira's intellectual property to develop weed and pest control and virus suppression products. In return for a near term payment of $16.5 million and ongoing future payments as milestones are met, Tekmira is providing lipid formulations to Monsanto along with the option to purchase the worldwide rights to its technology. In all, the contract could potentially be worth $86.2 million over the four year option period." Tekmira Signs Development Agreement on Delivery Technology for Agricultural Applications

Itty bitty questions anyone?


Syringe

Ebola cases and malaria mix amid slow-motion disaster

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© newsverge.comHospitals admit some patients came with symptoms suggestive of malaria...fever, headaches, extreme weakness...but precautions must be taken in case it is ebola.
As the death toll rises in West Africa amid the worst Ebola outbreak on record, a separate threat is compounding the problem: the rainy season and the malaria that comes with it.

In Sierra Leone, with the most Ebola cases in the epidemic, a fearful population is failing to seek medical attention for any diseases, health officials say. If they have malaria, the feeling is they don't want to go near a hospital with Ebola cases. If it's Ebola, they don't believe the hospitals can help them anyway, instead turning to traditional healers.

It's a widening challenge complicated by the fact that Ebola, malaria and cholera share common symptoms early on, including fever and vomiting, which can cause confusion among patients, said Cyprien Fabre, head of the West Africa office of the European Commission's humanitarian aid department.

"We now have increased mortality for these other diseases" as well, Fabre said by telephone from Freetown, the country's capital, after visiting Ebola treatment centers in Kenema and Kailahun near the eastern border. "This is a slow-motion disaster."

The issue threatens to further undermine health and welfare in Sierra Leone, which has the world's highest rate of child and maternal mortality, Fabre said.

The outbreak has killed 932 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since it was first reported in March, according to the World Health Organization. That includes 45 deaths from Aug. 2 to Aug. 4, the health group said.

Comment: There are four different strains of ebola that can infect humans causing Ebola virus disease (EVD) or Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF). Because the genetic change rate is slow, on par with Hepatitis B, the Ebolavirus has been around for thousands of years. The Zaire virus, a form of Ebola, is the most deadly, most prevalent and its symptoms resemble malaria. Viruses do not grow through cell division, because they are not cells (acellular); instead, they use the machinery and metabolism of a host cell to produce multiple copies of themselves, and they assemble in the cell. Because they are highly infectious via body fluids, oral exposure, and are breathable, they are classified as Category A biological weapons.


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Nigeria declares Ebola outbreak national emergency - Minister of Health: "Everyone in the world now at risk"

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The Nigerian government on Wednesday described the Ebola outbreak in the country as a national emergency.

Minister of Health Onyebuchi Chukwu said this at an emergency meeting convened by the House of Representatives Committee on Health over the Ebola outbreak in Abuja, the nation's capital city.

He said out of six Nigerians diagnosed with Ebola virus, one had died on Tuesday, adding that the other five patients were receiving treatment.

Comment: There's plenty of information to use to protect yourself and loved ones, so don't let the mainstream media scare you silly:

Pestilence, the Great Plague, and the Tobacco Cure

Natural treatments for Ebola virus exist, research suggests

Natural allopathic treatment modalities for Ebola virus

And of course there is the matter of strengthening the immune system through adopting a Ketogenic Diet.


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Christian broadcaster: Ebola could cleanse U.S. of atheists, gay people, and sluts

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A Christian radio host who enthusiastically looks for signs the world will end welcomed the Ebola virus as a cleansing force.

"This Ebola epidemic could become a global pandemic and that's another name for plague," said broadcaster Rick Wiles on his Trunews program.

"It may be the great attitude adjustment that I believe is coming," Wiles continued. "Ebola could solve America's problems with atheism, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, pornography, and abortion."

Wiles was enthusiastic Tuesday about the arrival of Ebola, but Right Wing Watch reported that he warned the previous day that President Barack Obama may intentionally spread the deadly virus through a mandatory and mysterious vaccine.

That would somehow then allow Obama to declare martial law and force Americans into FEMA camps, the religious right broadcaster theorized.

"If Ebola becomes a global plague, you better make sure the blood of Jesus is upon you, you better make sure you have been marked by the angels so that you are protected by God," Wiles warned. "If not, you may be a candidate to meet the Grim Reaper."

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Doctor: 'There's not enough panic & customers to make an Ebola Vaccine' - Oh really?

A short two-minute video Bloomberg News uploaded to YouTube attempts to explain why the world doesn't already have a widely available Ebola vaccine.

(Trusting the ingredients of such a thing and whether or not you would personally take it is another matter entirely, but hold on a second.)