06 October 2014 (02:47 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/14 Mehr 1393/13 Jia-Xu 4712
“…because it’s such a deadly disease, people are scared. And it’s normal to be scared, in fact for the health care workers who are caring for people with Ebola, we want them to be scared! We want them to have a healthy respect of the risk for any lapse in infection control procedure.”-Tom Frieden, questionable director of U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention
The New Zealand Ministry of Health has just warned local health districts to be on alert for people infected with ebola virus disease (EVD). Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital has already set up a special bio-containment unit. Basically New Zealand health officials don’t want to be put in the same situation as U.S. health officials. They admit they’ve already been screening people coming into the country, 47 since August.
The former(?) U.S. colony of Liberia has imposed a Martial Law news media blackout, journalist could be arrested if they don’t have government approval to cover the outbreak. Pro-U.S. government officials use the excuse of protecting the “privacy” of the people infected. The EVD outbreak is out of control there, causing Liberia to have the highest death rate of any country dealing with EVD.
And a big warning for dog owners, and another reason not to let your dog run around unattended. Videos on the internet showing that dogs in Liberia are eating the unburied bodies of EVD victims. A report published in 2005 showed that dogs can be infected with EVD by eating infected meat. This was uncovered during the 2001–2002 outbreak in Gabon. This poses the question; if EVD can be spread to dogs from the food they eat, what are the chances that the animals (or even plants) humans eat can become infected, or maybe even carriers (showing no symptoms) and then infect humans?
In Uganada, government officials revealed they are dealing with a hemorrhagic virus outbreak. So far one health worker has died, and 80 people are under medical monitoring (most of them being health workers themselves, and those that buried the person that died). Officials swear it’s not EVD, but the just as deadly Marburg virus (MARV): “The Ministry of Health would like to inform the country of an outbreak of Marburg which has so far killed one person.”–Elioda Tumwesigye, Minister of Health
Back in the United States, CDC boss Tom Frieden assured the news media that everything is under control, despite that fact that an infected healthcare worker from Liberia made it into the U.S. and is now in critical condition, and that at least 49 people (mainly healthcare workers) are being monitored. And don’t forget that it’s been revealed that a homeless man is now suspected of being infected.
For some reason the EMTs who transported the sick Liberian to the hospital also carried a homeless man in the same ambulance. A Dallas County, Texas, judge reported that the man was found and now he’s under observation.
Another reason why I find Frieden questionable is that he stated “…they will be immediately isolated, tested and if they have Ebola, given appropriate care and determine whether there were any additional contacts to their case. That’s how we have stopped every outbreak in Ebola in the world until this one in West Africa. That’s how we stopped it in Lagos, Nigeria and how we will stop it in Texas.”
That’s the problem, the U.S. CDC is approaching this as if this is the same old EVD as a decade ago. I’ve written before that early in this current outbreak African doctors said it was not acting like the same old ebola. And The Washington Post has interviewed U.S. university doctors who’ve returned from Africa: “What’s always worked before, contact tracing, isolation and quarantine, is not going to work, and it’s not working now!”-Daniel Lucey, Georgetown University Medical Center
Global Health Security Agenda to force vaccinations, at gun point?