12 October 2014 (16:24 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/20 Mehr 1393/19 Jia-Xu 4712

“There’s an Ebola patient in the neighborhood!”-Lindsey Carpenter, Dallas, Texas, resident describing her roommate’s shocked announcement

“…you hear the helicopters overhead and see the news, and it makes you pay more attention.”-Dina Smith, Dallas, Texas, resident describing the swarm of cops and CDC in her neighborhood

“….it was 5am and I was asleep. I said ‘Who is it?’ And they said ‘Dallas police!'”-Carleen Guerrero, Dallas, Texas resident describing Medical Martial Law police banging on her door

In Texas, a nurse who took care of the 1st person to die of ebola in the United States, is now infected.   But get this, like may healthcare workers who’ve gotten sick, she was ‘fully MOPPed up’ (Cold War era U.S. military term for protective gear).

It was revealed that the nurse was considered by hospital officials to be at low risk of getting infected, because of the protective gear, but was also one of 18 hospital staff that had, since the death of their patient, been ordered to take their own fever readings twice per day. It was during one of those checks that the nurse showed a sudden spike in body temperature.

Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings told news media that the entire apartment building where the nurse lived was evacuated and decontaminated, and is now off limits. He also stated that police “knocked on every door in that block”, but several families in that neighborhood refuted that claim to local news media.  To show you how bad this ebola is, the mayor said even vehicles belonging to sick people must be decontaminated and isolated.  This is an indication that ebola can live for a very long time outside a animal host.

The mayor was not able to pronounce the word decontaminant.

People living in the same neighborhood as the female nurse reported that police said the woman’s dog might have to be put down, although the mayor said it doesn’t look like the dog is sick, but it’s now in the care of the city.  Many residents were upset about that, but I’ve written before that dogs have been documented, in prior African ebola outbreaks, catching and spreading ebola by eating the dead humans who weren’t buried.

The fact that many healthcare workers in full protective protocol are getting sick implies that it only takes one micro-meter of your skin being exposed to ebola to become infected, and indicates this is an extremely virulent strain of ebola.  A nurse in Spain, who became the first person in the European Union to get infected, was also wearing protective gear.  However, she thinks she may have made a mistake in removing the gear, touching her exposed face with her not yet decontaminated hand.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now accusing the Texas nurse of failing to follow protective gear protocols, but at the same time stated they interviewed the nurse and she could not “remember” ever failing to follow standard operating procedures (SOP) for protective suits.  In other words the CDC is making an unjustified accusation (an assumption) against the nurse!

It could also mean that this strain of ebola is airborne.  Most healthcare workers are using the standard paper surgical mask, sometimes with a clear face shield.  If ebola is airborne it might be too small for your standard surgical/dust mask to filter out.

In Braintree, Massachusetts, Harvard Vanguard Medical is now in lockdown after a man arrived complaining of head and muscle aches. He had been to Liberia: “Out of an abundance of caution we immediately notified authorities and the patient was securely removed from the building and put into an ambulance now headed to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The building was closed briefly but has now re-opened. We are working closely with the Department of Public Health who will determine next steps.”-hospital statement

I’ve been tracking this new strain of ebola outbreak since the end of 2013 when Guinea reported the first cases.  100% of the people who are getting infected are those caring for the sick; family members, friends or healthcare workers.  It seems that a random encounter with an infected person won’t get you infected (unless you get splashed with body fluids), but repeated exposure to an infected person does the job.

Here’s a question: Why hasn’t the Cuban and Chinese healthcare workers in Africa gotten sick?  After all they’ve been on the front lines of this fight longer than any U.S. healthcare workers.

Cuba currently has the largest amount of medical personnel in Africa, at least 15-hundred.  460 of the Cubans are specialists in fighting ebola.  The U.S. responds to ebola by sending combat troops!

Some news reports say Cuba has sent only male healthcare workers to west Africa, do they know a secret about ebola?  So far I have not seen any reports of Cubans getting sick with ebola, but they’re prepared for it: “We have the conviction that perhaps a few will fall ill but the majority will not.”-Jorge Perez Avila, Pedro Kouri Institute for Tropical Medicine

China has about 20-thousand citizens living in Africa.  China has medical teams fighting ebola and is spending record amount of cash to fight the disease in Africa.  So far I’ve not seen any reports of Chinese infected with ebola.

Drug company Sihuan Pharmaceutical (part owned by China, part owned by Morgan Stanley) claims it has an ebola treatment that was originally developed for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army!

In the former(?) U.S. colony of Liberia, the United Nations reports that 41 of its employees are now under quarantine.  20 are UN military personnel.  This action came after two UN medical personnel got infected.  This is another example of how medical personnel using protective gear still got sick.

Because there are so many cases of healthcare workers getting sick, the government of Australia has decided against sending their own healthcare workers to west Africa: “We aren’t going to send Australian doctors and nurses into harm’s way without being absolutely confident that all of the risks are being properly managed. And at the moment we cannot be confident that that is the case.”-Tony Abbott, prime minister

By the way, there is no more of the experimental GMO tobacco based anti-ebola drug ZMapp!  The final dose was given to an infected person in Norway.

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