Ebola - The New Pandemic - Coming to someplace near you soon?!

[Dawn Meredith]

Erick told me he heard yesterday that they are now admitting that it can be passed via someone sneezing. Sounds pretty darn airborne to me. I am thinking there is a vaccine against this that the people in power will have while the rest of us live in fear. And worse.

[Magda Hassan]

Russians have 3 of them coming through the pipeline but wont be available for about 6 months or so.

[Peter Lemkin]

One of the BIG American pharmaceutical manufacturers had begun on a vaccine, but stopped. Now, they say, they are starting where they left off...but many months from being done with the required testing. There was little interest, because it effected a few poor Africans [i.e. little profit to be had]....my, how things have changed in that regard [although it was immoral and likely racist in the first place].

[Magda Hassan]

I heard an interview with a researcher on the radio a few weeks ago. She said there is already is a vaccine pretty much ready to go but because they were a small company they didn't have the money for human trials and they couldn't get funding for it because not considered important so it was shelved. Read 1. only affects poor Africans 2. Not enough profit for Big Pharma.

[Peter Lemkin]

I heard an interview with a researcher on the radio a few weeks ago. She said there is already is a vaccine pretty much ready to go but because they were a small company they didn't have the money for human trials and they couldn't get funding for it because not considered important so it was shelved. Read 1. only affects poor Africans 2. Not enough profit for Big Pharma.

As it turns out, Ebola is a rather easy virus to make a vaccine for compared to most viruses, but as you point out Big Pharma and even the few remaining small ones are driven by profit and not compassion. Several [I think four] companies in the USA and one in Europe and one in Russia had begun preliminary work on an Ebola vaccine. The animal trials for some had been carried out. None had gone to the human trials, which take a long time usually. One company had made a potential cure of the virus [not a vaccine], and they too had not yet gone through the long human trials stage. This is the one that has been offered to a few persons [because they only had a very little of it on hand]. Before this epidemic episode, Ebola was always contained in Africa - in small rural areas, because it is believed to be resident in some animals that live far out in the 'bush'. Now it is also in large African cities and starting to spread to the rest of the World. It has all but shut down the economy of two African countries and is threatening several others. Current estimates are that by the beginning of December [in six weeks] from 5 to 10 thousand persons per DAY will be getting Ebola in Africa. The diseases lethality is increasing now and in Africa is currently at about 70%. Very sad news for Africa and the World. The rich, white elites may think this won't effect them....but it will. Even if it did not, a life is a life - but not to them.

[Dawn Meredith]

Another hospital worker in Dallas has ebola. So how will they spin it this time? We know they were in protective gear. A sneeze perhaps?

[Peter Lemkin]

Another hospital worker in Dallas has ebola. So how will they spin it this time? We know they were in protective gear. A sneeze perhaps?

I just heard how that Dallas hospital handled this case - twice; they did worse than most Liberian health facilities. The first time he was given antibiotics and send home. On re-admission the patient first long sat in an emergency waiting room with other patients and staff. Then, he was finally moved to an isolation unit, but the nurses and others who were around him did NOT have anything NEAR sufficient protective clothing! [nor the training on how to use them, and how to treat an Ebola patient!]...and worst of all, they sent his lab specimens through the hospitals pneumatic tube system - infecting the entire system, other lab specimens, and lab technicians. That hospital will likely have to be partly closed and disinfected - and many who work there and/or were patients/visitors will come likely down with Ebola...sorry to say. Dallas is the new American epicenter of Ebola.....ironic fate. Now would be a good time to stop shaking hands around town and go on vacation......

[Lauren Johnson]

Another hospital worker in Dallas has ebola. So how will they spin it this time? We know they were in protective gear. A sneeze perhaps?

I just heard how that Dallas hospital handled this case - twice; they did worse than most Liberian health facilities. The first time he was given antibiotics and send home. On re-admission the patient first long sat in an emergency waiting room with other patients and staff. Then, he was finally moved to an isolation unit, but the nurses and others who were around him did NOT have anything NEAR sufficient protective clothing! [nor the training on how to use them, and how to treat an Ebola patient!]...and worst of all, they sent his lab specimens through the hospitals pneumatic tube system - infecting the entire system, other lab specimens, and lab technicians. That hospital will likely have to be partly closed and disinfected - and many who work there and/or were patients/visitors will come likely down with Ebola...sorry to say. Dallas is the new American epicenter of Ebola.....ironic fate. Now would be a good time to stop shaking hands around town and go on vacation......

Wasn't there a note written by a nurse in the electronic records system alerting to possibility of Ebola?

[Lauren Johnson]

The second nurse to be infected by patient zero flew on a plane just before symptoms appeared.

And the CDC in effect is saying: "We got this."

[Lauren Johnson]

Remember, Ebola is hard to catch because it is not passed through the air. Remember that while you look at this Ebola protection equipment kit.