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    The Ebola Epidemic

    A report from April 2014

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/op...lity.html?_r=0

    There?s nothing like an outbreak of Ebola virus disease to bring a small, struggling African nation to international notice. One week we couldn?t place it on a map; the next week, after Ebola virus disease strikes, we know the body count and the name of the capital and whether its airport has closed.

    This sad distinction now attaches to Guinea, a country of 11.5 million, in which the latest of Africa?s viral tribulations was reported by the World Health Organization, upon notification from Guinea?s Ministry of Health, on March 23. As of Tuesday the toll was 157 confirmed or suspected Ebola cases, including 101 deaths. That?s a case fatality rate of 64 percent, somewhat lower than the worst of previous outbreaks but high enough to remind us that Ebola is more inimical to humans than perhaps any known virus on Earth, except rabies and HIV-1. And it does its damage much faster than either.

    Among neighbors just across Guinea?s southeastern border, Liberia has confirmed several Ebola cases of its own, in people who recently traveled from Guinea, and Sierra Leone is watching very carefully. No one wants this thing to spread.(cont'd at link)

    An Australian report from June 2014
    http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2014/s4029209.htm

    MARK COLVIN: The ebola outbreak in West Africa has worsened significantly in the last two weeks.

    New figures from the World Health Organization show more than a 60 per cent rise in the death toll.

    Three-hundred-and-thirty-seven people have now succumbed.

    Most of the deaths have occurred in Guinea, but authorities are particularly worried about the outbreak in Sierra Leone, where dozens of people have died from the virus in one part of the country.

    Almost all the deaths are in remote villages with next to no healthcare services.

    Africa correspondent Martin Cuddihy reports.

    MARTIN CUDDIHY: It starts with flu-like symptoms, so most people don't think too much of the early stages of ebola. But then comes the weakness, rashes, vomiting and diarrhoea. If not treated, patients begin internal and external haemorrhaging, and their organs shut down. The fatality rate can be as high as 90 per cent.

    RICHARD BROOME: People are very, very scared, quite rightly so, they're very scared of ebola, and there has been the perception that, if you get ebola, you're in a hopeless situation, and that is one of the other reasons that people have not wanted to come forward.

    MARTIN CUDDIHY: Doctor Richard Broome is an Australian doctor with the Red Cross working in a remote part of Sierra Leone.

    The public health physician was the first foreign aid worker to reach the worst affected Kailahun area, near the border with Guinea and Liberia.

    RICHARD BROOME: So when we first arrived, I think the thing that most struck me is just how remote the communities are. It's about a 10 hour drive from Freetown. There are no paved roads and people are living in very isolated communities.

    And so one of the challenges has been, when people get sick, they've been remaining in their communities and being cared for by their families.

    MARTIN CUDDIHY: In that part of Sierra Leone, the disease has spread rapidly.

    On the sixth of June, five people had died from ebola. Just 11 days later, the death toll had risen to 40.

    Authorities believe at least 80 people are infected.(cont'd at link)
    WHO Epidemic/Pandemic Alert 14 July 2014
    http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-...july-2014.html

    Ebola virus disease, West Africa ? update 14 July 2014
    Epidemiology and surveillance

    The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to closely monitor the evolving Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The current epidemic trend in Sierra Leone and Liberia remains serious, with high numbers of new cases and deaths being reported. Between 8 ? 12 July 2014, 79 new cases, and 65 deaths were reported from Sierra Leone, and Liberia.

    In Sierra Leone, 49 new cases and 52 deaths have been reported, while in Liberia, 30 new cases and 13 deaths were reported. These include suspect, probable and laboratory confirmed cases. This trend indicates that a high level of transmission of the Ebola Virus continues to take place in the community.

    The epidemic situation in Guinea is being closely observed, with 6 new cases and 3 deaths reported between 8 ? 12 July 2014. The respective Ministries of Health are working with WHO and partners to step up outbreak containment measures.

    Health sector response

    As a follow up action to the Emergency Ministerial meeting in Accra, the Regional Director, WHO African Region has taken a decision to re-deploy senior, technical, and support staff to the sub-regional coordination centre that is being established in Conakry, Guinea. The personnel re-assigned include a Director, Regional Advisors, epidemiologists, communication experts, social mobilization specialists, data managers, administrative officers, and other support staff. Preparation to establish the coordination centre is being finalized, with operations of the centre scheduled to be activated on 15 July 2014. The centre will act as a control and coordination platform,* consolidating and harmonizing the technical support to the West African countries including assisting in resource mobilization.

    The three affected countries, with support from WHO, have initiated the process of reviewing and updating the current EVD national response plans. This exercise will lead to the development of prioritized national operational plans, aligned to the inter-country strategy adopted by the Ministers of Health in Accra. The operational plan will clearly highlight priority interventions and map out the required resources (human, financial, and logistics) for effective implementation of the outbreak containment measures. In addition, these documents will be vital for mobilization of the additional resources.

    WHO is currently supporting the affected countries to strengthen contact tracing, as one of the most effective outbreak containment measures.* Early detection and prompt isolation of new EVD cases is requisite for interrupting secondary transmission of Ebola virus in the community. Therefore, WHO supported the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) of Liberia to identify and train 107 community volunteers and 33 supervisors. In Sierra Leone, a total of 296 community volunteers have been trained. The trained volunteers have been deployed in the affected communities to conduct contact tracing and ensure immediate evacuation of suspected EVD cases from the community.

    In response to a request from MOHSW Liberia, WHO, with support from the Government of the United States of America, has supplied personal protective equipment (PPE) for and other medical supplies to Liberia in order to ensure the safety of health-care workers in their response efforts. This donation, was handed over to MOHSW Liberia on 26 June and 3 July, included PPE appropriate for use by both clinical care and burial teams. On 14 July, additional supplies, including backpack sprayers and hand sprayers for disinfection as well disposal bags for biohazard wastes, were delivered to the country.

    WHO does not recommend any travel or trade restrictions be applied to Guinea, Liberia, or Sierra Leone based on the current information available for this event.

    Disease update

    New cases and deaths attributable to EVD continue to be reported by the Ministries of Health in the three West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Between 8 ? 12 July, 2014, 85 new cases of EVD, including 68 new deaths, were reported from the three countries as follows: Guinea, 6 new cases and 3 deaths; Liberia, 30 new cases with 13 deaths; and Sierra Leone 49 new cases and 52 deaths. These numbers include laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases and deaths of EVD.

    As of 12 July 2014, the cumulative number of cases attributed to EVD in the three countries stands at 964, including 603 deaths. The distribution and classification of the cases are as follows: Guinea, 406 cases (297 confirmed, 92 probable, and 17 suspected) and 304 deaths (198 confirmed, 92 probable, and 14 suspected); Liberia, 172 cases (70 confirmed, 41 probable, and 61 suspected) and 105 deaths (48 confirmed, 33 probable, and 24 suspected); and Sierra Leone, 386 cases (339 confirmed, 37 probable, and 10 suspected) and 194 deaths (151 confirmed, 38 probable, and 5 suspected).*

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    Nigeria On Red Alert After Collapse Of Ebola Positive Passenger At Lagos Airport

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-o...irus-1.2719242

    26 July
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    American physician Dr. Kent Brantly being treated at a hospital in Monrovia for Ebola



    Nigerian health authorities are racing to stop the spread of Ebola after a man brought the deadly and highly contagious disease by plane to Lagos, Africa's largest city with 21 million people.

    The fact that the traveller from Liberia could board an international flight also raised new fears that other passengers could take the disease beyond Africa due to weak inspection of passengers and the fact Ebola's symptoms are similar to other diseases.

    Ebola outbreak: Liberian man dies in quarantine in Nigeria
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    Ebola-sickened travellers may cross borders, WHO warns


    Officials in the country of Togo, where the sick man's flight had a stopover, also went on high alert after learning Ebola could possibly have spread to a fifth country.

    Screening people as they enter the country may help slow the spread of the disease, but it is no guarantee Ebola won't travel by airplane, according to Dr. Lance Plyler, who heads Ebola medical efforts in Liberia for aid organization Samaritan's Purse.

    "Unfortunately the initial signs of Ebola imitate other diseases, like malaria or typhoid," he said.

    The aid organization on Saturday said an American doctor working with Ebola patients in Liberia had tested positive for the deadly virus. A Samaritan's Purse news release said Dr. Kent Brantly was being treated at a hospital in Monrovia, the capital.

    Ebola already had caused some 672 deaths across a wide swath of West Africa before the Nigeria case was announced. It is the deadliest outbreak on record for Ebola, and now it threatens Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation. An outbreak in Lagos, Africa's megacity where many live in cramped conditions, could be a major diisaster.

    "Lagos is completely different from other cities because we're talking about millions of people," said Plan International's Disaster Response and Preparedness Head, Dr. Unni Krishnan.

    Nigerian newspapers describe the effort as a "scramble" to contain the threat after the Liberian arrived in Lagos and then died Friday.

    Passengers screened for virus

    International airports in Nigeria are screening passengers arriving from foreign countries for symptoms of Ebola, according to Yakubu Dati, the spokesman for Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria.

    Health officials are also working with ports and land borders, he said. "They are giving out information in terms of enlightenment, what to do, what to look out for."

    Nigerian airports are setting up holding rooms to ready in case another potential Ebola victim lands in Nigeria.

    Airports in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three other West African countries affected by the current Ebola outbreak, have implemented some preventive measures, according to officials in those countries. But none of the safeguards are foolproof, say health experts.

    Variable incubation period

    Doctors say health screens could be effective, but Ebola has a variable incubation period of between two and 21 days and cannot be diagnosed on the spot.

    Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for the Liberian Ministry of Finance arrived in Nigeria on Tuesday and was immediately detained by health authorities suspecting he might have Ebola, Plyler said.

    On his way to Lagos, Sawyer's plane also stopped in Lome, Togo, according to the World Health Organization.

    Authorities announced Friday that blood tests from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital confirmed Sawyer died of Ebola earlier that day.

    Sawyer reportedly did not show Ebola symptoms when he boarded the plane, Plyler said, but by the time he arrived in Nigeria he was vomiting and had diarrhea. There has not been another recently recorded case of Ebola spreading through air travel, he added.

    Nearly 50 other passengers on the flight are being monitored for signs of Ebola but are not being kept in isolation, said an employee at Nigeria's Ministry of Health, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.

    Sawyer's sister also died of Ebola in Liberia, according to Liberian officials, but he claimed to have had no contact with her. Ebola is highly contagious and kills more than 70 per cent of people infected.

    Traditional burials spread disease

    Ebola is passed by touching bodily fluids of patients even after they die, he said. Traditional burials that include rubbing the bodies of the dead contribute to the spread of the disease, Krishnan added.

    There is no "magic bullet" cure for Ebola, but early detection and treatment of fluids and nutrition can be effective, said Plyler in Liberia. Quickly isolating patients who show symptoms is also crucial in slowing the spread of the disease.

    West African hospital systems have weak and "often paralyzed" health care systems, he added, and are not usually equipped to handle Ebola outbreaks. International aid organizations like his and Doctors Without Borders have stepped in, but they also lack enough funding and manpower. "We need more humanitarian workers," he said. "We need resources."
    Two U.S Citizens Contract Ebola As Liberia Crossings Close

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-0...s-nigeria.html
    Two U.S. citizens are being treated for Ebola in Liberia and the country shut some border crossings, as the worst outbreak of the disease on record spread to Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and largest economy.

    Kent Brantly is in isolation and receiving treatment, North Carolina-based Samaritan’s Purse said. Brantly, a doctor, is the medical director of the aid charity’s Ebola center in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital. Nancy Writebol, who works for the manager of the hospital treating people with the virus in the country, has tested positive for Ebola, the charity said on its website yesterday.

    Ebola, which has no known cure or treatment and leads to death in as many as 90 percent of those who get it, has killed more than 660 people in four West African nations since March, the worst episode of the virus since it was first reported in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976. Liberia shut all minor border crossings to contain the virus, AllAfrica.com reported, citing a government statement. The current outbreak may last for another three months, according to the World Health Organization.

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    Every time there is an infection in a new location it is a serious development, but the principle remains the same,” Jasarevic said by phone from Sierra Leone. “You have to identify this person, test them, identify the contacts and follow them for 21 days.”

    Denial the disease exists, hostility to medical workers, a lack of medical supplies and below-standard hygiene are complicating efforts to contain the spread of the disease. In Sierra Leone, family of victims have attacked doctors while in neighboring Liberia the husband of a victim tried to burn the hospital down where his wife died.

    A top Liberian doctor, Samuel Brisbane, died yesterday after treating Ebola patients, the country’s Ministry of Health said today. The physician in charge of Ebola treatment in Sierra Leone, Sheik Umar Khan, contracted the virus last week.(cont'd at link)


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    Tons of pictures at the link. There are also pictures of some of the people that have died.

    Ebola victim who sparked fears of a worldwide outbreak was American: Father who died of incurable virus in Nigeria after taking international flight was going to visit his children in Minnesota
    It has been revealed that the Ebola victim who sparked fears of a global outbreak is a US citizen
    Patrick Sawyer, 40, died of the deadly virus in Lagos, Nigeria, on Friday
    His wife back in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, has revealed he was due home in August
    Decontee Sawyer, 34, said her husband caught the virus from his sister in Liberia
    The couple are originally from Liberia and have family in the US and West Africa
    Nearly 700 people have been killed by the virus across West Africa
    Two American aid workers in Liberia have also tested positive for the virus and are being treated there
    Nancy Writebol, from Charlotte, North Carolina, has the incurable disease
    Kent Brantly was treating Ebola patients in Monrovia, Liberia when he recognized he had the symptoms


    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz38r7HWqhX
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    The current outbreak of Ebola has spread to at least four countries in West Africa since the start of the year. So far, it has claimed 672 victims, and infected 1,093. Countries affected include Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria.
    The disease spreads through contact with blood, body fluids or contact with tissue from infected people or animals. It has only a 10 per cent survival rate.
    U.S. health authorities have warned the deadly virus can spread 'like a forest fire'.
    Civil servant Patrick Sawyer collapsed at Lagos airport in Nigeria on July 20 after flying in from Liberia, where he had attended the funeral of his sister, who had also succumbed to the disease.
    His plane also landed in Togo on its way to Nigeria, prompting fears that the virus may have also reached a fifth country.
    Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are now screening air passengers – but doctors say this may not be effective because Ebola has an incubation period of two to 21 days and cannot be diagnosed on the spot.
    Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and damage to the nervous system. There is no vaccine or cure. It is spread by contact with infected blood or other bodily fluids.
    All outbreaks since 1976 when Ebola was first identified have been in Africa, with the previous highest death toll being 280.

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    It's happening.


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    This reminds of the book, the Hot Zone. It scared me more than any book about ghosts, etc.

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    Read the ASSIST news reports, very enlightening. Great articles on ISIS as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by foreverintheflux View Post
    This reminds of the book, the Hot Zone. It scared me more than any book about ghosts, etc.
    Same! Scariest book I've ever read.

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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5630878.html
    Top Ebola Doctor Dies Of Disease
    "The doctor leading Sierra Leone's fight against the worst Ebola outbreak on record died from the virus on Tuesday, the country's chief medical officer said."

    At first I thought it was the American doctor -not that its any less tragic but he just recently started showing symptoms and that was startling.

    Im really getting pissed off at the fear mongering. Is there any journalistic integrity left at all anywhere?? Its a serious subject but there is a middle ground between apathy and panic...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Monter View Post
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5630878.html
    Top Ebola Doctor Dies Of Disease
    "The doctor leading Sierra Leone's fight against the worst Ebola outbreak on record died from the virus on Tuesday, the country's chief medical officer said."

    At first I thought it was the American doctor -not that its any less tragic but he just recently started showing symptoms and that was startling.

    Im really getting pissed off at the fear mongering. Is there any journalistic integrity left at all anywhere?? Its a serious subject but there is a middle ground between apathy and panic...

    Uh oh. That's bad.

    This actually reminds me of The stand. Dr. Tripps.

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    Very sad. Dr. Khan was a brave man. Dr. Samuel Brisbane also died in Liberia.
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    I have an online customer that I talk to frequently from Nigeria. I didn't hear from him in awhile and he popped up today saying he was almost hospitalized from Malaria and just said hope he's all better. Now I just read in that one article that Typhoid and Malaria can imitate Ebola. I'm not sure where he is in Nigeria but I think he said he goes to school in Lagos. Now I'm all worried about him.

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    A man boards a plane in Liberia with a slight fever. As the jet nears an airport in New York, his temperature rises; his throat grows sore.

    It's the flu, he thinks after he lands, but he's wrong. He's caught the deadly Ebola virus.

    He soon dies of hemorrhagic fever while surrounded by family. Some of them catch it, and it's like a flame hitting a fuse.

    The United States erupts in its first Ebola pandemic as health care workers fight an uphill battle to contain it.


    Could what sounds like the plot of a Hollywood pestilence thriller really happen here?

    Well, yes and no.

    Yes, Ebola can come to the United States.

    But no, there's no reason to panic.

    "This is not an epidemic; it's not the kind of disease that can sweep through New York," said Dr. Alexander van Tulleken of Fordham University.

    What is the risk of catching Ebola on a plane?

    The 'yes' part:

    Given that international air travel is commonplace, it's realistic that an infected passenger could land in the country.

    One nearly did.

    Patrick Sawyer, a U.S. citizen working in Liberia, fell violently ill while on a plane to Nigeria this month. He was planning on returning to his family in Minnesota but died before he could.

    "It's going to happen at some point," CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said.

    A person can be infected and not show symptoms for up to three weeks. So it's possible for someone to fly to the United States who has the virus but is feeling fine.

    "Just observing the whole process, it's almost impossible to prevent from happening," Gupta said.

    Then, the person could develop symptoms of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, which would make the patient capable of passing the virus.

    To catch it, one has to come into contact with a sick person's bodily fluids: sweat, saliva, blood or excrement.

    The 'no' part:

    Experts agree that the disease would not spread far like it has in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, where health officials believe it has killed more than 700 people in the largest Ebola outbreak in recorded history.

    There are two reasons for this:

    ? Though Ebola is aggressively infectious, which means that those infected are highly likely to get sick, it's not very contagious, meaning that it doesn't spread easily.

    ? Public health educators and medical professionals in the United States and other highly industrialized countries would deal with it swiftly. It's an advantage the poor affected countries in West Africa don't have.

    "It certainly is feasible that someone could come to the United States who is infected and gets sick here. No one's denying that," said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health. But the health care system in the United States gives it the ability "to do the kind of isolation that apparently is very difficult to do within the health care infrastructure in the African countries that we are talking about."

    The 'why not' part:

    To answer that, consider the following:

    1. Knowledge is key.

    That's one of the big advantages that industrialized nations, such as the United States, have in fighting Ebola's spread.

    First, teach health care workers to recognize Ebola cases. Then quarantine them. Then keep people out of contact with their bodily fluids while it runs its course.


    The CDC has alerted health workers in the United States to keep an eye out for symptomatic patients who have recently traveled to West Africa.

    If a case does turn up, public health officials will work to rapidly track down other people the patient has come into contact with and screen them for the virus.

    They are currently looking for anyone who may have come into contact with Sawyer.

    2. There's little superstition surrounding Ebola here.

    "Epidemics of disease are often followed by epidemics of fear and epidemics of stigma," said Dr. Marty Cetron of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "All these kinds of things occur in a social context that can make containment very, very challenging."

    In many parts of West Africa, rumors have spread that eating raw onions will protect from the disease while mangoes may promote it, the World Health Organization has said.

    Villagers carry out their usual burial of the dead, coming into contact with bodily fluids and infecting themselves.

    With too few people to mount a tough battle against the spread of the disease itself, aid workers have said they are putting a lot of emphasis on education.

    They are teaching local residents to stay out of contact with the virus while they treat the sick. But locals often view them with suspicion, some accusing them of bringing the disease to the country.

    3. There's ready access to basic care.

    "We don't have a vaccine, and we don't have any drugs that work on it at the moment," van Tulleken said. "The treatment is entirely what we call supportive care."

    Much of the treatment involves simple nursing, things such as proper hydration and nutrition.

    In places where aid workers in West Africa have done so, they have been able to save about 45% of those infected.

    Without treatment, the death rate can run as high as 90%, Medecins sans Frontieres has said.

    A pretty good way not to catch the virus is not to come into unprotected contact with sick patients.

    That's why Ebola caregivers dress in head-to-toe protective gear with masks and patients are isolated in tent-like structures, making it look like the scene of a chemical spill.

    How the United States and the West can help is to devote money and staff to contain the virus in West Africa.

    "We're not doing a brilliant job of containing the epidemic in terms of the resources we've devoted to it so far," van Tulleken said.
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    Emory University Hospital in Atlanta said Thursday it was preparing a special isolation unit to receive a patient with Ebola disease ?within the next several days?.

    ?We do not know at this time when the patient will arrive,? Emory said in a statement. The university also did not say whether the patient was one of two Americans battling Ebola infection in Liberia ? charity workers Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly.
    ?Emory University Hospital has a specially built isolation unit set up in collaboration with the CDC to treat patients who are exposed to certain serious infectious diseases,? the hospital said. ?It is physically separate from other patient areas and has unique equipment and infrastructure that provide an extraordinarily high level of clinical isolation. It is one of only four such facilities in the country."

    Experts say isolating patients with Ebola is important. The disease is not terribly contagious, but it can spread via bodily fluids and healthcare workers are at special risk. They must wear layers of protective equipment including boots, gloves, a full body suit and face and eye protection.

    ?Emory University Hospital physicians, nurses and staff are highly trained in the specific and unique protocols and procedures necessary to treat and care for this type of patient. For this specially trained staff, these procedures are practiced on a regular basis throughout the year so we are fully prepared for this type of situation."

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Thomas Frieden said he doubted Ebola could spread in the United States. "That is not in the cards," he told reporters Thursday.

    State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said the federal government was helping organize any needed evacuations.

    "The State department, together with the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, which has the lead for the U.S. government in the Ebola situation, is working to facilitate access to aviation services for medical evacuations for U.S. citizens directly affected by the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa," Harf told NBC News.

    "If and when that happens...every precaution will be taken to move the patients safety and securely to provide critical care en route and to maintain strict isolation upon arrival in the United States," she added.

    "The State Department office of medical services has deployed its chief of infectious disease to West Africa in order to provide on the ground consultation and guidance to health unit staff regarding protective measures and case recognition."

    The State Department says such evacuations have been done before.

    "This would be done through non-commercial air travel in very controlled steps," another spokesman added. "The CDC has devised plans and equipment to do it safely. Patients were evacuated in similar ways during the SARS outbreak in 2003 and in cases involving drug resistant tuberculosis in 2007."
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    A specially equipped medical plane whisked Ebola-stricken Dr. Kent Brantly from Liberia to Georgia on Saturday, setting up the latest leg of a race to save the man who's now the first known Ebola patient on U.S. soil.

    An ambulance rushed Brantly -- one of two Americans seriously sickened by Ebola last month while on the front lines of a major outbreak in West Africa -- from Dobbins Air Reserve Base to Atlanta's Emory University Hospital shortly after the plane landed late Saturday morning.

    Video from Emory showed someone wearing a white, full-body protective suit helping a similarly clad person emerge from the ambulance and walk into the hospital early Saturday afternoon.

    Emory has said it will treat Brantly, 33, and eventually the other American -- fellow missionary Nancy Writebol -- in a special isolation unit, where physicians believe they'll have a better chance to steer them back to health while ensuring the virus doesn't spread.

    Organizers expect the plane will return to Liberia to pick up Writebol, and they hope she can be brought to Georgia early next week, said Todd Shearer, spokesman for Christian charity Samaritan's Purse with whom both Americans were affiliated.

    Brantly, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Writebol, of North Carolina, became sick while caring for Ebola patients in Liberia, one of three West African nations hit by an outbreak that health officials believe has sickened more than 1,300 people and killed more than 700 this year.

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    Yeah. I'm not too keen on the idea that they're bringing it here. If I were the infected people, I would opt to not be transported. I wouldn't even want to be .999999999% chance responsible for it spreading to a different continent.

    And it TOTALLY reminds me of "The Stand" too Berm!
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    yeah, i'm not so sure bringing a disease to an isolated continent is the best course of action either. why would you do that?
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    I'm kind of mixed on it. Emory hospital is prepared for it tho. They have a state of the art place for containment. (so they say) This could be a major breakthrough for our scientist discovering/researching it. Yeah, but in the back of my mind I keep singing "Baby can you dig your man" from the stand. LOL

    BTW- the doctor made it. He was able to walk off of the ambulance.

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    Oh yeah.....THANKS OBAMA.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bermstalker View Post
    I'm kind of mixed on it. Emory hospital is prepared for it tho. They have a state of the art place for containment. (so they say) This could be a major breakthrough for our scientist discovering/researching it. Yeah, but in the back of my mind I keep singing "Baby can you dig your man" from the stand. LOL

    BTW- the doctor made it. He was able to walk off of the ambulance.
    It doesn't end after they die. Are the funeral homes and crematoriums equipped to deal with the virus? I don't have as much faith in the CDC as most seem to. To err is Human etc

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    Viruses mutate too. I hope the CDC keeps that in mind. As a matter of fact........

    She said the outbreak was the deadliest and most widely spread, and had also demonstrated an ability to spread through air travel, unlike past outbreaks.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Boston Babe 73 View Post
    It doesn't end after they die. Are the funeral homes and crematoriums equipped to deal with the virus? I don't have as much faith in the CDC as most seem to. To err is Human etc

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    Its not that I have faith in the CDC, I just don't think government officials would have let them on our soil without some "guarantee" and safety devices in place.
    Of course I believe it could all go to shit. BUT honestly, I believe you have a higher chance getting shot by a cop than you do of getting the Ebola virus. LOL



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    There is so much media fear mongering, it's insane.

    I think there is value to helping and studying this disease before it comes here organically. The american that died in Liberia was scheduled to come home to the midwest. What if he got on a plane to the US sick? That is going to happen eventually. Id rather have doctors and facilities ready.

    Also, the high death rate is partly reflective of the third world conditions the outbreak is occurring in. There is seriously substandard care, and the workers are literally fighting some of the populace to adhere to basic guidelines to prevent infection and get people treatment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bermstalker View Post
    Its not that I have faith in the CDC, I just don't think government officials would have let them on our soil without some "guarantee" and safety devices in place.
    Of course I believe it could all go to shit. BUT honestly, I believe you have a higher chance getting shot by a cop than you do of getting the Ebola virus. LOL



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    I guess I have a hard time negotiating the reasoning. Why risk it, no matter how miniscule the chance of it getting loose over 2 people when the government can't even take care of its Vets. To me it's a no brainer. The only way to be absolutely sure you're not going to unleash the virus in to uninfected territory is to not bring it here at all
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