Ebola...

[Jack Brickman]

Yeah, but if it's restricted to Africa, American media won't give a shit about it. Because Americans won't give a shit about it.

Just like the last few decades where it was a serious threat there.

Watch...six months. At maximum

Are you implying that the American media is overreacting to this? Blasphemy! That's so not their style!

In all seriousness, there's basically a 100% chance this is the new SARS. Unless you're Max, in which case you've pulled all your money from the stock market and invested it in guns and cans of beans.

 

[KI4MVP]

Prediction:

Ebola is as gone as Y2K, Swine Flu, Bird Flu, Kony, Trayvon and Ferguson within 6 months

That likely depends on how aggressively and competently it's dealt with. We're not off to a promising start. It was allowed to spread in Africa for too long before we stepped in to provide real assistance. The one known case where it was brought to america wasn't handled without allowing it to spread. The more people that are exposed to the virus, the harder it will be to contain.

 

[brownindian]

That likely depends on how aggressively and competently it's dealt with. We're not off to a promising start. It was allowed to spread in Africa for too long before we stepped in to provide real assistance. The one known case where it was brought to america wasn't handled without allowing it to spread. The more people that are exposed to the virus, the harder it will be to contain.

I'm with Oi on that (Is it pronounced like the British do - Oye ?). We may not solve the issue within six months but we will be at a stale mate with it probably and i am sure that some other stuff that will get the media's attention and will be forgotten.

 

[The Oi]

Correct on the pronunciation.

To clarify, I'm not saying ebola is going to disappear. I just think that whatever it's status is, will exist exclusively in Africa. Something major will likely happen with ISIS between now and then anyways.

Bottom line is it will be nonexistent in the US and no longer be a news story.

 

[Maximus]

Is CDC Hiding Enterovirus Link To Illegal Alien Kids?
124 Comments


Posted 10/17/2014 06:23 PM

Public Health: A disease that was once rare in the U.S. is killing Americans, and its rise coincides with the tidal wave of unaccompanied minor children arriving from Latin America under our de facto open-border policy.

Eli Waller, a 4-year-old New Jersey boy, died Sept. 25. He was reportedly fine and healthy when he went to bed but died overnight, with the cause confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control to be enterovirus D-68 (EV-D68), one more casualty in an epidemic that has swept the country seemingly out of nowhere.

The CDC website reports that from mid-August to Oct. 10, the CDC itself or state authorities confirmed that 691 people in 46 states and the District of Columbia had come down with some sort of respiratory illness caused by EV-D68. Five children, including Eli, died from their infections.

More than a few observers have noticed that the sudden increase in EV-D68 cases coincides with the rapid rise of unaccompanied minors crossing our porous border. These children, often without proper health screenings, have been distributed throughout the U.S.

The CDC denies any connection, noting that cases of EV-D68 have occurred in the U.S. for decades, having first been detected in California in 1962.

"There is no evidence that unaccompanied children brought EV-D68 into the United States, we are not aware of any of these children testing positive for the virus," the CDC told World Net Daily in an email response to an inquiry into the possible connection.

It is true that EV-D68 has been in the U.S. at least since 1962. But according to a study done by doctors from the Division of Viral Diseases at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases published on the CDC's own website, EV-D68 "is one of the most rarely reported serotypes, with only 26 reports throughout the 36-year study period (1970 through 2006)."

There's often a disconnect between coincidence and correlation. But we suspect that the jump in cases from 26 in 36 years to nearly 700 in one year coming at the same time as the open-border influx of improperly screened illegal aliens is more than just a coincidence.

As the relentless investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson points out, a 2013 study in Virology Journal found human enteroviruses, including EV-D68, present in 3% of nose and throat swab samples taken from children from Latin America under 8 years old with a median age of 3. Related human rhinoviruses were found in 16% of the samples, according to the study authored by a team of virologists headed by Josefina Garcia from U.S. Naval Medical Unit 6 in Lima, Peru.

 

[Man Called X]

And people wonder why I'm terrified to take my daughter anywhere. Thanks Max. I live in a county that's full of illegal immigrants. Can't wait for my preemie daughter to get sick from one of them. My kid comes down with EV-D68, I go on a guatemalen killing rampage.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Correct on the pronunciation.

To clarify, I'm not saying ebola is going to disappear. I just think that whatever it's status is, will exist exclusively in Africa. Something major will likely happen with ISIS between now and then anyways.

Bottom line is it will be nonexistent in the US and no longer be a news story.

Perhaps it will be nonexistent in the U.S., but it will definitely still be a story if current projections are even close to being true.

Six months from now, there may be over a million dead from Ebola. That's a story here even if the disease isn't.

 

[The Oi]

Is CDC Hiding Enterovirus Link To Illegal Alien Kids?
124 Comments


Posted 10/17/2014 06:23 PM

Public Health: A disease that was once rare in the U.S. is killing Americans, and its rise coincides with the tidal wave of unaccompanied minor children arriving from Latin America under our de facto open-border policy.

Eli Waller, a 4-year-old New Jersey boy, died Sept. 25. He was reportedly fine and healthy when he went to bed but died overnight, with the cause confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control to be enterovirus D-68 (EV-D68), one more casualty in an epidemic that has swept the country seemingly out of nowhere.

The CDC website reports that from mid-August to Oct. 10, the CDC itself or state authorities confirmed that 691 people in 46 states and the District of Columbia had come down with some sort of respiratory illness caused by EV-D68. Five children, including Eli, died from their infections.

More than a few observers have noticed that the sudden increase in EV-D68 cases coincides with the rapid rise of unaccompanied minors crossing our porous border. These children, often without proper health screenings, have been distributed throughout the U.S.

The CDC denies any connection, noting that cases of EV-D68 have occurred in the U.S. for decades, having first been detected in California in 1962.

"There is no evidence that unaccompanied children brought EV-D68 into the United States, we are not aware of any of these children testing positive for the virus," the CDC told World Net Daily in an email response to an inquiry into the possible connection.

It is true that EV-D68 has been in the U.S. at least since 1962. But according to a study done by doctors from the Division of Viral Diseases at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases published on the CDC's own website, EV-D68 "is one of the most rarely reported serotypes, with only 26 reports throughout the 36-year study period (1970 through 2006)."

There's often a disconnect between coincidence and correlation. But we suspect that the jump in cases from 26 in 36 years to nearly 700 in one year coming at the same time as the open-border influx of improperly screened illegal aliens is more than just a coincidence.

As the relentless investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson points out, a 2013 study in Virology Journal found human enteroviruses, including EV-D68, present in 3% of nose and throat swab samples taken from children from Latin America under 8 years old with a median age of 3. Related human rhinoviruses were found in 16% of the samples, according to the study authored by a team of virologists headed by Josefina Garcia from U.S. Naval Medical Unit 6 in Lima, Peru.

Dude...

That headline is clickbait central.


There literally isn't a single piece of legitimate evidence in that article that there's a connection between the two. The only reasonable thing in the article is that the writer acknowledged several times throughout the article hat there's no evidence behind the question he's asking.

Might as well have asked "Are blacks to blame for the sharp decrease in rain this summer?"

 

[The Oi]

Perhaps it will be nonexistent in the U.S., but it will definitely still be a story if current projections are even close to being true.

Six months from now, there may be over a million dead from Ebola. That's a story here even if the disease isn't.

The event that caused the recent influx of Ebola news was that some Americans caught the disease and were brought back here. Prior to that it just wasn't here.

I'm sure people will keep dying in sub-Saharan Africa of this just like they have been from other diseases that no longer or will likely never impact the US.

I'm just saying there will be at least 3-4 major news stories to scare us that will pop up between now and the somewhat arbitrary 6 month mark I mentioned.

I'd bet @Maximus's soul that ISIS will remain a bigger story at that time than Ebola. I think they'll attack us on our soil soon. And that would bounce Ebola from the news.

 

[Maximus]

Yeah, but if it's restricted to Africa, American media won't give a shit about it. Because Americans won't give a shit about it.

Just like the last few decades where it was a serious threat there.

Watch...six months. At maximum

It WAS just a threat...NOW it's a major outbreak in cities, not tiny villages where they were able to contain it in the past. There's a billion people in Africa. Americans give a shit. Thousands are dying, thousands are orphaned, crops are no longer being tended, now famine is setting in. It's nowhere near being contained, quite the contrary. If the death totals keep on doubling, it will be catastrophic for Africa, which would be catastrophic for the world.



Ebola outbreak: Famine approaches – bringing a fresh nightmare to West Africa

Special report: Three quarters of a million people may die from malnutrition


Sierra Leone’s fields are without farmers. Its crops go un-reaped. In the quarantine areas, feeding is patchy – some get food, others don’t. People then leave the enforced isolation in search of a meal, so Ebola spreads. In three West African countries where many already live a hand-to-mouth existence, the act of eating is increasingly rare.

Ebola, the virus that has ravaged Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea at an unprecedented rate, continues its devastating spread. The number of dead doubles with each passing month; the bodies unburied. More lives are devastated with each passing day.

And in the absence of a mass-produced vaccine, its treatment – enforced isolation, mass quarantines – now threatens to bring a new crisis: starvation.

Earlier this month, two children who were among the thousands orphaned by the virus, were visited by aid workers in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. At the time, the workers did not have the resources to take the children away. When they returned days later, the children were dead. They died not from Ebola, but starvation.

Yesterday, as the World Health Organisation warned that more than 4,500 people would be dead before the end of the week, a new threat to West Africa’s stability emerged: three quarters of a million people may die from malnutrition, as an unprecedented modern famine follows the disease – if urgent action is not taken.

 

[The Oi]

6 months.

 

[theSTEREO.]

Prediction:

Ebola is as gone as Y2K, Swine Flu, Bird Flu, Kony, Trayvon and Ferguson within 6 months

You forgot SARS.

 

[Maximus]

Dude...

That headline is clickbait central.


There literally isn't a single piece of legitimate evidence in that article that there's a connection between the two. The only reasonable thing in the article is that the writer acknowledged several times throughout the article hat there's no evidence behind the question he's asking.

Might as well have asked "Are blacks to blame for the sharp decrease in rain this summer?"

All year long there has been report after report of these holding centers being overloaded with kids with scabies, TB, mrsa and more. The Feds have tried their best to silence those who work at the facilities. They ship these kids all around the country at a ridiculous rate. I think the writer is clearly onto something and he's not the only one saying it. Connect the dots and it makes sense. Blacks being blames for the decrease in rain doesn't.
Is it really that far fetched that opening the borders for a bunch of illegals, then relocating them all over the country could lead to the spread of previously controlled diseases?



Illegal Alien Minors Spreading TB, Dengue, Swine Flu
JULY 08, 2014


The hordes of illegal immigrant minors entering the U.S. are bringing serious diseases—including swine flu, dengue fever, possibly Ebola virus and tuberculosis—that present a danger to the American public as well as the Border Patrol agents forced to care for the kids, according to a U.S. Congressman who is also medical doctor.

This has created a “severe and dangerous” crisis, says the Georgia lawmaker, Phil Gingrey. Most of the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) are coming from Central America and they’re importing infectious diseases considered to be largely eradicated in this country. Additionally, many of the migrants lack basic vaccinations such as those to prevent chicken pox or measles, leaving America’s young children and the elderly particularly susceptible, Gingrey reveals.

In a hard-hitting letter to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Congressman Gingrey demands that the agency keep Americans informed about its plan to handle the growing public health crisis posed by the influx of minors. “As the unaccompanied children continue to be transported to shelters around the country on commercial airlines and other forms of transportation, I have serious concerns that the diseases carried by these children may begin to spread too rapidly to control,” the congressman writes. “In fact, as you undoubtedly know, some of these diseases have no known cure.”

Gingrey mentions reports of Border Patrol agents contracting diseases through contact with the infected illegal aliens. A few weeks ago Judicial Watch reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is forcing Border Patrol agents to serve as babysitters for the UACs. An internal agency document obtained by JW calls for agents with “child care or juvenile teaching and/or counseling” experience to work at the various shelters housing the migrants. Officers from the front-line agency responsible for preventing terrorists and weapons of mass destruction from entering the U.S. will be “responsible for feeding, monitoring, interacting and providing security” for the illegal alien minors until they are placed elsewhere.

To handle the escalating health crisis the CDC has activated an Emergency Operations Center (EOC), but Gingrey points out in his letter that Congress and the public are being kept in the dark about what it’s doing. “I firmly believe the public deserves to know the specific actions the EOC and other departments of the CDC are taking to combat and prevent the spread of communicable diseases,” the lawmaker writes. He goes on to demand that the CDC take immediate action to assess the public risk posed by the UACs and their subsequent transfer to different parts of the country. “I would also like information on what is being done to protect border patrol agents who come in contact with these diseases, what decontamination efforts are taking place, and what is included in medical screenings of the children.”

The administration has worked hard to keep that information secret, though some of it is slowly leaking out. One major news station reports that tuberculosis is spreading at the camps housing the illegal immigrant minors while the government downplays the severity of the matter. At least half a dozen anonymous sources, including nurses and healthcare providers, treating UAC’s at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio say the government is covering up a very serious health threat. Specifically, tuberculosis has become a dangerous issue at both the border and the camps, according to several sources cited in the story. One source confirms that “the amount of tuberculosis is astonishing.”



Undocumented Immigrants bringing diseases across border?

ABC15

MCALLEN, TX - There’s a growing health concern with hundreds of illegal immigrants crossing over into southern Texas.

U.S. Border Patrol agents are worried that what's coming over into the U.S. could harm everyone.

This time the focus is not on the women and children that are crossing over in droves.

Agents are worrying about a viral outbreak.

“We are sending people everywhere. The average person doesn't know what's going on down here,” said Border Patrol agent and Rio Grande Valley Union representative Chris Cabrera.

Cabrera says agents are seeing illegal immigrants come over with contagious infections.

Detention centers and holding facilities have quarantined areas for those who come in sick. But Cabrera says the sick and healthy are separated only by caution tape.

“There's been an outbreak of scabies that's been going on for the past month,” Cabrera said.

Texas border resident Jorge Garcia says word about the contagious skin infection is getting around.

“Our Border Patrol agents check on us all the time and they told us about the outbreak of scabies,” Garcia said.

Cabrera says the sickness doesn't stop at scabies.

“We are starting to see chicken pox, MRSA staph infections, we are starting to see different viruses,” Cabrera said.

Garcia believes the viruses are not confined to the detention center. Not long ago, a group of border-crossers came knocking on his door.

“It was a 7-month-old baby. It was shaking, it had a fever,” Garcia said.

The Department of Homeland Security called in Coast Guard medics to help treat those who are sick. But Cabrera doesn't believe the federal government is doing enough. He says other Border Patrol agents have contracted scabies and he fears it will spread quickly.

“It's contagious, we are transporting people to different parts of the state and different parts of the country,” Cabrera said.

“Just the fact we are exposed to it, and so is everyone here in south Texas, it's a great concern to us,” Garcia said.

It's unclear how many were treated for illness.

DHS has denied all requests for interviews with doctors and medical staff treating sick immigrants. The agency has also turned down our request for a tour.

 

[The Oi]

Those are much better. The original article you posted was terrible.

 

[Kyrieville]

Dengue is only transmitted by mosquitoes, people cannot spread it to other people.