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The sword is
without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field
shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence
shall devour him.
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Jeremiah 21:6 (KJV)
And I will smite the inhabitants of
this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
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Jeremiah 44:13 (KJV)
For I will punish them that dwell in
the land of Egypt, (Egypt symbolizes the world) as I have punished Jerusalem,
by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:
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Matthew 24:7 (KJV)
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in
divers places.
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Luke 21:11 (KJV)
And great earthquakes shall be in
divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs
shall there be from heaven.
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Jeremiah 29:18 (KJV)
And I will persecute them with the
sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be
removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment,
and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven
them:
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Jeremiah 29:18 (KJV)
And I will persecute them with the
sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be
removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment,
and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven
them:
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Ezekiel 5:12 (KJV)
A third part of thee shall die with
the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee:
and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a
third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
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Amos 4:10 (KJV)
I have sent among you the pestilence
after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have
taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto
your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
What would a global pandemic look like for a disease that has no
cure and that kills more than half of the people that it infects? Let's hope
that we don't get to find out, but what we do know is that more than 100 health
workers that were on the front lines of fighting this disease have ended up
getting it themselves.
The top health officials in the entire world are sounding the alarm and the phrase "out of control" is constantly being thrown around by professionals with decades of experience. So should average Americans be concerned about Ebola? If so, how bad could an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. potentially become?
The top health officials in the entire world are sounding the alarm and the phrase "out of control" is constantly being thrown around by professionals with decades of experience. So should average Americans be concerned about Ebola? If so, how bad could an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. potentially become?
The following are 25 critical facts about this Ebola outbreak that
every American needs to know...
#1 As the chart above demonstrates, the spread of Ebola is starting to become exponential...
#1 As the chart above demonstrates, the spread of Ebola is starting to become exponential...
#2 This is already the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history by far.
#3 The head of the World Health Organization says that this outbreak "is moving faster than our efforts to control it".
#4 The head of Doctors Without Borders says that this outbreak is "out of control".
#5 So far, more than 100 health workers that were on the front lines fighting the virus have ended up contracting Ebola themselves. This is happening despite the fact that they go to extraordinary lengths to keep from getting the disease.
#6 There is no cure for Ebola.
#7 The death rate for this current Ebola outbreak is over 50 percent, and experts say that it can kill "up to 90% of those infected".
#8 The incubation rate for Ebola ranges from two days to 21 days. Therefore, someone can be carrying it around for up to three weeks without even knowing it.
#9 For the first time ever, human Ebola patients are being brought to the United States. And as Paul Craig Roberts so aptly put it the other day, all it would take is "one cough, one sneeze, one drop of saliva, and the virus is loose".
#10 This has already potentially happened in the United Kingdom. A woman reportedly collapsed and later died on Saturday after she got off of a flight from Sierra Leone at Gatwick Airport.
#11 A study conducted in 2012 proved that Ebola could be transmitted between pigs and monkeys that were in separate cages and that never made physical contact.
#12 This is a new strain of Ebola, so what we know about other strains of Ebola may not necessarily apply to this strain of Ebola.
#13 Barack Obama has just signed an executive order that gives the federal government the power to apprehend and detain Americans that show symptoms of "diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled."
#14 And as I noted the other day, federal law already permits "the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease".
#15 According to the CDC, there are 20 quarantine centers around the country that are prepared to potentially receive Ebola patients...
#16 The CDC has set up an Ebola "quarantine station" at LAX in order to help prevent the spread of the virus.
As you know "false flag" attacks are accompanied by drills. e.g. 9-11, The Boston Marathon, 7-7-08 in London and Sandy Hook
#17 The largest health emergency drill in New York City history was conducted
on Friday.
#18 The federal government will begin testing an "experimental Ebola vaccine" on humans in September.
#19 We are being told that the reason why we don't have an Ebola vaccine already is due to the hesitation of the pharmaceutical industry to invest in a disease that has "only affected people in Africa".
Read the excellent book Dr. Mary's Monkey and watch those videos on this blog. #20 Researchers from Tulane University have been active for several years in the very same areas where this Ebola outbreak began. One of the stated purposes of this research was to study "the future use of fever-viruses as bioweapons".
#21 According to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation in Sierra Leone, researchers from Tulane University have been asked "to stop Ebola testing during the current Ebola outbreak". What in the world does that mean?
#22 The Navy Times says that the U.S. military has been interested in studying Ebola "as a potential biological weapon" since the 1970s...
Filoviruses like Ebola have been of interest to the Pentagon since the late 1970s, mainly because Ebola and its fellow viruses have high mortality rates — in the current outbreak, roughly 60 percent to 72 percent of those who have contracted the disease have died — and its stable nature in aerosol make it attractive as a potential biological weapon.
#23 The CDC actually owns a patent on one particular strain of the Ebola virus...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control owns a patent on a particular strain of Ebola known as "EboBun." It's patent No. CA2741523A1 and it was awarded in 2010.
It is being reported that this is not the same strain that is currently being transmitted in Africa, but it is interesting to note nonetheless. And why would the CDC want "ownership" of a strain of the Ebola virus in the first place?
#24 The CDC has just put up a brand new webpage entitled "Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Hospitalized Patients with Known or Suspected Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in U.S. Hospitals".
#25 The World Health Organization has launched a 100 million dollar response plan to fight this Ebola outbreak. Others don't seem so alarmed. For example, Barack Obama is getting ready to take a "16 day Martha’s Vineyard vacation".
Friends, beware of the propaganda on the csble news network. Many are attempting to play down the threat from this virus by stating that unless you "exchange bodily fluids" with someone that you don't have anything to worry about.
If that was truly the case, then how in the world have more than 100 health workers contracted the virus so far?
Health professionals that deal with Ebola take extreme precautions to keep from being exposed to the disease.
But despite those extreme measures, they are catching it too.
Something's fishy about the official stories we're being told on Ebola. Things don't add up, which is why I'm posing these twenty-one important questions we should all be considering:
#1) How can U.S. health authorities claim there is zero risk from Ebola patients being treated in U.S. hospitals when those same hospitals can't control superbug infections? "Many hospitals are poorly prepared to contain any pathogen. That’s why at least 75,000 people a year die from hospital infections. If hospitals can’t stop common infections like MRSA, C. diff and VRE, they can’t handle Ebola."
#2) Why should we trust the CDC's handling of Ebola when the agency can't even keep track of its anthrax, avian flu and smallpox samples?
#3) Why were Ebola victims transported to cities in the USA when they could be given state-of-the-art medical care overseas? "Now, they are bringing in highly infectious patients into this nation that is Ebola-free. In doing so, they are violating the primary rule of contagion: isolation." - Radio host Michael Savage
#4) Why is the company working on Ebola vaccines -- Tekmira -- receiving money from Monsanto and considers Monsanto to be one of its important business partners?
#5) If Ebola is "not a threat" to U.S. citizens as government authorities keep claiming, then why did the U.S. Department of Defense spend $140 million on an Ebola-related contract with the Tekmira company?
#6) If Ebola is not a threat to the U.S., then why did the Department of Defense deploy Ebola detection equipment to all 50 states? (4)
#7) Why did President Obama just sign a new executive order authorizing the government arrest and quarantine of Americans who show symptoms of respiratory infections? The language of his new executive order states that government officials may forcibly detain and quarantine people with:...diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled.
#8) How can we trust a government to tell us the truth about Ebola when that same government repeatedly lies about Swine Flu, influenza, Fukushima radiation, weather control technology, the security of the border and seemingly everything else?
#9) If U.S. doctors claim to be so incredibly careful around Ebola that the virus could not possibly escape from the containment rooms at Emory University, then how did the American doctors being treated there contract Ebola in the first place? Weren't they also being careful?
#10) How are U.S. doctors and health workers supposed to even identify people with Ebola when they appear "fit and healthy" right until the very end? "What's shocking is how healthy the patients look before they die and how quickly they decline. A number of the Ebola patients I've seen look quite fit and healthy and can be walking around until shortly before their deaths." - Dr. Oliver Johnson (6)
#11) If Ebola is not spread through the air as some claim, then why do doctors who treat Ebola patients always wear masks?
#12) If hospitals are good at infection control, then why did so many SARS victims contract the infection while sitting in waiting rooms at hospitals? "A government report later concluded that for the hospital overcome by SARS, 'infection control was not a high priority.' Eventually, 77% of the people who contracted SARS there got it while working, visiting or being treated in a hospital."
#13) If Ebola escapes from patients at Emory University and begins to infect the public, do you think we would ever be told the truth about it? Or instead, would the official story claim that "Ebola terrorists" let it loose?
#14) WHO BENEFITS FROM AN EBOLA OUTBREAK in the USA? This is a key question to ask, and the answers are obvious: the CDC, vaccine manufacturers and pharma companies, and anyone in government who wants to declare a police state and start rounding people up for quarantine in a medical emergency.
#15) We already know there are powerful people who openly promote population reduction (Bill Gates, Ted Turner, etc.) Is a staged Ebola outbreak possibly a deliberate population reduction plan by some group that doesn't value human life and wants to rapidly reduce the population?
#16) Why are U.S. health authorities intentionally concealing from the public the true number of possible Ebola victims in U.S. hospitals who are being tested for Ebola right now? "In an apparent attempt to avoid hysteria, U.S. health authorities are withholding details about a number of suspected Ebola victims from the public." - Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars
#17) If Ebola infections are so easy to control (as is claimed by U.S. health authorities), then why are Ebola victim bodies being openly dumped in the streets in West Africa? "Relatives of Ebola victims in Liberia defied government quarantine orders and dumped infected bodies in the streets as West African governments struggled to enforce tough measures to curb an outbreak..."
#18) Why do many locals in Sierra Leone truly believe the recent Ebola outbreak was deliberately caused by government officials? "Ebola is a new disease in Sierra Leone and when the first cases emerged, many people thought it might be a government conspiracy to undermine certain tribal groups, steal organs or get money from international donors..."
#19) Given that the U.S. government has already funded outrageous medical experiments on Americans and foreigners (see the NIH-funded Guatemalan medical experiments), why should we not believe the government is capable of deploying Ebola in bioweapons experiments in West Africa?
#20) Given that many vaccines accidentally cause the disease they claim to prevent (due to weakened viruses still remaining active in a small number of vaccine vials), isn't it likely that Ebola vaccines might actually cause Ebola infections in some percentage of those receiving them? How can we trust any vaccines when vaccine manufacturers have been granted absolute legal immunity from faulty products or failures in quality control?
#21) How can we trust a medical system that continues to put mercury in flu shots, refuses to recommend vitamin D to cancer patients and has been criminally corrupted to the point where drug companies are routinely charged with felony crimes for bribery and price fixing?
#18 The federal government will begin testing an "experimental Ebola vaccine" on humans in September.
#19 We are being told that the reason why we don't have an Ebola vaccine already is due to the hesitation of the pharmaceutical industry to invest in a disease that has "only affected people in Africa".
Read the excellent book Dr. Mary's Monkey and watch those videos on this blog. #20 Researchers from Tulane University have been active for several years in the very same areas where this Ebola outbreak began. One of the stated purposes of this research was to study "the future use of fever-viruses as bioweapons".
#21 According to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation in Sierra Leone, researchers from Tulane University have been asked "to stop Ebola testing during the current Ebola outbreak". What in the world does that mean?
#22 The Navy Times says that the U.S. military has been interested in studying Ebola "as a potential biological weapon" since the 1970s...
Filoviruses like Ebola have been of interest to the Pentagon since the late 1970s, mainly because Ebola and its fellow viruses have high mortality rates — in the current outbreak, roughly 60 percent to 72 percent of those who have contracted the disease have died — and its stable nature in aerosol make it attractive as a potential biological weapon.
#23 The CDC actually owns a patent on one particular strain of the Ebola virus...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control owns a patent on a particular strain of Ebola known as "EboBun." It's patent No. CA2741523A1 and it was awarded in 2010.
It is being reported that this is not the same strain that is currently being transmitted in Africa, but it is interesting to note nonetheless. And why would the CDC want "ownership" of a strain of the Ebola virus in the first place?
#24 The CDC has just put up a brand new webpage entitled "Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Hospitalized Patients with Known or Suspected Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in U.S. Hospitals".
#25 The World Health Organization has launched a 100 million dollar response plan to fight this Ebola outbreak. Others don't seem so alarmed. For example, Barack Obama is getting ready to take a "16 day Martha’s Vineyard vacation".
Friends, beware of the propaganda on the csble news network. Many are attempting to play down the threat from this virus by stating that unless you "exchange bodily fluids" with someone that you don't have anything to worry about.
If that was truly the case, then how in the world have more than 100 health workers contracted the virus so far?
Health professionals that deal with Ebola take extreme precautions to keep from being exposed to the disease.
But despite those extreme measures, they are catching it too.
Something's fishy about the official stories we're being told on Ebola. Things don't add up, which is why I'm posing these twenty-one important questions we should all be considering:
#1) How can U.S. health authorities claim there is zero risk from Ebola patients being treated in U.S. hospitals when those same hospitals can't control superbug infections? "Many hospitals are poorly prepared to contain any pathogen. That’s why at least 75,000 people a year die from hospital infections. If hospitals can’t stop common infections like MRSA, C. diff and VRE, they can’t handle Ebola."
#2) Why should we trust the CDC's handling of Ebola when the agency can't even keep track of its anthrax, avian flu and smallpox samples?
#3) Why were Ebola victims transported to cities in the USA when they could be given state-of-the-art medical care overseas? "Now, they are bringing in highly infectious patients into this nation that is Ebola-free. In doing so, they are violating the primary rule of contagion: isolation." - Radio host Michael Savage
#4) Why is the company working on Ebola vaccines -- Tekmira -- receiving money from Monsanto and considers Monsanto to be one of its important business partners?
#5) If Ebola is "not a threat" to U.S. citizens as government authorities keep claiming, then why did the U.S. Department of Defense spend $140 million on an Ebola-related contract with the Tekmira company?
#6) If Ebola is not a threat to the U.S., then why did the Department of Defense deploy Ebola detection equipment to all 50 states? (4)
#7) Why did President Obama just sign a new executive order authorizing the government arrest and quarantine of Americans who show symptoms of respiratory infections? The language of his new executive order states that government officials may forcibly detain and quarantine people with:...diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled.
#8) How can we trust a government to tell us the truth about Ebola when that same government repeatedly lies about Swine Flu, influenza, Fukushima radiation, weather control technology, the security of the border and seemingly everything else?
#9) If U.S. doctors claim to be so incredibly careful around Ebola that the virus could not possibly escape from the containment rooms at Emory University, then how did the American doctors being treated there contract Ebola in the first place? Weren't they also being careful?
#10) How are U.S. doctors and health workers supposed to even identify people with Ebola when they appear "fit and healthy" right until the very end? "What's shocking is how healthy the patients look before they die and how quickly they decline. A number of the Ebola patients I've seen look quite fit and healthy and can be walking around until shortly before their deaths." - Dr. Oliver Johnson (6)
#11) If Ebola is not spread through the air as some claim, then why do doctors who treat Ebola patients always wear masks?
#12) If hospitals are good at infection control, then why did so many SARS victims contract the infection while sitting in waiting rooms at hospitals? "A government report later concluded that for the hospital overcome by SARS, 'infection control was not a high priority.' Eventually, 77% of the people who contracted SARS there got it while working, visiting or being treated in a hospital."
#13) If Ebola escapes from patients at Emory University and begins to infect the public, do you think we would ever be told the truth about it? Or instead, would the official story claim that "Ebola terrorists" let it loose?
#14) WHO BENEFITS FROM AN EBOLA OUTBREAK in the USA? This is a key question to ask, and the answers are obvious: the CDC, vaccine manufacturers and pharma companies, and anyone in government who wants to declare a police state and start rounding people up for quarantine in a medical emergency.
#15) We already know there are powerful people who openly promote population reduction (Bill Gates, Ted Turner, etc.) Is a staged Ebola outbreak possibly a deliberate population reduction plan by some group that doesn't value human life and wants to rapidly reduce the population?
#16) Why are U.S. health authorities intentionally concealing from the public the true number of possible Ebola victims in U.S. hospitals who are being tested for Ebola right now? "In an apparent attempt to avoid hysteria, U.S. health authorities are withholding details about a number of suspected Ebola victims from the public." - Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars
#17) If Ebola infections are so easy to control (as is claimed by U.S. health authorities), then why are Ebola victim bodies being openly dumped in the streets in West Africa? "Relatives of Ebola victims in Liberia defied government quarantine orders and dumped infected bodies in the streets as West African governments struggled to enforce tough measures to curb an outbreak..."
#18) Why do many locals in Sierra Leone truly believe the recent Ebola outbreak was deliberately caused by government officials? "Ebola is a new disease in Sierra Leone and when the first cases emerged, many people thought it might be a government conspiracy to undermine certain tribal groups, steal organs or get money from international donors..."
#19) Given that the U.S. government has already funded outrageous medical experiments on Americans and foreigners (see the NIH-funded Guatemalan medical experiments), why should we not believe the government is capable of deploying Ebola in bioweapons experiments in West Africa?
#20) Given that many vaccines accidentally cause the disease they claim to prevent (due to weakened viruses still remaining active in a small number of vaccine vials), isn't it likely that Ebola vaccines might actually cause Ebola infections in some percentage of those receiving them? How can we trust any vaccines when vaccine manufacturers have been granted absolute legal immunity from faulty products or failures in quality control?
#21) How can we trust a medical system that continues to put mercury in flu shots, refuses to recommend vitamin D to cancer patients and has been criminally corrupted to the point where drug companies are routinely charged with felony crimes for bribery and price fixing?
Ebola Reston - In
October 1989, the community of Reston, Virginia went about their daily lives
not realizing that a serious crisis was developing right in their back yards
that would not be entirely resolved until March 1990. It was a serious calamity
that could have wiped out the entire population. This dire emergency was
described twenty years ago by Richard Preston in his
non-fiction book, "The Hot Zone." The
"hot zone" refers to an "area that contains lethal, infectious
organisms" also dubbed "hot agent," an "extremely lethal
virus, potentially airborne." (Richard Preston, The Hot Zone, Random House,
New York, 1994, p. 296)
The people in the book are real, two victims' names have been
changed, and the narrative and dialog were masterfully reconstructed from
interviews and memories of those who participated in the crises.
Hazelton Research Products, a division of Corning, Inc. was
importing and selling lab animals. On October 4, 1989, the monkey house called
Reston Primate Quarantine Unit located not far from Leesburg Pike, received a
shipment of one hundred crab-eating monkeys (a type of macaque) from the
Philippines, caught on the island of Mindanao. Two of the monkeys were dead in
their shipping crates. By first of November, 29 of the monkey were dead, most
of them in Room F. The heating and air system had failed so it was assumed the
deaths had occurred from ambient conditions. Each night more macaques died. By
November 16, a tentative diagnosis was given "simian hemorrhagic
fever."
Thomas Geisbert, an intern at the Institute discovered under his
electron microscope the dreaded Ebola virus. Dr. Jahrling tested the virus
cultures from the macaques against three known blood serums:
1. Musoke (test for
Marburg virus)
2. Boniface (test for Ebola
Sudan)
3. Mayinga (test for Ebola
Zaire)
The virus cultures glowed brightly against the Mayinga blood serum
indicating that the monkeys in the Reston house died of Ebola Zaire strain, the
deadliest of all filoviruses (Ebola).
The Institute is short for the United States Army Medical Research
Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) located at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
Its "mission is medical defense" with specialty in "drugs,
vaccines, and biocontainment." The Institute's Army and civilian personnel
were instrumental in the containment of the Ebola Reston virus in Reston,
Virginia monkey holding facility.
To contain the spread of Ebola Reston, the mutated strain of Ebola
Zaire, the Army chose the bio-hazard operation of killing all the monkeys, bag
them, incinerate their carcasses, and chemically clean and fumigate the
building with formaldehyde gas. Their mission was to safeguard the population,
euthanize the animals humanely (anesthetic, sedative, and a lethal drug), and
gather samples for research from liver and spleen in order to identify the
strain and how it traveled. The entire operation was done in biohazard Level 4
suits. To a trained eye, the badly liquefied organs and tissues, the red eyes,
frozen faces, and slacking muscles left no doubt that the monkeys died of
Ebola. By December 7, 1989, four hundred and fifty monkeys were euthanized,
some already very sick and some harboring the virus. (pp. 212-213)
Two monkey handlers got sick, one had a heart attack and another
one was sent to the Fairfax Hospital with flu-like symptoms and vomiting. For
unknown reasons, although both had been exposed to the Ebola virus, neither had
contracted Ebola.
(Watchman comment: it is my understanding, from my military experience, that the location in Reston was razed to the ground and the soil sanitized but I could be wrong.) After the three-day decontamination, the building was turned back
over from the Army custody to the Hazleton Research Products who bought more
macaques from the Philippines from the same source in Manila. By middle January
1990, monkeys in Room C started to die with bloody noses. It was Ebola again
from the Philippines, not Africa. The monkeys were destroyed and the company
vacated the building.
According to Richard Preston, the disaster in that 'building was a
kind of experiment.' "Now they would see what Ebola could do naturally in
a population of monkeys living in a confined air space, in a kind
of city, as it were. The Ebola Reston virus jumped quickly from room to room. …
Ebola apparently drifted through the building's air-handling ducts." (In other words the Ebola was airborne.) (pp.
251-252)
Strangely, an animal caretaker, "John Coleus," who was
doing a necropsy on a dead monkey, cut his thumb with a bloody scalpel, which
is a major exposure to Ebola. Everyone expected him to die, but he never got
sick. The virus entered his blood stream. The other two animal caretakers,
however, did not cut themselves. The virus entered their bodies through
"contact with lungs; everyone at USAMRIID concluded that Ebola can spread
through the air." (p. 254)
Peter Jahrling, who actually "whiffed the Ebola and lived to
tell about it," wondered, "Why is the Zaire stuff hot for humans? Why
isn't the Reston hot for humans, when the strains are so close to each other?
The Ebola Reston virus is almost certainly transmitted by some airborne route.
Those Hazleton workers who had the virus—I'm pretty sure they got it through
the air." (p. 257)
"Pictures of the lungs of a monkey infected with Ebola Zaire
are fogged with Ebola. … You can see Ebola particles clearly in the air spaces
of the lung," said LTC Nancy Jaax, chief of pathology at USAMRIID in 1989,
a participant in the Reston biohazard operation. (p. 260)
The four strains of Ebola filoviruses (string viruses) are: Marburg,
Ebola Sudan, Ebola Zaire, and Ebola Reston. They are named for Ebola River,
"a tributary of the Congo, or Zaire, River." The most virulent of the
viruses, the Zaire strain first appeared in September 1976 in 55 villages
around the Ebola River. The kill rate is 90 percent.
Marburg
Charles Monet, after traveling to Kitum Cave on Mount Elgon
(located between Uganda and Kenya), came down on January 8, 1980 with the
Marburg virus and died in a Nairobi hospital on January 15, attended by Dr.
Shem Musoke (the Marburg virus test is named after him). Dr. Musoke came down
with the Marburg virus nine days later. Dr. Musoke survived with no memory of
his ordeal. He became a leading physician at the Nairobi Hospital with Dr.
David Silverstein who saved his life and the lives of many others when he
persuaded the Kenyan officials to shut down the Nairobi Hospital in order to
prevent further infections. Vials of Musoke's infected blood were sent to labs
around the world. "The Marburg in his blood had come from Charles Monet's
black vomit and perhaps originally from Kitum Cave. (pp. 32-33)
In 1987, a Danish boy called "Peter Cardinal" went by
car on a summer trip with his family who wanted to show him "the beauty
and sweetness of Kenya." He got sick, turned black-and-blue with little
red spots, red eyes, unable to breathe, and died of Marburg in spite of
treatment at Nairobi Hospital by Dr. David Silverstein, the same doctor who
saved Dr. Musoke's life. "Peter Cardinal" had visited the same cave
Charles Monet did, Kitum Cave on Mount Elgon. (pp. 90-96)
Marburg virus kills 25 percent of patients. Marburg is an African
organism but was named after the German town Marburg because the virus erupted
there first in 1967 in Behring Works, a producer of vaccines from kidney cells of
African green monkeys imported from Uganda. The first reported victim was Klaus
F., who fed the monkeys and washed their cages. He became ill on August 8, 1967
and died two weeks later. (p. 26)
Prior to the Klaus F. casualty, in the period of 1962-1965, there
were unconfirmed reports of people and monkeys dying with symptoms of bleeding
and a "peculiar skin rash" on the slopes of Mount Elgon in Eastern
Uganda.
Red eyes, fever, uncontrolled vomiting of black blood, sloughing
off intestinal tissues, fulminating liver failure, brain damage, veins
bursting, and liquefaction of tissues are some of the horrendous symptoms of
Ebola.
Richard Preston said that Marburg has an effect on humans as if
they were exposed to radiation – connective tissues, intestines, skin are
affected, hair dies at the root, radiation-like burns cause skin to peel off
hands, faces, feet, and genitals, blown up or semi-rotten testicles. (p. 27)
Ebola virus is composed of seven different proteins, four of which
are completely unknown, their structure and function are a mystery. Ebola is a
distant relative of measles, mumps, and rabies, the parainfluenza virus, and
the syncytial virus. Ebola attacks the immune system in a similar manner of
HIV. (p. 46)
Ebola Zaire
The Mayinga strain of the Ebola Zaire came from a nurse working at
a hospital in Zaire, who cared for a Roman Catholic nun who died of Ebola. The
young woman's name was Mayinga N. The nun infected Mayinga when she bled all
over her. The twenty-year-old died of Ebola on October 19, 1976. (p. 54)
"No one caught the virus from nurse Mayinga, even though she
had been in close contact with at least thirty-seven people and shared a bottle of soda pop with
someone, and not even that person became ill." (p. 89)
How infectious is Ebola Zaire? "Five or ten Ebola-virus
particles suspended in a droplet of blood could easily slip through a pinhole
in a surgical glove, and that
might be enough to start an explosive infection." (p. 63)
Ebola Zaire kills much of the host while it is still alive. It
turns the inside of the body into "digested slime of virus
particles," "the collagen in the body turns to mush, and the
underlayers of the skin die and liquefy." The mouth bleeds, heart bleeds
into itself, brain swells with dead blood cells and strokes, eyes fill up with
blood, other orifices ooze blood, liver swells, turns yellow, liquefies and
cracks. Epileptic convulsions appear in the final stages. (pp. 72-75)
Karl Johnson, one of the discoverers of the Ebola Virus, said to
the author, "A virus can be useful to a species by thinning it out."
(p. 83)
Ebola Zaire, twice as lethal as Ebola Sudan, was first mentioned
in September 1976 in a region of northern Zaire called Bumba Zone in the
vicinity of the Ebola River, but nobody knows who the first victim was.
A school teacher received an injection from the Yambuku Hospital
with one of the five hypodermic syringes that were used to give shots to
hundreds of people in the outpatient and maternity clinics. This teacher came
down with Ebola Zaire a few days later. Nobody knows who the person was who
received the shot right before the school teacher. Ebola erupted in 55 villages
around the hospital, first in those who received shots and then in family
members, particularly women who prepare the dead for burial. (p. 71)
Ebola Sudan
The first identified case, that later became Ebola Sudan and
"nearly devastated the human population of southern Sudan," was Mr.
Yu. G., a storekeeper in a cotton factory in the town of Nzara. No one knows
where he got the infection, the bats roosting in the ceiling of the room above his desk, trapped in cotton
fibers, from rats, etc. Two other men who worked with him died as well of
Ebola. One individual known as P.G. passed Ebola to his alleged mistresses in
town.
The hospital personnel of the Maridi hospital in Sudan exacerbated
the infection by giving injections to many patients with the same dirty and
infected needles.
The Ebola Sudan was twice as lethal as the Marburg strain with a
50 percent fatality. Richard Preston compared it to the death rate from the
black plague. A few hundred people were killed in central Sudan and then the
virus died out. (pp. 68-69)
My Note: In Zaire the die out came when village elders
forbade the ritual practices for the dead (close contact up to intimate
contact with the dead for female relatives) and ordered the bodies to
immediately be burned or buried and those who touched the bodies to wash
everything before coming back into the village (sounds like following the
orders in the Bible solved the problem).
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