Ebola in the USA is the worst news in the world. However, there is even worse news, Ebola can spread through not only bodily fluids, but through coughing and sneezing and the CDC just admitted it. Scientists have admitted for some time that Ebola can spread through aerosol transmission: coughing, sneezing, and other aerosol routes. Now, the CDC is even forced to admit it.
The La Times reports:
" Some scientists who have long studied Ebola say such assurances are premature — and they are concerned about what is not known about the strain now on the loose.
Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Virginia and who later led the CDC's most far-reaching study of Ebola's transmissibility in humans, said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the air in tight quarters.
"We just don't have the data to exclude it," said Peters, who continues to research viral diseases at the University of Texas in Galveston.
Dr. Philip K. Russell, a virologist who oversaw Ebola research while heading the U.S. Army's Medical Research and Development Command, and who later led the government's massive stockpiling of smallpox vaccine after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, also said much was still to be learned. "Being dogmatic is, I think, ill-advised, because there are too many unknowns here."
"I see the reasons to dampen down public fears," Russell said. "But scientifically, we're in the middle of the first experiment of multiple, serial passages of Ebola virus in man…. God knows what this virus is going to look like. I don't."
Tom Skinner, a spokesman for the CDC in Atlanta, said health officials were basing their response to Ebola on what has been learned from battling the virus since its discovery in central Africa in 1976. The CDC remains confident, he said, that Ebola is transmitted principally by direct physical contact with an ill person or their bodily fluids. [Well, yes ... everyone knows that physical contact with the victim or their fluids is the prime route of exposure.]
Finally, some also question the official assertion that Ebola cannot be transmitted through the air. In late 1989, virus researcher Charles L. Bailey supervised the government's response to an outbreak of Ebola among several dozen rhesus monkeys housed for research in Reston, Va., a suburb of Washington.
What Bailey learned from the episode informs his suspicion that the current strain of Ebola afflicting humans might be spread through tiny liquid droplets propelled into the air by coughing or sneezing.
"We know for a fact that the virus occurs in sputum and no one has ever done a study [disproving that] coughing or sneezing is a viable means of transmitting," he said. Unqualified assurances that Ebola is not spread through the air, Bailey said, are "misleading."
Peters, whose CDC team studied cases from 27 households that emerged during a 1995 Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo, said that while most could be attributed to contact with infected late-stage patients or their bodily fluids, "some" infections may have occurred via "aerosol transmission."
Skinner of the CDC, who cited the Peters-led study as the most extensive of Ebola's transmissibility, said that while the evidence "is really overwhelming" that people are most at risk when they touch either those who are sick or such a person's vomit, blood or diarrhea, "we can never say never" about spread through close-range coughing or sneezing.
"I'm not going to sit here and say that if a person who is highly viremic … were to sneeze or cough right in the face of somebody who wasn't protected, that we wouldn't have a transmission," Skinner said.
Peters, Russell and Bailey, who in 1989 was deputy commander for research of the Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, in Frederick, Md., said the primates in Reston had appeared to spread Ebola to other monkeys through their breath."
Not only is the CDC finally admitting that Ebola can spread through aerosol routes, now the WHO is reporting that Ebola outbreak across Europe is unavoidable.
"The spread of Ebola across Europe is "quite unavoidable", the World Health Organisation has warned as four people were in hospital after a Spanish nurse became the first person known to have contracted the virus outside Africa. WHO European director Zsuzsanna Jakab has said while more cases will spread in Europe, the continent should be well prepared to control the disease. Health officials in Spain today said four people - the nurse, her husband and two others - were being monitored in hospital in a bid to stem the spread of the virus. "Such imported cases and similar events as have happened in Spain will happen also in the future, most likely," Ms Jakab told Reuters. "It is quite unavoidable ... that such incidents will happen in the future because of the extensive travel both from Europe to the affected countries and the other way around," she said."
With 2 cases in Spain that have recently diagnosed as Ebola, and 4 more quarantined this brings the question of how did it spread? The Nurse was in protective gear. It spread through the aerosol route. After these two diagnoses, and NYC airport getting in thousands of hazmat suits. It has to make us wonder, why are they controlling how many confirmed cases they report on? Is it because of fear of a public failure? Or
is there a more sinister outcome behind this?
The sinister outcome can be derived from the lack of action from countries around the world to deal with the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record!
Not only do we the people know that there is more to this than meets the eyes. But so do the officials in office in fact they were caught on a live mic saying "we're screwed".
Major Garrett caught on open mic.
So the question then becomes are we really screwed? The answer is yes, because we have officals that are either incompetent to deal with Ebola or they are seriously planning the inevitable.
The answer is up to you!
Now for an even worse repot: The New York Times: Some may carry Ebola and be contagious even without symptoms!
This article was written back in 2000: " The Ebola virus, which has caused deaths from high fever and bleeding in African outbreaks, can also infect without producing illness, according to a new finding by African and European scientists. The possibility of asymptomatic infection was only suggested in earlier studies, they said in last week's issue of The Lancet, a medical journal published in London. Now they said they had documented such infections for the first time. They found that the Ebola virus could persist in the blood of asymptomatic infected individuals for two weeks after they were first exposed to an infected individual. How much longer the virus can persist is unknown. If people can be carriers without showing symptoms, it means control might be more difficult. 'This degree of containment would be virtually impossible if symptom-free carriers posed a significant threat of infection,' Dr. Alan G. Baxter of Newtown, Australia, wrote in an editorial in the same issue of The Lancet. An immediate effect is to raise the need to reassess health policy about one of the most virulent viruses known and to determine how often healthy carriers transmit it, said the scientific team headed by Dr. E. M. Leroy of Franceville, Gabon. Dr. Leroy's team studied 25 individuals who never developed symptoms although they lived with family members and cared for them without using gloves and other precautions in two outbreaks in Gabon in 1996. Using standard virologic techniques, the scientists from Gabon, Germany and France said they could not detect the virus in the blood of the healthy contacts. But Dr. Leroy's succeeded by using a technique known as polymerase chain reaction to grow the tiny amount of virus present."
Along with all of the above information EBOLA IS MUTATING!
" It is clear that the virus is mutating." Says Dr. Peter Piot. This is all similar to previous reports by 2127 News. All of the above information is very alarming because yet another person has been sent into the hospital showing Ebola symptoms and did have contact with Thomas Duncan the US Ebola patient!
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