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Pandemic Now - A Possible Ebola Pandemic

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    Posted: October 03 2014 at 9:35am
Despite denials, the basic idea of why this disease is spreading like wild fire through West Africa and yet still will not spread in the U.S.,defies logic. It is a virus that can be spread by a sneeze through droplets airborne or not and is highly contagious. If it were not not, why would ,what will soon be millions of people, be infected by it.  If aggressive and specific efforts are not made to screen airline passengers, this will spread not only through the U.S., but throughout the entire world.

We do not have a health care system in the U.S. nor the drugs to effectively handle an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. In addition, we enter what may be a very bad winter as the climate conditions will once more near us to a possible Ice Age. As predicted, a savage storm will once again begin plunging the U.S. into arctic anomalies and open the doorway for yet another flu epidemic as well.


Given the spread of mulitiple viruses, at least six, Ebola can be spread by a sneeze and moving with them, create havoc in our medical system and response abilities. I continue trying to finish Pandemic Now, the book and including new information on the outbreaks of Dengue Fever, Enterovirus D68, new versions of Swine Flu, and now Ebola.

The reality is many of the cases in West Africa never make it to the ER and are never diagnosed. Doctors die alone in the streets. The number of infected individuals and even those dying from it cannot be determined by tests which are not accurate or cannot effectively detect the new mutations of Ebola. 

Ominious warnings and grave concern are not enough. Speeches and denials do not replace the common sense of taking a person from the West African area admitted to the ER and putting them into a separate area. It is not safe to leave them among other patients, and West Africa is a testimony of how contagioius and virulent this virus has become.

One should realize the Ebola we knew in Outbreak, the Zaire strain, is not what we are dealing with now. It continues to mutate, is becoming  much nastier. We are getting numbers of 70% CFR in some areas.

There is no real way to effectively screen for this at airports.

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/08/theres-really-no-way-screen-ebola-airports/90413/

Here’s why: fever can be a sign of a lot of different illnesses, not just Ebola. And thermal scanning proved to be a poor method of catching bird flu carriers in 2009 as well. So presenting with an elevated temperature at an airport checkpoint does not indicate clearly enough that the fevered person is carrying the deadly virus. More importantly, the incubation period for Ebola is two days. As many as 20 days can pass before symptoms show up.

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2626877/pg1

The two partners of the first responders who got ill. They contracted Ebola while knowing their partners had been in contact with Sawyer. They were told their partners were not contagious before symptoms appeared... Now they have Ebola!

So we can see now that Ebola infects before symptoms show!

The Ebola incubation period is the period between infection with the virus and the appearance of symptoms associated with the disease. The incubation period can be as short as 2 days or as long as 21 days. A person is still contagious during this time.

http://ebola.emedtv.com/ebola/ebola-incubation-period.html

After four to six days on average, symptoms of Ebola can begin. The period between the transmission of the virus and the start of symptoms is called the incubation period. For Ebola, the incubation period can be as short as 2 days or as long as 21 days.
 

Is a Person Contagious During the Ebola Incubation Period?

Even if a person exhibits no signs or symptoms of Ebola, he or she can still spread the virus during the incubation period. Once symptoms begin, the person can remain contagious for about three more weeks.

If I were to put in  another one liner here- as per "not if but when", I would tell everyone "Don't panic, Prepare!"

You owe it to your families and yourself to make a reasonable effort to learn what you need to do and tell others, share it, with everyone. Start blogs, get on the phone, twitter, and get the real news beyond the spin, and be prepared. Put this out to everyone you care about.

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