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SIKORSKI: RUSSIAN UNITS POISED TO PRESSURE OR INVADE UKRAINE
SIKORSKI: RUSSIAN INCURSION WOULD BE HUGE ESCALATION OF CRISIS
SIKORSKI WARNS RUSSIA ON IMPACT OF CONVENTIONAL WAR IN EUROPE


Of course, as anyone but the machines knows, Poland has been desperate to get a NATO response from the start, and has been hinting at an "imminent" Russian invasion for at least 4 months

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-05/another-sick-american-undergoing-ebola-testing-time-columbus



Columbus Public Health confirms a person is undergoing testing and has been quarantined for the deadly Ebola virus.

CPH says the person recently traveled to West Africa, where an outbreak has left nearly 900 people dead.

A spokesperson says they’re working with the CDC to learn the preliminary results of those tests.

ZMapp is the experimental new drug which was administered to the two U.S. citizens who contracted Ebola.

Produced by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. of San Diego, the serum is created by infecting an animal with the disease then harvesting the animal's immune system antibodies which its body creates to fight it.

It is a type of drug known as a 'monoclonal antibody', and before this use, it had only been tested on monkeys.

Unfortunately, there is very little of the radical new drug available and it has not yet undergone the usual safety tests of other drugs.

Times of San Diego reported a company spokesperson as saying: 'ZMapp was first identified as a drug candidate in January 2014 and has not yet been evaluated for safety in humans. As such, very little of the drug is currently available.

'Mapp and its partners are co-operating with appropriate government agencies to increase production as quickly as possible.'

Remarkably, ZMapp is grown in specially modified leaves of tobacco. Mapp Biopharmaceutical has contracted a Kentucky tobacco plant to help produce the serum.

The plants must be 'infected' with a type of protein, which over time, the plant goes on to reproduce itself. After a week or so, it has made enough of the protein to turn into a useable drug which can be extracted.


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Saudi Arabian health officials are testing a patient suspected of contracting the deadly Ebola virus as fears grow the disease is starting to spread beyond west Africa.

The Ebola epidemic has so far been contained to west African nations, where almost 900 people have died from more than 1600 confirmed cases.
But Saudi Arabia is now testing samples from a man who recently returned from a business trip to Sierra Leone for suspected Ebola infection, the Health Ministry said.

It said the man, a Saudi in his 40s, was at a hospital in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2716777/Has-Ebola-reached-UK-Welsh-national-returned-West-Africa-week-ago-quarantine-home-fears-exposed-deadly-disease.html

A Briton who fears they may have contracted the deadly Ebola virus while abroad has returned home and placed themselves in voluntary quarantine, it has emerged.

The potential victim, a Welsh national understood to be living in Cardiff, is being 'closely monitored,' health officials said today.
Doctors from Public Health Wales said the individual had been 'voluntarily' confined at home for the past week after returning from an infected country in West Africa.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201408041541.html

Another Liberian dies of Ebola in MOROCCO

The Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Morris Dukuly, has disclosed that a Liberian has died of the deadly Ebola virus in Morocco.

The Ebola virus, which has no cure, has killed at least 129 people here, and claimed more than 670 lives across the region. A top Liberian doctor working at Liberia's largest hospital died recently, and two American aid workers have fallen ill, underscoring the dangers facing those charged with bringing the outbreak under control.

Also recently, an official of the Ministry of Finance identified as Patrick Sawyer died of the disease at a Lagos hospital.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/eight-persons-quarantined-as-doctor-tests-positive-for-ebola/185420/


Also, confirming the presence of the virus in Nigeria, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health who spoke to reporters alongside the Project Director of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Prof. Nasidi, among others, said one person “has tested positive out of the eight persons under observation”.

According to him, the patients are all persons who had personal contact with Sawyer.
Idris added that the patients would remain in isolation until they were deemed free of the deadly virus that had killed more than 800 persons in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

However, the commissioner declined to reveal the identity of the female doctor who had tested positive to the virus, stating that it was against the ethics of the profession to disclose a patient's personal information.
In his remarks, Nasidi, who is the head of federal delegation on Ebola in Lagos, debunked speculations that the patient was dead, stressing, “It is not true that the patient is dead. She is alive. But we have experts on ground. She is currently being treated."

Even though Idris declined to give the patient's identity, Nasidi confirmed that the patient “is female and a medical doctor, who had direct contact with the Ebola victim”.
He said: “We are taking precaution at different levels to contain the spread of the virus. All citizens need to give support in order to stop the spread of the Ebola virus.”

LUTH Screens Patients, Trains Personnel

When THISDAY contacted LUTH to ascertain if the eight members of staff of First Consultants were on admission in an isolation ward in the teaching hospital, the Public Relations Officer of LUTH, Mrs. Hope Nwawolo, said: “No case of any doctor confirmed with the virus is in the hospital.”

The remaining two cases are the nurses also under quarantine who have Ebola symptoms. It was deliberately not reported well in the news so as not to create panic

Current Ebola statistics:-

Present EBOLA STATISTICS :-

This is the Ebola statistics presently:-

A hospital spokeswoman, Dorie Klissas, said that to protect the patient’s privacy the hospital was not making public his occupation, which country he had been in, whether he had been exposed to a patient with Ebola there, or whether he had close contacts like family members, friends or co-workers who were also at risk.

Ms. Klissas said the patient’s blood was being tested for Ebola, but she declined to say when the test results would be available.


“We are on a heightened state of alert,” he said. “We have instructed all 11 of our hospitals to follow C.D.C. guidelines and be on the lookout for Ebola-like symptoms.”

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A patient at Mount Sinai hospital is being tested after traveling to a country where the Ebola virus is present, the hospital said in a statement.

The man arrived at Mount Sinai’s emergency room early Monday morning with high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms.

The man told doctors he had recently traveled to a West African country where Ebola is present, the hospital said.

The man has been placed in “strict isolation” and is undergoing various tests to determine the cause of the symptoms, the hospital said.

All appropriate steps to keep patients, staff and visitors safe are being taken, the hospital said.

A patient at Mount Sinai hospital is being tested after traveling to a country where the Ebola virus is present, the hospital said in a statement.

The man arrived at Mount Sinai’s emergency room early Monday morning with high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms.

The man told doctors he had recently traveled to a West African country where Ebola is present, the hospital said.

The man has been placed in “strict isolation” and is undergoing various tests to determine the cause of the symptoms, the hospital said.

All appropriate steps to keep patients, staff and visitors safe are being taken, the hospital said.

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A patient at Mount Sinai hospital is being tested after traveling to a country where the Ebola virus is present, the hospital said in a statement.

The man arrived at Mount Sinai’s emergency room early Monday morning with high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms.

The man told doctors he had recently traveled to a West African country where Ebola is present, the hospital said.

The man has been placed in “strict isolation” and is undergoing various tests to determine the cause of the symptoms, the hospital said.

All appropriate steps to keep patients, staff and visitors safe are being taken, the hospital said.

By Chioma Obinna

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Monday warned that the agency is battle ready to clampdown on people making false claims that they have products that can cure Ebola virus disease.

The Director – General of the agency, Dr. Paul Orhii who gave the warning in Lagos restated that Ebola virus disease has no cure for now and there is no definite drug that can cure the disease.

Reacting to alleged rumours of online advertisement for Ebola drugs and cure said NAFDAC will not take lightly any such advertisement of a disease that is currently ravaging the West African countries.

Orhii warned that anybody making false claims that he or she has products that can cure Ebola virus disease (EVD) to stop it or face the wrath of the law.

His words, “The honourable . Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi has stated categorically that there is no cure yet for Ebola

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ebola-nafdac-threatens-arrest-false-cure-claimers/#sthash.m4JhZaY1.dpuf

'The heat of the suits is quickly overwhelming, as your goggles steam up and you feel the sweat dripping underneath. And the smell of chlorine is intense.'

Dr Johnson, 28, is working in Freetown as part of the King's Health Partners scheme. The initiative is a partnership between Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley Trusts as well as King's College London.

He added: 'What 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 Johnson also described the difficulties of working in the country - which is recovering from years of brutal civil war - because many thought the illness was a government conspiracy.

End time things

Three top secret, experimental vials stored at subzero temperatures were flown into Liberia last week in a last-ditch effort to save two American missionary workers who had contracted Ebola, according to a source familiar with details of the treatment.

Brantly and Writebol were aware of the risk of taking a new, little understood treatment; informed consent was obtained from both Americans, according to two sources familiar with the care of the missionary workers.

In the monkeys, the experimental serum had been given within 48 hours of infection. Brantly didn't receive it until he'd been sick for nine days.

The medicine is a three-mouse monoclonal antibody, meaning that mice were exposed to fragments of the Ebola virus and then the antibodies generated within the mice's blood were harvested to create the medicine.

It works by preventing the virus from entering and infecting new cells.

America will make billions of dollars from selling the cure to Africa!!!

A representative from the National Institutes of Health contacted Samaritan's Purse in Liberia and offered the experimental treatment, known as ZMapp, for the two patients, according to the source.

The drug was developed by the biotech firm Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. The patients were told that this treatment had never been tried before in a human being but had shown promise in small experiments with monkeys.


According to company documents, four monkeys infected with Ebola survived after being given the therapy within 24 hours after infection.

Two of four additional monkeys that started therapy within 48 hours after infection also survived.

One monkey that was not treated died within five days of exposure to the virus.

There is no cure for Ebola. But don't tell that to traders. Shares of a Vancouver-based company working on a drug to treat the infectious disease surged nearly 40% last week.

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals (TKMR) popped on much higher trading volume than usual because investors are hopeful that health agencies in the United States might approve its drug, known as TKM-Ebola.

Tekmira does have a $140 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense's Medical Countermeasure Systems BioDefense Therapeutics (MCS-BDTX) Joint Product Management Office to develop the drug.

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CNN reported Monday that two Americans who were infected with the Ebola virus in Liberia were treated with a drug made by privately-held San Diego company Mapp Biopharmaceutical.

Three top secret, experimental vials stored at subzero temperatures were flown into Liberia last week in a last-ditch effort to save two American missionary workers who had contracted Ebola, according to a source familiar with details of the treatment.

A representative from the National Institutes of Health contacted Samaritan's Purse in Liberia and offered the experimental treatment, known as ZMapp, for the two patients, according to the source.

The drug was developed by the biotech firm Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. The patients were told that this treatment had never been tried before in a human being but had shown promise in small experiments with monkeys.


According to company documents, four monkeys infected with Ebola survived after being given the therapy within 24 hours after infection. Two of four additional monkeys that started therapy within 48 hours after infection also survived.

One monkey that was not treated died within five days of exposure to the virus.

An abstract from a recent paper on Ebola: "New data show that the Replikin count of the Ebola virus increased 16-fold in 2013 before the current outbreaks--an indication that the current strain is highly transmissible and dangerous.

Replikins are a group of peptides that have been found to be useful in predicting the rate at which a virus or other organism can replicate, as well as its lethality.

In 2008, increases in gene Replikin counts in H1N1 influenza accurately forecast the 2009 H1N1 pandemic" -Samuel Bogoch, Senior Scholar Boston University School of Medicine and Elenore Bogoch, Director, Foundation for Research on the Nervous System (FRNS)


This disease can be spread by TOUCHING the sweat of an infected person. OR airborne if they sneeze and you are hit with water droplets. If they were on an airplace and used the restroom, you could get it from the toilet seat (if it was sweaty or had any urine/feces on it) or the wash basin, or the doorhandle.

Why do you think the healthcare workers wear Tyvex suits, gloves, tapped off sleeves, boots, masks and eye protection? A lot of lies and misinformation is being spread.

Sawyer, who was traveling to Nigeria on business, became ill while aboard a flight.

They did not quarantine his fellow passengers, and have insisted that the risk of additional cases was minimal.

Nigerian authorities said a total of 70 people are under surveillance and that they hoped to have eight people in quarantine by the end of Monday in an isolation ward in Lagos.

The emergence there is particularly worrisome because Lagos is the largest city in Africa with some 21 million people

Health authorities in Liberia ordered that all those who die from Ebola be cremated after communities resisted having the bodies buried nearby.

Over the weekend, military police were called in after people tried to block health authorities in the West African nation from burying 22 bodies on the outskirts of the capital, Monrovia.

The World Health Organization announced Monday that the death toll has increased from 729 to 887 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria

http://news.yahoo.com/death-toll-ebola-w-africa-hits-887-162835125.html

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in Nigeria on Monday announced a second case of Ebola in Africa's most populous country, an alarming setback as the total death toll from the disease in several West Africa countries shot up by more than 150 to 887.

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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in Nigeria on Monday announced a second case of Ebola in Africa's most populous country, an alarming setback as the total death toll from the disease in several West Africa countries shot up by more than 150 to 887.

This is the picture of the man Patrick Sawyer

The confirmation that a fourth doctor had been infected comes as fear and anger about the dead being left unburied in Liberia’s capital Monrovia brought protesters into the streets, while Sierra Leone’s president said Monday that the epidemic threatened the “very essence” of the nation.

“This new case is one of the doctors who attended to the Liberian Ebola patient who died,” Nigeria’s Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told journalists.

He said that 70 other people believed to have come into contact with the Liberian government official were being monitored.

Of the eight now in quarantine, three show “symptomatic” signs of the disease, he said.

More worrying still are reports from Liberia that victims’ corpses were being dumped or abandoned. Protesters, who blocked major roads in the capital on Monday, claim that the government is not collecting bodies of victims left to rot in the streets or in their homes.

The doctor who has become the latest victim in Nigeria had treated Patrick Sawyer, who worked for Liberia’s finance ministry, and who contracted the virus from his sister before travelling to Lagos for a meeting of west African officials.

He landed in Lagos on July 20 from Monrovia after switching planes in Togo’s capital Lome.

He was visibly sick upon arrival and taken directly to the First Consultants hospital in the upmarket Lagos neighbourhood of Ikoyi. He died in quarantine on July 25.

The hospital was closed indefinitely last week.

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Its not just Boko Haram that are against the good of this country. This man has really dealt with us!!!!