Rolla' Your Ebola.....

“So here we have a "mole" of suspect foreign origin, running around dropping little anthrax packages in mailboxes like a flower girl drops rose petals at a wedding.

Pretty Low tech.

But with our country responding to this male- bomb- warrior, with panic, fear, and WAY overexposure in the media....

Low tech beats a flush everytime.

So how come (if the idea isn't already being entertained at some high level of our government) we don't get our OWN foreign mole, put him in "deep cover", send him over to infiltrate the Talilban, and cozy up to SamaMan with this:

'Polgies to Matt, but this information is widely available on the CDC web site.

You can also go there to read up on (wussy)Anthrax.

And I quote:

Disease Information
Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers: Fact Sheets

Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever
What is Ebola hemorrhagic fever?

Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF) is a severe, often-fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) that has appeared sporadically since its initial recognition in 1976.
The disease is caused by infection with Ebola virus, named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) in Africa, where it was first recognized.
The virus is one of two members of a family of RNA viruses called the Filoviridae.
Three of the four species of Ebola virus identified so far have caused disease in humans: Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, and Ebola-Ivory Coast.
The fourth, Ebola-Reston, has caused disease in nonhuman primates, but not in humans.
Where is Ebola virus found in nature?
The exact origin, locations, and natural habitat (known as the "natural reservoir") of Ebola virus remain unknown. However, on the basis of available evidence and the nature of similar viruses, researchers believe that the virus is zoonotic (animal-borne) and is normally maintained in an animal host that is native to the African continent.
A similar host is probably associated with Ebola-Reston isolated from infected cynomolgous monkeys that were imported to the United States and Italy from the Philippines.
The virus is not known to be native to other continents, such as North America.
Where do cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever occur?
Confirmed cases of Ebola HF have been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Sudan, the Ivory Coast, and Uganda. An individual with serologic evidence of infection but showing no apparent illness has been reported in Liberia, and a laboratory worker in England became ill as a result of an accidental needle-stick.
No case of the disease in humans has ever been reported in the United States.

View table showing list of known cases and outbreaks of Ebola HF.
How is Ebola virus spread?

Infection with Ebola virus in humans is incidental -- humans do not "carry" the virus. Because the natural reservoir of the virus is unknown, the manner in which the virus first appears in a human at the start of an outbreak has not been determined.

After the first case-patient in an outbreak setting (often called the index case) is infected, humans can transmit the virus in several ways.
People can be exposed to Ebola virus from direct contact with the blood and/or secretions of an infected person.
This is why the virus has often been spread through the families and friends of infected persons: in the course of feeding, holding, or otherwise caring for them, family members and friends would come into close contact with such secretions. People can also be exposed to Ebola virus through contact with objects, such as needles, that have been contaminated with infected secretions.

Nosocomial transmission has been associated frequently with Ebola HF outbreaks.
It includes both types of transmission described above, but it is used to describe the spread of disease in a health-care setting such as a clinic or hospital.
In African health-care facilities, patients are often cared for without the use of a mask, gown, or gloves, and exposure to the virus has occurred when health care workers treated individuals with Ebola HF without wearing these types of protective clothing. In addition, when needles or syringes are used, they may not be of the disposable type, or may not have been sterilized, but only rinsed before re-insertion into multi-use vials of medicine. If needles or syringes become contaminated with virus and are then reused, numbers of people can become infected.
Ebola-Reston that appeared in a primate research facility in Virginia, may have been transmitted from monkey to monkey through the air in the facility.
While all Ebola virus species have displayed the ability to be spread through airborne particles (aerosols) under research conditions, this type of spread has not been documented among humans in a real-world setting, such as a hospital or household.

What are the symptoms of Ebola hemorrhagic fever?
The signs and symptoms of Ebola HF are not the same for all patients.
The table below outlines symptoms of the disease, according to the frequency with which they have been reported in known cases.

Time Frame Symptoms that occur in most Ebola patients

Symptoms that occur in some Ebola patients

Within a few days of becoming infected with the virus:
high fever, headache, muscle aches, stomach pain, fatigue,
diarrhea, sore throat, hiccups, rash, red and itchy eyes, vomiting blood, bloody diarrhea.

Within one week of becoming infected with the virus:
chest pain, shock, and death blindness, bleeding.

Researchers do not understand why some people are able to recover from Ebola HF and others are not.
However, it is known that patients who die usually have not developed a significant immune response to the virus at the time of death.

How is Ebola hemorrhagic fever clinically diagnosed?
Diagnosing Ebola HF in an individual who has been infected only a few days is difficult because early symptoms, such as red and itchy eyes and a skin rash, are nonspecific to the virus and are seen in other patients with diseases that occur much more frequently. If a person has the constellation of symptoms described in the table above, and infection with Ebola virus is suspected, several laboratory tests should be done promptly.
These include a blood film examination for malaria and a blood culture.
If the suspected patient has bloody diarrhea, a stool culture should also be performed.

What laboratory tests are used to diagnose Ebola hemorrhagic fever?
Antigen-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) testing, IgG ELISA, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and virus isolation can be used to diagnose a case of Ebola HF within a few days of the onset of symptoms.
Persons tested later in the course of the disease or after recovery can be tested for IgM and IgG antibodies; the disease can also be diagnosed retrospectively in deceased patients by using immunohistochemistry testing, virus isolation, or PCR.

How is Ebola hemorrhagic fever treated?

There is no standard treatment for Ebola HF
In Afghanistan!

Currently, patients receive supportive therapy. This consists of balancing the patient?s fluids and electrolytes, maintaining their oxygen status and blood pressure, and treating them for any complicating infections. During the Kikwit outbreak, eight patients were given blood of individuals who had been infected with Ebola virus but recovered. Seven of the eight patients survived. However, because the study size was small, and participants characteristics (including the fact that they were relatively young) predisposed them towards recovery, the efficacy of the treatment remains unknown.”

“Mel, this disease is running amuck at Afgan/Pakistani border. Someone on this board posted the news link about two weeks ago. Pretty horrible disease, people bleeding through their pores etc... one doctor said it was like watching people melt before your eyes.
I think this is a Pandora's box we don't want to open.”

“I'll have my chimp medium rare...”

“oooo-oooo-eeee-eeee
ting tang walla walla bing bang”

“Interesting that Tom Clancy wrote about terrorists using both planes and Ebola.

Most times, when bioterrorism was discussed on talk shows in the past, I used to hear about Anthrax quite a bit. While clearly Ebola and Marburg are much worse.

The terrorists may have got the idea for using airplanes from Clancy's book. Maybe they chose Anthrax because they listened to the talk shows? Maybe they chose Anthrax because they thought it would cause more panic? Maybe the "experts" on these talk shows were diseminating disinformation by making it seem that we were more worried about Anthrax than Ebola?

Can I get some paranoid thoughts going or what? Inquiring minds want to know.”

“or Maybe Clancy is the next great prophet.”

“Actually flyguy6X, it was Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever on the Afghan/Pakistan border which is ebola-like, but not as deadly.”

“or maybe Clancy is really Osama Bin Laden”

“... or at least his technical consultant...”

“It all media hype for the new book "The Hunt for O Bin Laden in October"”

“oops,,,It "is...”

“Hey Militiaboy... give my regards to the Witch Doctor...

And

ALVIN!!!!!!

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