The plausible catastrophic risks from EBOLA are real and way different than the Public has been told

Scenario 1

Rating: Medium Risk, High Impact

Trigger: A limited number of randomly dispersed 1st World Ebola cases

Result: Hospitals shut down or limit activity

             Infected Ambulances pulled from service

             Urgent Care facilities shut down / limit activity

Impact: People with "routine" medical conditions who are dependent on 1st World medical systems to remain alive may die. (ie dialysis, etc)

Scenario 2

Rating: Low to Medium Risk, Insane Impact

Trigger: Per Department of Defense experimentation, Cold Weather facilitates "Flu Like" spread of Ebola

Result: Mass Quarantine

             Hurricane recovery type impacts across all segments of society

Impact: Biblical

Discussion

As per the US Military's analysis, There is every biological indication that Ebola can spread just like the Flu via cough and sneezing. There seem to be only two requirements to make the Airborne spread of Ebola common place. 

(1) Cold winter weather

(2) A person who was initially infected via the inhalation route.

To date the 1st World has been fortunate in so much as that people infected with Ebola have limited resources to travel outside of their Equatorial hot weather climate. Those Ebola infected who have traveled were not infected via the Airborne Route (think Flu like) and thusly tend not to shed virus until after they are near death, thereby limiting spread to hospice and funerary practices.

However if someone is infected by inhalation Ebola, they will RAPIDLY develop and shed Ebola virus from their lungs. Moreover just as with Flu, they may be infectious VERY early in the onset of the disease. Get enough Ebola victims in one place and Airborne infections become probable, such have supposedly occurred in Africa. But, the hot weather does not sustain transmission outside of highly contaminated areas. Unfortunately, a bio terrorist could cheaply and rapidly create such an environment just by placing the bodily fluids of a deceased Ebola victim into an ultrasonic humidifier.

Vaccines

PFU= Plaque Forming Unit

Prospective Ebola vaccines have been around for some time, but they weren't funded because they could not protect against the 1000 PFU 'challenge dose'. However in light of the previous West Africa Ebola outbreak and the desire to throw funding at manufactures, the 'challenge dose' was watered down by a factor of 100 times to just 10 PFU,  For Ebola, the original 1000 PFU 'challenge dose' meant 1000 individual Ebola Virus particles, that number was chosen because it represented what a researcher would be exposed to from a minor needle prick or eye rub from 1 cubic millimeter of blood. 

The new watered down 10 PFU 'challenge dose' is just 10 Ebola virus particles; it's a dose so small that you can't even see it, yet it still kills 100% of the monkeys infected by it. The problem with creating effective Ebola vaccines is that the virus just replicates faster than the body's immune system can respond. Rather then attack this problem, the NIH has reduced the amount of virus to which the test monkey is exposed so that it takes longer for the monkey to develop Ebola in hopes that the delay buys enough time for the immune system to kick in. Basically NIH has gamed the system in the belief that even a hopelessly ineffectual vaccine is better than no vaccine, especially if it lines the manufactures' pockets. That logic is akin to believing that handing out faulty condoms helps halt the spread of AIDS by funding the manufactures to create better condoms,  while ignoring that those hapless folks using the, unbeknownst to them, faulty condoms may now take exposure risks which they might not otherwise have.

Conclusion

(1) It might be considered wise for people who require any sort of routine medical treatment to keep a close eye on whats happening with Ebola in Africa and to consider what cost effective preparations they might need to stay alive if 1st World medical treatment disappears (akin to a hurricane like scenario hitting multiple cities simultaneously).

(2) Any distributed appearance of EBOLA  in a 1st World environment, especially during FLU season, could rapidly turn from media downplaying to biblical.

Sources:

http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?Live=15350&bhcp=1

http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/4/10/2115/pdf

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0041918

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1997182/

http://vet.sagepub.com/content/50/3/514.full

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113787/

CDC Gives Itself The Power to Indefinitely Detain Healthy People En Masse Without Appeal

Ebola Bodily Fluids Readily Weaponizable Using An Ultrasonic Humidifier

Ebola Vaccines Cause Ebola Symptoms & Offer Little Protection As Virus Levels Easily Overwhelm The Vaccines

US ARMY Says EBOLA = FLU in Airborne Stability, Needs Winter Weather To Go Airborne

CDC Gives Itself The Power to Indefinitely Detain Healthy People En Masse Without Appeal

CDC says: We can Round'em up and Throw away the key

Based on CDC's 8/15/16 publication of  ' Rules for the Control of Communicable Diseases', the CDC is giving itself the power to forcibly apprehend healthy people  en masse and detain them indefinitely with no process of appeal.

Kindly enough the CDC is giving the public until 10/14/2016 to comment on its new found extra-Constitutional power,

"and whether there are any public concerns with the absence of a specific maximum apprehension period in the regulation."  

Of course and as would be expected from a totalitarian unconstitutional power grab,

"When an apprehension occurs, the individual is not free to leave or discontinue his/her discussion with an HHS/CDC public health or quarantine officer."  

Moreover, the CDC also would like the public's input on the fact their power is not limited to just individual persons but rather they could apprehend entire cities in mass if they so desired:

"HHS/CDC specifically requests public comment on this proposed provision to issue Federal orders to entire groups rather than individuals."

And as is to be expected since its impossible to give a medical examine to an entire city, the CDC would also like your comments on the fact

"the proposed practice to issue Federal orders before a medical examination has taken place. "

For those wishing to give the CDC their requested comments on their new found powers, the link to make such comments can be found under the SOURCE links at the end of this article. Anyone who is interested would do well to read the CDC's entire publication in the Federal Register.

The CDC's claimed power follows these Stages:

1. You (or your city) are declared "precommunicable" 
2. Apprehension and Detention [A&D]
3. Order of Isolation, Quarantine, or Conditional Release

In stage 1:

"CDC defines precommunicable stage to mean the stage beginning upon an individual's earliest opportunity for exposure to an infectious agent",

as previously indicated CDC does NOT need to give a medical exam to declare you (or your city) "precommunicable". In fact, you may be perfectly healthy, unexposed, and uninfected. All that is required is for someone to say they suspect you (or your city) had a nebulous general and poorly defined "opportunity" for exposure.

Moreover, you don't even get any due process to prove you had zero opportunity to be exposed until after CDC has proceeded on to Stage 3; The rub being the CDC can hold you (or your city) at Stage 2 indefinitely with no appeal by never proceeding to Stage 3. ie Do Not Pass Go, Go Directly To Jail.



In Stage 2:
CDC sneaks in its unlimited and unchecked authority. They've couched this authority by describing how they "generally" expect it to work in a temporary manner, but they've also clearly stated it is open ended and there is no discussion of due process in the A&D phase (again CDC wants your comments on this fact).

To see how CDC's concept of unlimited city wide Apprehension and Detention would play out, watch CDC's very own 2011 propaganda movie Contagion. A movie basically written for and by the CDC to scare the public into funding them and showcase how their heroic dream response to an outbreak would unfold.

There is no onus on the CDC to end the Apprehension phase, or to proceed on to issuing orders of isolation, quarantine, or conditional release; As such you (or your city) can be held in apprehension and detention indefinitely.


In Stage 3:
IF an order of isolation, quarantine, or conditional release is issued, the CDC gives those so ordered one chance in the first 72 hours to ask CDC to change their minds, after which unlimited detention is again on the table.

The CDC can stop, detain, and jail you anywhere.

The other key factors of note is that the CDC does NOT limit this power to the international borders. CDC says it can take such actions any where in the USA based on a claim that every action affects interstate travel.

CDC claims it can set up check points at any bus or train station in the country, or at any location that might affect interstate travel.

CDC claims that the simple act of lining up at any CDC checkpoint gives them irrevocable authority to force you to be screened. "an individual's refusal to be screened may result in quarantine, isolation, or conditional release" This could be in your car stuck in traffic at a CDC check point, a bus station, a taxi-stand, etc etc.

 "(holding that a passenger consents to an airport security search by presenting himself/herself for boarding and that such consent may not be revoked by simply walking away). Thus, in order to protect interstate travel from communicable disease threats, HHS/CDC intends for this section to apply broadly to all circumstances where individuals may queue with other travelers" 

 "HHS/CDC believes that the rationale for airport security screenings may be extended to other forms of transportation, e.g., trains and buses, because of the similar “administrative” or special governmental need in preventing interstate communicable disease spread"

FORCED VACCINATION

"CDC may enter into an agreement with an individual, upon such terms as the CDC considers to be reasonably necessary, indicating that the individual consents to any of the public health measures authorized under this part, including quarantine, isolation, conditional release, medical examination, hospitalization, vaccination, and treatment; provided that the individual's consent shall not be considered as a prerequisite to any exercise of any authority under this part."

Even though the CDC believes it can force all the above procedures on individuals and groups, it also uses "voluntary agreements" for the sole purpose of making forced actions easier to perform. Anyone breaking these "voluntary agreements", even if they didn't agree to them, is subject to criminal prosecution.

 "individuals who violate the terms of the agreement or the terms of the Federal order for quarantine, isolation, or conditional release (even if no agreement is in place between the individual and the government), he or she may be subject to criminal penalties"

Surprisingly, the one thing CDC's left out of this rule making is the creation of the their own armed Federal Police Force to carry out these action; but it can't be far off.

Sources:

Control of Communicable Diseases: A Proposed Rule by the Health and Human Services Department on 08/15/2016

Click here to send comments to the CDC regarding this unconstitutional power grab

CDC on 30 Day Hair Trigger For US EBOLA Outbreak

The CDC has released an urgent solicitation with a 30 day completion time frame for

 "for an urgently needed, rapidly deployable, web-based IT platform that can integrate, manage, analyze, visualize, report on and share epidemiological, laboratory, mortality, contact tracing, travelers screening, and other data related to support public health response activities during Ebola or other viral hemorrhagic fever Modules in the United States"

Based on Federal Register notices the Ebola threat is expect to come from the French speaking (Islamic) parts of Africa; as the CDC expects to track roughly 8000 Ebola symptom showing air travelers entering the United States from French speaking Africa.

Of course the public is much less concerned about Ebola because of all the media fluff about effective Ebola vaccines, but the fact is the Ebola vaccines are so ineffective that the FDA has had to drop the efficacy challenge dose by over 10,000% from 1000 airborne Ebola viral particles down to just 10 airborne Ebola viral particles.

To frame the viral dose into something you can easily understand, a drop of Ebola infected blood roughly the size of the period at the end of this sentence will used by the FDA to infect 100 vaccinated test subjects with airborne Ebola.  By setting the test dose that low, at least some of the vaccine companies will be able to claim that their Ebola vaccines work, and will as a result get huge vaccine orders from the Government. Of course, such "positive" news would also work to soothe a potentially panicked public that an "effective" Ebola vaccine is on the way.

The real danger from Ebola lies in the fact a very few cases could shut down the entire medical system within the United States. Setting terrorism aside, we suspect that IF such a US outbreak where to happen it would most likely be caused by an Ebola survivor spreading Ebola as a sexually transmitted disease into the upper respiratory system of a sexual contact. Such an infection would spread Ebola via the airborne route PRIOR to symptom onset; and no CDC guidelines exist to even detect such spread. As a result, a USA Ebola outbreak would publicly appear to virtually go from nothing to massive is an exceedingly short period of time.

Sources:

DCIPHER for Ebola Event Response Platform, Solicitation Number: 2015-N-17649

FDA licensed BioDefense Therapeutic: Solicitation Number: W911QY-16-R-0002

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/12/17/2015-31742/proposed-data-collection-submitted-for-public-comment-and-recommendations

Ebola Vaccines Cause Ebola Symptoms & Offer Little Protection As Virus Levels Easily Overwhelm The Vaccines

US ARMY Says EBOLA = FLU in Airborne Stability, Needs Winter Weather To Go Airborne

Aerosolizing ONE DROP of Ebola Infected Blood Can Kill 500,000 People

[Sierra Leone] Ebola Vaccines Cause Ebola Symptoms & Offer Little Protection As Virus Levels Easily Overwhelm The Vaccines

Three things VERY few people know about Ebola vaccines

(1) Exposure to more than 1 Cubic Millimeter of Ebola infected blood "overwhelms" the vaccine(s)
(2) FDA's 10 years of required vaccine dosing safety studies have been whittled down to just 3 months of guess work
(3) Ebola vaccines have induced early Ebola type symptoms in those given them

Those three facts bring us to the very unusual Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone among foreign health care workers. Strangely that outbreak has coincided with the planned vaccination of foreign health care workers in Sierra Leone.

We knew something unprecedented had happened when we broke the news on Twitter that all 3 Ebola Air Ambulances were in Africa at the same time; the situation became even more concerning as these Air Ambulances started making same day flight turnarounds to go back to Africa to collect more and more Ebola exposed Health Care Workers (HCW's). As it stands 16 HCW's have returned to the USA, while others are in treatment or under observation in England, Honduras and New Zealand.

The USA victims are the most concerning as CDC is housing these Ebola exposed victims in hotels outside of Ebola treatment centers in order to save money on hospital care. The CDC has decided that it is a "sure thing" that pre-symptomatic airborne Ebola transmission is impossible, where as the US Army believes cold weather airborne transmission of Ebola is to be expected.

If we had to make a conjecture, it would be that the symptoms of an Ebola exposure to a health care worker(s) was ignored because that worker had received a dose of Ebola vaccine known to trigger similar symptoms. As such, that Doctor/Nurse did not self quarantine but instead continued to interact with the other HCW's and thusly exposing them to Ebola.

However, what is not conjecture is that the public is being sold a billion dollar load of poles when it comes to the Ebola vaccine(s) and their stockpiling. Of course we don't expect you to take our word for it, thats why in the attached video we include key excerpts from the National Institutes Of Health's [NIH] 8 hour long "Immunology of Protection from Ebola Virus Infection" video conference.

The key takeaways from NIH's conference are:

(1) The experts freely admit that even exposure to vomit is enough to overwhelm the Ebola vaccine(s)
(2) The current Ebola "Challange Dose" being used simulates a person in a Bio-Safety Level 4 Space suit having a minor needle prick and being exposed to a measly one cubic millimeter of blood.
(3) The vaccines producers would like to cut "Challenge dose" down by a factor of 100 times

Much more detailed information is contained in the above video.

Sources:

http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?Live=15350&bhcp=1

Ebola vaccine trials to begin in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone

Another four U.S. Ebola aid workers flown back to U.S. for monitoring

Emergency Postexposure Vaccination With Vesicular Stomatitis Virus–Vectored Ebola Vaccine After Needlestick

Based On NIH's Ebola Immunology Work Shop: Ebola Vaccines Are An Expensive and Near Worthless Joke

Ebola Vaccination Fury: Johnson & Johnson To Have 1/4 Million Ebola Vaccine Courses Ready By May 2015 & 1 Million By December 2015

Aerosolizing ONE DROP of Ebola Infected Blood Can Kill 500,000 People

US ARMY Says EBOLA = FLU in Airborne Stability, Needs Winter Weather To Go Airborne

https://twitter.com/Potrblog/status/576126998222798848

Based On NIH's Ebola Immunology Work Shop: Ebola Vaccines Are An Expensive and Near Worthless Joke

After watching the full 8 hours of the "Immunology of Protection from Ebola Virus Infection" workshop (sponsored by the NIAID/NIH, FDA, BARDA, DoD, and CDC) it is abundantly clear that the Ebola vaccine efforts are sadly an expensive and near worthless joke. We say this because at best, if the vaccine designs are perfect, they will only protect those who have been exposed to the most minuscule amounts of Ebola.

The vaccine developers are clear that the proposed vaccines will be utterly overwhelmed if the person is exposed to anything more than a needle prick's worth of virus. And even at that tiny amount, the vaccine researchers are complaining that its too much virus; they want 1/100 of a needle prick's worth of virus, at maximum, to be the challenge standard for the vaccine.

As such, the vaccines in development are not to protect the public; at best, they are designed to offer a modicum of protection to Ebola researchers who may develop small holes in their spacesuits as they are working in the their Bio Safety Level 4 Laboratories. These vaccines would likely NOT have protected either of the Dallas nurses who were infected with Ebola in the course of treating Thomas Duncan.

The researchers at the conference are aware of the fact that these vaccines will offer no real individual protection. In fact it was indicated at the conference that if all goes well and the vaccine is given to a large enough segment of the public, that maybe the vaccines might slightly reduce the virus reproduction number, ie every infected person only makes 2 other people sick instead of 3.

Frankly thats a very large safety gamble to force an experimental vaccine on the population for the outside possibility that it might ever so slightly reduce the reproduction number of the virus. Its pretty clear now why the Government has declared that no one working on the vaccines ,or forcing those vaccines on the public can be held civilly or criminally liable for their work.

At this point, its becoming very clear that the greatest return on research dollar investment is on post exposure treatment with Antibodies and Antivirals; the vaccine work is a joke.

Sources:

Immunology of Protection from Ebola Virus Infection A workshop sponsored by the NIAID/NIH, FDA, BARDA, DoD, and CDC


ACTION: Notice of Declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act

Aerosolizing ONE DROP of Ebola Infected Blood Can Kill 500,000 People

NIH: Airborne Ebola Infectious Down To Extinction Levels

CDC Doubles Estimate: Says 3,400 US Airline Passengers Will Sit Within 3 Feet Of An Ebola Patient Next Year

On December 12 the US Centers for Disease Control reported to the Office Management and Budget [OMB] that CDC expects to interview 3,400 US commercial airline passengers that were seated within 3 feet of an Ebola patient.

"so that CDC can better assess the risk to individuals who may have been exposed to a confirmed case of Ebola while traveling to or within the United States"

Using the conservative estimate that 8 airline passengers are seated within the 3 foot zone set out by the CDC, the CDC is expecting 425 actively infected Ebola patients to fly into the USA next year. We believe the Winter New Year time frame is the high risk period for these entries.


Just as CDC's short sighted Ebola risk assessment and PPE direction lead to the infections of two nurses in the Thomas Duncan Ebola case, the CDC has taken no steps to mitigate the Department of Defense's concern that Winter weather may facilitate a super flu like airborne spread of Ebola. As such, the CDC is counting on Ebola to only spread as it does in warm weather, ie close contact with the VERY sick.


Apparently even the fact that CDC just DOUBLED the number of expected Ebola exposures to US flyers is not enough to raise their concerns.  In November the CDC had informed OMB that they expected to interview 1,700 commercial airline passengers, now exactly 1 month later CDC has doubled the number to 3,400 directly exposed airline passengers.


The CDC expects to interview these 3,400 people at 20 minutes each. CDC also informed OMB that CDC expects the 50,000 exposed people who were on these flights but seated further than 3 feet away from the Ebola patient, to call the CDC and be read a "script".

"this script assesses the risk of a plan passenger who was not in the immediate vicinity of the Ebola patient but still has concerns about the level of exposure and risk of contracting the virus."

Sources:

CDC December OMB Ebola emergency notice

CDC November OMB Ebola emergency notice

Department of Defense Says EBOLA IS "AEROSTABLE"; Fears Persistent Sewer System Contagion

US ARMY Says EBOLA = FLU in Airborne Stability, Needs Winter Weather To Go Airborne

Aerosolizing ONE DROP of Ebola Infected Blood Can Kill 500,000 People

CDC Says It Will Actively Monitor 65,250 Ebola Exposed Travelers Entering The USA Per Year

CDC Says It Will Actively Monitor 65,250 Ebola Exposed Travelers Entering The USA Per Year

The CDC has notified the Office of Management and Budget that CDC expects to actively monitor 65,250 at risk Ebola travelers entering the USA per year. Obviously CDC came to this number by counting the number of travelers that have already entered the USA in the last 3 months and projecting it out to 12 months.

Reverse engineering CDC's projection, 16,313 Ebola exposed travelers have entered the USA since the Ebola outbreak began. Clearly such a large number of potentially Ebola infected travelers undergoing active monitoring for 21 days creates a huge risk and manpower requirement. To that end, CDC is creating a daily robo-call system to contact these people (in both French and English) everyday for 21 days.

"CDC is also requesting the incorporation of a telephonic, automated survey administered either through Interactive Voice Response (IVR) phone system which asks travelers if they have developed a fever or any other symptoms potentially indicative of Ebola exposure (OMB Control No 0920-1034). This system is used to assist states in actively monitoring those travelers from Ebola affected countries for 21 days after arrival. The additional burden requested for the use of the IVR system is 91,350 hours."

No matter which way CDC attempts to cut it, the Ebola response is currently overwhelming the CDC. Automating aspects of the response may serve to lessen some of that burden, but it comes at the cost of reduced quality and increased risk as as anyone who has ever had to press 1 to hold for a human on an automated voice service system knows,

Sources:

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/12/02/2014-28232/proposed-data-collections-submitted-for-public-comment-and-recommendations

Company Near Ferguson Riots Awarded Contract To Urgently Deploy Their Ebola Transport Isolation System

A Saint Louis company within rioting distance of the Ferguson unrest has just won a two million dollar urgent contract to urgently deploy a palletized airborne isolation chamber capable of holding 12 Ebola patients for military transport. The company has been developing the product as a follow on to the Airborne Biological Containment System they developed for Phoenix Air Group. Several aspects of the contract including who the DoD has tasked with handling these Ebola evacuations have been redacted, but its safe to guess Phoenix Air Group is involved.

"The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) contracting activity proposes to procure, without using full and open competition, the development and validation testing of a Transport Isolation System (TIS) to be used for the safe evacuation of Ebola-exposed or Ebola-infected personnel from affected areas. DTRA intends to award a Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) letter contract to Production Products Manufacturing and Sales Co., Inc. (PPStL) of St. Louis, Missouri. The contract is expected to be approximately four and a half months in duration, with a not-to-exceed (NTE) price of $2,380,505.76"

"Open and competitive channels of acquisition are not suitable in this case due to the urgent national need to rapidly develop the TIS for immediate use in support of the Ebola outbreak"

Given the urgent need spelled out in the contract and PPStL's proximity to the Ferguson, Mike Brown protesters may just have a new venue to show their true colors.

Sources:

https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=a38d6dea0dc3fa0f41b52195bd715db9

CDC Seeks To Use a Bio Safety Level 2 LIVE EBOLA VACCINE With Limited Intramuscular And Lymph Node Spread

The government always announces the scary stuff on Fridays and Holidays to keep it out of the News Cycle, today is no different. The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) released a solicitation looking for companies that can formulate and fill live Ebola vaccines.

These live Ebola vaccines are dangerous enough that formulating and filling the vaccine vials "may require that these processes take place in a Biological Safety Level 2 (BSL2) facility."

While the solicitation says multiple live Ebola vaccine types may be in play, only two are specified by name.

"1. RVSVdG eBOV vaccine replication-competent live virus vaccine utilizes a recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (rVSV) lacking the native VSV glycoprotein (ΔG) and bearing the glycoprotein (GP) of ZEBOV, which is the target of protective immunity. The rVSVΔG ZEBOV is an attenuated virus and capable of limited replication after administration, which is believed to be the basis for the potent immunogenicity of this vaccine vector. 

2. rVSVN4CT1-Z-EboV Vaccine utilizes attenuated replication-competent rVSV vector that is injected IM, it undergoes limited propagation at the injection site and in the local draining lymph nodes, but does not spread to other organs and tissues."

Both of these vaccine use the Vesicular Stomatitis Virus as a delivery mechanism of Ebola proteins chosen to trigger the Human immune system. While not mentioned specifically in this solicitation, there is also a Live Ebola vaccine that uses a Live Rabies Virus as its delivery mechanism.

Unfortunately vaccine work is often pushed on the public as if it were settled science, unfortunately it often is more like well describe Alchemy and Voodoo. A key example being last year's live influenza vaccine which to scientists amazement offered no protection against last year's deadly H1N1 Epidemic. Its possible that that vaccine malfunction may have actually contributed to the pandemic.

Sources:

US Licensing LIVE Rabies Based EBOLA Vaccine, Preps Pandemic Quarantine Stations & Injury Fund

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=e47155c05f10f7b9578a79ff77a29ed6&tab=core&_cview=0

CDC Statement on LAIV Effectiveness and Vaccination of Children

Fort Hood Texas Places Urgent EBOLA BioSafety Order Citing "Elevated Risk" Yet Tells The Public Situation is "Low Risk"

Fort Hood Texas just placed an urgent order for a bench top biosafety containment workstation with the capability to provide point of care Ebola testing. In the justification for this equipment the justification cites that soldiers redeploying to Fort Hood may be Ebola infected and that the situation places the Fort Hood population at elevated risk of becoming infected with Ebola.


Of course the military and local civic leaders tell the public something very different than the elevated risk claimed in the sole source justification

The military says:

 “The chances of them having (Ebola) while they are here are very, very slim,”

and the Mayor says:

 “I consider this a very low-risk operation and the right thing to do.”

People who can read probably should come to a different conclusion than what words of safety coming out of the military and the mayor mouths. In fact, a close reading of the document would indicate that Fort Hood does not have a biosafety chain of custody for dealing with the soldiers body fluids. Thats why they've placed an urgent order for a separate bench top bio-containment system. Think DoD should have picked a location with a true medical isolation capability instead of this last minute hodge-podge type thing they are trying to throw together as possibly infected soldiers come flying in.

Soucres:

Sole Source Justification

https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=5b5332df174066c4813b4914d6732ad8&tab=core&_cview=0

http://www.kwtx.com/ourtown/home/headlines/Gatesville--Fort-Hood-Officials-Brief-Local-Leaders-On-Ebola-Monitoring-283111581.html

MAXIMUM ALERT! Ebola Flight Indicates Mexican Ebola Patient In Guadalajara Being Flown To Atlanta For Treatment

Update: 11/18/14

Multiple "Ebola false alarms are reported in the Guadalajara airport" according to last Saturday's local Jalisco newspaper. So what does it mean when there are multiple reports of Ebola cases at an airport, followed by the Mexican State Ebola training 400 Doctors in the same location  for an "eventual case of Ebola", and then to top it off Phoenix Air Group's Ebola Air Ambulance makes a trip to the very same airport and follows a return flight path back to Atlanta indicative of an Ebola patient? 

 IT MEANS EBOLA MAY BE IN MEXICO!
It also means that an Illegal Immigration surge should be expected, and that they might be infected.
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The flight schedule of Phoenix Air Group's 2nd Ebola Ambulance indicates that an Ebola patient is being picked up at the Guadalajara International Airport and being flown to the Fulton County Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.  The destination airport indicates that the patient is being taken to Emory Hospital in Atlanta.

The obviously troubling aspect is that the situation indicates that Ebola is loose in Mexico. It also seems strange that Obama would be willing to import a Mexican Ebola patient when the Mexican government refused to assist in transporting an American under observation for Ebola who was on a cruise ship off of the Mexican coast.


A screen capture of the return flight is shown below as these flights are often rapidly "disappeared" from commercial tracking software.

 We believe this marks the 3rd international Ebola patient flown to the USA in the last 10 days.

#1 An illegal African Immigrant from Gran Canaria Spain on November 9th
#2 A patient from West Africa on November 13; later confirmed to be Dr Martin Salia
#3 Unknown Mexican patient today 11/17/14

Sources:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N163PA/history

http://monitoreconomico.org/noticias/2014/nov/17/jalisco-se-reporta-preparado-para-un-eventual-caso-de-ebola/

http://pagina24jalisco.com.mx/local/2014/11/15/se-reportan-falsas-alarmas-de-ebola-en-el-aeropuerto-de-guadalajara/

It Appears Obama Has Flown an Illegal Immigrant African Ebola Victim To USA From Gran Canaria

US #Media just now confirming our #news scoop that another #Ebola patient is being picked up by #EbolaAir #2 #N163PA http://t.co/z6FfbKorC6
— Potrblog.com (@Potrblog) November 14, 2014

Ebola Vaccination Fury: Johnson & Johnson To Have 1/4 Million Ebola Vaccine Courses Ready By May 2015 & 1 Million By December 2015

According to testimony to be given tomorrow in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Hearing on “U.S. Government Response: Fighting Ebola and Protecting America”,  The Ebola vaccination furry will be underway by May 2015 when Johnson & Johnson will have 250,000 doses of Ebola vaccine ready to split up between the US government, WHO, &  African Nations.

The obvious outfall of this effort is that American Healthcare Workers should expect mandatory Ebola vaccination within the next year. Johnson & Johnson's time line indicates they will have 1 million full vaccine courses ready by the end of 2015 and 4 million full courses ready by the end of 2016.

"Johnson & Johnson is seeking funding from several government entities to support these efforts but is fully prepared to assure that both Crucell and Bavarian Nordic are financially resourced to ramp up advanced manufacturing and production capabilities to fill the initial deployment of 250,000 vaccine doses by May 2015. Non-stop acceleration of testing and scaling up over the next year is expected to yield one million vaccine courses by the end of 2015 and two to four million by the end of 2016."

Sources:

http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/Johnson%20%26%20Johnson%20(group).pdf

It Appears Obama Has Flown an Illegal Immigrant African Ebola Victim To USA From Gran Canaria

EbolaAir Aircraft N173PA appears to have picked up an Ebola Infected Illegal African Immigrant from the island of Gran Canaria and flown him/her to the USA for treatment.

A few days prior a boat load of illegals from Ebola stricken Sierra Leone and Guinea washed ashore on a nudist beach in the Gran Canaria beach of Maspalomas; several of these castaways were reported to have fever and were whisked away literally by the dump truck load.

Based on the evacuation flight path / schedule and the number of times it disappeared and partially reappeared on the tracking software today, our presumption is that this flight is carrying one of the 1st foreign Ebola patients in support of Obama's policy to import foreign Ebola victims into the USA. Given the importance of Gran Canaria to US operations, such an evacuation would make geo-political sense especially since Spain's Catalan region is seeking independence.

Sources:

CDC is already evacuating DOUBLE the number of expected Ebola infected personnel at a rate of 7 doctors per month

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N173PA

http://www.flightradar24.com/n173PA

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2823883/Ebola-scare-Canary-Island-nudist-beach-migrants-Sierra-Leone-arrive-boat-fever-taken-away-dumped-truck-terrified-tourists.html


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/10/catalans-vow-push-independence-80-favour-split

ALERT: USA Setting Up Regional Ebola Centers For A Large Outbreak, Seeks Nationwide Inter-facility Ambulance Transportation

The US Government is expecting an Ebola outbreak in the USA large enough that the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) is seeking Ambulance contractors capable of supporting a nationwide ground ambulance service to transport victims to regional Ebola treatment centers, all on a 6 hours notice.

"The source must be capable of providing transportation from virtually any hospital in the United States to one of a number of designated receiving facilities. The source must be able to respond to potential requests within six hours. It is expected that these transports would be within a reasonable distance to allow for safe, ground transportation. In some instances, these transports may be from a sending facility to an airport location"

The key insight from the above quotation is that the Ebola outbreak is expected to be large enough that it cannot be handled by air ambulance transportation to 1 or 2 centers in the United States. Rather, the expected number of Ebola victims is large enough that multiple Ebola "receiving facilities" will be setup to be within a reasonable safe Ambulance driving distance for the majority of the USA.


Should such an Ebola outbreak occur in the USA, such regional Ebola concentration centers may be helpful when outbreak numbers are low. However after exponential infection growth rates start occurring, such centers are more of a place to die than be treated.

Sources:

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=f33b626eb2be03eb809f16140a0e118a&tab=core&_cview=0

Department of Defense Says EBOLA IS "AEROSTABLE"; Fears Persistent Sewer System Contagion

US ARMY Says EBOLA = FLU in Airborne Stability, Needs Winter Weather To Go Airborne

UPDATE: CDC Expands Risk Factors to Include Airborne Infection [WAS] Alert! CDC Removes FEVER from Ebola Case Definition & Adds Fatigue As A Symptom

The CDC has removed fever from the Ebola Case Definition, and replaced it with the a more nebulous definition of "Elevated body temperature or subjective fever or symptoms". The CDC has also added "Fatigue" to the case definition. 

Here is the relevant part of the prior case definition: 

Person Under Investigation (PUI)A person who has both consistent symptoms and risk factors as follows:

1. Clinical criteria, which includes fever of greater than 38.6 degrees Celsius or 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit, and additional symptoms such as severe headache, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, or unexplained hemorrhage; AND

1. epidemiologic risk factors within the past 21 days before the onset of symptoms, such as contact with blood or other body fluids or human remains of a patient known to have or suspected to have EVD; residence in—or travel to—an area where EVD transmission is active*; or direct handling of bats or non-human primates from disease-endemic areas.

Here is the relevant part of the current case definition: 

Person Under Investigation (PUI):
A person who has both consistent signs or symptoms and risk factors as follows:

1. Elevated body temperature or subjective fever or symptoms, including severe headache, fatigue, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, or unexplained hemorrhage; AND

1. An epidemiologic risk factor within the 21 days before the onset of symptoms.

Other important changes have also been made to loosen up CDC's Ebola case definition; we will update this post as time permits:

UPDATE 1: The CDC's new Ebola case definition greatly increase the category of persons who may be forcefully quarantined to anyone who was in proximity of an Ebola case even if the Ebola victim was not actively showing symptoms at the time of proximity. (more to follow)



UPDATE2: 

After a more detail reading, the CDC has greatly increased the at risk Ebola category to include the following:

1) Direct contact (hand shake) with Ebola victim 21 days PRIOR to symptom onset

2) Airborne contact, ie even "brief proximity" (such as being in the same room for a brief period of time) with an Ebola victim AFTER their symptom onset

Any person who meets those two above definitions and in the subject eyes of an examiner has any "signs" of concern such as elevated body temperature (98.7 deg F) is now defined as a "Person Under Investigation" for Ebola. And as such, that person is subject to forceful quarantine 

Source:

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/case-definition.html

Archived CDC webpage from Oct 25

ONE DROP OF AEROSOLIZED EBOLA BLOOD CAN INFECT 1,104 SqFt Room Such That Only 1 Breath Inhaled Can Result In Infection

Department of Defense Says EBOLA IS "AEROSTABLE"; Fears Persistent Sewer System Contagion

US ARMY Says EBOLA = FLU in Airborne Stability, Needs Winter Weather To Go Airborne

Department of Defense Says EBOLA IS "AEROSTABLE"; Fears Persistent Sewer System Contagion

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency [DTRA], in a just released a broad agency announcement seeking rapid assistance against Ebola's weapon of mass destruction [WMD] capability, stated that

  "Ebola is aerostable in an enclosed controlled system in the dark and can survive for long periods in different liquid media"

The short of it is that DTRA's WMD arm sees a massive potential for Ebola to persist in sewage systems in Airborne, Waterborne, and BioFilm form.


The obvious dangers are multifold.

1) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) spread in the Amoy Gardens high-rise apartment complex via a similar plumbing related infectious route

2) CDC's current guidance encourages untreated EBOLA waste discharge into sewer systems

3) Dr. Craig Spencer has already potentially infected NYC sewer system despite his 21 day "home quarantine"

4) Sewers may be a reoccurring source on #Ebola infection

5) CDC's assurances that Ebola can not be spread via Air, Water, or Sewer places people at great risk

Specifically, DTRA wants answers in 3 to 6 months regarding environmental conditions that allow to Ebola to persist in an airborne state, and persist on surfaces after precipitating out of the air.
DTRA is also looking for genetic weaponization markers that elucidate that persistence.

Interestingly enough, DTRA's solicitation also seeks Africa specific data that will allow them to use a a NATO Biowarfare Ebola simulation to predict the flow Ebola infection in Africa; we'll have more on that in a separate video/analysis.

As we have reported in previous posts, the US Army says that Ebola has an airborne stability similar to Influenza and that winter weather conditions may allow to spread via the airborne route. Apparently what the Army has found is that sewer systems also offer an ideal environment for longer term Ebola persistence.

Sources:

Chemical/Biological Technologies Department Ebola Broad Agency Announcement


DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Aerosolizing ONE DROP of Ebola Infected Blood Can Kill 500,000 People

US ARMY Says EBOLA = FLU in Airborne Stability, Needs Winter Weather To Go Airborne

Inadequate plumbing systems likely contributed to SARS transmission

Hong Kong seals apartment building to contain SARS

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/environmental-infection-control-in-hospitals.html

Veterans Hospital Orders Emergency Installation of HEPA Air Filters to Create A Multi-person Ebola Quarantine Ward

The Veterans Administration hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is expecting the near term arrival of a number of Ebola patients and is creating an entire Ebola Ward to handle the infected patient inflow. It is unclear if Puerto Rico is the defacto "leper colony" for US Service Men who become infected with Ebola in Africa via Operation United Assistance, or if its for a purely Puerto Rican Ebola outbreak.

The hospital is fearful that the Airborne spread of Ebola out of their quarantine ward will "create a situation where an outbreak of Ebola may happen to patient, guest or employees". The Veterans Administration has categorized this as an emergency situation, and has awarded a no-bid emergency contract to install HEPA air filters in the Ward's return air HVAC ducting.

The Ebola Ward will be located on the 2nd floor of South Bed Tower, identified as building 8 in this Va Map.

The Hospital states:

"As such this situation is considered an emergency and prompt attention is a required delaying repair will create a situation where an outbreak of Ebola may happen to patient, guest or employees." 

"San Juan needs to conduct emergency installation of HEP Filters at the HVAC line that serves Ward 2K of the South Bed Tower" 

"The vendor must provide and install a filter frame for the return duct and HEPA filters for the return and supply systems. Once completed the Contractor must test and Balance the area (ward 2K of the South Bed Tower)"

"This emergency service is for the creation of a Ward to attend suspected patients with the Ebola Virus that have to be quarantine. "

 "Ward 2K of the South Bed Tower must be prepared to attend patients that have acquired or are suspected of being a carrier of the Ebola Virus. Engineering work needs to be done to mitigate and prevent further exposure to the virus."

 "These changes to the HVAC system are needed at once to preclude impairment of healthcare delivery capabilities or mission performance in case of a patient contaminated with the Ebola Virus."

" Prior authorization was obtained to process this emergency and is filled on the briefcase under P11 approve emergency order."

 Facility is working with the Ward to make a long term care unit for any other outbreak"

Sources:

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=27f96d73a7d08beb9c22d0ac2fe3a533

Outbound Ebola Air Flight Indicates Another Ebola Victim Is Headed To USA For Treatment (UPDATE: Inbound Flight Points to Europe)

Update 10/27/14:
Based on flight routes it now appears Air Ebola took a patient out of Africa and delivered him/her somewhere in Europe. The flight to Africa disappeared off of flight tracker shortly before it reached it supposed destination airport Dakar. Two days later the flight reappeared in at London's Stansted airport headed back to Georgia via Bangor International airport in Maine. That flight path is indicative of an Ebola delivery to Europe.

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Phoenix Air Group's 2nd ABCS equipped Gulfstream Jet is on its way to Africa. Its following a flight plan which has previously used by its sister aircraft to return Ebola infected personal to the USA for treatment. The flight is scheduled to arrive in Senegal at 3:33pm GMT.

CDC Releases Epidemiological Analysis of Dr Brantly & Writebol Ebola Transmission In Africa- Says Aerosol To Us

The CDC has released their epidemiological investigation of how Dr Brantly and Nancy Writebol became infected with Ebola while in Liberia. Basically CDC could find no transmission chain among the 5 people in that Ebola cluster.

CDC's analysis is that nothing out of the ordinary happened, ie nothing directly points to airborne.
Of course nothing points to contact transmission either, butCDC assumses direct contact caused this Ebola cluster. Our suspicion has been that Brantly & Writebol became infected as Writebol sprayed Brantly with Clorox water; that spraying action aerosolized the contamination on Brantly's protective suit.

Sources:

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6341a3.htm?s_cid=mm641a3_w

National Institutes of Health Orders a One Year Stockpile of "EMERGENCY DISASTER EVENT PREPARATION FOR PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT"

The National Institutes of Health [NIH] just placed a solicitation  to stockpile an entire year's worth of Personal Protective Equipment [PPE] to support eight agencies inside of NIH. They are placing the massive order in case there is a disruption in supply of medical goods like goggles, gloves, gowns, masks, spacesuits.

The NIH's rationale is that the animal testing they are doing is so vitally important that no disruption in supplies can be risked. Apparently the disruption in PPE supply is expect to last at least one full year, and they have an option to carry it on for four more years.

"This Sources Sought Notice has been posted to establish, provide, and maintain a laboratory animal personnel protective equipment (PPE) resource to ensure the accessibility and availability of essential supplies throughout an emergency/disaster, government shutdown, or any other interruption of regular deliveries. These supplies support irreplaceable multidisciplinary animal research, which is critical to the mission of eight institutes at the National Institutes of Health."

 "During emergency/disaster events, the normal supply and distribution channels will most likely be unavailable/or protracted due to the impact of the emergency and the rush of immediate orders. Our program's disaster plan takes these factors into account; it is therefore our intention is to establish an offsite source of critical supplies with an established, laboratory animal PPE vendor with a proven track record of providing quality products and services. As outlined in our emergency plan it is the intention of our program to be able to house up to a one year's supply of PPE products with a local vendor within a 90 mile radius of NIH in Bethesda, Maryland."

A few near term risks that potential could make PPE unavailable for an entire year are:

1) EBOLA
2) H7N9 BirdFlu
3) MERS-CoV

The POTRBLOG team believes that this contract clearly indicates that the Government expects a protracted shortage of medical PPE, and that the window of opportunity for individuals to purchase needed PPE at reasonable prices is now at a close.

Sources:

Solicitation Number: HHS-NIH-OD-OLAO-SBSS-15-001

Aerosolizing ONE DROP of Ebola Infected Blood Can Kill 500,000 People

US ARMY Says EBOLA = FLU in Airborne Stability, Needs Winter Weather To Go Airborne

Ebola Bodily Fluids Readily Weaponizable Using An Ultrasonic Humidifier

Ebola Emergency ZMAPP Production Rates & Costs

CDC's "Lesser Of Evils" Double Standard On Health Care Worker Protection Indicates They Expect a Large Ebola Outbreak In USA

CDC Warns Hospitals On EBOLA "CONTAMINATED AIR" and Directs use of "Airborne Infection Isolation Room"s

Inhalation Ebola: Governments Ready For World War Ebola

CDC Sees AIRBORNE EBOLA Transmission, Issues Guidance For Aircraft Flight Crews, Cleaning & Cargo Crews

 CDC is already evacuating DOUBLE the number of expected Ebola infected personnel at a rate of 7 doctors per month