Ebola horror: Infected nurse flew U.S. airline

NEW YORK – Only hours after the Centers for Disease Control reassured the American public the health-care procedures at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas were adequate to contain Ebola, CDC announced a second health-care worker who treated the “index patient,” Thomas Eric Duncan from Liberia, has been diagnosed with the disease.

At an early morning press conference in Dallas, hospital officials admitted they are “learning as they go” as concerns mount nationwide that the CDC may not have fully understood how Ebola is transmitted and that CDC protocols may be inadequate.
CDC, nevertheless, said in an early morning press release Wednesday, “As we have said before, because of our ongoing investigation, it is not unexpected that there would be additional exposures.”
The nurse, however, identified as 29-year-old Amber Vinson, took a flight from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth on Monday, the day before she reported symptoms.
Frontier Airlines said in a statement it was notified by CDC at 1 a.m. Wednesday that a customer on a flight Monday later tested positive for Ebola.
Flight 1143 landed at 8:16 p.m. local time in Dallas-Fort Worth and “remained overnight at the airport having completed its flying for the day at which point the aircraft received a thorough cleaning per our normal procedures which is consistent with CDC guidelines prior to returning to service the next day.”
The airline said the plane also was also cleaned again in Cleveland Tuesday night. Previously the customer had traveled from Dallas Fort Worth to Cleveland on Frontier flight 1142 on Friday.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/2nd-nurse-in-dallas-diagnosed-with-ebola/#rHwG3LmfDjRJFjYr.99

Dallas nurses cite sloppy conditions in Ebola care

DALLAS (AP) — A Liberian Ebola patient was left in an open area of a Dallas emergency room for hours, and nurses treating him worked without proper protective gear and faced constantly changing protocols, according to a statement released by the nation's largest nurses' union.

Among those nurses was Nina Pham, 26, who has been hospitalized since Friday after catching Ebola while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the virus in the U.S. He died last week.

Public-health authorities announced Wednesday that a second Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital health care worker had tested positive for Ebola, raising more questions about whether American hospitals and their staffs are adequately prepared to contain the virus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said some breach of protocol probably sickened Pham, but National Nurses United contends the protocols were either non-existent or changed constantly after Duncan arrived in the emergency room by ambulance on Sept. 28.

Continue reading:  http://news.yahoo.com/dallas-nurses-cite-sloppy-conditions-ebola-care-042120774.html

How to construct an emergency Ebola isolation room in your own home after the hospitals are overrun

There are 5,723 hospitals in the United States, and only four of them have level-4 biohazard isolation facilities. The other 5,719 are just "regular" hospitals with rooms that are no more secure against Ebola than your own bedroom, most likely.

Because the Ebola outbreak continues to spread out of control, it is becoming increasingly likely that hospitals will be completely overwhelmed very early in the pandemic. Just one patient, Thomas Duncan, already shut down the entire emergency room of the hospital in Dallas, requiring 70 medical staffers to treat him.

As Mac Slavo of SHTFplan.com writes, "a single Ebola patient in Dallas overwhelmed the system to such an extent that Texas Presbyterian had to shut down their emergency room to new patients." [1]

In a continued outbreak, all local hospital will be overwhelmed with Ebola patients and Ebola victims will be sent home to recover or die on their own. This will put American families in the extremely uncomfortable position of suddenly needing to care for an infected Ebola patient in their own home.

Another scenario involved government authorities declaring medical martial law and ordering a "shelter in place" lockdown of an entire city or region. Here, too, families would need to take care of their own medical needs until the lockdown is lifted.

How to build an Ebola isolation room in your own home

For this reason, and out of "an abundance of caution" as the hospitals like to say, I'm going public with potentially lifesaving information on how to build an emergency Ebola isolation room in your own home.

Disclaimer: This isn't a BSL-4 biohazard room, obviously. It's not 100% effective. There are no guarantees that it will keep you safe, but it's a huge step in the right direction. It can save lives and help prevent the spread of any viral pandemic. Everything you're about to learn here is fully aligned with the sterilization and isolation principles taught in medical school and practiced in hospitals around the world. My mantra is "do the best with what you have" and be fully informed of the astonishing ease at which Ebola is now spreading. If you can get the help of a medical professional, please seek to do so. This information is offered in the context of an uncontrolled Ebola outbreak scenario where people are being turned away from hospitals and are forced to care for themselves. In these circumstances, the following information may help save your life.

For full instructions, listen to the free MP3 audio in Episode 15 at www.BioDefense.com

Here's some of what the free audio file teaches:

- Hospitals won't be functional in an Ebola outbreak

- Myth busted: Ebola is now spreading in the best hospitals in the world

- Ideally, you need level-4 biohazard equipment to deal with Ebola patients

- Indirect transmission of Ebola is now confirmed

- You have to take Ebola transmission seriously; do not underestimate its ability to spread

- Isolation strategies for your own home

- Plan on medical martial law and being ordered to "shelter in place" in your own home

- How to handle an infected family member or guest

- Acquire a large quantity of plastic sheeting or shower curtains

- Cover the entryway of the isolation room with plastic sheeting

- Anyone entering the room must be wearing full protective gear, full-face respirator, gloves, full body suit, shoe covers, with all joints taped to seal the gaps

- Ideally, you would have a positive-pressure space suit, but nobody has these at home

- Assume that every surface and object in the room is contaminated

- Have a protocol for sanitizing contaminated items removed from the room

- What kills Ebola? Sunlight and bleach!

- A "decon" person also needs to be wearing protective gear while scrubbing and rising the first person

- Remember the ventilation pathways of your home: Air is likely being injected into the room, causing contaminated air to leave the room under the door

- Air leaving the isolation room can carry aerosolized Ebola particles

- Use a HEPA filter to filter particles from the air in the isolation room

- Off-the-shelf ultraviolet lights might be helpful but are likely not strong enough to kill Ebola virus in any reasonable amount of time

- Consider the bathroom needs of the person in the isolation room: Do they have their own private bathroom? If not, you will need to remove feces and urine from the room manually (and consider both to be heavily contaminated)

- If you have to flush contaminated fluids down the toilet, follow it with bleach as a disinfectant

- Tips on giving supportive care to an Ebola patient: hydration, environmental controls, sufficient sleep, nutrition, etc.

- Respect the choices of your patient; don't force them to consume foods or supplements that they don't want to

- Don't forget the mental and psychological support needed for someone in isolation

- Be prepared for "bargaining" from the patient in isolation

- Give them things to pass the time: books, videos, etc.

- Get them reason to hope and something to look forward to after the quarantine

- Discussion of multiple isolation rooms in the same home

- Do the best you can with what you have

- Plan in advance for at-home isolation rooms

- Count on a police state response with forced vaccinations and isolation orders

Listen to the full audio now in Episode 15 at www.BioDefense.com

Sources for this article include:
[1] http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/shutdo...

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W.H.O. report: Ebola has 42-day incubation period

A jaw-dropping report released by the World Health Organization on October 14, 2014 reveals that 1 in 20 Ebola infections has an incubation period longer than the 21 days which has been repeatedly claimed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

This may be the single most important -- and blatantly honest -- research report released by any official body since the beginning of the Ebola outbreak. The WHO's "Ebola situation assessment" report, found here, explains that only 95% of Ebola infections experience incubation within the widely-reported 21-day period. Here's the actual language from the report:

95% of confirmed cases have an incubation period in the range of 1 to 21 days; 98% have an incubation period that falls within the 1 to 42 day interval. [1]

Unless the sentence structure is somehow misleading, this passage appears to indicate the following:

• 95% of Ebola incubations occur from 1 - 21 days
• 3% of Ebola incubations occur from 21 - 42 days
• 2% of Ebola incubations are not explained (why?)

If this interpretation of the WHO's statistics are correct, it would mean that:

• 1 in 20 Ebola infections may result in incubations lasting significantly longer than 21 days

• The 21-day quarantine currently being enforced by the CDC is entirely insufficient to halt an outbreak

• People who are released from observation or self-quarantine after 21 days may still become full-blown Ebola patients in the subsequent three weeks, even if they have shown no symptoms of infection during the first 21 days. (Yes, read that again...)

Any declaration that an outbreak is over requires 42 days with no new infections

Underscoring the importance of the 42-day rule, the WHO document openly states that a 42-day observation period with no new outbreaks is required before declaring the outbreak is under control. In the WHO's own words:

WHO is therefore confident that detection of no new cases, with active surveillance in place, throughout this 42-day period means that an Ebola outbreak is indeed over. [1]

W.H.O. "alarmed" over false pronouncements of negative Ebola tests

Just as disturbing is the WHO's open warning that government health officials who are announcing negative Ebola findings in patients mere hours after them being tested are grossly misleading the public and essentially practicing quack medicine.

As explained by the WHO:

WHO is alarmed by media reports of suspected Ebola cases imported into new countries that are said, by government officials or ministries of health, to be discarded as "negative" within hours after the suspected case enters the country. Such rapid determination of infection status is impossible, casting grave doubts on some of the official information that is being communicated to the public and the media. [1]

In other words, WHO is telling us that all those public pronouncements by government health authorities are meaningless. An Ebola infection determination cannot be made in mere hours, it turns out. In fact, as WHO explains, a suspected case of Ebola must be observed and tested for 48 hours before any degree of certainty can be reached about the Ebola infection status:

Two negative RT-PCR test results, at least 48 hours apart, are required for a clinically asymptomatic patient to be discharged from hospital, or for a suspected Ebola case to be discarded as testing negative for the virus. [1]

"No signs" that outbreaks are under control

Finally, this WHO report goes on to conclude that the Ebola outbreaks of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are multiplying out of control. The report even cites the curious phenomenon of unexpected outbreak surges taking place in areas once thought to be eradicated:

In Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, new cases continue to explode in areas that looked like they were coming under control. An unusual characteristic of this epidemic is a persistent cyclical pattern of gradual dips in the number of new cases, followed by sudden flare-ups. WHO epidemiologists see no signs that the outbreaks in any of these 3 countries are coming under control. [1]

Is it possible that these resurging outbreaks are being caused by governments failing to monitor potentially infected Ebola victims for a full 42 days? If they only observe them for 21 days, then 1 out of 20 infected victims may be cleared as "clean" and allowed back into the population where they soon become symptomatic and spread the disease even further.

U.S. doctors and health officials have been taught the wrong number: 21 days is only HALF the duration

It is extremely disturbing to realize that, to our best knowledge, every single person in the United States who has been suspected of harboring Ebola has been instructed to monitor symptoms for only 21 days, not the necessary 42 days.

This means that Ebola-infected U.S. citizens who are "cleared" of Ebola may still erupt with the deadly virus for a period of three more weeks.

Why hasn't anyone reported this until now? How is this not one of the single most important pieces of information in the world at this moment when all human life on our planet is now legitimately threatened by an uncontrolled viral outbreak with a 70 percent fatality rate and no recognized treatments or cures?

Prepare yourself now with the free downloadable MP3 audio files at www.BioDefense.com

Sources for this article include:
[1] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/14...

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RECIPE: Roasted Pumpkin Spice Nuts

This recipe would also be great to serve at all the upcoming holidays – everything from Halloween, to Thanksgiving to Christmas. Having a batch of these next to your favorite (organic) cocktail is not a bad idea either.
And just an FYI – I also included some recipe substitutions for those of you who are vegan or allergic to nuts.

4.5 from 6 reviews

Food Babe's Roasted Pumpkin Spiced Nuts

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Prep time

5 mins

Cook time

1 hour

Total time

1 hour 5 mins

Serves: 20

Ingredients

• 1 egg white
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice (a mix of cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg)
• ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
• ¼ cup coconut palm sugar
• 3 cups unsalted nuts (pecans, cashews, walnuts and almonds)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees
2. Place egg white into a large bowl and whip with a fork until frothy
3. Stir in sea salt, spices and sugar
4. Combine mixture with 3 cups nuts and coat them evenly
5. Place nuts in a single layer on top of a parchment paper lined large baking pan
6. Bake for 1 hour
7. Let nuts cool for at least 10 mins before serving (they will get crispy)
8. Store in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks

Notes

Recipe substitutions: If you are vegan you can omit the egg white and use maple syrup instead of coconut palm and add 1 tablespoon coconut oil. If you are allergic to nuts, you can use all seeds like pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds. \

***Please use all organic ingredients if possible***

source: http://foodbabe.com/2014/10/14/roasted-pumpkin-spice-nuts/

World Health Organization finally admits sneezing and coughing can spread Ebola

As Ebola continues to spread, the official story about how it is spreading keeps on changing. The World Health Organization (WHO) now says that Ebola can spread through the air via moisture released through sneezing and coughing, a powerful admission that exposes the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which says this isn't possible, as a fraud.

Corroborating its position with convincing scientific evidence, WHO now officially recognizes that, in some cases, Ebola can transmit from person to person via the respiratory system. Depending on the stage of infection and how it is manifesting symptom-wise, Ebola is capable of traveling through the air and infecting other people.

"Theoretically, wet and bigger droplets from a heavily infected individual, who has respiratory symptoms caused by other conditions or who vomits violently, could transmit the virus -- over a short distance -- to another nearby person," explained the UN agency.

"This could happen when virus-laden heavy droplets are directly propelled, by coughing or sneezing (which does not mean airborne transmission) onto the mucus membranes or skin with cuts or abrasions of another person."

Saliva and tears can also spread Ebola, says WHO

Ebola can even spread through tears and saliva, admitted the agency. Though the likelihood of this is supposedly minimal, patients in the later stages of illness progression have been shown in some studies to carry and spread the virus through these routes, though not necessarily through sweat.

"In studies of saliva, the virus was found most frequently in patients at a severe stage of illness," explains a WHO situation assessment issued on October 6. "The whole live virus has never been isolated from sweat."

Indirect Ebola transmission is also mentioned in the WHO announcement, which warns against touching surfaces that may have become contaminated with the virus. Appropriate cleaning and disinfection protocols should always be the first line of defense in these situations, even though the risk of transmission from contaminated surfaces is believed to be low.

Former CDC doctor agrees: Ebola can go airborne

The atypical spread pattern of Ebola during this current outbreak suggests that the virus already defies what health officials claim are undeniable facts. Dr. C.J. Peters, who helped the CDC study Ebola transmissibility in humans following the great Virginia monkey outbreak of 1989, says nothing can be ruled out at this point.

"We just don't have the data to exclude it," he stated, referring to Ebola's potential to spread through the air.

A virologist with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (AMRDC) is also quoted as telling the Los Angeles Times that what we think we know about Ebola may not actually reflect reality. Without a definitive and precise understanding of how Ebola mutates and spreads, all bets are off.

"Being dogmatic is, I think, ill-advised, because there are too many unknowns," stated Dr. Philip K. Russell, who at one point helped put together a government stockpile of smallpox vaccines after 9/11.

"I see the reasons to dampen down public fears," he added. "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."

WHO's official position on how Ebola can spread is available here:
WHO.int.

Learn all these details and more at the FREE online Pandemic Preparedness course at www.BioDefense.com

Sources:

http://www.wnd.com

http://www.who.int

http://www.latimes.com

http://science.naturalnews.com

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EPA’s Next Target -- American Dentists Who Are Mercury Polluters

• Dental clinics are the main source of mercury discharges to public water treatment centers, according to the EPA, which estimates there are about 160,000 dentists in the US who use or remove amalgam -- and virtually all of them discharge their wastewater to water treatment centers
• Dentists discharge about 4.4 tons of mercury a year into the environment
• An amalgam separator is a wastewater treatment device installed at the source, in the dental office, that can remove 95-99 percent of the mercury in the wastewater
• The EPA has proposed a rule that would require US dentists to install amalgam separators; they estimate it would reduce mercury emissions by nine tons each year
• The average annual cost of an amalgam separator for dental offices is just $700; the EPA’s rule is expected to be finalized in September 2015
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