First Ebola Case Diagnosed in the United States of America
The Club of Rome in 1968 conducted a study with the aim of determining the limits of human growth. The result of their study was that civilization as we know it would collapse shortly after the year 2000 and natural resources would become scarce for the hegemonic powers; and the capitalist system itself would be in danger unless the population was severely reduced by some medium, either by hunger or disease. Several intelligence agencies of the American government made recommendations to the ruling elite, presented to Dr. Aurelio Peccei, Director of the Club of Rome at the time. The main recommendation was the development of pathogens that attack the immune system and thus make the development of a vaccine immediately impossible. The orders given were to develop pathogens and also develop prophylactic. Pathogens could be used against the general population and could be introduced by vaccines administered by the complicit World Health Organization, O.P.S. Pan American Health Organization, and health agencies in Africa, South America and Asia. The cure would be administered to the survivors when they decide that enough people have died. This plan was called Global Plan 2000. [Source]
Texas patient confirmed as first Ebola case diagnosed in US (Video)
September 30, 2014Yahoo – A man who recently arrived in Texas from Liberia has been confirmed as having the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the U.S.
Authorities with the Centers for
Disease Control revealed the finding late Tuesday, two days after the
unidentified patient was admitted to a Dallas hospital with suspicious
symptoms.
Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas put the man into “strict isolation” and sent a blood specimen to state and federal labs for testing.
Both came back positive for the
deadly disease, which has killed more than 3,000 people in Africa this
year. According to the World Health Organization, there have been more
than 6,500 Ebola cases confirmed in Africa, with Guinea, Liberia, and
Sierra Leone among the hardest hit.
“He is ill, he is under intensive care, he's being seen by highly trained, competent specialists, and the health department is helping us in tracing any family members that might have been exposed," said Dr. Edward Goodman with Texas Health Dallas.
Authorities declined to name the adult patient or even say if he is an American.
“The patient was visiting family members and staying with family members who live in this country,” said Dr. Thomas Frieden, CDC director.
Frieden said the man arrived
from Liberia on Sept. 20, but didn't start feeling ill until Sept. 24.
He sought medical treatment at Texas Health Dallas on Friday, Sept. 26
before being sent home. He was then admitted to the hospital on Sunday
the 28th.
“The initial symptoms of Ebola are often nonspecific ... they are symptoms that may be associated with many other conditions,” Frieden said. “That's why we have encouraged all emergency department physicians to take a history of travel within the last 21 days.”
The CDC has a team en route to
North Texas to help health officials retrace the man's contacts since he
has been in the states. Officials characterized the patient as having
close contact with about a "handful" of family members while in Dallas.
“I have no doubt that we'll stop this in its tracks in the U.S., but I also have no doubt that as long the outbreak continues in Africa we need to be on our guard,” Frieden said.
Along
with all other passengers, the patient's temperature was taken as a
matter of precaution when he left Liberia for the U.S. on Sept. 19.
Because he didn't show fever then, Frieden said, officials have no
immediate plans to make the man's flight information public.
“At this point there is zero risk of transmission on the flight," Frieden said.
Ebola is highly contagious and
deadly, but only spread through contact with bodily fluids. Dallas
County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson spent most of
his day trying to calm the fears of North Texans.
“It is easier to get the flu than it is to get the Ebola virus,” Thompson told KTVT-TV. "You have to get it through secretion, blood, that type of transmission. So this is not a situation where you go to the grocery store and you get infected with the virus.”
Ebola symptoms include sudden
fever, fatigue and headache. Officials said symptoms may appear anywhere
from two days to three weeks after exposure.
Four American aid workers have contracted Ebola in West Africa and been evacuated to the U.S. for treatment since late July. Three of them were released after making full recoveries. A fourth patient arrived in Atlanta on Sept. 9, but spokespersons at Emory University Hospital have said privacy laws prevent the release of an updated condition.
On Sunday, a U.S. doctor who had been volunteering in an Ebola clinic in Sierra Leone was brought to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, as a safety precaution after he was exposed to the disease (see story below).
In past years Ebola has killed up to 90 percent of those it has infected, but officials say the death rate in the current outbreak is closer to 60 percent due to early treatment.
US doctor exposed to Ebola virus admitted to NIH
September 28, 2014The Associated Press - An American doctor who was exposed to the Ebola virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone was admitted Sunday to a hospital at the National Institutes of Health near the nation's capital.
The patient, who was not identified, arrived at NIH's Clinical Center about 4 p.m., NIH said in a statement on its website.
NIH said that out of "an abundance of caution," the physician was admitted to a special isolation unit. NIH infectious disease chief Dr. Anthony Fauci wouldn't discuss details about the patient but said that in general, an exposure to Ebola doesn't necessarily mean someone will become sick.
"When someone is exposed, you want to put them into the best possible situation so if something happens you can take care of them," Fauci said.Four other American aid workers who were sickened by Ebola while volunteering in the West African outbreak have been treated at hospitals in Georgia and Nebraska. One remains hospitalized while the others have recovered.
"NIH is taking every precaution to ensure the safety of our patients, NIH staff and the public," the agency said in a statement.
An Associated Press photographer saw a person dressed in a white protective suit get off a plane and walk to a waiting ambulance at the Frederick Municipal Airport in Maryland about 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
The plane's tail number matched that of the aircraft that has been used previously to transport other Ebola patients to the United States from overseas.
NIH spokesman John Burklow confirmed that the plane carrying the patient landed at Frederick.
Click here for photos; click here for video of the transfer of the doctor at Frederick Regional Airport.
Editor's Note:1967 FT Detrick Biological Weapons Program Victim Speaks Out - True Story of Diana Quintanilla Montoya
Some are questioning why Frederick was chosen as the relay airport when there are other regional airports closer to NIH in Bethesda than Frederick. One theory is that if an outbreak occurs in the area because of a release of the virus from Fort Detrick, the government can deny culpability and blame it on the transfer at the airport in Frederick.
Local airports near Bethesda, MD:
11 miles: Buzzards Pt Sea Plane Base Anc. Rvr Dc - Buzzards Point Seaplane Base, DC
12 miles: Pentagon Army - Washington, DC
15 miles: College Park Airport - College Park, MD
18 miles: Reston Airport - Reston, VA
18 miles: Montgomery County Airpark - Gaithersburg, MD
24 miles: Tipton Airport - Odenton, MD
27 miles: Davison Army Airfield - Fort Belvoir, VA
28 miles: Andrews Air Force Base - Camp Springs, MD
30 miles: Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility - Camp Springs, MD
34 miles: Leesburg Executive Airport - Leesburg, VA (JYO / KJYO)
Frederick is the home to Fort Detrick, the center of the US biological weapons program from 1943 to 1969. In 2008, Bruce Ivins, a microbiologist at the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, reportedly committed suicide. Fort Detrick was the nation's, and likely the world's, "largest and most sophisticated" BW testing center. Officials admit that accidental anthrax deaths did occur at the facility.
Frank Rudolph Olson (July 17, 1910 - November 28, 1953) was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who worked at Fort Detrick (formerly known as Camp Detrick): he was covertly dosed with LSD by his CIA supervisor and, nine days later, plunged to his death from the window of a New York hotel room. Some — including the U.S. government — term his death a suicide, while others allege murder. First, the Army told Frank Olson's sons that the Fort Detrick scientist's death in a fall from a 13th-floor window of a New York hotel had been an accident. Then a presidential commission revealed that the CIA had given an unwitting Olson LSD as part of a mind-control experiment in remote Western Maryland only nine days before the fall, and concluded that his death had been a drug-related suicide. Eric and Nils Olson believe their father — who had told colleagues before he died that he wanted to quit the top-secret Special Operations Division — was murdered on November 28, 1953.
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