My blog readers know I have been following the current Ebola outbreak in Africa for some time now. While I have attempted to provide timely, accurate and reasonable information about this outbreak, I have not pulled any punches. Therefore, I am bringing this to your attention for one reason. You need to have factored in how you will personally prepare for an Ebola outbreak here in CONUS. I am not saying that is going to happen. I am saying it might happen, and all of us need to “honor the threat.” If you wait until “they” tell you Ebola is here in CONUS, it will be too late. The following is based on FACTS, and not hysteria, or breathless announcements colored by “doom porn.” You may take it seriously, or you may ignore it. The choice is up to you, but one of the reasons I started this blog in the first place, was to provide information, credible information, to my blog readers so they can make intelligent, informed decisions based on the information I provide them. Take the below with as much salt as you care too, but be aware the following isn’t doom porn. The information is based on FACTS, solid, documented data and reflects a reasonable analysis based on that information. The bottom line is the 3 people who escaped the DRC hospital, well two of them were late stage, highly infectious and went to a public venue with nearly 60 people there.
The below is my comments over at timebomb2000.com
21 DAYS UNTIL EBOLA CHAOS
Barbou posted her article here on May 28th. The article stated the “Ebola breakout,” happened on Monday, May 21st. Further, the article stated the “incubation period,” for Ebola was 21 days.
THIS MEANS THE 50 TO 60 PEOPLE EXPOSED TO THE LATE STAGE, HIGHLY, HIGHLY INFECTIOUS EBOLA PATIENTS WERE EXPOSED ON MAY 21ST. FURTHER, “THEY” NOW THINK UP TO 600 ADDITIONAL PEOPLE WERE EXPOSED, WHO THEN EXPOSED STILL MORE PEOPLE.
THE BOTTOM LINE IS THREE WEEKS FROM MAY 21ST IS JUNE 11TH. FINALLY, IF ANY OF THOSE ORIGINAL PEOPLE WERE INFECTED, AND THEY THEN INFECTED OTHERS DURING THE THREE WEEK PERIOD, WE WILL SEE A SPIRAL TYPE INCREASE IN TOTAL EBOLA PATIENTS STARTING ON JUNE 11TH, AND THEN CONTINUING TO INCREASE IN NUMBERS OVER THE NEXT MONTH OR SO.
WE SHOULD ALSO BEAR IN MIND THAT IF ANY OF THE INFECTED TRAVELED IT WILL FURTHER SPREAD THE DISEASE IN AFRICA. IT MAY ALSO SPREAD GLOBALLY DEPENDING ON WHO WAS EXPOSED, HOW MANY WERE EXPOSED, AND WHERE THEY WENT FROM THAT ONE CITY. IF ANY OF THEM GOT ON THE RIVER AND WENT ANYWHERE, YOU WILL HAVE ADDITIONAL, SEPARATE EBOLA OUTBREAKS START TO HAPPEN.
Oh yeah, mid June may be the start date for the real Ebola outbreak.
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A new Ebola outbreak is on the radar in the Congo and just over a week ago had reached a city of more than a million people. Well, things likely got a whole lot worse over the weekend when family members of 3 infectious patients with confirmed cases of Ebola broke them out of quarantine and took them to a prayer meeting with at least 50 people. That may seem like it’s a long way from the US but read on.
People at the prayer meeting were definitely exposed, as two of the patients were in the most infectious stages of the disease, with vomiting and diarrhea.
Two of the three escapees are dead and the third was returned to the quarantine center.
The UK Independent interviewed Dr. Jean-Clement Cabrol, emergency medical coordinator for Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders):
“The escape was organized by the families, with six motorcycles as the patients were very ill and couldn’t walk,” Dr. Cabrol told a news briefing in Geneva after returning from the affected region.
“They were taken to a prayer room with 50 people to pray. They were found at two in the morning, one of them dead and one was dying. So that’s 50-60 contacts right there. The patients were in the active phase of the disease, vomiting.” (source)
It’s not unusual in the Congo for this to happen, according to WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic.
He said that both of the deceased had been given a safe and dignified burial and added that “it was only human” that sick people wanted to be with their families “in what could be the last moments of life”.
“It is very unfortunate that people fled the treatment centre, but it is not unexpected. We had this in previous outbreaks,” he said. (source)
Jasarevic said that this makes it particularly important to engage with the community so they can understand how Ebola spreads and the urgency of getting medical attention.
Tracking down the contacts of the escaped Ebola patients
Now the work begins of tracking down everyone with whom the escaped patients may have been in contact to try and prevent the outbreak from getting out of the city into an even more populated area.
Because Ebola has a 21-day incubation period, an infected person might not realize they have contracted the disease until it’s too late and they’ve exposed uncounted others to it.
Health officials started trying to trace the motorcycle drivers and other people who came into contact with the patients as soon as the escape was reported, Dr. Peter Salama, head of emergency response at the WHO, told Reuters.
“From the moment that they escaped, the health ministry, WHO, and partners have been following very closely every contact,” he said.
“All it takes is one sick person to travel down the Congo River and we can have outbreaks seeded in many different locations … that can happen at any moment. It’s very hard to predict,” he said, referring to the river linking the trading hub of Mbandaka to the capital Kinshasa, whose population is 10 million.
More than 600 contacts have been identified so far.
Could this Ebola outbreak spread to Europe and the US?
If a person with Ebola gets to the capital city, that’s when people in other areas really need to begin paying attention. Kinshasa is a major transportation hub.
Software called FLIRT (FLIght Risk Tracker) has determined where the virus could potentially spread from there.
photo credit EcoHealth Alliance
They used flight date from the airports in Mbandaka, Kinshasa, and Brazzaville to predict the places most at risk for infection and found that these cities are the most closely connected to the point of origin.
- Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo
- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
- Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Brussels, Belgium
- Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Paris, France
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo
The countries which are the most connected are:
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Republic of Congo
- Ethiopia
- Belgium
- France
- Kenya
- South Africa
- Gabon
- Morocco
- Côte d’Ivoire
It’s not hard to see how easily this outbreak could reach highly populated parts of Europe. And then, it could go anywhere.
Including the United States. EcoHealth Alliance reports:
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