Today the CDC confirmed the first case of unintentional importation of Ebola virus in the U.S.  (Full Video):

Patient Zero, a Liberian, located in Dallas Texas flew to the United States from Monrovia.

• 9/20 and 9/21 travel to the United States.
• 9/24 Became symptomatic for Ebola
• 9/26 Presented for treatment.
• 9/28 Admitted to hospital in Dallas for isolation, quarantine and treatment

Between 9/24/14 and 9/28/14 (4 days) Patient Zero was contagious and unconfined.  This is why the CDC says THERE WILL MORE LIKELY BE more infected as a result.
ALARMINGLY – It was discovered that in 1995 the ability of Ebola to aerosolize –or transmit via airborne pathogens– was reported, studied and confirmed.
Ebola, despite the CDC “calming” claims to the contrary,  has been scientifically proven to be a communicable airborne virus.   Coughing and sneezing can transmit the Ebola virus just like coughing and sneezing can transmit the flu.


Source link – National Institute of Health [ PMID: 7547435 ]

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From the abstract (emphasis mine): (more…)

DALLAS – Officials with the Center of Disease Control have confirmed the first case of Ebola in the U.S. in Dallas. The CDC will host a press conference at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday to address the issue.
Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital say the patient is being kept in isolation until preliminary results came back Tuesday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 12 other people in the U.S. have been tested for Ebola since July 27. Those tests came back negative.
Hospital officials said in a statement that the latest patient’s symptoms and recent travel indicated a possible case of Ebola. The virus has killed more than 3,000 people in West Africa and infected a handful of Americans who traveled to that region. (more…)

(Reuters) – Eight bodies, including those of three journalists, were found after an attack on a team trying to educate locals on the risks of the Ebola virus in a remote area of southeastern Guinea, a government spokesman said on Thursday.
“The eight bodies were found in the village latrine. Three of them had their throats slit,” Damantang Albert Camara told Reuters by telephone in Conakry.
However, Guinea’s Prime Minister Mohamed Saïd Fofana, speaking in a television message that had been recorded earlier, said 7 bodies of 9 missing people had been found.
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See, dear leader does have a plan for boots on the ground….
Washington (AFP) – US President Barack Obama will on Tuesday seek to “turn the tide” in the Ebola epidemic by ordering 3,000 US military personnel to West Africa and launching a major health care training and hygiene program.

The White House said Obama will travel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta to meet US health chiefs and make the announcement, meant to spur a global effort to fight an outbreak that has already killed 2,400 people.
The announcement comes amid increasing alarm about the worst-ever outbreak of the disease which has spread through Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Most of the new US effort will be concentrated in impoverished Liberia — the most badly affected nation. (more…)

AFRICA – The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is distinctly different from any over the last 40 years, several public health officials said Monday, making it far more challenging to control.

As of Friday, 3,944 people had been confirmed infected with Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal since December, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which has admitted that it is likely under-counting cases. More than half of the victims have died.
The epidemic is growing exponentially in both Liberia and Sierra Leone, and a WHO doctor was evacuated from Sierra Leone Monday after coming down with the virus, the organization said Monday. The WHO declined to release any details about the sick doctor. (more…)

Against the backdrop of 3,500 cases – 1552 dead, and another U.S. doctor diagnosed with the virus, the Director of The CDC delivers a stark warning…

ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta/AP) — The director for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says that the Ebola outbreak is going to get worse.

Speaking to “CBS This Morning” following his trip to the West African countries dealing with the outbreak, Dr. Tom Frieden explained that they have to act now to try to get Ebola under control.
“It is the world’s first Ebola epidemic and it is spiraling out of control. It’s bad now and it’s going to get worse in the very near future,” Frieden told CBS News. “There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.”
Frieden, who visited Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, will tell Washington tomorrow that the Ebola outbreak is “spiraling upward.” The CDC director explained that these countries still need help to deal with the deadly outbreak. (more…)

A Spanish missionary priest being treated for Ebola died Tuesday in a Madrid hospital, authorities said.
Spain’s Health Ministry said a day earlier that it had obtained a course of the U.S.-made experimental Ebola drug ZMapp to treat Father Miguel Pajares, 75.
Pajares died Tuesday at Carlos III Hospital, the hospital and his order said. The hospital would not confirm that he had been treated with the drug, but his order said earlier that he would be.
He is one of only three Ebola patients thought to have received the experimental drug. The others are two Americans evacuated to Atlanta.
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TORONTO (NEWS1130) – A public health official says a patient at a hospital near Toronto has been isolated as a precautionary measure after showing flu-like symptoms similar to those characteristic of the Ebola virus.
Dr. Eileen de Villa with Peel Public Health says the steps are being taken because the patient at Brampton Civic Hospital recently travelled to Nigeria, which has been hit with an outbreak of the disease.  She says the patient is showing a fever and other flu-like symptoms but cautioned there has been no diagnosis yet.
She says the hospital has put heightened infection-control measures in place in addition to isolating the patient. (more…)

(CNN) — The United States ordered relatives of its embassy employees to leave Liberia as the African nation struggles to contain the Ebola epidemic.

Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are battling the deadly Ebola virus, which has killed 932 people in those countries, according to the World Health Organization. The epidemic has also spread to Nigeria.

The U.S. Embassy is in the capital of Monrovia — one of the areas hardest-hit by the epidemic.

“The embassy recommended this step out of an abundance of caution, following the determination … that there is a lack of options for routine health care services at major medical facilities due to the Ebola outbreak,” the State Department said in a statement Thursday. (more…)

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has activated emergency response containment status to Level 1 – CDC central command center (pictured below) now activated.   WHO in emergency meeting considering declaration of “P.H.E.I.C” (Public Health Emergency Of Immediate International Concern)

The World Health Organization now shares 1,711 confirmed cases with 932 deaths.  45 people died in the past 72 hours.

More than 30,000 people of Liberian descent live in Minnesota.  Hundreds of U.S. Liberians are desperately trying to purchase tickets to get their family out of Africa and into the United States

AFRICA – A Nigerian nurse who treated a man with Ebola is now dead and five others are sick with one of the world’s most virulent diseases, authorities said Wednesday as the death toll rose to at least 932 people in four West African countries. (more…)