http://news.yahoo.com/texas-patient-confirmed-as-first-ebola-case-diagnosed-in-us-205031312.html
I suppose it was a matter of time
QUICK! BARRICADE THE TEXAS BORDER! Oh...and pin a medal on Rick Perry... preferably a big spiked one through the chest..
Don't worry! Liara is immune to it.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/
Transmission
It is thought that fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are natural Ebola virus hosts. Ebola is introduced into the human population through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals such as chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found ill or dead or in the rainforest.
Ebola then spreads through human-to-human transmission via direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and with surfaces and materials (e.g. bedding, clothing) contaminated with these fluids.
Health-care workers have frequently been infected while treating patients with suspected or confirmed EVD. This has occurred through close contact with patients when infection control precautions are not strictly practiced.
Burial ceremonies in which mourners have direct contact with the body of the deceased person can also play a role in the transmission of Ebola.
People remain infectious as long as their blood and body fluids, including semen and breast milk, contain the virus. Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to 7 weeks after recovery from illness.
Wishful thinking, but hope he tongue kissed Perry before they quarantined him.
Or gave Perry some nipple. :biggrin:
Yes, I'm making light of the suffering of others. Deal with it.
Quote from: Solitary on September 30, 2014, 05:21:13 PM
Don't worry! Liara is immune to it.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/
Transmission
It is thought that fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are natural Ebola virus hosts. Ebola is introduced into the human population through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals such as chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found ill or dead or in the rainforest.
Ebola then spreads through human-to-human transmission via direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and with surfaces and materials (e.g. bedding, clothing) contaminated with these fluids.
Health-care workers have frequently been infected while treating patients with suspected or confirmed EVD. This has occurred through close contact with patients when infection control precautions are not strictly practiced.
Burial ceremonies in which mourners have direct contact with the body of the deceased person can also play a role in the transmission of Ebola.
People remain infectious as long as their blood and body fluids, including semen and breast milk, contain the virus. Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to 7 weeks after recovery from illness.
I'm okay then
This is scary stuff. It's likely out now. The article said it's not contagious like the flu. Well, what the Hell is going on in Africa? It seems pretty contagious.
Quote from: SGOS on September 30, 2014, 05:58:11 PM
This is scary stuff. It's likely out now. The article said it's not contagious like the flu. Well, what the Hell is going on in Africa? It seems pretty contagious.
Largely because of ridiculous population numbers in unsanitary conditions, unprotected people handling bodies, you name it. Saw a show on National Geographic about Liberia. Be glad you don't live there.
Granted Sierra Leone is backwards as Hell. I have a friend who worked there in the Peace Corps. I wouldn't want to spend time there during the best of times. I like primitive, but when primitive gets unsanitary and extreme poverty is the norm, it's time to let go of nostalgic fantasy about yesteryear.
If it jumps so much as one state closer to me, I'm booking the next plane to Australia.
Quote from: SGOS on September 30, 2014, 06:20:12 PM
Granted Sierra Leone is backwards as Hell. I have a friend who worked there in the Peace Corps. I wouldn't want to spend time there during the best of times. I like primitive, but when primitive gets unsanitary and extreme poverty is the norm, it's time to let go of nostalgic fantasy about yesteryear.
I live "primitive" several days a year when camping, but I know how to keep sanitary. In this case, ignorance is not bliss. In the National Geographic show, infected people were sitting next to non-infected and large crowds were simply contained by a chain across an alley. Really disturbing. And there are people handling corpses without protective gear. I think to a large extent our "population bomb" is coming home to roost. Thank religion for much of it. An uninformed, faith based society ignorant of the knowledge that could protect them.
Maybe it will infect the fucktards who were saying "hurr durr that's their problem".
Damn. I sure hope he survives it.
It also makes me wonder about the people who sat near him on the plane ride home. That sounds like a movie scenario, a guy gets exposed to a terrible virus, then gets on a damn plane to fly back home and infects people.
Reading comments to news articles is just painful.
Exhibit 1 from Yahoo News:
QuoteRESTRICT TRAVEL. Don't let anyone in or out of the country. It's THAT SIMPLE. Africa is a third world country. Just close down the borders
I want the money back. The hard-earned taxpayer money that was spent to send this person to school.
Quote from: SGOS on September 30, 2014, 05:58:11 PM
This is scary stuff. It's likely out now. The article said it's not contagious like the flu. Well, what the Hell is going on in Africa? It seems pretty contagious.
The flu is airborne and so can be easily contracted. Ebola is not airborne but is transmitted through direct contact: shaking hands, kissing, etc.
Quote from: josephpalazzo on September 30, 2014, 07:20:49 PM
The flu is airborne and so can be easily contracted. Ebola is not airborne but is transmitted through direct contact: shaking hands, kissing, etc.
We'll be brofisting with rubber gloves and masks from now on.
THANKS OBAMA
Quote from: stromboli on September 30, 2014, 07:33:35 PM
We'll be brofisting with rubber gloves and masks from now on.
But then you've still got to decontaminate the rubber gloves and masks... :-(
Quote from: josephpalazzo on September 30, 2014, 07:42:06 PM
But then you've still got to decontaminate the rubber gloves and masks... :-(
I'm going to be camping all fucking year round now.
As someone who has to handle money in the state of Texas... yaaaaaay...
Just a paranoid conspiracy theory: This and AIDS are transmitted the same way. Is it a man made disease to get rid of blacks in Africa, and gays? :eek: I wouldn't put anything past our government.
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A History Of US Secret
Human Experimentation
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1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.
1932 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease. They all subsequently die from syphilis, their families never told that they could have been treated.
1935 The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed to act since most of the deaths occured within poverty-striken black populations.
1940 Four hundred prisoners in Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and experimental drugs to
combat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own actions during the Holocaust.
1942 Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty.
1943 In response to Japan's full-scale germ warfare program, the U.S. begins research on biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD.
1944 U.S. Navy uses human subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite.
1945 Project Paperclip is initiated. The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA recruit Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret identities in exchange for work on top secret government projects in the United States.
1945 "Program F" is implemented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This is the most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoride, which was the key chemical component in atomic bomb production. One of the most toxic chemicals known to man, fluoride, it is found, causes marked adverse effects to the central nervous system but much of the information is squelched in the name of national security because of fear that lawsuits would undermine full-scale production of atomic bombs.
1946 Patients in VA hospitals are used as guinea pigs for medical experiments. In order to allay suspicions, the order is given to change the word "experiments" to "investigations" or "observations" whenever reporting a medical study performed in one of the nation's veteran's hospitals.
1947 Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects.
1947 The CIA begins its study of LSD as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects (both civilian and military) are used with and without their knowledge.
1950 Department of Defense begins plans to detonate nuclear weapons in desert areas and monitor downwind residents for medical problems and mortality rates.
1950 I n an experiment to determine how susceptible an American city would be to biological attack, the U.S. Navy sprays a cloud of bacteria from ships over San Franciso. Monitoring devices are situated throughout the city in order to test the extent of infection. Many residents become ill with pneumonia-like symptoms.
1951 Department of Defense begins open air tests using disease-producing bacteria and viruses. Tests last through 1969 and there is concern that people in the surrounding areas have been exposed.
1953 U.S. military releases clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide gas over Winnipeg, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Fort Wayne, the Monocacy River Valley in Maryland, and Leesburg, Virginia. Their intent is to determine how efficiently they could disperse chemical agents.
1953 Joint Army-Navy-CIA experiments are conducted in which tens of thousands of people in New York and San Francisco are exposed to the airborne germs Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii.
1953 CIA initiates Project MKULTRA. This is an eleven year research program designed to produce and test drugs and biological agents that would be used for mind control and behavior modification. Six of the subprojects involved testing the agents on unwitting human beings.
1955 The CIA, in an experiment to test its ability to infect human populations with biological agents, releases a bacteria withdrawn from the Army's biological warfare arsenal over Tampa Bay, Fl.
1955 Army Chemical Corps continues LSD research, studying its potential use as a chemical incapacitating agent. More than 1,000 Americans participate in the tests, which continue until 1958.
1956 U.S. military releases mosquitoes infected with Yellow Fever over Savannah, Ga and Avon Park, Fl. Following each test, Army agents posing as public health officials test victims for effects.
1958 LSD is tested on 95 volunteers at the Army's Chemical Warfare Laboratories for its effect on intelligence.
1960 The Army Assistant Chief-of-Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) authorizes field testing of LSD in Europe and the Far East. Testing of the european population is code named Project THIRD CHANCE; testing of the Asian population is code named Project DERBY HAT.
1965 Project CIA and Department of Defense begin Project MKSEARCH, a program to develop a capability to manipulate human behavior through the use of mind-altering drugs.
1965 Prisoners at the Holmesburg State Prison in Philadelphia are subjected to dioxin, the highly toxic chemical component of Agent Orange used in Viet Nam. The men are later studied for development of cancer, which indicates that Agent Orange had been a suspected carcinogen all along.
1966 CIA initiates Project MKOFTEN, a program to test the toxicological effects of certain drugs on humans and animals.
1966 U.S. Army dispenses Bacillus subtilis variant niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than a million civilians are exposed when army scientists drop lightbulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates.
1967 CIA and Department of Defense implement Project MKNAOMI, successor to MKULTRA and designed to maintain, stockpile and test biological and chemical weapons.
1968 CIA experiments with the possibility of poisoning drinking water by injecting chemicals into the water supply of the FDA in Washington, D.C.
1969 Dr. Robert MacMahan of the Department of Defense requests from congress $10 million to develop, within 5 to 10 years, a synthetic biological agent to which no natural immunity exists.
1970 Funding for the synthetic biological agent is obtained under H.R. 15090. The project, under the supervision of the CIA, is carried out by the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, the army's top secret biological weapons facility. Speculation is raised that molecular biology techniques are used to produce AIDS-like retroviruses.
1970 United States intensifies its development of "ethnic weapons" (Military Review, Nov., 1970), designed to selectively target and eliminate specific ethnic groups who are susceptible due to genetic differences and variations in DNA.
1975 The virus section of Fort Detrick's Center for Biological Warfare Research is renamed the Fredrick Cancer Research Facilities and placed under the supervision of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) . It is here that a special virus cancer program is initiated by the U.S. Navy, purportedly to develop cancer-causing viruses. It is also here that retrovirologists isolate a virus to which no immunity exists. It is later named HTLV (Human T-cell Leukemia Virus).
1977 Senate hearings on Health and Scientific Research confirm that 239 populated areas had been contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969. Some of the areas included San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Key West, Panama City, Minneapolis, and St. Louis.
1978 Experimental Hepatitis B vaccine trials, conducted by the CDC, begin in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Ads for research subjects specifically ask for promiscuous homosexual men.
1981 First cases of AIDS are confirmed in homosexual men in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, triggering speculation that AIDS may have been introduced via the Hepatitis B vaccine
1985 According to the journal Science (227:173-177), HTLV and VISNA, a fatal sheep virus, are very similar, indicating a close taxonomic and evolutionary relationship.
1986 According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (83:4007-4011), HIV and VISNA are highly similar and share all structural elements, except for a small segment which is nearly identical to HTLV. This leads to speculation that HTLV and VISNA may have been linked to produce a new retrovirus to which no natural immunity exists.
1986 A report to Congress reveals that the U.S. Government's current generation of biological agents includes: modified viruses, naturally occurring toxins, and agents that are altered through genetic engineering to change immunological character and prevent treatment by all existing vaccines.
1987 Department of Defense admits that, despite a treaty banning research and development of biological agents, it continues to operate research facilities at 127 facilities and universities around the nation.
1990 More than 1500 six-month old black and hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an "experimental" measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United States. CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected to their children was experimental.
1994 With a technique called "gene tracking," Dr. Garth Nicolson at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX discovers that many returning Desert Storm veterans are infected with an altered strain of Mycoplasma incognitus, a microbe commonly used in the production of biological weapons. Incorporated into its molecular structure is 40 percent of the HIV protein coat, indicating that it had been man-made.
1994 Senator John D. Rockefeller issues a report revealing that for at least 50 years the Department of Defense has used hundreds of thousands of military personnel in human experiments and for intentional exposure to dangerous substances. Materials included mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psychochemicals, hallucinogens, and drugs used during the Gulf War .
1995 U.S. Government admits that it had offered Japanese war criminals and scientists who had performed human medical experiments salaries and immunity from prosecution in exchange for data on biological warfare research.
1995 Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers evidence that the biological agents used during the Gulf War had been manufactured in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl and tested on prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections.
1996 Department of Defense admits that Desert Storm soldiers were exposed to chemical agents.
1997 Eighty-eight members of Congress sign a letter demanding an investigation into bioweapons use & Gulf War Syndrome.
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Quote from: stromboli on September 30, 2014, 09:05:56 PM
I'm going to be camping all fucking year round now.
No kissing, no touching, it's going to be a
lonnnnnngggg year...
Facebook is going full retard on the topic. The crown jewel being "I'm not worried. I have essential oils."
It would be funny as a joke. But, it's just sad because it was a serious comment.
A. If our or any government says it's true you probably won't lose money betting it's false and B. If our or any government says it's false you probably won't lose money betting it's true.
Since Texas seems to believe that there's always a preachy keen market solution to everything being the first state with a reported case of Ebola in the US would certainly seem like a win/win for the Greg Abbot campaign. The victim will undoubtedly be housed in one of Dallas's homeless shelters because there's money to be made here..
I'm not sure all of the list is accurate (would not be surprised if it is), but I have first hand info about the LSD testing. I was in the US Army in 1968-1970, and was a Special Agent for the Army. One of the investigations I worked on was interviewing one of the subjects of the LSD tests. He was a civilian working for the Army and had been subjected to LSD testing--it was first administered to him without his knowledge. But soon after his exposure to LSD, he was informed that he had been given that substance. When I talked to him, he was in the stage of the experiment where every 5 years he was debriefed about the past 5 year span and what, if any, effects he had experienced. So, I do know for a fact that at least the US Army experimented with LSD in a secret manner.
Tune in, turn on and drop out...
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on October 02, 2014, 11:31:18 AM
Tune in, turn on and drop out...
From what I gathered at the time, what they were more interested in were the flashbacks that the subject may have experienced. My guy had not had any in the last 5 years. But he had ingested his last hit over 10 years prior. Interesting that the subject had continued with his govt. job, even after being given the drug at first without his knowledge. Can you imagine what a person would feel like if he suffered a flashback when you were unaware that you have been given something? Terror comes to mind. But I was not allowed to question the subject about any of that--only the past 5 years.
I was probably given experimental drugs in a psychiatric "hospital" back around 85 or so.. Whatever it was it certainly fucked up my nervous system for some time, but of course they would completely deny they ever gave me any drugs..
I witnessed an experiment with biological weapons where a 30 foot square room had different animal in cages in the back of the room with a clock on the wall. A man in a hazard suit on in a small room connected to the other with rubber gloves used a dropper to drip a biological weapon on a glass in the room. In thirty seconds on the clock, all the animal were dead. This shit was so dangerous a treaty was made with Russia, and I forget who else, that the research needs to be stopped. The biological weapon is buried in the Gulf of New Mexico. I have never worried about a nuclear war after that. Biological weapons would kill before you even know it was used. Thank you Monsanto!
Nuclear weapons destroys the enemy--and the enemy territory. And it makes that territory useless for quite a few centuries. Chemical and biological weapons destroys the enemy but not the territory. In a fairly short time, you can than occupy the conquered territory. The problem with biological weapons is that it can turn on you if not handled properly and it is not all that effective--or really only effective in special places and instances. The same with chemical weapons; except it takes longer for chemical weapons effects to dissipate. But that is the lure of both chemical and biological weapons--quick and easy to administer and if developed correctly can be quite effective.
Its in Spain now too apparently
Quote from: Mike Cl on October 04, 2014, 04:58:58 PM
Nuclear weapons destroys the enemy--and the enemy territory. And it makes that territory useless for quite a few centuries. Chemical and biological weapons destroys the enemy but not the territory. In a fairly short time, you can than occupy the conquered territory. The problem with biological weapons is that it can turn on you if not handled properly and it is not all that effective--or really only effective in special places and instances. The same with chemical weapons; except it takes longer for chemical weapons effects to dissipate. But that is the lure of both chemical and biological weapons--quick and easy to administer and if developed correctly can be quite effective.
I dare say as a bioweapon Ebola would be a poor choice. A strain of influenza would be much better, because it has an airborne vector and a cure can be formulated easily. Don't know how it would work in a warm country, but Ebola definitely isn't my choice for mass murder.
Quote from: stromboli on October 06, 2014, 05:52:04 PM
I dare say as a bioweapon Ebola would be a poor choice. A strain of influenza would be much better, because it has an airborne vector and a cure can be formulated easily. Don't know how it would work in a warm country, but Ebola definitely isn't my choice for mass murder.
It depends on the method of dissemination. Viral hemorrhagic fevers (Ebola, Marburg) can be weaponized to be devastating. Natural outbreaks have their limitations. e.g. not naturally airborne, limited exposure across a population at one given time, normally are not introduced to a populations multiple times. But, weaponized VHFs can overcome all those limitations.
Anthrax would be a weapon of choice by many. Some of the plague scenarios of the Black Death that depopulated much of Europe and Britain have been attributed to it. It can be delivered like a chemical agent and works very rapidly. Bubonic Plague was thought not to be the main killer because it moves too slowly, conveyed by rat bites and would take much longer to spread than the plague did. They still don't know for certain what it was. Even Ebola has been considered. If ISIS gets serious and decides on something like Anthrax as a weapon, they could do some very serious damage with it.
The weapons of choice are still high explosives.. Much tidier to scrape up tiny body parts with a shovel..
Quote from: kilodelta on October 29, 2014, 06:07:32 PM
It depends on the method of dissemination. Viral hemorrhagic fevers (Ebola, Marburg) can be weaponized to be devastating. Natural outbreaks have their limitations. e.g. not naturally airborne, limited exposure across a population at one given time, normally are not introduced to a populations multiple times. But, weaponized VHFs can overcome all those limitations.
Quote from: stromboli on October 29, 2014, 09:30:07 PM
Anthrax would be a weapon of choice by many. Some of the plague scenarios of the Black Death that depopulated much of Europe and Britain have been attributed to it. It can be delivered like a chemical agent and works very rapidly. Bubonic Plague was thought not to be the main killer because it moves too slowly, conveyed by rat bites and would take much longer to spread than the plague did. They still don't know for certain what it was. Even Ebola has been considered. If ISIS gets serious and decides on something like Anthrax as a weapon, they could do some very serious damage with it.
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Yup. Explosives are the weapon of choice. But, imagine if they made radioactive AIDS bombs that are implanted in rabid zombie dinosaurs that emit the brown note with hidden subliminal messages that brainwash people to buy stuff on Black Friday with their Exxon credit cards.