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The World Health Organization released the information that
West Africa has tallied 1,711 Ebola diagnoses and 932 deaths. Ken Isaacs of the
Samaritan’s Purse said, “We believe that these numbers represent just 25 to 50
percent of what is happening.” The CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden has estimated that
the total number of those killed or infected in this outbreak is higher than
all the other outbreaks in the last 32 years.” www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/07/ebola-experts-describe-atmosphere-in-west-africa-as-apocalyptic.html
Isaacs stated that the “disease is uncontained and out of
control” in three of the “poorest nations in the world,” Liberia, Guinea, and
Sierra Leone. He continued, “Is the world willing to let the public health of
the world be in their hands?” And it has now spread to Nigeria, a country with
more resources to handle patient cases in better hospitals.
Dr. Frank Glover, a missionary, testified at a hearing in
D.C. how the affected countries lack personal protective gear (PPG). The Africa,
Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Subcommittee
hearing on “Combating the Ebola Threat” was held on August 7, 2014 at the
Rayburn House.
Since international air travel has not been suspended to,
from, or via the affected countries (the countries have not been quarantined
because it would negatively affect their poor economies), the virus was brought
on uninfected U.S. soil by way of two contaminated Americans at Emory Hospital
in Atlanta, and since our borders are wide-open, the possibility that one small
mistake can trigger an outbreak in the U.S. is real.
The CDC Director does not know how many Ebola serums are
available, similar to those administered to Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy
Writebol. “I don’t have definitive information,” he said. “Whatever happens
with these individuals… we still do not know from their experience whether
these drugs work… It’s too soon to know.”
Dr. Vliet, MD and Dr. Steven Hatfill, MD, virologist,
microbiologist, former researcher of Ebola at USMRIID, former weapons
inspector, and board member of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness explain the
new drug therapies for Ebola and emerging viral diseases.
One such serum is ZMapp, a mixture of three monoclonal
antibodies obtained from tobacco plants by Mapp Biopharmaceuticals in San Diego
and Kentucky BioProcessing in Owensboro, Kentucky. The drug could potentially
save the two infected missionaries but the drug is experimental and as such, it
was not tested on humans before.
According to Dr. Vliet, the drug is “not manufactured but
grown and derived from genetically modified tobacco plants. The tobacco plants
are infected with the protein and the plants reproduce it like a photocopier,
the desired proteins are extracted from the tobacco plant, and purified into a
serum.”
The results of the USMRIID 2013 study showed that when the
serum was used on non-human primates, 43 percent of them recovered after
intravenous treatment, even when the serum was administered 104-120 hours after
infection or after symptoms appeared. http://youtu.be/X4TrmvhNLH4
In an interview on Conservative Commandos Radio show, August
5, 2014, Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, described her concern about the “uncontrolled
border crisis creating dangers of disease epidemics, including the potential of
Ebola.” According to a leaked
intelligence report from the Border and Customs Protection, individuals from 75
different countries have crossed through the southern border illegally.
This unclassified report with “sensitive data” indicated
that “71 individuals from the three nations affected by the current Ebola
outbreak either turned themselves in or have been caught attempting to illegally
enter the U.S. between January and July 2014.” The Border Patrol is detaining
only 3-5 percent of the border crossers. She continued, “The odds are very good that Ebola
could have already come across the border. No one knows for sure because
information is being suppressed.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO7PZ1AVf5U
Dr. Lee Vliet said that several very sick individuals caught
at the Texas border were transported to an undisclosed location, “all in respiratory
distress, high fever, shaking, chills, and coughing up blood. Two weeks later,
NBC news broke the story that several very sick individuals were flown to
Ventura Air Force Base. These individuals were so sick, they were taken to an
intensive care unit with the same symptoms.” Dr. Vliet considered this incident
significant because these could be symptoms of Ebola, dengue fever, and hemorrhagic
fever. They are not symptoms of early phase tuberculosis. Medical personnel are
forced to suppress medical information, keeping the public in the dark.
The Inspector General for DHS released a report on July 31,
2014 in which he documented the spread of viral illnesses, previously eradicated
and controlled, among the Border Patrol agents and their families. Dispersing these
illegal aliens with unknown infections into the general population was a bad
idea.
The “unclassified report” leaked to Breitbart Texas showed
that 250 individuals from Pakistan, numerous Egyptians, Yemenis, Somalis, known
sponsors of terrorism, and 3,200 people from China were caught sneaking across
the border, “ a totally different pattern of previous illegal border crossings.”
Dr. Vliet mentioned 89 cases last week
of illegal aliens with TB at the border in Texas.
She believed that bringing in two patients infected with
Ebola into the U.S. was a great risk to the patients and to the public. The safe
transportation in hazmat suits and the special flight came at great expense, millions
and millions of dollars when they could have been treated on site with the
portable decontamination units, without risking the lives of the flight crews,
the patients themselves, and the American public.
“We don’t know with certainty how Ebola is transmitted. There
are studies from Canada that suggest that there is the possibility of aerosol
(airborne) transmission.” She continued that medical personnel in protected hazmat
suits, including a doctor, have died of Ebola. Lung fluids and other bodily
excretions are highly contagious.
There is a stark disconnect between the government’s preparation
to contain potential Ebola, going on around the country quietly, such as
quarantine locations, requisitions for bio hazmat suits for the National Guard,
and what people are being told publicly, not to worry about the spread of
Ebola.
