There is currently an outbreak of Ebola fever going on which
has killed over seven hundred people. This viral disease was first identified
in 1976 and is centred on western and central Africa .
There were several other epidemics since then including the present one which
is the most severe yet. It's a very nasty disease to catch; it begins with
malaria-like symptoms, but then develops into haemorrhagic fever which means
the body's tissues start spontaneously bleeding. This eventually leads to
multiple organ failure and death. However a minority of cases, 10 to 50% never
progress that far and the patient eventually recovers. There is no specific
treatment, no cure and no vaccine, but good general hospital care in the early
stages of the illness increases the chances of recovery. There are currently many
stories in the media over the latest Ebola outbreak because of the fear that
the disease could spread beyond Africa to the West, for
example: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/recap-ebola-outbreak-alerts-outside-3934345.
The disease broke out in Guinea
and spread to neighbouring Sierra Leone
and Liberia .
Authorities in those countries have closed all the schools, set up secure wards
in hospitals and have been disinfecting public places in an attempt to stop the
virus spreading. The worry is that somebody infected will board an aircraft and
thenceforth carry the epidemic to another part of the world. This has already
happened because a single case has been reported in Nigeria ,
a man who had just travelled from Liberia
by air.
There is indeed a genuine risk involved here that needs to
be calmly and sensibly dealt with, but the hysterical panic in the tone of the
media coverage is totally unjustified and is frankly suspicious. They're
treating the subject as if it's some horror movie come to life, when in fact the prospect of a global epidemic of Ebola is highly unlikely. The virus is fairly
easy to contain compared to most others. It's not airborne like the flu; it is
contagious only through contact with blood or other body fluids. You won't
catch it by sitting next to somebody on a bus; you could even shake their hand
and probably not pick it up. Preventing its spread in hospital can be achieved
by setting up quarantine zones and giving the staff personal protective
clothing to wear; this consists of a splashproof boiler suit, gloves, boots and
a hood. A mask should be worn over the face. When entering or leaving the zone
this garment should be removed and disinfected and the staff member should wash
themselves carefully. This is something that's already being done in local
African hospitals and I've done it myself in disease containment drills at the
John Radcliffe when I was a Porter. However I've never had to deal with a real
Ebola outbreak in my career, indeed the disease has never appeared in the UK
ever. Why should it manage to get here now? Somebody who catches the Ebola
virus will not be contagious until they start displaying symptoms and this is
usually not long after infection. Ebola has a short incubation period; a few
days to three weeks. This means epidemics are not hard to identify and encircle
before they spread too far; indeed it appears from the figures on this page that
the prevalence of the illness is already past its peak and will now decline as
fewer new patients are infected, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_West_Africa_Ebola_outbreak.
Compared to AIDS, containing Ebola is a piece of cake. AIDS has an incubation
period of many years which means it can infect people in every corner of the
world before anybody even knows what's happened. I strongly suspect that Ebola
is being used by the media as another attempt to harness the anti-immigration tendency to the New
World Order agenda.
For background see:
http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/illegal-immigrants-and-proud.html.
There's also reason to believe that Ebola is a product of
the biological warfare industry. This film is a must-see for anybody who is
curious where deadly diseases come from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkHcEGZ8oVs;
the segment specifically dealing with Ebola begins at 1.48.51. In 1967 a
haemorrhagic fever broke out among staff at several pharmaceutical laboratories
producing vaccines in Germany
and Serbia . It
was called the "Marburg
virus" and it infected thirty-one people, killing seven of them. Its
symptoms were very similar to Ebola and the organizations where it emerged are
controlled by Litton Bionetics, a company involved in the US military
biowarfare programme; how odd that Ebola "appeared" just a few years later in a region of the world where these weapons have traditionally always
been tested, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/ben-emlyn-jones-live-real-zombies.html.
So if a massive epidemic of Ebola does emerge on the streets of Britain ,
don't assume it was brought to us by members of some undesirable underclass from the Third
World that we need a new authoritarian government to protect us
from.