Ebola War: Facebook Founder, Zuckerberg, wife donate $25M to fight Ebola

[jchima]

The founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular social networking website, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have donated N4bn to fight the Ebola Virus Disease.

Making the announcement on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg said they wanted to stop the epidemic before it got out of control to become a bigger, and more expensive, global issue to fight, like the HIV.

Source: Ebola War Facebook Founder Zuckerberg wife donate 25M to fight Ebola - eReporter

 

[LAfrique]

A good thing (although I do not understand why WHO and allies have re-introduced ebola in Africa to kill Africans. CDC currently reporting about 4,494 deaths from ebola in West Africa; but Liberia requesting 80,000 body bags (as if 80,000 Liberians on agenda to be killed with the ebola virus) - Liberia needs nearly 80 000 more body bags Ebola advances Breaking News Today s top news stories


Don't know about you, but it looks to me like another World Trade Towers Building7 reported collapsed before building7 actually collapsed - 9 11 Truth The Mysterious Collapse of WTC Seven Global Research

 

[waltky]

WHO: Major Outbreak In West Unlikely...

Ebola crisis: WHO says major outbreak in West 'unlikely'
16 October 2014 ~ A fast response team has now been set up to deal with Ebola cases in the US

A major outbreak of Ebola in the US and elsewhere in the West is unlikely given the strong health systems, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. US President Barack Obama also said the risk of Americans getting the virus was "extremely low", although he ordered a "much more aggressive response". The US is investigating how a nurse infected when treating a victim in Texas was allowed to travel on a plane. Officials are trying to trace the 132 people who flew with Amber Vinson.

The disease has killed about 4,500 people so far, mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. EU health ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the crisis, including increased screening of travellers and the possibility of sending more troops to West Africa to help contain the virus. Meanwhile, US federal health officials will appear before a congressional committee on Thursday to answer questions about their handling of the crisis.

'Very low'

Christopher Dye, WHO director of strategy, said the introduction of Ebola into the US or other countries in Western Europe was a matter "for very serious concern". "The possibility that once an infection has been introduced that it spreads elsewhere, is something that everybody is going to be concerned about," he said. But he added: "We're confident that in North America and Western Europe where health systems are very strong, that we're unlikely to see a major outbreak in any of those places." Earlier, President Obama said the likelihood of a widespread Ebola outbreak was "very, very low".

New US Ebola control measures

* A "site manager" will supervise how workers at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital put on and take off protective clothing
* Two nurses from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta will offer "enhanced training" in Dallas
* An immediate response team will travel to the site of any future Ebola diagnoses to hit the ground "within hours"
* New guidelines for testing at hospitals throughout the US, with special emphasis on asking questions about travel history

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Ebola: Rising call for ban on travel from W Africa
16 Oct.`14 WASHINGTON (AP) — Warning that Americans are losing faith in their government's ability to stop Ebola, Republican lawmakers on Thursday pressed for a ban on travel to the U.S. from the West African outbreak zone. The White House said other measures are more effective.

The administration spent the day trying anew to tamp down fear as the pool of Americans being monitored for symptoms expanded from Texas to Ohio. President Barack Obama said he might appoint a single official to lead the nation's efforts against the deadly disease. While a contentious congressional hearing focused on the three cases of Ebola diagnosed within the U.S., the World Health Organization said the outbreak in West Africa was on pace to top 4,500 deaths by the end of the week. Obama authorized a call-up of reserve and National Guard troops in case they are needed. His executive order would allow more forces than the up-to 4,000 already planned to be sent to West Africa, and for longer periods of time.

The president met into the evening with top aides and health officials at the White House, declaring afterward that he had no "philosophical objection" to imposing a travel ban on West Africa but had been told by health and security experts that it would be less effective than measures already in place — and perhaps would be counterproductive. He said a ban could result in people trying to hide where they were coming from and thus becoming less likely to be screened. He said it may be appropriate to appoint an additional person to lead the anti-Ebola effort in the U.S., a response to calls that he name an Ebola "czar."

Health authorities insisted anew there is virtually no risk right now to Americans beyond medical workers involved in treating Ebola cases or people who recently traveled to West Africa. Yet people across the country were quick to take precautions. Individual schools in Akron, Ohio, suburban Cleveland and Belton, Texas, were closed for disinfecting because of fears that students or staff might have had tenuous exposure to a Texas nurse who flew across the Midwest the day before she was diagnosed with Ebola. Akron's school superintendent, David James, said the move would calm fears in the community.

In Texas, officials were asking some 75 health care workers who had contact with the man who died of Ebola in Dallas to sign legal documents agreeing to stay home. And officials expanded their airline investigation to include passengers on a flight last Friday from Dallas to Cleveland that carried a nurse later diagnosed with the disease. Passengers on the return flight on Monday already were being contacted.

In Washington, federal health officials who were called to Capitol Hill for a special hearing emphasized the importance of stopping the virus in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to protect Americans and the rest of the world from its spread. "You're right, it needs to be solved in Africa. But until it is, we should not be allowing these folks in, period," replied Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich. He called for a ban on the 100 to 150 people who fly into the U.S. each day from the three nations at the heart of the outbreak. "People's lives are at stake, and the response so far has been unacceptable," declared Upton, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. A handful of congressional Democrats also have endorsed the travel ban that's mainly been pushed by Republicans.

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[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - it's all `cause o' climate change...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Ebola: ‘Consequence of Deforestation and Climate Change’
October 16, 2014 – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service posted on its website an article that claims Ebola is a “direct consequence” of manmade climate change.

The article also stated that the virus specifically threatens conservation efforts focused on ape and monkey populations in Africa, including Guinea, one of the countries experiencing an Ebola outbreak and where the U.S.-run Chimpanzee Conservation Center is located. “The larger conservation connection, however, is perhaps less obvious: Ebola appears to be a direct consequence of deforestation and human disturbance,” the article stated. “Outbreaks are linked to long dry seasons (a consequence of deforestation and climate change), during which there is scarcity of food in the forest and all the animals, including fruit bats, feed on the same remaining fruit trees, usually fig trees,” it added. “Human development, including logging and mining, road construction and agriculture, is increasingly cutting back on forest habitat and bringing animals and humans in closer contact, which can facilitate disease transfer,” the article stated. “Some even speculate that the illegal trade in apes may be the actual culprit behind the current Ebola outbreak,” it stated.

This photo taken Tuesday, April 19, 2011 and released by the conservation group Gorilla Doctors on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, shows a mountain gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda

The article also referred to apes and monkeys as “some of our oldest living relatives” and said protecting animals being hunted for food is a “major conservation concern.”

The article has a link to a blog written by Estelle Raballand, director of the Chimpanzee Center, that said while the Ebola virus may be protecting some monkeys and apes that were hunted for food before the latest outbreak, the virus is now threatening fish in the Niger River, and some people are killing monkeys and apes, because they are seen as having Ebola. “While Ebola may protect some animal species from being hunted for bushmeat, illegal fishing is becoming in some areas a larger and more serious conservation issue. In some areas primates are also being targeted because they are perceived as carriers of Ebola,” Raballand wrote. “As the director of the CCC, I hope that more education regarding Ebola both in Guinea and abroad will help to put an end to some of the false information that is leading to panic and unfounded fear in Europe and the United States, and to the targeting of primates in some regions of Africa.”

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Ebola Consequence of Deforestation and Climate Change CNS News