Ebola crisis: Nigeria declared free of virus by World Health Organisation in 'spectacular success story' Outbackjack: Nigeria has been declared free of Ebola after a 42-day period without a reported case of the deadly virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says. "The virus is gone for now. The outbreak in Nigeria has been defeated," WHO country representative Rui Gama Vaz told a news conference in the capital Abuja. Outbackjack: "This is a spectacular success story." The arrival of Ebola in Nigeria, which is Africa's most populous nation, leading economy and top oil producer, sparked fears of its rapid spread throughout the country of 170 million people. The country recorded its first case of Ebola on July 20 through a Liberian diplomat who flew into the country carrying the virus. But the doomsday scenario did not happen and health experts involved in tackling the outbreak commended authorities for their rapid response and comprehensive contact tracing. In all, eight people died out of 20 confirmed cases in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, and the oil hub of Port Harcourt, while nearly 900 people were monitored for signs of the disease. Local doctor Benjamin Ohiaeri has praised the way authorities in Nigeria came together to defeat Ebola. "The president put out a national emergency Ebola declaration," he said. "That meant that all of the agencies collapsed into one. No politics ... There's no problem Nigeria has that Nigeria cannot fix." Ebola has killed at least 4,546 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in the recent outbreak, according to the WHO.  Geoff: That's awesome news. I saw a conspiracy theory going around that it had been started by the US using vaccinations; and that it was all a ploy to invade Nigeria to take out Boko Haram. Considering that it was /allegedly/ (and I would like to stress that word) from a nurse - and put the blame on vaccinations, I nearly went through the roof at the fuckwit on my Facebook list who decided to share the story. Wilful ignorance is the primary cause of the virus getting so out of control in the fucking first place. Aura: Good for Nigeria for getting a handle on the virus. But  do those that started that idiotic conspiracy even stop and think? They are basically claiming the conspirators are inept...Of all viruses Ebola isn't well suited for biological warfare at all. It's not contagious enough to cause real panic that shuts down society...You need something faster spreading. Probably something airborne. There's a reason 'super flue' is a popular disaster topic....  lori100: Another coincidence....as the papers are reporting the spreading view that this latest virus epidemic was created by the govt, suddenly they have it under control .....how convenient.....It is wise to wonder why there one virus "epidemic" after another.......whatever happened to the bird flu virus, the sars virus , the west nile virus, and all the other viruses? ---------------------------------------------------------the govt has a history in infecting citizens with no concern -------pbs----- : Secret Testing in the United States---------------From the Pentagon to the Pacific Ira Baldwin, Camp Detrick’s scientific director during World War II, left his position after the Allied victory in 1945 and returned to teaching at the University of Wisconsin. He continued to advise the government on issues concerning biological weapons, however, particularly the threat that might be posed by enemy spies releasing biological agents in American cities. In an October 1948 report, Baldwin posited that the U.S. was “particularly vulnerable to this type of attack.” But in order to determine the precise nature of these vulnerabilities, secret field tests would have to be done to ascertain the vulnerability of targets of potential interest to the enemy. The Army’s Chemical Corps, which ran Camp Detrick, agreed with Baldwin’s assessment and set up a Special Operations Division at Camp Detrick to carry out the tests. Its first target was to be the Pentagon. In August 1949, the Special Operations Division operatives infiltrated the world’s largest office building and sprayed bacteria into the Pentagon’s air handling system, which then spread them throughout the structure. The operatives moved to larger scale testing, releasing clouds containing supposedly harmless bacteria from Navy ships off Norfolk, Virginia, in April 1950, and the San Francisco coast in September 1950. The San Francisco experiments showed exposure among almost all of the city’s 800,000 residents. Had the bacteria released been anthrax bacteria or some other virulent pathogen, the number of casualties would have been immense. The St Jo Program and Large Area Concept The success of the first field tests only increased demand for more experiments. In response to an Air Force request, in 1953 the Chemical Corps created the St Jo Program and operatives staged mock anthrax attacks on St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Winnipeg. The bacteria were released from generators placed on top of cars, and local governments were told that “invisible smokescreen[s]” were being deployed to mask the city on enemy radar. The next stage was to increase dispersal patterns, dispensing particles from airplanes to find out how wide of an area they would affect. The first Large Area Concept experiment, in 1957, involved dispersing microorganisms over a swath from South Dakota to Minnesota; monitoring revealed that some of the particles eventually traveled some 1200 miles away. Further tests covered areas from Ohio to Texas and Michigan to Kansas. In the Army’s words, these experiments “proved the feasibility of covering large areas of the country with [biological weapons] agents.” Airports and Subways Serratia marcescens bacteria. Open-air testing continued through the 1960s, with the Special Operations Division operatives simulating even more audacious assaults. In 1965 they spread bacteria throughout Washington’s National Airport; a year later, agents dropped light bulbs filled with organisms onto the tracks in New York’s subway system. “I think it spread pretty good,” participant Wally Pannier later said, “because you had a natural aerosol developed every few minutes from every train that went past.” President Nixon’s 1969 termination of the United States offensive biological weapons program brought an end to the open-air testing, but the American public did not learn of this testing until 1977. Relatives of one elderly man Edward Nevin who had died of a nosocomial infection six months after the San Francisco tests sued the government in 1981, arguing that the supposedly harmless Serratia marcescens bacteria used in that test had in fact caused his death. In the event, the courts ruled against them, the main reason being that the plaintiffs could not prove that the bacteria used in the test were the same as those that killed Mr. Nevin. lori100: Check out these horrific govt experiments on the public....some conspiracies are very real....-----------------------The 13 Most Evil US Government Human Experiments - War ... wariscrime.com/.../the-13-most-evil-us-government-human-experiments/ Aug 8, 2012 - The U.S. Government has been caught conducting an insane amount of vile, inhumane and grisly experiments on humans without their ... Geoff: Do you not read what has been said? -- Lori: "as the papers are reporting the spreading view that this latest virus epidemic was created by the govt, suddenly they have it under control" Jack: "42-day period without a reported case" -- Lori: "the govt has a history in infecting citizens with no concern" Aura: "Of all viruses Ebola isn't well suited for biological warfare at all." -- Lori, You talk about viral infections around the world that were classed (or threatened) as epidemics, and then quote a load of references to bacteriological incidents. Is it that you (or your sources) just don't comprehend the differences between a bacteria and a virus? It's OK, I'll wait while you scurry off to find something about the difference that you can understand. lori100: I was just showing the real possibility it is a govt crime....here's a virus crime by esteemed scientists...------------Wikipedia------------In 1941, at the University of Michigan, virologists Thomas Francis, Jonas Salk and other researchers deliberately infected patients at several Michigan mental institutions with the influenza virus by spraying the virus into their nasal passages.[18] Francis Payton Rous, based at the Rockefeller Institute and editor of the Journal of Experimental Medicine, wrote the following to Francis regarding the experiments: "It may save you much trouble if you publish your paper... elsewhere than in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The Journal is under constant scrutiny by the anti-vivisectionists who would not hesitate to play up the fact that you used for your tests human beings of a state institution. That the tests were wholly justified goes without saying."[19] -----------------more crimes---------From the 1950s to 1972, mentally disabled children at the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York were intentionally infected with viral hepatitis, for research whose purpose was to help discover a vaccine.[41] From 1963 to 1966, Saul Krugman of New York University promised the parents of mentally disabled children that their children would be enrolled into Willowbrook in exchange for signing a consent form for procedures that he claimed were "vaccinations." In reality, the procedures involved deliberately infecting children with viral hepatitis by feeding them an extract made from the feces of patients infected with the disease.----------------------------In 1956 and 1957, several U.S. Army biological warfare experiments were conducted on the cities of Savannah, Georgia and Avon Park, Florida. In the experiments, Army bio-warfare researchers released millions of infected mosquitoes on the two towns, in order to see if the insects could potentially spread yellow fever and dengue fever. Hundreds of residents contracted a wide array of illnesses, including fevers, respiratory problems, stillbirths, encephalitis, and typhoid. Army researchers pretended to be public health workers, so that they could photograph and perform medical tests on the victims. Several people died as a result of the experiments---------------------------------so......don't be so fast to ridicule conspiracies.... Geoff: You kinda missed the point. You say it's a coincidence that it happened "Suddenly" in response to newspaper reports - but it has required 42 days for Nigeria to be declared ebola free. The tests carried out by the US government outside of laboratory conditions (while deplorable) were all carried out inside the USA itself - presumably because their purpose was to test the readiness of the country to deal with a biological weapon: something that, as Aura pointed out, ebola is particularly unsuitable for. lori100: btw....the Wikipedia sources are under ---"Unethical human experimentation in the United States"--------------------it goes on and on citing warfare experiments, radiation experiments, mind control abuses, including-------1 Surgical experiments 2 Pathogens, disease, and biological warfare agents 3 Human radiation experiments 3.1 Radioactive iodine experiments 3.2 Uranium experiments 3.3 Plutonium experiments --------------------just the govt out to 'protect' citizens..... (Edited by lori100) Geoff: And FYI Jack, the BBC are reporting the story on their News home page. Full details as they cover it at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29685127 lori100: So.....these crimes are ok with you, huh?..........here are good articles-----Medical crimes in 3rd world countries--------whale.com-------Third world guinea pigs [back] Covert vaccine agendas Illegal vaccine experiments [Drugs like vaccines are tested on third world people as you can get away with anything---any amount of deaths and other side effects, and you can then say it has been 'tested' without going under any proper scrutiny, and the FDA is just a rubber stamp agency anyway. Eg Mercury containing Flu vaccine for pregnant women (1), 'tested' in Bangladesh. If 600 children can die after an approved vaccine campaign it gives you some idea about what they can get away with, and has any third world person ever been compensated for vaccine injuries? Doubtful, seeing as it has only happened in Canada recently.] Patrick Tierney Gates Foundation whistleblower [2006] AIDS Drug Trial Turned Away. Protests by Prostitutes in Cambodia Ended Tenofovir Testing [Sept 2006] FDA in Third World Drug Trial Scandals Experimental tests are conducted in developing countries on sick and vulnerable children under the guise of free and ethical treatments sanctioned by the FDA and complicit medical institutions. [1989 to 1991] High dose Edmonston Zagreb (EZ) measles vaccine Geoff: Perhaps you should re-read my post. If you have to, you can Google the definition of "Deplorable". Geoff: Perhaps it should be pointed out that I was discounting the entirety of your copypasta from Wikipedia as evidence that US government had any involvement in the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa other than attempting to help. Is it impossible? No. Is it likely? No. Is it helpful to think that might be the case? No. | Off Topic Chat Room Similar Conversations |