CLG: Connecticut health department gets power to quarantine possible Ebola victims

News Updates from CLG
8 October 2014

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Connecticut health department gets power to quarantine possible Ebola victims --The order declares a public health emergency in Connecticut even though there are no suspected cases of Ebola in the state. 7 Oct 2014 Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) signed an order Tuesday allowing the state health commissioner to order quarantines for individuals who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus, a step he said would help fight any possible outbreak. The order gives Jewel Mullen, commissioner of the state Department of Public Health, authority to order isolation or quarantine for anyone believed to be exposed to or infected with the deadly virus.

Connecticut Declares Ebola a Public Health Emergency, Allows Quarantines 7 Oct 2014 In the event of a confirmed case of Ebola infection or exposure in Connecticut, state officials have the power to coordinate a targeted quarantine, according to a new order signed Tuesday by Gov. Dannel Malloy (D). By signing the order, Malloy is declaring a public health emergency, said a statement from his office. The commissioner of the Department of Public Health will now have the ability to effectively quarantine an individual or a group of individuals who may have been exposed to or infected with the Ebola virus.

Holy coincidence, Batman! One day before Connecticut (land of the Sandy Hook drill-gone-live) announces quarantine authority for *suspected* Ebola victims, we learn that a Connecticut company is leading the way toward developing an Ebola vaccine. Protein Sciences in Connecticut Expects to Begin Testing Ebola Vaccine 6 Oct 2014 Months ago, researchers at Protein Sciences opened a refrigerator and pulled out genetic leftovers from a 4-year old project to create a vaccine for Ebola. Federal funding for the effort dried up years ago, but those refrigerated proteins jumped to the center of the company's attention when the National Institutes of Health called Protein Sciences in June and asked them to restart the work on a vaccine. And now, Protein Sciences is two months away from testing a vaccine for Ebola. Although vaccines can normally take years to reach the market, Protein Sciences says regulators could rush the approval under an emergency use authorization.

Is that fence to keep people out or the patients in? U.S. troops set up at first Ebola field hospital in Liberia and start with a barbed wire perimeter --It isn't immediately clear if the fence was to help protect the camp or to prevent sick patients escaping 6 Oct 2014 American troops have arrived at Ebola's ground zero in Liberia in a bid to battle the outbreak in the country hardest hit by the deadly disease. Poor infrastructure, difficulties with equipment and torrential rains slowed the U.S. military's initial response, but by Monday afternoon U.S. soldiers had started to erect barbed wire around what will be one of almost 20 'treatment' centers.

U.S. military specialists in Liberia to conduct Ebola testing: general 7 Oct 2014 About two dozen U.S. military specialists deploying to Liberia will test laboratory samples for Ebola, but most of the nearly 4,000 troops due to go there are not expected to be in direct contact with the virus, defense officials said Tuesday. General David Rodriguez, head of U.S. forces in Africa, said three mobile labs had deployed to Liberia and four more were being sought to run tests that would distinguish between people infected with Ebola and those who have diseases with similar symptoms, such as malaria.

U.S. troops to handle Ebola samples in Liberia, military effort to cost $750 million over six months 7 Oct 2014 U.S. military efforts to construct treatment facilities, set up more labs, conduct testing and training in Africa to deal with the Ebola crisis are expected to cost $750 million over six months, the Army general who commands U.S. troops in Africa said on Tuesday. General David Rodriguez said the U.S. has been asked to set up four more testing labs, in addition to the three already there. He said three or four highly trained U.S. troops work in each of the labs. The U.S. troops in the labs are testing specimens drawn by local hospitals and health care workers in order to help determine whether patients have the deadly Ebola virus. The troops do not come in contact with the actual sick patients, but handle 'only' the samples.

US military personnel on Ebola mission to handle blood samples 7 Oct 2014 The U.S. military mission to combat Ebola in West Africa is facing questions about the serious health risks American troops will encounter in heading to the epicenter of the deadly outbreak. According to officials, a small group of trained military medical technicians on the ground will not be required to make direct contact with patients infected with the Ebola virus. However, they will have to handle infected blood samples, which Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday could be just as dangerous, if not more.

Ebola outbreak: Britain must start screening for the virus, says Home Office minister 7 Oct 2014 A Home Office minister has said Britain should consider introducing screening for Ebola carriers arriving at airports, after a Spanish nurse became the first person to have caught the virus in Europe. The accelerating Ebola crisis will be discussed on Wednesday at a meeting of Cobra, the Whitehall emergencies committee, which will be chaired by David Cameron. The Cobra meeting had been arranged before the announcement that a Spanish nurse had contracted Ebola from a patient, but the spread of the virus to Europe will give the meeting extra urgency.

Spanish nurse whose home is under police guard after she contracted Ebola...with the pet dog authorities say now has to die 7 Oct 2014 This is the first picture of the Spanish nurse who became the first person outside of Africa to become infected with Ebola. Teresa Romero Ramos is being held in quarantine at a hospital in the Spanish capital...Armed police have been spotted outside the nurse's Madrid home in the suburb of Alcorcon, as curious members of the public gathered outside. Their identities came out after Mr Romero asked a Spanish animal charity to start a social media campaign to stop health officials [sociopaths] putting his dog down. Her husband raged: 'I want to publicly denounce a man called Zarco, who I think is Head of Health for the community of Madrid and who's told me that I have to sacrifice my dog. He's asked for my consent and I've denied it, to which he responded that they would ask for a court order to enter my house and sacrifice it.'

FBI asks public to help identify homegrown terrorists [Why not simply ask their FBI handlers to have them come forward?] 7 Oct 2014 One day after a Bolingbrook teen was accused in federal court in Chicago of plotting to travel [?] to the Middle East and join Islamic State, the FBI is asking for the public's help to identify other individuals who have traveled -- or are planning to travel -- overseas to fight alongside terrorist organizations. "We need the public's assistance in identifying U.S. persons going to fight overseas with terrorist groups or who are returning home from fighting overseas," Michael Steinbach, assistant director of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, said in a statement posted Tuesday afternoon on the bureau's website. The posting also asked for information on the identity of an English-speaking man and others seen in a [Langley-produced] propaganda video released last month by 'Islamic State.'

Terror Arrests May Have Foiled Major Plot --Scotland Yard said a number of addresses in London were being searched 7 Oct 2014 Four men have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences in a series of raids, during which one suspect was tasered. The men - all aged 20 or 21 - were detained by officers from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command at addresses across London as part of an investigation into Islamist terror activities. Officers believe the raids disrupted what could have been a "significant plot", according to a Whitehall source quoted by the Press Association.

Arrests 'may have foiled terror attack planning in UK' 7 Oct 2014 Whitehall officials told the BBC the arrests "may have foiled the early stages" of a plan to attack the UK. The four men, aged 20 and 21, were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism. Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said it was a "quite serious case".

Khorasan terrorists will attack US 'very, very soon,' FBI director warns 8 Oct 2014 The Khorasan Group, the Al-Qaeda[al-CIAduh]-linked cell that just landed on the US intelligence radar last month, allegedly has Americans in its ranks fighting in the Middle East whom the FBI cannot prevent from re-entering the country...The Khorasan Group – a veteran group of Al-Qaeda-affiliated radicals purportedly running amok in the Middle East, which the head of the FBI says is "bent on destruction" - and most specifically in the United States. "Khorasan was working and you know, may still be working on an effort to attack the United States or our allies, and looking to do it very, very soon," James Comey said in an interview with 60 Minutes, a CBS news program.

Top German Editor: CIA Bribing Journalists [Duh!] 3 Oct 2014 Members of the German media are paid by the CIA in return for spinning the news in a way that supports US interests, and some German outlets are nothing more than PR appendages of NATO, according to a new book by Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Germany's largest newspapers...Operation Mockingbird, which began in the 1950s, was a secret CIA operation which recruited journalists to serve as mouthpieces for the American government. The program was officially terminated after it was exposed by the famous Church Committee investigations, but evidence of ongoing CIA influence over the media continues to accumulate.

Twitter Sues FBI, DOJ to Release NSA Request Info 7 Oct 2014 Twitter is suing the FBI and the Department of Justice to be able to release more information about government surveillance of its users. The social media company filed a lawsuit Tuesday in a California federal court to publish its full "transparency report," which documents government requests for user information. Twitter Inc. published a surveillance report in July but couldn't include the exact number of national security requests it received because Internet companies are prohibited from disclosing that information, even if they didn't get any requests.

Nuclear workers kept in dark on Fukushima hazard pay 7 Oct 2014 Almost a year after Japan pledged to double hazard pay at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, workers are still in the dark about how much extra they are getting paid, if anything, for cleaning up the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Under pressure to improve working conditions at Fukushima after a series of radioactive water leaks last year, Tokyo Electric Power Co President Naomi Hirose promised in November to double the hazard pay the utility allocates to its subcontractors for plant workers. Only one of the more than three dozen workers interviewed by Reuters from July through September said he received the full hazard pay increase promised by Tepco. In some instances, workers said they were told they would be paid a hazard bonus based on how much radiation they absorb – an incentive to take additional risks at a dangerous work site.

Missouri police plan for possible riots if Brown cop not charged 7 Oct 2014 Missouri authorities are drawing up contingency plans and seeking intelligence from U.S. police departments on out-of-state agitators protesters, fearing that fresh riots could erupt if a grand jury does not indict a white officer for killing a[n unarmed] black teen. The plans are being thrashed out in meetings being held two to three times a week, according to people who have attended them. The FBI said it was also involved in the discussions. Details of the meetings and intelligence sharing by Missouri police agencies and their counterparts around the country have not been reported before.

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