News Updates from CLG
3 October 2014
Previous edition: 'Iraq Pilots 'Mistakenly' Gave Food, Ammunition to ISIS Fighters,' which Yahoo and Google relegated to the sp*m bin. Google subscribers: Google Filter Instructions for CLG Newsletter.
Doomsday warning: UN Ebola chief raises 'nightmare' prospect that virus could mutate and become airborne - making it much more infectious [I wonder if the US also has a patent on airborne Ebola, since the CDC already owns a patent to 'EboBun' Ebola?] 2 Oct 2014 The longer the Ebola epidemic continues infecting people unabated, the higher the chances it will mutate and become airborne, the UN's Ebola response chief has warned. Anthony Banbury, the Secretary General's Special Representative, has said there is a 'nightmare' prospect the deadly disease will become airborne if it continues infecting new hosts. His comments come as organisations battling the crisis in West Africa warned the international community has just four weeks to stop its spread before it spirals 'completely out of control'.
Dallas Ebola patient's family under 'control order,' forced to submit blood samples and quarantined --Family forced to provide blood samples and submit to testing on demand --Police stationed at apartment complex - Mayor 2 Oct 2014 Texas health officials have placed the Dallas family of a Liberian national infected with Ebola under quarantine and ordered them not to leave their home or have any contact with outsiders for 21 days without approval of the local or state health department. The "control order" also requires the family of Thomas Eric Duncan to be available to provide blood samples and agree to any testing required by public health officials. Officials said Thursday that the four or five family members could face criminal charges for violating the order, which was delivered to them in writing Wednesday evening. Police have been stationed at the apartment complex to ensure residents' safety, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said at a news briefing Thursday afternoon.
Mayor: 'We've embedded police in the apartment complex' of Ebola patient 2 Oct 2014 (Live CDC media conference) From ABC News: The family of the Texas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan have been ordered to stay in their home after violating official's initial request not to leave. "There were violations of the request to not leave their premises," Dallas judge Clay Jenkins said of the breach that prompted the Texas Department of State Health Services to order the quarantine...Officials also said that police are stationed at the housing complex and that the five children have been enrolled in homebound school program.
NBC News cameraman diagnosed with Ebola and station's chief medical correspondent put in quarantine: News team flown back to U.S. from Liberia in new deadly virus scare 2 Oct 2014 A cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has become the fourth American to contract the deadly Ebola virus. The 33-year-old unnamed journalist is being flown privately back to the U.S. for treatment, while the network's chief medical editor and correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman and the rest of her team are also returning and will be placed in quarantine for 21 days. The infected journalist, who hasn't been named, was only hired this week to be a second cameraman for Snyderman, who has been reporting on the continuing Ebola outbreak in the country's capital Monrovia.
NBC News Cameraman in Africa Diagnosed with Ebola 2 Oct 2014 An American freelance cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola and will be flown back to the United States for treatment. The infected freelancer was hired Tuesday to be a second cameraman for NBC News Chief Medical Editor and Correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman. Snyderman is with three other NBC News employees on assignment in Monrovia, reporting on the Ebola outbreak.
Ebola crisis: Liberia 'to prosecute man in US hospital' 2 Oct 2014 The Liberian authorities say they will prosecute the man diagnosed with Ebola in the US, accusing him of lying over his contact with an infected relative. When he left the country last month, Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan filled in a questionnaire saying that none of his relatives were sick. But Liberia's assistant health minister said he had taken a sick relative to a clinic in a wheelbarrow. Mr Duncan is in a serious condition in a Dallas hospital.
US Has List of 100 Contacts of Ebola Patient --Officials order four relatives to stay at home 3 Oct 2014 Texas health officials have drawn up a list of about 100 potential or possible contacts of the first ebola patient diagnosed in the US. However, the Texas Department of State Health Services said it expects the "tracing number will be lower". Some of the man's family are being quarantined as he's treated in a Dallas hospital. Dallas health officials also ordered four close relatives to stay home and see no visitors.
Health Officials: NYC Ready If Ebola Reaches City 1 Oct 2014 Local health officials said Wednesday that if there's ever a confirmed case of Ebola in New York, they're prepared. As CBS 2 reported, rooms at Bellevue Hospital Center were being prepped Wednesday to handle patients with the potentially deadly illness, and information posters have been sent to emergency rooms across New York City. City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said those measures, in addition to several others, will ensure that the city's health care community knows exactly what to do if they come across a person who might be infected.
Why does the CDC own a patent on Ebola 'invention?' --From patent description on EboBun virus, we know that the U.S. government: 1) Extracts Ebola viruses from patients 2) Claims to have 'invented' that virus 3) Files for monopoly patent protection on the virus 3 Aug 2014 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control owns a patent on a particular strain of Ebola known as "EboBun." It's patent No. CA2741523A1 and it was awarded in 2010. Patent applicants are clearly described on the patent as including: The Government Of The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health & Human Services, Center For Disease Control...The patent summary says, "The invention provides the isolated human Ebola (hEbola) viruses denoted as Bundibugyo (EboBun) deposited with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ("CDC"; Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America) on November 26, 2007 and accorded an accession number 200706291."
Australia authorizes special forces troops to go to Iraq 3 Oct 2014 Australian special forces troops will be deployed in Iraq to assist in the fight against Islamic State militants, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday, and its aircraft will also join U.S.-led coalition strikes. Abbott said in a nationally televised news conference the Australian troops would be engaged in an "advise and assist" capacity to support the Iraqi army in their battle against the militant Islamist group.
Tony Abbott announces deployment to combat ISIL --Prime Minister Tony Abbott will fly to New York tomorrow. 3 Oct 2014 Australian fighter planes will begin airstrikes into Iraq within days as part of the international campaign against the terror group ISIL. Prime Minister Tony Abbott today announced Cabinet had authorised the attacks "at the request of the Iraqi government"...Mr Abbott said RAAF units will only carry out airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq while special forces troops will carry out "advice and assist" operations, which will include staff and planning advice for Iraq forces.
Swiss Red Cross worker killed as ICRC's Donetsk HQ, city center shelled 2 Oct 2014 A Swiss Red Cross worker was killed in Donetsk as the office of the humanitarian organization was shelled, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The ICRC has confirmed on its Twitter account that its office in Donetsk has been shelled and a humanitarian worker died in the attack. ICRC spokesman Ewan Watson confirmed that the worker was a Swiss national.
Moazzam Begg freed after terrorism case against him collapses --Secret intelligence material handed to prosecutors demolished case against former Guantánamo Bay detainee prisoner 1 Oct 2014 The prosecution of the former Guantánamo inmate Moazzam Begg has dramatically collapsed after the police and crown prosecutors were handed secret intelligence material that undermined the terrorism case against him. Five days before Begg was due to go on trial on a string of terrorism charges, which carried prison terms of up to 15 years, prosecutors announced at the Old Bailey that they had "recently become aware of relevant material" that obliged them to offer no evidence. He was released from Belmarsh high-security prison in south London after the judge entered a formal verdict of not guilty.
Sandy Hook Elementary Students Return Day After Bomb Threat 2 Oct 2014 Students are returning to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Monroe, Connecticut, today, a day after the school was evacuated and children were sent home after a bomb threat was called in. Supt. Dr. Joseph Erardi said during a public meeting on Wednesday evening that a secretary took the call shortly after 9:30 a.m. Due to the "uniqueness of the call," the school was evacuated to the Jockey Hollow building on campus around 10:45 a.m. and parents were notified through reverse 911 calls, Erardi said.
Melting Ice Leaves 35,000 Walruses Stranded 2 Oct 2014 A record numbers of Pacific walruses have been forced on to a beach in Alaska because they cannot find sea ice to rest on due to climate change global warming. An estimated 35,000 walruses were photographed around five miles (8 kilometres) north of Point Lay, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Experts say the gathering of walruses on shore is a phenomenon that has accompanied the loss of summer sea ice as the climate has warmed. Unlike seals, walruses cannot swim indefinitely and must rest. They use their tusks to pull themselves on to ice or rocks.
GOP Gives Out Phone Number of Rival Candidate's Ailing 91-Year-Old Mother 2 Oct 2014 John Fisher is running for the Michigan Senate as a Democrat. In a recent mailer, the Michigan Republican Party [sociopaths] told voters to call a number for Fisher and express their displeasure over his support for Obamacare. The number went to Fisher's elderly mother's hospice, where she's undergoing heart treatment.
Appeals Court Reversal Allows Sweeping Abortion Law, Forcing 13 Texas Clinics to Close --No abortion facilities will be open west or south of San Antonio. 2 Oct 2014 Thirteen abortion clinics in Texas were forced to close immediately, after a federal appellate court sided with Texas in its yearlong legal battle over its sweeping abortion law and allowed the state to enforce one of the law's toughest provisions while the case was being appealed. The decision by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, will have an immediate effect on abortion services in Texas, lawyers for abortion providers said. Thirteen clinics whose facilities do not meet the new standards were to be closed overnight, leaving Texas -- a state with 5.4 million women of reproductive age, ranking second in the country -- with eight abortion providers, all in Houston, Austin and two other metropolitan regions.
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