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It is interesting and also disturbing to note that law enforcement personnel containing the quarantined were not wearing masks or any other protective gear. (theglobalmail.com, August 20, 2014).

With a situation likely to become worse, citizens confined to the capital's West Point slum area were packed into a small peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic. Lack of clean water and sanitation means that there are four, long since overflowing, public toilets for a population of 75,000 and therefore public defecation remains an ongoing source of contagion. (vice.com, 09/21/2014).

On September 18, 2014, with her impoverished country descending into chaos, President Sirleaf expressed her understanding of the cross cultural issues which hinder treatment.

While she pleaded with families of Ebola patients to isolate them from others, however, as a mother, she added, that…

"we know that for families to see their loved ones being taken to a place where they are not allowed to follow is strange and frightening. We also know that a case of Ebola in a family can lead to stigma and shame."

And so, she continued,

"some families hide their sick relatives… in secret. By doing this, the virus continues to spread".

In response to her plea for international help, Britain and China are sending experts on biological disasters, Cuba is sending 461 doctors and nurses and President Obama is deploying 3000 military personnel "to fight Ebola".

Citing a threat to national and global security, President Obama, speaking at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, declared that the focus of this mission is to establish a regional control center and construct 17 treatment centers with 100 beds each with Public Health Service specialists to new field hospitals to train health care workers and to provide "security".

Some of what U.S. armed personnel will do in West Africa remains unclear.

Science journalist Yoichi Shimatsu, who organized a medical information team of microbiologists during the SARS and influenza contagions in S.E. Asia, speculates that this Ebola crisis has made way for an otherwise unacceptable British and American military incursion into West Africa.

Their new bases of operations there with Atlantic ports and large airfields provide resources for AFRICOM to operate within the region to continue the fight with Al Qaeda-linked Emirate of the Magreb in Mali, north of Guinea and Boko Haram in nearby Nigeria.

He is concerned that this so called Ebola invasion is a man-made epidemic unleashed in a psychological warfare operation aimed at re-colonization of West Africa with transnational corporate control over mineral resources and oil fields as well as legitimizing the phony war on terrorism.

Shimatsu warns that Africa's radical Islamic forces can be expected to launch a jihad against the invaders. (rense.com, September 2014).

President Obama's declaration of "War on Ebola" has not been enthusiastically received by an already war weary nation.

Factions within the military doubt the wisdom of entering into yet another theatre of war for which we are not adequately prepared. And, serious questions arise as to how our foreign troops might be received by an African population already distrustful of outsiders, AND their own governments.

These sentiments were hardly soothed by a story which appeared in Monrovia on the front page of the Liberian Daily Observer, written by Emeritus Professor and Plant Pathologist at Liberia's College of Agriculture and Forestry, Dr. Cyril E. Brodrick.

His report maintains that the U.S. Department of Defense, together with trans-national, Western pharmaceutical companies, are responsible for bio-engineering this current version of the Ebola virus as a bio-weapon and injecting Africans with this pathogen through the cover of their so called, "vaccination programs". (birdflu666.wordpress.com).

Public suspicion and apprehension continued to mount after video documentation surfaced which revealed that at least 45 bodies of Ebola victims were dumped into the source of a major river by Liberian government officials currently partnering with WHO. These videos fueled charges that this deadly pathogen was being deliberately spread via their country's rivers.

There have also been multiple reports of government workers transporting highly contagious bodies of Ebola victims into towns and villages for burial where there have been no Ebola cases or deaths. (CBS News, August 9, 2014).

Medical professionals here in the USA including Dr. Jane Orient, Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons have expressed a mounting concern that Pentagon personnel sent to Ebola infected regions could serve as a vector for transmission of this disease beyond the borders of Africa.

Meanwhile, our corporate controlled media is hyping fears of global pandemics, medical Martial Law, and a need for miraculous serums; as well as the race to find and market 'preventive' vaccines.

Within this rapidly changing scenario, we can now reasonably expect some travel restrictions, airport theater protocols dramatizing a need to screen for fever and other signs of contagion. These measures are likely to prove largely ineffective since the incubation period is 21 days and up until that time those infected may not exhibit any tell-tale symptoms.

There are also reasonable concerns that this Ebola variation may mutate into an airborne strain.

It is also highly likely that there will be verified cases showing up out of Africa and here as well. Before you rush to shutter your windows, it is important to understand that this is not Africa and there is ample evidence that with early intervention and fluid management, survival rates will greatly improve.

We can also expect the hype around mass vaccination programs to be similar to the fear campaigns launched during the Avian, SARS and Swine Flu fiascos.

We may even expect some well dramatized, limited quarantine lockdowns, under some measure of medical Martial Law, southern borders closed at intermittent intervals and so on.

Our ever vigilant surveillance state will likely enter the scene with investigation of contacts, as well as contacts of contacts.

As a result, we can prepare for stories of mistaken identities, SWAT team home invasions with resulting casualties to families and their pets, shooting events involving anyone fleeing quarantine, biological terror scares involving school children and other innocents, and more of the same.

No doubt, military personnel, and health care professionals will be told that some new, untested Ebola vaccine is mandatory, and perhaps also for law enforcement and school teachers as well, and many others will be encouraged to believe that their only choice is between potential side effects or Ebola. As usual, multinational pharmaceutical companies will enjoy huge profits, especially since they are legally protected from prosecution in the event of adverse or even lethal side effects.

Interestingly enough, an unexpected breakthrough has been announced by Liberian Dr. Gobee Logan who declared his finding that,

"Ebola is the brainchild of HIV… it is a destructive strain of HIV".

Dr. Logan is health director for agricultural Bomi County which has 2 doctors for about 85,000 people.

Inundated with patients in a rural Liberia Ebola Center in Tubmanburg, out of sheer desperation, he got the idea to start using a retroviral agent, Lamivudine, a nucleoside analog, after he read in scientific journals that HIV and Ebola replicate inside the body in much the same way.

Dr. Logan now reports that if patients report early, there has been a mortality rate of only 7%.

One wonders what Dr. Leonard Horowitz would make of this new information. More speculation and information concerning the role of government agendas and the role of pharmaceutical companies throughout the African continent is available on James Corbett's video discourse: "Ebola: Turning Panic into Profit" (corbettreport.com).

More on this subject is also available in John le Carre's medical fiction novel: The Constant Gardener and the film by the same name; which he claims is based upon real events.

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