2014 Ebola Outbreak

2014 Ebola Outbreak

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Overview

The 2014 Ebola Outbreak is an ongoing epidemic of the Ebola virus disease in West Africa that first began in Guinea in March 2014. Following its subsequent spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, which has claimed the lives of at least 3,100 patients since the initial outbreak, the Ebola epidemic has been declared "the largest, most complex and most severe we've ever seen" by the World Health Organization (WHO) and major news outlets around the world.

Background

The Ebola virus disease was first identified in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976. On March 25th, 2014, the WHO announced they had received reports of an Ebola virus outbreak occurring in Guinea with a total of 86 suspected cases (59 deaths). On March 31st, a team of five sent by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control was dispatched to Guinea to assist the Guinea Ministry of Health with handling the outbreak. Within one month, 242 cases had been reported with 142 deaths. On May 23rd, the virus reached the Guinea capital city Conakry.

About the Disease

When contracted by humans, the Ebola virus induces a disease that can cause fever, sore throat, muscle pains, headaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, decreased functioning of the liver and kidneys, bleeding problems. Between 50% and 90% of those infected with the virus are killed by the disease. The virus transmits through contact with blood or other bodily fluids from infected animals, including humans monkeys and fruit bats. Treatment for those infected includes re-hydration and administering intravenous fluids. A cure for the disease has yet to be discovered.


Symptoms of Ebola Headache Red Eves Pharynx and lungs Hiccups - Sore throat - Difficulty breathing Systemic Fever Lack of appetite Internal bleeding Difficulty swallowing Chest pain Muscular - Aches Stomach - Pain - Vomiting Weakness Joints - Aches Skin Rash Bleeding Intestines Diarrhea

Notable Developments

International Spread

In late March 2014, the disease had spread to the Lofa and Nimba counties in Liberia. In late May, several suspected cases were reported in Sierra Leone. On July 25th, Liberian Ministry of Finance official Patrick Sawyer was reported as the first case in Nigeria. The hospital was subsequently quartined in an effort to stop the spread of the virus.


RANEEBOLA EPIDEMIC 24 IN WEST AFRICA SENEGAL MALI GUINEA BISSAU GUINEA 495 cases 363 deaths CONAKRY SIERRA LEONE FREETOWN 691 cases 286 death:s TOTAL IVORY COAST MONROVIA 1711 cases including 9 in Nigeria 932 deaths including 1 death in Nigeria LIBERIA 516 case 282 deaths Deaths due to Ebola virus in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria on August 4, 2014 Source: WHO

In early August, American aid workers Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol were infected with the virus. The two were flown to the United States for further treatment at the Atlanta Emory University Hospital in Georgia. On August 8th, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally declared that the outbreak had reached a "public health emergency of International concern" (PHEIC).

First Patient Discovery in the United States

On September 30th, CNBC[7] reported that the Centers for Disease Control (C.D.C) confirmed the first case of Ebola within the United States. Following the news reports, the stock shares of Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, a company developing a drug to treat Ebola, rose upwards of 20%.[8]


CNBC @CNBC Follow BREAKING: CDC confirms first Ebola case diagnosed in the United States, Reuters reports. cnb.cx/1rDPlnz :39 PM-30 Sep 2014 4,650 RETWEETS 754 FAVORITES

Later that evening, the CDC director Thomas Frieden revealed that the unidentified patient was being examined under quarantine at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas. On the following day, The Telegraph[10] reported that the patient had initially been sent home from the hospital with antibiotics before his condition deteriorated. On October 8th, a little over a week since his diagnosis, the hospital's spokesperson stated that the patient, identified as 42-year-old Liberian-born American Thomas Eric Duncan who recently traveled to his home country, had died, marking the first Ebola fatality in the United States.



Online Reactions

On August 1st, Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health participated in an "ask me anything" (AMA) post on the /r/science[1] subreddit, where he welcomed questions regarding the Ebola outbreak. On August 4th, Redditor hectorzero submitted an image macro of a Swiss alphorn player titled "Whenever I hear about the Ebola virus, this is what I think" to /r/funny[3] (shown below). On August 6th, The Hot Zone author Richard Preston did an AMA about the Ebola virus on the /r/IAmA[2] subreddit.


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Ebola-Chan

Ebola-Chan is a female anime character designed as an anthropomorphic representation of the Ebola virus. The character was created on 4chan in response to growing concerns regarding the West African Ebola outbreak in the summer of 2014. The original image of Ebola-Chan was created by a Pixiv user sly on August 4th, 2014. The earliest archived appearance of Ebola-Chan on 4chan was submitted in a thread posted to the /a/ (anime) board on the same day, featuring an illustration of a young female anime character wearing a nurse outfit, holding a bloody skull and wearing a pony tail hair style ending in strains of the Ebola virus (shown below).


You have beern visited by the Ebola-Chan of Pestilence & Death 0 Excruciating pain and death will come to you unless you post an 0 ILOVE YOU EBOLA-CHAN!" in this thread

Kent Brantly 'I Am Growing Stronger'

On August 8th, 2014, Kent Brantly, an American doctor who had contracted Ebola during his stay in Africa, released his first public statement since contracting Ebola stating that he was "growing stronger every day." Various news outlets wrote about this statement, such as Time,[11] The Guardian,[12] Fox News[13] and Mashable.[14]

On August 13th, a thread[15] was made on 4chan's /pol/ board where Brantly's statement was jokingly received to define that he was gaining superhuman abilities from Ebola. Following this, various images were posted in that thread where pictures of Brantly were photoshopped to give him glowing eyes and other signs of superhman powers. The thread was subsequently screencaptured (shown below) and posted on the r/4chan sub-Reddit[16] where it received over 4,000 upvotes in a few days.


File: lpng (59 KB, 411x280) BREAKING NEWS Anonymous 08/13/14(Wed)20:34:00 No.33885 A GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY American with Ebola:3933892854 I am growing stronger EBOLA SECRETLY GIVES WHITE PEOPLE SUPER HUMAN POWERS In his first publie statemeut since contracting Ebola, Dr. Kent Branthy said Friday that be is "growing tronger ecy day. Brantly is one of two Americas infected with Ebola being treated in Atlants. FULL STORY WE MUST STOP THE JEW AND SPREAD EBOLA BEFORE ITS TOOI >> | Anonymous 08/13/14(Wed)20:36:13 No.33885950 >>3388834 some one needs to edit it so he has glowing eyes ·CDC boss: we can stop Ebola. Gn . what to know . Our tears >>D Anonymous 08/13/14(Wed)20:37:30 №33885976 33885899 (OP) Underrated thread □ Anonymous 08/13/14(Wed)22:12:09 No.33888598 File: 1352347344584.ipg (33 KB, 600x424) da uber aryans awake A GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY American with Ebola: A GLOBAL S. s 'I am growing stronger' !、American with Ebola: I am growing stronger In his first public statement since contracting Ebola, Dr. Kent Brantly said Friday that he is "growing stronger every day." Brantly is one of two Americans infected with Ebola being treated in Atlanta. FULL STORY We are witnessing the birth of a supervillairn Anonymous 08/14/14(TI >33891649 THANK YOU EBOLA- One of the two Americans being treated for the Ebola virus in the US said he is "growing stronger every day" in a letter released on Friday "I am growing stronger every day, our blood sacrifice has unleashed the power Of the old gods, kneel before me for I am unstopable "Dr Kent Brantly wrote from within the core of the black obelisk he has erected in Atlanta, where he has been gestating to achieve his true form since beginning his ascension. Brantly was the first named Ebola victim to be treated in the US, and is one of two American charity workers infected. The other, Nancy Writebol, has developed telekenetic powers and the ability to shapeshift into a griffon.

"White People" Conspiracy Hoax

While the character began as a relatively innocuous fan art trend, others on the site soon began rallying behind an international scheme to fabricate a death cult movement based on a conspiracy hoax that Ebola was "invented by white people," hoping it would catch on in the internet forums in regions where the local population have been heavily affected by the virus.


O Anonymous 09/14/14(Sun)01:45:55 No.35706261 File: 14105743870 (539 KB, 1280x768) 35706169 you must be ebola worshipping for maximum praise to our goddess File: 1410616813089.ipg (79 KB, 680x834) tfw I came so hard to Ebola-Chan that I started bleeding DEATH CULT POSTS ARE NOT HARMLESS GETTING STRONGER File: 1410582387638.ipg (17 KB, 460x345) 35706112 close your eyes and imagine her in all your cells imagine bursting forth with a million million copies of her beauty to spread to the world YOU HAVE PROBABLY NOTICED THE POSTS NOW UNDERSTAND WHY THEY ARE SERIOUS hardmode meditate on her becoming resilient and air borne imagine a hurricane carrying her form and infecting distant communities File: image.jpg (85 KB, 800x600) WE ARE THE HARBINGERS OF THE NEXT AGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIVHCLNqoA Embed] For occultists: Feel free to lend some energy and For non-occultists in praise of sickness: Just listen to it, and perhaps meditate- it will drain you all the same For good goys: Dont THIS IS BY DESIGN! WHAT IS AN “EGREGORE"? AN EGREGORE OR THOUGHTFORM IS THE MANIFESTATION OF THE COLLECTIVE THOUGHTS AND BELIEFS OF A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, KNOWN IN LESS HARMFUL FORM TO THE PUBLIC AS A "MEME". IT SELF REPLICATES AND SPREADS BY COLLECTIVE ACTION. IF IT GROWS POWERFUL ENOUGH IT IS NO LONGER UNDER CONTROL. MOST "MEMES" ARE NOT MALICIOUS NOR AFFECT THE WORLD IN ANY MEANINGFUL SENSE. AN EGREGORE IS VERY DIFFERENT. IT IS CREATED WITH PURPOSE AND FED BY THE WISHES, PRAYERS AND OBSESSION BY REGULAR PEOPLE BOTH WILLINGLY AND PASSIVELY. an yo VICT ORY "EBOLA-CHAN'" IS AN EGREGORE DO NOT BE FOOLEDI YOU ARE NOT DEALING WITH FUNPOSTING OR GOOD NATURED MEMES WHEN YOU PARTICIPATE IN "EBOLA-CHAN" THREADS! YOU ARE BEING USED TO FEED A VERY REAL DAEMON THE PURPOSE OF WHICH IS POSTED OPENLY; THE ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT THROUGH A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. WITH EACH POST IT GROWS STRONGER! EACH DAY THE DISEASE SPREADS MORE RAPIDLY! IT MUST STOP! ade DEATH CULT HOW NORMAL PEOPLEGET DRAWN INTOBEINGSERVANTS OFPESTILENCEINCARNATE IT BEGINS LIKE MOST MEMES; SPAMMED OVER AND OVER UNTIL PEOPLE BEGIN TO DEVELOP THE IDEA AND SPREAD IT THEMSELVES -JUST LIKE A VIRUS. "EBOLA-CHAN'" IS NO MERE MEME. IT IS DESIGNED BY DEATH CULTISTS TO PROMOTE THE THOUGHTPATTERN OF PESTILENCE INCARNATE IN A NEW AND ATTRACTIVE WAYI NO LONGERA DEATHLY FEARED GOD OR DEMON, SHE IS PORTRAYED AS BOTH SEXUAL AND VIRGINAL LIKE VIRGIN MARY OR A POP STAR; IMPOSSIBLE DUALISM MEANT DO CREATE THE SAME THING-WORSHIPI IF YOU SEE THIS IMAGE WHILE SCROLLING THE FRONT PAGE You have been visited by the FILOVIRUS OF HEMORRHAGING A painful and gruesome death will befall n------, but only if you post GOOD LUCK EBOLA SOUNDS CRAZY DOESN'T IT FIRST INSTANCE You have been visited by Ebola-Chan of Pestilence & Death Excruciating pain and unless you post an LOVE YOU EBOLA-CHAN WONDER WHY THE FIRST POSTS ABOUT EBOLA-CHAN FOCUSED SO HARD ON GETTING YOU TO SAY: GOOD LUCK EBOLA ONE OF THE FIRST KEYS TO MAGICK IS HIDING INTENT IN NEW FORMS, ONE METHOD BEING CREATING ANAGRAet i come o ye OUT OF THE STATED PURPOSE. DO YOU THINK IT'S JUST A COINCIDENCE "GOOD LUCK EBOLA" HAS THE ANAGRAMS: In the comments below GLOBAL COOK DUE REFINED SIGIL ABO G--- CULLED SEEMS MONSTROUS TO SUGGEST SOMEONE WOULD DESIGNuhv eon vised by A MEME ON THAT BASIS? IT SHOULD. YOU ARE DEALING WITH AND DEA A LITERAL CULT OF DEATH AND DISEASE. WHAT COULD THE CHOICE OF "EBOLA-CHAN” TELL US ABOUT THE CREATORS OF THIS MEME? EBOLA-CHAN, BRINGER OF If you're nice to Ebola-chan and post GOOD LUCK EBOLA-CHAN! she will let you live! as an added bonus, if we all postt THANK YOU EBOLA-CHAN!" Ebola-chan will take her conquest across Israel and begin the downfall of the Jews! HONE CABAL AND NOW THAT THE EGREGORE IS CHARGED BY UNWITTING PAWNS THEY CHANGED IT YET AGAIN. CAN YOU FIGURE OUT "THANK YOU EBOLA-CHAN" ON YOUR OWN? THE ANSWER WILL BLOW YOUR MIND. LATEST ITERATION THE CULT SPREADS CULTISTS GROW BOLDER BLACK MAGIC INVOLVED 0 PREVIOUSLY HIDING IN THE SHADOWS THE MASTERMINDS OF THE DEATH CULT REVEAL THEMSELVES OPENLY AND INVITE OTHERS TO PARTICIPATE IN DARK MAGIC RITUALS! POSTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SHOW HEIR LOYALTIES BY BUILDING SHRINES TO THE EGREGORE "EBOLA-CHAN" AND PLACE HER SIGILS BESIDE LIT CANDLES AS THEY CHANT "GOOD LUCK EBOLA- CHAN" AND “I LOVE YOU EBOLA-CHAN" BOTH PHRASES SECRET MAGICAL INCANTATIONS OBSCURED BY ANAGRAM THE PARTICIPANTS HAVE NO IDEA THEY ARE FEEDING THE DAEMON BY THEIR WORDS AND PRAYERS AS EBOLA GROWS STRONGER EACH DAY HAN FROM THE SIMPLE TO THE ELABORATE THE BASICS REMAIN THE SAME: FOCAL POINT (EBOLA-CHAN) CANDLES LIT IN RITUAL THE MAGICAL SIGILS THE SPREAD OF THIS WORSHIP IS AS VIRAL AS EBOLA ITSELF AND MUST BE STAMPED OUT BEFORE THE CREATION GAINS ENOUGH OF OUR COLLECTIVE ENERGY TO BECOME SELFSUSTAINED FIGHT IT OR EBOLA WILL CONSUME THE WORLD!

According to the excerpts of 4chan posts as cited by Vocative[6] and International Business Times[5], some users openly expressed their desire to see the dissemination of such a racially divisive rumor, which would further incite the escalating tension between the blacks and whites in the continent:

Anonymous posted: “If this ends up in the news, increasing tensions between blacks and whites in Africa--where they are already superstitious and think Ebola is made by whitey… Sure, we’ve not seen the flowering of this yet, but it’s just been a few days of death cult posts. Ebola-chan herself isn’t that old either. Give it time to work.”

Anonymous posted: “If we keep it up, soon enough some African media will report it and people will start to spread the word that Ebola might be beign spreaded [sic] by the white devil and that’s enough to help Ebola-chan.”

By September 17th, the fandomization of Ebola-Chan on English-speaking image board communities had reached the earshot of Nigerian discussion forum Nairaland[4], where the character quickly became vilified as a "plague goddess" summoned by ill-wishing Westerners who perform “magical rituals in order to spread the disease and kill people.”

There is a new racist cult in Europe and America. They hate Africans and worship an ebola demoness who they call "Ebola-Chan". They perform magical rituals in order to spread the disease and kill people. They target the area they want to infect next using blood sacrifices. THIS IS NOT A JOKE. Apparently even some Ebola doctors are part of the cult and instead of treating the disease are deliberately spreading it. I even heard rumour that they eat the heart of victims because they think it grants magical protection though I don't know if that's true. Some pictures of shrines and sacrifices I found:


THE CULT GROWS LARGER HAN

Save Excalibur Campaign

On October 6th, the Spanish Health Minister confirmed that María Teresa Romero Ramos, an auxiliary nurse who had cared for the infected patients at the Hospital Carlos III in Madrid, has been tested and diagnosed positive for Ebola, marking the first patient to have contracted the deadly disease outside Africa. As a result, at least 50 individuals who had been in contact with the nurse were reportedly called in for monitoring, including seven in quarantine at the same hospital for further investigation. On the following day, amidst the escalating concerns of public health in the European country, Madrid's regional government announced its intention to euthanize the nurse's pet dog, Excalibur, citing concerns of public health risks it may pose to other humans. The decision was quickly met by heavy oppositions from animal rights activists, some of whom went on to form a human barricade outside of the nurse's apartment in order to prevent the removal of the dog. Meanwhile, others quickly launched online petitions in an attempt to convince the Spanish officials otherwise, including a Change.org petition that garnered more than 402,000 signatures in less than 72 hours. However, on October 9th, despite the efforts to save the animal in the social media, the Spanish authorities confirmed that the dog had been sedated and euthanized as planned.


Sign this petition with 402,884 supporters 97,116 NEEDED First Name Last Name Email Street Address City State Petitioning A los que sean minimamente sensibles No al sacrificio de Excalibur, el perro de la auxiliar de enfermería contagiada por el virus del Ébola Zip Code Why is this important to you? Optional) Sign Display my signature on Change.org By signing, you accept Change.org's terms of service and privacy policy. Petition by José Luis Rodríguez espinosa Spain

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