The Extinction Protocol
May 2016 – SIGN OF THE TIMES – You don’t need a web-bot predictive analysis or a psychic reading to tell you that there’s an ominous chill in the air that something bad is about to happen – something large and just catastrophic enough in scope and magnitude to change life for all of us on this planet. Such an event could lead to potential nuclear exchange, a disruption of food supplies, an extreme climatic event, or a global outbreak of a pandemic disease.
While nations are arming themselves to the teeth in preparation for a future potential conflict, Mother Nature also appears to be gearing up for an unholy rampage. Earthquake faults are stressed and long overdue for major activity, volcanoes are awakening, and supervolcanoes are inflating in alarming and record fashion. The era of peace, prosperity, and pacifism in human existence may be finally winding to an abrupt close and we may be about to enter some very troublesome times. Just look at all the warning signs and the subtle hints world leaders are dropping about the prospect of some type of apocalyptic event that appears to be camping out on our doorstep. – Alvin Conway
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Independent
The Ebola virus that has already killed 660 people across West Africa
has spread to Nigeria after a Liberian man boarded a plane to the
country, the most populous in the continent.
He managed to board the flight despite of having a high fever. Once on the plane he vomited, before dying in Nigeria.
Upon
arrival in the country’s capital Lagos - a megacity home to 21 million
people - the 40-year-old had been moved to an isolation ward.
Believed
to be a government official with the finance ministry, he had recently
lost his sister to Ebola in Liberia, health officials there said.
Authorities are now investigating anyone who may have come into contact
with him.
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The Daily Sheeple
Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone has seen its first case of
Ebola. An Egyptian had traveled to Freetown from Kenema when he became
ill and sought treatment. It is thought, but not as yet confirmed that he made the 190 mile trip on public transport.
“The Ebola disease usually spreads to other places when suspected
or confirmed cases in one community move to another, they abandon
treatment centers to stay with relatives or they seek treatment outside
the Ebola centers,” Said Sidie Yahya Tunis, director of Information,
Communications and Technology at the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health.
(source)
888 people have contracted the disease since February and 539 people
have so far died. An emergency meeting in Ghana earlier this month
discussed not only how to halt the current outbreak of Ebola, but how
the disease could be prevented from escaping West Africa and spreading
to other parts of the world. No firm tactics for tackling the issue have
so far been made public.
With 44 new cases and 21 deaths in a 48 hour period, and no travel bans
in place to and from the affected areas, they need to think and think
fast of how to deal with the current outbreak. If nothing is done the
odds are that Ebola cases will start occurring in other parts of the
world.
With an incubation time of between 2 and 21 days , though most commonly
4-9 days, the disease could be in any community on the planet for a
considerable time before anyone realizes it’s there. Although widely
said not to be airborne at this point airborne spread did occur in 1992:
Ebola-Reston appeared in a primate research facility in Virginia,
where it may have been transmitted from monkey to monkey through the
air.
While all Ebola virus species have displayed the ability to spread
through airborne particles under research conditions, this type of
spread has not been documented among humans in real-world settings.
(source)
The fact that there was no direct contact between the primates seems to
support the fact that Ebola-Reston at least is able to spread through
the air.
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Vice
There’s even more bad news out of Russia: A never-before-seen virus
that lay dormant for 30,000 years under 100 feet of Siberian permafrost
has come back to life. And it’s infectious.
The pathogen, named Pithovirus sibericum,
is unusually large for a virus — it has 500 genes as opposed to the
more typical 8, and unlike the vast majority of viruses, it’s big enough
to be seen through a conventional microscope. After multiplying in a
petri dish in front of the French scientists who discovered and thawed
it, the pathogen quickly infected a host.
Luckily, as the scientists wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that host was an amoeba; the virus isn’t dangerous to humans.
That
said, the virus brings up the very real possibility of other, genuinely
dangerous pathogens being resurrected and causing a pandemic. Only that
wouldn't be because of curious French scientists — it would be due to
global warming.
“The revival of such an ancestral amoeba infecting
virus … suggests that the thawing of permafrost either from global
warming or industrial exploitation of circumpolar regions might not be
exempt from future threats to human or animal health,” the scientists
wrote.
Somewhat troublingly, infectious disease researchers dig up
old viruses fairly regularly, but this is the first time scientists
have seen a virus that is still infectious after so much time.
“Any
old virus can pop up again,” Dr. Paul A. Luciw, a virologist at UC
Davis Center for Comparative Medicine, told VICE News. “And if it were
harmful in the past, it would be harmful again.”
As temperatures
keep getting warmer, more permafrost will thaw, which theoretically
means more ancient viruses will continue to be exposed. And as France’s
National Center for Scientific Research pointed out in a statement, even
supposedly eradicated viruses like smallpox could be revived.
“Theoretically,
it is possible that a hiker walking around in Siberia could fall in a
hole,” Luciw said, “and become infected with an old disease that would
affect humans.”
