Missouri Prepares for Elboa

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. You've heard of tornado drills and disaster drills.  But on Wednesday across Missouri there was a statewide Ebola drill for medical facilities to plan their response to the rare but often fatal virus.

 Evaluators from the National Ebola Training Education Center were on hand at both Mercy and Cox for Wednesday's drills and although there have been only 11 reported cases of Ebola in the U.S., officials like Kendra Findley with the Springfield- Greene Co. Health Department say being prepared is vital.
"We absolutely need to be prepared for this," Bos said. "It could affect anybody. If you travel anywhere on an airplane you could be next to somebody that is traveling back (and been infected)."

In humans Ebola is spread through direct physical contact with infected body fluids. It is not an airborne disease, but it can be transmitted indirectly by touching contaminated surfaces and objects.

Flu-like symptoms mark the early stages of the virus, making it hard to diagnose. But it's Republic of Congo origination is part of the puzzle in determining the illness whose fatality rate is between 25-90 percent.
"Just because you start off with flu-like symptoms, really what we're worried about is tagging that with travel to an Ebola-affected area," Finley explained in how doctors come up with a diagnosis.

https://www.ky3.com/content/news/Ebola-drills-held-statewide-including-Mercy-and-Cox-510582131.html


Symptoms of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) include:

• Fever
• Severe headache
• Muscle pain
• Weakness
• Fatigue
• Diarrhea
• Vomiting
• Abdominal (stomach) pain
• Unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising)

Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after contact with the virus, with an average of 8 to 10 days. Many common illnesses can have these same symptoms, including influenza (flu) or malaria.
https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/symptoms/

 Democratic Republic of the Congo’s worst ever Ebola outbreak

Amidst a surge in new cases, the epidemic has claimed more than 1,200 lives and threatens to spread to other provinces in the east, as well as neighboring countries. A third of those infected have been children; a higher proportion than during previous outbreaks.
Up to the middle of this month, the number of cases, according to UN figures, stood at 1,847 (1,759 confirmed and 88 probable). In total, there have been 1,223 deaths (1,135 confirmed and 88 probable) and 487 people have survived the deadly virus.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/05/1039051

Among the approx. 54,000 illegal immigrants in Missouri, 3,000 are from Africa.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/data/unauthorized-immigrant-population/state/MO

2016 estimates of illegal immigrants - 10.7 million
2017,  2018,  & 2019 had skyrocketing numbers crossing the border
 A majority of U.S. unauthorized immigrants live in just six states – including California (with the largest population at 2.2 million), Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Illinois.

New Jersey had 475,000 in 2016

https://www.pewhispanic.org/interactives/u-s-unauthorized-immigrants-by-state/

A Laredo, Texas public health official said that 20 migrants from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were monitored for Ebola and other diseases.
 "We have 8 Congolese right now in one of our shelters and a dozen in Nuevo Laredo," said Dr. Hector Gonzalez during an April 4 meeting of the Laredo City Council. Gonzales is the director of the Laredo Health department,

 Dr. Gonzalez said that 2,800 migrants have been released at a Laredo bus station over the past two and a half months, and that the city government is working with charity groups to conduct health screenings.
"We’ve had flu. We’ve had a couple of potential respiratory infections that could be communicable, but we ruled them out – [tuberculosis] and mumps," he said, adding: "TB is an ongoing issue in the state of Texas,’ the doctor explained. “Between Texas, California, and New York, we have 50 percent of the cases of TB and the border has the most. Brownsville has the biggest number of cases."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-16/african-migrants-texas-border-monitored-ebola-official

MEXICO CITY — Thousands of Mexicans living with HIV or at risk of infection could be left without life-saving services after the government changed the way it funds treatment, according to public health experts and LGBT rights advocates, Reuters reports. 
The agency provides universal access to antiretroviral therapy via the public health system, and currently treats more than 95,000 people living with HIV, Reuters reports.
But in March, the administration said the Finance Ministry would now be in charge of overseeing its drug buying.
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/04/19/reforms-hamper-hiv-med-distribution-in-mexico/

Major infectious diseases of Mexico

bacterial diarrhea and hepatitis A,  Zika virus,  Hepatitis E,  Typhoid fever,  Malaria,  Dengue fever,  Yellow fever,  Japanese Encephalitis,  African Trypanosomiasis,  Cutaneous Leishmaniasis,  Plague,  Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever,  Rift Valley fever,  Chikungunya,  
Leptospirosis,  Schistosomiasi,  aerosolized dust or soil contact disease ,  Lassa fever, respiratory disease,   Meningococcal meningitis ,  animal contact disease ,  Rabies 

https://www.indexmundi.com/mexico/major_infectious_diseases.html 

Add worldwide immigrants bringing their own diseases & living in close tents or on floor mats with minimal food and medical supplies in unsanitary conditions for months and  there is a health epidemic ready to explode.
 Watch for major health epidemics in large US cities where there are large immigrant populations.