EBOLA:PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE ACROSS THE WORLD 1.
In late July 2014, news of a possible worldwide outbreak of Ebola was announced due to an American named Patrick Sawyer who flew on two flights while transiting Liberia.
Sawyer died several days after the flights.
An international race immediately ensued to find and quarantine passengers who may have been exposed before the virus can become a worldwide pandemic, which seems to be ever-more likely.
According to the CDC, as reported in a 9/23/2014 article published by the New York Times, as many as 1.4 million people worldwide will be infected with the Ebola virus by January 2015.
This outbreak is perhaps one of the most deadly humans have faced across the globe, but it is not the first and will not be the last.
Over the last several years, both the US and the world have experienced a series of disruptions and signs that would seem to bode of an ill wind blowing against humanity as a whole.
On virtually every continent, the harbinger of economic chaos or war has either threatened to encompass or has actually taken hold of entire nations, destabilizing a balance which has forever been tenuous at best. Absent of human device, there are then natural cataclysms filling the vacuum.
In addition, we have seen signs in the heavens from a sequence of ongoing Blood Moons, Super Moons, Comets, and even asteroids and the like, while the earth rumbles and shakes at a historically unprecedented rate. Many believe that our world has entered into a new age marking either a significant ending or perhaps a new and rather dire beginning.
Some even believe that the days of Noah have now returned.
At the heart of this upheaval lies the centerpiece of all Harbingers, an outright war between Israel and the offspring of Ishmael, even while the beast of Islamic extremism seems to increasingly threaten the entirety of Christendom if not the developed world.
Currently in the US, political dissonance along with a porously unattended border have reached a degree of cultural malignance not seen in modern times, even while the Mideast and much of Europe lies threatened by the very multiculturalism that at one time, to some at least, seemed a beacon of benign enlightenment.
With all of this, there is the one other heretofore missing ingredient which may have finally found its dreadful purchase, and it could conceivably be the worst of all.
Ebola: The Pestilence that Stalks in Darkness
As the chaos continually mounts, vast panoply of both disease and plagues scattered widely across the planet have begun to alarm both national and international health experts.
Nor are these the typical infectious diseases which routinely occur on every continent on an ongoing yearly basis but rather, these are some of the most deadly diseases known to man, historically.
Chief among these deadly contagions is the fear-spawning Ebola hemorrhagic virus which is even now spreading across West Africa. As an infectious disease, Ebola boasts one of the most brutal mortality rates of any other known disease, often killing up to 90% of those who contract it.
This latest outbreak of Ebola, the Zaire Strain (ZEBOV) made its appearance first known on March 23rd, 2014 in Guinea, Africa, thousands of miles away from Ebola's last appearance which occurred in Uganda in November of 2012. However, this time things are different. Virtually every prior Ebola outbreak had been contained more or less within the province of its origins; this time, the virus has reached epidemic proportions.
Indeed, this outbreak of the Ebola virus is the worst in its history, going all the way back to almost 40 years, to 1976 where the first recorded occurrence of the virus killed 280 victims.
The main problem isn't necessarily the number killed, at least at this point, but rather it's the fact that the disease has proven to be nearly impossible to contain, so far. After the initial outbreak in Guinea the virus has spread from country to country, so much so in fact, that the World Health Organization (WHO) is no longer identifying an individual nation, but in fact is using a region to describe the outbreak, that being West Africa.
Pandemic
In essence for the first time ever, WHO is using an entire region rather than one single nation state in identifying this particular Ebola outbreak; so what might this potentially mean?
The disease is typically spread by either blood or bodily fluids from victims both living and dead. Symptoms present as:
Sawyer died several days after the flights.
An international race immediately ensued to find and quarantine passengers who may have been exposed before the virus can become a worldwide pandemic, which seems to be ever-more likely.
According to the CDC, as reported in a 9/23/2014 article published by the New York Times, as many as 1.4 million people worldwide will be infected with the Ebola virus by January 2015.
This outbreak is perhaps one of the most deadly humans have faced across the globe, but it is not the first and will not be the last.
Over the last several years, both the US and the world have experienced a series of disruptions and signs that would seem to bode of an ill wind blowing against humanity as a whole.
On virtually every continent, the harbinger of economic chaos or war has either threatened to encompass or has actually taken hold of entire nations, destabilizing a balance which has forever been tenuous at best. Absent of human device, there are then natural cataclysms filling the vacuum.
In addition, we have seen signs in the heavens from a sequence of ongoing Blood Moons, Super Moons, Comets, and even asteroids and the like, while the earth rumbles and shakes at a historically unprecedented rate. Many believe that our world has entered into a new age marking either a significant ending or perhaps a new and rather dire beginning.
Some even believe that the days of Noah have now returned.
At the heart of this upheaval lies the centerpiece of all Harbingers, an outright war between Israel and the offspring of Ishmael, even while the beast of Islamic extremism seems to increasingly threaten the entirety of Christendom if not the developed world.
Currently in the US, political dissonance along with a porously unattended border have reached a degree of cultural malignance not seen in modern times, even while the Mideast and much of Europe lies threatened by the very multiculturalism that at one time, to some at least, seemed a beacon of benign enlightenment.
With all of this, there is the one other heretofore missing ingredient which may have finally found its dreadful purchase, and it could conceivably be the worst of all.
Ebola: The Pestilence that Stalks in Darkness
As the chaos continually mounts, vast panoply of both disease and plagues scattered widely across the planet have begun to alarm both national and international health experts.
Nor are these the typical infectious diseases which routinely occur on every continent on an ongoing yearly basis but rather, these are some of the most deadly diseases known to man, historically.
Chief among these deadly contagions is the fear-spawning Ebola hemorrhagic virus which is even now spreading across West Africa. As an infectious disease, Ebola boasts one of the most brutal mortality rates of any other known disease, often killing up to 90% of those who contract it.
This latest outbreak of Ebola, the Zaire Strain (ZEBOV) made its appearance first known on March 23rd, 2014 in Guinea, Africa, thousands of miles away from Ebola's last appearance which occurred in Uganda in November of 2012. However, this time things are different. Virtually every prior Ebola outbreak had been contained more or less within the province of its origins; this time, the virus has reached epidemic proportions.
Indeed, this outbreak of the Ebola virus is the worst in its history, going all the way back to almost 40 years, to 1976 where the first recorded occurrence of the virus killed 280 victims.
The main problem isn't necessarily the number killed, at least at this point, but rather it's the fact that the disease has proven to be nearly impossible to contain, so far. After the initial outbreak in Guinea the virus has spread from country to country, so much so in fact, that the World Health Organization (WHO) is no longer identifying an individual nation, but in fact is using a region to describe the outbreak, that being West Africa.
Pandemic
In essence for the first time ever, WHO is using an entire region rather than one single nation state in identifying this particular Ebola outbreak; so what might this potentially mean?
The disease is typically spread by either blood or bodily fluids from victims both living and dead. Symptoms present as:
- Fever
- Headache
- Joint and muscle aches
- Weakness
- Diarrhea
- Vomiting
- Stomach pain
- Lack of appetite
- Orifical Bleeding
