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New York City hired a con artist for Ebola clean-up

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A recent BuzzFeed News investigation unearthed an unbelievable story: New York City officials awarded a government contract for Ebola clean-up to a con artist. Sal Pane, 32 boasted about his alleged experience, proclaiming: “I’ve been dealing with pathogens, bacterias, and terrorism types of anti-warfare for decades.” No one seemed to question the obvious implausibility of such a statement. “Twenty-seven years,” he told one radio station. “Not my first rodeo.” This would mean that Pane ventured into the business of hazardous material clean up at the tender age of four. In fact, Pane turned out to be a mortgage scammer and a convicted felon , who duped a dead man’s grieving sister into selling her deceased brother’s business, along with his truck and performance record. When Pane and his Bio-Recovery crew showed up at the home of Dr. Craig Spencer, New York City’s first Ebola patient, they brought a truck bearing permit numbers that belonged to a dead man. Pane and Bio-Recovery have c...

First non-citizen to be transported to the United States for Ebola treatment

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Dr. Martin Salia, a citizen of Sierra Leone, who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa will be flown to the United States to receive treatment. Dr. Salia is a green card holder (permanent U.S. resident). On November 13, 2014, government officials said that Dr. Salia will receive treatment for the deadly virus at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. He is expected to arrive in the United States on Saturday. Dr. Salia is the first non-citizen to be transported from West Africa for Ebola treatment in the United States. A hospital spokesman said that the patient would soon be evaluated for possible treatment. Under the laws of the United States, spelled out in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), a non-citizen could be deemed inadmissible on “health-related, security, criminal and labor certification grounds.” The Act states that: “Any alien who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to have a communic...

Second health worker in US contracts Ebola, CDC fails to accept responsibility

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On October 15, 2014, another female hospital worker in Dallas, Texas has tested positive for Ebola , after treating Ebola’s ‘Patient Zero,’ Thomas Eric Duncan. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to obfuscate the facts, while failing to acknowledge that its guidelines are grossly inadequate, providing only minimum level of protection. Ebola is highly infectious. At the peak of illness, an Ebola patient can have 10 billion viral particles in one-fifth of a teaspoon of blood, making it more contagious than hepatitis A, B and C, as well as H.I.V. Researchers can study bubonic plague at level 3, but Ebola and other transmissible and incurable viruses must be quarantined at Biosafety level 4 . Protective gear recommended by the CDC provides only level 2 of protection – grossly inadequate for protecting health workers and other patients. On October 14, 2014, Sudanese Ebola patient died in German hospital . He was the third Ebola patient to arrive in Germany in re...

Robot that kills Ebola and Enterovirus D68 showcased at IDWeek 2014

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A 5-foot-5 superbug-slaying robot is being featured at IDWeek 2014 in Philadelphia from October 8 to 12, 2014 . IDWeek is a combined meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the HIV Medicine Association and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. This futuristic-looking machine, known as TRU-D SmartUVC, emanates UVC light at a particular frequency known to kill Ebola particles. The study, entitled, "Sensitivity to Ultraviolet Radiation of Lassa, vaccinia and Ebola viruses Dried on Surfaces," found that Ebola virus is vulnerable to UVC light emitted from low-pressure mercury UVC bulbs. UVC light works to eliminate Ebola and other deadly pathogens, including methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Enterovirus D68, by scrambling DNA of these organisms and thereby compromising their ability to reproduce and spread. Continue reading:  http://www.examiner.com/article/robot-that-kills-ebola-a...

Russia’s top 100 lies about Ukraine - a digest with full size images, links and translations

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Here is a digest of Russia's top 100 lies about Ukraine, with links and translations: Russia’s top 100 lies about Ukraine Translated to Russian by StopFake: Топ-100 фактов российской лжи об Украине “Russia’s top 80 lies about Ukraine” Translated to Russian by StopFake: Топ-факты российской лжи об Украине. Часть 4 “Russia’s top 60 lies about Ukraine” Translated to Russian by StopFake: Топ-факты российской лжи об Украине. Часть 3 “Russia’s top 40 lies about Ukraine” Translated to Russian by StopFake: Топ-факты российской лжи об Украине. Часть 2 ”Russia’s top 20 lies about Ukraine” Translated to Russian by StopFake: Топ-факты российской лжи об Украине. Часть 1 Images from my collection of debunked Russian fakes about Ukraine (please visit the links above for additional information): ...