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Who Had Chinese Ebola Hamsters on Their 2024 Bingo Card?
The researchers assert that the aim has been to reproduce the symptoms of Ebola in a laboratory so as to better understand the condition and prevent its spread.
Posted by Leslie Eastman
5/13/24


The last time we reported on the deadly hemorrhagic disease Ebola, 4 people in Uganda had died during a small, localized outbreak. That was back in 2022.

Historically, cases of Ebola have been confined to Africa and infections are associated with close contact with the blood and bodily fluids of those suffering from the disease.

However, it appears that Chinese have not learned their lesson about tampering with viruses…especially the potentially lethal ones. Chinese researchers have created another franken-virus with parts of Ebola in a lab, resulting in an exceptionally deadly infection that killed a group of hamsters horrifically.

A team of researchers at Hebei Medical University used a contagious disease of livestock and added a protein found in Ebola, which allows the virus to infect cells and spread throughout the human body.

The group of hamsters that received the lethal injection ‘developed severe systemic diseases similar to those observed in human Ebola patients,’ including multi-organ failure,’ the study shared.

One particularly horrific symptom saw the infected hamsters develop secretions in their eyes, which impaired their vision and scabbed over the surface of the eyeballs

While the experiment may spark fears of another lab leak, the researchers say their goal was to find the right animal models that can safely mimic Ebola symptoms in a lab setting.

The Chinese scientists published their findings in ScienceDirect. The researchers asset that the aim has been to reproduce the symptoms of Ebola in a laboratory so as to better understand the condition and prevent its spread.
Due to the dangers of infection, Ebola needs to be handled in a Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) facility and using a BSL-2 the researchers worked around this by using vesicular stomatitis virus to carry the Ebola glycoprotein. There were 10 hamsters, half male and half female, used that was three weeks old and all died bar two of the males.

The dead hamsters were found to have seen the virus spread throughout their body including the heart, brain and kidneys, with the highest levels in the liver. “Overall, this surrogate model represents a safe, effective, and economical tool for rapid preclinical evaluation of medical countermeasures against EBOV (Ebola virus) under BSL-2 conditions, which would accelerate technological advances and breakthroughs in confronting Ebola virus disease [EVD],” stated the study.

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Poster's comments:
We can shrug off covid and perhaps even the bird flu, but... ebola?
This is crazy.
It's playing with a fire that could wipe us out.
(aside: perhaps this is intentionally so...)

UN Revises/Reduces Gaza Death Numbers for Women, Children by Almost Half, Explanation Is Embarrassing
Nick Arama


The UN just made an embarrassing adjustment to their estimated number of deaths in Gaza. They just halved the number of women and children previously estimated to have been killed.

    While more than 9,500 women and 14,500 children were reported among the fatalities by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on May 6, two days later that number was revised significantly downward. Today, under 5,000 women and 8,000 children are now officially listed by the UN as casualties.

Part of the problem was that they were using numbers from Hamas-controlled sources. And even now, that's still what they're relying on — the numbers from the Gaza Health Ministry. Listen as the UN spokesperson tries to explain how the numbers can be so off — but hey, you can rely on them, because we're always checking on them — even though they were running with incorrect numbers.

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https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/05/13/un-halves-gaza-dead-numbers-and-their-explanation-is-embarrassing-n2174120

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is here as well
By Ben Kochman

District Attorney Alvin Bragg walked into the room wearing a dark blue suit and followed by a handful of aides. He took a seat in the courtroom's second row.

These rallies, although large for Trump, can end up being deceptive

There were frequent articles about the "enthusiasm gap" in 2012 for Romney vs Obama. People like Carl Rove, for example,  predicted a Romney win based on that. And polls backed up the case that Republican voters were more enthusiastic about voting for Romney than Democrats were for voting for Obama. Obama did end up losing votes from his 2008 totals but won re election

It's hard to beat an incumbent. That incumbent not only has to be extraordinarily bad but the challenger has to convince voters why he/she would be a better replacement. "The incumbent sucks"  isn't enough

Also in 2020 Trump had huge rallies, and still lost.