If you never came in close contact with this doctor, why worry about it?  
Just ask people if they have been to any of the three countries in West Africa, when screening hobbyist for a date. If this makes you feel better and request they wash their hands before your date.
I guarantee you most of us, have never been to any of these three countries in West Africa or in hospitals working with this disease.
Don't let some of these scumbag politicians or media scare you, trying to play politics with this shit.
I know going forward it won't stop me, this is still the best city in the world!


-- Modified on 10/23/2014 11:02:02 PM

I think women from Liberia will have a harder time getting clients.

Written by a herbalist:

A BRIEF LOOK AT EBOLA
In the fall of 2014, for the first time, ebola broke out of the African nations and reached (via airplane, as epidemiologists had long predicted it would) the United States, I began receiving scores of emails asking for some deeper information regarding herbal approaches to help prevent and treat the condition. This is a brief exploration to address those concerns.  

The virus and its effects really does need an in-depth treatment, especially going into its nature and function. This protocol should do a lot to help prevent or reduce infection and, if necessary, help combat the septic shock that occurs in the later stages of the disease.  

There are four species of ebola that can cause human disease; the virus responsible for the 2014 outbreak is (Zaire ebolavirus species) which causes anywhere from a 40% to a 90% mortality rate. The virus is highly virulent and actively subverts both the innate and adaptive immune responses. Although up to half of those infected are able to mount an immune defense, in the rest the virus so subverts the immune response it progresses to an acute hemorrhagic fever which is often fatal. This group of viruses is relatively new to human science, the first identification occurring in 1976 during an outbreak in Zaire.  

Infection generally occurs from direct contact with infected bodily fluids such as blood or the vomit and diarrhea that often occur with the disease. Infection through direct skin contact with an infected person or through contact with blankets the infected have used has also been documented but is much less common. There is some concern among virologists that the disease could mutate to an infectious airborne type; it has not been documented so far.  

As with most viruses, onset is flu-like with the usual fever, chills, and so on, generally after a 4-10 day incubation period. A rash often appears around day five which is the only way to differentiate it, in its early stages, from the flu. Generally, the liver, spleen, kidneys, adrenals, and endothelial structures are heavily infected, often leading to organ necrosis and failure. During fatal infections the endothelial structures of the vascular system fail with accompanying blood loss. The virus inhibits and modulates the immune response, ultimately producing a powerful cytokine storm, leading to septic shock. The latter stages of the infection are, in fact, nearly identical to the 1918 flu (see The Herbal Antiviral book for more on this).  

The primary cytokines that increase during severe and fatal infections are IL-1b, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-15 and 16, and MIP-1beta; interferon-a levels are severely reduced as is IL-2 through 5, IL-9, IL-13 and a severe drop of both CD+3CD4+ and CD3+Cd8+ peripheral cells. Those who successfully recover show the opposite profile, hence decreasing those cytokines and increasing IFN-a and other reduced cytokines is crucial.

Protecting the affected organs, reducing the cytokine cascade, and enhancing immune function are essential. A number of substances has been found useful for interfering with viral penetration and replication as well as protecting the affected organs and modulating the ebola effects on the immune system.  

(Please note the following dosage guidelines are, at the lower end, protective, at the higher end, for use during early infection. Long term use of these amounts is contraindicated.)The suggested protocol is:

* General antiviral formulation: Isatis, Baikal skullcap root, licorice. Broad spectrum antiviral combination, skullcap and licorice are synergists, licorice enhances IFN-a production, all acts in various ways to reduce ebola cytokines.  
* Elder tincture: Needs to be produced from stem, leaf, and berries as outlined in this book.  
* Genistein powder. Inhibits both infection with the virus and transduction in infected cells.
* Milk Thistle Seed. Protects the liver and contains compounds that reduce viral replication and penetration of cells.
* Salvia miltiorrhizae (red sage). Protects the spleen, enhances immune function, reduces cytokine cascade.  
* Japanese knotweed root (Polygonum cuspidatum). Protects endothelial cell integrity, reduces cytokine cascade.

TO REDUCE CYTOKINE STORM/SEPTIC SHOCK (all tinctures)
1) Angelica sinensis/Astragalus  
2) Salvia miltiorrhiza
3) Pueria lobata/Cordyceps
4) Glycyrrhiza (licorice)/Bailak skullcap
Note: this has been found in vivo to stop exactly this kind of septic shock.