Ebola Threatens World Chocolate Supply; Brooklyn Woman on Ebola Monitoring List Drops Dead, Bleeding From Her Eyes, Nose and Mouth!

ABC News has already reported that the cacao industry has increased its prices substantially over the past five months simply based on supply and demand of the product. Now, with Ebola, prices are even more volatile.

Chocolate prices have gone through the roof already, experiencing “shrinkflation” with an average 50% increase in price. 

Ivory Coast, the world’s largest producer of cacao, the raw ingredient in Snickers and other chocolate candy bars, hasshut down its borders with Liberia and Guinea, putting a major crimp on the workforce needed to pick the beans that end up in chocolate bars and other treats just as the harvest season begins. 

The West African nation of about 20 million — also known as Côte D’Ivoire — has yet to experience a single case of Ebola, but the outbreak already could raise prices. The world’s chocolate makers have taken notice.

The World Cocoa Foundation is working now to collect large donations from Nestlé, Mars and many of its 113 other members for its Coca Industry Response to Ebola Initiative.

Ivory Coast, which produces about 1.6 million metric tons of cacao beans per year — roughly 33 percent of the world’s total, according to data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization — closed its borders in August to Guinea and Liberia. 

More than 8,000 have been diagnosed with Ebola, and nearly 4,000 have died in those two countries and Sierra Leone. Next to Ivory Coast is Ghana, the world’s third-largest producer of cacao beans — 879,348 metric tons per year — or 15 percent of the world’s total.

Côte D’Ivoire is closing it’s borders before even experiencing one case of Ebola. Sounds like they would rather be “safe than sorry”. Too bad Americans don’t have sensible leaders who would take this logical decision to protect the health of our citizens. 

“We know that Ebola is contagious by being aerosolized, such as through a sneeze or a cough. Or more frightendly, if someone has flushed the toilet, the Ebola particles get aerosolized in the air for up to 20 feet, landing on sinks, counters and faucets. So it is definitely contagious in public settings, should an infected person have it and is running around in public.

With that said, there seems to have been no new cases in the US. recently. In fact, it has been so silent, you would think that all of a sudden there is some sort of “media blackout” on the subject, it’s so quiet. Even the Ebola Czar that was hired, and who is getting paid big bucks, on our dime, hasn’t even appeared in public to say ANYTHING. He got hired and then DISAPPEARED.

The Daily Mail reported a Brooklyn woman who had traveled to Guinea recently, and was on the “Ebola monitoring list”, dropped dead in a salon, with blood pouring from her eyes, nose and mouth. 

First, let me point out, apparently when you are on this Ebola monitoring list, it does not restrict you from going anywhere. So to hell with public safety. Anyway, the FDNY were calling it “fever travel sickness”, because they were ordered to not use the word Ebola anymore. 

NEW YORK CITY EBOLA QUARANTINE GUIDELINES

• Individuals who arrive back in New York City from West Africa after COMING IN DIRECT CONTACT with someone who had Ebola, but are asymptomatic, will be subject to a 21-day home quarantine starting with the date the person last had contact with the infected individual. They will be monitored at least twice daily by a member of the New York State Health Department, and these visits will be unannounced

• Individuals who arrive back in New York City from West Africa after HAVING NO DIRECT CONTACT with someone who had Ebola and are asymptomatic will be evaluated on a case by case basis and not immediately subjected to a quarantine.  They will have their health monitored twice daily by a member of the New York State Health Department for 21 days

“The woman, who was born in Guinea according to the salon worker, was not a health care worker, and therefore not subject to the 21-day home quarantine introduced by New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo in October.

According to a source who was on the scene, the incident occurred just after 3pm on Tuesday. The woman was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.
 

• Tests on her body came back negative for the virus, according to the New York City Department of Health
• A woman dropped dead at hair salon with blood ‘coming from her nose and mouth’ said an eyewitness 
• The woman traveled from Guinea three weeks ago and was being monitored for Ebola said a worker at the salon 
• She was at the salon visiting the owner and believed to have died of a suspected heart attack  

“An FDNY memo in October reportedly instructed all personnel to use more vague terms when discussing Ebola, such as ‘fever travel incident’.”

LiveScience states, “A number of tests can be used to diagnose Ebola within a few days of the onset of symptoms, which can detect the virus’s genetic material or the presence of antibodies against the pathogen. The most accurate of these is likely the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.PCR is a really definitive test,” Hirsch said. It can pick up very small amounts of the virus.

However, this test can be negative during the first three days an infected person has symptoms, said Dr. Sandro Cinti, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of Michigan Hospital System/Ann Arbor VA Health System.

“Somebody could be in the hospital for three to five days before a diagnosis [of Ebola] is confirmed,” Cinti told Live Science.”

Also, when is the last time that anyone who died of a heart attack was bleeding from their eyes, nose and mouth? 

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