Ebola outbreak: '80 monitored' in Dallas, Texas

Texas health officials are monitoring as many as 80 people for Ebola after a man was diagnosed with the disease in Dallas, officials have told US media.

About 12-18 people, including five children, had contact with Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan, who is in a serious condition in hospital.

The larger number includes individuals who had contact with those people.

Four of Mr Duncan's relatives have been ordered to stay home and not receive visitors until 19 October.

In a statement, Texas health officials said a "strict public health control order is needed to ensure compliance".

"This order gives us the ability to monitor the situation in the most meticulous way," Dr David Lakey, Texas health commissioner, said.

Dallas County Health and Human Services spokeswoman Erikka Neroes told CNN that about 80 people in the area - the patient's contacts and people with whom they had contact - were being monitored for signs of the illness.

A private security guard patrols the Ivy Apartments, where Mr Duncan was staying before being brought to hospital

The disease, which is not contagious until symptoms appear, is spread via close contact with bodily fluids.

Mr Duncan is thought to have contracted the virus in Liberia.

The Liberian national came to the US nearly two weeks ago to visit relatives and he is the first man to be diagnosed with Ebola while in the US.

Five young children who were in contact with him have been told to stay home from school.

#Ebola? Two Liberian Muslims Went Missing in Virginia

OCTOBER 1, 2014 BY CHARLES C. JOHNSON 1 COMMENT

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Is Virginia Beach the scene of the next outbreak?

Two Muslim Arab men in their twenties went missing from a Liberian freighter that docked in Virginia earlier this week, Gotnews.com has learned.

Liberia is the epicenter of a Ebola stricken area. Local law enforcement as well as federal law enforcement are on the hunt for the Muslim men, according to Gotnews.com sources in local and Department of Homeland Security.

“When they checked the passenger manifest the two men were gone,” our former law enforcement source told us. “An alert has gone out to all law enforcement in the area.”

Two law enforcement sources in Virginia have confirmed that the status of the hunt is law enforcement personnel only.

Gotnews.com will report more as we learn it.

Arizona court bans ex-Pinal judge from judicial service (200,000 missing)

Arizona court bans ex-Pinal judge from judicial service

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CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — The state Supreme Court has banned a former Pinal County justice of the peace from ever working again as a judge in Arizona.

The Casa Grande Dispatch reports that the court's Sept. 23 order follows a lengthy investigation into the Maricopa-Stanfield Justice Court formerly overseen by Scott Sulley.

Sulley was placed on administrative leave early this year after the problems surfaced. The problems included missing records and $200,000 unaccounted for.

The Supreme Court determined that Sulley failed to effectively oversee court administration, prohibited staff training and created a hostile work environment. It said Sulley also made discriminatory comments and demonstrated poor demeanor, professionalism and decorum during his 10-year tenure.

Sulley did not attend an Aug. 8 hearing by the state judicial conduct commission or appeal its findings and recommendations.

Authorities Confirm First Ebola Case Diagnosed in U.S.

ATLANTA – A patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas tested positive for Ebola, becoming the first person to be diagnosed with the often-deadly virus in the United States, authorities said on Tuesday.

“It is certainly possible that someone who had contact with this individual ... could develop Ebola in the coming weeks,” Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told a press conference in Atlanta.

“But there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here,” he said.

The patient traveled to Texas from Liberia, one of the countries hit hardest by the current Ebola outbreak, on Sept. 20 and did not develop any symptoms until five days later, the CDC said.

The other passengers aboard the flight from Liberia are not at risk, Frieden said.

Even so, he said, the CDC will seek to track down anyone who might have been in contact with the patient once he became infectious.

The patient remains in isolation at the hospital in Dallas.

Four U.S. physicians and aid workers who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia have been brought back to the United States. Three have been successfully treated and released. The fourth remains at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital.

Ebola has killed more than 3,000 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria and Senegal, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization.

Gunmen Kill 5 in Mexican Pacific Resort City

MEXICO CITY – Gunmen killed five young people in Acapulco, a city in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, prosecutors said Tuesday.

The bodies of the victims, who ranged in age from 20 to 25, were found inside a house in the Pacific resort city’s Jardin-Mangos district, the Guerrero Attorney General’s Office said.

Federal Police officers and army troops were deployed in the area to assist AG’s office crime scene investigators.

The investigation to “locate and arrest those who committed the multiple murder” is ongoing, the AG’s office said.

At least 12 people have been murdered in Guerrero since last Friday.

A conservative National Action Party, or PAN, politician and three students are among the victims, and more than 50 other students are missing.

State officials blamed the attacks on municipal police officers and organized crime groups.

Mexico ( Classmates of Missing Mexican Students Storm State Capitol )

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico – Classmates of more than 50 college students who went missing over the weekend in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero pelted the state capitol with rocks on Monday and demanded the resignation of Gov. Angel Aguirre.

Some 3,000 students, teachers and family members of the missing young people marched peacefully to the legislative building in Chilpancingo, Guerrero’s capital.

But during a protest in front of the capitol, youths wearing hoods broke through the security barriers and hurled rocks at the building, destroying the glass facade. Police did not intervene.

The protesters demanded justice for six people killed last Friday night in the town of Iguala, including three students from the Ayotzinapa Normal Rural teachers college.

They also demanded the safe return of their Ayotzinapa classmates, who remain missing after the violence of last Friday.

Administrators at Ayotzinapa Normal said 56 students were missing, while the state government put the number at 57.

The incident started when “a group of police officers tried to cut off the buses” carrying the young people, an Ayotzinapa Normal student who witnessed the violence told Efe.

“After a struggle, the (municipal) police officers used their arms against the students, who had just finished taking up a collection to cover the expenses of the boarders at the Normal (School),” the student said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Mexico’s normal schools train future primary-school instructors.

More than 20 classmates were taken away in patrol cars with the numbers 017, 018, 020, 022 and 028, the student said, adding that “nothing has been heard from them.”

A group of armed civilians attacked the students just before midnight Friday as they held a press conference, killing two young people.

“We all ran away from there, it was very dark and all you heard were the blasts, the comrades dispersed and we have not learned of the whereabouts of at least 30 of them who are still missing,” the student said.

Authorities found the body the next day of Julio Cesar Mondragon, lying 500 meters (about 1,640 feet) from the scene of the second attack.

Mondragon’s face had been flayed and his eyes removed, the kind of mutilation typical of underworld killings.

Three people, including a minor, were killed in another attack on Friday night targeting a bus carrying the Third-Division Avispones soccer team from Chilpancingo.

Relatives fear that an organized crime group may be holding the missing students and called on army and police commanders to speed up the search.

Classmates and relatives have been searching for the missing students, who range in age from 18 to 25, since Saturday, contacting hospitals and the morgue in Iguala, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Chilpancingo.

Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca told MVS radio that he was informed on Friday night of disturbances involving the students, who allegedly beat and robbed people attending an official event in the town’s main plaza.

Security Secretary Felipe Flores was given orders to monitor the situation but “not touch anyone,” Abarca told the radio station on Monday.

The mayor said he learned about “the deaths of some people” via social networks and media reports early Saturday.

Twenty-two police officers have been arrested in connection with the wave of violence, which also left 17 people wounded, the Guerrero state government said.

Iran ( 2 women are scheduled to be executed tomorrow morning )

Posted on: 29th September, 2014                         

                   

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HRANA News Agency – Reyhane Jabbari and Ashraf Nazari have been transferred to solitary confinements of Rajai Shahr Prison and will be executed tomorrow morning.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Reyhane Jabbari who is charged with murder has been transferred from Gharchak Prison in Varamin to solitary confinements of Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj today.
Her case had attracted the attention of Human Rights Organizations in recent months and her trial was recognized as an unfair one.
Along with her, Ashraf Nazari who is also charged with murder has been transferred from Gharchak prison to Rajai Shahr Prison and will be executed tomorrow morning.
Reyhane Jabbari has committed murder when she was 19 years old and was sentenced to death after serving 7 years in prison. She accepted the charge but stated that the man wanted to rape her and she has defended herself.