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12/5/14: UN peacekeeper in Liberia tests positive for Ebola
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12/5/14: Sierra Leone seeing 80-100 new Ebola cases daily
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12/5/14: Cuba says infected doctor overcomes Ebola
He was treated with the drug ZMapp.
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12/5/14: UN peacekeeper in Liberia tests positive for Ebola
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Dec. 5, 2014 1:09 PM EST
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MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — A U.N. peacekeeper who contracted Ebola in Liberia will be flown to the Netherlands for treatment, a Dutch Health Ministry spokeswoman said Friday.
The Nigerian soldier is expected to arrive in the Netherlands this weekend and will go into isolation at the University Medical Center Utrecht, according to Inge Freriksen.
This is the third infection for the mission, which comprises about 7,700 troops and police. The previous two died.
Sixteen people who came into contact with the Nigerian soldier have been quarantined, the mission said.
Ebola has sickened more than 17,500 people, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. About 6,200 have died.
Liberia has recorded the highest number of cases and deaths, but with infection rates stabilizing there, the government decided to go ahead with a Senate election this month and allowed campaign rallies. This week, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said those events are impeding efforts to contain Ebola and banned all public gatherings until 30 days after results of the Dec. 16 election are announced.
There are concerns that the president may be using Ebola as an excuse after a large crowd rallied in support of former soccer star Geroge Weah, who is running against Sirleaf's son, Robert.
"There is a clear political motive, and that political motive is in the interest of her son," said Tiawan Gongloe, a human rights lawyer who was once a member of Sirleaf's Cabinet.
Meanwhile, in Sierra Leone, where the disease is spreading fastest, 100 Nigerian health workers arrived Friday. Another 25 British doctors and nurses are expected Saturday. Sierra Leone is desperately short of space in Ebola clinics and health workers in hot spots around the capital and in the north.
Ebola has symptoms that are similar to other more common diseases, like malaria, and many people who have shown up at Ebola treatment centers have turned out to be sick with something else. In an effort to keep at least some of those people away from treatment centers, Sierra Leone launched a massive campaign Friday to hand out malaria medication door-to-door to 2.4 million people. Liberia has undertaken a similar campaign.
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12/5/14: Sierra Leone seeing 80-100 new Ebola cases daily
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12/5/14: Sierra Leone seeing 80-100 new Ebola cases daily
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Dec. 5, 2014 1:22 PM EST
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sierra Leone said Friday that between 80 and 100 new cases of Ebola are being reported every day and the country now hardest-hit by the deadly virus desperately needs over 1,000 beds to treat victims.
Sierra Leone's Finance Minister Kaifalah Marah painted a grim picture to the U.N. Economic and Social Council Friday of the challenges facing his West African nation which failed to meet a World Health Organization interim goal of isolating 70 percent of Ebola patients and safely burying 70 percent of victims by Dec. 1.
The two other hard-hit countries, Liberia and Guinea, did meet the deadline, and the U.N.'s Ebola chief Dr. David Nabarro said the number of new cases in Liberia has dropped from 60 per day in September to 10 per day now.
But Nabarro and WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan stressed that Ebola that a much greater effort is needed to reach the elusive goal of zero new cases.
"The Ebola outbreak is the largest, longest, most severe and most complex Ebola epidemic in the nearly 40-year history of this disease," Chan said. "What began as a health crisis has become a crisis with humanitarian, social, economic and security implications."
She said by videoconference from Geneva that "the fear for Ebola is moving faster than the virus."
Marah said as of Thursday there were 6,201 confirmed Ebola cases in Sierra Leone and 1,900 deaths, and the virus is now concentrated in some northern districts and the western area including the capital, Freetown.
Sierra Leone has four functioning treatment centers but it needs 12, and while the number of beds for Ebola sufferers has increased from 212 to 406 it needs 1,500 — which means 1,094 additional beds, he said.
Marah said Sierra Leone also needs 6,000 people to scale-up the tracing of contacts of Ebola victims.
Chan said clinical trials for an Ebola vaccine "look promising," and experimental therapies including some potential cures are also undergoing clinical trials.
"Most experts are convinced that this will not be Africa's last Ebola outbreak," Chan said. "At least 22 African countries ... have the ecological conditions, the wildlife species, and the hunting practices that favor a return of Ebola at some time in the future."
12/5/14: Cuba says infected doctor overcomes Ebola
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12/5/14: Cuba says infected doctor overcomes Ebola
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Dec. 5, 2014 3:16 PM EST
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HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's Health Ministry says a doctor who contracted Ebola during an aid mission in Africa has overcome the disease and will be brought home soon.
The ministry says tests at a hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, confirm that 43-year-old Felix Baez Sarria is now clear of the Ebola virus. The report was carried by Cuban state news media.
Baez is among 165 Cuban medical personnel sent to Sierra Leone to fight the disease. He showed symptoms of the disease on Nov. 16 and was brought to Switzerland for treatment with the experimental drug ZMapp.
It's possible if short sellers pile in and bulls stay on the sidelines. They have roughly 15 trading days left in the month and sellers have been knocking this stock down over $.10 a day between yesterday and today's sessions.
To hit sub-penny, sellers only need to close it $.05 below the previous session over the next 15 trading sessions, assuming that it closes no higher than $.70 today.
With the light volume and lack of bullish support and catalysts, I say they have a pretty good chance of running this stock sub-penny if there are no bullish catalysts or unbelievably huge walls of support hiding below.
The lowest the stock has ever gone is $.24 cents. However, with no confirmed catalysts in sight, lots of shorting and bulls getting off of support - very smart, by the way, when you don't have anything to help hold it up - the sellers could very well run this to sub-pennies.
However, I still believe that it will reset in a big way come 2015. We (Bulls) just have to let the current action play out until the Bears run up into a catalysts and have to cover.
You can verify this activity on Level 2. Very little bullish action. It's mostly selling and covering going on. Support levels are disappearing, helping the price to fall. I don't blame the Bulls for stepping off of the Bid at the current time.
It's a strategic game and you have to know when you need to sit out of the game.
LOL!!!! Classic post.
Dang, loading in the .60s may prove to be SWEET for you. Nice!
That's what happens when bulls leave a stock, there is no confirmed catalyst and short sellers pile in. They are running the show right now. It's the end of the year. It happens year after year in various stocks.
This just happens to be our time on the Wheel of Short Selling.
There is no confirmed catalyst for it to bounce quite yet. Hence, you will continue to see short sellers selling it down and covering at lower prices. They appear to be shorting and covering from each other as no big, solid support levels are listed in the market right now.
You are seeing gravity at work. Bulls (support) are leaving for the time being, which makes it easier to push down the price and cover. There is nothing confirmed to keep them here at the time. If there isn't anyone to hold the stock up, it will fall under its own weight (selling pressure).
In saying that, with the right catalyst, the stock can gap up tremendously and blow right pass short sellers' stop prices on the cover side. Holders and shorters are taking risks here.
$.64 cents or lower may be possible. I would be stupid to say it isn't as the support levels are not holding up.
Short sellers have the advantage due to many factors. If shorting was one of the strategies I was playing right now, I would be shorting here as well.
I am holding for the bounce if it happens next week. However, my binoculars are zeroed in on January 2015 and beyond. Market Reset!!!!!!!
I agree. You either hold or you sell. No reason stressing over it and losing sleep, worrying day and night, etc. You're in or you are out. Better to position in a way that doesn't cause worry and restless nights.
The reality of the situation is that the end of the year presents awesome opportunities to short the market because a shorter can ride the momentum of negative news coming at the end of the year along with tax loss selling. Lighter volume plays a part, too.
Lol! I don't need them although I am taking a nice hit to my account. I am looking at the bigger picture to start early next year and I personally believe IBIO will play a part in it.
If I am wrong, I lose some cash. If I am right, my money grows tremendously.
Nope. However, only two outcomes exist here:
1) The company fails and stockholders lose their money and shorters may make some money.
2) The company is successful and investors and traders make money.
Everything else is noise.
January tends to be a reset button for the market.
It could very well mean a great Friday or a setup for a great Monday as the news make it through the market tomorrow and get discussed by the various talking heads.
12/4/14: Obama to Get Most of $6.2B Request to Fight Ebola
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12/4/14: Obama to Get Most of $6.2B Request to Fight Ebola
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By ANDREW TAYLOR
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WASHINGTON
President Barack Obama will be awarded the bulk of his $6.2 billion request to fight Ebola in Africa, a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee said Thursday. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Thursday that Obama won't get the full $1.5 billion he requested for a contingency fund but he's getting the green light for other portions of the request. Graham is the lead Senate GOP negotiator on the foreign aid budget as lawmakers wrap up talks on a $1 trillion-plus omnibus spending bill in advance of a likely vote next week.
Obama asked for $2 billion for the United States Agency for International Development and $2.4 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services. That money would be used to strengthen the public health system in the U.S., combat the epidemic in West Africa and speed up the development of vaccines and other therapies. The money also would be used to help vulnerable foreign countries detect and respond to the disease.
The administration would establish more than 50 Ebola treatment centers throughout the U.S., buy safety suits and more strictly monitor travelers upon their arrival in the country. Obama also wanted $1.5 billion for a contingency fund to deal with any unanticipated developments such as a new flare-up in West Africa or a need to vaccinate U.S. health care workers. Graham said he wanted to make sure that the contingency fund doesn't amount to a "slush fund" but Obama's other requests were "in the ballpark."
A Senate aide, speaking on condition of anonymity because negotiations are being conducted in secret, said Obama will probably win more than $5 billion of the request. The omnibus spending bill would cover the approximately one-third of the budget dedicated to day-to-day operations of Cabinet agencies. Programs such as Social Security, Medicare and the new health care law are separately paid for in the "mandatory" portion of the federal budget.
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Only two options:
1) company folds, stockholders money is gone.
2) company is successful, traders / investors make money.
Everything else is noise. The company is still here and I believe upcoming catalysts will prove successful.
Two possible outcomes:
1) The company folds and you lose your money if you stay in.
2) The company is successful and you make money if you stay in or trade in and out at the right times.
No other way to look it at.
It tells me not to worry. Just the market being the market at the end of the year. It happens every year in some plays. People tend to sell for tax loss purposes and others short because of lighter volume.
Just the market being the market. It will drive you nuts if you let it. The market, by its very nature, is bipolar.
That could be covering as well, not necessarily big buys from people looking to hold. Doesn't matter much to me. There is room in the market for shorts and longs to make money.
If this stock is driving you crazy and making you sick, you may want to exit. The end of the year is usually a rough one for stocks....its usually a seller / shorter market until January.
The market twists people up at the end of the year. It happens every year in late November through December. Sellers / shorters crush stocks and then Bulls come back in January and kick ass and take names.
Same old same old. Nothing new here. I am focused on seeing IBIO kick ass next year.
I don't stress the day to day so much anymore. I am staying put until the New Year.
Just remember: $100M Registration that was approved by SEC. Even if December is quiet, the PR from the White House indicated ramping up Ebola testing in the beginning of 2015.
December is going to make some peoples' stomachs hurt unless they see the bigger picture beyond December.
Holding here as I received more than enough confirmation that the stuff is going to hit the fan in a good way.
Monitor that $.90 support area today. Yesterday near the close, $172K in support was sitting at the $.90 level. That could not have been all short covering, IMO.
Oh man, you are right. I looked at the chart and see where October was the month of huge spikes. Not one insider sell.
$100M Registration + no insider selling = ????
Starteam, check out Investopedia.com and Fool.com. They have a lot of articles and guides that may help explain some things for you. Also, you can dang near enter anything in Google and get answers.
A company just don't register $100M out of the blue without knowing some concrete info. It was also approved by the SEC.