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CDC Issues Level 3 Travel Alert As 'Largest Ebola Outbreak In History' Spreads
Things appear to be going from worse to worst as the deadly Ebola epidemic surges on. The CDC has issued a Level 3 - Avoid All Non-Essential Travel - warning.
CDC urges all US residents to avoid nonessential travel to Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone because of an unprecedented outbreak of Ebola.
An outbreak of Ebola has been ongoing in Liberia since March 2014.
This outbreak also affects Sierra Leone and Guinea; to date more than 1320 cases have occurred in the three countries and more than 725 people have died, making this the largest outbreak of Ebola in history.
At least three Americans have been infected; two are health care workers in an Ebola clinic. Affected districts include Bomi, Bong, Grand Gedeh, Lofa, Montserrado (including the capital city of Monrovia), Margibi, and Nimba.
Instances of civil unrest and violence against aid workers have been reported in West Africa as a result of the outbreak.
The public health infrastructure is being severely strained as the outbreak grows.
CDC to send additional 50 experts to region in next 30 days.
Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday that even in a best-case scenario, it could easily take three to six months to stem the epidemic in West Africa.
Do not worry though, as the US reassures there is no risk...
- *WHITE HOUSE SAYS `NO INDICATION' OF EBOLA RISK TO U.S.
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Oh absolutely. In fact the chance of ebola becoming vastly more dangerous just went up a lot ... because ebola has "learned" how to reach an urban environment. To now ebola only naturally resides in the countryside. People contract the disease by eating bushmeat (monkeys). After that, it "travels" into cities by suddenly acquiring particular traits that lend it to travel. So for example, being a little less lethal, or having a longer refractory period, or spreading a little easier. These are all the traits of a bug that will be able to randomly leave the countryside and be found in distant cities.
Being able to reach cities is important.
There are many more people, yes, but the virus doesn't see it as people. We are just one huge petri dish the virus can grow in. What it notices however is that the food on which it will feed (that's not the right description, but roll with it) is suddenly much more diverse and interesting. And there are vastly more other type of pathogens present to interact with and "learn" from. That, BTW, is how bird-flu jumps into humans, by learning something from other viriuses that already infect people, but it can only learn that when there are a lot of people with all sorts of different immunological profiles, and alrady carrying a huge number of familiar and non-lethal viral loads.
So the city is the ideal place for ebola to "take it up a notch" on the great scale of scary things.
And that is why I'm a little worried now.
Medical kush to the rescue!
But don't smoke it in Bong.
Randall Flag has already bought up 1/2 of vegas...sorry Via the fed...
It's like a really bad made-for-TV movie based on a super-long novel!
"Americans" ahem returning from Liberia, Nigeria, and so forth are bringing ebola back also. In Charlotte NC there is a VERY interesting case and .gov and the hospital are saying NOTHING:
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/part-cmc-er-roped-officials-say-pa...
More DIEversity for you:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/30/chikungunya-virus-u...
There was a time that Northern Virginia was lovely.
Northern Virginia: 'Ground Zero' for Kissing Bug Disease
Chagas, a disease common in Latin America, is gaining traction among immigrants in the U.S.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/northern-virginia-grou...
dats rayciss?
The first article you refer to in Charlotte says that the patient did NOT exhibit Ebola symptoms. Fear is spreading faster than Ebola. Human nature.
Panic in place
Northern Virginia is for the 1 per centers and the third world. Used to be nice - twenty years ago.
I tend to believe just the opposite of what our highly inept government tells me.
Alex Jones has me soooo scared, I bought some Super male vitality....Hey ladies...whats up!
You better try to get your money back, it's not working.
Bill Gates doing his gods work.
Any truth to the rumor that Soros owns/operates a biowar lab near Kadema, Nigeria?
>> Any truth to the rumor
Does there need to be truth? Fuck no, stir the pot.
Replying because I saw a reference this on a Bloomberg service of some kind a few days ago. I looked at that article at least 3x that day as I was looking for something else. So I know what you meant but damn if I can find any reference to it now! Things that make you say hmmm.
So therefore, here is the one reference I could find to the story now, FWIW. At the time when I first saw the (Bloomberg) source, I was trying to find out why Doctors Without Borders was being stoned in villages, and the story I read said that villagers associated them with this Soros-and-Gates-run lab, which had just (or was just about to?) close.
So here's the rumour FWIW (I can't speak for this source):
http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/george-soros-ebola-and-the-de...
George Soros, his Ebola bioweapons lab and the death of WHO spokesperson Glenn Thomas in the UkraineSome dots for you to connect:
*George Soros’s foundation funds the Kenema bioweapons lab at the focus of the Ebola outbreak, and which is about to be closed, apparently amid an investigation.
* WHO media coordinator Glenn Thomas was highly likely involved in fielding media and other inquries about how WHO view and what it planned to do about the controversial Kenema lab.
Was Glenn Thomas aware of hard evidence showing that the lab was faking positive diagnoses for Ebola — Tulane University? — in order to justify forcing people to undergo treatment which would give them Ebola? Did he refuse to go along with the cover up?
*The mainstream media is silent about the Kenema bioweapons lab closure as well as about the order to Tulane University to stop Ebola testing. So, what other channels are there left for this information to enter the public domain or be spread through social media networks if WHO does not release the information or take action?
I'll help connect the dots, but that isn't the only way to connect them, and it would put a dent in some of his other investments as well as decrease the ROI on the proceeds of his little tiff with Steinmetz...
1) USAMRIID
2) Kenema Lassa Fever Laboratory
3) Metabiota (investor)
MSM news
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/ebola-may-have-bee...
Local news
http://mysierraleoneonline.com/sl_portal/site/news/detail/2525
Soros and Gates should be stoned to death just in case.
An American doctor being treated for Ebola in Liberia has “taken a slight turn for the worse overnight,” according to Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical Christian Charity based in North Carolina.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WorldNews/ebola-stricken-american-doctor-tu...
He yielded the serum to his coworker.
Can't someone blame someone? I blame Obama. There fixed it.
Can't blame Obama, he's from Kenya not Liberia
"White house says no indication of ebola risk to the U.S........."
So keep those borders open and let the new voters come on in. We have an election to win damn it!
Using .gov definitions, the U.S. consists solely of DC and Manhattan, plus wherever a highly-rank U.S. duh-fish-ul person happens to be at the time; the remainder is irrelevant.
"duh-fficial" - nice! As in "we have proof that Russian separatists downed the Malaysian jet, a US duh-fficial stated today".
Looking at that map, it's a good bet this is in Mali too.
Embrace the cultural diversity that Ebola provides you racists!
Disregard.
I think we are all waiting for the "surprise" news of Ebola being in South Texas refugee camps.
Have yet to see this officially classified as Zaire, Sudan, etc.
Likely Zaire but at 60% mortality rate.
Stay cool.
I'm pretty sure this is Zaire.
The reason for the low mortality rate is supportive therapy - particularly IV fluids. As the helath infrastructure is now getting overwhelmed, I expect mortality rate will increase. We'll see.
It might also be that the virus has become slightly less lethal.
If true, that is not good news. One of the things that keeps ebola from spreading is that it outright kills people really fast. It used to be they got sick, and within a day or two they were dead where they lay.
If ebola has learned a new trick, it might be "laying low" for an extended period looking like tiredness or common cold. This allows people to move around -- travel, visit family, take a business trip, fly home -- potentially spreading infection as they go, but certainly leaving the area of epidemic and causing new outbreaks.
Microevolution dictates that pathogens take the infectious route that best propagates them among hosts. For something like ebola, tuning it down a little is actually highly adaptive; it becomes a ninja virus. It need only learn one more trick -- how to become aerosolized via coughs and sneezes -- to make it a very dangerous infectious agent with global implications.
I suspect it is nearly there. What we are seeing in Africa is the spread of something highly lethal but also very mobile, that is taking seasoned professionals by surprise.
Bad News:
I got the ebola today.
Good News:
I arranged a visit to see my ex-wife.
make sure u kiss her
Make sure you tour the White House, Pentagon, Federal Resserve, and Capitol Building.
And visit the nearest brokerage or home mortgage lender on your way out.
They say so 700 or so have died 1200 have contracted it. But it's like,,,how the fuck do "they (whoever "they are") know? A lot of these places in Africa haven't even been introduced to the pencil and paper yet. Most of the aide workers have either i. died, ii. left.
The number could 4, 5, 6 thousand how the fuck would anyone be the wiser?
I live in a first world country and my country lies like a motherfucker but I'm supposed to trust the Liberian government?
Nigeria is currently trying to track down 30,000 people thought to have had contact.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ebola-spiders-web-infection-grow...
These fuckin cunts. We're never going to know the truth about what's going on until this Ebola shit is knocking down our front doors.
Wasn't it about 600 cases last week? Now 1320. That's a pretty big jump.
no worries, it will stop increasing around 7,000,000,000
that's the official count. i'm sure there is probably others that aren't in the official stats.
More like 1000, but it's still a big jump to 1320. Plenty scary.
Only sure way is to nuke it from orbit.
The sad thing is that our illustrious global leaders have their sociopathic heads so far up their asses that they can't see what's going on. The stock response is to throw more bureaucracy at it. Like the the organism gives a shit about Fabian Socialism.
And wasn't Globalization suppose to be all leprechauns, rainbows and sunshine farts.
The long incubation period (up to 21 days) makes it far easier for the disease to spread than a disease which shows more immedate effects. Right now there are likely dozens of people who are unknowingly infected and have left the quarantine areas. When they finally do fall ill and become contagious they will be exposing whole new areas to the disease. An infected individual could easily be in Europe already but they haven't developed symptoms yet so their presence is not known. Early care givers risk becomming infected because they don't know what they are dealing with. Fully clamping down on the outbreak will be very difficult if governments don't limit travel to and from those countries with active outbreaks.
the chances that someone in manhattan or queens has it is probably pretty good - can you imagine if even a few people have this in NYC?
Not to be all doom porny - but I don't see how this doesn't end up in NYC. If I've taken 50 cabs total in nyc ever, I maybe had 2 or 3 guys, literally, who were native-born americans. A lot are African as well as Paki and Haitian and Puerto Rican. It makes for a town with great restaurants and clubs, but a nightmare of viral vectoring,.,.
"left the quarantine areas"
There is no such thing till they hit a hospital. They didn't even start closing borders till Tuesday of this week.
AVATAR (by James Cameron) Giovanni Ribisi argues with Sigourney Weaver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PuXMBXSAOc (1:47)
Pandora Discovered
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBGDmin_38E (4:08)
Guy goes to the Dr. Dr. says "you got ebola and althzheimers" Guy says "thank god I don't have ebola"
edit: Too soon?
A guy goes to his Doctor..and his Doctor says I have some good news and some bad news....the patient says.OK..what is the good news..the Doc says you have 24 hours to live...the guy chokes and yells what???? That is the good news...then WTF is the bad news??? The Doc says I could not get a hold of you yesterday.....
Wasn't too worried until I read the last line: *WHITE HOUSE SAYS `NO INDICATION' OF EBOLA RISK TO U.S. We're fucked!
Right. Same group of people that said there was no housing bubble, Russia is not a threat, Al Queda was beaten, etc...
...Those IRS email are lost forever, 9/11 was pulled off by dudes in caves, Bin Laden survived for a decade on dialysis in a third-world country, the job market is improving, Obama's birth certificate is real, Obama is a heterosexual Christian man, Reggie Love is just a really close friend...
The even made a sime to show you the horror of modern travel. Be the virus its best to start out in Africa so as to get a good start
http://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/
Down load for your convience on pads tabs and PC ......BITCHEZ
Still in early realse, wait for the non-beta version. If we live that long.
The last great pandemic in history, the Great Influenza of 1918, went from obscure to worldwide because of WWI. Soldiers barracked cheek by jowl, sailors piled on each other in ships, spread the infection to each other and then to the civilian population where, by some estimates, 10% of the human race died. Except for public transportation and dance clubs, we tend to give each other a fair bit of room these days.
Though, thinking of the refugee camps of the ME and American's custom of incarcerating otherwise inoffensive people, there are pockets where a nice pool of infection could fester. Will Barry and the Neocons stop financing Islamic militias and Israel, and maybe end the Drug War? I'm not holding my breath.
How many cases do you think they are already hiding in the U.S.?
In theory, zero. In past years that would simply have been the case.
However I think this thing got ahead of them, and they have a few already, up to a dozen.
Doesn't sound like much, but that's something like having "a few" nuclear weapons running around loose. Not because of any real health threat but because of the role a panic would play if it ever turns out that someone slipped between the cracks and ran around in LA for a week before crashing out in the living room of their apartment in a huge apartment complex.
Sounds like a horror thriller to me. But might already be in the mill.
BREAKING <but not fully confirmed>:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201407310676.html?aa_source=slideout
INDICATIONS emerged, yesterday, that one of the 15 airport contacts that assisted the late Liberian, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, that died of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, may have contracted the deadly virus.
Unconfirmed reports revealed that already the contact has begun to manifest symptoms of Ebola Virus.
According to a member of the Joint Federal and State Team on Ebola outbreak who preferred anonymity; one of the persons who accompanied late Patrick Sawyer is already showing signs of Ebola.
The reliable source confirmed receipt of a short message service, SMS, text that the person who assisted late Patrick Sawyer to move out of the plane is presenting symptoms, identifiable with EVD. "In fact, I just got a text that the person who helped Sawyer, the Liberian, to get out of the air plane is down with a suspected case of Ebola. You can see we have to be very careful. I cannot say specifically whether he or she is a Nigerian or in Nigeria right now. He is still being monitored as we speak," he said.
He added that the latest victim was among those who were being quarantined for having first contact with the victim.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Government in a swift reaction through a text message said that no one of the 59 contacts is sick for now. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Health, Dr. Yewande Adeshina who responded through a text message said: "It is not true. We are doing routine surveillance, no one is sick."
It would be recalled that the Lagos State Government, Monday, disclosed that not less than 59 persons that had contact with the victim of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, Patrick Sawyer, who died in Lagos last Thursday have been identified and that the Joint Federal and State Team in collaboration with other health organisations on prevention of Ebola outbreak in Lagos, have begun close monitoring of the 59 persons.
Didn't earlier reports state that some of those 59 people simply buggered off without being detained or saying anything, and that the airline couldn't produce a passenger manifest for the flight?
He had 30000 in direct contact. That's 2000 cases by my back of the Ebola soaked tissue math.
yep, this has the potential to be a win for eugenics lovers.
we'll know for sure by mid-august.
Probably not 30k, not it close enough contact, but maybe several hundred. I would think from that, 20-40 direct new cases of infection, all of whom die.
Though these are cases outside the infectious zone among people unfamiliar with the disease, so who knows what additional harm could be expected.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ebola-spiders-web-infection-grow...
Read.
Read it.
Not impressed with the source. If the 30k number is an estimate of all the people the guy might have walked past in 4 airports then that says something about contracting the disease that does not align with our understanding of the bug. If someone thinks ebola has become airborne then that's big news -- really huge news -- that I don't see being reported and that does not align with how the virus is seen moving around between known victims, who so far have all been in places where physical contact was likely.
Now, if we see a housewife in Colorado come down with ebola, who only happened to be in Africa for a laid-over flight on her way from somwhere else -- then we have a big big problem. At the moment, not so much.
Though yes if that housewife can only point to having walked passed a bunch of Africans in an airport, then 30K is by no means a large number and in fact I'd think globally more like 300K.
At this level I think it is a true test of the risk. If it doesn't turn into a massive pandemic, then it isn't as bad as we think. But if it does, well, let's just hope it doesn't.
The flu kills over 250k worldwide each year.
...but the flu's mortality rate is pretty low.
It wasn't that low in 1918. Cytokene storms are a real bitch, especially if you're young and healthy.
My point was just that even though 250k die from the flu, it's a small proportion of the total infected. IF Ebola became mutated into something more contagious, while maintaining its virulence (and I don't see that there's any selection pressure to encourage evolution towards a lower-mortality strain) the numbers would be bad in a way the world hasn't ever experienced.
I know. I was just picking nits. Sorry. It's a bad habit of mine.
As for ebola maintaining its virulence after mutating, it would probably have to do so under conditions that hold some similarities to the conditions that gave rise to the Spanish flu. Also, as Cougar said somewhere else in this thread, becoming a tad less deadly could be bad. I can see something that has a 25% mortality rate spreading a lot further than something that has a 90% mortality rate. Becoming contagious BEFORE symptoms appear would also be bad news.
I am long WitchDocters and short Chickens
Don't you mean long witch doctors and long chicken as the witch doctors will be using a lot of them and demand will skyrocket?
What do you have against tall chickens?
"CDC to send additional 50 experts to region in next 30 days."
Two points:
1) Who are the 50 lucky people?
2) Please don't bring them back.
They are all Japanese.
It could wipe out a large proportion of the populations of these countries. It is not as if they can vaccinate or do anything like that. They can't do anything about it but quarantine but who do they do that to and where? In addition local customs and ignorance seem to accelerate the spread of the virus. Some of the early carriers just ran away from hospital when they found out.
The world has not seen anything like this since Spanish flu in 1919 when millions died. They didn't have low cost mass international travel then either.
Those countries in the West with large populations from West Africa, who may be regarded as safe sanctuaries, are particularily at risk.
With contagion via bodily fluids and short range in the air (sneezing) this will be hard to stop.
They are going to have to stop air travel to these countries soon.
http://newamerica-now.blogspot.com/2014/07/what-we-know-about-latest-ebo...
fucking bullish
I hope this doesn't somehow screw up the wire transfer I'm expecting for helping out that Nigerian prince.
Stay away from diamond smugglers’.
1995 The Ebola Virus
/LOL
You do know that this is outbreak originated in the diamond fields of Guinea... right across the border from the blood diamond fields of Sierra Leone, and the other border with Chuck Taylor's personal diamond stash for Naomi Campbell (where even absent ebola I wouldn't recommend going without a rifle squad for backup)
When it comes to the US, no eating out food, avoid crowds, cash anything anything else that can spread this. The healthcare people are in trouble.
This will tank an already fragile economy.
The terroist can send loads of Ebola infected illegals into the waiting arms of the Obama libtards.
Bullish for bitcoin :)
(Takes coat and leaves)
It's too bad we live in an age where political correctness trumps the well being and safety of our people. Africans are now being illegally imported into Europe and by the boatload too. Our liberal policy will force them to stay, even if they do import the ebola virus. And they will bring it to Europe and to the USA. It's only a matter of time.
Sooner than you think. They may be here already.
Germany has taken Ebola patients.
crazy
I think the bola you speak of just neged you. Didn't like being outed.
Is it just merely a coincidence that these countries have to lowest IQ in the world?
Liberia 67 Guinea 67 Sierra Leone 64
It seems IQ doesn't give you immunity.
Correct that IQ doen't give you immunity however, it does give one the ability to combat it more effectively. At least I believe that anyone with an IQ better than 85 wouldn't "rescue" someone who has been quarantined for Ebola.
Which is why Senators fly on private jets.
I think that the conspiracy people will say that this "outbreak" might cynically be looked at as fortuitous, if not an outright manufactured flag.
Just think, TPTB now have an "excuse" for a) not being seen in public. b) isolating the general public, by force, if necessary. The build up in "civilian" law enforcement isn't enough to drag you all into a fema camp. It is, however, perhaps enough to provide protection for a chosen few until this thing burns out.
Obamacare did not have the desired effect. Had it not been so incompetently implemented and initiated, one can only imagine how it would have provided the perfect compliment to a massive, worldwide, contagion as it ravishes the US.
Don't worry. I'm sure glad that all those first responders had all that DHS-sponsored chem warfare and anti-terrorist training and protective gear/gas masks/NBC suits issued to them. I'm positive that no one would have ever thought that it would ultimately be used to combat ebola.
This is a nightmare that we won't be awakened from. Since it's likely that this shit storm was thought up by the same Dr. No that cooked up 911 (or he was one of the then resident Drs) and a host of other douchebaggery, we probably won't find out exactly who it is. I expect that the rat will be eaten by the master rats, because even THAT evil rat knows too much.
Unfortunately the rat will likley die from a heart attack or be slipped an ebola cocktail. Oh the humanity.
They ate fruit bats which is the original host.
Clearly the IQ test is rayciss.
I'm sure the Jews have all been vaccinated at their Jewish clinics months ago.
Surprising that the terrorist groups have not employed a few suicidal carriers.....buy them airtickets to NYC, for example.
nice time to have a president ignoring the borders
How long do you think we would have to self quarantine?
thanks
Prepare for three to six months of isolation.
I feel better already knowing the Bamster is on the case.
But he is safe. Remember when the Mexican guy got Swine Flu and Obama was with him, WH said Obama's health was never at risk? Then they put Mexico City under martial law.
If this were the year 1900 and there was an ebola breakout in France, there would be a huge sign on Ellis Island saying, "All Frenchman Go Home" "Frenchman Not Welcome." But, nope, today we'd rather be politically correct sissies.
.
Well it's not like anyone can just come across our border and infect everyone.
oops.
LA gang bangers
with ebola .....
The official CDC website details ‘Specific Laws and Regulations Governing the Control of Communicable Diseases’, under which even healthy citizens who show no symptoms of Ebola whatsoever would be forcibly quarantined at the behest of medical authorities”
Sierra Leone declares martial law over EbolaJuly 31, 2014
*Sierra Leone mobilizes police and military “to make sure people cooperate with medical teams”
*Ebola epicentres to be quarantined
*Towns and homes to be sealed off until “cleared” by medical teams
*”Active surveillance and house to house searches” of Ebola victims and people “who might have been exposed.”
*Restrictions on public meetings and gatherings
*New protocols for screening passengers at airport
Read more about the declaration of emergency by the Sierra Leone government at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/31/sierra-leone-declares-state-of-emergency-in-ebola-crisis/
http://birdflu666.wordpress.com
"i will not calculate your chances, but you have my sympathies."
-Synthetic human; Alien
I just heard a CDC guy on the radio lying, he said "if you been in contact with an exposed person but they have no symptoms don't worry, you're safe"
Which of course is a lie. http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/vhf-interim-guidance.pdf they don't known when an exposed person becomes contagious.
He didn't say exactly when an "exposed person" becomes contagious, because they don't know, somewhere between 2-21 days.
Oh ya, and the DNA residue can be contagious for up to 23 days unless decontaminated. (from the CDC itself).
CDC says it is hard to get. It has to be direct contact with blood or other body fluids.
The CDC are as usual still fighting the last war.
Government efficiency at its best.
Never believe the government....great rule of thumb.
http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2014/07/ebola-what-you-are-not-being-tol...
+1 We had the same thing in mind, see my post (6 minutes after yours)
There is evidence that suggests Ebola can be transmitted through the air, via water vapor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnQVUf775VE
Worth a look, I think.
I'm not questioning how lethal this virus is, but why didn't the rest of the flight where that Canadian doctor get quarantined as well. Where the frig are those people traveling to and spreading it ?!
Perhaps it's a diversion from the slaughter at Gaza.
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/is-it-ebola-or-is-it-psycho...
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/ebola-2-here-come-the-globa...
Thats what I said last night, genocide so you must distract with really scary news.
On the other hand I do think they could and would try this.
Mable, better dust off that gas mask and fidn those boxes of duck tape.
Ebola is already in the US:
http://m.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/emory-healthcare-to-treat-ebola...
An ugly thought just hit me; what if this is all part of a grand scheme to get us all into quarantine (read FEMA) camps. The government deems you a threat (that would be most ZHers), claims that you've been exposed to Ebola and off you go, never to be seen again. Now, that's scary.
Ya but it's for the children.
+1 for finding a way to make it for the children
Thats what they said in Africa. They tested you and gave you the virus.
If Ebola comes to the U.S.
I vote we use The Whitehouse and Capital Hill for the containment area...
damn there goes by Summer in Sierra Leone vacation plans....
On the flights from South Africa to the US several airlines have to refuel in Dakar, Senegal, before continuing on to the US as they are going westbound against the winds. No passengers leave the aircraft but several Senegal functionaries come on board and run up and down the aisle a few times. Senegal borders Guinea. Just one sneeze by one of the Senegal dudes and, if he is infected, there you are.
Two quarantined and 69 under surveillance in Nigeria
http://en.starafrica.com/news/nigeria-2-quarantined-over-ebola-virus.html
Hundreds of Ivory Coast refugees in Liberia blocked from returning
http://www.newsweek.com/fear-ebola-spread-causes-ivory-coast-turn-away-r...
Seirra Leone players and officials barred from boarding plane in Kenya, were to travel to Seychelles
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/07/31/4264880/s-leone-players-barred-fro...
U.S.-contracted medical charter flight leaves to evacuate Writebol, Brantly
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/07/31/5078532/charlotte-missionary...
emory university hospital expecting ebola patient
http://m.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/emory-healthcare-to-treat-ebola...
Suspected ebola in Charlotte hospital turns out to be malaria
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/part-cmc-er-roped-officials-say-pa...
Woman quarantined in Hong Kong, ill after returning from trip to unspecified African country.
http://qz.com/242342/passengers-are-being-tested-for-ebola-in-hong-kong-...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2710620/It-scares-Jesus-outta-Ou...
Tennessee doctor self-quarantines at home after return from Africa
http://www.wate.com/story/26165683/morristown-doctor-home-in-quarantine-...
"Ebola detection kits deployed to all 50 U.S. states
Although the federal government's official reaction to all this is low-key, in truth the U.S. government is rapidly preparing for the possibility of an Ebola outbreak reaching the continental USA.
As reported above, the U.S. Department of Defense already has a $140 million contract awarded to Tekmira for its Ebola treatment drugs.
Additionally, as SHTFplan.com reports: (5)
The Department of Defense informed Congress that it has deployed biological diagnostic systems to National Guard support teams in all 50 states, according to a report published by the Committee on Armed Services. Some 340 Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System (JBAIDS) units have thus far been given to emergency response personnel. The systems are "rapid, reliable, and [provide] simultaneous identification of specific biological agents and pathogens."
On one hand, we might all applaud the government's preparedness actions in all this. It's smart to have diagnostic systems deployed nationwide, of course. But it begs the question: When was the government planning on telling the public about all this? Probably never. There's no sense in causing a panic when half the people won't survive an outbreak anyway, they figure."
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