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New York City Hospital Quarantines Man With Ebola-Like Symptoms Who Walked Into ER
UPDATE (via Mt.Sinai Press Conference):
BREAKING. Mt. Sinai official: odds are this is NOT Ebola.
— Charlie Kaye (@CharlieKayeCBS) August 4, 2014
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NYC's Mount Sinai Hospital testing sickened patient who recently returned from a country where Ebola has been reported - @ABCNewsHealth
— ABC News (@ABC) August 4, 2014
A patient at Mount Sinai hospital is being tested after traveling to a country where the Ebola virus is present, the hospital said in a statement.
The man arrived at Mount Sinai’s emergency room early Monday morning with high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms.
The man told doctors he had recently traveled to a West African country where Ebola is present, the hospital said.
The man has been placed in “strict isolation” and is undergoing various tests to determine the cause of the symptoms, the hospital said.
All appropriate steps to keep patients, staff and visitors safe are being taken, the hospital said.
Let's hope we do not start adding to this...
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A hospital spokeswoman, Dorie Klissas, said that to protect the patient’s privacy the hospital was not making public his occupation, which country he had been in, whether he had been exposed to a patient with Ebola there, or whether he had close contacts like family members, friends or co-workers who were also at risk. Ms. Klissas said the patient’s blood was being tested for Ebola, but she declined to say when the test results would be available.
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Ian Michaels, a spokesman for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, said that another patient was isolated at a hospital in the city last week after arriving on a flight from West Africa and showing symptoms found in Ebola patients.
That man was screened at Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday night and taken to Bellevue Hospital. He had a fever, but within a day the fever had gone away and it became clear that he did not have Ebola. Mr. Michaels did not know the details of the tests performed on the man.
“We are on a heightened state of alert,” he said. “We have instructed all 11 of our hospitals to follow C.D.C. guidelines and be on the lookout for Ebola-like symptoms.”
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As we noted previously, this is what to expect if Ebola comes to America
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Here is the internal email from Mt. Sinai:
Subject: Patient with Febrile Illness and Recent Travel to West Africa
TO: All Faculty, Staff and Students
FROM: Kenneth L. Davis, MD
Chief Executive Officer and President
Mount Sinai Health System
Dennis S. Charney, MD
Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
President for Academic Affairs
Mount Sinai Health System
DATE: August 4, 2014
RE: Patient with Febrile Illness and Recent Travel to West Africa
A patient with high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms, after recent travel to a West African country where Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has been reported, presented to the Emergency Department at The Mount Sinai Hospital last night. The patient has been placed in strict isolation, and is currently undergoing medical screenings to determine the cause of the symptoms. All necessary steps are being taken to ensure the safety of all patients, visitors and staff.
The Incident Command Centers of The Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai Health System have been activated and are working together in a unified fashion. The Mount Sinai Health System has been activated to a (HICS) Level 1 Alert. The Mount Sinai Hospital has been activated to (HICS) Level 2.
The Department of Emergency Management and the Division of Infectious Diseases at The Mount Sinai Hospital are employing all necessary infection control measures to protect patients and staff and to continue to provide the best care to our patients. It is important to note that EVD can only be transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids. The infection cannot be transmitted through casual contact.
General Information Regarding EVD:
- As of August 1, 2014, approximately 1,300 cases (suspected and confirmed) had been reported in the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
- EVD is a severe, often fatal disease (case fatality is 55 to 60%).
- Along with direct contact with bodily fluids, including infected blood, urine, sweat, semen and breast milk, exposure to objects (e.g., needles, sharps) contaminated with infected bodily fluids can spread the infection.
- Patients with EVD are potentially infectious from onset of fever until weeks or months after recovery.
- Ebola symptoms can appear from 2 to 21 days after exposure to the virus, with 8 to 10 days being the most common. Symptoms typically include fever, headache, muscle and joint pain (myalgias/arthralgias), weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.
- Hemorrhagic symptoms include broken blood vessels in the eyes (conjunctival hemorrhage), easy bruising, and GI bleeding.
Reporting:
Contact the Infectious Disease Attending on call or Infection Control for further guidance.
Immediately report all suspected cases of EVD to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOH) at 866-692-3641
866-692-3641 .
For additional, accurate information, please visit the CDC’s webpage: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola.
We will continue to keep you updated.
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@proofreder...
whew! for a minute there, i thought there may be some cause for concern. fortunately, you're here to redeem us from our folly and convincingly allay all concerns viz. our government and its proclivity for conspiracy. boy, is my face ever red. i, for one, cannot blame any who lay suspicion at DC's door -- at any and all occasion arousing suspicion. it's becoming my first and reflexive instinct. but, again, whew! your tidy lil explanation of this ebola's operative mechanics sure made me feel like an ass. when will i ever feel whole and respectable again?
do you have any fuckin idea the level of our 'involvement' in sierra leone, libera, guinea, IC...etc., etc. etc...along africa's western coast (particularly in that area). knowing this, and understanding the operative mechanisms by which uncle sam plies his trade, you want us to feel inferior and/or insecure in our well-warranted suspicion?
by-the-by, what if i felt it in the best interest to cultivate an atmosphere of dubious suspicion with respect to our 'public-servants' down in DC? i don't think you'll do a fuckin thing about it, bitch. and i furthermore have my doubts about you. you didn't give one goddam reason why that virus wasn't in any way manipulated or planted in the most-delicious fruit-bat population...no you just rambled on briefly about that general virus-family-tree, gave some overview of it's protein density and followed up with its favored nesting sites. you offered nothing to prove that it's a natural and spontaneous event.
very unHedgelike, dude.
a lil advice: that preening tone of yours is nauseating...best work on that, lest i do it for you.
i can't tell whether your being sarcastic or not...couldn't take that chance,
janus
Mary Sherman's monkey...
SV-40
That is one sickening and crazy story...highly recommended...
A youtube interview with the author is a mind-boggling eye-opener. Including how Lee Harvey O was involved....
Reality is totally bizarre...
I had read the SV40 with the Merck Dr. involved that knew of the virus/vaccine & gave her passing mention. Never had any idea of the poor woman's demise. The web is intriguing & the author is in the catbird seat regarding the whispers not to mention knowing her from childhood. The collider is an interesting spoke in this wheel. The Oswald angle is interesting too, especially coupled with Michael Ruppert & William Coopers take on the assasination, plus EO11110 & LBJ making boatloads with his C-ration interests during the VN war.
It's piqued my interest & moved to the top of my reading list.
Can you imagine if we knew what these evil people were really up to & what we have no clue of?
double post.
err'd to unknown screen with comments full wide.
Keep getting maintenance mode also.
Anyone else?
Well these figures still aren't as bad as Chiraq, and you don't even need a Visa to go there.
pods
Crap, first McMolotove with his Ricola crack, and now you with "Chirqa" comment. So now I can think of is the Ricola guy saying "black Jaque Shellaque"
http://youtu.be/FKXOevtekJI
I'm still cackling.
<cough cough> Eeeeebola.
Sucks but what can you do? There is nothing you can do, and if you try and control something like this (as an individual) you will go crazy.
Sometimes a small chuckle is a way of dealing with stuff out of your control.
Keeps you from setting yourself on fire?
Speaking of that, has AnAnonymous checked in today?
pods
It's called gallows humor, and it is a good thing when it comes to keeping your sanity.
Someone say "gallows humor" SPIDER!
"It's gallows humor from here on out."
—Me, sometime last year, probably when I was slightly inebriated
My wife is in the city right now. I am not sure what to do but I will probably at least hit her with the power washer when she gets home.
Do you have an old copy of Silkwood fonz?
Last week I said ZH was taking doom porn to the next level.
I spoke too soon.
To lighten the mood you could meet her at the door dressed in full tyvek, gloves and a mask. And then ask her to cough into a petri dish.
Do let us know later how that goes.
17,000 a year from drunk driving, and lord knows how many more from all the trigger happy cops, HLS, etc. One thing is for sure, humans remain the number one threat to humans. :)
The good news is nobody is gonna get off this spinning ball alive!
~ SD
17,000 a year from drunk driving, and lord knows how many more from all the trigger happy cops, HLS, etc. One thing is for sure, humans remain the number one threat to humans. :)
The good news is nobody is gonna get off this spinning ball alive!
~ SD
It's actually the 'eyes and ears' part I'm looking forward to least. I think that part's going to be creepy as hell.
I'm imagining something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtdvE2yJTgs
Great. A week ago I didn't know how to spell hemmoraghic fever. Now I am going through that puddle of chick goo in my mind.
So sorry, you still can't spell it.
Well, at least we can be happy it's the "Summa a Rekovery":
http://www.wsaz.com/home/headlines/Alpha-Natural-Resources-Announces-110...
Damn it....
You could also replace the alphorn with a squishy fart noise, indicating anal bleeding/sharting.
One of my high school friends was named Riicola -with two i's.The better to see with he would say. Think it is a Swiss name. He became a medical doctor
I bet he answers the phone like the Ricola guy: "Dr. Riiiiiiiiiicolaaaaaa speaking"
The funniest Thing writen her ever
I pronounce it...
OOOOOOOOO-Bolaaaaaaaaaaaa
In honor of the usurper
That's catchy. Try this one also....Barrack Hussein Ebola....kinda flows well also, eh?
http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/764814extrastrengthbag.jpg
God, I don't want this to happen. Life has been so easy/wonderful. I hope this passes quickly and harms nobody I know/love.
No worries, NYC should just ban ebola.
Oh shit, that's not a soft drink???
ebola cola.
All the lib politicians have to do is make an "Ebola Free Zone". We're all safe then! Problem solved.
OH, hell no.
No. Just no. No.
Whats that formula for how fast panic grows?
Fitting, I think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GgKpRM0zBs
Remind me again how many people pass out in a pool of vomit and sweat in New York......
What holiday?
Drunk, shooting galleries or disease?
I put two dollars on a nail gun, but I never win football bets either.
The vampires that run the world put so much work into manufacturing these crises, then puff them up thru media attention, only to let them fade away a week later.
Just practicing I guess
Thats the key. Even if his face exploded and his asshole is blown open it would still take a day to determine if it was just a banker cokefest gone bad.
When I eventually get kicked off Zerohedge for anti Semitic remarks, I'm coming back as "banker cokefest"
I'm gonna take "kneebump" after that one guy talking about the FED in the good old days where you could drop a line right off the desk instead of doing a bump off your knee in the bathroom.
pods
very funny
Face-Exploded-Asshole-Blown-Open
Sounds kinda Native American for Bawney Fwank.
The three deadly plagues out of Africa: AIDS EBOLA & OBAMA
Not necessarily in that order.
Hey, open a beer and chill. Shits been cured http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/04/health/experimental-ebola-serum/index.html...
A man walks into a Manhattan bar with Ebola on his shoulder...
Pentagon funding for Ebola vaccine was cancelled in 2012, may be impossible to develop one.....
From 2012:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-19112510
15 August 2012 Last updated at 02:51 ET
Commercial ebola vaccine 'unlikely' say researchersScientists researching the lethal ebola virus have told the BBC that a commercial vaccine to prevent the onset of infection may never be developed.
Two companies with leading vaccine candidates have had their funding from the Pentagon suspended in recent weeks.
An expert said it was now "unlikely" a prophylactic vaccine would ever be used to prevent outbreaks of the disease.
the experimental vaccine already saved those two americans in atlanta.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/04/health/experimental-ebola-serum/
Yes yes cnn.....
lets cut to the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTWY14eyMFg
you are too jaded fonz. both of these americans survived while everybody else is dropping like flies. it was fairly obvious from day one they would get the same type of treatment that the german woman received several years back after she had contracted ebola.
in fact, that would explain exactly why the govt was willing to fly both of them back to atlanta, as they were already recovering and wanted to see the effects of the experimental medicine.
Or they brought them back because they might as well because it's already here.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/08/03/Leaked-CBP-Report-Sh...
Now the question becomes, who profits? :
http://www.mappbio.com/ebola.html
"The patients were told that this treatment had never been tried before in a human being but had shown promise in small experiments with monkeys."
"Saved"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhK55JVEd8
Larry Zeitlin is the president of Mapp Biopharmaceutical.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/larry-zeitlin/4/324/a1b
Zeitlin the Zionist?
Well then, Nothing to worry about.
/SARCKY SARC SARC SARC SARC SARC
Larry Zeitlin | LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pub/larry-zeitlin/4/324/a1b Greater San Diego Area - President at Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Inc. View Larry Zeitlin's professional profile on LinkedIn. LinkedIn ... President at Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Inc. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Reproductive Biology.
Linkedin link has gone bad. Hmmm where's that archive site?
Well as unhealthy as most amerikans are, they are still light years ahead of most of Africa.
Something with a 90% fatality rate in Africa might not translate the same in the developed world.
Anti-virals as medicines suck ass. If anything they are looking to isolate antibodies from these two to help with some type of patent medicine.
But you have the underlying problem of shitty immune system=shitty effect of any vaccine.
pods
I wonder if americans have the opposite problem. Besided being fatasses we have been bombed with antibiotics in our food etc for so long our bodies and immune systems are a disaster
Well we seem to have the same sort of problem with out immune systems but on the other side (allergies).
But as shitty as the amerikan diet is, it is light years ahead of the third world.
And we have reliable indoor plumbing and a more developed water supply.
pods
Pods-"But as shitty as the amerikan diet is, it is light years ahead of the third world."
Too broad a brush. I can tell you from personal experience that lots of the developing world eats very well indeed. When the tropical forest or jungle is your supermarket, your food is more likely to be fresh and healthy.
There's no question that a very high percentage of Americans have depressed immune systems, though antibiotics are only a part of the problem.
Kito:
Experimental mono-clonal anti-bodies treatment for the disease,
Not a vaccine to prevent the disease.
Thank you. Wonder if anyone reads for comprehension any more....
This just in.
They've developed an insatiable craving for cheese.
Some day that Chain-Smoking Bastard from the DOD will admit, that all these bio-games (Avian, Ebola, etc.) are just an attempt to counter the hybridization and colonizations plans that the Aliens have for us. ;-)
Too late. Obama and the Transgendered Wookie have already been unleashed upon the world.
But you can't fight the future.
FUCK
It's getting hot as fuck in here! Can anyone tell me how long I will need to wear this full body decontamination suit?
Here's hoping you have the bankster issued Level A suit with integrated rock dispenser.
Important to remember that Mt. Sinai Hospital of New York was/is a known CIA subcontractor, at least it was from the 50s - 70s. "Doctor" Harold A. Abramson was the head of their "allergy" department, which was actually a front for LSD distribution and experimentation. Gerald Oster, another CIA agent who authored a paper called "Auditory Beats in the Brain" was later passed on to The Monroe Institute, a half-DoD-half-MKULTRA subcontractor, and is the genesis of the Cohen Brothers movie "The Men Who Stare at Goats," though obviously portrayed in a way that heavily obfuscates what was really going on. The former connection is outlined in H.P. Albarelli's book, "A Terrible Mistake;" the latter is a connection I made myself.
http://onestepbeyond.me/inscom-remote-viewing-documents-theyre-important/
So are intelligence agencies (further) weaponizing the ebola virus? Who knows, but it can't lead to anything good.
Abramson?
Could he be Jewish?
"Who knows, but it can't lead to anything good."....bur Sir it leads to hugely increased profits. How can that be bad?The scientific method brings many benefits to the mindful observer.
Get DeBlasio to change his bed pans.
Send the guy to Washington DC.
Meanwhile - the borders are wide open tahnks to Obama, Democrats, RINO-NEOCons and Democrat creepy voters.
nigeria fucking liar...
+ togo + ghana + benin, you really think sickness can jump 3 countries without getting other people.. com'on...
The patient traveled to the hospital by subway during rush hour.
If you can survive the commute on the #6 for a year, you'll be immune to everything.
Except for lead projectiles.
It is a shame he did not visit 33 (anti) Liberty Street (NY Fed) or the Goldman Sachs HQ. If he would have infected Goldman then he would have been doing "God's work."
This is getting serious.
Odds are this is not Ebola...
That person should be fired.
Odds are this is not Ebola...
#probably
Probably a bad pastrami sandwich he had at Moishe's Deli.
Odds are it's not Ebola.
[wink, wink.....]
maybe a psy-op http://www.realfarmacy.com/read-this-before-you-feed-the-ebola-hysteria-machine/
If the survival reate is 50% and I'm infected along with every banker on the planet, I'll take those chances.
(THIS IS NOT A JOKE NOR FROM THE ONION) Boston Globe-owned site to readers worried about Ebola virus: "shut the fuck up"!
Story here:
http://tinyurl.com/k26kgll
Yes. Agree. A real shot in the arm for pharma industry. In other news today the status of the two American help-workers who contracted ebola is now reported improving after they recieved an experimental drug.Let´s hope there will be a robust pricing on new antiviral drugs.If the MIC can , we can. ACA you say? Medicaid and Medicare you say? Yes very good outlets for robustly priced new drugs for new diseases. The sucker called tax payer will not be in a position to argue this once an ebolaendemic gets going. And refusing to buy and provide to the poor Africa will be addressed as racist.Very rayciss´
Okay... One person died in london airport today from ebola and now it seems that the daily rise in infected is 6% of the total number.
Makes you wonder how far they'll push this he?
Washington dc and some other government offices will be ok
In a way... The sollution to unemployment is somewhere arround the corner...
So you're saying, "don't sweat it?"
You make me puke
blow it out your ass knuks
(really sweat and puke is okay but I went too far?)
Head to Nebraska Fonz, Captain Trips awakens !!!
Espn just tweeted that the are testing bartolo COLON for ebola just for precautionary reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wafhDIMU6w
LOL, its going to suck to lose all our East Coast Posters!!!
You will be missed Fonz ...
Fonz might just become a zombie so I doubt he will have as much clever stuff. I hope Fonz is okay but if he has to go - hopefully he will take out all of Long Island out especially the nasty fux who live there.
I think it was the reference to a red line that got the O lovers junkin ya
i think you lifted your name from Catch-22; and a mighty fine heist it was.
sincerely,
washington irving/irving washington
Washington Irving was my great-grandmother's great-great-great-grand-uncle.
She had a son named Irving Lincoln.
"(really sweat and puke is okay but I went too far?)"
Nah. Knucks seems like a good fellow but gets a little put off by the gallows humor. He'll get over it.
Where did you read about a London death?
http://news.sky.com/story/1312521/ebola-test-after-woman-dies-at-gatwick
I read this morning that she tested negative.
Thank God.
I'm going to stop reading this stuff untill I see real proof. The more you read this crap the more paranoid I get :)
I don't want to shoot the mailman, but you can't be too careful, can you?
Every time I log into Zero Hedge I wind up going out and buying 10 more cans of chili, soup, or beans. You know, stuff you can eat cold out of a can in case I'm suddenly put into quarantine and the power goes out for weeks ... it's completely irrational and I'm up to 120 cans for the food bank next year.
120 cans of chili beans... you're a real party animal he? :)
If you can believe the Government.
Probably let loose a clot on the flight (DVT).
pods
Talk about fear porn. That article doesn't explain the test was negative until well into the middle of the story. How about alieving fears and putting that in the title? Nah, wouldn't be the click-bait that it is.
She didn't die by Ebola - her test for it came back negative.
that was the official word. they wouldn't want anybody to panic, now would they.
Straight from the BBC's mouth to your ears.
When it gets serious you have to ........
hit the links?
surf (fishing)
turn pro?
When it gets serious, you're supposed to grab some scissors and hide under your desk.
Lie.
Famous quote from ... what's his name.
Ivanovich: "She didn't die by Ebola - her test for it came back negative."
I see your point, just because she left Sierra Leone, had a high fever and was vomiting and died suddenly doesn't mean it was ebola. Lets see now, Western Africa, high fever, vomiting, sudden death, so many dieseas to choose from.
At this point I am convinced that only one of two things can be true:
1) The Ebola scare is a psyop
2) The plan to cull the human race Georgia Guidestones-style has been set in motion.
I'm not seeing any other explanations that fit the facts. Either it's total bullshit, which explains not taking straightforward measures like suspending air travel; or these developments are deliberate efforts by those in the government (and presumably, those to whom they answer) to spread an engineered bioweapon.
Anyone got a plausible alternative hypothesis? I could really use one...
Either way it all fits the Cloward-Piven strategy
I think it is a psyop too.
Its a distraction from genocide in Gaza.
During Rwanda genocide where 800,000 were killed.
OJ SIMPSON MURDERS the only thing on the news.
Never let a good psyop go to waste.
less than 1000 civilian Gaza deaths
that's collateral damage of war
800,000 in Rawanda attempted genocide, approaching
millions in EUkrain (not now 1930's), Cambodia, China that's genocide
If it were war Gaza would have bombers, tanks, guided missiles.
Right, because the Viet Cong had guided missiles, heavy bombers and tanks.
Its kind of weird. The more accurate our weapons, supposedly to minimize collateral damage, the more outrageous collateral damage becomes. If the Jews and the Palestinians were murdering each other with machetes, I guess it would all be OK. Unless of course the jews had bigger knives. I'm not going to defend any of them but it does seem odd that those who actually attempt to minimize collateral damage are the immoral ones while those who admit to random acts of violence and go so far as to deliberately use their own people's lives for political strategy are some how on a higher moral plain. Are the morals being evaluated based on who is losing the most lives? If so I would think the only means America has of redeeming its moral high ground is to destroy all of our weapons and absolutely do not fight back if attacked, unless it is done secretly or through third parties. Is this the Obama doctrine? Under current rules of engagement our military is absolutely prevented from achieving any real victories and it sounds like this is the approach we want Israel to adopt. Only shoot when shot at, and if found in a position of superior firepower, restrain yourself as to not take advantage (the one hand held behind your back approach) and anything you destroy you must rebuild twice. Things are so distorted that it is impossible. This belief that we should endeavor for everything to end in a draw so we don't have victors guilt syndrome is nuts. We should either fight to win or get the fuck out. Israel will need to come to this end. Win absolutely or disband and move to NY.
plausible alternative hypothesis:
Ebola is a filovirus natually occuring in specific animal species in parts of Africa, that under some circumstances can enter human populations where it then spreads un-checked because humans have no natural immunity.
Yeah I know, it's way out there.
Ocams cutthroat.
Thank you.
I never attribute anything to malice or conspiracy that can be explained by abject stupidity. What's distressing is how stupidity manifests itself at the highest levels.
Senator Jeff Sessions is one of the most conservative Senators in the country, representing one of the most conservative constituencies in the country - mine.
I met him a while back. I led a team of software developers that developed a software application that allowed Alabama citizens to upload pictures, videos and other information about veterans; and provided a web portal where people can view information on any war or campaign and then look at the local veterans who participated in that campaign.
At the unveiling ceremony, the good Senator showed up. As he stepped up to the podium, an aide whispered to him "Talk about the military - the veterans, we're here to honor the veterans".
It filled me with confidence and pride to know that our leaders are primed and ready to go at all times.
By the way, here's the website if anyone wants to take a look: https://www.veteransregisterofhonor.com/Pages/Home.aspx
It seems we both live in the same area (northeast Alabama.) It was interesting to read your post, because some years back I was hired by someone to design a web site for the "American Veterans' Hall of Honor", which was a monument someone was trying to put up down near Birmingham. I don't remember who it was that hired me, but he or his employer was trying to get funding to build the place, and I built the web site which looked a thousand times better than their old one. After the job was done I lost touch with the guy, and a year or two later checked back to see the site was down. Figured the project must have been cancelled, but looking at the link you posted, I'm wondering if that's the same people? Small world...
Fine explanation, but what then explains the apparent active efforts of governments to facilitate its spread, including explicitly giving it a free lift over the Atlantic Ocean?
We get into "well, government is incompetent to..." territory here, and while I am a full believer in government incompetence, what we see here is not easily explained as such.
Can't have the order(ordnung) without the chaos.
I am willing to allow for a combination of cupidity, stupidity, and hubris. So the usual reasons for just about anything.
A lot of the people working at the CDC must be from Big Pharma, Monsanto, Genentec, and a host of other minions of Satan. They just want the bug in-house. To play with mostly, but also to write up important-sounding papers and scholarly works the better to promote their careers. There is no creature more morally degenerate than a grant-writing academic working for a government agency. Nothing. And they would be able to get ebola into the States in about half a heartbeat.
That was my thought as well. It is more about showing you made it to the big time when you get to see this firsthand and your pockets get stuffed with grant money.
I doubt this would be some sort of nefarious operation. Hell, it is all over in Africa. Just drop a team in and you have all you want in no time flat.
pods
Let's be careful though. Sleazing ebola into Atlanta just so you can write your first-hand observations up in a medical journal just so you can land another $3.2M CDC grant is reasonably nefarious for most people.
I'd punch the nasty fucker in the nose if we ever met, for sure.
Where's the money to be made from poor Africans? Now have the virus in the U.S and what's left of the middle class will sell a kidney to get the "cure".
Yup yup.
All this shows up just when we all thought they were going to control the cost of health care ...
The only logical reason to bring ebola patients here is if ebola is already here in the USA. Then there is little extra risk.
I suspect that the CDC already has good reason to believe that ebola is in the US. They might as well bring infected patients here to get experience in treatment first hand.
Yes, this was my first thought after I got over the shock that they were bringing these 2 back to the states ... something to play with.
My second thought was that these 2 'folks' must be incredibly valuable ... I don't know on what level, I will leave that to the experts.
At risk of undermining the argument that this is a TPTB conspiracy (which is still the most plausible), I wouldn't entirely discount the possibility of governemnt ineptitude. If nothing else, these idiots have shown incredible skill at being inept - so to speak....
She reportedly did not have ebola.
She tested negative and died in hospital.