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CDC Confirms First Ebola Case Diagnosed In The US, In Dallas Hospital - Press Conference Live Feed

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As experts (as opposed to President Obama) had warned, the probability of Ebola coming to the US is around 20% by year-end. So it should not be a total surprise that:

  • *CDC CONFIRMS FIRST EBOLA CASE DIAGNOSED IN THE UNITED STATES
  • *EBOLA PATIENT IS IN DALLAS HOSPITAL, NEWS 8 REPORTS

The patient recently returned (via plane) from traveling from Liberia, West Africa. This perhaps explains why CDC was "taking precautions in the US" as we noted previously. And don't forget the administration's interference in Ebola treatments.

  • *CDC SAYS INDIVIDUAL LEFT FROM LIBERIA
  • *CDC SAYS PERSON WITH EBOLA IN TEXAS LEFT LIBERIA ON SEPT. 19
  • *CDC SAYS INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPED SYMPTONS ON SEPT. 26
  • *CDC SAYS U.S. EBOLA PATIENT IS A MALE
  • *CDC IDENTIFIED ALL PERSONS THAT MAY BE IN CONTACT W/ INDIVIDUAL
  • *CDC SAYS ALL PERSONS IDENTIFIED ARE MONITORED FOR 21 DAYS
  • *CDC DIRECTOR SAYS: `I HAVE NO DOUBT WE WILL CONTROL THIS CASE'
  • *CDC DIRECTOR SAYS: `THERE IS NO DOUBT WE WILL STOP IT HERE'

 

Press Conference (due to start at 530ET) via NBC News

 

Press Conference (due to start at 530ET) via CBS Local News

Dallas Live Stream

 

As Bloomberg reports,

The first Ebola case has been diagnosed in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control said today in a statement.

 

 

A hospital in Dallas had been testing a person based on their travel history and symptoms, said in a statement earlier today. Another patient was being evaluated at a National Institutes of Health facility. It’s not clear if either patient is the one referred to in the CDC’s initial report.

CDC hosting a media briefing at 5:30pm; participants to include:

  • CDC Director Thomas Frieden,
  • Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner David Lakey,
  • Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas Hospital Epidemiologist Edward Goodman,
  • Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson.

That news explains this from last week..

  • *CDC SAYS NEED TO SCALE UP EBOLA TREATMENT CENTERS ASAP
  • *CDC SAYS TAKING PRECAUTIONS IN U.S. AGAINST EBOLA

It appears the term "contained" means a different thing once again.... as we warned here:

There’s a roughly 25 percent chance Ebola will be detected in the United Kingdom– and as much as an 18 percent chance it will turn up in the U.S. – by the end of September, the analysis of global mobility and epidemic patterns shows. The new paper includes the top 16 countries where Ebola is most likely to spread.

 

Though concerning, a spread to Western nations is not the biggest threat. At most, there would be a cluster of a few cases imported to the U.S., probably through air travel.

 

...

 

“We are at a crucial point,” Vespiginani said. “If the number of cases increases and we are not able to start taming the epidemic, then it will be too late. And then it requires an effort that will be impossible to bring on the ground.”

As we have noted previously (via Michael Snyder):

Even more noteworthy is the fact that the U.S. State Department has just ordered 160,000 Hazmat suits...

The U.S. State Department has ordered 160,000 Hazmat suits for Ebola, prompting concerns that the federal government is anticipating the rapid spread of a virus that has already claimed an unprecedented number of lives.

 

In a press release posted by Market Watch, Lakeland Industries, a manufacturer of industrial protective clothing for first responders, announced that it had signaled its intention “to join the fight against the spread of Ebola” by encouraging other suppliers to meet the huge demand created by the U.S. State Department’s order of 160,000 hazmat suits.

 

“With the U.S. State Department alone putting out a bid for 160,000 suits, we encourage all protective apparel companies to increase their manufacturing capacity for sealed seam garments so that our industry can do its part in addressing this threat to global health,” states the press release.

 

The huge bulk order of hazmat suits for Ebola has stoked concerns that the U.S. government expects the virus to continue to ravage countries in west Africa and may also be concerned about an outbreak inside the United States.

You don't order that many Hazmat suits unless you are anticipating an outbreak of apocalyptic proportions.

And the CDC has just issued a six page Ebola checklist to hospitals to help them spot potential Ebola patients in America...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warning hospitals and doctors that “now is the time to prepare,” has issued a six-page Ebola “checklist” to help healthcare workers quickly determine if patients are infected.

 

While the CDC does not believe that there are new cases of Ebola in the United States, the assumption in the checklist is that it is only a matter of time before the virus hits home.

Let us hope and pray that these precautions do not become necessary.

Because if Ebola starts spreading like wildfire in this country, we are going to see pain and suffering beyond anything that most of us have ever imagined.

Just consider what a health worker on the front lines is seeing on a day to day basis...

I wake up each morning – if I have managed to sleep – wondering if this is really happening, or if it is a horror movie. In decades of humanitarian work I have never witnessed such relentless suffering of fellow human beings or felt so completely paralysed and utterly overwhelmed at our inability to provide anything but the most basic, and sometimes less than adequate, care.

 

I am supervising the suspect tent, which has room for 25 patients who are likely to have Ebola – 80-90% of those we test have the virus. We administer treatment for malaria, start patients on antibiotics, paracetamol, multivitamins, rehydration supplements, food, water and juice while they wait for their results. Sometimes people have arrived too late and die shortly after arriving.

 

In one afternoon last week I watched five seemingly fit, healthy, young men die. I gave the first a bottle of oral rehydration solution and came back with another for the second. In the half a minute or so in which I had been away the first man died, his bottle of water spilt across the floor. The four others followed in quick succession.

Ebola is truly a terrible, terrible disease.

The moment that cases start popping up in the United States, all of our lives will instantly change.

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FYI - here are CDC's contamination centers...

 

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Wondering who started all this? It was a 2-year old in Guinea...

 

 

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Tue, 09/30/2014 - 16:48 | 5272112 InsurgoCasca
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GDP will surprise to the upside then. BULLISH.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 16:50 | 5272124 perchprism
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I was wondering why my eyes were bleeding this morning.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 16:50 | 5272131 X.inf.capt
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PARTY LIKE ITS 1349...

BITCHEZ!

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 16:51 | 5272135 redpill
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Won't need costumes for Halloween!

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 16:55 | 5272147 X.inf.capt
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BRING OUT YOUR DEAD! (clank)

BRING OUT YOUR DEAD! (CLANK)

(repeat)

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 16:54 | 5272157 Paveway IV
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How many times have you been warned? 

Do NOT lick the handrails on the NY subway escalators. It's just not... sanitary.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 16:58 | 5272167 Liberal
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As a staunch liberal, I'm curious.  Are the new iPhones still sold out?

#Amazing

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:03 | 5272207 Cangaroo.TNT
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"I gave the first a bottle of "oral rehydration solution" and came...."

Sounds like my typical date in high school.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:04 | 5272218 Keyser
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First case in Texas... Why am I not surprised... 

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:06 | 5272222 johngaltfla
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Time to go:

 

SHORT: EVERYTHING FINANCIAL

 

LONG: AMMUNITION AND FOOD

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:10 | 5272252 Headbanger
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And sand bags dude...

Sand bags...

 

Plus some Kevlar and AR500 (NOT coated with fucking LineX either!)

And plenty of fire wood,  frozen venison,  LOTS of scotch, tequila, beer,.

 

I feel better already!

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:11 | 5272260 johngaltfla
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I've got a local Pakistani owned liqour store that sells generic (aka Louisville, KY aged 2 week old) bourbon for $5 per 750 ml. Think I'm not stocking up for barter? Oh Hell yes.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:13 | 5272281 StackShinyStuff
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Wonderful.  Just fucking wonderful.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:14 | 5272283 johngaltfla
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36s36 seconds ago

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp shares jump more than 20% after first Ebola case in the U.S. diagnosed.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:42 | 5272293 hedgeless_horseman
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Now, we willl see what real panic looks like...Texas sized.

 

Develop a basic mindset.  Here are some ideas.  Commit
to prepare for zombies, so that currency collapse, EMP, hurricanes,
revolution, world war, [Ebola Outbreaks] or anything else will seem relatively mild.  Understand that the time to make a plan and prepare is before, not after a zombie invasion.  Understand
that there is no way you can plan or prepare for every contingency, but
doing something today goes a long way to peace of mind, and eliminating
any regrets should the shit actually hit the fan.  Realize that everything is likely to cost more next year, if you can get it, so better to buy it now.  Acknowledge that nobody really knows if, what, when, or how anything in the future is going to happen...it is all just speculation.  Finally, always remember that, "on a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero," so don't get too worked up, or go into debt, just because of this little exercise in paranoia.

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-19-10/fear-we-are-returning-ti...

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:43 | 5272415 Bindar Dundat
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Can you imagine what Genn Beck will say? He moved to dallas to get away from all that stuff:-)

 

 

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:56 | 5272476 TruthInSunshine
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21 Days.

The REAL problem we face now (as you know) is that, whereas before, most Ebola cases were contracted from eating bush meat, bats, etc., in Africa, in rural areas, the Ebola virus is now most likely mutating at an exponential rate since it is now deeply entrenched in cities like Lagos, Nigeria, with a population of 20 million.

Ebola has now broken out of the jungle & is inevitably destined to mutate into a more opportunistic form via exponential mutation rates and replication.

*p.s. - This one patient with Ebola, diagnosed the 24th, probably had contact with hundreds if not a thousand or so people (aircraft, airport, hospital, etc.).

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:01 | 5272521 ZerOhead
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Would it be considered racist of me to suggest  STOPPING ALL FLIGHTS coming from infected countries in Africa?

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:08 | 5272550 Vampyroteuthis ...
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Live in the big-D not too far from that hospital. Wondering about that headache this morning. Squirrels look kinda funny today.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:14 | 5272573 kaiserhoff
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There goes the neighborhood.

Got lead?

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:34 | 5272674 eclectic syncretist
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Does this mean that the TSA agents at the international airports will finally quit treating my scrotum like their personal mini-speedbag?????

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:03 | 5272758 Newsboy
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Emergency Powers are about to kick in Like Sierra Leone.

This will be very ugly, but this crisis will not be wasted.

It's OK for part-2 of the global financial crisis to happen now.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:09 | 5272781 Son of Loki
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I just got back from the Dollar Store where I was lucky to nab five Protective Gear Suits, "100% Guaranteed." Hecho en Bangladesh.

I feel pretty safe now.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:24 | 5272794 Latina Lover
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First  Ebola case in Hong Kong, demonstrators may forced to disperse.   Hint, hint...

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:59 | 5272994 Son of Loki
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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, my second case of Zombie ammo arrived from Hornady the other day. May not even need that 'protective gear.'

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 20:51 | 5273212 TruthInSunshine
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Full body condoms with Level P-100 full face respirators FTW.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 22:10 | 5273529 mjcOH1
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"First case in Texas... Why am I not surprised..."

I would have guessed RI (largest Liberian community in the US) or NY (runner up).

Think I'll be holding off on that trip east this fall.

Bad enough when your cab driver sprays you with TB while coughing along to Jihadii cassette tapes. But at least your eyes don't bleed in your clam dinner 2 days later.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 23:33 | 5273829 TheAnalOG
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We don't like the eBola.  We think it should stop.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 23:54 | 5273870 FEDbuster
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CDC is on this, I will rest easy tonight. (sarc off)

Just a reminder, if you are looking for some light reading Richard Preston's 1990's bestseller, "The Hot Zone".

PDF link: http://learn.flvs.net/educator/common/EnglishIIv10/TheHotZone.pdf

Steven King said is was one of the scariest books he had ever read (and he knows scary).

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 00:25 | 5273922 Manthong
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NFBD..

I just sealed all of my mucous membranes with industrial RTV.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 01:52 | 5274012 TruthInSunshine
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http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2014/09/maximum-alert-dallas-ebola-...

CDC's time line of the Dallas Ebola victim's flight date and symptom onset date indicates a greater than 50% probability that the Dallas Ebola victim ACQUIRED HIS INFECTION DURING HIS FLIGHT.

Per the Center For Disease Control's very own Ebola simulation model, 50% of all Ebola infections develop symptoms five and a half days after infection (flight time from Lagos to Dallas is 17 hours and 20 minutes). Given that the Dallas victim's symptom onset occurred within 6 days of his Liberian departure flight; it is most likely that he/she was infected on that flight by someone else on that flight who was actively shedding Ebola virus.

*Since the Dallas victim is most likely a secondary infection, patient zero from that flight is still on the loose* and more victims are to follow in the near term. The situation is potentially catastrophic because of the massive number of potential secondary victims who have no African travel history and are likely to not attract attention in any Emergency room until massive hemorrhaging has started.

Rest of article with time charts:
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2014/09/maximum-alert-dallas-ebola-...

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 03:14 | 5274085 Manthong
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Seems like somebody out there has a problem with RTV.

Mine is cherry flavored, just like the lube in the tube.

And BTW, sealant or lube , no BFD.. they have in for you one way or the other.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 05:39 | 5274171 GetZeeGold
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Congratulations.....we finally got it here.

 

The CDC must be so proud.

 

They have the patient on it....if you want the vaccine....you'll have to pay them for it.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 20:54 | 5273226 MakeMineADouble
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If they didn't GAF about the expotential spread of Ebola, that is what would have been done.  Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 21:30 | 5273380 williambanzai7
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Of course it would. I could elaborate, but that would be considered racist as well.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 22:23 | 5273579 mjcOH1
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"I've got a local Pakistani owned liqour store that sells generic (aka Louisville, KY aged 2 week old) bourbon for $5 per 750 ml. Think I'm not stocking up for barter? Oh Hell yes."

Bum wines .... MD 20/20 and Cisco Red will give you more hooch for your buck as trade goods. If anyone is bartering for booze when the balloon goes up, they'll already be well acquainted with the Cisco rainbow assortment.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 23:59 | 5273881 williambanzai7
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Wed, 10/01/2014 - 03:57 | 5274104 RKDS
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No, but it would be communist to inflict such uncertainty on airline shareholders.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 04:56 | 5274150 Ebanga Planti
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our government always considers that we are fools. 

we are certain that they can contain this case by their competency

http://pneumatikeconomist.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/the-origin-of-ebola-v...

but we also know that there are tight controls as a guard agaist Ebola outbreak. so, how did this case get into the country unoticed. Except they are at this plan:

http://pneumatikeconomist.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/if-the-ukraine-strate...

or just because they are this:

http://pneumatikeconomist.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/satan-on-the-judgemen...

SO WE SHOULD NOT BE SUPRISED IF THE CASE GETS OUT OF CONTROL FOR A WHILE

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:04 | 5272532 Osmium
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Not to worry, they have identified all persons they came in contact with.  The CDC said so, so it must be true.

 

*CDC IDENTIFIED ALL PERSONS THAT MAY BE IN CONTACT W/ INDIVIDUAL

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:15 | 5272583 tvdog
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That's odd. The guy just said in the press conference that the effort to locate all the contacts has just started.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:20 | 5272592 chunga
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I don't believe a word this Frieden cunt says.

According to him everyody on the secret plane is safe because everybody gets checked in Africa for fever before boarding. Yeah sure.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:41 | 5272664 Whoa Dammit
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I am so effing sick of the Political Correctness crap in this country. There is absolutely no reason from a disease containment viewpoint to allow tourists from Ebola ridden countries to travel.

"Oh the patient was here to visit his family members" whined the swine Frieden. Fuck that shit. What about our friends and families Tom? Why should we be exposed? God help your worthless ass if the family that this guy was visiting had school age children who attended public schools. 

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:49 | 5272719 Herd Redirectio...
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I've mentioned it before, limit travel out of Africa.  People can go in, sure.  Not out, though. You stay 21 days in isolation before you can leave THE CONTINENT.

If all travel is by BOAT, and they prevent the fastest crossings, say to Italy via the Mediterranean, then that is a good way to make sure we know if someone Ebola-infected has arrived in the country! 

Plus, most Africans would prefer NOT to get on a boat.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 08:14 | 5274429 Paveway IV
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What good is a quarantine going to do?

"Wondering who started all this? It was a 2-year old in Guinea..."

The above is patently bullshit if you talk to the people there. There were simultaneous outbreaks lined to a WHO and MSF vaccination program at the beginning of the year. Patient zero was one of the vaccination 'experiments' gone bad, but wasn't the only one. That's just the one they're telling you about.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 01:44 | 5278816 12ToothAssassin
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Are you saying this is a planned Op? Knock me over with a feather!

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:52 | 5272720 Herd Redirectio...
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...

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:55 | 5272972 Bindar Dundat
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Restrict air travel

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:56 | 5272982 Whoa Dammit
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Yet we we restrict is to/from Cuba, because Cubans might spread communism. 

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 20:17 | 5273049 Never One Roach
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So let me get this straight; a guy with an African guy with a Liberian accent walks into an ER with symptoms several days after he gets off an airplane from Africa ... and they let him go without testing him?!

Who the heck saw him, the janitor ?!

 

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 21:52 | 5273463 BLOTTO
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'Ebola' = Get your vaccine = vaccine contaminated.

.

'No, thanks to Vaccine?' = Off to FEMA camp for quarantine.

Therefore, we are fucked either which way.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 02:29 | 5274051 COSMOS
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Shush if they didnt let him go that would be PROFILING.  Guess they didnt want Al Sharpton screaming racccist on their backs lol.

Scary thing is they are not sure what the reservoir for this thing is.  What if it finds a reservoir here in the Americas.  We could be so screwed with epidemics popping up every once in a while if it establishes a reservoir in an animal or insect here in our ecosystem.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 00:26 | 5273927 Citxmech
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Where this is going to get out of control is when the first individuals that this guy infects go to the doctor with flu-like symptoms.  When asked if they've visited Africa recently and they say "No" - they will get sent home and start spreading this shit far and wide.  

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 01:26 | 5273981 FreedomGuy
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That is my fear. I was not particularly concerned about this outbreak but now it is starting to bother me. When it becomes in a person's own self interest to lie about possibly being infected a large part of the population will in fact, lie.

I want to know more details about the incubation period versus when it spreads. Many viruses spread before you are symptomatic. If that is the case then there is real danger. The flip side is that this bug can kill really fast...like zombie movie fast and it is not pretty.

The ultimate test will be the political correctness of our current Kenyan-American President who sees himself as a world guy and not necessarily an American first. Would he quaranteen the continent? I think not.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 01:37 | 5273994 Son of Loki
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Wide-open borders. Is that crazy or what?

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 08:44 | 5274487 Government need...
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With all the continued propaganda efforts to condition us that 'diversity is good', it would be unproductive to offer the sheeple an example of a situation where Negros were deliberately excluded from (gasp) flights to the US from countries with active Ebola cases.  Better to risk the lives of all Americans.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:41 | 5272908 Stuck on Zero
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It's proving very difficult to get in contact with all the individuals the patients came in contact with because they're dead.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 00:30 | 5273937 sylviasays
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So maybe Obama's order to send 3,000+ military personnel to West Africa to curtail the spread of ebola might not be such a good idea? 

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 01:27 | 5273986 FreedomGuy
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Only if they stay there until it is snuffed out.

How would you like to be a soldier or security on that mission? I'd rather face the head-choppers of ISIS. I can see them and defend myself.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 01:47 | 5278820 12ToothAssassin
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The 3000 are INTENDED to get infected and bring it back. The videos of Sotlof et al are faked.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 04:14 | 5274125 Lanka
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Let's try a seance.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 20:51 | 5273211 duo
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Bullshit.  They sent him home for 4 days so he could cough on his relatives and their friends at one of the shithole apartment complexes in the "5 Points" area around Fair Oaks/Park Lane.  It's a bunch of run-down apartment complexes where INS dumps off West African refugees.  Presby hospital is so close he could have walked to the emergency room with blood oozing out of his eyes.  Presby also happens to be the hospital for rich people from Highland Park.  Oops, he was supposed to be ar Parkland, the county hospital.

This was done by design.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 21:25 | 5273357 Boiling Frogs
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Actually we lovingy refer to Presby as Parkland North. I was thinking that very thing about all the Afrcan immigrants in the area to the south east of the hospital all the way to the 5 points area. I have had cops tell me that the 5 points area has the highest crime rate in Dallas, that includes all the beautifully diverse areas in South Dallas.

I'm guessing there's a few friends of this guy's family who have over stayed their visas and won't hanging around to be contacted by the CDC. Not to mention most of the cab drivers and Uber drivers that hail from the same area. Good stuff. 

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 22:15 | 5273543 Never One Roach
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The only thing nice about Dallas is that it's over 500 miles away from me! Crime there is off the charts but very well hidden by their local media. How about West End? What is the assault and rape rate there? 1/night? West End area is a candy store for muggers, rapists and killers. Police lost control of that city long along as that Dallas Cowboy parade riot showed several years ago.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 23:59 | 5273876 Joe Camel
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Then there is the possibility of the infected cab and Uber drivers taking passengers to and from D/FW airport and Love Field.  That might have already been occurring for the last few days.  D/FW airport is one of the busiest in the country.  

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 08:04 | 5274408 Paveway IV
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While TSA is checking over your grandma's body cavities and such for hidden bombs, al Nusra takfiris have been getting their $25 cab-drivers licenses and spreading the love.

Mission accomplished, MSM!

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:12 | 5272792 johngaltfla
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21 days is a myth as that is only an AVERAGE.

It depends on metabolism, size, resistance, anti-biotics in the system, etc. It really could be 14-45 days. Don't bet your life on govt. lies.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 20:48 | 5273198 TBT or not TBT
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Good enough enough for government work  

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 23:42 | 5273844 Handful of Dust
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Will Ebola in the USA be the "Black Swan?"

... or will it be the protesters in HK. I just saw on Yahoo news the HK CB chief Christopher Lau asking for international prssure on Beijing to get HK to "accede to the reforms."

If one market crashes they will probably all tank since they're so interconnected.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 01:38 | 5273996 anonum
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The word "quarantine" originates from the Venetian dialect form of the Italian quaranta giorni, meaning 'forty days'. This is due to the 40 day isolation of ships and people before entering the city of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia (formerly known as Ragusa). This was practised as a measure of disease prevention related to the Black Death. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine>

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 01:55 | 5274018 TruthInSunshine
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http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2014/09/maximum-alert-dallas-ebola-...

CDC's time line of the Dallas Ebola victim's flight date and symptom onset date indicates a greater than 50% probability that the Dallas Ebola victim ACQUIRED HIS INFECTION DURING HIS FLIGHT.

Per the Center For Disease Control's very own Ebola simulation model, 50% of all Ebola infections develop symptoms five and a half days after infection (flight time from Lagos to Dallas is 17 hours and 20 minutes). Given that the Dallas victim's symptom onset occurred within 6 days of his Liberian departure flight; it is most likely that he/she was infected on that flight by someone else on that flight who was actively shedding Ebola virus.

*Since the Dallas victim is most likely a secondary infection, patient zero from that flight is still on the loose* and more victims are to follow in the near term. The situation is potentially catastrophic because of the massive number of potential secondary victims who have no African travel history and are likely to not attract attention in any Emergency room until massive hemorrhaging has started.

Rest of article with time charts:
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2014/09/maximum-alert-dallas-ebola-...

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:17 | 5272811 buttmint
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...did someone say "bar-b-que?" Hell yeuss! Let's have us a feed! Hmm...what kinda meat is this anyway?

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 03:29 | 5274088 tvdog
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African fruit bat ... you like it?

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:27 | 5272843 Dave Thomas
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I know what Glenn Beck will do, he'll put another 12 photographs of himself on his website.

 

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 20:46 | 5273184 johngaltfla
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Ah but how many pics will he be crying in?

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 23:46 | 5273854 Helix6
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Oh, yeah!  I'm just waiting with baited breath to hear what Glenn Beck has to say about it.  Every minute I have to wait to hear his insightful opinion about it just seems like an eternity to me.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:09 | 5272555 BeansMcGreens
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Remember its the first of the month, EBT cards (SNAP) will be reloaded, and all the government checks go out. Might want to think about going shopping tonight Texas.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 01:38 | 5273995 Lux Fiat
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Glad to say that the local HEB was virtually deserted except for the guys stocking the shelves, which were aready in good shape.  This was about an hour ago.  Tomorrow may be a different story.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:21 | 5272319 Headbanger
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Bourbon was (and soon will be again) the currency of the American people for many years

Speakin of which.. A fellow bourbon drinker mechanic buddy has been stacking up all the wheel weights he could over he past five years too.

Now that's prepping!

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:25 | 5272340 Jumbotron
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion

A little history for you Bourbon loving ZHer's.  And not only that....but it also deals with Alexander Hamilton and his First Bank of the United States.....the forerunner of the Fed.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:29 | 5272357 Magnix
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Sheesh! Fucking A! Its right next to our office where I work! The worse part is that I ride Dart train filled with patients from that hosptial!

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:31 | 5272376 kliguy38
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wait till they clean the shelves off the grocery stores in Dallas and go full batshit crazy

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:55 | 5272486 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen American Zero's.

Everyone calm-the-fuck "DOWN"!

Now. This "Traveler" will get "THE SHOT" and everything will be fine.

Relax! Christ.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:05 | 5272535 ZerOhead
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If this traveller gets "THE SHOT" and lives you can rest assured there will be thousands of infectees just like him on the way...

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:13 | 5272575 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen Crazy Cat.

Didn't I just politely ask to calm-the-fuck "DOWN"??!

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:32 | 5272665 Richard Chesler
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If you like your ebola you can keep you ebola.

 

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:56 | 5272739 The Blank Stare
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That's right, everything will be fine. He'll move to New York, get a job mopping floors at McDowells, fall in love with the owners daughter, and move back to his kingdom in Africa. Hollywood dreams do come true sometimes.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:45 | 5272928 ZerOhead
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His dreams have already come true.

If he had stayed in Liberia he would have been dead already...

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 03:37 | 5274093 tvdog
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Here's the shot, clomiphene or toremifene. Clomiphene is somewhat more effective, but both increase ebola survival in mice:

https://news.virginia.edu/content/fda-approved-medications-may-have-unex...

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/5/190/190ra79.full

Both drugs are already FDA-approved. Clomiphene was 90% effective in preventing death from ebola, toremiphene was 50% effective.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 22:27 | 5273591 SF beatnik
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Now. This "Traveler" will get "THE SHOT" and everything will be fine.

 

Methinks no shot for this traveler. He has to die in his own vomit. Otherwise there will be many more travelers to come. (Or maybe that's what our elites want??)

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 08:40 | 5274479 sleigher
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I thought what you all are saying already happened with the 2 docs.  They both lived so here they come?

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:33 | 5272381 RobD
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You might want to change your commute plans there bud.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:39 | 5272402 blabam
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Please remove yourself from the Hedge Magnix... 

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:54 | 5272446 ebworthen
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Told you so everybody.

We let them fly in.

Still letting them fly in.

Labs and Docs won't save you.

Neither will the knuckleheads in charge.

Amurika! At "FAIL" we are #1!

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:55 | 5272490 tenpanhandle
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I am frightened just interacting with you on ZH.  (Am concurrently listening to Michael Savage commenting on this very issue).

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:20 | 5272606 Hobbleknee
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Internet radio or old school radio? If the former, link please.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 23:19 | 5273785 tenpanhandle
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Oldschool - earphones and all.  Third hour of 9-30-14 show. Can probably be accessed through net.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:27 | 5272844 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen tenpanhandle.

Is Savage disappointed now that he cannot utilize that glory hole in the "SFO AIRPORT" that took him 2 weeks to make?

"TOO" much risk?

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 22:03 | 5273499 odatruf
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Listen Banger,

You didn't need a single one of those apostrophes.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 23:24 | 5273800 tenpanhandle
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You know more about that glory hole than I do.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:31 | 5272371 IndyPat
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Fuck Bourbon. I'm not driving all the way back to Knob Creek just so I can call it that.

Things go sideways....Bourbon may be gold, but moonshine will be platinum. Bourbons fine, but moonshine's quicker.

And besides...I know how to make it.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:46 | 5272431 Headbanger
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You could well be our next Central Bank!

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:57 | 5272740 eclectic syncretist
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With a bag of Jack Daniels Whiskey Barrel chips and your moonshine I could make some damn fine whiskey in no time.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 20:35 | 5273131 trulz4lulz
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Jack Daniels is shit. Willett or get the fuck out.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:59 | 5272510 tenpanhandle
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Make enough so you can drink it now and put it in wood barrels so you can call it aged bourban 10 years from now.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 05:42 | 5274172 Clashfan
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Sorry, nothing like Kentucky bourbon. Moonshine and JD are Tennessee stuff, not quite the same. 1792 Ridgemont Reserve is wonderful for the price, and it has the darling hemp necklaces. Have a few of those around for the zombie party.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:58 | 5272508 DetectiveStern
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When I invest in whiskey I always end up paying myself interest in the form of shots. Endless shots.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 09:38 | 5274751 PTR
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Same feed:

https://twitter.com/PzFeed/status/517304919054114817

"3 Dallas ambulance crew members who were exposed to confirmed Ebola patient have tested negative for the disease - city"

 

Will they be...rechecking them, mayhaps?  If I were one of those three, for the next 30 days, I'd be getting myself tested EARLY AND OFTEN.

 

 

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 20:50 | 5273206 Government need...
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If this Ebola is airborne, you're not gonna be swappin' liquor for blowies. . . at least not for very long.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 06:26 | 5274217 Mitzibitzi
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The really cheap stuff makes a good marinade for venison, I find.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:18 | 5272305 Divided States ...
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Hes in the hospital now...but I am sure they took their sweet time with getting the guy to the hospital, he probably been spreading bodily liquid all over Dallas for the past couple of days.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:12 | 5272567 Divided States ...
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Correction...make that 7 DAYS. Dont go to any hooker joints in Dallas.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:08 | 5272773 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen D'America.
Talk to that guy "Boats and Ho's" he seems to "GET" around.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 01:12 | 5273969 MsCreant
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You are a sorta, kinda, but not, funny puppy raping monkey, troll. 

I'm trying to figure out who you are...you feel familiar...across pixels and screens and words and all.

You are much better at pulling us in than MDB or Fonestar. Folks love to hate you. MDB is a hard act to follow, a very consistent effigy. Fonestar is very consistent, too, but a narrower range of themes (how many ways can you riff on bitcoin?).

It is almost smart how stupid you are. You got a very consistent brand of special, in a short bus kinda way. You don't ever let smart actually happen, you always pull the punch so you are never quite witty. That could be a kind of genius in a performance art sort of way. Or you could just be stupid. ;-)

It's a free country (ours not yours, right?) and Tyler ain't kicking you off no matter how stupid your posts get. 

Troll on baby, troll on.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:19 | 5272597 SilverRhino
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This shit is already loose.

 

Long pharma, guns and booze, short financials.  Say hello to the perfect October stock market  crash cover.

 

  • Arrived USA : 9/20.
  • Admitted to hospital : 9/26
  • Isolated : 9/28
Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:31 | 5272864 29.5
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I was just thinking, even if you were to profit on long pharm (or short financials), the amount of time to get your cash out and buy bourbon, there might not be any left. And if it gets really bad, TKMR will just get nationalized as you are staring at your computer screen as zombies come smashing their heads through your windows. Just to make that last trade....

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 20:01 | 5273000 Son of Loki
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"No one saw this coming," Frieden later testified before Senate hearings ....

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:17 | 5272297 Greenskeeper_Carl
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in a normal world, that first part would be obvious. But even if this thing grinds all commerce to a standstill and no one goes to work, that the S&P still regains 2000. Since its all manipulated bullshit anyway, unless someone unplugs the algo computers on the way out the door, thy will continue to trad with each other. And im sure the govt can lend one of their 160k hazmat suits to a guy to sit in the eccles building and keep pressing CONTROL-P as the country disentigrates

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 17:48 | 5272439 booboo
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Last transmission from Algo Land

"buy arrrrrrggggghhh thump"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0LKpAro8Bk

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:27 | 5272637 Dr Strangemember
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Ebola Carribean Cruises 1/2 price, but only if booked by midnight Friday!!!!

 

Mmmmmm, buffets!!!!!!!!

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 20:07 | 5273014 pods
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"Is this chicken or beef?"

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 21:34 | 5273402 e_goldstein
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fruit bat

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 20:28 | 5273093 Rusty Shorts
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Reminds me of this...

 

Sushi Train Discounted in Fukushima Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBBt_U_UpQQ

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 20:46 | 5273183 Miffed Microbio...
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It is too late for that I am sorry to say jongaltfla. I am making plans for my possible death and what I will do to not spread this to others.

I am terribly frightened.

I don't know what course I should take.

Mr miffed and I have discussed many options.

I am trying to be rational but I am so scared I don't know what to say.

Nmewn, you owe me a coke.

Miffed

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 20:54 | 5273221 Kassandra
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Take extra precautions and extra care with yourself. Chances are, at this point, you will be better off than the general population as you understand viral transmission better than most.

Fear is normal. Courage is being afraid and doing what you have to to anyway.

Whatever happens, I hope I have courage.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 21:15 | 5273312 Lost Word
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Take a similar job in Japan, China, or Russia?

Where they know how to close borders?

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 21:32 | 5273396 boattrash
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Miffed, as I've said before, stay safe and be ready to walk out. Glad to see you post, I went to the isolation of my camp for a week due to a chest cold, returned, and did not find any of your posts in a search. Thought you had bailed...

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 21:36 | 5273412 e_goldstein
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Miffed, those who gtfo first, gtfo best.

No amount of Bernanke buks is worth your life.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 22:56 | 5273721 pods
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Miffed,

EGCG is a potent anti-viral. We did some work on it a while back.  Pretty amazing results when it was put up against a couple different flu viruses (challenge, not anecdotal).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigallocatechin_gallate

I take green tea extract.  

pods

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 23:06 | 5273745 NemoDeNovo
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Google --> Homeopathy Ebola

With 2 Naturopathic Dr.'s in my immediate family, I can say for CERTAIN, that Homeopathy does provide a remedy for this.  I myself am not an ND or an MD, but am well versed in how this works.  Research for yourselves, knowledge is POWER and Homeopathy is nothing short of a Miracle.

 

Just my 2c

 

Prepare Accordingly

 

De Opresso Liber

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 23:10 | 5273761 ceilidh_trail
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Miffed- I know exactly how you feel. I am close to ready to bail. You and I both know how woefully illprepared our hospital systems are. As for "courage", I have put deep lines in hepb,c HIV pts et cetra when others found excuses to not do so. This time around, I am really truly ready to hang it up and let sombody else deal with it.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 00:07 | 5273896 Miffed Microbio...
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Absolutely hear you. I have done courageous things too. I have risked my life. In 20 years I have seen 2 work associates die from isolates from patients and I handled those same isolates. Many more have been infected. I accepted the risk because it was part of my job. However, there is a difference between courage and foolhardiness. We won't be saving anyone in this scenario but risking ourselves, our community and loved ones.

I am considering an extended LOA. I'm not sure if it is too late at this point. I'm not sure if this is the index case or may be it's another. Too many variables to make a rational decision. My gut says flee.

Miffed

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 00:06 | 5273897 Miffed Microbio...
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Absolutely hear you. I have done courageous things too. I have risked my life. In 20 years I have seen 2 work associates die from isolates from patients and I handled those same isolates. Many more have been infected. I accepted the risk because it was part of my job. However, there is a difference between courage and foolhardiness. We won't be saving anyone in this scenario but risking ourselves, our community and loved ones.

I am considering an extended LOA. I'm not sure if it is too late at this point. I'm not sure if this is the index case or may be it's another. Too many variables to make a rational decision. My gut says flee.

Miffed

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 00:35 | 5273940 WillyGroper
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Guts don't lie.

Trust it.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 00:42 | 5273944 Oliver Klozoff
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And we've all played the fool before.

Don't look back.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 01:22 | 5273976 Miffed Microbio...
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The problem is my heart not my head. This is the time to act and behave as a psychopathic elite. I don't know if I can coldly do what needs to be done but looking back could mean death. May be a one way trip to Mars isn't such a bad thing if there is some good company.

Miffed

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 01:24 | 5273977 Miffed Microbio...
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I think I have to give up ad blocker. It's double posting on my iPad.

Sorry, one more reason to put my fist through the wall

Miffed

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 05:59 | 5274196 Parrotile
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It seems that as more hard data emerge, the epidemiological models' predictions become less "happy ending" and more "This one will go down in History alongside the likes of "Yersinia pestis in the pre-antibiotic era" bad.

We all have plans: Problem is if the plans are based on unreliable data, they are less than useless.

I'm leaving it another week, then seeing what crops up (in terms of case location / numbers), then taking it from there.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:51 | 5272955 RafterManFMJ
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Anyone else getting inundated with fantastic Groupon deals for 3 weeks in Liberia, with airfare, for $499?

Seems like a good deal, especially since the CDC says all I have to worry about is 'body fluids.'

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 20:31 | 5273111 Sam Clemons
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Why am I not surprised the first case was a guy that came over from Liberia?

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 23:07 | 5273748 Rusty Shorts
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...just wait till those 3000 troops come home.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 06:57 | 5274263 blown income
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And here I am in Texas looking for a job

 

 

Great

 

 

EEEEEEEEBBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOLLLLLAAAAAAAAA

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 16:58 | 5272177 max2205
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Anything to provide a diversion. ....didn't we infect half of South America with syphilis because we could.....fuck off fuckers

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:07 | 5272549 donsluck
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Try 90%. Europeans killed 90% of the South American natives.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 18:18 | 5272596 tvdog
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And you got it backwards. Europeans killed American natives with smallpox. Syphilis was the return gift to Europe.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 19:12 | 5272790 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen Dog,

What's the Ebola endgame?

China was getting too popular in Africa. USSA has a cure for Ebola but a "DEAL" must be negotiated.

Send in USSA Kenneth Feinberg and "GREATER" Israel is a done deal.

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 23:14 | 5273774 ceilidh_trail
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Ananonymous- is that you?

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 04:13 | 5274109 tvdog
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.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 01:41 | 5273997 mc225
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was a contigent left on hispanola by columbus; a contigent which pillaged the island, and picked up syphilis in the process?

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 08:42 | 5274485 tvdog
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The conquistadors did not receive rape prevention counseling.

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