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CDC Confirms First Ebola Case Diagnosed In The US, In Dallas Hospital - Press Conference Live Feed
- *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
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...
How the latest #Ebola crisis unfolded: http://t.co/3VGIgkcwyC pic.twitter.com/ct0gT0T0Io
— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) September 30, 2014
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Oh that's nice. Maybe we should increase the amount air traffic in the effected regions - to help the economy you know.
"Homeland" security harassing citizens while ebola carrying air flights are coming and going. Can't make this s up.
If you work homeland security, how long you willing to keep patting down people's moist armpits and junk when you know all this is going on?
Mother earth has an answer for every lil thing.
Long mother earth.
I think half of TSA at LAX is fresh from West Africa.
DHS grope-goons may ultimately prove to be a highly effective vector for the spread of Ebola. Maybe they can cough on you, right after they get off on touching your junk.
Hopefully, he got the full pat-down from TSA.
Yeah so the clown can spread it to the next 200 people he/she pats down?
Was it a direct flight from Africa?
TSA only checks domestic departures.
Of course, anyone who changed planes in Dallas ...
going elsewhere around the USA and world ...
Outbreak !!!
Yes it would be Texas ... it makes since to my cynical mind!!
Maybe "Abortion Barbie" can save us all..............................
Whoever gets this crap needs to go directly to D.C., take a couple of White House tours and then roam around the halls of Congress for a few days. They wanna play, lets play!
I'll pay for the airfare!
Shit, I'll pay for first class, put him where he can hit the 1% on his way up there.
I'm down for that. I'll even throw in a DC hooker.
You forgot visit some hookers and lobbyists (is that redundant?)
The vision of Nancy Pelosi bleeding out her last drop of blood somewhere between her ass and her eyeballs is a comforting image.
Jr is gona get a shot. Of whiskey that is, his ass is toasted
where can i get one of those hazmat suits? and some for my family?
Home depot, they're used for painting and pesticide application. Grab an N-100 mask and duct tape while you're there.
Alternative, a crapload of garbage bags, they worked for her.
Lol..... Follow the money..... Ebola stocks are surging after detection of the first U.S case. Got ebola? There's an app for that.
"The fear of Ebola" trade. Kills healthcare professionals. "Don't ever go to the hospital because that's where all the sick people are."
Thank God we're sending in the troops...to West Africa...
Just in time for an October stock market crash .... I guess Yellen/FED will still look smart after the markets crash - becuase it'll all be ebola's fault!!!!!!!!!!!!
Could we hire this guy as Barry's food tester?
Butch and Sundance had better odds.
Was 1969 for the movie. 1908 for the original. Not sure the kiddies get the reference.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115/
"I think you used a little to much dynamite there Butch"
At times like these, we need a strong centralized government to save us. Seriously. I think we should temporarily cede imperial power to Chancellor Palpatine. After this crisis passes, we can go back to being a republic again.
I would cede nothing but a law suit.
Yeah, like the former NC Governor, Beverley Purdue, called for a suspension of elections so that 'they' our saviors could get the important business of the nation done. You might need a Haitian necklace. I can't believe you suggested that.
Butbutbut... it's fer the chilluns, bitchez.
Watch it spread expontenially, like the Federal Reserve's printing.
Plenty of typhoid Marys for Ebola.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Are you suggesting Helicopter Ebola????
As long as the dude has Obamacare, he'll be good.
Now if we could only introduce the patient to the Great Man himself.
Not enough trreatment. This will quickly get out of control.
Tom Petty might consider rereleasing that classic: don't do have to live like a refugee...
Physicians are not getting the truth about Ebola. EBOLA IS AIRBORNE. Ebola stays in body fluids for weeks, even months, after the patient is, apparently, well. The American government will be as truthful and helpful, with Ebola, as it is with everything else. Knowledge is power. Your doctor receives his information from an unreliable source and you should do your own investigation. When in doubt, assume the worst. Your life may depend on it.
To start
www.recombinomics.com
www.flutrackers.com
If you can, STOCK UP on fuel, food, drink, supplies, meds and heirloom seeds and hide them from looters. If you think you'll get flak, say you read the winter is expected to be bad and you don't want to lug all that stuff during a bad winter.
Hard to hide the infected. "Made for television.". No way to keep this quiet like the Spanish flu pandemic.
Turn off the internet and force phones into local call only mode. Done.
Wow. Crazy is how crazy types.
Get those Ebola food servers to DC and Wall Street. They can enjoy globalization and open borders first hand when they get it.
And get a few Ebola-infected men and women manning food carts down by Goldman Sachs HQ, stat!
Wow! Ebola in the US by late Sep just went from 18% probable to 100% probable.
It IS spreading fast!
Obama's CDC/DHS lied.
People will die.
It will really cut consumer demand. The implications are profound.
It'll also cut Social Security claims. Perfect timing.
That's a 550% increase in probability, in just a couple of weeks!!
Don't worry, its contained.
Oh shit
I say we send Jeh Johnson, the director of Homeland Security and another Obama back-alley fool, to clean up this Ebola guy's bedpan.
In what is obviously the early stage of a global pandemic, Jeh Johnson is responsible for running a wide-open Southern US border so that any gang member,infectious disease-ridden illegal alien, or ISIS friend of his can waltz right through.
Johnson is also responsible for allowing flights direct from Africa into the US.
And congress sits with Obama's fist up their ass.
It is unimaginable.
And congress sits with Obama's fist up their ass.
And Obama sits with Reggie's fist up his ass.
That Jeh fellow needs a hug - from a juicy Ebola sufferer.
Dallas has direct flights to Nigeria (OIL).
Probably someone from Lagos...
Those Liberians have more cause to be resettled here than those South of the Border bananas. :) Think Barry Think!
OMG were all gonna die !!!!!!! Quick honey grab all the booze !!!!
I think I'm going to retrofit one of those Mexican "panga boats" and sail South.
Texas might get permission to secede.
Fiat currency is a carrier
So if fiat coinage. Ironically, silver coin, not so much.
A number I'd like to know is what percentage of the population is susceptible. I don't imagine there is much natural immunity in the US. The fatality rate on this thing is closer to 70%, and may climb as high as 90% when treatment availability runs out as it is doing in West Africa now.
TEOTWAWKI time? Hope not!
UMMMM... I wonder what the originating vector was?
Someone on a grassy knoll or in a book depository.
Recent report of analysis of Dallas JFK shooting,
only two shots from TSBD,
neither hit JFK,
one hit Texas Gov. Connally,
other shot missed.
First shot from Dal-Tex Bldg,
Fatal shot from grassy knoll ...
or Rare film seldom seen shows Secret Service limo driver shot JFK from the front seat
while limo briefly stopped in roadway in front of the grassy knoll.
It was not Oswald, it was the US Gov that killed JFK.
USA created Ebola to get oil and surprised that it come back=)
Of course if EBLOA is on the loose, we have to cancel elections in November, right?
Martial law.
Does Obamacare cover ebola?
Only if you've selected the platinum plan. There's also a deductible.
Also a 30 day waiting period before coverage starts???
Yes, but the deductibles and co-pays mean you will have to file for bankruptcy.
CDC and the Administration need to get out in front of the microphones and say 'yeah, we knew we should have banned flights in and out of west Africa, but hey, money's money, can't risk the chance to make a buck just to protect the proles. Fuck you all, Ciao'.
They should of course have banned the flights but at the very least you'd hope they'd send back the recent illegal immigrants from Liberia. But nooooo. Just like Obama's illigal aunt and uncle they too can stay.
Nothing to see here, keep shopping... and working, our economy depends on shopping and working... Well, at least keep watching tv.
if this things gets off the ground in the US, you can kiss brick & mortar retail goodbye (if it ain't already). nobody will go to the mall. Online shopping will take off.
Ding Dong! Ding Dong!
Who's there?
It's the mail carrier.
Go away! I don't what you're carrying!
Obama's spiritual mentor just released a statement: The chickens are coming home to roost... God Damn America!
The ironically named Rev. Wright.
I'm sure the Cowboy cheerleaders can work in an E-B-O-L-A meme by next Sunday.
160,000 HAZMAT suits? REALLY?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpbbuaIA3Ds
The midterm elections are just over (1) month away. I wonder who's going to show up?
A giant petri dish full undocumented scum... That's who.
The Ebola infected people should be serving food in the Federal Reserve and DC cafeterias.
This is a prime time for your survival checklist. How long can YOU stay at home without leaving?
Can you quite your job for 6 months and keep the lights and gas on?
Do you have food stocks for 6 months, without having to hope the Amazon.com supply chain doesn't get infected?
Do you have 6 months of water stashed? LOL.
WHAT is 6 months worth of water in your case? After the 4th day with no shower, your ass-cheeks are getting nice and chapped.
Ammo, has-mat suit, and shovels/firewood? What do you do if you have to shoot an Ebola carrier on your property? Call the cops?
6 month first aid kit. Most accidents occur in the home. Especially if you don't leave for 6 months.
I would consider these to be the bare essentials and not comprising a full list.
Add pool chlorine and quick lime. Could be in high demand.
I feed the seasonal fowl. Ducks & geese are tame. And they don't warn the next flock either.
Dude, you won't need to worry about paying utility bills when SHTF.
Bill collectors or repo guys won't show up.
You need food, food and food (including water). Do you realize how much you eat and drink in a day?
Can we close the Liberian to US transportation now Obama? What does it take? How many people did this guy come in contact with and is it now way too late?
These viral countries in West Africa need to be put on a list of no travel to or from. Any sane president would do this immediately. There can be no excuses any longer made for this president if this is not done post haste.
Time to head to Costco!
FY 2014 USA, Inc. (A holy owned Crown Corporation subsidiary) Balance Sheet
Assets (USA) = Liabilities (Armed Population) + Owner's Equity (Ebola)
EDIT: Important Addendum
Unfortunately, my paradoxical commentary may not bode well for you armed employees of the aforementioned corporation. The announcement of the first confirmed case of EBOLA appears to coincide with your 2014 fiscal year end. This would appear to be a foreboding message timed for release to coincide with this day from the current Board of Directors. This may result in significant layoffs in the near future.
Extreme caution for the coming FY 2015 (Oct 1, 2014 - Sept. 1, 2015) is advised. We look forward to the possibility of an Employee buyout during this time.
Best regards for your future salvation and freedom from Nippon - The Land of the Rising Sun (not Lucifer)
Luke 1:78-79 Because of the tender mercy of our God, With which the Sunrise from on high will visit us, TO SHINE UPON THOSE WHO SIT IN DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH, To guide our feet into the way of peace (and freedom)
GAME CHANGER. Shits about to get real
And the two Liberians who snuck across the southern border are not to be sent back.
Population of Dalls-Ft.Worth metro area as of 2013 is 6.8 million people, documented.
I'm sure there is nothing to worry about, and Obama and his advisers have everything well in hand.
/sarc off
The question is: Are you able to survive without outside contact for 90 days? Bugging in or bugging out, it doesn't matter.
Look in the mirror, and take a good hard look. If you cannot answer yes to the 90 day question, then you might as well put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.
Or, count on the CDC and Obama to save you.
Those are your choices. In other words, most of the US is completely and utterly double fucked.
I'd really laugh, but I don't have the time.
And after 90 days you come out to what, exactly? Survivors will still be EBV carriers. Meanwhile, no one has been on shift at the nuke plant. Food chain will not be running. And you tyvek suit can only survive so many bleach rinses.
Honestly, as scary as EBV is on its own, whats really scary are all the possible 3rd order effects.
Yep - a new age
we brought in an Ebola infected foreigner just 7 miles from my house. Fuckem -Obama and the elites want an Ebola epidemic -it will provide an excuse for the next market crash. May also reduce the world population by a lot -and will justify more wars for us and a consolidation of the Police State.
Good lookin' out FEDGOV. I'm gonna laugh my ass off when "Muricans are droppinjg like flies.
Gotta love open borders. Hopeandchangeyoudidn'tbuildthatIgotthatEatyourpeasThisisalearningmmoment.
Ha!
When do we tee off? Are the greens still damp?
I told you mother fukers to close the borders from Africa. Why the Fuk would anyone travel to Liberia with ebola going on. You don't need to go to Africa that bad. Got to be fuking kidding me.
Dayuum! I live outside Tyler.
If you want to stop Ebola you better stop Loyd Blankfein. The bankers took over Washington D.C. They fund the military. They are globalists. They took down the WTC and they are starting to kill us with Ebola. The US is just another Middle East to them.
Except there are more Jews in the US than anywhere else in the world,
except Israel ?
Obama has fumbled a lot of balls in the last 8 years. This one is the biggest and it was the absolute easiest to carry. That stupid MTHRFKR needs to go. FFS. This is what you get when you are not smart enough to even understand you don't let a plague into your country. His stupid ass saying we won't stop flights from Africa. Well guess what? This was just a matter of time.
Yeah, he has to go. One clown out, next one in. Rinse and repeat...
All this Ebola talk is making my hungry. McDonalds or KFC?????
Great Britain has closed travel days if not weeks ago with these countries and Obama still dithers. Unbelievable how incompetent.
Given the lax actions of the Secret Service lately, one might just start to think they are rooting for the lone crazy to get the job done...
Don't worry. Obama just sent 3,000 troops to fight the war on Ebola. I hope he will let them back in. Most will be dead in six months.
I hope they are vaccinated.
So he says the patient started showing symptoms about a week before seeking treatment. Swell.
It apparently is only transmitted through direct contact with a carrier. Who wants to catch this clown up to speed?>
I wonder who the first major political player that gets forced quaraitine will be.
It is really convenient how our national security apparatus works nicely into tracking and tracing contacts potential carriers had. FEMA camps and Executive Orders all prepped and ready to roll.
On a more gruesome note, when do we get the green-light to hang these fuckers that keep insisting the virus is NOT airborne?
Oooooo, a call-it-in press conference. Nothing to worry about here...
Unfortuneately a carrier could be a doorknob, mailbox handle, ATM machine, sink, toilet, paper towel dispenser, keyboard, copy machine, .......
And cash.
The person in front of me was heavy, and sweating.....BADLY. The change from my $20 was a 5 and two 1's....that looked soaked. I watched them go from a sweaty pants pocket, to the register, to the clerks hand, to the counter where they waited until I decided to pick them up.
Question: If Ebola is spread through body fluids like sweat, how long could it survive on sweaty paper money?
Good question, flagit. I had read a few different things about that and your question prompted me to do a quick Google. From what I gather, it seems like it could last for days outside a host, but there seems to be no real comprehensive, conclusive studies on this.
She took a communal taxi via Liberia's capital Monrovia, exposing five other people to the virus who later contracted and died of the Ebola. In Monrovia, she switched to a motorcycle, riding pillion with a young man who agreed to take her to the plantation and whom health authorities were subsequently desperate to trace.
How long can Ebola live outside the body?EMP FTW!!
Soo, if you are being attacked by The Blob, hide in the meat locker.
If you are being attacked by knife-wielding Ebola, hide in the sauna.
It's surely been said in the comments before, but seriously... what in the MOTHER FUCK is wrong with people in charge letting US visitors to Africa back in the country via normal channels. Un-be-fucking-lievable,
Or exactly according to plan.
visitor FROM Africa is my understanding......even more crazy.
visitor FROM Africa is my understanding......even more crazy.
Bunch of CDC idiots on a news conference - you know - the ones that said it wouldn't reach the US - telling us how contained this is and that you can only catch it from someone who has a fever. WAIT NOW - I thought you said only bodily fluids last month...
I have not seen the news conference, but I will bet the idiot talking had a bunch of other idiots standing behind him. Is this to make the speaker more credible? This new trend drives my nuts!
"When the situation is serious, you have to lie."
You know, seek, that's actually become one of the more common metrics I'm using in this ebola situation. Granted, these folks lie all the time, but I'm sensing a pattern of increasing anxiety on their part. Perhaps the frequency and intensity of their lies could be a good measure of the overall seriousness, no?
It will be interesting to see how they handle the next several cases that are sure to occur in the coming weeks.
A key metric for me is how over-the-top and impossible the lies are. I.e. promising or assuring people of something they absolutely can't guarantee is a sure tip-off.
In this case, Tyler's pull-quote choice: `THERE IS NO DOUBT WE WILL STOP IT HERE'
Really, no doubt whatsoever, you can guarantee that? That's a huge tell. That's on par with the "contained" quotes from the 2008 collapse.
Yes, that is in the same category as " Unsinkable Ship". Why do we humans never learn? What is the point of being awake when no one listens? I feel like I'm locked up with the third class people on the Titanic. No way out.
Miffed
Those CDC idiots have had six months to practice for today, and the only part they had polished was their mischaracterizations and obfuscations... Goobernment is NEVER the solution that actually solves a problem.
Well, folks always say: "Everything's bigger in Texas."'
This is just in time for the new season of The Walking Dead. Don't worry. Rick will save us all. :)
Thank God it only spreads through bodily fluids.
People are certain to be careful and not kiss or have sex.
Or take a dump and not wash their hands.
Glad the folks in the white coats told me all is well.
I was going to be worried there for a minute.
As long as no one licks toilet seats, the risk of transmission is basically zero.
-Your Government Health Expert
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind ;)
It would appear that a nation wide ban in watersports is in order...
What Dallas? Hmm, give Texas back to Mexico, problem solved
"We're all connected by the air we breathe."
"Oops! I mean mean it's not airborne! Nope! Totally not airborne!"
Maybe the CIA and Bill Gates made it only lethal for black folk.
They don't fly commercial.
What do you all think: should my wife and I cancel our vacation to FL next month? 2.5 hours in a plane with who knows what.
If it's gonna get bad, then what you do or don't do really doesn't matter. Enjoy your vacation. Seriously.
I think it was Miffed that said months ago that she wouldn't fly anymore, and that was due to TB and not Ebola.
You know Fred, you just hit up on a pretty major aspect of all of this. The lingering fear. Maybe the coming weeks will offer clearer indications on what might be best to do. Still, it would really suck to be worried the entire time from now until after your return. Whatever you choose to do, good luck.
The CDC owns the patent inside that patient's blood.
Monsanto clause is to town
I remember when I said two months ago that "How long until an Ebola carrier gets on a plane to the US and gets a number of people sick". And I recieved 50% downvotes. Fucking psychopath perma-optimists going to get a lot of people killed.
WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS?! I must be a fucking rocket scientist community collaborator like Barry "Ebola" Hussein Obama.
Axel Rose.
Immigrants and faggots
They make no sense to me
They come to our country
And think they'll do as they please
Like start some mini Iran,
Or spread some fuckin' disease
They talk so many goddamn ways
It's all Greek to me
Yeah, I think the award goes to this comment on August 1st.
WHO run Ebola Town?!
Too bad it was in Dallas rather than Manhattan and Greenwich, CT. Maybe that would be a wake up call to invest in scientific innovation rather than "investing" in yoga, burritos, streaming video, video game apps and other predatory trading ponzis.
Perfect Trojan Horse for the true believers. Peace be unto you :)
Don't panic. Just be ready. Fill the water drums if you haven't already.
If they can track the contacts, it might be contained. If they can't, well, yeah, it's on.
The patient was wandering around for 10 days before the hospital admission, that's half the 21-day window. It's not just his contacts, but probably everyone that touched the same doorknobs, etc.
I suspect it'll be super clear how bad the problem is in under two weeks, but I'd put serious money on more patients appearing in that time.
He arrived at the hospital in an ambulance. That ambulance and its personnel handled other patients for several days after and no doubt deposited them at various hospitals. The number of people exposed to ebola is going to be very large...
If he came to visit, imagine how many times he shook hands with friends, relatives, and aquaintances. (like just before sitting down to enjoy a meal)
Can we suspend the tradition of shaking hands until we see which way this thing is going?
Yup. I"m not touching anyone I don't know if this gets real.
That is why the Asians only bow when greeting and leaving from historical fears of contacting disease. Smart they are in more ways than one.
Should be one for the history books about social engineering.
Whiskey or water, whiskey or water... Whiskey kills germs. Whiskey it is then.
Track the contacts? With all the alphabet agencies in place to protect you they couldn't stop this guy? You must be kidding.
It seems things are going from bad to worse. When researching the latest news on the Ebola outbreak I was surprised not to find a lot more fast developing news. It seems Americans have dropped this into the dustbin as an also ran or nuisance thing that when kept at a distance is of little interest. Unfortunately this may soon change as the virus is picking up "critical mass."
In this instant I'm referring to the point where enough people are infected with the virus that it can sustain a chain reaction and expand out of control. The bad news is Ebola may have already reached critical mass and be impossible to contain. The implications of this are massive and it could change everything. More on why we should be very concerned in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/09/ebola-may-have-reached-critical-m...
Thank God that your self-serving posts are unable to mutate.
http://www.bnowire.com/2014/09/30/live-ebola-press-conference/
ROFL.
Reporter asked it was a citizen or immigrant .... immigrant and the press conference guy looked like he bit into a turd before answering. Departed 9/19, arrived in USA 9/20.
They are spinning SO FAST .... and lying their asses off.
Ebola is aerosolized.
Immigrant!? Im SHOCKED!